[Elchimpster]

So my Blood Ravens are taking a beating in the current league (1750, "friendly" [really means competitive]), so setting them aside for a bit, I took all the extra Astartes that were taking up space and tossed in the bowl with Pine Sol...stripped thwm clean, and with the addition of a couple boxed sets and some misc leftover bitz, I'm going to have a brand new, and fully painted army next week:

Iron Snakes Chapter!
1750 points

Librarian
Venerable dread
4 Tactical Squads (10x marines/squad)
2 Assault Squads (10x marines/squad)

Everything was stripped Friday, assembled Saturday, primed and basecoated Sunday (and a lot of the gruntwork is done for the painting.)

And the cool part, my wife is helping me get them painted. Yeah, she loves painting minis too (and is reading Brothers of the Snake currently).

Is that cool or WHAT?

 

[hephesto]

A complete army in a week, even with two dedicated people working on the minis, it would be one serious achievement!

Best of luck and keep us posted!

 

[Elchimpster]

I'll take some WiP pics.

 

[hephesto]

Great, pretty sure you'll end up making a lott of people very jealous if you manage to pull this one of!

 

[Elchimpster]

Yeah, with the "army in a week" and the "wife helping to paint minis" I imagine.

 

[Red Orc]

I imagine that the first will provoke more admiration, the second more muttering about you being a lucky... steward in a bar.

:cyclops:

 

[Cadian81st]

Lucky bastard. Lets see some WiP pix.

 

[Jacobite]

All I have is three words for you:

You Lucky Bastard :wink:


Good luck with it man, love to see some WiP

 

[Elchimpster]

I'll shoot some tonite and post 'em up.

 

[MarzM]

Welcome Brother-Snake.


Having collected Iron Snakes for a long time, and having read Mr Abnetts latest work i think the Apothicary trait and probably the true grit one too represents them best.


Good Luck

MarzM :mrgreen:

 

[Elchimpster]

Apothecary Trait?
Haven't seen that one.

I gave them True Grit though.

 

[MarzM]

Purity above all. I think


MarzM :mrgreen:

 

[Cadian81st]

Gahh...your avatars are the same....

Now I'm all confused...

Seriously though, good luck, you'll need it.

 

[MarzM]

I knew this would happen as soon as Brothers of the Snake came out! lol



MarzM :mrgreen:

 

[Elchimpster]

http://picasaweb.google.com/OrdoHereticus/IronSnakes

 

[The Wraithlord]

That's awesome. I have tried getting my wife into painting as well. No go unfortunately.

 

[Jacobite]

Nice work dude. Loving the shields. Whose work was those? :wink:

 

[Beamo]

nicely done.

I wanted to do an iron snakes force after I finished reading the book too.

have too many projects on my plate right now, though

 

[Elchimpster]

Nice work dude. Loving the shields. Whose work was those? :wink:

I'm doing the shields, shoulderplates, and drybrushed half of them.

My wife is doing half the drybrushing, bronze/ gold bits, eyes and bases.

 

[Elchimpster]

http://picasaweb.google.com/OrdoHereticus/IronSnakes
Updated pics.
I'm going to have a lot of touch-ups to do next week.
Overall though, I'm on schedule.