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One can have never too little firepower

Great job on the bases btw.

Very nice stuff mate, the bases are very cool and the ordnance looks awesome.


Very lovely kitty cat!

Wow, those cannons look amazing. Cantwait till theyare painted.

Thanks, I'm pretty happy with the bases finally all shaping up. They were a pain in the butt at times.

Field ordnance batteries progressing in their painting, and two of them are now actually glued onto bases:





Got some heavy bolters for my infantry squads to be a bit more anti-infantry when they're running around the board going for objectives and a lascannon wouldn't be as relevant.



And finally some mortars transferred over to their new 50mm homes:




Some of the 50mm bases still need filling in the rim connection area.

Man those bases are sweet! Great effort in rebasing them all to 50s as well. I bought a bunch of 60s with the plan to build HWTs for my infantry squads when they were first announced as 'free', but never got around to it - and now that they got resized I'm glad I didn't.

Lovely neutral tones on the lil dudes and their big guns too. Wonder if the cat's coat was an influence on colour choice there

The bases are very cool, nice bits of kit. I really like those new artillery pieces, they really look the business.

Those weapong teams look fantastic. Keep it up!

Ha, good look on them!
How did you get the Heavy bolters to have stocks?

Sweet heavy weapons, they look great. How’d you do the bases though? Did you cut up a sector Imperialis board or just some smaller bases?

First off, a new model, my Steel Legion version of Ursula Creed:

tzurk wrote:Man those bases are sweet! Great effort in rebasing them all to 50s as well. I bought a bunch of 60s with the plan to build HWTs for my infantry squads when they were first announced as 'free', but never got around to it - and now that they got resized I'm glad I didn't.

Lovely neutral tones on the lil dudes and their big guns too. Wonder if the cat's coat was an influence on colour choice there

Thanks, I'm a big fan of neutral tones in general. And cats

Olthannon wrote:The bases are very cool, nice bits of kit. I really like those new artillery pieces, they really look the business.

muette wrote:Those weapong teams look fantastic. Keep it up!

Thanks!

Not Online!!! wrote:Ha, good look on them!
How did you get the Heavy bolters to have stocks?

They're the Steel Legion metal heavy bolter teams. The stocks come as a part of the heavy bolter they are operating.

gobert wrote:Sweet heavy weapons, they look great. How’d you do the bases though? Did you cut up a sector Imperialis board or just some smaller bases?

I cut up a bunch of these: https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Sector-Imperialis-65-75-90MM-Oval-Bases

Originally I got those bases for the heavy weapons, the 60mm (65mm) Sector Imperialis bases. Those were ultimately cut down to 50mm circles and put on to the bottom-most part of a 50mm GW base after I sliced the entire top off and filled the gap with putty. I used the oval Sector Imperialis bases from the same set to make my big 100mm scenic bases.

Here are some pictures I had taken while making the bases:

Love that Ursula Creed idea! Banging model, and the conversion just works. <3

Huh, never knew that the steel legion had stocks on their bolters.. that is awesome!

Great job on Ursula kitbash!

That is one awesome conversion. Love it.

Love the Creed conversion!

ItsVaughany wrote:Love that Ursula Creed idea! Banging model, and the conversion just works. <3

Not Online!!! wrote:Huh, never knew that the steel legion had stocks on their bolters.. that is awesome!

Great job on Ursula kitbash!

Olthannon wrote:That is one awesome conversion. Love it.

wyomingfox wrote:Love the Creed conversion!

Thanks guys, I was inspired by a similar conversion of a Krieg Ursula Creed. Headswaps plus a little detail here or there goes a long way.

Yeah, steel legion heavy bolter teams have stocks, I'm guessing to better emulate a ww2 germany mg42 team operating the weapon prone like that.

Right now, assembling a few other random HQs for my main armies, like this Dark Apostle for my Iron Warriors:






They're standing on small mounds of miliput putty to help them not sink into the muddy basing as much.

Thanks for sharing how you did the bases, using them to build the patterns is genius. I’ve cut up some 25mm bases to add some variety, but I think my flyer bases will be getting this treatment when I get to them. Cheers!

Also that skull face on the steel legion Ursula is really sinister, I like it!

 gobert wrote:
Thanks for sharing how you did the bases, using them to build the patterns is genius. I’ve cut up some 25mm bases to add some variety, but I think my flyer bases will be getting this treatment when I get to them. Cheers!

Also that skull face on the steel legion Ursula is really sinister, I like it!

I think it's a good way to do big industrial/urban bases, was pretty high effort though! I'd love to see what you come up with.

Thanks! I think it's nearly ready to prime.

Lord Solar Leontus now has a head, not quite permanently affixed:



The progression of Steel Legion officers:



More almost done 50mm bases, should be the last ones (?)



The command squad bases basically ready too, put magnets in them and drybrushed:



A wraithseer for the elusive Eldar:

Gotta echo the comments so far, great basing, great conversion.

Also, check out this nod in your direction from my latest terrain piece:

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Gotta echo the comments so far, great basing, great conversion.

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Also, check out this nod in your direction from my latest terrain piece:

That's awesome! I'll have to put a shout out in my zone mortalis/necromunda stuff when it actually gets finished.

I've decided to get some photos of my Iron Warriors that I never necessarily even really photographed. Also trying to get better with my photography, trying to get a darker background.

Lovely work on that Creed mate, and these Iron Warriors have some serious heft to them in posing and all the metallics.

These are quite nice. But some of them seem to be missing stripes

Jokes aside, they look lovely.

Another successful Steel Legion headswap, I like it! The Iron Warriors look great, the solid yellow looks cool, but stripes are cooler as for the photo taking, the light seems a bit strong on them to me making it hard to spot what’s highlights and reflections on the metallics.

tzurk wrote:Lovely work on that Creed mate, and these Iron Warriors have some serious heft to them in posing and all the metallics.

Thanks, yeah I like the heavily washed leadbelcher for Iron Warriors color.

Not Online!!! wrote:These are quite nice. But some of them seem to be missing stripes

Jokes aside, they look lovely.

Yes very fair! Everyone has the shoulder painted the bright color but only a few have the actual stripes so far.

gobert wrote:Another successful Steel Legion headswap, I like it! The Iron Warriors look great, the solid yellow looks cool, but stripes are cooler as for the photo taking, the light seems a bit strong on them to me making it hard to spot what’s highlights and reflections on the metallics.

Thanks, stripes will be coming! And yes, I think you're totally right, I have been working on how to address that. The two solutions seem to be having more soft lighting coming from the front rather than only above the model, and to manually lower the brightness control. I'm trying to work with that now.

For now, the lord solar continues:



An update to the previous iteration which was the front two legs being replaced, I had to order more bits:



All four robot horse legs now replaced with even more skeletal legs! This is a slight modification on a conversion I saw on the internet of a steel legion Leontus.

Progress continues on the Lord Solar conversion. I believe my cat absconded with the original head but I had prepared so I’ve been set back a bit getting a new head ready.

Meanwhile I have built 4 of 6 sagittarum custodes, and I liked the models so much I plan to expand from having 2 units of 3 to 3 units, 9 total.

First two squads of sagittarum custodes rounded out (almost)

Looking very grim dark in here, great work. Those heavy bolter teams are awesome - simple but effective. What's your paint recipe for that uniform please?

 PaddyMick wrote:
Looking very grim dark in here, great work. Those heavy bolter teams are awesome - simple but effective. What's your paint recipe for that uniform please?

Paint scheme is as simple as can be... it's just the paint Ionrach Skin from games workshop, and then Nuln Oil washed over it in various locations. I try to have the main large surfaces of Ionrach Skin be the plain color with not much tint from wash. The logical conclusion to this color scheme is highlighting with 50/50 Ionrach Skin and white on the ridges, but I'm not there yet, my painting process typically leaves highlights to extremely late stages.

My Eldar craftworld, after years sitting in a case unfinished, slowly get ready for Crusade:

Some awesome updates Ph34r! Love that Eldar wraith. Your colour schemes are always very impressive.

 Olthannon wrote:
Some awesome updates Ph34r! Love that Eldar wraith. Your colour schemes are always very impressive.

Thanks Olthannon, I've been getting a lot of these Eldar painted over the last weeks. I'll get some more pictures when things are more done.

For now, I have converted a second spiritseer: