#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.

#hobbystreak day 823 Progressing on the hellhound, I've given it a more directional diamondish pattern, think I'm a fan. Struggling a bit to sit down for longer painting sessions, but a bit of paint a day grows the army!

#hobbystreak day 820 The mortar teams are finished. Some light artillery to pester my opponents home objective holders. Each team has a firer and a 'specialist'. A loader, a spotter, and a guard. I do feel I could have done more on the bases to make them more like mini dioramas.

#hobbystreak day 819 More progress on the mortar teams. Unsurprisingly quicker to paint than the rough riders! Closing in on the camo pattern and final details now before I can get them on their tree bases.

Its been a long while since I've had a big shopping spree for new models, but the Hades IX 3rd regiment needs reinforcements. When the imperium asks for its tithe you don't say no! From left to right a unit of ogryns, lord solar, 2 chimeras and a leman russ tank commander.

#hobbystreak day 816 The rough riders are finished! Absolutely loved this kitbash and paint job, though they took a long time for a cheap unit! Treated myself to a quick army shot (560pts) and then got going on the mortar teams. Unsurprisingly these are noticeably quicker to paint!

#hobbystreak day 814 Back from airecon, which was great, and back at the painting table. The rough riders are almost done now, got the claws and spikes done, along with some smaller details. Just the camo pattern on the soldiers as the last major painting focus.

#hobbystreak day 812 Im off on a work trip now, so hobbystreak takes a break. Im doing well on this month's catachans. Rough riders are 90% done, just some highlights and details to go. Mortars have painted bases and a bit of basecoating, probably 20% done. Hellhound... 0%

#hobbystreak day 809 Its easy to feel like the progress is slowed when you spend 2 days doing bases. I guess I'm a bit aware that I've got a lot to finish in a month I'm away for a week! Lucky I do hobbystreak and can look back to.a few days ago and see these dino riders progressing nicely!

#hobbystreak day 806 I've been busy basecoating away a mix of the mortar teams and the rough riders. I may have gotten a little distracted and highlighted up the majority of the mounts for the rough riders. Im going to argue it was needed before basecoating the leather straps!

#hobbystreak day 803 Its a new month, so I've been busy assembling the next 250 points of guard for my new year project. This month it's a hellhound, a unit of rough riders and a heavy weapon squad with mortars. Hopefully providing a nice combination of long and short ranged support.

#hobbystreak day 801 Spent the last two nights putting far too much effort into 60 points of rough riders. There's no way a Catachan would ride a horse. You can't keep them alive on a death world! They need a mount as ferocious as predatory as thier home planet. A giant Raptor.

Getting there. Haven't done it on any models in a minute, but I did a nice dirty wash on the treads. Need to go back and do it to a bunch of my Deathwatch and Guard models. #Warhammer40k #Warhammer #40k #WarhammerCommunity #nerdlings #miniatures #minipainting

#hobbystreak day 799 The Hades 9th has a new sentinel today, this one with plasma cannon and tactical rock. Sentinels and basalisks aren't the heaviest guard vehicles, but it feels good having some armoured support for my infantry platoon. My guard collection is starting to feel like an army!

#hobbystreak day 794 Put the finishing touches to the basalisk for the Hades IX 3rd regiment. Though I may go back with transfers one day. Adding the crew does a lot for this tank, a tiny little diorama on the back. One more sentinel to go by the end of the month and I'm on target!

#hobbystreak day 788 (yesterday) Putting down the camo pattern for the basalisk. Still needs one more layer of wild rider red before I can start on the troll slayer orange. Always nice to see the camo come to life!

#hobbystreak day 786 Put the finishing touches on the scout sentinel today. It was a very happy moment to out the kitbashed catachan crew inside. I've also started on the basalisk. Blocking out the red and silver areas to get a feel for the model before starting the camo patterns.

#hobbystreak day 782 More work on the sentinel. Bases are done for both, and sentinel 1 is almost finished. Pretty much just the crewman, the little pack of gear and a few little details to finish it up. Maybe a highlight for the silver too.

#hobbystreak day 780 This month the guard armyngets some armouredcsupport, with 2 sentinels and a Basalisk. They are all constructed and undercoated, some sentinel 1 is getting painted to test the camo design. I think it's successfully obscuring the shape of it already!

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#hobbystreak day 745 Finished the last of the catachan infantry squad and command squad, so now the army is up to 250 points! Should be enough infantry to make a good start to a guard army, next month I'll change to get some armour to support them!

#hobbystreak day 740 Finished up the second squad of Catachans for the lava guard regiment. Up to two squads complete now and a whopping 120 points of painted guard! Due to my mass batch painting though, the next 130 points should only be days from completion!

#hobbystreak day 738 Still painting up that massive Catachan batch. I've had to split up the batch a little as i've got 2 different skin tones to paint synthetic Caucasian half are now done. After that it's just eyes, then camo patterns on cloth and they're done!

Once again my google-fu fails me. Can anyone identify this orc? Was in a box of classic blood bowl, but has some 40k looking parts? Metal miniature fyi

#hobbystreak day 731 More work on the Hades IX 3rd Regiment 1st infantry platoon. All the basecoats are down so we're in highlight town! Orange vests are done and I'm starting on the red weapons next. I love seeing these come together. The Lt is especially standing out with his bright armour!

ID request: Does anyone knoww what tank this is/is meant to be? As far as I can tell it's some deathguard conversion? But I don't know my horus heresy and marine tanks that well, especially as its come from a source known to have forgeworld bits.

#hobbystreak day 729 Continued work on the Emporer's finest. Brown boots and bags, along with a coat of black for trousers and jackets. Batch painting this large a group is strangely therapeutic, I only manage one colour a session, but it really feels like the army is marching to completion.

#hobbystreak day 727 More work on the 'Flaming Third' guard regiment. Need to come up with a name for thier lava planet one day... Squad 1 is complete, and I've started batch painting 26 more infantry; squads 2, 3, and a command squad. Should give me a full platoon as a base for my army.

#hobbystreak day 726 The first 5 catachans for my new year new army project are done. 5 more are nearing completion, hopefully to be finished tonight. Plenty more to do though, 3 more full squads and a command squad to try and finish by the end of Jan!

#hobbystreak day 720 The busyness of the holidays has stopped me updating, but not painting. First the Idoneth Spearhead is complete. Always a treat to finish a project, even if they took too long. Now it's new-year new-army time with the lava world catachan. Starting with 35 infantry this month!

#hobbystreak day 707 Making steady progress on the giant Dogfish. More or less done now, mostly base details and a bit of touching up to go. That will leave me with the 2 crew and the mage left to finish the spearhead!

#hobbystreak day 703 Painting is back on the menu! My mojo is back and with it I've started on the next Idoneth unit. The giant Dogfish. Yes they are sharks! Ones which I caught frequently with my dad when I was young and he took me fishing in his boat off the UK's south coast.

#hobbystreak day 701 I think I've painted more in the last 3 days than in the prior 3 weeks! Feels good to make some solid progress! And with tonight, the eels are done! The eels, clearly the horses of the sea, are ready to carry the *nearly* normal elves on top to battle.

#hobbystreak day 699 I've been knocked on my ass by this flu in the UK, so tonight was the first night I had a decent painting session in a while. Finished painting the amour and skin of the eel riders tonight, still need to do red and blue bits before attaching to mounts and a final detail pass.

#hobbystreak day 686 Wow 12 days since my last update! Eell the point of hobbystreak is some progress is better than no progress. Shark is assembled and base is half made. The elves are all sprayed ready to paint and the eels are progressing, just the red and a detail pass and they're done!

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#hobbystreak day 674 Ive finished the basecoats for the eels, bar a couple of tiny bits. Decided to focus on just one eel to get a bit of a scheme done. So eel 1 has had its main skin, reds and blues highlighted.

#hobbystreak day 699 Steady progress on the Idoneth. The basing for the eels and the soulscryer is more or less done. Just need to do the fish. The eels themselves are starting to get thier basecoats done, and I assembled the sharks, though that does still need a base doing.

#hobbystreak day 695 The last 3 namarti thralls are painted. Finally finishing the unit, they definitely look good together. Onward to the next unit. The eels are getting their bases done, sand was done first, and now the start to the seaweed 'flying stands'

#hobbystreak day 691 Not much in the way of updates as I've been mostly fixing some old minis and stripping some things ready for new-year new-army. The last week or so, I've finished making my eel riders, minus making some seaweed out of greenstuff for 'flying' stands. And made the mage leader.

#hobbystreak day 685 (yesterday) More progress on the thralls, green copper and skin is done now. Only blue and red left to do! Given the weather, it's time to get ahead on building so I can spray when the weather is good, so tonight I worked on the eels from the set.

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Paging all those lovers of weird miniatures. Can anyone help me ID this oddity? First glance, citadel LE 15 warlock. However, they have a clear plastic? glass? bottle that they slot into. The legs have been swapped out with a peg that fits into the bottle. Conversion or rare relic of GW past?

#hobbystreak day 680 Starting on the next 3 thralls, basecoats are mostly down now bat the metallics. Looking forward to moving on to the less alabaster elves in this combat patrol!