The first thing I did was to cut out everything in the set and put them together. The directions claim that you can snap them together, but frankly, I found that having some glue on hand was incredibly useful. Some of the pieces just wouldn't snap into place correctly, and others would snap together fine but immediately fall apart thereafter.
Since my family is kind of craft-y, I decided that I would try to make this work with only the materials I had on hand. I've done some painting in the past, and after determining that the Games Workshop Citadel paints are just water-based acrylics (like the ones I have a ton of in my paints drawer) I decided to just go with materials on hand. So far, the only thing I've bought from GW is the Black Reach set.
Since I get kind of single-minded when I set to a task, I didn't think to take any photos of the assembly process. It was sort of tedious anyway, and adding photography in to that mess would have only made it more so.
Of course, the Assault on Black Reach set comes with two armies: Orks and Space Marines. This is good, because right now I'm interested in getting started with the Space Marines. I wish there was more fluff out there about the Eldar, because they're the next most intriguing to me, but for now we'll start with the Emperor's finest.
So, fully assembled, here they are:
I have some additional shots as well, closer-up
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