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Now that’s better…

In a previous post I talked about the problems I had had with the Citadel Spray Gun in undercoating a Land Raider.

You can see in this close-up how the thinned paint ran from the flat surface. Was not at all impressed.

So I tried again and got a much better result as you can see from the following photographs. Nice smooth finish.

Though this is a Grey Knights Land Raider, I decided early on with this force that the majority of the armoured vehicles would be a sandy desert colour. I used Citadel Foundation Paint, Tausept Ochre as the basecoat.

See the full workbench feature on this Land Raider.

Undercoating the Honoured Imperium

The next stage for the Honoured Imperium was a white undercoat.

Space Marine Statue – Honoured Imperium

This Honoured Imperium box set contains three pieces of plastic Warhammer 40,000 scenery, including a 6-inch high Space Marine statue, a broken Aquila and a section of ruined building. The statue (and variations) has appeared a few times before it was officially released.

The statue was a little more complex to put together. I did think it would have been nice to have some instructions. It was only after I completed the model that I realised that the instructions were on the side of the box.

See the workbench feature on the Honoured Imperium.

Ruined Building – Honoured Imperium

The ruined building that is included in the Honoured Imperium (as an afterthought to fill the sprue?) comes in two parts.

These fit together very easily.

Though quite nice, there need to be more ruins to make it more “realistic” when setting it on a battlefield. I might use it as the basis for a diorama.

Flames of War Shermans

These Sherman tank miniatures come in the Open Fire Flames of War starter set. and are from Simon’s collection.

The buildings are Hornby 9mm Lyddle End railway buildings sold for N gauge railways.

British Shermans (well the resin American ones from the Open Fire boxed set painted as British Shermans). Buildings are Hornby N Gauge Lyddle End pre-painted resin castings. — British Shermans

See more Flames of War miniatures in our gallery.

Fallen Eagle

Within the Honoured Imperium scenery set is a fallen eagle.

It comprises just two pieces.

They fit together just fine.

It’s a lot bigger than you think it will be. These Orks seem quite small next to it.

One key question before using this in games you do need to ask though, as big as it is, is what did it fall off?

Honoured Imperium

This box set contains three pieces of plastic Warhammer 40,000 scenery, including a 6-inch high Space Marine statue, a broken Aquila and a section of ruined building.

The broken Aquila was seen before at GamesDay 2007.

Whilst the statue (and variations) has appeared a few times as well…

…including this broken version at GamesDay 2007.

This box set contains three pieces of plastic Warhammer 40,000 scenery, including a 6-inch high Space Marine statue, a broken Aquila and a section of ruined building.The set consists of two sprues.

See the workbench feature on the Honoured Imperium.

Ork Kil Krusha Tank

This was of the first Forge World ork models when I went “wow”.

Rolling onto the battlefields of the 41st millennium for the first time is our new Kill Krusha ‘Eavy Tank for the Orks. This fearsome model is a huge full resin super-heavy tank kit for the Orks, and is designed by Daren Parrwood with crew by Mark Bedford. The intricate detail on this model really has to be seen to be believed, and it includes some incredible interior work as you can see Here as well as one Ork tank ‘Kommanda’ three Grots (and a Squig!) as crew. This giant tank is a combination of the Ork`s love of speed and violence, with overcharged engines to launch it across the battlefield (well most of the time), and a main ‘Kannon’ able to fire a number of different shell types to rain carnage down on their enemies.

The model is a realisation of the many different concept images that Forge World produced for Ork tanks.

I realised that I hadn’t taken a picture of the huge box of resin you get for this kit… I started, following the instructions, constructed the main armament and turret.

I didn’t though glue in the gun crew as I decided to paint them separately.

There is lots of lovely detail in this turret assembly, alas most of it won’t be seen as it will be covered by the top of the turret and the rear of the superstructure.

See the full workbench feature on the Ork Kil Krusha.

Other things that went wrong…

As well as having problems airbrushing my Land Raider, I had similar issues with my MKIIb Land Raider.

And my Inquisitor Repressor.

Sometimes you get it wrong…

I had started to paint the basecoat of my Grey Knights Land Raider using a normal brush. I decided that I would try using Citadel’s spray gun to base coat the rest of the Land Raider. However due to thinning the paint too much I didn’t get the result I hoped for. As you can see it didn’t work out too well.

From this angle it looks better, but’s that only because this was the area I had originally done part of the basecoat of by brush.

You can see in this close-up how the thinned paint ran from the flat surface.

Think it’s time to get a proper airbrush with a proper compressor. However give the GW Spray Gun its due, it got me thinking about airbrushing over just brush painting.

See the full workbench feature on this Land Raider.