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Finished the remaining 2 Ogryns, think i feel a bit better about the greenstuffing now i can see it painted.













Group shot with the bone 'ead.



And with a Commisar.



Not sure what to do next... started painting a test mini for my pre-heresy Luna Wolves, but keep thinking about the guard... hmmm, maybe now's the time to give forgeworld a call...


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Bit of test work on my Pre Heresy Luna Wolves, just a quick look to see what the white might look like so i've only painted the head and one shoulder pad so far. What do you guys think?

Very nice greenstuff skills, especially the straight lines on the respirator. Paint looks good to, especially the luna wolf.

Nice conversions you got going on here; but you've got your assassin's mixed up: you converted an Eversor not a Culllexis.

It is a Culuxes, check out the shoulder mounted weapon. Culuxus also had a weird skull faced helmet, just it was massive, so i made a smaller one... and the clawed hand is just meant to be a close combat weapon, not a nuero gauntlet.

Oh, and she has a psyk-out grenade in her hand....

In fairness i can see where the confusion may lie, but this is just my interpretation of an assassin with a butt-ugly official sculpt...

Played some games a few weekends ago, beating an ork army, drawing with eldar and losing to blood angels... bloody mephiston *grumble*

Here's some pics of the boys in action, along with some commentry.







Marbo shouldnt have popped out here.



Orks getting dangerously close




Vets try to assualt ork boys with Col Straken giving them furious charge... and roll double 1 for difficult terrain.



Combined squad get ground down by the Killa Kan, with only the commissar keeping them fighting.



When Straken cant do the job, its upto the Ogryns to charge in and finally destroy the Killa Kan.



Vet squad about to get gunned down by some horrificly accurate ork shooting.



Stretching to hold both objectives.



To be contd. (Game ended before they could fight)



Game ended two objectives to one, would have been 2 - 0 but i couldnt gun down a lone ork gretchin herder with a heavy bolter and an autocannon!


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Part 2.

In light of the game i decided to alter my 1500pt army a bit, which required the addition of power swords to the sergeants in the combined squad and a standard bearer in Strakens squad, which will look cool, allow nearby squads to re-roll morale tests and help out in any nearby assualts.











All of which needs painting. I've also made up a manticore, another chimera, a leman russ eradicator and a leman russ punisher with pask. Should keep me busy if the weather will allow me to undercoat them all.

I love your guardsmen, the colour scheme is very apeling ot the eye.

Haven't had a chance to look at all of this blog, but that lord commisar looks fantastic. Great, simple comversion. I can't wait to see more, and good work!

You were lucky against my Orks, I nearly contested the middle of objective by 1/2 an inch ...

Lol, well it was a cracking game and I learnt alot, mainly who Strachen is (he'll be getting gunned down next time) and more importantly about better positioning my Kans so they don't get bogged down by your ruined Chimera's.

Mate you'll be TRYING to gun him down, he's all kinds of bad-ass! Did i mention he's fearless?

You were lucky too you sod, that grot-herder who survived two heavy weapon shots to the noggin!

Getting my boys ready for the re-match, Strakens waiting!!!

Been a bit on the lazy side recently, mainly due to Mass Effect 2 and Halo Reach, but i have managed to finish a few things. First up, a manticore and a 5th chimera.





Im really pleased with the squadron marking on the side of the chimera, my first ever attempt at proper free-hand and i think it looks pretty good.





Finished the power swords on the 3 sergeants.



Painted the Callidus Assassin that i made up about a year ago.









And finally a WIP on a Leman Russ Punisher and an Eradicator. Not the best choices from the codex, but they look cool and i like the idea of both tanks. Ran out of back ink while painting them so try and pick up some more tomorrow.



Hope you guys like em. Started on my Culuxus assassin as well but only painted the armour so far.

I love your imperial guard models
you have given me ideas how to do Sgt Bastonne, can never work out how to do him, thanks
i love how you did the carapace armour for your vets.

lifeofshan wrote:Been a bit on the lazy side recently, mainly due to Mass Effect 2 and Halo Reach,

I'm stuck with the same problem (Halo : Reach) in here... So I can understand!!!

As for the rest, it turns out so well, the light colour scheme is great, and the details on the assassin are amazing... I love it (erh.. Her!) ... Erh, well, you get the point...

Been busy tonight, finished painting the Punisher with Pask, the Eradicator and painted the Culuxus.











Group shot with chimera and manticore



Culuxus, went for a gren tone to complement the purple of the callidus







And a shot with the Callidus



Not sure what to do next. Maybe have a days break and then paint the standard bearer for Strackens squad.

Good job on those assassins, very cool.

The ogryns and the overall color scheme to your army is fantastic! Where did you get the helmet for the initial pic on this post (blue IG)?

I'll repeat what I said earlier... Those assassins are awesome!!!!

The assassins certainly are cool, also a bit ... unnerving haha.

I'm a huge fan of your tank commanders, too. The guy with the peaked cap is one of my favourite models of all time, not always painted as well as yours though! Keep it up.

how many points can you field ? im close to 4k painted now . would be an epic guard vs guard game if we could get the time at some point. and space ofc

Thanks guys.

Element206: The ead is from an old Adeptus Arbites model, only available on eBay now.

Phil: I can field just over 5.5k of painted guard, and just over 2k of panted sisters. Be good to have a massive game some day, but it would be a pain to transport. Maybe arrange a game for Warhammer World sometime?


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Built a Sisters of Battle Exorcist today, using the missile pods from Valkyrie and the extra armour from a vindicator.





And side by side with an Immolator i painted over a year ago.



Currently undercoating Strakens standard bearer, an Inquisitor, Saint Celestine and an Orc Nob, so i wont get bored painting the same thing!

yes seems good , on an evening after a gt or the like

Wow, the Exorcist looks better than FW's or GW's one, IMHO... It's really tied to the other Immolator, great job!

Paint the inside of the eradicator turret black and it's prefect

The culexus is just messed up, in a very imperial assassin sort of wat. The exorcist is awesome and fits into the existing range very nicely, think it would look better painted (hint).

Wow, the exorcist is basically exactly like something I started working on a couple weeks ago. How about that. Pretty sweet design I must say
How are you connecting the missile pods to the turret? I was considering trying to magnetize it so I could still switch out from immolator guns if the occasion arose. Also, can the turret still turn? I know on mine, and it looks like on yours, the pods end up a bit too low to allow that.

Very nice work on everything else I've seen so far. I'll definitely be taking a look through the rest of the thread when I have a chance.

Zefig - I just filed the box on the side down and glued it against where the regular guns would go at. Yeah, the pods are too low to allow the turret to turn, but thats not much of a problem.

Well, been busy over the Xmas period. First up, St Celestine, not my best work on the power sword but it'll do.







Next, an Inquisitor in desperate need of a retinue.







Finished up the Exorcist about an hour ago.





Lined up next to the Immolator i painted a year and a half ago. They're slightly different shades of red but i dont mind a little bit of difference across the vehicles.



And finally a group shot of St Celestine, the Exorcist, the Immolator and a standard Sister of Battle.



Next, two more Cyber Hounds from Inquisitor to be painted up as Arbites dogs, that'll take me to 3 of them which will work as a unit of Arco Flagellents, assuming the minimum squad size is 3... i hope!

Wow, St Celestine is nice!!! I especially like the shroud, it looks ancient and weathered!!!

As for the Inquisitor... I have had a hard time finding this awesome mini, but never had the courage to painting for lack of screwing him! But yours is really nice, with a simple scheme, but very efficient...

Only concern is the 40mm bases :

- some opponents will find the size unappropriate for human-sized characters (should be 25mm) ;

- with such a large area, why not use your talent to add some additional scenery to them? That's, to me, the main point in using 40mm bases!

Still, some very good work!

Yeah i probably should have done something more special with the base. The two Cyber Hounds are going to be done with the same Urban style bases that the rest of the Arbites have, with rubble, pipes, metal sheets etc.

I'm not too worried about having larger bases for my hero characters, just think it makes them look more impressive and helps them stand out.

Good luck with your Inquisitor, let me know when you've worked up the confidence to have a try.

Well, I probably won't reach that threshold of confidence until a long, long time...

Good luck on the Hounds!

(and yeah, don't worry about the 40mm, it DOES make them stand out, so that's great!)

Been working on some more Arbites the last few days to try to help complete my WitchHunters. Assembled two more Cyber Mastiffs that are now undercoated and ready to paint, but as they are identical to the one i paintd before i didnt bother to photograph them.

Then i made an Arbites Mastiff Handler. The device in his right hand is to control the Mastiffs, based on a simple point and click approach. In game i'm probably going to use him as a priest with a shotgun and carapace armour, seeing as you need one to unlock the flaggelents the Mastiffs will represent.

Apologies for the awful paintjob on his body, i bought it like this from ebay and couldnt be bothered to strip it.







Next up is a female Arbite with shotgun. Based of an Escher model and bulked up with green stuffed armour, straps & shotgun that took several days to do. She is somewhat slimmer than the male versions, but looks ok i think. I'm hoping that some of the dodgier areas of the greenstuff will look better with paint on. If all goes well i'll make another one with stub pistol and power maul to represent Shira Calpurnica.







A group shot with a standard Arbite.



Hopefully undercoat them tomorrow when the last of the green-stuff has dried and then start painting them all up.

Wow, super cool arbites! I'm in a rush now, but I'll be back to take a closer look.