Iron Warriors Breacher Squad Pt 1

This will be a quick update because I only have one picture and not too much to say about it.  I originally thought I might use these breacher marines as the special unit for the Imperial Fists.  However, I really want to get a real army together and decided to stick with the Iron Warriors and Alpha Legion since they are about as opposite as you can get in game terms and will be really fun to paint and play.  So, I introduce you to the beginning of my first Iron Warriors.  I'm very much looking forward to painting them.

Alpha Legion Tactical Marines Pt 1

Another squad I got assembled recently was a set of 5 MK IV Maximus Armor Tactical Marines.  You may be wondering why I only bought five and the answer is that when I bought these I thought they were just going to be for fun and not for play.  Back then there was no one in the area who played Horus Heresy and I didn't know the rules.  Hence, most of my squads are only half of what they actual should be, they will still be fun to paint though!

Here you can see the MK IV Maximus Armor assembled and ready for undercoating along with the previously mentioned assault squad and some palatine blades that I bought simply because I thought they would be cool.

Hopefully I can get these painted up soon and ready for another blog post!

Alpha Legion Assault Squad Pt 1

So, I've been once again working on the hobby side and getting some models together for my extremely small Alpha Legion Detachment.  I came up with a new way to store my models that aren't quite assembled or ready for airbrushing.  You can see in the picture below that I am using a large piece of styrofoam to hold the assembled models until they are moved up in the paint cue.  I like this because it allows me to assemble a bunch of models but make sure they are held in one place until I start painting with them.

Another benefit you can see from using this styrofoam block is that models can be placed on the side or ends and make a lot more room for all.

In the next two photos you can see that I had to white tack a couple of the arms and hands in place because my glue wasn't holding and honestly sucked.  It made my life difficult and made me wonder if I was just really bad at putting resin together or if my glue was super old.

Here, you can see that I went out and bought some new glue and guess what, I immediately got hobby hand and glued my fingers to a model!  Well, I honestly have to say that I'd rather have glue that's too strong than not strong enough so this is a welcome change from the crap I was using before.

I'm actually a little behind on the updates for these guys since I have started the undercoating but it isn't quite working as well as I would have hoped.  I'll have a post up soon about the issue I'm running into and what I hope can fix it (hint hint it is a bath in chemicals).  Until next time!

Forge World Models Prep

So the wife and I made an impromptu Independence Day vacation to Vegas to see my sister and her family.  That meant that I didn't want to stay up quite so late using the airbrush and instead wanted to prepare some of the resin crack I have for future airbrushing.  I haven't yet figured out how to paint the Iron Warriors and Imperial Fists so most of these models will be painted up as Alpha Legion.

Here you see that one of the units cleaned up was an assault squad.  I honestly have no idea if they are any good in 30k, especially since they are not very good in 40k, but they look awesome!  So, lets paint them up and see what happens.

The nice thing about cleaning models is I can do it in front of the television while sitting with my wife instead of squirreled away in the man cave.  I know my wife appreciates that and I can multi-task and have fun!

If you haven't ever painted up Forge World models you have to wash them thoroughly with de-greasing hand soap to make sure that there aren't residues left on the models from the molding process.   You can see in the picture below that I like to let the models sit with lots of soap and then rinse them multiple times.  I'm new to the Forge World bandwagon so I don't know if I'm doing it right but I think it's working so far.

Hopefully I'll get these models assembled soon and start throwing some beautiful paint at them!  I hope they look as good in real life as they do in my head.