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Well, its been a good 8 months or so and i've decided its time to expand on my 1500pts of Raven Guard. Been assembling these since January but the weathers only just been good enough today to basecoat them and make some progress.

First up, a 5 man assault squad with flamer, all in converted MK VI armour (which the Raven Guard were testing prior to the heresy beginning). No jump-packs as they will be deploying by Drop Pod.



Next up, a 5 man assault squad with sergt, inferno pistol and metla gun, all in Mark V armour with jump-packs.

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5 man Vanguard Vet squad with jump-packs, thunder hammer and lightning claw.



5 man squad of clone troopers (Corax used clone technology after Istvaan to try and rebuild his shattered legion. This didnt work entirely to plan, leaving physically unstable troopers who Corax refused to give up on. These "brothers" are allowed to serve the emperor and the legion unto death, using the rules for Death Company).



10 Stern Guard with a mix of bolters, combi-meltas and a combi-flamer.





Close-ups of thecombi-weapons.





Hopefully start painting one of the assault squads tomorrow night.

Completed the 5 man Assault Squad on foot today. First time experimenting with the new grass tufts, think they look quite nice and are much easier to work with than static grass. Going to go back and add them to the rest of the army over the next few weeks.













Started work on the 5 man Assault Squad with jump-packs, but painting the white takes forever. :(

Good to see an update. I've bought some of those tufts too but I haven't tried them yet! How about an army shot of the models completed so far.

The tufts are pretty cool, but can be slightly annoying to glue on after you've painted the model, especially if they are going between the models legs.

Theres an army shot on Page 3. Only things completed since then is this 5 man squad. There will be a new shot once I get the remaining 25 guys of this batch done. Should also include another drop pod and a dreadnought too!

Loving the use of forgeworld parts+ great conversions to make this force really stunning!

Finished another 5 man Assault Squad, this time with jump-packs, inferno pisol and melta gun. Im really liking how the grass tufts are working, much better than static grass!











Group shot, including a shot of the rear detail of the jump packs.





Going to have a break from painting tomorrow and then i might start on either the defective clones or the vanguard veterans.

Broke the habit of a lifetime while painting the clone troopers and decided to finish one as a test model rather than work on all 5.

Here he is, hope you like him.







Took a shot of him with the Chaplain too.



Hopefully finish the other 4 over the weekend.

Oh my god, that's the best looking death mask I've seen!

Cloned Raven Guard are completed. Purity Seals are a different colour from the regular Raven Guard, the red purity seals represents purity in body, mind and spirit, the purple purpity seals represent purity in.... spirit and purpose, seeing as their minds are bodies were corrupted during the cloning process.





And a shot with the Chaplian to lead them to their final deliverance!



Hopefully start on the SternGuard on wednesday. Plan is to keep painting 5 models a week to get these last 15 models out of the way with as soon as possible.

Woohoo, Vanguard Veterans are now done! I was really disparing with these guys, tried to speed up the painting by leaving all the tidying up right until the end and I just couldnt see that they were going to look good. Luckily though, a bit of tidying up, a heavy dose of badab black and im quite happy with them.

First 3 vets.







Vet with Lightning Claw.





Vet Segt with Thunder Hammer.





Group shot.



So, so, so, so sooooooo glad they are done. Not gonna do anymore jump infantry for a while I think, got 10 sternguard left to do and i just picked up some bikes, attack bike and another old school landspeeder that are raring to join the Raven Guard.

Your Raven Guard look excellent, I really like the idea you used for the cloned ones.

Those jump packs are looking great. Are they Max mini or proper Forgeworld?

Love your work. speically your how you paint white,
Subbed.
Peace

Friendly bump! These are beautiful and very nicely executed!

Cool Squad!

Llamahead - Jump packs are max-mini, but they did agreat job of replicating what heresy ear jump-packs would look like so i think they fit in pretty well.

Glad you guys like them. I started on the first 5 guys of the SternGuard squad tonight, made some progress but no photos yet. Hopefully get them done by the end of the weekend.

they FW jusmp packs or the chapter house ones?
Peace

Spudkins - Max-mini ones. They are a company from poland selling various conversion bits, you should be able to find them on e-Bay.

Finished the first 5 Sternguard. They were a bit quicker to paint than the Vanguard Vets due to the lack of jump-packs and power weapons!

First up, 3 vets with Combi-meltas.







Vet Segt.



Combi-flamer.



And squad shot.



5 more of these to do and that makes 30 Raven Guard in 6 weeks, not too shabby.

Hey nice work and not bad on the speed. 30 models in 6 weeks is about 5 times my rate I love preheresy/heresy stuff, these are great!

Last 5 SternGuard done.... finally, it was really daunting having those 30 infantry staring at me all unpainted!





Full 10 man squad.



A pretend army shot... the 30 infantry finally completed.



Going to work on a pair of dreads, drop-pod, land speeder, bike squad and various characters next, get them assembled and undercoated and see where we go from there.

These are really looking good. I am a big fan of those Max mini jump packs I've seen about.

Great work, always nice when you hit a milestone! What's next?

Dreadnought please.

Everything is looking really really good. especially liking those sternguard

Ace veterans, both squads have come together really well. Nice conversions on the sternguard.

Laney

These guys look really really great. There are some chapters that dont get much of a look in so its nice to see something else, i will be hanging around and keeping up to date with this

Young Logan

Looking great!

Thanks for the kind comments guys.

Whats next? A drop pod, my 3rd and last as i hate putting them together.



Old school landspeeder with heavy flamer and multi-melta, the pilot is meant to be in the process of pointing out a new target.





Did somebody say dread? How about 2 dreads, one with frag cannon and meltagun, one with multi-melta (from an immolator) and a heavy flamer (again from an immolator).











The dreads are both old metal ones with plastic venerable fronts, however the halves didnt match up so i had to cover the gaps with plasti-card armour.

Hopefully get these guys undercoated and started tomorrow, probably dreads first.

they look really good anyway tbh, very big and powerful

Lookig good daft question how long has the Immolator been in Plastic?