First off, I just noticed the other day that my blog has quickly become the #2 most visited blog on Coolminiornot. Thanks to everyone who has emailed, commented, and PM'ed me over the last few months. It's great to have people following and supporting my efforts. 

After a lot of hours cutting, drilling, pinning and gluing I think I'm just about ready to prime the rest of my initial 1000 points or so worth of Sisters of Battle minis. The Exorcist and a handful of older minis are still in various stages of completion of course. Here's a buttload of pics of the work so far, I really like the way the bases have turned out, and the weapon swaps are a huge pain in the ass, but they saved me a lot of money! :-D...

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Should be a wicked fun weekend. Tom (phesmic) and myself are driving down to Blackfalds to visit the legendary Glyn "Zaphod" Evans. He's so hip he has trouble seeing over his pelvis!

Should be good times, we'll be judging a GROTS painting contest followed by some combination of guitars, alcohol and paint brushes. I'm looking forward to it, that's for sure. I might use the time to finish the Fallen Angel model I've had WIP for ages... the Sisters are already getting enough attention and I don't want to have to haul that much stuff to keep making cool bases for them. A couple massive trays of bitz and a dozen sprues just don't travel well....

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I'm really having some fun converting and placing these Sisters of Battle on urban rubble style bases. It's the same basic plan as the Blood Ravens bases: cork for concrete, help from the bitz box and plasticard for making fallen beams, pipes and lots of tank accessory bitz for random junk on the ground.

I'm really liking them so far, and I haven't even added the sand or the spent shell casings on the ground yet (1.2mm plastic rod chopped up to approximately bolter shell size). It's a pretty laborious process, but the result should be a pretty spiffy looking army of Sisters. I'm looking at about 75 models total if I paint everything I own... and I probably need to buy about 10 assorted models to get more flamers, meltas and heavy bolters. I'm estimating 2k territory for the finished army....

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Well if you take a look at my hand, you can tell how much modelling I've done the last day or two. My thumb is criss-crossed with hundreds of tiny cuts from Xacto blades, and is missing a few decent meaty chunks. Very little blood, though, which is always a plus! I'm also sporting a nice fat blister on my index finger from drilling out several dozen pewter bolter muzzles. Knurled aluminum sucks after a few hours :-P

I'm gonna try to base as many Sisters as possible in the next few days, probably about 3-4 squads worth while plugging away on the Dryads. I got little else to do with my time, until I start up a summer job one of these days! Pics to come as always, once the work is worth looking at!...

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Not enough to warrant a photo just yet, but some work has been done on the unit for the first time in a few weeks. The display base thing is finished, save for the static grass/clump foliage/leaf scatter type stuff. I have to see what I can get my hands on before doing the forest floor texture. Some decent autumn leaves would be nice, I just don't know where to get them :-D

On the models themselves, I'm done all the metallics, not that there was much to begin with. Up next I'll probably do the bases, then block out the rest of the colors so I can get a better idea of how the finished unit is going to look. I'm pretty confident I know what I'm doing, since I've done one Dryad in an extremely similar scheme already. Hopefully a pic or two by the end of the week!...

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