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#hobbystreak day 1008 While I'm very much in an old world mood, and my hammerers and miners are making progress... The return of my clubs 40k league has put some fire under me to finish up some guard. Tonight i finished up an enginseer and a Vanquisher turret for my league list.

A unit of dwarf hammerers, inked and ready for highlights

A leman russ vanquisher with an enginseer on top

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jumped on blender today to design then print this base adapter movement tray. Grombrindal and pals can now lead my hammerers to war!

A movement tray with slots for 20mm bases to make them 25mm in size, with a special slot for the white dwarf 30th anniversary model to fit in on his 20x40mm base so he takes up a 50mm square

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 1004 Making good Dwarfen progress. The first 10 hammerers are basecoated and starting to get inked. 5 miners are stripped, based and ready to spray, along with the 7th ed 'mining cart'. And as a bonus I've started magnetising my painted dwarfs, so far 30 done!

The hammerers musician letting gravity keep the ink in his horn

5 miners and a mining cart prepped for spraying

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They're Strip miners! Haha Get it? I'll... I'll just go...

5 metal miners in front of a bottle of biostrio

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 1001 (yesterday) I had hoped to take day 1000 off for a paintathon, but alas life is too busy. Instead it's modest progress, as hobbystreak tends to be, with some finished artillery bases and progress on the hammerers.

4 bases painted goblin green, perfect for some dwarfen artillery

A unit of 10 hammerers getting basecoated,with silver armour and red gloves

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 998 With a big enough hammer everything looks like a nail! First couple of colours have been applied to my hammerers. Mostly though, today was a 2k game of #OldWorld vs Ogres, the longbeards have since been grumbling that Ogres used to be tougher! Also, more base sand!

10 hammmerers with green bases and silver armour

A unit of longbeards fighting against a unit of Ironguts

A Gorger screams at a unit of Dwarf warriors

4 sandy bases ready for painting for.my war machines

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My current project pile is very exciting right now! More gyrocopters are always good. Hammerers are absolutely iconic. And then my full-metal dwarf army needs a king on shieldbearers. As far as I know theres only 1 metal choice! Gotrek, Bugman and Grombrindal join the throng!

A selection of classic metal dwarf sculpts on a paint tray

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 994 With 6 new warriors added to the unit, my 80s metal dwarf warriors are complete! Sure this unit has been complete before, but I had used some great weapon sculpts and plastixs to fill it out. It's now all metal, all sword, all board, and all dwarf!

6 classic dwarf warriors in a karak Norn scheme

A full unit of hand weapon and shield dwarf warriors

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 989 Played battle march last night it's an excellent system for mini stories to unfold. The goblins were routed by the dwarven engineer army, the 11 dwarven deaths will all be recorded as grudges in the book! Basecoats begin on 6 replacements and I'm working on my Vanq turret.

Two units of dwarf warriors prepare to fight the goblin hordes

The Thunderers and artillery hammer the goblin left flank

6 dwarf warriors with hand weapons and shields, currently only basecoated silver

An imperial guard Vanquisher leman ruas tureet about half painted

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 984 A bitty few days, finished my Dwarf engineer for Old World. Finished assembling my rogal dorn, hopefully built to pass as both a commander and not. And then i cleaned and assembled 6 dwarf warriors from the late 80s/early 90s to bring my unit to 20.

6 classic metal dwarfs with hand weapons and shields

A close up on the stubber gunner/tank commander

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gods painting Old world is fun. Here's my planned battle march list. Is it good? No, but it does have a flame cannon! Are they good? I mean... aesthetically they are top tier and that has to count for something!

A dwarf engineer with handgun, great weapon, brace of pistols, hand weapons and eyes that need a second pass

The same engineer from behind showing his weapon pack

A 7t0 point dwarf battle marchlist with 2 units of warriors, a unit of thunderers, a gyrocopter, a flame cannon and a cannon, all lead by an engineer

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#hobbystreak day 980 With my 40k league over, it's time to look at something other than my Guard army. My local club is starting to get pretty interested in Old World, so my all-metal Dwarf army is getting some reinforcements ready for a battle march game!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 978 Rather than finishing my fob crew, I've been assembling, and magnetising my first big tank. My league games have shown both a lack of punch, and a lack of mid table brawling. So hopefully a Rogal dorn will hope answer those issues.

A rogal dorn with big cannons for big shots

A rogal dorn with smaller cannons for many shots

A rogal dorn next to my leman russ tank commander.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hard to know what's the more satisfying hobby moment: Putting a fresh blade onto the hobby knife. Or getting to the end of a painting session and finally getting to enjoy your drink!

A hobby knife with a fresh sharp blade next to the old dirty blade

A painting desk with a straw sticking out of the paint water cup.

**Do not drink the forbidden juice**

No matter how tasty!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Doing the finishing touches for prep for tonight's miniature show, with @tabletoprescue.bsky.social. I'm going to be doing my best to sell through all these boxes of warhammer and other modern miniature makers from.80m tonight. Should be loads of fun! www.ebay.co.uk/ebaylive/eve...

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 974 They're done! Enough to play in tomorrow's game! Still have 2 part painted crew and the gun operators need camo, but these are ready enough to hit the table and hopefully kill some knights!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 971 The FOBs themselves are done, so its time to work on the crew, fortunately i'm fairly experienced at painting catachans now, so this is going a bit quicker. All basecoats done, onto the highlights! Should have these finished after a couple more good painting sessions!

2 field ordinance batteries in a orange black and red scheme

A close up on the first gun, the weapo itself is highlighted but the crew are half finshed

Both guns from above showing the fully painted magnetised options.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 967 Life is still proving busy, so painting time remains limited. Still making some nice progress on the FOBs. Metals and reds are highlighted, the camo has been tidied up and just needs edge highlights now, the bases are finished. So it is mostly crew and details left.

2 field ordinance batteries including all magnetised options.

A close up on a rocket launcher battery.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

If you see this, post your riders... Catachan rough riders on the closest thing they can find to horses. Plus their 'Lord Solar' Colonel on aggradon. #warhammer #catachan #nerdlings #warhammer40k

5 converted rough riders: catachan bodies on cold one mounts

The rough riders assisting an armoured advance

A converted Lord Solar proxy made with the catachan colonel mini on top of an aggradon from AoS

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Every now and then I've asked for mini ID help as I've slowly sorted through a large cabinet of retro minis. Now we're going to be doing three huge eBay Live auctions over the bank Holiday! Please share so we can get the news out to lead lovers everywhere! www.ebay.co.uk/ebaylive/eve...

3 drawers of retro RPG/wargaming miniatures

A close up one one drawer, with a chariot, and lots of adventurers and cultists

A close up on a second drawer containing monsters, lizardmen and others

A third drawer with monsters, genestealers, and a large RAFM box

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 963 'New orders from command lads, let's move, move, move!' Finished an order token. Using milliput & blue stuff to clone running legs and lamps, I will be able to make plenty of these! The 'light beams' are cut up bits of paper clips. All painted light blue and drybrushed white.

A unit of catachan troops with holographic running legs marking thier current order.

Before priming, milliput parts with paper clips stuck in the.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 961 I've spent the last few nights doing the bases for my field ordinance teams. And what massive bases they are! Just a few crates left to do on one. In the background I've also been doing some casting. Using blue stuff and milliput to clone parts to make some fun order tokens.

Two huge lava bases done with various orange shades with cracked black paint on top.

The same bases with the currently wip ordinance batteries on top

Some milliput clones of warhammer parts. The running catachan legs will be used to make holographic 'move move move' order tokens. The little lamp cover will act as the projector.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Ebay live has become a really fun part of my work. Look at all the games @tabletoprescue.bsky.social is selling today! So much marvel and starwars! We're even going to be doing some mini streams later in the month! If any UK folks want to tune in for board games tonight at 9pm: ebay.io/m/1ung2r

A large pile of games, making up about half of what's being auctioned tonight.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 958 The camo pattern does a lot to make my catachan theme work. Being bright orange next to black it also takes a fair bit of work! I may do the bases next, it would be a nice way to feel the unit is approaching tabletop ready!

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 956 If you want to get bang for your hobby buck then fully magnetise and paint some FOBs. There's 3 weapon options, but the minis are 50% guns so including the carraige thats 200% painting per mini! Inked the metals and got the first highlights on the reds. Good steady progress.

A pair of field ordinance batteries with missile launchers. Other options are scattered nearby.

The same 2 minis with the guns swapped to the heavy lascannons

A close up on one model, it is painted black silver and red, plenty left to do.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 954 Basecoating my FOBs today. Its clear that this will be a slog! I'm doing the right thing and painting all the magnetised weapons at once, so I'm not adding to my weapon backlog. With each platform having 3 guns, 2 shields, 3 crew, and a huge base theres a lot to do!

2 field ordinance batteries with all options. Sprayed black, with silver areas basecoated and red areas done on all bar 2 guns.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Continuing on revisiting my slightly unfinished guard minis. 'Lord solar' here was finished up for a tournament, but still had some unpainted details. Fixed up a few little issues and now I can call him done!

A catachan colonel riding a seraphon aggradon to act as a lord solar proxy

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#hobbystreak day 942 Sick days = slow work on sentinel weapons. Don't know if I'll be using flamers, but autocannons are becoming a favourite weapon. Also played my second league game and secured a win. Highlight was ramming a banesword with a chimera. It exploded destroying a whole table quarter.

A leman russ squares off against a rogal dorn

A unit of rough riders bring their melta lances to bear against the rear armour of an enemy vehicle.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 939 Thanks to my son having a lie-in I was able to get an early bit of painting in and finish off the classic metal Ogryn squad. Ready to jump in a chimera with 'big hat man' and cause havoc in tonight's game! Hoping they don't suffer the newly painted minis curse!

A metal ogryn with ripper gun and grenate painted in lava world camo

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 936 With a game coming up I should be painting Ogryn. So anyway I built and magnetised 2 FOBs. I don't know how to use this unit, the indirect option, the rocket that has dakka, or the heavy lascannons that just dare your opponents vehicles to say hi. Im leaning that way atm.

A pair of field ordinace guns with catachan crew

The same team swapped to the artillery gun

The same team swapped to the rocket launcher. The magnetised pieces sir nearby

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 935 More ogryn progress, still have leathers to go, and all the black areas need camo patterns. Then it's last details and hair to finish. With the points changes this unit has made it straight into my list, I'll now be taking 2 heavy bolter chimeras full of chunky lads!

3 classic metal Ogryn in black and orange colours.

2 chimeras with dual heavy bolters behind their cargo of 6 Ogryn and a commisar.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My work, Tabletop Rescue, has launched on eBay Live! I'll be running my first two shows this week. It would be great to have a friendly audience. We've got an RPG show at 8pm on Thurs and a Board Game show at 2pm on Fri. You can follow the link to see our schedule. www.ebay.co.uk/ebaylive/sel...

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 932 With my game group saying points changes are expected tonight and guards winrate being... not high... I may be needing these Ogryn to make my army legal again! Bases done, basecoats finished and inks on. Time to highlight starting with red.

3 metal ogryns with bright red ripper guns

The same minis from behind, dark with thier inked metals and leathers

A couple of chimera weapons being painted too.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 928 With my Microsol order arriving I could finish the Crimson Fist Lieutenant! The transfer isn't perfect, I need to work on wrinkle prevention, but practice makes perfect. Very proud of this mini, the question is do I paint my Armageddon box as Lamenters or Crimson Fists?

A bladeguard Lieutenant painted in dark blue non metallic metal with rend hands and silver accents.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 926 I'm at a stopping point with the Crimson Fist Lieutenant. I tried a transfer from the armageddon box, but it went terribly. Took it off and now I wait for a microsol/set order. I've loved painting this guy, first time in ages I feel like I've really improved as a painter!

A Crimson Fist Bladeguard Lieutenant painyed in NMM style, standing on a red dusty plain.

The same mini from behind, his left shoulder is glossy, waiting on the decal softener to arrive to finish the mink

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 925 What i hadn't known about NMM is how much it comes alive by painting the non metallic bits near it! There's not much left to do on the LT now, the chapter symbol and a few minor details, then the base!

A crimson fists bladeguard LT painted in NMM style.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 923 I've been painting my Guard for 6 months now. Time to give myself a break and paint some new colours. A nice simple space marine, just as a mental break. Oops, full-throttle NMM practice time! Definitely not mastered the art, but much improved from my last attempt at NMM

A crimson fists bladeguard Lieutenant painted with non metallic metal (using non metallic pigment paints with extreme highlighting to give the illusion of shiny metal) its still a WIP

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 920 (yesterday) Progress is slow on the Ogryn, it's another UK heatwave and it's definitely limiting my painting time. On the gaming side it's league time at my local club and I've started the season with a win vs a Space Wolf Terminator force.

3 ogryn and a couple of heavy bolters all basecoated

Sly Marbo stands victorious after finishing off a Terminator Captain

A Squad from the Flaming Third guards an objective against a Terminator advance, I imagine they'll be fine.

A Scout Sentinel and an imperial agents allied Immolator outflank a space wolf dreadnought

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 918 Thw autocannons are finished, so now my heavy weapon team can swap out their guns! I think the plan now is every new unit I paint, I also paint some magnetised weapons for old units, try and get to that 110% painted mark. So next up: ogryn and chimera heavy bolters!

3 catachan heavy weapon teams. Their lascannons swapped out for autocannons.

3 metal ogryn and 2 heavy bolters basecoated red

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

#hobbystreak day 916 After my tourney I decided to swap out some some weapons, so a couple of multimeltas and 3 autocannons are on the painting desk. I also want some more Ogryns, so I've stripped these lovely old metal ones ready to add to the Flaming 3rd!

Some part painted imperial guard weapons

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

#hobbystreak day 913 That's a wrap on my first ever tournament. Game 1 vs salamander was a close loss. Game 2 vs grey knights was a solid win. Game 3 vs Ravenwing was a win by 1 point! So 2:1, pretty proud, and came 5th out of 18! Glory to the Hades IX, Flaming 3rd regiment!

A leman russ Tank commander advances supported by a unit of rough riders, following int he wake of a sentinel and hellhound.

A 40k table at the start of a game loads of black and orangebtanks and infantry.

A chimera with twin flamers defends itself from a Ranvenwing advance.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

#hobbystreak day 912 Not quite finished with Lord Solar, but he's done enough to get me 10vp for being painted! I've done a lot more than I expected, the metallics are the main thing holding him back now. Tomorrow is tourney day! Imagine ill learn a lot about playing guard as I lose 3 times!

A lord solar proxy kitbash made from a seraphon mount and the catachan colonel kit with bullgryn armour plates to decorate

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#hobbystreak day 910 With a concerted effort I've got the Leman Russ 'tournament ready'. It still needs highlights for the hull colours, and I've not started the turret or sponson options. But thanks to my other Russ I already have those bits spare! Tomorrow: lord solar and magnets.

A leman russ in an orange and black scheme with no turret

The same russ with a spare turret and sponsons added to complete it.

Two Russes side by side ready for Sunday's event

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

#hobbystreak day 907 My tourney is on Sunday, so Im desperately trying to paint the last 2 minis for my list. Lord solar is battle ready. I'd rather do more, but I could just glue him to his base. The leman russ now has its first basecoat of silver. That's going to be the bigger challenge!

A lord solar proxy: a catachan colonel on a giant dinosaur

A leman russ sprayed black with some silver details painted

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I'd like to thank @elementgames.bsky.social for putting in some stickers, meant my four year old was just as excited as me to open this parcel!

A child places warhammer stickers on a piece of paper. The armageddon box int he background.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

#hobbystreak day 905 Finished the heavy weapon teams. Love how bright those lascannons have come out! Imperium standard templates include paint colour. Changing it upsets the machine spirits. Camouflage paint is an insult to the Omnissaih! Only 2 models to finish for next weekend's 11th tourney!

3 Catachan heavy weapon twams armed with lascannons. Painted in a lava planet camo scheme with bright red guns.

A leman russ and kitbashed Lord Solar miniature. The tank is sprayed black. The lord solar is basecoated.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

#hobbystreak day 902 Finished the bases for 'lord dolar' and the heavy weapon teams. I've also painted the lascannons. Love how thise have turned out in the cartoonish bright red of my guard weapons. They look threatening, probabably more threatening than they actually are!

3 imperial guard heavy weapon team bases with lascannons the crew is still unpainted and mostly not present.

A large lava base for lord solar featuring some rocks and some guard equipment

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

ID request: I got given this white dragon miniature. Its heavy and cold to the touch, im not 100% sure if it's metal gaming miniature or a stone dragon ornament. A quick Google has failed me. Does anyone recognise it?

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

#hobbystreak day 899 Busy working on bases and basecoats for the Heavy Weapon team and 'Lord Solar'. Loving the HWTs scale, those lascannons are huge! Meanwhile it's incredibly satisfying to see paint on my lord Solar kitbash, I'm very proud of him, a fine centerpiece for the army!

A catachan heavy weapon team with lascannon. Part painted on a lava base

2 more heavy weapon teams in a similar state

A lord solar proxy made from the catachan colenal on a seraphin mount.

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Amy Jade @amyjade.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

#hobbystreak day 897 Sly marbo and the catachan squad are finished! Only 3 heavy weapon teams, lord solar, and a leman russ left to go! Ive made a start on the bases for the teams and Solar, but unfortunately im a bit unwell atm, so I had to stop and rest instead.

Sly marbo in a black and orange paint scheme

10 catachan infantry in the same colour scheme.

Some large round bases, starting to be oainted in oranges for a lava base.

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