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Love the sentinal and stormies, they look awesome. Not such a fan of the giant coffee mug, but thats just me.

This is quite possibly the best Catachan Army I've ever seen The conversions are wicked, full of character and references to cool '80's action movies, which can only = WIN The painting is very nice too, very crisp

I like the Sentinel, it seems a very promising conversion so far, it looks suitably 'beefed up' to go with the muscular Catachans. Looking forward to seeing it done!

Alright, the stormtroopers are finished. Here they are in all their unshaven glory:
First up are the 2 melta-gunners. One has sweet, 80's feathered blonde hair, and the other is scanning for side armor.

Next up is the big Sarge with his cup o' joe (and probably nicotine if it's available in liquid form in the 41st M). I won't expound on what's written on his mug - you can figure it out for yourself. His buddy's preparing for the underhand frag toss - when an overhand throw just won't do.

Next are the 2 old guys on the team. One's got a pair of hotshot laspistols, the other just has rockin facial hair.

Next up are vanilla operators 1 & 2. One does have a facial scar though - every team needs at least one.

Finally we've got ball cap guy and his buddy - both transitioning to their side-arms for some up close business.


Next up - finishing up the sentinel. I thought about redoing his arm - you're right, it does look a little off - but in the end, laziness won out, so he's going to stay as is. As usual I'll hide any imperfections with paint!

Let me know what you think - I've only got 1 squad to go for my original 5 team concept!

Wonko

Has Blondy with the Meltagun got a black eye?

What part of the deep south is this regiment from again?
Those guys came out great painted.

Any guys from the 1st Preditor movie? or Stargate teams?

Looking cool.

First off, I love what you've done here, especially the fast-roping valk! Now then, while working on my own stormtrooper conversions, I wanted to give the SGT a little somethin to really make him stand out (the free boltgun upgrade just wasn't enough), and your coffee cup idea definately takes the cake! Consider it stolen, sir!

get to the chopper! wrote:Love the sentinal and stormies, they look awesome. Not such a fan of the giant coffee mug, but thats just me.

Could be on a power break

Steal away dude - I wouldn't post it if I cared about being the only guy on the block w/ a coffee toting squad leader.

In my head, all of Catachan is like the deep south - maybe eastern Georgia or Mississippi. "Upgraded" old cars, family firearms, and a good amount of tobacco chewin'.

There's a guy on the first page that's based on Blaine from the 1st predator movie, but otherwise, everyone is based on the general stereotype that squad represents rather than anyone in particular.

And yeah, Blondie has a bum eye - I guess I should touch that up.

wonkobaggins wrote:In my head, all of Catachan is like the deep south - maybe eastern Georgia or Mississippi. "Upgraded" old cars, family firearms, and a good amount of tobacco chewin'.

Dude, that ST rockin' the facial hair looks distinctly like my uncle from Tennessee...

wonkobaggins wrote:
In my head, all of Catachan is like the deep south - maybe eastern Georgia or Mississippi. "Upgraded" old cars, family firearms, and a good amount of tobacco chewin'.

Seeing a squad with family heirloom shotguns (long double barreled kind) would be pretty cool, and probably cheaper than buying FW shotguns.

Herasy minis have weapon sprues

Alright, here's the completed Sentinel. I guess I might add a few bits of vegetation, but you get the gist of it. The chest insignia is, of course, the red devils logo - don't leave home without it!





I'm going to plan on adding 2 more of these to the army just to flush out the force org slot. The other 2 will be modeled in various states of readiness, as I see these guys getting either air dropped in ahead of the Valks or unloaded off the back in a stow configuration. We'll see where the muse takes me!

Until then though, I'm doing some work on a dwarf project next, so it'll be a bit before there's another update.

Wonko

So, what does your Sentinel do to get killer abs like that? haha

Ork lifting

I still feel that the arm with a fist is way too out of place.. hmmm

Woah. That sentinel is really cool!

I haven't been a huge fan of the sentinel conversion so far and today I realized why that was - while the execution is solid, it looks to me like it's going to fall over in a stiff wind. I have a hard time seeing how those spindly little sentinel legs can carry all that extra armor and bulk. That said, if you were to put some nice burly Dreadnought legs on it, I think it'd look sweet.

hey man i like your valks(especially the names )but have you ever tried camo on your guardsmen?it makes them look WAY cooler believe im a catachan player meself...id suggest a pretty easy scheme of bestial brown with snakebite leather highlight...like that:




i use it on my models and it looks rather cool!!!

theses guys remind me of, space age S.A.S forces with mech and tank support


love it

Mate The last model looks like a contractor (the one with baseball cap!)! Really Great Work!

My bet is that most of those guys are based off contractors and/or certain spec operatives ;P

I wouldn't be suprised if I could find OP over at Wannabe.uk.co

This blog is full of awesome, isn't it? Great job on adding so much personality to every guy!

That Sentinel really reminds me off the Goblin Lumberjack Suit thing from Warcraft 3 really skilled conversion! I like the hair on the special forces guys and the paint looks great!

Looks great and its nice to see someone make catachans cool , the sentinal looks pretty rad as well . ( it does remind me of those walker things from matrix 3 though )

Again, thanks for the love. The blog is definitely on hold for a bit, due to the dwarf project that's taken the lead, but I've got a Valk box sitting in the basement that's next up for a paint job. Eventually, there will be a bit more to bring it up to 2k.

As far as Muller's assertion - I'll say they're based off some first hand observation from the middle east and not comment further!

And yeah, I think the sentinel's arm looks a bit eldarish too, I'll probably try and work on that with the next one and come back to touch this one up if something works better.

i love dem valks

Alright, so after seeing some inspiring stuff on another blog from old crow miniatures, I decided to rethink sentinels in the Army. What really sold me on the models is the fact that they fit perfectly into the cargo hold on a Valk, which sits well with my Air Cav army theme. I imagine the valks going in early to drop these guys off in support of dismounted recon, or bringing them in on the second lift of an assault landing to get some mobile heavy weapon support on the ground.

Here's the WIP shots of what I'm using instead:
Front shots:

Tail gate shots with survival gear:

Shot of one pulling out of the back of a valk:


They'll have a stand up gun mount with a creatively posed gunner by the time their finished.

I also wrapped up a trio of objective markers - also made with old crow miniatures. They represent air dropped supplies that were misdropped (damned air force!) and have to be recovered.


Next up for the army is a command valk, followed by a few more squads of dudes. I don't know how much more I'll expand the army past that - I really envision it as a strike force, so I can't see it getting to apocalypse level. That's more in line with the ork pirates!

Let me know what you think.

Dan

i like how the air dropped oil cans landed perfectly on top of each other in a pyramid shape

seriously though, im loving this thread, where did thoe cool sentinel stand ins come from? or is it old crow miniatures?

Nice army and wonderful use of the Old Crow trucks.