I've been out of action for quite some time because of a lack of workable camera. And although I have a temporary replacement, its not the best but anyway here's what I've been up to.
The first off is my daemon prince, hes been in a
WIP stage for what seems like forever and only now do I see how grossly oversized he is.
This fella here was supposed to be a present but now I guess it's going to a worthy cause.
A very rough idea for a Tervigon I am attempting too.
I took the carnifex apart I had and glued the chest back together at about a 45degree angle to give it more thickness and spread out the back a lot more.
The next 2 are buildings I've made from cardboard as mock-ups for a table I plan to get to work on sooner or later.
This is what I guess I could only describe as a Seed-plant. I want to have the big back room full of all kind of servitor arms and bits and pieces to dismantle marines or maybe a station where they go through some ritual blessings. (I'm not that big on fluff info so if anyone has a better idea, let me hear it!)
This one is a big temple that I was inspired from one of the opening chapters of 'The Dark Apostle' but their chapel was inside a cruiser, still. It was the inspiration none-the-less.
This was a great idea to begin with but kind of let me down after the painting (which is in no-way finished) and such so I may go still add some things and also sand it back to a more square shape in areas.
The first one was an idea I took from a piece of art in the 4th edition space marine codex. I don't know what it is exactly but I think it's still very cool. Unsure of a base or anything I could add.
The second is a bunch of simple markers I figured I would find uses for since I have so many spare bolters and that kind of junk.
The last is a piece I made for a friend of mine. I originally wanted it bigger but that never came to fruition, perhaps I may still increase the size but that would be down the track.
And my favourites:
These are the start of my traitor guard army. I have a few more models but there isn't much converting on them yet, I intend to go a long way with these in terms of modeling but I've been swamped with a bunch of other projects for either myself or friends.
And the piece
de resistance(is that even the right phrase?)
My model for Colonel 'Iron Hands' Straken:
I went with adding as much as I could but I think he could still use a gas mask and pipes here and there, the shotgun I don't know exactly what to do as there is little room but I'm considering a sort of sling for him or making the plasma pistol and shotgun interchangeable. But haven't thought that far ahead
So hopefully this is the beginning of a very long road for me and I hope to be making more and more frequent trips with updates!
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The tervigon has gained some weight but I'm not happy with where its ending up, I'm half considering taking the plates off and the gut stuff and re doing it all into a nicer shape.
My ork battlewagon and 1/2 so far, but have no clear ideas for the 2nd one at the moment.
And just some eggs for the tervigon or maybe objective markers.
Not a lot to show but at least its progress none-the-less.
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I redid the tervigon up to this stage
I thought it looked a little better and gave me more room to work plus I wouldnt use as much putty building up the armour plates if I cover them in scraps of plasticard first.
Another mock up for a building, I'm running low on cardboard unfortunately as I'd like to make a few more like this or maybe much bigger ones.
And these guys have had a tiny bit of work done, I gave random guys in the squads kneepads and elbowpads but the camera really doesn't pick up fine stuff that much. I put a bloodletter head on the chest but I think I might need to try it again and shave more of the head off. Perhaps straken needs a collar or something?
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This was in my last post but I added some straws to it for a bit more of a 3d feel and I think it comes together a lot better now.
The rest are just random shaped building chunks that I've made for mock ups. I intend to get started on the proper attempts in a couple of weeks if I'm lucky.
that's it, nothing else to really say.
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So uh... Long story short... My dog ate and chewed up all the mock-ups I made last I was on but I made some newer ones that hopefully will fit the bill a little better.
Just a simple but large sized building, not sure if I want to make another section on it yet.
These turn into...
A simple landing pad-type thing.
And these are crashed raiders for a mate, need some dark eldar bodies to make some gore bits and pieces but its a start.
Thats the end of that chapter.
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So this is what I've been upto lately. Its been too long and I've been swamped with real life.
Some dark eldar giblets I've sculpted, still working on it as its a whole new process to work that small but I think they came out alright.
The tervigon has some vents now, I don't know what they do but they are there.
Here is Straken again, with 3 of the sargaents I hope to use for my army, still very much
WIP.
And these happy fellows are my conversions for Chenkov and Sargaent Kell, the whip I want to have looking like its electrified, as I want to have him pushing forward a squad of "slave" guardsmen.
And my new favourite model, Guardsmen Marbo. The idea for the grenade-speargun came from just needing a weapon that was powerful and not as boring some sort of suped-up laspistol plus its relatively silent which suits him.
I have other guardsmen in progress but I'm not happy enough to show them off just yet, I hope to get more work done on these guys so far and more gibs and bits for the crashed dark eldar and of course the magical tervigon so hopefully I'll be back sooner than later!
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I do have some bad news unfortunately AGAIN it seems my gorgeous dog has found his way into the shed and destroyed the 2nd round of mock up buildings... So the next lot of buildings will have to be the legit versions as I don't have enough cardboard to make decent mock ups anymore...
I do however have this fellow back for a bit.
He's been going better and better, im slowly adding more and more details to him, I want to have little spinal shards out the back on the top and need to cover up the vents with putty to give them less smooth shape. then carve into them the small vent details.
And here is his best mate:
I apologise for the blurry pictures, the camera wasn't cooperating tonight in any way and I figured something is better than nothing. the marines arms and legs will be soon enough, I want the legs fairly sunk into the ground to show just how heavy this beast was when it trampled him.
Now for a more space marine style question:
I'm trying to make belts/straps for my mates sternguard boltguns and I have no idea for a good way to make them look good and hold the gun so if anyone has any ideas or pictures of conversions they have done for this I'd love to see it.
I hope to get more done soon but I've been rather swamped lately with other stuff.
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The chaos continues!
I've been making excuses not to work on my guardsmen, I guess cos I don't want to ruin my work with my terrible painting.
Magnetised this guys special weapon load-out, hope to do it to the other 3 special weapons guys I have built up so far as it provides quick options.
This man is my custom chaos Creed. I decided to try and bulk out the chest a bit, I might put tattered rags on his back and some other bits and pieces. The arm pointing I really don't like either, but not sure what I could give him.
The guy on the left is my Kell, his back spikes fell off during some rough-housing so I'll be putting tougher ones up and his mate is a soldier from
AL-Rahem's person squad.
I want them all with the ragged desert warrior look and it came out better than I was thinking - even if it took a few tries.
And since I don't know what these are for otherwise, a nice little objective marker or maybe some other sort of marker to use in game.
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A little more work done on the captains and stuff tonight.
It's amazing how much some little rivets can add to it.
Sargeant Kell is really coming along as is Al-Rahem.
This particular Leman Russ was attached with a pair of big-ass pliers. I think it might need more damage and perhaps some chaos-related vandalism.
This guy I am thinking is going to be a spawn-type creature with a lascannon or something hanging out its back, may count as a weapons team and could make a few more if I like how this one turns out.
So this concludes tonights chapter.
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My pride so far is instilled mostly in this piece.
The idea is the team has been pinned down by a sniper and one is luring the other sniper to fire so their teams sniper can take him/it out and then return to busting tanks wide open.
I might try and do a few more Heavy Weapon Team bases with themes or stories or what-have-you-term.
I've run out of milliput and so had to bulk this guy out with greenstuff which I'm really not liking. but at least his shape is a little more obvious now, and also his size, still not sure what to count him as, sentinel or weapon team.
And since all my other buildings were ruined I decided to try my hand today at starting some new ones.
This one I want as a sort of gene-facility, so those tubes will be filled one day with little embryo-type alien things and lots of wires and that kind of cool stuff here and there with some effort and luck.
Just a simple bombed-out building. the base rubble is just to give the base a bit of depth as I felt it needed some craters somewhere.
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I dunno what kind of face... was thinking a face encased entirely in a gas mask, or maybe no face at all, just a drooling maw.
The options are unlimited really...
As for the chainsaw... i might do something with his stumpy arm he has, put a chainsword on it or something. VROOOOOOM
I've made a base for a head tonight and might work on the actual mechanics of how the lascannon will fit onto his back next.
These little boys are "experiments" for the tubes, I don't know what else to do, might make them slightly one sided and deformed like the spawn heavy weapon team.
And something I think will be quite fun, a gaunt cut in half and then shaved down to a perfectly flat surface. Might use it on the base of one of the heavy weapon teams or possibly a regular.
TYRANIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cant wait to get more work done on this but I am splitting myself between my pen/pencil art, painting canvas and sculpting so my time is very limited at the moment. I hate having so much on the go but the list is slowly getting smaller.
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I was originally going to have it piercing a russ with its foot or a chimera while gaurdsmen pour out, but I've got a long time before I need to put any real thought into the base for it yet
I've decided to start basing and cleaning up/finishing some of the older terrain pieces I have lying around that have been lying on my desk for maybe a year if not a little more.
This was a full 8 pointed star but I think it works better as the chaos version of the broken Aquila piece that shows up everywhere.
Some sort of space marine shrine/temple.
I don't know what else to add to this unless I make a few dead marines lying about, both chaos and loyal, maybe two that died facing off like the elevator scene in smokin' aces.
A bit of a chaos shrine, I was thinking of having big columns at the front, or maybe small ones that make a small path to the stairs.
This is how I think the leman russ is best used. I may change the layout of this a lot when I come to actually make it but basically the idea is a very close range ambush and the russ carcass left in the streets.
That's all I have for now, but I hope over the next week to get a lot more work done.
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Added some simple columns to the base of what will be a shrine, with the giant gamesworkshop space marine statue at the top.
I decided against the russ rolling between roads for the ambush scene so I went for it driving through a ruined building when it gets hit.
The hard question is how am I gonna make room for troops to have set up a clear ambush on the board now though, I've been thinking of making another board and reverting back to my old plan and simple making extra boards that come off it to give the buildings the ambushers used as cover some extra length and presence, but we will see.
I guess I'll also need to order some gaurdsmen to use simply as the dead men on this base.
Over and out!
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I didn't get anything really done tonight, I've been out til only a few hours ago so yeah. That's my excuse.
I added tiles to this piece and pva on exposed foam bits.
And just some pictures of the russ damage.
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My latest monster terrain piece.
This will have a sort of theme, or a story. I want to have a few imperial traitor guardsmen lying dead amongst the rubble here. My thoughts are that they went AWOL and huddled up together in this building and when the space marines found it they blasted open the sides and laid waste to them, in a sort of equilibrium gun-combat style.
I'm just hoping I can find time to put it all together and get something worth showing done soon.
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I hope to add extra layers of foamboard to thicken out some panels and make it seem more architecturally interesting.
I have big plans for the inside of it too, I'm thinking along the lines of a few symbols of heresy and some sort of rituals performed by the renegades.
I still need to add about a billion details to these clearly, and I'm tempted to chuck another panel behind the big front door to give it more length and seem more spacey.
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I've made some minor adjustments, adding some small details to the outside in foamboard.
I started doing the re-bar for some of it when I ran out of the right plasticard rods so that will have to wait for a bit :(
I added another board to the front as I think it really sells the whole shape a lot better.
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So this is Nancy.
Her main gun is coming along well too, just thickening it and creating an interesting shape out of plasticard first.
But I still think it could work if it was bigger than that.
The rib structure is actually cat-5 cables that I've found lying around and decided would make a good base for big easy ribs when I start to add details.
I'll be working on a base for the head next... I'll need all the patience I can get.
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So this is what I've got done in the few hours I've had today...
Nancy1
Nancy2
Nancy3
I've put a little bit of putty between the "ribs" I can reach and will probably have to buy some square plasticard beams that can hold the legs in without them rolling around to give me less trouble when trying to set up a final position.
I will do more work on the front arms and hopefully have the start of the head tonight.
I've decided that the new middle panel I built wasn't up to my liking either, so I've gone with something a little simpler for now.
Another view
From the top...
Top view
I quite like this view, I should of put models in there "duking it out".
Cinematic view
Also started on building up some rubble and sand base for the older pieces...
Amazing how much difference a little bit of sand can make to the piece.
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I really wish I could say I've been busy but that would just be a blatant lie... The truth is I've lost a lot of momentum lately and been quite sick.
I've begun a small ruined building-turned fortification.
And begun plastering up a few of the smaller pieces here and there...
Unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries straight after I uploaded these so I'll have to go down tomorrow and get a hold of some more for the time being.
I am going to (within the next week) rip the whole chapel off its bases and put it down again onto a single bit board and also increase the height with some 25mm blue foam.
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I got up to a stage where I've realised the whole thing needs a big base to sit on like more traditional chapels and also inspiration from some recent terrain I've looked at so here it what I've done.
It is sitting on a 25mm thick slab of blue foam that I've cut down roughly at first as I intend to add a lot of damage so the accuracy isn't SUCH a big deal I feel.
The circle sections with lines coming out I want to have as implosions and the circle areas will be collapsed wall that will have rubble falling down to the
MDF board.
Kind of very eager to get started on this again properly but I've gotta really plan it out a bit better.
And because of what I've done, I have
THESE(link) leftover and I guess I'll just make them into either make shift cover sections of wall or... maybe some small themed scenery pieces... Oh the possibilities.
I really like how these two have come out, not finished yet but they did come out fairly well considering what it looked like before I chopped it up and stuck it to the board.
Better get to sleep, got a big day tomorrow!
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I've been working at trying to add some details to some of the disasters of sculpting I have laying around... at least until my large nerdhammer order arrived in a few days (hopefully).
I've put flayed skin on him in areas but they arn't really showing up all that well, and the adding of fingers and toes has done a lot to show him off.
The little man from the test tube.
I don't think I want to do much more to him, just fill in the spots and cracks from the putty and maybe add some tiny little viens or something like that.
Then the fun part of trying to get him to go into the tube properly...
And this is the other test tube guy. He's going to look a lot more deformed than the other one as it clearly shows here...
So that's all I have for now, back to work!
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I've gotta find some guitar strings that I can use for the guardsmen and also for these little abominations as I feel regular wires don't cut the mustard quite the same.
The first chunk of my nerdhammer order arrived today which is exciting news except all the guardsmen stuff is in the next batch :(
I plan to use the panels down the left side of the door to make a sort of dark-angels-cloaked-guy-holding-a-sword style statue and the rest I'll make up.
One of my armies Priests, I would of liked a more aggresive pose but I don't think I have it in me to pose him.
ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND this is what the chapel looks like right now. I'm going to start detailing the floor and the walls a bit and see where I end up. after that then maybe work on some simple fortifications.
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This has been a busy week to say the least. I've been stressing about quite a bit of stuff and haven't made time to get anything done but I've had a little re-lighting of the fire tonight and want to hopefully have something finished (and painted) by the end of the week.
It's 3 am and although I'm not completely packed up for bed here is where I got up to tonight.
I'm slowly getting around to adding the mounds of rubble that will clearly cover some of the more intensely fail walls and hope to use the hundreds of reference pictures I have to give me a really clear idea of how it all comes crashing down.
I still need to make some plans and sketches for some of the inside detail I think as it's a little flat right now, but all in good time.
I know the photo isn't the best but my packages of nerdhammer arrived in the mail the other day and I couldn't wait to put this thing together.
It had more gaps in it than I would of liked but what can ya do? I filled em up with putty and gave most of the statue a sanding with a low grade sand paper to make it look worn...
Same treatment for this.
This comes in two pieces so its a bit less effort, I just cleaned up the lines, roughed it up a tiny bit and stuck it to a board. I probably would of liked to stick it on a larger board but there's enough huge pieces already planned, I like a back story too much to resist sometimes.
That's all for now but expect more in a few days!
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I kinda think that I rushed ahead with the painting a little. Some skulls or casings on the other pieces might have been a good idea now that I think about it... Oh well.
I've lost my Leman Russ somehow... I don't even know where it could of gone to but I wanted pictures of that. Anyway I did get around to assembling my Manticore.
I will be doing a red/grey camo scheme I think for the vehicles or may just end up with a flat blood red. Depending on the type of vehicle maybe. Also a little concerned with the light being down there, feel its a little too crowded but I wanted it to represent itself
WYSIWYG-wise.
Slopped down some paint on these too, the camera didn't like taking a photo of them as much as I wanted though so... Sorry I guess.
Been stuck with what to paint these... Was thinking originally to go with the bronze/copper feel and the idea of a bleached marble sort of color also popped into my head for a bit but until I can decide on something else they will be staying this color. Hope to get them done soon as there isn't a whole lot of detail.
I am however stuck on the colors to use for the columns on the statue piece so if anyone has any ideas I'd like to hear it or else it might just stay grey.
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So I found the Leman Russ tank, sitting on a dresser in the hallway I think he was drying off after the last paint spraying.
Clearly I felt he wasn't ruined enough and felt too recycle-able so the big shell blast in the side that tore off the sponson ought to have given off that impression. I would of liked some of the sponson hanging on by a thread to the chassis but it wasn't exactly fitting so flush after such an attack by the clippers.
After some reading of some chaos fluff I found some artwork that inspired to me to give my prince building another shot and this is where I wound up - concept wise.
He's gunna be nurgle aligned with 2 BIG banners on his back flowing with delicious nurgle goodness. I was thinking of some jetpack system instead of wings to lift him around, I've not really thought that far ahead. Any input would be appreciated for sure.
And along a similar line...
I've been cleaning up and adding detail to my old prince. I'm making him new 3 toed feet as opposed to the marine boots he had as well as giving him a new helmet and adding the regular chaos bits and pieces. Also highly considering making some sort of jetpack as the wings are ugly... but I may just remake the wings properly.
What a learning experience so far.
Any comments or recommendations let me have it!
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A little bit of an update tonight before bed.
Out of the bases from the old chapel I have these.
I think I may make them clearly piles of rubble and mess and use them as pieces to hide smaller vehicles behind as full
LOS blockers.
I added larger rubble piles to this building too hoping to make it appear a little more broke up and destroyed.
These two however I have no idea what to do with them. I kind of like to have a small theme to each of the pieces but am totally blank as to what these buildings USED to be besides some walls so any ideas or suggestions would be heaps cool guys!
A close up of
what I have named the revhammer.
As will this, the terrible painting aside, its an idea of mine for a more insect-friendly color scheme for my friends tyranid army so excuse the rushed paint job.
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STORM FOR THE STORMBOLTER GOD!
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Got some basing done and a little bit of work on at least one of these pieces.
Full picture.
The pretty rocks I'm using were only 2 dollars for a half kilo or so jar so I can be pretty happy with losing a few grains here and there and since I got 5 different sizes it adds up quite well when used right.
This I made a few weeks back due to boredom and an abundance of foam.
Basically its supposed to look like one of those coastline cannons that you saw during ww2.
Some orky trenches accompanying it would be pretty cool but I don't wanna get ahead of myself just yet.
LINKS!
Simple wall piece.
The Space Marine Shrine is also looking quite nice.
This is looking quite nice if a little bumpy, I'm not a fan of all the tiny craters in each of these but I'm hoping they wont put me off TOO much when it all comes to paint.
Still need some barbed wire and a few more tweaks - like mounted heavy bolters and ammo crates perhaps?
The chaos star is coming along well too with the addition of candles!
I added some bits and pieces to this but was lucky enough to have dropped it and they fell off but I'll be gluing it back on obviously a little later on.
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I've decided that although the church crushed into total rubble is a nice look it needed something to make it stand out more from the usual terrain pieces you see everywhere.
And a giant wall with the roof partially intact was my thinking on this.
The little circles are going to be mortar hits and any patches of random texta will be an expansion of the current rubble.
I want to do some hugeeeeeeeeee arch windows in the wall piece and maybe even tile the roof depending how adventurous I get.
So that all being said. Big plans. I'm also drawing up some ideas to turn my Gold Toof table into a vietnam-war style jungle.
Everything modular though, I've learned from my mistakes!
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Nothing big to report but I've added more rubble to the parts I felt weren't quite right.
I added a blue tint to the space marine statue and also painted the "dirt" areas of the aquilla but no pictures just yet.
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I need to obviously go over the blue areas with some silver and bronze again to clear up all the blobs that got away from me. I was admitted a little carried away with the blue staining.
Been doing slow work on the Bio-titan too. I've had a little bit of a creative explosion lately.
The gun is the only thing that's changed however, the titan itself would not really have any majorly visible changes that's why I don't have any new photos.
Also not sure how visible the changes here will be but I've added a lot more rubble where I've deemed it necessary. Also on wall segments that I assume would of caved in after the bombardments, they have filled in a bit of some of the craters as well.
I did manage to cut the windows out nice and cleanly, but still need to do the arches, and work on a way to get a nice looking window in there.
So the chapel is coming along nicely. I am going to have to in the next few days work on the back of it and find a shape of roof that I'm happy with as well as start working on the defenses and things like making feet of barbed wire which is always fun and tank traps. Unfortunately I have the wrong kind of plasticard rod to make classic czech hedgehogs so I'll have to wait and see what I can get my hands on!
Quietly working on the prince too but nothing amazing done yet, I have to do some re-planning I think.
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I've been a little lacking of time and effort lately but I managed to carve this bad-boy out in about half an hour from 50mm thick foam.
Its essentially a bunker carved into a cliff I guess, I might make another entrance down the bottom on the opposite side of the slope up.
Not much else going on, I'll be doing some stuff very shortly. Got a job interview tomorrow so hoping for good news!
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So I've been busy making bases recently as I do have a lot of models that are probably closer to finished but no real bases for them yet so this process had to start somewhere.
First are the heavy weapons teams though as the bigger bases allows more room for ideas.
This one you might remember from a while back. The idea is a team member luring out another sniper with his helmet on a stick. Practically this representation wouldn't be so successful but it was fun to make none-the-less but i need to add more junk to the base and then I think its done.
The next batches are all fairly simple still.
I need to add some flock and details such as rubble around the areas without any plasticard detailing.
And then we have this base.
I have some sentinels coming in the mail any day now and I think at least one would look cool clambering over this piece. Either that or a heavy bolter being shot from behind it as a make-shift cover.
Much more to come in the coming days like my Vendetta I'm working on and more guardsmen!
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so my 750 point army looks a little like this:
I used my special characters to fill in the command squad but you get the idea.
Just a small close up (sort of).
But this is the part I'm most proud of, I've so far magnetised the sentinel with a missile launcher, multi-laser and lascannon as I feel they were the easiest ones to glue magnets to.
I have to figure out how I'm going to magnet the extra bits that come with the specific weapons though and also magnet hunter killer missiles as well. I feel that having as many weapons blasting away on the first turn as I can will be a good choice but if anyone plays
IG tell me I'm wrong if it's true.
I also want to start work on a new chaos version of Creed as I feel mine isn't beefy enough or commander-like enough. The one I have now looks very combat-orientated but I'm sure Creed has no special weapons or anything so he wouldn't be charging into the fray that often.
My package of battleforce arrived on friday I believe too so thats why I have the sentinels, I figured I'd be better off ordereding 2 more sents to make a full squad so I didn't have to wait another month for it and of course I have the heavy weapons to assemble on top of the other 25 infantry, hopefully pushing my max points to the 1250 area depending what I take them as.
I'm also gunna have to draw up some sketches for what I think stormtroopers would look like, I've been spending HOURS trawling the net for ideas and reference pictures and I'm half torn towards the grizzled combat veteran look or the sophisticated sci-fi soldier. Both have their advantages and both will be fun I think but I'm going to have to make a decision soon.
Well enough of a rant from me today I think, hopefully a lot more work very soon! (I'm also sorry for so many breaks between but without a working way to upload pictures it gets me a little behind)
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So what I've been up to is as follows.
Just a nice picture of some of the troops scrambling over some ruins. Quite like this.
My captain
Al-Rahem model. I want to do some cloak or something flowing around his body as the green stuff didnt work too well as a breast plate.
This guy has a similar feel to him, he's going to be a sargeant in al-rahems platoon.
My failure of a defiler, I made this back before I knew of the wonders of cement glue and before I knew how to paint anything half respectable, plus with his recent failings as a machine of war he told me he'd rather be a terrain piece so I granted him that wish. I've actually plastered and added more rocks to this since the photo was taken but I'll update that soon enough.
A better photo of the manticore is
Here.
The priest for my army, may use him in some kill-team games I hope to have over the next few weeks, I did some sketches today of a priest that might fit my army a little more but I'm still quite fond of the revolver-hammer I made.
Don't know WHERE these little things came from, probably off the heavy weapons sprue but I think they make perfect red dot sights. I feel that they look cooler if the front sights of the gun are shaved off too. anyone agree?
With a little help from some friends and new knowledge I was able to give this guy a nice flowing banner, now that I know of easier ways of doing it besides burning it, I can hopefully make a few more of these but more mean looking.
As I mentioned, I have a few kill-team missions to play and may make a totally bad-ass looking squad for those games that are a lot more converted, I'm thinking of also doing stormtroopers from plastic guardsmen, kitted to the max and carrying enough ammo to down a carnifex. But we'll see where this idea takes me.
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I have been busy but a lot of it wont really show as its just putting together legs and torsos for my guardsmen, when I find my scissors I'll get around to making some nice bases for them.
These guys will be my stormtroopers squad, I just plan to have a suicide squad with 2 plasma guns and a plasma pistol for the sergeant, drop em in, blast some big nids and that's it.
I would like to spray some of the terrain I have at the moment but I don't have any spray cans left and I'm broke for a week.
I did get this done though, and I quite like where it ended up, I need to go over it with a knife and scrape off any plaster in places I don't want it but over-all I'm happy.
And just some jungle pieces (not finished) but an idea of where I'm heading.
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I had a bit of a shiver down my spine when I noticed that even Games Workshop can make the mistake of having tiled floors that suddenly drop off and there are no tiles nearby to continue the pattern so I decided to change something to one of my pieces.
I added about 3 different layers of rock and sand to the gaps between the tiles to show that they've been there quite some time.
I also added what I THINK is called the steple for the chapel, it isn't glued down yet and needs some adjusting clearly but at least now that's taken care of. I may have to start building sandbags and meters of barbed wire soon. FUN!
This one here is another piece I probably could have done without but I can't help myself sometimes, its a building the busted leman russ was going through when he carked it, I need to go back and add some sloppy plaster to the base and have the russ's treads marked on the floor of this building.
This,
Is just a couple of pieces from what will be my jungle board, I hope to have a lot more, and I actually have about 20 small pieces and some larger fortified (as much as a jungle can be) pieces as well as jungle "road" sections. I didn't get photos as they are a little lost with the flash from the dark shed.
I need to maybe give some terrain away or start stacking them better cos I've run out of room quite a long time ago.
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I got a little busy last night with some bases as its pretty much the final step for a lot of my infantry.
These are some of the more technical ones, I'll be cutting the extra stuff of last after I'm sure I like the look of it.
Some of my heavy weapon bases, I like to keep them hiding behind cover as I think it shows the mobility I wanted the teams to appear having.
I also want to maybe make a few more carbine lasguns but they wont go on models I don't think unless I can do some extreme modeling... we'll see.
The folding stock carbine needs to have its over-all size reduced but I'll do that on subsequent ones.
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I made myself a "demo expert" style guy for kill team and the second one I think is just that one guy that never seems all there and is kind of angry a lot of the time.
I'm real happy with how these came out, and exactly to the drawings I made up so I'll be keen to make a few more.
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This has been a busy day for me already, up early and to travel quite a few kilometres away for some essential nerdhammering supplies. I was torn about what, if any flock I should get for the jungle, but those will survive without it for now at least I'm more worried about my urban stuff.
First one off the mark is this amazing beast. I am so in love with the look of this thing hovering above my army on the shelf that I already want another 2 of them at least.
Sorry for the quality of the pictures but the camera just isn't cooperating today.
I've added a few spikes and am yet to magenetise the weapon systems to it but all in good time
these are the leg plates off a defiler and I thought they'd make nice chaos plates for my vendetta but my question is where. I understand the cables for the engines still need to be put on so maybe one of these wont work but where does everyone else feel they should go?
And this is one of the icons I hope to make for objectives during games, its a bit flimsy at the moment but I'm hoping the others will be more brutal and thus, less weedy.
This Fella will be standing atop a downed terminator, gloriously showing off his plasma pistol kill.
And this is the unfortunately terminator that met his demise during the fight. I drilled out a hole in his chest and originally wanted his guts out a bit but I felt that it wasn't right as the plasma hits his chest and ends him, as opposed to a sword gutting him so I have to cover up and make a detailed mid-section as I made him slightly taller than the McCraggae pack he came from.
A quick comparison of the two shows just HOW MUCH height I added, even putting plasticard tiles on his feet.
This grot's base isn't quite done yet, and I won't be painting him myself but I thought it would be fun to use the last of my grots as a bit of a display I guess.
These two here, depending on how I model them might be 1 of 2 things:
Either a commissar or chaos equivalent doing away with a fearful, cowardly soldier. Or perhaps a chaos sargent just adding another guardsman corpse to the pile of dead.
These I've wanted to for a while, The back soldier is pulling the front one by his collar towards safety (or something similar) while the soldier on the bottom holds his guts in and fires back at the enemy. I don't know how well I'll go modeling this but if it comes out half as good as I think, I'll be very happy.
I will be painting some stuff tomorrow if all goes well so expect a little more up, no soldiers yet as I'm not sold on any being finished just yet, I bought magnets to start building up special weapons teams and assembled the last of my guardsmen the other night too.
One squad of commanders is left, I may use them to make a platoon command squad properly or just use them as extra guardsmen fillers.
Anyway back to work!
Remember to give me an opinion on which vendetta plate you think works the best if you can!
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I'm hoping the painting I did today will inspire me a bit to finish some of the stuff I have laying about here. I'm also quite fond of the upper right and bottom right armour plates the most but I think the one hanging over the intake looks the most menacing so that just might win.
I got around to painting the leman russ a bit today, I luckily had a hand from a mate with his trusty can of skull white spray so that sped up the process a bit and I ended up here.
I'm not the greatest painter, or even good but I'll be slowly getting there with most of the stuff I do and I am very much not looking forward to painting hundreds of little faces eventually...
I feel that a line of grey or black through the joins of the green and bone might be a good idea to break it up just a bit and also the green needs darkening I think.
And the manticore got a layer of paint or two as well today.
The white stripes were just to break up the red a bit, but I think I may either make it black, grey or white in honor of the footsloggers for my army which brings me to....
This fella is the first test of pieces, I don't like how the shoulder pads came out but at least its a harsh lesson in how annoying these guys will be to paint from a dark undercoat. Should I go to white for most of my infantry then?
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Yeah I know the point of camo but I figured there's no real hiding a tank this size anyway and besides some of the space marines tanks might as well be fluerescent orange and green with the colors their chapters have ha. I'll see what I can come up with, maybe a brown so it keeps the camo feel but also breaks up the two colors? I may do them in dots if I can be that good.
As for the undercoating.. did you mean black might be better for my troops? Cos thats the one thats worrying me, I find it hard to pick out details and stuff when they are totally sprayed black, plus the layering thing just to get anything to come through really sucks.
No proper update but I've grouped my army in to its squads based on my most recent list.
A group shot of all the anti-heroes, besides chenkov cos he decided he wanted to have a photo with the regulars (and I don't have the vox model for that squad just yet).
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I've got some pictures of the jungle pieces I've been putting together. I wanted to do quite a bit of detail but I think in the end I won't do much more than basic as I don't think I need the extra projects honestly. So simple tree lines it is!
I'm hoping to get some more bigger boards to make area terrain that could fit a full tank or a squad or two of troops with ease... but all in good time.
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Nothing extreme again as yet, I've been doing a bit of painting here and there, the russ is coming along and the manticore could use a few more layers of red I think before I would call it finished.
I need to get my hands on some magnets and rig up the vendetta/valkyrie for both styles and then I can probably get around to painting it almost. I also made a few more tree sections, but I'll have them finished probably tomorrow, batteries dying on the camera so I didn't wanna over do it.
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So... bit of a lull here after so long I've had the energy to actually update, then my camera died and I used the last of all my money to make one last ditch effort order before the
GW embargo starts. So I have an almost 2000 point chaos army heading to me and some terrain pieces to spice things up.
I've been busy with little bits and pieces here of drawings and the like, but now that I have a working camera I'll be back to my normal routine with any luck.
So... I figured my jungles needed some ruins that could hide a small sized tank, and my mate agreed so I came up with this.
Jungle Ruins are US
The idea I think is that maybe some eldar landed on this planet a long time ago, the locals thought they were gods and made some sculptures of them, I'm half tempted to try and sculpt something a little more elaborate yet primitive, but all in good time, as I think maybe 2 or more walls that are a lot bigger would be a good idea.
The chapel has escaped a run in with my dog, but unfortunately the space marine shrine wasn't so lucky, so I'm wondering what I might do with it now.
I've added some more rubble and carefully positioned dirt and rocks, as well as finally putting down some barbed wire, hoping it all appears as good as I thought it did when I placed it down ha.
heres a pretty picture.
Chapel from above, not high res, but a full size picture.
And again, this time from the front a bit.
And lastly I got round to finally planking up the stand at the back of the chapel, I need to fix the gap in the floor behind it but otherwise I'm happy. Oh and the blue foam clearly poking out from under the boards needs to go too... might use a long knife blade and just scrape at it for a while.
And last of all, two objectives I've made from pieces I traded some marine guns for. Fair trade I think... I have another sentinel and dreadnought too that I may use in an actual piece of scenery... perhaps a jungle over-run sentinel stuck in the woods somewhere.
So this is it for the moment, I have plans to draw up a bunker piece (jungle themed) that I may get to work on very soon. Thanks for reading!
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I'm planning another larger eldar temple type thing after I get some of these sorted out.
The back of the bunker I have a landraider door to use for that, and I plan on having some heavy bolters on the side and lots of trees as I think its a good addition to a jungle table. I also have a much better piece for the antenna so all in good time hopefully. I'm kind of wondering about the slits though... thinking of maybe cutting the "roof" off and gouging out the insides so guys can actually be put inside. thoughts?
Not really much done to this, and its quite huge, I may carve out some eldar runes or heads into the cliff face for this one also.
The blue foam pieces will be where I'll root plants from to cover up the dread as he lays dead in the jungle lost forever.
I hate how camera's make all your hard work look like total crap, not that I painted him that well but anyway....
I've had this guy lying around for ages but I just dread painting so much that I've been holding it off for months and months and months.
I also have some traps and other jungle pieces and then I think I'll call it quits for the jungle, it already has quite a lot of stuff attributed to it.
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I went through some of my bits boxes last night and picked out any cool and useful looking pieces, then I decided this morning that maybe I need to get some stuff done now that I've started. So I got a few bits done on the vendetta.
Words cannot express how much I seriously love this model. I need to buy nice small magnets to make the guns all detachable, may even magnet the heavy bolters with the guardsmen attached so they can come and go as I please.
Another view
I decided to go with this look in the end for the armor because after I fit down the pipes along the top of the engines, they actually slotted in to the armor plates perfectly and I was sold on the idea.
Some might remember this idea, or perhaps it didn't get to a stage to be memorable, but its a downed terminator, and there will be a very proud plasma pistol wielding Sergeant(wow that word is spelled weird) clasping the dead terminators helmet.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
This one is the soldier being dragged to safety by a comrade while he fires down on the enemy desperately. I've been holding off doing these for quite some time, and I must say they have come out already beyond what I expected.
No one gets left behind!
And the classic execution. I don't know what kind of bad-ass I want pulling the trigger but I hope I can just make something menacing up.
And lastly, my daemon prince of nurgle...
He has had a lot of work and a few reworks, and although I'm not happy with him, I think I need to just keep pushing and finish him before I lose my mind. Plus my chaos marines don't actually HAVE a daemon prince (I've been using dreadnoughts) so it would be good on a few counts.
Father Nurgle
I've sprayed some more terrain for the jungle set, but was wondering about what base coat to give some of the ones I'm actually going to paint? white or black? let me know what you think.
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So this will be the base for the little pond thing I'm going to make. I want to have a few guns and limbs poking out of the depths so I'll need to find them and paint them first, then get around to adding the water.
after about 4 layers of sand here we go.
sand in the trench adds so much depth to it already, I need to add guns and maybe some sort of camo-net structure to the side as well as defences. I'm thinking of constructing a new bunker out of foamboard sheets to make it a bit easier than hollowing out a blue foam piece... but I'll see how I go.
And two of the temple ruin pieces. looking good so far, need to coat them in some pva and then spray em probably.... grey I think would be the best bet.
Some guardsmen are also getting make-overs, I need to buy white spray paint as I don't think black was such a good idea for them, I may use black for terrain instead or maybe my chaos marines when I get them.
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I had a bit of a painting session today with a mate, admitantly we didn't get much done as a collective but I've been working at it most of the day since he left and I've got not as MUCH as I thought I would have done, but it's enough to justify writing this at 2:20
AM.
I moved around a lot of my room to make space for nerdhammering and it came out trumps!
So far this is all the jungle terrain I have, that table is roughly 2x4.5 foot so yeah, its probably enough for now don't ya think? I have that big blue piece I was going to make and some other temple-style ruins.
Marbo got a new coat of delicious white paint, I've figured out a few things since last I tried painting him, and one of the things I'll be doing is trying to work on all the little gizmos and gadgets first before I head to the bulk areas of the model.
Another view.
I know he's clearly not mind-blowing, and I doubt he will end up that way but at least it's a start.
And your average grunt, I've got most of my soldiers assembled now after finally deligating them into their squads, so I know who is going to be what type of unit which makes things easier in my head.
The trench has a bit of an update, I'm thinking of using the panel from the rhino on the inside of the bunker along the side, and perhaps setting up some heavy bolters inside but the slits are kind of... small so I don't know just yet.
The downed sentinel.
The downed dreadnought.
I also decided that despite my initial thoughts, my
HWT and sent bases were too cluttered and no fun to look at so I've scrapped them down to bare again and started rebuilding.
Autocannon galore!
So what I'm doing as I get kind of undecided is having these auto cannons and lascannons not fixed to their supports so I can swap em over whenever I want.
Enemy spotted.
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A little bit of work done today. I've gotten around to putting together all my foot soldiers and almost all the heavy weapon team guys except for 2 spotters. I need to still make the stormtroopers look totally bad-ass... so more on that later.
Reloading. I need to fill in the gap between his arm and the torso but I like it.
I didn't realise it at the time, but the point where the sprue connects to the lascannon, is a visor to aim the stupid gun. I scraped most of these off in a hurry not realising so I decided to add a simple sight to the top instead. I figure light travels in a straight line so no real issues trying to aim it.
This is some dangle things I'll be having on the sides of the inside of the chapel, I may add them in very last though and paint them seperate to avoid them getting damaged.
Some flag bearers, a LOT of chains for these.
And lastly the flags themselves, I'm trying to work out a good way to get folds in the top of the flag, thinking perhaps cut most of it out and then just greenstuff the gap in with folds?
Anyway that is it for now. Will be doing more painting in the coming days I promise.
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Gave the greenstuff a go... didn't work out too well for me. I just don't have a patience for sculpting...
I've made some more trinkets for the chapel today.
Skull-censers.
A regular censer.
A daemon sword on display and the podium for the chapel.
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Got a bit of painting done today. Nothing amazing to look at just yet but at least I've worked out the color scheme now and have a clear idea of how I want it.
Your average grunt.
A slightly angrier grunt.
My Chenkov.
My Marbo.
And a sargaent with anger issues also.
The painting is really rough, but its a big learning experience going from boring marines with no faces to having a face on every single model... but I knew this day would come.
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Yeah painting marines for two years and never finishing any of my orks has left me with no skills to take on a task like painting faces... but hopefully it will start to all come together a bit more in time.
So this rocked up at my house today, and another 2 packages on their way, at least one more squad of marines. So yeah it's going to get chaos marine style in here maybe in a couple of weeks or so.
The desk is totally cramped with stuff, I want to work on the titan at some stage too but I'm putting together smaller things first as a starter.
I got around to cutting the bases into irregular shapes finally, the square thing wasn't working for me anymore.
And that's it for now, I'm currently painting the leman russ catachan green as well as darkening the paint on my manticore. I'll be spraying my vendetta real soon after I set it all up. I've magnetised the weapons but they are a little rough at the time so I'm trying to think of ways around it or to just glue the twin linked lascannons straight to it.
On a sort of seperate note, I'm trying to get rid of some "terrain"
These....
And these...
AND... This....
AND... This.... lastly...
I don't want any money, if anyone lives in melbourne and would wanna just take it off my hands to make room I'd love to organise something. I know theres nothing amazing but at least you can carve em up and use the
MDF for bases if need be. Anyway, the offer is there,
PM if you want details.
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So I've been out too much to get many things done but here is what I managed to do.
Good old leman russ got some catachan green finally. I gotta find a nice way to blacken all the area around the impacts... is there a good paint for that or do i use some inks or washes over and over?
more leman russ
The manticore got itself a layer of scab red, which I quite like enough it MAY become the actual paint I'll use as a finish for these tanks.
Fire ze missiles!
This has been giving me nightmares in a few ways, to find a way of magnetising it thats strong enough and looks cool enough to survive the rigors of travel and games. I was thinking as well maybe a thin guide wire in the arm of the weapons pod to straighter up any weapons I put on it.
Experience magents.
It's an ugly procedure at the moment but I hope to clean it up by filling the gaps with putty and maybe some gubbins.
MAGNETS ARE MIRACLES TOO!
Space marine land raider lascannons finally come in handy.
The side mounted ones were obviously simple, a piece of card with a magnet glued to the back and then plastic-cemented into place.
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Been busy doing some wear on the vendetta and manticore, who are on the verge of finished I believe. I've also sprayed a bunch of guardsmen, will be getting around to painting those very soon and maybe even starting on some terrain.
The sentinels were looking good too, but the undercoat I used isn't working so well and the paint is coming off on my hands as I pick it up to paint more... so I will have to just respray the lot unfortunately.
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I still need to start on their chest and back "armor" so there is that work to be done, and also I'm using silver for the barrels, power cores and the stocks, I feel that red might be better for the stocks to keep the guns a sort of uniform look, as a metal stock would be kind of uncomfortable and with the gray sleeves of their uniform it wouldn't get lost in there either.
The venedetta is also coming along, I need to do some work on the inside I think just for a bit of a personal challenge, and also the cockpit needs to be finished for detail.
I plan to add 2 griffons later in for heavy support in seperate slots as they are really cheap with a nice strong blast. And a unit of roughriders on bikes for my last fast attack slot.
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I've been a bit lacking lately with the motivation thing, also some work coming up that I've suddenly had to do out of nowhere, but what little I did get done I decided to put up here tonight.
First off is the tervigon, I've had this project for ages but been sort of stuck with what to do with him.
Simply used some beads to make some more interesting shapes on the back of it, I will probably end up using a gloss varnish over them to give it a gross and alive look when its finished. Still a long way off.
I resprayed the sentinels, I need to figure out how to attack painting the actual guardsmen and any other markings I may use.. but I can think of that later.
More traitors I added to the ranks today, however they are without faces... or any other features really.
TEN MORE BODIES FOR THE DARK GODS!
And my stormtroopers, I need to magnetise all the arm choices and wargear choices properly, I bought 50 magnets last week and lost them somewhere so when I find them I'll hopefully be at a better place with these guys.
PLASMA GUNS AWAY!
P.S. Currently reading a copy of the Imperial Guardsman's Uplifting Primer which is both amusing and informative to a degree.
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Been a little busy lately with the painting which I'm sure people will be happy to see. Crap painting pictures are coming right now!
I got most of the basic paints down now, just the details on the grenades then some of the wargear needs paint. Then I can probably start trying some detail. I don't know how confident I will be in doing a camo pattern on the greys but we'll find out ey?
CHAOS CALLS ME!
These guys have been lying around for a while waiting to be painted, some of them are
HWT men and others are just simply from the very last box of guardsmen I've had to put together.
And the
Vendetta's glass is on, even if the canopy isn't held in just yet.
The stormtroopers have to be some of my favourites in the group, I am thinking of gluing a space marine banner to the back of one, or perhaps making a small banner with some plasticard and
GS but we'll see where inspiration takes me on this one.
Another view.
These are some of my
HQ and special characters all hanging out, I may just buy another squad of guardsmen to use as extras to fill the squads out, perhaps have some posed as veterans.
Lastly are the sentinels, I'm yet to use any of this in a game I think so it will be interesting to see how all my work ends up being on table. Although I'm a terrible commander and incredibly unlucky, at least with this many lasguns I can laugh at the rolling of dice then watch as only 3 or 4 guys are actually wounded and or killed each turn. Ah the life of a guardsman.
None of this stuff is still close to done, the vendetta is there almost but needs some more work me thinks, and also is quite dusty so next photo I think I may spruce it up a bit.
Anyway that's what I've been up to, peace out!
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