High on Plastic Glue

So the new BA miniatures came out last weekend. I picked up a box of Death Company yesterday, I'll get the Sanguinor, Dante, Codex and Sanguinary Guard in due time.

The Death Company box set is fantastic! I managed to get hold of a set of the old metal DC on eBay so with these combined I'm going to make 5 with jump packs and kitted out with close combat gear, and 5 with bolters.

Pics will follow!

Almost there... and stripping

So here's my (almost, finally) finished dreadnought for the Blood Angels, I've added some prayers or whatever in white to the panels, and a tiny bit more weathering.

So as I mentioned before, been attempting stripping paint off some old space marines with THICK enamel paint on them, in several layers, I'm pleased to say after 24hrs soaking in Green Dettol (smells like apples), they came out like this:

Not too bad at all! Just need to get a cocktail stick to get the tiny bits out of the crevices, but I could re-spray them now and never know.

After a recommendation I also tried Fairy Power Spray on some plastic space marines painted with such a thick layer of blood red that almost no detail was visible (what was I thinking?!). After about 3 hours after a light spray all over the models, the paint was literally falling off, and a little scrub from a toothbrush almost instantly stripped them down to the undercoat.

FAIRY POWER SPRAY RULES

I'm visiting home this weekend and plan on raiding the rest of my awful detail obscuringly thick painted marines, i'm pretty sure there's an attack bike and a land speeder I could salvage, and some metal scouts. Brilliant. I'll post some before and after shots too when i get back and get to them.

Keep on strippin'

Big Red Dread'

So here's my Dreadnought from the AoBR box. I do hope I work out how to photograph the highlights on this red at some point, but still, red is the most unforgiving in this respect I suppose.

It's not technically finished yet, I want to put some very fine white writing (prayers and scripture) on certain panels, as well as choosing something cool sounding to write on the scrolls, maybe I'll wait for the new codex for inspiration... I'm not sure if it'd benefit from some more weathering, thoughts?

Cheers