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Well, in their defense, the Kasrkin are supposed to be the equivalent of historical grenadiers...

Lorewise, kasrkin are recruited from the ranks. They're all guardsmen who have showed excellence and have been battle proven, they are not supposed to be bigger, they are just meant to be certified ass kickers.


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Love the scions. I really like the classic style helmets and torsos. They really capture that 3rd Ed look but brought to the level of detail of a modern miniature.
I also appreciate mad robot minis 'aquiline features' for the faces.

thanks guys!
something a little different today, yup, I'll admit it. 

I got a little impatient waiting on anvil's upcoming expedish-team minis so I scoured my bits from the anvil regiments range and came up with this!

It's a prototype for the private military contractors in service to yellow-line trucking company. 
You know, the same yellowline tucking co. as my bfg merchant fleet...

he's also an exercise in painting yellow!
I knew I wanted to use some yellow in a future project and I had three to choose from:

zamesi desert, averland sunset and yriel yellow.
cloth, hat/straps and armour panels respectably.
all highlighted and shaded the same way but a good way to find out which I liked and disliked.

I've used zamesi desert before and have been +/- pleased with it.
The Averland sunset was a nice solid base, not that dissimilar to the zamesi desert but a bit redder/orangier a yellow to zamesi desert's more tan/brown yellow tone.
Yriel yellow can go back to the hell it came from. never ever again.
the only worst yellow I know of is the old sunburst yellow from the 90's... urgh... perhaps its just me but man did it suck.
8 coats regardless over white, yellow, grey or beige. otherwise its a streaky mess... no no NO! and please don't offer sugestions. I'll just use one of the other yellows in future.
or even end up using white undercoat and then use contrast imperial fist... that seems to yield nice results these days.

Anyway, as I say, its just an exercise really and any other 'truckers' I may or may not do would (as my wife suggested today) be based on anvil's pmc minis wearing civvie clothing, but feature the odd yellow item; ballcap, tshirt, hoodie or whathaveyou, to show the alleigance to yellow-line co.
So, no. not a bunch of militaria-bananamen on the way.

however, I'm dead happy with the colour on that p90 mag.
looks the biz if I'm honest and was a doddle, its just steel legion drab with a smidge of cadian fleshtone and bugmans glow in it and then a dot of abaddon black mixed in to 'grey it down' a little bit.

parts used:
-  Anvil D day american torso
-  Anvil Fatigue legs
-  Anvil P90 Arms
-  Games workshop cadian head, marine grenade/pocket and necromunda base

more soon.



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meanwhile...

He's back!

Captain Alessio Cortez
come on now, you didn't really think a little thing like being dead was enough to stop Captain Cortez, did you?

No, not even hardly.


When lost in an eldar pirate raid, Captain Cortez was given up for dead.
The only evidence of him to be found was a rather large amount of blood and his crux terminatus chain, which kantor now carries.
Apothacary Jonas remarked upon the worrying volume of blood, that even for a spacemarine, his survival was most unlikely.
Kantor's response was simply "you don't know him, brother..."

He was later found by Guilliman during the Indomitus crusade.
Guilliman and his primaris troops found Cortez in the burning ruins of an eldar slave-camp, little to no armour, his bionic arm missing, riddled in cuts, wounds and holes and surrounded by untold scores of xeno corpses, many of which appeared to have been literly torn limb from limb.

He was recognized immediately, leaving no doubt as who was responsible for the carnage that surrounded them.
Cortez, at near death and bearly able to open his remaining eye, smiled in recognition of the primarch towering over him.
Dispite his hideous injuries and in more pain than even he had ever endured, he slammed his mighty clenched fist over the pitted and scarred remnants of his chestplate; the Astartes salute.
To his surprise Guilliman bowed and returned the gesture.

glancing around the battlefield at the destruction Cortez had wrought, Guilliman knew that he had to act fast.

leaning in close to Cortez' ear he offered him an even greater sacrament than honourable death in the emperor's name, the chance to stride the battlefields once again, with more power and fury than even one as belligerant and die-hard as Cortez could even imagine.

Cortez would cross the rubicon and return home...


As you can see he's mostly an assault intercessor, allbeit with the chest and knees shaved away to be beakifiyed some, just as on my heavy bolter dude.
This time, however, as the chest was fully exposed I elected to graft on the chest detail from one of the new HH beakies.
As Cortez has always been a lead-from-the-front, just-one-of-the-boys type of guys, I decided to keep his kit as standard-issue as I could, using simple beaky pads and backpack and one of my basic bolter conversions as on the other marines I've done so far.
the powerfist arm was chosen for the pose, as it looked like he was discarding the damaged helm, but this left his right arm (which is bionic) needing an appropriate dipiction of bionics.
for this I chose one from the new khone berserker set. it had nice tubes and wires in the flesh and the gloved hand was a very luke skywalker way of hiding the robotic arm!
It also added to the visuals of that of a die-hard front-liner with litle or no consideration for the damage occuring to him in his ferverous zeal to get stuck in.
With this in mind I added some bullet holes, dinks, chips and scratches physically (at the modelling stage) as well as at the paint stage.
all that remained was some sculpting on the head (also from the assault intercessor sprue) to add that iconic, fearsome, flatop.
I mean, damn, man you could park a thunderhawk on that!
As well as this I gs'd a chapter symbol on his pauldron and fixed his trigger finger, adding a new mag-release button to the bolter too...

The painting was done as on t'others with the only extra features worthy of note being the scarred and dead eye, the infamous white stripe (yes it looks absurd, but he's cortez and that's how he rolls) and the addition of tamiya's x27 glossy red for the bit of gore coming from the particularly nasty whole in his abdominal-armour plate. this I felt helped to sell the whole "in the thick of it/die-hard bastard" vibe I was going for.

You'll note his iconic crux terminatus necklace is missing...
so more on that next time...

oh, and here is a WIP shot as I know many like these:

That Cortez build is phenomenal! Never seen MKVI mixed in with Tacticus as fluently before. Well done sir.

Regarding the trucking Co guard, his gun turned out super crisp!

Guard looks neat, I feel the pain with painting yellow, Zamesi is pretty much the only yellow I actually use now, just with different undercoats and highlights.

Cortez looks fab I like the mash of primaris and beakie bits, may have to try myself

Absolutely top both paintjobs! Really enjoyed reading about Cortez's rescue.

I (foolishly) did not think we'd be seeing the return of Cortez, that is extremely badass Really savvy modeling as ever, the Skywalker glove bionic is a fun touch on top of everything.

Props on the yellow merc too, that dude is very yellow

That Cortez mini is just fantastic. The pose, the paint style and the hair. All spot on!

Had quite a bit of catching up to do but glad I did, great work all round and love Cortez!

Oh thanks guys, really glad this one went down well. put a lot into it and it heartens me to read nice comments!

so I decided to get my head outa my arse and finally get on with this project thats been languishing in hobby limbo for a couple of years now:



Yellowline Trucking Co. Goliath recovery vehicle AKA "peggy"

yup its a goliath. yup its yellow. VERY yellow.

This was originally going to be done in the drab grey colourscheme of the Eoforwich 39th artillery, tugging the massive scratchbuilt earthshaker into position as a trojan counts-as.

however I got sick of painting the grey armour after I finished the 'Badger' excavator.
so back on the wip self she went.

fast-forward to now, and the idea hit me, hey, this yellowline trucker is missing something... A truck!

noteable conversion points include the exhaust stack replacement, made of slightly curved sprue sections (from the tamiya barrels sprue I believe) to represent some age to the vehicle, they do look very classic RT rhino this way and also cement it in the real world/industrial setting a bit more.
I added an original rhino hatch for the same reasons and the old chimera window-plate on the door completes the look of something thats definately in imperal hands and not the heretical claws of a genestealer cultist.
to cement this even further, the imperial guard skull-eagle was added to the front and an imperial jerry-can added on the top/front panel.
the little gsc symbol that hangs on one of the rigging straps in the back was simply shaved away and a dkok backpack-cup stuck in its place.

I wanted this to be a civillian vehicle. a workhorse, not a warhorse. as such all the guns had to go. in its place I used fine jewelry chain and a tiny hook (from chaos spikey sprue) as a tow-hook/chain mech.
between the bumper lugs on the front (that hold the epicly absurd dozer-blade on a rockgrinder) I decided that a winch was an ideal way to make sense of this decoration. made from sprue-offcut and some fine weaved brake cable and the little addition of a crank handle from something else (either this or another gsc kit, cant remember which now)

painting required something new from me.
NO not an airbrush, don't be silly! as if I could afford such things. no this was time for the technique I now call:

"mungey-drybrushy-stipplizing".

ok that name needs work.
but its simple; a start of a black undercoat, followed by a heavy, I mean HEAVY, overbrush of rhinox hide then let it dry. properly.
next, using a crappy old drybush (the shitest the better) do a mix of stipple, drybrush and munging the paint onto the mini in successive shades of: xv88, then averland sunset and finally yriel yellow (HA! found a use for it afterall!) in a way that leaves a bit of what preceded it in the recessess as you go. keeping the lighter tones at the top and edges and the darker at the bottom/ recesses...
At this stage, it will look atrocious.
you'll question the method, you'll curse me. you might even want to quit in a fit of pique, but then you finish the look with the simple addition of the weathering.
this is nothing special, believe me, its just skavenblight dinge applied to the extreme edges as wonky, blobby highylights with the odd scratch added hith and yon where damage would occur as naturally as possible..
once this is done you'll likely breath a sigh of relief as it will instantly look like something other than a child attacked an expensive mini with a brush 6 times too big for the job!
now do your metals and cloth details as you would usually and apply some light washes to recesses or as drips/runs as you see fit. done!

I did the metals in a mix of plain steel and rusty metal, the latter done as bestial-brown, stippled with xv88 and finished with some steel metallics over this.

All the glass was done in black with gloss over it and the bumper 'plates' were done in black with grey highlights/weathering to replicate plastic vehicle bumpers from the 80s/90s.
the tyres were simply drybrushed with rhinox hide then washed with steel legion drab (as were the wheelarch undersides).
the cloth details were done in kahki (steel legion drab with the usual highlights and washes) so as not to stand out too much.
all the wraps on the bars were done in skavenblight dinge and give two coats of nuld oil to represent black electrical tape. I think it worked...

Both the jerrycan and fueltank were done in greens using the same method as the 'armor' as I felt that using standard methods on these would make the model look odd and break the forth wall of the illusion.
its also a good way to show that the technique can work with other colours too. the fuel can is; caliban green, waagh flesh, loren forest, then strakken green.
the fuel tank is; death korps drab, castellan green, deathworld forest then deathguard green.
I used rhinox hide to do the chips on these as they are (being green) a cool colour that requires a contrasting warm colour to stand out on them, wheras the yellow, being warm, need the cool of the grey to contrast on those chips. get it?

with this in mind I may yet use this method on something again. trying out another colour.
I mean, hell the whole thing took less than 4 to 5 hours work. (excluding drying times).
The stipple stage was the longest as you want to take your time to get the best transition of coverage to fake that 'sprayed look'. but I'm sure I could do it quicker next time. I know what I'm doing somewhat now. this was an experiment afterall...

oh, an if this method already exists under a proper name, do let me know

more weathered armour soon..?








we shall just have to see...

Very nice finish on the truck, appreciate you sharing the details as well

Thanks...

and tanks!
curiosity got the better of me and I fancied another go at the vehicle layering/weathering technique...

no, not a teaser shot of something upcoming, just me testing out a green variation of the painting style on the side part of an old broken landraider that was given to me amongst a bunch of stuff a few years back.

twas previously painted but I just sprayed it black, then did the rhinox hide base.
then the stipple; first wih death korps drab, then castellan green, then ligher one with deathworld forest and eventally the final edges with death guard green.
then the chips and edges with rhinox hide again, followed by nuln oil recess and 'drips', then a lighter recess with steel legion drab and some orange hith and yon for dust and rust.

I think it works.
bear in mind, the colour in the pic was all over the place though. had to tweak it to get it to look +/- 'as-is' in the 'flesh' after the fact.
this was due to the fact the light was poor and thusly yellow-shaded here. but you get the idea nonetheless...

Very nice work on the Goliath!
Does this mean we can look forward to seeing some civilians to crew it?

Perhaps... ;D

Peggy the Goliath looks excellent. I definitely want to try out your minge* technique on my next admech vehicle.

* I tried to write munge but it autocorrected to minge and I laughed so hard when I read it back I thought I'd leave that in

So, I got round to doing the finishing touces on this one done at last.

been started for over a fortnight now and I've only just got round to finishing it today.

added some shells for his shotty on his chest and another pocket around the back.
I also tried out a red-dot effect ont he pop-up sight.
came out alright in the end...


I also finally got that vehicle I intend to use the peggy-minge technique on.
I'll say right now that its full of rogue trader goodness and my stormtroopers eagerly await its completion!
still on the sprues in the box at the minute...

got another secret project on the go that will reveal itself in time so perhaps a little while before you get any more from me on here for the short term...
just fyi...

Awesome!

Looks very bad ass, nice idea with the red dot sight.

Another top notch work!

thanks guys.
I think I'm done with my aforementioned and somewhat clandestine modelling/painting obligations of a week or so ago for now, so its back to regularly schedued programming from the osjc again!

Today is WIP time;

yup, an unexpected vehicle has joined the ranks.
extra tea and medals to Ragsta, for making this one a possibility...

...and, no, this is not the vehicle I was talking of last time... thats still to come too...

Some artillery coming up? Can't wait

oh yes... when in doubt, there's always some artillery coming up at somepoint from me!

So here are the results of that little job I was so busy with t'other day.


Anvil sent me a few of the new Astral Warriors prints a bit early so I could get them painted up for them.
I went for a sg1, serpentguard of chulak theme.
Yes, I switched out a lot of the metals for greys, but thats only so the models had a bit more physical contrast to the colourscheme, yet retained the theme.
All the weapons were done in weathered bronze and the spot colour of metallic purple was used on the gems on both the weapons and armour panels.
(this was the old amethyst purple metallic from citadel, that I've had in my collection since around 1993!)
the zat 'not' katels (as I call them) are very similar to the trans-phase eradication rods (you remeber those right? jacob/selmac bought them over to deal with a reetou problem at the sgc one time) making them familiar looking yet not quite specifically either. Which is good in my opinion.


First up was tek-ma-te Bratac, I mean just look at that face, its totally Tony Amendola and theres no way I could have painted him any other way.

Next, after the master comes the apprentice, Teal'c of Chulack first-prime of Apophis. Again, fantastic job anvil have done sculpting such an excellent likeness to Chris Judge.

Next I went for a female Jaffa and decided to use a bladed weapon for a bit of variation.

To finish up I went for another female jaffa, this time in a basic cover-fire pose and with the full serpentguard lid engaged.

Really happy with these. outstanding sculps and a breeze to paint.
my first go at 3d prints direct from anvil. damn fine quality I'd highly recommend to anyone on the fence regarding buying the printed to order stuff.
you will NOT be dissapointed...

Wow! Great looking Goa'Ulds!

Jaffa Kree!
Nice work, here's hoping for some rules somewhere to use them!

Latest storm trooper looks great a well, can we expect a rhino as transport?

Kill team?

Wow these are really cool mini designs, great work on the paint job as always!

SO, I've been ill with covid for the last week or more now.
(I can't honestly tell how long its been anymore, but I'm testing negative again at last, lol)
Its given me time to think and think I have.

Its come to my attention that I have a lot of model stuff that I'm simply not going to have the time, inclination or general interest to paint or model any time in the near, not so near and damn long-way-off future.
my house is too small to store all this and I can't warrant getting any new stuff till the old is gone.
so its time for it to go.

Hence!
The OSJC's :
Great Christmas giveaway 2023!

so for your chance to win:


anvil's big dog

anvil's astral kingdom warrior 3d prints

a chimera top

some cluedo player people (a dr who metal Abraham Lincoln is also hidden in there)

an epic thunderbolt

leftovers fromt he goliath

some 1/35th scale jerrycans (look ok against gw ones scale wise)

a jumbo bag of anvil stuff (with some other bits too)

leftover ogre/ogryn bits

palanite enforcer leftovers (from my shark scouts)

scout bits

3d printed spaceshark symbols for astartes kneepads

a half converted sigmarite

some other sigmarites

anvil's deamon hunter sister


spacenam bits and sprue

witchhunter leftovers

and, the rest.

all you need do is come up with a colourscheme for me to paint this guy:



simple, right?

now, think carefully, something crazy, something legit, different styles different chapters whatsoever you think might be a winning entry. it need not be amazing or stupidly challenging or whatever, just something you think you'd like to see me tackle.

you've got untill new years eve to come up with a winning idea,
whereupon I will choose a winner, announcing it new years day, and then the haul is yours!

so do look at what, if any, have been suggested before you post, as duplicate entries mean the first in of any duplicates gets the vote first.

Now, the only terms and conditions are that its UK only guys as I can't afford to float a massive international postal charge so bear that in mind.
The lucky winner will be contacted via PM to swap postal details after they are announced here on new years day!

Then I'll paint the termie in the new year! (which just to confirm is NOT part of the giveaway)

Good luck!

What a fun idea! I know you have a retro heart, so my suggestion would be the RT era Salamanders scheme. It's not something you really see and I think you'd make an excellent job.

The obvious choice for terminators is Blood Angels!
But given you have a lot of RT themed marines already, I shall suggest the 80s yellow and red (that's almost orange) colour scheme

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I had a look around to see if I could find some pics that were appropriate but everything seemed not as epic as I remembered untill I found this guy:
Clicky

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He's back!

Captain Alessio Cortez
come on now, you didn't really think a little thing like being dead was enough to stop Captain Cortez, did you?

One of my favourite all time GW characters and you've done the character proud mate, well done!! Funnily enough, we were talking about this character a few days ago and then I see this! (I'm a bit behind, I know)

Sorry to hear about the Covid. It's not particularly nice.