Fire of Salvation, built

Title says it all, this monster is ready to receive some primer and begin its journey to stardom!

The arms aren't glued in, just the pin is keeping them in, for ease of painting. They will get permanently attached later on after the sloppy mop job is done.

Resin, A journey into

I have officially decided to foray into the world of casting my own pieces. More specifically, my own bases. The recently acquired Daemons army, along with maybe the Tyranids, I would like to mount on lava bases. Problem is, I'm getting to the point where I'm too lazy to model an individual base for each Bloodletter a 100 times over again. Enter the casting kits.

I asked the question on my local gaming forum a few months back, in preparation for when today came. I received an excellent response from one of the members that pointed me in the direction of Senji Studios. In that post, the author of the blog reviewed several (a lot) of different kits available to the budding resin caster.

I'm still shopping around though. I still want to go look and see what Micro-Mark has to offer, along with the FLGS, The Armchair Adventurer, has to offer. If any of you have been to Honolulu, and been in that store, you know how much stuff is hidden in there.

If anybody out there knows of a good kit, that they might have some experience with, I'm willing to listen to any and all suggestions.

Deathwing Squad 2, All cleaned up

Began work on the second Deathwing squad tonight. I had to strip an earlier attempt at painting Deathwing, which was an all together way too long process and one that could only result in the army never getting painted. Which, as you can see by browsing my blog, is exactly what happened.

Now I just need to file down 4 more shoulder pads, and clean off the paint that the toothbrush couldn't get off, and they will be ready for primer and painting. This will also be my last squad for a while, as I don't have the required pieces left to make a full 3rd squad. I'm going to need to Ebay some more shoulder pads for that. 



Deathwing Command Squad, Built and Primed

I put these fellows together Saturday afternoon, while my wife was at work. There are only 3 at this point since one is already finished, and I'm going to order some of the Grey Knight Apothecary bitz from The Warstore so I can make an apothecary, obviously.



I'm really pleased with how the Standard Bearer turned out. Just a simple hand swap is all it took. The banner itself and the pole are from the Chaos Warrior box set. I use bitz from that box a lot, as I  like my Deathwing to look a little Chaosy.

I'm looking forward to getting some paint on these guys, and I'm really pleased with how fast work is progressing on this army.

Aloha!

Its been awhile since I've posted on here it seems. But I'm not going to bore anyone with my life story for the past few months, so I'm here to just ask a question.

Can anyone recommend a good starter kit for resin casting? I need 21 60mm bases to mount the old metal IG heavy weapons teams onto, and I really don't want to buy them. Best I can figure, it would probably cost about the same to get a kit as it would to buy all the bases separately.