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Usually I talk too much. Also, I muck about a bit too much with my pictures. This time, for at least this first post, I'll let a handful of bad pictures do the talking.

Daemonette WIP Having survived my house being flooded, I am now finally able to return to the hobby. I've been frustrated with my Imperial Guard. Every single basic infantry model is modified to the extent that they take ages to put together. I needed a break from that. Naturally, I decided...

I\'ve been out of the hobby for a good while, and though i have a fair few Marines sitting around needing attention, i decided to start with something fresh. Let\'s start with the pictures shall we? I\'m rather pleased with how he turned out. Despite not working with the stuff for...

Title says a lot, really. I\'ve been through many iterations, but i haven\'t found an urban basing style that suits me yet. Tiles/slabs either take too long to do, or look unrealistic, or both. Sand, well, looks like sand. I went as far as making bricks from appropriately sized plastic rod, then...

OK, a silly little question, and one i haven\'t been able to find in the forums - Does anyone know a good method for cleaning miniatures? Mine have ended up collecting a bit of dust, as well as the usual faint grease from fingers. I don\'t want to wreck them, but i do want them clean, and...

Let\'s say i want to paint my Tau nice and accurately. The Codex gives a list of septs in each of the three spheres, as well as colours for several. I\'m just wondering, is that meant to be a complete list of septs, full stop, or is that a selection of them? If anyone who actually gets WD or...

My first unit of marines is taking forever to do, not least because i have gone back to parts already finished and redone them in a new way. I am already worried that i may have to redo their armour entirely, but i guess not only should that be another thread, i should remember i am not aiming...

Simple problem really, but I\'ll give you a little description in case it helps. All my space marines have green gem effect eyes. Despite it not being perfectly correct, these have white glints at the top, approaching the back. Old image example: Now I have a plasmagunner to do. I\'m making...

I want to base everything in my army. Everything! This means i\'m looking to base tanks... Somehow i would like to construct a couple of bases to match the standard GW round ones (~4mm thick), but about 100mm across. It will be removeable, almost definitely using magnets (basically unless that...

UK would be vastly preferable, since the whole point is that i\'m after cheapness - Don\'t want to pay for whole sprues when i need such small things (that are very likely leftovers in any case). I\'m after two of the storm bolters that come on the hatch sprue you get with all Space Marine...

Another wonderful post concerned with very little. The SM tank accessory sprue has crew able to be put into the hatches, as i\'m sure you know. It seems a waste not to use them, but the standing legs have this huge hole in front on them down into the tank, which will ruin the illusion that the...

OK, continuing to build on as tiny a budget as possible: The Immolator sprue has a storm bolter on it. How does this mount? Basically, is it the same as the one you get with SM tanks on the Land Raider hatches sprue? Yes, i really am quibbling about the extra £4 to get another hatches sprue...

OK, i\'m making a tank. Very much along the lines of Athamas\' from Warseer: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9042&highlight=magnets I\'ve ended up with a lot of questions. But i think i\'ll bring them to you one at a time. My first one will simply be: How would you suggest i get...

I expected this to be one of the most asked questions on this forum. But a search has revealed nothing. Well, it has revealed the GW article, but i\'d seen that. Not that it\'s bad, it just makes it seem, well, too easy. I guess what i\'m asking is: Is there a trick to it? I\'ve tried adding...

Basically, i\'m trying to paint a flame motif in one colour (white) as part of a chapter badge. The flatness, and more importantly lack of normal flame colour, make flames a lot harder to depict. They are either entirely un-flamelike, or are all the same, and thus boring, and overall...

Just wondering if there\'s anywhere where i can actually see all the SM armour variants. Well, close to, seeing as i recall Thundersuits (MkI) weren\'t vacuum-proof and were quickly dropped. I\'ve heard them all mentioned, but rarely if ever linked to examples... Incidentally, i heard someone...

Citadel Skull White is hideously lumpy, and yes, i was forewarned. But i have found a shop that actually sells Vallejo paints, and i\'ve heard that Vallejo white doesn\'t have the same problem. Could someone corroborate this? More importantly, is it the same (or similar) type of paint as...

I love plastic miniatures. Conversion\'s easier, they don\'t chip as easily and so on. But one gust of wind, and you\'ve just lost your formation. Does anyone have a cunning method of weighting down bases? It\'d help with the overbalancing on metal (or part-metal) models too. I guess my...

Um, hey. Me again. I\'m really bothering this forum with questions recently. Anyway, just wondering if anyone has any pictures/advice on painting the screen of an auspex/scanner? It\'s too small for an effective grid to give it texture, and little blobs look like exactly that - blobs. All i...

Well, these new minis were meant to be an excuse to paint a little more carefully. Just thought i\'d post my first complete attempt at SM eyes. Partly for any advice, partly because i\'m way too pleased with them (so criticise if you must, but try to be gentle!). As a quick note, the rest of...