Red Scorpions - In the most recent post I show the army as it is finished at 3000pts.

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**redscorps**

Ah yes, but you have a house my friend! I'd rather be doing that anyday of the week than living in the sh!thole rental we do now with a leaking games roof and rotting walls. The worst crime is we pay $380/week for this dump. Thanks W.A. mining boom!

Cool, I'll keep my eyes on your thread. I also still owe you a PM which I will try and get on to asap.

**Young_Logan**

Really really impressive army, I love the weathering that you have done on the army, well done for getting best painted and two days on the GW homepage, impressive. Keep up the good work. Out of interest will you be adding more to the army other than the contemptor pattern dreadnought?

Young_Logan

**redscorps**

Yeah man not even close to finished. Thanks very much by the way!

I'm planning to add:
4 Tac squads with transport (~1000pts)
A second Land Raider
Custom Captain with a Command Squad
Another pair of Vindicators
My proper Ironclad chassis with these arms, then put the Ven Dread arms back on him.
3 Predators, all variants.
Some attack bikes and Land Speeder Typhoons

Plus probably a lot more. They are my chapter and I want to stick with them. They're just new to me which is why there is not a lot finished yet.

Cheers for the interest and stay tuned.

Jack

**nerdfest09**

Ah, yes, well I can understand your chagrin there Jack! that's a lot of coin for rent! I pay less than that for my mortgage! and it's a beautiful double brick cottage on 666m! 3 bedrooms and now a new bathroom/kitchen/carpet! sounds like you need to move to tassie! :-) at least my game room doesn't leak! (although it's slowly being taken over by a collectors Barbie range!..hmmf!)

crappy house stuff aside, I eagerly await your model-fest with that lot! land speeders and predators especially, I NEVER see anyone giving preds much love now days! they just don't seem viable from what i can gather? I personally like them but don't have one!...yet :-) it'd be good to see one do damage and kick ass for once!

And you bet i'll be watching for that PM! :-)

Hope you're well and painting like mad!

Nerdfest09......Damo

**HF Izanagi**

Found your blog! I just went over to the GW website and saw your army on there. The wartorn look/weathering is fantastic. Also love the assault cannon barrels on the LR. The heated metal look is pretty damn sweet! Congratulations on the GW website mention!

-Remi

**redscorps**

Thanks Remi!

**redscorps**

Built this tonight, needs more work tomorrow to make him Red Scorpionised but I'm very happy with the pose.

**Hatticus**

redscorps wrote:Built this tonight, needs more work tomorrow to make him Red Scorpionised but I'm very happy with the pose.

Images aren't working for me

**redscorps**

Hmm... Maybe check it out here?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prefix84/6083192236/

That and the two previous photographs.

**Hatticus**

redscorps wrote:Hmm... Maybe check it out here?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/prefix84/6083192236/

That and the two previous photographs.

Looking very nice, love the pose! I want to pick up one of those for my SW

**redscorps**

They're really cool. Fiddly to assemble but worth the hours for sure.

**nerdfest09**

Oh My lordy! I am damn near salivating at the thought of seeing what you do with that dread! it's gonna be EPIC! can't wait! (even though i almost typed Eric accidentally!) the weathering is really going to suit him, are you going to accentuate his height by keeping the powder lower on his legs? or do him as if he's been dropped into the dust bowl that is frenetic battle?

um,....more please!

Damo (Nerdfest09)

**Miss Dee**

I want one for my New army with a daemon in one of the fists

**redscorps**

That would be cool!!

Finished:

**The_Minsk**

Nice work, looks really cool. You have done a great job on it, I love the weathering

**Tauzor**

YUM YUM YUM ! Moar please !

**fatty**

awesome! he i saw your bit on the whats new today topic epic!

**tipios**

Very nice pose!! and awesome painting!!

**Miss Dee**

I just ordered the Multi Melter turret for my MK 3C

**nerdfest09**

Jack! wow

better than I imagined it would look dude! you've managed to get such a dynamic pose and you can really lose yourself imagining him ripping up the landscape smashing asunder enemies and almost leaping to come to grips with something to kill

truly a epic war machine crafted from all that is the emperors fury!

I never realised how poseable that model is! and the way you've built him looks fantastic! of course helped no end by the beautiful paint and exeptional weathering you always do! everything you lay your brush on lately just inspires and astounds me! so thanks so much for getting back into painting

now I just need to wait for what's next! preds?

Have you got a weathering tute done yet? will it be up on Dakka or your blog or both?

I can imagine now that we will be seeing a glut of heavily weathered and war torn models appearing around the web thanks to you my friend!

again, just astounding work Jack!

Nerdfest09 (Damo)

**redscorps**

Ah cheers guys, appreciate you stopping by for a look and the feedback from the GW blog has all for the most part been super positive. It was a really good opportunity I got there!

Damo,

Yep tutorial is online, I have had a bit of a relaxed week on the internets this week and not bothered to put it onto my own blog but you can find 90% of it here on the GW 'What's New Today' blog:
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/blogPost.jsp?aId=17900004a

The only bit you really need to change is the 'Large flat drybrush' to 'Large flat tank brush' in the section where I am talking about painting the Iyanden Darksun on smooth.

Just heading to my inbox now.

Cheers mate!

**Miss Dee**

No Airbrush?

**redscorps**

I only spray the base grey colour on and do the rest by hand. History has shown I am crap at masking and get a lot of bleeds so I just stick to the brush for 90% of the work.

**GiraffeX**

Love your Red Scorpions, the weathering is very well done reminds me of a Mars landscape.

**legopirate**

Truly lush models you're painting there. I'm very impressed at your pace as well considering the standard of painting.

I'm enjoying your updates

Thanks

Lp

**endtransmission**

Wow, the new dread looks brilliant, though it looks like he should be playing Blood Bowl or Grind

Are the legs very poseable, or did you have to do a lot of repositioning?

**redscorps**

Cheers guys!

ET: Yeah man super poseable. It actually took a really long time to get the position right with the pinning of each individual part which was a blessing and a curse at the same time.

The hours required to build/pose/pin/magnetise (5hrs) were well worth it though and as you can see, dynamic results are possible.

Well a bit of an update, I've got a few things on the boil at the moment:

Infinity-------
PanO Military Orders Starter

Malifaux-------
Lady Justice Crew
Guardian
Watcher

WHFB-------
Pre-ordered Ogre Kingdoms
1x Thundertusk
1x OK Battalion
1x Scraplauncher
2x Mournfang cavalry sets
1x Gnoblar Fighters

WH40k-------
Red Scorpions MkII Land Raider Crusader
Fire Angels Tactical Squad and Rhino to accompany my RS
2x Red Scorpions Attack Bikes.

I'm in the building phase at the moment for all of this stuff, I don't normally have time for WIP's and get through stuff fast enough that it's not necessary really (As Damo said earlier). I should have some finished gear to post in the next week or so.

Stay tuned and thanks for reading everyone.

Redscorps

**redscorps**

God, building an attack bike properly takes about as long as it takes me to build a bloody rhino! Maybe longer actually...

Such a fiddly little bit of kit. I've magnetised it though for both HB and MM options so that was a bit of a win. I'm trying to figure out how to 'RS' it up a bit but there's not a lot of room.

**slann**

This army looks fantastic !

**nerdfest09**

This army IS fantastic.....just as good as it looks! I hear with comander Culln at it's helm it's a mighty force indeed!