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First, a bit of background. I was introduced to WH40K back in 1990; obviously it was a very different game back then, very free form, and our weekly battles were a sort of free for all between 4-8 armies, with objectives being worth points that could be spent directly on troops and wargear. I played Chaos (using the two hardback books, which I still have) and things were interesting.

2nd Edition rolled around after I'd enlisted. I played a bit here and there, still as Chaos. 3rd Edition hit and I gave up. 2nd Edition had annoyed me, but 3rd kind of killed the game for me.

Fast forward a decade or so. I'd moved three times since then, was out of the service and settled down, and found all these old miniatures. I was actually making plans to sell all the damned things once and for all when the bug bit me again: it was time to get back into it. I did some reading, familiarized myself with the new rules (kind of...it's quite a jump for me) and off I went. I had a lot of SMs in varying trims that I knew could be reused, along with a few vehicles, so that was a natural choice for me. I decided that I like the BA rules the best but not the fluff, but the Flesh Tearers interested me greatly, so that would be an army to build. I'd have a lot of SMs left over (I had something like three or four boxes of the old plastic beakies around) so a vanilla army would also be appropriate. Finally, IG sounded good. I'd purchased a box of the original plastic IGs but that wouldn't be enough, and I didn't like the look anyway. I didn't want Cadians or Catachans either, but I did want plastic. What to do? A thread about IG using Napoleonic plastics got my attention. I placed an order for two boxes of Victrix troops and away I went. In retrospect, I went about this all wrong, but oh well.

I've got the fluff worked out but I'll leave it out for now, as it's involved. Instead, I'll focus on what we're working with. The Victrix minis are true scale and a bit undersized for 40k; the fluff addresses that, but weapons would be a problem. I'm fortunate in having a lot of plastic Eldar special weapons and arms laying around from an aborted army in 2nd edition. The Eldar weapons were small enough to look right, and the left hands would work...assuming that I clipped off the tips of the fingers and did a bit of filing. I don't like the look though. I haven't found a good solution, so when I run out, I'll probably just man up and use contemporary bits, even if it looks a bit odd. (After all, it's the men that are undersized; the weapons are not oversized. Right?)

I would also need some cavalry, but I didn't want horses. Velociraptors seemed appropriate. The Tamiya ones look nice and are priced right, but don't come with saddles, so I GS'd some. The lances were converted from infantry bits and GW mortar rounds.

Heavy weapons were simpler. I wanted a backward, anachronistic look, so I cast artillery carriages and mounted GW heavy weapons (in this case autocannons) on them. I didn't see a good way to do that with the mortar, so I just based it as is.

The paint jobs are not the best. I modified historical layouts for simplicity and the colors that I had on hand, and I relied heavily on the Minwax. I'm still getting back in the swing of things after ten years or so of not painting, but even if I were better, I'd still be going quick and dirty on these. There will likely be a lot of infantry in this list, and I'm not expecting anything better than tabletop quality for most of them. I may or may not spend more time on the Space Marines.

So let's get this started. (Note: I'd rather link to individual images in my gallery than to just attach everything at the end, but the preview doesn't show me if I'm doing it or not. If anyone can tell me how to do this, I'd be most appreciative.)




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Future ideas (and problems):

1. I want Marbo. I don't want that lousy mini from GW though. The current plan is to model a Victrix guy taking a knee, with an old style round bomb (with fuze) in hand, in the standard uniform; however, I'll give him camouflage on his face, and his face only. I think that it'll fit in with the general theme of this army quite nicely.

2. I want a Hydra or two. Chimeras are fine (they're IG, after all) but this has to look backwards and anachronistic. With that said, I'm considering mounting Tamiya Flak 38 sets on top of Chimeras, complete with crew members in the seats. The seats are a bit high, but it wouldn't be a hugely difficult conversion to simply cut a bit of the posts out under them to lower them. The high tech guidance system would consist of another crew member standing on the hell, peering through binoculars. Still kicking this around.

3. Vehicle paint schemes. I've half a mind to paint them bright red and white like the uniforms, with a gold or brass trim. That's going to be a lot of work though. It would be far easier to give them a generic airbrushed camo scheme, and this is a more "universal" paint job that will allow them to blend with other armies. The fluff can accommodate either one, so it simply comes down to how much work I want to do, and really, I don't want to do that much. Should I?

4. Medic. I'm imagining a Civil War-era doctor with a bloodstained apron, a surgical mask, and a large saw in one hand. I've yet to find a mini that is even close for this, and I don't think that my GS skills are up to the task. Ideas are appreciated.

5. Ogryns. I'm probably not going to run them, but I might. They should fit in with the army, but I'm not too good with GS yet. Ideas?

6. I'm not converting every gun in the army. I won't even consider it. It's far too much work. I am, however, considering making them look more "Imperial." The quick and easy idea is to carefully shave the emblems off their hats and stick aquila decals on there. Still thinking that over. It's the simplest option, but it's also a lot of work.

Remember -- backwards and anachronistic. It doesn't show up well in the pics, but the guy with the flamer (5th pic, first rank, second from left) has a bayonet on his weapon. The buttplate of the stock is also painted to resemble brass. That's the sort of thing that I'm going for.

I'm liking everything about them, except for the rifles.
but even then, that's just a minor thing. who's to say
that their home world doesn't use that style?!

and it looks like they're about to be attacked by a giant cat!


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and welcome to Dakka!

I'd go as far as to say that they are RUNNING from a giant cat... that's IG for you. Good stuff man, but you should really imperial them up a bit.

Great concept, nice to see historical minis used in this way!

cool concept and nice paintjob, I look forward to seeing more

For your medic, you could try the medic that comes in the Gaunts Ghost set, Im not sure how it work would with the scale of your models tho, but he does look close to the part, and you could GS a saw for him

Cheers

Thanks for the welcome and advice.

I'm considering ways to "Imperial them up". My initial idea on that was to use RT era lasguns, of which I have a few laying around. I don't have nearly enough unfortunately, and it would be a real pain to do, as most of the left hands are molded on the rifles. I can get around that with special weapons by modifying the old Eldar hands, but I'll soon run out of them as well. My GS skills aren't up to doing hands yet. Perhaps someday. Shaving the hat emblems and applying decals will help and shouldn't be too much work, but I'm going to have to think long and hard about just what image to use. I'm limited to an inkjet printer and can't do white, but I don't want to keep the hats black.

I've got a bunch more assembled and primed up, but I've switched over to Flesh Tearers for a bit. I've found that I can't just grind through one army for long -- a squad or two is all that I can do, and then I have to do something different. Particularly with this paint job, even with all the shortcuts that I can muster, it's labor intensive.

That reminds me, though...is there a way to insert images from the gallery inline? I tried but had no luck. I could host the images elsewhere and do it that way if necessary, but I'm sure that it can be done from here. I just don't know how.

Also, vanilla SM: anyone have ideas for a chapter that's not well represented, but doesn't have an absolutely awful paint scheme? I'm actually leaning toward Space Sharks.

Nice work! The way you have blended them in to look like a 40k army is very good, no OTT lasguns that are to big for them to hold. Nice basing also, it reminds me of Scottish highlands for some reason

Got a few Flesh Tearers done. I'm trying to keep the wargear WYSIWYG. The current list is hybrid jump/mech, but I'll have enough bodies to shift one way or the other if I want to experiment. This is an attempt to salvage some minor conversions that I did for a custom chapter going into 3rd Edition, right when I lost interest, so there's a scattering of Chaos parts in here as well. While reassembling these models, I added in the contents of a Death Company set for some flavor. As I'm going for a very drab, tired, dying chapter sort of look, I think that mismatched armor and weapons (and waaaaaaaay to many purity seals) work for this.

Some of these guys will be the old beakies; I've even converted a few for jump packs by using a bit of sprue as a spacer on the back. None of them are done yet, but I'll put pics up as I get there. My goal is to have an army that looks suitably unified, but appears to be an assortment of individuals...kind of like Space Wolves, I guess, but with fluff that I like. As I'll be playing this army with BA rules, the emphasis is strongly on assault squads. (In fact, they're the only troops that I'll be using. Tac squads don't seem to be a good fit for this sort of list.) I'm trying to keep the poses suitably dynamic and ferocious within the constraints of recycled parts.

Here are the boys after their Dull Cote:



Decals were printed out on Testors decal paper and sealed with Krylon before application. I used Testors decal set and Micro Set to put them on. By the end, I was only using the Testors product. I wasn't entirely happy with the results and had to touch a few up with paint afterward, but hey, it's better than I can freehand so I'll take it.





2nd squad has their kneepad markings. 3rd squad has jump packs, and haven't received their knee decals yet. I had a lot of problems with these and have some experimentation to do before I attempt it again. The GW numeric decals are simply too big for kneepads. (Note the blingin' FT chest medallion on the guy on the right. That totally didn't have a mark of Khorne there at one time. On the plus side, the chains appear to be the suspension for the jump pack and I'm digging that. Very Khor...er, Flesh Tearer.)



In other news, I've got a whole bunch of badly-painted beakies, an old Rhino, two attack bikes (one a conversion from a Tamiya German bike), a land speeder, and a couple of termies feeling the Simple Green love in preparation for filling out my vanilla SM list. They're pictured next to the FT's newest WIP ride for scale. (That jug is completely full of plastic, BTW. It's going to take me a day or two just to scrub them all down.)



I have a lot of painting ahead of me, but it's all good. As long as I can switch between tasks, I should be able to keep it going. I've also got some 2nd Edition Eldar that could benefit from repainting or sale, and some AOBR Orks. I suppose that I could sell all those, but I can use the practice and besides, they're always useful for Deathwatch, even if they never see a game of 40k.

Considering I will be doing the same basic thing to my victrix mini's (although purple coats - more on this in my fluff) consider me subscribed.


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Considering I will be doing the same basic thing to my victrix mini's (although purple coats - more on this in my fluff) consider me subscribed.

Any tips on the Redcoats...

Literally in the middle of putting a regiment together...slowly...

Love the work you've done there, so any tips would be helpful. The kneeling loader is that just a straight victrix kneeler or have you altered him slightly.

Subscibed

Ps. Can you take a shot of the flamer so I can see how you did the arms? I have a 90% done flamer myself, but can't think how to get the arms done reaslitically.


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Lord Marcus what is your fluff page...you have a lot of topics can't see it.

Haven't posted the purple coat fluff yet. I'll let you know when i do.

This damned camera's macro setting is a bit too good. Every time I take a picture, I see mistakes that I didn't pick up with my naked eye. It's a bit embarrassing, but hey...they look okay on a table, so I'll live with it. Just don't look too closely. (I knew it was dusty in the basement, but holy crap. That's just ridiculous. I suppose that I'll have to do something about that eventually, too.)

For the special weapons:



What I do is, I take a regular rifle arm and carefully remove the weapon right at the hand, trimming the cut area flat for good glue adhesion later. Then I glue on the new weapon (in this case, 2nd Edition Eldar weapons, as they're the closest thing to true scale that we've had since the RT days), but I do not glue the arm to the body yet. Instead, I clip off a few left arms and do some test fits in order to see which arm will match best with the weapon, and what positions will work. Finally, I glue a 2nd Edition Eldar hand on (if the left arm already has a hand then it must be removed, but the handless arms can be used pretty much as-is) and put it all together. Needless to say, when I run out of Eldar arms and weapons I'm screwed, but I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.

The Eldar hands are a bit too big, although they're smaller than today's IG hands. I clip off the last joint of all the fingers and thumb. The result is still too big, but it's not really noticeable unless one looks very closely. When attaching the new weapon to the arm, one must be very careful about the angle of the cut; the buttstock should flow into the weapon in order to look natural and if the cut is off, this won't happen.

I've done a few other special weapons troops in the aiming position, but they're not painted yet. The same rules apply. One has to be even more careful about angling the cut to keep the stock lined up properly.

The kneeling crew members are indeed unmodified. They only give you a few "kneelers" per box, though, so use them sparingly. I'm reserving one for Marbo and the rest for HWS. As for crew members holding ammunition and such, that's very easy to model. They give you enough arms per sprue (some of which serve purposes that I can't figure out, except perhaps to make conversions easier) that one can get around most common problems. I'm still investigating other possibilities.

As for the other bits, I found that the spontoon arms worked very well for the Rough Riders. I removed the hands from these arms (keeping the spontoon intact, which takes some care) and swapped them out with the sword wielding hands on the cavalry arms. I then snipped the tips off and replaced them with mortar rounds. Having blades on the end of explosive lances seemed silly to me -- sillier than men riding giant lizards with explosive lances, anyway. I'd always pictured the hunting lances as simply having explosive charges on the ends, with points being entirely unnecessary. The mortar rounds just made it easier and fit in with the fluff for this army.

I based the first few by removing their original bases and gluing their feet to round ones, but the contact area is too small for my liking. I now just glue their bases directly to the round ones. The step formed can usually be covered up well enough with flock or whatnot, and a little extra height makes them look better alongside GW minis.

For sergeants and officers, I've been using 2nd Edition and RT laspistols. They're still too large, but the overall look is fine. The current ones are entirely too big, but I should have enough old stock on hand to get them all done. For laughs, compare the pistol included on the Victrix sprue with any GW pistol. The GW product is several sizes larger. Now I know why those Cadians and Catachans have such large hands...they'd never be able to hold their weapons otherwise!

I thought about doing some vox conversions, but decided to simply use drummers for that. Again, fits with the fluff, and it happens to be the simplest solution. Historically, musicians would have worn uniforms in opposite colors to the rest of the army to make them easier to spot, but I decided to keep them the same color for the sake of uniformity.

Speaking of which...using British troops was actually a mistake. Now that I've seen the French boxed sets, I think that those minis are better. Also, I couldn't source any plastic (and inexpensive) British cavalry, and I wasn't about to purchase metal cavalry just to throw the horses out. I'm now left with faux British Guardsmen and French RRs. Napoleon is rolling over in his grave.

No one asked, but the gun carriages were cast from Prince August molds. Fortunately I'm set up to cast bullets and have some experience with pouring lead, but the wheels are still very difficult to get right because of the spokes. I run about a 50% failure rate on wheel casts. I'm probably not using the best alloy right now and some experimentation would likely help, but I'm not about to waste my now-unobtainable arsenical alloy on miniatures, so scrap/junk alloy is likely what I'll stick with.

There's still stuff that I haven't figured out yet. I'm still wrestling with how to make them more Imperial (besides shaving the hat emblems and applying decals, anyway) and how I'll handle armor. I'm also considering a box of Highlanders for veteran squads, but I'm going to have to look at the sprues before I commit.

Edit: broke my own damn link on the picture. Fixed.

And in other news, today I received word that I'm needed in Norfolk for the next two months, starting Monday. I don't know whether or not I'll have internet available. Regardless, I won't be doing any painting until April, so this blog is pretty much dead for the time being.

I wonder...if I leave those plastics pickling in Simple Green until I get back, will they be safe?

Hey Noober. Thanks for the advice. They are really fiddely to fit together, as they are so small - but I am finding it enjoyable. I think some of my weapons are too big, and I found a flamer last night that is far more in keeping with the size comparison than the current GW one - I think it is from the first plastic Catachan box. I also ordered the Vixtrix Artillery, and Perry French Dragoons...partly as they look fairly similar to provosts - who'll be my Arbites.

I've been shaving off the bag on the left hand side of the model and attaching imperial water bottles and ammo blocks. Also, those prayer tag things - I forget what they are called - are good for making the 40kish I am finding.

I looked at the Highlanders- as I too want to use them as Veterans - and it is basically the same in the box. Just didn't have enough money to buy.

Question - do you have any plans to do mech support/chimera sentinels etc?

Manok.

Ps. I have had plastic in simple green for a month...was fine.

manoknok wrote:
I've been shaving off the bag on the left hand side of the model and attaching imperial water bottles and ammo blocks. Also, those prayer tag things - I forget what they are called - are good for making the 40kish I am finding.

That's a very good tip, and one that I'll try. Thank you.

manoknok wrote:I looked at the Highlanders- as I too want to use them as Veterans - and it is basically the same in the box. Just didn't have enough money to buy.

I managed to find a picture of the sprues and you're right...just the bodies are different. Damn it. I've got some shotguns from maxmini.eu and they look great, but attaching them will be difficult. The plan now is to (ugh) clip the rifles and carefully cut, shave, and/or Dremel the remaining rifle out of the left hand, so that it's in a position to grasp the shotgun. This will be fairly labor intensive, but I'll likely only be running two or three squads of Vets at most, so it's still technically doable. Maybe I'll do that when everything else is done.

manoknok wrote:Question - do you have any plans to do mech support/chimera sentinels etc?

Yes. Chimeras will be basically unmodified, as in the fluff, these unfortunates are very new additions to the Imperium and lack the technology to produce modern vehicles in sufficient numbers, so they are importing them from other worlds. (This will also allow me to shoot standard camo schemes on to them with the airbrush, rather than laboriously painting them red, white, and gold, but I might wind up doing that anyway.) Same for the Leman Russ.

I have some ideas for the Hydras, though. I will likely use standard Chimeras and mount Tamiya 1/35 scale Flak 38s on them. Several infantry will be converted into sitting positions for the chairs, with perhaps one or two ammo bearers or spotters standing around on the hull. I may or may not replace the barrels with thicker tubing for a more overscaled appearance. This should look silly enough to be appropriate for WH40K, and archaic enough to fit with the rest of the army. (Sure, they could have just bought Hydras along with their Chimeras, but they're damned expensive and those electronic bits are awfully hard to service.)

manoknok wrote:Ps. I have had plastic in simple green for a month...was fine.

If one month won't hurt, two probably won't either, and I'm not seeing any ingredients that will attack polystyrene. I'm just having flashbacks to my first paint stripping test a few months back with Pinesol, after having been assured on multiple forums that no matter how long they soak, all will be well. (Spoiler: it's not true, and I have some horrifically melted Space Marines on my shelf to prove it.)

The Simple Green is a new one for me. I've read that it works faster on metal than plastic, which makes no sense to me. But you know what? It's true. I'm still scratching my head over that one.

I had one shotgun in my bit box and made a Shotgunnery Sgt. Harper out of him. I think I used the arms A7/8 (from the sprue) it wasn't too difficult, but then not exactly easy hahah!


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You can see how it turned out on my plog link below...

That works, and I've done something similar for some of my special weapons. I won't have enough arms for squads though, and it limits the poses that I can use. I want at least some of them to have aiming or hipshooting poses, looking suitably "assaulty."

This will certainly save me some work though. Much appreciated.


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Also, since I just thought of it, I may have figured out the Testors decal paper. I put one more coat of Krylon on it (a bit heavier than the last three) and used Pledge with Futura to set them. They went right on -- no wrinkling, no cracking or bleeding of the ink, just as easy as you'd like. Those were on flat panels on a Razorback though, and it remains to be seen if Pledge will set them on shoulder pads.

Unfortunately, this experiment will probably have to wait until April. This weekend promises to be busy. Did I mention that I absolutely hate last-minute, two-month-long cross country trips? At least I'll have some cash when I get home if I stay out of the damned bars.

It Seems Napoleonic ig is all the rage these days ! The more the merrier i say , these guys have loads of character and style. like your cold ones and your wheels for the heavy weapons teams, can i ask where you got the wheels from ? Great implementaion , nice colour scheme ! and i agree cool concept!

Cold Ones? Surely you jest, sir! Those are none other than 1/35 scale velociraptors, as made by Tamiya and acquired for the princely sum of $12 per six pack. I made the saddles out of GS and the straps and such out of plastic strips from the hobby shop. You can't really see it in the pics (and I'm glad about this) but I had to run steel pins up from the bases to the upraised feet of the raptors in one-legged positions to keep them steady -- and this was after pinning the feet on the ground. There's very little surface area for basing these things.

The wheels and gun carriages were cast from a Prince August mold, the British 6 pounder cannon: http://www.princeaugust.ie/523/index.html There are a number of ways to mount Imperial heavy weapons on the carriages. I went quick and dirty and used a bit of sprue runner as a crossbar to glue the weapon to, and didn't bother with an elevation screw or anything like that -- crude, but no one will notice.

In other news, I lied about no more work getting done...I did finish my first Razorback, more or less.



The weathering powders don't show up after the clear coats; might have to do those again and only Dull Coat over them this time. I'm not totally happy, but this is the first vehicle that I've painted in over ten years and I'm satisfied with it. The next one will be better.

hm, nice work. if i may ask where did you get the models for the guard?

Infantry: British Peninsular Center Company by Victrix.

Cavalry: French Napoleonic Heavy Cavalry 1812-1815 by Perry.

I don't remember whether I bought them from FRP Games or the Warstore, as I order from both frequently and the price is about the same. Either way, you're paying about $0.75 per miniature before basing, and the round bases are very inexpensive if one buys them from someone other than GW. I got them from FRP through Amazon (that's how I discovered FRP, actually) for $3 per 25, which still means that you're under $1 per mini. I like that.

I like the infantry I'm planning to do something similiar at some point. I've already did something similiar with Wargames Factory's Zulus its on here as the 24th Islandlwanda. What I've done on the Zulus is either kiboshed open hands to hold Lasguns or cut all the rifle/musket from the trigger forward and attached the Lasgun in there. I take it thats not an option with the Victrix models?
The Rough Riders look great really ornate and the Velociraptor mounts look lovely.
I'm afraid to say to my eyes the Flesh Tearers look to pink rather than deep red but thats a personal thing good luck in Norfolk!

No, you're right...they do look a little pink. Some of it is the camera and it's not quite as noticeable in person, but it's there. I thinned my red out just a little too much and the follow up washes didn't quite knock it down.

The next batch is more red and a little darker, more like the Razorback, and my process is improving. By the time that I'm done with them all, it should only be an occasional "pinky" amid the red and shouldn't be noticed on the table. (I hope.)

EDIT: I'm sorry, you have me curious about those Zulus. Do you have any pictures of them? I'd love to see them. That sounds like a very interesting project.

Well, as of today, two more months before I can leave wonderful (not) Portsmouth and go the hell home and paint again. But just because I can't paint, doesn't mean that I can't scheme. I have ideas.

IG
Napoleonic medic: how about a plague doctor?



I like the mini and with a hand swap and some card, I could replace the beaker with a saw...I just don't know that it would work with the rest of the army, and not everyone will get the reference. (And when did plague doctors finally go away? I think that they were still around in the early nineteenth century but I'm not sure.)

Vanilla SM

I should have a bunch of thoroughly stripped (and possibly dissolved) beakies ready to go when I return. I still haven't settled on a chapter for them, though. I'm leaning toward Space Sharks but I'll entertain all ideas, with the following caveats:

1. No codex-supported chapters.
2. No painful color schemes. (i.e. no color splits down the middle or checkered shoulder pads, nothing yellow or pink, etc.)
3. Simple color schemes are preferred; I have a lot of these to paint, after all.
4. The weirder or more esoteric, the better.

The Space Sharks fulfill all of these requirements and have a bit of history behind them (along with an extremely silly name, which I like) but if I'm missing something, please, let me know.

You know I'd be tempted to use that as a medic without a headswap. Would add some ready bizareness.

given how similar the Cadian version is to the regular Cadian trooper, i think you could just
use one of your regular troopers, just paint his pack white with a red cross. keeps the theme
of your army, imho. i think the plague doc would look too different.

You're probably right. Maybe paint the coat white or something, or not...white coat, white hat, with brown straps and pants? Or white pants as well? I'm picturing it in my mind and it looks medical to me. In any event, this will get a readily-identifiable medic on the table until I can do something better, or give up.

But the Space Marines...Space Sharks? Rainbow Warriors? (Another hilarious RT-era relic, but I don't fancy painting those helmet stripes. Still...) Something weirder? Is there anything weirder?

I'm not going to go right out and say that I'm stopping all work. There are a few LGS in the Norfolk area. I can get paints, minis, and brushes if I need to. I'd have to be careful (this is a very nice hotel) but I'm sure that minis have been painted in luxury hotels before. Thus, I can experiment with paint schemes if need be, depending on my schedule. If someone has a great idea, I'm willing to give it a shot and develop a procedure before I go home.

n00ber wrote:You're probably right. Maybe paint the coat white or something, or not...white coat, white hat, with brown straps and pants? Or white pants as well? I'm picturing it in my mind and it looks medical to me. In any event, this will get a readily-identifiable medic on the table until I can do something better, or give up.

But the Space Marines...Space Sharks? Rainbow Warriors? (Another hilarious RT-era relic, but I don't fancy painting those helmet stripes. Still...) Something weirder? Is there anything weirder?

I'm not going to go right out and say that I'm stopping all work. There are a few LGS in the Norfolk area. I can get paints, minis, and brushes if I need to. I'd have to be careful (this is a very nice hotel) but I'm sure that minis have been painted in luxury hotels before. Thus, I can experiment with paint schemes if need be, depending on my schedule. If someone has a great idea, I'm willing to give it a shot and develop a procedure before I go home.

well it's not a true luxury place then is it? if you have to paint your own stuff, i mean, really?!?!

seriously, i understand wanting to get back to your own environment. i work better when everything is right where it should be.

Just wanted to say nice work on your Victrix Guardsmen, Noober - I am very new to the forums but this log has grabbed my interest!

Particularly fond of your cavalry, they look cool and the Raptors seem far more sensible than Cold Ones. I too am a fan of your basing, its nice and different!

Flesh Tearers are looking pretty solid despite the alleged pinkness - one thing I may suggest is adding some highlights to the eys lenses to make them pop more. Yes, I know they are a nightmare :S

Vanilla Chapters... What about the Rampagers? They have some strange ritual scarring and blood drinking fluff - straightforward red scheme but descended from White Scars. Mebbe too close to your 'Tearers tho.

Skullbearers look pretty different - think they're like ochre or drab yellow.

I'm subscribing to this - I have been pondering a Guard army and your use of Victrix isn't helping

I'm back. It's amazing what can go wrong at home when you're away for even two months. Just about all the fires are out now so hopefully I'll get back to work on the minis this week.

Remember my earlier questions about the risks of soaking plastic miniatures in Simple Green for two months? Yeah...I learned some things.

1. Two months in Simple Green didn't do gak to the plastic.
2. Two months in Simple Green didn't do gak to the paint, either.

So now you know. I'll have to investigate some stronger alternatives. I don't remember painting these with Krylon Fusion or anything like that but I must have -- this stuff simply won't come off. I wish they'd painted my house with this.