Painting those Marines

I mentioned this in the previous post prior to this, I love pushing out models in large numbers with the airbrush before hitting the details with a brush later. It allows me to get them to the base colours fast, plays nicer on the table and you can always work on them adinfinitum until you are pleased. 

I pre-highlight with a white over a black primer

Airbrushing happens in thin coats and red doesn't cover black too easily. I still chose to use black over white primer mainly because I love a darker shade. Kenny Boucher from Next Level Painting loves to paint red over brown so you could also give that a go.

Completed in under 1 hour

All in all, less than an hour. Airbrush really hastens the painting work and if you do them in bulk like this, you will show progress every time you hit your store! Haha! Enjoy the rest of the week! 

More Reinforcements

So I have been deliberating my list for quite a bit. There seemed to be some 'fat' that I could do away with. And the recent Gauntlet Tactical Squad was too good a deal to pass so I got 2 boxes of them. They basically come with a free Rhino per box (if you work out the math of each individual box at RRP). Nice. 

Reinforcements have arrived

So after scheming and tinkering with my list, I came up with a slight amendment. As my opponents are still not aware what I am scheming, I can't reveal my full ploy yet. Hehehee

Here's a sneak peak

ABO Gaming at Games Workshop Red House

It was in December that Melvin and DF both had sometime off work. YC was also off work and I was clearing leave. It was a match made in heaven. All 4 of us hauled ass to Games Workshop Red House (Singapore). 

New reinforcements

In time for our game

 So I rushed out as many models I as could for our game the next day.

Here is the army I semi completed

I failed to finish all the toys I wanted to bring to my first game at Games Workshop! But then again, I am not one to give up so easily. I played my two games against YC and Melvin and it was really good fun! The boys ran off to watch Rebels after that and I went back to start working on the rest of my army.

Got home and broke out these bad boys

Built all the missing models from my list

Even based all of them, including those which I may use in the future

Since I am a big WYSIWYG person, I also bought 2 boxes of these Scouts so I can arm them with th relevant shotguns! 

So there you have it, a bit of gaming and modelling I did in December.

At the end of the day, we also agreed to do a painting challenge. 1500 points of whatever you like at the end of 2017. The above will go towards that 1500.