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Hey Dakka,

Im now back from Spring break so i thought i'd showed you all some screens from my work over break while i was home.


First up is my Inquistor seen above. This hopefully will be a better screen shot of him then the prevous one.


Second up is Adrastia from DOW II. Im more pleased with this base model but it doesnt feel right yet. Still looking but getting closer. The sword broke off in the drive


Third off the squad of redone tanith. Having been soaked in simple green i didnt have much time to do much besides re cloak them. While home i noticed the difference between my cloaks done here at uni and the cloaks at home. Upon further inspection i believe it has to do with the water tables and how the water is there. I did it first in plan simple water from the tap and got bad results. then i tried it from filters water and got better (seen above ) results. compared to the results i get here however, it appears that not all water (or green stuff) is created equal. That means before i leave uni here i need to get my battleforce box cloaked and done to avoid those results. we shall see what happens.

Nice work on the redone capes, and Adrastia. I think that in you take some time to paint them well, You'll have some amazing models.

Heya mate.

You have some nice models and some very nice ideas.

I would like to see you paint some stuff soon.

I have some advise on the greenstuff area, because it can be quite a bitch.

Here are the tools I use:


First off you of course need your greenstuff, next you should have some water.
I have found that it is ideal to have a vet foam part. The ones you receive with the metal miniatures are ideal.
There shouldn't be more water in the container than the foam holds.

Next up is a good hobby knife, and some metal modelling tools.

Now this is what you want. These silicon tipped tools are called colour/clay shapers and are so good.
They come in five different shapes and from size zero and up.
They will help to make the cloaks smoother and give you greater control.

Good luck, and keep practising.

Your army looks awesome so far! Very characteristic and different look.
I like the realistic camouflage color scheme too.
PS: that commander is hot

Great work, always wanted to add cloaks and hoods but don't trust my GS skill.

@ kato sniper: Thanks man, I hope so too. I dont think im ever gonna be happy with Adrastia. Gonna keep at it though!

@ Gerner: Thanks mate! I intend to get paint and stuff at a later date. I found that if i take it one step at a time i get more work done than if i only do a few minis at a time. The Green stuff has been the trickest part because i dont have alot of money right now so im using what i can. I know i need to get some clay shapers but the prices keep putting me off, Maybe one day.

@dicewar: Thank you! P.S. What commander? The female commissar or Adrastia?

@ two spartan: GS is tricky and im not even that good at it yet. I keep hoping one day i'll be better but school and work say otherwise


Heres some shots to show this project isnt dead. Ive taken alot of time off from posting updates so i could make one major update instead of many spammy small updates. The first picture is the squads now all done with some sprue basing that i intend to prime and make into urban rubble (my tanith are around the time of "The Saint" on Heredor) so the city fighting look fits. rocks and dirt will be added in later for the urban look as well as broken chainswords, shovels, bits and ect. I really wanted a Stalingrad feel to the bases that they're crawling over a broken landscape making their way stealthly towards the enemy. I havent had a chance to GS anything yet but i hope i'll get to soon





Image 2 is my small squad of Phantine skyborne soliders (from "Guns of Tanith") that have joined up as vets or Stormies depending on the list to assist the Tanith. This squad is a melta squad and will find a home amongst my other Phantine models (FW elyisans)




Image 3 is my converted Phantine pattern drop sentinal. I used FW's Drop sentinal as a inspiration and tried to follow it as closly as i could with the bits i had. Alot of time and effort went into the magnets and all weapons + bits can be added or removed at will. The boosters on the back are larger than the FW model but IMHO add alittle more feel to the model (A heavy metal walker falling from the sky is gonna need big boosters) not the small ones FW uses




Since then, ive gotten some primer and finished all my squads. This part of my project (the battleforce) is coming to a close but theres still alot of work to be done. Stay Tuned, Leave feedback and say hello

I'm loving the updates dude, makes me sad I sold all my fliers cause I could have kept building my guard to! Keep up the good work, this is one of the best forces I've seen thus far.

Nice work. Consider me subscribed

@ IDZ, thanks man! Im trying hard to make it the best i can

@Scrazza. Thank you Its always nice to have followers

Today is 4.27.12, a Year ago today a gaint F4 tornado came through my town here at Uni and killed 44 people (most of them students). I'd like it if people could take a moment to remember the lifes lost. If you want to help , i'd like people to use the Below picture on their P&M or avatar just for today to help remember. the feelings here are weird. While no one i knew was lost, many of my friends lost good friends and the town still hasnt recovered.

For myself, the tornado was coming straight for my apartment when by the grace of God, it turn and started heading N-NE of my apartment. Literally at the last moment.

Also, Im gonna be changing the name of my P&M to the name "Ghost Maker: A Tanith 1st and only blog with allies" but i still do like Ghost Division. Opioions are welcome

T-Town, Never down! Rolltide!

Not sure how I haven't seen this thread yet! I like what you have going on here!

It's fun to watch the progress from first attempts at GS to getting a handle on it. (probably why people like looking at my thread, I mean my first attmeps were laughable!

I like your cloaks! They are not easy.

I do have to say, if you made the breasts on your Adrastia a bit smaller, it might look better. And the hat is a bit off center, but it looks good!

Cant see the pic mate

Capitansolstice wrote:Cant see the pic mate

well it might not have related to war gaming but it was important to me

picture from earlier

Nice job so far it makes me feel bad I've been neglecting my own army and project board. Anyways keep up the good work!!

swampyturtle wrote:

Capitansolstice wrote:Cant see the pic mate

well it might not have related to war gaming but it was important to me

picture from earlier

Glad you were ok though man.

I really like these minis, but I'm not too sure about the pose on the sentinel.

@ RSJake : Thank you, the cloaks werent easy and its taken a lot of time and trial and error to get it right. I see what you mean about adrastia, i'll fix her up ASAP

@ Kato Sniper: Your army is looks swell! Keep up the hard work with your P&M too

@IdentifyZero : Thanks man, Tornados arent easy to live through and the aftermath was a living hell

@killykavekommando : Thanks, I think the pose on the Sentinel will be better explained once i get a piece for it to be leaning around on the base.


5/ 16/12 UPDATE:


First time ive picked up a brush in ages. I was scared that i would have a repeat of my Tau army (shudder ) but i felt alot more comfortable about it this time and started working on my Mkoll (Marbo) figure. He'll eventually get a Green stuff cloak but i wanted to show off my painting.

Major Update!

Having gotten back to Uni and found some packages i got to work before summer semester started up. Heres what ive gotten done.

First i bought a few of theses (20$ for 50 off E-bay) :




They even came with a free bag of flock!



Then i got some work done on my Tanith and Verghast soliders:



Also for Inq Adrastia i got her a pet (counts as body guard for a IG company command squad)



But that was before i left. Lets see the new Supply drop

First we got the package supplied to me by RSJake
He sent me a Nuke-a-cola bottle and a small sprue of steampunk weapons. Still working on getting the steampunk weapons off the sprue but the cola bottle has found a home with my Female Commissar Amberly Rhodes attached to the Tanith 1st and only:



Second on my supply drop was some Forgeworld grav chutes found again on ebay:



These were added onto my Vets squad for my Phantine Troopers. Seen here is Lt. Jonus Remaus (having since been promoted) with his new grave chute:



Then the Rest of the Tanith army section and the Inq Detachment D-44 assigned to Inq Adrastia and Inq Urmarus working on unknown assignments in the segmentum Pacficus





Thanks for Checking in

Swampy! That bottle is looking great! LOL

I like those grav chutes!

That wolf looks cool too!

Nice! Lots of resin!

@RS Jake

Thank you, I thought long about where i wanted the bottle to go and i think i chose correctly

@CptnSoliace

Took me a while to work through all the resin but it was worth it!


Got some work done on the tanith a week or so ago. Just havent had time to post pics up to the P&M. I found a new way to do my GS that will allow for less finger prints from now on as well as thinner look to them. Tell me if you all think the cloaks look better with this new method. Once people give me their opioions i'll start my way through filing 100+ models and adding the cloaks


Sergeant Ceglan "Ceg" Varl.


Random Tanith


Now, A project ive had on the board for a while. Last Semester i said i wanted to make a female Verghast sniper using the Anime full metal alchamist as a reference for the shot seen here:



Using that shot as best i could i started in on the model and before too long have come up with something close to the angle of what i was wanting to achieve. Tell me what you think?



Feedback and suggestions would be welcome as always

Love the new bases and updates. That LT looks like a straight up BAMF!

Try to hop on gchat more often so we can chat.

IdentifyZero wrote:Love the new bases and updates. That LT looks like a straight up BAMF!

Try to hop on gchat more often so we can chat.

Hey IDZ,

Thanks bro. Lt. Remaus is one of my favorite characthers there is and i am hoping to get his squad painted up to beyond table top standards some day.

I will but schools been busy.


On the 40k side of things ive stopped for 2 reasons:

1) school is hard as hell when your doing 16 weeks worth of class in 4 weeks
2) 6th ed is right around the corner and i dont want to see too many changes in my army FOC right before a new edition. I am excited that by the time i head home to my LFGS at home 6th ed will be out and i'll be able to try it out with my buddies. (Schools NOT FLGS is kinda meh)

today i leave you with this picture i mocked up of my "powered bayonet" lasgunner tanith holding his ground against a tau fire warrior in a mexican standoff:

(both are holding grenades with the tanith grenade being RsJake steam punk clips cut down as grenades. Captions welcome, and i'd like to see what people add for their own captions.

"I got yer 'Greata Good' right here pal!"

swampyturtle wrote:

IdentifyZero wrote:Love the new bases and updates. That LT looks like a straight up BAMF!

Try to hop on gchat more often so we can chat.

Hey IDZ,

Thanks bro. Lt. Remaus is one of my favorite characthers there is and i am hoping to get his squad painted up to beyond table top standards some day.

I will but schools been busy.


On the 40k side of things ive stopped for 2 reasons:

1) school is hard as hell when your doing 16 weeks worth of class in 4 weeks
2) 6th ed is right around the corner and i dont want to see too many changes in my army FOC right before a new edition. I am excited that by the time i head home to my LFGS at home 6th ed will be out and i'll be able to try it out with my buddies. (Schools NOT FLGS is kinda meh)

today i leave you with this picture i mocked up of my "powered bayonet" lasgunner tanith holding his ground against a tau fire warrior in a mexican standoff:

(both are holding grenades with the tanith grenade being RsJake steam punk clips cut down as grenades. Captions welcome, and i'd like to see what people add for their own captions.

DIE XENOS DIE!!! Love that dude, he looks like a badass australian or something

Hey Jake and IDZ, Thanks for entering the caption contest. I got a few good chuckles out of those

Today was my first game of 6th ed against Kato Sniper. We were playing Kill team with 2 vets and WYSIWYG rules. Having seen 6th ed rules in use i can tell im gonna like this edition alot. Im already ready to play another game

Our table looked like this:



Turn 1:

Kato moves his squad up onto the box and moves his snipers out to cover the alley.



The Sarge in his squad bellows out a challenge to one of my models with the scout special rule and charges into CQB. Round 1 sees them fail to do any damage to each other. The other squad moves up and shoots but misses

Turn 1 (me)

My squad on the right moves up and assaults the sarge in combat knocking her out and gets their ally out of combat. The Tanith on the right move to right gently and open fire into the squad across from them killing the 3 flamers.

Turn 2

Grenades. His troopers move onto the top of the building and start throwing grenades onto my squad on the right. 7 models die as they are taken out by sharpnel and then assault by the remaining members of the squad that had rushed to add their comrade. During this time. Kato stills the center objective. The snipers fire but fail to kill anyone



Turn 2 (me)

The tanith move to the right again and postion themselves to assist their allies. Firing at the squad now holding the objective but failing to do any damage they decided to keep moving and firing. meanwhile the other squad is assaulted by Kato. 1 guy dies out right and the remaining 2 stay locked into combat.

Turn 3

Kato shoots into my Tanith squad killing 3 guys and gals. the assaults and grenades he throws kill 2 more tanith and a final demo charge kills my squad down to the last 5 guys. On the right flank, he breaks the morale of one of my models and we tie combat with the other combat. the two remaining survivors go towards my tanith as my model flees 9' off the table.

Turn 3 (me)

My tanith shoot into his 2 survivors killing them off and then the remaining 3 shots go into the gun squad holding the objective. My other squads lone survivor holds off and defeats his assassliant. He consolidates 1'

Turn 4

Kato moves his guns into place and shotguns my squad to death killing all my remaining tanith except Major Rawne. The other squads lone survivor is killed off by sniper fire as he crosses the board.

Turn 4 (me)

Rawne makes a dash into CQB against the squad and dies a glorious death taking no one with him.....






Game goes to Kato

VP:

Kato 5
Me 2



Table at the end:

Time for some pics!!!

First up we got the squads done by Kato Sniper for me. First up is his work on his Katon 101st Airborne that have been attached to my Tanith in the sabbat world crusade:







If you like what you see here, you should check out kato Sniper Katon 101st Airborne and his paint scheme going on here

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/415697.page

Happy 4th of July ya'll

where have i been all summer you ask? let me show you This is just the beginning. Much more of my painted models to come (I was bored alot this summer including guest work by Kato Sniper and another of my friend's work.

Here are the first screens:

Verghast trooper, 2 tanith and another Verghast



Other members of the squad



Scout trooper (my favorite done so far)



The man himself

Looking very good, keep it up bro.

More of my Painted models from over the summer:

The company command squad lead by Col. Corbec, Larkin, Doc, a tanith plasma gunner, and Milo





Major Rawne Himself (completely redone from earlier)



Phantine Valk



With FW pilot heads

Now for the leaders and heros of Detachment D-44:

Senior Lt Jonus Remaus:

Fluff wrote:Tech Priest Litilus Remaus contuines in his chanting, He feels himself drifting off among the stars. Somewhere there is a cult preaching the salvation of the emperor. On another world there is a a young boy reaching out to his father as he is cut down by blood pact troopers. On another world, brave defenders of the imperial guard stand and fight against the horrors of the galaxy. Their faces are covered in dirt but the look is the same, defiance, determination, resolve. Again another world and among them men...in black and Khaki uniforms....suddenly litlus was interested, his brothers unit of the Phantine skyborne had worn black and Khaki uniforms! Litilus gasped to himself, could this be the world where they were now? Could this be the only family he had left alive here in this emperor granted vision, he tried to save himself to the spot, to figre out where he was, to root his mind here among his brother and the men they were fighting. Yet it was not to be, suddenly Litilus felt himself falling and then came out of the trance onboard the crusier once again losing his brother to the galaxy

Lt. "Cupcake" or "Cowboy" (should he earn it)



Inq Umarus:

fluff wrote:Litilus began walking towards the stern of the ship where the engines were housed. Litilus passed by the inquisitor’s room as it slid open, the Inquisitor standing there. “Hello Tech-Priest,” the inquisitor greeted “I’d like to talk to you for a moment” he said gesturing for him to enter his room. The inquisitors room was magnificent in comparison to the barracks Litilus would be sharing with the other men. Inquisitor Umarus sat in a chair behind his desk and gestured for Litilus to sit opposite, him doing so. “I’m sorry about Phantine. The Blood Pact wasn’t my concern, but now I will do what I can to protect Phantine and the rest of the sector from further attacks.” Umarus paused “Kind of a lucky, I was only on planet to recruit you, and I was there because your brother recommended you.” Litilus stared at Umarus shocked at what he had just said the inquisitor obviously aware of this, “Your brothers fine, his squad has served under me many times, still does on occasion, I saw him a couple months ago when he suggested you for my retinue. He’s still serving with the skybourne when needed”

More shots of "scald squad"