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Painting progress will be slow for the next week or so, damn uni exams.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Gotta have it!


Ron over at FTW has got a collaborative post going on about your must have unit. For me my must have unit choice has very little to do with actual gaming effectiveness or points cost. I've pretty much always collected Guard, and from the very first time I opened up the codex, I've thought stormtroopers were sweet. I remember seeing them in the codex and thinking, wow, a save that's better than 5!

I used to field a squad of five against my friends chaos army, and they would always end up getting squished in close combat or slammed by bolter fire. I never was any good at winning games when I was younger...but they made it on to the table almost every time. I always liked the idea that they were the best of the best, even if I could never get them to play that way.

Since then I've pretty much always fielded them, and in 5th edition they make a sweet punchy unit when you put them in a chimera and outflank to the rear of a tau gunline. The new hotshot lasguns are sweet, so now more than ever the stormies have a place in my army not just for the fact that I've always used them.

Stormtroopers are my must have unit, because, well they're models that have always been in my army, and it would be kind of weird to play guard without them on the table.


As a side note - I was just reading through this thread on DakkaDakka, and I noticed that the ratling in the background of this picture looks almost too much like the new mini (you know the one, sniping around the post, with the apples) not to be some kind of homage. I thought it was interesting to see the sculptors drawing on stuff from 2nd ed for new sculpts!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Army Progress Report

I saw this system on Drax's blog a while ago, and set a spredsheet up for myself. After the my progress last weekend, I thought i'd share with everyone how much I still have to go. It's really good now actually because all I have left for my army is the units I'm actually looking forward to painting. Vets, tanks, stormtroopers = variety!

So here's where I'm at as of now:


Sunday, October 25, 2009

Marathon Post #7 - My Goodness It's over

Well I actually got them finished (well, near enough for me anyway) I've got all 21 entirely finished except for the red stripe on their helmets, and the bases. Both of these things won't take me long to do at all, so for the purposes of the marathon I'm going to call it a success! And I finished before midnight..11:35 to be exact.

I didn't get the Autocannon Teams done, but they'll get done over the next week or so, so it's fine.

I took a picture of the sarge shielding himself from an explosion at every stage of the process, thought it might make a good wrap up!

Basecoat of Codex Grey


Charadon Granite


Metal and then....Skiiiiiiin (man this step took a long time)

Mithril Silver Weathering

Washed and Done!

Thanks to the people who've been keeping up, Thanks for reading! I'll get better pictures of these guys up during the week, my photography skills plummet right around 11pm...

I am off to bed, what a productive weekend!

Marathon Post #6 - Skinned!


Finally! All the skin is done, and unfortunately Drax I just couldn't bring myself to paint them wearing gloves....or balaclavas.

All that's left now is to weather the armour, paint the aquila's and skulls, and give them a nice (devlan) mud bath. It's 9:35ish here, I might just make it before midnight!