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Thanks guys, the banner so far is pretty easy! just choose 2 similar shades and have the darker as the main colour, water down your lighter colour and trace on your design lightly, when dry go back over the design focusing the stronger colour on the top parts of the squiggles as if you were painting a 3d mini, next shade under the squiggles with a slightly darker tone, keep going over the design with the colours until you're happy with how it looks :-) I used the same technique when I did the sarcophagus on my DC Dreadnought....... just in black

Carbines on the guard and the head and pack swaps are just brilliant Damo! Love them! (and that's saying something because generally I'm pretty disinterested in IG)

That banner is the nuts man... sweet.

Good gravy, the best banner youve ever done, and its not even yours And I really like how much a simple headswap on Guard can really improve the minis. Though ever since someone pointed out just HOW out of scale the IG are, I cant help but see it everytime. Off to a great start

after a long time of lurking i come out into the open...

guard... well it had to happen... i am totally anxious about you doing some guardsmen... the conversion work so far looks very good! what style and for that matter scheme will you aim for these? looks to me a bit nam styled americans? am i right?

and that was a huge sawp haul... what did you trade? money? or what amount of mins could be enough for such a mass of cool stuff???

Oooh yay guard! Good haul, nerd.

And Daaaaaaaamn I love that banner!!!!!!

Nice haul there Damo!- even TWO old-skool (a.k.a. better) Chimeras and the Leman Russ is old-skool too!

Your haul looks even better in pictures

The head swaps and packs look really great, I cant wait to see you paint this army.

The banner is amazing, just blew my mind how fantastic it looks.

I'm glad you think i'm off to a good start! it's a very exciting project for me! the theme i'm sort of hinting at is an arid force, so kind of desert, kind of dry bush soldiers with ochre and greens and browns I bought the lot for $300 inc post! which i think is pretty good considering the Valks are $96 each down here

Dave, what do you mean old skool? I never realised there was an old skool Leman Russ or Chimera's just goes to show how out of the IG loop I am lol! make sure you keep me up to date with any hints or tips! especially when i build the Valks I hear rumors they can prove troublesome?

Gits, I'm with you man! I never had the Guard urge before in all my hobbying life but once I got an idea using something I really like (MadRobot heads) I kind of get a flood of ideas and it just went from there! all i was going to do originally was see if i could get a squad from the swap shop to use the heads on looks like i got more than I bargained for!

I am also pretty suprised about the feedback on the banner it's my first proper freehand banner and I was focused on getting the eagle and SoO logo correct and didn't even think about the actual background or material of the banner until I wanted to do something 'easy' so i didn't have to try and highlight the cloth! turns out doing squiggles looks good eh!

well, today I'll fix up some more Guard and try and figure out what belongs in a vet squad? so far I'm thinking a sarge with 6 lasgun bodies and 3 plasma guns? is that right?

anyway I'll be back this arvo dudes!

Apparently less is more

Tank time! assembled Mr Russ today looks imposing I must say, now I just need to wait for the canvas bags and rolls to turn up so i can add some long range packs etc. then it'll come to life! I can feel it's going to be hard not to go ott adding stuff also another chance to use my heads from MadRobot




I've heard rumors ..... rumors that plasma is good?...... rumors that plasma is good in a vet squad! so fixed a couple up for use! I didn't like the stocks so i changed them out for the ones off the older style bolters.


what do you do when a tube of glue jumps out of the container and slaps you in the face screaming to use him? .... well, you use it!, you don't argue with glue eh! those tubes are hard arse!
so I grabbed some bits to make another throw down barricade, and it appears that in the belly of a war anything is fair game to soak up incoming fire! even dead cows!


and here's the kromlech running legs going to use them for my storm troopers squad to show them sprinting forward to places to give suppressive fire


gotta get some simple green to strip one of the sentinels tonight and then i'll get them sorted!

Plaaaasma is good

Yes,lets hope plasma is gooooood! :-) and I'm even changing the plasma guns for Kromlech ones lol! I think the ones they have currently are just too big for them and the ones I'm buying are sleeker and suit more I think :-)

Yep! What you've got there is an old-skool Alpha-pattern turret (a.k.a. virile, manly)- now look at the new Leman Russ kt you can buy from GW- the turret is a different shape. The onl;y difference you can tell between Chimeras is the thicker side armore plate (and all the road wheels you glue on-older kits)- they changed the tooling to be fewer sprues a few years back, somehow justifying a price increase for less plastic

Honestly, I think it would be hard to add TOO much to your tanks. I mean, have you seen some WW2 pics of tanks? Some of those babies had a trucks weight worth of add ons just to get to the party And honesty, I think plain janes make for boring tanks. All that stuff just adds so much more character

 KingCracker wrote:
Honestly, I think it would be hard to add TOO much to your tanks. I mean, have you seen some WW2 pics of tanks? Some of those babies had a trucks weight worth of add ons just to get to the party And honesty, I think plain janes make for boring tanks. All that stuff just adds so much more character

Hear Hear.

Things looking good so far NF.

YOur guard are turning out to be everything I'd hoped and more! So impressed by it all so far! Especially the dead cow!

 J-paint wrote:
YOur guard are turning out to be everything I'd hoped and more! So impressed by it all so far! Especially the dead cow!

Yes J, I am hoping the star of the show 'Mrs Dead Cow' will gradually obtain bullet damage as I use the barricade in games

Glad the general feel is positive on the IG so far I shall now go ott with bags and crap all over them, what shall they have? sacks, weapons, fuel, rations, tools, netting, sun lounge, kitchen sink, ammunition, spare underwear?

seems my biggest first world problem is now that MadRobot miniatures is working on so many BRILLIANT bare heads I'm going to struggle to find units to make so I can use them I have beret heads for my storm troopers and the soudakadi heads on all my troops, colonial defense heads on my sarge's and vox guys and tanker heads on tank dudes , that seems like all I can use! and now he goes and releases a plethora, NAY a gamut of awesomeness! hey, anyone got any spare Catachan bodies and bits i can scrounge? gonna make a custom Marbo

Thanks for the info Dave! now i look at them closely I can see the difference, that was clever of GW to raise the price for less plastic! cheeky buggers! how did we miss that fact for so long

and last random question, if I am building a Sentinel from the sprue, what should I give it to be the best option? keeping in mind I'm going to build my list around Vets squads and Vendetta's, things like that! I kind of like the look of the flamer but I'm sure I won't get anywhere near close enough to use it

When it comes to sentinels its really easy just to magnetise them, the weapons all slot on on the same place so Its a diddle. (if you are feeling very magnety you can also magnetise the roll cage and the armoured top so you can swap between scout and armoured sentinel too.)

Greetings amigo's! my barrel-cade is done, the last drybrush and addition of some static grass to finish it off has been added, I used a little of clump foliage to give some bits a mossy look, should be quite addequate i'm hoping!

sorry there's not much to look at today still trying to get my gak sorted and i'm waiting on some things i need not to mention looking at my roster I'll have only 4 days off in a 3 week stint ... yuck! so i'm gonna NEED you guys to talk me through the rough imposed break and just talk to me about whatever while I'm at work

Have you considered putting a coat or two of gloss coat over the liquid parts of your little diorama? Might make them look a bit more natural & stand out a bit more.

is that a cow in 1:35 scale?

i recently got me a coach in 1:35 scale and the horses are way too big for my taste...just wondering...

your lil conversions are looking very cool!

and all that for 300$??? more like a robbery it seems^^

Lol, yep 300 squid! I bought all the conversion parts etc. but the main force I got off Killjoy00 on dakka :-) and you would be correct that the cow is 1:35 scale, she's a bit big, but hey, it's the far future and it's an alien cow?

Gits, the liquid actually has 2 coats of water effects over it but the reflection kind of ruined the effect :-( hopefully I'll use it for some pics with IG later and it'll look better :-)

1:35 is 54mm- Inquisitor scale, you can use 1:35 elements for our scale, but you have to be very careful that it isn't something that is an obvious scalebuster like animals. I may have confused you guys with my strange 1:35 kit projects as of late, sorry.

Um, yes, yes you did lol :-) but never the mind Dave, just means i've got a bunch of 1:35 stuff to send you!

You can get away with using them, it just takes a bit of thought. in 40k, everything is BIG, so the 1:35 fence kit (once emblazoned with an aquilla) scales up or down easily, since an iron fence IRL, is not always built of consistent dimensions of materials- you can get away with it. Animals, however ARE built relatively the same, so they become scalebusters when put next to a 28mm heroic figure. Humans have already built super-heavy tanks, so we all already have that plausible deniability that a 1:35 tank kit can work in 40k.

Yeah, most i've bought does work as it's got no discernable scale busters, but the cow was just too cool to not get lol, I can imagine the smack of shots into it's body while shock troops take cover behind being spattered with flesh and blood and the stench of methane and voided intestines permeates the air! ...mmmm makes me hungry!.....not!

If they were Las-blasts, wouldn't it smell like cooking steak?

Nah, las-blasts would just shine a light on it thats all!

sooooo....if i somehow make my horses look like alien horses would i get away with them being bigger than 28mm scale? like giving them horses a thicker fur all over?... the coach i have would be a real cool thing to be using for my chaps...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
sooooo....if i somehow make my horses look like alien horses would i get away with them being bigger than 28mm scale? like giving them horses a thicker fur all over?... the coach i have would be a real cool thing to be using for my chaps...

I'd say yes why not! you could say they're Grox or some other large alien herbivore? would actually be kind of fun to make them look alien without going overboard so they still look rocognisable as beasts of burden


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and before i forget, in one of my Vet squads would it be a viable option to have the 3 special weapons as flamers? I have a couple that came with the army and if they're good i'll use them otherwise I'll have just have plasma and melta squads?