Traitor guard and chaos marines - learning to paint and sculpt.

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**omgitsduane**

I started working on this friday night, got a decent hour or two in. Very happy, but more work to come. Many more highlights and some wear/rust/powders as well. I'm particularly fond of the blood in the mouth.

Also did the whites for these obliterators (death guard pre-heresy colors) but lot to do obviously. Still unsure about a few things but we'll get there eventually.

Ended up placing 27th at the tournament out of 52. I won the first game by a slaughtering, second I was tabled by nids, third I came against a regular opponent of mine but this time my guardsmen didn't want to flee combat and let me shoot the orks, they wanted to try and finish them off themselves, and eventually cost me the game (who would of thought 2 guard squads could hold up 20 orks in cc for 4 turns?). last game was infantry guard vs infantry guard but with a russ, a vendetta and chimera.

I dropped the vendetta straight away, but the chimera took 6 plasma shots, 6 autocannon shots, a lascannon and finally 3 meltas out of double range got it. Drew that but it was hard-fought.

**omgitsduane**

Hoping another pic of the ogre sells it a bit more, but it doesn't look like this non-good camera stuff works half as well :(

I got this off a guy that works at the venue our gaming group frequents, wanted some stuff painted, not to a particularly amazing standard, but done none-the-less. I wanted to try and push myself with this one, I feel I can do more do it, but not really wanting to destroy the time I've put in so far. But I want to keep highlighting until I've had enough.

This is one of his as well. The Red Terror. I'm pretty sure these days this would be a trygon sized creature right? Regardless, I enjoyed this, the gloss black talons, the bright green innards, with some washes. Was great fun to paint. I want to do more nids... Maybe a nid project in the future for fun?

**omgitsduane**

**omgitsduane**

I have been pretty packed with work and trying to be social so there isn't much to update with

This is about it. I have been thinking that since I am starting back the chaos army, I might make a new thread just for them, as it will keep things cleaner for it. I will keep this one up for other projects and the guard. I have a lot of terrain on the way that I will have to assemble up plus some pieces for the jungle boards to go.

**omgitsduane**

But this is the end result that I was after. Crashed vendetta boom!

The baneblade finally got assembled and coat upon coat of paint and this is the final product. I need to wash the front lights and then glaze them, but its where I think I can't push myself any further at this stage.

This camera really doesn't sell the smaller models off well :(

For now that's all I have to show. I am putting small bits and pieces in place to make a simple modular table for my mates and me so pics will be up of that when it comes around!

**Skalk Bloodaxe**

Dude wow! The Baneblade is looking great! It's good to see you still working on this project. I've always been a big fan of freedom fighters standing against Imperial tyranny.

**omgitsduane**

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Dude wow! The Baneblade is looking great! It's good to see you still working on this project. I've always been a big fan of freedom fighters standing against Imperial tyranny.

Thanks! I am happy too, but once I had a look through my imperial armor masterclass books again I realised how lazy I was and when I'm back in the painting mood I will be definitely getting back to it and adding rust/wear/grease/tear/dirt to the model.

I have been getting bored of building chaos marines (5500 points so far out of what seems like NOWHERE) so I got to assembling a few things that fit the new style of my guard.
Mech guard has always been a big push to me from other guard players but I've been against it, loving the feel of massed infantry holding their own against steel giants and soldiers 9 foot tall armored with what might as well be a full bunker.

The command chimera, the commander is magnetised and the hatch it pinned so it can be put down when the commander isn't showing, basically just to represent which is the HQ during games.

The leman russ squadron I won't be painting any of these til I can procure a decent airbrush and someone with the skills and know how to really help me through that phase. I am hoping to emulate a lot of what I see in the Imperial Armor Masterclass books.

And the mighty plasma cannon sentinels as back up and marine busting! The reason that they are carrying tank treads is that I had the idea in my head that these units will all work together and mutually support in the battlefield and after to get the best out of their respective tasks. And so they all carry gear for the russes and some other bits pieces to give the front runner tanks less worry.

And the full mechanised division together.

I am really happy with the results, I'm glad I had some of the brass etchings laying around, but I'll need more if I continue down this path in the future with other vehicles, which just might be the go as I'm loving the character it gives them.

**chickenbgood**

I really like the small additions to the tanks, they make them look alot better. Also, more light for the pics!

**Moltar**

These new additions look great! The added stowage on the tanks is a nice touch, but no one ever adds extra tank treads. So often carried in real life on the side of tanks and you almost never see it on minis (for 40k).
I know what you mean about the airbrush too. I have one and haven't used it. Very weary of actually painting minis that have gotten so much attention in the build phase. I plan to practice a lot on cardboard and paper and then grabbing up some simple minis to practice on. A lot of practice will be required before I'll feel confident painting army minis with one.
Solid set of pics. Great little mobile division.

**omgitsduane**

chickenbgood wrote:I really like the small additions to the tanks, they make them look alot better. Also, more light for the pics!

Thanks! I am borrowing a camera off a mate today so I will be taking new photos and hopefully showing some other things I've been busy creating

Moltar wrote:These new additions look great! The added stowage on the tanks is a nice touch, but no one ever adds extra tank treads. So often carried in real life on the side of tanks and you almost never see it on minis (for 40k).
I know what you mean about the airbrush too. I have one and haven't used it. Very weary of actually painting minis that have gotten so much attention in the build phase. I plan to practice a lot on cardboard and paper and then grabbing up some simple minis to practice on. A lot of practice will be required before I'll feel confident painting army minis with one.
Solid set of pics. Great little mobile division.

I completely agree, in ww2 treads were used as extra armor, because its an inch or two thick steel mounted on the points the crew think are weak. What could be simpler? Plus to reinforce the idea that they work together as a team really sells it for me, I have always loved sentinels and the chimera is a beast of a tank with some amazing gear, but the russes will make the lot more solid as an all round army.

I dug up pictures of hundreds of tanks from all over the world, modern and ww2 era (cos lets face it, ww1 had the least characterful tanks, they were more like fridges that could move, big fridges) and also had a look at every APC that is currently in service via wikipedia and found any interesting shapes and what kinds of things they carried with them, where the gear was held and those little details. Has been a big help.

Thanks very much for the comment! Always appreciated.

**Skalk Bloodaxe**

I like the bitz on the tanks. It's those little things that force perspective and also add a lot of character to stock models.

I've had an airbrush for close to a year and have spent about 5 min trying to use it. I'm so intimidated by it that I'd just as soon push off those projects I bought it for and keep saying "I'll get to it as soon as I finish this thing I am working on.'"

Yeah.

**omgitsduane**

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
I like the bitz on the tanks. It's those little things that force perspective and also add a lot of character to stock models.

I've had an airbrush for close to a year and have spent about 5 min trying to use it. I'm so intimidated by it that I'd just as soon push off those projects I bought it for and keep saying "I'll get to it as soon as I finish this thing I am working on.'"

Yeah.

I have some friends with airbrushes and we've all used them a little but they're quite prone to screwing up if you don't know the exact right way to use them it appears, and none of us really have a clue, I was hoping to spray both my hydras so they would look like a pair but the airbrush jammed up within the first few minutes and I spent 4 hours trying to fix it so I gave up. It's not worth my time.

And thanks for the comment skalk! Always welcome, tanks can have character too

**Skalk Bloodaxe**

I really want to get my airbrush up and running. I know once I work out the n00b kinks I'll be decent at it, it's just the intimidation of completely leaving my 'comfort zone' and jumping into unknown waters head first.

**omgitsduane**

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
I really want to get my airbrush up and running. I know once I work out the n00b kinks I'll be decent at it, it's just the intimidation of completely leaving my 'comfort zone' and jumping into unknown waters head first.

I REALLY need to start exploring this airbrush thing. It will save me a ton of drama when I start doing other legions and get back to work on the guardsmen. Hope you've pushed on!

So...
Been a very long time since I've set foot in this thread, or any of my others. The truth is I've been very busy with a new job that threw me so far in the deep end, coupled with studying nights meant I had maybe one free hour a day and I spent that preparing to sleep for the next day. That is well over now and I've been getting work done but just had to track down a program to shrink my photos down so I didn't spend three decades trying to upload (that aussie internet!).
Anyways I'll lead off with this.

I came third in a small tournament on the other side of the city. I went there last year with the traitor guard and came 7th, and being that I got there based purely off my comp score, I decided that I would try and ride the comp train a little a bit to get up the top. So without a drake or demon prince I went along.

All my practice games I had leading up to it were losses. Some horribly bad, some were close games. But I was feeling very UN-optimistic about the list by the time I got to the tournament.
My list was as follows:
Typhus with a 4 man mark of nurgle terminator squad. All armed with axes (cos I HATEEEEEEE terminators) and flamers (cos anti horde is something my army doesn't cover well I thought)
Riding in a land raider with dirge caster and dozers
10 marines 2 melta in rhino with dozer x3
15 zombies
2 obliterators with mark of nurgle
2 vindicators with shields
3 terminators with combi meltas and axes

Having gone up with 2 mates of mine, I didn't expect to face either of them but of course first game calls up a mate of mine with an imperial fist list that I found kind of unchallenging...

Deployment as follows.
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Marines drop down to lure Typhus out, it works, and lucky because he did nothing else this game and needed a few heads on his belt.

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I then spent the rest of the game three-stooging it and trying to kill just 3 centurions. They took 2 vindicator shells which promptly scattered off a useless amount, 2 drop squads scattered too far, one going back to reserve and the other to a piece of LOS blocking terrain... Ugh

I was attempting to get very drunk for this tournament to cope with my losses, and also to make the games more interesting.

After 3-4 rounds of 6 melta guns and plasma spam, the last centurion fell.
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I ended up losing, the game type was big guns never tire, and I thought centurions were heavies, apparently not. I lost all three heavies, but held more objectives. Still forcing a loss. Although minor. Damn centurions

Final pose photo!

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Next game! Against my most hated and most feared army. NIDS!

I don't have a proper set up picture of the deployment but this will do. Tyrant did what I figured he would and got pretty far but I got lucky and the opponent deployed badly and probably picked his targets wrong.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/teh_used/OMGITSDUANE-PC/IMG_3716_zpseeddea77.jpg Typhus hops out and eats a bunch of nids with no effort.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/teh_used/OMGITSDUANE-PC/IMG_3717_zpsf1a840cb.jpg Trygon appears and offers the marines a distracting target, which they quickly take off the board thanks to melta gun spam.
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Vindicator shell lands square on the warriors, that were out in the open and instantly turned to mush.

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He did sculpt his own bastion which is a little bit cool I must admit.

Typhus hasn't eaten enough and takes down a tervigon, a bunch of gaunts and half a tyrannofex in combat. Game pretty much all came down to this but ended before a winner was determined.

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And the drop terminators melta'd the biovores then proceeded their way up the bastion to somehow beat up nid warriors in combat. I was amazed at their vigor.
Game 2 was a minor win, I could of done better but our time was short so I didn't move up marines to help finish with the assault :(

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Game three!

Death guard VS Salamanders! (another mates army)
I don't know why my land raider was rushing up the map, I really don't but it apparently worked and survived.

Drop dread behind me failed to do anything good to the rhinos chasing first blood and therefor gave me first blood when they both blasted meltaguns back in retaliation.

Vindicator must have opened up a rhino, giving Typhus and his pals some very chewy playtoys.
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Both drop squads came down on his thunderfires, removing his biggest threat once the terminators are dealt with.

Pretty sure this did nothing either...
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75/teh_used/OMGITSDUANE-PC/IMG_3734_zps9ba3c84f.jpg Second last turn

In a sly effort to hold my objective away from me, while not claiming his own (terminators eat scouts in combat) but a lucky lascannon made it through and exploded the dirty dark green fools and their loyalist ideals.

At this stage there was 3-5 marines left against my entire army minus typhus I believe and the obliterators. It was a pretty clear tabling.
The next game though was gunna be a real tough one...

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GAME FOUR!!!!!!!

Necrons Vs death guard. I was really packing in it, having won 2 games out of three, with no major losses, I knew I was going to face something tough. And I heard of this necron list roaming around.

The reason for my placement was as such.
1) no doomscythe so no multiple hits on units grouped up.
2) no blasts in the army.
3) keeping all my firepower close.
4) his command barge cannot sweep over a unit if it can't land after and this prevented such a thing.

A second shot before the carnage.
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And a third for good measure.
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Last one I think.
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I must have been too carried away to take enough photos, but my first turn went as good as they probably could. Sinking a ghost ark and some guys inside, and then pummeling another ark, but the 2+ to ignore shaken and stunned is a bit messed up.
Oblits came down right where I wanted and as I knew he was gunna bring the lord and their barges over they were ready to go. I also sank a vindicator shell into the unit of necrons and dropped them enough to force a test which they failed and ended up only millimeters from the board edge!

Using my rhino here to try and give that vindicator a hulldown result the best I can as my 5+ cover saves had already done amazing and I wanted/needed these two machines alive if I was gunna win.
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Look at the brooding in those fellas, they want pain and they got it bad...

Terminators came down and struck hard into a vehicle and gave it a bit of trouble, but not enough and then the wraiths exacted their vengeance wiping the squad before I could get an attack in...
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The oblits ended up dropping the first barge, and to stay alive from the incomming barrage of plasma the lord dropped to the ground. I made the foolhearty mistake of charging him :( Causing him to win combat and act as normal next turn. STUPID!

The rhino tries to rush for the objective, being scouring, I had some of the lower end ones on my side and I knew this was going to be a very far uphill battle. But he was still a great opponent and the luck went back and forth between us.

Last shot. My phone died after this as my mates are selfish and unplugged it to put theirs in sometime during the night.

The last game was against guard, an army I am VERY used to facing and I had such a surefire win but I deployed and screwed up my first turn on myself, allowing my entire flank to get eaten by a squad of meganobs and warboss (yes allied with guard), his army was beautiful and he ran it soft and we had a lot of fun also. I just wish I had some photos of it.

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Now will be a random spam of things I've been up to and my army in completion.

I have about 40+ terminators I realised the other day, with a 7000+ army of chaos just waiting to go and I'm constantly adding to it. I have a serious problem that I never thought I'd be that guy but here I am. I do intend to stretch out to a few legions that always have peaked my interest, such as iron warriors, alpha legion and word bearers plus some black legion just for kicks since I have the abaddon(is it?) model that's from the fight with loken.

Black legion rhino top.

Plugs for my ears, worn with pride through the tournament. Represent your legion or perish!

Rhino wrecked markers. Something more gruesome than just flipping them over when they're gone.

And the master himself, Typhus.

Action shot of Typhus and his retinue about to cut down some foolish salamanders.

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Some of you may remember this silly project of the giant eldar statue I started probably a good 2 years ago. (seems my rough turnaround time for all projects)
I finally manned up a bit and got to work on it, although I think I could have done better, I didn't want a perfect representation, I wanted a rough statue made by primitive or semi-primitive people on an isolated jungle world.

Finished Rhino for the iron armor marines.
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Shout out to this awesome salamanders army!

The result of hard gaming and tight victory margins!

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The warmaster himself. I am not big on fluff, nor would I call myself a great painter, but I hope I can do this fella some justice. I have been waiting for this model for the entirety of the horus series!

Thinking of going for the seagreen style of sons of horus.

Bomb squigs
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Spawn, but luckily I avoided every challenge with typhus that I could and this didn't happen.

Demon prince for the boon table.
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Sentinel wrecked markers.

A modular (slightly) city siege table I've been in the plan for months with mates over and its finally coming together!

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My work was throwing out glass cabinets and I decided to take them all as they are great for hobby.

Iron warrior land raider for the next legion!
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Mauler! Finished mostly except for the magma cutters as I never use him. Just love the model.

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Nurgle demon prince. I really hate that the varnish didn't keep any of the gloss I was so fond of from the blood and teeth. Oh well.

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And that is everything I feel worth mentioning I have done in the past 8 months or so. I feel like there should be more, but there will be much more to come now that I'm all set up! Stay tuned everyone!

**omgitsduane**

Finished my horus, although looking at photos, he could use some serious work on the finer things. The eyes are a little lopsided but I am thrilled with the face and cape the most. Oh and the base was a few hours alone.