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who isn't a modeller. I painted some D&D figures back in the late 80s so I said i would do them for him. Be gentle with me...
I'm going to print off the decals when I know how many of what size i will need.


Command Section


Razorback for Command section, yeah i over did the chips I know...


Veteran Tank hunting section


Assault section


Heavy Flamer section


dedicated Rhino for Flamer section


Energy Weapons section


Neavy Bolter section


Missile section

More in next post.

they look really nice

have you washed them (imo) they dont look dirty enough

but then again i like quite heavily washed miniatures it might not be what your going for.

In which case they are pretty stunning, maybe you could paint the sides of the bases bbrown, that always adds a nice contrast to the grass.

nice

Very nice, but how to you intend to play them? As in, which codex? Because some of that stuff isn't legally playable with the official rules.

I suppose by non-codex he didn't mean non codex astartes, he meant, not in any codex at all!


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They're good, but your battle damage is odd. I'd model it on rather than paint it. And focus on the edges of plates and such. Take a look at where battle damage occurs on real tanks, because your battle damage looks too regular and almost like camouflage.

I'm not going to weather the rest of the vehicles until they are all done so they match, I've picked up some MIG powders and Tamiya sticks to do the soot, dust and mud.


first 3 sections Rhinos













The 6 infantry sections, some old metal figures mixed in from carboots.



Air Observation Post Landspeeder
for the susprssion force.

and since I was getting bored a Jagdrhino, the gun is on magnets so i can swap a normal Vindicator cannon. Very silly I know but what the hell!





I really like the Forge World Tempest but couldn't afford them so I decided to make something similar with the Landspeeder Storm, which i thought was a more suitable kit to work on.



Landspeeder Hurricane Mk I
Twin linked Heavy bolters, 6 twin linked missiles, twin hunter killers etc etc etc



Landspeeder Hurricane Mk I A
2 twin linked Heavy Bolters, twin linked assault cannons, twin hunter killers.....

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Tom


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Yeah, Its not hoiw I'd do damage / weathering for myself but the lad wanted them to look like the chipping in one of his GW books. They won't looks so bad when they are weathered, I hope. I've taken to applying the wear with ripped up sponge on stick so it doesn't look quite so cheesey!

Cheers!

Tom

Cool stuff. I don't really know what's up with the rhino though, two heavy flamers? Is that an option?

The color scheme looks good. I like the tank destroyer.

i love the Veteran Tank hunting section, old school helmets.

I LOVE those Tempest's!

Please tell me you took pics of how you made it as I am very very interested in finding out how!

I just bodged them together with plasticard and some spares











my modellings not up to doing the lovely cockpits like on the Forgeworld Tempest so for the "Hurricane" I went for a armoured sarcophagus afair for the pilot.

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Tom


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Awe inspiring, your card-fu is very good!

I'm going to save this thread and might have to attempt a build like this at some point

Wow. Lovely stuff, great (wacky too in some cases!) conversions and a solid paint job. Really great stuff. As Knightley said, it's awe inspiring. just the character in all the units is beautiful, with each model being an individual. Wonderful.

I don't care if it's game-legal or not, I'd be more than happy to play this army.

Cool!

Cheers! I'm under the impression that so long as the points for anything non standard are agreed on anything modelled is good to go with the eldest and his mates.

He'll have enough kosher figures and vehichles to form a company as per the codex when opposed to someone so minded but I'm affraid if I didn't do some wacky stuff from time to time (like the jagdrhino, a variation on the old Sabre conversion if any one still fields them, I think I would go batty. Its fits in with his back story anyroad.

On the cards are a 10 man Techmarine squad with their own dedicated recovery style Rhino (figures nearly done)

A 4 whirlwind (was going to be three but I aquired a set of metal launchers from the Mk I) supression force with bulldozer blades for digging in.

Raised roof anbulance style Rhino and dedicated Rhinos for the devastor squads, I quite fancy stretching one.

When i do them the markings will be quite subdued and subtle, more like modern ones. as i've gone on I have started to remove the more ostentatious decorations, going for a more sombre monkish yet functional look Saying that the Dreadnoughts are getting tiny handicapped blue square stickers on the back....

I'll get my coat...

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Tom

I am really liking theses guys, especially the speeders. I am looking forward to the Techmarines.

Just Finished, less weathering and varishing whih I'll do when I've done the lot. two more Rhinos



I've been experimenting a bit with the paint work weathering.

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Tom

Very cool. I don't care what you call them and that they meet no Codex in 40K, I'd play against them any day of the week!

I really like what you've done so far.The speeder is sick and i like the bayonets on the bolters too.
Are they going to be your own chapter(sorry your lads lol),or are they space wolves?

Very excellent conversions, good clean paintjob

He's got his own chapter and is writing out the history/back story. I'm trying to model them to fit in with this I'll admit i have prodded him in certain directions.

The colour scheme was supposed to be akin to French WWI horizon blue but came out bluer but what the hell. I have developed a pathological hatred of purity seals and carve them off. Once they are all done I'm I'm going to print off enough chapter symbpls decals (a candle inside a broken oblong that forms 2 "L"s and give them a light dusting with MIG powders and where required a Tamiya soot pen then varnishing them.

Although its a bit fluid the idea is that the chapter is down to a single reinforced company after a long and isolated internal struggle.

I've built a 6 x 4 board for him and his two younger brothers (orks and necrons but they are doing their own figures) which the figure bases match. The theme is a long abandoned imperial planet that has returned to nature, all over grown ruins and rusted vehicles.

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Tom


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Heres som of the scenery i've been doing for them to use






(spt the Splenda pot lids as silo doors)



a model car they bodged...





signs cut from a health and safety catalogue

and the board



which has been much improved by adding a pine edging to it tats sealed the edges and stiffened it a lot.

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Tom

Haha, you just made more models just on your son's request than I did in my whole life, I'm quite impressed congrats man

Nice!

Very nice!

Quick question - outside of Sternguard and Terminators, is there a marine squad that can take heavy flamers, never mind 4 of them?

Your terrain looks like the basis of a really awesome game. I like the army too! Keep it up!

Great job! I like your conversions and details! Your paint is pretty cool too!

Yeah, i tend to do stuff for the lads when i'm watching TV late at night and folk object to me playing with powertools and generally banging about.

I did a lot of models as a kid (never painted them back then) then did a fair few D&D figures back when i was a student. then I was laid up with a spectacularly broken leg for 6 months I did a few 1:72 RFC planes and got quite good at it, vac forms, resins that sort of stuff. then the kids came along and I pretty much stopped until I started to teach them a couple of years back when they got into GW stuff. The eldest has blown most of a couple of Christmasses and birthdays on kits and i've found a fair bit on carboots (hence the old metal figures mixed in). Once I've finished his stuff I'll have the rest of the year off his stuff until he gets more vehicles at x-mass and help the middle lad work on a 28mm ECW army he wants to start, more my sort of thing.

I've done some 1:72 stuff for their toy soldiers as well. Roman fort



generic WWII/Korea/Vietnam foxholes



a Norman motte and bailey i'm still working on for the youngests Saxons and Normans



and so on. The beams are covered in old school balsa and tissue planes I've made as well although unfortunately the local park is too small and too covered in trees for them. It would seam there is nothing so funny as a large, fat bearded man poking a 1960s Keikraft from a tall tree with tent poles gaffer taped together, but I digress.

I've also been helping the middle son a bit, heres some kannon for his orcs

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Anyroad, better go and see what kits they are hacking at! Little buggers go back to school tomorrow!

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Tom

tombear wrote:...and help the middle lad work on a 28mm ECW army he wants to start, more my sort of thing.

Extreme Championship Wrestling army? sounds awesome

pretty cool dad tbh

Cheers! I'm not big on sports so apart from providing the kit I leave all that to their mum so its swings and roundabouts. It helps being a house husband and it means no one objects to me doing my own stuff the rest of the time!

Over here ECW is English Civil War, although I suspect your just yanking my chain ;-{D)

Just got 3 predators to finish, two landspeeders to start and a Techmarine squad to finish then I've a rest from marines until he gets the next batch at Christmas. He already owes me all his pocket money until he is about 23!

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Tom

Ultimate Dad! Can't wait till my kids are old enough to get into Warhammer, and they start spending all their money on it, and mine, and christmas... Wait a minute... Lol, nar it's great, I get heaps of enjoyment out of it so look forward to my two boys being the same. How old are your kids and when did they start modelling?