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Downward spiral

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Hello everybody  Here we are back with another update, but a quiet one this time, as life slowed painting progress again (how dare it). In practical terms, this basically meant that instead of the week I had aimed for to complete the last 40 heavy intercessors turned into almost the entire two weeks. I did manage to finish them off in time though: The exciting part, was this was a milestone of over 700 marines painted, and now less than 400 to go! It definitely feels like I'm on the downhill part of getting this project completed.  I'll be putting down the brush for a bit as I have to play some catch up with a backlog of 200 marines waiting on bases and transfers, with something like 500 needing the chapter symbol adding. It looks like the long awaited shelves have finally arrived so I can get the chapter on display. More on that next time. The other distraction from painting in the last week was a big game vs a mate. We played 4k points with

Darkness and light

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Welcome back everyone  So I had an extra weeks gap between last post an this one, I basically had two weeks of high productivity book ending a week of lifes distraction in the middle. Let's see what got done. 7th company   First off was finishing the 7th company batch paint. This took another week after my last post. So, what did I take away from this experience? A lot of positives. First up, it took just over half the time that it would have in batches, saving about 2 weeks. That is massively worth it. When it came down to it, it wasn't actually that horrible to do, I've painted enough marines by now that it doesn't really matter how many I do at a time, and I made good progress that worked out to one color every session. That made it nice clean chunks that felt like I was making progress. There a few more places that would benefit from the larger batches that I'm going to do, 3rd companies intercessors, 8th companies assault mar