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omgitsduane wrote:
Almost got the commando vets done. I think there isn't much else I could add to these, clearly I need to fix up some lines here and there but I think its passable.

Spoiler:

I'll be starting to paint up my basic infantry squads soon, so hopefully they get easier the more I get done.

These are very very cool... ;D

One question though, is the red inside the mouth of the guy in the second pic, back left, deliberate?

JBrehaut wrote:

omgitsduane wrote:
Almost got the commando vets done. I think there isn't much else I could add to these, clearly I need to fix up some lines here and there but I think its passable.

Spoiler:

I'll be starting to paint up my basic infantry squads soon, so hopefully they get easier the more I get done.

These are very very cool... ;D

One question though, is the red inside the mouth of the guy in the second pic, back left, deliberate?

Yeah its there because I thought flesh tone on the inside of the mouth was weird, I could have just given it another couple of coats of brown wash but I went with the red. Mistake?


3rd squad is getting base coats down, I need to make some lasgun barrels for the front of two of the guns as I hate the ones I put on there.

Also have sprayed Straken, Harker, and my senior officer, no painting just yet though.

I really like how each squad is so distinctly different. And it must make it easier when you're playing. Sometimes I have 2 squads of Plague Marines wind up in the same combat... that's interesting to figure out.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I really like how each squad is so distinctly different. And it must make it easier when you're playing. Sometimes I have 2 squads of Plague Marines wind up in the same combat... that's interesting to figure out.

So true, although I think all the models he's painting here on out have the same scheme. Think it was just the plasma veterans (black with red spot colour) and the infiltrating veterans (camo colours) that had original schemes, befitting their individual character. Oh, he also had the new cadian traitors too eh?
Either way, it certainly does help work out what unit is what midgame, and yet, using the same colours throughout, (like the red on the guns for the jungle camo squad, which I take all responsibility for telling him to do) still makes them look like a coherent army.

The models I've played using his chaos marines are great, as each unit has a different basing colour. My army that I'm painting up now though, won't have this, so I'll be stuck in the same boat of working out which models are in which squad when it comes to mixed combats. Oh well, the fun of gaming I guess..

Gaaah, you two yoots are making me want to play a game

dsteingass wrote:Gaaah, you two yoots are making me want to play a game

You should. Games are so much fun, and makes all the effort totally worth it.

For anyone wondering, my net was cut off due to admin error last week and I've been struggling to get it connected back up but today we finally have progress!

I've finally finished Harker though, which is a good step.

I have to admit, I am actually pretty darn proud of myself. I just wish I could use this camera a little better. It confuses me so much!




A mate of mine recently bought a bunch of 100 tiny resin skulls to use on... whatever really, and I've been toying with the idea of using them as wound markers. Just so I can look quickly at the model and go, oh 3 skulls, he has 3 wounds on the model. Not as a take off per wound type deal. The guard codex misleads me sometimes.

I have also played a few games too, evening up the score between me and my chaos marine friend, 2 wins each and a draw so its looking pretty solid but I think the learning curve is dealt with, I'll be bringing the pain from here on in.

Also had a very interesting game against a friend of mine who plays Tyranids and it was nail-biting once the Trygon came out but ended in a draw also. Damn those things are scary.

My last game the other day I lost my Manticore on the opponents first shooting phase and the Vendetta scattered like 10" off the table and was destroyed ha and even with that I held my ground.

So with all that said, I'll be doing quite a lot of painting now, a tournament I've signed up for in February I need an army finished by then.

And lastly a couple of shots from the Nid vs IG game.



I ended up losing my huge squad but mainly because my opponent didn't know hormies rules well and was re-rolling too much and gave them too many attacks, otherwise I think I'd have done a lot better.

I've been doing some light painting and decided that my vehicles needed just a bit of camo.




I'll be cleaning up all over the vendetta and hopefully making it look a bit better. I'm doing a bit on Straken too and infantry squads so I'll update with those soon enough!

A little self-explanatory painting.

Marbo.


Straken is looking fabulous if I say so myself.



And two of the three ogryns I will be making up. I am not really liking the gun strapped to his arm, maybe chains and stuff will make it more appealing but they are such perfect models for this.


More updates coming soon!

Your Harker looks awesome! I think you have the camera figured out better than I do, all the close details are in focus. Maybe try making a simple white or dark backdrop to photograph against (paper works great), that'll probably give you what you are looking for.

dsteingass wrote:Your Harker looks awesome! I think you have the camera figured out better than I do, all the close details are in focus. Maybe try making a simple white or dark backdrop to photograph against (paper works great), that'll probably give you what you are looking for.

I should try that but I'm usually too lazy to go to that effort. I might do it from now on for characters when I find the internal effort.

A stormraven hull arrived in the mail for me the other day and this is what I did to it


The idea I had is it was struck in the side by a melta, landed and then the back door was blasted again to kill the occupants. Was a lot of fun to make the melta marks. I'll be cutting it at an angle and mounting it on a piece of mdf with a big trail behind it.


And a picture of my mates army for the hell of it. We've been playing a fair bit and his chaos marines put mine to so much shame in terms of modeling and painting. Excited for a new codex.

I'm thinking you should re-position that gun. It's a huge amount of Dakka to be hanging off a wristband for even that brute.



Just an idea.

I LIKE IT! Promote that man! I'll do it right now in fact.

There we go! I also added a plate to his arm as you can see, to mostly hide the melted plastic on his forearm from the gun.


The vendetta looks much cleaner now. I'm going to take my time painting it this time around.


I did the wear and tear on one of the first chimeras I think I'll finish. I love how menacing the multilaser looks on the front there.

I still need to try and do more detail on the lenses and things but it's just a matter of picking out details.

This squad is pretty much on the precipice of being done. the base needs some cleaning up and highlighting and I can clean up bits and pieces on the troopers.


They're not perfect but in the end this is just rank and file guard and they'll be lost among the swarm a little so no need to over embellish them.

The Ogryn looks really good and I'm loving the Vendetta. I just noticed you have Defiler leg plates on it. That's simply brilliant. Nice conversion and the paint is very well done, perfectly complimentary.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:The Ogryn looks really good and I'm loving the Vendetta. I just noticed you have Defiler leg plates on it. That's simply brilliant. Nice conversion and the paint is very well done, perfectly complimentary.

I didn't put the defiler plates on my last defiler I made so I figured they'd look nice on there and they fit really well actually. Thanks for noticing.


This is the last squad of veterans I have in the works at the moment. I wanted to give them a hardened squad look as opposed to the camo and freak style veteran squads I've done so far. Looking forward to getting em done. Need some spray paint though.

The plasma gunners for the veteran squad. I quite like the way I managed to make each of them look a little different as the plasma gunner arms I DO own I'll be using on the storm troopers instead. I ordered 11 plasma guns and 2 meltaguns the other day, they arrived and that's when I decided I needed to get these guys done.

Things are looking decent (as always) and then the "WOAH!" moment... what are those gas masks from???? Are the individual bitz? I have to get my hands on some of those. Like... 100 or so. Ha.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Things are looking decent (as always) and then the "WOAH!" moment... what are those gas masks from???? Are the individual bitz? I have to get my hands on some of those. Like... 100 or so. Ha.

The gas masks come in the kit I'm pretty sure. That's how good the guardsmen boxes are. There is just too much good stuff that I can't possibly use it all.

This is my new priest, I didn't really like the old one I made up and wanted to try some different greenstuffing.


Objective marker for an upcoming tournament.


this is the other 2 squads from the 2nd platoon getting some paint on them.


my first squad, the fists on the sergeants not painted yet as I have no undercoat but its no big problem at this time.

Lovley looking priest there, and great traitor guard!

The GS on the Priest is excellent! Really well done.

As for the masks... which kit?

That priest is awesome!
Really really digging the Friar Tuck robes.

Also Skalk, I think he means the Cadian Shock Troops box, but cold be wrong..

Thanks guys! The gasmasks are from the command squad box I think, that's why I only have a handful or so.

And the priest I'm really liking. I just need to sand down the ugly fingerprints.

I kind of don't know why I didn't just paint all the other 3 squads at the same time... but anyway.

Layed down a lot of the base colors. Putting the flesh over a layer of grey makes it so much easier. Be doing more of that from now on.

And my 60mm objective.

I know I've known this around a few times. But I intend to paint it again as the white paint comes off at the slightest touch. But first I need to fill in the base and maybe add skulls and space marine heads around it for the hell of it all.

I also played a 1350 against my mate's chaos and due to a lot of bad tactics and luck on my part I was absolutely decimated and down to a squad of vets in a chimera by the end of turn 5. So I'm writing up new lists and trying a few different things that I can field with the models I have left over.

So thats 5 objectives, and I'll be also making up another one that will be a "messenger" in the shape of a servo skull floating about.

I need to add some dirt and rock to the bases for these and then I could probably get them sprayed. I also am thinking that maybe a heavy stubber would of made a better shotgun for the ogryns.

That objective MUST be painted to resemble R2-D2..you know this right?

dsteingass wrote:That objective MUST be painted to resemble R2-D2..you know this right?

I was unaware of this. I actually had no idea how to paint it, but that isn't such a terrible idea. ha.

omgitsduane wrote:Almost got the commando vets done. I think there isn't much else I could add to these, clearly I need to fix up some lines here and there but I think its passable.

Spoiler:

I'll be starting to paint up my basic infantry squads soon, so hopefully they get easier the more I get done.

Good job on the modeled camo for the helmets and arms, but it seems like the bright red guns would completely defeat the purpose of camo in the first place, and it leaves a very stark contrast to the paint scheme that is somewhat detracting. It looks like your other infantry have green guns. I might suggest a black scheme which would give a little bit of contrast to them if you didn't want to have them be "too green".

Veteran Sergeant wrote:

omgitsduane wrote:Almost got the commando vets done. I think there isn't much else I could add to these, clearly I need to fix up some lines here and there but I think its passable.

Spoiler:

I'll be starting to paint up my basic infantry squads soon, so hopefully they get easier the more I get done.

Good job on the modeled camo for the helmets and arms, but it seems like the bright red guns would completely defeat the purpose of camo in the first place, and it leaves a very stark contrast to the paint scheme that is somewhat detracting. It looks like your other infantry have green guns. I might suggest a black scheme which would give a little bit of contrast to them if you didn't want to have them be "too green".

I don't know which infantry have green guns? This squad had green guns before i decided on the red, and I went with the red because I didn't want the model drowned out by all the camo. Black is a nice color for guns, I may try that for my next squad of vets.


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The last veterans squad is pretty much ready for the application of lots of paint.




And my objectives take a painting beat-down.


I felt that the soldier that gunned down this terminator didn't quite look chaos enough, and if I could have I'd have replaced his head with something meaner.


2 of my mates Horrors he is painting up. Look quite cool if I say so myself.

Go check out his thread here.

The next few days should be good for hobbying!

I agree on the head, it should be swapped. He looks too... normal? He just ripped up a Terminator! He should look frothing and completely insane.

Here's some head I picked up a while back, with my nominated favorite for that model:

Kings of War

2nd row, 1st head going L to R.