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2nd and also 5th

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Welcome back everyone  After the distractions last fortnight, I was determined to get the company finished off, and as you can see from the photo above, success! The first thing was a batch of bases, which cleared the backlog and gave me enough to finish off first company. Bladeguard and sternguard with bases done. Next step was the transfers on 5th company, which I managed to clear through in a couple of evenings.  With that done, 5th company is complete (with the disclaimer I have yet to order chapter symbols), so I got them out for a bit of a showcase: 5th company captain Drucius Octavius Orders My monthly budget came in, so it was off to Troll trader. First up was a squad of aggressors, which finishes off 3rd company, next I added in 3 characters which also finishes 9th company. I added in an Invader ATV and attack bike as they were both a good price and hard to g

A tale of two weeks -episode 23

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Welcome back everyone. This episode I'm going to go week by week... Week 1 I'm starting this fortnight off with an ambitious goal, finish the last 40 marines in 5th company, which would be a second painted company, and the sternguard from 1st company. My starting point is a half finished squad of assault marines, and two companyveterans. I crack in and finish these off on Monday, a good start! Happy with my start I pulled out the sternguard, I also realized I could make my life a little easier and grabbed the 5th company apothecary so I could do all the white together: Awesome progress so far! My wife and I are starting the long process of moving house, so since I don't actually have any photos of my fully battle ready Eldar force, I decided to get it all out on a table and get some shots of it before I packed it all up for the move: Since this is a marine blog, I'll leave it at the one photo, but you can find