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The Fortress goes by the Ancient Terran name,


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Here it is with the basecoat and chipping,now I get to weather it




With Decals

LOL! That is pretty sweet man!

Here is a pic with the bastion weathered
I designed a base to go with it out of two sheets of 1mm plasticard.
I spent an hour or so painting the walls only to have to redo them because I had to prime the ground.
Nothing fancy just medium ballast with a little barbed wire and course course the required skull pile,I added a second for symetry .
The bastion will just sit on top of this,I am not going to permenantly attach to base for both ease of storage and you can still plop the bastion down on anyboadys board without base.

with base

Love the skull piles!

Here is the finished Bastion "Fortress Merica"(Yes I went an changed it )
I weathering it with various AK streaking fluids and Brick Dust weathering powder
On the roof I added a crate,scoped lasgun and Missile Launcher.
The barbed wire has frags as additional booby traps.

The Troops are starting to fall from the sky as we speak.
Before I start on new business,first old business the tank commanders.
Here are the CO and XO even though the Pask model is supposed to be in charge he cannot because he does not have fancy shoulder epaulets.
And the CO is pointing in true 40k fashion so he must be the boss and Pask looks like he is listening to new orders on his headset.
The Third is the General with the Lancers Colours
He is a true blueblood as depicted with he fancy smoking pipe I made from really really small plastic rods
What I would give to know how they make the real decals not the sheet you spray with varnish that stuff never works for me.








And Finally is the Col Shaffer Model not sure where he is going to fit in might use him as a Jr Officer,Marbo,not sure.
I know what I want to do have him lead the penal Legion as a Speical Forces Advisor leading a Native Guerilla Squad
Have no clue what good looking savage models GW makes.

You continue to impress.

Cant wait for more troops!

Was just catching up on this thread and it stopped here. D: Anyway the stuff looks awesome.

As painted w red sash and with a head swap,Shaffer would make a great Drop Commissar

Merica ! your stuff rocks decent amount of tanks there !

I love the fact that you added a pipe to Gen Grizmund! Genius. I have really enjoyed this thread. Keep it up, Please!

Speaking of Drop Troops,The first group of Airborne Rangers have landed.
Still in progress but well on thier way


Sniper and Spotter

I LOVE the goggle colors, cant wait to see the end product

Very nice stuff.

Here they are a bit more finished,gotta work the body armor a bit,some edge highlights,badge.
I found a neat new product at the hobby shop Carbon Fiber Rod in the .020 size which is the size I use for antenne.
I replace the wire one on the comms guy with the carbon one.

Very nice.

What color bases are you using?

Those are all getting painted over to match my style.
Though I gotta admit it is a hell of a great DIY desert base the guy made using fine ballast and small pebbles.
If I had to make a guess the guy is a vet who did time in the middle east.

Those are some awesome Elysians.

Here is how I plan on redoing the bases even though the guys are painted.
Silly Putty something everyone should have in thier kit,no finer mask for odd shaped surfaces.




I am getting good at winter camo,I banged out this Drop Sentinel this morning,time to weather it.

Thats a great idea, Loving the sentinel!

Here it is with the finished body,just need to do pilot and guns.

Are you going to super detail the rest of the army?

We'll see where the oppertunity arises,got a neat weapon converesion for the second Sentinel.
The drop Sentinels are not going to be bogged down with gear,they're air dropped where needed.
Here is the first of them completed






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Here are the first few finished troops and Mortar Team(who still need armor highlights)

Here is a shot of the first squad+sniper team of Drop Troops finished.



Still alot more to come,I have some neat ideas.
I bought a second Schaffer to convert into a drop Commisar(Intellegence Officer) with a Head and Weapon swap.
Drop SOG Stormtroopers with Hellcarbines
I also have the command Sentinel built hiding behind a wall packed to the gills with comm gear.


This would be the forward observer unit with advanced targeting/comm capabilty hiding in a ruin painting the target for the heavy stuff.
The other with barbed wire base is another stock version finishing off the squadron

Cool!

Eisenhorn wrote:The Fortress goes by the Ancient Terran name,


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Here it is with the basecoat and chipping,now I get to weather it




With Decals

And with a big gilded eagle to the front (of what that should also be called BLOCKHOUSE). how do you balance its C.G. so it will not trip over its own base?
and story wise. is this blockhouse made of steel or ferrocrete??

Blockhouse I like that alot
It is made from steel the lighter chips are actually mettalic steel,might do more rusting not too much.
The idea is these are dropped from heavy transport and bolted in place for the duration of the war.
If still in one piece,they unbolt it and bring it back aboard the Cruiser so it would never get crazy rusty(unless the war was fought in a caustic environment)
The Bastion itself is study as hell,the Eagle had no bearing on stabilty,I just slapped it on,The Eagle bit is not that heavy once chopped.
With the Bastions big square footprint you could stack a hell of alot more on there,before you had to add some covert lead wieghts.
Hell screw lead glue a few stacked pennines on the inside if need be.

all i can say is wow. and that i'm very very jealous . very inspiring mate, definitely keep up the awesome work!