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A dark green for the grenades would help a lot IMHO.

awesome wip.that board is going to look naughty when its finished.

Thanks shingouki (sorry, I have so many subscribed threads I lost my own for a while ).

I hope to eventually have a 4'x6' table, though I was thinking of creating the rest in 30cm x 30cm sections, rather than 60x60cm as that one is just so I have a few more options for configuration.

Though I might do 4 large sections and 8 small sections (which is 2 large sections broken into quarters), as the large sections can have more stuff done to them.

A couple of pictures here to update everyone on how the IG are doing:

Started producing the backpack/gas mask filter packs (you can also see the toned down grenades - decided I preferred this to having green ones):


Also decided to finally try and finish off the heads. Also discovered that I really cannot sculpt helmets, so gave them all berets instead:


The cloth of the gas hoods and back packs will be a light grey/tan colour, the berets will probably be the same colour as the grenades. I will be adding a small eagle badge to the crest of each beret.

Comments?

Lookin good Silver! I am just not sold on the red grenades. Oh well I know you have an idea in your head and I am sure it will be great when you are all done

Mike

Berets > Helmets. Kill with class.

The heads look great. Though, I'm not a big fan of the red grenades, It still looks good. If you want red grenades, then I'm happy too.

Ze grenades vil be RED!

I've painted up most of the backpacks (still got a few more to make though - one of the cats got up onto the table and seems to have either eaten or stolen some of the moulds - I've found one of them but I think one is still missing). The new colour doesn't look too different in poor light but it is different enough that it breaks up the model a little yet still fits in.

Also tried a couple of times to cast some helmets but they have come out absolutely horribly. Will try again at the weekend.

Greetings once again - managed to create some casts which actually give you something that looks like a head at the end

Really loving my reusable mould making material

Anyway, to the update!

Just need to finish painting these guys (another coat of light grey on the heads, a wash of sepia on the cloth, a wash of red ink on the hat and then a darkening wash and some blue eyes. Then paint the pipes dwarf brass with a wash). These chaps have the original sculpted heads I made:



These guys have the cast heads. There are a couple which are a bit naff, as I tried 2 different casting types and one worked much better than the other:


You can also see a pile of backpacks forming in the top right of the picture ready to be added to the rest of my IG

It looks great. I may have missed it, but is there a tutorial for those heads?

Scrazza wrote:It looks great. I may have missed it, but is there a tutorial for those heads?

No there is not unfortunately.

Any particular part you want to know about?

Also - I have added a page of contents to the first post

SilverMK2 wrote:

Scrazza wrote:It looks great. I may have missed it, but is there a tutorial for those heads?

No there is not unfortunately.

Any particular part you want to know about?

Also - I have added a page of contents to the first post

Yes, I want to know how you made those. Maybe I could ask for a close-up of one? That would give me some hindsight. I might try gas masked heads with berrets once.

Scrazza wrote:Yes, I want to know how you made those. Maybe I could ask for a close-up of one? That would give me some hindsight. I might try gas masked heads with berrets once.

There are some relatively close up shots of the gasmasks above:



I used standard non-helmeted IG heads, filed off the faces, then added a small blob of GS to the face area to create the mask; smoothing down into a drooping snout style gas hood. I added a seam down the front using a colour shaper, then added eyes using a rounded colour shaper.

I left this to set before adding very thin strips of plasticard to the rear and sides of the head in an inverted "T" shape to simulate straps holding the mask in place.

Then once dry I added another ball of GS to the top of the head and smoothed down into a beret.

Thanks! I'll give that a try in the near future.

No worries. If I ever make heads again, I will take pictures

I've also made use of the last rays of the sun to get some better pictures of my CSM army (though unfortunately I did not get time to take pictures of everything as the sun went away :( ).

Famine (DP)


Squad 1


Rhino 1


Squad 2


Squad 3


Rhino 3


Squad 5


Raptors 1


Raptors 2


Obliterator


Heavy Bolter Havocs


Autocannon Havocs

SilverMK2 wrote:Also - I have added a page of contents to the first post

And only after 7 pages too! Better than my effort so far!

Arakasi wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:Also - I have added a page of contents to the first post

And only after 7 pages too! Better than my effort so far!

It is actually kind of depressing how few updates and how little progress I have actually made

SilverMK2 wrote:

Arakasi wrote:

SilverMK2 wrote:Also - I have added a page of contents to the first post

And only after 7 pages too! Better than my effort so far!

It is actually kind of depressing how few updates and how little progress I have actually made

Considering how good it is, you don't need to be depressed. Good paintjobs need time.

Looking good Silver! One day I will have to play you

Mike

One day I will win the lottery and sort something out

What is the proper length for a table of contents in a blog? No way I'm making one for the GMS (to many things going on independent of each other), but might be nice in my personal blog.

You board provided a really nice back drop for the CSM. I really dig Famine.

I have no idea if there is a definite length whereby a table of contents is required

And thank you - I was going to use a more interesting bit of the board with a backdrop but it was a race against the sun, so I just threw them down in the crater and took some pictures

I have learned that if I want to play on this board I will need to spray on a protective layer as I have already chipped off some of the sand/paint :(

SilverMK2 wrote:It is actually kind of depressing how few updates and how little progress I have actually made

Wait till you get to fifty pages... I'm currently working through mine. I have a suspicion that I didn't finish (including painting) *anything* in 2010

endtransmission and I look like we'll be headed back up to Warhammer World the weekend of July 2nd/3rd if you are interested/able...

Arakasi wrote:Wait till you get to fifty pages... I'm currently working through mine. I have a suspicion that I didn't finish (including painting) *anything* in 2010

At least you have a load of people interested in what you are doing (not that I do not appreciate my loyal followers in the madness that is my PLog ).

endtransmission and I look like we'll be headed back up to Warhammer World the weekend of July 2nd/3rd if you are interested/able...

It could be done... Let me know closer the time and I will see what I can arrange.

loving your custom backpacks , and great chaos army pics also Silver , that prince looks really good in natural light.

neil101 wrote:loving your custom backpacks , and great chaos army pics also Silver , that prince looks really good in natural light.

Cheers

Though I need to go back and sort the wings out a bit as they were thrown together really quickly and have some gaps in them where there should be no gaps

About the table of contents, someone suggested that I make one. Is it really that big a deal? If it would make life easier for Dakkites then I may have to consider it.

On topic- Silver are your backpacks custom or press modeled? Either way they look great. I am excited to see these guys all painted up. Have you thought about a shorter lead from their gas masks? Maybe a coiled line like a telephone headset running over their shoulders? I think they look a bit cumbersome for a foot solider. Just a thought

Mike

madmartykmf wrote:About the table of contents, someone suggested that I make one. Is it really that big a deal? If it would make life easier for Dakkites then I may have to consider it.

It took me about 10-15 minutes with 2 tabs open (1 for the post edit, 1 to go through the thread and copy the various post urls).

On topic- Silver are your backpacks custom or press modeled?

Bit of both

I used my extra fun re-usable mould making stuff to make some press moulds. The helmets were replicated using the same material to make 2 part moulds.

Either way they look great. I am excited to see these guys all painted up.

Thank you - me too

Have you thought about a shorter lead from their gas masks? Maybe a coiled line like a telephone headset [image] running over their shoulders? I think they look a bit cumbersome for a foot solider. Just a thought

Mike

I'm using guitar wire for the tubes (it is "coiled", though you may not be able to tell from the pictures). The problem is that although it looks the part, it is really quite stiff and hard to bend into the right shape especially when it is cut short (you can bend it "on the wire" to the approximate shape but you need to cut and bend it on the model to get it to fit which is really hard on the model as the wire is so stiff). I was going to use a thicker wire for it as well but it was almost impossible to bend at this scale (though it would be OK for vehicles or large models).

Part of the look I was going for is a relatively low-tech solution to gas attacks harking back to the old WWI gas hoods which all have long "trunks" leading to a large filter in a bag.

My first completed squad march out into the snowy wastes of the window sill:




The sun had gone in by the time I got them set up though

The only thing that I think I need to do with them is add some gloss varnish to the lenses (I thought I had some but it is actually matt varnish).

C&C?

looks like they found the only dry spots in all that snow . cool update , they look good together,

It is because they are so hot they melted all the snow

Also - took my CSM to the local GW for a game today. 1500 point match vs BA.

Was against a newish player (which was good as I am not too firm on a lot of the rules and have only actually played a handful of games myself).

Was a great game, though he only had 3 models left at the end of the game while I still had about 50-60% of my force left.

Won with 1 objective controlled, 1 contested vs 2 contested.

Lots of fun putting my 2 DP and 2x 5 man raptor squads against a 10 man Death Company squad with a priest guy. Took a long time to kill