A daunting Project Schedule deserves a post of its own...

When you put it in black and white (and add some snazzy color) my project list looks much bigger than I thought it was . . .  I have a mere 160 models to get painted in the next month.  Here's what it looks like:

Hopefully my airbrush and compressor won't let me down any time soon.  :-')

A busy four day stretch!

I have a reasonably insane schedule set for myself to get 6000 points of Imperial Fists table-worthy for the Horus Heresy Gaming Weekend in August, so I've been at it hard the past few days trying to get models churned out.

Here's what's new:

The Legion Fellblade is fully assembled, primed, and ready for pre-shading on my airbrush stand... this pic is from the 80% built point, because I just couldn't resist taking a picture of this handsome devil!!!

Six Legion JetBikes now stand ready for a wash down to get the accelerant off of them, and get them in to the "paint booth" for priming.

Twenty Legion Tactical Marines (my first 20-man squad) are complete, washed, and ready for priming this afternoon.

Two Land Raider "early Mark" Phobos conversions are now fully assembled, ready for gap filling and then priming.

And, last but not least, I've gotten the interior of my Legion Land Raider Spartan painted. This shot is early on, before I shaded these panels. I've sealed these bits with Matte Varnish, masked them off, and put the exterior on the air brush stand next to the Fellblade for pre-shading.

Whew! It's been a fun four days... and I'm right back at it trying to get 15 Assault Marines done today! Wish me luck!!!

Recon in the HOOOOOUSE!!!

The Space Marines are elite -- granted.  But amongst the Elite there have to be some guys with brass balls, right?  In my opinion the F/W Recon Marines look to be those guys.  So, I couldn't help but put 10 of them together and flip them into a Storm Eagle.

 

I was a bit concerned that these guys would come in a dozen pieces that would be hard to fit nicely (some older F/W kits were certainly that way), however, they can as a pleasant to deal with package.  Each torso had a number (in reverse braille)with arms and other bits marked to match making it super easy to get them together.  The backpacks were also a nice single piece design.

I think they look pretty cool, now I just have to paint them in a scheme that makes them look as Bad-A painted as they do in the online catalog . . .

I'm planning at this point to paint them a Matte Grey, maybe something akin to the Red Scorpions.  As I'm going for a "Defense of the Palace" theme, I thought maybe they could fit nicely as part of Garro's growing group of Knights Errant... we'll see how that back-story plays out in the next few F/W rule sets.

Here's the Storm Eagle, ready for a primer coat.  Legion doors to follow.

That's all for today's update.  I'm back to the work bench to try getting two Land Raiders and 30 Tactical Marines done in the next 24 hours!!!

Who knew Land Raiders come as a Convertible?!?

So, I'm clearly not very good at this blogging thing, but I'm making progress on my Imperial Fists Legion force, and thought I'd start sharing as it's coming along.

In my first post of the new year I thought I'd share my Land Raider Proteus / Phobos MkI "convertible".  I really didn't think I could stand having a expensive Forge World chassis only have one load-out, and I love magnets, so I came up with this.

The assault ramp is mostly plasticard, with a F/W Imperial Fist Land Raider Door for the top deck for both rigidity and embellishment.  It's held in place with two magnets.  I intend to make a banner that will hang with them on the front of the chassis for those occassions when it is running as a Proteus.

More pics of this, and other items from the work bench to follow!