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I'd like to vote +1 for Blackhand's furrish idea, though it'll probably be painstakingly long & tedious!!!
Maybe you could try and find some Mordheim Middenheimer sprues, they have a lot of wolf furs on them...

Also like the snow, it seems about to melt, which is quite nice... And you managed to resist the urge to cover it snow-white!!!

So the weekend is upon us! Along with a billion other things that have to be sorted 2moro, I will hopefully get some more models sorted and some more paint to plastic!

Man I've missed my plastic soooo much this past week!

So blue print for 2moro:

Finish Chimera.

Add accessories to 10 man squad and finish them off!

More progress on the Valk.

Maybe some work on the Catachans

AND...

May start a Space Marine army too lol

for now though good night...

mm

So I managed to get some modelling done today! I will show some pics further in the week of the Heavy Weapons Teams and their bases I got some work done on today! I dont like The missile launcher that GW makes for the Guard so I have used one of the Space Marine tank missile launchers This looks more like a modern ATW kind of along the lines of the Javellin! Pics of this soon.

Anyways some other progress I managed was a few home made shotguns and my Veteran Squad assembled and ready for painting! This squad will eventually carry 6 Shotguns, 1 power fist and a plasma pistol, 1 Plasma gun, 1 Sniper Rifle and 1 weapon I'm still debating on!? Check out the pics...

Regards

MM

I see you're undercoating by hand. tip: Invest in a spray primer. It'll make your life so much easier.

Hey Munch Munch - for the undercoat I actually use the GW spray gun

Faster and gives a nicer coat! Some of the models I have though are from a friend so some are undercoated by hand!

Regards

MM

Love the snow what did you use for it?

I used baking powder, pva glue and water all mixed into a slight gritty paste!



Regards

MM

I love the way none of your guard have a static pose, looks great! I know how fiddly it gets from first hand experience
Good choice going from blue helmets to green, I would have said try purple just so you'd have a platoon of purple headed warriors

For someone who says they can't do bases, that water base looked pretty damn good! Give it a watered down wash of that whachamacallit blue wash and it would look like he was on a beach But instead of drowning in water, he might drown in the corpses of his squad

Keep it up! I'll be checking up on your progress

Thanks for the comments

I want all my guard to have a different pose because uniform is just to boring! All looking the same!! Like a clone army is pointless

The water base was lame!! lol but thanks for your kind input!

And thanks for subscribing!

regards

mm

As for the last weapon, they'll most probably get engaged in HtH, so why not invest in a Heavy flamer?!? That'd soften up their prey a bit, uh...

hmmmmm possibly

Hey mate sorta just come back from holiday and its nice to see some great work going on! I like the vetran squad! mabye for the last weapon a melta if theyre gonna face tanks.

Hello Dakka,

I dont know if it is permitted to comment back on this thread but I will soon be adding more pics and updates on this thread, so thought I would let the fans read up to refresh once again.

I haven't had chance over the past few months to add any progress to the army but all will be changing over the next few nights as I will try to rekindle my love affair with this great and peaceful hobby.

I apologise if this is frowned upon for updating an old thread but kind of thought because I am the author I would get away with it.

Also for those folk in the UK looking to grab a bargain you should check out my start at 99p model auctions over on ebay where you can grab brand new still sealed mini's for a great bargain. I have popped a new thread with a link to this in the swap shop section. Be sure to check it out.

For now regards to you all and hopefully you will accept my lonesome self back into your fantastic community - This time bearing civvy clothes :(

MM

I love this thread. Very clean and neat painting style that I don't know if this describes it well but very GW'ey in that the models are super clean and nice looking, sorta like they just got off the landing craft rather then have been doing what guard usually do for weeks.

Awesome use of bits and i can't wait to see more.

So after finishing work and getting back home tonight, I have managed to find a spare 5 minutes to get some pictures taken of my 98% completed Chimera.

Now I say 98% complete, because there are a few little details to add - i.e some text to the side scrolls and some battle scarring.

As always C&C much appreciated.

MM

Pictures of my first complete squad will be uploaded after work tonight and some other details of future tasks will be revealed. In the meantime you can check out my blog which is added in my sig. Nothing much on there yet but that will change tonight too.

Regards

MM

I dont know how much i like the snow, but thats probably just me, i love the glass effect on the front of it!

iheartlargeblasttemplates - The snow is not everyone's cuppa tea. So thank you for your input. I will say however the mistake I made whilst photographing is using the flash. This has not done the tank and snow justice.

If your reference of glass is to the lens then thank you. The lens turned out better than I could have imagined. Im not the best painter in the world and have been improving slowly over the past few years and following other peoples blogs and tips has allowed me to slightly improve my skills.

Regards

MM

Yeah the lens is what i meant i love it really well done.

This blog isn't dead. I have more updates soon... I am trying to get bits together to not only finish this army but to also start a Sons of Orar SM army too...

For those still following there will be piccy updates soon, and for those not following - please follow and give C&C. This will then help me get motivated to complete so many idea's.

Regards

MM

Let's see those pics! Everything is looking great. I like the snow on the tank, it gives the impresion that the snow is melting off as the interior heats up.

Very nice, I really like the colours and the tank. Shame your no longer doing the UN style I was looking forward to White tanks, ah well what you've got at the moment looks superb

So I painted up a Son of Orar marine over the Bank Holiday and for the life of me could not perfect the white!

So the white ended up being painted over red and now am ready for Blood Angels instead :S oh well a company for my Space Hulk Termies atleast...

I have 1x Death Company primed and ready and 1 x Tac Marine fully painted and waiting to be based - Which I have no clue of what to do at moment!

I am currently back in work :( but as soon as I get home tonight I will get picture of Tac Marine uploaded for C&C.

Until then sorry for the update with no pics again - Just trying to keep you guys interested and will provide pics later today - PROMISE

Regards

MM

So, as promised from earlier, here are some pics of my 'TEST' mini. This is in no way GD standard or near any neat standard that I can usually paint.

This was completely painted through speedily so that I could have a general idea on where I wanted to go with my test colours.

(Yes I know that it has not been given 100% paint coverage and yes I can see the white primer underneath. Also, Yes the Red does look thick in places - although my paints are watered thin... This is because as far as test mini's are concerned, they are generally from projects before which have been painted already, or picked up real cheap off flea-bay. You guys know the drill )

Without further ado...

Here are some more pics.

They're mostly 'armless