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The sentinel, i agree is really good, and the pose just adds to the overall epicness. The paint scheme is awesome along with the snow on the bases, the vendetta is very impressive, and honestly, i am getting very jealous. :0

The vendetta is really well done!

Love the work you did man. That is inspiring I am starting my imperial guard army very soon and want to do some sort of snow camo. So in other words consider your idea stolen lol

Finished my first IG finecast today, a commisar -





I've also just finished building my FW manticore and LR Executioner (turret fully magnetised) and will have pictures up when they're painted...



The base to the Vendetta is now done, I used water effects to give it the look of flying over a frozen lake, I sort of made it up as I went along but it's turned out ok, will have pictures of that shortly.


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Here's the pictures of the vendetta base. Done by painting the base a varied amount of blues, then water effects with a blue tint and some snow inside. Then snow ontop!

Please let me know your thoughts!

The vendetta base looks terrific. And what a difference it makes. Commissar looks really good. Like how you've stuck to a limited palette, works really well. Like the white pistol too. Looking forward to seeing this army growing.

And since your bases are so good, I have a small suggestion for you if you ever fancy a break from painting your guardsmen. A display board.

I really like your digital camo! Thats really well done, i like how random the pattern feels. Also the color scheme is great.

Cheers

Really Nice!!

I like your digital effect on the Valk...at first i thought you used blue painters tape, but then i read more and saw your technique..very cool.
The Ice base is really nice too.
I too would be honored to battle against your boys..it just so happens my sons Fire Hawks are snow based as well!!

Keep up the great work!!

Quite a spectacular guard army! I love it

First time I've seen digital camo on a 40k army.
This is by far my favourite of the IG armies I've seen so far! Just gorgeous work, even down to the base of the Vendetta.
Made me want to start an IG detachment.

Hope to see more of your work soon!

Sweet stuff now I to can do cool camo patterns !

Not much to critique here, you did a great job.

Even without an explanation, your theme is clear, the painting is contextual and well executed, edge highlights and weathering aren't overdone and really add to the overall look of the army.

All I could have as criticism is that these gorgeous models should really be on a custom display board, winter-themed of course...

Thanks for an excellent showcase.

That has to be the first time I have seen a non- Cadian 8th style colour scheme on Cadians that I actually like. Kudos to you.

Ooh... beautiful digital camo.

Thanks again everyone for the really kind comments! I'd love to do a display board, might even do a full gaming board, will see how I can do with time, I'm away working again in the USA this time so short on painting and modelling time.

I've just ordered some forgeworld infantry conversion kits, and a leman Russ turret conversion, so will have those done as soon as I can.

This project has all of a sudden turned crazy. I got a hellhound and vendetta for Christmas. Then 3 days later the guy who owns my LGS decided he needed to get rid of his 10 year collection of guard - mostly not built. Probably about 10,000 points worth atleast, but havnt had a chance to check it all properly. There's an unbuilt vendetta, 2 chimeras, 12 leman russ's about 20 boxes of heavy weapons teams, 5 boxes of command squads, and atleast 200 infantry, but probably more!

I think I'm going to be busy!!

Gorgeous base on the vendetta. Really original. Commissar looks great too.

looking great! love the stencil sprayed camo . well executed . keep us updated .

I really like this!!!

Thanks again everyone!

Can I request a Mod move this to P&M Blogs?

I've got loads of stuff to do and will be best in there as I put up pictures of conversions and paint jobs as I go!

Thanks.


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Ok, so I'm just finishing up another 10 infrantry, so have about 25 troops painted now.

These are now primed and ready to go -



Over the weekend I've taken advantage of the spares I have and a few FW bits to make my own Marbo, please let me know what you think!

Very nice, always love seeing snow themed army.

Great paint job!

Got my new airbrush through today (Badger Patriot 105) and it's much better than the cheap ones I've been using.

Going to try and start airbrushing the white on my infantry is it's very time consuming at the moment.

Anyway, here's the results of todays airbrushing session -

Fantastic start to your snow themed army. Love the digital look on the valkyrie, the dynamic poses of you minis, the detail and intrigue you have created with interesting diorama type bases (i.e. sentinel, very cool). Everything looks awesome, looking foward to seeing more models as your army continues to grow!

Leman Russ executioner completed -





Also painted my first guardsman using an airbrush to do the white, unfortunately he's a slightly different colour the previous men, but he took about 30mins in total compared to about 3 hours for the older ones I'll be doing all my infantry like this I think from now on!

Nice Russ, and lovely camo on all the vehicles.
Could we get some pics of the guardsmen?

Here's the airbrushed guardsman -



And here's older all hand painted guardsman -



I could do a better job on the airbrushed one, the face needs more work and the white highlights are a bit bad mainly due to my ceramite white going really thick, and I was rushing a bit.

What are your thoughts?

Great idea and very effective

Guess what I got for my birthday!



Been a fun build, will get to work detailing and painting it soon! I'll try and get pictures up of the amount of stuff I have to build and paint, as it really is rediculous now!

Here's a bit of an update!

Have been fairly busy lately so not too much done, I now have 35 infantry complete, 2 leman russes, 2 chimeras, a sentinal, a vendetta and 3 auto cannon teams.

Built and ready to paint I have, 20 more troops, 10 with forgeworld hostile environment upgrades, another vendetta, a leman Russ Demolisher, 4 Lascannon teams.

I've finally got the forgeworld manticore finished -






And Marbo



And am working on the Shadowsword now!




I've started using oil paints on the tank and infantry and they are amazing, I really reccommend them to anyone wanting to try new things, the shading and blending you can get with them really is good!


Please let me know your thoughts and comments!!

Superb work, the valk shows off the digital camo beautifully - I've never seen it done this well

Edit: and the shadowsword is a massive canvas for it! Could you give a bit of advice on oil weathering? - I'm looking at giving it a try but can't find any particularly good resources online

That marbo looks badass! Great work!