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100 silver marines on the wall...

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Hi everyone  The last two weeks have been deep in painting a big batch of marines. But before I take you through that, let's look at the latest purchases.  First up, last month I picked up a reasonably priced impulsor. It took a couple of weeks, but it finally arrived: My last visit to Doug also uncovered a bunch of dreads he had sitting around, so I happily took those off his hands: (one Redemptor not pictured) I'm expecting to save up next month, and go for a big purchase in July unless any good deals appear before then. The big batch So, last post I said I was going to start a batch of 100 marines. I've spent the last two weeks working through this a stage at a time and posting my progress on the NZ40Kabal Facebook page. Here are those posts: Day 1 Well. As promised, day 1 of a full company batch paint. This is 7th company. 7th are a reserve company consisting of 10 tactical squads. There is also command staff consisting of a captain,

Aggressive and sneaky

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Welcome back everyone  After kicking back into painting a few weeks back, I really felt like I hit my stride again this week. To start off, I carried on with my box of 3rd company, first up was a squad of aggressors: I say squad, since its 10th squad in the company, but in game terms it will be 6 with flamers and 4 with boltstorm. These guys also took me over the 500 marine painted count! In the same vein, I followed this up with 9 inceptors with bolters The plan was to follow this up with the other squad on inceptors, but I got distracted. I'd come up with an idea for a narrative campaign with Ben, pitching his steel legion against my Doom legion. The slight catch was for the first mission, I needed some vanguard. I started off with a squad of eliminators: These were great fun to paint, but the cloaks were time consuming, taking up almost the same time as an extra whole squad!  While those was going on, Ben was also painting, grindin