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I really like your style, and the background bits you write for models. Especially like the jump suit commissar, and the drop pod. Excellent, inspirational stuff; i'll go back through the thread further if I get the chance.

please do, and enjoy pad!

Got those four of the Filey 87th done today.

This represents the last of the Filey 87th I'll be doing. but worry ye not more stuff is on the way...


Commander - with casual cigar and chest-slung Boltgun.
Made from the field ordnace crew body, SOB boltgun (with chaos pistol mag), anvil beret/goggle head and the ususal greenstuff vansaar pads.


Comm-tech - with auspex and a bad attitude! (state of the bad-ass art...)
This one uses kasrkin/anvil hybridised arms for the auspex and then the other side to match, obviously.
includes the usual mad-robot cdf head and the york pattern lasgun.


Demolitions expert - Heavy weapon kneeling body, cdf head, mad robot rolled sleeve arms and the gsc dynamite bundle (a cowson to get the niddy claws off of but worth it nonetheless). also gs vansaar pads.


Squad dedicated marksman - upgrade sprue body, head is mad-robot (allbeit a fieldcap/goggle/balaclava combo) and an old scout sniper silencer and boltgun scope on a york pattern lasgun, held in anvil arms... and other stuff you all know on sight by now...


While I was at it I made up this CLE style drop container from two of those barrels I got from spellcrow, I added the rhino D-hook to show where the grav chute connected and the eagle was cut and placed to show where it would open (I cut along its length on the container to make a groove that better shows this too) its a 40mm base, before you ask.
Done in the ambush camo as a last hurrah for the 87th, but dont count this camo out completely in the future!

Great work dude, absolutely splendid results on these guys!

That is some ridiculously good stuff, you need to enter those into some painting contests!

You already know what I'm going to say - Impressive!

Wow, stunning work. Now let's see everything together in one shot.

cheers guys.

Painting contest? HA back in the late nineties/early 2000's maybe. nowadays I'd never stand a chance. all that nmm krap, fine-art level freehand and crazy sixteen-month + paintjob nonsense people do that ruin it for anyone either without an art degree and classical training or simply not the skill/time to devote that much to the hobby.
These kinds of people are proffesionals and should have their own seperate division to give other people a fair chance. There are some outshanding artists out there (much better than I'll ever be) who, time and time again, get overlooked for this overblown tosh and its a constant thorn in my side and gouges that chip on my shoulder ever deeper.
No. I've too fragile an ego these days to do competitions anyway. I mean, why do I need someone else to critisize my work anyway?
Don't get me wrong, we all love positive comments, all the stuff I get here is a lovely boost and is truly everso appreciated, but thats not the only reason to do it, is it? for me its about sharing technques and general love of the hobby, sharing an interest with like minded induviduals.

as for a group shot. well, aside from not having the room, the lighting is abysmal for photos for me at this time of year. so thats a long way off if at all...

anyway, for now, here is Brin:


Ogryn bodyguard, currently assigned to the 87th Filey Droptroops.


Fancied one last hit of ambush camo and figured this guy was the perfect candidate!
I figured it was the best way to one, get camo on him and ,two show off his size; hes so big they've painted his armour like their armoured vehicles!
points of detail include his "GOOD JOB!" badge, presented to him by Commissar Nixon for single handedly destrying a captured leman russ in heretic possession.
Also his alternative shield, which comes from an ambot's amour panel (that he "ripped off wiv 'iz own 'ands") as I felt the standard bucklers look a little too ornate for an ogryn weapon. This still looks like a powered shield, just a little more utilitarian.
where it joined to the gauntlet section, I simply greenstuffed a welded effect around it.
These kinds of hasty repair effects look fine on ogryns and orks, due to the slap dash nature of the creatures themselves.
For a bit of fun and as a reference to the old second edition ogryns, I sculpted on a crossed plaster and added some chain to his carapace armour. I always think of chain when I think of ogryns because of those old minis being festooned with it!
I decided his grenade should be a meltabomb (again to show his absurd bulk) and set about it by simply adding a big ringpull to the top in place of the handle. Again, I used a bit of spikey sprue chain for this.
I went heavy on the weathering and texture, but tried to stick to the pallette youve seen on my filey and other regiments of the Eoforwich system, so far.
I chose this specific head so he had goggles to match the troops and the mask was another surface to continue the colour scheme on.
The observant among you will note that, in his zeal to get to grips with the enemy, he's dragged a length of barbed wire out from their defence line on the way in. Yup, He hasn't even noticed...
This is my usual hand tied stuff with cadian sandbags, greenstuff and textred paint as on all my bases...
ok. now I'm done with filey!

Woo, caych up time!
Very cool work on the Filey boys, love the colonial marine vibes they've got going on!
I'm currently experimenting with NuCad bodies myself for Stalker themed minis and I think I'm going to start stealing your ideas...
Your new drop container is great, I think its a better fit than the repurposed drop pod you used before.

Ogryn is beautiful, his little badge is a great detail to bring out their childish nature and the ambit shield looks miles better than the original.

Looking forward to seeing more!

Thanks Guardling!

were going back to Selby today.

But not the 151st infantry division.
they were the Selby's specialists; using the better equipment and weapons, stuff usually used reserved for the Filey 87th, No, these new guys are the 9th Selby Regulars.


These three represent the first of a more basic rifleman company, Also hailing form the Eoforwich system, specifically Selby.
These guys are the standard troops.
As you can see, they have a strong ww2 American theme to them. Evident, not only from the helmets and gasmasks, but also the duckhunter/frogskin green camo I went with.
This is simply a deathguard green base with regular looking waaagh flesh and mounfang brown splotches, highlighted with zandri dust and ushabti bone for that worn edge look. this does tend to make it seem a bit more beige than the green it really is but thats fine as far as I'm concerned.
To continue the theme, I ditched my usual grey trou and went for green there and for a bit of life decided to lift the theme with some yellowy-orange lens' on the m3 gasmasks. which is technically accurate, as m3 lens' did have yellow tinge to them. ok, maybe not as dayglow as these came out but as I say, its a bit of life to an otherwise bland scheme...


I used the Anvil dday M1 heads that you may remember Sgt Basilone, from my 151st Selby killteam, is wearing.
These have the gasmask for the extra, "another faceless guard" look it gives...


To keep the standard issue look I went for Tiny legends' basic lucius lasgun arms on cadian bodies.
I chose the "veteran" pads because, well look at them, they're so 2nd ed! and you know me and my nostalgia


This guy got promoted to sargeant because I dropped one of the pads and it dissapeared into the warp portal that apparently lives under my table when I model (seriously its just GONE!). So I figured I'd just use the cadian rank pad instead! great!
He also has the biker scout grenades for the simple reason of; I've had it for ages and wanted to use it.

I also have two more to add to this squad once the paint's on.
I'd started the painting on these before I built these other two, they have a little more 2nd ed flavour to them with the weapons I've chosen as well as the old rolled sleeve look for a bit of variation, I know, supposed to be standard issue? But I just can't help myself...

Love 'em. Beautiful conversions as always.

Excellent, full of character, paintjob as always top.

Thanks guys

got the last two of the Selby 9th regulars done.


Confidant with bolter.
I decided on using a sister of silence boltgun due to its smaller stature and its roguetrader looks.
By simply shaving off the support hand (re-carving the grooves on the stock back in) and grafting it onto some madrobot rolled sleeve arms it looked the part.
As a nudge to the second edition bolters I added one of these bolters' frame-stocks to it, makes it look much more guard issue as well. Much easier to handle.
heresy set spare mag and half an infiltrator's leg pocket as a simple backpack and thats his kit done.
to match in with t'others he has an anvil d-day m1 head and the shoulderpads from tinylegends' veteran kit (which seem to fit perfectly on ANY arms, YAY!).


Trooper with Galaxy pattern Lasgun.
Again, rolled sleeve arms for that 2nd ed feel. This time the right is madrobot and the left is actually one of anvil's cyberpunk ones (no special reason, it just fit ok).
Again with the tiny legends pads and an m1 helmet/m3gasmask head.
not sure why, but I just fancied a Galaxy lasgun in the squad. It's a third ed catachan one and looks so, SO crude next to the tinylegends lucius ones! but its a nice bit of nostalgia. I seem to have a few of these in the box so figured I'd better start using them...
his backpack is altered, simply for the sake of difference between the cadian bodies I seem to keep using for everything, I swapped out his "heresy detector" for a triplet of explosive carges, lifted from a GSC mini...

Don't ask me why, but I really dislike the pose of this cadian body. The only conversion I've done with it where I'm 100% happy with it was the Captain Stevens mini I did for the selby 151st a while back. There's one of these in the filey 87'th too, but I'm not sold on that one either...


Here's the fireteam all together.
A fun dive into (yet more) second edition inspired yumminess, this time with an American flair to it.

A nice as my extensive collection of guard units, realistically sporting varing shades of camo and kit is, all this green brown and beige standard issue is starting to wear a little thin for me in the whole creative department of late...

Don't get me wrong. Its mostly my jam, and those who follow this thread probably dig it too.
And yes, I've definately got more units planned, but every so often you need a break from the same ol' same ol'.
In the past thats led to, admech, inquisition, eclesiarchy, Tau, RT crimson fists and whole threads devoted to Fallen angels, spacesharks and Battlefeet gothic.

So, perhaps something in Yellow and black that a certain Mr Olthannon is still waiting on...?
Whats that? A year late? yeah... tis...
But whats a year's backlog in this hobby, eh?

see you soon!

A year's backlog is nothing. Keep going man!

cheers

Great work on those troopers! The basing is really nice.

Yes, what about that certain yellow striped soldier??

Great work on the camo!

Great work as always!

The articulation and animation of these figures is top flight- I'm looking at the one you call out and either your paint job hides any awkwardness or the basing does, or both. Great squad!

Poses look great - background is delightful. I think one of the better new guard kits is the ordinance battery for all the new leg and body options. You could also check out the Jackals khorne kit for more running bodies (They're almost all running bodies) but they'd need some serious imperial-ification to make them look less rag tag and more serious like. You could make them into Catachans or militia style units more easily than cadians.

he's done;

I'll say now. I really did not enjoy doing this.
It was an absolute slog.
Though it shows you that you can, in fact, paint a yellow mini up from a black undercoat this should be taken as an example of what not to do.
Starting from a basecoat of xv88 (sevaral thin coats), following with Zemesi Desert (sevaral more thin coats) blending a few layers of the armypainter's ancient honey for a gradient of colour and then blending back to zemesi at the top of the panels.
Then highlight with ushabti bone and incremental additions of white ink.

I started by painting the head on its own to test the plan.
no problem.

then the body... sigh...



Disasterous.
The sheer number of layers required got to the point of obscuring recess detail.
on top of this, several of my paints and shades for no reason at all other than being out to ruin my day have dried shiny. and some simply terrible things happened.
Like, where did that massive lump/divot come from on the base rim?
why was my zemesi desert apparently full of grit?
why did the layers streak, dispite the hours (sometimes days) left between coats?
why did the ancient honey act completely arbitrarily different each time I used it?
Why was I seemingly unable to paint the black camo with any consistancy to the form and sizes?
Why did I ever even decide to attempt this..?

the more it went on and the more things that kept resisting me, the more irked and sick of it I got. At one point, it got very close to getting binned, not finished.

perhaps my personal expectation was far too high, but I can say now, that this has been a real kick to my aforementioned fragile ego.

I'm putting it all down to my new job. Its stupid hours all over the place and its really not doing much for my sleep patterns, making me most irritable and to be honest quite excessively emotional. So, I can't even really tell. My judgement is scattered. Worst part is, it doesn't even pay enough, but theres nothing else around at the min. I know I need out though...

gah.

anyway, digression aside, Yellow; Never, EVER again...


Still, the derpy skull icon came out ok though...

It has been pointed out to me that my ocd's are forcing me to only see my own perceived flaws in the mini, rather than to judge the model as a whole in it's finished state, but I guess that's just the way it goes sometimes... Wood for the trees and all that...


Anyway, it's done!

Onto the next!

I'll salute your struggle, the end marine is a great throwback to a weird scheme. Derpy skull and all

cheers, bud! appreciated...

hang on...

whats that smell..?


This is Boyd... he's having a bad day.
Firstly, he's dead.
Secondly, he's been dragged from his eternal rest on the battlefield, after dying for the Emperor.
Thirdly, he has no idea where his jaw is...

Figured it was about time I showed off just what my guard have been up against all this time in the trenches of the Eoforwich system!


He's one of Wargame Atlantic's new zombies. A wonderfull kit that allows you to build thirty(!) zombies.
I've recently got a single sprue of the five repeated sprues the set comes with, allowing me to build six.
They have an excellent generic look to them and can also be further customised by the 75(!?) heads on each sprue!
civilian, military, ww2, napolenic, tricorn, ballcaps, roman legionaires, all sorts!
I've gone for the generic heads on mine.
The minis have excellently sculpted generic ragged clothing on them that can be painted to represent whatever uniforms or clothing you wish it too.
The torsos and legs are set on each six but the arms, like the heads, are fully swap-able.

I'll warn you now though, they are truescale 28mm, NOT gw's heroscale 28mm. making them quite short against nucadians or krieg, I suspect so that they'll blend seamlessly with their other minis, but consider yourself pre warned...

So, although a little short against guard, if used as poxwalker alternatives, they really help to make your accompanying deathguard look even more imposing




more of his rancid buddies will follow soon...

I'd point out that since they look civilian like, civilians would likely be shorter than military forces just based on lack of shoes (and appropriate food!)

I love how you're trying to make spin/excuses as to their dimished size, LOL, just to make it work!

Right, they're done!



I've gone for a real mix of skintones.
dark skin is mournfang brown base, the light ones are cadian flestone basecoat and kislev flesh (for boyd).
Mr. Pink was done with bugmans glow as a basecoat.
The Jaundice yellow was actually the old GW bronzed flesh!
The grey was tricky to get feasible. I used cadian flesh to highlight it and then it made it more convincing. After this I took a similar approach to highligts for the other tones, adding white ink to the mix on the lighter tones.
Everything was first highlighted then shaded with my usual nuln-oil/agrax mix then highlighted up again after the fact.
they have all been treated to glazes here and there with either draganof nightshade (or whatever its called) or reichland fleshshade to either add warmth or cooler tones where needed.
The base of the dry blood is gal-vorbak red and khorne red and then the Stringy gory drool around the mouth and hands was achieved with uhu type glue stretched over areas and hit with a liberal coat of tamiyas x-27 red gloss to both areas (bloodforbloodgod in gw?).
All the eyes are done in plain milky white for the creepiness factor it adds...



Here's the finished 'herd' of plagueslain on the prowl...

now where'd I put that shotgun...

I can only apologise for putting you through such horror and misery but the end result is absolutely rocking!! That RT Salamander is absolutely mint. Full marks there!

The zombies look brilliant too, that blood effect looks awesome.

Hope your job goes a little better / can find a better one!

I love those zombies, I think the size is just fine as they will make their brave opponents stand out more I would happily get a box myself if I had space at all!!

The Salamander looks mint. I can sympathise when hating one’s own creative process but the end results are what keep me going. Nothing more satisfying than that final seal of varnish!!

Thanks for sharing the Salamander, it's going to be a useful reference for me going forward. The only thing I dont like about it is the goblin green rim, otherwise its a solid one.

I wouldn't personally even try to paint yellow or red models without using a yellow/red primer on it first. Working from a black primer? Unless you are airbrushing, fuggetaboutit!

 tauist wrote:
Thanks for sharing the Salamander, it's going to be a useful reference for me going forward. The only thing I dont like about it is the goblin green rim, otherwise its a solid one.

I wouldn't personally even try to paint yellow or red models without using a yellow/red primer on it first. Working from a black primer? Unless you are airbrushing, fuggetaboutit!

I know... you should undercoat lighter for yellow but, Yup. I only ever undercoat black. Cos that's my jam.

And yeah the goblin green rim? Purely for oldskools sake , bud.to tie it in with the bloodangel termie as part of the same project I suppose. Certaily not something I'd do usually

 Olthannon wrote:
I can only apologise for putting you through such horror and misery but the end result is absolutely rocking!! That RT Salamander is absolutely mint. Full marks there!

The zombies look brilliant too, that blood effect looks awesome.

Hope your job goes a little better / can find a better one!

Really enjoyed the zombies, so I can forgive you for the salamander! As I say it's my mood that's coloured the feeling of the salamander. Looking at it, some time passed now, it's fine isn't it.
Got to separate myself from what I'm doing a little more I suppose.
Or failing that, try to get some damn good sleep. That wouldn't hurt too... Lol.

 Ragsta wrote:
I love those zombies, I think the size is just fine as they will make their brave opponents stand out more I would happily get a box myself if I had space at all!!

The Salamander looks mint. I can sympathise when hating one’s own creative process but the end results are what keep me going. Nothing more satisfying than that final seal of varnish!!

There's always room for undead! Especially these tiny little minis! I like the way you think, too. Guess they do make the guard look even cooler.
Yup. With the salamander, suffering of the process aside, he is fine. Like Bob Ross always said "hope you're plagued with dissatisfaction..."
Guess it makes you do better next time? Perhaps.but don't look to me to paint yellow marines again anytime soon. Lol..

Anyway, I've nothing to show at present but rest assured, I've some krieg engineer themed kasrkin/stormtroopers on the go made from leftovers of some anvil stalhelm heads and the last five kasrkin bodies from those oldskool stormtroopers I converted last year.
They'll be in the orange camo and are the heavy support crew for my krieg engineers that I did...
Pics as soon as they're done...

Slightly belated but, loving the new Selby boys!
Rouge trader Salamander looks great, it's always interesting to see some of the older weird patterns space marines used to have...
Looking forward to seeing what you're going to be doing with the planned krieg storm troopers...

well. no kriegsrkin as yet... as they're not quite cooked yet...


But, would you believe it? We're going back to Filey!


A little addition to the 87'th


You might have noticed that every member of the 87th I've done has dust goggles on, for that drop-troop feel.
This Florin sump-rat is of no exception!

*note*
This is actually a revist to a mini I'd painted with another of his little buddies (sporting c4 style block-bombs) a while back for the 39th.
I decided the goggles on this one, as well as the stick charges, made him an ideal candidate to add a bit of spice to the 87th, All I did was bring the highlighting "up to speed", add some filey camo on his little vest and do the the goggles in the red/orange gem...

Time's not been on my side of late and I thought this'd be a good little quicky so that I had something to share...

The goggles tie the little fella in with the rest of the troops, like he's their little buddy. Too bad after he completes his mission, you won't even be able to find pieces of the goggles.