Zone Mortalis, Death Ray Designs Part 2 Painting

So here is my scheme test pieces.  Nothing to fancy, because when you have more than 100 parts to paint, you better do something that looks good but can be done quickly assembly line style.  Thats how I went here.

Finally a Zone Mortalis set that works, Thanks Death Ray Designs, Part 1 Construction

50 cents worth of PVC and never spill 7 dollars of ink again.

Was listening to one of my Fav Podcasts today and heard one of the guys lament spilling a pot of GW ink.  This is a Hobby Hack I learned from a buddy.  50 cent PVC joint available at most DIY stores.  Never spill again.  Also, the brush protector on your brushes, they are great at holding pots open on inks.  Pass this along.

Tutorial: Building an Arch Magos, that is worthy of leading your Army

I have been working on my Mechanicum Army for over 2 years now and am probably in the neighborhood of 10k worth of points I got tired of using stock Magos models to lead the army.  I have done many small conversion, like weapon swaps, this would be the first full scale one.  The project and idea for this model came from several sources, I took inspiration from The Eye of Horus Podcasts episode on demystifying the Mechanicum.  Tim's famous "The Martian Model" starting giving me some ideas, but I knew I wanted BIGGER.  I toyed with the various abeyance out there.  Even bought the FW one only to sell it later.  Final inspiration came from the Emperor of Mankind novel where they construct a Magos using a Domitar chassis.  The Cawl model had also appeared at the same time and I want to mash that looked into it also.

Airbrushing colored metal paints, Vallejo Airbrush Flow Improver

If there is one thing that has been consistently frustrating fro me it is trying to airbrush with non silver  metal paints.  Everything clogs, no matter the air pressure or thinner used.  I thought this was just a fact of the paints pigment composition, IT IS NOT.

You don't need thinner you need "FLOW IMPROVER"

Cyber Occularis in 3 hours.

Currently there is no Cyber Occularis model currently being made by FW.  This little 15 point Magos add-on is a very powerful addition.  It is basically a spotter that can radio back LOS data and more importantly confer the Magos' buffs to units he is not in range of.  You need atlas one as minimum.  I was going to play a small Con and had limited time to know one out.  I didn't just want to put a marker on the table.

The Bible for Terrain and Diorama building

I don't do a lot of product reviews, but this thing is awesome.  I heard about it on my favorite PodCast "The Eye of Horus Podcast".  Check out the book and check them out.

Mechanicum reinforcements completed

Well, the summer is finally here, it has been a rough couple of semesters leaving precious little time to get to a paint brush, but I have hit it with a furry in the last two weeks.  I did a poor job of taking photos but there is still some good info in here.