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OMG Fantastic look and feel to this army man, the purple compliments the dull, urban grey so well, I LOVE it! great work, truely astonishing, can't wait to see more.

Thanks mate

Done a few more bits this morning. Painted the bases on some men black ready for the grey and done a cat unit.

What do you think I need cc on this little guy.









So thoughts?

Truffle wrote:Thanks mate

Done a few more bits this morning. Painted the bases on some men black ready for the grey and done a cat unit.

What do you think I need cc on this little guy.



So thoughts?

It seems a bit plain at the moment. What about some weathering and a little OSL off of that electrode coil thing in the back?

I agree with Rawson when he says its a little plain, perhaps have a slight dwarf bronze / gold drybrush on the metal except the tracks for variety whilst still keeping the model dull and awesome and gothic
up to you at the end of the day though.

LDP

Not a fan of the dwarf bronze Idea to be honest I like the dull metal dont want any true matalic colour on it.

The weathering on the little power coil. What are your suggestions for doing it?

Truffle wrote:Not a fan of the dwarf bronze Idea to be honest I like the dull metal dont want any true matalic colour on it.

The weathering on the little power coil. What are your suggestions for doing it?

Those were actually two separate ideas. Weathering and OSL from the power coil. I'm invisioning a greenish or light blue glow off of the coil. I think it looks cool being all metal, but you could add some scuffs, a few oil leaks, and some grime on the tracks maybe. Just a few little details to make it more believable and break up all the metal (boltgun metal, I think). Is that a little clearer?

Keep it up!

Cheers,
Rawson

When I do the base it will add dust to the model. What about a blue wash on the little coil at the back. Keep in mind these things are tiny to stuff like rust might be a bit ott. I like the glow idea though do you think a blue was would do the trick?

Truffle wrote:When I do the base it will add dust to the model. What about a blue wash on the little coil at the back. Keep in mind these things are tiny to stuff like rust might be a bit ott. I like the glow idea though do you think a blue was would do the trick?

OTT or just hard? Is it on a 25mm or 40mm base (just for scale)? I think the dust will probably add a lot in the realism department.

If you go with blue, I would say use a different blue than you have for your wires, especially if you feel that the model is pretty small.

Looking great, loving the vendetta and its absurd amounts of lascannon.

Than

Its a 40mm base and the base will be done like my infantry so drybrushed grey then white over black. This will dust up the bottom of the little unit nicely.

I was just gonna try a blue wash over the metal colour.

Ok have really not been in the mood for doing my guard army the last week. Been messing about with space marines and dread fleet.

Anyway I did some more work to the remainng infantry tonight. Been painting their bases. Now just need to touch us as you will se from the pictures they have a major case of dusty boot which I need to correct as having the grey on the boot makes the models and the bases to similar.



Nearly done now. Fun projects soon no more have to do this by this date gak.

Hah!, I always get dusty boots too, cept I dont go back and fix them. very nice!

Thanks mate.

I have now finished these infantry. Bases done and extra metal work on their guns although thats only small amounts of change.



What are your thoughts?

How did you highlight the dark flesh? mine always just looks..bestial brownish.

Bestial brown covered in a heavy badab black wash. Thats it.

Its done its all done. Well basicly anyway. Here you go.



Many many comments welcome

Very nice army. Great job, and good luck at ToS!

yea it looks great unfortinate that your done, i hope you win only to make you build this army bigger

Thanks guys. Dont worry chap My guard army in total hits around 20 000 points worth of stuff there is lots to do yet.

where did you get 5 CATs from! you dont have five boxes of space hulk do you?!

I brought 5 cats on ebay. So no I have no space hulks as I feel it to be gak. I do however have 4 copies of dreadfleet 3 of which will remain sealed for sale for at least a year. Ow what a Dick I am.

oooooo i wish i had some extra $ to buy that but im spending all my miniature money ive been saving for a while on a few 1 time buys of bits and conversion stuff ):

Truffle wrote:I brought 5 cats on ebay. So no I have no space hulks as I feel it to be gak. I do however have 4 copies of dreadfleet 3 of which will remain sealed for sale for at least a year. Ow what a Dick I am.

Ah ok fair enough

Right its all done. A totally average score of 2 wins 1 draw and a loss. Had 2 game shwere it was just a case of I cant roll any dice. But never mind was a good laugh. Will do a more in detail update at some point but I dont have time at the minute I got a back log of Degree work to do before I go back to work tomorrow :(

Nice job 2:1:1 isnt too bad at all, what kind of opponents did you play?

Basicly the first game was against sisters. I lost this as I roled nothing but ones. I got around 11 penertrating hits on his exorcists and did no damage :/ Also he was not wysiwyg he had some bolt pistols painted a different colour to count as melta pistols and I couldnt be arsed to make a fuss. I also later found out he cheated he said the saint had a master crafted weapon she does not and his death cults had feel no pain which they dont.

Second game was necrons. Had a massive laugh with the guy but in the end of the day it was only going one way. I dismantled him.

Third game was against vanilla marines with many terminators. He passed many inv saves so we got a draw.

Fourth was more sisters. After my first turn I had destroyed anything of any threat to my tanks apart from a single exorcist. This ended 12 kill points to me and 2 to him.

Last was another guard army quite similar to mine. I failed nearly every shot and he passed about 8 tank cover saves in a row. Still nearly pulled a draw though but My last squad got tank shocked and ran in the last turn. Bloody good fight though.

So yeah apart from first guy who was a bit of a dick it was really good laid back fun games. Made a point at the start of my games of telling the other player I would much rather I get trounced but have fun than win and we be picky gakkers.

I dont like playing sisters that much, since i have a grudge against a certain penitent engine... i usually play Tyranids and various SM but when i get to play guard then it becomes a nice game. Sounds like you had an eventfull time although that sisters player should be exploded!! Even though i play in tournies i play for a good time which is why i play so many games since people know i perfer them to blow my tank up! instead of destroy them.

It was well worth going. My daylight bulb blew up so I have not taken any new snaps. Am doing necrons and marines now just for a chill out so keep ya eyes open for the other blogs.

I want to paint and build some of the Sister's sexy rides like the organ tank rhino thing, but I would have no interest in playing them on the table.

i do love those sisters bubble turrets