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Very nice commissar,

Hellhounds are fun, the new model is one of my favourites in the IG range, lots of fun details to paint.

Thanks Noodles!

Are you still working on your Genswick army? Someone said that you were selling everything.

I have been distracted by a new project. Instead of power axe sergeants, carapace vets, or flamers, I have succumbed to the lure of the big guns. In my defense, Napoleon told me to do it. Wait, why are you putting me in a padded room?

Wow, I haven't updated my army progress blog thread in such a long time. That is what happens when I use my smart phone to access Dakka all the time instead of using my computer.

I have been busy on my Cadians so I should add all of my progress photos here within a week or two. For now, I will just add photos of my Cadian snipers that I finished this week.

My armored sentinels are finally getting some paint, starting with the bases. I built the models and decorated the bases back in May of 2018 (almost a year ago) so there was a long gap in progress.











Big bases are a lot of fun to decorate and sometimes daunting to paint because of all the variety. You find yourself wondering how to paint each odd little bit.

Hopefully more progress this week as I finish edge highlighting the "chicken feet" and move on to the main models.

I also finally revised my 2000 point Cadian army to comply with the new point values from Chapter Approved 2018. The points drop means adding a veteran squad. I will probably create it from painted models already in my collection but I still need five new models. It may be kitbashing and conversion time once I finish the Sentinels.

Bases look cool.

Thanks, and now after two more hours of painting them, here are the imperceptibly improved bases.

Can anyone even notice the changes?

I'd suggest trying to blend in the items on the base to the ground a little more. Generally you don't want to draw too much attention to the base, so keeping it a bit more monochromatic is a good idea. What I'd do is drybrush the whole base with your gravel mid- or highlight color. This would simulate dust falling on objects in the ground. Now they look a bit too clean and feel disjointed from the ground. Having said that, your paintwork looks good, I like the details!

In hand, the items on the bases do not stand out much. In the pics, my Ott light is making them much brighter. Maybe after the sentinels are painted, I might find the bases too distracting. I hope it doesn't take me long to get to that fork in the road.

This looks rather daunting though...



I think that I will start with the armored compartments.

I finally painted more of my three armored Cadian sentinels but they still look very boring since all I did was block out all of the main colors. That took way too long and bored me to tears so I won't make you suffer through pictures of them at this stage. Instead, here are lousy snapshots of my Cadian force, the 11th Cadian Assault Regiment and the inquisitors that they sometimes work for.



These pics are mainly to show you that I am a really slow painter but I have managed to make some progress over the years. The sharp eyed might notice the changes from previous pictures of these units. I am starting to have more time than ever to paint and model so I look forward to getting a lot more of this army finished and doing many more conversions. Unfortunately, I have to finish those darned sentinels first so you will have to suffer along with me through that...

Cheers!

My "Chicken Walkers" received a lot more love and attention today during Hobby Sunday paint time at my FLGS. Since I kind of hate painting them, the weekly painting session with friends really helps to keep me motivated.




One more session ought to see them nearly finished. I still have to edge highlight two of them. finish the details, wash and highlight them, then do the multiple coats of sealant and apply decals before the final Dullcote layer. I like to give them a gloss coat before applying the decals, then hand brush another layer of gloss coat over the decals after they are set, and then use the Dullcote once the models are fully dry.

Crazy? Maybe, but my decals rarely get worn off even after years of games.

They are looking pretty good at this stage. The wash will really make them.pop I think.

Also, what on earth is that monkey doing there Sneaky jokaero reference?

Thanks, Flinty!

The monkey is just for fun. I keep him on my painting table so he always mugging for the camera except during battle shots. That reminds me that I didn't post any photos of the tournament that I played in on the 27th of April. It was a fluffy fun team tournament so naturally my Cadian army teamed up with Khorne demons because that's fluffy. Actually, we were paired up at the last minute because his partner cancelled. I knew the guy well and he is a fun player so we had a blast in the three games. I think we went 2-1 but I really didn't pay attention because it was all for fun and to introduce new players to team tournament games. The only think I really remember from that day was my priest getting nicknamed "Leroy Jenkins" by the three teams we played against. He made extremely long solo charges in all three games and killed enemy models each time to tip an objective in our favor. He chopped up space marine scouts in the first game, dark eldar reavers in the second game, and a commissar in the final game. Serves me right for leaving him out of so many battles because I considered him a waste of points. My Khorne teammate's theory is that the priest is actually a worshipper of Khorne. That might explain the color of his chain sword...

Well, I finally have time to work on 40K again so it is time to change two of my three Vendettas into Valkries for a 40K campaign at my FLGS. I want the Valks armed with multilasers and Multiple Rocket Pods so I removed the twin linked lascannons on the side of the cockpits. The wing mounted TL lascannons are magnetized so all I had to do was pull them off.

Now the task is to magnetize four rocket pods and the new multilasers. I started with the pods tonight and had planned to use a pair of small nails in each rocket pod. The nails would connect to the two small rare earth magnets in the ordnance rails under each wing. This worked OK but the magnetic bond was weak so I added another rare earth magnet to connect between the nails and the wing mounted magnets. That greatly improved the bond but allowed the pods to swivel 360 degrees, which was not quite what I wanted.

I took out the nails and decided to use thin strips of tin nail caps, which are normally used for roofing but I cut them up all the time to magnetize vehicles. The pics below pretty much explain the process. I only need to add that tin sheet can have very, very, very sharp edges when cut so please be careful if you use it and dull the dangerous edges with a file. Make sure you use the file at an angle that dulls the edges. I won't go into the story about that one guy that was accidentally filing the edges to a razor sharp finish.














It is too late to magnetize the multilasers tonight so I will hop on that tomorrow.

Good luck to the other tinkerers out there!

This update is a day late because I spent yesterday playing with my airbrush instead of magnetizing the side mounted multilasers and twin-linked lascannons for my two Vendettas/Valkyries. Now it is a sunny Sunday and I have finally finished the magnet work.

I used the same tools and materials that I used to magnetize the underwing weapons/ordnance but I added some green stuff putty and two round rare earth magnets that were approximately 5 mm in diameter and 1.5 mm thick.

The pics below show the process. As before, I was careful with the sharp edges of the tin that I cut into rectangles and I also worked quickly enough that I could test fit the finished weapons into the mountings before the green stuff had hardened. That allowed the weapon base with the tin rectangle to push the green stuff and magnet a bit to ensure a proper fit.












Now I can easily switch these two aircraft from Vendettas to Valkryies and vice versa. The last thing to do today is to paint the multilasers and the multiple rocket pods. Eventually, I will have to magnetize the Hellstrike missiles but they stink in the game right now so I am not in a hurry to get that done.

Cheers and good luck on your projects!



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As I finish up painting on the Valkyrie weapons, I also finished the three armored Sentinels that I have been working on (and off) since May of 2018. Glad to just get them off of my work table so that I can start my next project: sergeants with boltguns.






Cheers and good luck on your projects!

It has been a long time since my last project update but, as always, I keep adding to my painted masses of Cadians. The latest additions are a Primaris Psyker and a unit of Bullgryns with mauls and a 50/50 mix of shields.







I am playing in a 2v2 9th Edition 40K tournament on the 22nd so I wanted the new units to fill out my 1000 points of Cadians, that include 6 plasma infantry squads, two company commanders, a full payload manticore, a five man unit of scions, an astropath, and a priest. My partner in the tourney is bringing 1000 points of Sisters of Battle.

I will try to get some practice games in before the tourney because I have not played 9th Edition yet. I may lose often but at least I will be getting my army back into action.

Well, 10th Edition is here so my Cadian army is kind of screwed. My Lemans are cost inefficient and most of the units that are good in 10th edition are units that I don't own (Rogal Dorns and Gaunt's Ghosts) or units that are not WYSIWYG for their most effective options (Sentinels, Commissar, Cadian Commander, Cadian Sergeants).

So I am retooling my 11th Cadian Assault Regiment for 10th Edition. New models are on order. I have sifted through my extensive bits bins for once derided weapon options and I have started building, priming, and painting. I am also getting some games in with proxies to get a feel for what works.

My tentative 2000 point list is:

Warlord Lord Solar Leontus (new model that needs painting)

Two Cadian Command Squads (with plasma gun)(one complete and one needs to be assembled and painted)

Commissar with PW and plasma pistol (new model with PP weapon swap that needs painting)

Gaunt's Ghosts (on order)

Two Regimental Enginseers (one complete, one needs to be painted)

Three 20 man units of Cadian Shock Troops with 2 autogun sergeants, 2 plasma guns, and 2 melta guns each (need autogun sergeants)

One unit of 3 Armored Sentinels with HK missiles, chainsaws, and lascannons (need HKs and chainsaws added)

One unit of 3 Scout Sentinels with HK missiles, chainsaws, and autocannons (need all weapons added)

Manticore with HK missile (needs HK added)

Two Rogal Dorns (on order) with Oppressor Cannon, Pulveriser Cannon, two Multi-Meltas, Heavy Stubber, and co-axial autocannon

Heavy weapon squad with mortars (complete)

Less than half of the army is drawn from my extensive painted collection of Cadians. So this blog will be active again until I get all of the new models and weapon options built and painted. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know. I don't care. I don't ask questions. I just know the Imperium needs the Guard and we answer the call! The Cadian 11th will be ready!

Good looking imperial army! I think I will copy some of your techs for magnetizing the kits, the results are really good.

 muette wrote:
Good looking imperial army! I think I will copy some of your techs for magnetizing the kits, the results are really good.

Thanks! Fortunately, a lot of the newer Guard plastic kits either make magnetization easier or make magnets unnecessary.

Sentinel squadron looks good! I'm building up 3 of those classic ones myself for my guard.

 ph34r wrote:
Sentinel squadron looks good! I'm building up 3 of those classic ones myself for my guard.

My three scout sentinels are the original plastic kits acquired decades ago. One was still on the sprue so it was a trip down memory lane to assemble it this week. I still need chainsaws for them since none came in the kits back then unless you bought the Catachan version. A buddy is 3D printing some for me. I also need Hunter-Killer missiles for them but I am using leftovers from my vehicle bitz bin. GW keeps changing the HK missiles in their Guard vehicles so I am not sure which HK version I am using. Not the latest ones but not the oldest version either.

My three armored sentinels are the in-between plastic kit, not the latest and not the originals. Fortunately, these kits came with all of the weapon options including chainsaws and HK missiles so I just had to dig through my bitz to find them. I painted the bitz yesterday and today and glued them on. Unfortunately, I forgot the power packs for the lascannons so I will paint those tomorrow.

I also have three kits of the latest sentinels but I am not sure yet whether to make them scouts or armored sentinels. I like both but I am not sure I need nine sentinels in a 2K army list.

I got my two Rogal Dorn kits today so the only kit still on order is Gaunt's Ghosts. GW has lots of shortages of their kits right now but the Dorns and the Ghosts still appear to be plentiful. That is good news since most of my friends are struggling to fill out their 2K army lists.

This week, I received the base adapter rings that I wanted for my three armored sentinels. They are based on the 65mm (usually referred to as 60mm but they are actually 65mm) bases that came in the kits from GW, but the new sentinels come with a larger 80mm base. Because I liked the way I decorated my sentinel bases, I chose to use base adapter rings instead of putting my sentinels on new 80mm bases.



The base adapter rings came from a chap in England that runs a little company called Winterdyne Commission modelling. He sells a variety of base adapter rings on eBay. They are not too expensive but the postage to the USA is quite a bit. I paid about 18 quid for three of the 65mm to 80mm adapter rings. His packaging is professional and the package arrived quickly (ordered on July 15th and received on the 24th). Not bad for overseas shipping and customs.




I still have to sit down and paint up the power pack bits, glue the old bases into the adapter rings, and then texture and paint the adapter rings. I think it will be difficult to notice that the sentinels are not on a normal 80mm base once all of the finishing touches are completed.

I sat down and finished updating my three armored sentinels for 10th Edition.

The base adapters worked great. The power packs for the lascannons are finished and attached. I can put these on the tabletop now and not feel bad about it. I may add some decals and weathering later but there are many other models that need paint first.

My next project is the new Commissar model with the plasma pistol that I added to him.

I always get more done when I paint a little every day, even when I don't feel like it. Just paint simple things to keep momentum. Then the figure gets closer to completion and I rediscover my motivation as I get beyond the base coats.

I am painting one of the new GW commissars. It is a simple plastic kit that unfortunately doesn't include all of the ranged weapons available on the datacard, but I weapon swapped a plasma pistol for his bolt pistol.

He is about 2/3 of the way done and I am looking forward to finishing him once the washes dry.

Yes! A little bit every day and a) the bug bites you and you get more done than you thought and 2) you maintain momentum and have a net result to look at for inspiration.

Nice work on the commissar! How did you do the ice effect on the base?

Rock on!

 Meer_Cat wrote:

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Nice work on the commissar! How did you do the ice effect on the base?

Rock on!

Thanks! The base is nothing special. It is the molded plastic base that comes in the commissar kit. It might look like ice but it is just the somber grey base coat on a smooth chunky object. It will look more like concrete once I add washes and stippled highlights.

The commissar was so close to completion that I had no trouble getting motivated and finishing him.




Now to assemble the Gaunt's Ghosts minis (except for the capes) and get them primed.

It seems like all that I have gotten done in the last six days is building and brush priming Gaunt's Ghosts. I have been going about it very slowly and methodically. This is my first time brush priming with Grey Seer. I avoided the rattle can method due to cost and the possibility of a priming mishap in the very high local humidity.

As you can see in the photos, I am also keeping the models partially unbuilt to make it easier to paint the cloaks. We will see how well this goes.




This is a nice kit and I looking forward to laying down the paint on these models. I plan to use Juan Hidalgo's Contrast paint method. I really enjoy his videos.

But since I am still finishing the priming today, I will have to paint some other models while I wait for the Ghosts to dry thoroughly. I wonder which models I should paint...