Tank commander

This is the model I will use as my 1st Land Raiders' commander. So cool!

Now, I am on the fence about how to paint my Land Raiders.

If they are dedicated transports to my Justaerin, you would think they would be in the 1st company colours, the same as the Justaerin I have already painted. Much the same as DA Deathwing Land Raiders are bone white like the rest of the 1st company.

The other option is just to paint it the green I am yet to come up with.

And another thing, would the crew also be in the same scheme, or would they have to be in the green.

All the Land Raiders in the book are kinda half and half green and black, so maybe that will be the way to go.

Meh, something to think about I guess.

Hobby Points Painting System!

Our mighty overlord Rob postulated using a points system to help encourage us to paint models we already have before we buy more.  I think this is not only a fabulous idea but one I am going to roll with in an effort to help curb my spending as well.

How it works?  Simply add up the points you have earnt as per the table below.  You obviously can only score for each model once, unless you strip and repaint of course.  When you want to purchase more goods you need to remove that from your running credit total.

Item	Value	Frequency
25mm base	1	per model
40mm base	2	per model
60mm base	5	per model
Monster	10	per model
Small vehicle	15	per model
Large vehicle	20	per model
Terrain feature	10 - 20	per piece
Bonuses
Character	2	per model
Extra options	0.5	per model
Based model	0.5	per model
New technique attempted	5	once per technique
Transfers/Unit markings	1	per unit
Weathering - battle damage	1	per unit
Weathering - dirt & grime	1	per unit
Completed unit	2	per unit

Example:
5 x Chaos Space Marines (5 pts) + 5 x bases (2.5 pts) + 5 x extra options (2.5 pts) + completed unit (2 pts) = 12 HPPS in your tally.

Honesty and common sense would be the overriding factors on this as well.  And pictures of each would be expected.  Subjective pieces such as terrain would be by concensus.

Thoughts?

Skycutter Chariot

This is the base model with a couple of lances to act as struts. They are going to be cut off just in front of the hands then glued to the 'nacelles' I sculpted into the green stuff.

More progress!

So I have finished assembling the rest of the Justaerin squad, such a cool kit. Its hard to not make a staunch looking badass.

I have 2 bare heads and the Sgts power sword I will paint seperately.

3 Gryphons

So as the image shows I have 3 of the IoB Gryphon riders. I have seen a couple of full on conversions where people have stripped the rider off completely and run the monster as an eagle (very cheap flyer unit for High Elves). Or I was thinking of stripping the wings off and having them as some kind of allied monstrous cavalry eg Demigryphs, or house ruling in something for them. Basically I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. The paint Job on the one at the back left is bad enough that I would happily attempt to do any and all conversions on that one first :)

Great success! Kind of.......

So I kind of screwed up the green again lol, however managed to pretty much finish the termy.

Not sure about the leather skirt and matching straps on the shoulders, but it does look very good, my camera doesn't do it justice sadly.

Very keen on a Deathwing army of these guys now!

Back to the drawing board!

Well the previous attempt at a Sons of Horus scheme didn't work out too well, so that model is going to be finished and given to a mate who nags me all the time for one.

This is what I'm working on now, need to get the black sorted for the Justaerin terminators and I have a new scheme in mind for the standard Sons marines.

Time for some experimentation!