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 Paradigm wrote:
Looking good, live the blue! The helmet does look a little out of place, but that's just as easily solved by adding more of that colour somewhere else as repainting it. Perhaps on the Chaos trophy rack behind him?

Yeah that is an option, but what about going to normal leadbelcher iron breaker runefang route? Or do you think that will be too much silver metal on the model?

Really like the banner on the Dragoon, it works really well. I am abig fan on your blue, it looks great on the Onager.

As for all that Forge World resin...looking epic so far. A start to what should be an awesome army.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Really like the banner on the Dragoon, it works really well. I am abig fan on your blue, it looks great on the Onager.

As for all that Forge World resin...looking epic so far. A start to what should be an awesome army.

Thanks man! Everyone at the store really seems to like the army as well and want to see me field it, but that is going to be a while as I got other armies I want to work on more

I honestly believe that the RG have some of the best special units in 30k (both rulewise and sculptwise), I can't wait to field them and see how gross they are.

Agreed. The Raven Guard, especially with the two most recent releases, have some gorgeous sculpts. But I feel that way about the Ad Mech and Skitarii too, even the often maligned Kastelan Robots.

So Skitarii wise what else have you got/ plan to paint?

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Agreed. The Raven Guard, especially with the two most recent releases, have some gorgeous sculpts. But I feel that way about the Ad Mech and Skitarii too, even the often maligned Kastelan Robots.

So Skitarii wise what else have you got/ plan to paint?

Right now got the rest of the vanguard squad from the get started kit and I am planning on getting a small war convocation. I was debating on getting a forgeworld chaos knight, but I think I will convert one up on my own as I got a lot of cool bits that would work. To be honest I need to sit down and write out a list to see what I actually need as I want it at the 1500 point range (if that is possible)

Wow you have been busy. The dragoon is very nice, the replacement lance is cool.

EDC

Nice work on the dragoon, and I like how you've placed that banner, It just seems to fit really well with the model.

Dragoon looks fantastic! All those extra little touches - spike racks, head coming out of the engine block and that new lance look brilliant. Know what you mean about the helmet - I'm not a mad fan of the vanguard style helmets myself - prefer the ranger hooded heads.

evildrcheese wrote:Wow you have been busy. The dragoon is very nice, the replacement lance is cool.

EDC

Thanks! It is actually from an old vampire count kit, back from when I played WHF (Rip )

hk1x1 wrote:Nice work on the dragoon, and I like how you've placed that banner, It just seems to fit really well with the model.

I was happy it came out the way it did, little do the dark gods know that it is actually a re purposed scion banner . But I have always been a fan of giant billowy banners so it fit

Januine wrote:Dragoon looks fantastic! All those extra little touches - spike racks, head coming out of the engine block and that new lance look brilliant. Know what you mean about the helmet - I'm not a mad fan of the vanguard style helmets myself - prefer the ranger hooded heads.

I ordered quite a bit of chaos bits in preparation for this army and I am glad people are liking them means it was a worth while investment. What do you think about going plain leadbelcher progression on the helmet? Too much you think since a lot of the model is that color?



So since I have been talking about doing a war convocation I finally decided to write up a list. Since I get all upgrades for free I decided to leave them out since I can just add them in at a later time, but I have no idea how this army plays so tell me what you all think!

Oathsworm- Paladin (just going for an all around knight here)

Cult mechanics
Hq- Dominus (duh)

Troops-
Kataphron destroyer squad
Kataphron destroyer squad

Skitarii battle maniple

Vanguard 10 man squad
Ranger 9 man squad
Dragoon
Sicarian infiltrators
Rust stalkers
Onager

The total comes out to 1499 points exactly, I feel like I have a lot of MEQ killing power in the squad and a decent amount of armor killing with the knight and onager.

So I got a whole lot more done on my dragoon. I was able to get the transfers down on one side of the flag, and finish up most of the lance (just waiting on the blue citadel edge paint to finish that up). I also switched the helmet to a standard metal color and I feel like it is a better fit. I still got to do the weathering, lay down other transfers, finish up the last parts of the servitors, and start the free hand.

Looking really good now, can't wait to see it done!

 Paradigm wrote:
Looking really good now, can't wait to see it done!

Thanks para! He should be done sometime next week, as I got to wait on a paint to finish him and well school hit me like a ton of bricks this weekend so lots of homework and papers to write.


Also I have my own special announcement coming up in the new few days so stay tuned!

Blue looks really great on that dragoon.

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Blue looks really great on that dragoon.

Thanks warboss!


Alright so its been a few days and I've been kinda kicking around waiting to start on building the rest of my legion, though to be honest I probably could start at least gluing legs down to their bases. In the mean time I have finished building my praetor. After using my dark furies for the first time over the weekend I feel that a chaplain would be perfect for them, honestly they are a super strong unit and they almost punked Skarbrand in one turn (dealt 6 wounds and he was able to save 3 of them with a 5++ to go down to one wound).



Also after doing some reading, I decided I really want to try and run the blood crow himself Kaedes Nex. His rules are awesome and since he is BS 6 chain firing is amazing on him. So I decided to take a normal calth marine, cut down some hands to fit some new pistols I ordered from Kromlech. I know he isn't bald in the book but I plan on giving him stubble via the warhammer tv tutorial.





Lastly I got some more work done on my dragoon! Basically freehanded all of the chaos stars that needed to be done and put down the weathering powder on the legs and debris on the base. I even got to use the secret weapon miniatures pigment fix for the first time and I really like it. It flows really well and it doesn't leave much, if at all, of a shine so no need to matte it down. I expect this guy to be done tonight and then I will proceed to work on my last mini from the paint my mini thread and hopefully in that time my order will have arrived from forgeworld.

The Dragoon is looking so awesome, it's going to be a treat when it's done! Already it's looking to be one of your best minis!

Looking forward to more Ravens! Is the Special Announcement the FW stuff, or can we except even more awesome?

 Paradigm wrote:
The Dragoon is looking so awesome, it's going to be a treat when it's done! Already it's looking to be one of your best minis!

Looking forward to more Ravens! Is the Special Announcement the FW stuff, or can we except even more awesome?

Thanks man! It is actually one of my favorites so far also, mainly because of the giant chaos star

As for the special announcement I feel like it'll be something way more awesome, but it does involve FW stuff. I should have the answer by tonight or tomorrow

Alright so I was able to do a few things last night, set up another new lighting rig (which I think is much better than the last one) and finish up ButteryCommissar's Mordian Iron guard sgt from the paint my mini thread. After taking the pictures I realized that I forgot to finish up the plasma pistol which I finished this morning.





And now for the announcement, this July I will be going to Canada to play Ash Barker of Guerrilla miniature games for 30k. I may also do miniwargaming also but I do not think I will have enough time to do so. So that means I have a little more than 4 months to build and paint

Alvarex Maun
Kaedes Nex
jump pack chaplain
2 apothecaries
5 cataphratchii terminators
30 legion tactical marines
10 dark furies
10 mor deythan
1 rhino
1 fire raptor
1 laser rapier
2 contemptor dreads

I got a lot of work but I believe I will be able to get through it all in time.

Good luck!

Some stunning minis here though buddy Nice work!

That's a superbly smooth white! Good stuff!

An unexpected and very cool announcement, I've seen a fair bit of their stuff and it's top notch.

Very natty indeed sir! And fits perfectly with the guys he's gonna lead!

Thanks so much for the effort you've put in.

angelofvengeance wrote:Good luck!

Some stunning minis here though buddy Nice work!

Thank you very much! I am excited to see if I can actually get the army done in time

Paradigm wrote:That's a superbly smooth white! Good stuff!

An unexpected and very cool announcement, I've seen a fair bit of their stuff and it's top notch.

I actually followed the GW advent calendar exactly to get that white. It is surprisingly effective, and yeah Ash's stuff is pretty good! I hope to match some of the armies I have seen on their before.

Buttery Commissar wrote:Very natty indeed sir! And fits perfectly with the guys he's gonna lead!

Thanks so much for the effort you've put in.

No problem BC I am glad you like it! I will be trying to post it out this monday or tuesday.


Well I finally finished the dragoon, though it was mainly waiting on an edge paint to come in from GW. I tried a the new set up again and I am really liking it, it seems to get that right amount of light in it with out actually being too overbearing. Though upon editing the photos I am slowly realizing that I probably need to actually invest in a real camera to take some better pictures. So tell me what you all think of it!

Looking good! New pic setup is working wonders and the model is fanbloodytastic!

As far as the pics go, again a definite improvement, all I'd suggest is rearranging where you have some of the images. If you're going to use that layout that only has one large panel and 5 smaller ones, you ideally want the large one to show most of the mini, then use the five around the edge to have your other angles and close-ups. So in this case, I'd put the middle right pic in the larger box, the flag in the middle right box, just so there's a big pic of the whole model.

Hope that doesn't sound negative, just suggesting a way to show of the amazing model a little better!

 Paradigm wrote:
Looking good! New pic setup is working wonders and the model is fanbloodytastic!

As far as the pics go, again a definite improvement, all I'd suggest is rearranging where you have some of the images. If you're going to use that layout that only has one large panel and 5 smaller ones, you ideally want the large one to show most of the mini, then use the five around the edge to have your other angles and close-ups. So in this case, I'd put the middle right pic in the larger box, the flag in the middle right box, just so there's a big pic of the whole model.

Hope that doesn't sound negative, just suggesting a way to show of the amazing model a little better!

That is a good point! and you were right it does look a lot better, though once again I need to get a tripod or a real camera so it isn't as blurry/shaky

Looks great - the blue and red are very strong together, and the use of the banner is great for a quick moving model. I like what you have going with the beakie marine also.

 kestral wrote:
Looks great - the blue and red are very strong together, and the use of the banner is great for a quick moving model. I like what you have going with the beakie marine also.

Thanks! I am glad people are liking the banner, I was worried people would think it was too big


Well in modeling news I got started on the legion tactical marines while I wait on my forgeworld order to finally show up. Nothing too big just gluing down the 30 legs to their bases and mold lining them so I can then just start gluing the torsos and other bits when the order finally gets here. I am stuck though on what to do with the final 10 marines, I either can make them into 10 more tactical marines or I can make a support squad or a veteran squad. What do you all think?

I reckon Tactical Support, maybe two squads (one Special, one Heavy).

 Paradigm wrote:
I reckon Tactical Support, maybe two squads (one Special, one Heavy).

That is a good idea. What do you think, meltas and missile launchers or something completely different?

Really, it depends on what you lack in the rest of the list. With your Tacs, Dark Furies and Mor Dethyan you've got anti-infantry pretty well covered. So Melta and either ML or even Las would add some nice AT punch to the list.

Support squads just look cool, five men toting the same heavy/special weapon look excellent. I think melta/ML is a good way to go.

Yeah I am lacking on anti armor, so meltas make sense. As for heavy weapons I am leaning towards lascannons just for the extra reach and high str. but the missile launchers look so damn cool.