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Day 8 - Tuesday 28th October - Day of interruption..
Today's painting didnt go quite as planned. Working until 5:30, I had planed to have one last blitz this evening before I go out tomorrow night & away on Thursday. However, one little visit put pay to that concept. On Thursday I'm going to visit my GF before travelling on to meet up with a Venture Scout camp & lead a hike over the weekend. So my GF's mum popped in to drop off some stuff for me to take down with me. But she didnt just drop it off.... she started talking.... and kept talking...... and... well, you get the picture!
Anyway, after finally ushering her politely out the door, I revved up the brush -O- matic & got to work...
First job: base the Lightning. Dead easy, nothing new other than to point out:
NEVER glue the stems onto your flying bases new out of the blister! When you come to pait the miniature, you WILL regret it. Blue-tac them in place if need be, but you'll want to undercoat the base of the stand, and if the stem is glued in place, You'll end up undercoating that too - not good! So, simply blue tac in place and wait to glue until your base (& thus normally model)is finished.
That done, I did the basic coats on the next batch. This was comprised of 3 Bombards & 6 transports (non-GW 1/300 "modern" miniatures). The Transports dont actually serve a purpose in the army (yet) but I wanted to include some as I had them spare and thought they'd look cool.
Whilst the wash layer was dring on those pieces, I went back to the 6 manticores from Sunday / Monday (cunning of a painter - think about what you can do at each stage so there's never a dull moment!), did the metalics and base coats on the missiles & based them. They still need Highlights on the missiles & company markings, but I might get time before work tomorrow for some of that (fingers crossed...)
Once that work was done on the Manticores, the Bombards and transports were dry so i returned to them & picked out all the basic mettallics * based them. The transports needed some other areas such as windows and the canvas covers to be picked out, so although they're only extras, they actually took more time than the bombards - Oh well! I blacked in the windows with Chaos black & did the canvas in Graveyard Earth with a straight highlight of Desert yellow.
At that point I gave up on the attempt to complete all the armour before I go away & decided to write this up instead.
So whats left to do?
3 Manticores for the company
3 Heavy transports
3 FW Manticore platforms (maybe)
1 Lightning
2 Companies worth of infantry (eek!)
12 stands of Commissars ('cos I'll be using my rigged dice of course...)
Then the reinforcements on - route from Forgeworld:
3 Stormblades
2 marauder Bombers
3 Leman Russ Destroyers
3 Trojans (again, just to look cool ? )
3 Basilisks
9 Chimeras for mechanised company & support.
So not much then.....
I probably wont be getting any more done until Monday now - enjoy the break from my waffle , here's some pics 
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and then buying some models? Either way is good, as they both result in a pile of lead (or resin, whichever takes your fancy...)
