Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:Love the custom banner on the Nurgle lord!

Also: how many projects do you have going right now? I was scrolling through the first page and there was so much stuff there that I started to feel overwhelmed by your determination.

_Tim?

I actually just had a look at the first page, and yeah, its quite busy. But most of it is either done or destroyed I think.
Demon prince mock up is hiding somewhere, probably never finish. He's just too tall.
The big trygon I sold to a mate.
Every single cardboard building I've made, the dog has eaten in a rather uncool move.
Some of the odd and end small pieces I kept, others I gave away to mates.
The tervigon I was in the process of making is probably kinda close to done, I should really finish it considering it's been a project for over a year.
Ork battlewagon I sold off, and has made a round trip and ended up in the hands of one of my close mates for his ork army (400 boys strong!).
Dark eldar raiders were painted and finally given back to the owner.
The "spawn" like creature I made I threw out, also with the terrain I made at that time.
The tyranid titan I was constructing fell off the desk and its legs all shattered, I have pretty much given up on it now.
Every other piece of terrain (including enough jungle stuff to cover a 4x4)I made except the Chapel was damaged because of incorrect storage or thrown out without my knowledge.

That covers the first page at least. And to be honest, I think the only thing left on that page that I still own is the Chapel (which I might start work back on soon actually) and the tervigon sculpt I made. Been quite a journey and currently the only thing I'm working on is my other demon prince, but he's pretty smooth sailing at the moment. I am trying to spend more of my time doing canvas painting instead of hobby, at least until I get my hands on a ton of sentinels and leman russ squadrons in the future

I guess I'm thankful for having so much stuff to do as it means I wont get bored when something is drying off, or I have time to think. I have sketchbooks that are page to page of sketches for ideas for army, terrain or even simple objectives for 40k. I love this hobby and couldn't be happier I'm still here after only a few short years.

/Speech

another view
last view
Magnet drilled into his hand, grabs the chain so I can remove the hounds when I feel like it.


Some zerg inspired zoanthrope bases (still waiting for ideas on how to successfully keep the top halfs stuck on the bases)


A plague fly prototype, messy but with some spray might come up good.


And some space marines scouts I painted up quickly for a mate, simply because I was tired of facing grey/black models all the time.

I did however have a game with my guard last weekend against the necron that has been turning my chaos marines into pulp by turn 4 and he found things weren't so fun looking down the barrels of 3 leman russ tanks. I will be making an order for 3 of these behemoths, as well as chimera chassis (for hydras) and some more marine stuff maybe.

Also getting a hold of imperial armor masterclass volume 2 for some inspiration and tips on how to push my tank modelling a little bit further.

I really like that plague fly!

Made pretty nice job of those scouts too. I especially like what you've done with the PF.

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
I really like that plague fly!

Made pretty nice job of those scouts too. I especially like what you've done with the PF.

D

Thanks, I spent more on that fist than I did the entire model I'm sure. not a great standard but it's done which is the important part.

A lot has been going on, hobby and otherwise so I'll keep it simple.

End results of the zoans I made up for a friend. METAL MODELS ARE THE DEVIL!


My dark vengeance kits put together (except a second squad of chaos chosen)

The chapel makes a comeback
Hoping to slowly work on this over the coming weeks to a point of completion

SQUAD BROKEN!
Tyranid beastie gets some work done


Heavy weapon teams, each squad of 3 with their own basing theme! I have 6 more to make up also after this


First helbrute off the ranks, done extensive work to cut him up and repose him


2nd one with lascannon instead we will see how these pan out on the table


And lastly my new company command squad

I have been finding it a little awkward when enemies shoot at my guard ranks and don't actually know who is command and who is just a lowly soldier so I've taken the chance for a fresh start and to also help with making up squads to fit my new army lists so I don't have to swap and change around the squads too much to find the extra weapons anymore.

I have 3 russes, 3 sents, 3 vindicators and a squad of terminators on the way hopefully shall arrive this week or next but with everything on my plate they'll go on the back burner for a while first me thinks. On top of all that glory for chaos, I am planning to add a huge chunk to my plague marines in the form of more death guard, but using loyalist kits as they fit the theme more in my head at least. Look for more updates soon!
P.S. Sorry about the photo quality, my mate took his camera back so now I'm stuck with the iphone for a while. It seems to suffice so far.

Trying to sculpt the plasma cannon muzzle into a deamon head is a slow process.



A painting project I'm doing for a mate on the house as I've always liked this model and I'll never probably own one myself so I offered, and besides, he will never get around to painting it. I have a lot of work to do and am going to try some different techniques on it.

Been working on making sure this vehicle is filthy up to the point I see ork vehicles in my head, so far its working wonders. I feel that I've not quite got the hang of sponge weathering as I'm probably rushing too much but I'll get there. Hopefully.

I noticed after lining up all three brutes that they are all leaned the same way and had to cut one up to change that...

Repositioned the body slightly so he's turned more extreme

Terminators are on cork now. Will be doing a mass sanding when I get EVERY model ready.

Chosen are looking rather intimidating on their cork bases. I still have not got a single idea of what scheme I'm going to do for them, I'm half considering using the nurgle scheme I've kept til now and running with that just so they'll get done. Maybe do the second lot as word bearers as they're one of my favourite legions.

Really like the conversions you've done with the brutes.

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
Really like the conversions you've done with the brutes.

D

Thanks heaps! I almost want to cut up the one I left alone just so he's as tall as the others. :(

Still got a bit of work on the hellbrutes magentised plasma cannon, but I'll get there. Need to work on an autocannon variant too.

Based an awful lot of marines last night.

Nurgleing up my 2nd set of chosen.

6 man chosen squad of nurgle with 2 powerfists


Been a little busy today, I am not 100% happy with what I've done and some will need a bit more build up but the idea is getting across.

Been having fun making some heavy weapon team bases lately.


Enjoy these quite a bit because they let you tell a small chunk of a much larger story.


So far the count stands at 9 autocannons, 6 missile launchers and 6 lascannons. I have 3 spare bases what should I take? I have a TON of heavy bolters left over, but I find them not a very attractive option at all. Should I max out with another 3 autocannons?

The lot of them at the moment, quite a sight isn't it? I won't ever use this many of them in a game, but perhaps for something bigger and more epic it wouldn't be bad to have extra teams.

The big news is when I got home this was waiting for me


opened it up after much spectacle and found my babies



of course, only this much was mine, the rest was for a mate


Got myself a chaplain and some paints from GW, as I love the fluff behind and the jet black armor they use. A great visage.

I still have one more big package of warhammer, then I could maybe get to work, I'm going to have to buy some cases to put this on though which will be a problem soon. Hobby overload.

Holy cow. That's a great supply drop!

What exactly did you get, and what are you planning with it?

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
Holy cow. That's a great supply drop!

What exactly did you get, and what are you planning with it?

D

3 leman russes, 3 sentinels, a squad of cadians, a squad of chaos terminators (wont probably use now) and 2 chaos vindicators.

I plan not to touch anything though until I get my imperial armour masterclass books back off a friend, and really study hard and plan ahead my moves. I want to do some detailed basing for the sentinels though.

The chaplain I busted out of his blister wrapping last night as I was bored of guardsmen and have wanted this model for quite a while so I got to work.
I wasn't happy with the cast though, the back and front section of the chaplains body and arm were about a full 2mm off the mark, but I didn't want to wait for any exchange so I got to work.

The green stuff is to try and add a texture to some of the areas, despite there being a huge mismatch in the halves of the body, I only managed to find 2 pot holes, and bending the crozius back was easier than I anticipated, but I won't be gambling with GW order for a while me thinks... or ever.


2 chaos vindicators, in a need of nurgling, but I'm really torn up about what style of nurgling and the amount of nurglfication I want to use. It's proving a challenge. So I may have to do some sketches and see what takes my fancy.

I'd complain about the 2mm gap..but I spent a couple hours, yesterday, cleaning up four metal ogryn. GW quality has just gone down across the board, as they ramped up production.

I really want to buy a Vindicator for my Minotaurs. Just so I can build the interior, and the GIANT CANNON BREACH.

 Briancj wrote:
I'd complain about the 2mm gap..but I spent a couple hours, yesterday, cleaning up four metal ogryn. GW quality has just gone down across the board, as they ramped up production.

I really want to buy a Vindicator for my Minotaurs. Just so I can build the interior, and the GIANT CANNON BREACH.

I would complain but the nearest GW is too far and I've already covered up all the problems the model had. :( GW is doing some good in terms of giving us models for the codex instead of forcing players to make their own ugly and sometimes abusive proxys.

Vindicators have proved pretty well for me, I've always been against them, but that's because I already had defilers, these things are beast though. The problem will be modelling them well.


Chaplain has taken some paint, rough stages so far, but a long road ahead with some new ideas.

I apologise in advance for the terrible quality of all these, but I have no other option lately.





The heavy weapon teams are finally finished and I can start work on painting them after I get some other stuff out of the way. Exciting stuff for me though.

First off the chaplain is coming together nicely, the lines where the two halves join has given me considerable annoyance though, and if I ever get a cast this bad again I'll be sending off a complaint within the minute. I have ordered some paints to help me with all the stuff on my desk at the moment and should arrive any day as well as the new large mini case that I'll be using for my guardsmen so I can have them more organised than they currently are.





Painting the first heavy weapon team is proving more time consuming than I anticipated, but longer hours at work isn't helping that improve either. I have lots of work to do still, and some stuff I can't fix til my new paints get here but I'm eager to start knocking these all out.

The chappy is coming along nicely, as are the heavy weapons teams.

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
The chappy is coming along nicely, as are the heavy weapons teams.

D

Thanks man. I am finding it hard to get the effort lately to do anything other than mope about not having battlefield 3 :(


As I play what I like to call traitor guard, but don't have any demonic or twisted freaks people may get confused. I think you can be against the imperium without having to degrade yourself into chaos. So the way I see it, these guys are fighting for the right to be their own men, and not fighting for chaos... or at least they think



I went back through my logs and realised I never uploaded more photos of my demon prince scratch build.




I really dislike a lot of things on him, and especially the length of the scythe upsets me a little, I didn't plan ahead too far but I still think I managed okay. There is still more to do but I'm trying to stick in the painting phase, just wanted to show people what I had added.

Nice work! I really love it when people use the team bases to make mini dioramas. But, of course, I'm a bit biased.

As for future GW problems, just call up their customer service, and you can do the swap by mail.

--B.

 Briancj wrote:
Nice work! I really love it when people use the team bases to make mini dioramas. But, of course, I'm a bit biased.

As for future GW problems, just call up their customer service, and you can do the swap by mail.

--B.

I'll be sure to complain a lot. Heavy weapon teams have so much you can do that it would feel heresy to just slap the models down and that be it.


The finished catachans. I really dislike the models and am glad I won't have to use them again.


Third heavy weapon team on the way. Love the busted barrels I bought online. Proved very useful. Hoping to have them finished in a day, that is my goal for painting speed.

Wow three weapon squads trying to finish in 1 day lol talk about painting speed! It takes me normally 3-4 days only to finish one guy..

Don't dislike the catachans

btw don't forget to drill the autocannon barrels.

 Fab wrote:
Wow three weapon squads trying to finish in 1 day lol talk about painting speed! It takes me normally 3-4 days only to finish one guy..

Don't dislike the catachans

btw don't forget to drill the autocannon barrels.

I got them done in time, I just haven't been posting as much... New starcraft beta and battlefield are tempting mistresses.

It seems too late almost to drill out the barrels :( but I know that I'll have to do it, perhaps I'll do em all at the same time.



Apologies for the bad pics, but without a quality camera it's going to have to do :(

First up is a commission I was given (unpaid, cos I'm not good, and I just want something different) a model from malifaux, or however its spelled.


Rough at the moment, he was pretty rough sticking together and I should have maybe tried to cover it up with some green stuffing or whatever, so that will take some time to work out the kinks of.

And back to guardsmen.


I figured out an easy way to tell the squads apart with a small splash of bright paint at the front of each team member, just so if they ever get into a kafuffle together, I can tell em all apart... And that might just happen with the amount of infantry spamming lists I've been writing.

The heavy weapon teams look really great. Love the rust effect!

D

Really like the HW teams! I usually don't like 'dynamic' bases because they seem silly to me (like a Space Marine Captain standing on a huge rock. Does he drag the rock with him across the battlefield?) but with these I can see them staying in one place as much as possible, or sprinting from cover to cover and setting up again. Good job!

evildrcheese wrote:The heavy weapon teams look really great. Love the rust effect!

D

Thanks! It's a little rushed but the army isn't amazingly painted overall so it fits in perfectly fine ha.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Really like the HW teams! I usually don't like 'dynamic' bases because they seem silly to me (like a Space Marine Captain standing on a huge rock. Does he drag the rock with him across the battlefield?) but with these I can see them staying in one place as much as possible, or sprinting from cover to cover and setting up again. Good job!

Same here, I also don't like standard marines sitting on 2-3 layers of cork for LOS reasons too. Plus it does look silly, but these guys are not really trained to be jumping about so it works perfectly fine. At least I think so

1st lascannon team we're finished yesterday. Sorry about the camera, flash works better than without flash. Even if it drowns out a lot of things ha.


I really enjoyed this. I put so many washes into the recesses of the ribbed section but it's hardly noticeable. I tried and I'm still happy. Next up isa mixed squad.


Bases coming along fine, hope to have them done tonight and the last squad tomorrow.

This is what I got done last night. One heavy weapon team left!

Wow. The closeups on the 'corrugated metal' HW teams really displayed the rust effect you have going on and it is solid! Really well done, I like that feature a lot.

The HW teams w/ the broken Basilica parts are decent as well but the walls seem too clean for something damaged / destroyed.

Briancj wrote:I'd complain about the 2mm gap..but I spent a couple hours, yesterday, cleaning up four metal ogryn. GW quality has just gone down across the board, as they ramped up production.

I really want to buy a Vindicator for my Minotaurs. Just so I can build the interior, and the GIANT CANNON BREACH.

I think I have a spare Vindicator (chaos) NIB lying around I'll look and PM ya Bri if I do...

omgitsduane wrote:

This is what I got done last night. One heavy weapon team left!

Not bad the walls look like a wash of dark brown or black is needed to shade em a little (like what you did on the rust of the corrugated HW teams)

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Wow. The closeups on the 'corrugated metal' HW teams really displayed the rust effect you have going on and it is solid! Really well done, I like that feature a lot.

The HW teams w/ the broken Basilica parts are decent as well but the walls seem too clean for something damaged / destroyed.

What Skalk said.

omgitsduane wrote:

dsteingass wrote:Man....Those pus-filled sores are extra-nasty-looking!

Thanks! I am surprised that after all this, you can still learn tricks and things to make your models better when converting. I hope to only get better with time from here on.


Got the final parts done on the bikers last night. So extremely happy with them, even if I doubt I'd use them in game often.

Nice stuff, your modeling and painting abilities are really coming along nicely.

 Exergy wrote:

Nice stuff, your modeling and painting abilities are really coming along nicely.

Thanks very much! I hope that its as noticeable to everyone, as that's the main point of showcasing everything.

Been working really hard lately and so hobby took a bit of a backturn. But I managed to pump out the last heavy weapon team with some very forced enthusiasm.




I really dislike the way I posed the lascannon on there, and if given the chance to again, I'd have just let it rest on the floor. but oh well. Lesson learned.

You can still take it apart and reassemble it w/ little damage to the overall model. If you aren't happy with it then fix it now before it becomes a dust collector.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
You can still take it apart and reassemble it w/ little damage to the overall model. If you aren't happy with it then fix it now before it becomes a dust collector.

Nah I need the lascannons, it will never become a dust collector


I managed to get in a game with the heavy weapon team infantry guard army before I finished the last lascannon team was finished. I lost but man did it look spectacular!

First turn I lost 4 guardsmen to the forgefiends hades autocannon, and retaliated by melta blasting the landraider, killing the lord and 2 termies inside and also blasting the forgefiend back to the warp. I also learned that you can multicharge a few units at once and at much less discretion that previous editions, so I'll be careful of that in the future.

Just before the lascannon struck home.

I wish I took more photos but I was so caught up in what I thought was an assured victory, that I didn't bother. I also had a squad of guard survive combat with 2 terminators for 4 turns, much to my dismay.

I was given Angron the angry to paint for a mate too, just wanted to try some new stuff, and wouldn't ever have one of these models myself so I thought why not.



I think his face feels too dark, but I'm still happy with how everything went, the flecks of dirt on the marines really add a lot to it and I hope to try this on future marine projects.


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And the progress from the dark vengeance kits...


As some of you might be able to tell, I went with a word bearers theme for this set.


and a more plagued style for these boys.


70 cultists. Currently sprayed and will be waiting quite a time to get finished, as they are such a bulk section of models I will surely not be in a rush to finish them off, besides dark angels are cooler.

So I have been busy as you can see, just updates have not been flowing steady as I would like.

omgitsduane wrote:besides dark angels are cooler

... i don't think I can be your friend anymore.

Paint rhe Cultists in batches of 5-10 and do it 'assembly line' style. black / black / black / black..... brown / brown / brown / brown / brown, etc. Do the major colors first that they will all share and make the different w/ the bitz and details later.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

omgitsduane wrote:besides dark angels are cooler

... i don't think I can be your friend anymore.

Paint rhe Cultists in batches of 5-10 and do it 'assembly line' style. black / black / black / black..... brown / brown / brown / brown / brown, etc. Do the major colors first that they will all share and make the different w/ the bitz and details later.

I have a unique way of painting I think and it is going to SHINE when I start working on the cultists. At least with horde stuff like them and guard it should work well. But they'll be the last on the list to do as the rest are warm ups and practise models.

I apologise as much as I can about the bad camera quality.. I really should try to get a hold of a better photo device, this just feels like I'm doing a bad job.
There was a small hitch when I was finishing up this model however, I accidentally (or just stupidly) used a wash and diluted it a little in a pot of water that had recently been used for a LOT of metallic and so he has little sparkles all over his armor and cloak and sword... but they probably don't show up in the terrible photos ha!




And my champion/apostle


I did try a few new thinks on this, I did line the edges of some of his armor that I could reach without getting ugly, also the writing on the cloaks is very rough but at least it does exist ha. I am pleased with the first two off the rank, but the other 4 will probably push my patience a little/lot when I get there.

I found a lamp, and by found I mean that I bothered to actually use it last night and it resulted in much more detailed painting, also used a fresh brush for details and it makes a significant difference. Pics ahoy!

This guy was a lot of fun, I saw the bones on his shoulder and felt that the little horn like protrusions all over his armor should be bone too, as that's his thing. Not sure if any really show up in the photo, but I had fun trying it still.

The book also I am really pleased with.

And photos of all the others again in a much better light (sorry for glossy look, I'll have to learn to adjust.)







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The squad is now finished! I will be probably taking a short break from the hobby to finish up a few canvas paintings that are overflowing and then I'll get back on the proverbial hobby horse.



A few little things I could nit-pick now seeing them in full resolution on the computer, but I am very happy with the results and how well a few new brushes and lamp can help the process.




Bearer is the word!

Pics are *way* better and it's great to see the excellent work you have been doing. I really like what you have done and the detail you've added shows our dedication to the lore of the Word Bearers. Great work man.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Pics are *way* better and it's great to see the excellent work you have been doing. I really like what you have done and the detail you've added shows our dedication to the lore of the Word Bearers. Great work man.

yeah I've been learning a little about how much better things are with a proper lamp in the room, even if its not facing the models directly ha.

It's working. Keep it up.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
It's working. Keep it up.

Got quite a bit of work done over this weekend, 2 seperate hobby sessions with a mate and bits and pieces on my own between battlefield3 maps ha.


The lord was first off the rank, I wasn't really thrilled at the scheme when I started laying down the scorched brown but with each brighter dab it was getting better and better. I think I'd need to seriously perfect this though if I intend on doing an entire army this way, the rusted color is very hit and miss with my method right now.


The back of his cloak, I wanted the bear(I think, or some breed of space bear) was killed and just thrown over the shoulder, not really caring for any type of cleaning process on the undersides of the creature and I wanted it to look like old thick blood was coagulated in the fur making it mottled. I think it suits fine right now but I probably could do better, I'm just trying to push stuff out in a timely but effective manner.


The champion. I will probably run him as a black mace, as the rules are pretty tough despite the ap4, it has a slim chance of killing an MC with the amount of hits it can put out and some bad luck from the enemy. Also a small horde clearer.


I've just noticed the tip of the horn this guy has snapped off upon transport back home last night so thats a bit of a bummer but we'll survive ey?


The camera doesn't really seem to capture the chips in the armor that well from the rusted spots.

None of these are 100% done at the moment, but with an hour or two in each marine I think I'm making good progress! Stay tuned.

Great progress!

Agree w Briancj! You're moving forward at an impressive rate, and your pics look a lot better.

Like seeing the nurgle dudes for some variety. As Skalk and Brian have said, you are improving in, what appears to be, every aspect.

Briancj wrote:Great progress!

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Agree w Briancj! You're moving forward at an impressive rate, and your pics look a lot better.

Moltar wrote:Like seeing the nurgle dudes for some variety. As Skalk and Brian have said, you are improving in, what appears to be, every aspect.

Thanks all! I feel like I've improved a lot, some of them are basic improvements, others are just techniques I guess and picking better colors. I'm more than pleased with how far I've come in just a year. One or two good painting mates can really push you to do more and better.

Started working on the dark angels finally, meaning I am getting all the closer to making my first leman russ for chaos!
I've finished the nurgle squad, but just forgot to have photos. I hope to get all the DV dark angels up to the standard the Sargent is.

First squad of dark angels is done! Well.... Almost there, I need to freehand some squad numbers onto the shoulders of the marines, and yes the highlights are thick in areas but considering this full squad took less time than one of my chosen marines, I am pretty pleased ha.



I really do like these models though, I may be standing them in for marines until I can write a list I am truly happy with.

I needed a pic of the nurgle marines done. And they really aren't my best work but I did try a few new things on them which I'm glad to see panned out how I hoped. So a good experience all over.


The 2nd dark angels squad finished. 20 marines done in about a week in only 3 painting sessions. Something to feel good about I think. The squad markings had me worried, but the better brushes I've been using made a difference.


Some cleaner than others, but as a squad, it looks fine. I also did edge highlight the green but it doesn't seem to be showing up well. You'll have to just take my word for it. I did it... Promise


They are all hanging out together at the chapel until I can find somewhere to store them that will feel safe. Anyone know of a nice matte varnish I can seal them with?

Your flesh and robes could do with a wash, but other than that? ACES.

Those Dark Angels are excellent. The Nurgle Marines don't look as "Nurglish" to me, but I think it's due to the models themselves. I see Nurgle Marines looking more akin to bloated WWI-era German Infantry. Blame it on GW and 2nd Edition.

Briancj wrote:Your flesh and robes could do with a wash, but other than that? ACES.

yeah fair point. Just slipped my mind. When I can be bothered to pick them up from the desk across the room and wash them, I'll repost

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Those Dark Angels are excellent. The Nurgle Marines don't look as "Nurglish" to me, but I think it's due to the models themselves. I see Nurgle Marines looking more akin to bloated WWI-era German Infantry. Blame it on GW and 2nd Edition.

Yeah I didn't really know what to do with them. I should of just painted them nurgle colors and be done with it. Oh well. I'm just happy stuff is getting finished. I need to put down solid work on that chapel because I've had it almost 2 years now... I think?

I especially like the smoothness of your flowing cloth man! Great Job!

 dsteingass wrote:
I especially like the smoothness of your flowing cloth man! Great Job!

Thanks! I just mix the colors I want with white. I could do more, and I really should be pushing myself but the terminators are what I've wanted to paint since I bought this set.

Regardless of what ytou are doing, it's really cool to see the focus and motivation. You've really been cranking on things since you started this blog.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Regardless of what ytou are doing, it's really cool to see the focus and motivation. You've really been cranking on things since you started this blog.

yeah man! The motivation is actually from recently getting my car license and my first car, and being able to visit mates for hobby sessions until 2 am in the morning. So thanks to that, I'm forcing myself to hobby a lot more than I normally would, and with the mentoring of my mate Jbrehaut, give him a visit and check it out.

I am a lot further through my hobby collection than I thought I would be by this point, so a few more really good sessions and I'm back to building guardsmen and chaos. So very excited.

Biker squad 1 done!

Dotting the eyes is something I've yet to ever try on a model and I think it came out without the marine looking extremely shocked or as the stuntman for bane.


Squad markings also, really enjoying trying to freehand, may do more in the future on other models. (very keen to maybe make up a squad of battle-hardened nightlords or alpha legion.)


And lastly a shot of their screens, hope it is a bit more interesting than past attempts of just a green screen with highlights and gloss.

Very happy with myself, quite a few hours work on them, but hoping the other squad will be done by the turn of the next week and then onto terminator town

I've finished the other bike squad, and also one of the dark vengeance terminator squads, but no pictures just yet sorry! I've been flat out with work and trying to do what I can in my spare time but today I forced myself to work on this beauty.

cut some foamcore out the shape of the doors and covered it with paddlepop sticks to make the door feel thick but not having to actually make it that bad, will have to probably add some hinges to it somewhere.






So I figured to let the pictures do the talking here. I need to make up a little most plaster to fill the gaps in some of the building and edge up the corner panels for the outside. I also had cut out planes of glass(plastic) to act as windows, not sure how to set them into the model just yet, but hoping some genius strikes me before I screw up royally. I bought some textured stone paint too that should help with giving it a good feeling for the outside.

kinda late at the moment, but a couple of snaps of the terminators (will do better ones tomorrow with the light)



This first squad was a little rushed, I did edge highlight as much as I could but it barely shows in these low quality photos.

The second squad I had a different idea and wanted to push myself a little more.


I don't know why the black arms, but it looks menacing right? I am unsure of what colors to use, I don't want them looking as codex as the others, so I may try blue for the ropes, or some sort of purple, experiment.

been painting at work, adding what I can during my breaks. the photos are not my best, but I will take better ones after this weekend when I get more progress done.



So far I'm really enjoying these. I can't wait to finally get them done though at the same time. because of the black arms and the green robes on the main guy, I'm really unsure what color to do the eagles on the chests, and the symbol on the shoulders, but those should be red/white/whatever because of their actual company, correct?

Kinda really happy with the results, some of the grey highlights are a little messy as I don't have any good brushes left, the one I have been using has been losing a bristle every time I clean it so its becoming quite useless. :(
Also the pictures don't really show up what I've put into these half as much as I was hoping, but either way I did them and I've spent probably a solid 10 hours on the squad in total and some stuff I pushed myself with to try and see what I could do. I wanted to try and write on the seals but I don't need the added headache after all this time.
















And lastly, the next thing on my list is converting some chimera hulls into the mighty hydra flakk tank. I have some ideas of where to go, but want to make absolutely sure I'm happy before I start cutting anything up.

Excellent work in here. Both your painting and modeling skills have really come along since you've started.

Really like all the models from the Dark Vengeance kit and the Angron you'vce painted. You should be really proud of them all.

Looking forward to seeing more, keep up the good work.

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
Excellent work in here. Both your painting and modeling skills have really come along since you've started.

Really like all the models from the Dark Vengeance kit and the Angron you'vce painted. You should be really proud of them all.

Looking forward to seeing more, keep up the good work.

D

Thanks mate! The angron was a little rushed in the end, as it wasn't for me and I did paint it for free, I didn't go completely over the top.
I was hoping the painting skills would be showing off a little bit, I've tried to take things a little more seriously. It kills me for time but looks great in the end, I am very proud of my old guardsmen case that now is crammed with the dark vengeance models.
More to come. always.

Just a small update.

Need to get my guard army up to 1850 and completely WYSIWYG so the updates won't be major ones.

Found a few spar guard lying in a box half assembled so I knocked up the replacement sergeants for the platoon command.


Also starting work on the hydra barrels, I lost one of the tips somewhere and I spent a good hour last night searching everywhere I can think of and with no luck, starting to think I may have to just glue on crummy chaos demon heads.




Also took a fairly rough and large file to the defense lines and it looks like it had the desires effect. Might do maybe a melta blast too on one and that will be job complete. Spray arrives tomorrow.

Still have to get around to fixing up the arms/wargar options for some odd guardsmen and also find a way to represent a really cool warlord unit, and that includes making melta gun veterans and making swappable weapons for the other 2 vet squads. Then the painting can begin. It's taken a big step last night but hopefully should be ready within time.

First thing is
HYDRA!!!!!!!!



I had too many intense searches and couldn't find the missing autocannon end piece (flash suppressor?) so I decided the other needs something, and chaos demon-head tips work just fine.
So much fun was had trying to sort through the bits and find a good looking combination of parts to end up where they did and I can say I'm super pleased with myself. I do need to put some gear on it and also think of a way to fill in the gun portholes left in the hull then I should be good to paint. Gunna be strange to be back painting guardsmen tanks again.

In order for my army to be WYSIWYG for the upcoming tournament I needed to desperately finish these guys

The little strip of plasticard on the voxs casters lasgun was ridiculously time consuming and I never wish to do that again ever. But psyched with how they ended up, might need cleaning up on the GS and slight touches here and there but otherwise, done.


Finally just rag-tag guardsmen that needed a retro-fitting to bring them up to wysiwyg with the rest of the army. So as far as I am aware, almost all modelling work on the guardsmen is done, painting will start a few days after my spray arrives.

Wow. You've been busy. I really like the flak gun on the back of the Chimera ( I can't remember what the vehicle is actually called). It looks SO much better than that ridiculous GI Joe play set that Forgeworld made.

Your painting is always stepping up. The Terminators look really good, especially the sword!

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Wow. You've been busy. I really like the flak gun on the back of the Chimera ( I can't remember what the vehicle is actually called). It looks SO much better than that ridiculous GI Joe play set that Forgeworld made.
Your painting is always stepping up. The Terminators look really good, especially the sword!

I have! i am making great progress, not as fast as I should be, but I am on the final stretch now. I have one arm to paint and the ratlings to finish (no photo yet) and that's my 1850 guardsmen army.

Had some games though against a mates chaos marines, and also a chaos/ork allies army at 1850 and come across 2 things that I will be removing after this up-coming tournament.
1. Hydras are doing jack-all in every game I have. Not even getting destroyed, they're doing so bad they've been ignored each game haha.
2. The vendetta has been useless as all hell
Granted, some bad luck hasn't helped but those 2 choices are continuously letting me down again and again and I'd rather have more heavy weapon teams for the points or another platoon.... for the future.

One of the games, ended up as a loss 14-4 VP but I was getting close to pushing him off his objectives I felt. Another learning experience.


So the command squad is also finished now, I wasn't quite sure what to do with a bit of it, but I can't be wasting too much time especially as at the time the hydras weren't even built.



Defence line, big brush with silver, then watered down black to fill in the gaps, orange for the bolts then a silver drybrush over the lot.


The hydras. The freehand isn't amazing, but it was good to give it a shot on such a small scale. I want a background on it with the words "back to the front" but really unclear of a good way/colors to use.




So that's what I've been up to. Shall post my disappointing results from the tournament and plenty of photos from the day if I remember!

The list is as follows. I would like more infantry, but last tournament the infantry whoring idea didn't pan out as most of my games were only 3 turns.
Ccs 3 melta vox
Ccs 3 melta vox

Pcs vox 3 flamers
Infantry vox flamer
Infantry vox flamer
Hwt ac
Hwt ml
Hwt lc

Pcs vox 3 flamers
Infantry vox flamer
Infantry vox flamer
Hwt ac
Hwt ac
Special 3 melta

3 sents hf
Vendetta
^ Veterans 3 melta

2 hydra
Manticore

Aegis defence line

Veteran squad 3 plasma
3 ratlings

Hasn't been working well as I think I mentioned, but after the tournament I hope to revamp it and add a lot more hardness to it and make it not so easily crumpled.

Two things- you have a wicked cool army concept that looks great, and you've gained a lot of experience with deployment and composition.

Here's one of my favorite quotes:

"The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
George S. Patton

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Two things- you have a wicked cool army concept that looks great, and you've gained a lot of experience with deployment and composition.

Here's one of my favorite quotes:

"The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."
George S. Patton

Deployment and list writing I have found is a very large part of your game. Do it wrong and you wont recover, do it right and you just might win.

As for the Patton quote, I think I did bounce back sort of, I could have done better, had a better list, but these are now big mistakes I hopefully wont make again.

Had an amazing weekend at a tournament on the other side of the city down here in Melbourne.

Ended up 7th out of 28, not a big turn out, but surely it will grow from here on in. I grabbed as many photos as I could remember too, my game that was

before the set-up for army judging was neck and neck so we ran another turn and I didn't get photos of many of the other armies so unfortunately all the

photos are of my army. But I'm okay with this

First game I wound up somehow against a double stormraven, double dreadknight list, and I got completely stomped, by the end of it I was barely hanging on

and killed nothing of value besides the ravens, which took an entire army to drown out. Managed two wounds on the knights in the entire game despite a

million shots, he picked his targets well though, knew what posed a threat and nullified it. But that's the ease you get given when you play an army like

that ey?


Another view.
2nd.
Storm ravens make it in and unleash a very literal hell. Penning the manticore about 5 times over.

Second game was interesting, played against a dark angel with guard allies, I was confident with this one and lost it in the end because of last turn

stupid moves. So disappointed in myself, ha.

Is that a Vendetta guys?
... Oh crap it is!

Deploy counter-vendetta!
The enemy vendetta took about 6 autocannons worth of firepower (that just happened to hit 9/12 on 6's anyway) and pushed on, so I had to use the vendetta

instead of on other targets.

At this point I was feeling pretty down on myself, losing the first game was a given, but this one I had in the bag, had him down to 6 models, 4 of which

were marines and 1 terminator and a predator that I had ignored all game.

2 of my close mates that went up with me were having bad luck (our lists weren't even a tiny bit hardness) so I ended up having the joy of playing one of

them in the third round. He plays a horde chaos marines army... made of chaos marines.

Roughly 65 marines!

Running Huron as he does, he infiltrated 2 squads of marines closer to me than I wished he could, and also a squad of obliterators walked up with the army

(but proved themselves less than useful).

I panicked, as any death-fearing guardsman commander would, and opened fire on Hurons large squad, downing them to 5 marines from 15 which was good, but

assault wasn't far away...

HOLD THE LINE! LOVE ISN'T ALWAYS ON TIME

These two shots I just had to take, find it fun sometimes when a squad of ratlings gets passed by an entire chaos marine army and they don't take the time

to even shoot them.
PEWPEW
Did he see us?

Eventually he hit my lines... HARD. And all at once. I was actually really worried at this stage. Seriously worried.



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"This was it." I thought as I watched him slay through the squads he charged. Usually I let the guardsmen take the hits and fall under the chainaxes then

during my next phase open fire. But I was not feeling I had the firepower to drown him out at this point.


Another shot.

And one more.

Last one. I promise.

The smoke cleared, and I found myself with renewed hope once the lasguns fell silent briefly.


The guardsmen had done it! Smashing down the chaos marines! But they weren't finished...



Another turn resulted in only a handful of chaos marines left inside my deployment, on the verge of breaking but the game ended that same turn.

We drew in victory points, as I stupidly forgot to run my guardsmen towards the only objective in range (like 1 inch from claiming) and we scored the same

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Imperial fists was next!


Being that they are my actual favourite imperial chapter, I took a lot of photos. I needed this win because I had imperial fist heads for trophies on my bases/vehicles/objectives.

After my first turn, I managed to knock out the thunderfire cannon, which I desperately needed. I honestly thought that the worst was over when it died...
Then this happened...


WE CAME HERE TO PARTY!


So this big yellow space jerk hops out and tries to ruin my day.

Another shot of the arrival.


A sniper tries to take aim at the heavy weapon teams and fails. Going to ground is the greatest thing since the heresy.



The terminators fly out of the land raider and proceed to turn a heavy weapon team inside out, then cop the most ridiculous amount of fire power ever. (literally 9/10ths of my army in their face) but this guy knows how to pass a 2+ and 3+ like a legend and shrugs off a lot more of them than he should have.


Illysander (sp?) and his squad cops lasguns, flamers, heavy flamers, laspistols, a meltagun and plasma guns and he still stands strong with his right-hand sargeant by his side.

Illysander at this point becomes annoying, not for his offensive power, but the fact he is denying me two kills points by being alive on his last wound, and when I thought things couldn't be more inconvenient...
A land speeder drops into a crowded platoon of guardsmen


I moved my guardsmen as far as I could from the speeder, while still being in rapid fire for the yellow jerk, and fired almost everything AGAIN at him. He passed everything, every 3++ and every 2+ I could muster. When I had enough I shot the hydras at him in a desperately pathetic attempt to claim the points...

And he finally rolls a 1 and loses the last wound!
The missile launcher team clean up the land speeder (which destroyed my manticore, and subsequently exploded, killing 8 or so guardsmen from varying squads.)

The last terminator from the shield/hammer squad again takes the brunt of a full turns shooting and survives, he clobbers the last command squad I have then consolidates onto my objective, blocking me from having it. Imperial fists win! But a close and amazing game.


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We had to set up our armies next for veiwing for best painted. Had a lot of people come over and comment on the army which is good, and also shocked at the number of heavy weapons and guardsmen I managed to scrounge up ha.






The last game was an interesting one, against a list I didn't feel even remotely threatened by but it proved to be one of the most hilariously fail games on both sides I have had in a while, and doubled up with the fact we were in a tournament, it was almost too silly.

Basic gunline style again (didn't get any real photos, sorry). He hit me hard front on and the first few turns were rough on my numbers, then as always I started to thin him out and thats when stuff gets better. Eventually it came down to him having only two obliterators left holding his objective, and I held my two so my first tournament victory!


The flying stand represents his sorceror on a tzeetnch disk or whatever the wargear is. He was a beast in combat, as was his khorne lord (but I dealt with him fairly quick), but rushed up into a squad of guard, missed all his hits, I failed to hit him back, and this exact same style continued on for 3 turns of combat, when he did hit me on the 4th turn he failed to wound while my guardsmen frantically tried to bayonet him off his high disk-horse.

He also rammed his rhino full 12" into my scout sentinel that was left, not touching the sentinel but in return the sentinel took a hull point off in a hilarious turn around.

While all this ridiculousness was happening however, his heldrake was DECIMATING every heavy weapon team I had (360 degree torrent st6 flamer is.. just wow.) so in the end I had a handful of scraggly guard but did end up winning which is what really counts.

I think that's enough on my tournament experience for this year though, but a few things I think I really learned hard are...

1. Hydras are kind sucky, I will/would much rather extra heavy weapons with re-rolls or even a quad gun.
2. Vendetta with a squad of veterans did jack every single game, except where it finished off an enemy vendetta.
3. Play for the objectives, not for kills!

Too much overcommitment to capturing an objective cost me one game. Forgetting the objective cost me another.


For anyone that bothered to read any of this, thanks. I'll be trying to get back to hobbying after a much needed break and relaxation period.

Just a quick update.


Battlewagon I'm painting for a mate (for free) so the paint job won't be the top priority, more of an experiment for me.


The chapel has been slowly undergoing work, today I finally got around to painting the checkered floor bone roughly to map out where abouts they start and end and how far the pattern goes. Was tedious at best.




But the pride of this whole project for me, is these bad boys.


One is horus, a mix of luna wolves, and just before heresy look as I don't have any knowledge of his entire look, and the other is our favourite tyrant, the emperor.

The eye of horus is for the back window of the chapel, and the other piece I will be turning into a scene scape of horus' calling to warmaster.

Stay tuned!

I can imagine how tedious the floor is. I really like the idea of 'stained glass'. I haven't seen anyone do that in a long time. Good luck w/ it, and I'll be watching your technique / progress.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
I can imagine how tedious the floor is. I really like the idea of 'stained glass'. I haven't seen anyone do that in a long time. Good luck w/ it, and I'll be watching your technique / progress.

The floor isn't SO bad, its more the fact that I can't easily reach any of it from where this beast sits on my table ha. So I have to constantly flip it around and lay it off the table edge to get a better view. All coming together nicely if I say so myself. Thanks again man!





Did a little filling in last night on the sandbags and also brought the marine heads up to scratch. The golden skull was annoying me as it felt too bright for something to drab and dreary and I had a lot of fun using bone to bring it out a little more.
Another layer also over the checks last night, maybe tonight I'll be able to go over and fix the black sections and we might start rolling on the window colors.

I love this this stuff! I have about 17 guardsmen that i have gotten through random and uses bits, I am also converting them to chaos and you have lots of great ideas! iloveit.

 wolfmerc wrote:
I love this this stuff! I have about 17 guardsmen that i have gotten through random and uses bits, I am also converting them to chaos and you have lots of great ideas! iloveit.

Most of my good ideas come from other hobbyists so the best resource is already out there. I have (had before my comp went nuts) thousands of photos of all kinds of different armies, even just for small specific pieces like gun mods. Simple ideas can make a whole army very individual, even for guard.
And thanks! OF course! Glad you enjoy it


This is what they both look like when in the window, gotta say they really do have a presence when looking at the chapel overall. I think more bullet holes are needed though?


I got to work for a solid hour or two last night and with some serious trouble I ended up getting a considerable amount done despite my obvious lack of skills painting gold using no metallic.


I wish I had of looked up a gold NMM tutorial before hand to give me a much better idea, but in the end I realised I was going too far on the yellow end and not enough browns/orange. The emperor attempt will hopefully be better, I have already learned a lot about what I did wrong. Shame that the windows are not perfectly aligned but all things considered it's a fair effort and won't hopefully attract too much attention.

I am however stuck for colors to use on the circles and back pieces on both windows. Any ideas would be really appreciated. I know I do want a white/yellow halo around the heads, but past that it doesn't seem as straight-cut.

So the emperors section is almost done, I'm not sure what to do with the parts around them both but I'll try and think of something today as I really need to finish this up, and it's so close I can taste the corpse gods fear.

This will be the back window, granted most of this wont be seen, but the broken glass will hopefully show part of a much bigger picture.

This is the most ambitious and impressive project I've seen you do so far. I'm impressed that 1- you are using real paint (I would have used colored markers) and 2- you are using NMM. I would have just used metallics.

Well done and I'm really looking forward to the final product, it will be excellent.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
This is the most ambitious and impressive project I've seen you do so far. I'm impressed that 1- you are using real paint (I would have used colored markers) and 2- you are using NMM. I would have just used metallics.

Well done and I'm really looking forward to the final product, it will be excellent.

As for 1- I didn't think of markers, but that seems like a much smarter idea haha. I just didn't have any on me and I tend to rush into things real bad.
and 2- It's a pretty basic try and NMM, cos I wanted them slightly transparent, I needed to water the layers down a lot, and metallic paint wasn't gunna cut it that way so I had to try NMM. But I'm glad you're that impressed. I'm doing something right!

During my week long holiday, I actually spent a lot of time sketching up ideas, writing lists for future games and doing a lot of hobby-related research. So some big projects on the way!

I did get a few more colors laid down, I'm home from a week away and will be hopefully smashing out the last of the windows (no pun intended, or maybe it was).

I've been wondering if maybe the back glass needs more small pieces thrown about, I drew up most of the scene then cut it into tiny pieces, but they could probably go down a notch or two right?

I'm currently painting up the banners and stuff that I assembled for this years ago.

few things that annoy me is because I never set a window for either horus or the emperor, they ended up getting swapped a lot and that resulted in horus missing some window room up the top :(, I also would of liked to make better sandbags ha. but what can you do? my skills only go so far. I will be making more bits and bobs for this though, such as pews stacked up as make shift defenses and more bookshelves and of course, books to go along with it.

That is incredible! Exceptional attention to detail with the broken glass inside. Definitely one of the better pieces of terrain I've seen in a while. I'm really impressed, great job all around!

This has a very "Second Edition"/Early Gw feel, from my PoV. And that is a high compliment. Congratulations on a stunning piece.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:That is incredible! Exceptional attention to detail with the broken glass inside. Definitely one of the better pieces of terrain I've seen in a while. I'm really impressed, great job all around!

Thanks very much man! I'm quite pleased with myself too, as its been sitting on that desk for a good year or two, it's nice to see it done.

Briancj wrote:This has a very "Second Edition"/Early Gw feel, from my PoV. And that is a high compliment. Congratulations on a stunning piece.

haha. Thanks very much!

I built a few more pews last night, wasted a lot of paddle pop sticks after I realised I cut about 25 pieces the wrong size hahah.



Glued 3 together and another 2 as make shift barricades. Completes the ramshackle defended position idea well.


And khorne berzerkers, I intend to add a small contingent of my favourite legions to my chaos over all in due time and had 2 kits worth of these fellas lying around, might make a few that are combined with the possessed kit, as those tend to turn out okay from what I've seen others do.

omgitsduane wrote:wasted a lot of paddle pop sticks after I realised I cut about 25 pieces the wrong size hahah.

The Dark Gods of Modeling deem you worthy and accept your sacrifice.

I was told to check your temple, and it is true it's great.

But I must say your work in general is really imaginative.
Good job

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

omgitsduane wrote:wasted a lot of paddle pop sticks after I realised I cut about 25 pieces the wrong size hahah.

The Dark Gods of Modeling deem you worthy and accept your sacrifice.

It's good to know they're appeased with my offering of paddle pop sticks!

Hyenajoe wrote:I was told to check your temple, and it is true it's great.

But I must say your work in general is really imaginative.
Good job

Oh a reference? that's pretty cool to know. Anyway i could thank them?
And thanks to you for coming and having a look at what I spend my time and money on! It means a lot.


So next up on the plate of things-to-do-that-never-end-because-I'm-an-idiot....

Just a simple eldar farseer doing some pointing...


Or is it?

I need to make a stop off at a craft store and pick up some cheap putty so I can begin filling and making detail but I'm surprised how easily this took shape. The other arm I am unsure of what exactly I want to do with it, maybe holding something, or casually rested at the side. and when it's all done I will snap it in half or thirds and place it amongst the jungle.

Lastly for tonight is this.

A quick sketch up of how I intend to make my next contingent of guardsmen a little/lot more chaotic and daemonic than the original batch. I don't know how I'll go ahead doing this to a platoon, but time will tell!

You really need to draw a cartoon about inept chaos guardsmen doing hilariously terrible things AND STILL WINNING.

Absolutely FANTASTIC terrain man! The little details are amazing!!

Briancj wrote:You really need to draw a cartoon about inept chaos guardsmen doing hilariously terrible things AND STILL WINNING.

Like literally drowning the enemies in so many bodies they can't reach the objective?

dsteingass wrote:Absolutely FANTASTIC terrain man! The little details are amazing!!

Thanks very much. Can't pretend I'm not thrilled to see it done too.


Got some work on the weekend using cheap putty to fill in/weigh down and shape the farseer. It was such a serious hassle to do, but already love the progress.


Also got to work on a commissar, as I've always loved the ideas of the fellas, but not really keen on the cost of a sentinel for a single guardsman.



As you may have noticed the explosive barrels in the background...

I hope to paint tiny little yellow warning symbols on them too, keen to use them in a kill team or proper game for a bit of laughs.


4 nurgle obliterators waiting paint

And an ogre executioner. Absolutely love this model and I am super excited to paint it! But I might wanna relax on that just for now...

I started working on this friday night, got a decent hour or two in. Very happy, but more work to come. Many more highlights and some wear/rust/powders as well. I'm particularly fond of the blood in the mouth.



Also did the whites for these obliterators (death guard pre-heresy colors) but lot to do obviously. Still unsure about a few things but we'll get there eventually.


Ended up placing 27th at the tournament out of 52. I won the first game by a slaughtering, second I was tabled by nids, third I came against a regular opponent of mine but this time my guardsmen didn't want to flee combat and let me shoot the orks, they wanted to try and finish them off themselves, and eventually cost me the game (who would of thought 2 guard squads could hold up 20 orks in cc for 4 turns?). last game was infantry guard vs infantry guard but with a russ, a vendetta and chimera.

I dropped the vendetta straight away, but the chimera took 6 plasma shots, 6 autocannon shots, a lascannon and finally 3 meltas out of double range got it. Drew that but it was hard-fought.

Hoping another pic of the ogre sells it a bit more, but it doesn't look like this non-good camera stuff works half as well :(




I got this off a guy that works at the venue our gaming group frequents, wanted some stuff painted, not to a particularly amazing standard, but done none-the-less. I wanted to try and push myself with this one, I feel I can do more do it, but not really wanting to destroy the time I've put in so far. But I want to keep highlighting until I've had enough.





This is one of his as well. The Red Terror. I'm pretty sure these days this would be a trygon sized creature right? Regardless, I enjoyed this, the gloss black talons, the bright green innards, with some washes. Was great fun to paint. I want to do more nids... Maybe a nid project in the future for fun?

I have been pretty packed with work and trying to be social so there isn't much to update with





This is about it. I have been thinking that since I am starting back the chaos army, I might make a new thread just for them, as it will keep things cleaner for it. I will keep this one up for other projects and the guard. I have a lot of terrain on the way that I will have to assemble up plus some pieces for the jungle boards to go.

But this is the end result that I was after. Crashed vendetta boom!

The baneblade finally got assembled and coat upon coat of paint and this is the final product. I need to wash the front lights and then glaze them, but its where I think I can't push myself any further at this stage.




This camera really doesn't sell the smaller models off well :(



For now that's all I have to show. I am putting small bits and pieces in place to make a simple modular table for my mates and me so pics will be up of that when it comes around!

Dude wow! The Baneblade is looking great! It's good to see you still working on this project. I've always been a big fan of freedom fighters standing against Imperial tyranny.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Dude wow! The Baneblade is looking great! It's good to see you still working on this project. I've always been a big fan of freedom fighters standing against Imperial tyranny.

Thanks! I am happy too, but once I had a look through my imperial armor masterclass books again I realised how lazy I was and when I'm back in the painting mood I will be definitely getting back to it and adding rust/wear/grease/tear/dirt to the model.

I have been getting bored of building chaos marines (5500 points so far out of what seems like NOWHERE) so I got to assembling a few things that fit the new style of my guard.
Mech guard has always been a big push to me from other guard players but I've been against it, loving the feel of massed infantry holding their own against steel giants and soldiers 9 foot tall armored with what might as well be a full bunker.


The command chimera, the commander is magnetised and the hatch it pinned so it can be put down when the commander isn't showing, basically just to represent which is the HQ during games.

The leman russ squadron I won't be painting any of these til I can procure a decent airbrush and someone with the skills and know how to really help me through that phase. I am hoping to emulate a lot of what I see in the Imperial Armor Masterclass books.



And the mighty plasma cannon sentinels as back up and marine busting! The reason that they are carrying tank treads is that I had the idea in my head that these units will all work together and mutually support in the battlefield and after to get the best out of their respective tasks. And so they all carry gear for the russes and some other bits pieces to give the front runner tanks less worry.


And the full mechanised division together.


I am really happy with the results, I'm glad I had some of the brass etchings laying around, but I'll need more if I continue down this path in the future with other vehicles, which just might be the go as I'm loving the character it gives them.

I really like the small additions to the tanks, they make them look alot better. Also, more light for the pics!

These new additions look great! The added stowage on the tanks is a nice touch, but no one ever adds extra tank treads. So often carried in real life on the side of tanks and you almost never see it on minis (for 40k).
I know what you mean about the airbrush too. I have one and haven't used it. Very weary of actually painting minis that have gotten so much attention in the build phase. I plan to practice a lot on cardboard and paper and then grabbing up some simple minis to practice on. A lot of practice will be required before I'll feel confident painting army minis with one.
Solid set of pics. Great little mobile division.

chickenbgood wrote:I really like the small additions to the tanks, they make them look alot better. Also, more light for the pics!

Thanks! I am borrowing a camera off a mate today so I will be taking new photos and hopefully showing some other things I've been busy creating

Moltar wrote:These new additions look great! The added stowage on the tanks is a nice touch, but no one ever adds extra tank treads. So often carried in real life on the side of tanks and you almost never see it on minis (for 40k).
I know what you mean about the airbrush too. I have one and haven't used it. Very weary of actually painting minis that have gotten so much attention in the build phase. I plan to practice a lot on cardboard and paper and then grabbing up some simple minis to practice on. A lot of practice will be required before I'll feel confident painting army minis with one.
Solid set of pics. Great little mobile division.

I completely agree, in ww2 treads were used as extra armor, because its an inch or two thick steel mounted on the points the crew think are weak. What could be simpler? Plus to reinforce the idea that they work together as a team really sells it for me, I have always loved sentinels and the chimera is a beast of a tank with some amazing gear, but the russes will make the lot more solid as an all round army.

I dug up pictures of hundreds of tanks from all over the world, modern and ww2 era (cos lets face it, ww1 had the least characterful tanks, they were more like fridges that could move, big fridges) and also had a look at every APC that is currently in service via wikipedia and found any interesting shapes and what kinds of things they carried with them, where the gear was held and those little details. Has been a big help.

Thanks very much for the comment! Always appreciated.

I like the bitz on the tanks. It's those little things that force perspective and also add a lot of character to stock models.

I've had an airbrush for close to a year and have spent about 5 min trying to use it. I'm so intimidated by it that I'd just as soon push off those projects I bought it for and keep saying "I'll get to it as soon as I finish this thing I am working on.'"

Yeah.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
I like the bitz on the tanks. It's those little things that force perspective and also add a lot of character to stock models.

I've had an airbrush for close to a year and have spent about 5 min trying to use it. I'm so intimidated by it that I'd just as soon push off those projects I bought it for and keep saying "I'll get to it as soon as I finish this thing I am working on.'"

Yeah.

I have some friends with airbrushes and we've all used them a little but they're quite prone to screwing up if you don't know the exact right way to use them it appears, and none of us really have a clue, I was hoping to spray both my hydras so they would look like a pair but the airbrush jammed up within the first few minutes and I spent 4 hours trying to fix it so I gave up. It's not worth my time.

And thanks for the comment skalk! Always welcome, tanks can have character too

I really want to get my airbrush up and running. I know once I work out the n00b kinks I'll be decent at it, it's just the intimidation of completely leaving my 'comfort zone' and jumping into unknown waters head first.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
I really want to get my airbrush up and running. I know once I work out the n00b kinks I'll be decent at it, it's just the intimidation of completely leaving my 'comfort zone' and jumping into unknown waters head first.

I REALLY need to start exploring this airbrush thing. It will save me a ton of drama when I start doing other legions and get back to work on the guardsmen. Hope you've pushed on!

So...
Been a very long time since I've set foot in this thread, or any of my others. The truth is I've been very busy with a new job that threw me so far in the deep end, coupled with studying nights meant I had maybe one free hour a day and I spent that preparing to sleep for the next day. That is well over now and I've been getting work done but just had to track down a program to shrink my photos down so I didn't spend three decades trying to upload (that aussie internet!).
Anyways I'll lead off with this.


I came third in a small tournament on the other side of the city. I went there last year with the traitor guard and came 7th, and being that I got there based purely off my comp score, I decided that I would try and ride the comp train a little a bit to get up the top. So without a drake or demon prince I went along.

All my practice games I had leading up to it were losses. Some horribly bad, some were close games. But I was feeling very UN-optimistic about the list by the time I got to the tournament.
My list was as follows:
Typhus with a 4 man mark of nurgle terminator squad. All armed with axes (cos I HATEEEEEEE terminators) and flamers (cos anti horde is something my army doesn't cover well I thought)
Riding in a land raider with dirge caster and dozers
10 marines 2 melta in rhino with dozer x3
15 zombies
2 obliterators with mark of nurgle
2 vindicators with shields
3 terminators with combi meltas and axes

Having gone up with 2 mates of mine, I didn't expect to face either of them but of course first game calls up a mate of mine with an imperial fist list that I found kind of unchallenging...


Deployment as follows.
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Marines drop down to lure Typhus out, it works, and lucky because he did nothing else this game and needed a few heads on his belt.

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I then spent the rest of the game three-stooging it and trying to kill just 3 centurions. They took 2 vindicator shells which promptly scattered off a useless amount, 2 drop squads scattered too far, one going back to reserve and the other to a piece of LOS blocking terrain... Ugh



I was attempting to get very drunk for this tournament to cope with my losses, and also to make the games more interesting.


After 3-4 rounds of 6 melta guns and plasma spam, the last centurion fell.
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I ended up losing, the game type was big guns never tire, and I thought centurions were heavies, apparently not. I lost all three heavies, but held more objectives. Still forcing a loss. Although minor. Damn centurions

Final pose photo!

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Next game! Against my most hated and most feared army. NIDS!



I don't have a proper set up picture of the deployment but this will do. Tyrant did what I figured he would and got pretty far but I got lucky and the opponent deployed badly and probably picked his targets wrong.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/teh_used/OMGITSDUANE-PC/IMG_3716_zpseeddea77.jpg Typhus hops out and eats a bunch of nids with no effort.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/teh_used/OMGITSDUANE-PC/IMG_3717_zpsf1a840cb.jpg Trygon appears and offers the marines a distracting target, which they quickly take off the board thanks to melta gun spam.
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Vindicator shell lands square on the warriors, that were out in the open and instantly turned to mush.

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He did sculpt his own bastion which is a little bit cool I must admit.



Typhus hasn't eaten enough and takes down a tervigon, a bunch of gaunts and half a tyrannofex in combat. Game pretty much all came down to this but ended before a winner was determined.

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And the drop terminators melta'd the biovores then proceeded their way up the bastion to somehow beat up nid warriors in combat. I was amazed at their vigor.
Game 2 was a minor win, I could of done better but our time was short so I didn't move up marines to help finish with the assault :(


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Game three!

Death guard VS Salamanders! (another mates army)
I don't know why my land raider was rushing up the map, I really don't but it apparently worked and survived.

Drop dread behind me failed to do anything good to the rhinos chasing first blood and therefor gave me first blood when they both blasted meltaguns back in retaliation.

Vindicator must have opened up a rhino, giving Typhus and his pals some very chewy playtoys.
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Both drop squads came down on his thunderfires, removing his biggest threat once the terminators are dealt with.


Pretty sure this did nothing either...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/teh_used/OMGITSDUANE-PC/IMG_3734_zps9ba3c84f.jpg Second last turn

In a sly effort to hold my objective away from me, while not claiming his own (terminators eat scouts in combat) but a lucky lascannon made it through and exploded the dirty dark green fools and their loyalist ideals.

At this stage there was 3-5 marines left against my entire army minus typhus I believe and the obliterators. It was a pretty clear tabling.
The next game though was gunna be a real tough one...


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GAME FOUR!!!!!!!

Necrons Vs death guard. I was really packing in it, having won 2 games out of three, with no major losses, I knew I was going to face something tough. And I heard of this necron list roaming around.

The reason for my placement was as such.
1) no doomscythe so no multiple hits on units grouped up.
2) no blasts in the army.
3) keeping all my firepower close.
4) his command barge cannot sweep over a unit if it can't land after and this prevented such a thing.

A second shot before the carnage.
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And a third for good measure.
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Last one I think.
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I must have been too carried away to take enough photos, but my first turn went as good as they probably could. Sinking a ghost ark and some guys inside, and then pummeling another ark, but the 2+ to ignore shaken and stunned is a bit messed up.
Oblits came down right where I wanted and as I knew he was gunna bring the lord and their barges over they were ready to go. I also sank a vindicator shell into the unit of necrons and dropped them enough to force a test which they failed and ended up only millimeters from the board edge!


Using my rhino here to try and give that vindicator a hulldown result the best I can as my 5+ cover saves had already done amazing and I wanted/needed these two machines alive if I was gunna win.
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Look at the brooding in those fellas, they want pain and they got it bad...

Terminators came down and struck hard into a vehicle and gave it a bit of trouble, but not enough and then the wraiths exacted their vengeance wiping the squad before I could get an attack in...
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The oblits ended up dropping the first barge, and to stay alive from the incomming barrage of plasma the lord dropped to the ground. I made the foolhearty mistake of charging him :( Causing him to win combat and act as normal next turn. STUPID!


The rhino tries to rush for the objective, being scouring, I had some of the lower end ones on my side and I knew this was going to be a very far uphill battle. But he was still a great opponent and the luck went back and forth between us.

Last shot. My phone died after this as my mates are selfish and unplugged it to put theirs in sometime during the night.

The last game was against guard, an army I am VERY used to facing and I had such a surefire win but I deployed and screwed up my first turn on myself, allowing my entire flank to get eaten by a squad of meganobs and warboss (yes allied with guard), his army was beautiful and he ran it soft and we had a lot of fun also. I just wish I had some photos of it.


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Now will be a random spam of things I've been up to and my army in completion.
I have about 40+ terminators I realised the other day, with a 7000+ army of chaos just waiting to go and I'm constantly adding to it. I have a serious problem that I never thought I'd be that guy but here I am. I do intend to stretch out to a few legions that always have peaked my interest, such as iron warriors, alpha legion and word bearers plus some black legion just for kicks since I have the abaddon(is it?) model that's from the fight with loken.


Black legion rhino top.


Plugs for my ears, worn with pride through the tournament. Represent your legion or perish!


Rhino wrecked markers. Something more gruesome than just flipping them over when they're gone.


And the master himself, Typhus.


Action shot of Typhus and his retinue about to cut down some foolish salamanders.



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Some of you may remember this silly project of the giant eldar statue I started probably a good 2 years ago. (seems my rough turnaround time for all projects)
I finally manned up a bit and got to work on it, although I think I could have done better, I didn't want a perfect representation, I wanted a rough statue made by primitive or semi-primitive people on an isolated jungle world.


Finished Rhino for the iron armor marines.
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Army wide shot.

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Shout out to this awesome salamanders army!



The result of hard gaming and tight victory margins!


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The warmaster himself. I am not big on fluff, nor would I call myself a great painter, but I hope I can do this fella some justice. I have been waiting for this model for the entirety of the horus series!


Thinking of going for the seagreen style of sons of horus.


Bomb squigs
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Spawn, but luckily I avoided every challenge with typhus that I could and this didn't happen.


Demon prince for the boon table.
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Sentinel wrecked markers.


A modular (slightly) city siege table I've been in the plan for months with mates over and its finally coming together!

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My work was throwing out glass cabinets and I decided to take them all as they are great for hobby.


Iron warrior land raider for the next legion!
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Mauler! Finished mostly except for the magma cutters as I never use him. Just love the model.

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Nurgle demon prince. I really hate that the varnish didn't keep any of the gloss I was so fond of from the blood and teeth. Oh well.

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And that is everything I feel worth mentioning I have done in the past 8 months or so. I feel like there should be more, but there will be much more to come now that I'm all set up! Stay tuned everyone!

Finished my horus, although looking at photos, he could use some serious work on the finer things. The eyes are a little lopsided but I am thrilled with the face and cape the most. Oh and the base was a few hours alone.