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Looking really good, SRM! Love the Commisar. I'll be damned to say that everytime I load up this thead I have an itch to start a [small?] Valhallan force myself.

J-paint wrote:Looking good SRM, The tank looks very realistic, like they'd just whacked out the brushed and slapped it on, great job, more infantry up next?

Thanks! That's precisely the look I was going for - intentionally painting it to look haphazard wasn't easy. More infantry are indeed up next; I've got 30 Valhallans and a Commissar, primed, based, and sitting on my desk.

Eiríkr wrote:Looking really good, SRM! Love the Commisar. I'll be damned to say that everytime I load up this thead I have an itch to start a [small?] Valhallan force myself.

Glad you like him! Was expecting more comments on the Commissar, since those dudes seem like they'd be pretty popular in the painting and modeling world. I'm done hunting down Valhallans online for the time being, so if you do decide to start some up you at least won't be in a bidding war with me

Lovin it ! Im glad to see some one else using Valhallans . I like your conversions , well done .

Really impressive work SRM, I especially like your highlighting on the coats
Your snow mixture looks top-notch. The GW snow looks like little slivers of fiber glass, but yours looks granular and realistic. The epaulettes on the Platoon Commander are great also!
Keep it up, very inspirational!

chrisyella wrote:Really impressive work SRM, I especially like your highlighting on the coats
Your snow mixture looks top-notch. The GW snow looks like little slivers of fiber glass, but yours looks granular and realistic. The epaulettes on the Platoon Commander are great also!
Keep it up, very inspirational!

Thank you! The coats are an exercise in layering and a lot of fun to paint. Glad it's showing through in the paintwork. I haven't used GW's snow, but I can't imagine it's that different from the Gale Force 9 snow I use. It's a pretty simple snow technique, and I'd be happy to explain it in this thread!

Really splendid work!!! consider yourself exalted!!

Having an all metal guard army myself i can only appreciate what you showed us! Now i do rock with old style cadians, and i know they are nowhere near as popular, but they are much easier to find (i do have a mixed platoon of catachans and tallarns and stuff too)

I do encountered the same problem with heavy bolters as you did with the mortars. It's because the unit boxes they sold in the days of old had a specific heavy weapon.

Valhallans had mortars
cadians had heavy bolters
tallarns had autocannons
catachans had missile launchers
mordians had lascannons

It's one of the reasons why you tend to find one of the above more easily on the bay. Same goes for the special weapons. You can easily find ten flamers but will struggle to find a cadian plasma gun. Heck i only have 2 of those in my 120 man army. It's also the reason why the valhallan sergeant with sword and flamer is so hard to find. The boxes came with the bolt pistol sergeant I don't own a sword / laspistol sergeant either, as the cadian box came with the bolt pistol one.

But hey, when you go classic, one must accept that such a project is a treasure hunt sometimes. It makes it al more enjoyable

If you want to check my guys out:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/449008.page
It even has a valhallan commander

petercooman wrote:Really splendid work!!! consider yourself exalted!!

Having an all metal guard army myself i can only appreciate what you showed us! Now i do rock with old style cadians, and i know they are nowhere near as popular, but they are much easier to find (i do have a mixed platoon of catachans and tallarns and stuff too)

I do encountered the same problem with heavy bolters as you did with the mortars. It's because the unit boxes they sold in the days of old had a specific heavy weapon.

Valhallans had mortars
cadians had heavy bolters
tallarns had autocannons
catachans had missile launchers
mordians had lascannons

It's one of the reasons why you tend to find one of the above more easily on the bay. Same goes for the special weapons. You can easily find ten flamers but will struggle to find a cadian plasma gun. Heck i only have 2 of those in my 120 man army. It's also the reason why the valhallan sergeant with sword and flamer is so hard to find. The boxes came with the bolt pistol sergeant I don't own a sword / laspistol sergeant either, as the cadian box came with the bolt pistol one.

But hey, when you go classic, one must accept that such a project is a treasure hunt sometimes. It makes it al more enjoyable

If you want to check my guys out:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/449008.page
It even has a valhallan commander

Thanks for the informative post! I know the Valhallan squad box you can still get from GW has the chainsword/bolt pistol sergeant, but you can't even buy the handflamer/power sword sergeant from GW. I will be getting one of those in the mail soon though, thanks to the Swap Shop. Also, I dig your old metal IG too! Nice mix of models in there.

Yeah sadly gw stopped selling the models that were 'unusable' in new editions of the codex. Like the valhallan sergeant, classic commisar with flamer and autopistol tallarn sergeant. I have all those bar the valhallans. I am using them as they are, i just can't bring myself to cutting up those models.

Thanx on the comments! I am one of those guys that thinks a unified colour scheme ties every model togheter!

(actually that is just an excuse to buy them all )

I don't need any motivation to buy more regiments of metal IG, trust me! Funnily enough, GW does still sell the Valhallan platoon commander with flame pistol and chainsword though. I've got one or two of the power axe/flamer commissars in SImple Green at the moment though. When I get the other Valhallan sergeant I might make him an Al'Raheim counts-as. Outflanking blobs sound nasty.

I got me one of each of the classic commisars myself. The axe/flamer one, the bolter/power sword one and the powerfist guy.. Great sculpts!

Well they are great for getting at them pesky long fangs! throw enough wounds at them and they will die. Sadly regular infantry squads/commisars can't include power fists too, otherwise they could trash some armour 2. Meltabombs are great though for outflanking a basilisk or something. (after your melta guns all miss that is )

Btw it's great gw still sells those old sculpts. If only they would sell the old cadians instead off that plastic junk I had an army worth over 100 men of them, just couldn't stand that they were everywhere. traded them all for metal guard :p

petercooman wrote:I got me one of each of the classic commisars myself. The axe/flamer one, the bolter/power sword one and the powerfist guy.. Great sculpts!

Well they are great for getting at them pesky long fangs! throw enough wounds at them and they will die. Sadly regular infantry squads/commisars can't include power fists too, otherwise they could trash some armour 2. Meltabombs are great though for outflanking a basilisk or something. (after your melta guns all miss that is )

Btw it's great gw still sells those old sculpts. If only they would sell the old cadians instead off that plastic junk I had an army worth over 100 men of them, just couldn't stand that they were everywhere. traded them all for metal guard :p

I have the Steel Legion Commissar with my Steel Legion, and I just put a coat of black down on the old powerfist commissar. Shame you can only put him in a command squad. I wish GW sold the old Cadians and Catachans in addition to the plastics - I really, really like the current plastic ranges, but the old metal ones ruled too!

You can always use him as a lord commisar too if you want

The current plastics are nice, but over at the IGMB i have seen plenty. I like my guys a little more unique

Brother SRM wrote:
Thank you! The coats are an exercise in layering and a lot of fun to paint. Glad it's showing through in the paintwork. I haven't used GW's snow, but I can't imagine it's that different from the Gale Force 9 snow I use. It's a pretty simple snow technique, and I'd be happy to explain it in this thread!

Yes sir, the layering is definitely showing through. Also if you wouldn't mind doing a small step-by-step for your snow technique, that would be tits mate
In reference to the Citadel / GW snow, I've included a couple of shots as to (hopefully...) show the 'slivers' of snow...

chrisyella wrote:
Yes sir, the layering is definitely showing through. Also if you wouldn't mind doing a small step-by-step for your snow technique, that would be tits mate
In reference to the Citadel / GW snow, I've included a couple of shots as to (hopefully...) show the 'slivers' of snow...

Spoiler:

 

Ugh! That snow looks awful! The Gale Force Nine snow is a fine powder and, well, you can see the results yourself! My technique for snow is very simple, and I totally lifted it from another poster over on Somethingawful.

0. (optional) Paint the area you want snow on white. Sometimes you can tell the difference, sometimes you can't, but it at least gives you reference for where to put snow.
1. Squirt out PVA glue into a tray you can mix with. Buttertub lids work great.
2. Put in an equal amount of snow flock.
3. Add a little bit of water - a few drops worth - and mix until it's slightly thinner than toothpaste.
4. Apply to areas you want snow.
5. Dust snow over the areas you applied the mixture to, shake off the excess, and enjoy your awesome snow!

Brother SRM wrote:I don't need any motivation to buy more regiments of metal IG, trust me! Funnily enough, GW does still sell the Valhallan platoon commander with flame pistol and chainsword though. I've got one or two of the power axe/flamer commissars in SImple Green at the moment though. When I get the other Valhallan sergeant I might make him an Al'Raheim counts-as. Outflanking blobs sound nasty.

I do have a spare Al'Rahem knocking around somewheree - not sure how I ended up with a second one, mind you.

Dysartes wrote:
I do have a spare Al'Rahem knocking around somewheree - not sure how I ended up with a second one, mind you.

Infantry horde armies have a way of multiplying when you're not looking. It's great on the tabletop, not so much when you're trying to get everything painted

Man i wish mine would multiply when i'm not looking, i have to pay to get duplicates :p

Wow, I love the leman russ.

petercooman wrote:Man i wish mine would multiply when i'm not looking, i have to pay to get duplicates :p

I have 10 each of "running Valhallan with lasgun at the hip" and "Valhallan aiming down the sights" sitting on my painting desk. Getting a wee bit tired of painting the same two guys!
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Shredsmore wrote:Wow, I love the leman russ.

Thanks!

I feel your pain! I had the spledid idea of painting all my flamers at the same time.

I thought it would go faster as i would probably know where al details are after the first one. I also got tired of it after the 3rd one :p

So I just got this in the mail:

That's 6 pounds of Valhallans. Heavy weapons teams, sergeants, melta guns, lasgunners, you name it! Thanks to a kind trader on the Swap Shop, I've got enough reinforcements to last me through Summer and then some!

I'm amused that you're measuring Valhallans by weight now.

And chance of a shot of the swag out of the bag(s)?

Dysartes wrote:I'm amused that you're measuring Valhallans by weight now.

Haha! Love it!

Dysartes wrote:I'm amused that you're measuring Valhallans by weight now.

And chance of a shot of the swag out of the bag(s)?

That's how you used to be able to buy Bitz, at various Games Days, etc. Bitz by the gram!

Dysartes wrote:I'm amused that you're measuring Valhallans by weight now.

And chance of a shot of the swag out of the bag(s)?

I'll take some pictures later; here's the description the seller had:

8 - sergeants/officers
2 - comms troopers

Troops
24 - lasgun troopers

Special Weapons
1 - Grenade Launcher
7 - Meltaguns
7 - Flamers

Heavy Weapons
2 - missile launcher teams w/loader complete
2 - Heavy Bolter teams w/loader complete
2 - Heavy Stubber teams (conversions I think, dont remember, can be used as heavy bolters just fine) with HB loaders
1 - Heavy Bolter team (missing the gun and carraige)
1 - Autocannon team (missing the gun and carraige)
5 - mortar teams w/loaders and mortar tube complete
7 - mortar teams w/loaders (missing mortar tubes)
1 - lascannon team w/loader complete
5 - lascannon teams w/loader (missing gun and carraige)

And I've got some extra heavy weapons team bits so I'll be able to make some of the incomplete teams complete!

cool stuff bro. I liked it

Your Leman Russ looks great! Weathering is just about perfect. I hear what you say about infantry horde armies multiplying. Last IG army I made kinda ballooned to about 150 guys. Totally by accident.

Lol well i already have 130 or so guard, and i just negotiated a deal in the swap shop for 80+ more.

They die fast you know

At least that's what i try to tell my wife

So with the 37 infantry models, 6 heavy weapons teams, and Leman Russ I've painted, I've totaled... 630 points. If I was painting Marines I'd have at least a 1000 point army by now

I did just finish 9 more Guardsmen and put the gloss varnish on em. I'll matte varnish them before work tomorrow morning, and do the snow this weekend. Also, if I count each heavy weapons team as 2 men (as I should) I've painted 49 infantry models. I started this blog about 40 days ago. Painting more than a trooper a day feels pretty awesome, and means this army should be all good to go by 2015

Better late than never