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Your sculpting is outstanding! I like the coherency you manage to get among so many different conversions. Great job keeping a coherent feel!

I've not posted on this apparently but I should have done.
This is truly great work.
I'm usually a total fluff nut but these are so well painted I literally don't care about whether you break the fluff or not.
It's really amazing work.
Keep it up.

I love the fact you actually have made the doors operate allowing the mortar to be raised and then stored away!

I love this thread and always wait like an impatient child at christmas for the next update...

Deffo gonna steal your nightsider Delta Force looking guys to make for myself! AHEM!!

TSD

Veteran Sergeant wrote:Wow, you managed to one-up all of your previous work with that one. Do you have crew members for it inside?

i think i will put someone inside of there, just to change the mortar magasine... i made the mortar inside to look like it takes a 3 round mag, and i do want to put a crewman inside to swap mags... il get on to it !



thanks for all the great comments guys, ive been pretty busy with work recently so havent updated in quite a while... but i got a small update
. im working on a few different odds and ends atm...

first up... a salamander conversion




the conversion is based apon a 1/35 scale ww2 m-20 scout car by italieri models...
its a great kit, and not overly large, and imo perfect for a scout vehicle...
with the conversion, ive added kromlech wheels because they are larger and more rugged looking than the wheels that were on the m20..
its got an autocannon attached to the weapon mount and ive made a custom mag for the autocannon out of plasticard.
ive just undercoated this and i hope to get it painted up pretty soon... im planning on giving this a propper camoflauge paintjob, as i dont want it to look like the rest of the infantry vehicles i field ..


next up is an alternative to a heavy weapon team...



i got a pack of the M249's from max mini and i was suprised with just how massive the guns were... i converted a trooper holding one and decided that i would use the 249;s as heavy bolter stand ins, and because of thier size, they would be better being attached to vehicles.

i could field this idea as either a single unit with 2 wounds... or perhaps have a trooper controller as the second model for the heavy weapon team...

the heavy weapon team looks so awsome!

Brilliant. Really nice conversions. I mentioned you on our tournament's latest pod-cast by the way, as one of the best themed armies I've ever seen.

http://chaosofthewarp.podbean.com/

thanks Leadlegion, just listened to your podcast and im so happy that it made your discussion... and more importantly the way the fluff was explained... i find many players just see the 40k fluff and form a rigid idea of how it is and how it cant be affectted... but it was nice to hear my fluff explained by someone else ( who has a better vocabulary than me lol) to other people who may not have seen it... basically, you got it spot on, and that makes me super happy...

well ive bookmarked your podcast and il be listening in when i model my army in the future... just wanna say that im now a fan, and i like how in depth your discussions get... keep up the good work dude.

Kris Marland

Thanks Kris. As to keeping up the good work? Right back atcha. Love this project.

Might I suggest adding the same plasticard rivets thats on the gun sheild of the heavy weapons robot and adding that to the gunshield on your wheeled vehicale. Gives a nicer, more detailed look!

All still looks amazing though! ... Still waiting patiently on that Creed! If the model survived the great paint storm of 2012.

@ lord of sins... sorry, alrady painted the salamader... so its too late to add the rivits... but here it is!






the pics are a little off colour as i have to take the pics indoors because of the rain...

i promise il put up the pics of crred tommorrow!

OMG! your stuff is so cool. love it all!
the conversions look great!

I'm gonna follow this one for sure

Also! where did you get the tracks you use on the heavy weapons "platform/tank"- thingy

Great job and keep it up!

This is ridiculous! I never had any love for the IG. After reading and looking at all the conversion work I am inspired to start IG.

Awesome though.

What an awesome blog! It's unique and cool!

Great looking Salamander and didnt even need the rivets after that paintjob!!

TSD

Excellent work. To reanswer your question from last Night I had seen these guys before, but 2+2 wasn't adding up for me

Really like the xenos, and all the extra gubbins everyone has as gear.

FatBoy wrote:This is ridiculous! I never had any love for the IG. After reading and looking at all the conversion work I am inspired to start IG.

Honestly, great looking IGuard armies are the best armies the game has to offer. It's not easy to make them great though, since the plastic infantry models are pretty uninspired.

That's why I think most of my favorite Project Logs are IGuard or Cult/Renegade ones. It takes a lot of modeling and painting skill to pull them off. I mean, everybody (should) like Space Marines. They're a giant pile of awesome. But the Imperial Guard are the true soul of the Imperium. And if you can inflect some of that soul onto the tabletop, it's way more rewarding. I almost gave up my Battle Company project to focus on IGuard for a bit.

That is simply outstanding! I love the ammo box for the autocannon! Honestly, I like this better then the chimera!

Lovely work, especially the Salamander. Regarding the little heavy weapons carriage, I think you should do a guy with a control box as a wound marker.

Gorgeous paint-job again ashotninja. And great lighting too.

Love the darksiders and the snipers.

Flinty wrote:Lovely work, especially the Salamander. Regarding the little heavy weapons carriage, I think you should do a guy with a control box as a wound marker.

That's a great idea

Nice work on the EDF, always great to look at your models ashotninja!

This is amazing! I love the use of the Halo Warthogs

DiDDe wrote:OMG! your stuff is so cool. love it all!
the conversions look great!

I'm gonna follow this one for sure

Also! where did you get the tracks you use on the heavy weapons "platform/tank"- thingy

Great job and keep it up!

the tracks and wheels are from an old chimera i brought off of ebay.. brand new.. for £12...

thesupplydrop wrote:Great looking Salamander and didnt even need the rivets after that paintjob!!

TSD

yeah i thought so too, only after you pointed it out... to be honest.... i pretty much forgot until you reminded me hehe

Veteran Sergeant wrote:

FatBoy wrote:This is ridiculous! I never had any love for the IG. After reading and looking at all the conversion work I am inspired to start IG.

Honestly, great looking IGuard armies are the best armies the game has to offer. It's not easy to make them great though, since the plastic infantry models are pretty uninspired.

That's why I think most of my favorite Project Logs are IGuard or Cult/Renegade ones. It takes a lot of modeling and painting skill to pull them off. I mean, everybody (should) like Space Marines. They're a giant pile of awesome. But the Imperial Guard are the true soul of the Imperium. And if you can inflect some of that soul onto the tabletop, it's way more rewarding. I almost gave up my Battle Company project to focus on IGuard for a bit.

i gotta agree with you... i should love marines but they seem a little rigid with the scope that can be attained from converting them to what i want them to look like... where as the guard range is fairly boring unless they are converted (imo)... that said... i generally dont have a massive love of the 40k universe and i want my models to to be slightly more realistic as a modernised fighting force... i understand it all, but would rather my army wasnt part of that.. at least i get an oppertunity with guard to convert models like soldiers i like the look of, and not be stuck with powered armour that really can only be different from another sm army by the colour.

Flinty wrote:Lovely work, especially the Salamander. Regarding the little heavy weapons carriage, I think you should do a guy with a control box as a wound marker.

i took your idea and i made him up... hope you like.


first up... another basic infantry squad nicknamed 'the sunshine crew'... they just love to train in the scorching hot eden sun and work on thier tans... sunglasses are a must for these guys!




next is a prototype for a darksider squad who will all be running / charging into battle... the legs are from kromlech...



next up is the nearly finished 'drone heavy weapon team' ...the controller is undercoated now and im starting to paint him




lastly is a teaser pic of my stormlord/shadowsword... none of this model is finished, but i got a little progress on it... note the reactive armour...

Love the reactive armor, can't wait to see it finished.

Amazing work once again, the drone heavy weapon support track is just brilliant is that the saw gun from Maxmini I see their The control panel or Ipad 40-k looks so cool I will borrow that idea for sure

I really must use those Kromlech legs the way you create units and continue with the theme is so effective, the salamander is great and so looks the part, I have considered this model my self but you have pulled it of perfectly

I just love this threads updates, I also agree SM should be cool but some how they just suck LOL

AWESOME stuff !

lone dirty dog wrote:Amazing work once again, the drone heavy weapon support track is just brilliant is that the saw gun from Maxmini I see their The control panel or Ipad 40-k looks so cool I will borrow that idea for sure

I really must use those Kromlech legs the way you create units and continue with the theme is so effective, the salamander is great and so looks the part, I have considered this model my self but you have pulled it of perfectly

I just love this threads updates, I also agree SM should be cool but some how they just suck LOL

yeah thats the m249's from maxmini used as my heavy bolter stand in's... hehe... now you said ipad i think im gonna make some troopers texting on thier iphones and on their ipads lol...

i dont fully hate on SM, i just think that you cant really do much with them to set them apart from any other chapter... in 40k fluff, they dont use camoflage , which i find is proberbly the most important way of making your troops look different from someone elses... chaos sm's are ok, just because you can go totally crazy and do whatever... that said, i am thinking of a space marine army next, but based on egyptian gods , puppetswar do lots of nice egyptian gods heads and it would be a cool theme for an army... or perhaps slannesh chaos army...

No stick to the guard just go chaos with them I know what you mean about SM, I do kind of like space Wolf's but only because they have a barbaric feel to them.

Puppetwars do have quite a few pieces for them, mind you if you give it the same love and attention as you did with these I am sure they will look AWESOME

nice teaser, im looking foward to seeing that, and i really like the drone! what is it made out of?

Love the work, not a big guard fan but yours is crazy cool.