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So, now to see what folks say, I did get a book to read through (Nexus Psi campaign) and my minis did also arrive, all well packed and set to travel. the outer box however looked like it got caught in a shipment avalanche but it protected my goodies!

So, I have photographed the arrival of the minis

My Veteran Kazaks/Volg heavy troops
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The major starter box or them
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and my Haqqislam/ Na' Damask republic
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and the rest of them
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So, we have the Infinity Azra' Il with the GW and Hasslefree minis
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Veteran Kazak
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with MG "Yes the diner and pie place is that way"
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The whole Ariadna/Volg Republic collection so far
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And the Haqqislam/ Na' Damask Republic group
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the Na' Damask troops, well right now a special solutions team more like it. 3 regular infantry, 2 heavy infantry, a flamer specialist and sniper, the wash tin effects them but allows details to be seen.
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As can be seen they are very well equipped and ready for many different missions types with their different specialists, and the general soldiers who cover the pure grunt work aspects.


Here are the Volg troopers Mostly Kazaks, or cossacks, one Scots and one French Now the one guy fits in even with the basic troops, the Veterans in heavy armor allows for dealing with tougher oppenents, the scots officer is a wild man in melee and with hsi weapons as he tackles 2 opponents at a time with the specialist training with constant gun-kata training.
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And the Volgan unit has a Light Heavy Stubber, plenty of rifles, and man who wields 2 light shotguns for close quarters all have pistols and knives for up close and personal dealings. The real trick is the writing for the dog troopers/dog faces wulvers and the lupine attackers.

Okay I am trying colors used in different ways by each faction, but the same colors just different patterns and uses.

The uses of the greens shades by Na' Damask Republic. so far 3 shades and one different color will be added not green to break the patterns of camo and armor up some.
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Now how the Volg republic uses the colors, the leather jackets of the line Kazaks is more a bomber jacket shade, I will use dot camo on those.
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Then I decided to shed light on them as they have the bigger back packs and shadows from them.
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They are coming along nicely shaso. A great addition to your forces. The camo suits them nicely.

Some of the closeup shots are a bit blurry but overall looks good! Nice work on the camo.

Theophony wrote:They are coming along nicely shaso. A great addition to your forces. The camo suits them nicely.

Thanks, I will be diverging camo a bit as the worlds of Na' Damask and Volg are quite different, black and grey break spots for Volgs diverse forest/marsh/highland terrain, while there is green on Na' Damask, they also have forest, desert, scrub lands

ckig wrote:Some of the closeup shots are a bit blurry but overall looks good! Nice work on the camo.

Yeah I think if I had the light just right, the camera would have auto-adjusted better I usually get cleaner pics from it.

Well folks! It has been some time since my last update, time to toss pics out to feed your appetites!

First is agent G getting his uniform camo worked on!
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Veteran with MG she likes to point where the targets are!
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And here are her pals
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Bringing some color to the bunch the tartan wearing officer, double shotgun to the face goodness!
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And here we have "Frenchie" with his AK-200 and sporty hat
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Much awesomeness. All looking good dude.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Much awesomeness. All looking good dude.

Thanks Cam!

Now for the Volg Republic grunts
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And the Na' Damask grunts
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Different approaches to the different home produced materials and gear.

I note that so many Corvus Belli female sculpts are more fashion models than soldier poses.


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Some more images, the Azra' Il with the long weapon. (I need the copy of the book for the Infinity game so I know how best to translate their weapons.
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Naffatun, easy enough combi-weapon, rifle with combi-flamer
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Now for the sniper expert.
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The massively augmented trooper the Janissary
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All of the Na' Damask team
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And all of the Volgan team together
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Agent G again, with his hair and looks more angry now. he may be upset with that middle age pot of his.
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The female Volg agent
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The Highlander officer of the Volg unit
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Hey all, I know that folks wait for me to make new tanks, and so, I am trying my hand at a light tank/tankette
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Let me know what you all think.

OOOO interesting.

Guys look brilliant btw, sorry did not comment sooner.

 Camkierhi wrote:
OOOO interesting.

Guys look brilliant btw, sorry did not comment sooner.

I am working on more, the track armor sections, I likely will be contracting out treads and some bitz to Zinge as in buy more biz and track links from him, it will help make his Holiday good!

I will have more images of the Infinity minis up as well soon.


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Well, some more images so far of the light tank, I am inspired to do this project after seeing Littletowers' work for Cam, and I ma taking some things of inspiration from the old WW-II T-40 tank.

With some fellas for scale shots. This is just the hull alone. I have already made a driver spot, and covered the engine area, seeing the T-40, more workj is likely, and mainly on the hull after I get the tracks all set up
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I said I was going far smaller than my usual tanks (superheavies and battle tanks) so far, while outside my usual "comfort zone" of said beheoths, I am finding this little bambino of a tank kinda fun so far to work on. I just have to work out support for the flexible plastic as I intend on a old soviet style "conical" turret like this shown on the T-40





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Here is the project with 4 figures to show it is growing, but not immensely so.

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2 across
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with them aside
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the side view with the inner track plate installed
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Modest work done, took some pressure to get the glue to set right and it is worth it! the green tube is to help with the pin, as well as distance of top of turret to base, I have a thinner sheet to curve cut and wrap around the sides, I will have to add some support walls to help keep the thing in place and add strength. I also added more armor to the front so that I can work from it to add an overhanging armor sections over the treads.

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Hey mate..... Really like the lines on this tank so far.... Looks like it is going to be pretty nimble and quick... The rounded turret will also look the business! Really nice work!

Interesting will it be like a command tank?

MagosBiff90 wrote:Hey mate..... Really like the lines on this tank so far.... Looks like it is going to be pretty nimble and quick... The rounded turret will also look the business! Really nice work!

Thank you! stay tuned for the rest of the work, tracks will be ordered from Zinge, so I will have to finish the construction phases in December, but I have a good start and will show fresh pics soon!

Jehan-reznor wrote:Interesting will it be like a command tank?

Oh, more like a recon/air mobile support tank using a Las-cannon and coaxial Heavy Stubber.

What do you use to cut your styrene sheet? Some of the edges appear quite wobbly. I use the score and snap method and end up with lovely straight lines.

It just seems like the clean up would be much quicker if some of the joins were straighter.

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What do you use to cut your styrene sheet? Some of the edges appear quite wobbly. I use the score and snap method and end up with lovely straight lines.

It just seems like the clean up would be much quicker if some of the joins were straighter.

I also do a score and snap, but suffer osteoarthritis, and that does make a bit of a wobble, I do try and smooth them out with scrapes by my knife to shave the roughest of bumps and such down.I do also plan on making some "seams" to hide some of that rough join, and those in turn allow me to have a reason to "rivet the tank some.

Nice looking little one there, coming along well.

 Littletower wrote:
Nice looking little one there, coming along well.

Thank you! It was the one you made for Cam that inspired me to go from my usual super-heavies to a light/tankette style for the genre.

Outer Tread section panels so far.
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Turret work
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The I did more turret work as well as give the driver vision ports/blocks
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Now I need to use hot water to straighten the guns out, they are Forge world spares after all.
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Good selection of camo' patterns on the many infinity models.

Good shape developing on the mini-tank.

On the getting a straight edge when scoring and snapping: use a metal ruler to get a straight score line (if you're not already), and maybe do more passes with the scoring before snapping. I get better results when I've scored many times (over just a couple of cuts and then forcing the snap).

 Dr H wrote:
Good selection of camo' patterns on the many infinity models.

Good shape developing on the mini-tank.

On the getting a straight edge when scoring and snapping: use a metal ruler to get a straight score line (if you're not already), and maybe do more passes with the scoring before snapping. I get better results when I've scored many times (over just a couple of cuts and then forcing the snap).

I just need that metal ruler now!

Infinity camo, Thanks!

Thanks on the tank work, I am liking working on this little guy.

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 Littletower wrote:
Nice looking little one there, coming along well.

Thank you! It was the one you made for Cam that inspired me to go from my usual super-heavies to a light/tankette style for the genre.

I'm flattered And glad you did, too!

Conical turret! That's why mine didn't quite work: I tried a cylindrical shape, it didn't really fitted in. This one, one the other hand, does Will try something like it the next time!

As for the ruler, if serious, be sure to get one with a stainless steel cutting edge & finger guard (Just putting those into Google should do to make clear what I mean).

If having some issues with wobbling, as you say, or reduced finger strength or increased fatigue 'cause of that, have you considered a cuter instead? Like the Chopper or Duplicutter? (Have not used either myself, but sound handy, do not?

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I'm flattered And glad you did, too!

Conical turret! That's why mine didn't quite work: I tried a cylindrical shape, it didn't really fitted in. This one, one the other hand, does Will try something like it the next time!

As for the ruler, if serious, be sure to get one with a stainless steel cutting edge & finger guard (Just putting those into Google should do to make clear what I mean).

If having some issues with wobbling, as you say, or reduced finger strength or increased fatigue 'cause of that, have you considered a cuter instead? Like the Chopper or Duplicutter? (Have not used either myself, but sound handy, do not?

Glad you are pleased, as I like that we at Dakka can bounce ideas to experiment with amongst each other! Your little tank as well as Viks little steamer tank, great ideas! I have seen other small tanks that folks were using as sentinel stand ins too, but you and Vik were the most recent authors o such small machines.

I think the 6" safety cut ruler is what I will go for eventully.

I used thinner, almost paper thin sheet plastic cut into a bent bow shape to get it to sit right for the conical style turret, I also then used that cutting to help guid the extra plates that will be seen on the sides of the turret.


Presenting more work done on my little tank. I also added other little details

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Then, I went a little mad with inspiration! digging out tools, drivers hatch, tow hook, air filter on turret and back of hull, as well as upper air intake box

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I hope folks find this all pleasing, I need still to be getting money so as to order other parts from Zinge to help finish it off.

I really do like how this is progressing.... Looks really nice and the turret it a complete success

Really like the look of the little engine unit also! Nice touch!

 MagosBiff90 wrote:
I really do like how this is progressing.... Looks really nice and the turret it a complete success

Really like the look of the little engine unit also! Nice touch!

Thanks! The making of this turret has me thinking about refinements and I looked at the T-28 and other Russian tanks that have variations on the idea, so if the sides seem straighter, and less angled, it is normal actually.

I merely went with an idea based off the blue-print drawing above, I went a bit over, but I am pretty much sticking with it. I managed to get it so the guns clear over the box, so the tank has full 360 degree rotation and smoothly so. Now to get my money in so I can order the treads/wheels/hatches for the commander. and so many new shinies out there to get! Limited funds so I can't grab all at once.

So, while waiting, I got the decals out and went at making my walkers fleet closer to finished!

The KV-33, Heavy-walker the Khadrovians call the "Tarantula" Armed with a massive coil gun cannon, technology adapted from the adeptus with hints from captured Tau Magnetic accelerators that lead to the advancement of the Mechanicus mag launcher designs, and a very heavy mortar.
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I also got to the other walkers, and here is the KV-20 "urod" aka Monster. armed with a Missile Launcher and a anti-tank vanquisher cannon
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Okay, another set of images to add. The walkers seen are also dubbed the "bobbsy twins"

A-440 Sierp walkers armed with twin linked heavy mortars
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Here is another walker, the A-430 "Molot" armed with the twinlinked Hellfire cannon, a very nasty set up as it will cook at a distance enemy infantry and light armor vehicles.
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Another large walker, the A-460 "Kossack" is a twin-linked Missile launcher armed anti-vehicle and anti-personnel vehicle for mid range combat.
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Next up, the A-450 "Hussar" with twinlinked missile launcher and Hunter Killer launcher. To feed target data t the HK it uses the Telemetry tower seen on it's front left .
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Okay, so no posts regarding the smaller walkers, well maybe the progress on the "Not Knights" might perk peeps up some???

The Battle unit with a mega bolter and power claw I have added the green camo patching and also, the eye needed some life to it.
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After applying "life" to the main eye
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I will be likely doing heraldic work on the flat strips on the front of the lower legs and the doors on the shoulder sections. Still lots to do and go over and such.