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I finished up meat - here he is:


And here is Team 9386 - "The Predators". It's a 12 man kill team that can be pulled from the company when necessary.



The Major and Team Sergeant are up front. They're ready to maim, kill, recon, or capture just about anything - and look good doing it!

Anyway, that'll probably be the last update for a long while - there aren't any more Catachans waiting for paint at the moment. It's off to work on LOTR stuff and the Freebooterz.

Dan

Fantastic stuff!
love the Ogryn!

You did a great job of sticking to your theme. Looking forward to future projects from you.

Superbly executed!

...and I can't wait to see what your Freebooters look like!

How does the army perform as a whole?

So far it's done well enough, although I haven't played more than a few games with it. As the defenders in planetstrike, it performed well against the ultramarines. It crushed the orks in a small game (they had no tools to deal with the valks). For thematic reasons, it's missing the heavy elements that I think would really make it a solid list, but again, it's a themed list, so no tanks for me.

I'm really looking forward to running the kill team in a few weeks, and as soon as they ship the models to me, I'm going to set up a kill team game against 3 of these guys:


They'll be run as lictors - I can't resist the predator thing of course.

Dan

I take it the AoL CD's represented World Wide Web Ways! I do like Meat all though he does look as if he's nicking the Orks lunch money!

Those my friend are some out right awesome catachans. Love their covers (hats) more than all else, gives em a feel that few other bitz can do for catas.

to quote several songs:

DJ Pied Piper
'Do you really like it?'
'We're loving it, loving it, loving it; we're loving it like that!'

The Saturdays
'Ijust can't get enough, I just can't get enough'

Kiss (nearly)
'These are crazy crazy crazy figs!'

Absolutely love this army-keep it up!'

y'know, If you wanted heavy gun ect, but the themes of the army is fast attacking spec ops, you could alays opt for a valyrie modified to hold a leman russ for fluff's sake nd just say its a normal valk which has just dropped the russ off nd hav the russ go round th board on its own

You're right of course - eventually I might convert up (or buy from FW) a heavy lifter Valk, but honestly I just feel a bit strange adding dirty nasty tankers to my infantry company! Maybe my prejudice will eventually subside.

So I'm in the middle of cleaning up the odds and ends in my hobby cabinet, and I found a blast scape set festering in the half-finished pile. I had to finish it up, if for no other reason than to run a "black hawk down" kill team mission with the crashed space craft. What a great deal this set was! I've heard a good deal of badmouthing of it, but for 20 bucks, I think it's the most plastic I've ever gotten from GW, and the quality is good enough. It's not heavy, resin, FW stuff, but then, it's not 60 bucks worth of craters either.

At any rate, here are the pics (the one armed Nob is for scale only!):






Hope you like them, I didn't know where else to put them!

Dan

i think your marines are fit enough to serve in the first and only great jobwish i could paint like you

The predators have arrived!

I was so excited to see the models, they got bumped to the front of the queue (go figure). There's only one sculpt, but I've done what I can to give them a bit of variety in pose and form. They're going to serve as both Spyrers (for Necromunda) and Lictors (for Kill Team missions). I've already got the stage set for them to fight a Catachan patrol over the space ship ruins in my last post - I'm pretty stoked.

Here are the WIP shots:





I'll be adding the weapon arms tomorrow - they came with a large variety of options, which is always nice.

I'll keep you posted,

Dan

I know I've already posted here but when i saw you updated i had to coe back. I think the predators are cool. But meat the pose of fighting and ork is amazing. Great job.

I know I've already posted here but when i saw you updated i had to coe back. I think the predators are cool. But meat the pose of fighting and ork is amazing. Great job.

Construction on the predator kill team is complete.
I'll start painting them ASAP.

Orrus:

Jakara:

Malcadon:


C&C are welcome of course!

Dan

Even though they are the same pose you did a great job on the sense of movement in the figs. i exspecialy like the last one. Hes like "Taste this sucker!"

Lovely models. You really managed to make them look like different. Lookign forward to seeing them painted up

I like the 1 about to jump, I can imagine him(?) tearing the enermy a new one...LOL

This army is looking really good! Very personal army and so full of character. I'll be following this blog for sure.

Alright, so I finished up the predators, and they're pretty mean looking. I don't guess I fancy my kill team's chance against these guys, but we'll take a swing!
I tried to stick to the "real" predator skin tones, rather than the tones on Heresy's website - just a personal preference. I'm really impressed with the models - they're quite large (roughly proportional to an actual predator) and very detailed. After seeing these guys I might even spring for their dragon model...





Let me know what you think, I'm glad the poses were a hit - single piece metals are a pain to repose!

Dan

Do the plants on the foot bases block line of sight?

Love the paintjob, it looks like they come right out of the movie!

Nah, the plants don't block LOS - I didn't build them with TLOS in mind actually, but for the purposes of 5th ed gaming, I'll just ignore them.

Yeah, the sculpts really capture the predators well - supposedly more are on the way! I can only hope. Maybe there will be an army of these guys (counts as terminators or tyranid warriors?) on the way. Or maybe they'll just live out their lives as Spyrers in the hives. We shall see.

Dan

Catachans, personally I like more Cadians but those guys are great. Absolutely great work, keep it up.

Your paint jobs are fantastic. I look forward to seeing more!

gonna do anymore with the cammo working?

Wow this is so awesome cant wait to see more