More Progress

 Still building… getting the more weapons glued and prepped for magnets. A couple of third party close combat weapons for the lion knight of house Aegyptus ready to go.

More building…

 Building before painting. At least that’s how I’m doing it, to a point, then I’m going to have to paint some subassemblies before the final gluing.

My own house lance, house Aegyptus and two free blades. The Green Knight and The Black Prince. Going to go with fewer magnets than I had originally planned, but still magnetizing being so close to 11th edition and not knowing what it will bring, flexibility.

Time, Tide, and Buttered Eggs...

Time does have a way of getting away from me. 

It's been a while since I've updated here or even glued my fingers together. I hope to have more updates and glue and paint flowing soon.

The Grind and Magnets.....

So definitely not going as fast as I would like it, but I am learning a lot along the way.  I want to magnetize as many options as I can for each Knight, however I need to figure out how to magnetize each option as I go.   The balance between the magnet holding the weight of an arm or torso, but not destroying the model when it is time to take it apart is still an experiment in progress.

I've decided not to magnetize the shoulders.  They will be under the shoulder armor, so I don't see an advantage to magnetizing them.  The elbows I'm trying to magnetize now, and the options for the weapons.  I do have the waist magnetized and am debating weather to magnetize the feet to the base or glue them on to a scenic base.

I don't see an advantage even in transportation to magnetize the feet, though I have seen several Knights magnetized that way.

I'm not the fastest model builder obviously.

More Bigger Projects...

Keeping with my theme of "too many projects on the go at one time" I have added another one.

I'm about half way through construction on these guys. Going to leave most of the Armor plates off for easier painting.  So far the legs are pretty much done.  Trying to decide on how much I'm going to magnetize for flexibility and transportability.  I know I'm only half way through assembly, but already have too many color schemes bouncing around my head.

I really need to start cutting down on projects...

More Base Work

I'm starting to experiment with some different basing techniques and see what the out come is after all the priming and painting is done.  On these I've used cork, crushed walnut shells, crushed shell, old GW resin basing pieces and some Vallejo Rough Grey Pumice.  I think if there was a kitchen sink available I would have thrown that in too.

Now to get some primer on these guys and some Paint.

Slaaneshy Rhino Start

Even with 8th Edition dropping in a few weeks, I've decided to keep plowing on with my Chaos Space Marines that I've been kicking around since 2nd Edition.  My Noise Marines have never had a dedicated Rhino before, so I got started on one.

The side doors and front plate are from Kromlech. I really like them, but they do take a bit of finagling to get into place.  I had to shave a bit off the bottom of the side doors with a hobby knife and I was to worried to put the front plate on without some support under it.  The gaps I've tried to fill with green stuff and put a partial skin on the top...that will be getting some more attention before the priming commences.