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Finished the Arbites I was working on, the Mastiff Handler, the female Arbite and the 2 remaining cyber-mastiffs.

Not totally happy with the female Arbite, her combat-pants didnt turn out great, but given how much green-stuff is on her I'm happy with my first attempt, might try to make a Shira Calpurnica model in a while if i can find a good base model.





Arbite Handler





Mastiffs, including one with a little rat disappearing down a drain





All Mastiffs with handler



From above so you can see their markings.



And female, handler and random arbite



Currently back to painting more Guard, trying to finish my veteran Standard Bearer, as well as working on my Raven Guard, who may get a log of their own.

Hope you like em.

Been working on two Rhinos for my Sisters of Battle in preparation for a 750pt tournament on tuesday. Finished them off today and photographed them next to the exorcist and immolator.









One day this log will get back to the Helskans.... just trying in vain to finish off at least one project at some point!

I like the female "dude" (?)... Her frame is slimmer than usual, we can easily identify her gender!

Lovin' the rat, too!!

Very nice use of the inquisitor Mastiffs!

If only they turned up on ebay more often, I'd nab up as many as I could!

I got really lucky, some guy was selling a job lot of 3 of them and i managed to pick them up really cheap.

Wish i could find some arbites cheap, need to some more heads so i can make some more standard 'bites out of scouts.


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While sorting out my sisters for a tourney tomorrow I decided to take some group shots, first up, the Arbites.











I think they look quite badass grouped together... just need to use them in something now.


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Sisters of Battle Army. Currently stands at:

2 Cannonness's

Saint Celestine

2 squads of Celestians

1 squad Sisters Repentia

3 Squads Sisters

2 Squads Seraphim

1 Squad Retributors

2 Rhinos

1 Immolator

1 Exorcist

+ Inquisitor & Assassins, Arbites.













Still needs another Exorcist and Immolator, plus i have some Death Korps of Krieg i'm going to paint up as inducted guard, but i still need to buy another squad of them, plus some heavy weapons and a commissar. But its getting there at least.

Very nice, lovin the tanks, especially the excorcist, Valykrie Pods? Get back to the Helskans!!!

Woohoo... Helskan progress!

Finished off the standard for Col Strakens command squad, his eyes look a little wonky but thats the angle of the head. Standards not the best but it's an awkward thing to paint.







Messing about with camera settings so slightly weird looking photos.

Not sure whats next on the guard front, dont think i have anything left to paint so its going need some cash outlay, but the question is what. Still got some sisters to buy and then orks to paint, as well as my Band of Brothers Raven Guard. And my fantasy stuff. Sigh.

Wow, I missed a lot due to those "Automatically Appended Next Post" that don't mark as "Unread"!

Those groupshots are awesome, and show clearly the great army you possess!!!

That's top notch!

Thanks!

Bloody Auto appending, doesnt bump you back to the top of the forum either... <grumble, grumble>

Ha ha, I guess you can't ever be happy uh...

Really nice work! It is nice to see those arbites with a decent paintjob. Keep up the good work!

Well, happiness is definately NOT looking at pictures of your own models in the gallery at much bigger than life size! It makes all my little mistakes stand out!

Glad they're normal size in the thread. :-)

It sometimes happen to me too... I guess that's a way to get better!

Well, playing a game against an Eldar army tomorrow and decided i wanted to try a unit of 5 ogryns in a chimera, led by a Lord Commissar.

Only problem is, i only have 3 ogryns.

These guys arrived on friday, whereupon i realised i had no greenstuff.

greenstuff acquired on saturday, then applied, and they were painted over yesterday and today, all ready to face the eldar tomorrow. I have visions of them multi-charging wave serpents and knocking them out of the sky... probably unrealistic visions, but you have to have ambition!















Group shots with the rest of the squad.





Hopefully the Eldar will struggle to deal with these guys, at the very least i hope they get properly stuck in somewhere!

Will take some pics during the game and let you all know how they got on... wish em luck!

ogryns = the win

After completing 1500pts of Raven Guard, it's back to the Helskans for a period of time.

First on the list, a pair of Hydras. I've been suffering a bit at the hands of transport vehicles and need a reliable long-ranged option to take them out with, rather than relying on plasma and melta guns.

I don't like the ForgeWorld models, but I remembered seeing a converted salamander with a set of quad-heavy stubbers and thought that would make a good alternative. One Forgeworld order, some chimeras and some plasticard later i've got one completed Hydra and one thats nearly there. Hope to get the second one finished and primed tomorrow and then painted by the weekend.

Oh and thanks to the gent who inspired me, I know it was on a forum somewhere and I wish i could remember who it was to give him the credit.

Well, the models do look really good, but you might expect some guys yelling at the difference between heavy stubbers and autocannons to represent hydras...

But, pretty nice still, and can easily "count as" visually!!!

Oh, and... nice to see you back!

Awsome hydra conversion! your work is amazing!

Thanks for the kind words guys, to be honest the guys I play with are really good guys and I doubt any of them would even consider fussing over the counts as... probably safer to stay away from Throne of Skulls though

Managed to finish the second one today, had a hard time finding a suitable head for the gunner seeing as the one supplied with the Sabre was missing in the package. The resin cadians must be slightly smaller than the plastics as the regular heads looked way too big, although the unhelmeted head from the command squad seemed to fit ok.





The two together, ready to noodle any light vehicles that head their way!



Need to get them painted before they see battle next tuesday.

Very nice and good use of the amoured platforms. Nice to see you have a deadline to paint them in, dont lose momentum! What are you planning to work on next?

Hydras are finished!











Really happy with how they turned out, fits my idea of how they should look much better than the forgeworld version.

Next up, gonna try and convert a vendetta!

why heavy flamers in hull ? madness. i do so hate hydra, good against deldar like but so is everything in guard army

Mate, Hydras are the win! Killed 3 Killa kans in a single round of shooting yesterday alone. Heavy flamers on support vehicles are great, especially against outflanking units, killed a unit of commandos and a unit of wolf scouts yesterday, something heavy bolters would not have done