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OK, so I am back to painting 40k and the IG needed a paint touch-up. Yesterday I painted a HW team, and 5-man squad. Hope you like them!





Comparison shot of the veteran (RPG guy) and the regular trooper.



Valkyrie pilot body and sentinel driver head. Free guardsman!





Sergeant, notice the battle damage on the chainsword.



Grenadier



And two other troopers.






The effect I am trying to achieve with the armour is an extremely worn, damaged green the has seen a lot of trench warfare. The same goes for the veteran except his original colour would have been white.

I still have another 25 troopers and 2 HW teams to finish. I am not really sure where a whole 10-man squad came from because I have only ever bought two sets!

Cain

Very cool Cain, nice to see an update on this project.

Thanks Rose!

I have been doing some more work on the grot diorama (a few pages back) The grots are almost finished and the ork has had his skin all done though I could not take a good picture of him.









I have also finished a knight that has been on my painting table for far too long

Nice updates, I always like to look at your stuff. Love the dirty looking imperial guard. Is the battle damage sponged on in places?

That's a pretty hillarious diorama Cain. I'm not sure the Grot Remote Pilot will read clearly, but I really like it knowing that's what's going on. Will they be on separate bases or one big piece?

Grot's looking good Cain, nice job on Supe's armour.

Nice painting style, it really comes together on the brett. Good work!

Thanks guys! I might have the controller grot steering with the pack like a huge joystick, just need to figure out how to do it


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@wazzdig, yes I sponged on most of the damage as it works really well on armour.
@good green, I am in the process of making a large base for them all to be set out on. Hope it works!

Here is how far I am at on my BA army, still a few models to paint and a command squad and sang guard set in the post

So far the army stands at this;
3 tac squads
1 veteran squad
1 scout squad
3 termie squads
termie apothecary
2 DC squads
1 commander
1 command squad (not in pic)
2 librarians (power armour and termie armour)
1 assault squad-5 man
1 dred
1 sang guard squad (not in pic)
1 rhino
1 land speeder




I intend to have a lot of subtle conversions throughout the two chapters (1st and 2nd) Painting 200 marines could get a little boring otherwise





Robed vets and beakie vets together.



Might need to adjust the sergeants pose a little!



All the termies so far



The latest tac squad, note the pre heresy trooper with custom helmet and pack.



BFM squad with head swaps (gives them much more interesting poses)



And finally some DC with a dred in the background



I am still adding to the army and will have a fully painted 1st and second company painted as well as a command company (35 sang guard, Dante and others). Should be finished by the end of the week

Wish me luck! I am going to need it!

Updated the paint scheme on my troops, putting me back to a whole three BA painted to this date

The troops will eventually have their heads removed and replaced like these guys but I have too much other stuff to be getting on with ATM



Anyway, here are the pics. *insert obligatory complaint about quaility of pics...*













Group shot



And finally a little guy from the space hulk set, chopped up a bit to make it look useful in a warzone (inspiration is completley stolen from Major Tom )



Happy valentines day!

Commander Cain wrote:

Isn't the genestealer going to miss that? Love the BA and IG, and your skin is great!

Wow i must have missed you last few updates matey,to my loss it seems ! what a collection of beautiful minis. Where to start.... well the death company look great , the blue flames look especially nice , iam actually looking for some examples of blue flames today so i got lucky ;-) thebn we have the amzingly detailed rackham, i do like their minis i have never owned any , but love the detail and movement the seem to achieve. much nicer than comparable citadel in my oppinion, good work with the rocks and the eery green glow.
where next...arh the cadian heavy weapon team , i think i said this before but very creative basing there mate, and you have weatherd the shoulderpads really well,i like where your going with this style. And who could forget the piece de resistance..a grot in power armour for your clever diorama, such a cheecky fellow, and the rust is well ..er rusty! ;-) is the diorama finished mate?
but whats this still more .. and what a sublime miniture you have for us in this chivalric knight ..first rate work, abosolutely loving that heraldry , perfect the wood is good too.

so anymore ..yep..good old reliable bloody angles ;-) lots to do their mate i expect that will keep you busy a while yet. although i think i find my first critique..well it cant be all good can it;-) the paint looks a little thick on your marines , and if you insist well the pic qaulity could be better.

finally , last but by no means least , we have a cute bot , that looks like its escaped from monkeytrolls grimsnick or is it upzag's workbench

top dollar performance all round .. but and there is a but .. where is the amazingly painted DKOK we all know yuo have stashed in your cupboards..come on share with the class

@ whalemusic, you have a good eye! Thanks for the comments!
@Neil, truly my greatest thanks especially coming from you as I am constantly inspired by your work (especially the tank and artillery gun). As for those amazing death korps, well I have decided on a paint scheme for them, green trench coats with bronze armour (I shall have to scan in the pic where I got the inspiration from).

Pics anyone? How about an IG convoy getting ambushed at the side of the fortress by a horde of genestealers? (I will finish that valk one of these days )



Do you ever get overwhelmed by all the stuff you have to paint? I deal with it by buying more models to distract me, it does not help in the long run

Commander Cain wrote:Do you ever get overwhelmed by all the stuff you have to paint? I deal with it by buying more models to distract me, it does not help in the long run

Amen to that brother!

BTW seeing your Baneblade reminded me that I bought another set of sponsons for mine...seriously badass!

Yep, best cure for that feeling of being lost in a sea of grey is definitely to make the sea even bigger Go, make some new stuff...

4 Genestealers and 7 mines Vs a Baneblade, 2 Sentinels, a LR, a chimera, and troops, my money is on the nids!

Little does the Guard know that one of those mines is actually a new species called a "vortex Spore mine" and it works the same way as one of those stupid grenades minus the scatter. It detonates when killed. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH


OH and it uses the 10" blast template instead of the small blast template

monkeytroll wrote:Yep, best cure for that feeling of being lost in a sea of grey is definitely to make the sea even bigger Go, make some new stuff...

I'm sensing a pattern here...

man if those spore mines were sentient , they would know that was a silly idea, huzzah for lazy hivemind!

OK so maybe the frontal tyranid assault is a bit pathetic, but what do you think the troops fron the chimera are aiming at?

Tin cans? Nothing better to shoot at, theres a friggin baneblade next to em. Was that a Spearhead game?

I love your grots!

And finally a little guy from the space hulk set, chopped up a bit to make it look useful in a warzone (inspiration is completley stolen from Major Tom )



Happy valentines day!

It look like a skutter from red dwarf, i love it

The armour on that gramine (grot-marine ) looks brilliant.

Arakasi wrote:

monkeytroll wrote:Yep, best cure for that feeling of being lost in a sea of grey is definitely to make the sea even bigger Go, make some new stuff...

I'm sensing a pattern here...

I do this too btw. Only its more like "You know what I need? Nothing, but I want 2 storm ravens and 2 Furioso Dreads. And lets add a Trygon. And a Broadside. Yeah, that'll teach those annoying troop choices who the boss is!" followed by "I don't feel like painting any of this crap, I should get some FW stuff" followed by "Wonder if I can make a conversion for the Doom of Malinti? I need to get some supplies, because clearly nothing I have here will work, so I'm not even going to look"

Gotta say... I just LOVE the grot in Marine Armor. You wouldn't consider one of those for the GMS would you??

*grin*

Ahh, WM, that I understand only too well Although I'd probably space that lot out over a few purchases.

Thanks a bunch for the encouragement guys!

WM and monkey, we seem to share the same mind. Only last week, I planned out how much it would cost to buy the entire BA chapter, DC and all!. $4000 is not too bad when you look a it with an open mind

Gits, I am clean out of termie legs right now BUT, I noticed the DA chapter upgrade frame comes with some legs as well a 5 marines for the incredible price of $16 (add to cart , why does this always happen?). I may just make another one for the GMS as I have most of the other parts available including a baneblade flamer. All I would need is some grot arms and I am sure I could shave a few skaven ones as they are the perfect size.



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Okay, so if I bought 3 sets of DA vets, I would have 15 troops and could also make 3 iron grotz. Sounds like a plan to me!

I can contribute pars to the effort I'm pretty sure.. think I have a few sets of termie legs somewhere.

The DA kit used to be even cheaper (why I have so many!) at $20 a kit, but the kit had double sprues! I think I got 4 kits (8 of the current). You'll need bases though, it has none.

And as to my large orders, I get a great discount from a guy i found, but only in large orders (smallest has been about $350 retail, largest close to a grand).

Thanks for the offer of legs Gits, but I will probably buy the sets anyway as I already have one set from years back and a squad of 5 always looks a little lonely

At WM, I am sure I have plenty of small bases lying around, I may have to look to ebay for some termie sized ones however.

(however did you manage to spend a grand on warhammer?!)

Commander Cain wrote:(however did you manage to spend a grand on warhammer?!)

Commander Cain wrote: $4000 is not too bad when you look a it with an open mind

Have to say that does make me feel a bit better about my collection now though Back when I had a disposable income and GW had a bits service (the loss of that is always my primary gripe with GW) I'd get a big box pretty much every couple of months.