Steel Penguins braying

[Steel Penguin]

Kit I don't expect a dealer to cut his own throat, and 50-70% is roughly what we expected, the offer was much, much lower.
In other  news ive cleaned up and filled the Darlek  shuttle and hit the problem, its made of hexagonal cross section blocks, and in the TV episodes it was in the parts fitted together, and were face to face flat ( link to Google picks  https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1859&bih=1012&q=dalek&oq=darlek&gs_l=img.1.0.0i10k1l10.1235.6991.0.9137.6.6.0.0.0.0.86.452.6.6.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.6.443...0.fmlmGfNKDZs#hl=en&tbm=isch&q=dalek+shuttle&imgdii=9xboB7j8cVvXtM%3A%3B9xboB7j8cVvXtM%3A%3Bu2jPCiMvWHoONM%3A&imgrc=9xboB7j8cVvXtM%3A     )
but the resin ones angles don't match, either I have the landing rockets not flat to the ground  or I have a very visable gap at the top of the pods.    either way my idea of just being able to use epoxy to glue it gone, ill have to drill and pin and use the pins to level the parts, then fill the gap.
The GW grey Knights have had the initial gold  layer, some GW fans would now be going      as they arnt "grey"  ( well technically more silver from the last couple of codex's)  but mine are painted to match the original few terminators from their first appearance in white dwarf in the late 80s early 90s  when they were gold, and im not repainting the older ones    so 19 power armoured troops in gold, they can dry over night, then ink wash tomorrow evening, then drybrush gold, then I can do all the non-gold bits after,  Hey its a plan.

[Steel Penguin]

well im fully under the influence of the "black spot" ARRR!  as ive been putting a second wash of black ink on the grey knights,  so have ink splashes all over both hands.  the wash may be a bit thin so a second coat wont hurt,  ( I use a mix of a chestnut brown wargames ink, and Rotering black,  getting the balance is a bit tricky).  but any progress is good progress 
though I did a quick count and after ive done these 16, ive got 25 more to do, and these ones will need cleaning up, assembling and so on.  but it will get me a rather large force.  pity I haven't played Warhammer 40000 for several years.  im enjoying the painting  so it doesn't matter.

[Steel Penguin]

well 16 grey Knights done, the flocks now drying, and they'll get varnished when theres dry time outside.  But done 

124 figures 6 bits of scenery 4 models.

I may well be finishing the box of the others as the next batch, but ill decide that later tonight / tomorrow

getting there 

[Steel Penguin]

the next batch of grey knights are going together, I need to put backpacks on 7 and there ready for spray painting.

[Captain Canada]

Sounds interesting. Some day I might build and paint a few that I have around. Be a good excuse to scratch build some armour !

[Steel Penguin]

Yes Capt, its one of the things that was encouraged in the original 40K rules, as there weren't any readily available scifi wargames kits, so build your own was they way to go,  some of the early ones were quite spectacular,  I used to just swap commander figures on 1:35 scale tanks to get super heavy's,  and  the M113 was always a popular APC to start from the base on.

im sat waiting for the brown on the bases to dry before I flock the next batch of grey knights, they'll then  need varnishing , and be done. 

[Steel Penguin]

flocked  so done 25 more powered armour grey knights

149 figures 6 bit of scenery  4 models.

what next?  I may well finish of the 1:72 Saracen apc,  in ( odd for me)  BOAR green and black , with the from the box decals.   not certain after that.

[Steel Penguin]

Annnnddd the Saracens finished.      non-wiff but that wasn't the point of finishing,  its one of the last things my late father in law started, so this is as much in his memory as anything else. 

149 figures   6 bits of scenery  5 models.

and I still don't know what to do next 

[Captain Canada]

You and Dizzy having a competition ? lol Busy busy !

[Steel Penguin]

    no way I could compete with Dizzy 
the speed of the Saracen, is due to the fact all I had to do was paint and decal, other wise it would have taken a fair bit longer

[Captain Canada]

Still an impressive amount of kit for such a short time !

[Steel Penguin]

had a wonder round the Womborne show today  its 3 small halls in a local library / civic centre and normally  5 ish miles away, theres the local marathon in the way today, so I had to go a slightly longer way round, to get there. but there was free parking, and plenty of variety in the displays, both in scales and subjects, space ships, cars, armour, subs, ships, figures and planes.   Had a wonderful ?? moment  on one stand a beautifully done 1:48 sail driven pilots vessel  12-18" long  waterline base, and enough to get Mrs SP to say that shed love to try having a go at one, as not only is the scale big enough for her to see, but the finished thing is small enough not to take over the room / house,  then on the next table is the 1:72 type XXI (?) u boat that revel do all 4 foot of it.  we both sort of stopped and did the slow turn of heads from one table to the other thing.  both looked splendid examples of the makers skill as well.

[Steel Penguin]

decided that the next start would be the KV 2 I got back in june ( 2nd hand)  just opened the box,    5 of the 8 sprues are missing  not happy.  not happy at all. 
its gone straight to scrap bits.   hard to do  when no roadwheels, track and drives wheels / idlers present.  im not even certain there's a complete turret.
I need to remind myself  to check anything 2ndhand down to the last part.

[NARSES2]

Why I very seldom buy second hand unless I can have a really good look.

Got bitten at SMW last year (maybe the year before ?) when I bought a Olimp Edo XESO-1. Got it at the official IPMS sales area and when I got it home the previous owner had screwed both vac form canopies up which was obviously why he'd sold it. No mention of this on the box and when I mentioned this to IPMS they weren't really bothered. Made some noises but didn't do a thing as far as I could see. haven't bought at SMW's official second hand sales since.

[zenrat]

That sucks Pengy.

I only ever have a quick squizz in the box but I always check the clear parts are all present and correct.