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I just got back from my FLGS and they are out of Guard.

Bugger now im going to have to wait for an order :(

I think the painting is a little monotone and could have a lot more narrative and depth, however, it's very neat and effective looking.

Thanks a bunch for sharing the images too!!!

deadly chicken wrote:the troop bay has 2 troop served heavy stubbers

Thats cool, never thought I would actually see Stubbers in use figured they would be lost to the pages of rouge trader for ever

Grandmaster wrote:
Yep, im thinking of doing two crew for them. Do peeps think this is a cool or crap idea?

If you do them right it wil look great

ouch a belly full of lead. looks very good.

umm im not sure about the crews???? maybe use normal guard parts cause they are ment to be troop served and it would be the guard in the bay that would fire them.

migsula wrote:I think the painting is a little monotone and could have a lot more narrative and depth, however, it's very neat and effective looking.

Thanks a bunch for sharing the images too!!!

As a painter who I respect a lot, thank you for your comments.

This one was painted to match the rest of my guard tanks. I wanted to go for a real world look on them, I agree that in game terms they look a bit simple but when there are loads of tanks all together it looks cool

I will take some group shots at some point to show you guys.

In regards to the crew, they will be normal guard that match my army but maybe with a twist All i need now is the bloody models!

Thanks for all the great comments guys, I love this forum

looks ace mate


also, since you paint quickly like i do via the old sprays, check ebay every now and then, ive managed to buy a few new cans of BA red spray from there and also picked up a few cans of ard coat.


Edit: spelling.

JD21290 wrote:looks ace mate


also, since you paint quickly like i do via the old sprays, check ebay every now and then, ive managed to buy a few new cans of BA red spray from there and also picked up a few cans of ard coat.


Edit: spelling.

Cheers for the tip, ive never thought of getting them of ebay. Ive got 3 1/2 cans left and i feel the new guard release may well use up all my stocks

If I could recommend anything, it would be catachan arms. Heavy stubbers need heavy arm muscles to make them cool!! Although that wouldn't tie in well with your cadians? I'd love to see that whole army pic!

no probs
i had a small stock of each colour before they stopped selling them, it made things nice and easy with them when you could simply spray a model, then highlight / drybrush then detail it.

wheres my shadowsword!!!????? damn you miniaturesbypost.com!!!!!

s.j.mccartney wrote:If I could recommend anything, it would be catachan arms. Heavy stubbers need heavy arm muscles to make them cool!! Although that wouldn't tie in well with your cadians? I'd love to see that whole army pic!

Funny you should say that but i had the very same thought, maybe cadian everything but the arms mmmm i will have to play around when i can get my hands on some bits

I just got the new spray gun, im hoping that i can achieve a similar result with that?

my stormlord already arrived but i cant have it 'til my birthday!!! WHICH IS IN 2 BLOODY F*CKING DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mussie76 wrote:Thats cool, never thought I would actually see Stubbers in use figured they would be lost to the pages of rouge trader for ever

Pintle mounted Heavy Stubbers have been back since the last Guard codex. And before that they made a reappearance in the Eye of Terror codex with the Lost and the Damned.


Back OT, Grandmaster, the tank looks nice, very clean job on it. And I'll vote for adding crew to the Stubbers.

Grandmaster wrote:
This one was painted to match the rest of my guard tanks. I wanted to go for a real world look on them, I agree that in game terms they look a bit simple but when there are loads of tanks all together it looks cool

I'm sure, please share more of your guard when you have the time! In fact I have the same situation with my guard and have been pondering about what to do when I add more stuff. I've come to the conclusion to go with a different scheme, lighter, so I can add more wear and tear and layers of dirt, rather than dirt.

Thanatos73 wrote:Pintle mounted Heavy Stubbers have been back since the last Guard codex. And before that they made a reappearance in the Eye of Terror codex with the Lost and the Damned.

And before that, they were in the Armageddon Codex with the Hive Gang Militia.

migsula wrote:

Grandmaster wrote:
This one was painted to match the rest of my guard tanks. I wanted to go for a real world look on them, I agree that in game terms they look a bit simple but when there are loads of tanks all together it looks cool

I'm sure, please share more of your guard when you have the time! In fact I have the same situation with my guard and have been pondering about what to do when I add more stuff. I've come to the conclusion to go with a different scheme, lighter, so I can add more wear and tear and layers of dirt, rather than dirt.

Here is most of my Guard army. It was done 6 years ago when the last codex came out I will do a group image at some time
http://www.pbase.com/frazervisser

On the stubber question all of my Guard tanks have them, and when I fire them i have to say "stubber death" as I roll and they seem to do more damage than the main guns I love them

Thanks for the pics. Now I know how where I can build the tub full of nurgly slime in when I'll build my Pleaguereaper

Mine just arrived. I'm gonna spend tomorrow putting that together. Gonna go for Shadowsword though. The Stormlord looks amazing but I've always wanted a Shadowsword for 40k since they were introduced into Space Marine back in the day.

I dont think 40 men could fit in that ,but the you cant get ten marines in a rhino,its a conspiracy i tell you

I don't think 40 men could fit in that ,but then you cant get ten marines in a rhino,its a conspiracy i tell you

Imperial Dominatus haha? isnt that the titan from DoW winter assault? i only know cause my ork stompa has speakerz inside and i play the part where gorgutz and lord krull yell about it

I love it mate, go with the gunners 4 the HS and i looked at ur army maye they are AWSOME! DoW rules!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanatos73 wrote:

mussie76 wrote:Thats cool, never thought I would actually see Stubbers in use figured they would be lost to the pages of rouge trader for ever

Pintle mounted Heavy Stubbers have been back since the last Guard codex. And before that they made a reappearance in the Eye of Terror codex with the Lost and the Damned.


Back OT, Grandmaster, the tank looks nice, very clean job on it. And I'll vote for adding crew to the Stubbers.

I am out of touch with it, last time I played we had squats, trikes and ratlings......

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:Wait a sec GW expects us to believe that 40 men will fit in the back of that, or is there a hatch somewhere, where the people stay inside the tank. Or would the engine be there. GAH why does this not make sense.

I guess GW want to emphasize the poor working condition of their IG grunts :x

i wouldn't complain if i got to ride in that tank shooting stuff... its every guardsmans dream lol

I cant wait to paint my chaos stormlord/shadowsword,
me and my dad are just drilling the holes for the magnets now!

Nice armies , by the way I liked the forge world idea of a lump of men to represent a full troop carrier. I was going to do it with my orks, but I ...er... didn't. But this is what I mean.
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/dkkgorginf.htm

mussie76 wrote:

Thanatos73 wrote:

mussie76 wrote:Thats cool, never thought I would actually see Stubbers in use figured they would be lost to the pages of rouge trader for ever

Pintle mounted Heavy Stubbers have been back since the last Guard codex. And before that they made a reappearance in the Eye of Terror codex with the Lost and the Damned.


Back OT, Grandmaster, the tank looks nice, very clean job on it. And I'll vote for adding crew to the Stubbers.

I am out of touch with it, last time I played we had squats, trikes and ratlings......

Well the ratlings are still here, though the squats and their trikes are long gone, which I'm kinda sad about as I got into 40K right as squats vanished.

Ive built the crew now, I hope to paint them tonight. So i should have pics up early next week