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Ooo a silencer and a scope. That's a great idea, I'll do it this evening. I'll touch up his neck too.

I really, really like these! You've done a great job making them seem very characterful!

Can't wait to see some more of these!

Cheers,

Jack.

I've never been into Catachan although I like their Fluff, their proportions and heads put me right off. But I do love originalty, and these conversions a simply brillant.

One more update today - I got off work early.

Here's the sniperized version of Sly's pistol. It's a little puffy, but I'll file it smooth when the putty hardens.

And here's my first weapon team. I had to go with autocannons since I need the lascannons for a Vendetta conversion, but from what I read, AC's aren't too terrible either. I wanted something more dynamic than a static machine gun position since the squad's going to be jumping off an aircraft, so here they are, double timing into position. Sucks to be them, that gun looks heavy.



Enjoy,

Wonko

This looks really really good. Also, If you cut the stand for the autocannon up a little, you can make it look like it's been folded up, like it would be in real life. Here's a picture (a little blurry) of one which I did.

Actually I left the tripod locked out on purpose. When I was on an MG team, it was our SOP for the AG to lock the tripod out and carry it over his shoulders when hastily moving the gun. For longer movements we'd fold and stow the tripod, but I envision these guys having it all prepped and ready on the bird and running out as soon as it touches down. Of course we never jumped an autocannon mind you, but an M2 isn't too far off.

Thanks for the comments! I'm glad you dig the models.

Wonko

The flu slowed things down a bit this weekend, but here's the completed company command squad.

First, MAJ Steel. He's got a beret (who but an officer would wear it into the jungle?), a chest rack (everybody likes chest racks!), a map case, and the follow me pose that's guaranteed to inspire somebody (hopefully). Don't mind the white crust by the way, it's just smeary superglue.


Next is his faithful RTO, SGT Gibbons. We see him here trying feverishly to get the retrans antenna set up.


And here's a finalized shot of the highly motivated weapon's team, along with the Company Sharpshooter, SSG O'Hoolahan. He's making weather based scope adjustments at the moment.


Finally, we have a completed shot of the 3 advisors, the FO (artillerymen don't get names), CPT Toughnuts, the aircav guy, and SGT Snerdly, the much made fun of Catachan air traffic controller (hey, somebody's got to do it).


Next up, painting the squad + Marbo. I've got a trio of Valkyries on the way as we speak, so this week I should be able to begin the impossibly long task of converting and painting them.

Let me know what you think!

Wonko

the last guy on the far right all i have to say is this "Fear his carrots of DOOOM!!!"
over all i love this blog well done except the carrot dude who is just awesome because someone need to garden for the Imperial Guard
And the Emperor said "Eat your vegetables kids"

Very well done! I love the character, and not just the rank and file look and feel (even among other Catachan armies).

I'm curious though, how did you make the berets and floppy hats? I've got a kill team (well I can't call it that anymore, thanks 5thed) based around modern soldiers and I need some good headgear for them.

Love it! Keep it up!

Rico.

The berets and hats are just blobs of green stuff. They're shaped (crudely!) with a sculpting tool, then painted. I wish I could say my method was way more sophisticated, but there it is.

Wonko

Fair nuff, methinks I'll make some berets then. thanks!

Rico.

Great stuff i normally hate catachans but with the addition of hats and facial hair they look great.

Hey Wonko - what shades of green are you using for your paintjobs?

lmao at the air traffic controller! What's that on his face?

infilTRAITOR wrote:lmao at the air traffic controller! What's that on his face?

It would appear to be a very cultivated beard methinks.

Rico.

Gyah, I've been off the net for a bit.

First, the green is a base of Army issue olive drab spray paint, highlighted with Catachan green, and touched up with 50/50 Catachan/goblin. The valk gets a final highlight of a little goblin straight for contrast.

Yes, the air traffic controller is sporting a sweet beard - it'll look better with some paint on it, trust me. Right now it looks like his chin is fighting off a racoon.

Alright, I'm still painting the command squad, because I got a bit side tracked when the new Valks came in. Here's the first one, ready for a coat of spray paint. The 2 guys in the back are obviously Catachan'd up, as are the pilot and the commander. One of the gunners is taking it easy for a bit - hey, when you're cool enough to wear aviators you can do that. The other guy is reloading - I've still got to add a bit of GS to his right hand to connect it to the gun.

The bird itself (a.k.a. "the express elevator to hell") is going to be a Vendetta, as you can see by the first TL LC on either side of the cockpit. The wing mounted LC's will be from the HW sprue.






I should get the cmd squad finished in a few days, and the Vendetta will at least get its base coat tomorrow.

Let me know what you think!

Wonko

Cool - thanks for the painting info. Your door gunners make me think of Full Metal Jacket:

"How can you shoot women or children?"
"Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much!"

good stuff man. i like the guys placing mines

Alright, it's been a week, but I've got the command squad and Marbo finished now. Here are the pics:





As you can see, the carrot guy ended up getting signaling beacons instead of carrots (as was suggested), but I think the command squad needs an LZ marker more than a gardener. The valkyrie is almost finished, I should have pics up in a few days.

One thing I'm going to add to the command squad sooner or later is a set of the LZ stuff from Forgeworld's drop troop stuff. They've got a great beacon on there that I'd like to work in. For now though, 2 squads and 4 valks to go!

Let me know what you think.

Wonko

Jealous... And makes me what to do you one better.

Good Stuff man.

Great work, can't wait for more photo's.

Excellent work (Smithers)! I too can't wait for more pictures! I was a little wary of Marbo at first, but the way you painted him just makes him look awesome. I love his pistol!

Rico.

Alright, so the Vendetta is finished up. I decided to change the ship's name to "The Flying Taco". I'll probably do one of the later birds up as "The Express Elevator to Hell", but the taco image just looked to awesome to pass up. As you can see, it's only got 1 TL LC, the others are just LC's, but I'd like to think that won't be a big deal - I can't imagine it confusing anyone. The conversion work involved was simple enough - crew swaps w/ Catachan bits. The paint job is in line with the rest of the Company's birds - stylized red devil's wings on a Catachan green base.







The next bird's going to be the command ship, so it'll have a sound broadcast built in so the boys can blast music while assaulting the objective. As Apocalypse Now demonstrated, Wagner scares the hell out of Charlie (or the eldar, or whomever).

Let me know what you think!

Wonko

TACOS RULE!

I would give you an award simply for the name of the Valk but overall it's totally kickin'

If I could take a week of vacation, and spend $500 on GW stuff, I would be doing the same thing.

Everything looks good.

This really makes me want to add a few catchans to my army now. I've considered mixing up sprues for a while now.

This is probably my favorite blog on dakka.
I love everything you're doing here, and its giving me tonnes of ideas for my air cav army!

I'm a huge apocolypse now fan as well, and I've been trying to figure out ways to get surfboards on the running boards of my valks. I have some sculpted out of plasticard, but mounting them is difficult. I love the idea of the speaker system though!

Keep it up man!

Awesome stuff I especially like the advisors consider those ideas stolen!

hey your sly marbo reminds me of the black ninja guy of GI joe and i love a catachan army, not alot of people do them

i love your work and the effort you put in to individually change each model to the respectful standard the catachans truly needed.

quick question though, which models do you use for the arms etc? i dislike the troops but the command squad is great for conversions, so do you just use the extra command squad bits and mix it with the torso/legs of the normal troops?

goodluck with the project