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AllSeeingSkink wrote:
My speed-painting-6mm-scale-Sons-of-Horus technique is to prime white (could be zenithal white over black instead), hit it with a Kroxigor Scales, then drybrush it Emerald from Vallejo Model Colour. Could probably also do a slightly lighter drybrush using a pastel emerald.

Don't have any pics of the results, but it gives me a result I'm happy with. It might be slightly more pale than GW's studio paint job, but at 6mm scale I like a bit of extra contrast and punchiness.

Thanks everyone for the ideas. I'm trying various recipes. I'll give this one specifically a go All Seeing Skink. Cheers all.

So I've been working on a kind of special project lately: I kinda wanted to assemble a full 2000 points old school Imperial army, and I decided to use as a template the one from WD 216's battle report, The Scourging of Lammas, changing a couple things around (couple changes in the detachments mainly for aesthetics and removing the space marines and using legio and Imperial Fleet assistance instead) and filling it up to the full two thousands.

This would be the full army footprint before gluing the infantry:



Which, when zooming in, is composed of:

"F" Company, 8th Magdellan Regiment
Captain Morcar with escort and Primaris psyker with two additional Command sections and two Ogryn squads for protection, commanding a full company composed of three regular infantry squads and six heavy weapons squads, with a Demolisher Siege Tank providing support and 4 scout Sentinels as recon elements



4th Armored Company, 8th Magdellan Regiment
Captain August Bach riding the Command Vanquisher LR commanding two full Leman Russ squadrons, with 2 Griffons providing close fire support and 2 Hellhounds to discourage assaults, and two mechanized infantry squads (standard and HW) to intercept any would be assaulters:



1st Artillery Company. 8th Magdellan Regiment
Bombardier-Major Senlac onboard a Bombard Heavy Siege Gun and a Deathstrike Missile Launcher, plus a full battery of six Basilisks, two Hydras for provide AA defense and a mechanized infantry squad to stop assaulters:



Jegun's Charges
Rough Rider Captain Jegun and an additional RR command section plus 6 Rough Rider Squads to act as flankers, with 6 Sentinels providing much needed heavier firepower:



2nd Armored Company, 8th Magdellan Regiment
Captain Hardraade on a Baneblade with a Shadowsword for super heavy hunting (yeah, I only have printed two Baneblades so far, but I'll eventually probably swap it xD)



135th Support Air Wing, Segmentum Ultima Fleet
Just a couple of Marauder bombers to reach out and touch someone:



Legio Gryphonicus Battle Maniple Element
Gladius Rex, Reaver Battle Titan:



The idea here was to not have "ideal" detachments, but rather to have a established army with which one would need to make do and adapt it to the battle's circunstances. Some of the additions are to fill out points or for aesthetics reasons (haven't found yet Epic scale ratlings I like, for example, and I I prefer to field full LR squads instead of pairs) or to have a little bit of everything. The mechanized infantry squads in the armored or artillry detachments are mainly fo aesthetics and in-world sense ^^.

And well, now I have to paint all this xDDDD

Amazing Albertorius! That's a really cool theme, I love the little infantry with the busby hats (I would feel bad about killing those guys!) and the Ogryns, which look to be Epic versions of the 2nd edition 40k Ogryn miniatures if I'm not mistaken?

 Pacific wrote:
Amazing Albertorius! That's a really cool theme, I love the little infantry with the busby hats (I would feel bad about killing those guys!) and the Ogryns, which look to be Epic versions of the 2nd edition 40k Ogryn miniatures if I'm not mistaken?

Indeed they are, you have good eye . I've always loved the old big guys, and the proportions work in their benefit when scaling down, so...

Cool project @albertorius! I have a similar one trying to reach 2000pts with my guardsmen. Here is tonights harvest, a pack of sentinels led by a commissar!

Looking great guys. Love seeing the updates.

 Albertorius wrote:
So I've been working on a kind of special project lately....

Those vehicles look super sharp. I've never been able to print vehicles without having some faces showing layer/voxel lines (can play with the orientation to get 1 perfect surface, but all the others will suck).

What sort of magic are you using to do it? Is it a super high res printer? Tiny layers? Spent a lot of time dialling in exposure time?

AllSeeingSkink wrote:

 Albertorius wrote:
So I've been working on a kind of special project lately....

Those vehicles look super sharp. I've never been able to print vehicles without having some faces showing layer/voxel lines (can play with the orientation to get 1 perfect surface, but all the others will suck).

What sort of magic are you using to do it? Is it a super high res printer? Tiny layers? Spent a lot of time dialling in exposure time?

Oh, they absolutely have layer lines xD. Check the Basilisks' gun shields, for example, or the Baneblades' front glacis besides the demolisher cannons, it shows pretty clearly there.

Other than that, I haven't really done anything much in this case (50 microns/layer, dialed in exposure I guess). But there are lines, believe me.

Maybe it's the resin color I guess...

Maybe you're just good at photographing them, haha.

More gaming happened in Epic scale, as we're all waiting for the Legiones Imperialis to slowly dripfeed into our systems there's always good ol' Epic: Armageddon to smash. Or in this case, orks faces to bash with both hands as the capitol city of Miami V needed defending, twice in a row!

First battle saw the orks thoroughly scrunched against the hot'n'hateful steel of Mechanicum.






The second battle saw an almost unstoppable triple-mob charge pour through one flank of robots, but the day was still carried by remorseless robots marching to the ork home base through a burning channel ripped in the earth by a nova cannon shot from the backfield Ordinatus.









It was also finally a good excuse to take a family portrait of the Mechanicum painted thus far

Incredible work Sherrypie! That looks like it was an awesome game

Just more evidence of why this is known unofficially as God's Own Ccale!

 Pacific wrote:
Incredible work Sherrypie! That looks like it was an awesome game

Just more evidence of why this is known unofficially as God's Own Ccale!

Two games, but yes

If you want to see a battle instead of a mere fight, got to go for the appropriate scale.

That is an absolutely glorious sight to behold What were you using for the backdrop?

 Skinflint Games wrote:
That is an absolutely glorious sight to behold What were you using for the backdrop?

In the game pics? Digital edit of a sunset sky, I just like the atmosphere more when all real life walls, chairs and people's butts are removed from around the table. Also removed some of the more egregious dice, tokens and bottles laying around while at it as usual. Couple of minutes of GIMP editing, nothing too fancy there

Can't argue with the results. Beautiful!

It definitely makes all the difference! And with the backgrounds especially.

I always have my shots ruined by piles of dice, tokens, rule books balanced on buildings and then usually the ubiquitous big belly poised like some sort of moon hovering over all of the miniatures

I remember reading that in WD battle reports they used to take quick Polaroid shots during the game itself, then afterwards come back and re-arrange the Miniatures on the tabletop as they had been in the game, with proper lighting etc. It would be a bit of work, but I think a good idea.

Yeah, they did do the whole polaroid rigamarole back in the day. Especially in those very 90's days when they still hid some of the miniatures' bases under green flock that was loosely covering the tabletops!

It's not a bad idea if one has the time and resources, really. It's always a bit of a hassle to take properly, or at least legibly, lit pictures during games so that they wouldn't also have too many dice, beverages, bellies or wiggling sausage-fingers waving tape measurers everywhere. Bloody hobbyists, having fun while others are trying to elevate the artform

Rough Riders detachment with some sentinels to provide support fire:

And the superheavy detachment is also completed:

Very, very cool! (Literally - I love the snow theme!)

Can I ask from where the rough riders originated? I love the spin on them of lizard beasts.

 Pacific wrote:
Very, very cool! (Literally - I love the snow theme!)

Can I ask from where the rough riders originated? I love the spin on them of lizard beasts.

As the rest of this army's "infantry", they're from Ankylo Miniatures' "Sci Fi Hussars" Kickstarter, which is now also on Cults3D.

While waiting for LI to drop, some 2v2 Epic: Armageddon was had yesterday, as Death Guard legion and their Mech + Guard opponents drew a bloody stalemate. Some 12k points on the board.

Sick game! Myself i just painted a modest infantry platoon.

Pacific asked me to present my models here, so here they are They were previously presented in "Painting & Modeling Showcase" section, so you may have already seen them..

Had a campaign match of epic this evening. Mission was to hunt a deamon prince who was feeding corruption to the planet of Minerva. In the last round the space marines managed to break him out of his cover with a withering hail of fire. As the deamon prepared to teleport out of the battlefield, the last available marine unit sighted his fellblade onto the creature, and ended his foul existence! The planet is saved!

Keeping up the work with my imperial guard. Finished 2 mechanized platoons of infantry. Just have to complete the banner on my commander and i will have a full company (he gotta rock better than a white flag)

Thanks for sharing inspirational stuff gentlemen/women.

@Albertorius: special mention for a very cool project. 🙌

Some lovely stuff there Gitdakka, that looks like a very cool battle.

I like the mech infantry too.. can I ask what are those APC tanks you have used above?

Thanks! Those are from vanguard miniatures. They are called warrior 2 apc and are found in their novan regulars range.

Now that i have 2000pts of imperial guard ready, I had to set them up for a parade! The supreme commander gallantly marching with his regimental banner!