Get Sett to fight for the Bacon

I have finished my test model for my custom "Iron Hands" Successors Chapter.

Inspired by the Sons of the Phoenix except I was afraid of that much white (I am not 100% happy with how my white on the chest turned out as it is) and more purple is always good. The other problem was that the Sons of the Phoenix are clearly Rogan Dorns successors. I wanted it to be clear that mine were Sons of Ferrus Manus so but I want to respect the inspiring chapter so I was thinking I would use a similar name. Perhaps Children of the Emperor or Sons of F.

F is clearly for Ferrus not Fulgrim

The next problem was my base, I tried for a palace base. I got some plasticard to give the top of the base a smoother finish. A layer of Skeleton horde with some bronze and grey squiggled through it while it was still wet.

Looks strange but cool.

Once dry some Ard coat was applied but due to the humidity this seemed to dry while I was painting it on and removed my smooth finish.

Mmm Bacon Fat

Wanting to try something new I decided to not just do a black rim and after trying brown, bronze, and white I ended up putting another coat of Skeleton horde on the white (For this I was too hasty and my white had not dried fully yet).

Just Blutacked on for now

The general consensus is its not right. My base looks closer to him standing on cooking bacon than it does the palace floors I was aiming for. I will do another base and see what I like better that or my army can fight for planet bacon.

To finish on a more positive note League released yet another champion and he is so much fun. However I am not quite ready to start ranked on my main for the season so I have become a Sett One Trick on my smurf. See my below highlight where I win 1v4.

Objective Markers Round 2 - Freebooters and Pointy Eared Gits

Here are the two latest additions to my Objective Marker 3D remixes. I don't have the skills to develop such things in any proper 3D sculpting software so like any good Ork Mek I loot the designs and shove some numbers on it. (Okay there is a little bit more to the process but that is the gist of it).

First of all for the Space Aelf army that I began but then stopped immediately we have the dimensional gateways. Seeing all the beautifully painted Aeldari armies at tournaments and really liking the play style I was so tempted to start one. I managed to get one of the old start collecting sets and traded out the bikers for some rangers with someone on facebook. Leading the army would be an Autarch with Reaper Cannon aka Amalyn with upgraded Rifle.

Now with more ZZAAHPP!

However after my initial attempts using masking tape and spray paints to get the base colours down on my Fire Prism I found that my cheap choice of masking tape and poor application had left bits where the the spray paint had mixed with the masking tape glue leaving horrible marks, not only that but some of the masking tape had stuck and left marks on the energy crystal. Dismayed it was left to rot in my WIP bucket. Thankfully the Legends release has put an end to my ideas for a Aeldari army by removing my HQ choice and that special edition Bone Singer I bought. I think I might still finish the 500pts or so that I have bought eventually for some fun skirmish games but not sure how I want paint the infantry as that colour scheme might not transition well.

Nowhere near the pretty Aeldari I have seen.

The other objective markers are Treasure Chests, these were designed with my local gaming club the Miramar Freebooters in mind, I might get a set printed to give away when we next hold a 40k tournament.

Thanks to the club for posting this image every month to help motivate me/feel guilty about painting.

Last but not least I have updated the Tryanids and Necrons Objective Markers on Thingiverse with files for each individual objective marker. This was done based on requests on social media months ago from people who wanted to get each individual marker as their 3D printers didnt have space for all 6. Which makes total sense as when I printed them I did them 4 at a time cause 6 wouldn't fit on the printer I had access too... Sorry for the delayed response there for an issue I had before I even upload the files for the public...

And sorry to the creators of their original designs, when I last uploaded them I didn't have the remix showing correctly and you were only mentioned in the comments/description. I have now put the remix link in correctly.

Anyway here are all the links for the new and updated objectives:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4093773 - Dimensional Gates for Pointy Eared Gits

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4099341 - Freebooters Objective Markers

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3155901 - Nids Objectives

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3163123 - Necrons Objectives

I feel like I should add a disclaimer here that I haven't actually had a chance to print the Gates or the Chests yet myself as the public printer I used to use has been stopped.

A Howling Good Holiday

I didn't achieve to much over the holidays, I managed to paint one model. This is the other Space Marine character that wasn't picked for the Wrath and Glory Campaign. He wears his Chapter Symbol on the Right Shoulder as much like the Death Watch his new allegiance is worn of the left shoulder, in this case the Oath he made to Inquisitor Victoria.

He is inspired by the below artwork, when sourcing the bits I was frustrated that I couldn't find a shoulder pad with both the Edge and the Studs like in the image. However its not an exact replica and I dont think my model conveys the same menacing stride either.

My partner replace her phone during the Boxing day sales (I hate the very concept of this, Christmas is commercialized enough, this day should be for time with Family not dragging people out for more sales) and it has a great camera (well compared to mine at least) and I hate it. It shows me all my brush strokes so much clearer than I can see and while the model looks fine to the naked eye I can see all of my mistakes in the photos so easily.

Overall I am pretty happy with both of my Primaris - True Scale Marine conversions. Though both still have hints of primaris as there as some parts of the design that I still like. I quite enjoyed making these and think I will make more. The idea of having a mini collection of Space Marine characters from different chapters is quite appealing.

The most of what I did with my spare time was re-read Tower of God. Season 3 is great and I needed a refresher of whats happening as I have been reading it in drips for so long.

         The "Main' Characters

As hyped as ever, this is the last remaining Comic/Manga that I read anymore. Unlike other Mangas in the action/adventure genre it has a story line that continues to develop. One of the characters Khun Ran is used as my avatar image on most sites, if only I could get such blue grey hair in real life.

Eating his Lightning Pill

Despite it going on for so long the story line has been great so far, and despite the first Season not having the best art work the story was gripping enough to keep my interest and you can see how the writer has improved in that respect over time. 

Baylord Doom the Evil Cute Puppy Boy

So special thanks to Slave Inutero (The Authors Nickname) for making Mondays something to look forward too.

Also I have started making some Eldar and Pirate themed Objective Makers using some files I found on Thingiverse (Thanks and respect to whoever designed the originals, I will try to link you when I upload the final versions to Thingiverse).

On a side note I have made a discord server (which is currently empty) but if anyone wants to chat or discuss stuff hobby related or not come join.

Da TechMeks Garage Discord Server