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I have just about finished my Astra Militarum force. I need to get the second Leman Russ painted up, but Im too excited about the army so want to post it now!

Here is a group shot that I think I posted up before. It shows the infantry platoon plus one of the two Hellhounds. So its a platoon with 2 units of 10, a command section, 3 las cannons, 3 missile teams and 3 chimeras:



Well onto the new images! I did a photo shoot the other day. Fist up is the Infantry platoon command squad. They have flamers all round plus a heavy flamer, with a chimera to go with them. I call them the wasps! The second vehicle is a hellhound, painted to match.



Now more of the troops, the 2 infantry squads with their chimeras. They have flamers as the special weapons, although I notice I have accidentally put one of the melta gun dudes in there too.. You can see the Leman Russ in the background too.



My second troop choice is a unit of vets, armed with 2 melta guns and a plasma gun. I did them in a complimentary camo colour. I tried to match the colour of the static grass I used on the model bases!



Next to show is my HQ choice, a bog standard HQ unit.I may give these a chimera, as I couldnt afford it points wise in the old guard codex, but now I can! ANyway, its a range support unit, so a sniper rifle and lascannon team. I wanted to make the lascannon a cool looking veteran, wielding the gun old school shoulder mounted Rambo style. So hard core!




Now to show my second fast attack. I wanted 2 Hellhounds. The first was painted to go with the yellow and black section. The second was the last of the chimera chassis I needed. I wanted to paint it in standard brown/grey, but wanted it a bit different so I thought I would try to do some heavy battle damage. I tried to make it look like it had got loads of soot on itself from a really close use of its flame cannon! Then its been shot up by bolter rounds. I think it worked.



Finally for this post, a look at my Leman Russ. I will have 2, I still have to glue and paint the second one. Im not sure wether to run these as two heavy support choices or as the HQ choice with tank commander. Hmm. I dont really like the rules for squadrons, but I guess that may all change on the 24th......and Im not sure on what weapons. I have done interchangable ones. So not magnets, but holes on one side and wire rods glued in the other side. They are held in with wax.








I do have, as I said, some heavy wepons teams in the army too. Im not showing them now as the photos came out really badly focused! Anyway, you can see them in the top group shot.

Fantastic army! Ramshackle Games puts out some really fun minis and these really add to the catalog! I love the themed squads, and the look of the leman russes. Very metal-slug, I might have to pick up a few of those chassis.

THe "leman russ" is just about to get a Kickstarter, so I will post that up in the relevant section of this website, on the news and rumours for Ramshackle. I just wanted to show my army on here and NOT be commercial about it! Its not the right forum category!

Very nice "counts as"/conversion IG.

I love them. In Sweden we have a concept called "fulsnygg," which directly translated just means ugly-pretty. These models have that. The bulky square turret is ugly in an awesome way, and the painting only makes it more so.

 Purifier wrote:
I love them. In Sweden we have a concept called "fulsnygg," which directly translated just means ugly-pretty. These models have that. The bulky square turret is ugly in an awesome way, and the painting only makes it more so.

While I love learning about aesthetic terminology, I do believe he's based his tanks on a real vehicle, I've always known this one as the "KV Big Turret"



Read about it here

Seriously good, pants wettingly so!
The style you paint in, the colour pallet, it all works with the minis so well!
The photos and terrain are most excellent to!
I seriously haven't been this enthusied by guard in a long long time! Five Stars!

 Scipio Africanus wrote:

 Purifier wrote:
I love them. In Sweden we have a concept called "fulsnygg," which directly translated just means ugly-pretty. These models have that. The bulky square turret is ugly in an awesome way, and the painting only makes it more so.

While I love learning about aesthetic terminology, I do believe he's based his tanks on a real vehicle, I've always known this one as the "KV Big Turret"



Read about it here

And it, too, is incredibly ugly. I would even go so far as to say that while his is awesome in its uglyness, the real one is just silly.

Amazing painting, amazing models, and wonderful photos and setup. Ace!

Fantastic army mate and great photos! Looks like a hell of a table too..

Awesome work. Really great use of your awesome models, and I like the varied paintschemes. The Tanks are really, really cool, I must get a few at some point.

 San76 wrote:
Looks like a hell of a table too..

THanks, but its not reallt a table, just a board for photos, about 2 by 3 foot. Its pretty simple bits and bobs placed out really. I used some of the scenery me and my brother made, we have enough of it for a table. I also used a load of little pieces painted rusty along with some moss I harvested an dried out. Its not stuck down, just placed out. This is the rusty stuff:

Beautiful army! I love the rust effects. These guys look like they've actually seen a couple of wars.

Yeah, or I thought maybe they are fighting on a planet with a really caustic corrosive atmosphere. Hydrochloric acid in a copper rich environment? Sounds nasty but Im sure humans will be fighting on space rocks to get the minerals and SOME will have harsh environments! It would certainly make iron based armour rust quickly.

 Purifier wrote:

 Scipio Africanus wrote:

 Purifier wrote:
I love them. In Sweden we have a concept called "fulsnygg," which directly translated just means ugly-pretty. These models have that. The bulky square turret is ugly in an awesome way, and the painting only makes it more so.

While I love learning about aesthetic terminology, I do believe he's based his tanks on a real vehicle, I've always known this one as the "KV Big Turret"



Read about it here

And it, too, is incredibly ugly. I would even go so far as to say that while his is awesome in its uglyness, the real one is just silly.

Very junior tank nerd here, looks like a Soviet KV-2, WW2 era tank that fired a heavy mortar as its main weapon. That would most likely make the big fella to his right a KV-1.
Corroboration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV-2#Models

White Dwarf should be eating their heart out right about now. They should be paying you for these awesome pics!

Haha, nice one. But I dont think GW are likely to pay me to show you all how to build a AM army without spending any money at GW! Actually, I did use some GW paints, the beige is baneblade brown.....

Fisher001 wrote:

Very junior tank nerd here, looks like a Soviet KV-2, WW2 era tank that fired a heavy mortar as its main weapon. That would most likely make the big fella to his right a KV-1.
Corroboration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV-2#Models

I disagree again.

It looks like the bloke could in one of those photos could clearly stand up inside the miniature OP is showcasing. One could not stand up inside a KV-2.

One could stand up inside a KV Big turret, however.

Beautiful painting, Curtis! Tanks are looking great. It would be cool to have an army deal with this stuff in it.

 Scipio Africanus wrote:

Fisher001 wrote:

Very junior tank nerd here, looks like a Soviet KV-2, WW2 era tank that fired a heavy mortar as its main weapon. That would most likely make the big fella to his right a KV-1.
Corroboration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KV-2#Models

I disagree again.

It looks like the bloke could in one of those photos could clearly stand up inside the miniature OP is showcasing. One could not stand up inside a KV-2.

One could stand up inside a KV Big turret, however.

Haha now that is funny. now you're just talking aginst yourself.
You know, the KV-2 IS the KV with the big turret..


back to OP your army looks epic! i love the weathering and everything. keep that up!