I needed a break from painting yellow...

Man I love my Tyranids but sometimes wish I chose a different color scheme than yellow.  It takes three times as long.  Ohh well I love the way they look on the table top.

Past couple of weeks I have been working on my Emperors Shadows.  I have 35 Space Marine bikers but none assembled and painted so I decided to do a command squad.  At least the beginnings of one.  Six bikes in total right now.

Six bikers in progress. and Dreadnaught assembled.

I realized I have no special weapons bikers...so it looks like some conversions are due in the future.  I will magnetize the special weapons onto the bikes when I do them.  Graviton guns, plasma guns, melta guns and flamers oh my!

This is a chapter master on bike.

Four bikes completed.  1-Chapter Master with Thunder Hammer and Shield Eternal (using the Aquila on his back as  a shield generator equivalent to the shield eternal).  1 -Apothecary with a power lance, Chaplain, 1- regular biker.

I decided I needed some more characters.  I can dual hat some of them as characters, veterans or sternguard.  The dual hammer wielding Inquisitor will be one of the main characters for the Emperor's Shadows.  Still a work in progress for painting but was converted from the Blood Angels Captain in the DeathStorm box.

It tried a couple of the 32mm base extensions that were cast be some one and they are alright.  You get what you pay for.  I saw some plastic ones online I may try out.  I'm only going to put them on the characters from here on out.  Certainly not rebasing all my Marines.

I decided to rebase some of my old Tech Marines so they match my new rubble style bases.

I have proxied a couple of games the venomthropes and they are well worth the investment.  So of course I over do everything and bought 9.  You know just in case I do an Apocalypse game or something.  Plus the models just look awesome.

Built 3- new zoanthropes and 9- Venomthropes.

Finally finished up the Callidus assassin.  She equals a dead Space Marine Squad when she arrives.  I want to use her in my next game.

 

Tech Marine getting the rebase treatment. 

Finally finishing my first of 5-thunderfire cannons to come. 

Thunderfire Tech Marine Finished.  

Thanks for looking.  May your paint brush never be dry.