I have 10 Intercessors and 10 Infiltrators in the painting process. Next will be my 5 Hellblasters > Eliminators > Heroes > Titus

I think I need a Mechanicus Standard Grey for any future priming. Grey Primed minis only needed two coats, whereas the much lighter, near-white Grey Seer needed three. Better blue paint would’ve helped too though.

Once the wash dries, I’ve done a dry brush of Kraken Blue to try bring some colour back in. Left is Washed, right is after Dry brushing. It definitely looks a *little* brighter/vibrant. This will be followed up with a brighter blue dry brush with a more delicate application.

So base coating is taking WAY longer and more paint, so I’ll prob go Citadel or Two Thin Coats to replace this AP paint when it runs out.

After three coats, I give them a wash of Nuln Oil for shading:
Three coats on the left, and a washed marine on the right.

I’m using Army Painter paints, because I bought A LOT during lockdown for painting my absurd number of D&D minis.
I was warned recently the older AP paints have coverage issues though, and yeah, they do. One coat on the left, three coats on the right:

Got myself a little early birthday present.

This rounds out my force to just shy of a thousand points.

Will share painting updates later. I’ve started with the larger squads to practice and experiment, before I get to specialised squads and heroes. Definitely painting Titus last.

Hellblasters built
Only thing left to build are three Eliminators and put the accessories on these guys and my intercessors

It seems to have worked! The Phobos Strike Team have their grenades now 😌

Took like an hour to find my files. You can see here the rough spots I need to file so the last of glue can actually bond plastic to plastic

Kill Team built. Weather was good today so I took the chance to prime them.

Only to realise when I brought them inside that I forgot to attach their grenades and some belt accessories 🫠🫠🫠

I can salvage. Use file to scrape off primer at contact points, glue accessories, then reprime them 🫠🫠🫠

So begins the thread for my Warhammer 40K escapades