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Ok, time for another update.

Today first off is my PiP Thunderbolt #1, just been primed & washed, letting wash dry overnight before highlighting & detailing



And here's Tauros Venator #1 just assembled, letting glue dry overnight before adding more detailing including rivets:



I just need to buy a couple boxes of cadians to finish off the army up to 4000 pts along w/ the thunderbolt & venator #2 awaiting assembly as well. However, I have to flesh it out a further 1,000 pts by mid-march, not quite sure how to do that just yet. I'm thinking maybe another infantry platoon & a sky talon to transport my MM sentinels. The sky talon will be converted from a regular valk. I am considering building an arvus lighter as a cheap flying transport to deliver my suicide vets (demo charge, 2x melta, flamer, shotguns) plus I have 2 drop pod fins that would make good starts on wings for an arvus.

Today, a few shots of the thunderbolt in ground attack camo:



And the venator primed grey:

Update, first in a while.

To start is my supreme commander, Field Marshall Marco Kimball (counts-as Creed)


Next is my regular marauder bomber, freshly primed:


Finally, is my WiP scratch/bitz box built Arvus Lighter

Ok, on my way to building a 5k apocalypse ready army. Today's updates...

First is a lightning interceptor, it will be equipped w/ 6 sky strike missiles, once I find 6 missiles that are the same, to deal w/ things like storm ravens, barracudas & vendettas.


And lastly, the commandeered cargo shuttle that's had a pair of multi-lasers spot welded onto it, had fire controls hardwired to the cockpit & a grease pencil crosshairs drawn on the canopy.


I still have yet to build the second venator or the second thunderbolt, though I hope to build at least one of them tomorrow. I have another valk on order w/ my FLGS to build a sky talon to transport my MM sentinels to the rear armor of the most threatening super-heavy.

Ok, winding down the army, probably not alot left to update after this, maybe.... 2 vet squads, the painted supreme hq squad, painted tbolt #2, venator #2(if I ever build it) and then a sky talon once it's built.

This update will begin w/ my first attempt at major sculpting:
Behold, my Astropath

The torso is a complete sculpt, as are the robes, the staff is brass rod & the rest is greenstuff. He's a wip in terms of painting.

Ok, next is my supreme command hq:

L to R: Artillery Officer, Astropath, (Counts-as) Creed, Fleet Officer, Autocannon Team, Veteran Sniper, (Counts-as) Jerran Kell

Finally, a shot of the entire aerial fleet, as it stands before the sky talon:

L to R back row: Punisher Cannon Vuture, Valkyrie Transport, Vendetta, Marauder Destroyer, Rocket Pod Vulture
L to R center row: Vendetta, Valkyrie Transport, Marauder Bomber, Fighter/bomber thunderbolt (bombs)
L to R front row: Arvus Lighter, Lightning Interceptor (6x sky strike missiles), Ground Attack Thunderbolt (helffury missiles)

So, that's my Imperial Navy detachment for this army, sans one vehicle, the sky talon which I'll be converting up this coming weekend.

The list, as it stands, more or less, for an apoc rumble:

HQ
Supreme Command (this is the only codex IG entry in the list, the rest is IA8)
Creed, Kell, sniper, autocannon, camo cloaks (stealth)

Company Command
CO, grenade launcher, mortar, 2x aux grenade launchers

Ground Scanner - 2 crew

Elites
Stormtroopers - x10, 2 plasma guns, plasma pistol

2 drop sentinels - multi-meltas

Troops
Infantry Platoon
PCS - CO: aux GL & homing beacon, GL

Infantry blob - 30 men, 3 GL, 3 demo charges, 3 sgts w/ aux GL, commissar

4 Heavy Weapons Squads - 1 mortar squad, 1 heavy bolter squad, 2 missile launcher squads

Vets 1 - demolitions (melta bombs, demo charge), 2 meltas, flamer, shotguns, lascutter, vox, powerfist
Vets 2 - forward observers (stealth & beacon), 3 sniper rifles, heavy bolter, 5 aux GL, vox
Vets 3 - grenadiers, lascutter, shotguns, 2 flamers, GL, powerfist
Vets 3 - forward observers, 3 GL, ML, vox

2 Valkyries - Multi-laser, MRPs

Fast Attack
Tauros buggy - heavy flamer

2 Venators - lascannons, 2 HK missiles each, smoke launchers

2 Vendettas

1 Arvus Lighter

Heavy Support
2 Vultures - 1 w/ TL punisher cannons, 1 w/ 4x MRP

Lightning - TL LC, long-barrel AA AC, 6x sky strike missiles

Thunderbolt - 4x bombs

Thunderbolt - 4x hellfury missiles

Sky Talon - HB, 2 MRP

Apoc Datasheets -
Marauder Destroyer - 8 hellstrike missiles
Marauder bomber

Catachan Deathtrap Ambush Patrol - gives 1 free ambush strategic asset per turn as long as one of the 3 vet squads is alive, all 3 squads have infiltrate & move through cover, can trap a single terrain feature per turn that's up to 12"x12" w/in 12" of a unit from the formation.

redstar: really really really impressive work. your scratchbuild proficiency is incredible! I just need to figure out a succesful strategy for orkish ack ack!
DrG

These aren't part of my drop troops per se but they are being built as alternates for my Apoc army mainly since we frequently seem to have points discrepancy due to uneven numbers of players on each side so frequently we need to buff our points a little and these are going to be my extras.

First is my truck (counts-as chimera)






And these are my Ogryn converted from AoBR nobz & an AoBR warboss:

Today are the PiP Ogryns:
First the squad-


Then, the bone 'ead, made from an AoBR warboss-


And the Ogryns themselves, from AoBR nobz:

Last aircraft to be built - Valkyrie Sky Talon





It's primary job is to carry in my multi-melta toting sentinels & put them in the rear arc of something very nasty.

Ok, even though I wonder if anyone actually reads this, I'll still continue to update it.

Thunderbolt #2 - PiP


Sky Talon - PiP



Friday or this weekend I'll post an army-wide shot of the entire aerial & ground contingents & TRY to get it all into one big glory shot, but I'm not too sure how easily that'll go due to the amount of space it takes up.

haha I really like the "ork" orgryns! very nice conversions!
And you vehicles have a lot of character, keep it up!

Since I had a class cancelled today, thought I'd post some pics of the leman russ I converted from a chimera, card & bits for the codex version of this army for those times when I can't get an opponent's ok w/ an IA army or if I wanna play in a tourney:





I've still gotta build another of the MRAP style chimera trucks. When completed, this army will include (in all)

HQ
Supreme Command (this is the only codex IG entry in the list, the rest is IA8)
Creed, Kell, sniper, autocannon, camo cloaks (stealth)
Chimera

Company Command
CO, grenade launcher, mortar, 2x aux grenade launchers

Ground Scanner - 2 crew

Elites
Stormtroopers - x10, 2 plasma guns, plasma pistol

2 drop sentinels - multi-meltas

Sly Marbo

5 Ogryn led by Commissar w/ Power Fist
Chimera

Troops
Infantry Platoon
PCS - CO: aux GL & homing beacon, GL

Infantry blob - 30 men, 3 GL, 3 demo charges, 3 sgts w/ aux GL, commissar

4 Heavy Weapons Squads - 1 mortar squad, 1 heavy bolter squad, 2 missile launcher squads

SW Squad - 3 sniper rifles

Vets 1 - demolitions (melta bombs, demo charge), 2 meltas, flamer, shotguns, lascutter, vox, powerfist
Vets 2 - forward observers (stealth & beacon), 3 sniper rifles, heavy bolter, 5 aux GL, vox
Vets 3 - grenadiers, lascutter, shotguns, 2 flamers, GL, powerfist
Vets 3 - forward observers, 3 GL, ML, vox

2 Valkyries - Multi-laser, MRPs

1 Chimera

Fast Attack
Tauros buggy - heavy flamer

2 Venators - lascannons, 2 HK missiles each, smoke launchers

2 Vendettas

1 Arvus Lighter

Heavy Support
2 Vultures - 1 w/ TL punisher cannons, 1 w/ 4x MRP

Lightning - TL LC, long-barrel AA AC, 6x sky strike missiles

Thunderbolt - 4x bombs

Thunderbolt - 4x hellfury missiles

Sky Talon - HB, 2 MRP

Leman Russ MBT - hull LC

Marauder Destroyer - 8 hellstrike missiles

Marauder bomber

Warhound Scout Titan - dbl barrel turbo laser, vulcan mega bolter

It comes out to just over 6000 points of the Emperor's Hammer.

I like the Rus converion. You are very creative, keep it up!

Ok, even though I wonder if anyone actually reads this, I'll still continue to update it.

Well I can't speak for anyone else but I'm glued to this blog I love your stuff, mate. I was beginning to this I was the only person with a "counts-as" Elysian army using IG figures. I'm glad to find I was wrong and I stand in awe of your accomplishments. All those fliers, I'm amazed. Stunned even!
How do they fare on the field of battle? I've only had a couple of games with mine but I love 'em. I'm fortunate enough to be starting the IA8: Raid on Kastorel-Novem campaign with one of my chums at my local group and using drop troops is a refreshing change from using Raven Guard or Blood Angels.

butchyboy73 wrote:

Ok, even though I wonder if anyone actually reads this, I'll still continue to update it.

Well I can't speak for anyone else but I'm glued to this blog I love your stuff, mate. I was beginning to this I was the only person with a "counts-as" Elysian army using IG figures. I'm glad to find I was wrong and I stand in awe of your accomplishments. All those fliers, I'm amazed. Stunned even!
How do they fare on the field of battle? I've only had a couple of games with mine but I love 'em. I'm fortunate enough to be starting the IA8: Raid on Kastorel-Novem campaign with one of my chums at my local group and using drop troops is a refreshing change from using Raven Guard or Blood Angels.

Well, I haven't gotten to test them out in 6th yet tbh. In 5th the army was a blast to play, but a real challenge to play well as it's much more of a finesse army than standard IG. However, that being said, it definitely requires some balls to play as it's a very aggressive army, so you have to be willing to DS that infantry blob where it will JUST fit & hope for the best to get into good position for the 3 demo charges & grenade launchers to devastate the enemy, especially if you FRFSRF.

I actually used the entire army in a 5k apoc game where it basically kicked ass majorly. Thanks for following my blog, I'll repost my Avenger over here in a bit


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I built this for a local painting competition. The rules: buy a flyer off the shelf, build & paint it by 4 August. Well, I decided to give the damn dirty Orks a taste of their own medicine & loot a bommer. I chose build an Avenger to go with the rest of my Air Cav IG army since I already done (at least) 1 of everything in the Imperial Navy except maybe an aquilla lander and the starfighters.
Front

Left

Rear

Right

Top

Bottom

Some closeups of the gunner & pintle heavy stubber

I designed the rear cockpit to look like the gun is in an armored pivot with traverse up & down, on a track to slide left & right, thus maintaining the sealed environment in the cockpit.

Pilot & controls (I know this one's a bit fuzzy, for some reason no matter how hard I tried & adjusted the settings, it just wouldn't focus well on the control panel)

Finally, the base


The base pics didn't come out real well, but since per the fluff the Avenger's a tank killer I wanted it to look like a strafing run on a dead Red Corsairs tank, one crewman is dead, the other is pinned under some of the smoking wreckage defiantly firing his bolt pistol up at the passing aircraft.

I wanted this aircraft to feel like an SDB Dauntless or F4U Corsair with the looks and styling.

Great stuff. You're right about a drop troop army being a blast to play and they are very diffferent from the standard IG army. My experience, which as I say is limited has been against a beardy Termie DA army and they basically kicked my ass but that was as much to do with my poor appreciation of how to get the best from my army (and rotten shooting by my sentinels when I needed them to do better ). That was in 5th Ed.
I played them last week in the initail battle from Raid on Kastorel Novem and that was a blast, even though I got beat cause I was daft enough to think "Yeah, my captain and the last two members of his command squad will easily kill that Mega Dredd in close combat!!" as you have probably guessed they didn't but even at that, the rest of the army, in particular the fliers were great. I intend playing them as often as I can.
I like your take on the Avenger. Funnily enough I was thinking a similar idea of retro building an Ork Bommer into an Imperial flier as Orks ain't known for their inovation; they must have got those fliers from somewhere.

Keep up the inspirational work

butchyboy73 wrote:Great stuff. You're right about a drop troop army being a blast to play and they are very diffferent from the standard IG army. My experience, which as I say is limited has been against a beardy Termie DA army and they basically kicked my ass but that was as much to do with my poor appreciation of how to get the best from my army (and rotten shooting by my sentinels when I needed them to do better ). That was in 5th Ed.
I played them last week in the initail battle from Raid on Kastorel Novem and that was a blast, even though I got beat cause I was daft enough to think "Yeah, my captain and the last two members of his command squad will easily kill that Mega Dredd in close combat!!" as you have probably guessed they didn't but even at that, the rest of the army, in particular the fliers were great. I intend playing them as often as I can.
I like your take on the Avenger. Funnily enough I was thinking a similar idea of retro building an Ork Bommer into an Imperial flier as Orks ain't known for their inovation; they must have got those fliers from somewhere.

Keep up the inspirational work

Thanks for all the kind words! Just wait til you do the rolling road scenario. It's great! With the allies rules allowing us to ally with codex IG now we can grab some things like sentinels with heavier weapons, a CCS with an astropath & ordnance officer, dedicated assault troops & even psyker battle squads, sanctioned psykers, tanks & chimera vets.

Anecdotally, my vet squad with demolitions, 3 meltas, a lascutter & a Sgt with PF actually smote a hive tyrant & his guard in assault in which he charged me & cast whatever the hell power makes you WS1.

Love another air calv guard army. Yours is very nice looking! i was considering doing the sky talon, how did you do it?

I love it all. great work and conversions !

Thanks for all the kind words! Just wait til you do the rolling road scenario. It's great! With the allies rules allowing us to ally with codex IG now we can grab some things like sentinels with heavier weapons, a CCS with an astropath & ordnance officer, dedicated assault troops & even psyker battle squads, sanctioned psykers, tanks & chimera vets.

Anecdotally, my vet squad with demolitions, 3 meltas, a lascutter & a Sgt with PF actually smote a hive tyrant & his guard in assault in which he charged me & cast whatever the hell power makes you WS1.

Now that's what I like to hear I'm actually thinking, if I ally them with anoye it would be my Raven Guard or Blood Angels (yeah, I know; more of the same but with SM armour) I'm thinkking to tool up a vets squad with shotguns, using this idea

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/iron-hand-straken-conversion-with.html

and a heavy flamer and 2 normal flamers and using them to assault Ork boys etc, basically anything with weak armour; lob an assault grenade, toast them with the flamers and shoot them with the shotguns and then kick the crap out of anything that's left (it'll all end in tears no doubt )

I'm looking forward to the rolling road scenario. Not got Tauros's though, I'm planning on using these guys (apologies in advance if I've stuck ths link on here before )

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/viper-armoured-reconnaissance-vehicle.html

I've got 3 of them in their virgin state, just got to convert them for 2nd mission in a couple of weeks time

For the Apoc mission I'm shamelessly stripping my BA of scouts and painting them up as Raven Guard, aiming for about 400-500 points worth. Would like Scout Bikes as well but my budget doesn't stretch that far :(

What's next for you're air cav? And do you like the new fliers rules?

butchyboy73 wrote:
and a heavy flamer and 2 normal flamers and using them to assault Ork boys etc, basically anything with weak armour; lob an assault grenade, toast them with the flamers and shoot them with the shotguns and then kick the crap out of anything that's left (it'll all end in tears no doubt )

I'm looking forward to the rolling road scenario. Not got Tauros's though, I'm planning on using these guys (apologies in advance if I've stuck ths link on here before )

http://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/viper-armoured-reconnaissance-vehicle.html

I've got 3 of them in their virgin state, just got to convert them for 2nd mission in a couple of weeks time

What's next for you're air cav? And do you like the new fliers rules?

Next for my air cav is probably going to be working on the allied guard contingent as well as an allied GK contingent, depending on my mood and the opponent. I'm gradually going back, little by little, and detailing the army more and more. They've been backburnered a bit though, I confess, as I did a complete facelift on my IF & SW armies.

If the avenger is squadronable (I know that's not a word) maybe a second one of them out of a valk kit, like I saw someone else do on here. I've got a Straken model I'm working on to look more like a military officer than a jungle fighter (using that very same blog lol) and a Nork Deddog counts-as (based off an AoBR Warboss) to have his back. I'm currently building a deuce & a half style hydra to go with my deuce & a half chimeras. Beyond that, a squad of Rough Riders as a linebacker unit to keep deepstriking termies and blood angels out of my infrastructure. As for the new flier rules, I think they're great, take some planning though to get into good firing position but the sky talon & vulture having vector dancer as well as the vulture having strafing run is a HUGE boost I feel.

It's funny you mentioned Antocitis Workshop! I just bought a warthog adv that is my counts-as landspeeder storm that my stormtalon escorts for my IF army. Love their kits, very nicely detailed, priced & designed, no casting flaws & very little flash on the one I bought.

cormadepanda wrote:Love another air calv guard army. Yours is very nice looking! i was considering doing the sky talon, how did you do it?

Ah, that took some work! It wasn't an easy conversion. I built the engines, tail, wings & cabin roof as normal. That's where the standard assembly ended. I took the cockpit assembly & cut it at an angle, filled in the gap with card & cut the lower nose back to the first segment, to make room for the 2 bases I used as the chin turret. I completely covered over the WSO's cockpit & attached the forward fuselage to the former cabin roof, making sure the nose gear was level with the wing gear. Now the primary fatal flaw with the valk is she's so damn tail heavy, which would not be the case if it were real, the engines, weapon mounts & avionics would weigh considerably more than the twin boom tails, but it likes to sit on that tail just the same. So to combat this tendency, I built a pair of foldable support legs at the rear of the wing area right where the two triangular nubs are for hull attachment, these consisted of some cocktail straws, IG heavy weapons team tripods & the heavy bolter arms from the valk kit.

For the magna clamps, I attached the heavy bolter swivels to landspeeder lower sensor booms at the fore & aft of the top plate in position to mate with the roll cage of my Taros venator scratchbuild or to fit 2 sentinels comfortably apart from each other (in squatted position). I'd be happy to answer any further questions you might have, as always, thanks for looking.

Thanks for the tutorial! i will be, when i can afford it doing that conversion. I would like to see your army on the table! best of luck and keep the working going.

Lots of wonderful conversions here. Love air themed guard

Seriously dude. Where's the group shot? You are sooo f'ing lazy!

Insane amount of talent in this thread. Giving me inspiration to do something I've been dreaming about for a long time.

Good work I am seeing! scratch work and converting, odd thing is that last bomber has interesting wings!


Span 17.5inches, Length 15.5 inches
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More of my IG and ork stuff here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/3570/326377.page

I like how you turned that ork flyer into an IG aircraft! Well done!

Thanks for all the kind words guys. This last flyer just won me 1st place in our local competition today!

Ok, I've built a fleet for BFG to accompany my EDT army. Since Praxis is the moon of Tarsis Secundus which is located in Segmentum Ultima, I painted my fleet in the corresponding colors.

So I give you the Ultima Segmentum 35th CAG


L to R: Alpha Flight, Omega Flight, Wolf Pack, Castielle's Honor, Phoebus, Defiance, Hydra Flight

Alpha Flight

Lunar Cruisers - "Wrath" and "Devastator" flanking Dictator - "Resolute" with forward scout Endeavor - "Imperious"

The Wrath & Devastator are the workhorses of this fleet and have been present in every engagement in the sub-sector. The Devastator is credited with the destruction of Styx & Murder class cruisers herself after her sister ship, Wrath was crippled in the engagement. Resolute is an older ship, having seen lots of combat & her hull is pock-marked from her multiple trips through the asteroid fields surrounding Praxis. Imperious is the scout of the flight, using her superior speed to draw the enemy's fire away from the larger ships.

Omega Flight

Defiant Class - "Arrogance", Emperor Battleship - "Valiant", Exorcist Grand Cruiser "Venator"

Omega Flight is the backfield firebase of the 35th CAG. The flagship "Valiant" has served for over a millenia & was actually built over Tarsus Secundus. The Arrogance was pulled from convoy duty and used as a blockade runner to deliver the Praxis Air Corps strike forces to Tarsus Secundus right under the noses of the Iron Warriors' pickets. The newest addition to the fleet, the Venator was actually kept in storage until the invasion began, at which point many older disused ships were secreted away into the asteroid field where they were crewed by evacuees & made ready to bring the fight back to the Iron Warriors. Her primary function is support carrier, brought online to meet the traitor fleets enormous attack craft superiority. She lends her fighter and bomber wings to the fleet while retaining her heavy broadsides to defend the Valiant when the enemy get too close.

Castielle's Honor


Once the pride of the fleet, the aging Mars Class has seen alot of action recently. In fact, after the rendering of a Hades class cruiser to a drifting hulk, an AdMech explorator team recovered some sensors used to upgrade the Honor's targetting sensors, greatly increasing the efficiency of her broadsides.

Phoebus


Dominator Class Phoebus typically functions as the fleet sniper. She hangs back with Omega Flight & Castielle's Honor, using her Nova cannon as an area denial weapon & to keep enemy interceptors clear of the blockade runners ferrying supplies, men & materiel to the surface of the embattled planet.

Wolf Pack


The pickets of the fleet, they often pull double duty as "guardians" for the blockade runners, helping to screen the support craft from the enemy ordnance. The Aeternum was once the scout of the fleet but now serves as the command & control ship for the flight, providing heavier weaponry & communications for the light ships while still maintaining pace & maneuverability with them.

Hydra Flight


The eyes & ears of the CAG, the flight of light vessels lay down an efficient spread of torpedoes to eliminate inbound attack craft when they threaten the capital ships in the fleet. The Vigilant is the muscle of the group, using her refitted prow to add to the spread when needed to threaten capital ships that get too aggressive.

Defiance


An independent, forward operating cruiser, the Defiance fills the role of hunter. She lingers, watching & waiting while Alpha flight's firepower is applied to the enemy & pounces on the weakened vessel. She also employs her lances as a "can opener" against heavily armored enemy vessels either in conjunction with Alpha flight's lances or with the Wolf Pack, depending on the situation at hand.

This is all awesome. I love the whole air corps idea that the guard can pull off. I've got to know what you do to get that color scheme for your infantry.