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Awesome scratch work, dude looking forward to seeing it finished

I've finished the build and have started putting a bit of paint on now:

The paint really pulled that build together! Well done, dude.

- Salvage

Cheers .

Now it's painted (except for decals):

Man, those are really superior! Great unified aesthetic, I love the symmetry in the details.

I really like the Chimera conversion, looking nice and real worldy.

I hope it's not too much of a threadjack but here are some of your Ratlings finished..



I can delete the pic if it's not appropriate just let me know. I enjoyed doing these a lot, great sculpts. Furher pics on my Blog if you want to see more.

 RandyMcStab wrote:
I really like the Chimera conversion, looking nice and real worldy.

I hope it's not too much of a threadjack but here are some of your Ratlings finished..



I can delete the pic if it's not appropriate just let me know. I enjoyed doing these a lot, great sculpts. Furher pics on my Blog if you want to see more.

This isn't a thread-jack... it's a bit of an awesome interlude .

Very nice work on those. They certainly look the business .

I hate squats but this is awesome! Love it

Great job on the chimera

Cheers .

I am glad that i managed to get the Chimera proxy how I wanted it... and that people actually agree with my choice of direction for it . I really wanted it to fit in with the rest of the armour and (in my opinion) it does .

So... Onward and upwards...

The company command tank has stopped. I can't even look at it for now... every time I mix putty, I can't bring myself to use it so it gets wasted. With that in mind, I felt that I needed something to keep things ticking over and I suddenly realised that I had the perfect thing... my Spearhead Detachment.

My Spearhead detachment consists of the following things:

HQ - Tank commander.
Elite - Engineseer and servitors in a Chimera transport.
Heavy Support - 3 tanks (battle-cannon).
Heavy Support - 3 tanks (punisher cannon).
Heavy Support - 3 tanks (plasma cannon).

Seeing as I already have most of the list finished, I just need to finish the Engineseer unit and the tank commander... seeing as I can't work on the tank commander, I have dug out the Engineseer and servitors to work on:

Before:



For work in progress, I will refer you to the relevant blog page:

http://insosworld.blogspot.com/2018/07/water-from-sky.html

It would appear that I have finally started to paint a few miniatures again...

Painted:

Always satisfying to see paint pull a conversion / scratch build together Squad looks great!

- Salvage

Cheers .

Here's Jecub 'Sure-Grip' Mikkelson:



He's the Squat Engineer Guilds-man.

There are more images of the team (plus other stuff) here:

http://insosworld.blogspot.com/2018/08/another-week-of-summer.html

Very nice, as always

Cheers

So... now I am painting things, I thought I'd give some Halflings a go:



I decided to follow Randy McStab's example and paint small areas of different coloured leaves on the Ghilly suits... hopefully, it shows up .

These are attached to the first Infantry platoon so I have dug out the command elements to paint... namely a Primaris Psyker (Jedi Beastman), Platoon Commander and Command Squad.

I have just primed the troops and have started to paint the Psyker (because he was already started).

This painting push will be to try and complete the whole platoon; which consists of:

Primaris Psyker.
Platoon Commander.
Command Squad.
Infantry Squad.
Infantry Squad.
Heavy Weapon Squad.
Armoured Sentinel Sqn (3 walkers).
Chimeras (4 vehicles).

The good thing is that the troops have a lot of colours on them so they will be entertaining to paint . Hopefully, I'll be able to get the platoon done (I may stall on the Chimeras because they haven't been converted yet... the rest is all ready for paint).

They look great, I think that it helps to break up their silhouette and makes them look less homogeneous.

I look forward to seeing your infantry squads too, I like that green hold colours and painted my ancient Epic Squat army that way.

Cheers . I saw your snipers and they looked really effective so I followed your approach and it has worked out nicely .

I have a mix of greens for the army but the Dark Angels green will be for my 'marine' proxies and special units... I have a plan !

This week, after finishing the Snipers, I got on with painting the Primaris Psyker for the first platoon:



I've also started painting the Platoon Commander and his Command Squad. They are still WIP but there is a pic over at the blog:

http://insosworld.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-dwarfs-are-on-their-way.html

I've got a little further now... they have been washed and are ready for the highlighting now .

Snipers looking good, and the beastman shaman is great, that is a fun sculpt you produced there.

Cheers ... he's now got some friends ...

The first infantry unit is complete... this is the command section for the first platoon:



Primaris Psyker, Platoon Commander and Command Squad.

The first infantry Squad is now on the painting table .

The troops are moving along nicely... here's another WIP:



There's lots more info on my blog, including all sorts of useful links :

http://insosworld.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-platoon-is-growing.html

Another day, another bunch of finished stuff . Here is the first infantry squad for the first platoon of the army :



Also... if you remember this...



You may want to follow the blog link to see what has become of him :

http://insosworld.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-day-of-badger.html

 Inso wrote:
You may want to follow the blog link to see what has become of him :

http://insosworld.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-day-of-badger.html

Worth the click

Very pleased to see paint on these lads, feel like it's been years in the making. Nice, clean paint at that

- Salvage

Cheers

4 years (so far)... and still lots to finish

Great work there Inso.

Cheers,

CB

Love how much character these guys have.

Love this stuff- the tanks nicely round out your army, the tank commanders are particularly great, but the Engineseer and his bots really take the prize. Amazing little set of figures.

Cheers

I am glad to be painting these... after four years of work on the army, it was about time some of the troops saw some paint .

I have a second infantry squad at the 'base-coated before tidy-up' stage and have just finished a sidekick for Chuck... I think I'll call him Bruce Leaf...





The army still has a long way to go, with lots of conversions/scratch-builds to be done... For starters I need to convert 13 more Chimeras, 10 veterans, 3 Sentinels,31 troopers, 1 Primaris Psyker, 20 Scouts, 10 Terminators, six Landspeeder Storms, a bunch of jungle characters, Schaefer... the list is still long... probably another 4 years yet !

I also have plans for an Adeptus Mechanicus detachment with a Titan of some description... so that will be fun (including some characters and elites).

Then... there's the air force...

I am so impressed as never before!

I've struggled to get any hobby done recently... but I managed to get out on my bike, so it hasn't been all bad. Since the fly-screen has been added, my bike looks the business :

Very nice, looks like a Harly with the fly screen!