Landraider in prep

I started to work on the land raider. Got everything clipped removed mold lines and drilled out holes for magnates on the side sponsons and the top hull gun also.

I followed this vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL-mLy71Wnk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Make sure you check out all his vids, he does a lot of great tutorials on modeling and painting.

Goal for tomorrow is to get it primed and basecoated.... and 2 razorbacks also... eek

Sunday gaming

Had a good day of playing today. Got in 2 games first was a 3000pt 2v2. Opponent stole initiative and we basically got crushed in the first round. Second game was a lot better. 1850pt against nids I got to use land raider for the first time they were awesome. I forgot to roll my deep striking shoot terms for 3 rounds. Dawn of war defiantly is horrible walking on devastators kept a swarm lord alive 2 rounds. My Dread was MVP for both games first dropped in and nuked land raider, 2nd dropped in and spot lighted the swarm lord allowing everything to fire got it down to 2 wounds first round . TH termies were good in the second beat down and broke a genestealer squad . Now I have alot of work  for next weeks big game.

"We march for Macragge!"

Making some progress

Almost finished with the Devastator squad, just have the heads to add and some flare to the bases.

I started to glue together sections of my Drop pod and razorback to get them ready for priming

Have one week to get those and a Land raider ready for a Mega battle.

Finally used the Airbrush

 

Finally sucked it up, over came my fears and fired up the airbrush this weekend. It was amazing. I managed to Prime, and base coat my 5man Dev squad in alittle over an hour, not counting time to clean out the brush between paints. The Vallejo primer shoots amazingly thru my brush, no thinning, I think my PSI was alittle high, so going to experiment alittle lower. I base coated with Extra Opaque Game Color "Heavy Blue" mixed around 4 drops Paint : 5 Drops Thinner. I used around a 50/50 mix of distilled water and windex as my thinner. I probably could have gone alittle thinner on the paint, but it shot fairly well enough to get me thru the 5 models. At the end of the day i was already getting go enough to only hit small targets with the Brush, like just the hands on the heavy weapons with little to no over-spray. 

I can't belive how much faster and smoother it was to get this done, I am going to try and get the metallic and detail done, and then move on to the next unit on the list.

Here is my setup, and primed the units

Working on base coat