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Started on one of the annihilators, along with striping down the other squad of vets to re-paint.



Base layers done.




Wash layer done.

Progress marches on!

@Gitz - Yeasss, and here is some more progress.

I've got two Leman Russ in the post, how do you do camo stripes? Is it tape?

[Expletive Deleted]-Gun looks awesome.

@excommunicatus - (expletive deleteative) cheers mate! I love the russ, will look to see what you do with them. Na, it’s all freehand, so I can get the curves.

stonned_astartes,

The painted Guard Squad and the tank are great.

Cheers,

CB

@captain brown - Thanks mate, the long war and all that...

Camo highlights done, could be a bit smoother but i'm going for speed over quality with this one. I did find that doing confident quick strokes worked better than feathering the lines in though.




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Metallics done.

Another late night update, had this finished this afternoon but then I started messing around with osl. Needless to say as a 1st attempt thing have not gone so well, so I left it to come back too. Looks ok from the side and i think the turret looks okay, but the front of the tank i think is ott. It will need re-painting.

Just been remodelling a few bits on the veterans, making sure they all have double shoulder pads and windbreakers. Made the sgt from a ebay rescue model, looks a bit different from the normal one you constantly see. Then I added a few bit to the back of the annihilator I did a while ago to give it a bit more realism while I glued a track secion back on that had fallen off.

Lots of win on here, great work.

So, FWIW, I think the OSL glow from the [Expletive Deleted]-Gun can be salvaged. I think the biggest problem is that it's way too harsh and I think that if you toned it down around the edges and lightened it up in the middle it would work.

@cam - cheers boss, I shall plough on. Every day my army comes a little closer to being whole.

@excommunicatus - That's actually a real help mate wasn't sure where i was going wrong, thanks! Although Iv'e basically just gotten rid off the glow on the hull. But it will be usefull for next time. Thanks.

Here is what it looks like currently.



And started painting the veteran squad, although I would like to get some more paint before I continue. Ineed a brown wash and Iv'e switched colours because the old ones ran out but after painting the tank I noticed that they are different enough to notice. I do like the new colours though so might carry on as they are close enough to be in the same army.

stonned_astartes,

The toned down Plasma glow is superior in my humble opinion.

Cheers,

CB

I really like the colour scheme of your army, the camo looks great! The vets look really cool too and I'm sure the wash will tone them down to match the rest of your army.

I agree with the above about the toned down OSL, it does look better, although maybe a slight touch of light would hit the stubber mount as well, but that's only nitpicking.

I also like the new OSL but still say go big or go home.

You've got a tank sat there with his lad out, you might as well do an OTT OSL to go with it.

Also, sorry if I missed this but are those SM Scout shotgun arms? How do they fit the Cadian torsos?

@captain brown - Thanks, it did look rather like a child had attacked it with a paint brush before

@Tyranid Horde - Cheers mate, they have been through a few iterations, but i like this one too. I shall try and do a comparison shot of the two take on the scheme if i can. Yeah i think your right it needs a little more on the Osl.

@Excommunicatus - Hahaha yeah it is rather. I think i'll add a bit more more osl but I anymore and i would have to change the whole look of the model, but I do see where your coming from.

Yes tey are, one of the 1st things I did all those years ago. If I remember they fit okay but i mate the mistake of making them with the cheepo easy to make guardsmen so i think they could come out better with the normal dudes.

Finally carved out some modelling time(should have been doing course work but hey ho) and got to use some shade paint which is what games workshop calls a wash, and I have to say I love it haha. Here’s where the vets are.

So these guys are rockin a more tan / orangey kinda colour scheme compared to the necromundans and the red and white dudes from earlier in the thread.

So what's the deal, you getting a bunch of different regiments togther or have you just changed your mind on a scheme?

I do like what's going on though, looks good!

I just got slightly different pains by accident when the old ones ran out, think i switched from velo to game colour or something. As for the necromundians I really just wanted to see how well i could paint if i put my mind to it. Might do a few more schemes just for fun in the future.

After doing course work I managed to dredge up some more of the red-brown and got some more painting done on the vetts and the last of the built tanks.





So not a miniature update but a gaming update for sure. Just got myself 4x4 foot of flat gaming surface in the form of two fold out tables. Pretty chuffed with these, they cost around £45 for the two and there sturdy with a good weight to them, they fold up, have handles and fit in my living room well. I'm sure most hard core games have some of these already but I've never had dedicated playing spaces so its nice too have.

My plan is just to spray paint them a sandy colour and put the terrain pieces straight on them, no matt for now.

It's too bad you disabled the voting on this photo, the custom tank on the right is awesome work sir!

@Private Benjamin - Ah cheers man, i'll finish it and then you can vote? aha

Finished the vet squad

Yep painted up those 8 guys so now both of my vets squads are done and the transports. Although with the new codex i'm looking at getting plasma guns haha, oh well there still cool and the shotguns pack more of a punch. Got 30 guys painted up now.

Everything is looking good.

May I suggest a few things that I think will help your painting

Move to a grey Primer. With the lighter colours, the black is coming through

Thin your paints. More Layers >Thickness

I know you are using a brush so I wont suggest getting an airbrush just for the tanks. Are you using cans to prime your models? Then maybe a simple preshade might help them

Either way, I like what you are doing here, You have painted more guard than I have so far.

Leep up the good work

I really enjoyed reading "Gunheads" a few years ago, may have to give it another go!

I love the colour scheme that you've gone for here. Your painting is definitely improving - the tanks are especially good!

Keep up the Emperor's good work!

Army is coming along nicely.

Cheers,

CB

@Minigiant - Thanks man, since I primed all the tanks in black a year or so ago I have moved to a white primer and it's certainly better. I shall try doing more layers as I currently aim for only one of each paints. Thanks again I hope you visit again and see some progression

@Cosmic - Thanks mate, took me a long time to come up with it on the old dawn of war games aha. Yeah, it really captured my imagination all them tanks breaking through the orks, a good read.

@CB - Thanks man, close too all my finished miniatures painted.

Sterted pn my next tank, a new punnisher.

So this one is planned to have a huge amo reserve at the back of the tank as I imagine punishers suffer similar problems with tanks equipped with vulcan-megabolters; they run out of amo very fast due to there immense fire rate. I hope it will look something like this...



Obviously iv'e found this on the internet, but when I stumbled across this I instantly wanted to make one similar. It looks like a chimera hull on russ tracks, but I will make the rear section myself. So without further adieu.

I started by making the gun fit on the turret as its not quite the right russ model This is what Iv'e ended up with so far. I need to add extra armour, scopes, a light ossible a stubber. I did notice the turret out of the start collecting box is thinner than the stand alone box.



Next i took the rear end off the russ then stuck the rest together to give it some structure.





Then i started messing around, although it does look quite cool, Maybe a future design inspiration?




I also Painted my tables! On the cheep with emulsion paint, cost me about £3. But then I couldn't resist taking a shot of my tanks.







And while they where out I took that comparison shot.



Cheers for looking!

They are looking good bud. The conversion will be very interesting. The example you gave looks to be a fairly simple swap, but you will do better scratching up a custom back end.

Boshed this out tonight. More photos tomorrow.

The king punisher!

Had a bout of inspiration last evening and except the body which I had already build the previous night, I stayed up to the small hours of it last night and finished it. Slightly to the annoyance of the gf. The king punsiher is my commander tank (as yet un-named), so its got lots of fills and a huge heavy stubber with a shouting bloke on the end of it. It’s mid engined (just like a Lamborghini). And the rear sections are just two huge amp hoppers for the gattling gun as it’s uses a huge amount of munitions. And with the double stub gun front mount (counts as heavy bolter) it’s got plenty of Dakka!

Interesting conversion there stonned_astartes.

Cheers,

CB

Nice booty, great conversion bud.