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The green in the skin is a custom made color. I mixed green ink into space wolf grey. amd added a tiny bit of white to it. I used the same color with more white to do highlights. I also inkwashed at some point with green inks and then rehighlighted. I either did not write down the recipe that I used or it was lost in one of my moves last year. The color looks like a light mint color when mixed. Vallejo makes a color close to it.. its model color green grey (106) 70971.

ok cool, thx for the recipe, i might use some on my Lesser daemons of tzeentch

-Develain

Granpa Nurgle has blessed me with Diverticulitis and that has put me down for a couple of weeks. I have done some basic colors on the traitorguard guys and I have updated a mutant as a grittier color etc. I hope to have pics by at least this coming Tuesday.

I was given a suggestion on how to better incorporate my muties. It was suggested to have the horribly mutated guys count as Conscripts and that way they could be easily identified as not being the normal guard. Anyone have any suggestions on this or have any experience with Conscripts. Basically is it worth havine several dozen of them in my army?

You know about the abhuman IG doctrines, right? There are at least a couple that modify conscripts - 'beastmen' one, 'sub' one, etc. Forget what the rules do, think beastmen have a stat change and furious charge, subs give a 5+ cover save to those behind them or something (so hideous they have to be killed first, or something).

- Salvage

Conscripts make a great tarpit if you can find a way to make them Fearless or at the very least give them a nice, high Ld to test off of. 50 of them w/ 5 flamers at the front can be good to discourage assaulting opponents.

Boss - I remember seeing those at one point and time, but can't seem to dig them up anymore. Have you got a source on where those can be downloaded?

I remember trying in vain to find them online, so I'm not sure. Amazingly I actually own the WD they're in - I think US 302. I'll dig it out tonight or so.

- Salvage

Cool - yeah, I've searched for them on various GW websites without much success. I'll have to use a little more arcane web fu to see if I can track them down.

Edit: While I haven't found the articles with the points, I have found a couple reviews of the WD that talk about the different Abhuman doctrines you can take. The one probably most applicable here is Slave Levies - they get Slow and Purposeful (so can fire Heavies on the move) and Feel No Pain. Mind you, you don't have to use this on Conscripts. Also useful would be the Subs doctrine which never fall back and provide a 5+ cover save on units behind them (Conscripts are required for this one, though).

Here's the trick, though - to use any, you have to spend a Doctrine point for the Abhuman doctrine. Then you have to spend another point for the specific Abhuman doctrine. And in the case of a couple, like Subs and Homo Sapiens Variatus (the Beastman one), you also have to spend a doctrine point to buy Conscripts.

Thanks guys. I hope your search fu is successful. I have weak search fu skills, myself. I like the slave levies idea... hmmm would like to see more of that. I have no idea what WD these things were supposed to be in. I do however, own every single issue of WD from the past 9 years (US) so if ya remember what issue exactly, I may be able to dig it up. Thanks again!

It's Issue 302 US/303 UK.

I have made some prgress on about 20 traitors. here are some poor pics of the progress on a few. (New camera giving me problems)

Let me know what ya think. The blues highlight into greens in good ole alpha legion style. I have touched up my sentinels and some tohers also, but those pics will have to wait.









just a few of many. kinda scrapped the original Nurgle idea and leaned them more towards Alphas.

Love the look. Kind of cartoony, but menacing. Nice looking army shaping up here.

To go back to the bubbling water, I used half beads I got from a craft shop (which were black), and then used crystal laquer over them after they were painted, I had green bubbling slime which looked great, I'm not sure how they would look with other colours, but worth a try.

I like, nice pale flesh with fun alpha legion scheme on armor. Props on the sly marbo conversion too

- Salvage

Top pic, middle soldier is apparently named Luke, "But I can't see anything with the blast shield down!" The troops look awesome though! Great job, keep it up!

Yeah! I like the "I don't have to see with my eyes...I can sense you" look... several guys including the Sly Marbo conversion will not have eyeslits.

What did you use for the legs on the escher ganger?

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

chris_valera: I'm not sure which mini you are asking about.

This one:



--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

I can't really remember Chris. They were old Tyranid legs I think from old/ancient lead minis. They were definitely GW legs but they were just scrap in my bitz box. :(

Woah