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I haven't built any more troops yet- the troopers I have built are actually an elites choice and a HQ choice!

Need to buy 2 more boxes of Cadians and another command squad box to make 1 troops choice and maybe field a unit of Veterans as a troops choice in a Vendetta? I dunno, I don't even have the Codex yet!

I'd like to have more tanks in my army, but building this Tiger has been one royal PITA!

To all those expecting to see pictures of a painted Tiger (I'm looking at you nerdfest09) I must apologise- I've been away since Friday and only just got back this evening with neither the time nor the inclination to paint anything!
I also have an exam for university this Thursday so I should probably do some revision between now and then- hobby is on hold for now.

Apologies again!

Finally started applying some paint to the Tiger. Colour scheme is an approximation to the Normandy scheme used by the Germans in WW2.








The picture I'm using as reference

Love it! honestly looks fantastic, wouldn't be able to tell it was a scratchbuild at all, I'm very jealous of your plasticard skills! The camo looks really nice as a start, assuming its going to get a fair bit of weathering to tone down the hard edges on the camo?

Yeh, it's going to receive quite a bit of harsh treatment in the weathering department!

Oh man, that's looking great! I love the colour of the main hull and the camo scheme is really good too! can't wait for more! I painted up my first guard model the other day! I am slowly seeing the attraction of the 'every man' army! :-)

Great paint scheme you've picked out! Reference pics like the one you've got are super helpful.

My only thought is to use the scale of the camo pattern from your reference pic as well. The one you've done is quite a bit smaller (read = I think it would look better if your green and red patterns were bigger )

Also, where is that hatch from?

Looks like a chimera hatch to me, although I might be wrong.

@Everyone, thanks for the support chaps- keeps my enthusiasm up!

@Rawson in particular, I've gone back and made the brown and green bigger

J-paint wrote:Looks like a chimera hatch to me, although I might be wrong.

No, I think you're right. Just goes to show how many Chimera's I have in my army compared to LRBT's and other types of armor

Elnibbus wrote:@Rawson in particular, I've gone back and made the brown and green bigger

Finally, I have some updated photos of my Guard progress, namely that of the Tiger:











Still a way to go but this blog has been bereft of any work for quite a while now so felt I had to post something!

Nice work Elnibbus! the camo looks even better now, and i spy a bit of weathering beginning there? ;-)

You do indeed spy some weathering nerdfest! I'm really digging the AK Interactive weathering paints/inks/whatever they are. Just need to pluck up the courage to mess about with the white spirit like it suggests on the bottles...
Hope to get it finished this weekend, with the addition of some hand-painted decals and Aquillas. Should I then finish my command squad or my Storm Troopers? Whadya think?

Command squad first I think :-) then amaze us with the torm troops!

Yeh, I'll paint the command squad since they're already on the go. Just out of interest, I'm trying to find the rules for the Vulture Gunship- I have Imperial Armour One with the actual rules but there is no choice for Punisher Cannons/points cost. Is there an update for them somewhere?

i think it is in IA 8 Elnibbus

Found it- Thanks very much alabamaheretic! Will be having one of those on the Christmas list (you can't have a Blitzkrieg without air-support after all!). As for lists, I'm thinking a mech list of Veterans in Chimeras and a Storm Trooper squad in a Vendetta. I'm not going for an all-out beardy list of doom, more of a characterful one which would fit with the aesthetic- I imagine the mech units much like the panzer divisions of WW2, supported by aircraft and Fallshcirmjager.

However, I know for a fact that my Tiger will get blown away on the first bloody turn, much like my brand-spanking new Dwarf Stonethrowers which misfired on the first shot!

yes Enibbus! The tiger looks just as awesome as I'd hoped if not better! Really solid job on that, can't wait to see the addition of the white spirit weathering to it, weathering is always fun.

As for what next I agree on the command squad, they are always fun, full of character. Looking forwards to it.

Finally, finally, FINALLY FINISHED!!!











So yer, added battle damage, weathering and some dried mud on the tracks and other parts which would accumulate dirt and mud.

It was well worth the wait, looks great!

How did you find the weathering powders in the end?

Cheers J-paint. I didn't actually use any powders- it was all AK Interactive Streaking Grime and Rust Effect. Powders tend to leave a mess and don't last long unless you give it a good seal (even then it can come off, as a friend of mine has a carry case stained orange after copious amounts of purity seal).
The dried mud is a mixture of PVA, dheneb stone, snakebite leather, snow effect and modelling sand. Was a bit concerned that it was too light at first but it dries a much darker colour.

So there it is. Have been contemplating a full mech list but I might keep the modifications to my Chimeras to a minimum (to save time and heartache) but I will be making another Tiger as an Executioner variant- will be interesting to see how the real-world style can blend with grim-dark plasma cannons!

Haha! Just got an epic deal on Empire Handgunner handguns- this means there could be a squad of Veterans on the horizon in the very near future! Progress is slow on the command squad though, have done the armour and fatigue on a few but still need to do the skin and weapons. Plus I need to finish sculpting the carapace armour on the Storm Troopers.

*groan*

Keep at it! the results are more than worth it! The empire handgun conversions i'm particularly looking forwards to.

The handguns fit rather well actually, it's actually something I did a few years ago when the Handgunners were released- just a quick chop and a bit of green stuff is all it takes. They also look as if they're aiming down the length of the rifle too as opposed to, well, not aiming at all.

So I was thinking about things this evening, picked up my knife and plastic Cadians and came up with this dude- the first of my Veterans, huzzah! (Apologies for the wanky pictures, but my phone is all I had at the time!).





And just because I felt like making a HB stand-in to more closely resemble something that would actually be man portable:



MG42 anyone? The idea was actually stolen from Digits Drogan thread where he has used heavy stubbers as HB teams- I've just made it look a little more like a 42

The problem I'm faced with is that the majority of the Empire Handguns require the same supporting arm (Arm D I believe) which will require another trip to ebay/some bits shop to procure more!

Thoughts on the above pieces?

The HB substitute looks really good man.

The handguns too look good, I couldn't see how it would work in my head, but now that you've done it it looks awesome.

My only qualm at the moment is the helmet, not sure why but I'm not totally sold on it. It might just need some paint, not sure.

Cheers dude. Looking at the helmet in the pictures doesn't really show it at the best angle- best viewed from side on lol. I just wanted them to be visibly different to Cadian helmets without having the ballache of sculpting the coal-scuttle shape of the DKoK ones. This was my solution to the problem.
Anyhoo, a lick of paint and we'll see what it will eventually look like!
I'm actually thinking about having the 42 on a bipod and having the cover open with the crew loading it- too masochistic? Lol.


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Oooooh! Do you think I should give the Vets carapace armour? I'm thinking about running 2 squads in Chimeras as my troops choices and their survival rate would be greatly improved with a 4+ save, considering my main adversaries will be Tau and Space Marines. Might also make the positioning of the arms easier if the joins are hidden under armour.

Love the rifle.

The MG42/heavy bolter reminds me too much of a Heavy Stubber, but then again you can't have them for your troops, so its all good.

Hopefully it'll look better when it's finished but yes, it does look an awful lot like a heavy stubber! Needs a stock and bipod plus the ammunition belt.
Anyhoo, I suppose it's back to making veterans and storm troopers!

That Hb substitute is looking great, I might copy the design, thanks!