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Beautiful work, especially fond of the commander and colour sergeant. It's the little details that bring out the models.

Wow your work is truley stunning

The Lion definitely makes an awful lot of sense a Fox is far to obvious as is a Rat.....I'd also be inclined to suggest a fun alien creature based on what you feel you can paint. A serpent would be pretty simple and a Scorpion rather cool. For a Prussian style the Aquila makes a lot of sense to me!....Weathered or not isn't a matter of laziness its a matter of personal preferrence. You actually put a lot more of time into your models than I do even though mine are weathered.

Hm, I probably would have tried some weathering allready if I didn't miss my fave colour of all time. The backdrop is that I hadn't picked up the brush for over a year since... oh, a month or so ago. When I got the painting-groove back and looked over what needed to be done and what I had waiting to be painted, I noticed with little surprised that my whole assortment of paints were dried out. Like, completely. They looked like dry-cracked mud flats. Rather depressing really So what I gone and had to do was start buying all new paints. All of them. I'm pacing myself, and I still haven't had need for a yellow spectrum (Garland was painted before my hiatus) or my favorite colour; Bubonic Brown. With that one, I think I'm gonna try and make some dust-ish weathering.

Anyway, gonna get those paints and then start working on the tank heraldic. I found a few lion profiles on the net that I'm basing the heraldry on and which I've been practising on paper before I commit them to the tank. The company standard flag still intimidates me however, with it's folds. Anyone have any tips on putting freehand imagery on such a difficult surface?

I'm going to be moving this week, so it's unlikely I'll have much time getting you fellas updates. But bear with me, after the move I got approximately three weeks free to model and paint. Then I'll offer you up a whole lot more stuff[tm]. If not before, I'll start working on above projects concerning the tank and standard. I also have my whole squad of vets to prime and paint once I've moved. And I'm working on modelling my Penal Legionaires which'll be badass Catachan's with shaved heads and explosive collars.

Oh, wait. I do have something new to post. The only thing I've had primed recently was a heavy weapons squad. So, to keep up my momentum, I have gotten to painting them. I finished the first Heavy Bolter yesterday. What follows now is an Autocannon and another Heavy Bolter.

All your work looks great!

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So, given this, any ideas on heraldry? Desert, city-fighters. My spontaneous thought was lion-motifs. A pride of desert lions would prolly fit into their iconography well. Even if it's just the mascot of this company. It'd also fit well with what I've imagined'd be their standard tactic. A firing base with an armored fist platoon escorted by a hellhound squad going around the flank to disrupt the enemy lines. Sorta similar to how a pride of lions hunt. The regal stature of lions'd also fit with that... almost Prussian arrogance that at least the commander exhumes.

If you want a nice way of filling in those blank spots (in addition to unit heraldry) you could also add in vehicle name, divisional/campaign markings and tactical insignia.

I came up with some half-assed background for my regiment that lets me steal modern UK unit markings (Example, Russ Resolve and chums)

St Andrew's cross is regimental (other parts of the division use St George's cross), Number is unit marking and the blue and yellow thing is the tactical flash of an Edinburgh armoured regiment.

Okay... so, I've been working on my Chimera some more to try and give it a bit more life. And I really need your help with a few items.

First off, my biggest concern: I added yellow to the tank, which will be this company's... flag colour so to speak. Garland's banner is yellow, and I think it serves the colour-scheme well to stand out but not clash. But when I had painted the tank without any heraldry, just with the base of yellow, it struck me how similar the colour-scheme became the Space Wolves Chapter. I'm still convinced yellow is the way to go with my Company, and I took a few small meassures to distinguish my Chimera from the SW-scheme. But I need to know what you think, or if you have any ideas of what more I can do. Mainly, what I did was to add just a few stripes of white and red on the turret to break it apart from the two-colour monotomy.

Second; the heraldry. Painted on the right side of the tank on the yellow field is a design I've played with this weekend after Llamahead's suggestion. I like how it turned out on the tank ,but again. With the yellow and grey, it's very similar to the SW Chapter's symbol of a wolf. Ideas, thoughts?

I'm not sure I want to change anything fundamental like the flag-colour or the heraldry itself... but rather ways to offset the tank from SW. Or am I largly imagining things? Is it not as big a deal as I concider it? I know, the most important thing is for me to be comfortable with my minis, but please, some feedback on my concerns.

PS. I'm gonna add some weathering and scrapes too, but not too much. Just a bit of dusting along the tracks and some chips to make the hull look like actual metal.


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PSS: Should I try and replicate the heraldry on the left side aswell? Should it be mirrored (facing forward) or the same profile? Should I put something on the yellow right above the suspension?

I don't think it links into the Wolves that much. They use quite a muted palette for thier yellows, the vibrancy of yours is a nice contrast. If you're not happy though, maybe a little extra deep (scab/etc) red on some little raised details? Maybe the sides of the track guards?

And once again I got stuck up late, finishing some paintjob. But this tuesday night it wasn't just any paintjob. I overtook my dreaded project of painting the Company Standard so that Garland won't have to lug around a single-coloured rag anymore. I ran with a lion-motif I found on the net and coloured it a bit. I'm very pleased with the result myself, but I'm not sure the flag is quite finished. I'm concidering throwing in some red and gold in there to give it some... legitimacy, y'know. The two options I'm currently concidering is either 1; Painting a red cross behind the lion with golden border or 2; Painting a red rim around the flag with a golden inner border. I'm kinda leaning towards the diagonal cross. Thoughts?

That's some great motif work right there.
Personally, I like the idea of a bordered flag, but up to you good sir.

Disjointed Entity wrote:That's some great motif work right there.
Personally, I like the idea of a bordered flag, but up to you good sir.

Thanks man! Yeah, I don't know what but I want something more on there. Red and gold I think would work... maybe if I do borders try to make some inscribing work like on the Vet Sergeant's knife holster on the red? I don't know, but something to make the banner more... regal.

It looks brilliant and I'm delighted to give you encouragement and impetus I'd trust your instincts and go with the diagonal cross if thats what you reckon would look best.

Llamahead wrote:It looks brilliant and I'm delighted to give you encouragement and impetus I'd trust your instincts and go with the diagonal cross if thats what you reckon would look best.

I'm real happy to get all the feedback from actual hobbyists. Thanks!

Yeah, as said, leaning towards diagonal cross with golden trim. I'm no fan of walling off the white completely from the yellow. And making it a straight cross like my nations flag for example makes it look too much like a regional flag here abouts that I don't want to associate my army to

I hear what you're saying. Desiging flag schemes is a pain. Maybe quater it but diagonally? Like :

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Kinda. If I could draw on this thing it would help.

I like the banner bearer, is the model based on the grizmund model that forgeworld does?

Young_Logan wrote:I like the banner bearer, is the model based on the grizmund model that forgeworld does?

Yeah, that's his name. As said, I saw in some... feature army in a White Dwarf or... something and really liked him. Then I spottred him on Forge World while browsing for ways to make my army characters stand out, and I just got hooked on him. Of course, it wasn't untill I had painted most of him that I came to the realisation that the banner itself was a bitch to get a picture on


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Oh, Logan, you as a Space Wolf:er, whatcha think about my concerns about the tank (that it might look a bit too Space Wolfy)?

Allright, beside moving and aclimatizing myself to my new abode, I've been working on Garland's standard. It's been a ride of experimentations, do-overs, paint-overs and cursing. But I think I've managed to get into a moderately finished state. 'Lo and behold. Also, trying out a new camera that can-ish take pics without the flash to give you a better look at how the colours naturally look.

Looking nice!

Looking extremely nice the red gives it that contrast and really draws the eye!

Okay, finally something new. Between moving and... erm... well, Red Dead Redemption, I haven't done AS MUCH as I have done previously in April. But I've now finally painted my platoon command and have my first platoon at my command. Once I have a sturdy amount of infantry, this platoon (the 71st) will get reinforcements with another squad and some specialists like snipers, but for now it's done. I've also done some work on my Chimera (again ) for another try. I kinda like it, even though I'm sure I'll add some more markings as I go. I've wanted to add kill markings, but I'd rather do that after a few games and actual kills. Gives it more life than simply racking up any number I wish

Here's another detail of my the 71st platoon command with it's hip-firing bolter captain and his psycho, plasma totting madmen. The platoon is designed to be a firing line. A sturdy, objective capping stronghold with heavy weapons and firepower. Well, as much firepower as Guardsmen can bring to bear. I'll also add a sniper squad, another infantry squad and at least one more heavy weapon squad in due time. Thus, I wanted the command to reflect this and forgo the standard close combat weapons setup. The Catachan Captain in the Codex inspired me to make a bolter-wielding captain, and with some greenstuff and a chopped up flamer arm, the captain got his bolter.

Nice army you got there, I especially like the commander, though I think a desert-color chimera fits the theme better, but gray's fine too.

Loving it

Bolter captian looks great, I so want to do that now!

I know it's been a while since you post pictures of him, but did you convert the commander or is he just a beautifully painted model?
btw i LOVE your guard

Oh, his head is from an SM-sprue (a bit whittled down to fit) and his hair is greenstuff (mostly to cover up said whittling) But yes, I am rather proud of him.

I got the desire to have a commander with one of those coats since I saw the current Creed-model. But I didn't want that exact model... partly due to it being so standard fair, partly due to his wargear not being very convertable. So when I spotted the FW Krieg commander, I knew I had a good base for conversion.

As a non-pic update; I'll soon be posting my second platoon command squad, and I've started working on my Vets. May upload them later today. I've got one awesome powersword/chainsword combo-weapon, a cigar-smoking firebat and my first shotgunner vet in store in particular

Allright, it's time for some updates. I've still not learnt how to pace text and pics, so here I go with a descript

First off, I finished off my second Command Platoon, the command that will be leading my Armoured Fist platoon. The commander has a powersword/chainsword that I thought was an awesome idea. I cut out a chainsword "blade" from a chainsword hilt to fit a powersword in there. When I just laid the powersword blade over the chainsword to see if the length and thickness was good, the teeth of the chainsword showed in the powersword gap (y'know, the space between the crossguard and the actual blade. The blade was from the catachans, and I had cut away the serated teeth on that). From that visage I imagined a chainsword ending in a powersword edge. Just had to go with it, y'know Otherwise, the captain is pretty much tank commander parts.

Most of the squad members were from my first draft 710 command squad, so not much there to comment on. The flamer is the newest addition there though, that I painted just last week and assembled from the command squad sprue. Awesome cigar-totting flamer. An homage either to Starcraft's Firebat marines, or one other cultural reference that is elsewhere also represented in my army (I've still not heard anyone catching up on it ), but I just call him "the firebat" or quote "Need a light?" every time I refer to him.

And lastly, I've begun with my Vets. They've been assembled and converted for ages, but I've just now gotten the courage to paint them. I still have 8 very individual fellas left of them, and I'm gonna thuroughly enjoy painting the lot. The first up is a pretty standard soldier from the squad with a shotgun. Also he has a sort of HUD-display on his helmet that I was a bit torn about how to paint (if I should add a crosshair or any other blinkies), but I decided just to go with a blue glow-ish thing. It'll hopefully be seperated from the glasses I'll do on a few other Vets. It was also kinda interesting to finally get to paint the FW Cadian shotguns and see what's what on them.

PS: I love Badab Black for metal surfaces. Just an fyi

Nice update! but I think the display on the veterans hemtet should be painted in a diferent colour to stand out more maybe?? It's looking very similar to the colour of the armour as it is now imho.

Good so far keep it up!