Stuck on you... missiles and magnets

After trying out the Razorwing a few times, I am not really sure it helps me a whole lot.  It's off the board a lot, and space marine armies can have dozens of skyfire shots for pretty much nothing.

However, this is the only thing I have that has SF, so I guess it stays.  It can drop some nastiness on an enemy scoring unit late in an objective type game, although it seems like the newer fliers also do that a lot better.

I figured that I should magnetize the missiles, since I may not always want the same type of armament.  

I am going with the standard Monosythe to save on points, since they are free.

I started out by putting a magnet on the underside that was the same height as the missile pins that are on the fuselage. 

I chopped off the leading edge pins, so that I could put the metal sheet in its place...

I cut out tiny pieces of sheet metal (always make sure your magnets will stick to it when you buy it...  I found this out the hard way!) and placed them on the sponsons.

I double checked to see if the magnet was the correct height, and in a good place for balance.  Once confirmed, I did all the sponsons.

Getting there!

A quick "shake check" to see if they would stay on, which they did.

Finis!!  This was pretty basic to save time, since I don't know how often I will use this guy.  I think it would be better in multiples.  Again, I am not sure just how much this will help at Adepticon.  At least it counts as a scoring unit in one scenario ;-)

The racing teams assemble...

OK!  With the jetbikes being the featured part of the army (and the fluff!), I had to make sure that we had some interesting stuff going on with them.  This is one of the two groups of bikes that I have been working on...

Lots of bits went into these!  In the effort to make each bike and rider unique, I pirated extra parts from other bikes, vehicle sprues, and even wyche sprues.

Here's a few closer images of the bikes...

Most of the splinter rifles are magnetized, so I can change those out if I ever get the points.

I also magnetized the cluster caltrops, since those are a huge part of the plan!!

So let's go racin'!  I have a few group shots of the other batch, which is already primed!

Painting the ancient and the rare...

OK folks, this is a set of very old (and, I am told, very rare) miniatures from the old Citadel range called Pan Tangeans.  Obviously, these were not the most detailed sculpts ever made.  They were not the easiest figures to paint, that's for sure...

I don't remember why they were all painted in various color schemes, but that was the request, I believe.

The tigers were interesting, at least. :-)

I am pretty sure these were painted back in 2005, so that represents a little ancient history for me as well!

I guess I will keep running across crazy galleries like these for a little while!

Dark Elf Dreadlord

Here's something that was hiding in the archives!

Not quite sure when this one was painted, but it had to be years ago.  Probably when I was painting those assassins...

Here's a link to those guys:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/02/something-bit-different-dark-elves.html

Back to work!

It's for the birds... Odin

OK, another colossal big guy from Eastern Front Studios!

This time, it's Odin.  I think the plaque is 4 inches across, to give you an idea of size.

Obviously, a big pile of baked sculpey carved away to create the ice base!

I will be doing an ice pile on one of the kickstarter painting videos "Painting the Blues away", since that will be a great exercise is painting many different shades of blue!

The freehand was very fun.

The Big Guy...

The Big Head...

More freehand...

Big Bird!

Touch this and you will get more than warts...

Time for another piece from the archive... a giant toad!  This was from Eastern Front Studios.

The base is a wooden plaque that is probably 6 inches across.

I think this is one of the first things I ever painted using my book of reptiles, amphibians and bugs as reference.  Eventually I would use it as a guide for all of my Lizardman army.

Since this was so huge, it let me choose a much more complicated pattern, which was fun!  You get a good look at that here.

I made the rocks, lilipads, etc., from sculpey.  Once that was baked and painted, I glued it to the wooden plaque.

My, what big teeth you have!

Close up of the base.  I painted several transparent layers on the 'water' part, using some gloss varnish in between each one.  This was faster and easier than trying to do it all with one of those water effects products.

Sci-fi Vestals from Raging Heroes!

As the Raging Heroes Kickstarter draws ever closer, here is something to whet your appetite.

I have a few squads of these Sci-fi Vestals from Raging Heroes for my Wyches.  They are very highly detailed minis, which is why I am using a number of them for my painting videos.

The faces and hair are very cleanly sculpted and cast, which is not always the case with other companies for whatever reason.

The view from above...

Here she is with the first color test of the squad...

These are really amazing minis, so I will keep posting them as I get more painted!  Stay tuned!