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Wicked idea mate, can't wait to see the updates and the finished piece. Good to have goals.

Hello guys!
Its been a while because i lent my laptop to my brother and havent had i back and its only now i realise i can update this on my phone. Oops...

Anyway i haven't been idle, but not as much stuff has happened as i would have liked, progress is progress.

My last post showed what i wanted to create for my AoP board, but sadly that never came to pass as i couldn't fork out cash for the stuff necessary to convert it. (spent it all on getting the bastions) lol

I also didnt do anything about my board untill yesterday night and had a mad rush to make it happen.
Heres a wip from this morning (parade day)

You can also see the leman russ on there which ive re-painted since the last update previous paintjob seen here: and heres a pic of the updated scheme/paintjob :

But anyways, here is the final piece which i took to my local flgs this morning, even if i did feel like a bit of a plonker walking through town holding the board...
Anyways guys hope you like the update
Cheers

Nice work on the Demolishers. And that is a sweet looking board.

Thanks oldraven!

Sick mate, nice work!

Haha yeah but it was worth looking like a plonker!

Not checked on these guys for a while, great work mate, the board looks awesome!

Wow man, great job in that one!
Good repaint with the demolishers, and that is a great board to show your army!

Hey Guys!
Firstly thanks GF Lancs and SA for the comments on last update, now,
it has been a while.... so it was my birthday last week, and i got some money off Gran, (big love to gran) so i decided to place an order with FW, and tbh im chuffed i did.

Apologies for the sideways image. but i got some upgrade kits, few weapons and an equipment pack. Imperial Armour is a very pricey book, which i wouldnt normally buy, but it was my bday and technically gran payed for it anyways. It is a really high quality book though, and i'll think of her whenever i read it.

Just had a quick fiddle with some veterans, and this is the result (obviously WIP) really liking how crisp the casts are though.

The guy on the left has one of the really cool looking elysian supressed lasguns, and the guy on the right had a bit of a conversion to get him to hold the meltagun like that, and im pretty happy with the result. He looks tired and is just dragging his gun along, (good job i dont have any Commisa...BLAM)

What do you think that the other arm of the melta guy should be doing?

This isn't the only thing i've been doing. 90 percent done on the squad that contains cpl. Stonned should finish that this weekend, but probably not bc i do nothing on weekends.
hopefully i'll get another update done soon.
Cheers

Wow, that book's a great acquisition, for sure! Those veterans also look great, really looking forward to seeing the whole squad with the new bits.
I'm glad the 404th are back!

Thanks GF! Should have an update for you guys soonish
...hopefully






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Hello again!
These dudes were nearly finished when i updated last time, but i thought i would wait untill they were 100 percent done. here is the final squad of first platoon!


and here are some closeups of the cooler guys in the squad.

the guy on the left is my favorite guardsman i've made so far, i think the pose with the cool headswap just gels for a badass looking guy. middle guy is putting his bayonet on, and the final one is reloding, which was a very easy but effective conversion.

And here they are, the main event. Sgt. Fenix and Cpl. Stonned:

Fenix is equipped with a mining axe, and Stonned is just chillin' with a large amount of plastic explosives and the detonator.
And bc you guys have been loyal followers of this blog ill give you both some fluff:

Sgt. G Fenix

Cpl. V Stonned


Cheers!

 STG wrote:
Gabriel Fenix was picked up by the 404th on a mining colony, he wasn't permitted to leave the colony to join the 404th but once the 404th's cruiser had made the warp jump, he was dicovered in a rations barrel.
Clutching nothing but his trusty mining axe and grim determination he quickly ascended to squad leader where his martial prowess with his axe was very often required.
Fenix doesn't take any crap from anyone, and you'd be a fool to get on his wrong side. But when crap hits the fan, you can rely on Fenix to save your bacon. [/spoiler]

Weee, I got myself a mini! The look of him and the fluff, so pissed off, I love it
When I start over my IG army I'll make a mini for you, man

No worries GF, glad you like him i enjoyed the writing the fluff

Hey guys, just a minor update today,
been having a play with some of my new forgeworld bits and stuff to make my platoon command squad, who are going to be equipped with a heavy flamer, and two normal flamers.

Here they area as a squad, all of them have gas masks of some form, because its dangerous to inhale promethium, when jumping out of the back of a fast flying vendetta into short range of things that want to kill u.


put quite a reasonable amount of work into converting them/posing etc. and i'm thinking about entering the january painting competition, but i dont think that i'll hit that deadline.
Now here's something i'm not sure about. below are 2 pictures of the platoon command, and the question is, which legs do you prefer?


I think i prefer the bottom ones but im not sure...
cheeers guys

The flamer vets sure a a great opction for a valkyrie. Let the heretics burn!

I'd say the bottom legs are the ones. The stock GW legs with the coat have little detail, and it makes the mini a bit boring. The other ones go along with the level of detail of the upper part of the officer.

Cheers Gf, i agree, although it kinda means that the model is 100% not GW. that said i never play 40k so i dont know why i care that much.

Hello hello!
its about time for the monthly update of whats been going on in my life (hobby-wise)
So, without further ado
I've been trying really hard to make a Sm kill team for my brother so we can play kill team together, but the scheme i chose meant that the 'easiest' way to go about it was to prime using AP daemonic yellow. to be fair the spray itself isnt fantastic but i like the colour. But after no more than 3 sprays the nozzle would become bunged up and paint would dribble out of the can rather than spray. after going through about 4 replacement nozzles i gave up.

I didn't get the infantry primed but i managed to get a rhino to a satisfying level of yellowness (the paint doesn't cover very well so needs a few coats) and got it painted up. i think it looks cool.


i have since received feedback on the rhino and tweaked a few things for an overall better paintjob.

I also bought a display case on the cheap and installed it, and i think it looks pretty cool.

I am slighltly worried that my friends may see it in my room, and judge lol (i used to hide all my stuff when i knew my mates were coming round)
But i have decided to embrace the nerd-ness


i also made some scatter terrain, again so me and my bro can play more interesting games of kill team.



Nothing crazy, just some rocks on plywood bases and painted up.
definitely wouldnt recommend plywood as a base for terrain as it is very hard to bevel. luckily i have access to tools that make it slightly easier. however it is hardwaring as heck so it'll last longer than me probably.

And as a final thing i have entered the painting competition for this month, i entered my Graia Pattern Rapier laser destroyer, which i bought at the beginning of december. will post that up next month, and tell you all the result!

the proof image.

Cheers guys!

That some really cool terrain mate, really effective. Sweet looking rhino aswell, yellows always a hard one. In fact i go out of my way to avoid using it

Well done with embracing your neediness, just be confident about your modelling and people won't care.

Good luck in the competition & i look forwards to next months update.

Cheers SA! yeah yellow proved to be a challenge. enjoyed it though.

thought i'd just take this oppurtunity to show some progress on the laser destroyer. trying rally hard to have depth in colour, rather than just have a flat green, but it just came out blotchy. will look into a wet pallete to try help things along.




the 404ths colours proudly displayed on the side, although the cream stripe does look blotchy and 'orrible. its just a WIP though nowhere near completion. will show you guys when its done.

Also another side project which i was doing before was this forgeworld turret which i bought just because i got a free shipping voucher from FW. its now on hold untill i finish the rapier.

not very interesting but i thought it would be nice to update this more than once a month.

Nice wip, good luck with a wet pallet. I really on highlighting to get any depth. Raza pattern turret? Nice.

yup, its the Ryza pattern turret. i really like it.

Hey guys!
4 days left and i have finished my rapier, now i just need to get the two crew members finished in time. Might be a bit of a squeeze :/



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I would have liked to have done some weathering on it, and make it much more grimy but i dont have any pigment etc.
I will also go back and redo the targeting screen thingy bc I'm not 100percent happy with it.

This is basically the same post i put on the painting challenge log. Apologies to those who read both.
Cheers guys.

Looking good, really got depth to the green, nice work.

Cheers SA, thats what i was really trying to get at.

Hi guys!
i finished my rapier for the painting comp! i'm not particularly pleased with the paintjobs on the guardsmen, as they were really rushed and i think it shows ngl.
that said i'm pleased i have painted something, and im also chuffed about the paintjob of the rapier carriage itself.


and here they are on my shelf, next to my other lascannon teams.

I would have liked to weather it, but time and materials i had said nah.

i'm pleased with the red berets, i think they look cool and are a nice splash of colour.

Cheers Dakka


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This will probably get auto appended, but i'm just posting what im going to get up to next project, i considered joining in on next months painting comp, but the theme is Space Marines and thats not my cup of tea at the moment.

This is from the mines of moria set which i have tweaked to make it more fitting, and you can see (not very clearly) a wire tree that i've made up to add a bit of spice to the peice.


Heres a small woods that im in the process of making up. using a youtube tutorial i've made the trees from wire armatures. pretty therapeutic not going to lie.

cheers guys.

Wow, great looking job! Always glad to see some great work over here

Cheers GF, missed you commenting for the past few weeks. Glad to have you back!

Nice rapier, especially love the dynamic duo manning it. Like the look of that terrain, its coming along nicely.

 STG wrote:
Cheers GF, missed you commenting for the past few weeks. Glad to have you back!

Yeah, I've been leaving a lot of things aside (40k included), since my studies have been taking a lot of time from me lately. Hope I can come back to posting more often and retaking my project (again) soon

Anyways,

 stonned_astartes wrote:
Nice rapier, especially love the dynamic duo manning it. Like the look of that terrain, its coming along nicely.

Cheers mate, i do really like the red berets, think it makes them stand out.
Nearly finished the terrain. should update soon.

Ooh, that is one nice looking targeting grid