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i don't just like this army, i love it
i enjoy a guard army that dos'nt use cadians or catachans so very well done i really can't say enough good about this army because it would use up a whole page

I still am , though i think custom tanks and rough riders will make all the difference. i also need more varied models , will have to look down the back of the sofa for extra cash. they stiil look a bit small sometimes , but chucking all the infantry at the guns over a sodden battlefied , whilst mortars rain down around sounds good to me.

some one eles asked about the mortars.

neil101 wrote:
the mortar round come curtesy of my childrens toy box, he searched through for ya and found the actual toy set, its a 6 inch action figure set from a lookout tower that goes by various names as world peace keeping force , world peace keepers lookout tower, and power team. here is a link to a website selling it. and a pic

http://www.kidsarmyshop.co.uk/5-lookout-tower-set.html

Wow dude there's so much stuff in here I almost can't cope
But pulled my self together and looked at the drawings and they look really good, and I will encourage you to shade them to match the last frame as that looks very neat

Looking forward to more

this raises another question for me. i have oggled on these figs here. they are my favorite now...

http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280531303429&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
they do have great coats...*nudge, nudge, nudge*
could have done a monty vid with that but i let it rest....for now^^

where did you get your perry minis ? did you buy them in an actual shop of via the web?
and i´ll be totaly frank with you, what did they charge?

how do i convince my wife....
got about nearly 50 catachans now...and do i really want them?...descisions, descisions.

and thanks for the mortar amo^^ info

and here is one amo info in return:
http://cgi.ebay.de/Diddl-Top-Model-2-Steckbleistifte-Neu-/120581066534?pt=Serien_Lizenzprodukte&hash=item1c13310f26
see those pencil amothingies? i use them for my autocanons. i guess i have to show them tomorrow. they look really the part. like oversized heavy machinegun amo...
and they are sooo damn cheap...

thanks, vik

@ sageheart and @ Vik converting the command sqauds is easy arms off etc. there are lots of spare heads in the french line sprues , the bulk of models are posed with upright muskets so , and not enough spare arms so they are a no. really, although , the kneeling down mortar loader is one of them, but command sqauds , are very customisable, here is the link to where i baught them the actual website. linky to models http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index2.html look under plastics. they have all prices etc on there. happy hunting @ vik you have to be careful when purchasing historical models because alot of them are 20mm no good at all for 40k , even these are small as i have said before.
nice idea about 50mm bullets

@ moonshine , cheers mate, I am really feeling the spirit of them myself, like dkok with style on a budget. it helps that i have written and sketched nearly 200 pages of fluff on praxus so they feel very much real. not just a tabletop army It even has it own archetectural style "Brutal Gothic, ", mix between brutalism and neo gothic!, they are part of a much bigger picture.
@ the damned artificer , glad your well mate, never mind Praxus when are we gonna see an update to your amazing blog" looks at watch" . as for Praxus yeah i did struggle with the style i wanted , but decided on minimalism for conciseness and to ultimately save time, i would love to add more detail , or even colour, but i am alread spending too much time on each page as it is , ;-( , but i suppose a tad more tone couldnt harm ;-) and the more i do the faster i should get. thanks for your input mate ,appreciate it! and again thanks to all for the lovely comments, really getting to feel like a 2nd home on dakka! Must leave laptop... and sleep......goodnight people!

Ah, I thought the shells might come from something like that, I shall have to see if I can dig something similar up from the long-forgotten toy boxes

Napoleonic Hussars=IG rough riders methinks!

i'm having trouble seeing the sprues. Are the heads glued on? can you get a pic of how they come out of the box or did you take them all out hahahhaha.

@ Neil101 Man this is so freaking awesome...I've been mulling doing something similar and when I have finished what I am doing now, and saved some money I will act on it! Your army is looking seriously cool. Quick question: where did you get enough Lasguns?

Just to follow up: there is a great book called the Redcoat by Richard Holmes...it will give you a great overview of Redcoats tactics life and eccentricities...for instance up until the late 1800s you could be flogged in the British Army for not having a mustache.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0006531520/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=1278548962&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0060512776&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0GH94V5WY34K2ADT11V0

That's a really good place to start. Then of course there is Sharpe. Don't know how old you are, if you are over 22 you've probably seen them. There is nothing wrong with the books but I prefer the TV series...and will give you a great visual on outfits and perhaps veterans...

Snipers - Riflemen (Green)
General canon fodder - Redcoats (er Red)
Heavy weapons - Rocket Troop (blue)


Sorry...I am getting carried away...





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Btw...your comic looks pretty good...when done you should sumbit to black library. no harm in trying.

Good to see you making progress Neil, keep it up.

Love the comic, it was a bit difficult to read on a browser, kept having to zoom in and out.

The priest type figure looks kinda aztec to me. I'm looking forward to more, are you going to be covering what the Manufactorium does and the laws around the hair growing etc?

@ commander cain , mmm hussars or dragoons decisions, descisions. though hussars look very much like Vostoyan firstborn :-). good luck with tha long forgotten toybox the search !

@Sage heart linky http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index2.html , most come with heads on , but have a spare one each! commanders come without but still have spares!

@Manoknok, thats a freaking awesome compliment! Seriously thanks , If you have being thinking for a while , you should def go for it. all your ideas will come to the for, with them! and you sound very knowledgeable about historical warfare in general, i bet you would have some great , insights . thanks for the link, will have a look , i was thinking of re watching some sharp actually, i watched a documentary on the writer on youtube, and hes a serious historical warfare nut! even has a musket with bayonet for gardening or some such lol.

the lasguns are from an old box o twenty cadians , and catachans these , are some spares from the left over sprues. Pdf gave me a great link for them from http://www.bitsandkits.co.uk/imperial-guard-cadian-infantry-c-6_54_55.html?sesid=r5hck8kvjf8jjbt0hgidav0jc6
but i find they look ok on the table top , but up close in photos , look oversized. this thing i have stuggled with most. you will also need some bases.
nice idea about the colour scheme, i was thinking , grey or green for the long coats , and green black ,white , for shortcoats , with blue white , or black and red , for officors, but having weapons teams diff colour is a good idea. and as for black library , i am honoured you think it woyuld ranks so highly, , every body keeps telling me i shouldnt be so neagtive , so maybe i will. thanks

@ Hangfire cheers mate, i am terrified of painting em though .....! glad you like the comic. really looking forward to getting more stuff out there , my brain is hurting with overloaded creative stuff ,;-)
I iam glad you metioned that it is difficult to read in the browser , because i have being trying out various methods of publishing, they all have drawbacks , though, if any one has any info on FREE image hosting where you can view the pages full screen and sequentially i would be immensley gratefull. Aztec priest, you are observant i wrote a graphic novel last year called OLMEC, the Precursor ancient 3000 year old founding civilastion in meso america guatamala, about a Latin Amercian shaman , who makes a deal with Xicuatlan , an old sky god of war and death to disseminate his teachings to civilation, and make war and shed blood in his name , in return for immortality abd revenge upon his enemies. takes place in modern day san franscisco and ancient meso america.

So there was probably some residual infuence left over in my subconcious, although The Priest's name Ignacious ALERON , might give some clues to his vestments.
as for the manufactorum... All will be revealed in due course!.... so that will be a yes then ! ;-)
regrds neil

Yeah Bernard Cormwell is a bit of a Legend.

I would love to own a musket.

Did you buy the lasguns separately or just harvest them from places?

That, and the money, and my Sigmarites are the only thing holding me back.

ooh i love bitz and kitz

@ Manoknok , I was in the Vikings linky http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk/ ( Historical re enactment group , was i was a teenager , and we used to beat up the sealed knot linky http://www.thesealedknot.org.uk/ guys for fun, they didnt like getting their expensive uniforms ,armour, pikes and muskets dirty! Unlike the smelly actual bodily contact vikings :-) ,always admired the muskets they used though!
the lasguns were just hanging around the bits box leftovers!
as for epense. i found the perry minis to be ridicolously cheap ! , £15 , for 43 minis :-0 ! for plastic french line anyway, then of course you have to buy bases seperately . or use the stock ones they come with. ( cut mine up for my next conversion !

@ moonshine , havent purchased anything from it my self, yet! are they reliable?

Update in 30 mins if i can get the lamp light pics bright enough!

eh neil? i got a question, have you looked into victorix miniatures? they sell also 28mm...well 28mm anyway...
also they have a more wider range of products. they have highlanders and even fitting artillery sets...

just wanted to now what you think about them. also they come in boxes of 60! Minis...not to be sneezed at...

multipose also...

as for my attempts...well budget is pretty used...so i dont know when i will be able to buy these nice fighters myself...

would it be possible (in your opinion) to convert a catechan warrior into somthing that resembles something like:

http://cgi.ebay.de/28mm-1-56-Wargames-Factory-01-Zulu-War-Briten-Infantry-/280528933343?pt=Rollenspiele_Tabletops&hash=item4150d3d1df

i greatly honor your opinion on this...

cheers mate, vik

yes they have been very reliable the only problem is they sell out of godd stuff very quickly

hey guys just wanted to let people know what i have being upto this week........? Praxian guard! yeah iam just loving making these guys and cant wait to paint them, but something special this week, After seeing some pics that weetiskeemian posted of the old imperial army , it got me thinking.... i had already decided that the praxian guard would be a bloody muddy infantry based army with a few Clanking metal behemoth tanks rolling over the bodies of the dead qoute weetyskeemian " like a monstrous whale" but if i was baseing the army as napoleonics meets ww1 infantry , i wanted ww2 artillery backing up the footsloggers, so i have decided these will be predominantly inafantry knee deep in mud grass and autumnal leaves at the front line! but at the back line the heavy artillery and mortar crews would be backing them , up , i researched ww1 artiullery mortars for my mortar crew (already posted) but wanted something a bit bigger for the arty boys, so here now i present my wip (no paint yet , but promise this will be my first job when i do ) Praxian guard Artilley Engineers led by ex Mercenary Squat ( out of respect for two squat loving ddakites , Weetyskeemian44 and Dances with squats ) He also appears in the Comic albeit in chapter 3 , ages away yet. Leutnant (respect for Vik german luetenant) Dance , nickname , Weety in thick scottish "accent dont call me DANCE" my names weety!

And his Big Baby Shortie the big Arty

@ vik here is a link to a guy who sells pith helmet head conversions for catachans and Cadians, he also has many other top tips , this would be perfect for your army! i think.
http://colgravis.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-09-01T19%3A03%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=3

and as for the arty are you psychic mate?

@ Moonshine thanks for the Info mate.

pics are very grainy will prob take a few better ones in the morn , but i plan on painting this baby tommorow anyway so will update when painted.

Thats really WW1 retro. I especially like the rails, nice touch.

maaaaaan....
i just read your words... then scrolled down.thinking well what the heck did he do now...

then: my jaw hit the ground. and i don´t use this term lightly as some people do on this site here...
you are a mad sculpter as if i ever saw one. that detail, the crane, the mud, the amo, and of course your master the leutnant weety dance...^^
i´m at a loss for words, well not really cause i want to pay you full respect for your beutiful monster of a diorama...i love it!
i can just imagine how much fun this all will be to paint...
i see myself (as invisioned you) painting for hours just leaving my work for a pee and not sleeping or being able to communicate with the world until its done...

i am truly amazed by your work man.
on a sidenote to your arty^^, you´ve manned it is that something you done deliberatly? you even gave the big roaring mancanon a pair of balls?^^
as i saw these things i loled so hard...what are they for? please keep them for the sake of MANkind^^

and one other thing, my next project. with your astonishing work i will spill some beans. also i have to beat you as i think your working hardpressed for it also in that genius of a head of yours as well....: (zepelin...) *hushs*

i salute you neil, yours truly vik

@ Weety, cheers thats exactly what i wanted to achieve with this! ( although i am qouted as saying ww2 arty Doh! well maybe a nice miture, with some grimdark sci fi for good measure. its being a long hard 4 days, and nights, i am done scratchbuilding for a while , its goona take me another 4 days to tidy up. Some nice relaxing painting i think for me for a while now.Abot the rails , yeah i notice over the years GW has shyed away from any rail related stuff, probbaly doesnt want to overlap into the model train grounds, well that just leaves it open for me to interpret something 40k has'nt seen yet . they have tracks and wheels, mine will have rails!

@ Vik Man balls for the long sclhlong. lol thats another happy accident! that i never even thought about. I think Leutnant Dance has a few Emasculation issues, maybe being called dance on a squat homeworld has given him a neurosis that makes him over compensate by hetro sexualising his big shooty weapon, have you notice how small he is but he has the biggest weapon, that speaks volumes , poor old chap. He should just get a girfriend!
as for the hushed" zepplin " bugger! you got me! bring it on fly boy , your going down, to china town! lol jk
quick remove it before someone steals your Vision ;-)

I just noticed the balls. The squat has small man syndrome!

your both totaly mistaken, he is in fact a very frustrated women, and because of her frustration she is making terrible killing material in the form of manly weapon methaphors...

as in:
see this schlong, he is big and hurtful, and he will tear you some holes and two...

omg, did i wrote that...

and no whats writtenstays written, writing honor that is...

vik

lol , and here i was thinking the beard was just a metaphor. its actually just a disguise.

jep didn´t you saw the small plastic threads around her ears?

so obvious...

Looks great! I really need to buy some historicals soon. Warlord Prussians or Vixtrix's Highlanders methinks

just checked out vixtrixs napoleonics , russian line and french. they look good , if you do buy some would you pm me when you put em in our blog, would like to see scale and detailed pics. never heard of warlord, but will have a little looksee cheers!

so its all about penis envy? sorry I think we may have gone too far with the metaphors. And neil thought he was just making a big gun!

Neil101. You need to start painting when you are producing stuff this cool.

Your right of course!

Holy crap! Can't wait to see it painted up.

Mike

Hi Neil,

Any chance you still have any of your British minis on the sprue?

Been looking online and I am sure if you have Perry or Victrix...either one I can't clearly see what they are like on the sprue...so if you have any could you post a photo?

Would appreciate it as I like the shako look....


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For instance are the heads and arms seperate on the sprue? Or fixed position




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I guess what I really want/need to know is if the arms and heads are seperate on the sprue so you can position how you like...or if they are already attached.