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Loving the fluff for your sergeant - his paint job is also top notch.

The Navy Captain also looks excellent - I think you aren't doing yourself any favours by posting such a large photo though. What's that coming out of the ground at his feet? Looks like one of those Termite mining vehicles is about to surface

Fluffwise for the captain it's an excellent piece with only one thing I dislike - the self destruct of the battleship is rather similar to Dominus Astra vs Hivefleet Behemoth. Any way you can tweak that?

I want a group shot too!! Group shot NOW!!! XX

Definitely can tweak that. Where is the fluff of the Dominus Astra versus Behemoth? I wonder if I have read that and somehow regurgitated that fluff or if the idea is so cliche that I did it. Either way I can do better. Hmm... I will do said group shot. And thanks for the tip on not using such large/zoomed photos.

Rabid Ferret wrote:She has arrived! Can't wait to get started!

Can't wait to see what she looks like in the flesh -so to speak- I couldn't find a female commissar that had the look I wanted, so I made my own, just as I was about done, I found the same one you got. Pissed me off to no end, mine came out pretty good, but I might get the one you got as a second commissar, so open it up! We want pictures!

And show some more Henry's!

Hello Again Dakkanauts!

I am getting ready to come back into updating my plog. I am recovering from a spinal surgery, specifically a T7-T8 Laminectomy to remove a calcified mass for those who know what that means. For those that don't... I had a bony protrusion that was poking into my spine and needed to be surgically removed before it could cause further damage to the spinal chord.

I went from being perfectly normal to nearly needing a wheelchair in one month. Started with numbness in my big toes and when it spread to the feet I went to my doctor. 7 MRI's, 2 CT scans, and 2 surgery's later and I now have the mass removed from the spinal chord and I am starting the healing process. It will be a long one and I wont know how much feeling and use of my muscles below the waist will return for up to 6 months to a year. Right now I am 29 and now walk with a cane my feet are numb and have limited mobility and my left leg is numb below the knee. I have good days and bad days. Bad days I am mostly in bed and have degrees of numbness from the waist down. Good days all but my left foot is numb and I can walk for a while without the cane.

Lesson to everyone: If you feel numbness in your body, even a very small part of it, that lasts for more than a few minutes go see your doctor right away. If I had been faster I might have avoided spinal chord injury and some permanent nerve damage. If I had waited longer I might have been in a wheelchair...

Anyways, enough about my issues

I am finally about ready to return to painting again and finishing up the last of the Alcatran 88th in my queue. Specifically the Raging Heroes Female Commissar - A few more command squaddies - A LR Demolisher - As well as s few other ideas that have popped into my head for conversions and addtions.

First a few WIP shots.

Command Squad - Note the gent in the tattered robes is not the Sgt. but a bodyguard for the Command HQ - A particularly nasty fellow in my fluff. If you have read any of Dan Abnet's IG books, think Rawne mixed with Cuu. Not as murderous as Cuu but certainly not someone to mess with.

Comissar Kathrina Von Eberhardt. Fluff to come. So far just to say that she is considered to be extremely lucky. When asked about her fortune she merely replies "The Emperor Protects".

Techpriest - I love this model. I don't care if they are crap in game... He will go along nicely with the Titans I plan on scratch building.



Also, I saw these on Puppetswar recently and I think I HAVE to get them! http://puppetswar.eu/product.php?id_product=84 The gunner looks like he fits in perfectly with my Alcatran troops! I think I will convert these using a chimera base and the wheeled conversion kit from Chapterhouse studios.
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I am also looking to make some ratling proxies. I am thinking cloaks, probably green stuff sculpted and some dynamic poses with some custom rifles.
Lastly a Marbo.



What do you think about the head? I think it may be a starting point.

Anyways, give me some feedback and let me know what you think about options for the ratling proxies and Marbo. Know of any cool bits or conversion ideas that might fit my theme?

Thanks for reading.

Ive gone through this whole thread and let me say "WoW!" Its got a lot of nice conversions and alot of labors of love Im hoping my Tanith half this good once i can get around to them again. I know the pain of the IG though, Tons and Tons of models to paint (i dont run chimeras; only platoons +vets) but at the end of the day, its fun to see the army function in its full glory on the table top.

nice update, i really like that bodyguard.. and where did you find that marbo head? i think its perfect!

@SwampyTurtle Thanks! I appreciate it. I will be taking a look at your Tanith in a minute.

Rogue Wolves wrote:nice update, i really like that bodyguard.. and where did you find that marbo head? i think its perfect!

Its from the Kromlech range of minis. http://kromlech.eu/ Iron Reich Chem Troopers Heads you can get them in the states at www.thewarstore.com

You can also buy direct via their eBay store. Their ork stuff is amazing.

Thanks Ferret, and yea i've only ever seen their ork stuff, which is great!

inmygravenimage wrote:You can also buy direct via their eBay store. Their ork stuff is amazing.

Rogue Wolves wrote:Thanks Ferret, and yea i've only ever seen their ork stuff, which is great!

Just got a twinge of wanting to start up a Gorkamorka campaign...

OK quick update as my back is freaking killing me. Spinal surgery not fun. >.<

WIP on the female commissar. A lot of work remains to be done but you can see where I am going with this. The metals are not finished and a lot of the details are not complete or cleaned up but I like the look of it. I feel like my brushwork is sloppier since my hand has been shaking a bit since the surgery. I hope its just the narcotics...



What do you think?

I think you with the shakes is still streets ahead of the likes of me! Good stuff mate.

First off, let me say good luck with the recovery! I had some issues myself a few years ago, but mine was a bulging disk. I had a couple of steriod epiderals, and I can never stop doing my stretching, ever! But I had/have the numbness too, I'm just glad I didn't get as bad as your sounds like it did. I feel for you!

Rabid Ferret wrote: Know of any cool bits or conversion ideas that might fit my theme?

If I may plug mayself...I have these heads that are heading off to get cast as we speak. I had been planning on using them myself, and have more made at a later date for sale, but if you like the look of them, I can have more made sooner. let me know what you think!


I'm not sure they fit perfectly with the look you are going for...but who knows?

Also, the Commissar Looks great! Love the colors!

@inmygravenimage- Thanks mate. I appreciate the encouragement. I have been very bumbed out about not being able to paint and now having the pain and shakiness. I hope it gets better.

@RSJake- Yeah it's been rough. Laminectomies are no joke. Been a long recovery process and I have a long way to go still. My wife accidentally bumped my incision on the spot where the bone has been removed the other night. It was like hitting your funny bone but for my whole body from the waist down... Scares the crap out of her and woke us up. I screamed something that was like a mix of explitives mixed with the screams of a raging silverback gorilla.

As far as the heads go? I really like them. I would perhaps be interested in one for a one off model if you wouldn't mind an extra casting. I just need to figure out what to do with it. Either for a Marbo conversion or as part of a unique eversor assassin conversion... You should see about doing one with a commissar style hat, I would totally get a few of those. I could really easily see using greenstuff to turn the eyes into lenses. Great stuff. You can never have too many skulls in 40k! Thanks again for watching.

You made me cring with your description! Ouch!

As for the heads, I should have added "lenses" to the eye sockets! D'oh! I had thought about it at one point, and then it slipped my mind. I can add them post-production though. And a German Officer hat? I can do that! I'll sculpt one up and see what you think!

Nice, that will go along great with my power blob of raving lunatics. I have a few good body ideas to go along with that. I can't wait to see them.

Lenses on those eyes sounds good. Be great for home-made assassins, too.

Ok Here is the progress on the Commissar 95% complete. I noticed a few issues that I will be correcting... and I need some varnish. Otherwise I like it. Black is a pain to paint.

I have that same model as my Lord Commissar for my Elysians. It's a fantastic sculpt, but I personally prefer her without the gasmask.

Great job on the rest of the details though. How did you do the blood splatter on the sword? I might want to replicate that on my sergeants and HQs' blades.

Joshh wrote:I have that same model as my Lord Commissar for my Elysians. It's a fantastic sculpt, but I personally prefer her without the gasmask.

Great job on the rest of the details though. How did you do the blood splatter on the sword? I might want to replicate that on my sergeants and HQs' blades.

The secret weapon for the blood is Tamiya Clear Red. It is glossy and thick. You can mix a little black ink to make darker gore or leave it as is to look like fresh blood splatter. Awesome paint.

Great work. My only niggle is, as you've noted yourself, the visor. It seems a bit uniform, and the gold eyes just aren't doing it for me. What's the plan? Outstanding overall nonetheless, though.

Screw you guys, I like the visor as-is.

inmygravenimage wrote:Great work. My only niggle is, as you've noted yourself, the visor. It seems a bit uniform, and the gold eyes just aren't doing it for me. What's the plan? Outstanding overall nonetheless, though.

KilroyKiljoy wrote:Screw you guys, I like the visor as-is.

Haha. Now what do to.

My hope with the gold was to emulate this:
Dead-link removed... bah humbug!

If not that then my ideas were one of two things...

Either something like this:

Or like the visor on this Mech:

What say you? I am kind of leaning towards the Earth/Sky Chrome... Do you think it would look weird if it is the only NMM?

Great stuff. Take your time and keep kicking ass.

I'd be more concerned with the nmm blue against the other colours. Just more depth in the gold, or nmm gold.

Read through all of this, and I must say, I really like what you did with the maxmini kit, got one of those myself about 6 months ago, put it together on a chimera, then lost motivation, thanks to you my guard are right back on schedule!
Oh and, sharp looking Vendettas

@privateherbert24 : That is awesome to hear! I love that my slogging through all of these guard and my dedication to getting the army complete has inspired you. It was looking through all of the amazing p&m blogs here on Dakka that inspired me to push forward. Do you have WIP stuff up on here? I'm going to check it out if so.


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Ooh Oooh also had my first battle with the Alcatran Guard!

It was 2000pts Spearhead deployment kill points.

I took Comissar Lord
CCS with all. Full advisors and vox+plasma in Chimera
PCS w/ 4x flamers in a chimera
30 man p-blob
Penal Squad rolled Psychopaths.
Pcs with 4 flamers in Chimera
2x infantry squads w/ ACann and Plas in Chimeras
2x Vets with 3x melta
2x Vendettas
2x Medusas
Leman Russ bt w/ las + Plas sponsons
Hydra

He had a Flesh Tearers list with

Gabriel Seth and Corbulo in a maxed RAS 2x Melta footslogging
2x RAS Melta in RB with TL-LC
Drop pod with MM Dread
2x Baal Preds
Storm raven with Furioso with BT and RAS with S. priest
10 man RAS w/jp thunder hammer, meltas

I deployed first and he seized the initiative.
First turn saw him advance and he dropped in the MM dread and opened fire on my Chimera with acan/Plas inside.
Vehicle was stunned
One Valk lost a TL las and the other was stunned.
Pie plates of artillery take 1/2 of his death star.
One Valk immobilizes a razorback.
pie places annihilate the squad inside.
Leman Russ firing danger-close accidentally glances a chimera and kills three blob squad members. Comissar sentences gunner to ten years hard labor for terrible gunnery skills.

His turn two saw him fail reserve rolls except one Baal pred shows up from outflank. He pull up by my artillery.
Gabriels squad charges and annihilates the penal squad leving him in the open in front of the power blob.
he shoots his TL las from the RBs and stuns a medusa.
Baal Pred shoots to no effect into the side of the medusas.
MM dread explodes chimera leaving 7 surviving members of squad exposed
RAS squad with JP charges them and kills them.

My turn two sees my Melta vets jumping out to fry a razorback and the Baal Pred. Razorback explodes. Baal Pred takes no damage.
Power blob used FRFSRF! Under 12" means 25x3 shots. 42 hits and 13 wounds ended up with 7 saves and then 3 dead marines.
Leman Russ blasts the RAS JP squad dead to a man.
Vendettas pop remaining razorback. Medusas annihilate surviving marines.
Massed fire sees GS squas down to 7 guys includng Corbulo.

His turn three. Gabriel Seth charges blob squad. From her it gets less interesting.

Long story short, Comissar kills GS in combat and the power blob wears down the marines. After three turns of combat. The Comissar, sarges and two troopers are alive.

Storm raven came on t5. Got popped in my t5 by Vendettas now roaming the board unchallenged.

Turn 6 and I tabled him. Still had more than 1/2 my army left. Pretty solid first game.

Some funny things to note... I should not fire blasts danger close... My scatter rolls are terrible. Also my Comissar with bs5 fired her bolt pistol three times scoring am1 each time.

All in all I had fun and it was my first game in years.

Alcatran Guard Record: 1-0-0!

Congrats on the victory!

And if it's not to late, I like the blue-ish chrome look for the goggles.

Also, I did up one of the skulls with a captain's hat! Let me know what you think! It's still a WIP, I plan on putting lenses in the sockets, and I still need to add a neck.

I LIKE IT!

congrads on the win Rabid Ferret ,

Alot of people advise against taking the LC just because "its a bad pay for what you get" model. I however disagree! Ive had Ibram Gaunt (my LC) charge and take on dreads, marines, orks, and other horrors of the galaxy and come out on top. I think the best way i use my LC is to blob a 30 man squad then take a LC with a camo cloak and sit in cover. The camo cloaks bonus to ALL 30 members of the squad makes them VERY hard to shift.

FRFSRF is amazing and one of my most used orders. I dont use chimeras so its a must in my guard army or im dead. I like the list alot and for a moment thought the marines had you. ultimatly the win was very well played. that SR coming in T5 was really bad luck for him.