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some solid conversions here i like what you have, i'll keep an eye on this thread

Missile Launcher Heavy Weapons Teams Conversions (hopefully these will paint up well and give me a chance to practice OSL and smoke weathering)




My new officer of the fleet (reassigned from a skirmish game squad along with his Astropath and the rest of his crew) Ships Captain Lucifer Kidd (still WIP)


All my armies modelling is complete, with the exception of a few backpacks on my infantry and shotguns of four veterans. (Plus one more vet squad to go, still waiting on the parts from maxmini).

I hope to undercoat and start painting the rest of the company command and veterans by next Saturday.

Cheers Laney

Really enjoying the individual character your IG has, even though they are mostly "rank and file" troops. Looking forward to the OSL on the ML.

A few more recent oonversions to finish off the army (white resin bits from Maxmini)

Stormtrooper with Sten Pattern Hellgun (made from an IG missile)... Sergeant Daniel Dare



Stormtrooper with partly scratchbuilt Hellgun 'Sten Pattern'



These are the beginning of a second stormtrooper/veteran unit with plasmaguns

Engineer Veteran (Veteran Squad with Meltaguns and Shotguns)



Cheers Laney

looking cool so far, is that storm trooper head the commando head from maxmini?

Cheers - that is a maxmini head - I bought twenty of them to mix into the army (GW need to add more of these). I'd also like to add the WW2 type soft commando caps to the army but I can't find a decent company that does them other than westwind - I'd love some in resin. Anyone know of any?

Laney

A quick update on my IG army...
Shotgun veterans (shotguns - maxmini, environmental suits - forgeworld)

Veteran Sergeant Daniel P. Dare with Hellgun (Sten Pattern) (semi-succesful OSL attempt)




Feedback always welcome

Cheers Laney

Intense camouflage! Nicely done!

Here's the Company Command Squad Astropath (I'll post a group pic when the last couple of models are finished)...






The Command Squad so far has a finished...
Company Commander (Iron Hand Straken) - Major Helios 'Flameboy' Jones
Sniper - Eli 'Deadeye' Dexter
Company Standard Bearer - Corporal Cain Grayes
Company Vox - Corporal Hector Winterledt
Veteran Sergeant - Daniel P Dare (might join a veteran or stormtrooper squad)
Astropath - Rasha Ve Ulkethwe
Master of Ordnance - Tech Adept Sigma V2: Blessed of Mars
Ogryn Bodyguard (Nork Deddog) - (Private First Class) Alvin Brodingnagian

Models to finish...
Master of the Fleet: Rogue Trader Lucifer Kidd
Priest/Plasma Gunner: Reverend 'Black Sheep' Gunn
Company Medic: 'Paradise' Milton

Cheers Laney


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Some of the guys on the Deathsquadsgame forum suggested that I photograph on white paper, so here's some pics of the whole company command squad...

Back row (left to right): Medic(WIP), Priest(WIP), Ogryn Bodyguard, Officer of the Fleet, Vox Caster
Front row (left to right): Sniper, Standard Bearer, Company Commander (larger base), Astropath, Master of Ordnance, Veteran Sergeant





The medic, priest and rogue trader are still WIP...

Cheers Laney

youve got alot of glowing goin on here, but i think it is nicely done. i normaly HATE big feathered rogue traders but i think you've made him fit into this squad well. Now to the squad, you have really given it alot of character to where i can see this as a squad from a book or a film. the camo is great, you ogryn is one of the best ive ever seen, and i like your red base idea, ive never seen that before. Overall i say 9.5/10 mailny because nothing can be perfect and i feel with all this nice conversion work and cool models that you medic could have been a little more special

Thanks - I really appreciate it. The Ogryn is one of my favourite painted models so far.

I might have an alternative medic that's a little more creative (I was going to use it as something else - but it might just work - no pics yet)

Here are some old models that I am revamping for the Psyker Battle Squad (Overseer and 2 psykers). I'm giving them a matt varnish and then adding a few highlights (sorry for the dodgy pics - my camera hates me)




Some WIP of my Company Priest



Cheers Laney

Not much progress on anything. However I was inspired by an ace Nurgle Blood Bowl team. This led me back to my early days with Warhammer, Roleplay and Blood Bowl! I always loved skaven and had a team, but thought it would be cool to convert my own...

Here are some early WIP pics (I've dealt with the mouldlines) - sorry for the pic quality a daemonette has possessed my camera:

Linerat (converted night runner - paperclip faceguards and marauder/lizardman shoulder pads, helmet and armour is GS)



Thrower (another night runner - also paperclip faceguards and marauder pads) - I carved the hand open and made a greenstuff ball and fingers + helmet




A very dodgy pic of my two stormvermin WIP... the Daemonette killed the camera after this one


Any Ideas for a good colour scheme that isn't red?

The squad will be...
4 gutter runners
2 stormvermin
1 thrower
4 linemen
1 apothecary
3 team re-rolls
(total: 1,000,000)

Cheers Laney

models looking cool so far, im trying to get into blood bowl, but i need to play a few games to see if i want to invest. and for colors.. hmm red would have been my first choice, NOT yellow, green, or orange, possibly brown or purple, or maybie black metal with purple accents?

Man, I miss Blood Bowl. Was part of a League for a while, played Undead. Has been years and years.... I need an older gaming group.

Wow, not sure how i missed this stuff, looks amazing.

I like the ships captain, however, he can possibly be seen from space!

As always thanks for the feedback... I've made a bit more progress on the blood bowl team. In the end I went for a Purple with yellow trim and the team have an official name now...

The Cripple Peak Cutters

The thrower pics are still WIP but you get the idea (I've added more weathering and blood since these pics)... Mirk 'Viper' Warpfang No.10





Here are the other completely modelled members of the team - the other five I have left are waiting for helmets and face masks to be modelled, then I'll finish modelling a helmet on the rat ogre and complete the last four linerat reserves. If I get all that done then I'll complete some sideline additions (coach, wizard, apothecary etc).

A lowly linerat... No.4



My first gutter runner... No.1




Cheers Laney
(Necromantic or Orcs could be next - and then I need to join a proper gaming club - fortunately there is a league near me)

I need to move. I get in a game of 40K every now and then... the expansion games are what I really enjoy. Bloodbowl, Necromunda, Mordheim, etc...

Your Skaven team is excellent and has the aspect of humor that made Bloodbowl so perfect. Sometimes I think the Grimdark has completely taken over GW and it takes itself a tad too seriously these days.

Thanks Skalk,

I've made some progress on the Skaven (enough to take a WIP teamshot of the basic squad - I also have a Rat Ogre, one thrower and three more linemen to model)...



I then thought about my bits box, because this thread was meant to be a money saving venture - so having spent out on some night runners, the orc squad I've gone for next is totally bits box driven - I then plan an empire human team (I have one or two human players from the boxed set to get me started - with an armies worth of empire bits to work from), maybe a norse team and necromantic (that will need a few bits) and possibly a chaos team (that will need a few more). By that time, hopefully I will have contacted the BB league for a friendly or two (having had lots of practice first!)...

Anyway here are the orcs... [b]Da Tituns[/b]

Team Song
We is da red. An we is da black!
We's never retreatin', we always attack!
We is da black. An we is da red!
Yous get in our way and we gonna crush you dead!

Rookie Blitzer (first pick from the Darkthuner Academy) - Gark 'Da Shark' Ripwell (base model: ork stormboy)




Black Orc Blockers (2) No names yet! (base model: ork ard boyz)



Orc Thrower (base model: ork mek with burna)



Gobbos - not in the first team (basic grots), but could be recruited with a Troll Big Guy...


The team so far, including another WIP black orc...


I've got 2 more blitzers part done, 2 linemen and 1 more blocker (in various states). Which leaves me with one more blitzer to start for my starting squad.

The starting team is...
Black Orc Blockers 4
Blitzers 4
Throwers 1
Linemen 2

Not sure if I have room for an Apothecary, but I think I can manage 2 or 3 re-rolls.

Comments always welcome...

Cheers Laney

Yes! Love your bloodbowl stuff, everyone should play bloodbowl!

teams looking cool here, and if you dont mind me asking, on your next IG you paint can you do a step by step on the camo?

Thanks guys!

@Tortured Robot: Some cool renegades - cool paint jobs

@ Rogue Wolves: When I get back to them (no telling when that will be) I'll do a proper tutorial...

In the meantime, my camo recipes (all citadel paints) so far:
Urban Camo Recipe:
Black Undercoat
Adeptus Battlegrey base coat
Chaos black wash
Codex grey camo splodges
Astronomicon grey camo splodges (try to cross other the other areas of camo and be random - odd numbers work well)
Chaos Black dots/flashes
Skull white dots (optional)
Edge armour plates with either codex or astronomicon grey - makes all the difference

Autumn Forest Camo Recipe:
Black Undercoat
Charadon granite base coat
Devlan mud wash
Khemri brown splodges
Macharius Orange camo splodges (try to cross other the other areas of camo and be random - odd numbers work well)
Chaos Black dots/flashes
Calthan brown sploges (optional)
Edge armour plates with khemri brown - makes all the difference

Catachan green also works well in this mix

Jungle Camo Recipe (the one used on the command squad above):
Black undercoat
Charadon granite base coat
Ogryn flesh wash
Khemri brown splodges
Dheneb stone splodges (try to cross other the other areas of camo and be random - odd numbers work well)
Thin devlan mud wash (optional)
Flashes of bleach bone can also be added (optional)
Edge armour plates with khemri brown

Hope this helps
Laney

thanks man, im going to have to try those out sometime

I cracked up when I saw the HUGE brutal cleats that Rookie Blitzer is wearing! 'Cuz dose'r da best fer Humie-stompin'!

Well done!

Blood bowl. Sweeeeet!

Great conversions. You control that GS! *Makes cracking whip noises*

Here's the prototype paintjob on my orc blitzer. The paintjob mirrors a team I used to play for (hence the wall of black) - any hints on highlighting the black without making it dark grey?





Cheers Laney

This looks so cool I love the Plague Marines the colour scheme really compliments them well a Rust coloured scheme a refreshing change from a green colour scheme. The guard also look awesome and the Blood Bowl teams are very inspired.

he looks awsome! and i know cattafish does some black tutorials

That is so perfectQ The monster cleats really crack me up, I love them.

Highlight black? I'd use a very very light drybrush of off-white or even a light brown. But that's me.

I highlight black with necron abyss, i think anyway?

Your blitzer looks great, love his stomper boots!

Thanks for the advice on the black - I think necron abyss is the winner.

Two more black orcs done (sorry no pics) and because I have the attention span of a goldfish some chaos warriors for another team (I have the bitzbox parts for (almost) two full teams - a regular chaos team (or nurgle team) and a chaos pact team - like the Chaos Allstars...

Here are my WIP Chaos Warriors (one for each major power)...


Nurgle




Khorne (would a second claw hand look better?)




Slaanesh - I have thought about using the Sigvald model instead (to differentiate from Khorne)




Tzeentch




Comments welcome
Cheers Laney