Pre Order......Fail

So I preordered the New Space Marine Dex once the pre order went live. Entropmancer  didn't. Guess who got his Dex first.....not me. WTF

I thought that was the point of preorders....to GET IT EARLY...Entropmancer walked into a store saturday and picked his up. Mine was mailed Friday and I got it TODAY......WTF

 Now granted I did order more than the Codex and the Data Cards but  Crimson/Imperial Fist stuff was in stock. I did get 2 Tactical marine buttons.....

1st impressions: it is a big codex with some great images some ok images/ reused images and some WTF is that images....

Overall 1st impressions is good but need more time to look at it.

If you travel over to There is only the Emperor you will see stuff from workbench for the new Codex

Whats on the table.....

Lots of stuff.......

But I digress, I am slowing receiving my Grey Knight termiantors in and stuff for my Stike Force Ultra. My sisters are sitting idle as I want to work on terminators. I removed the Land Raider and Land Raider Redeemer (both unfinished and not painted) out of my Crimson Fists. I also removed all the terminators out of the Crimson Fists (I use more sternguard then any other elite in that army).

Strike Force Ultra-

 

This dataslate is actually 3 formations: Ground assault lead by a captain, Air assault, and a combo of both.

While it restricts the amount and types of models it allows you to use, I have a nice little 1745 pt list planned involving a redeemer, 20 terminators, Venerable Dread, Stormraven and this man.....

I spent the weekend stripping the paint off my 30 terminators as eventually I will have  @ 60+ terminators.....maybe the full 100 man first comapny in terminator armour.....maybe (ok 103 counting Lysander, chaplain and librarian).

I do plan on building a "Terminator Command Squad" but it will just be an excuse to have a terminator weilding a banner (count as SGT), Apothecary (count as Chain fist).

So for now:

"Primarch-Progenitor, to your glory and the glory of him on earth!"

Review time: The Army Painter Warpaint series Part 1

WAR009 here with another product review.

So I purchased some new paints but yet to use them till today. Ok I  used some for eyes and such but today I began painted some primed Adepta Sororitas figures in anticipation of their new Codex release next week.

My Adepta Sororitas army is painted as the Order of the Bloody Rose (see image below)

So after looking the line at The Army Painter Shop, I decided to go with Dragon Red (it is also available in spray form) as my main color. After checking my FLGS,  I was able to buy the paints and can of the quickshade (Soft tone...Review at a later date) from them.  

Ok the bottles are sold in .6 fl oz/ 18 ml eye dropper bottles (similar to vallejo) for @ $3.00 a bottle. so price is good compared to GW, but will last longer do to the GW pots going bad quickly for some reason. The eye dropper is interesting to me as it allows me to limit the paint in my pallet (yes you'll need one to use the paint). The paint does need to be shaken VERY WELL before use. I heard people are dropping one 6mm airsoft plastic BB into the paint to help shake it (this is something I am going to attempt to do, also).

So far I I painted 2 models in the Dragon Red and used 3 drops....a lot less than I would have used in Red Gore. Now the red is a lot lighter than I would like but this is all pre-quickshade so it should darken.

The Army Painter war paints is a very nice alternative to GW paints so far. This is not a surprise as the company was created by former GW employees. They offer multiple shades, and 100% match from paint pot to spray paint.....which will be really nice if that is true.

Back to painting I go......5,000 Points + Sisters wont paint themselves....I wish they would

Review time it is

Entro here,
time to review some odd ball models!

First up is Defiance Games Panzergrenadiers!
16 models for 30 bucks? not bad...
the models were orginally going to be released in August '12, but something happened in the business,
and I didn't receive my "preorder" until January '13...
The original design called for hard plastic, but these are trollforged I believe, a weird plastic resin hybrid.
feels like old GI Joe rubberish weapons, My minis came in two types of it, a dark grey, and a light grey.

Center models and casualties are the dark grey "stuff"

it is not bad, the dark grey version, for larger parts, good detail, easy to shave and trim, and cuts like a dream..

on the smaller bits though you get alot of this

the barrel of this LAW/Panzerfaust is so mismatched, that it makes the inner German in me cry...
but...
onto the light grey...

Ah! out of focus Soldiers!

the light grey is very... rubbery,
I thought it was a horrible thing...
but when I saw the bent MG42s, and thought "hey this kit is horrid, all the barrels are bent"
but I was able to bend all the mg42s in the light grey straight without hot water or dark magic.
I was impressed
but the light grey seemed to have some detail loss compared to the dark grey.

A UAMC, A PZG, and everyone's favorite professional  single lady

Scale: Closer to true scale than say Games Workshop. better proportions too.
I was planning on making them Chaos stormtroopers, but I'm not sure anymore
Price: Once Defiance work their bugs out with the company, sixteen beautiful full armored badasses for 30 bucks? not a bad price.
Bitz: A lot actually. 16 torsos, 16 backpacks (my favorite part IMO), 18 helmets, 12 unhelmeted  heads,
16 legs (various poses) 6 mg42s (four with arm attached) 4 AT launcher (2 with arm) a smorgasbord of rifles and carbines, one prone mg42 gunner (one piece model, a horrible cast for mine though), 3 one piece casualites, and sixteen diamond plate bases? sweet. and from what I've seen, you occasionally get some freebies if you order from them (I got two UAMC marines, the not R.Lee Ermey MSgt, and a Dolph Lundgren look a like, and a pack of 24 bases)

If I would give them a letter grade; B-, awesome concept, but maybe sticking to hard plastic (the UAMC have less detail but no flaws), or rebuild the molds for you new material (if that is the issue).
once the company is back in stride I will pick up some more models (the bugs and wurms)
Tune in later for my Zombie review!

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