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Thanks guys. The wolves are indeed OLD :P, which makes them new! The SoM will be getting another couple of units. Right now it's looking like a land raider, a terminator squad and another tactical squad. There is also the idea of re-purposing a third razorback.

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Any tips on how to paint salamanders? How would you do it?

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Salies eh? I'm sure it would be much the same but with easier colors :P. Go with what GW advises, base color of Orkhide Shade, washed with Badab Black, cleaned up with Orkhide again, highlight with 50/50 Orkhide and Snot Green. You could likely get away with using Catachan Green as well for battle damage and highlight the lower edges with snot green.

Hey Aaron! Have you gotten a chance to see the new Imperial Armour with the Sons of Medusa in it yet? If not, just FYI, the special character is a huge bionic Master of the Forge with thunder hammer who is so bionic he has Mephiston stats. He gives the army fearless and if you model your Devastators with bionics they get Feel no pain for free... thought you might like to know...

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Hey Aaron! Have you gotten a chance to see the new Imperial Armour with the Sons of Medusa in it yet? If not, just FYI, the special character is a huge bionic Master of the Forge with thunder hammer who is so bionic he has Mephiston stats. He gives the army fearless and if you model your Devastators with bionics they get Feel no pain for free... thought you might like to know...

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I did indeed get a chance to check out the book :) I was almost salivating as I thumbed through it! I'm DYING to get a copy of it for my own in the near future. I have heard a rumor that the SoM character will be getting released by FW, which if true would be AWESOME. Here's hoping :)

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I was able to salvage a set of terminators I had considered beyond help. They were caked with VERY stuck on sprays and when I tried to strip it away it just chipped unevenly instead, so to the bits bin they went for the last year plus! Then I started to think this week that maybe they weren't as bad off as I had thought, so I pulled them out and got to fixing them as best I could. I first scraped away the big flat areas some and did a test spray with some sandable auto primer and was pleasantly surprised that it looked quite alright. There were a few pits but I'm sure they will fade away a little with the weathering steps of my paint scheme!

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I also put a purchase I had made when I started the army to use at last. I managed to model my Black Lotus tribe shields in place of the regular storm shields. I used some random left hands from various arms I had laying in my old used bits bin and wire and some green stuff to the back of the shields to add a little extra detail. I also modified the shield faces to create some variety, as there are only three designs in the set. I plan on free handing a good amount on the cleaner shields.

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And thanks to AgeofEgos from Dakka I was able to finally get some shoulder pads for the squad I've had in limbo for almost as long as I've had that messed up set of termies! They will be getting armed with lightning claws and likely end up in various mixes of LC/TH to create my termie squads.

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I'll probably take the airbrush to the primed termies, likely dust with white first and then hit them with scorpion green. I'm going to try and skip the PS-8 Spray this round as I've done it on other models (the dreadnoughts didn't catch the spray base color) and see how things work out. With the airbrush getting that first coat is much much easier.

Looking forward to finally getting a squad to dump out of that big bad land raider of mine... :)

I was able to get the termies greened!

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Used the airbrush to spray them with some white and then hit them with scorpion green. Wash comes up next of Thraka Green, going to keep it very controlled rather than slather it all over the model. Cleaning it up and getting crisp armor joins should be easier that way.

Got around to painting up one of the terminators:

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Here he is next to some other marines from the army:

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Posted a full write up about it him here

Looks cool. Love the shields. You should write a book called HowTo Make Lime Green Cool.

I get that comment on the green a lot :) folks just seem to dig the idea of a good looking obnoxiously bright army.

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write up goes live in the morning on TPC :)