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The "Anatomy" shot reminded me about what is truly heroic about the guard on so many levels. You simply forget how dwarfed they are by Marines and indeed most of their opponents.

Stunning work , i love the bleached out effect you have achieved across the board with these guys.

Another treat, this is turning out to be a great weekend of hill walking and now lovely shot of your WIP army. The colours work really well together...the blues, greens and dusty browns really compliment each other.

I still love that valk....I'm right in thinking you didn't use an air brush?

I agree with Northen I really like the long las too.

Peter

I do agree with your well written reply sir!, but I do not dream of that moment. I dream of being powerful and successful in my profession and providing as much economic and cultural freedom for my family as possible I dream of staying healthy and seeing my loved ones prosper.

In the hobby I drop the real world - the ambitions become quicker, I'm a kid, I have no rules, I enjoy, I vision, I labor, and I do love the feeling of seeing the vision come to life in my imagination and get great satisfaction when others see it too.

When I was a kid I dreamt of winning a Golden Demon. That dream came true and to me it was my dream come true hobby moment. The only one I've consciously dreamt of.

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@Migsula: No doubt man, and thanks, I really thought about how I wanted to sum up my feelings before typing that out, but I wholly agree, support and comfort for your family, yourself and a success in your industry is WHOLLY more important, and I greatly respect that you feel that way. And no doubt, when doing our hobby, you definitely go into kid mode all excited to be playing with toy soldiers, and to know and socialize with people that accept your hobby.

Anyways, Those models are looking seriously incredible, so much personality and as an Artist I really enjoy your color choices. Excellent use of vibrant colors, but more importantly your execution of proper neutrals to really make the pieces VIBRANT. Keep it up man!

Latest army pic looks fantastic migs! Keep it up. Sorry to hear you're bogged down with work but at least too much work is better than not enough. Keep at it and if things don't ease up, you can at least dream of the day you retire and your kid goes to college where you can work on years of backlogged projects

Guys, I really want to thank you for the support and understanding during this blog. When I set about I knew I wasn't really looking for opinions about color schemes or ideas as such, or approval, but the level of interest, input and camaraderie has been a true inspiration. The community here has really been a huge extra motivator to keep the hobby alive during the all consuming spin-cycle at work and what not.

I've been coming to Dakka on and off for eleven years. But the =I=munda blog and now the Legion blog have been true highlights for me.

Thank you!

Migs, I have to say you have topped yourself on this. I would love some other angel shots of the valk if you get time.

I have to say I agree- I really enjoy the color scheme that you gave the team, and the entire premise of "Black Hawk Down meets WH40K" sums it up perfectly.

I honestly wouldn't care how the army played, I'd be pleased to own something like this- something to shoot for with my budding Eldar, perhaps!

Thanks for the inspiration, migs!

migsula wrote:Guys, I really want to thank you for the support and understanding during this blog. When I set about I knew I wasn't really looking for opinions about color schemes or ideas as such, or approval, but the level of interest, input and camaraderie has been a true inspiration. The community here has really been a huge extra motivator to keep the hobby alive during the all consuming spin-cycle at work and what not.

I've been coming to Dakka on and off for eleven years. But the =I=munda blog and now the Legion blog have been true highlights for me.

Thank you!

^ This is why dakkadakka is the greatest, hands down...

Amazing work. The depth of character and background you instill in each figure is marvelous.

Like HFI wrote, thanks for the inspiration.

migsula wrote:Guys, I really want to thank you for the support and understanding during this blog. When I set about I knew I wasn't really looking for opinions about color schemes or ideas as such, or approval, but the level of interest, input and camaraderie has been a true inspiration. The community here has really been a huge extra motivator to keep the hobby alive during the all consuming spin-cycle at work and what not.

I've been coming to Dakka on and off for eleven years. But the =I=munda blog and now the Legion blog have been true highlights for me.

Thank you!

You are a big inspiration to A LOT of people bud, a standard to shoot for and a pleasure to watch and read. I am glad you have found a good home here. As you know, I watched you over on B&C years ago, and although your work there was excellent as well, I am sure you will agree, the unlimited nature of Dakka blogs lends itself a bit more to being overall creative.

We can only hope work eases up and we can see more soon! Thanks again for sharing all your hard and successful work!

Thanks for luring me back into the 40k universe every time you post new stuff!

migs, when i first started into the hobby i saw you work and, Wow man. your work is gold, and is inpiring to us all.

also your a Grafic desinger? i have a friend in that field, so props to you!

Heck that is a fantastic army shot! You are indeed a great inspiration to us all and never cease to amaze me with your tallented works of art. Keep up the good work!

Cain

As always a treat to see your work dude. Keep it up.

These are truly brilliant. Just wonderful!!

I did a day trip to UK for business, and had a chance to read a thrilling book. Task force black by BBC reporter Mark Urban. It paints a thorough picture of SAS and Delta taking on AQI in Baghdad between 2003-08. A campaign of intense violence, backed up by a huge intel and operations network.

It's a thrilling and important account to the war, one the Whitehall tried to prevent from being published, and for this project it highlights how the Alpha Legion would operate. I keep coming back to Emperor and his plan to give each chapter a specific purpose. No other chapter fits my tastes and imagination like the XX.

The book had images too, the SAS for example each used their different mix of camo gear, a bit of bravado that fits my Desert Operators nicely.

Stay tuned.

Did you buy it, or just read it & left it there?

Glad you got some more inspiration, it can only bring some more wonders in your work...

I'll stay tuned, that's for sure...

Here's some Desert Blades and an Apple ad for you

The GS is still curing, waiting for the final smoothing detail work, but otherwise the squad is ready for primer and I can't wait to get painting. As usual, some GW scale reservations, for example, it would've been cool to mount all the gear properly on the models torso/chest, but have to balance with the given realities. I think together with 5 twists, this will make a nice squad, with some realworld special ops flavor, but still that distinct, 40k nonsense and gothicness - which I need to further emphasize with paint.

As this whole army really sprung from the =I=munda adventure, it is quite cool to get some sweet models for future =I=munda gangs too. I already have two distinctly different Legion cells to pick from for the =I=munda campaign that are hopefully to come in the future. You can also see the Fabricator Captain, who is getting some detail on the chest armor. I'd like to paint him after the operators as a brake from IG types, and to do something thoroughly red and gothic, but with that moonlight twist.






For the painting I've decided, I will try something inspired by recent developments in camotech, mixed with the smallest sparks of colors and hues present elsewhere in my force:

http://www.multicampattern.com/

I applaud you for making cool guard with catachan arms with out going really over the top.

Nice stuff, and thanks for the recommendation of "Task Force Black" - I'll try and find that over here in the US.

The more inspiration the better!

Very nice work man. It is really great to see you posting regularly again. It is also really telling how much your work schedule throws people into a tizzy. I suspect most folks don't get as irked when their own wife works all the time as when you do and can't blog Makes you wonder who and what is more important to them :-P

Always good to see new pics from you Migs, glad you still find the time to make amazing things happen. Love that army shot from last time

- Salvage

Two questions:
-Viper Assault ship? Will this be a totally different model? What you got in mind for it?
-How will the Stealth Cell (the one based on your original =][=munda gang) fit in the armylist?

Thanks lads,

One disclaimer about the Plasmas I forgot to make: on the size of plasmas, have tried a few things since (bipods, stockier shoulder rest, scope, strap - the bloody guns are just so big and I can't stop for a total redo of the arms/positions, or the whole project is tipping over at this stage. the arms that take flamers and meltas no prblemo, just don't work here and become top heavy, unrealistic.

Painting to the rescue it is.

In the army they will blend in ok.

Malika - The Viper is the one in the pic, it's a vendetta with rack of air to air missiles under the wings

I found this piece of artwork over at Deviant art. I guess you could make something similar by tearing a bolter and plasma pistol apart. I also noticed that on your Alpha Legion marine you used a 2nd edition bolter, is it the plastic one from the tactical marine sprue? If so, you might then also have the thin back part of it?

Perhaps a bit overkill for just two plasma guns, but still...food for thought!

I recently made a plasmagun conversion from a plasmapistol extending the middle part with a peace of sprue. It looks more like a plasma smg sizewise but might just be right for the spec ops theme of your squad. I'll upload a pic as soon as I'm home from work.

btw... what will you use the two desert wolves as?

konf

I've used the flamer off of the catachan sprue and a plasma pistol to make a decent looking plasmagun. Just snip off the flamer tank, cut a L-shape out of the flamer tubes, and work the pistol into that area.

It creates a shorter profile than the standard plasmagun, but would probably present similar issues with length.

I'm not so sure about the shoulder pad but I think I will reserve judgement until the end.

I see what you mean, the plasma guns look slightly out of place, if you try to apply realistic stadards, that is. It's 40k, that's an excuse for any missized modelling, GW used it from day one. Anyway, I know you like your minis to make at least some sense and so do I. My suggestion is to simply swap in Elysian plasmaguns, they are less bulky, less wide and slightly shorter IIRC.