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The Trogryn is great. It is both impressive as a kitbash and whimiscal.

Thanks Youwashock, Qui Hotep, Salvage and Hamster! I'm glad you like the Trogryn. Also thanks Brown, you encourage me to continue with the Heavy Weapon Teams. Speaking of which...



Here you see Missile Launcher Team 3, uncorking a bottle of Cabernet Proculard. My original plan was to tie the two other teams together with a modest-looking build, but then I found the little bottle and things got out of hand. We'll see how this turns out.

I also finished the last, diminutive guardsman for my Infantry Squad. Can you spot him?

The trogryn is amazing! And i think you went the right route with the team, sure the drink might impact their aim, but look how happy they are!

 Pomander Cask wrote:

I also finished the last, diminutive guardsman for my Infantry Squad. Can you spot him?

That Tau fellow in the rear rank?

CB

Thanks Turtles, I'm glad you value their happiness. Also good thinking, Brown, but the Tau fellow is from November actually. The new one is second from the left, back row.

I've been painting diligently since last update, and finished the Missile Launcher Team today. It was fun to paint, but I tried to match the style of the other two, which was a bit of a challenge. I plan to use them as a squad, though, so I thought it was important.

The pictures also look a bit different because I've borrowed a camera. I hope you like it, I'm quite happy with it myself.



I don't know how interesting this is to you, but I wrote a list of 'ingredients' for this one. Make your own and season as needed!

- Missile Launcher from the regular Cadian kit (I elongated the stand with a random plastic stick, can't remember where I got it).
- Grots from regular Stabbas/Shootas kit.
- Right arms from the Heavy Weapons and Shock Troops kits, as expected, slightly rasped-down.
- Upper left arm from the Command Squad kit (the chainsword arm), with the hand from the Heavy Weapons kit (the one holding binoculars).
- Lower left arm from the Heavy Weapons kit, with the hand from the Command Squad kit (the chainsword arm again).
- Wine bottle from the Freeguild Guard / Empire State Troops sprue.
- Custom-made wine glass with the bowl from the backside of a vox caster speaker and the foot from snipped-off sprue parts (the medium-sized cylinders).
- Mushroom from snipped-off sprue parts (the medium sized cylinders again).

This warband/army just keeps on going from victory to victory, at least modelling/painting-wise Loving the Trogryn and the new tipsy ML team (all of them, really)! And the squad looks really good together.

The photography looks good, nice clean white background. I'd suggest making the aperture smaller though (by increasing the f-value), to get more depth of field, i.e. less blur.

It's nice to know where to wine bottle comes from, i might need something like that for my own projects someday!

This whimsy continues! I expected them to be drinking some rotgut but the red wine actually lends them a bit of class.

This army is one of the best going at the moment, without a doubt.

The Trogryn is a wonder idea, and beautifully executed too!
The 2nd missile team is also a fantastic piece. The random missile just lying in the dirt is a bit suss though. Not sure i'd trust that!

As ever people's imaginations for this game amaze me, wonderful work and outside the box modelling there. Bravo.

Instantly one of the coolest blogs , I have seen.

So their aim is improved by the libations?

Cheers,

CB

mcmattila wrote:This warband/army just keeps on going from victory to victory, at least modelling/painting-wise Loving the Trogryn and the new tipsy ML team (all of them, really)! And the squad looks really good together.
The photography looks good, nice clean white background. I'd suggest making the aperture smaller though (by increasing the f-value), to get more depth of field, i.e. less blur.

Thanks a lot! They haven't been tried on the field of battle so far, but maybe this weekend! Changing the aperture sounds good, I'm so new to real cameras that I think everything looks great.

amazingturtles wrote:It's nice to know where to wine bottle comes from, i might need something like that for my own projects someday!

Do it! There's only one bottle per 10 Freeguild Guard though.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:This whimsy continues! I expected them to be drinking some rotgut but the red wine actually lends them a bit of class.

The Astra Telepathica keeps lots of classy beverages in their cellars actually. It's an employee benefit.

Snrub wrote:This army is one of the best going at the moment, without a doubt.
The Trogryn is a wonder idea, and beautifully executed too!
The 2nd missile team is also a fantastic piece. The random missile just lying in the dirt is a bit suss though. Not sure i'd trust that!

Thanks! They're a bit careless with the missiles, admittedly.

Thousandeyes wrote:As ever people's imaginations for this game amaze me, wonderful work and outside the box modelling there. Bravo.

Marxist artist wrote:Instantly one of the coolest blogs , I have seen.

Thanks a lot guys!

Captain Brown wrote:So their aim is improved by the libations?

Definitely, initially, yes.

First of all, I'd like to present a new squad member. Grumpy old Pte Frank has served the 414th Regiment longer than anyone can remember. He knows a lot of things but is not particularly brave. During missions he often lags behind his fellow soldiers due to severe arthritis, which means that he usually arrives too late for fighting any enemies his squad might encounter. Frank has both supported and undermined mutinies over the years, but neither his fellow soldiers nor his commissars are aware of this.



Now for the current project, I'm working on a second sentinel, this time a bit modified. Sentinels are pivotal to secure mushroom hunting. Agaricus and his fellows at the Adeptus Astra Telepathica often send the 414th Regiment to heavily forested planets, where interesting specimens might be found. They have a habit of drastically miscalculating risk-benefit ratios, so the soldiers of the 414th Regiment find themselves fighting all sorts of fantastical creatures, with limited return in terms of mushrooms. During these missions, the soldiers rely on bipedal walkers for heavy support, since the terrain is too rough for tanks. Here is a sneak peek!



I'll make a list of ingredients again, hope you enjoy!
- Fanatics: Head
- Hellions: Hand/staff
- Cadian Command Squad: Laurel insignia
- Skitarii Rangers: Arms
- Sentinel: The rest

Here I am thinking your shoulder pads are crazy good freehand and you drop this sentinel nose on us!

And as they say; youth and enthusiasm are no match for old age and cunning!

Pomander Cask,

Nice work.

Looking for to the Sentinel.

Cheers,

CB

Old man Frank is adorable.

I now want one too

ChaoticMind wrote:Here I am thinking your shoulder pads are crazy good freehand and you drop this sentinel nose on us! And as they say; youth and enthusiasm are no match for old age and cunning!

Captain Brown wrote:Pomander Cask, Nice work. Looking for to the Sentinel. Cheers, CB

Not Online!!! wrote:Old man Frank is adorable. I now want one too

Thanks a lot! The sentinel is on its way. The Mushroom Hunters faced combat last weekend, which was great fun. My friend's vicious genestealers used all sorts of cunning strategies, but to no avail! The Mushroom Hunters made advantage of their superior firepower and blasted the misled miners to pieces. We only had time for half a game, but still.

I'm quite happy about Psychic Awakening: Greater Good, because it allows custom regiments. The Mushroom Hunters were always a bit un-Cadian, and I think the combination of Wilderness Survivors and Disciplined Shooters describes them better. The new book also introduces Tank Aces, and I like the idea.

This is the highly-decorated tank commander Percival Panellus, renowned support ace. He leads the 414th Regiment's small but important armoured support division. His vehicle will be introduced soon.

It's nice to hear that the mushroom hunters won the day! Well, half the day at least.

I like that he's holding up the card just in case anyone needs reminding that he is, in fact, an ace.

Going through the pages it's amazing what detail goes into your conversions and their paint jobs! And I'm happy that they didn't let you down on the battlefield and stopped the uprising of the filthy xenos And I have to thank you and go back to my empire state troopers sprues, didn't know, there was a bottle on there, need to put that on a mini in the near future.

amazingturtles wrote:It's nice to hear that the mushroom hunters won the day! Well, half the day at least. I like that he's holding up the card just in case anyone needs reminding that he is, in fact, an ace.

Yeah you have to be overexplicit in the 41st millennium.

Viterbi wrote:Going through the pages it's amazing what detail goes into your conversions and their paint jobs! And I'm happy that they didn't let you down on the battlefield and stopped the uprising of the filthy xenos And I have to thank you and go back to my empire state troopers sprues, didn't know, there was a bottle on there, need to put that on a mini in the near future.

Thanks a lot mate! I'm happy to help, the old fantasy sprues are full of interesting parts.

It's time for another update! This thread is falling behind my Instagram account at the moment, but I'll try to remedy this over the next week. First off, the second sentinel!



If you read the post from February 25th, you've already seen the cockpit and the list of components. Here's an updated version, covering the whole model.

- Fanatics: Head
- Hellions: Hand/staff
- Cadian Command Squad: Laurel insignia
- Skitarii Rangers: Arms
- Carved/filed-down sprue frames: Mushrooms
- Men-at-arms: The snail
- Sentinel: The rest

Enjoy and stay safe!

Oh no oh no! The poor snail! I shall mourn it.

He is one maniacal looking sentinel pilot and i like it.

Maybe the snail has an adamantine shell and the walker is moments away from tripping over it? Either way, an amazing piece.

Another winning model, the insignia with the mushroom on the side is fantastic! It looks like a printed piece, awesome freehand.

Love the sentinel! Excellent glow effect on the searchlight, how did you do it? Also want to echo how great the freehand looks.

Pomander Cask,

Nice work.

Cheers,

CB

That freehand is amazing, most transfers look worse

amazingturtles wrote:Oh no oh no! The poor snail! I shall mourn it. He is one maniacal looking sentinel pilot and i like it.

youwashock wrote:Maybe the snail has an adamantine shell and the walker is moments away from tripping over it? Either way, an amazing piece.

The snail is dead, sorry! Nothing can stop the sentinel. Also, thanks.

gobert wrote:Another winning model, the insignia with the mushroom on the side is fantastic! It looks like a printed piece, awesome freehand.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Love the sentinel! Excellent glow effect on the searchlight, how did you do it? Also want to echo how great the freehand looks.

Captain Brown wrote:Pomander Cask, Nice work. Cheers, CB

Viterbi wrote:That freehand is amazing, most transfers look worse

Thanks a lot people, I'm glad you like the freehand. Painting mushrooms is nice, you can stylise them but they're still recognisable. I was a bit lucky with the searchlight, first I made a gradient upwards-downwards and highlighted the edges sort of half-heartedly, but then I threw Reikland Fleshshade over it and all the edges sorted themselves out. This doesn't usually happen when I use shades. I used one or two layers of 'Ardcoat too.

It's update time again! As promised, I will try to catch up with my Instagram account. There's quite a few pictures, so I can't post everything at once. First off, I have a little italic section.

Most Imperial denizens have heard about the 133rd Lambdan Lions, and their long-standing affiliation with the Cult Mechanicus. Indeed, the Lambdan Lions are an important cog in the Cult’s machinery. Over the last two millenia, they have extracted countless techno-artefacts, from worlds where the servo-fingers of the Omnissah do not reach.

Little is known, however, about the next regiment in order: The 134th Lactarian Lions. They are a not a secret organization, only insignificant to the Imperium at large. Anyone can read about them at the Office of Records, Unclassified Section. The 134th Regiment was formed three hundred years ago, out of surplus recruits from the 133rd Regiment, who had barely begun their training at the Moons of Mezoa. The new masters were, as you might have guessed, the Adeptus Astra Telepathica. The purpose was not to aid the enormous recruitment apparatus (i.e. the Black Ships), but to secure targets of interests, such as psychic artefacts and mobile warp gates. Since its formation, the 134th Regiment has not been overly successful in these matters, except for one time when it recaptured the Grandmaster’s Force Stave from a Drukhari raiding company. Now it seems the Adeptus Astra Telepathica has a new mission for the 134th Regiment.

Here we have the first representation of the Lactarian Lions, a modified Valkyrie. I went with the maximalistic approach again, and painted the inside walls. The passengers got lots of interesting buttons to press, and also lockers with extra parachutes and extra ammunition.



To complicate things further, I decided the passengers needed something to sit on. I took two pieces from the tank kit, meant as guard tracks, and made a little bench. Then I added handles from the taurux kit, and attached the drawbridge with ropes from the tank kit.



I hope you like it, there's more to come!

Those pipes look perfect! I should redo my ribbed piping to resemble yours.

That’s some serious maximalism! Great job detailing all those cables and fixtures. Cool idea to have the ramp down, will the bird be mid flight or landed?

So many wonderful buttons! I'd take a ride in that ship just for that