Should have asked for more

I've been depainting and repainting loads of the old 1st gen plastic space marines.  I had a mixed batch of 15 left over and decided I'd sell them.  They were all intact, but needed a depaint, and probably some conversion work as some of the weapons were no longer current in 5th gen.  I asked $40 for them.  They lasted about 3 hours apparently.  Guess my price was a bit low.  :)

I may ask the guys in the store who bought them if it was a regular.  If they are a decent painter I'd like to see what they do with them.

Now (rubs hands together) what to get with the store credit.  I've got requests from the kids, from my wife, and there is always plenty I want.

Painting Log

So here's the deal (on the slight off chance that someone somewhere is even vaguely interested).  Used to do this ages ago.  In fact I was in line outside a GW to buy Rogue Trader at age 13.  Kept playing with the minis until I was around 22 but then lapsed somewhat on the gaming.  Two kids later, they are starting to get into some of the same things I remember having fun with.  I'm of course happy to help them along.  For their birthdays this year my kids both got some 40K minis.  Fletcher Space Marines, Morgan Orks.  I'd got a good start on the painting, but boy do we have a lot to do.  Add to that I picked up a couple of sets with some of my birthday money, and as mentioned my dad brought over my old stuff.  Well, here's the to do list which I'll update as I go along.


Morgan's Orks
Assembled
5 Burnas, 5 Boyz

Primed and ready
Battle Wagon, 2 Trukks, Looted Wagon, 3 Killa Kans, War Trakk, 5 Storm Boys, 5 Lootas, 20 Boyz
Under way
35 boyz, 10 nobz, 3 Deffkopters (all mostly done)
Done
Warboss, 10 Gretchin and a runt herder, couple of ammo squigs.

Fletcher's Ultramarines
Ready to assemble and prime
15 terminators
Primed and ready
53 marines
Underway
2 Razorbacks
Done
20 Marines, 5 Scouts, Scout Bike, 5 Termies, Captain, Librarian, 10 sternguard, Land Raider Crusader, 2 dreadnoughts

Marcus's Rabble (stuff I picked up because it was cheap and looked interesting to paint)
Primed and ready 
6 Tau XV25s, and 20 Eldar Guardians
Done
Necron Destroyer

Marcus's IG
Done
Vendetta, 2 Sentinels, 10 Psyker Battle Squad, 10 Penal Legion, 2 Snipers, 2 AC heavy weapons squads, 25 guardsmen, 5 IG command squad

Painting Projects 2

For me though, I'm going to slowly work on an IG army as its what I used to play at Epic Scale.  Not got much yet, and no plans to rush into it, got too much other stuff first.  My old minis have provided a penal legion squad, psyker battle squad, and a couple of 'counts as' special characters.  Then I've got a couple of sentinels, the vendetta, and about 20 guardsmen.  Just enough for a legal force, although a pretty small and unbalanced one.  For the guardsmen I've been experimenting more with washes.  I remember liking the old GW washes, but not the range of colors.  Then I discovered Payne's Gray.  It's a blue gray that is perfect for shadows.  So flat coat the guardsmen, bit of dry brush, and drown them in Payne's Gray wash.  Put a unit out on the table and they look really good.

Painting Projects

When my dad came over at the start of the month he was nice enough to bring along some of my old minis.  This included 79 (I think it was) space marines.  Couple that with what one of my kids already had and we have more than a company.  Thing is the were all painted as Dark Angels, and at a time when that meant red strip, yellow eyes, job done.  Some time in a cup of simple green has been helping get off the old paint.  Then I'll repaint in Ultramarine colors to merge in with Fletcher's army.  I'll get the points up quick, just be very lacking in armor.

Weathering vehicles 2

Same deal as with the Vendetta, the final weathering effect wasn't nearly as good as before I sprayed on the top coat.  The dark earth powder did a great job on the legs of this sentinel though.