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I'm new to the thread, but quite impressed. Love the Chaos FW stuff. The blight drone came out lovely. Have had to tie my hands not to order one and you go and post that...

By far the creepiest psyker battle squad that I have seen. Keep up the good work.

Wow I've certainly missed alot!

Those blight drones are fantastic Dave! Really beautifully done!

Those pyskers are still creeping me out.

sweet! nice to see abnetts visions come to life so vividly! especially love the "Infardi/Ershul" very nice.

how did you model the slime from the rear of the blight drone? i just picked up three of them and im looking at doing something similar

Hi guys

Thanks for the kind words. Those Blight Drone models are indeed awesome.

@ studderingdave - the slime/poop out the back of the Drone is greenstuff, built up over paperclip armatures. The stream of poop is greenstuff over a brass rod that goes up into the Drone and bends underneath the base. Then the whole thing was painted with a mix of browns and greens and given a layer of 'Ardcoat to finish it off.

Anyway, here are some new pictures of my finished Command Squads, I hope you like them.

Company Command


Platoon Command


Company Standard Bearer


Officer of the Fleet


As usual, there are a few more pics on my blog, link in my signature.

Cheers
Dave

Nice. The yellow accents work really well, and I love the red shading. Nice banners, too -- lively, vivid, but not so busy that they pull focus from the figures themselves.

Stellar work as always Dave. I especially love the blood splatters on the banner bearer.

Keep it up.

Very nice,the command squad looks lovely,excellent work keep it up.

Lookin really sweet , I would never go renegade but if I did this would be my inspiration .

That standard bearer came out great. Love the work on the banner as well as the guys face. Excellent work Dave!

As always, great work on a really beautifully themed army; I hope we can get in a game at the Battlefoam tourney in October.

Will you be bringing your stalk tank for a show or a bit of immoral support?

Wow, I love that command squad, looks great. This army just keeps getting better.

great job on the command squad, just one nitpick: the blacklining on the banner is very stark, compared to the smooth freehand. a dark brown would have looked a tiny bit better, imo.

Just read through this thread, this is a wonderful army project! You've realised some of the most memorable baddies from the Gaunt's Ghosts series marvellously.

The Mantis/Stalk Tank is outstanding; you might like to know that at the EPIC community over at Tactical Command (http://www.tacticalwargames.net/forums/index.cgi) someone is talking about making an Epic scale version of this model...

Looking forward to seeing the rest of this army develop!

Hi guys

Thanks very much. I'm very happy with how the army is coming along. I'll be taking a break from the infantry until I finish off the tanks for the Battlefoam GT. To answer a few specifics:

@Gitsmack - hopefully we can get in a game. I'm also hoping to bring out the Stalk Tank, Romeo is doing some custom foam for me so we'll see if it all fits ; )

@ The Mighty Warhamster - Good critique on the black. I don't actually do any blacklining, just paint over black undercoat, but in this case I have definitely left too much black showing. Thanks.

@ firestorm - can you point me to the particular topic? I'd love to read it but the tacticalwargames forums are very involved and in depth. I'm having trouble tracking it down.

Cheers
Dave

Wow talk about impressive.

davetaylor wrote:@ firestorm - can you point me to the particular topic? I'd love to read it but the tacticalwargames forums are very involved and in depth. I'm having trouble tracking it down.

Sorry Dave, you can see it here, towards the bottom of the page - someone has even put forward your very own Mantis tank scratchbuild as the basis: http://www.tacticalwargames.net/forums/index.cgi?act=ST;f=7;t=16593;st=40

I for one am infavour of the individual involved making this a reality, but there are other demands being placed upon him, so we'll have to see...

can you tell me how you made those battle psyker's?

lookin' good, as usual...

the officer of the fleet is a brilliant use of the nurgle sorcerer...

nice use of the dragonforge bases, esp. on the commander and the heavy flamer team...
they look really cool in the dark scheme...

keep up the good work...

cheers
jah

Hi guys

Thanks very much!

@ firestorm - I also hope he can make a few in Epic scale, then send one my way ; )

@ deadly chicken - here are a few links to posts in my blog about the psyker brood:

http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/05/pater-sin-and-his-brood-of-psykers.html
http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-of-brood.html
http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/06/creepy-little-guys.html
http://davetaylorminiatures.blogspot.com/2009/07/less-than-week-to-go.html

@ jah-joshua - yeah those Dragon Forge bases can work well in a lot of different schemes.

Cheers
Dave

Cool new additions - nice, fast and effective looking scheme.

Outstanding!
Cleary Golden Daemon winning material!
(When I was in GD a couple years ago, there was stuff much worse than this. This is great!)

As always, excellent use of bits. Whenever anyone asks me what my inspiration is for my army I just point them towards your blog.

Your reds are also very well done. I know how hard it is to do reds on guardsmen and it's not as easy as it is on a Space Marine.

A really fantastic aesthetic to this force. The entire thing just seems to work so effortlessly. Great color choice all around.

I really like the Master of the Fleet, more people need to do stand in's like this. And the big jagged hunk of metal the Platoon Commander is using as a weapon reeks of savagery.

Great stuff as always Dave.

How quick are you turning these guys out now?

I like the yellow cannisters as a continuous theme, it adds a bit of interest and a nice shot of colour. I'd like to see the yellow be a little paler and more rusted up, but otherwise, great stuff.

Can we trouble you for an army shot at some point?

Cheers,

Dante

I love them, also the amount i want to play against them with my not nearly as fine crafted tanith is staggering

Epic stuff, right here

I love the praying mantis gribbly thing !!!

Keep up the awesome work

An idea for you, you should have one squad with beastmen heads and hooves !