Sunday, February 12, 2017

Squaduary: Weather Delay

I have discovered an issue with the Squaduary concept, as opposed to Dreadtober, at least here in the PNW: In October, we can usually rely on at least a couple of days of dry weather each week. February, on the other hand, is pretty reliably rainy, or at least extremely damp and humid, which makes terrible conditions for spray priming. Today is at least sunny and clear, and the humidity is supposed to dip to the lowest it's been for a while in a couple of hours here, so I'm going to hope I can get a decent coat on.

That said, the modeling part went well. I got three Squads of 5 "Scouts" done, one each with Bolters, BP/CCW, and Sniper Rifles. The rest of this is basically just a picdump:



The intensive training the Alpha Legion uses for these operatives takes long enough that they often begin to be warped by the association with Chaos



The Combat Drugs they're pumped up on contribute further to the incidence of mutation in the ranks

The Squad Leaders get the fanciest cloaks

Another consequence of the Combat Drugs is that few of the operatives will survive more than a mission or two, even if they don't die in combat


Only one way to deal with a stealth trooper who won't shut up ;)

The Sniper Sarge calls out targets

The Snipers are the most heavily augmented
The overall effect comes out a bit more kitbashed than I was hoping, rather than mutated, but I'm still pretty happy with them. Hopefully the paint jobs will tie them all together better. Until next time, y'all have a good one, y'hear!

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  1. Ah yes, the ever present weather delay for undercoating. I know it well.

    The squad is coming along nicely, keep up the good work!

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    1. Thanks! And yeah, I saw you'd been having issues with that recently, too. Managed to get them done yesterday, and it looks like I might actually be able to catch up on a bit more of my priming backlog this afternoon, due to an unpredicted weather shift :)

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  2. Awesome looking builds, man - tons of personality!

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    1. Thanks! There were a number of them that I kind of ended up making little backstories for as I was picking out parts for them.

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