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The Hind looks really cool.., what colors will you paint it in?
I've also considered using hinds as Valkryries/Vendetta's.., what length is the model?

Funny thing is, in a perfect world I would probably be using Late War/Cold War Russian armor for my tanks. They have a nasty look to them, and I think that they fit well next to the Shock Trooper models. Unfortunately, scale Russian tank kits from that period tend to be really expensive, hard to find, and don't have a layout that's particular conducive to conversion. But yes, my Leman Russes and Vendettas will probably suffer some kind of Animosity rules.



Next to a humble Imperial Chimera. The Hind model measures 14" from nose to tail tip.

Knocked out my second Griffon last night. I only need two for my tournament list in July, so I'm holding off on the third conversion until afterwards (since I'm going to have trouble enough getting everything done in time for the tournament!).






Here are a couple of shots of what the conversion looks like without the gun. I'm planning on eventually putting together another gun rig with the Eradicator Nova Cannon to use as a Colossus Siege Mortar.

Like the Griffons, think they came out really well.

2nd Griffon looks pretty ace

This army looks amazing ^.^ I love it.

SoK

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The chaos of war has erased the specifics of the Todthite uprising's beginning from history, but it is known that in a handful of foundries humans turned the weapons of the Orks back against them. Caches of guns and ammunition, slowly built up over the generations by thieves and saboteurs, were opened and used to arm the labor camps. Even the warlike Orks were taken aback by the speed and raw savagery of the revolting humans. Despite this, it is all but certain that at any other time, the Todthites would have been destroyed in their bid for revolution, crushed by the overwhelming forces of their greenskin masters. However, participation is a disastrously unsuccessful Waaagh had left the planetary warlord's armies weakened and in need of resupply. Without mercy the Orks were driven from a few of the world's ruined cities and pushed out into the polluted wastes. At seemingly every battle, the revolutionaries told tales of Der Faust, that mysterious figure having become the true embodiment of the revolution's heart. In even the most hopeless of engagements the Todthites would hold the line, believing in their heart of hearts that their hero would appear at just the right moment to turn the tide in their favor. If the folk tales and war stories are to be believed, more often than not their faith truly was rewarded...
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Hey all! Sorry for the delay in updates lately. I had a birthday, then spent several weeks cracking out figures while trying to prepare for a tournament. Unfortunately, some personal issues came up that both prevented me from attending the tournament and sapped my will to paint for a bit. Also, there was a bit of nastiness where both of my Vendetta conversions broke (I had finished a second one shortly after my last update), and only one was salvageable. Beyond that I had to work out a new tail rotor for the kit because the existing rotor broke off constantly. Enough of me gabbing, here are some pictures.


This is a shot of my Company Command Squad, now finished. You may remember the Plasma Gunners from a previous update, though I just finished the Company Commander today. As you can see, I ended up going with a Red Stripe marking on my Special Weapons troopers (Hooray Special Weapons!) in order to make them stand out a bit more from my regular troopers. Hopefully this proves to be enough of a distinction for my opponents.


"Kill THAT guy, over THERE!"



I also finished my second Platoon Command Squad. The Platoon Commander came out pretty well. I painted up a few more Grenade Launcher troopers so that I could outfit a full PCS and a couple of Infantry Squads with Grenade Launchers. Again, these guys have the red stripe to designate them as Special Weapon carriers. This actually makes sense from a flavor text perspective, as red is the color of my army's Munitions Corps (the guys that operate my Heavy Weapons and vehicles).


Same Squad, side shot.



These models have been uploaded in shots before, but I added a red stripe to their shoulder pads and combined them to form a single Platoon Command Squad. This takes care of both of the Platoon Command Squads in my standard Imperial Guard army.


Side view.

I've managed to get a few games in with my Guard as well. Things haven't gone so well for us, with a not at all impressive record of 1-3 . Most of the advice that I've been getting is to either run Mech Guard/Leafblower, or start stocking up on Manticores. While a Manticore is somewhere in my future (because I want to have at least one of everything in my collection), I'd rather stick to playing a balanced Guard list than going Mech. Plus, it wouldn't give me as much fun stuff to convert.

Thanks for the votes of confidence, everyone.

I didn't realize just how much I hadn't uploaded to the project log yet, so here goes.

First off, I got the crew models for my Griffons painted up. These were converted from Cadians, Greatcoats and pieces from the bits box.




Next up are the two Meltagunners that I have done for my Infantry Squads. Why I elected to use GW Meltaguns instead of something from the Greatcoat kit I'll never know, as I have a bunch of extra GW Plasma Guns, but no extra Meltas.



This is my newest Infantry Squad Sergeant, who for once actually has Infantry Squad Sergeant arms, and not a mishmash of Scout and Greatcoat arms.



While cracking out the last few models for my Infantry Squads, I decided that I wanted to mix things up a bit. As much as I like the Greatcoat models, they're all very similar in their poses and details. After a bit of recutting and bits swapping, I was able to do a couple of guys that were a bit more distinct, just to bring a little variety to my squads.

Here are some Grenade Throwers, which I accomplished by trimming down a couple of extra grenade bits and repositioning the Shock Trooper grip arm.



I also did a pair of guys reloading, using a clip bit and another reposing of the arm. In this picture is also a figure that I converted up using a bit from the Command Squad box. He's injured, with his arm in a sling. I was going to paint blood seeping through the sling, but it never came out quite how I wanted so I abandoned the idea.



Last but not least, I did two Jaegers without their signature stahlhelms. One guy has the bare, scarred head from the Company Command Squad boxed set, the other has an old Chaos Warriors head that I salvaged from my bits box. Both have the Cadian rebreather masks added to them, since I didn't want to break the mask theme completely on my common troopers.



After spending more time working on my list, I'm planning on rotating out my (abysmal ) Heavy Weapon Squads in favor of two Veteran Squads to occupy my Vendettas. So, after I knock out my two Commissars (who are next in the painting queue), I should have some shots of my Veterans to share.

...oh, and for fun, here's a shot of my (work in progress) Vendetta paintjob, with a squad of Guardsmen disembarked beneath it. You can see how I reworked the tail rotor in this picture as well. It's not as pretty, but it also doesn't break whenever someone bumps the model.

Hind is looking awesome

Hinds fr Vendetta's is an excellent idea. I might consider stealing it. The greatcoats are looking good as well.

Subscribed. These are pretty good looking models and painting and I like your interest in backround stories! They are so fascinating!

Those Tiger-Russ conversion seems to me really bulky and stupid... In no offence mate, but it just looks silly that there is some 250mm cannon on pretty short tank... No.
IMHO compensatory tanks for Russ would be like Jagdtiger or Königstiger (porsche turret). Normal Tiger (Pnz VI) is not so bulkylooking behemoth as Russ. And Russ has even that special rule of being bulky, so...

Here is Jagdtiger pics:


and oh, I just remembered. BT-42, finnish assaultgun made from BT-7 could also be an answer:

Absolutely loving these, both the infantry and the vehicles (especially the Griffons and the Vendettas). Quite in awe of the smoothness of your conversions, especially that trooper with his arm in a sling.
The only two things I would say is that I agree with some of the others who have said the barrels on the tanks are too big, and that overall everything seems very clean, especially considering the mud bases.

Thanks for the kinds words, all. I appreciate them.

The Hindettas have been a tremendous hit with everyone that has seen them in person, so I'm glad that I was able to work out the tail issue. Shame that I ruined the second Hindetta in the process. :(

The Jagdtiger is not a tank, it's a Tank Destroyer. It does not have a rotating turret. Might be a good choice for a Medusa Siege Cannon stand-in, but it doesn't work for a Russ. I like my Tigers, and they've been well received by all of my opponents, so I'll be keeping them in the army for now. Still, thanks for the suggestion!

I've had trouble adding "dirt" to the models in ways that doesn't just look like I screwed up and got base paint on my models. They do a bit tidy for their environment, so until I come up with a dirtying effect that I actually like, we'll just have to assume that they're recently deployed to Planet Mudbull.

Going to be a pedant, but a tank destroyer can have a rotating turret. Check out the American M10 and the British Challenger A30.

As for the barrels, well if you're happy with them, that's what matters!

Im really liking these conversions and the overall these for the army.
Some nice painting in there too !!

Lux_Lucis wrote:Going to be a pedant, but a tank destroyer can have a rotating turret. Check out the American M10 and the British Challenger A30.

You are definitely correct, though neither the Americans nor the British were as well known for their Tank Destroyers as the Germans or Russians were, and all of their designs used weapons fixed to a casemate.

Indeed, and I think they look much better for it.
The Swedes had a nice one post-WWII where the barrel lay along the length of the hull for about half its length, instead of protruding from the front armour, the Stridsvagn 103.

I quite like the FW Destroyer Tank Hunter myself.

Anyway, off topic. Looking forward to the rest of your work!

Guys, ever heard of "assault guns"? Tank Destroyer is only a term used for tanks whose main mission is destroying other tanks. Assault gun can also have a howitzer in its hull, for example.
Jagdtiger is assault gun, thou assaultguns are tanks as well as tanks with rotating turrets, they just have mainly different roles on battlefield.

Don't try to tell me what is tank and what is not. I've worked as a museo-guide in armour museum. I think I know something about armoured vehicles.



Still, I like your troopers : D

Hey now. I don't think anyone was trying to call anyone into question. We just didn't realize that we were chatting with treadheads, so we began explaining things that were already known. No offense intended!

Well, except maybe about the part where you worked in an Armor Museum, which makes me one jealous guy.

Ah, the infamous Female Commissar model. I bought this figure the day that it came out for (limited) general release, because at the time, it was one of the only human female models that GW had released for 40k (I can't recall if she came out before or after the Sisters of Battle). I've nearly used it for a variety of skirmish games over the years, almost gave her away once, before finally pressing her into my Jagdmacht collection. I think I broke my speed record for painting a character. Got this Commissar done in about six hours (and considering how slowly that I paint, that's impressive ).



I'm very happy with the way that she turned out, especially considering that she's the first metal figure that I've painted in what feels like forever. I plan on giving all of my Commissars red hats, in order to make them stand out from the rest of the doods in coats in my army.

The Commissar alone didn't feel like much of an update, so I decided to post a couple of shots of some of my work-in-progress figures.

First up is my Missile Launcher Heavy Weapon team. Originally, I planned to do three of each Heavy Weapon team, but now that I've decided that I really dislike how they perform on the table, I may stop at the seven that I have done now.



I wanted the team to look more like a Panzershreck team than the typical Cadian Missile Launcher team. Using Greatcoat bodies also enables me to stretch the contents of the Heavy Weapon box just a bit.

Also up is a shot of a Heavy Flamer Trooper that I knocked together a while back. I think that he's technically carrying a regular Flamer, but considering how much bigger this weapon is than the Flamer models that I got out of the Greatcoat kit, I think it gets the point across.


Finally, I have some shots of my unpainted Veteran Guardsmen. For these, I went ahead and used some Pig Iron Kolony Militia heads on Greatcoat bodies, with bits of extra kit and gear added to the figure when possible. Originally I was going to call these guys "Totenkopfe" or something similar ("Death Heads")...until I did about five minutes of reading and realized how stupid that would be (for those that don't know, it turns out that there was an SS unit in WWII that went by a similar name). So, while I do still plan on painting these guys with a skull motif on their masks, I'll be coming up with a better name for them. In the interim, they're just "Veterans."



That's it for now. Next on the painting table is my second Commissar (who may or may not actually just be a Mordian Iron Guard Sergeant).

Quick update, but I got my second Commissar done last week.



The model is actually that of a Mordian Iron Guard Captain...which is strange, since he has all of the markings associated with a Commissar model. I purchased him around the same time that I purchased the female Commissar model, and he's spent over a decade in my model archive. Better late than never!

I'm debating over what I want to knock out next. It should either be some Heavy Weapon Teams, my first Veteran Squad or one of my vehicles. Really dragging my feet on the vehicles because I'm a total noob when it comes to painting them.

Red Hats on the Commissar is an excellent idea really helps pick them out. For the veteran squads how about Jaeger? It's hunter in German and would easily fit the background the Jaeger's originally being those who took the fight to the Orks and even now form hunt teams to purge the few survivors. For the Vehicles spray undercoat is your friend! As well as big brushes. I'd go for an army painter/Krylon can in the main colour you want to use.

Subscribed. I really like the theme to your army.

I love the look of your tanks, they just look so, well, tanky. Really well done. Your troops look really boss as well.

Not a big fan of the sentinel's legs . . They just look a bit ridiculous to me (although that said, I think sentinels look ridiculous anyway).

I'm in the process of starting an IG air-cav army that will use a similiar colour scheme to these guys (black armour, dark grey fatigues, glowing red eyes) so it's great to see that it works so well. Keep up the good work!

Oh by the way you mentioned wanting good priced Soviet Armour kits, try and find a Zvezda stockist they have a good value range including a T60

Love these, as I believe I have said before. The one problem is that there are too many of them coming out with an almost identical space/stance. Even with some GW figs, you get more variation...

Has it really been six months since I worked on my army? Sheesh. As it turns out, the second half of 2011 became a pretty busy/dramatic time for me. I'll spare you the details, you're not here for details, you're here for Guardsmen!

I have finished painting my first squad of Totenfaust Imperial Guard Veterans for the Jagdmacht. The Totenfaust are elite troops who attempt to emulate the appearance of Der Faust, a folk hero of great importance on the world of Todth. To this end they wear a different pattern of helmet than the Jaegers of the rank-and-file, and paint skull like patterns on their masks (since Der Faust is supposed to be a skull-helmed fighter).





I created the Totenfausts by combining Pig Iron Colony Militia heads with Wargames Factory bodies. The Meltaguns themselves are Space Marine bits that I traded for, and then repositioned as needed on Imperial Guard arms. I think that the skull icons on the masks of the figures has a really good presence at table distance, though I admit that it looks less impressive under tight scrutiny. Still, it helps to differentiate my Vets from my regular troopers, which I'm happy enough about.

Truth be told, I took a long break from Warhammer 40k over edition-change fears (I got burned on the WHFB 7th-8th shift, and was really afraid of the same happening with 40k). The 6th Edition leak actually got me interested in the game again, since I generally approve of the direction that it's taking. With that in mind, the Jagdmacht blog should be updated regularly again. My next project is going to be to bang out a squad of Totenfaust Plasma Gunners, then I'm going to attempt to tackle another vehicle (something I'm not too excited about, since I still regard vehicle painting as being a big weakness for me).

And now for a bit of heavy metal...







Painted up my first Griffon conversion. I had hashed these out around June, but never had a chance to paint them as I had retired the army project for a bit. This is probably the first vehicle paint job that I've been happy with. Things would have been a bit easier had I gone with an actual camouflage color scheme, but I wanted to stick with the army's grey tones. Here are a few shots of the vehicle with crewmen...

Any plans on using one of these for your Hydra?



Also you owe yourself to use this on your deathshrike.

There's definitely a Deathstrike somewhere in the army's future, once I get the essential units out of the way. Not a fan of the superstructure on the Wirbelwind's turret, but I'll end up doing something of the sort, I imagine.

Man, its amazing both how long in between blog posts can be, and how long my posts in someone's blog can be Time feels so short

SkaerKrow wrote:There's definitely a Deathstrike somewhere in the army's future, once I get the essential units out of the way. Not a fan of the superstructure on the Wirbelwind's turret, but I'll end up doing something of the sort, I imagine.

For hydras, perhaps something more modern? Like a Flakpanzer Gepard



Or a Wiesel 2 Leflasys?