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Baby's first birthday- 12 month review

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Hi everyone  Although I started writing this blog (on my previous platform) in November, this project really kicked off in September 2020, this is when I first sat down, looked at my existing marines, put my plans in place, and purchased a whole pile of first born marines off Ben. Since this month marks the 1st birthday of thos project, I thought it would be nice to look at where its at right now, and what's next. All the boys Let's start off with some photos, here is the full chapter so far: Then company by company: First company  2nd battle company- Mark 9 primaris  3rd battle company- Mark 10 Gravis 4th battle company  5th battle company  6th reserve company- all mounted on bikes or speeders 7th reserve company- all tactical marines  8th reserve company- close support squads  9th reserve company- fire support squads  10th reserve company- 100 va

In fine company- episode 20

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Welcome everyone  Well I'll start from the top this week, I finished a battle company!  Well, if I'm honest there are a few little bits to go, namely back banners on the sargeants, and the chapter symbols. Both of those need component purchased that I'm likely going to get once all the infantry is purchased. I'll then bulk finish those components for the whole chapter. So let's take a closer look at what I finished off this week. First up was the remaining infantry to paint for the company. This consisted of 10 assault marines, and 2 devestator squads.  I'm still in lockdown, so I spent some evenings, and a little bit of was supposed to be a quiet holiday painting, and I think I can probably paint a marine with my eyes closed by now, so it was only taking a couple of sessions per squad, and all 30 took less than a week. I didn't quite have enough bases to finish the company, and was missing some for