Adepticon 2012.

So, we made it to Chicago. Sitting here in line, waiting on the registration line to open. I rode up here with the rest of Team Scabbard. When we first got here, it looked like there were around 4-5 people in line. Once we got unloaded and into line, it turned out there were about 20 people in line. Now when I look behind us, the registration line is wrapped around the wall and turned the corner to where I can't see the rest of the line. Looks like I will be lucky enough to get both the Adepticonstruct, and the Battle Foam Shield Bag. Huzzah!

Lets see how the Iron Warriors do at my first Adepticon.

Iron Within, Iron Without.

All done

4 Rune Priests/Warsmiths with their targeting servitors. Done.
All bases. Done.
Display board. Done.
Army pamphlet, will be done tomorrow.

Adepticon, here I come!

Finished my Razorbacks.

So I got overtime. It happens, not really a huge problem except when it comes down to time crunch.

Luckily, I managed to hammer out all three of the Razorbacks last night, then I got their turrets, hazard striping, and shading/dipping done. All done, in fact so done, that I discovered that my dip can is just about done. I'm fairly certain that after one or two more miniatures in total that the dip will be 100% done. It's starting to congeal, clump, and become almost as thick as mud. Which makes it kind of hard to dip anything into it.

But, as I said, I got the dip for the Razorbacks and their turrets done.

I also got a chance to redo a bit of work on my banners for each squad. Previously I wasn't at all happy with them, and now, while I am still not 100% happy with how they look, I am much happier that I redid each of the banners with black outlines on the edges of the banners, a yellow center, and finally over that yellow center I managed to get some of the Iron Warrior transfers that matches exactly the Skull that I have on my shoulder pads and on my Rhino hatches. So I put those on my 6 banners, hit them with the nearly last bit of dip, and then I did manage to use the very last of my antishine coat.

Looks like it's time to get more dip and more antishine. Hopefully I can get by with just the antishine and make this can of dip last through the final 3 miniatures I have to get painted. Depending on how this goes through tomorrow night and the weekend, I will try to get squad by squad pictures done (If I complete their basing for everyone).

So... other than finishing 1 Rune Priest, 2 Choosers, and about 10 bases in total, I'm done.

Wow. Holy crap, this has been a huge load of work, a lot of fun to do, and it's really nearly finished.

I feel like I just completed my siege lines around the Emperor's Palace, now it's time to open up with the beginning of the bombardment.

Iron Within, Iron Without

Custom minis order arrived.

As you may know, I have ordered a lot of custom bits for this army. Heads, backpacks, weapons, and shoulder pads from across the third party vendors have all gone into this project.

Well, yesterday I got my latest bits in. Custom Rhino top hatches from Custom Minis. They are the same people (Sandman Mike from the Heroic 28s) who have done my custom shoulder pads.

Heres a few of the finished hatches on top of their rhinos. All I need to do now are get their stormbolters done and I'll be good to go.

In the past 6 days...

I have been a busy little Warsmith recently. Other than the updates I already had to the army, I have converted 3 LasPlas turrets. I have also gotten the Rhino chassis for those Razorbacks built and base coated. Hopefully if I don't have to work crazy late hours tonight I can get them painted and together. I also built another Warsmith, got him painted, but haven't hit his Chooser up yet, I'll probably put that on the list for tonight also.

Then I went about and converted 6 combi meltas from some spare melta guns, then I put those and more power fists on a few Sergeants that I had the bits for thanks to my Maxmini order coming in finally, and then I got those 6 Sergeants painted. Now, while those 6 Sergeants work perfectly for the 6 line squads if I feel like using them that way instead of going with just a powerfist and bolt pistol, there is a problem of my Devastators/Long Fangs not having Sergeants done at all.

Well, last night I put together three Sergeants just for them. Since one of each of those squads in addition to his missile launcher has either a hammer, a sword, or an axe held in his hand, I built the three Sergeants to combine with that squad. One has a rather bitching sword, one has a rocking axe, and the last has another Maxmini hammer that I got in that last shipment.

Oh yeah, and I got them painted as well.

Need to get the last vehicles and Warsmith done, along with the two targeting servitors, but once those are done it's all cake, everything will be done, and my half of our Team Tournament team will be done, and my own championship army will be done. Adepticon here I come.

Iron Within, Iron Without