Well, I've finished painting the last miniature I'll paint here in Indonesia.  It still needs decals applied and some grass tufts for the base, but that will wait until I am back home.  But this is the third member of my House Raven force.

So with that, the blog goes on hiatus for a while.

I did figure out what I'd like to get to round out the chapter after I finish painting the last of the marine stuff I own.  Those are:

- 3 chaplains
- 1 librarian on bike
- 1 librarian with jump pack
- 1 captain on bike
- 1 deredeo pattern dreadnought
- 1 spartan assault tank
- 1 xiphon interceptor
- 7 land raiders (1 crusader, 6 normal, one of which I'd convert to be the chapter master's land raider)
- 1 vindicator
- 2 stalker / hunters
- 1 razorback (I think, not sure on this one)

That should just about cover where I'd ideally like to be with the current range of models available and what I already own.

Well, these are the last of the land raiders I own to be painted.  One standard pattern and one Achilles pattern.  This brings me to a total of thirteen land raiders of various variants painted.  I'd like more, but at this stage I probably have enough ;) (For now anyway).  Anyway, that leaves me with a storm raven, a storm talon, a vindicator, a land speeder storm, three librarians, two chaplains, a storm eagle, a fire raptor and two drop pods (I'd completely forgotten about the drop pods until just now) left to paint.  At least of the models that I own.

I also did a quick and dirty paint job on the BFG escorts for my marine fleet.  I haven't painted the bases yet to make them easier to pack for the trip back home.

Well, finished six more vehicles for the chapter today.  Not sure how much more painting I'm going to get in before everything gets packed away for the move.  However, at this stage I don't have any open / ready models to get ready to paint except for two thunderfire cannons.  So I might be calling it there for now, but time will tell.

This also happened.

A shot from behind to show the conversion with the lion cloak and what the capes look like on the other models from behind

Warhammer World has re-opened its doors after extensive renovations and my oh my are there some sweet photos coming out of the event!
Some new chaos stuff (knights, lord of skulls as a walker and some nurgle dudes), Guilliman, Sigismund, new Ultramarine units for 30k, an Ordinatus for ad mech in 30k.  But the thing that has me most excited is this baby:

If someone were to buy me one as a "congrats on finishing a chapter", I wouldn't say no :P

A bonus model finished today as well as the chaplains earlier.

Here is the next lot of minis to be finished.  The black on these guys isn't edge highlighted like I would do normally for my marines.  Instead I did a bit of a zenithal highlight with a dark gray.  I tried to make it reasonably subtle so as not to overpower the black.

This lot brings me to five chaplains in total.  I would like to have at least ten (i.e. one per company) but this is all I have the models for at this stage.

Well, it is finally time to start pumping out some character models.  First off the ranks, a couple of librarians.  This brings me to three overall.  I'd like a few more, but at this point in time these are the only librarian models I have.