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 Littletower wrote:
Nice. Very, very nice. Can't wait for the artillery now.

(There seem to be some blue/cyan shadows on some of them - besides the plasmas' glow, of course! - that didn't seem to be there before. Is it?)

That really confused me until I remembered that some of the graffiti chaos symbols are cyan! Yes, possibly a bad colour choice for the background, then. It makes them look like a bad colour key!

And yes, the plasma glow was the last thing I did before varnishing. A mix of the airbrush and the miniature ghost tints.


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Excellent work Ian, those look really great. Make sure you do a battle report the first time they hit the table so we can see them in action!

I wouldn't have mentioned it if you hadn't brought up the backdrop before. It looked painted on, though subtly, but it could have been a ghost reflex from a hard to nail colour balance.

Having cleared that out, looking great!

Since I'm on a tank-based roll, I thought I'd carry straight on with the next batch, fuelled slightly by my DCM Secret Santa gifts..

So, first, some crew. Twelve crew in all for all of the tanks, converted from a mix of flagellants, empire militia, anvil heads and some saxon-style guys given to me by ElderCaveman, along with some old rokkits Panic originally cast for his Grot Kan Wall.




Then, while I'm doing some regular guys, I thought I'd get a few more in - two Chaos Sigil bearers and five more Tallarns. The bearers are converted from some sort of Dark Elf guy and a Greek Philosopher I got in the Secret Santa from SinfulHero (I think). I actually have another twenty more Tallarns, but unlike the original batch, these guys actually have their heads attached. Which is a dilemma - do I chop off the heads of some pristine 90s minis to make them fit, or will they blend in as they are? These five are a test, to see if they blend in.



And the FINAL TWO TANKS! After which, the Armoured Company is done. Two Salamanders with magnetised weapons.



The Heavy Flamers needed a bit of work to move their mounting point further forward, so that both weapons have the same length behind the magnet point, and the crewman can stay in the same place.



And two more Chimera turrets I found, just to get them in use.

IN BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR!

Got everything finished (and more besides) - I have an armoured company! I also tried using a black background and completely manual camera settings, which actually looks a lot better and more 'accurate'. At some point, I might go through and do everything like this.

Ok. Here goes.

GRIFFON. God knows how many times I've repainted this - I bought this model when it was released in the 90s!





MEDUSA. The only one I've left the gun shield on, since it doesn't affect the height of the model.






BASILISK BATTERY. Three tanks, with A having the dodgy two-right-mountings. First, Tank A.




Tank B






Tank C





SALAMANDERS. Magnetised for Heavy Flamers or Autocannon.








I then finished the alternate weapon options for the other tanks - here is the Bane Wolf nozzle, and the two extra Chimera turrets.





Then, infantry. Here are five 'regular' Tallarns. I'm gonna have to see how well they fit in with the rest of the cultists before I decide if I'm gonna replace the heads on the other (unpainted) ones.



Here are two more Sigil Bearers - one converted from a Dark Elf and one from a greek philosopher I got in the DCM Secret Santa this year.



And, while waiting for various things to dry, I did a quick repaint of bit of my old Suicide Legion psykers to bring them in line with this army. New robes and gold bits.



And here's the whole lot together! Pretty good for a christmas project, with many thanks to the DCM Secret Santas for various crew and spiky bits. I now have a lot less stuff hanging around in bits and bags...

That tank force is GLORIOUS.

 Briancj wrote:
That tank force is GLORIOUS.

+1

Always enjoy perusing your thread dude, and REALLY like those tanks

Happy New Year to you...

please tell me you have your army somewhere near DC hahah, i need a renegaed guard player for siege of vraks! i have the DKOK and the marine i just need a legit renegade guard player
fmj

Arbitor- you are a machine!Nice work traitor scum!

Simply astounding!

They look excellent, looking forward to seeing them in action.

I've never seen pink weathered, and at such speed. You pulled it off really well !!!

I'd leave the Tallarn alone and with there heads on, be a shame if you change your mind in a year or two !!! Cut up some plastics instead !

Happy New Year !

Thanks for the comments, guys, and Happy New Year.

fullmetaljacket wrote:please tell me you have your army somewhere near DC hahah, i need a renegaed guard player for siege of vraks! i have the DKOK and the marine i just need a legit renegade guard player
fmj

Aha - only a few thousand miles away. Should be easy...

Big H wrote:I've never seen pink weathered, and at such speed. You pulled it off really well !!!
I'd leave the Tallarn alone and with there heads on, be a shame if you change your mind in a year or two !!! Cut up some plastics instead !

Thanks!

Yeah, I think you're right. I'm going to get them into a few games and see how they look. Maybe I'll just convert a couple of duplicate lasgunners to mix it up a bit and leave the majority intact.

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Yeah, I think you're right. I'm going to get them into a few games and see how they look. Maybe I'll just convert a couple of duplicate lasgunners to mix it up a bit and leave the majority intact.

Started on a small batch of guys today. First, a few Dark Vengeance cultists I got in the Secret Santa. I've just done enough to finish my tray of three 'Cultist' squads with auto guns.



Then, converted some more DV Cultists into Enforcers! They all have Commissar-style heads from the old Warzone Imperial sergeants, and various flails and mauls.




And then made these guys as a test for my Mutant Rabble. I have loads of old Mantic ghouls and zombies lying around which are finally going to get some use, along with some Pig Iron gas mask heads.

Mini-batch done. I had a slight problem with a grainy white undercoat on a few of them, visible on the photos, but not really visible from table distance.

Here's the four DV guys - I now have a single KR tray containing three squads of 10 renegades with lasguns or autoguns, leader and heavy stubber. I can pop them in my Marine case whenever I want to use cultists



The Mutant Rabble were fun - thought I wanted to try out some outlandish mixed skin colours with the airbrush and it's hasn't really shone through. These guys are painted bright orange, then paler orangey/skin, then white. But, after the wash, it doesn't really look that different to the regular skintone?




The Enforcers also look good. Hopefully their dark hats will make them obvious on the tabletop. Apologies for the second photo, which seems to be more interested in the plasma pistol than the guy holding it!

The enforcers look kinda like cyber-beavers... you should give them broad tails just to complete the image.

Kidding aside, lovely work on the paint.

Great stuff

Decided to see what I've got - this is the full army as of this month. I'll be going back and photographing all the individual units as I put them away, on the same black background as above...

Click through, as this image is massive and zoomable!

I'm loving this. As a primary Nurglite who is currently dabbling into some purple Undivided I must confess, the pink gets me. Or I get it. Love the renegades.

Admittedly mine won't be as...flamboyant. More muted tones of black and grey so they can fit in with my Imperials if need be.

So, I posted a little showcase last week after photographing all my army on the black background. Time to fold it into this thread and carry on with the army. Here's all the old units in new, glorious, LIGHTBOX colour!

Lucius the Eternal


Chaos Sorcerers


Daemon Prince




Noise Marines










Terminator Lord


Terminators



Chaos Lord with Jump Pack


Raptors







Warp Talons




Chaos Lord on Bike



Chaos Bikers





Obliterators





Chaos Dreadnoughts / Hellbrutes






Chaos Spawn






Chaos Hounds



Havocs




Hell Blades





Chaos Rhinos






Chaos Predators



Chaos Cultists (or Renegade Infantry)








Renegade Heavy Weapon Teams











Renegade Chimeras









Renegade Hellhounds






Renegade Leman Russ Variants

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Renegade Destroyer Tank Hunter

 ArbitorIan wrote:
Chaos Dreadnoughts / Hellbrutes

*swoooooon*



^ Also

- Salvage

Good job !

Well worth the new photoshoot in the lightbox

Wow. Amazing conversions and beautiful paintjobs. Well done.

Thanks guys - I've been doing a bit of random assembling over the last few weeks. When I get some more together I'll spray a whole bunch and start painting, but I'm enjoying building at the moment.

First, another 8 Berserkers. I still haven't painted the last ones I built, but maybe these will convince me. Really built from the dregs of the bit box!


And then 6 Renegade Sentinels, with bars on top. I'm going to use PVA and tracing paper to make some canvas covers so they can convincingly be armoured or unarmored.



And I picked up five more Terminators for £2 at a bring-and-buy, so I've bashed them together with any old spare terminator bits to make some regular combi-bolter guys. Together with my magnetised ones, this makes 12.

Ok, still building, building. I've decided to do a big batch of infantry to finish off all my regular renegade infantry. Here they are sprayed pink, ready to go.

As always, these are a mix of Cultists, Redemptionists, Tallarns and random cloaked guys. Once this is done, I should have one 'Traitor Guard' platoon of 3 x 10-man Cultists/Renegade squads built from the Tallarns, and then a second platoon of 3 x 20-man Renegade squads built from robed Necromunda/Cawdor/Cultist models.


I'm also including these brilliant second-edition Redemptionist models as 'Disciples' - good as a separate unit or as the Command HQ.


And these are the first test models for my Renegade Veterans - the base models are Warzone plastics with Cadian arms and recast heads from the 2ed Redemptionists.


The hot-shot lasguns are the base Cadian lasgun with Anvil Industry gunsights. The barrels have been extended using their Silencer parts, and the original lasgun tip stuck on the end of the silencer.

MOAR! Dig those recast heads on the vets, as well as the shiny metal redemptionists

- Salvage

Ok, the Renegade Infantry are finally finished! This gives me one small platoon (which I can also use as Cultists) and one large platoon, plus a good group of leaders and command options.

Here's the small platoon - three 10-man squads of Cultists with a Heavy Stubber in each squad. They're all old Tallarn models with Al'Rahem as their Demagogue.




And here's the big platoon - three 20-man squads of Renegades. 20 with CC weapons, including three flamers and a sigil, 20 with Shotguns, including three meltas, and 20 with lasguns, including two grenade launchers and a sigil.




Some of the shotgun guys were converted from DV cultists and old Necromunda weapons to make up the numbers.


And here's some of the newer Necromunda Redemptionists, serving in my CC squad


And the final batch of loaders was completed for the Heavy Weapons teams, converted from some 28mm Persians


And finally, the Disciples - I'll mostly use these as an easily-identifiable Command Squad, hence their range of weapons and black hats. All new-model Redemptionists with the exception of the Tallarn auto cannon.





And here's them all packed - takes up half a KR Multicase along with the Enforcers and Psykers. The top two are the big platoon, the bottom left is the small platoon - all in one tray for easy transfer to the CSM case - and the bottom right is Disciples, commanders, psykers, etc...

yeah,
Simply amazing how fast you turn these guys out.
The mix of guys works so well and the recast heads are fricking sweet.

And they look fricking amazing all together!

Panic...

Those are just lovely Ian. Love the use of the old Tallarin models with the new Redemptionists to stand out as a command squad... excellent choices.