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While I'm waiting for some Servitors to arrive, I thought I'd start work on an additional platoon of troops. These will be added to the army but won't be part of the planned display base; due to size restrictions. The platoon is unusual in the fact that it has three infantry squads, rather than the two in the other platoons. This platoon has flamers, auto-cannons and a heavy flamer. It consists of a command squad, three infantry squads and a heavy weapon squad... everything is converted and assembled, ready for paint, apart from the heavy weapon squad (as shown):



I'll be converting/assembling the heavy weapon squad next (assuming that no Servitors arrive any time soon) ...

I've had word from Chris that my Servitors will be posted to me tomorrow ...

... I can't wait .

On the cork, I've got a veteran commander to go alongside the predator team... but he's still WIP:



... and in other news, I've just received a parcel with the Servitor casts in (plus some rifles):



I will be prepping the Servitors this weekend... they are the last miniatures in my big army project .

The first Servitor:



only seven more to go .

Six more to go :



The next one has a Plasma Cannon .

Awww the servitors are awesome! nice one

 PaddyMick wrote:
Awww the servitors are awesome! nice one

Cheers . I've got the next two on the table so pretty soon, I'll have the first Servitor unit finished .

Stretchy arms on the servitors are great, they have a lovely retro sci fi vibe that just works for squats.

Amazing progress on display in here Inso, this is truly one of the great passion projects and I'm so glad you've taken the time to document it here.

The bearded Astropath is right up there with Squatzenegger for cake takers IMO.

Thanks for sharing!

 tzurk wrote:
Stretchy arms on the servitors are great, they have a lovely retro sci fi vibe that just works for squats.

Amazing progress on display in here Inso, this is truly one of the great passion projects and I'm so glad you've taken the time to document it here.

The bearded Astropath is right up there with Squatzenegger for cake takers IMO.

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers . I'm glad you are enjoying it.

The first of the Servitor units is complete:







One more to go and the army is finished .

The next requested miniatures (WIP) :

Awesome work as always Inso. Love the servitors.

Cheers . I'm expecting some more Servitor casts to arrive soon and then I'll get the final squad put together and painted .

I should (hopefully) have the AK-toting troopers finished this week, assuming I can keep the momentum going .

A small distraction... I needed a change for a short while...



Just needs a base and he's finished .

A finished squad of AK troopers, today :



I'm now sorting out a helmet to get mastered to add to a squad of these, once everything is cast up .

Old Iron-Arm is finished:



He'll proxy for Colonel "Iron Hand" Straken and completes the Catachan characters (using the Predator team's troops).

Making some good progress here!

 blockade23 wrote:
Making some good progress here!

Cheers ... but sadly the progress has now stalled so I'm not sculpting at the moment.

However, I have painted three of the four Servitors for the last unit and am WIP on the last one... but I've noticed that the army commander's command squad, doesn't have a lieutenant in it so I have re-mustered the Lieutenant from the flamer platoon and he will join the army commander. The flamer platoon will be leaderless until I decide on a replacement .

I have some commissions that are waiting for putty but after that, I plan to get on with my Exo Squad... but that's enough of that talk for now ...

Still lots going on but not so much in the sculpting direction.

Hey, Inso. Am i wrong or your army have no commissars? It's realy suspicious and close to heresy...
Joke aside amazing work as always!

 kabaakaba wrote:
Hey, Inso. Am i wrong or your army have no commissars? It's realy suspicious and close to heresy...
Joke aside amazing work as always!

Cheers .

The army has one Commissar who is attached to the company command squad:



At some point in the future, I hope to sculpt a Commissar Lord and maybe a couple of more "energetic" commissars .

Here are the last five miniatures for the "official" display army:



Here's the Lieutenant for the command squad; pictured with the final four Servitors .

This project has been going on for over six years and it is now at a point where everything is painted! I still need to varnish everything, add tufts to the bases and build the display board... but this is a massive milestone because there is no more sculpting required .

Once everything is properly dry, I'll sort some army pix but for now, I'm just happy to have finished the troops .

The army :



Next will be adding tufts to the bases and varnishing everything ...

Solid force, you need some appropriate tanks for this guys and chimeras(pr what that squats use instead)

The vehicles are in the earlier posts.

Although there are vehicles in earlier posts (an armoured company plus others), those are a separate entity and are attached to a GW plastic Squat army, rather than my home-made army.

This army will not have any vehicles for now... it's always been the plan to display it as an infantry army... but I am planning to design and build a few master vehicles that will be an extension of this army. HOWEVER, I am notoriously terrible at getting very far with scratch-building vehicles so it will not be massively high on my priority list.

That said, I am currently looking for components to build a vehicle that is floating around in my head... so it may or may not happen soon ...