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New guy looks great, and what a haul.

That's a fair few tanks there. New guy looks cool.

Cool army, love the veteran look you are giving them, will be following.

Yo yo! kitbashed and converted together a bunch of vets to form a sort of suicide shoot-assault squad to wittle down then hold up a unit ingame
Here's what I have so far

LDP

Those looks damn cool, the posing on the first guy is great. That's shaping up to be one badass squad.

Ooooooh these a very awesome ! The posing is great, very dynamic

They look awesome, but why the plasma gun? If building a shoot then assault squad, it seems a melta or flamer would serve you better.

I’ve not read their rules, so don’t know the details or if there is something odd going on, but would have picked a assault weapon for a shotgun squad.

I’m also a little curious what the second guy has on his back. He’s already got a shotgun out, so what’s peaking over his shoulder?

Sorry, I sort of falsely advertised a little. I've built a squad of lasgun vets already with plasmas and a missile team, and the other 2 are the only ones in my suicide squad so far (waiting on more shotguns you see), probably should have specified that
the other gun hes toting is just a lasgun incase i want to switch things up

Vets and scions look great, LDP! Love the drab paint scheme.

Looking good the new scion kit has so many bits in it. Are the other shotguns going to be different? Otherwise the whole squad may look a little samey. Only personal opinion. Looking forward to seeing more

Young Logan

 Young_Logan wrote:
Looking good the new scion kit has so many bits in it. Are the other shotguns going to be different? Otherwise the whole squad may look a little samey. Only personal opinion. Looking forward to seeing more

Young Logan

How compatible are they with SM scout shotguns? The guns look the same-ish from this side of the computer. I’m pretty sure the SM scout bike kit has some holstered shotguns that could be strapped onto a backpack, even if the arms/hands don’t work.

This whole blog is fantastic!

The paint scheme really brings your Vets and Stormtroopers to life. Really nice conversion for the vets.

Do the Cadian legs work well with the Scion torsos, or is there some modelling magic going on?

@Moltar cheers mate!

@young_logan yea i went to the store yesterday planning to buy scout bikes and normal scouts for both legs and shotguns. They only had bikes though hence why i've only built 2 so far D: correct me if im wrong but the normal scouts kit has shotguns in it right?

@Nevelon yea ive got the scout bikes and am planning to use scout arms

@Medium of Death thanks a bunch man! Im afraid the scion torso and guard legs combo is rather annoying...the leg connection point is flat whereas the torso is concave...i put some putty into the recess then had to superglue the joint if that helps

LDP

Where did you get the shotgun?

Yeah the regular scouts have shotguns that are held by both hands, best of luck shame you couldn't get any then

Young Logan

Done! My Valkyrie is done, base still needs to be painted but the gunship itself is done.

Also included is a light box test

LDP

Nice clean look on both models, and the Valk looks like an authentic military machine with such neat lines.

That valkyrie is really nice. Love the grey that you've got going on.

Thanks for the info about the torso's and legs. Do you think regular Cadian arms will fit across the Scion torso? It looks like it might work, but having not had the mini's in front of me it's hard to tell.

That's a tricky one...I've put a few cadian arms on scion torsos and its just hard because the torso armour protrudes around the joint and makes it difficult to fit in shoulder pads from guard kits because they cant be snug. In some instances I just put a little putty in behind and then superglued so you should be fine for the most part but i dont think it's been designed to be compatible

Ah well, I'll tell you how I get on with it. Ordered some Cadians and Scions to try it out after being inspired here. LDP pattern veterans are on the way!

Best of luck to you! LDP pattern... I like it, has a nice ring

Heyo!
Finished the Scion Sgt today. Relatively please with the result, fits in with the others done so far. I also mastered what I feel to be the right amount of subtlety on my OSL on his lenses. (its extreeeeeeeemely subtle, I've provided a close up so you can see).
Tell me what you think!

LDP

Well! I couldn't wait. Just finished the Veteran Sgt aswell. Immediately took pics and slapped them up here because I want to see what you guys think! I'm really stoked with how he came out.
Here are the pics,

LDP

That is a very beautiful model! I really like these last two models you painted. Really well done, can't wait to see more.

Looks good. It might be nice to have the powerfist picked out a bit. Not sure how that would work, but I think it deserves a little more then the stock paint job.

Nice clean work LDP. I agree with Paradigm on the Valk- quite authentic looking.

Looks really good. Confirms that the bits really do work together well aesthetically and the paintjob only strengthens that. Nailed it.

Those legs are converted to that pose, right?

Last two are looking awesome, those kits maybe aren't compatible but you've certainly made it work.

@Sageheart, cheers man More to come!

@Nevelon yeeeeeeeeeeeaah I dunno, the side profile is ok, though it does look quite dull in the image. I think in person it's okay, not really sure how to spice it up and keep it in the scheme

@Elnibbus thanks bud, glad you think so! Hopefully the tanks and stuff will look the same

@Medium of Death They are indeed converted, it was pretty straight forward though, just a chop of some normal legs and kneely legs

@Paradigm thanks so much man! Feedback means a ton

Nice guard you got going on here!

i really like the camoscheme

keep it up!