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More stuff on my blog today... including Squat Engineseer and hover bike: http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/its-little-things-in-life.html

yes mate! blown away! more of this sort of thing

OK... here's some more :

http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/a-very-autumnal-post.html

The engineseer is coming along nicely, as is the hover buggy:

http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/sunday-sculpting-and-converting.html

Scale pic of the new five-eights but also a bit of progress on the Engineseer again:

I've started to add some details to the arms... I am going for a 'metal-muscle' look to them (a bit like Colossus out of the X men). I've also started to tidy up the next little addition...

This week, I have used a bit of extra free time to work on the Engineseer. He only needs his head and back-pack sorting and he will be done. I have also added some arms to 'Big Robot' but they are only loose as I will need to remove them to work on the body areas:



As usual, there is more about the Engineseer and other things over at Inso's World (including a rather cool little quad bike that is perfect for 28mm use):

http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/another-tick-on-list-of-life.html

I reckon the Engineseer is finished:



I'll probably wait until Big Robot is finished before I put up a 'group hug' .

I've managed to finish a couple of troopers (Flamer and Medic) from the command squad:

They look great.

Honestly, If I had your level of sculpting ability I would skip the GW bits and just sculpt evertyhing from scratch.

It is a tempting thought (and thank you for the kudos ) but in order to build a whole army, it would take much longer.

I would either have to sculpt every one of them completely or sculpt components and get them cast up... that would add huge amounts of time and cost to the project (bearing in mind that I already have 120+ plastic Squats to mess around with).

It took me four or five years to finish another army that was just filling gaps during headswaps .

I am still ticking along with these... but have had a few distractions. Here's something for the Engineseer:



There's a little bit more info on my blog (including the distraction):

http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/a-week-of-nice-distractions.html

The Engineseer has Big Robot to help him now:



More info here:

http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/a-typically-autumnal-week.html

Beautiful sculpting skills man!

A Bit of an update... Command:



Infantry Squad 1:



Infantry Squad 2:



Complete Platoon:



I still need to add the heavy weapons tractors (little tracked heavy weapons from Anvil Industries), a couple of back-packs for the loaders and a couple of Comms sets for the radio operators but they are done apart from that

They look great.

I still can't get over you sculpting all of those arms.

Amazing stuff, bonkers scultping all those arms! What tubing is that for the heavy weapons flamer dude?

You've done an ace job with these Squats. I found their plastic very off putting back in the day, combined with their lack-lustre stats and crappy overall feel, and lack of any real direction they were for hard core "space dwarf" fans only back then.
If GW put something like this out now, then I would actually consider starting up an army.
Not sure about the hovercraft though.

These are so awesome and so much fun! Your sculpting work is fantastic.

Cheers all

The hovercraft may or may not stay... it all depends on how I feel (although I am going to have hovercraft in the army... I haven't decided fully how to go about it).

The tube on the flamer is copper wire with a scoubie string over it

This army will not be the same as the old Squats... it will be more Imperial Guard and more serious looking.

In a couple of weeks I will be back at home again and will be starting on the next platoon.

I reckon that the next ones will all have berets (converted plastic bare heads/hat heads from the boxed set) because I am possibly a bit light on the helmeted heads for a full platoon and may need to get more (or try to cast some up).

Once that is done, I will look at finishing off an army command unit (with the Engineseer, a commander and a group of other specialists... maybe even a Tau or a Jokaero or two).

I would also like to add a couple of Psykers but I am not set on having Squat psykers (living ancestors) so I may go for Tau Etherials or something a little more exotic (Eldar?).

...any ideas are welcomed

Well... I've finished the infantry squads properly now:

I love those heavy weapons platforms. Are they custom ?

Nope... off the shelf from here:

http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=114

What is this purple mini, third from the left? Also, thank you for the fine vintage liqour, er, models. Original Squats are so rare now sadly. Your GS skills do them justice.

Infantry squads look great, I love these old squats. The enginseer sculpt turned out really nice, jcb arm is a great touch. Look forward to seeing some paint on these soon?

Cheers

Here is a link to the purple guys:

http://www.hfminis.co.uk/shop?product=the-five-eight-%285%29~hfsf207&category=sci%252dfi-%26%0D%0Aweird-war~sci%252dfi-humans

and here's another link, this time to a possible Squat Exo-Armour option:

http://insosworld.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/squat-exo-armour.html

The first of the finished Exo-Armour:

Ooooh! Very unique!

Thank you

Here is the finished unit:



... more basic troops will be on the way soon