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Third and last of the Nakamura Tower figures - and probably the one that grew on me the most while painting. I picked it because it was a big unsubtle chunk of robot, but when I started painting, a lot of unexpected detail jumped out. I love all the cables, so tried to offer a little variety in colour to show power flowing through them. Nice way to finish up the mini-project and glad I had the chance to paint them. For size comparison, here's the three painted up compared to a regular Space Marine. And the three just on their own. So that's it! Another small mini-project concluded, so on to the next figure sat on the painting desk - a Mantic Zombie picked up free at Salute earlier this year. It's a bit of a sprint now trying to meet a few of my 2017 goals, with just over four weeks left in the painting year.

This is, apparently, Markus Hoffman. I couldn't tell you much more about him other than that - as I don't know the backstory to the game. The boxart for this has the arms painted as sleeves, but I opted for making it look like arms with wiring and little spots of metal peeking out - as though he's become one with the machine. I played around with striping on clothing again, and it wasn't a disaster. Still forcing myself to thin paints beyond what feels comfortable and I'm seeing the benefit of that and patience.

This week I was working through a few models from a lovely looking Kickstarter from 2015 ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1803723298/human-interface-nakamura-tower ) and while I failed to back it, a friend of mine did. The figures are quite detailed and put me in mind of the Infinity range. This was reinforced when seeing the second Kickstarter ( https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1803723298/human-interface-be-a-better-human/description ) with models painted by Angel Giraldez - whose work on the Infinity range is formidable. When it arrived he was kind enough to let me paint up a couple of figures for him. I picked a couple at random that looked interesting and it appears they're from different factions - or at least different enough to be painted as such. I realised on Wednesday that I was seeing him this weekend and really needed them finished and off the workbench. So a very quick paintjob across the three was required to get things moving! This is probab

With the three figures finished, here's the group shot of them in action. Very pleased with the final result. Each one feels dynamic, unique and definitely a Space Wolf. The sergeant in the group has a helmet, as I wanted him to feel like the Primaris still maintaining some of the "traditional" standards of the marines, whereas the others have fully embraced their inner Fenrisian. One detail that's almost invisible from the shots is the jump pack. I've attempted some OSL in here to give the feeling of hot jets ... ... then attempted to reflect that back on the surface below it. It's got an audience of only me when it's on the table, but I'm pleased with the result. Onto the next models. Just another 18 and then that's a boxset I started in July finished. How's that for speed! Right? Right?

Here we are with the last Inceptor! This is probably my favourite due to the pose. I didn't like the plastic rods that came with the figures. While they're a definitely upgrade on the old ones with air bubbles, they felt a bit amateur theatre wire work pose-wise. This has been glued very, very carefully onto the front of a crate - and balanced so it doesn't fall over. The blue you can see on the crate is the reflection from the jet pack engine. I'll sort out a close-up shot later this week which may be more flattering. Hopefully this has captured a feeling of jumping over obstacles and landing on the charge.

Edging ever closer to a full unit, here's the second fellow. This one's positioned to be dropping onto an ammo crate. I'd forgotten how tricky it is painting faces with this much detail on this scale. It held up progress quite a bit. Took a little longer on the photos this time, and feel they've come out better. Always room to improve, but the colours are spot on.

I misplaced October. How careless of me. A couple of weeks away and an unexpected bout of conjunctivitis ruled out most of my October painting. Turns out if you can't focus on the figure in front of you, painting is basically impossible. Happily that's in the past and we can move back to a focus on painting. Let's start November correctly instead, shall we? Here's my completed Primaris Inceptor Sergeant to get things moving. Fun things on this model include the OSL effect on the jump engines and weathering. So much weathering. Not-so-fun things are the massive guns, I really struggled with these and couldn't quite make sense of them and remain unsatisfied with what I achieved. My base red isn't right for trying to highlight into yellows, then I did a poor job executing it, so it will be reviewed for the next one. I realised after finishing it up that this isn't meant to be the Sergeant model, as those have a slightly different armour shape i