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More tanks... Glad to get these guys done, makes it 4 tanks finished in 5 days... wish i could keep this pace up.

2 shots of my hellhound. One's a bit blurry, apologies.





Followed by 2 shots of a sentinal. Really nice kit, quite fancy a few more of them.





Next on the list, 2 Leman Russ's, requisitioned from my old guard army.

Wow didn't realise you'd kept on updating, really nice work with the arbites, particularly on the ones without helmets, the plasma gun for Strakens CCS keep it up.

Another busy week. Bought two Commisars on wednesday and had them finished by friday, a new record!

Here's the two new commisars, along with my repainted original, decided to promote him to a full commisar from the cadet with blue trim onpage 1.







Plus, two Leman Russes i finished on sunday.







Currently half way through the last two guys for a special weapon squad but lacking motivation to do them. Still got a Valkyrie to do, plus i still need to buy a demolisher, two sentinals, another commisar, a commisar lord, 2 more valkyries, a baneblade and a shadowsword. And thats before GW release a new Leman Russ kit and new artillery.

Updates...woot.

First up, 2 guards with flamers to complete a special weapon squad.



Next, a Leman Russ Executioner and a Standard Leman Russ.











Apologies for the slightly dodgy quality of the images, decided to experiment with photographing them in the sunlight.

Next up, either my Valkyrie or the 2 assassins.

Update time....

Here are some Sentinals i did before i went away for the summer, 2 armoured ones with Lascannons and HK missiles and 3 scout ones with Autocannons.











And a group shot of all 6 Sentinals done so far...



Next-up, a quadruple post.


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Spent last night and today making a pair of objective counters, based around a crashed Valkyrie. First-up is a Pilot and injured door-gunner, the auspex by his hand is meant to be an emergancy beacon/short ranged com-set.





Next is another door-gunner, havent decided yet if he's legging it or valiantly leading the enemy away from his injured comrades.





And finally a group shot of the 3 crew together. Havent decided yet what's happened to the other pilot, although the fact i've run out of Valkyrie crew makes it an ongoing mystery.



Will hopefully undercoat them and their Valkyrie today if it ever stops raining outside. Hope you guys like em.

Nice, two great markers there, are they going to be done in the usual camo and black or navy style?

I'd like to paint them as Imperial Navy, will have to have a think about what a good colour scheme would be for them.

Any ideas anyone?

getting better at painting as well dude

Foundation paints and washes mate!

This blog is full of great stuff!

Aye, looking good!

awesome army

Here's the WIP on my downed Imperial Navy guys, along with the pilots of my Valkyrie I started painting yesterday. Decided to theme them around the pilots from Top-gun, with green flight-suits and coloured helmets. The downed pilot with the red helmet is Hollywood, while the two downed door gunners don't get to be anyone special. The pilots in the Valykrie are roughly based on Iceman and Slider, although you might not be able to tell from the dodgy pics, Icemans silver helmet does have blue lightning bolts on it, but they didnt show up in the pic.













I suck at doing freehand stuff, even just straight lines and simple shapes, so i'm going to have a second go at tidying them up today, finishing the bases and hopefully finishing the cockpit too.

When I get this Valkyrie done, i have plans for 2 more, plus a FW Vulture and maybe a Vendetta.

Finished basing the downed crew, along with tidying up the freehand on the helmets.









Spent all day finishing the Valkyrie... got very annoyed last night when the canopy didnt fit right and had a bit of a hardtime with my first attempt at painting camo on avehicle, but i think it looks ok, although maybe i was a little heavy on the devlan mud.







And finally.... an all action pic of the Valk rescuing the downed crew...



Ordered a few more Commissars so I think they'll be next, might wait a while till i paint my next Valk tho..

Those are some really cool objective markers, not something I've seen done before. And the painting is pretty ace too, so kudos all round!

The 2-crewmen objective is really characterful indeed!!!

As for the other, I like him much as a mini, but I'm concerned about him as a passive & helpless "objective"... He seems like he had plenty of time to work on wrapping his arm, and seems more than determined to slay whatever made his "mount" kiss the ground earlier than planned... I guess I'd rather see him as a fighting soldier in a somewhat ramshackled squad than like this...

Though it's only my opinion, no serious concern intended uh!!! I bet by stating he's defending his downed comrades I could get over it lol... And the painting's crisp and well-executed, congratulations!

A few new WIP's to show the Helskan gound forces havent been neglected... it's not all Top Gun.

First up, a Commisar Lord. Decided to give him a banner to make him stand out more from the standard guys.







And another Commisar for him to order around. This guy has the arm i didnt use from the Lord figure.





Finally, either the start of an Ogryn squad or simply a bodyguard. Spent a few moments chopping off his stupid looking teeth and i think he looks a bit more fiercesome now. Also chopped off his "bayonet".



Hopefully will undercoat tomorrow and then get some proper paint on them.

Thanks lifeofshan, I'm going to be late for work! I really like your stuff. The whole blog is full of some really nice touches. Yarrick conversion, the Arbites and Marbo substitute are really nice .

Peter

inspired me to make a thread like this for my guard and my pink marines that i want to look amazing. next time your up north will have to try and bust out some games. ben and jon wanna be beardy all the time so make 2 army lists. fun and destroy

That comissar lord looks ace - really inspirational! Reminds me of the sceneS on the barricade in les miserables. Nice work!

Nice CL, banner is rockin, the other commisar looks kind of akward at the shoulder too me, as if he's twisted his arm, might look better with paint.
Yay! finally someone who kills stupid teeth.

I love the lord commisar! That heroism inspires me to start playing IG again! It's been a long time since I played at all.

Thanks for the kind words guys... the Commisar lord was inspired by the limited edition Ciaphus Cain model from Black Library, decided i wanted a flag waving Commisar for myself and after failing to find one i decided to make my own...

now if the rain would just hold off to allow me to undercoat them...

Decided to go for a squad of Ogryns, obviously before i finished painting the first one. Greenstuffed them both up a bit, gave one an alpine cap and one a rebreather to try to tie them into my special forces guys and make them look a bit more military. It was my first time using my new shiny clay-shapers... still have some way to go with my sculpting skills i feel...











and a group shot with the PIP bone 'ead





I'd love to say i'm gonna get these guys finished this week.... we'll see...

cool i think i need to make a second ogryn squad now , on just isnt enough

Love the rebreather on the Ogryn, you managed to make them look so much like the regular Cadian ones!!!

The cap's nice too, though overall I'm not too fond of the new metal Ogryns...

Nice rebreather looks good, clay shapers definitely seem to be the way forward! PIP looks good too. I would comment on the update time, but frankly I'm in no position too, SPEED UP!

Phil - still waiting to see your log mate...

Got round to painting the commisars and the ogryn bone'ead. Sorry for the rubbish lighting and photo's.

For the Commisar Lords banner i decided to paint it as a Commisariat banner, hence the black and red... I'm really happy with the overall feel, seems suitably heroic...





Next commisar is pretty standard... not too happy with the power sword though..





And a group shot with one of my earlier guys... this now makes 5 Helskan Commisars, including the lord... I think thats enough to keep my boys in check!



Now for the Ogryn... quite happy with how he turned out, was even the first time i tried painting a models eye properly... other two ogryns are being primed as i speak.





Hope you guys like em, and apologies again for the poor photos... that's what happens when the best light source in my house is built into the oven extractor fan! Must do something about that...

that's what happens when the best light source in my house is built into the oven extractor fan! Must do something about that...

Interesting, at what heat do citadel miniatures start to melt?

Seriously nice work, would like to see the ogryns eye close up, bacause minus the extractor fan the pics do lack a bit of detail. Totally agree about the banner mate, really adds a sense of heroic 'badass' to the piece.
Powersword looks a bit too dark to me, maybe start blending further down the blade and get lighter gradually, think theres another comissar of yours that has a rocking sword, just copying that would be better.

This thread is something else, it's like the first time I read Dan Abnett; I just didn't want it to end! Great job, your guard are looking great! especially your Yarrick conversion which I may have to steal.

lifeofshan wrote:
Firstly, a new senior officer with bolt pistol and power sword. Havent given him a name yet, need to think about the whole naming structure on Heslka, i kinda want to go with scandanavian names but i cant think of any decent ones, dont want all my guys called sven, olaf or johann.

Name problems you say? well my boy I have a solution! http://www.seventhsanctum.com/index-name.php full of name generators! Now to me Heslka sounds kind've greek to me so I would suggest http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=greeknamer I hope I could be of service.