Desperate times calls for bits box abuse -Episode 10

Welcome back everyone 

It's been a busy few weeks, and this time I was really feeling the budget strain. If you have been reading along from the old site, youay know my original budget was only $100 a month. I have been able to push that a little by sacrificing other things like coffee, but I've been basically able to make one large purchase every other month, and a couple of smaller ones. This month, I had my mate Gary reach out and offer me a bunch of models (way more than I had budget for), but I picked up a number of models and committed two months budget. 

This got me:

1 storm raven

3 eradicators 

6 blade guard

6 aggressors and some parts 

3 dev cents

Gary also threw in a the lieutenant and captain from the Indomitus box and and thunderfire cannon!

Along with this, I will be picking up another lot from Doug as my next lot. I picked up a couple of smaller purchases, another Indomitus captain and 12 terminators. 

Whole thos was good progress, I was starting to feel very constrained by my budget. So the first thing I did was try to squeeze the most amount of models from what I had. So I hit my bits box hard and came up with a few extra bits,

First, I converted and old broken landspeeder into a talon master

Then I found enough bits to create a squad of vanguard vets

next on the list was creating an Azreal from my spare captain

While clearing through some old models I found an extra terminator. With the addition of parts from a donated deathwing terminator frame I built an apothecary 

I  also revisted some of the 2nd edition terminators I had but decided not to use, and finished them up 2 make a squad of 10

My terminators I purchased arrived, which had am extra model than I expected. I built the squad of 10 with 2 assault cannons, then converted the two spares into a lieutenant and ancient

I was pretty happy with all this process, but it hadn't helped with my budget. My search for old marines had turned up a number of old models. I have decided to paint and sell these. This will help fund some more purchases which I plan on buying cheap 2nd hand models, paint and return and resell. This will help fund the marines I hope. Here are the first few models waiting for a paint job

Among all this building I painted a up a couple of squads:

The last of the 4th company tactical marines 

4th company captain 

2nd company lieutenants 

2nd company assault intercessors 

Whew!

That's all for now. I have had my box of 3d printing turn up yesterday, but that deserves it's own post, so I'll be back next week to talk about that. 

See you then!