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Viktor von Domm wrote:

Watching you Vik! Nice work! I like the color you went with anyway for the body armor and helmet. Keep it up.

to all, please have a closer look on the tummy of the commander, for now it is red but i am very unsure about that...something tells me there should be another color but its not telling be which....

and shaso, thanks for the comment on the brass armor ... i found out about the wash metalic mix with my earthangles and ever sice used this methode... one day my suply of flesh wash will be depleted and then i will be in deep trouble...

looks good, I thought you meant the OOP metal pretorians

and do you find the old bottles a hassle to open, I got a load of then recently and ended up with a painty streak across my face

also your army must have the maximum amount of: monocles, pith helmets, pimp canes (for lack of a better word), and pipes/cigars, also Coats hanging off sholders, because hats and coats denote rank in the absence of pauldrons.

but keep it up

the old bottles i open up by popping them with an old cloth peg and like someone lese would do with a bottle of beer...its rather simple but i had to endure lots of pain to get there... once i nearly peeled my thumbskin ...not funny really...during that time i was really painting addicted...

i saw an old bit at ebay with a sergant cane... thats something i will be getting to buy and for a nice conversion...
as for pith helmets, well i ordered the soupplate hemlmet of secrets of the third reich seperate heads system and these have gasmasks you will be seeing in the future of this blog.... i havent had the oportunity to order the pith hats then... so for now soup plates first... but this is an army with quite a large amount of planned men under weapons so there is still enough room for more pith hats here...
vik

All I can think of is maybe a different shade? scab red?

Not sure if we've discussed these before Vik,but the Secret Weapons heads are great if your looking for Pith Helmeted heads.

I bought a bunch of them and they fit on Cadian torsoes quite nicely.

http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=115

and two have moustaches!!! GET IT NOW!!!

That beard...

so thursday night update time...

i have based an entire squad of 11 Cadians to be fighting in a muddy scenery...

then i worked on a scout to go as stormtrooper but i am not sure so i will post tomorrow...

then i worked with some warzone minis i also want to use in the army. purpose has yet to determined, for now they count as german conscripts depending which heads they will get.,.

if these:

then they will stay german fighters in victorian service

if these:

then they will be regular british soldiers in service of the victorian army...

either way their behinds belong to the queeny...

the concept behind the army is that lots of diferent cultures just like the tau got swept up in the victorian army and serve therin but retain a certain style from ther way back former courty associated army...so germans with the pickelhaube, maybe australien catachans, mordian soviets?, praetorian brits and fantasy imperials as french/italien mix? and all other i can get a hold of...

so again i would like you all to post some comments as to what i could do...paintwise and modeling wise....


also i raise now an open question to you all:

i´ve got
4 mortars,
4 autocanons
3 lascanons
3 heavy bolters...
which would be the best to get them crews and then based?
what works best what looks in your opinion the best?

and another question too:
how many minis to go for a normal IG footslogger unit? what about special weapons inside these platoons...is there every time a comspecialist needed? where should the standard bearer be? medics where, snipers where? and i ghave some panzerschreck kind of weaponry in the heavy weaponsprue as well, wher to be used???

help me as i am not really able to answer these questions myself...

thanks in advance

vik


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by the way, yes FITZZ we talked about the pith helmets by secret weapons... i like them so much but i got hold of the soupplate helmets for now and i fear i will use them at least on the catachans i have...

Viktor von Domm wrote:so also i raise now an open question to you all:

i´ve got
4 mortars,
4 autocanons
3 lascanons
3 heavy bolters...
which would be the best to get them crews and then based?
what works best what looks in your opinion the best?

and another question too:
how many minis to go for a normal IG footslogger unit? what about special weapons inside these platoons...is there every time a comspecialist needed? where should the standard bearer be? medics where, snipers where? and i ghave some panzerschreck kind of weaponry in the heavy weaponsprue as well, wher to be used???

Vox-casts are useful- every squad.
10 IG per unit.
standard bearer: I don't use 'em.
IMO mortars are more fluffy (I can imagine steampunk mortars really vividly), but I prefer heavy bolters. That AP4 is pretty useful against anything but MEQ.

hmm no prob there as i have lots of bits with com packpacks and and enough of these special helmets for the com heinis...

so ten only? why not more? could you explain that a bit more?
iwll probably doing anyway mostly mortars as i can use them on a slota base^^ and the rest of the weaponry could be used for vehicles then....

Hello. The cadian halfway down page 1 is painted excellently. I look forward to seeing more fully painted minis, possibly with an airship

be sure of taht perkustin and thanks for the nice comment on the first done cadian, he really grows on me^^
first thing is expect a full 10 men squad with vox and sarge for these first batch of soldiers for the cause...

i hope tomorrow i will begin with batchpainteing them...

So, vik- when do you reckon the airship and models will be finished?

oh i am very alergic to timetables and schedules...thats why i probably quit WOW and wont get into work easyly...
if anything gets to look like work i am quite lazy... i i get sort of aroused by a project i need no food nor sleep...
its the cause that has to get me...

so i cant answer your q shrike...
only that i hope we all enjoy the ride...however long it might gonna take us...


vik

These are looking pretty good!

Just read your comment on my blog, or a blog, some blog. I've been looking at a lot. You could always get Prussian Napoleonics to join in the fun!


Anyway keep painting! Don't forget you'll have a whole airship to do soon!

ah now i get your comment about the hannoverian minis from perry...well your right prussian would seem a good choice...

about the airship...really its a schedule thing, one day i want to play, the airship as of now keeps me longer from playing so i do army now and airship later...
and by the way one day i havbe to seriously think about what tanks to give these wild bunch of men...

vik

Man i turn away for a second and what do i miss , arhh!
Well The cadian looks good , the camo chest plate aspecially at the back looks very good, i dont like his base though a bit too green and brown at the moment , maybe a wash for it?,
and i too hoped for a bit more brassy old style look , but the colour choice is very well implemented, so congrats matey.

So captain Reed looks very dashing and handsome , i bet he is noble, brave proud and good with the ladies no doubt! lol
whilst still retaining his humble roots. i can't complain about his paintjob , you did the pretorian proud !

Wow bloody great sentinels mate , the look the dogs as we say over here! your army is shaping up to be a force to be reckoned with.

and last but by no means least the german and british warzone figs look spectacularly good and so perfect for your force , really excited to see them painted up.

just one question , wheres the cheap aresed skin flint vik gone ? these babies must have cost an arm an a leg , and another arm! lol

well on my sins i might have lived a bit more out of my wifes wallet then i should have done so, but all in all the cheap vik is up and about^^

so your post showed me i didn´t updated the lil cadian anymore...his base looks in my opinion way better now as there is no green left^^ and i matched after this image 10 more of these bases, so there will be 11 gueardsmen to be made...
the warzone minis will either be germans or britisch with soupplate helmets, so what should i be using for heads, could go either way? got a squad of ten wazone minis and a for now looking like an executing commissar... will post pics later as the akku is empty so no pics now but expect the worst^^

about the sentinels i am rather proud, big bargain and i can upgrade them as i want as some of them are as yet not with weaponry equiped...

in my last update i asked about some questions , could some of you fair people out there take the time to answer them for me and my army?:

also i raise now an open question to you all:

i´ve got
4 mortars,
4 autocanons
3 lascanons
3 heavy bolters...
which would be the best to get them crews and then based?
what works best what looks in your opinion the best?

and another question too:
how many minis to go for a normal IG footslogger unit? what about special weapons inside these platoons...is there every time a comspecialist needed? where should the standard bearer be? medics where, snipers where? and i ghave some panzerschreck kind of weaponry in the heavy weaponsprue as well, wher to be used???

help me as i am not really able to answer these questions myself...

thanks in advance

vik

thanks peeps, vik

I dont have the new rules so sorry i cant help. if its second edition though i could look it up. though as far as i can recall its ten man squads

well i settled for that amount now...

so i promised a picture update and here it is now, note the shoulderpads where i tried a bit of freehand tehre, nothing special as i haven´t got the knack of designing one of my own...for now...its just a roman 1 and a styliezed "V" on the other...
base is now completly covered in vermin brown all over the static grass too and then washed flesh wash and babdablack any old how...
so here are the pics...:






i am currently in process of aplying basecoats to the current batch of minis to complete the first infantry squad...10 men including sarge...one comlink and for now no special weapons...maybe later...

so please take me to the cleaner with your comments^^

vik

prepare for a taking to aforementioned cleaners:

good job. Gotcha!
seriously nice work. Can't wait to see thse fine chaps on board the airship- got a name for it yet? Victoria? Victorius? Ol' bessy?
BTW pics by tomorrow- my mum's got the camera and gone out. And army lists posted in my article.

lol, seems not only mods i can escape but negative critizism as well^^ well all well that ends well^^

saw your update will post asap^^

and i should do a seriously thinkingtime for the name of the airship...would be also easier to write than all the time airship...airship...airship... pretty anoying and could be a whole lot faster with simply "Bessy" but thats sounding a bit like an old cow...

He looks top notch Vik , i love that your ship is getting some infantry now , are we going to see the snipers in this blog as well ,i loved those guys!

Looking grand Vik
Have you decided on schemes for the German Conscript and Tommy Aitkins yet?
I see the Former in typical Prussian Blue from the Franco-Prussian War era.

i guess so, are you ferening to the musketteers sniper of fantasy warhammer? will take probably longer till they´ll be shown here but in due time of course^^

thanks man i only hope i can keep the level of "duncan" to paint the others too...

is it better to paint color ater color or each mini after another?

what is your expierience?

vik

infrantry (troops)? colour by colour. anything else? mini-by-mini.