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Your Snowcat is Amazing. Great job man.

mattstone wrote:Hey man I really like your tanks

EzeKK wrote:The tanks look very very cool and unique!

Sanchez01 wrote:Your Snowcat is Amazing. Great job man.

Thanks, guys! Now that my new paintbrushes have arrived, I am going to get back to work on the Snow Cat.

In the meantime, I finished a unit, which is exciting:



They are a little too glossy.... too much varnish, but that should dull down once it's fully dried. They look better since this morning already.

And, very exciting, my jeweler's saw arrived, so I had a go at cutting apart some more of the Gorgon crew. With the 2 I had cut apart earlier, I've now got a full squad with Vox, Sergeant, Flamer, and Mortar cut apart and based. I still need to do some resculpting on arms, but I've cut down and away the filler that was left over from the single casting, and hollowed out behind rifles and gas mask tubes with my dremel.



And this is my favorite guardsmen of the lot. With the skull at his feet and the position of his head, I thought it made for a nice "alas poor Yorick" moment.



And that's all for today. I might get some painting done on the Chimera later tonight, we'll have to see how it goes.

Cheers, all.

Love the skull staring guy.

The results of cutting up the gorgon crew is nutz.

Yeah, I was pretty pleased with how the first squad came apart. There is a lot of green stuffing left to do on them, but it's mostly just sleeves. I'm looking forward to picking some out to be the platoon command squad, and trying to work in bits from the plastic command box. We'll see how that goes!

Anyhow, over the last couple of days I've gotten a fair amount of work done on the Chimera. It's still got about 25% to go, but is nearing completion.

I somehow have managed to misplace the tank riders I converted for it, but I'm sure they'll turn up somewhere. Here are the in-progress pics without the riders:

Awesome

Finished the Chimera today. I discovered I hate painting flags, raised detail or no!

Pretty pleased with how it came out overall. I bought a Tamiya weathering kit which was used for some of the lighter rust effects. The mud is backing soda, glue, and paint mix. I really love painting vehicles, but sadly, this is the last one I have, so until I get the rest of my projects finished, it's mostly infantry now. (Which will be good motivation for me to finish these up, so I can buy me some Valkyries!)

*Photos are taking a long time to upload, they'll be here in a few minutes*

Good luck.

cool stuff , I see you like to mix it up .

slann wrote:cool stuff , I see you like to mix it up .

Thanks, Slann! It keeps me going if I can work on different armies. For a while I was just working on my Imperial Guard, and let me tell you, I got really, really tired of painting white!

Ok, re-took my Chimera photos, here is the "Snow Cat" Chimera for my Veteran Valhallan squad, "Krack 'n' Burn".









And the next projects on the work bench:

First these guys. These are the rest of my Valhallans, and are my "flex" models. Using them I can expand my valhallan squad that goes with the transport to the full 10 men required by the new Codex, and combine them with my other painted squads to either have 2 special weapon flamer squads or another 10 man veteran squad with 2 flamers and a heavy flamer, as the game demands.



I'm also still working on the Chaos army. Here is the champion of my second Knights of Khorne unit with his first layer of paint:



These guys are great. They hit so hard and are so tough, that my opponent no longer cares about winning the game - it's all about killing these knights!

This weekend was fairly productive - finished the champion in the second unit of Cheese er, Chaos Knights, got the whites layered up on the 11 remaining Valhallans that fill out my Vets and SWS as well as base flesh, and made good progress on the second unit of Marauder Horsemen. With any luck I may be able to finish the Chaos Army (what I have of it) this month.

**dies from sheer awesomeness**

I think I'm in 40k heaven! haha

All that in so little time.... good luck, may the Gods be with you...

I've got miniatures that i started 4 years ago, and haven't finished yet...

BTW can we get an updated list of what you've finished/started?

nathonicus wrote: Girls are so much better at painting when they start than guys. (I know MY first model didn't look this good!)

There's a scientific reason for that. It has to do with how males and females develop differently and at different rates in early years(it's the same reason why females tend to have much better hand writing than males do as they generally develop faster than males). I may be able to find the exact science and what not, but that tends to be the reason.

Of course, some people are also just more artistically inclined than others, as well.

ShadowAngel159 wrote:**dies from sheer awesomeness**

I think I'm in 40k heaven! haha

Too kind, too kind, but thanks!

lemon detective wrote:All that in so little time.... good luck, may the Gods be with you...

I've got miniatures that i started 4 years ago, and haven't finished yet...

BTW can we get an updated list of what you've finished/started?

I was inspired by Harry's project log on Warseer, where he is painting some ooooooold minis. It was time.

The list on the first page is updated as I complete things.

Speaking of, I've made good progress this week on two projects: the second Marauder horsemen unit and my Valhallans.



These should both be finished up tomorrow morning while the wife is at work, and full pics will be posted then.

WOTR Movement trays are so useful at times.

Everything looks great.

Holy crap, man. You are my new muse, you are my inspiration. Vous etes mon raison d'etre. o_o

person person wrote:WOTR Movement trays are so useful at times.

Everything looks great.

Thanks, Person! Yeah, I actually bought 6 of them to use for my infantry platoons (unless I'm facing a template-heavy army). I am waiting for a can of magnetic paint to arrive to see how well I can magnetize them. They only fit 8, but since my infantry squads have 8 guys plus the heavy weapon team, it's perfect.

I'm also finding it useful to organize minis as I paint them.

Epaminondas wrote:Holy crap, man. You are my new muse, you are my inspiration. Vous etes mon raison d'etre. o_o

I blush!


Anyhow, got lots done this morning, finished my valhallan troopers, which actually made me realize that I can rearrange them in a way that I can use everything by putting them in 2 veteran squads and one 4 flamer command squad.

Close up of a Melta Gunner:







Also finished the second squad of Marauder horsemen. I don't have a design for their banner yet - I'll wait to see how they do in battle, then give them fitting iconography. I'm going for quick and clean, and so far, I'm happy with how the army is going.

Champion:



Unit of 5:



So that's several units I get to mark green! Woohoo!

I lined up some of my advisors and a squad of "count as" ratlings to paint next, but I'm feeling the need for a brief break from white.... We'll see what I grab from the shelf next week!

Can't wait to see more.

Alright, so I've been getting things done lately!

Finished the snipers:



And finished my D&D character, Katinka Wolfspear, escaped slave of the incredibly evil Empire of Iuz, former gladiator and sworn foe of the Evil One!



(A little bit of shadow on the bottom, but that's ok, I just wanted to show the scars on the face! ) )

Okay, I've said this in person, but I'll say it here too: you, sir, are a master of mud, wear and tear. The snow cat and infantry look really, really good. And the snipers are brilliant. I take it the 4 standing were all from the same model, meaning that you did a head swap on one?

The WHFB stuff looks ace too, especially the resculpting to make the hounds' ears look better (well, exist).

My one complaint is that, for realism's sake, your IG should be full of shuriken catapult damage and brightlance holes But other than that, ace job!

Savnock wrote:Okay, I've said this in person, but I'll say it here too: you, sir, are a master of mud, wear and tear. The snow cat and infantry look really, really good. And the snipers are brilliant. I take it the 4 standing were all from the same model, meaning that you did a head swap on one?

The WHFB stuff looks ace too, especially the resculpting to make the hounds' ears look better (well, exist).

My one complaint is that, for realism's sake, your IG should be full of shuriken catapult damage and brightlance holes But other than that, ace job!

Thanks! I love weathering, it's probably my favorite thing to do in painting. I'd really like to do some more vehicles, but alas, I'm all done with them until I can plow through the rest of this! Actually, I did a quick check, and I am really, really close to finishing my first IG and Chaos armies.

I do like the chaos hounds much better with ears. I can't believe they left them off the kit. As for the snipers, I actually just swapped the weapons. A lot of GW figures are not individual sculpts at all, but resculpts of the same figure. The guy with the soft cap is almost identical to the guys with the fur hat - just his hat and kit on the forward sid e of his body are different.

Yeah, given their long history of fighting Eldar Pirate scum, I should probably paint littlle tiny cuts in each trooper's overcoat, to show where it was pierced through by a shuriken when the previous owner bought the farm.

I have thought about magnetizing the dozer blades on the Demolishers and building little piles of enemy-specific corpses and rubble that I could swap out on a game by game basis, but that will have to wait.

No more Warhammer minis this week, as the wife and I are heading down to play D&D with friends & fam this weekend. I did get hurried paint jobs done for the all the PCs in the party, though (aside from my wife's mini which was already painted.)

Here's our party:


Now we're off to the ruins of Castle Greyhawk, for fame, fortune, or death in battle.

I'd love to see more of the DKoK if you ever find time! It's a really great idea that i think i may steal for myself!

Epaminondas, I will post more detailed pics of the Krieg guys as I work on them further. I have cut a second squad apart, but have yet to mount them.

Ok, so I was on vacation all last week, and spent a lot of time with family and friends, and almost not time painting. :(

I have managed to get two officers done in the last couple of days:

Valhallan Officer:



A little bummed at how the picture turned out. Direct daylight + white paintjob = difficult to photograph. This is the Chenkov model, and it's actually quite decent with a little bit of work. The original model has an oversized gun and somewhat gorilla-like porportions. Trimming the arms down at the shoulder and replacing the bolt pistol with the hand of the pilot from the Macragge box set did a wonder.

Then there's my Baneblade officer, which I use as "Counts As" fleet officer:





I added the gas mask and filter pack with green stuff, and used guitar wire for the tube in the mask. I like the way this guy turned out.

After taking this picture I worked on the snow a bit more, mashing some pigments into the still-drying paste, so the snow looks less fresh than it does here. I'll show him again when I finish up the company command squad.

Love how you made Chenkov look less bulky. Agree on the gas mask turning out great.

person person wrote:Love how you made Chenkov look less bulky. Agree on the gas mask turning out great.

Thanks! It's actually a really cool model in some places; the jacket and face are quite nice. It's just that the model unaltered suffers from 3rd Edition Weapon Syndrome as well as Gorilla Arms and Ham Fists.

Well, blast and damnation, the camera's batteries died today, so no Wippies till tomorrow.

I'm getting very excited to be nearing completion of my first Imperial Guard army. I really love the Valhallan and Steel Legion models, and it was the diorama in the 3rd ed 40k rulebook of Vlahallans in white vs. Tyranids which got me excited about 40k years ago, so this army is the realization of my starting motivations for collecting 40k.

Today I didn't finish anything, but made good progress on several projects, including the 10 skeletons, the Master of Ordnance, Commisar Yarrick, and the heavy weapons team which will complete my company command. (Not an ideal build, but this army is much more about getting my crap painted anyway.)

In other news, I am having to do a little bit of a Jedi Mind Trick on myself to keep from painting my Space Hulk figures. I'm telling myself that they are "Game Pieces" not "Miniatures" so they technically don't fall under the jurisdiction of my personal challenge to paint all my minis by my Birthday.

cool guardsmen

Wow great looking mini's! Not one of them I don't like!

How did you do the snow on the gaurdsman?

Greetings!

nathonicus wrote:I have thought about magnetizing the dozer blades on the Demolishers and building little piles of enemy-specific corpses and rubble that I could swap out on a game by game basis, but that will have to wait.

WIN. That right there would win you top modeling/paint scores at pretty much any tourney you brought 'em to. Swappable kill models... awesome.