Hello friends! I’m back with some pictures!
Sorry I made you wait so long! I’m having trouble splitting my time between real-life stuff, painting and uploading posts, and I’ve not had as much hobby time as I would have liked in the past few months. But like I said, I have at least been able to finish some more Tigers that I can share with you for the near future.
Some of you may have seen that the original Jungle website crashed. Mr. Kilgore is now working on recreating the homepage in its third iteration. There’s already some stuff on there, so definitely head on over and check it out
here. While the loss of all the inspirational material has been devastating to me personally, I’m looking forward to seeing where Kenton will take the new Jungle and I’m convinced that, whatever he comes up with, it will be top-notch as always. However, the unfortunate demise of the old website has had a positive side effect for me: In search of material and pictures to “reforest” his Jungle, Kenton has contacted me personally and asked if he could use some pictures from my Dakka thread on his own site! Needless to say, I was incredibly honored by his request and gave him permission to use anything he wants. Maybe, we’ll see some of my Tigers on the official website soon, so keep your eyes peeled when you’re over there!
Anyways, some stuff to look forward to in this thread will be a group of female assault scouts as well as a second devastator squad, but for today, I have something else for you. Without further ado, let’s get to the pictures!
Today, I want to share another vehicle with you: this Land Speeder!
This vehicle was another salvaged mini from a used lot, so it was a little banged up and some parts had been broken. I fixed it as best I could, and removed some of the flimsy details that would just get broken off anyway myself.
To prevent going overboard with the paint scheme, I decided to keep large sections of the vehicle in the standard black and only add orange paint to a few, selected areas where it would look good. In case of this vehicle, I chose the fins as well as some other parts for these orange highlights. This really helps the vehicle blend into the rest of the army.
Above you see a closeup shot of the pilot. Sorry but I didn’t realize how dusty the mini was until I edited the pics later
Hope it isn’t too distracting!
The greebly bits like the engines were painted metallic. The previous owner had really globbed the paint on, and you can actually see some cracks that formed in the thickest parts when the paint dried. Unfortunately, some of these imperfections were impossible to fix without ruining the mini, so I painted over them and hoped for the best.
Another detail shot, this time of the vehicle’s gunner. He is also a victim of the overly enthusiastic basecoat, but I hope that my tiger stripe paintjob helps hide some of the worst problems.
Some of you may have already noticed a little difference in this models flight stand. As you all know, these Land Speeders usually come with these annoying, flimsy clear plastic rods. Of course, these are the parts that break first on these kinds of miniatures. Instead of fiddling around with another plastic replacement part, I decided to take Kenton’s example and replace my flight stands with metal nails. I used a very thin wire nail/pin to suspend the miniature.
This thing is extremely sturdy and very low profile. That way, it was really easy for me to hide it from sight by adding a green paintjob and placing some plastic plants around it. I’m kinda proud of the illusion this has created, because you really have to get very close and actively look for the rod to find it amongst the foliage.
But that’s not all! Looking at Kenton’s army, I saw all is Landspeeders were Tornados, so I figured I had to find a way to source some assault cannons for my own army. Check this out:
This assault cannon used to be available from
puppetswar.eu, and I really liked the design. I decided to get four of them for my own army to make magnetized upgrades for my Speeders. They paint up really well
IMO, but I did have to do some repairs because parts of the rubber mold seem to have been a little damaged. Nothing major though.
A shot from the top. Here you can see the two magnets used to hold the gun in place, as well as a greenstuff connector I added to make sure the gun sits flush against the hull of the vehicle. Let’s attach it now, shall we?
I think the extra gun really adds a level of coolness to the vehicle, and I like that the Puppetswar gun is a little larger than the regular
GW one because it gives it a more powerful appearance
IMO.
The gun also blends in pretty well with the silhouette of the vehicle.
One more shot for good measure:
Don’t leave yet, there’s more!
Another thing I finished was this FTOV Deathwatch veteran. The idea just crossed my mind at some point, and I liked it so much that I had to start kitbashing right away. This guy was a fun little project, and since it’s just a single miniature, I managed to get it from start to finish pretty quickly. Let’s take a look:
This guy is equipped with a bolt pistol and lightning claw. I really liked the idea of a veteran with a silver left arm which had claws mounted on it, so I couldn’t keep myself from building him right away. I think the stripes and claw nicely tie him into the Tigers, while the silver of the arm and pauldron also clearly mark him out as a Deathwatch Marine.
I decided to keep most of the mini black because that’s what colours would be required in the Deathwatch. He gets to keep his right pauldron in chapter colours though, as mandate by the Ordo Xenos.
I kept this guy fully in Mk 6 ‘Corvus’ plate, because that’s what many of the classic models in Kenton’s army have.
The left pauldron shows the typical Deathwatch ornamentations, with the ‘Veda’ inscription painted onto the scrollwork.
Finally, another action shot:
Alright, that’s all I have to show you for today! I hope you enjoyed today’s update and you will visit again soon. I’d appreciate your feedback on today’s stuff. I’d also love to hear what you think about stuff in the previous posts if you haven’t checked them out yet. Thanks for looking, Stay tuned for more Tigers! Until next time!