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I wanted to make a guard army, but didnt want to stick to one lot of models as i had some left from 3rd edition..so, the combined regiment was formed..featuring Tallarn, old and new Cadians, Catachan, Necro'Gangers and a couple Elysians when i get round to the Taurus Venator..

Basicaly an army of vets, when regiments are worn down to a few squads they get mixed in, i wanted my army to reflect this..

masters of Odnance, map dude got a servo skull added since photo..

A running theme is the higher ranking dudes have collected skulls and keep them for good luck..the c.commander has an Ork skull 'cos 'e double 'ard with 2 ccw's in a real un guardy fashion, mostly due to PTSD..

^^Vets..(i modeled the options to allow me to choose either 2 plasma and a heavy or normal flamer..still need to add metal paint..sarge has 2 skulls)

Had a game against some chaos space wolves, lost the game but one of my mortar teams clubbed a TDA lone wolf to death with the mortar tube, highlight of the game for me.

next week is dark eldar skimmer spam, followed by city fight fun with nids on the 31st.

need to build 2 banewolfs, a pask-quisher, some heavy weapon teams, a chimera and then airbrush all my tanks at the same time ready for a spot of guard vs guard apocalypse soon as.

Here is pask and the CCS.

Nice concept for a desert force awesome conversions and stuff man.

Keep it up! *thumbs up*

I like your paintshemes. Especially on Pask.

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I like your paintshemes. Especially on Pask.

Consider me subbed.

Updating with some gangers and followers of the ruinous powers, as ever work in progress..


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Thanks for the kind words guys..

More henchmen woop.

Decided that as these dudes are ash waste nomads, i should ditch the flamer, and prevent sun burn with rags.

Looking really good there,some solid gs skills too.

Thanks man, apprieciate the kind words.


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Im pretty happy with the gs in the end, considering i use a paper clip to sculpt with im pretty proud..the vets head scarfs were formed with a plant label.

Loving these nomads, looking to get hold of the old style ork truck and stick a human in the drivers seat...get them mobile...maybe the new style with a sentinel cockpit as the cab seeing as the new one has an ork moulded onto the seat.

Did a little more sculpting of rags, and snagged some ratskins..hoping for a couple more on ebay.

Been making more nomads and started on a walking human demo charge ala RT human bombs, to be used as a centaur counts as for my dkok list guard detatchment.


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I love the human bomb! that is a brilliant concept!! These guys in general are really nice man, liking the gs rags/cloth, you've definitely improved even since you've been posting them. Will be keeping a beady eye on this.

Thanks man, double apprieciate your words of encouragement seeing as i was admiring your admech army this morning, the kroot/nids were cool but the krootox made from gorrilla is epic! Thanks again.

Too kind! This is your blog though, don't want to gate crash, what's up next for these nomads?

Also I just read about sculpting with a paper clip!! I'm doubly impressed!!!! If you ever want to splash out on new tools I can't recommend 'colour shapers' enough for green stuff work, no idea what they are meant to be for but they are great for subtle bits of greenstuff work.

edit: ALssssoooooo, what are the base for these nomad guys? looks like some sort of empire stuff, but I can't quite place it.

No worries, i will probably buy some sculpting tools at some point, keep buying toys though lol..up next is vehicles...i won an old ork trukk on ebay(bidding on another with harpoon gun and grabber), will replace the driver with a human, in other news im gonna headswap some elysians in a taurus to make a nomad auto cannon killy 6-wheeler, eventualy turning a new ork truk into a nomad raiding wagon with tarp ect.

These dudes are born as empire free company, given new life, John Blanche inspired me me with his articles in the new WD, i now look at fantasy minis in a different light, doesnt take much to 40k them..





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p.s. im not taking credit for sculpting the grenades on the suicide bomber, i made a mould from spesh mehrin grenades...gw can sue me idk.

DKOK counts as engineers, i love these dudes, and they make an entrance on the table making me itch to use them again...melta deepstike ftw.

Wow updates are coming thick and fast! I love it. The storm-troopers look really good, I love those backpacks, good choice!

Looking forwards to seeing the Ork trucks modified

Suicide bombers need some wire, basing and a paint job. then on to the handlers.

Thanks for posting J-paint.

Stolen from the PDF, nomad LAV WIP.

That looks really good man, always wanted to get one of those buggies, look so cool.

Does it have some sort of cage thing above the driver normally? or have you just left it off?

I like the look of it to man, but the model was a little too bent and looks a bit silly if you hold it or look close..the casting on the multilaser had a blockage and didnt form properly, lascannons all kinds of bent, the cage is behind it, left off for painting, that too is bent and does not line up. Customer services will be getting a call tommorow, £35 should not be miscast and the medium is too flimsy for the fine, spindly & fiddly bits..I needs to get some mesh and fix it to the roll cage, maybe rolled up tarp, need some pva.

Ah yes, now you've pointed it out I see it now, If its just bent It might not be as bad as you think, if you boil some water and gently dip the bent bits in you'll find they are really easy to straighten out again. Its a problem with alot of forgeworld stuff, It's annoying, especially as we pay so much, but Its not unfixable.

Yeah defo fixable but for the sake of more units per hour vs letting the mould ect cool properly before pulling out the sprue, its quite annoying considering the price..cool model though...happier with it now i must admit, the scale difference between the GW and FW guardsmen is quite somthing too.

This is a great thread. Love the variety of parts and ideas you've used - loads of invention and nice conversions

That squiggoth is a sweet conversion. And the fear of the human bombs is shown really well in the poses.

Thanks guys.

Not been doing any painting, but building has been non stop. Ordos Xenos Interregator found life from a Dark Elf black guard model i had from childhood, plasma pistol and eviscrator and a full hand swap makes it 40k. More ashwasters, another leader 'one eye' bitter rival to 'lefty' in the 'treasure' hunting game they both use to find employment between guilder trains that pay the main bread and butter credits in exchange for safe passage through they're barren territorys.

Painted some figures, slowly layering and washing some figures i painted as a child..not the best but far from some of the ebay nightmares.

Been woring on the ash waste vehicles, not pretty but functional.