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Hey I've seen those storm troops somewhere before lol.

Good work on them

Thanks for selling them to me!

Pics might get uploaded today, working on painting up the Leman Russ. I'll see how far I get before I upload anything.

I finally got this Russ done.... it has more weathering to do but I am finally content enough to post a preliminary picture. I am working on getting the Veteran squad outfitted with some more Meltaguns and Plasmaguns, so I'll post pictures of that later as well.

Damn. That tank looks very nice! The troopers faces ruin it a lot for me : /

I like all of it otherwise!

iam gonna go out on a limb here and say .....I likem

Glad to hear it! I've been working on a Commissar with a powerfist to be my Commissar Lord, I'll post a picture of it in an hour or two after I finish the washes.

As promised: Pictures of my now-complete (except for the base) Lord Commissar. He strikes a heroic pose, does he not? I went with more traditional means of painting him, since the Commissariat does not adopt the colors of a regiment they are assigned to. Today I picked put Dan Abnett's "The Founding" Omnibus following Gaunt's Ghosts. It's pretty good so far, and makes me appreciate my new Commissar a lot more! So much more, I opted to put him semi-permanently into my narritive-game list. Ah, well, enough procrastinating. Here are the pics:

Looks good , I have to pick that model up its sweet .

That's the same Commisar I picked up haha. I don't plan on using him, just to paint him up as a nice display piece (I'm wierd, plan on pickin up a Baneblade just to assemble/paint). If you plan on playing IG in tourneys and what not, pick up one or two more B force boxes. I'm already on my second. Otherwise... Looks good!

That is a really cool model, I like the powerfist a lot.

The hat could be another shade of red, it just looks a bit off next to the red lapel.

tank looks wicked. I really like the commisar, but I am thinking that the picture of the back of it looks the same, maybe it is just the photo.

Yeah, you'll have to forgive my photo-fu, as the commissar's hat does not blend into his collar in person. There was a very heavy shading of Baal Red where the collar comes up, you just can't see it at that angle. I plan to come back and highlight things in the future as well, but right now I am going to shelf the Commissar and get to work on some vets. They need some paint like something fierce!

Tank is stonking. I don't like the commisar model so I can't really add any objective input on that I'm sorry.

Lol I didn't like them either until reading some Gaunt's Ghosts... But yeah he doesn't blend very well...

That's a commissar for you though.

Wow, very nice conversions but not too keen on the shiny stormtroopers... Nice respirators!

Got two officers painted today, along with assembling a 3rd Veteran squad from bitz I had ordered, and bitz left over from other stuff. I've gotten one veteran squad primed and ready for painting, but I wanted to give them ample time to dry thoroughly. Well, without further ado, here is the pair of officers I got painted:

Edit: As a sidenote, they have been hard coated but not matte finished yet so forgive the glare.

Dope !

Got the veteran squad done! I also celebrated my 100th post on my blog, and had a batch painting tutorial posted on there:

http://foxphoenix40k.blogspot.com/2009/07/foxphoenixs-100th-post-celebration.html

Here's the picture of the veteran squad, so you don't have to go to my blog to see it

There we go. They look very shiney

Anyway they look the tops

For those of you who don't read my blog... I have a new deadline: I need to get 30 infantry models complete in the next 24 hours, for a local event that was just announced yesterday. I finished my Chimera earlier today, and am now working on the 30+ infantry I have left to finish my 1500 point army I plan to enter into a painting contest. I also need to base all the infantry I have previously finished, as well as the sentinel I completed the night before last. I don't have a lot of time, but I'll try to take some pictures when I am taking breaks from the work...

Here is the sentinel I slapped some paint on yesterday:

Wow! You are turning stuff out left and right. The tank and sentinel look great. Thank goodness for washes eh? The officers are looking good also.

Thanks, but if you think a model every couple days is churning the stuff out... wait until I get back from my little competition tonight. I stayed up all last night and spent the whole day today painting the last units I needed to have my 1500 point list... a whopping 33 infantry models! I'll hopefully have some pictures for you tomorrow.

Well, as some of you may have read on my blog, I did ok at the tournament. I didn't win many games, but I won the "Most Epic Moment" award for threatening a Leman Russ squadron with a lone survivor of a demo-equipped Vet squad. It was pretty hilarious that my opponent had to waste a turn of throwing down large templates on a single dude. He still won the match, but it was a great casual game and I look forward to attending this group regularly.

Now that I have played my IG some, I am getting a better idea of my preferred style of play. So in short... I need more mortars! I am broke and jobless though, so I am stuck converting things I already have... like rhinos... (Yes I stole the idea from infilTRAITOR's blog)

So far this is all I got. This was my first rhino I had assembled, so I had to cut free the top hatch, as well as strip down the paint and put this basecoat on to prep it for the new paint scheme. The mortar itself is made from a click-eraser, if you know what I'm talking about, and pieces of cut sprue as brackets. I have more to do, like covering that gap in the turret and adding a little embellishment to the mortar, but this is a good start I think. If I don't glue down this hatch, I can still use it as a rhino if I need to for my SM army, but I haven't played them in a while so they may end up for sale instead.

(Excuse the white balance issue, I had 2 different light sources that make it impossible to adjust it properly.)

Wait one cotton pickin' minute!

It looks great. It could count as a Medusa I reckon if you really wanted to.

wow thats one decked out sentinal.LOVE IT!
oh and your stormtroopers witch are my fav version of ST are the minis scale to size compared to a cadian guardsman? or are they like the steel legion guardsmen size

@physcosamatic: I think they are on scale... I never really checked. They have a lot more gear than cadians, so they look bulkier, but I think it is intended that way.

@ infilTRAITOR: I suppose that I could use it as a medusa... I have been searching for more suitable materials for a barrel extension, but around the house I'm coming up empty. I suppose I could buy a dowel or something on the cheap, if I have to. I did find some PVC pipe (well, PEX pipe actually) that I was able to use for the barrel on both vehicles. It is slightly larger in circumference than the click-eraser I was going to use, and a great deal cheaper. I can also cut it to greater lengths, for other variants.

I did some cutting and gluing of the hatch with some plasticard to fill that gap, and here's what I got:

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:Got two officers painted today, along with assembling a 3rd Veteran squad from bitz I had ordered, and bitz left over from other stuff. I've gotten one veteran squad primed and ready for painting, but I wanted to give them ample time to dry thoroughly. Well, without further ado, here is the pair of officers I got painted:

Edit: As a sidenote, they have been hard coated but not matte finished yet so forgive the glare.

the FLGS Downtown here still has a few (as in 2 or 3) boxes of the old Cadian Command with that Officer. If anyone wants a box, let me know.

I got a little bit more work done on the converted Griffon, and redesigned it.

This is probably closer to what infilTRAITOR had intended, except his will obviously be cooler with his mortars having actual bipods, and barrels made from battlecannons:

FoxPhoenix135 wrote:I got a little bit more work done on the converted Griffon, and redesigned it.

This is probably closer to what infilTRAITOR had intended, except his will obviously be cooler with his mortars having actual bipods, and barrels made from battlecannons:

You do know how to make a gal feel special

I'm liking the redesign. The way you were going to have it I tried myself and, although it worked, I coudln't bring myself to like it. Your execution of the original one came out better than mine. I think the mortar needs something on it. It looks a bit plain at the moment, maybe some ultra-thin plasticard wrapped around it or some gubbins perhaps? What might work instead of the plasticard is the plastic ribbons people use to put around gifts as it's much more pliable.

Question I will have to ask you is this: What's your ideas on how to incorporate the crew into the Rhino? I've found that to be the most frustrating part so far, so maybe we could swap notes.

That's a good one. I made an armored sentinel, and wisely left out the crewman from it. I have been toying with the idea of having that model sitting on the bench, and making another model standing over the mortar itself, but I wanted to have a finished version of the mortar before trying to work out the crew details.

I want to make a bell housing for the mortar, but I can't find anything that looks right. I'm going to go look at 120mm mortar pictures on google, because I never worked with one before. I only worked with the smaller 81mm and 60mm mortars, so I am not even sure the bigger 120's had the same bell-shaped device at the end.

Another plan for the mortar is to create the cooling fin around the base. I say "fin", singular, because it is actually one long spiralling fin that wraps around something like 80 times around the base of the tube, and helps to use convection through metal to disperse heat. I'm not quite sure how I'm gonna pull that one off, but you gave me a pretty good idea about the ribbon. Or maybe even that electrician's solder, which comes pre-wound in a tube? I'll have to check it out.

I am already in short supply of the bipods, but I may have to purchase some from a bits specially for this project, as my sprue bipod looks really lame.

The last challenge will be the actual mount. The ideal mount would be a ball-joint, much like the ankle of a sentinel. I can't quite bring myself to mangle a sentinel piece like that, though, so I'll have to find another way.