Dibs and Dabs

Assembled my second Mechanicus Armiger and painting a bit more with quick visits to random miniatures I've bought over the years because I like the model or thought a conversion might be cool to do.  Little interest in batch painting so the poor Steel Legion linger and every other set of many models for different armies waits their turn to move from dusty and poorly primed to decently primed to a model/unit getting painted.

Armigers with carapace and cc arms from Iron Wolf Miniatures for a more Mechanicus look.

Inquisitorial retinue members, Inq28 characters, NPCs for Pulp Alley games of a 40K bent...

Special weapon servitors and an ammo caddy for clearing out that derelict ship all on your own...looking at you Deathwatch Brother Agemus.

Tiniest of progress towards actual Pulp Alley pulp gaming and recreating a Scooby Doo episode or two.

A Week of Doing Little

A week of intensive painting effort, for me, has been followed up by a typical hobby week.  Minimal modeling, some basing work to see if doing it before painting makes the process go any better or easier and a smattering of base coating on long primed models.

Basing on the remainder of the Steel Legion platoon and company command squad was completed last weekend with mixed results.  Watered down glue doesn't seem to hold the modeling grit I've been using on their bases when initially applied.  Coming back with a second coat to seal the grit to the base was equally uninspiring with clumps coming off the base to stick to the brush.  Put my first tufts onto a few bases as well as painting all of the base rims black.  Now I need to clean up the feet of the models that have grit on them and paint them.

I did paint the trousers of the unpainted models and added a wash to the bases of the painted models.

Base coat colors were applied to several of the Mechanicus drone or hovering special weapon servitors I've converted weeks or months ago.  Second heavy bolter drone has been built from bits that have sat on my hobby desk for a long time.  I think they were intended to be the gun portion of heavy weapon teams for a tech guard IG army or some such thing.  They'd be accompanied by an ammo servitor on the 60mm base.

I was never brave enough to buy the previous version of the penitent engines due to all the horror stories I read or watched on Youtube about how difficult those models were to build and keep in one piece.  New versions are chock full of detail and allow you to build two units so I did a bit of reading and will build my initial models as Mortifiers and not normal penitent engines.  Don't really play 40K but might as well have some effective in game models if I do.

 I did come up with a plastic counts as penitent engine awhile back using Sentinel and Ork Killa Kan arms as part of a SOB counts as ally force for my Arbites.  Prisoners as arco flagellants and penitent engines along with other units to buff the main Arbites army using the Astra Militarum codex.