I found a lot of them this week. Forgetting my paints for painting night at my local store is one of them and that goes hand and hand with the half-hour trek back to the apartment to grab them in commuter traffic (Turds!). Taking pictures that are out of focus and not realizing until you see it up on a monitor is another (Double Turds! Spaulding!).

Taking forever to finish five models is annoying too. Apparently not enough to put down the books I've been reading during the week and remedy the problem though :P. The CCC Demo does not annoy me, he looks pretty cool.

Not being able to match the basing I did on the trial base is another thing that constantly annoys me. This is a time-honored tradition at this point. I can never seem to match the basing I do from one batch to another.

Days off do not annoy me and thankfully next Monday is one of those. Patriots Day? Fine by me MA... I'm planing on doing the weaponry then, so these guys should be all set after that.

A bit more progress on the CCC this week. The Heavy Assault and Incinerator got their first layer of green highlights this week.

I also picked up the Demo as well, and swapped out the unarmored head (again :P) with Bo.

The Assault Trooper is coming along. The green is done (although looking at the closeups like this I see a few places that need a touch up) as well as the webbing. Just the weapons are left on him.

Same thing with the Sniper. Does anyone have any experience/tutorials on painting modern small arms? I've been looking at pics of real weapons but haven't figured our how to get the mat black yet.

Also, a quick poll. First, what do you think this base is? Second, on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you think it looks like what you think it is?

Work continues on the CCC, everyone got the green basecoat this week along with a wash.

The Sniper and Medic also got their first green highlight.

The Assault Leader is pretty far along, I need to figure out how I'm going to do the weapons. Aside from that all I need to do is paint the buckles and other metallic pieces on him along with the basing.

The green I did in three highlights, I think the final highlight might be a little overdone but hopefully the Dullcoat will help that.

So with my work on the MERCS figures I needed something smaller than 6mm to help me average out closer to 6mm, to that end here's some 2mm Brigade Model Land Ironclads!

I've been slowly building and assembling these guys over the course of the year. The infantry crack me up, not sure I'm going to be able to do more than 3 colors on them.

I really like the look of the British Ironclads though. Not sure what I'm going to use them for yet, I may give the Wessex rules a try, or maybe put together a Starmada mod or something homegrown.

As for the CCC figs, I finished the black undersuit and began work on the webbing and what not this week. I think after a highlight I'm going to try some color bleeding with a dark green/brown color to tone it down.

It's definitely a pain trying to get paint in certain areas though, assembling them after I painted maybe could of worked better but I'm sure that would have had its own problems.

I wanted to see what the armor would like like so I started that on the Assault Leader as well. This is after a base coat and a shade.

I'm planning on giving it two highlights in addition to these, we'll see how that works out next week.

Thanks to a rather productive day off on Monday I finished the Genestealsers this week. I thought they painted up pretty good.

I also got a chance to try out some other colors with the red, namely the purple for the tongue. I think the pallet is going to have to be expanded for the bigger bugs and this purple is in the running for one of the secondary colors. It's rather pinkish but not "pepto pink".

I also built and primed my CCC squad for MERCS. Trimming the mold lines took awhile, they're pretty well hidden but you can definitely see them in the right light.

I also converted the sniper. I didn't like the t-shaped barrel exhaust doohickey and went with a standard flash suppressor/silencer look.

The same goes for the trucker hat head, that came off too. Thanks to Rob for supplying the spare helmeted head.