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Really like the Sternguard. Using MKIII is a great idea - plus, it's the best armour mark. My only thing is that the blue lenses are a bit indistinct against the white helmets.

I can't believe I haven't been in this blog before, really nice army you have here

Thanks for all the replies folks, it is appreciated

This weekend I went over to Frank's house for a 2000 point game. The day before that I had once again knuckled down with ten minis in the paint batch! This time it was Scouts, who turned out to be more work than I had anticipated. I'll have pictures of them up later. Still, I got them all finished and that meant I was bringing a fully painted 2000 point army to the table for the first time!





As this was a momentous occassion, the army was determined to give a good showing of itself. Winning first turn for the first time this edition, the mechanized infantry advanced and the Veterans drop podded and teleported in to lead the way:





The brand new scouts watched from the trees as the entire spearhead was eaten by an angry Nightbringer:





So, I need an assault element. Even if just as counter-assault. I've known this for some time and I was hoping the Terminators could plug the gap with their power fists, but without character support that -1 To Hit really hurts. D3 damage is a little meh too. And the central problem I think is delivery. How do you get an assault unit into combat, reliably, without exposing it to all kinds of horrible firepower? Join me in the 40K Army Lists forum to crack this nut

Oh, those sand tones on the scouts are great. They still look like Fists, but are also infiltration-ready. Is it the same sand tones that you use for basecoating? (I am remembering correctly that you use sand tones for basecoating, right?)

Your force is shaping up nicely GH! 2000pts is always a good milestone to hit, so well done. Scouts have a lot of different textures and colours, so can require a bit more effort, despite being a fairly regular Troops choice.

Very nice Fists. I love the scouts. I plan to do up a squad or two of sniper scouts for my Fist army. I'm a bit slower than you, so it's nice to get inspiration from a great painter.

 goblinpaladin wrote:
Oh, those sand tones on the scouts are great. They still look like Fists, but are also infiltration-ready. Is it the same sand tones that you use for basecoating? (I am remembering correctly that you use sand tones for basecoating, right?)

Thanks! I do basecoat in Army Painter Bone, which is a few tones lighter than the Zandri Dust I used for these Scouts. I also have some new pictures of them:

 WarbossDakka wrote:
Your force is shaping up nicely GH! 2000pts is always a good milestone to hit, so well done. Scouts have a lot of different textures and colours, so can require a bit more effort, despite being a fairly regular Troops choice.

Yeah it feels great to have 2000 points ready to go. And it only took me half a year too I now have a box of Vanguard Veterans and one of Assault Terminators on the way to pad out my (sorely lacking) assault potential. I'd like to add a Land Raider Crusader at some point and then this army is pretty much finished, for the time being.

 Valhalla130 wrote:
Very nice Fists. I love the scouts. I plan to do up a squad or two of sniper scouts for my Fist army. I'm a bit slower than you, so it's nice to get inspiration from a great painter.

That's nice to hear Valhalla, I looked at your thread and your 3rd Company is coming together nicely! I've replied to subscribe


Yesterday I fought a 1500 point battle versus a Tau Battlesuit army and won handsomely, due in no small part to the inclusion of a squad of Terminators to help my Sternguard and a Lieutenant to help boost the firebase. I have some new kitbashes coming up in the next couple of weeks!

Dipping a bit into conversions are we? I'm looking forward to it

Funny, I can see WarbossDakka's reply in the forum listing and in his profile but not in this thread... Let's see if posting another reply fixes it Fixed

It looks like I won't be doing too much kitbashing as it turns out the Vanguard Veterans kit has a lot of bits in it. A lot. I expect to get the new kits in tomorrow so then we'll see!

I did kitbash a jump pack Chaplain though and painted him today. The legs and torso are from an ebay lot of assault marines I got cheap. They turned out to be undercoated quite thickly with some red gunk that won't come off. This has clogged a lot of the detail but I think he came out OK with some added bits and a paintjob.

Long time no see, friends

Those two marathon stints really turned me off painting for a bit, not entirely sure why. Saturation I guess! I've been more focused on getting games in, planning my next projects (I have a Blood Bowl set to paint and I'd like to make a table with scenery) amd catching up on reading the Ahriman series. Maybe I should do a Thousand Sons army next... Oh so much to do!

Anyway, I got back behind my paint station this week and the fruits are apparent: five Hammernators all ready to go! I now only have a squad of five Vanguard Veterans to go before I can consider this army complete.

Unless I decide to get my hands on that Stormraven I've been eyeballing. Or the Land Raider...

Looking Good

This blog is excellent! Amazing yellow recipe, and a gorgeous looking army. Keep up the awesome work!

Nice Termies. I would recommend making the lenses more of a solid colour rather than just putting a glaze over the white helms. It'll really help make the head a focal point, so it'll do a good job of bringing it all together. Well done!

Gorgeous Termies! Really making that yellow pop. Jealous now.

Nice.

Thanks guys!

Dakka: I see what you mean about the lenses and I may go back in and touch some pure white into the Terminators' eyes (like I did on the sergeant, his eyes are a bit more solid). They do look a little washed out now.

Hey, whoa, where did time go? Oh well. What's six months between friends right?

I got a new job (yay me!) and kind of crapped out on painting for a while (boo me!) but I did just finish some odds and ends - namely a squad of Vanguard Veterans and some officers I was still missing:





Not my best work I think, but solid tabletop quality. This actually marks the end of major painting operations for my Imperial Fists. They're done! Well, insofar as an army is ever truly done. I've been a little disappointed with the Space Marine assault options so far. The thunder hammer terminators are too hard to deliver into combat reliably and even then they suffer from too few attacks and the -1 to hit. These vanguard veterans have faired much the same. I now have a solid hunk of cheese on my painting table - three, in fact. Three soon-to-be-shiny Custodes Cheese Captains on Cheese Bikes to really take the fight to the enemy