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Lookin forward to see more great stuff mate !

Wow, this army is looking to be really impressive. Lovw the vehicles.

Disjointed Entity wrote:No worries my friend! If you get any more little questions on things like that feel free to ask.

I'm a wealth of pointless information

Thanks. I'll keep that in my mind! ^^

Armorum Ferrum wrote:Lookin forward to see more great stuff mate !

Thanks bro! I try to get some new stuff done soon. Small update coming in few days. hopefully...

SilverMK2 wrote:Wow, this army is looking to be really impressive. Lovw the vehicles.

Thank you very much Silver!

Second veteran squad is now painted up. And here are last three I got finished today and group shot.. I just have to make bases to them..
















Thanks for watching!

Damn bro, that army is the business!

Nice work, seriously. I love the theme, the execution. Very, very well done and looking forward to seeing more of it. Don't run out of steam on us!

Reecius wrote:Damn bro, that army is the business!

Nice work, seriously. I love the theme, the execution. Very, very well done and looking forward to seeing more of it. Don't run out of steam on us!

Thanks a lot man! More is coming I promise it to you. I am just getting started here. My school starts 25th day of this month so then the pace will propably slow down a little. But I'll do my best to get these guys done.

I've done with the second veteran squad now. Here are pics.









edit: I took little bit better pictures and changed the links.

I finally started working on command squad today.. First up some wip shots of my officer and my counts as "officer of the fleet". They are looking little bit "rough" atm as both need still some sanding and cleaning up but conversions are pretty much done.. And yeah I need to think about the names and stuff..

And in the background my "officer of the fleet" will be lieutenant who is leading the recon troops who are misleading the enemies by sabotaging targets etc. and in that way affects to enemy reserves. I hope you can understand what I am try to say here. I don't know all the vocabulary.. Did I make any sense?

But here is some pics.


And yeah as you can see.. Officer has a body armour.



close ups on a holster









And lieutenant.. And just after making this I realized that Officer of the fleet doesn't have lasgun in wargear.. -.- Only a laspistol. But well.. who cares?






Thanks for watching!

Any comments, suggestions?

Just call it a carbine. Rifle accuracy & stability with pistol-like stopping power.

If anyone argues, smack 'em and remind them its just a game.

These are some of the best-looking Catachan-based minis I've ever seen.

I can't wait to see the tanks painted!

Nowlan wrote:Just call it a carbine. Rifle accuracy & stability with pistol-like stopping power.

If anyone argues, smack 'em and remind them its just a game.

Yeah thats what I am going to do. And after all laspistol and lasgun have exactly same S and AP value so difference is only about range and weapon type. Not a that big deal.

JohnHwangDD wrote:These are some of the best-looking Catachan-based minis I've ever seen.

I can't wait to see the tanks painted!

Thank you very much John.. Your words mean a lot to me.


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No any comments about the officer? What do you guys like it? Was it too lame idea to put a IG officer in body armour and make him not stand out from the crowd? Or should IG officers always just wear greatcoat and look heroic as possible. I've been thinking this lately but I can't get to a any final conclusion. I think this style goes well with thel theme of my army but meh... So what you think? Is there something I should change in that captain or make a new one? Maybe you could give me some ideas and new points of view.

Xenon wrote:No any comments about the officer?

Was it too lame idea to put a IG officer in body armour and make him not stand out from the crowd?

Or should IG officers always just wear greatcoat and look heroic as possible.

So what you think?

He's not painted yet.

The armor makes him very "different" looking, and will fit as part of Company Command. Perhaps if he were standing on a taller base, that might help further?

Greatcoat is best for Cadians & Mordians & Valhallans - guys who already wear a lot of clothing. Your guys are in the tropics, so a greatcoat on anybody but a Commissar would be jarring. Looking Heroic is definitely important, but you can do well enough with a

I think he should be wearing a beret like the rest of the army, and the body armor is a bit much. Basically, as an Officer, he wears +1 clothing, so if your guys are pants & vests, he becomes pants & shirt.

If you need to WYSIWYG "carapace" armor, then keeping it to the torso is plenty enough - no legs / arms desired, because these are Tropics forces. Good call on "soft" kevlar vs hard plates - a better fit for your camo guys.

wow a lot of nice updates since last time I checked. Good work.

JohnHwangDD wrote:He's not painted yet.

The armor makes him very "different" looking, and will fit as part of Company Command. Perhaps if he were standing on a taller base, that might help further?

Greatcoat is best for Cadians & Mordians & Valhallans - guys who already wear a lot of clothing. Your guys are in the tropics, so a greatcoat on anybody but a Commissar would be jarring. Looking Heroic is definitely important, but you can do well enough with a

I think he should be wearing a beret like the rest of the army, and the body armor is a bit much. Basically, as an Officer, he wears +1 clothing, so if your guys are pants & vests, he becomes pants & shirt.

If you need to WYSIWYG "carapace" armor, then keeping it to the torso is plenty enough - no legs / arms desired, because these are Tropics forces. Good call on "soft" kevlar vs hard plates - a better fit for your camo guys.

"He's not painted yet" What kind of reason is that?!

Yeah but actually I was thinking about giving other members of the company command squad the same kind of body armor.. Like all the normal infantry. Taller base could be one option but the model looks pretty long already atm compared to normal guys as he is standing legs straight. But I have to think about that..

Yeah that is what I was thinking too. So no greatcoats..

But not all the army will wear a beret.. I was thinking about giving berets to just to the veterans. Almost all the other units will wear helmets and body armours. And I've thought of giving him just a pants and shirt which could be nice but then he would be easy target for enemy snipers. That is why I wanted it to look like all the other members in the squad.. Yeah maybe I am too much into realism.. Which is so ironic.. I know.. Trying to make a "realistic" army to a game that takes place in 41st millenium and includes aliens, space elves, gene mutated super soldiers. And I don't think any nids for example would care a crap if your commander is wearing normal uniform or a body armour they just kill what comes in front of them.(Hmm.. Genestealers would... ) But yeah.. Man's gotta do what man's gotta do. You know what I mean?

Yeah I think I won't be adding more than a body.



But in the end this is just about me.. I've had like four other 40k armies and I've always ended up selling them becouse I didn't like them in the end. So it is just some kind of syndrome of perfection. No matter what choice I make I won't be completely happy or I keep thinking if I should have done it otherway.. But I've better feeling for this army. ;D So far I don't regret anything. And I've put so many hours and money to this project that it just cannot be sold like the four armies before..

Scrazza wrote:wow a lot of nice updates since last time I checked. Good work.

Thanks Scrazza!

Xenon wrote:Yeah maybe I am too much into realism.. Which is so ironic.. I know.. Trying to make a "realistic" army to a game that takes place in 41st millenium and includes aliens, space elves, gene mutated super soldiers.

But in the end this is just about me.. I've had like four other 40k armies and I've always ended up selling them becouse I didn't like them in the end. So it is just some kind of syndrome of perfection. No matter what choice I make I won't be completely happy or I keep thinking if I should have done it otherway.. But I've better feeling for this army. ;D So far I don't regret anything. And I've put so many hours and money to this project that it just cannot be sold like the four armies before..

IG being "realistic" is what makes the game believable at all. You watch _Aliens_, and the grittiness of the USCM is what makes the Xenomorphs work.

It's good you find the army you like, something to keep. That's what I do, and I'm very happy that way.

@JohnHwangDD: You are right.



Hi guys!

Just been working on this infantry squad now couple of days and they are now almost ready to be painted up. Just need to glue the waterbottles and some grenades on the models. But so.. Just some wip shots again if someone is intrested. In next update there will be hopefully some more painted models.

this is brilliant * subscribes* hehe ill definitely be checking back for more updates, those tanks are beautiful

Ahhh... now that there's a full squad, the Officer looks like me meshes a lot better! Nice!

Fantastic work on the painting and the reworked lasguns! I'm starting to think I wasted money on the aftermarket guns I got seeing the great results on your models (i do like bullpups though)

Looking really awesome, cant wait to see what you do with the tanks.

I would be careful on the muscle shading on the arms, It seems very dark and not natural.

Keep going!

looking awesome

Wow many comments since I last checked.

jamessearle0 wrote:this is brilliant * subscribes* hehe ill definitely be checking back for more updates, those tanks are beautiful

Thanks james! And thanks for subscribing!

JohnHwangDD wrote:Ahhh... now that there's a full squad, the Officer looks like me meshes a lot better! Nice!

It is nice to hear that. Thanks John!

Flinty wrote:Fantastic work on the painting and the reworked lasguns! I'm starting to think I wasted money on the aftermarket guns I got seeing the great results on your models (i do like bullpups though)

Thanks mate! Well I can tell you Flinty. Don't regret too much bying those aftermarket guns. I maybe saved some money but you saved a lot of time. Making these takes a lot more time than it may seem. And can be sometimes little nerve wrecking. And like I said before I think converting is pretty fun and I like the originality when you convert your own guns. So stock guns weren't choice for me.

And yeah making bullpups is bit tricky.. Never actually tried that one. But I think I could try it in some point and see what I can come up with.

Tortured-Robot wrote:Looking really awesome, cant wait to see what you do with the tanks.

I would be careful on the muscle shading on the arms, It seems very dark and not natural.

Keep going!

Thanks T-Robot.

Yeah you are right about those muscle shades.. I am a bit fan of extreme highlighting becouse it looks nice on tabletop but I think I've little overdone those shades now.. But in defence I'll just say that they look a bit better in normal gaming conditions. But I promise to be more careful next time.

moonshine wrote:looking awesome

Thank you!

Hi dakka!

So it is a update time I think. Been pretty busy lately but I managed to paint something and now I got some new stuff to show you. Wanted to try out some different colours for flak jacket and helmets and I think they look pretty fine as they are now.

Their vest's have happy flaps!

A whole package of Soft 'n Chewy Chips Ahoy cookies for whoever gets that first.

Their vests have A particularly lippy vagina :s

The armys looking great by the way and those guns *drool* very MP5

CrashUSAR wrote:Their vest's have happy flaps!

A whole package of Soft 'n Chewy Chips Ahoy cookies for whoever gets that first.

Happy flaps indeed...

shadowcpt93 wrote:Their vests have A particularly lippy vagina :s

The armys looking great by the way and those guns *drool* very MP5

Thanks mate!

Its been a while since last update but now I've got a brand new complete squad to show you. Took freakin many hours to complete this squad but yeah.. its done now. I hope you like it!

right on man that hw is as sweet as it gets!

makes me whant to go down and waist a pay check on guard.

Very, very nice!

Do the rest of the army like that.

As always, looking good! These guys look so real you could see them on TV news!