I'll put up my "Codex" here which has pictures of some finished models. I'll add a few more painted pics every now and again. I apologise, my painting is nothing to crow about, but I do enjoy reposing IG figures.

























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I also like messing with terrain stuff. I did most of this lot though the gun emplacement and the stuuf to the right of the road is by my old mucker Andy (Old Guard)

Cool stuff. A lot of good conversions, I love the armored cars and the command chimera bunker.

Wow, just wow. The amount of painted minis (I spot a lot of stuff from forgeworld, some not even available anymore I think) is impressive. It makes my small IG force look like I haven't even worked on them xD

Cheers guys. Yes there are a couple of FW pieces on there and they do feature in my army. Most of that with the exception of the Planes, powerlifter, gun emplacement and square fuel is scratched or converted. The Tents and container units are by me, as is the HESCO stuff etc. You can see how a lot of the scenery is made here...

http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7426716/1/

The air mobile control tower and the commaand vehicle featured on our Crazy 88 gamesday table a few years back.

This years gamesday board is based on a necron ship. Seen here, a Drogan retrieval unit, set to feature on the board amoung work by others of the AB.





And these are my winter Drogans, yet to find their way into the Codex.

How did you make the command chim?

Plasticard and lots of stowage.

http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/178316/1/

Game over man. Game over.

I love it.... i love it all. Especially the terrain.

Truly inspiring! Between your codex, that table, and your paint work you have really set the bar high for achieving a believable looking force with a rich background. Kudos!

Damn. Words fail to describe how amazing this is, to fully capture the passion that you Must have for these guys to do all this story writing, converting, and painting in general. It boggles the mind, but in the best way possible

Wow, these are exquisitely done; definitely looks like a highly-trained specialist force.

The tents look fantastic, as do the vehicle conversions. The scratch-builds in particular; sometimes scratchbuilds or conversions from other models don't seem properly 40K, but you nailed the aesthetic perfectly.

Words cannot describe how epic this is. I have never ever seen someone make an actual IG base before complete with Navy Support and all that other jazz.

Nice fan made codex, and good pics, too.

Woh! this is amazing!

Cheers guys. Glad you like it. One thing I really think helps to motivate ANY modeller / army builder is to write your own fluff and try to "live" within it. If you can then theme your scenery and conversions to suit, even better. If you checked my link, you'll notice for me, it's very important to try and maximise the number of poses available from the infantry. I HATE having two figures with the same pose. What that did as well, was to give me time to develop them. If I was a speed painter or just interested in hitting the table with a quick army, I wouldn't obviously get so involved.

To be fair, I did get a lot of help with the writing and dtp of the Codex from my mate Doghouse who helped me develop a lot of the fluff around my core ideas. I do write a few short stories for them (some of which appear) and some do now need incorporating, including stuff for the 23rd Voltigeurs (winterised).

Wow! I'd love to play a game on that table! Your care and attention to detail are amezin'! I love finding others with this much love for this hobby!

Thanks for sharing!

Just wow! I'd be here forever if I went through everything I like but your table looks amazing and I love the commando knifing the ork.

One question though... what did you use for shells on the FW earthshaker emplacement diorama? I've been looking all over for something suitable and in plentiful supply! (are they real life .22LR cases perchance?)

I'll find out for you, as I said, that wasn't my piece.

Where is the winter uniform head from? I likey the cap!

Very impressive

Digits, thanks! (and forgive me for not reading everything too closely... I was too busy with the eye candy)

jmurph wrote:Where is the winter uniform head from? I likey the cap!

It's the cap on the Catachan / Cadian command sprue (not sure which but has a radio unit at it's side and a visor under. This is spliced to the top of a FW respirator head.

Hi Guys,

First post here from me ( lurk every once in a while) but since my Cadian battlegroup are often to be found allied to the mighty Drogan war machine, and the odd question has been asked about some of my contribution Digits has asked me to respond.
The earthshaker or to be precise, Airshaker is mine, there are actually 3 of them now, I've built a couple more. The Shells? well the unfired ones are part of the FW gun emplacement. The ones being loaded are the mortar rounds from the old metal IG range, cadians in this case and the spent cases are plastic tube.
A few other pieces of mine here are the command tent and some of the vehicles, the 3 coloured green, brown, black and the recovery vehicle notably.
Any other question please feel free to ask But since i'm here now I'll start my own thread to show off some of the stuff here rather than hijack Digit's

Nice to see your Drogans on Dakka, Digits. Followed the thread on Ammobunker for the longest!

Also, welcome to both you and Old Guard. Definitely need to find the time to visit AB again.

best guardsmen ever

I true labor of love AND a work of art - fantastic!

The codex is amazing stuff, really like the army as well, brilliant and executed with a lot of passion for the Guard here methinks.

Hope this is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes tp pics of the army. I can see lots of good looking stuff dotted around in those army shots, really hope you get some close ups of them.

I'm happy to put up a few more shots - depends what you want to see?

I'm not about to put up any wip shots though, you'd need to check my link for that but I'm happy to put up a few shots as I finish stuff too.

I really came over here to pinch ideas myself.......!

Your board is great. Reminds me of Iraq. I love the Hesco barriers and Connex's. The command tent is pretty sweet too. I like how the whole board feels like a diorama. Keep up the great work!

I think quite a few of us have come here to be inspired over the years, its one of the things that makes Dakka Dakka so great.

As to what I'd like to see, anything really, closer shots of units and vehicles if possible. Some of those tanks look super detailed with stowage and the like, would be happy to gaze at some closer shots.

Cheers fella. OK then, I stated I like to bring both army and terrain together. A useful and easy way to do this is to dot a few casualties about....













Did I mention I also like tanks…..






...lots of tanks!

This is just incredible. If ever something defined "epic win", this might very well be it.

Very nicely done.

this is SO BEAUTIFULL!!!!

Holy crap can i borrow that board forever hahah awesome love the whole compound and the dead guardsmen are nice

How did the guy end up in the tree??????

black templar wrote:How did the guy end up in the tree??????

Explosion? Something big and nasty put him up there? He was a spotter? Bird watcher? Peeping Tom? The reasons are many, alas, we shall never know


Another shot of the few winterised guys I've painted. I will be completing a further 40 of them in the next few weeks including some heavy weapon teams. The scenery behind is NOT mine (I wish) but that of WHW.



A few close ups

He was probable peeping on a female commissar changing and she saw him and the rest is history. >:-)

Who wouldnt peep on a female commissar

That's bananas!

YOU WIN!

Digits wrote:

What kit is this armored car? is it old-crow?

Errr....no. Plasticard and two chimera tops. I made two of them when I had 4 spare chimera roofs. They don't really count as anything other than scenery right now.

That's one of my favourite creations of yours

Cheers bud. Shame is I haven't painted a BOAR yet, that's why I was egging you to put yours up!

Hahaha Quadrophenia guardsmen We are the Mods We are the Mods love em haha

It is posts like this and players like you that restore my faith in wargaming.

sometimes it feels like: In the grim darkness of codex creep, spam lists, and min/maxing there is only tourney-think...

A very interesting and enjoyable read with some excellent eye-candy.

Absolutely amazing. I love the rich history you have created for your force. Being a bit of a fluff nut myself, I'm that much more impressed. Well done.

Digits wrote:Cheers bud. Shame is I haven't painted a BOAR yet, that's why I was egging you to put yours up!

Adding more mud! It's drying as I type, will take some pics tomorrow. . .

Great fluff, great miniatures and awesome terrain

Oh...my...god....
Fantastic Army!

Cheers guys, glad you like it. (I should have posted here years ago!)

The "Bushwhacker" as I've designated it. I have a couple of these (and intend to get a few more) as sentinel stand ins.

This is too awesome...I had to take breaks so I didn't pass out from overexposure to awesome.

Great stuff, love the terrain!

"In the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millenia, there is only tiny tanks that IG ride around in!"

Anyway, keep up the amazing work.

I can only share the sentiments that everyone else already has....incredible work! Love the terrain, very realistic!

Beautyful

Amazing! So much attention to detail, I'm very impressed.

Field Marshal Wiley wrote:Who wouldnt peep on a female commissar

Its a very risky buissness

Simply amazing! Thank you for the look into their world!

That is awesome. I would love to see some WIP pics of your custom vehicles

You would need to follow my links for that I'm afraid.

Cheers though chaps.

I want!!

There really is NOTHING stopping you mate! I do show lots of how to's in my wip stuff and I work on the basis ANYONE can do it.

Amazing Stuff, awesome fluff and really well put together book! Keep up the good work! I want to play on your table so bad haha!

Digits wrote:You would need to follow my links for that I'm afraid.

and so I did... Great thread!

Wow!!!

Amazing work, just awesome.

Well done.

Very good well done

Solid work. I like the codex.

Here's a vehicle I designed and cast up called BOAR. I've not got round to painting my own yet but I gave this one to my buddy Ash, who set about adding a few of his own details, including the mesh cage. Now, this boy CAN paint!

I have three on the paint table with canvas backs which will act as gun tractors, one with a quad autocanon for close anti aircraft support and other variants such as flat beds and even rocket launchers. I will post them up when done (though my painting isn't as good!)



Do go check his stuff out though, simply the best afv painter I know!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/351008.page

The weathering effects you get are brilliant, not too over the top and very natural looking... i may have to revisit my chimera soon lol

If you are refering to the vehicles on the previous page then thank you sir. If the one above - no I can't paint like that, it ain't natural! lol

I was refering to the line of leman russ's on the previous page

The one above is brillaint though

Then thank you. Pretty simple. Paint on a few chips, then I use firstly dry dark brown weathering powder on say the bottom inch of the tank. I then apply a danrk sand over that to say inch and a half. All I do then is furiously scrub it off with a flat headed hard bristled brush. The weathering powder stage therfore takes only 3 - 4 minutes a tank!

This thread is amazing, those pics left me speechless. Your backstory is awesome and you have put so much time into all of your stuff. I wish I could do something that could even come close to this, bravo my good sir.

Wow...

You totally have my seal of approval!
This is really great stuff you got here.

-Bad-Sam-

You are a God to me.

Simply the best guard army Ive ever seen.

I was peeking at your 53 page forum post thing about your games day uk necron board you and a few others were making.. I was like "aww man hes good".. then i started stalking you.. and now im all like " i hate your face". In the nicest possible way digits!!! Amazing work, excellent attention to detail and great great tanks... Almost makes me want a tank army :( stupid chaos...

Keep posting more pictures so i can drool over it pwease

An inspiration, Digits, and sooo good to see someone else who builds vehicles using GW's as a start point, not an end in themselves.

OMG!!! I have my very own stalker!!!! I made it!

LMAO

There you go then, one from the gamesday board....

Looks good

Wow, great stuff here. Really inspirational.

AA version of the BOAR.

Beautiful!
Magnificence at it's prime!

A couple of shots of my contribution to our joint board. If any of you are at Gamesday on Sunday, come and say hello!

Digits, with your konvertin' skillz ya shoud join Waagghhh Dakka, we really need some more dakka


Join the burna mob btw

Does that mean converting orcs? If so, I'm afraid all that green would make me sick! lol

Amazing work on the board! That must have taken quite a while.

Not too bad tbh. Spent longer thinking about it!!!


Can't get outside to weather powder them, but these are finished otherwise. Cargo / gun truck variants. The canvas covered backs are from Black Dog. Fit it rather well.

Well that was cool! Just back from Gamesday UK and our table won best club contribution!!!! Got to shake Jervis's hand on behalf of the guys! Really made up.

I gotta say, I just adore those little mini blue skids with the barrels on them. Love that attention to detail!

The board was definitly the best one at Gamesday, really loved the Deathwatch squad and the Imperial Guard squads. Also loving the BOARS!

Cheers fella - glad you enjoyed it!!! The Deathwatch team is by the very talented Doghouse. He's the guy that pioneered truescale marines.

Amazing, I followed the thread at AB on the tents when you were making them. Absolutely lovely!

Great stuff! The military base is so great! Makes me speechless!

Did you have more pics from the Necron ship, too? Looks very nice.

Dsteingass - did you have a go at them yourself?


Logan - cheers - We're still putting a proper set of photos together but there are quite a few here

http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7520142/1/

No, not yet, but it is a great technique that I want to try.

Absolutely amazing!

This is pure awesome. I really enjoy this project because of the amount of love you clearly put into this. Amazing, just amazing.

HaHa is that Camp Bastion Afghanistan? i think I've been to your table in real life.

I love this thread. The conversion work is top notch. I always imagined that the IG would need a fleet of support vehicles. I really like the centaur with the missle launcher as well. I really am looking foward to some more infantry pics.

I need to figure out how to put the fluff on my thread into that "codex" type format so that it doesnt get camoflauged into the rest of the posts. Great fluff too by the way!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/392079.page

Will be finishing the paint on all my winter chaps soon bud. Just checked your rat marines.....VERY cool concept!

Digits wrote:Cheers guys, glad you like it. (I should have posted here years ago!)

The "Bushwhacker" as I've designated it. I have a couple of these (and intend to get a few more) as sentinel stand ins.

These look brilliant,where did you get the netting as it looks like a proper scrim scarf to me?

Barrule.

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/camouflage-netting-green.html

It needs a little spraying with greens and browns when you get it. All you do then is soak it in watered pva, squueze it out, then place it whare you want it and wait for it to dry.

Fantastic! The scale of this is beyond my comprehension (and wallet) Keep up the Awesomeness!

If you are interested, there are some pics of parts of the army involved in the Battle for Mooses Bulge here.....

http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7523016/1/

OK, I plan to paint quite a few infantry over the next few weeks, so to lead them out, standard bearer.

Awesome Parka! And th standard is top notch art!

Very Bright flag there, but i think it will look good amongst the camoed up guys

Rogue Wolves wrote:Very Bright flag there, but i think it will look good amongst the camoed up guys

I like the way it stands out

Yup, I wanted it to be a rally point.

OK, a few more painted troopers

AWESOME JOB...

congratulations...

im liking that heavy stubber team, nice job

that is sum AWESOME work

WOW! TRULY AWESOME TERRAIN! I LOVE THAT KIND OF TERRAIN! As I play IG and that military base stuff is right up my alley. I also love the last like of the codex. Ohhh my feething nads! hahaha

Cheers fellas - glad you like it.

The front man in the stubber team is going to be deaf within the first 3 rounds fired, hearing protection or not. D:

It's been said many times before in this thread, but I have never seen anything this jaw dropping in all my war gaming (Only 16 years). I mean yea you see peoples apocalypse armies, they do not compare. This just dazzles my mind, thank you. Truly an inspiration, your dedication is just truly amazing, your passion towards this hobby just gives me motivation!

Very kind of you to say so. I hope you get muchas mojo!

Another heavy team I call

"It clearly says FIVE rounds here mate!"

im really loving the modeling here the way the shooter is taking cover and not the genaric shooting pose nice job

Nowlan wrote:The front man in the stubber team is going to be deaf within the first 3 rounds fired, hearing protection or not. D:

What?

Lol!

To be fair, I often research to ensure credibility (+ if it's good enough for forgeworld, it's good enough for me - see their renegade stubber team)

Yep! Classic MG42 team! That is almost the only sculpt of a German MG42 team you can get in 1/72.

Mg42 is one thing, but a stubber is essentially a .50cal Ma-Deuce.
I dont even think a hearing aid would help afterwards

Amazing just beyond and above the usual great attention to detail excellent work


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I pity the trooper in front of the action

Well you dont go totally deaf I was a turret gunner and it only f'ed up one of my ears. but it can work.

This is truly remarkable work you've done here. The level or detail and background is amazing. I am particularly impressed with your terrain board. That looks great and would make a unique setting for a battle. Good stuff all around. Congrats!

Slightly more traditional pose then.

Lovely work as Digits. Everyone else, if this doesn't inspire you in some way, then Guard probably isn't for you.

That is just one badass HWT! Very cool! The pose is perfect!!

Cheers fellas! Just finished my command vox operator too. Wish they had a few more bionic parts like his arm....

looks good, his bionic arnt over the top either so thats good

How do you make those bipods for the stubber teams? Are they a bit or scratch built?

scratch buit from mortar supports i belive

Ahh, I can see that now. That is brilliant, good thing I have a ton of those lying around. Thanks

who uses mortars anyway! thats why they make nice bits

I think the bipod is from the SM Scout HB

Yup, Ash is correct. Nothing to stop you scratching them though.

Just used one on an autocanon team too and it works ok (sentinel autocanon, not the monstrosity you get in the heavy weapons team box). Can't show youi it here until it's painted though. I just acquired half a dozen more bipods as I'm in mind to make a few more heavy teams.....

that fluff is... amazing!

WOW. I have not seen something like that before. Impressive is a understatement.

This is far and away the absolute end-all greatest and coolest thing I have ever seen on Dakka (and there are quite a number of great and cool things on Dakka)

I just spent 20 minutes reading everything. I am a total fluff junkie, especially when it comes to home brewed armies. I love coming up with stories for my little plastic soldiers. I love nitty-gritty logistical details like the army organization chart you posted in your codex.

Thank you so much for posting this. I would love to be your campaign manager if you ever decide to run for President of the World, NAY! the Universe!

Blimey!!!!! If I run for President, I'll be sure to appoint you to my staff!!!!!


Thanks guys. As I stated earlier, I'm lucky to have a cool buddy Doghouse who did most of the fluff work for me based on some loose ideas we kicked around between us and a few bits I did like the force org chart and a few stories.

The principal reason for doing the fluff, is that it gives me much more afinity with the models I produce. It helps me to chanel where I take them next and gives a reason for some of the odd ball stuff I want to do. I will be doing a lot of work on an update soon to include the 23rd (winter guys) and camp Tal stuff so watch this space.......

Where do you buy HESCO gabion? or how do you make ones?

i need tutorials please

=^.^=

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http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7426716/21/

Before you do sanding things. what is a white material that you fill the hesco gabion? sculpey? japanese polymer clay? epoxy putty? else?

PVA

Very cool and inspiring stuff all around, great job!

Just painted two more wall (backdrop) sections. I need to make a couple more (one with broken walls) to be able to span my gaming table.

That is awesome! I have always wanted to build flat hive city terrain on my board edges like that! Really Ace man!

that looks realistic as s----!!!! very very nicely done digits!

Wow everything you do is amazing!

so i guess when you go to a tournament with this, they'll just go away, because they will know that you will fight them until you win
really, really, really awesome
but better, its why I play warhammer, to know that this exists and anyone who says playing with toy soldier is childish, i'll show them this and they'll understand it.
i like your work, WOW

Those boar trucks are great - I see a lot of DIY vehicles and scratchbuilds and it's unusual to see ones that really look like they belong in WH40k but you really nailed the aesthetic with these. They really look like guard vehicles.

Cheers fellas - glad you like it.

Humey - never played a tourney game in my life - I like to play and have fun.

Digits wrote:Humey - never played a tourney game in my life - I like to play and have fun.

90% of tourney games are great games. Don't believe the hype, there are usually fewer morons at a tourney than in your general FLGS in my experience

Sorry, not bashing tourneys. Just meant I like to play with like minded friends where if we want to interpret a rule one way, noone will mind and where we can field rule of cool rather than restrict ourselves to Codex. I also prefer to play on a table with character and where effort has been put into the appearance. Makes for a more enjoyable game in my opinion.

Tried games clubs too - wasn't really for me and I'm far too long in the tooth to stand around in a games shop!

Weathered the trucks and painted the guns.

I LOVE that

Wow, those trucks looks awesome!

Cheers!

3 missile teams. I'm working on a number of cameo heavy teams now. I've decided the heavy teams will define the look of these chaps.

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! Keep up the great work, really love that these are winter/cold themed without being boring cadian recolors or another vostroyan/vahallan army

kenshin620 wrote:Brilliant, absolutely brilliant! Keep up the great work, really love that these are winter/cold themed without being boring cadian recolors or another vostroyan/vahallan army

Definitely!

Hgely inspirational that airbase is magnificent one of the biggest and best 40k dioramas I've seen.

Cool. If you combine the base with the wall sections I'm making, throw in a few explosions and a bucket load of mayhem in the form of airborne attacking renegades, then that's what we're hoping to show at next year's gamesday!

You sir, are awesome. If it weren't so fething late at night I would go through the whole thread... But for now, some words of appraise will do.
Also, your personal army-codex is now listed amongst the most awesome gak I've seen. I'm so going to do one for my Necrons too! ... That is, when I've done some serious battling with them, recorded battles and outcomes, had them for some more years, painted hordes of them... But I will do one, because having one like you do... It's simply... I don't even have words for it.

Absolutely astounding looking work. I'd love to see more of what you have lying around, especially the command squad from the Codex.

2 Questions

Where are the packs from?

How did you make the trucks, specifically the treads? Was it from a stash of the old wheels and treads from the old IG tanks?

You sir owe me a new jaw.... Because I dropped mine

Corner - cheers mate - very kind words - I look forward to seeing your Codex when it's done!

Vet Sarge - I'll take a look though you may have to fish through my log (link in sig)

Ghost - 1 ) Maxmini 2) Details in my log - but yes, used old bits and cast as required.

Johnny - new jaw in the post!

Awesome work. love your codex, can't wait to see more

Love the guy knifing the ork.

It is amazing!
Magnitude of work is impressive!

Really starting to dig IG thanks to You!!!!
From a total Orky Man

Nice stuff you have here

I really like those guard Digits,
espially that they have there own codex! The paintjob on the is really good too! Count me in! Hey how about you check out my blog too? (Link is in signutre). Looking forwad till nextr update man,

Subcribed

HAZZER

Wow, great stuff in this thread...

Question for you, or anyone - those green horizontal half-cylinder buildings in the marine encampment on the first page - what are they called? I have a feeling there is a specific name for them, but can't think of it...

Edit: My Google-fu is strong! Nissen huts and Quonset huts!

They are called "tents"! lol

As a former machinegunner, this piece gives me a warm fuzzy. I love it.

Digits wrote:Slightly more traditional pose then.

It's just full of Win that has been braised with epic brandy and slowly cooked all day long.

Been quiet on the Drogan front but I am working on an enemy for them, Hive Fleet Typhoeus.

OMG I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

man-love aside , great work man! I really like the concrete dividers!

Agreed, those walls are well done. Is there a tutorial?

Not to make the barriers as such no. I modified ones from accurate armour. You can by Alaska barriers from them or old crow I think.

There are some being put on the boards in my Camp Talvenus thread. I've build gates for them too.

http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7426716/1/

Sweet!

^ thanks for the link digits, some amazing terrain you have. and might i say, i really like the colors on those nids!

Oh Hell Yeah Digits! Your work inspired me to blog my madness too!

:O
Freakin' AMAZING.

Cheers fellas.

Ymgarl Genestealer

Wow... I'm really impressed by the breadth of your work. Theres plenty of great models here, I'm sure you could throw together a bunch of awesome campaigns.

Cheers fella!

Wow! Dood, your painting is Off the hook!

I am very impressed in your work and am making sure to follow this because the level of work you put into it would make it a sin not to follow.

Amazing!

Cheers! More Drogans soon, with luck, three painted Crassus!

You should create a blog. Really some good stuff. Especially like the tyranids.

I don't like blogs - I find them too self obsessed, I prefer interaction of a project log on these types of forums.

Not a great picture, the light is awful, but I've just painted my three crassuses! I'll post up a better picture of all three with good daylight.....

...and labeled one of them 4?




It looks pretty sharp though!

^lol but its awsome all the same!

The others are two and seven!

Cheers.

i was hoping you would have a seven!

Maybe in the future.....

But for now only the three.

That is just amazing work I love the IG troop conversions . That is just genius . Very inspiring work thank you for sharing .

O_O




Simply amazing.

One word, amazing!

Very cool! -Blog readers always want the one thing they can't have don't they

Nice work on the new models as usual

Little atmospheric scenic piece - exploding pallet!

OMG! Niice!! Ammo Cooking off! Great!!

Nice

nicely done!

Awesome job on the Explosion !

Here is a little taster then of our Gamesday Participation game table for this year. (Valk painted by El Diablo)

thats an amazing teaser!

That pallet is fantastic - love when people put all that effort into something purely atmospheric, really shows the love put into the project. Keep it up!

I have a feeling an airbase will be blown sky high

Very nice color scheme on the Nids .. they are looking really good.. and the weathering on the vehicles looks very realistic.. top notch 8)

Great looking stuff like always.

Digits wrote:But for now only the three.

I think i love you...

Sweeeeeeet job dude

Wow, super nice work. You are super pro, do you have a website for terrain sales?
I have a couple of ideas. I have lived in combat zones for almost 4 years now. The T Walls take a lot of damage; brakes on the edges, large cracks, and even if a rocket hits 50 feet awake they still show large crater like gashes. Usually Contractors pack these spots up and paint small labels on them too. Just an idea. Another idea is water. Every military insulation has water pallets, a large water reserve, like 10 ft tall drums, and a water tower. They do the same for fuel points, for vehicles, helo pads, and air strips.

On my terrain I took a travel sized Pringals can and put it on wooden legs. I then made another one that I punched a small hole in the bottom and a large break across the top. Looking at the exploding pallets, this would be a great idea for a rocket taking out a tower.

Love your work though, keep it up and maybe link a how to video for the explosions.

Cheers fella! Very kind of you. I'll certainly look into the water storage idea if I can find pics.

Don't have a video but the following link is my thread on AB which shows a lot of the camp stuff being made - the explosion is at the end.

http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7426716/1/

That's awesome, that looks really cool.

What and where did you get the fan codex template? That was fantastic! I don't like ig but you really put a smile on my face with the army, conversions, terrain, codex, the whole Shabang...well executed my friend.

Beautiful work man just beautiful! The Emperor shall be Pleased.


-FrostTooth

Fantastic models! I'm curious how you made those caps for your winter troops though. Are they greenstuff'd or a resin cast from somewhere?

I made a master from a capped Cadian command head and a bare headed fw respirator head. From that a rubber mold so I green stuff push mold them. cheers

Tervigon painted.

And another heavy weapon team.

i like the pose of the carrier

Cheers fella. A few more....

Three flamers ( a weapon that features a lot in the 23rd)







A couple of officers






The first of the veterans - I like this combo, works well and I look forward to building the others.






And the 23rd attached Shadowkin "Marbo", niceley tooled up.

Next up, cyclops demo vehicle operator.

I realize Ive asked about where the bits come from in this thread quite a bit, but that remote hand?

And looks great. Also very impressed with your Marbo. How many total points is the army?

No idea! Pretty big.

As for the hand, simple one, sentinel pilot arm bud.

Haha thanks, this thread is filled with inspiration. You take the same old, dull poses of guardsmen and make them way more dynamic and interesting.

Marbo is especialy looking good Digits, which reminds me all of those cool trucks that I see on your and Ash1's threads, the ones that I think you made, do you sell those?

I think the cyclops is my favorite so far!

Cheers fellas. I actually made three cyclops teams, that's my favourite. Never used them before but an interesting dynamic I hope.

RW pm incoming.

Skyshield. (Arvus painted by Ash)

Amazing work! Is that ladder cage from Plastruct?

It is mate, yes.

It looks really good! I was wary about the scale of it, even though when I saw it in the catalog is was O Gague.. but it looks great!

How have I missed this? Amazing work!

The poses on the guardsmen alone are superb, let alone the vast array of other visual goodies on offer! Really great work (makes me want to go and paint some guardsmen).

Cheers Laney

Really love the paint sceheme!

Always awesome !

Cheers fellas - a few more painted

nice new selection, my favorites out of these is the one who is marching with the rifle in his hand, and the bottom left one with the demo charge, overall really great poses.. and tbh once i finish a large chunk of my army/get board of woodland camo, i think im going to try the winter/jacket style you go for, as it looks great!.. btw where do you get those hats from? or do you sculpt them?

I've only just stumbled on this thread and must say its truly inspiring.

There is so much win in this thread its hard to know where to start!

My personal favourites are the winterised infantry. I think if these had been seen by the community at large a lot of the whinging for greatcoat infantry would have evaporated

Also a lot of nice work in the vehicles and the scenery. Thanks for sharing!

Cheers fellas.

RW - they are GS casts. I have a tutorial for them.

http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7503185/1/

For now nicknamed "Demo CATs", these fellas take the role of demo experts in a special weapon squad.

those.. are.. AWSOME!

those are sweet tech department is finally saving lives

Those are quite badass Digits!

I like that one of the skulls has a hat. Makes me think of Bob from SotI. haha

Cheers fellas. Been painting a few more so....

Rapiers





The hard bastards of the 23rd, it's nco's.

















Including "Harker"

I love the posing on the two plasma pistol/power fists!

This is one of the best IG armies I have ever seen. Subscribed!

Cheers fella, a few more done today for you.

Heavy flamer



Much better with the chan bottles.



And the first three snipers painted.

Very very cool.

Will you be using Hellhounds at all? I reckon you could have some fun with those, especially considering you wil be up against Tyranids.

Anyway, nice work as always!

I run a couple of hellhounds, yes. Have they gained anything under 6th edition?

Umm...I dunno, simple answer.

I just like them.

My FLGS has two old-skool Hellhound kits that I have had my eye on..I prefer the older Chimera kit to the new one, even though the new one is simplified.

Progress shot of the 23rd force todate - nearly half way!

was that an ogryn I spotted? Can we get some pics of him?

This one from earlier do you?

thanks! that ogryn looks so cool!

Wow this is crazy awesome. It inspires me to get back to my guard army and do some conversions

Here's another taster of what we have in store at this year's UK Gamesday. Here's a valk built by me but painted by the talented El Diablo Steve.

That explosion looks great! and realistic

Oh yes that looks excellent the explosion is very life like.

Well if you like explosions, here's my latest..

lol that is one big explosion, very nice.

What are you making them out of?

First post on here in months and I have to say I'm mightily impressed worth what you have done- the infantry definitely have a look of WW2 era Gebirgsjager about them.
I've been tempted for a long time to do something similar but never have. Perhaps I shall share with you what I can come up with and you can critique it.

Please be sure to send me a link when you do then fella.


Nowlan, everything you need to know....

http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7493864/1/

Cheers guys

I will do buddy- I actually messed about with the plastic Cadian kit and sculpted greatcoats onto them to make them a bit more Wehrmacht-y. Anyhoo, will put pics up in my old Space Wolves thread and link them.

Now, to sculpt M42 style helmets or not? Decisions, decisions...

Cant take credit for the painting of these (these are painted by the magnificent Ash!), only the builds, but these are ready for Gamesday UK. Come and say hello if you see us there


Command BOAR and radio dish transporter.

Wow. What is the dish made from?

The dish is bought from Quantum Gothic. They make some fantastic pieces including watch towers, generators, turrets and defensive walling etc. Perfect fit for the BOAR tray.

These are great as always

Great stuff man just stellar

Question, where did you get all the bare heads with respirators?

Made them myself. Push molds.

Lotso f great stuff in here. Always great to see someone having so much fun with their army.

This is where I smack my head against my painting limitations! Anyway, I've had eldar models lurking for years, thought I'd make a start. Fear not though, more guard goodies coming soon....

They are looking good but its odd to see some of your models without weathering and battle damage.

still guard just wraith guard, but nice so far

 GiraffeX wrote:
They are looking good but its odd to see some of your models without weathering and battle damage.

Someone had to just step straight off the mothership!

Cheers fellas.

Been taking a break but now I'm back. Been working up a few figures such as this one, a casualty carrying grunt, and I will be putting paint to it shortly.

Really cool, I dont think I've seen on like this before

In the grim darkness of the far future, we still use Hescos.

They're still faster than sandbags.

That smoke HOW, TELLS US.