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Viktor von Domm wrote:old GW ink? cool, how did you murder for that? i know my crimes for getting my inks...and i treasure the ones i have...got the flesh wash ink, the orc green ink and unfortunatly i often use the former and the later i have two bottles of but seldom use it...such a pity...

I didnt murder anyone, I bought it when I started up again, too bad it isn´t Badab Black though

as i dont know how this ink flows and reacts to different paints i can´t be of help there... when all is said and done badab black is not my favorite wash...by far... it just sometimes gets a job done.. is all...

by the way... i am ready for an update mate...

Whatchoo mean update? I also figured out I got a bottle of Charadon Granite....so far Devlan Mud wash is amazing.

yep devaln mud is sure a cure for most needs...works great on earthen tones of course but also brings up red a treat and metals too...

and a scotsman update of three new recruits...

Sometimes life gives you lemons....



....and then you get to look for a new job.

no really? ohoh... as a feloow unemployed...the main thing that sucks when something like that happens is the lack of money...are you secure in the netherlands? is there such a thing as unemployment help/ social wellfare?

me, i get nothing, cause my wife just earns that tad too much money that seperates us from the poor and thus i am totally out of any system...if i wasn´t married i wouldn´t have been able to go to the dentist...

Yeah there is welfare and such, I just got told today I won't be getting a contract, can stay on for another month or two and then its back to job hunting. Welfare should spot me enough to live on, of course it does mean that my army building will be scaled waaaaaaay back.

Ill keep you posted.

crap... i hope that you will get an even better job now...

*sending a wave of good karma*

Just a minor update (not even any pictures!).

At the moment my paints are starting to come in slowly, figured I give the Army Painter a go to see how I will end up. Am awaiting the last few bits for the Emperor's Pride. At this point I am not even sure how many Terminators I will be able to assemble, I figure I will focus on building an Army List and assemble as needed. I have been reading up on tactics and such, of course the rumors of a new edition for 40K is somewhat unsettling (moreso seeing I only now ordered in Codex: Dark Angels).

Any suggestions on loadout are much appreciated. I do know I will go for a 'Unkillable' Unit of 5 Terminators with Thunderhammers and Stormshield with one of them toting around a Cyclone Missile Launcher. I do have an Assault Cannon or three laying about as well as some Heavy Flamers. Of course if I can swing it I might just make 5 Lightning Clawed Terminators, and 5 Regular ones rounding it off with an Apothecary and Standard Bearer (Note to Self: Need a Logo).

A month and two e-mails further Bitspudlo finally shipped my ordered items, so as soon as they come in I can resume my Squat goodness as well. I did found even more possible Ogryn models, am expecting Avatar of War Dwarf Beserkers, and some Warmachine models. These will most definately be my last acquisition for a while due to some less than stellar news on the job front.

I'll not bore you with too much detail, but suffice to say I might get more time to work on my hobby than even I could wish for.

Oh alright then, one Picture:


Imperial Guard Veterans with Carapace Armour

That's tough on the job front mate. Hope you get sorted quickly.

Can't help you with the loadout I'm afraid as I haven't played in a Long Time.

Those are Trenchers aren't they? Always thought they'd make some nice guard, good choice.

Ah, wow, unemployed is never fun, (been that way for about 2yrs now, almost 3yrs. ) Dwarven shield-gunners, makes for some fine Squat heavy infantry/Grenadiers! nothing like a tasty veterans squad, That and they get to have a nice 3 "special" weapons.I like triple meltas, or the double flamer with heavy flamer, or triple plasma, and or triple Grenade launchers....my most generalized load our is the old Bauhaus Hussars kitted as Grenadiers with melta+Heavy flamer+G.L.

The official name for them is Hammerfall High Shield Gun Corps, and seeing they are supposedly a race of Dwarfs from the Warmachine I am keeping my fingers crossed their scale is compareable.

Personally with Squats supposedly being hi-tech compared to the Imperium, I figured (like ArbitorIan) that I could just stick as many Plasma Guns in the army as possible.

Of course knowing my Dice luck that means I will get a lot of melted Squats...ah well!

And thanks guys, its going to be a pain in the ass. At the moment I am contemplating wether or not I should snag as many overtime hours as I can. I really dont want to but I could use the money...

May as well get the extra cash to help hold you over!

Yeah, it's a pain but probably the sensible thing to do.

Hmm, sensible advice on dakka? Somethings awry.

On a lighter note:
- My bits order from Bitspudlo came in (the magnets were suspiciously absent though).
- My five Grizzly Exosuits from the Starship Troopers came in as well and they are awesome... And now no longer sold by Mongoose....so if anyone can find a place where I can get some more....yes please.

With my current bits restocked I can work on finishing off my Squat Veterans, add the Special Weapon Troopers to my Infantry Squads, make three more Heavy Weapon Mortam Teams, and last but not least another Infantry Squad of ten Squats.

And of course the rest is on the way and then I have to start on the really scary bit.... Painting.

squats sqauts and more sqauts , sounds too good to be true :-) have you heard of the other sqaut race from battle fleet gothic the demigurg?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurg_%28Warhammer_40,000%29

sensible advice from a monkey ?

you could try ebay for the starship troopers , i have seen several bits over the last few months , will check my bookmarks , i know i saved some somewhere?

And hope the overetime stays for a s long as you want it to mate

all looks great by the way ..

Hey hey,

I triede eBay, no Grizzly Exosuits though.

So there will be a BIG update tomorrow about what I've been up too. All my Infantry Squats are completed, an image of my possible Ogryns....and I have actually painted my first Squat to see how the colour looks when all done (it's drying at the moment).

All my orders save one have arrived, only thing I miss are the few bits needed to rebuild the salvage Land Raider (well and my magnets).

the update will go on my blog tonight as I can still reach that at work. They got wise and blocked Dakka from me...Bah!

Due to my items arriving I continued work on my regular and veteran guardsmen. These models were what I started out with and were always meant to be the core of my Imperial Guard army. Now finally all are assembled so no more empty bases on my table as reminders where models still need to be added.
Each and every Squad has its own Vox Caster as well as a Special Weapon trooper carrying a Plasma gun. My reasoning behind having a Vox Caster is that I might not need them but if I do there is no need to scrounge for bits when that time arrives, the Plasma gun is based around the Squats being generally more technologically advanced than their human counterparts (with my luck this means my Squats melt a lot!).


Platoon Command Squad; two Plasma Guns, Vox and a Banner.


Infantry Squad 1; Heavy Weapon Team, Vox, Plasma Gun


Infantry Squad 2; Heavy Weapon Team, Vox, Plasma Gun


Infantry Squad 3; Heavy Weapon Team, Vox, Plasma Gun


Heavy Weapon Squad; Mortar Teams

I actually messed up during assembly and ended up with one regular Squat trooper less than I needed so I demoted the model originally converted as the Platoon Command Officer to the unit Sergeant for Infantry Squad 3 (behind him if you look carefully you can see a model I was going to make the unit sergeant at first). I do realize that the names of the Squads are not very imaginative and they will most likely get proper names in time.


Veteran Squad; Vox, three Plasma guns

All the models in my Veteran Squad are wearing capes which I might try to paint up with a camouflage team so they can serve properly as Camo Cloaks. At the moment this unit is the only one I am sure of that I want to run as Veterans. I do have twelve B'dass models as well but I am still not sure as to what their purpose is going to be, at the moment it is either Veterans or regular Infantry. Something similar about the Warmachine models, though they are definately Veterans and possibly Stormtroopers.


Hammerfall High Shield Gun Corpse with a regular Squat for size Reference

I did assemble my unit of Hammerfall High Shield Gun Corpse, though I am leaving off their shields until after I get them painted up, attaching the shield now will make it a lot harder to paint it properly. Also the Squat in the image above belongs to Infantry Squad 1, which is why there are only nine models in the unit as I forgot to put it back for the group picture (Oops).


Iron Hand Straken, and two spare Plasma Gunners

With the arrival of my bits I also finished my version of Iron Hand Straken and I equipped two Squats with my last metal plasma guns in order to potentially field a Command Squad with all plasma weapons equipped.


Possible Ogryns, with an actual Ogryn for scale

So I came across the model on the left on Tabletop Fix (damn you Falk!) and just loved the Bioshock vibe the model has. It is called a Hardsuit and is available from Recreational Conflict. I do like the model but I still need to toy around with it's posture and the arms and legs seem to be a bit too thin for my liking. The model on the right is a Grizzly Exosuit from the Starship Troopers range, which I envision as actually being operated from a Squat seated inside the bulk of the machine. Problem with the Grizzly is that I would love to get my hands on some more models but they are now Out of Production and Out of Stock at Mongoose (where I purchased the five that I own now). So if anyone can point me to finding some, id be appreciative.





In my eyes both are viable options, so if anyone out there has an opinion feel free to share and enlighten me.

I did paint up my first Squat model as a test to see if my color scheme works alright as well as to test some of the Army Painter stuff I got in. I went with a brown and gray color scheme, I figured Earth and Rock tones would work for them, I did the metals in Dwarf Bronze as opposed to the usual Boltgun Metal. At the time of writing the model is still drying from paint and me 'splashing on' the Quick Shade - Dark Tone, so once it has dried properly I'll dose it with anti gloss and take a picture.

So far so good.

Looking nice! Can't wait to see these guys get painted up.

As I am not too sure on how the images will look once uploaded to the interwebs, Ill just run through the colors used. What I used are the following:

- Color Primer Leather Brown (Army Painter).
- Charadon Granite (GW Foundation)
- Dheneb Stone (GW Foundation)
- Elf Flesh (GW)
- Chaos Black (GW)
- Dwarf Bronze (GW)
- Quick Shade - Dark Tone (Army Painter)
- Anti-Shine Matt Varnish (Army Painter)

I started out with the usual basecoat, I picked brown because I wanted to stick to earth tones. Earth tones relate to their miner and industrial side as well as relating back to fantasy.

This was followed by picking out the seperate colors, making sure to add a dark gray almost black to offset the mostly brown of the uniform. The haircolor was made greyish for the simple reason that I do not have too many colors that would work as hair. Lasgun was made black and originally I was going to go with the traditional boltgun metal but partly due to Viktor von Domm from Dakka I decided to give Dwarf Bronze a go to get a more Steam Punkish feel.





(And yes I totally had to wait for someone to post to avoid the Auto-thingamajiggy)

Nice

The Straken dude looks very cool.

Think with some bulked up limbs the Hardsuits will fit in with the Grizzlys, mix 'em up

And like the colour scheme you've gone for, suits them nicely.

Might want to do something with the mortar loaders, the out-stretched arms really highlight the difference between arm and body, maybe chop them, or swap them for differently posed arms?

j3r03n wrote:I started on a Leman Russ from the old Cadian Battleforce....and then it got shelved. Of course when I found it again I had several sprues but not the actual chassis with the treads on it.....a pain in the ass.

On a somewhat related note...

I just had to assemble one and use my only Cyclone Missile Launcher. I figure this will be my ´Indestructable´ unit, five terminators with Thunderhammers and Stormshields, and as a Heavy Weapon the Cyclone Missile Launcher (because it leaves the hands free). I did change the base color from Commando Khaki to Dheneb Stone which is indeed lighter, this current image does not yet have a wash of Devlan Mud over it (the base does). I have since added it and I do think it looks awesome, only issue I do have is that both the base and the model are similarly colored but that is just a minor thing. I would have added a pic of the washed model as well but the lighting had changed else there could have been a before and after.

And I know. I still cant paint...shush.

I like the look. The grey looks a tad too dark for me, as does the gold. Seems to me that the 'Emporer's Pride' would be more regal. Dare I say, more of the ultrasmurfs hoidy toidy tideness if you will.

Looks good though. LOVE the shoulders, and the Cyclone looks great!

LOVE THE 2nd CYCLONE for your DA. Very swank!

I'm liking the dwarves, just for consideration as well the guys over at Avatars of War make a nicely priced
Dwarven boxset with some really dynamic poses you may want to take a look at as well.



They come in a box of 17 roughly 2 dollars a mini and are multi pose and well detailed.

Monkeytroll wrote:Nice

The Straken dude looks very cool.

Think with some bulked up limbs the Hardsuits will fit in with the Grizzlys, mix 'em up

And like the colour scheme you've gone for, suits them nicely.

Might want to do something with the mortar loaders, the out-stretched arms really highlight the difference between arm and body, maybe chop them, or swap them for differently posed arms?

I will actually try to fit the drill onto the Grizzly's, Inso pointed me towards similar models as the Grizzly that with some work will look the part as well.

I am quite happy with how he turned out color wise, but I may have to take a look at those arms you mentioned

Markillius08 wrote:I like the look. The grey looks a tad too dark for me, as does the gold. Seems to me that the 'Emporer's Pride' would be more regal. Dare I say, more of the ultrasmurfs hoidy toidy tideness if you will.

Looks good though. LOVE the shoulders, and the Cyclone looks great!

LOVE THE 2nd CYCLONE for your DA. Very swank!

See I personally thought that the basic gray as used on the test model was a bit too light in contrast to the rest of the armor....and yeah not so much for the hoidy toidy tideness myself ^_^ more in line with a mix between Space Wolf feroicity and being Regal and Noble.

Santobell wrote:I'm liking the dwarves, just for consideration as well the guys over at Avatars of War make a nicely priced
Dwarven boxset with some really dynamic poses you may want to take a look at as well.



They come in a box of 17 roughly 2 dollars a mini and are multi pose and well detailed.

Two boxes have been ordered and I am still awaiting their arrival
I intend to use them as my Penal Legions, go with the traditional Slayer look, perhaps try my hand at some blue warpaint as well.


Thanks all appreciate the feedback, helps keep me inspired!

Ah, the painted stuff looked good, maybe a flash function to light it up more, but the subdued image made the colors work!

Nice different dwarves. Err, squats!

Really cool idea! I'm just a little concerned about the arm sizes. It's most evident in this picture; they're almost as long as the squats are tall!

Yarp! That is a valid point and I will actually look into it once I get closer to them workwise. At the moment I am slowly painting up my core Squats and figuring out how to use the damn spray can....one of my Sergeants looks like he's covered in mud...Oops.

I also ordered in some more paint as I was sorely lacking in colors I could use for the soldiers' beards. Almost got my first unit of 10 ready to get bearded and then coated up properly.

At the same time I have also started on the next 10 troopers as well as assembly on my Deathwing Army.

....and started to look for a job too :(

j3r03n wrote:Yarp! That is a valid point and I will actually look into it once I get closer to them workwise.

well they're straight arms- how about just cutting out the elbow/wrist?

Ill probably end up cutting off the hand, and then slice a part of the arm, then reattach the hand and presto!

Lovely models mate. look foward to seeing your take on the avatars of war miniatures . they look really nice. oh .. and the ogryns are perfect