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What d'ya think? I think I'll add tiny bits onto his epilettes (to paint gold) and call in done, after a bit of trimming here and there to smooth it out..

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I like it. He looks very grizzled and yet with a bit of nobility and distinction.

omg! that turned out better than i expected! :O really great work there! it's nice that you could make it with both the emblem(?) and the googles!

I say it again. Great work!

Thanks!!

I hope to get time tomorrow for final tidy ups and some small details/fill ins.

I had my first knock about game of 6th ed on Sunday as well.

I used Marines against Alex's Nids, neither of us used Bastions or Aliies type crazyness. Mine was the exact list I used throughout 5th against anyone and everything, Alex slightly tailored his list with 6th in mind (Flyrant!). I had no Psycher and he swapped 'leach essence' for Biomancy and swapped for 'Smite'.

I may do a Batrep but it looks like my home pc HDD just failed...............I doubt I can scrape enough time at work so will just give my impressions here..

His advance units; Infiltrating Stealers and Hormies, had a much harder time covering ground to reach my units, I flew my Assault squad at a depleted 'Stealer unit and shot it right up with a flamer and a well placed Frag, when the 3 survivors charged my unit in retaliation I 'Wall of Death'ed them to oblivion..The other unit of stealers, denied a previous charge by dodgy rolls for distance and casualties being removed from the front, finally assaulted a unit of 6 Devs who shot 3 with Overwatch and then went first in combat (no frags on stealers) and slew the remaining 3...These are just some incidents across the game and really show how an army like his is really struggling now, I am sure he will find his feet more and his is an extreme example (weak Nid book, he prefers Claw units over Gun ones) but I was surprised how different it was.

His Flyrant was amazing until we noticed you can force them to crash! Any HITS (not even wounds [but you are only hitting on 6's]) force them to make a 'Grounded' roll which is a 3+ save, if failed, they immediately crash and take a str9 hit with no saves! His Flyrant was trying to Smite my termies (ineffectively) and their asscan forced him to crash basically in my deployment zone where the close combat specialist Devs shot it to oblivion..

I look forward to another go especially with the IG but shooty Infantry seem to be very effective indeed, a standard tactical (FL&ML) for instance can move some troopers but leave the ML in place so it can fire at full effect, this allows everyone to get into rapid fire range and the flamer to maximise it's coverage, the sarge (with his pistol and so only 1 shot) can lob a frag instead. All the kills are then removed front the nearest making it harder to assault. Then assuming your opponent makes the roll to charge, the tack squad all get to rapid fire, including a krak off the ML (albeit all only hitting on 6's) as well as D3 hits off the flamer. Then strike first in Melee (if you're occupying terrain). Obviously other armies don't suffer as much as 'light' nid units but still...strewth..

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I've not been able to post much recently due to still buggered home PC and various personal issues. I have still found time for (and solace in) some modelling however..

I've finally finished my Vanquisher with Pask equivalent (not that I usually run it as such)..



I've uploaded various WIP pics already, here's a 3/4 shot..I added the blue kill marking to the barrel to further tie into the existing look of the Russes (Russi?), and the legend on the front is just visible (I have already posted a pic of this) it reads 'My Armour is Contempt' in Latin (according to Google Translate), though someone pointed it out it probably should read 'I have contempt for your armour...'.



Side shot, tidied up the power warning sign, posted before..



Detail on 'nose art'. Changed this from the previously posted version, moved the crown and redid the text..It continues the slight (some would say not slight) German and WWII themes in my force. The King Tiger was a famous German tank, famed for it's ability to trash other armoured vehicles (I fully expect everyone to already know this BTW it's just in case) and the tank commander has certain overtones which I commented on before..



Other side....



Eventually came up with a name, different font to the others to show he's a man apart..the Plasma sponson has a witty comment that could have been scrawled by a guardsman that is also a remark on the facepalm idea of vehicle mounted plasmas 'Getting Hot'?? in 6th Ed.



Logo to denote his 'Ace' status..



Another shot of 'Pask' (I've posted him before), haven't changed much, some slight tweaks..

That's the lot! I'll post up some details soon, what do you think?

Have been reading the updates but haven't posted in a while. The work you have been doing is excellent and I'm particularity impressed w/ your most recent work, the freehand is amazing. The shading and depth (like the border on the Ace marking) is intense and impressive.

Great work all around. Sorry about the "Gets Hot" rule in 6th Ed. It's GW's way of saying "Thanks for buying all our tanks over the last few years. Sorry the suck now. But hey, we have Flyers and those don't suck! Go buy those!"

Thanks for the praise, I think free hand stuff is what I do best really, Ive not done masses for this army yet, been ploughing out the mans, now they're mostly done I can spend time on nice projects like this, mostly.

I think the whole flyer thing will blow over, especially when codicies start getting the 'flakk' type of ML ammo mentioned in the rulebook, I've got my (unfinished) Valk and that will do me...

Thanks for reading

the tiger detaling is great, and I love the goggles you did on pask, much better than the single band

Thanks!

Yeah what's with the 'Jordi LaForge' band that comes on that head?

Great looking Executioner Randy! Again, the freehand is awesome work!

Thanks!

The more I look at the 'King Tiger' text the more it makes me think of the Coca Cola font.......



"Hey buddy nice tank you got there..hmmm.....thirsty..."

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What d'ya think? I think I'll add tiny bits onto his epilettes (to paint gold) and call in done, after a bit of trimming here and there to smooth it out..

Love your GS work and the details on the tanks are top notch!

Ta dude..

Started this guy I had lying around since it was current....



Blurry pic sorry (he might be doing anti surveillance). I've always liked this Rogue Trader Astropath and thought I'd use him as a Primaris, I don't like the current model (I think he looks like Paul Daniels). I can drop the MoO and a PW Commissar and put this guy in a Blob instead and gain 5 pts, In larger games (1500+) it'll be easier to find room. If he's near the CCS Standard the blob will still have rerollable Ld 9 (without the Sarg sniping!) but will lose Stubborn :(.

They will gain a crazy space wizard however and with 2 Biomancy spells he could do alright, a CC buff could make him slightly hard (unusual for the Guard) and other spells have a nice mix of unit buffs, low AP shooting (die marines), and hexs (-1 T to the enemy is great for IG).



This is bult now (MwaHAHAHAHhahhhahhA), I have forced myself to push it back in the painiting queue however as I won't be able to deploy it for a while...

Still nothing arrived from 3 Stage Studios :(

I have now completely rebased my entire IG army (finished last night) OMG I see static grass when I close my eyes...I would like some Barbie wire (and I've come to realise I'm too Lazy to make it) and some tufts but my FLGS was sold out...will see what they get in this week..

I'll start to take some pics of the rebased stuff as opportunities present themselves..

STAY FROSTY


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Managed to finish off the Astropath/Primaris, see what you think..



WIP shot..



Finished, finally got some tufts and have been adding them to my whole force..







Bah his face isn't quite in focus for any of those, still you get the idea..

Just made myself a 'wet palette' (not a euphemism honest) and plan to try and make myself finish the Stormtroopers...

See ya later

Those green stuff details on the tank commander are wonderful. How are you smoothing your GS? Some of it looks really smooth and some of it looks kind of rough or uneven.

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The roughness is usually because of the repeated 'tooling' of and area like the goggles, it'd be hard to smooth that out without trashing the edges. Other times when I glue an area of GS on, I do try to as otherwise it can just pop off with a drop etc, the superglue causes it to cure too quick before it can be smoothed out. This happened to the right sleeve (as we look at it).

I did go back over some areas and tidy them up and after painting it will be less obvious/invisible.

To smooth an area I usually pat it with a finger if it's a large area such as sandbags or cap tops, smaller bits I find harder and often get wrong but I wet an implement (I do 90% of my sculpting with a scalpel blade) and drag it across. After an area has cured you can trim it too.

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Been doing work on my stalled Stormtroopers, (I normally use them as Grenadiers however..)





They're supposed to look intimidating and impressively equipped to contrast with the regulars. I started their 'Silver' areas off with 'Chainmail' instead of 'Boltgun' so they look flasher..the use of gold further points out these guys aren't grunts..



The jumpsuits are highlighted with shadow gray, the armour plates with codex gray to differentiate them slightly..the armour plates had a neat wash with (the original GW) black ink to make it shiney..





I think they're coming on ok, I've done the shoulder insignia on these guys now..and started basing (novel to not have to re-base..)..more to follow (when I get a chance)..

Off to see 'Ministry' tonight with some buddies, gonna be a blast from the past, maybe get a game against my mates Eldar tomorrow as well...

Keep the faith brothers..

Nice stormies! Makes me want another squad of them...which is an impulse that I must resist.

Really like the indicator lights on them as well as the visor reflection on the guy with the flamer. Those reflective dots always give me trouble.

JB wrote:Nice stormies! Makes me want another squad of them...which is an impulse that I must resist.

Really like the indicator lights on them as well as the visor reflection on the guy with the flamer. Those reflective dots always give me trouble.

Or at least wait until the fabled 'Stormies/Veterans' boxed set is released!

Thanks!

I've been waiting 10 years for those plastic stormies!

Great work on the Kasrkin, the black highlighting looks great! Just codex gray washed with black ink? no color-mixing?

I look forward to them too..

I painted the panels black then washed with black ink (old stuff) which drys to a nice shiny finish. Then the panels were edge highlighted with a mix of black and codex gray, and then another with more codex..

The Jumps suits got no inkwash and 2 hightlights of a black - shadow gray mix (which is blue-y) and the 2 areas do look different, not so much in these pics however..

I made myself a little wet palette as it's a pain when these mixes dry out half way through, it's insane, the paint is still wet 2 days later! Well worth it for this sort of slow application highlighting..

How did you do the wet pallete? I can NEVER mix the same color twice..ever

I have some pics, I'll upload em, sec


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Any kind of tub will do, pref with a lid..



Measure a section of 'cellulose' cloth and cut out, i just rested the bottom on the cloth and cut round..



Doesn't need to be a perfect fit or anything, but slightly smaller is better than too big..



Here's one I made earlier...

On top of all that rest some greaseproof paper and when the sponge is dampened you're ready to go! You don't want water on top of the paper or sloshing about, just a damp environment. One of the reasons I stopped with the Stormies is because I go sick of the mixes drying, not a problem anymore..

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just done reading the whole thread, i normaly hate the heretical ultramarines but yours are cool, the tiger is the best free hand ive ever seen.

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keep up the good work..

Thanks a lot!

Those storm troopers look absolutely awesome dude! Keep up the good work on your army, its inspiring!!

^ what everyone else said. Stormtroopers are ace! Great job! Especially like the 'gem' effect on the eyes.

The Stormtroopers turned out great! Simple scheme worked well.

Ministry!!! you say? Was AMR there and did it, therefore, turn out to be NIN?