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looks dope, love a russ with a bit of extra love put into it

Cheers all i'm very pleased with my king punisher.

And for something i'm not so proud of some lazy wyvern conversions

stonned_astartes,

The mortar racks need some more substance...

My two cents,

CB

Captain Brown wrote:
stonned_astartes,

The mortar racks need some more substance...

My two cents,

CB

Yes! yes they do. I sat down to model some proper ones but struggled to put the effort in so i gave up.

Did some more painting on the 2nd Executioner, base coasted and shaded.

Excellent builds going on he re- I'll be checking in to watch more frequently.

 Meer_Cat wrote:
Excellent builds going on he re- I'll be checking in to watch more frequently.

Thanks my man.

Had another go at the vyverns. So this is my prototype stormshard mortar, I think the body is a bit big and lacks detail compared to the original. But as I will have to do 12 of them I want them to not be too time consuming and easy to replicate. I'm also not sure how 4 of them will look together let alone 12, as i'm not the most precise scratch builder. Reckon i'll be able to pull the rest of the turret off easily enough if i simplify the mechanisms. Considering weather its worth the time & effort to build them compared to buying them. Added a shot of it with a chimera for scale. Thoughts?

I think the new build looks really good- and don't under-estimate the magnifying effect of multiple units on each vehicle! The old Napoleonic painters taught me 'in mass lies perfection', meaning you put enough of anything in one place, the unit looks good because the eye can't take in all the detail.

When all four are mounted on their carousel, maybe you might consider running a firing actuator cable into each mortar unit?

They look good though- I like 'em!

 Meer_Cat wrote:
I think the new build looks really good- and don't under-estimate the magnifying effect of multiple units on each vehicle! The old Napoleonic painters taught me 'in mass lies perfection', meaning you put enough of anything in one place, the unit looks good because the eye can't take in all the detail.

When all four are mounted on their carousel, maybe you might consider running a firing actuator cable into each mortar unit?

They look good though- I like 'em!

Sound advice! Maybe i will not hide in fear from this task! thanks.

I had started looking at this from ramshakle games both as a possible purchase but maybe as inspiration.

_Very_ nice! And all self-contained- no need for loose cables on a design like that. Although, it is in keeping with the noble Guard tradition of bringing horses, rivets and sometimes fixed artillery to battlefields, even in the 41st Millennium

 Meer_Cat wrote:
_Very_ nice! And all self-contained- no need for loose cables on a design like that. Although, it is in keeping with the noble Guard tradition of bringing horses, rivets and sometimes fixed artillery to battlefields, even in the 41st Millennium

Haha yeah 40k years of evolution and still in ww 2 :L

My progress with the cupola so far.

I always envy to people who can do such things, like wyvern upgrade on chimera, because when I needed 3rd wyvern in roster, I bought old forge world hydra upgrade, and make droppod's rocket pads as mortars, and it was pain to find four drop pod rocket pads


Want to see on result of your cool work!

That looks awesome mate well done. I have seen someone just chop the barrels of the fw hydra and use it like that but that’s much cooler. Cheers for coments more soon.

The cupola build is terrific- lots of angles and curves- not easy to do!

 Meer_Cat wrote:
The cupola build is terrific- lots of angles and curves- not easy to do!

Cheers boss, Haven't really progressed with it much apart from cutting the gun barrels.



I did manage to get my king punnisher based and washed though, I wanted to get it to this level so that could play with it! Yes i finally had a game with my army, with a fun and enthusiastic opponent! Was a very enjoyable experience even though we are complete novices who haven't really played since maybe 4-5th ed properly and with only 7th ed rule book, the internet and 8th ed codexs to play with What we ended up playing was a cross between all three and some extra on top! We both came away convinced to learn the rules properly and have another game.

I at 1st tried to field just 6 russes in a spearhead detachment for a 1000pts (roughly) game but my opponent (admech) said he didn't have much ant-tank... so i swapped one out one for two vet squads. One with lassguns one with shotguns and meltas. I'm still not entirely sure if this wasn't a trick or if he actually had no idea as it turns out ad-mech have some seriously devastating anti-tank. Especially as he fielded two war glaives w/meltalances and a dune crawler with what can only be described as a really BFG, Which later destroyed a russ in two shots! Some rangers, vangards, tech-magi guy and a draconian.



Turn 1
We just ended up going with annihilation as we suck and it was simpler. I got 1st go so i pushed my punnishers up the field and created a killzone at the cross roads, along with my troops because they cant shoot very far (useless layabouts). Being nice I decided to only shot half of his troops with my punishers and executioners & waste the other shots on the wrong things. Like tiring to shoot a warglaive with a gattling cannon and wasting my plasma shots on his rangers. My annihilator missed dune crawler. With all 5 shots In retaliation he missed with his dune crawler war glaives. He also did the opposite things he should have with the skitarii, moved up with the shooty unit and stayed put with the combat(ish) unit he later confessed. He then assaulted my tank commander from behind with the dragoon.





Turn 2
My annihilator continued to trade shot with the dune crawler doing some damage but then getting knocked down 6 wounds from one shot in retaliation! I charged with my infantry instead of shooting (huge mistake) ! squad into some rangers locking them up until a war glaive charge in and killed all 10 of them with one swing (possibly the funniest moment of the game) and the dragoon, locking them up to but doing some damage. (but probably not as much as if i had just rapid fired the ).







Turn 3
My Punnishers finished off his infantry, and then became utterly useless having no anti-tank capability. The long range tank duel between the dune crawler and my annihilator continued, ending with my russ in ruins. The glavies started to rumble forwards very menacingly and we soon learnt how scary they are for my russes. The melee between the dragoon and the vets ended when they all died leaving the dragoon on one wound.





Turn 4
I got serious with my executioners and ruined one of his glavies, he got serious with his glaives and blew up one of my punnishers, which exploded, wounding two other! this was after the dragoon shrugging of 43 shots from my commander and living.



Turn 5
His techno-magos guy took two wounds from my punnisher but healed them back and i finally killed his dragoon. We then called it a draw as I realized i had to go to work and we both had 3 models left.

It was a very enjoyable experience where we both learnt a lot about our armies and each others, and some rules, sort of. we left both keen to come back soon a try again.
I learnt the punnisher cannon is great against your average troops but useless after that so i'm going to ad some plasma sponsoons. Also not to carge with my troops

Today my space marine plasma guns arrived so I cranked all 10 of them out this evening. As soon as I started however I got distracted and made some more objective markers out of the spare parts I have so I did them too. I then managed to base coast them as well.



I found that arm set H on the gaurd spruce was the best due to the open palm, but I only had 5 lots left so i had to improvise with the rest as normal. One throwing a grande, one badass with a F@@K off knife and one guy going to point or bro fisting someone.

Who is he bro fisting? His friendly nehiborhood commissar?

Emperors will wrote:
Who is he bro fisting? His friendly nehiborhood commissar?

Commisar cuddles. I hear they where in the same phrat house.

Where / how did you get those resin tank tracks for your Russes? Did you cast them yourself or purchase them from a recaster?

Blooming excellent work here. Really nice conversion work on the tanks. Troops looking good as well.

@ratbarf - who are you working for? The commissariat? The inquisition?
@cam - cheers mate, need to get back on the peak soon and let my creative juices really flow.

Update on the troops, blocked out and washed.

This is where the new plasma vets are at, they could still do with some more highlight and need basing. However i would be happy enough to use them on the table top now.



I also took a whole army shot and i'm quite pleased with where i'm at now. Its only taken like 3-4 years and all started when I was laid up in bed with with a broken femur, but i now have a playable force.



I need to finnish up painting those tanks and add some sand to the treads & battle damage. I also need to modify the turrets on the BTR's to make them twin auto cannon to run them as Turox. A few heavy weapons and finishing a few tanks iv'e got and i may move over to the orks who need some love.


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Wanted some new, more realistic terrain and there is a ton of kingspan kicking around at my mates so I deiced to carve some rocks. I glued 3 layers together then followed a tutorial on you tube to get the look.



Then I covered it in filler, but the smaller ones fell apart so i had to reglue them and stop there for now.



I also made some barbed wire.

Barbed wire looks spot on and the rocks are nice, I guess you are going for the line of sight blocking aspect, they will look fantastic once you get them painted up. Are you going for that wild west, rock pillar look?

 Camkierhi wrote:
Barbed wire looks spot on and the rocks are nice, I guess you are going for the line of sight blocking aspect, they will look fantastic once you get them painted up. Are you going for that wild west, rock pillar look?

Whoops didn’t reply here sorry cam. Yeah that the style, like no country for old men style.

Playing around with some big gun emplacements and mini sandbangs. Not much room on the bases.





The newest member of the gun heads! An old style tank with a modern armament.

I’ve got my self a sentinel, always wanted a squad of these but always seemed expensive. Having got the kit though there’s loads of bang for your buck and I really enjoyed modelling this one.