Given the choice I will roll up in whatever can get away with being painted pink because it annoys the piss out of the bearded norwegian death metal types and their fucking space wolves/dwarves/khorne/black orcs/dark elves/using a fucking daemon army so you can play 40k and fantasy with the same miniatures you fucking cunt. 

Hi Tyranids from back in the day.

PPS - Nurgle is my second choice tho, so good job tempy.

WTF. 

Fucking hell, I fucking hate nerds. OMG EVERYTHING HAS TO BE SRS BUSINESS ITS THE GRIM DARKNESS OF FUTURE WAR, NO FUN, NO FUCKING, NO SUGGESTIVE THEMES PLS.

£100 of christmas money spent, a ton of paints, some sprays, some brushes, 16 Chaos Knights, and a Nurgle Lord of Plagues. Gf got 24 Skinks and a Skink Starpreist.

For balance I got a loaf of clothes too but OMG models!

You slice a tshirt off every day.

Good stuff.

Just get a daylight lamp, they're pretty cheap. No need to go mega expensive. You out can get one with a magnifier on for about 20 squids at Hobbycraft.

Cheers swirl! Ropey as fuck after being so out of practice, but the plan is to use one guy as the template and then batch paint the rest. Also need to get some technical paints for the metal areas, that oxide one seems perfect for nurgle. Will probably get some more of others too. Gf's Skink looks amazing with just a flat colour and a wash but she wants them brighter so needs more too. I think we're in deep lads.

I taught Armada to my bro in law yesterday while we were round for the day/night He loved it, but it took some explaining. I was exhausted by the end. Love this game.



Then played some Karuba, Snow Tails and Camel Up with da girlies. Great day.

Here we go! A complete Chaos Warrior for my Nurgle Warband! He's my template model...





Which was like the dry run for the rest of the unit, hopefully they should take less time if done in batches.

Similarly, here is the girlfriend's Skink - "Jar Jar Skinks"... I don't know either.

Looking forward to getting some technicals on there

I'm currently trying to play mahjong with my in-laws. 
I've played some complicated boardgames but....

Dry brush works better with a stiff brush BUT you can use it with any brush. 
You could do some scuffing or abrasion marks with another colour.

I painted a lot of it while it was still on the sprues. So i made a schoolboy error and didn't paint the inside of one of the pieces so it's the plastic colour from a certain angle. I also couldn't get the offending piece back off the model when i put it together and discovered the cock up. 
These bandai kits are incredible tho, cheap and unbelievably precise, they snap together as well, no glue needed at all.

Hhmmm brushes. Get yourself a cheap palette like this  , it's hard to get too much paint on the brush then.
Don't overfill your brush washing cup thingy either. You don't actually need much water to clean the brush and if you let it sit in deep water for a long time the wood splits.
I don't let them sit anymore actually, dip and clean, take it out and let it sit on a paper towel while you are using another one and in most cases the bristles will be dry when you need to use the brush again.

I'm cheating now, i used an airbrush for that speeder, three blended colours for the main body and a single dark colour for the engines, then a gloss varnish to be able to adda wash to panel lines and details, lastly a bit of dry brushing using a GW dry silver and then ultimately lots and lots of coats of matt varnish to take the gloss away. The matt is what took the most time!
The whole thing was painted up and snapped together in about 5hrs, but then the matting was a problem, the airbrush matt didn't seem to do anything so i brushed on a different varnish, that took forever to dry (1 day), i didn't get the result i wanted so i went back to the airbrush varnish and that had finally got it near enough what i wanted.

Handy hint for those cheapo palettes as well:
Wrap it in tin foil, pushing it into the cups, and you just throw the foil away when finished, no need to wash it.