In a bid to rescue my CD army thread from being swamped with 40k I’ve decided (a monumental decision!) to split off everything else and put it here
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I have had quite a bot of hobby time but I’ve been a bad IP and spent it ignoring my CD (apart from basing and converting orcs…which I’ll naturally be bigging up on my CD thread :hat off )
What I’ve been up to:
More Eldar:
…and finishing off my grass board:
(stupid unpainted river )
and my cityfight board:
I’m also making a mold for one of my old scratchbuilds:
I’m organising a Horus Heresy weekend for my mates and want to have a company of superheavies to pound them with…and I also need to build a defence laser (out of a toilet float and a MacDonalds lightsabre!)
Looks more like tank tracks to me. I agree with Grims, the jetbikes do look a bit plain and some decals might also greatly improve the looks of the Falcon grav tank.
Yep have to agree with you both there…I just don’t have any transfers! I’ll have a look around and see if I can dig some out - but black or white runes?
It is a track unit, I’m casting one up now so I’ll stick a picture up when its set…its one of teh rack units from this:
White would definately stand out better. I saw some jetbikes a while back that had some decent freehand rune patterns on them instead of decals. Probably lost the link.
That tank is very interesting. Is it based on a historic design for turret placement? Looks a bit like a Scorpion
I’m currently making a stretched Leman Russ. It’s 10mm longer, with lower ground clearance and a turret pattern more like an Abrams M1A1. Never really considered myself a treadhead before, but I’m having fun. I’m going to sell it after golden daemon.
White it is then! I can’t really do free hand so it’ll have to be transfers (I’ll need to get some microset/microsol to get the transfers to adhere properly).
The tank is mainly based on the Macharius heavy tank (which I reckon looks a bit like a French Char B from the second world war). Thinking about it the turret is weirdly placed - maybe I should move it forward :idea I also want to do a troop carrier (a bit gorgon like) and a titan hunter version in the fullness of time
Lost a bit of detail, quite a few bubbles, but came out OK for a first run (i’ve never mixed mineral powder with resin before - it s was super-gloopy-thick!). The rivets barely came out but will pop out when I drybrush it…I hope :sick
I also picked up some picture frames in a sale and printed off certificates for the best Loyalist and best Traitor players:
People like certificates so I thought it would be nice (the small print at the bottom of the Imperial one states failure to destroy the record will result in purging - gotta love the inquisition!).
It had inspired me to do a test mini at the time but I wasn’t interested enough to continue. However, I found a bunch of hasslefree miniatures females in my bits box that got me thinking…
My theme will be that a Dark Elf house, House Horza, is down on its luck. Lord Faldimir Cruelheart, master of House Horza, hatches a plot to raid some lizardman temples in order to get enough money together for a triumphal return to the Land of Chill. However, he doesn’t have the resources on his alone so he’s made a deal will the Covenant of Sorceresses. Being Dark Elves they don’t really trust each other so the Covenant have sent acolytes to keep an eye on all of House Horzas’ troops to make sure Faldimir doesn’t’ pull a fast one.
This is basically me trying to justify using scantily clad females to lead all my units…naked chicks and dinosaurs…I hope my girlfriend doesn’t see this plog
I sculpted a sea dragon cloak onto Gail here…erm…I suppose its very hot in Lustria! (sorry for the bad pic - had to fiddle in photoshop to even make her visible):
She’ll lead the Black Ark corsairs into battle.
I’ve also been converting some Black Guard (House bodyguards) out of spearmen:
I’m not a fan of shiny happy Space Marines - I like mine to look like they’re on campaign. The camo netting went a bit wrong and I had to reposition it, but luckily it hadn’t dried…unfortunately I don’t think it ever will because I didn’t soak it in enough glue :(
The Terminator squad it transports in games:
I didn’t have an Thunderhammers lying around for the rest of the squad (the sergeant is from Space Hulk) so I built them out of plasma pistols and IG Chimera sponson lasguns. The chapter (The Iron Brothers) are meant be be very mechanical so the bionic limbs fit in OK.
A couple of Tactical Squads:
My favourite part of these models is the basing (I like painting road markings!)
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Is that a mould of a building?
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