The Age of Strife

Eric said:
Not that I've been able to find much hobby time for painting, but in a moment of eternal optimism I topped up the lead pile with a few new additions from ebay.

So this lot await their dunk into the paint stripper (apologies if you recognise your work!) and then hopefully in the mythical future of extra time I'll do my own scrawling on them!

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Otherwise I have done a few more bits of woodland, just small sections to pack out the larger ones I did a while back. I was curious to try some of the tree stump bases from Jarvis and picked up a few. They are perfectly decent, although perhaps the spacing is a little tight on them for the larger K&M trees, although that said in real life trees often grow into their neighbours. Anyhow they certainly made for a faster build. Still a bit of work needed to pack out the trunks now and add a few more bits of foliage before they are ready.
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Great haul! Are all of the originals? I have several of those in my pile.
 
I really ought to strip and repaint some of those. Quite a few of them are wearing almost forty year old enamel at this point. The enamel has held up surprisingly well, but my opinion of my teenage paint jobs less so. Anyway, looking forward to seeing all this! Should be splendid stuff.
 
Well They got some yellow on them now! Along with some plague bearers that I primed they are slowly having the weapons and whatnot picked out in black whilst I try to remember what I used to pin-line the armour on the older ones!
 
Well I can finally call myself an Oldhammer-er now ...

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The collection is complete, what more can there be to collect? ;)

I really didn't think I'd actually end up buying one given the stupid prices™ the poor beast sells for these days, or rather the stupid prices people are trying to sell the poor beast for and I've always regretted not bidding a little more on the easy Live Auction one last year, which then promptly went on eBay. So when this one came up for similar money I decided if no-one had bought it by the end of the day I would and fate evidently decided she was to be mine (despite a bit of a faff with Royal Mail just now, but that's a different story).

She'll stay as she is for now, I've too much in the painting queue to strip off a perfectly acceptable paint job, I shall just enjoy owning one at last.

I'm going to make a cuppa and enjoy sitting here with a stupid grin on my face for a while longer!
 
Nice score! I am well impressed. And sure, sure, it looks fine and that's all well and good, but you know you want to paint it . . .
 
Yep, only at the early stages. I've got a batch of about 15 marines on the go and have had the Dread sat waiting for a while in the cabinet. Not quite sure how exactly I'll paint it, but for the moment I've been getting the pin-lining and so forth done. Trying to get the rest of my older metal marines done. I think after this lot there are perhaps another five or so marines and a couple more jetbikes and bikes and then we're onto RTB01s and thinks like the 'strike force' era marines. Actually there are a tonne more terminators to do, forgot about those for a moment.
 
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