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Hi guys Ive decided im gonna try get tickets for the second heat of this years throne of skulls as I was to late for the first. This will give me more time to get my guard ready.

Ive gone for a mechanised heavy armoured veteran army Ill post the list in a bit but I thought I would post some images of some wips and finished units so far. Some of these are in my old marine and guard blog but most will be new.

PS these pics are ok but not great I need to find somehwere I can take good pics will probably be in the next couple of days at the local computer cafe.





Thats the fist demolisher from a squad of 2 I am going to use.





Thats the second one. Note the search lights only got put on yesterday and need painting.



Thats the command squad of the army not a great picture but you get the idea. Ive gone for plasma guns where ever I can have them in the army.





I got one of the new sentinel models today and used the spare parts to give this old one some love it used to have a heavy flamer and all sorts of crap I have also replaced its thin old base with a nice new resin one.





This is the new sentinel. I like the new kit even though its a bitch to get the legs how you want them. The only thing I dont like is that the weapons are a really lose fit the multi laser doesnt even have a bit to fit into the hull. What I did was cut the multi laser and lascannon and put the multi laser barrel on the lascannon body and use a magnet to attach to the hull. This made it look a bit beefyer and also gave me a multi laser cable to cut off and use to repair the old sentinels multi laser which had no power cable.

I have stripped and done repair work to a pair of leman russ battle tanks they are nearly ready to paint heres a few pics.









I love removeall 220 thats all I can say.

I have also started doin repair work to an old converted chimera that will be used for the command squad it has not been stripped yet but a lot of crap has been taken off and repairs started I managed to get a chimera on ebay that was not boxed with a few bits missing cheap I will use the turret from that on this one as it used to have a heavy flamer and I want multi lasers.





And lastly I have built one of the new chimeras and primed it I have to say the new kit is a lot nicer to build but I also noticed its a couple of inches shorter than the old one.





Thats all for now I will get the list and hopefully better pics up tomorrow hope you have plenty to say one the list when I do it and on the models as I put them up.

liking them!

The Demolisher looks ace! I love the color and highlighting.

Thanks chaps.

As I said I have been and taken some new photos. They are a lot better still not perfect but they are about as good as I can get them with the tools I have. Also this mornning I got a package from ebay with most the parts from and old unbuilt chimera I have used these to refurb an old chimera of mine and one that I got this mornning of a mate pics will be underneath.

























This is my command squad as seen earlier and pics of all the guard in the squad.









Here are some better pics of the 2 paint stripped leman russ tanks.



These guys are the first five painted veterans Ive done they just need the bases doing.





And they are the other five members of the squad. PS its a chor changing metal guardsmens heads.









The 2 sentinels ready for painting.









The two demolishers, still without painted searchlights. I will do them later.





This is the chimera I got this mornning. It had 5 broken lasguns and was not glued that well so instead of repairing the hole top section I took it off and built a new one with new guns from the parts I got on ebay. I also had to do some repairs to the track system. The turret is also from the ebay parts.





This is one of my old chimeras. As you can see its had a few new lasguns. I took the back hatch of to repair these then put it back on. Its had a lot of forgeworld storwage taken off which will be spread accross the rest of the army and general repairs it is being stripped as I type this, also note the turret is slighty built up this was done by the guy I got the other chimera off looks more like the new style turret.





Heres my old command chimera still waiting to be stripped. Lots of work to do here yet. Should be getting a turret for it tonight.





And lastly the new chimera waiting for a paint job.

In a little while I will put pics of the 2 chimeras I am currently stripping and hopefully at some point today I will post the army list.

Hope you like.

Looks interesting, can't wait to see more.

I really like the pig iron heads, are the back packs PI too?

Thanks silver you alwasy seem to have somethin nice to say in my threads.

To the back pack question no they are from the cadian and catachan havy weapons teams

Ok Dint post again last night because I was quite unwell however befor I got ill and during today I have made good progress.

Firstly all three of the banged up chimeras have now been stripped and refurbished apart from I need to put a hatch on top of one of the turrets. Here are pics of them as they stand now.













The white and green one (was grey last time you saw it) took a lot to strip even with the stuff I use but they came out nice and are now ready to spray apart from doing the hatch on the green on.

I have also started painting my new chimera it has had the grey and white base colours drybrushed onto it.





Quite happy with how that is comming along so far.

The sentinels have had some love today to I sprayed them both and painted on of them here are the pics.









I thinkt the colours really suit the sentinel model Im happy anyway.

I also primed the 2 leman russ tanks.









Can get painting them at some point now.

Tomorrow I hope to strip convert and build the remain veteran units and sentinel befor club time in the evening. We will see.

Anyway thats the pic update for the day hope you like them.


Now Ive finally made a rough list for what I will be taking. Here goes hope it make sense.


HQ
Company command squad 50pts
1 company commander / boltgun 2pts
2 veterans / lasguns
2 veterans / plasma guns 30pts

82pts

Troops
Veteran squad 70pts
1 sergeant / shotgun
6 veterans / lasguns
3 veterans / plasma guns 45pts

115pts x3 345pts

Chimera 55pts
multi laser
heavy bolter
searchlight
smoke launchers

55pts x4 220pts

Heavy support
Leman russ squadron
1 leman russ / 150pts
sponson heavy bolters / 20pts

170pts x2 340pts

Heavy support
Leman russ squadron
2 demolishers / 330pts
2 sets of sponson heavy bolters / 40pts

370pts

Fast attack
Scout sentinel squadron
1 scout sentinel 35pts
Multi laser

35pts x3 105pts


1462pts

Im pretty sure thats all right but If you do see anything please point it out. I dont know what to do with the spare points atm either.

Right thats all I got today leave any questions or comments and I will answer them tomoz although I dought I will do a proper update tomoz as I will be to busy.

Thanks

very neat and I really like the minimalist choiceof colour - very dark and reminds me of a lot of films.

Thanks chap. When Ive finished this force Im gonna refurbish one of my old baneblades like this will be a chor to get it repaired but will be mint.

Really like the paint scheme your using for these guys.

Hey guys. Hant been able to do a proper update the last few days been airsofting and stuff will get a proper update done within the next 2 days.

However just a quick update Ive finished the chimera and nearly done a leman russ so all goin well.

Pics soon thanks guys.

Very nice work! Where is that shotgun from?

I'm pretty sure the shotgun is from the Necromunda line of weapons.

Great stuff Truffle! keep up the great work!

You could add a Medic to the command squad, or a Master of Ordnance? Pretty straight-forward and close to a no-brainer, but they're efficient anyway...

Also love your Infantrymen!

Master of the ordanance. Interesting. Dont think I would bother with a medic though if you want to kill 5 guard then a medic wont stop you.

The shotgun is indeed from the necromunda sprue.

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

Truffle wrote:Thanks silver you alwasy seem to have somethin nice to say in my threads.

Because you always have something nice in your threads

Have to say I actually quite like the effects left by stripping some of those tanks and transports.

Will you be adding any more colours to your IG/tanks? They just seem a bit too uniform at the moment. Even just re-washing the armour on the guys (either the same colour or a different one - perhaps red or blue?) would break it up a little and give some more visual interest.

Unit and tank markings also add something as well.

What Im going to do is paint the entire army to this standard and then I will probably add squad markings heavy support icons ect to the tanks and men.

Ok I have taken a couple of pictures of the chimera and leman russ that I have finished so here we go.





Thats the finished chimera.





And there be the leman russ. I think the pictures are a bit to light its making them look greyer than they are but Im happy with them apart from that. Dunno what to paint next probably another sentinel.

Hope you guys like them leave cc as always.

great thread sir! I love the simplistic painting, but it actually looks great! I wish I could follow your painting procedure.

The only thing that is throwing me off is the awkward placed smoke launchers on the one Chimera.

I really like it and it looks great - I would do the same if I still played. But I'm just in it for the painting these days so I'm always trying to experiment with odd colour schemes - sometimes to my detriment

I did try every place on the chimera for the smoke launchers I liked them there the best it would work and it does not get in the way of the turret and I think it looks cool but I figured not everyone would think the same.

Just quick update I have finished another sentinel but I have not got any pictures yet I will sort some out soon.

How do you do your paint scheme?

Its real simple spray and paint black.
Dry brush codex grey takes a while to get the right effect of the dusty grey kinda tone
Then same with skull white.

Bring out metal with boltgun metal
Wash the metal bedab black.
Give the tracks a second wash with devlan mud.

Do lights leach purple then add a bit of tentical pink.

The storwage is done fortress grey then washed badab black.

Hope it helps.

Righty ho Ive got an update for the army. I hant done much to the thread this week as Ive had a very bad week so I needed to do other things.

I have painted pics of another chimera leman russ and sentinel so here we go.

Leman russ first





Now the chimera





And the second sentinel






So the army is comming along nicely. I need to sort out an old sentinel to repaint do a couple of chimeras then I will sort the men out. Still dont know what to do with the spare points I have might have a forth sentinel? I thought about master of the fleet and ordanace to would probably take the fleet master as that could screw my enemies reserves up nicely.

Anyhow what do you guys think?

I love your extensive use of brybrushing, it adds a very neat "grungy" flavor to the army, and makes the purple really "Pop"! Only minor quibble is that you really should remove some of those mold lines.

_Tim?

Whats with the TIM?

Yeah there is still some crap on the models what people have to realise is that these models mainly the tanks are up to 12 years old and have been in up to 4 different armies that were not all mine. Compared to how they were they are very clean but as you can see on most the units there are marks a dents where things were glue was spilt ect. What I intend to do when the whole army is painted to this level is makes most of the these areas look scratched or rusted which should add a nice effect to the models. I wont put mud on as its a urban army and it wouldnt fit right I did want them to be dusty I think this kind of look was pulled off ok by doing a slightly heavyer drybrush than I strated with.

Any pure lines that are left after the rust is added will stay I am not cutting up a painted model when most of the lines are gone anyway. But you are right.

Did you make the tank track covers or are they FW?

They are plastic you used to get them with the last generation of imperial tanks you dont any more now you have to buy the sprue for 7 pound its a fething ripoff. You can get forge world ones though for the sake of arguement.

Ok little update. Ive started sorting out the veterans. I have paint stripped the models and removed their heads ready for pig iron ones to go on. Since this picture was taken I have also rebased the models. Still a lot of work to do here befor they are ready to paint.





When they have dried on their new bases I will get about removing flash putting new heads on and rebuilding the necks where they need doing.

Love your pinting, and the helmets are cool, but how'd you get the sheethed sword on the backpacks?

Its part of them they are the catachan version of the backpack they are covered in things like knives and swords but fit the same shape as the cadian ones. Had some floating about though that they would look cool. And thanks for the kind words