#hobbystreak day 928 With my Microsol order arriving I could finish the Crimson Fist Lieutenant! The transfer isn't perfect, I need to work on wrinkle prevention, but practice makes perfect. Very proud of this mini, the question is do I paint my Armageddon box as Lamenters or Crimson Fists?

#hobbystreak day 926 I'm at a stopping point with the Crimson Fist Lieutenant. I tried a transfer from the armageddon box, but it went terribly. Took it off and now I wait for a microsol/set order. I've loved painting this guy, first time in ages I feel like I've really improved as a painter!

#hobbystreak day 925 What i hadn't known about NMM is how much it comes alive by painting the non metallic bits near it! There's not much left to do on the LT now, the chapter symbol and a few minor details, then the base!

#hobbystreak day 923 I've been painting my Guard for 6 months now. Time to give myself a break and paint some new colours. A nice simple space marine, just as a mental break. Oops, full-throttle NMM practice time! Definitely not mastered the art, but much improved from my last attempt at NMM

#hobbystreak day 920 (yesterday) Progress is slow on the Ogryn, it's another UK heatwave and it's definitely limiting my painting time. On the gaming side it's league time at my local club and I've started the season with a win vs a Space Wolf Terminator force.

#hobbystreak day 918 Thw autocannons are finished, so now my heavy weapon team can swap out their guns! I think the plan now is every new unit I paint, I also paint some magnetised weapons for old units, try and get to that 110% painted mark. So next up: ogryn and chimera heavy bolters!

#hobbystreak day 916 After my tourney I decided to swap out some some weapons, so a couple of multimeltas and 3 autocannons are on the painting desk. I also want some more Ogryns, so I've stripped these lovely old metal ones ready to add to the Flaming 3rd!

#hobbystreak day 913 That's a wrap on my first ever tournament. Game 1 vs salamander was a close loss. Game 2 vs grey knights was a solid win. Game 3 vs Ravenwing was a win by 1 point! So 2:1, pretty proud, and came 5th out of 18! Glory to the Hades IX, Flaming 3rd regiment!

#hobbystreak day 912 Not quite finished with Lord Solar, but he's done enough to get me 10vp for being painted! I've done a lot more than I expected, the metallics are the main thing holding him back now. Tomorrow is tourney day! Imagine ill learn a lot about playing guard as I lose 3 times!

#hobbystreak day 910 With a concerted effort I've got the Leman Russ 'tournament ready'. It still needs highlights for the hull colours, and I've not started the turret or sponson options. But thanks to my other Russ I already have those bits spare! Tomorrow: lord solar and magnets.

#hobbystreak day 907 My tourney is on Sunday, so Im desperately trying to paint the last 2 minis for my list. Lord solar is battle ready. I'd rather do more, but I could just glue him to his base. The leman russ now has its first basecoat of silver. That's going to be the bigger challenge!

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#hobbystreak day 905 Finished the heavy weapon teams. Love how bright those lascannons have come out! Imperium standard templates include paint colour. Changing it upsets the machine spirits. Camouflage paint is an insult to the Omnissaih! Only 2 models to finish for next weekend's 11th tourney!

#hobbystreak day 902 Finished the bases for 'lord dolar' and the heavy weapon teams. I've also painted the lascannons. Love how thise have turned out in the cartoonish bright red of my guard weapons. They look threatening, probabably more threatening than they actually are!

ID request: I got given this white dragon miniature. Its heavy and cold to the touch, im not 100% sure if it's metal gaming miniature or a stone dragon ornament. A quick Google has failed me. Does anyone recognise it?

#hobbystreak day 899 Busy working on bases and basecoats for the Heavy Weapon team and 'Lord Solar'. Loving the HWTs scale, those lascannons are huge! Meanwhile it's incredibly satisfying to see paint on my lord Solar kitbash, I'm very proud of him, a fine centerpiece for the army!

#hobbystreak day 897 Sly marbo and the catachan squad are finished! Only 3 heavy weapon teams, lord solar, and a leman russ left to go! Ive made a start on the bases for the teams and Solar, but unfortunately im a bit unwell atm, so I had to stop and rest instead.

#hobbystreak day 895 Still plugging away at the Infantry squad and Marbo. Making good progress, only the silver to highlight and the oranges left to go, but thats at least 2 nights which leaves me considerably behind on my target.

#hobbystreak day 892 Batch painting still progressing nicely, though the last two nights I've been a bit distracted with my son's birthday cake. Presenting 11 catachans and a monster truck!

All the 11th edition talk has made me look back to my space marines. I may need to paint some more after my guard hit 2k points. I mean look at these guys, they seem sad, they need buddies!

#hobbystreak day 890 Not much to say progress wise, just chugging away at 11 guardsmen. Got reds and silver basecoats done tonight, then threw some null oil on the silver. By my maths I'm still running on time to be done for my tournament. So long as 11th doesn't suddenly reduce points!

#hobbystreak day 888 Finished off the commisar, it was nice to just paint one mini and see the quick progress. I love this sculpt, quoting loudly from the uplifting primer! Onto the next challenge, an infantry squad and Sly Marbo, all thier bases are done already, so it's batch basecoating time!

#hobbystreak day 886 Im back from ukge, thoroughly exhausted, and with 4 weeks to paint 500pts of guard if I want to enter them in the 11th edition tournament! A plan that may get scuppered anyway due to points changes! First up im painting 12 bases for a unit of catachans, marbo, and a commisar.

#hobbystreak day 884 I'm off to UKGE for the weekend tomorrow, just managed to finish the Ogryn Chimera in time. With 2 chimeras and a squad of Ogryn complete in May I've hit my target. But that does leave me with 500points to paint in June if I want to play guard in my clubs 11th launch tourney!

#hobbystreak day 882 I only have a few nights left before UKGE & I need to finish this chimera to keep to my 250pts per month target. I may be regretting the addition of the Ogryn crew adding extra details to paint! This month is only such a squeeze because i've also been doing a ton of building!

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#hobbystreak day 879 On to painting the next chimera! Also a bit of building, Marbo, plus 5 more troopers. Once I finish this squad I'll have my completely assembled 2k list for my upcoming tournament. Barring 11th edition points changes all I have to do is paint and lots of it!

#hobbystreak day 877 Hades IX didn't always have an ogryn population. When the PDF investigated an abandoned inquisitorial bunker they discovered a captive, stable breeding population of the creatures. Along with a room containing many oversized electrified chairs surrounding regicide boards.

#hobbystreak day 875 Finished off the armour highlights on the Ogryn, and started on the skin, they are closing in on completion now. I was in a building mood this evening, so I magnetised the tripod weapon options for a heavy weapon squad.

#hobbystreak day 874 The first chimera is complete, nice to have some armoured support for my infantry to ride in! Next up are the Ogryn, who have had their guns mostly painted, which does account for a third of the model! Lastly the Vanq is greenstuffed and sprayed. A productive few days!

#hobbystreak day 871 My attention has swung wildly away from my 90% done chimera, to my completely unpainted Ogryns, who now are fully basecoated. Gotta love the big lads. Additionally my vanquisher has had some surgery, swapping old glued heavy bolter sponsons for fresh, magnetised options.

#hobbystreak day 869 The Catachan Lord Solar proxy is complete and ready to be sprayed. Made by kitbashing the catachan colonel with Ogryn sprue spares and a scar veteran on aggradon. With some minor green stuffing to finish off. The trick is any army can have dinosaurs if you try hard enough!

#hobbystreak day 867 I'm meant to be painting. So anyway, here's my Catachan lord Solar proxy. Still needs plenty of refining, but it's mostly there. Not sure if its quite the right size, may need to investigate in tactical rocks!

#hobbystreak day 866 I've been busy neatening up the chimera's camo and highlighting orange. I've signed up to my clubs 11th edition learning tourney! My first tourney, and I hope to bring guard. But to do that I need to paint 1000 points in 2 months... That's double my current rate!

#hobbystreak day 864 Everything for this month is built and sprayed. Tonight I sat down for a big painting session and got chimera 1 mostly basecoated. Feels like good progress!

#hobbystreak day 862 Those chimeras don't build themselves! About a third of the time is sorting the magnatisation. The finished one has swappable turret & front guns and hunter killer is detachable. The other chimera will be for the ogryn, who are modeled using the tank's firing deck!

#hobbystreak day 860 A new month so onto the next 250 points. This month: 3 ogryn and 2 chimeras. I've made the Ogryn and seeing them in the back of a half built chimera, yeah I can see how 3 can squeeze into it. Oh, and have some 1k army photos, pretty happy with the look of them!

#hobbystreak day 858 The leman rus commander is finished. I only finished the plasma and spotlight this evening, but I took some photos in the light earlier. That brings my guard army to 1000 points! Half way there! Next month, Ogryns!!!

#hobbystreak day 856 Down to the last few details on the leman russ commander. Edges need highlighting on the hull/turrets, the commanders need their eyes done and plasma options remain depressingly unglowey! Im hoping I can finish them tomorrow!

#hobbystreak day 850 Had a decent painting sessions tonight, mostly focused of the Russes' guns. Since Im being a good girl and painting all the options at once this is taking a long time! Definitely starting to look more like the finished product now... if you ignore the unpainted crew!

#hobbystreak day 847 Plodding along with the Leman Russ. Orange is done bar edge highlighting, which is honestly 70% of the painting work. However I am definitely distracted after my Old World game, so I honour of my heroic gyrocopter, I've assembled a second, this one the 1st model from the 80s.

#hobbystreak day 844 Today I played Old World. Wow. That was feeling that wargaming gave me when I was young. Cannons exploded, gyrocopters charged down necromancers, slayers slew, a lucky overrun gave a unit of grave guard a sweeping flank charge. My dwarfs lost, but I won.

A tale in 3 parts... 4 vows completed!

#hobbystreak day 839 A bit of a lull in my hobby mono, but still making progress. The russ hull and turrets gave thier first layers of camo applied. I've also been doing a bit of a clean up and sort through my pile of shame. Can't deny those oldhammer dwarfs are calling me!

#hobbystreak day 836 Finished up the Russ' second turret with all 4 weapons. Decided this commander will get the old 'drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword!' pose! A classic 40k meme! That means the tank is fully magnetised with all options... bar a hunter killer. Time to paint!

#hobbystreak day 833 Fully magnetised and drilled barrels on the demolisher turret options for the leman russ commander. Still have the other turret to make, but it's already tons of options. So I decided to get them sprayed up so the painting can start. The other turret can be another project.

#hobbystreak day 831 If you want to get your money worth on a leman russ then magnetise it! Its taken me several nights and I've not finished building! The tank commander has been converted up and the demolisher turret options are all built, even if only the executioner plasma cannon has magnets!

#hobbystreak day 829 Spent the evening building a russ, including magnetised front guns. Not that you'd ever use anything but the lascannon, given no points costs for weapons. Plus they friction fit anyway... I'm sure it was time well spent!

#hobbystreak day 827 That's the Hellhound complete! I've magnetised the front weapons and painted all of those too, plus the spare heavy flamer for my basalisk. Next month I only have a tank commander to build and paint, so I'll catch up with the unpainted options for the hellhound and sentinels.

#hobbystreak day 825 The hellhound is approaching completion. The black needs highlights, the orange needs edge highlights. Then the myriad of cables, sensors, and doohickeys will need picking out. So not much left, very nice progress in 2 days of not very intense painting.