Gun Drones Deployed

So as a (very) small side project I have a little Tau force I'm putting together, which only gets any attention as a break between higher priority work. Here is the first finished unit, Gun Drones:

For me nothing beats the classic Tau colours, so that's how I'm doing them.

Now, onward to my next KoW army...

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Iron Warriors Force = Complete!

So, yet again another long break between posts, not nearly as bad this time though.

Finally finished my Iron Warriors Chaos Space Marines. Instead of posting the whole force like I said I would in a previous entry, I'm just going to present the highlights, since the whole army was in general a 'tabletop standard' project.

 My Chaos Lord

 Warpsmith

 Raptors

And finally, the Maulerfiend, which took almost a year to complete in itself, such was the level of my hobbying this last year.

I've got about two months now which I plan to dedicate to getting the last of my Skaven finished. After that I'll be in an eight-month hobby-free period, so I'm going to make the best of the time I have now. Hopefully I'll get pics up of the Skaven slaves before then, and maybe even a battle report send off for 8th Edition Warhammer Fantasy.

Whatever the future holds, I can't see any Age of Sigmar making its way onto the blog. It just does nothing for me.

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In the Emperor's Name, Stand Your Ground!

The rumours about a new Imperial Guard book being on the way sufficiently excited me to finally paint my Lord Commissar. I've always liked this model, and I'm looking forward to fielding him on my front lines, providing that unique brand of "encouragement" for which the Commissariat is rightly known.

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Iron Warriors + Long Overdue Update

Greetings, hope a merry Christmas was had by all. It has been a shamefully long time since I updated here, but that's not to say I haven't been doing any hobbying! Been working on some Iron Warriors Chaos Space Marines, I've actually finished the army and hope to have pics of everything up soon but in the meantime here's some tasters.

 Helbrute!

Spawns!

Dark Apotheosis!

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Artillery standing by.

More Guard, this time some reinforcements from the Manchesini 148th Artillery.

Left to paint:

2 Mortar Heavy Weapon Squads
2 Sentinels
1 Lord Commissar

I'm so close I can taste the finish line (tastes good!).

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Platoon no.2 Reporting!

More Guardsmen from the Asardis 61st!

Getting close to the finish line with these guys now, which is a pretty good feeling. Should have it all done before the end of the year, then on to the next project!

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Armoured Fist

I always loved the old Armoured Fist Squad entry in Codex Imperial Guard, before it became that anyone and their aunt can have their own Chimera. Having one in my army doesn't really fit with the light infantry theme I'm going for, so I figured it would have to be included as assistance from a mechanised company. So here they are, a little mech support for my Asardis lads from the Indantium 29th Armoured Company.

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Guard on Parade.

Thought it's about time I get some pics of my Imperial Guard up. These were the guys I first started painting when I got back into the hobby just over a year ago, and at the time it was the most advanced paint scheme I had ever painted. Which doesn't say much.

Going back to them though I'm pleased with how they look, although simple in scheme they still make an impressive display on the board though I say so myself, and the simpler nature of the scheme has allowed me to paint more of them quickly.

So without further ado, I present the men of the Asardis 61st Light Infantry!

These red beret lads are my Company Command Squad, accompanied by a bright blue wearing liaison from the Manchesini 148th Artillery.

 My purple beret platoon's Command Squad.

 A and B squads of purple platoon.

 Turquoise berets mark the light artillery squads.

Black berets for the Veteran Squad. Note the shotguns which are pretty terrible in 6th ed. Oh well, they still look cool :).

 Lord Commissar Jacomo Maecantus.

Supporting drop troops (Storm Troopers) from the Helvardus 15th Airborne.

More pics to come, and next time I'll throw in a little fluff too!

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To the Skies!!

My local GW is doing an Apocalypse game this Saturday for fliers, skimmers and jump infantry only, so I thought I use that as an excuse to slow down with the Skaven and get some Assault Marines painted up.

A quick note about me and Space Marines, I have a large and neglected pile of them from my much younger days in the hobby and a while back decided I wanted to redo them as a Dorn successor chapter. After looking around the 40k wiki I settled on the Iron Fists, because the colours looked fun and I liked the back story. However painting marines is something I've always found tedious so I wanted to find a way of quickly doing them, basically by making the majority of the model a wash over Astronomicon Grey. This was my first attempt:

I was pretty pleased with it, but I pretty much left it there thinking I'd get around to the rest of them at some point in the future.

However, when I came to do my Assault Marines I realised there was a problem, namely that the most important paint in my scheme, Asurman Blue wash, is nothing like the new Drakenhof Nightshade shade, but as I don't have enough of the old colour I had to switch to the new one and hope for the best. Anyway, here are the results:

Its hard to decide which wash I like better (though the point is moot since Drakenhof is the only real option without hunting down an Asurman lookalike) but while I really like the colour of the Asurman Blue, Drakenhof does make them look dirtier, which is cool.

Anyhoo, this was a fun distraction but back to clanrats I go.

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