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Nice looking army! Liking the converted vet and hairy dude. Finecast models look great! I see one of the eagles heads on the banner is missing but apart from that they look very well cast.

Love the camo scheme you have got going there and the bases are very cool, keep it up!

Great delta guy, he needs some fancy optics on his rifle...

ooh - good thinking! Will check my old marine bits and see if I've got any spares!

Jamumools wrote:I spent a long time planning the colour scheme before I started - these pictures were where the inspiration came from...

I basically went with Black Hawk Down - using the Rangers' scheme for normal troops, and I will use the Delta Force scheme for the Vets.

Ah, a fellow fan, I purchased some 200 figs two years ago to make the entire battle recreated, even made humvees out of clay and choppers form tin foil.

I plan on starting a guard army with a Vietnam theme.

Barksdale wrote:Okay first I am not a geek. I'm sorry that you feel that you are.

By posting here you forfeit any right to deny that you are a geek.

Jamumools wrote:

Any suggestions on the eyes greatly appreciated - they are VERY small!!

For the eyes I'm starting with a ellipsiod black dot then I'll paint in there a white dot with carefull to not let it touch the edges of the black.
And then i'll put in the black dot for the pupil which does touch the black edge.

Now you will have and eye with eyelashes. If the last dot is to hard you can make it a small line and work from there. ( ( ) )

You can try to patch up with white on the sides. Which I don't since it's easier just to try it again from the white second step.


I just lent my gf photocamera so will try to put up some images up on monday of my catachans. You inspired me.

Really like that the chimera commander is reading the map.
Just put a chimera together

Good Luck!

Fab wrote:

Jamumools wrote:

Any suggestions on the eyes greatly appreciated - they are VERY small!!

For the eyes I'm starting with a ellipsiod black dot then I'll paint in there a white dot with carefull to not let it touch the edges of the black.
And then i'll put in the black dot for the pupil which does touch the black edge.

Now you will have and eye with eyelashes. If the last dot is to hard you can make it a small line and work from there. ( ( ) )

You can try to patch up with white on the sides. Which I don't since it's easier just to try it again from the white second step.


I just lent my gf photocamera so will try to put up some images up on monday of my catachans. You inspired me.

Really like that the chimera commander is reading the map.
Just put a chimera together

Ok, thanks. Am nearly ready for hands and faces on the next 5 so will try your method. Look forward to those Catachans!

Great start, camo looks good but 100 models? Man thats a challenge! How long have you given yourself to finish?

As long as it takes - but I reckon about a year. I'm taking a week to paint 5. Even if I have time off I don't think I can paint much more in a week as the level of detail does your head in after a bit...!

Oh ok, that sounds do'able. I thought you might have an upcoming tourney or something!

But it's still a challenge, worst part is keeping the momentum going and dealing with the same old paint job over and over again, I did my ork army in a pretty short time and found that doing about 10 orks or so, then a trukk, bike or dread really helped with the stir crazyness!

But good luck, i'll be watching!

Hey, i have a massive 200 or so IG to finish painting along with tanks and vehicles, once you get past this first hurdle, it will be smoother sailing!

Also, wonderful work on your camo idea and execution.

Very well done IG. Really like the piantjobb yu have done

Awesome work! I just started up a footslogging IG army myself. Got me 130 models to get through ._.
Half of them are going to be from the Pig Iron heavy infantry range, and the scale matches suprisingly well. If you're looking for more ways to differentiate vets, you could check out their head sprues. I'm doing an urban scheme, but I really love the camo you've got going on!

I attached a quick shot of the mostly-painted (faces need work once I get new paints) Pig Iron minis if you haven't seen any of their range

Nice work! keep it coming!

Really nice models. Nice work. Subscribed.

I'm liking where this is going!

Models coming soon - just got to finish a few bits like pouches... Then I have some questions for you lot!

Jamumools wrote:
Any suggestions on the eyes greatly appreciated - they are VERY small!!

Sorry I didn't respond to this before. I don't know how I missed your posts, but there are so many people posting these days, new stuff gets dropped to the bottom of the lists in record time!

I know they are very small, I hate them! I don't have a good method, in fact I don't do eyes well at any rate, I usually don't do them at all and just shade the heck out of the area, and hope no-one says anything!

However, I am grateful for the post by Fab, as I will most likely try his method. But just painting that ellipsiod black dot for outside of the eyes will be a problem for me.

Below is my best attempt at eyes so far, and you can hardly see them. I think I will keep it that way.

Good luck! Can't wait to see how your next batch turn out!

Nothing too exciting I'm afraid, just the other half of the squad, but it does now take me up to 10 men! Except the grenade launcher has been dropped from the list, and the list upped to 114 men. So only 105 to go...!

Following the eye comments I had a look at Fab's method but stuck with my own, just tried a bit harder! I think overall these models are slightly better than the first 5, as I am starting to get my eye back in. The bases in particular look much better, and I've dropped the static grass as it wasn't working for me.

Re my eye method - I paint a thin white line and then put a black dot in the middle. You don't want white above and below the black dot as it makes the eyes look wide open - like a crazy man (unless you actually want a crazy man of course).

Thanks for all the supporting comments - they help keep me going (especially when painting Aquilas - those damn things took about 2 hours...!)

Now, for some input from you mob. I am planning on painting the different elements of the army with different camo on their armour, guns and helmets. These models are from platoon 1, led by Al-Rahem, and the whole platoon will be the same. The veterans will have black armour etc. Creed's squad will have desert camo on the armour etc on the basis they'd get first dibs on the new equipment as it becomes available (btw I see Creed's squad as really hard, but really square, as opposed to the vets who are really hard, but also really cool). Where I need help is on the second platoon, which contains all the heavy weapons squads. There's also a second company command squad but I'd probably copy Creed's squad. Any thoughts on the camo for platoon 2?

Next up - a Sentinel!

Just noted there weren't any "eye" shots!

Love the chocolate chip camo! REALLY love the chocoloate chip camo! And the basing idea worked out very very well!

Nicely done on the 'chocolate-chip' pattern fatigues, really good paint job.

That said if you want to get the 'Blackhawk Down' look to them, save the 'chocolate-chip' pattern for the helmets and go with 'US three-color desert' for the uniforms;
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r89/Ash-1_photos/misc/c1003-l.jpg
'US woodland' for the body armour and don't bother to cam the weapons.
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r89/Ash-1_photos/misc/lrg-544-rba1.jpg


100 of these will be 'fun', I did 70+ in the three colour camo, about 40 in the woodland and the last platoon switched to MTP

Now you mention it, it does look a bit like Ben and Jerry's cookie dough!

Really nice paint job on these guys and the bases are top-notch, keep up the good work!

Your men looks abit pale.

lasgun lens are very impressive. meow~

Great painting! And the eye was mcuh cleaner and not "odd" looking at all!

I like how Lone Cat Demonstrated my point regarding white above and below the black dot making someone look crazy...!

The work on the desert camo is top notch.

You might want to rethink the woodland green camo. Having an offset color is good but it detracts from the overall effect of the desert scheme.

I'm not sure if you're military but there is a reason the troops in Somalia (and Iraq) wore mismatching camo patterns: cheapness.

The US government didn't want to make everything in two camo patterns so they only made flack vests and MOPP suits (MOPP is biological warfare suits worn during OIF I) in one color.

So, I'm not sure if you are doing the scheme because you like it or because you thought it was how combat troops are supposed to dress. In any case, I think you paint the desert camo much too well to include the green woodland pattern.

Maybe try a flat camo green armor or codex grey?

Just some thoughts from a fellow guard player.

I agree, leave off the woodland camo on the helmets, one solid color..mismatched fatigues is actually a pretty cool idea though..just not woodland, solid Green is even better than woodland. But do another test model in the woodland fatigue scheme...you might like that too.

Ok here's the deal - I'm not using the Grenade Launcher dude anyway so I'll repaint his armour and hat etc.

The reason for doing the 2 schemes was because it seemed accurate during my research. I reckoned that the real military had done it that for cheapness as you say, markoseugene. Also, I'm better at painting clothes than armour, and the camo scheme hides that to an extent.

I shall refer back to the rule of cool - i.e. if it looks cool then do it!

I shall do the hats desert camo, and do a solid colour for the guns and armour. Probably black.

Might be a couple of days though as I've got a lot on for the next few days.

Thanks for the advice though - really helpful.