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Excellent as always. The gun blends in too!

Beautiful stuff mate, gorgeous work. I had this random idea that if you had a spare mk6 torso you could half one waist high in swamp (very Martin Sheen)...

Its good to see you plugging away at the warriors again git. I was starting to miss your daily updates. BTW the finished sternguard looks great.

@Munch: Thank you my friend!
@clevahname: Thanks! It's a challenge to do. I keep a picture of the original artwork and the other one's I've done already in front of me while I paint which really helps me focus on the effect I'm going for.
@Arakasi: Yeah, I'm trying to sell the "camo" aspect of it, even though there's probably very few places in the universe where bright yellow with black yucca leaves actually can be considered camouflage... ... so I do the gun and paint the blades black like the leaf pattern. The tall yellow grass is there to try and help the illusion along. When I'm done I'll do a display base up for the whole unit which should help them out with the "stealthy" feeling considerably.
@inmygravenimage: I'm STILL going to do that for one of my scout squads... but since these guys are based with kind of a "high plains" feel it's kind of hard to justify. Be patient... it's an awesome idea that I will execute... it's just going to have to wait a bit longer.
@Warriors: Thanks, it's good to have something to show again. I was despairing that I was ever going to get back to it. Will keep trying to do a little bit every night so I can continue to make progress.

Thanks everyone, your continued interest and support is very instrumental in keeping me motivated!

What do you paint the rim of your base with again?

It's just GW's Scorched Brown, but it happens to match my flocking mix (GF-9) when washed with either Delvan Mud or Sepia perfectly. I used to ring all my bases in black, but I'm kind of getting attached to the brown as it matches the rest of the base and our gaming table better.

Looks good. Great paint job. All the differetnt poses really make the unit unique as well.

Well, whalemusic360's tranquility sniper is done... I just need to do the basing. Will have pics some time tonight.

This was my first experience trying this painting scheme with one of the newer models as I'd been using old beakies before this. Before the camo was added, the figure looked great... much better than the other figures did before the camo pattern was added to them. There is a lot more detail and clean ridges to the new figures, which has the nice effect of adding detail and depth with a minimum of effort. The drawback is that it becomes very difficult to do any extra painting in all these little cracks and crevices, so adding the camo pattern and making it look good was just physically difficult (hard to get the brush where I needed it & get a good painting angle). That being said, I really like how the figure turned out... hope you will as well.

Here we go. Never fails that when I complete a new figure we get hit by a thunderstorm and it wipes out my internet access for a day or so...

TS #5



and the squad defending an objective outside an abandoned ork compound...

very very cool!

Fantastic job Git! I like the overall look, especially with the tall grasses. I think your newest model looks great too. Keep up the good work.

Very cool, cant wait to get him in hand!

I finally JUST get a 5-man legal unit painted and I have to send one back.... *sigh* "Missed it by that much!" (doing my best Maxwell Smart impersonation) Nice job on the build wm, he looks really good.

For some reason they don't look as impressive on the table as I'd hoped... but they're getting my best effort, so they are what they are. The display base will help tie them together I'm sure.



So... now I have to decide what to do next.... I need a break from my sternguard if I want to stay frosty. So I'd like your input. Here are the units that need to be done for the 1000 pt army I want to take to the local tournament later this summer/fall...

Scouts w/ bolt guns (5)
Scouts w/ bolt pistols & CCWs (4)
2 LS storms
venerable dread w/ autocannon & CCW (though he's not venerable in this list)
dread w/ LC & CCW that needs to be repainted... shouldn't take too long

So, what do you guys want to see me work on next?

I personally like the modifications to the rifles very nice job. As well as the overall appreance of this figure is brilliant

Id do a pattern, something like:
Dred
Scouts
Storm
Sternguard
Dred
Scouts
Storm
Otherwise you pull a me and have 2 Vanguard, 2 Assaults, 2 death company, etc. but nothing I can, you know, play with.

Try doing a dread it being larger might make for a nice change.

Well, since no one seems to object to whalemusic's suggestion (you gotta get a shorter handle man... ), I'll go with that.

Will start with the twin las-cannon dread re-paint because I need to do something green rather than all this yellow. So here's the starting point. It was an old fire support dread w/ LCs and an ML, but experience has taught me that especially at low point values, people can be in your shorts far to early to sacrifice a ccw threat for one or two measly ML shots. I have some other, more interesting dread CCW arms to chose from, this stock one is just on there to make the point.

This is just a simple paint job for my old version of the chapter, but I can use it as my base and work up from there. It'll be a few days before I can put brush to figure again, but I'm hoping this'll go pretty quickly (the last dread re-paint did).



Edit:

I'd like to re-base him in order to get a more dynamic pose, but I think on these old plastic dreads the feet were actually part of the base... Can't remember as it's been so many years. Anyone help me out on this?

LOL, most of the time it gets shortend to whale or WM.

Lookin' good!


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Lookin' good!

Gitsplitta wrote:

I'd like to re-base him in order to get a more dynamic pose, but I think on these old plastic dreads the feet were actually part of the base... Can't remember as it's been so many years. Anyone help me out on this?

Yes you are correct, the plastic dread feet are part of that style of base.

Wow, really? Glad the changed that.

OH WOW! I dig the silencers.. I didn't read all the previous pages, to much!!! But I love it!

LOL, there's a lot of chatting. If you have the time, read the first few pages of text... that will fill you in on what I'm trying to do and why, then just concentrate on the photos of the finished models.

There will be plenty more suppressed bolters, my whole sternguard squad will have them eventually. These are just the 5 that are done.

Yeah I am wading through it right now!! I am inspired and thinking of adding suppressors to my Veteran squad IG, although I don't think it makes sens to add them to Las-weapons.

The ones on my guy are just two tubes, one that fits in the other. Got em out of the GF9 tubes and whatnot pack. Pretty easy to do.

Hmm cool, however can las rifles actually be suppressed. In modern practice and theory Lasguns would make no noise at all, but a lot of light...

hmmm, maybe a las-gun suppresser would dim down the light.

So a las-gun suppressor is a blanket?

whalemusic360 wrote:So a las-gun suppressor is a blanket?

Could just call it a focusing lens instead of a silencer.

IE: array of lenses configured similarly to a telescope that focus the beam to be smaller but more intense.