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GREAT GONADS!

Sweet gaurd mate! I realy like how your army has difrent camo schemes

Flinty wrote:The winter theme is an amazingly good effect.

Your snow needs footprints though

D'oh!! Ach, crivens!! You're correct. That would have been a nice touch, but at this point it isn't going to happen. I put a blob of clay on the base and pushed a model into it. Primed white, than a watered down ghost gray (very light blue/gray), a layer of woodland scenics snow, drybrush white. I think it creates a nice little effect.

bigmek35 wrote:GREAT GONADS!

Sweet gaurd mate! I realy like how your army has difrent camo schemes

Thanks, they helped produce two healthy sons.
I don't think it would have been possible to finish this army without the different schemes. some people are able to paint their guard armies in a more "traditional" manner, but I don't know how they do it.

Take care

Great stuff. I especially like the original, urban camo scheme. Makes them look like a regiment of Guardsmen from an Ashworld.

Like the enclosed faces on all the models, makes them stand out along with the very effective camo. How did you decide on the special weapons for the different environments, or did you just do it?:L
interesting to know?

Hi All,

stonned_astartes wrote:Like the enclosed faces on all the models, makes them stand out along with the very effective camo. How did you decide on the special weapons for the different environments, or did you just do it?:L
interesting to know?

Thanks.

Decision process regarding special weapons went something alsong these lines.
Meltagun for short ranged fighting of an urban environment (along with the utility of an autocannon).
Grenade Launcher because it went with missile launcher for desert and I had many, many grenade launcher.
Plasmagun to warm things up in the cold
So basically what I thought would be good fits of special and heavy weapons and not some grand strategy.

Here are some WIP pics of an infantry squad. Pretty much the only thing left is to paint the metal parts .... erm ... metal.

Thanks and take care

Hi all,

I finally made some time to take pics of the finished winter squads.

This brings the total points up 1,850. I included a couple of pics of the entire army.

I have three heavy weapons squads in the works along with three vendettas. The movement trays should be done in time for 40 Hours of 40k @ Maplewood Hobby

Thanks and take care

Nice work.

Really nice work! Is this Cadia's first neapolitan regiment? (fights over who is the chocolate?)

Hi all

murdog wrote:Nice work.

Thanks

Flinty wrote:Really nice work! Is this Cadia's first neapolitan regiment? (fights over who is the chocolate?)

Thanks. Silly goose, everyone knows there is no chocolate in the 41st millenium (at least according to GW)


I had 3 heavy weapons teams leftover and rather than let them sit in a box I thought "what the heck why not paint up some mortar squads".

Here are some WIP pics of 9 mortar teams, yes 9 teams

The first pics were taken before tonight's painting session. I worked on winter squads and "before and after" pics are towards the end.

Thanks and take care

Coming along nicely man, keep it up!

Part of me thinks the seperate camo types look silly, Part of me thinks the seperate base types look really silly, Part of me thinks the Munitorium screwing up would easily explain it, Part of me knows exactly why you did it, part of me thinks why not turn it into 3 seperate armies. All of me thinks this looks great!
I'm really impressed by the painting especially visors and the varied heads look great. For motivation when doing a big horde I find taking your time, having deadlines and having lots of different projects on the go at once works wonders. To be honest I'm almost planning to do the same thing in reverse having lots of different regiments on the same base style.

stonned_astartes wrote:Coming along nicely man, keep it up!

Thanks. Not much left now

Llamahead wrote:Part of me thinks the seperate camo types look silly, Part of me thinks the seperate base types look really silly, Part of me thinks the Munitorium screwing up would easily explain it, Part of me knows exactly why you did it, part of me thinks why not turn it into 3 seperate armies. All of me thinks this looks great!
I'm really impressed by the painting especially visors and the varied heads look great. For motivation when doing a big horde I find taking your time, having deadlines and having lots of different projects on the go at once works wonders. To be honest I'm almost planning to do the same thing in reverse having lots of different regiments on the same base style.

Thanks. Painting 100+ guardsmen the same colors was NOT an option. I can barely make it through a space marine army
If any one style gets made into it's own army it will be the desert style (my favorite), but don't hold your breath.

I've been following your chaos beastmen and islandwalla blogs and both are sweet

Totally agree with your assessment of completing horde armies. I do have this little project going as well: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/353140.page


I played four games last weekend during 40 hours of 40k at Maplewood Hobby (New Jersey) and found out a few things about the army. They had a 2000 point tourney as part of the event.
1. Sentinel squads are really, really bad. Time to get the Vendettas ready to go.
2. Mortars are not particularly effective, but fun to use. They stay.
3. The set-up trays I made are much to big.
4. First rank fire is awesome.

On to some pics. The following pics show the WIPs of the mortar teams.

Oh man how can you paint 40 Guardsmen all the same scheme?! It took all of my willpower to finish a 6-man Elysian squad today.

Looks really classy though. The different schemes are nifty - I might have to steal the idea!

loving this

Hi all,

Joshh wrote:Oh man how can you paint 40 Guardsmen all the same scheme?! The different schemes are nifty - I might have to steal the idea!

I try to finish them as quickly as possible. Tabletop quality is good enough for me (for this army). Remember, the best ideas are stolen ideas

Sageheart wrote:loving this

Thanks!

At Mechanicon 2010 I won two Eldar vehicles which I promptly traded for a Valkeryie. I picked up a couple of more a little while ago. I've wanted to put these together for a few months and after 40 hours of 40k I found much needed motivation after discovering how bad sentinel squadrons really are. Here are some WIP of the winter Vendetta.

Thanks and take care

Sexy camo pattern! How'd you get it to flow over the tops of the wings and such?

Still brilliant, lovein' the mortars!

The Vendetta looks good in the winter scheme. The camo looks a bit fuzzy around the edges though. Will you be touching up the pattern or was that planned?

Hi all,

I took more time off from painting than I intended and now it is time to play catch-up.

After reworking the army list and removing all Sentinels I was able to add three heavy weapons squads, one Valkyrie, one Valkyrie with rocket pods, and one Vendetta. The heavy weapons squads are already done and the vendetta is partially complete. Time to get cracking on the Valkyries!

The bases are complete. I used jewelry hooks and 5/32" rod to attach the flyers to the bases.

Washes were a bit more tricky than anticipated, but after a few attempts I found something acceptable.

Next up, metal bits.

Thanks and take care

the desert valkyrie is made of win well done !

Good god man these are beautiful! Makes me want to work on my elysians. . .

OMG the camo design looks amazing.

Really impressive work

Hi all,

dakkagrot187 wrote:the desert valkyrie is made of win well done !

Thanks. The desert style is my favorite.

Lysenis wrote:Good god man these are beautiful! Makes me want to work on my elysians. . .

shingouki wrote:OMG the camo design looks amazing.

Thank you

I started dark lining the desert valkyrie. I will be inking the "tracks" with a dark brown ink. The following pictures show the difference between lined and unlined sections. The lining doesn't translate well to photos, but it makes the model pop a wee bit more.

Thanks and take care.

More awesomesauce! I really like the winter valkyrie and the firey cockpit. Nice work as always

Hi all,

Flinty wrote:The Vendetta looks good in the winter scheme. The camo looks a bit fuzzy around the edges though. Will you be touching up the pattern or was that planned?

Ach, crivens I dinna anser tha one. It was not planned. I tried the same style as the others, but it looked horrible with the winter colors. Call this a happy accident. It wan't planned but I like the results.

Flinty wrote:More awesomesauce! I really like the winter valkyrie and the firey cockpit. Nice work as always

Thanks!

The flyers are almost done. Just waiting for some good weather to matte coat the flyers and than gloss varnish the cockpit windows and sensors.

The following pics are some WIPS.

Thanks and take care

Hi all,

The Mechanicon is in three weeks and the flyers are now complete!

There may be time to sneak in a game or two before the big event.

I'll post some event coverage pics.

Call this army done ... for now.

Thanks and take care

good luck and great job on the flyers

zOMFG!!!!

Really awesome mate, and puts my target of 5 guardsmen a week for the next year to shame!