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Thanks for the tips Cadian! I actually hadn't really thought about how to go about making a HW Vet, so thanks for the pointers. The same for the paint on the sentinel. The oily look didn't come out as dark as I'd hoped with Devlan Mud, so I'll try your suggestion. Making a run to my FLGS today so I'll be sure to grab some more stuff. If anyone also has anything they'd like to see me add to the army, let me know. I'm halfway through building my last 20-man box of Guardsmen so if anyone wants to see something particular added, let me know.

EDIT: Sonofa... I can't believe I forgot to post the lascannon in my last update. Here ya go:


The chopped up Vox Caster on the loader is supposed to be a Mobile Charge Pack for recharging the Lascannon's battery cells.

NICE!!!!!!

DC

This is some really great stuff. I'm working on painting a tabletop-quality guard army myself (when I can avoid extreme distraction via =][=munda), so I'll be closely following your blog here. Thanks for the inspiration!

Going to an FLGS today after work, so if anyone has anything they'd like to see added, post ASAP

Where did you get the guns for the recce team?

Excellent work so far, I'm liking the urban bases and the Veterans.

i need to get some green stuff and see what i can do with it.

Iron_Chaos_Brute wrote:Where did you get the guns for the recce team?

Abherrant Games CSO Peacekeepers. They look like Elysians with real armour too if you cut off the Filtration Chambers on their Helmets. Here's the box art for them:


And here is a shot of the actual minis. Very good looking 28mm Truescales. If you've got the $$, and you don't hate pewter, these would make a sweet army

Lord Harrab wrote:Excellent work so far, I'm liking the urban bases and the Veterans.

i need to get some green stuff and see what i can do with it.

Thanks! How're your Guard and Tomb Raider Inquisitor coming? I haven't been to your blog since we all came up with the Laura Croft joke. That still makes me grin

Just checking this blog for the first time in a while. I really like the heavy weapons teams. Just as I imagined them, hiding amongst ruins and other clutter.

metallifan wrote:

Iron_Chaos_Brute wrote:Where did you get the guns for the recce team?

Abherrant Games CSO Peacekeepers. They look like Elysians with real armour too if you cut off the Filtration Chambers on their Helmets. Here's the box art for them:


And here is a shot of the actual minis. Very good looking 28mm Truescales. If you've got the $$, and you don't hate pewter, these would make a sweet army

Lord Harrab wrote:Excellent work so far, I'm liking the urban bases and the Veterans.

i need to get some green stuff and see what i can do with it.

Thanks! How're your Guard and Tomb Raider Inquisitor coming? I haven't been to your blog since we all came up with the Laura Croft joke. That still makes me grin

I've posted a few army list ideas in the Army list section of the site, and my first squad of veterans are underway as we speak (Type?) perhaps i too shall jump on the WIP Blog bandwagon....

metallifan wrote:

Iron_Chaos_Brute wrote:Where did you get the guns for the recce team?

Abherrant Games CSO Peacekeepers. They look like Elysians with real armour too if you cut off the Filtration Chambers on their Helmets. Here's the box art for them:


And here is a shot of the actual minis. Very good looking 28mm Truescales. If you've got the $$, and you don't hate pewter, these would make a sweet army

Wow-those are nice.

Almost didn't get a chance to update tonight! Time flies when you're working your arse off on the P&M

Anyway, I finished my 3rd Veteran - A Heavy Bolter wielding Roidmonkey. Because no Spec Ops team is complete without said guy

CadianXV suggested to me that I sculpt some rolled up sleeves, because a juice junkie touting around a Heavy Bolter isn't badass until he's rolled up his sleeves. Then you know he's talking all business

Used the Scout HB arms for it, which explains why they didn't quite come out perfect. Turns out Scout torsos are -substantially- wider. I didn't know this until I went to try and fit it all together. Still lots of cleanup to do, and I can't really remove any excess GS until the stuff on his right arm dries because it's just waaay too finicky being all outstretched like that. So he looks like complete rubbish right now, but I'm confident he'll be just as badass as the last two once he's actually got paint on him. Anyway, here he is:



Now, I had some custom Planetary Empires tiles in the works that I made with leftover WHFB bases from all the Daemon filth now tainting my good Imperial Shelves (Kidding babe, they look great. Even if they should be purged. )

Weeeell, I decided I'd paint them up and then see if I liked it. The tiles are themed after the Capital World in the system - The upper hemisphere of it to be specific. Up there, it's all stone, dust, and black sand like the stuff that covered Istvaan V. The Southern Hemisphere is more of a jungle/swamp environment, but doesn't play as large a role in the fluff, so It'll wait (That, and I have no freaking idea how I'm going to sculpt jungle trees that small ). Anyway, here're the first 6 demo tiles. I'll be adding some city tiles once I find and pick up Plasticard for making minute skyscrapers and buildings.


And then a few closeups of some of my favorites:

Coastal Tile:


Mountain Tile:


And the Battlefield Tile:



Tomorrow I'll post the second Heavy Bolter that I finished basing, but it's 22:30 as of this post, and I don't feel like snapping more photos when my bed looks so comfy... mmm... sleeping...

The Planetary Empires tiles are genius. Now I know what to do with all the leftover bases from my Empire State Troops-turned-Guard veterans.

I don't think the HB vet looks too bad, and as you said, paint will definitely help!

Also the Planetary Empires tiles are so cool, I would make some if i didn't already have the set!!

I love the tiles. You should do a hive next, that would look great!

Are they going to be large enough to hold control markers though?

lasgunpacker wrote:I love the tiles. You should do a hive next, that would look great!

Are they going to be large enough to hold control markers though?

Will do! The planet only has one hive, the rest are more 21st-Century style cities, but I'll make you a Hive when I pick up some plasticard this weekend if Home Depot or Lowes has any.

I'm thinking I'll just cut little circular counters out for control/contest markers. They're the standard 25mm Fantasy bases, so they're large enough for some means of counter anyway


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Hey, water's temporarily shut off for about an hour, so I can't work atm. I did get my roid-monkey with the HB done though. I'll edit my shots into this post once I finish some more crap. In the meantime, be amused by this picture of my drunk buddy eating a Watermellon:


And the improved version, which features a CREEEEEEEEED joke:



Relevant? No. Good for a chuckle while waiting for an update? Yes.


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Alright! Pics of the HB Vet. Like I guessed, he looked much better with paint. Still some stuff I would've done differently, but overall I'm happy with the result.

Front:


And back:


In keeping with the Vet team's habit of acquiring non-standard kit, I've given him the combo of MKII Leggings with a MKI Tunic.

Still no input on the new Vet? This makes me a saaaaaad Panda

SAAAAAAAAAAAAD PAAAAAANDA!!!

Is that barbed wire wrapped around his arms?

I LIKE THE VET!!!!!

no offence but your friend looks like a douchebag.....

DC

Aaaaah watermelon...

Is your mate the basis for your next conversion? ;D

infilTRAITOR wrote:SAAAAAAAAAAAAD PAAAAAANDA!!!

Is that barbed wire wrapped around his arms?

"Sexual Harassment... Panda!

And no, it's my horrible attempt at rolled up sleeves . It was something new though, so I should keep working at it.

deadly chicken wrote:I LIKE THE VET!!!!!

no offence but your friend looks like a douchebag.....

DC

Thanks DC And yea, he's a bit... off... in the brain

CadianXV wrote:Aaaaah watermelon...

Is your mate the basis for your next conversion? ;D

He ate the whole thing too. He'd just bite off whole chunks, rind and all, and just spit the rinds out. We were laughing so hard

Maybe my next Vet should have a giant chin-turd and chops

I like your camo scheme, as well as the battle damage on the armour and heavy weapons. Are you going to run just a single sentinal or are there plans for a whole sqaud? If I had anything to request it would be MORE TANKS! Keep up the good work

Stretch wrote:I like your camo scheme, as well as the battle damage on the armour and heavy weapons. Are you going to run just a single sentinal or are there plans for a whole sqaud? If I had anything to request it would be MORE TANKS! Keep up the good work

Thanks for the compliments He's just the test scheme for future Sentinels. He'll be in a Squad

More tanks? I can do that! Anything in particular?

Leman Russ of course... all of them!

I saw that the new setup can change turrets easily without magnets.. same for the sponsons as well. I was a bit dissapointed, because i have just finished converting my Punisher and if i knew the parts were easily interchangeable.. i would have put the money down for the new set.

oh well...

I suggest a Valkyrie also..

i really like your terrain and fluff behind everything. makes me want to make my own and post a nice blog like your own.

Some good stuff here. For the urban dust I'd suggest you do what I did and get some black and grey charcoal sticks and crush them like the heretical scum they are and use the resultant dust for basing it seals well with PVA. Also a variety of pastels can give you a mixed effect. The only thing to bear in mind is that you have to seal the mix. I use heavily watered down PVA with a tiny amount of washing up liquid and a syringe to apply it to the model. Hope that helps!

twomas rox wrote:Leman Russ of course... all of them!

I saw that the new setup can change turrets easily without magnets.. same for the sponsons as well. I was a bit dissapointed, because i have just finished converting my Punisher and if i knew the parts were easily interchangeable.. i would have put the money down for the new set.

oh well...

I suggest a Valkyrie also..

i really like your terrain and fluff behind everything. makes me want to make my own and post a nice blog like your own.

Alright, so we've got 1 for a new Russ or two. Do the new ones come with the extra turrets? I just wish they offered accessories again. Still makes me really mad. But I need some more Russes anyway. A Valk would be great - I'll probably do one up after I finish my Vets and add a bit more to my ground game. Plus, a Valk gives me the chance to do up more Guardsmen in the Ariminium Air Corps uniforms to show some diversity


Thanks for the compliments Either this weekend or when I get home, I'll post up some world maps and a big solid fluff post

Now, if I can just find an IG painter program like the SM painter on B&C, I can show off the uniforms of the system's forces

Yeah, i think the new kit comes with most of the turrets.. like the punisher, executioner, battle tank.. and i am not sure what else. Plus the plasma sponsons... i really want those.

Great work!
But maybe add some side sponsons/turrets with less powerful weapons than that huge cannon onto that turret. Keep it up with the army!

HalloweenBomber wrote:Great work!
But maybe add some side sponsons/turrets with less powerful weapons than that huge cannon onto that turret. Keep it up with the army!

Thanks for the suggestion It's clearly nowhere near done, but I'll be turning it into a mountaintop gun, so there'll be some nice big slopes that I can add trenches, open air decks, bunkers, catwalks, and smaller turrets to. Gonna be slow going on that thing, but it'll be ma-freakin-jestic when it's finished

Love the PE tiles. cool alternative to paying out the nose.

Short update before I head to sleep.

My second HB team - Frontal and Base shots:





I know, I missed the mold lines on the helmets. Not a huge priority right now. I'll get to them, but when I have nothing else left.


Three Guardsmen: one with full enclosed helmet, one with just the Tactical HUD, and one with the respirator:








And two more P.E. tiles - a River (straight), and another Coastal:





That's all for tonight. 4 day weekend coming up for me though, so plenty of time for more shenanigans

G'night Eh?