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Love the stuff in this thread, a great inspiration to help me with the guard army I'm planning.

Loving this man just inspired.

Loving the command Vendetta - the paint job is terrific! Everything looks great all together like that!

Alright, so I finished painting the first aegis line and bastion, and I got the rest of them assembled. I went ahead and did a trial run of what the FOB will look like. Here are the pictures:







As you can see, a bit of it still needs to be painted, and I need to assemble and paint about 20 feet of razor wire that I've got in a box, but that's all to come next - so stay tuned.

i love your valks!
XD.
They are just too cool.
Too bad i can't buy IG :*(

Fan-damn-tastic!

Awesome!

absolutely Fantastic!

I love the FOB! You're making what I'd only dare dream!

This project is pure and simple WIN.

Great job on all the conversions and paint jobs.

This stuff just keeps getting better, bro. I can't wait to see what you have in store next.

Very Very nice, not mad on the foliage but everything else is bang on.

Great job, it would look great in a battle. Hopefully we see that happen.

Strangely, that's the hardest part. I just moved to the area, so it'll be a bit before I find a good gaming partner I think. I'm glad y'all dig the FOB though.

On another note - I just got a solid deal on 10 ogryn, so the catachan devils will be getting a hefty pile of auxilleries in the near future - I even have a snazzy plan to make them airborne in spite of GWs no-ogryn-in-valk rules.

Dan

You need to give them ogryn JETPACKS!, not just any JETPACKS! but human sized JETPACKS! and they could have one on each shoulder.....mmmmmm JETPACKS!

Lewismio wrote:You need to give them ogryn JETPACKS!, not just any JETPACKS! but human sized JETPACKS! and they could have one on each shoulder.....mmmmmm JETPACKS!

"Can somebody help me stop saying FARMVILLE ? FARMVILLE"

Anyways , back on topic . These are coming along nicely . I really like how you do their skin . If not already mentioned in the thread , could you write down quickly how to make it ?

JETPACKS!

Alright, time for another update. Today I got almost all the terrain finished - the razor wire was particularly fun to build. I've still got about 5 more feet of the stuff to assemble though.

Here are the pics of all the new stuff together:
On a side note the imperial strongpoint is a great buy - 90 bucks gets pretty much everything I needed to put together a planetstrike board.





Additionally, D co got a pile of reinforcements, in the form of the remnants of Death by Monkey's old air cav unit. The whole lot was 30 dudes, with 11 packing melta guns. Just what every guard army needs right? More melta guns! After a bit of work, and a paint job, I have 15 of them finished up. Here they are:

First, my favorite: Jesse Ventura.






DBM's conversion work on these was top notch - all I had to do to bring them into the fold was add some hats, beards, and backpacks. Huzzah for second hand minis!

That's all for tonight - next up is a unit of 8 ogryn - stay tuned.

Dan

Awesome update. The new gear for the base looks great, and the reinforcements are very cool. That one with the binoculars and 60lbs of armour is hilarious too. "I don't see anything- hey, who blacked out the lenses?!" *BANG*

Where'd you get the heads from on that last batch of Catachans? Or are those just regular heads and a really good paint job? Either way it looks good.

Great stuff, wonko - you totally did justice to my conversions with your paintjob (something I'm not sure I could've done!) I'm really happy to see how well they turned out.

Sencing a high power level... Ugh.......Ugh........Ugh
I LOVE THE GROUP SHOT!!!!

i actually think the jess ventura looks like he would make a better guunery seargent harker than the afro dude

Yeah, I think Jim Kelly might lose out to ole Jesse for the role of Gunnery SGT Harker in most games - I might rebase Jim on a 35mm base, give him an AG, and convert them into a weapon team.

The heads are all either off the Catachan sprue or the command sprue w/ Green stuff added on. The second from left guy is an old metal model.

I'm glad you like the paint jobs DBM - I don't know where you scraped up some of the bits, but the sculpts are great.

Oh, and to answer an earlier Q, the skin is dwarf flesh, washed w/ ogryn flesh, highlighted w/ dwarf flesh. It's easier than it looks.

Dan

we need more!!!!!!
I love the planet strike stuff. so its worth the 90$ price tag?

Alright, here's the next update to D co - ogryn!

How, I thought to myself, would a commander get ogryn to get into an aircraft? My mind immediately leaped to that source of military knowledge - the A Team. When Murdock needed to get BA in an airplane, what did he do? He tricked him. Now it's hard to model a drugged glass of milk, but I figured I could model another sort of trick.

Enter the Connex Chimera.

Chimeras are probably too heavy to airlift with a Valk, but Connexes aren't. Consequently, I ordered a couple of these (just the box part):
http://images.frpgames.com/products/product_38838.jpg

I figure the commander convinces the ogryn to get in, flies the connex where he needs the ogryn to be, and drops it off. There aren't any windows, so the Ogryn will never know the thing's in the air at all.

Anyway, hairbrained schemes aside, here are the ogryn:
You'll note the addition of hair and sunglasses - the hallmark of special forces guys everywhere.





Let me know what you think,

Dan

I hate Ogryn models, they just never seem to look like they belong cause they're so...huge...but I like what you've done with those. They have a very WHF Ogre feel to them, but with guns.

Very nice, I love all the little details on all the units.

A very nice Catachan force, Marbo would be pleased.

The handlebar on the Ogryn is great. Nice work spicing them up although admit it the commander in the Valkyrie isn't watching the battle he's got the game on that wide screen tv of his.

I'm sure no self respecting officer would ever tune into the *insert sport here* game on TV when the troops were in contact! Right? Well, maybe just on one screen - he's got three after all...

Or maybe he'd just watch the game.