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As far as tanks and other military hardware painted white in the U.N way, is completely off the table! Reasons:

1) White is a W**K colour to try and paint perfect. Especially on such a large canvass!

2) These would stand out more than the little blue helmets.

3) See the 2 above, then any questions that follow consult again the first 2!

On a serious note though, I do like the idea - it is unique and, at this time I think I will stick with blue helmets! Sorry guys its the way I roll That said however I will probably get to painting the 40th helmet and think 'ah crap blue is bad' And then consult you guys again for colour input lol at which point you all say ''bugger off'' and ''we told you so''. HAPPY DAYS!

Also I've attached a pic just to keep the picture people happy It's of the regiment that is assembled so far. Still to assemble and put on the table is:

1x Cadian Command squad box - I have no clue what I will do with these at the mo. (IDEA's!)

1x Catachan Command squad box - I have no clue what I will do with these at the mo. (IDEA's!)

1x Cadian Shock Troops box - possibly acting as Vets!

2x Catachan Jungle Fighters box

1x Hellhound

1x Basilisk

1x Leman Russ

2x Manticore/Deathstrike

Thats it I think at the moment. Thanks for reading.

Regards

Love the ATV rough riders ( I agree the hun type horse riders suck, its a real trial to a decent alternative)

I've also used the pigiron gasmask heads they truly add flavour to the cadian bodies and I think they fit better than the hydrochephalic heads they come with

Good luck with the army I'll keep watching if only to see if you keep the blue helmets

Perhaps these guys home planet was settled in the Dark Age of Technology during the Stella Exodus...by the United Nations...and now the colours have become a tradition?

Just my 2p worth.

Nice painting!

Yea what manoknok said

Thanks for the painting praise

Can you replace ratlings for normal snipers or is this a no-no? Just I cant stand hobbit snipers and if I wanted hobbits I would paint LoTR!!

Regards

Yeah, white tanks should do part of the trick as well!!!

I didn't see fi you posted before, but how'd you do that ATV?

GES - The ATV is made from 2 Space Marine Scout Bikes and some spare sprue for axels and support struts, as well as some cotton bud plastics for the exhaust. Any more info needed just give me a shout

Regards

Great start I really like the pig iron heads, and once you get the troops all finished I think the blue helmets will look fine. I don't think I have seen a U.N. styled force yet so I think you might have an original idea. Can't wait to see more!

Stretch - Thanks for the comments I hope you stick around to see more.

Oh and guys thanks for the C&C so far, I have the first 10 men near completion and I should have pics up by nightfall.

Stay tuned... Oh and white tanks for realism will have to happen I guess - OUCH!

Regards

I'm pretty sure that as long as you tell your opponent what a particular model represents and that it makes sense, ie a sniper has a sniper rifle not a pistol, you should be fine

these are my ratlings

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/98054-bhrat1.html

and people seem to like em

Blackhand - The term Ratlings is used to its full meaning by your unit, I like

Was doing a bit of digging earlier and to my knowledge U.N vehicles are not always white. Found a couple of pics from Somalia where they are camo'd up completely Maybe one does not need to change the colour of one's nicely done Chimera after all

Regards

Everything looks great! As for the ratlings, I agreee that the hobbits dont really do it for me. What about some remote controlled vehicles? Like the small units used by the military today? Like this...


Maybe get ahold of some EPIC scale land raiders for the treads and such?

To Blue or not to Blue?

This is the ultimate question!!

So here I will include a WIP of a Blue Helmed Guardsman and a Green Helmed Guardsman, all you guys have to do is choose the best and give me your reason!

Regards

In my opinion I think you should keep the blue but put some more blue on his armor like a vertical stripe down his arm plate

Sorry man, I like the contrast of a different helmet colour but the blue is so not grimdark it is kinda jarring

but hell those pigiron heas are cool no matter what colour!

Hey why not combine the two? Like some blue stripes on the shoulder pads for some relief, while eeping everything else green.

LOL! OK so I have decided to go for green as sleeping on it last night made me realise how crap blue is! Even when washed with badab black to tone vibrancy down to 40k level!!!

So the result is - Blue helms lasted 2 days! I finished my first Guardsman fully yesterday, all thats left to do is base him - but this will be done when I base the whole squad!

Thanks for input guys, but the main reason behind the colour change was because the girlfriend said the blue is poncey! Which was rich coming from a cupcake loving pink minded woman! Still HAPPY DAYS!

Regards

Looks nice im guessing they are a cadian regiment?

Not at all! Over the course of the next few days I'm going to come up with some fluff for these guys!

The regiment will consist of both Cadian & Catachan models. So the fluff may be that the both are fighting together on some backwater, far off chaos infested planet! Or I may think about making a completely new regiment based off these 2 sets of models!

Regards

Do you need a planet name and sector?

I'm open to suggestions.

Regards

If you want you can base the regiment in my system of solo'cla and have the planet sovrost if you want.


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Pm me if your interested

Explain the background of the planet?

Regards

Ive sent the info to you by PM

Thanks indiana. Ill looksie now

The background will need more info and stuff. Ive got some more here: Weather conditions: sun, rain and wind.

Well the way I kinda want to go fluff wise with these guys is something along these lines:

They are 2 seperate forces - Catachan and Cadian that were sent to free a world from chaos infestation. After 12 long years at war and becoming victorius, both regiments man power stood at a shocking low. So - as with what sometimes happens in the imperium, the 2 regiments (or what was left of them) remained on the planet to defend it and regain their numbers by recruiting from the planets population. As this planet now becomes that regiments own, and the officers from the regiments become noble's.

I guess thats just kind of rough typings though!! We shall develope it further soon-ish!!

Regards

Well you can use the planet but say it doesn't have a millitary and the cadians and catachans were sent there.

tony_nids_10 wrote:

theses are good called SWORDS can have any weapon from machine guns to .50 cal snipers so ya would work( thank you future weapons show)
love the look of you guys

Thanks for the ideas and praise . I got 5 Guardsmen finished today with the other 5 just needing Hard Edge HL, then happy days. All to do then is base them... Hmmmm, now how to go about getting the perfect basing!

Pics to follow tomorrow, as I am now sitting down to a nice alcoholic beverage and takeaway

Regards