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Hi everybody!

BAs are on the bottom of the page and on the next one!

This is my first army. I started with catachans because i like that they look like Rambo and fight in the jungle.
My army is about 1750 points but I haven't painted so much. I live 100km from the closest city that runs tournaments, so I play with my 4 friends. We're currently running a one-year campaign (witch I'm leading) and we usually play two games/evening every 2 months after school on fridays. It's funny, but we have a rule that your models have to be painted to play with them.

I'm currently repainting the skin on some of my older models because they look like goofy. I much left to paint here's a list:
- 2 primed infantry squads
- Cadian chimera that I'm going to paint so it looks like a catachan,
- 4 primed HWTs
- Unassembled infantry squad
- 5 ratlings,
- Ogryn
- 2 primed sentinels
- Veteran squad that I'm repainting
- PCS that I'm repainting
- CCS that I'm repainting
I've got some other models too form other squads

But now lets get to the pics. Guardsmen and an officer I painted today:


2 guardsmen and a sergeant.


2 guardsmen and an officer.

This is what I'm working on right now:


I did this squad when I was new to the hobby and didn't have a codex, so now I've changed their weapons.


Same with this squad.

So what do you think?

I'll try to get the vet squad painted up soon.

Some nice looking poses! It's really hard to get that from the catachan boxes, so kudos

Bit better than my first army (which was also Catachan). Blobs with legs best describes them and their paint shceme

Loving the Deffkopta (I be Orky playa). Especially the rotor blades. Nice.

Thanks everyone!

I finished 7 veterans today so 3 more to go. Here's some pics of them:


Four veterans.


Sergeant and two melta gunners.

The patoon command squad and the three remaining vets will be painted up soon.





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Please tell me what you think! Things I should change, things you like, anything!

Neat paintjob. I like the catachans. Good job. Consider me subscribed.

Thanks Scrazza!

It's been a while since I last posted, so I have much to show you!
I've painted the veteran squad and the platoon command. I've also started to paint another veteran squad and build some Catachan rough riders.

I'll start with the finished veterans


The 3 remaining vets.


2 veterans.


The platoon command.

Rough riders WIP:


The first 2 rough riders


3 assembled cold ones, I didn't glue the heads yet.


The cold one heads after surgery.


The cold ones are so fat that I had to cut off the leg.


I've also tried to convert my valkyrie into a vendetta. Still thinking about how to attach the guns to the wings.

Stay tuned!

Wow! Really great paint jobs all around! Cool idea with the cold ones!!

Iandroid wrote:Wow! Really great paint jobs all around! Cool idea with the cold ones!!

Tank you!

After sitting 3 hours at the desk and sculpting and building, I've got some more WIP pics of the cold ones. I even made up some titles for them, but no names yet. The only thing left to do before painting is some green stuff work on the arms and hands.



The sergeant/rough rider special character without name (=mogul)


The rookie


The communicator


The maintainer (I think its called that?)



The medic

I've also ordered some BA stuff for my upcoming BA project, so If you like BA check this blog soon.

That's all I've got for today. C&C apprieciated.
See ya!

Looking good.

I have always wanted to make rough riders with he cold ones but have never had the time. After seeing this I may look into it once more!

Nice work overall, your highlighting on the BA is very crisp and the extra details on the riders really brings them to life!

Cain

Fantastic paint job and conversion work, sir. Subscribed.

Scrazza wrote:Looking good.

Commander Cain wrote:I have always wanted to make rough riders with he cold ones but have never had the time. After seeing this I may look into it once more!

Nice work overall, your highlighting on the BA is very crisp and the extra details on the riders really brings them to life!

Cain

40kFSU wrote:Fantastic paint job and conversion work, sir. Subscribed.

Thanks!



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I've just sculpted some hats on the riders, so now they're ready for priming!

Hi again!

At last I was able to update this blog, I've done many things these days. One rough rider is painted, I've also continued to paint my second veteran squad, finished my valkyrie/vendetta, painted the executioner guns and started to repaint the CCS.

BA hasn't arrived yet, I guess they will come next week or something.


Anyway, here's some pics of the things I've painted



This is the first rough rider. I think I'll paint the green scales on the cold one blue, otherwise the miniature will be too green, but first I want to heat what pepole think.


My Vendetta called "The Emperors Smile"



The shark's teeth and a smiley


4 additional veterans


CCS, but where's the medic!?




My Executioner called "Toaster", I've also painted a bread. This monster killed 20+ boyz in a single turn!

I'll take a break from the riders, because my friend will probably organize a gaming evening next week, where we will play a 2vs2 player game. He isn't sure but I've already made a 750 point planet strikeish list.

CCS, 3 plasma guns, medic, chimera
Marbo
Veteran squad, 3 flamers, chimera, storm bolter
Veteran squad, 3 flamers
Veteran squad, 3 meltaguns
Vendetta
Sentinel, AC

My only hope to destroy the bastions are the meltaguns and lascannons, but I think my SM friend will bring a multi-melta dread and maybe some terminators.

With that list in mind I still have to paint a medic, a sentinel and 4 veterans in 4 days, I think its possible!

That's all I've got for today. C&C apprieciated.
See ya!

It looks good as it is. I don't think that blue scales would fit in. I think it would look off. I say, leave it as it is, but that's all up to you.

Thanks! And I think I'll leave it as it is.

I like the freehands on the Valkyries.

oh and, Good choice!

Those hazard stripes on the kopta rotors look shockingly familiar...

You didn't happen to use my hazard stripes tutorial on here, did you?

That's right!

Great army look keep up the great work. Love the vendetta. Wish I Collins paint as fast as you. Unfortunately no time these days, thanks for the inspiration after reading this I picked my brush and base coated some more models, good luck with your match

Young_Logan wrote:Great army look keep up the great work. Love the vendetta. Wish I Collins paint as fast as you. Unfortunately no time these days, thanks for the inspiration after reading this I picked my brush and base coated some more models, good luck with your match

Thank you! and good luck with your painting!

Scrazza wrote:I like the freehands on the Valkyries.

oh and, Good choice!

Thanks!



So today I started painting the sentinel, will try to get it painted and posted here today or tomorrow!

Just a quick update

Firt of all I've just painted the sentinel, second the Blood angels will arrive tomorrow, hurray!




Here's the sentinel running away after successfully destroying a trukk!

That's all for today.

Very nice. I love the pose on the sentinel.

Shas'o Mann wrote:Very nice. I love the pose on the sentinel.

Thank you!

Just got my BA yesterday, that means I'll be busy building and painting them for a week or two. One of my friends is ill so there will be no game tomorrow, that's one of the reasons I'm taking a break from the catachans.

With that said here are some pics of the blood angels, I also moved the older pictures down here.


Here are the boxes


Here's my pile o' sprues


Death company with infernus pistol. I'm going to make all BA bases like that one.



Painted death company marine with a power sword.


Rhino WIP


Red armour test on this sanguinary priest. I ordered a can of army painter dragon red, will test it and see if it's better than this.


These are my first space marines that I've painted so they're painted in a very easy paint scheme.
Here's some pics of them:


Tactical squad


Tactical sergeant


Most recent tactical marine

I'm currently assembling a squad of 9 death co and their rhino.

That's all for now, bye!

It's looking good. You seem to have a good way to paint red, congrats!

Impressive sentinel posing, I might have to try something a bit like that how do you do the red on your BAs by the way?

Always nice to see more Sons of sanguinius!

Keep up the good work!

Scrazza wrote:It's looking good. You seem to have a good way to paint red, congrats!

Young_Logan wrote:Impressive sentinel posing, I might have to try something a bit like that how do you do the red on your BAs by the way?

Emperors_Champion wrote:Always nice to see more Sons of sanguinius!

Keep up the good work!

Thank you!

The red is painted like this
Skull white spary
2 coats of blood red thinned 1:1 with water
A wash of Baal red
A wash of Devlan mud thinned 1:1 with water
Highlight Blood red mixed 2:1 with blazing orange
Highlight Blood red mixed 1:1 with blazing orange
Highlight Blazing orange
A wash of Baal red


More death co. coming up today


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It has been a long day and here's the result of the hard work. Nah! Just kidding!

The entire death co is assembled and the rhino is waiting for some more details, here are the pictures:



The arms, heads and backpacks are going to be painted separetly. The muzzle holes are drilled, so there's only two things remaining, sand on the bases and priming.


Just some details are missing here but I'll put some scrolls and other details (commander head) tomorrow

That's all for tonight.

Now it's time for a movie!

Well done with the death company, brilliant poses. How did the match go?