@ Llamahead : Thanks for the feedback, I must get back to the 'Ugly' tank once the Ad Mech are finished.

@ The only jp : That bloke is a Forge World Titan Princepts, I think he was an 'at show' model, got him off ebay.



Here's the standard guy with some old Citadel blokes.

Cheers ash

Found a better pic.
It's a nice mini, quite often see this one on eBay. Genereally for silly prices, bide time and get it for less. This one cost me £8.

I really like the color schemes you have going on here! The old Necromunda models are awesome, I love the ones I have.

Not had anything to paint for a while then these three turned up in the same box!













I think the 'wire cutters' may have to go, looks a bit to much like a bug.

All your stuff looks great

Micro update:

Very nice models you're doing, the guys with the hood are particularly cool

I really like them!

Decided to start on the engines before washes, mainly because due to these two flyers being in one piece;
the whole model will get a lot of handling to get all the layers on the engines and oil washes take forever to dry.

some nice work there, i really like your stuff.
I think the hoods made with GS look quality.

Cheers Rayvon.

WIP update


Green paint :Crashed Valk




Sand paint :Arvii




And whilst the cans were out - combo

Some great new stuff, I like.

Cheers Scrazza. Real life has been slowing things down a bit, but managed to get these done:





One wounded pilot who will end up in some USAF tigerstripe kit, like the bloke on the left:
The other is the crew chief (love that head) who will be another excuse to try more MTP, like bloke on the right.



The other door gunner is the dead bloke (pair of Cadian boots,paperclip, Catachan arm and putty), think I'll change the gause for some PVA'd tissue or flat piece of GS.
The discarded helmet is part of the Valk piece. Also going to do a dead aircrew slumped in front seat.

Arvus slowly getting there; engines need finishing, whole thing needs a lot of paint chipping and weathering + cockpit/pilot/windows (already cut to fit).




Crashed Valk is at a similar stage:






This guy is just rammed into the chair at the mo, will twist to port a bit and get some shoulder straps and blood.

Ash 1 wrote:And whilst the cans were out - combo

very good work here! maybe just need some side protection or all the stuff gonna fall soon! ^^

Good point, was thinking about making some thing out of mesh and styrene. Either that or some tie-downs.

Now with added sides':

Got some more done on Arvus 22, still needs weathering.

Ash 1 wrote:Now with added sides':

Looks perfect!

@ FantasyBob: cheers

Been away from the paints for a few weeks, but finally finished off Arvus 22:





Will post better pics tomorrow.

Also just about done with the downed Valk crew:

looking good

Ash 1 wrote:Also just about done with the downed Valk crew:

First off, your stuff looks amazing. I hope I can achieve the same level of painting one day.

Secondly, how do you do that camo? It looks so good, and I have been wondering for so long. A tutorial to do it, would be amazing.

//Gerner

@ Gerner: The bloke on the right was supposed to look a bit like USAF Tiger stripe



Sand coloured base coat, followed by a two tone blue pattern, leaving gaps with the base colour showing through. Came out looking more like Lizard pattern, but I like it.


Following a recent trip to Normandy and finding suitable plastic strut in a model shop, I messed around and made this:







It's not particularly accurate, used the mini to roughly gauge the size. Needs a bit more TLC

Great realistic work as always nice use of DKoK plus my favorite IG sceme around you must post a tutorial on how to do your camo ive been looking for a realistic looking one and its hard to find, also where are you getting all these realistic IG looking not GW vehicles i always look for some but never find

@ Rogue Wolves : Cheers for the feedback. I'd like to paint up some more grunts, which camo would you like?



Feeling the urge to finish off some/all the half done stuff, starting with the BOAR, now with added mud:



Also to finish; Skitarii (ten man squad), lumpy tank, various terrain barricades, defense laser, load of Ad Mech in power armour, crashed Valk, a few INQ28 bods, skyshield landing pad, box full of CoD bits . . . . . . .

This camo sceme ive been trying to replicate with no sucess

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I love what you are doing, please don't stop. Keep going, I want to see more.

HOLY S**T! These guys look so awesome! and i'm in love with your weathering! please give a tut? ^^,
Also, What do you use for the netting on the tanks?

@ Rouge Wolves: The closest to a step-by-step I have is some pics I took whilst painting this bloke:











@Lumen: Cheers mate, glad you like it. Just about done with a squad of Skitarii, hopefully get some pics up during the week.

@DiDDE: Thanks for the kind comments, I'm finishing off a lumpy tank at the mo so will post some pics as I do the weathering. Re the cam nets, it's just medical gause, soaked in a mix of paint. water and PVA then plonked onto the model.

Wow! Fantastic work! The Arvus'sss (Arvii?) Look great, the weathering is fab.

May I ask where the cargo transport is from? I recognise it from somwhere...

Exalted, too much fun stuff in this blog to forget about it

Cain

ps. your tutorial has no instructions

Great job on the camo dude


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Ps those Arvii are really tempting me to add some Air-support to my stealer cult....

thanks for that what color paints did you use?

@ Commander Cain: The transport vehicle was made by Digits @ Ammobunker. Got a fantastic IG thread called ' Drogan 22nd Voltigeurs' in the 'Warhammer 40,000 Project Logs' section. (tried to post a link, but can't get it to work at the mo). Great conversions, both grunts and vehicles.

@MajorTom: Cheers

@ Rouge Wolves: I'll have to engage brain for that one. I've done three batches of troops in this camo and each lot has come out a tad different

I based the painting on this:



Was more of a rough guide than a copy as the scale was a bit tricky.

All the paints I used were Vallejo.
The base layer was 'dark sand', shaded with a dark brown wash, then dry brushed with more 'dark sand.



The light brown splodges were 'English uniform' and the light green 'Russian uniform'.



Over the top of the light green was a smaller area of 'military green'.
The little squiggles were a mix of 'German cam. black brown' slightly lightened with 'buff' (there is probably a good ready mixed shade for this),



followed by little blobs of 'buff'.



Finally the whole thing was given a thin wash of olive green oil paint to pull it all together.



Apologies for re-posting the same pics.






If you try this pattern let me know, I'd love to see the results.

Wow your cammo patter is so detailed, and the weathering on your vehicles is outstanding.

Great looking bunker! Oop FW terrain??

Camo pattern looks great, my favorite to date!

Also, I checked out Digits thread, wow! It could take a lot of time to get through all 310 pages of it but I can try

thanks i thought it wasnt gw as their greens are more cartoony

The bunker is by Dark Arts Miniatures in the First contact terrain section








There are a few other bits with dragons teeth in them:

Ah yes, I remember them now, may have to get some for my own IG army!

Thanks for the Camo tutorial!

Bo-locks, bandwidth malfunction. . . pix should (in theory) be back in a week.

Anyway . . . here's some of the 'oh so nearly finished' stuff :







Ad Mech




Terrain bits, also found a better hand for the grunt w/las-pistol.


Lumpy tank:

Wow! That is some impressive weathering, I would be interested in a step-by-step tutorial the next time some armour comes your way!

The ad mech guys look brilliant, great use of bitz and a great paintjob to finish them all off.

Always eager for more,

Cain

haha That Lumpy tank turned out great! xD
...So where's the tutorial?

Something else from the 'nearly finished' pile:





The gun shield idea is not mine, was origionally done by Le Mediko on Warseer.

May well mount it on this WIP bunker that will one day end up embedded in a terrain board:

mmh, nice stuff.....but a lot of pic are not visible.....damn photobucket!

Great looking bunker! The lascannon looks great with the shield also, in fact, the more I look at that bunker, the more I want to make one myself! I also feel like buying some of those guard on the bunker, could we maybe have some closeups of them? Pleeese!!!

Cain

I have just discovered this thread but no pics! Stupid Photobucket....I'll be sure to check back though, the pics I have seen look awesome!
Just out of interest have you been working on these for a while?

@ sarpedons-right-hand: Yeah, it's a bore but it should reset on the 18th.
Some of these mini's I did several years ago (the metal ones) I redid the bases to make them blend in with the more recent stuff.


@ Commander Cain: The IG on the bunker are metal Valhallans, here's some other pictures:

I really love the guy with the 3 magazine pouches strapped across his chest. It makes it so much more dynamic and realistic. The vehicles look top notch too. Im really digging the pintle mounted heavy bolter with the spade grips.

What does the tracked vehicle count as?

Strombones wrote:I really love the guy with the 3 magazine pouches strapped across his chest. It makes it so much more dynamic and realistic. The vehicles look top notch too. Im really digging the pintle mounted heavy bolter with the spade grips.

What does the tracked vehicle count as?

The 'tracked truck', not sure what it could be used as with regard to a list entry, possibly a Trojan. More likely a piece of static scenery.

The chest rigs I started doing a while back, but it was only after being introduced to push molds that I could amass enough to do these.





Here's the finished 'Thunderer', will end up with a different crew figure, once I get around to painting it.

Still knocking out some awesome stuff - just a shame phoobucket wants you to pay out so we can see your work :(

Great looking conversions as always, only today I was thinking of getting that FW tank commander and slapping some legs on him, only to see that you nabbed my idea...Darn you Ash!!!

Commander Cain wrote:Great looking conversions as always, only today I was thinking of getting that FW tank commander and slapping some legs on him, only to see that you nabbed my idea...Darn you Ash!!!

Oops . . . This one was fairly simple, just chopped the legs from a set of tank crew legs. I've seen a couple where people have cut him at the waist, but I wanted to keep the armour plate and belt kit. Personally I don't think he has the right helmet for a tank commander, too infantry. Makes a good officer or regimental adviser.

I chopped a lot of legs for these guys. I had a load of Catachan legs, not my favorite, but I like the boots. Managed to make quite a few fit, so loads of this platoon have nice jungle boots

Been working through my unfinished pile and done with these:





And this:

Awesome work! they all look amazing. But especially the first one! He's so cool. It's a pilots head right?

Nice work! any wip shots of that inquisitor/first dude?

Those crusaders loo very cool! Are they the resin models? The edges look very crisp. (You may want to blast the hooded one with a hairdryer for a sec to straighten out the sword handle )

Cargo transport looks ace!

Here you go, the Inquisitor was a limited edition cast for the Ammo Bunker:

http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7233656/1/

The crusaders are the old metal option, well spotted on the handle, a bit of thumb pressure and it's straight- Thanks.

Like hens teeth now I'm afraid. We'll have to look into getting another done....

Been trying to get going on the Ad Mech but it keeps devolving into a batch painting session, so I've split them down into bite sized chunks:

Praetorian servitors; nearly done:


servitors; nearly done:


Enginseers; very nearly done:


Master of the Forge, very nearly done:


Titan crew & robots:


Tech Marine and cyber gimp:


Various Enginseers & Tech Marines:

lookin good as always hehe...cyber gimp

That is quite a lot of techpriests, where did they come from? Also interesting use of the GW armor through the ages

They are all GW minis. Most are metal, quite a few are fairly old Rogue trader era. Four are from an old Skulz promotional offer. One is made up of plastic bits and one from FW resin parts, there are also some FW shoulder pads and a FW resin tech priest.

Great work, fantastic modeling !!!

Slowly working through my backlog. Finished the Servitors amd the first group of Adepts

Looking good Ash! Never thought I would see those old mechanicum priest given the good paintjob they needed, I am happy to say you have proved me wrong!

The servitors look great, you seem to have gathered a wide variety of them the only ones I can not see are these guys!

Keep up the great work!

@ Commander Cain: Cheers, it just so happens that I've been on the hunt for those very blokes . .

Finished these two:






Little resin Urban rubble pile that I picked up at Salute for 99p!




Also done with these, by Maximin, came with the siege gun conversion kit:

Engine seers look great! My only problem would be that the thunder hammer on the second guy looks a little bit flat, maybe some verdigris in the depressed areas would make it pop out (I find hawk turquoise works really well!)

Nice bits of terrain, may have to pick up some of that maxmini stuff myself!

Ash 1 wrote:

Where is the bridge from? It looks really nice!

All the miniatures here look great, I love the realism you've accomplished.

It's the Pegasus Hobbies Technobridge:

Thanks, I might have to pick one of them up!

I love how you've painted them in such a gritty realistic manner. Count me as subscribed!

Unluckyguardsman wrote:Thanks, I might have to pick one of them up!

It's quite a cool kit as its snap together, so you can easily take it to bits for storage; also join a couple of kits together to make a longer bridge.

@ Mr.Malevolent: Cheers for the feedback, much appreciated.

Done the next group:

I really like the worn look on that bridge very good i must expirement with this

Dug this out from storage, was originally painted for my Marines, can't even remember when (when did this kit come out?). Looking at this now I would say it's only half done.
Can't really get at the interior without taking the whole thing to bits so it will have to stay as is.
The rest will go Ad Mech; I'll strip off all the Fist symbols and external bits and replace with Cog stuff, weapons will stay as is, may add servitors . . .
Painting, thinking of verdigris bronze and lightly salt-mask chipped red. The brown should make a good base for the Red- hopefully.









Any suggestion appreciated

Ooh, would most certainly like to see an admech LR. Adding servitors sounds like a good plan, I would also be tempted to give it some extra bits like grabber claws and maybe spruce up the guns somewhat. Whatever you decide to go for, I am sure it will look great!

Newest tech marines look great btw, especially the dude with the spiky fist

I second everything Cain just said!

Re: the servitors, was thinking of swapping the top cover marine for something like this:



I've also got one of those skinny servitor torsos from the old Inq28 Throne of Judgment

Looks nice! Your own work?

I actually like them not having the gun welded directly onto their torso.

Micro Arts emplacement, with Renegade grunts

Looks Good! Though suspiciously similar to the ones in you other two blogs

Seriously though, great stuff! Makes me want to pick up some of that micro art terrain.

WOW! Ill follow this one for sure!

Commander Cain wrote:Looks Good! Though suspiciously similar to the ones in you other two blogs

Seriously though, great stuff! Makes me want to pick up some of that micro art terrain.

Yeah, I'm not quite sure how that happened.
Think I must have stuck something in the wrong place, which is a bit of a pain as the whole point of the separate threads was to keep it all separate!

Got a WIP Plog, then separate showcases for finished terrain, tanks and grunts

Fantastic stuff in here Ash! I love your style. Really inspirational.

Ash 1 wrote:

Got a WIP Plog, then separate showcases for finished terrain, tanks and grunts

And you will be happy to know that I exalted them all!

Slowly collecting some more bits to go with my Renegades:

Here's my zombie haul. 6 x Sturmzombies from Incursion. Got the set from maelstromgames for £5.40 inc p&p !!

The bloke on the Left is, I think, a Necromunda Scavvy of some sort. Another eBay find, was in need of hands/weapons.

those will look great painted up incursion zombies have got to be my favorite around

Story so far; with all available bits chucked at it:

What is that grey rivet strip made of?

Found it in the model railway section of a model shop, I think it was for an 'iron' footbridge.

Very nice IG and SM you got there! Keep up the good work

Liking the mechanicus LR, not too sure on the round turret but perhaps it is because it is not yet painted?

Man that stuff was a good find!

I'm not 100% in love with the Pred turret, however a mate is also doing an Ad Mech LR with the same turret (and I had the parts).
The turret weapon is supposed to be a Conversion Beamer, so it's ancient, revered tech that has been salvaged and (lovingly) refitted to a newer chassis.
Should look better with paint, I'm toying with the idea of painting the turret a different colour to look like it's from another tank . . . .

That's my story and I'm sticking with it!!

Whilst waiting for some parts to arrive for a couple of tank builds, raided the bits box and the 'when am I ever going to be painted box':

Ash 1 wrote:Whilst waiting for some parts to arrive for a couple of tank builds, raided the bits box and the 'when am I ever going to be painted box'

OHH I have that box too! It's one of those cheap, plastic organizers with three drawers. Problem is all three drawers are chock full of 'when am I ever going to be painted' minis

The Catachan with the bolter is my favorite though for obvious reasons.

some nice looking bits box raids there, i like the IG zombies

Nice cadian zombies! where'd the bodies come from?

Got to love a good bits box raid! Mine is currently bursting (literally) with marine bits, must be at least a battleforce or two of then stuffed in those little containers!

IG zombies are cool indeed, very well executed.

The zombies are from Grindhouse games Incursion series, part of the whole Weird WW2 stuff. These are Sturmzombies 1.
They are a little bit on the tall side, however, as they are all stooped over they just about fit.

http://www.grindhousegames.com/products/sturmzombies-i#feature

Must...Resist...Zombies...

Nope, too late, they are just too cool!

I used to be subbed to this thread and lost it? Glad to be back, stunning work!!!

Favor to ask- can you tell me (and the collective "us" that would love to know the answer) how you did this:


I don't have words for how much I want to learn to do that (or even something remotely close, it would be light years beyond that I am doing now)

Greatly appreciated if you get the chance to explain that a bit.

And yes, re-subbed.

Loving the admech stuff, and I agree with Skalk we need a tutorial! Can't wait to see those cadian zombies finished and keep up the good work

Yes Yes! Need a tut for that!

Thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated.

Mmm . . . the old Pegasus bridge . . . long time ago . . . hurting head to think back that far . . .

Looks like: Black primer; Tamiya TS-61 Nato Green or TS-2 Dark green; dry brush with what looks like a pale grey; paintchips - outlined some sort of yellowish colour poss Vallejo Japan Uniform; The dark area of the paint chips either a mix of black and dark brown or Vallejo German cam.black/brown.
The muddy bits of the bridge were sprinkled with sand whilst the primer was wet; once all the other stuff was painted a lot of brown earth tones were painted, brush shreddingly dry brushed; followed by a liberal dose of pigments - varnish to taste.

I have two tanks on the go; one actually made Ad Mech - which I'm going to have 'another' go at salt masking; the second will be IG, fairly knackered/crusty - same approach as other IG tanks, lots of paint chipping.
I'll do a load of WIP/PIP pictures of both.

In the mean time:
Bits box mash up;



@ Commander cain: Just looked through your Random progress log and was going to post some long winded (but nice) comment, when a warning message popped up that I would be breaking a Forum protocol for Necroposting! You need to add an update!!!

Funny you sould say that Ash, you are the second person today to say that! I will post a big monster update over the weekend, patience young one!


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Loving the trooper, I really want to pick up some of those FW gun packs, is that vic's penal trooper torso I see?

EDIT, never mind, I just remembered that the heads she designed were seperate...


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I was thinking it was these, great conversion kit!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/400057.page

Ash 1 wrote:Looks like: Black primer; Tamiya TS-61 Nato Green or TS-2 Dark green; dry brush with what looks like a pale grey; paintchips - outlined some sort of yellowish colour poss Vallejo Japan Uniform; The dark area of the paint chips either a mix of black and dark brown or Vallejo German cam.black/brown.
The muddy bits of the bridge were sprinkled with sand whilst the primer was wet; once all the other stuff was painted a lot of brown earth tones were painted, brush shreddingly dry brushed; followed by a liberal dose of pigments - varnish to taste.

The entire effect is paint? Wow. Thanks for posting that. I'll likely give that a try soon, different paints but will attempt to replicate process and hopefully get some results. And again, stunning work on the conversions.

Funnily enough a lot of the 'chipped paint' was due to missing a fair amount of mould lines, I camouflaged them with the chips.

The torso is from an old Citadel Hive ganger:
Second row, far right 'tech 4'
http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c2036imphivegangers-h.htm
It's been in my bits box for quite a while, I chopped his legs off for this Commissar:

I liked the boots, I have a few more from this era in a sort of Chaos mob, I'll dig them out and take some pics over the weekend.

thats a sweet grab, love the use of the chaos arms

Diggamob.

These boys were painted quite a while back:







The rest of the 'mob' is a mixed bag of Cawdor, Goliath and Orlock gangers, some Tallarns with all their Imperial icons removed and a few Mordhiem blokes with guns . . .


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Got a bit of Paint on the LR. Need to go back and clean off more salt as it's dried in a tad crusty:



Now that it's red will it go faster?

Those guys are old! You have certainly done them justice, the first dude has a certain Frankenstein look to him!

I absolutely love the LR now that it has a basecoat and take back my comment about not liking the turret as it fits in really well now.

Picked up an old basilisk from eBay, it's a bit of a beast . . .





Was going to give it a bath in a vat of Dot4 but couldn't resist tearing it apart first and test fitting these:





Not sure wether to go with as is or stick this on



I may actually save a few of the rust patches with masking fluid as I quite like the shape of some of them . . .

Can't wait to see some more of the land raider! Also I know you'll do an amazing on the basilisk and I can't wait to see it finished!

thats some sweet looking artillery

Old idd! all rusty and everything love that big ass mutha cannon! And I don't hesitate for a second that you will do that old model justice gl with it

The lump of pipe stuck on the front has gone. . .

This is the replacement:

MMM artillery! Man I accidentally found and had to pick up this monster kit yesterday

and sort of OOB kit reviewed it in my Necro thread.
There is going to be a whole lotta DAKKA around DAKKA soon!

The 'M65 Atomic Cannon', just sounds bad ass

Heh, thought the price tag said $3.99! Only 50 off I guess!

Where is the artillery cannon from Ash? It looks pretty cool

It's from Maxmini:

http://www.maxmini.eu/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=21&products_id=120

Very nice casting, a smooth solid resin.

Nice! I had actually noted the quality of the casting, very impressive!

Rough idea of were stowage may end up:

probibly your cooliest modeled tank yet

That gunwagon looks great!

Cheers guys. Got it primed:

VERY COOL man! This sort of riveting will not go unnoticed by the =]_=

Me likey! Great work as usual dude.

do you plan on putting any of that camo cloaking on it?

I'm really looking forward to seeing it painted!

same here^^

Ran out of green paint, but I think there was just enough:

base coated

haha 6 mins after my post requesting pics of it painted you do this . Now im loking forward to seeing it fully painted

I put some decals on and started on the crew and a few others. Another go at UK MTP (Multicam):






I think jerrycan boy needs a slightly shorter pointy arm . . .

Of all the awesome stuff you've posted since I was last here... yeah, those got me. I can't help it.

can we have a tutorial on how to make beautiful zombies like that?

I've seen this blog in a number of places, but I've never actually posted to say that this Imperial Guard army is, by far, my absolute favorite. I really enjoy the large variety of unique units, tied together with a strong color scheme. The whole army paints a picture of an entire regiment and war. It is all quite impressive, and I will be watching for more updates in the future.

@ Skalk Bloodaxe : Glad you like them, other than a couple of Grunt helmets they are straight out of the blister. The minis are from the Incursion range from Grindhouse games, part of the whole weird WW2 stuff

http://www.grindhousegames.com/products/sturmzombies-i#feature

@ Accolade : I used to be on Warseer (thread is still there and gets pictures chucked at it) then jumped over to The Ammobunker as soon as I found it:

http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7013506/1/

I had a few pictures in the gallery here, which ended up in a showcase thread, which lead to doing a WIP plog . . . It's nice being on more than one Forum as you get to see more of other peoples stuff

The newest guys look awesome! Those zombies are incredibly cool and I will probably pick some up for myself!

I don't recognize a couple of those guys, two are FW tank commanders I think? Is the injured dude some discontinued fella from the good old days?

BTW, congrats on making catachan arms look good!

Top pic the half bloke is a FW tank crew, I think he comes with one of the Malcador variants. The other is an old Rogue trader era IG:

http://www.solegends.com/citrt/rt501imperials2.htm
bottom row; middle

Then second pic is the other FW tank crew bloke from the set, who came with a stubber and gunner arms, he has Catachan arms and Valk doorgunner's feet. The others are bits box rummage

Been painting paint chips . . .

Done a bit on the grunts:

"Back Zombies . . I'm warning you!"

Lol! Great paintjob on the grunts, zombies and what I can see of the tank. Keep up the good work!

loving the paint ash, and i can imagion the lone IG saying no!..no! almost like they where dogs

Umm, dood, you got a little Epic Sauce on that gun carriage btw! I dig it!

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I LOVE those zombies...and everything in here.

JoeyFox wrote:I LOVE those zombies...and everything in here.

those are shocking!

scale-wise, how do they measure up next to a current plastic IG model? Because I really want some of those, but they have to "fit".

Brilliant work. I love this thread. +1

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:scale-wise, how do they measure up next to a current plastic IG model? Because I really want some of those, but they have to "fit".

Brilliant work. I love this thread. +1

Cheers for the feedback.

Size-wise is Ok'ish. They are a bit on the lanky side compared to a plastic IG, but as they all seem to be somewhat bent over/crouching it's not too bad.
The IG helmets made quite a difference. The poses all lean to the left a tad, which I feel could be rather annoying in a large group.

This blog is really great! All the details, ideas and stuff! Love it!

Great stuff!

Chug, chug, chug . . . slowly getting there. Added some netting, once that's done mud, lots of:

Thanks for the info. Once I finish a couple other things I have going on I'm likely going to grab a few of those and fill in my Undead Guard.

that looks great, it look used and lived in and very characteristic for a tank, i love it!

Tank looks fantastic! Love how you turned that wreck into a masterpiece!

Nice blog so far.

Done, more pics in Armour showcase thread (see sig)

god damn i'm jealous of your skills! :O
that looks so good! don't know what else to say.. just AMAZING!!

That looks better than some of the Military Historicals I see in modeling magazines like FineScale Modeler. The combination of incredible skill you display coupled with the amazing speed you complete your projects with is simply staggering.

In the realm of highly skilled modelers I think you are a card-carrying member of the Elites.

Yes, you get to wear a specially-colored plume in your Shako from now on!

WOW ! There is nothing in this thread i dislike, Great minis great conversions great paintwork , just great all around full stop . The Latest tank is one of the best i have seen. Love it Love it Love it!

I have a few questions if you dont mind , where did this body on the right come from ? i have tried to find it but i am stumped.



and how did you do your netting/webbing on the latest tank ?

It looks like the Door Gunner body from the Valk kit?

Thanks DST!

I replaced mine with Catachans at the heavy bolters, so I've been kicking those bodies around for some time

That's exactly what he is; stumpy little door gunner, was it the knee pads that gave him away?

Notice the slightly raised base - this chap is somewhat vertically challenged.
He has my favorite 'sense of humour failure' FW head; old skool Citadel arms with twin pack Marlboro pockets on the shoulders, Elysian bullpup Lasgun, Dremel'd out crew helmet and . . . that's it.

I got the bloke on the right to replace my below par effort at a dead bloke:




I'm glad you posted that pic as I'd forgotten to finish the Valk . . . goes off to dig Valk out of box . .

It was the winged skull on his chest

dsteingass wrote:It was the winged skull on his chest

Yes, that would do it . . .

Dug out my Grey Knights, was never happy with the bases so they are getting a re vamp. Also got a few extra bods:

oo grey knights

Just when I thought I was nearly finished . . Ramshackle games pull me back in . . !

I saw a couple of Ad Mech looking figures on another thread, hadn't seen Ramshackle stuff before. Ended up buying a few bits:



For resin minis these blokes are cheap, all the above was about £20. I've added a few bits, couple of head/weapon swaps.

Not sure if all these should be Ad Mech or Dark Mech . . .

They seem like they could go both ways...

Agreed, either way the will fit.

I just spent some time checking Ramshackle and I really like some of the stuff they have. I'll likely be ordering the Moleman Gas Mask heads and the Mutie guns. Thanks for sharing that site.

Great weathering! strong feeling of a theme on all of them.exalted

Been a while since had brush in hand, but managed to paint a new Tank Commander. He started out as a 1/48 scale Panzer Commander from MIG productions. A bit taller than standard IG. He's going to need a suitably large tank to stand on . . .

A baneblade?

Mmmm, I love me some baneblade! Should you be painting a superheavy, I humbly request a tutorial! Without it, I fear I will never be inspired to paint my own!

Tank commander is excellent, the camo on his trousers mixed with the leather jacket makes me shameful over my own IG.

Keep up the good work dude!

Latest eBay find, an old FW Command bunker. It's missing its door and the radar dish from the roof, but it does still have one of the internal chairs:

Oh wow ash! I have never seen one of these

I've looked back through some old FW catalogues and found it in the 2002 issue, must have been the first of the bunkers to get cut from the list.
I've cleaned it up a bit and made a door, not got anything to use as a radar dish at the mo so that will have to wait. Dug out some crew . . .

Wow, you must have an endless bitz box!


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^ its like Barneys bag he carries!
btw this command bunker is awsome!

I use one of the 64L storage boxes from a company called 'Really Useful Boxes'

http://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/uk/html/boxdetails.php

Lots of sizes; they stack; fit inside each other and best feature is the inside walls are straight with right angle corners. Unlike most boxes that seem to either slope or curve.
The small and medium cardboard packing boxes GW stuff gets posted in fit perfectly.

Yeah man, the bunker is just full of win! Great find! And great job!

Some nice new stuff, good work

Managed to find so suitable comms looking pieces, added some netting ( which could do with another dry brush). More pics in the finished terrain thread (see sig) . . .

Is that model to the bottom right a stormtrooper? Reminds me of the guys off Lost Planet 2 what with the desert cape and goggles.

Again, love the bunker!

Cain

Cheers mate , glad you like it. Not seen one of these for years.
The bloke with the bolter is a Vostroyan sniper. Prototype Skitarii . . .

Oh right! Knew I had seen that figure someplace.

Finished Sentinels:



Now those are finally done, I think there may be a danger of actually finishing this off:



Also, a rummage in the roof space during a recent visit to parental abode produced these:




Somewhere there should also be a box with a couple of old skool Landraiders, brace of mk1 Rhinos and a pred, next time . . .

Those sentinels turned out great, Ash. And I love those retro BAs! Sweet find!

Not sure what to do with them, yet. The servitors and Techmarines will no doubt end up in a box marked Ad Mech . . .

Ash 1 wrote:Not sure what to do with them, yet. The servitors and Techmarines will no doubt end up in a box marked Ad Mech . . .

You could give them.. and the tank/apc thing to me

that apc is awsome as gak!

The apc is a 1:35 scale USMC LAV-R, nice kit (think it was Trumpeter, came with some rather cool etched brass bits)

Along with the boxes of Marines there was another case full of Genestealer hybrids, a shed load of 1st edition Space Hulk tiles, the boxes all the Terminators came in, five packs of plastic jungle trees . . .



. . . and the first IG I painted, not sure about the green gloves!

WOW! You had some nice stuff stashed!

Just discovered this amazing blog - it's so inspiring! I love the individual and inventive units you create! It's a great example of making an army and not just a trop type to fill a role in the game. Your Arvus lighters have tonnes of character (people say they're useless in the actual game but that's missing the point I think) and your tank crew look hard as nails, a real "been on a long tour" vibe

Also, do you count this as a Basilisk? Because it kind of looks like a Medusa. In any case your work is amazing and I'm certainly subscribing to this!

Ash 1 wrote:Ran out of green paint, but I think there was just enough:

base coated

Those sentinels are lovely. I wish my attic was packed with antique gold like that. It's just full of spiders.

@ progreen10: The roof space had plenty of goodies. All the 1st edition Space Hulk stuff is in great condition; had all the tile from the main game plus both expansions, along with a second set of each that was bought from Games workshop way back when. All in the original boxes. A figure case with what looks like all the old metal Genestealer Hybrids and a shoe box full of plastic Genestealers (unpainted!) There were also spiders . . .

@ nightside: Thanks, glad like you it all. The grubby tank is a Medusa (or counts as anyway)







The gun came from Maxmini:
http://www.maxmini.eu/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=21&products_id=120

Has some great details, such as the loading cradle:

Very cool! Tell us how you did those great rivets!!

All the rivets are as they came out of the box, no help from me.

The LAV-R, now with added paint. Still WIP, but nearly done:



As it's a counts-as Atlas I gave it a Heavy Bolter.

looks really cool, and nicely 40kified

I think I'm done with this:


more pics in the finished armour thread . . .

Awesome! Top notch looking stuff!

epic.

Thanks chaps, I'm rather chuffed that it's finished. It had been sitting half done for way too long.
Another lump of tank that has been languishing in a box is this ex-marine Landraider, repossessed, refitted and in the process of repainting for the Ad Mech.
First thoughts were do something that looked shiny and well cared for, however I don't seem to be able to make things look clean (adding muck is half the fun) so it will end up as beat-up Ad Mech. Sort of fits in with the Ramshakle games blokes who hopefully will get finished off as well:

Whilst I'm in the mood for painting I'll add this to the mix:

Turret, nearly done;

that turret is so cool!

Cheers Rogue, it's getting there. I had one of those FW extra comms kit pieces in my bits box, so it's going to end up with a ridiculous number of aerials

I've got the tracks on, bits of tread plate, some stowage . . .

All the little extras look great! It will look even better with the comms system.

dang. thats a lot of bitz

Very badass sir!!

That sir, looks amazing.

Cheers chaps, thanks for the feedback.

Still building . . . two more vision ports to go. The resin aerials will get replaced with wire, it will also get a load of cam netting later.

Just caught up. Too much to rave about since I was here last so I'll simply say ".....gllurrk" and fall over backwards in my chair. I absolutely love your work and have been staggered every time I've come here. Looking forward to whatever modeling maddness you come up with next, it's sure to be another

Thanks Stalk, much appreciated.

Got some paint on it:

I really love this baneblade! can't wait to see it finished. its just amazing how you do..

i'd love if you could make a weathering tutorial cuz i just love the way you weather your vehicles..

@ DiDDe : Glad you like it. I'll be taking loads of pictures as I go on this one. I'm still short on a couple of bits for it, so I can only take it so far before it will end up on hold . . .

Now with added decals . . .

Your rust work is amazing very realistic !

Thanks, a few more bits to add; like this scanner/radar dish, kindley supplied by Greeble @ the most marvelous 'Ammobunker':



Both my other BB's have this part (from back when you could buy components from GW mail order), thought it would be a nightmare to find as I wanted them to all look similar.

Got some more of Digit's fantastic BOARs, three for a project on the Ammobunker and a couple for moi.
Think I'm done with the build stage for these three; currently the hatches and tailgates all work, so I hope they don't get bunged up at the paint stage . .




Not 100% sure what to do with the other two yet, I like the Quantum Gothic radar dish version Digits did, so may well plagarise that. In the mean time I'm just playing with parts . . .

I like the las version

The MkII AAA version:

Yeah, that looks much better!

Cheers, I much prefer it now.

BOARs with some base coat & the 'red lump' in one piece + an old Marine rescued from a box of old stuff . . .

Everything you do looks amazing- all the time. And the speed that you achieve these incredible results with simply staggers me. It's way beyond technique and proper tools / supplies. I've said it before and will likely say it many more times- you are a master of your craft. I hate that I cannot exalt this thread more than once.

^ I'm totally with that guy!

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Everything you do looks amazing- all the time. And the speed that you achieve these incredible results with simply staggers me. It's way beyond technique and proper tools / supplies. I've said it before and will likely say it many more times- you are a master of your craft. I hate that I cannot exalt this thread more than once.

Thanks for the kind comment, much appreciated.

I feel like I go at the speed of drying paint. The 'red lump' has been around for so long I can't remember when I got it! I do like painting IG stuff, after doing nothing for most of this year, then (like waiting for a bus [not something I do very often]) all this came along at the same time. I think I'll get the BOARs up to the same stage as the Baneblade before i carry on with it. Then I'm just using the same colours at the same time on all of it . . .

Bit of progress.
Forgotten painting the same colour on five of anything was somewhat monotonous , let alone five sets of tracks and wheels. Added some decals and given all a first wash . . .

i always loved these vehilces that Digits makes, btw does he sell them? because i could use some

Don't think he sells them, but send him a PM . . .

Update on the BB, I've been blocking in the areas to have chipped paint, also my daughters 40k hating cat has struck again; chewed off the searchlight (fixed), the stubber and mount (gluing), the tow cable (finally recovered from outside) - not liking the cat at the mo . . .

CATS! GAAAHH!!! Man I completely know that frustration. My wife has 6 cats. I can't count how many times I've wanted to turn them onto boot socks. Vomit, urine, feces on my books / paperwork, breaking, shedding, and chewing on my miniatures... I especially love it when they sharpen their claws on my foamboard terrain.

We both need these

Great work on Super Heavy! Always glad to see new work and always impressed.

photos arnt working for me, but ^that is hilarious skalk

Mmm . . . take 2

I've been following this for a while and I must say your painting is truly inspirational (even if some are hidden by photobucket's rules on bandwidth)

@ Meridia : Thanks very much.

Little update:

I KNOW you did NOT just pull all that excellent work off!
THis must be number two?

^^^^^^^^^^^

Got a bit more done today. Rust , cam nets and mud are next . . .

Pre mud . . .

Is the main gun a Painboy 'Urty Syringe from the RT Ork plastic set?

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Is the main gun a Painboy 'Urty Syringe from the RT Ork plastic set?

I think it was from a Bastion comms array.


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Started adding mud to the Baneblade:

Think I'm done with this, will get some better pictures over the weekend:

I must ask.. how in the hell do you get your tanks looking so realistic!?!?!? These tanks are so realistic its insane!

(in a good way of course)

Ash!..>That is completely Badass man! This is EXACTLY the way I want to do my Catachan Stormlord! The superdetailing is so amazing! You can tell you really went whole hog here! I too built mudflaps for mine! The paintjob and the weathering..OMG..just unbelieveable!
FW Masterclass book?

@ dsteingass & Rogue Wolves : Ta very much, glad you like the beast. I've got to get around to doing some better pictures ( there are a few more shots of it in my finished armour thread)


Back to the BOARs; finished all the chipping on these three and started to dirty them up . . .

Finished these three . . .



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Slight change of plan with the AAA mount, apathy has kicked in with regard to building a chair/gunner combo, so now there will be a rather desperate looking IG bod at full stretch, blatting away and putting holes in the sky . . .

Man Ash! You really have a good eye for where to highlight your paint chips to give them a peeling/3D effect. Just one side right? I always paint too much and ruin the look.

That AA platform with the rivets and treadplate..where is that from?

I've tried a couple of ways to do chips that have produced quite realistic effects. 1) paint the shape of chip in a lighter colour (gives the effect of reveled undercoat) then paint in a brown/black mix (looks like oxidised steel plate) add metallic to taste. 2) paint in the chip/scrape with the black/brown, then paint a thin line of a lighter colour around the bottom half and a thin line of black around the top half.

The AAA mount is made up of Forge World quad stubber from a Sabre platform; base piece from an Imperial Bastion (had three legs that I removed, then added tread plate to cover the damage); the top plate is a piece of plasticard treadplate with another piece of plasticard on top to hold the gun mount, so it sort of still swivels . . .

AHA! You add a thin line of black for shadow! I see! THanks man! The platform looks like a master I made and had Galorn make a mold for.

This has black line:



The BOARs were method A, but I may have another go at B on the next two

Been following along daily but haven't posted in a bit because all my compliments are the same (running out of appropriate adjectives) and I wish I had something more pertinent / productive to add. I will say that I'm getting ready to try the "chipped paint effect" process you shared with me quite a while back (regarding the Pegasus Hobbies bridge you showed).

That said, I always appreciate the work you share. You are an inspiration.

"Look who's popular!" - look who cant see the models

uh oh..Ash needs to go Pro!

I'm too cheap !

This is done, more pics in the armour thread:

What's the name of the olive green and the sandy coloured paint you use? I really love those exact hues.

...Again with the paint chips! I LOVE the paint chips! Such Character you put into the whole thing!!

Thanks for all the comments, much appreciated.

The colours are from the Tamiya TS range, TS-61 NATO green & TS-46 Light sand.

Whilst waiting for parts for the last BOAR, I've dug out my Chaos IG . . .

Any chance of a closer group / individual picture of the Chaos IG models?

OMG the Kubelwagon with extra Dakka and spikes is badass man!

QUantum Gothic radar dish has finally arrived, no thanks to the postie who left it outside my front door in full view . . .
Idea shamelessly plagiarised from Digits

Nice stuff man! I meant to pick up that radar dish ages ago, you just reminded me to do so!

Got the dish bit finished:

Done:

I've never been keen on the old paint job on this lot (don't fit in with anything else) and as I'm out of IG troops to paint, I feel a change of uniforms is in order . . .

Stripping clean or different detail?