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My first two painted minis for my Blood Angels. These eradicators were gifted to me to get into the hobby by a friend, I couldn’t decide how I wanted to paint them and coming from Bolt Action I wanted to do two proper test models with the bigger figures.

The black base was primed black, then followed Sprue Goons contrast corner videos, dry brush of dark gray, light gray, then white, and blood angels contrast for the armor. I used grim black speed paint for the black and then the other details are traditional acrylics.

The red base was more traditional, following army painted guide to an extent. Spray primed Mephiston red, did an all over black wash, then details using various acrylics. I didn’t have a matte black so I was stuck with the speed paint over red for now, which is why a lot of red shows through on the weapon still.

I think I prefer the contrast method and look, but not enough to fully decide yet so going to play around some more. Appreciate any thoughts!

Didn’t her see a lot of reviews for this line when I was doing research so decided to post a review myself.

My family and I (me, spouse and almsot 2 year old daughter) were on the A-Rosa Flora cruise from 20-27 December along the Danube. I won’t go into detail on the stops, I don’t think I need to say that Vienna, Bratislava, Linz, and the smaller towns like Melk and Durnstein are amazing to visit at Christmas, instead will focus on the cruise.

This was our first ever River cruise, and first cruise in general for me, the price and fact they allowed kids were the biggest selling point, but also the price gave me pause, we paid about 3k USD total for the three of us with drink package, less than one person on an AMA cruise, must be a trade off somewhere right? I’m sure there were, but I struggle to find where the extra money would be worth it for AMA.

I have 0 complaints, the room was bigger than we thought though still small as expected, staff was incredibly nice, they always greeted us, went out of their way to say hi and play with our toddler. The food was better than our honeymoon resort in the Carribean, especially the Christmas dinners where they had things like goose, boar, always venison, really could not believe how good the food was for what we paid overall.

My only two complaints, and one is nitpicky, was the drink selection, they had a lot of options, but usually only one option per liquor, so if you only like rum, you really had one cocktail short of asking for rum mixed with whatever soda you want, same with whiskey etc. but i understand it’s a small ship, the drinks were very good, right amount of strength just would have liked slightly more variety.

The other complaint I realize is likely to be a “typical mono lingual American” complaint, but one front desk person English and German were not his first language so communication was tough. They had a Christmas program for kids where “Santa” would give each child a present if you dropped it off wrapped at the front desk with your cabin number, I went to do that for our daughter and the staff member thought I was just asking for wrapping paper and told me we keep the present and bring it to the program, so we did, and we arrived to Santa handing presents to the other kids. Luckily our daughter wasn’t old enough to process it and Santa still rushed over and gave her a goodie bag from the ship so in the end no harm no foul, if that’s the only hiccup on the trip it really means it was perfect.

Overall we were blown away by the trip and how well it went and already are planning when we can go again.

Happy to answer any questions!