Introducing a friend and more command models

Before I show you the latest additions to my command squads, I want to introduce a good friend who's just started blogging. Tolcrothlogan is a good friend, who's been a long time player of various system, he's been a propainter with his stuff on the front of Wargames Illustrated and an all round military buff. He's even an ex rupert, but we forgive him for that. Check out his blog at :-

http://tolcrothlogan.blogspot.com/

He's new to all this blogging lark, so nip over and say hi, I'm sure he'll bring a lot to the community.

Now, onto the models. Sorry about the pics, with this winter light, I'm struggling to get decent pics. I really do think that I'm going to have to put together a light box. Anyway, I've painted up another selection of command squad models.


First off, we have four plasma gunners, I just love plasma and four in a command squad mounted in a chimera will be a hell of a headache for those marines.


Next up is a selection of command squad veterans. There's a new smaller banner for 2nd platoon, I decided the first was too grand from a platoon so it's going into the company command squad. The banner is actually from the the catachen command squad, so I snipped it off the arm and cleaned up where it joined the shoulder before mounting it on a normal guardsman. There's two vox casters, a standard plastic one which I put together first and then an old metal one which I found in my boxobits. Finally, another medic to finish them off.



Hope you like them guys. These finish off my command squads, so I'll be posting a full pic of the company command squad as soon as I sort my lighting issues. 2nd platoon just needs a squad of guardsman and two heavy weapons squads to finish it off.

WIP Objectives

With the latest TOEMP challenge, I've put myself down for painting up the rest of my command squad. As I went for the easiest for the three possible challenges, I had to take a hard bonus challenge, which meant challenging myself with sculpting, body positioning, converting and parts swapping.

Well, there wasn't much chance to get this done as part of the command squad as they're pretty uniform models. So, I decided to add a set of 5 objective markers to my painting total.


When I first came up with the idea, I thought about what the average soldier would see as an objective. Stores and Whores came immediately came to mind, lacking any suitable whores, I decided to go with casualties instead.

The first two are just simple stores objectives, nothing fancy here. One of the boxes was damaged, so I had to do a little GS fixing.



Next up comes a simple casualty taking cover in some rubble, nothing fancy on this one.


The second casualty marker was a bit more involved. I used fuss wire to represent the drip line, so this casualty is getting aid in the field.


For the fifth and finally one, I wasn't sure whether to do stores or another casualty, so I did both, a casualty sitting on stores. This one was the most involved of all the objectives. There's a head mod, change in body position, hand swap plus adding a fag to his new hand.


I've still got to add a few bits and bobs, then I'll seal the gravel with watered down PVA. Let me know what you think guys.

Vanquisher added to 152 Armoured Assault Company

I made the latest TOEMP challenge deadline by nineteen minutes, finishing just before midnight last night. I'm quite please on how it's come out, sorry the pics are brilliant. I must sort out my lighting at some point. Anyway, here's tank number 5 of 152 Armoured Assault Company.





All I need to do now is the executioner, which will bring the company strength up to 6 Russes and then I'm done with the company for a while. Finally, a quick shout out for some blogging love .....


On Tuesday, I realised that I'd run out of transfers for my tanks, so I put out a call to my fellow bloggers, and they responded on Wednesday and the transfers started to drop on Thursday. Now that's what I call a community. Big thanks to Craig from the 8th, Paul from Exponent and Siph from Weemen.

Just got to wait for the next challenge now, it should drop sometime today.

UPDATE - EPIC FAIL

I've just noticed as I was putting the vanquisher in my display cabinet. In my rush to get it done, I've put the wrong fething transfers on. I've put 571 which is my infantry company number instead of 152. Guess I know what I'm doing today, luckily, I've got plenty of spare transfers now - lol.

UPDATE 2 - SAVE!

I managed to fix the ident panels, it's not the best fix but it's passable. They do come off a bit darker than my other vehicles ident panels but not excessively. There's a lesson in this somewhere.

TEOMP 4 and the School Project.

OK, I'm sorry for how late this is but I've been having net problems and this is the first chance I've had to post these.

Admiral Drax came up with this objective marker.

Mordian7th gave us this excellent Valk

14th Grand Company did these great heavy weapons teams

Defending Humanity came up with this IG command squad.

Gloranthan Army amazed us all with these

Anything but a One came up with this

Unfortunately, I didn't complete this challenge, in truth, I didn't really start it. I was working hard on the school project I put myself up for. Here's some finished pics of the first piece, I know the colours are a bit Balamory but it is for 4yr olds.

Finally, one of my painting team getting well stuck in!

I'm already working on the next one based on a village, I'll post some pics as I get more done. I'm also trying to keep my hand in on the 40k side as well. I've just finished putting together a vanquisher, so I'll be posting pics of that tomorrow.

Guard Advisors completed

Here's the finished up advisors for my company command squad.

Astropath


Master of Ordinance


Officer of the Fleet

That's it for now folks, I'm taking a little time out from my guard to do some scenery.

TOEMP 3rd challenge roundup.

I've taken over the reins of the TOEMP's challenge from 73rd whilst he off travelling for the month. We've all been busy painting for the latest challenge, here's what I've had in so far.

First off, we have a command squad from Mordian 7th ....

Painting points this challenge = 30pts

Next up, we have two blood pact sentinels from Dnyarak.

Painting points this challenge = 29pts

Here we have an armoured fist squad from Admiral Drax

Painting points this challenge = 14

Paul from World in Miniature put together this sentinel.

Painting points this challenge = 15pts

KingofKanadia from Anything but a 1 painted up this sister ..

Painting points for this challenge = 6pts

Defending Humanity painted up a Company Commander and retinue.

Painting Points this challenge = 25pts

Blood and Blades painted up this Master of the Forge

Painting points this challenge = 4pts

Finally, me, I managed to get my advisors done ten minutes before the deadline, I'll be doing a proper post on them later.

Painting points this challenge = 14pts

Gloranthan Army did this squadron of sentinels

Painting points this challenge = 35pts

That's it for now, I'll be updating this post as and when the late entries come in.

Regimental Advisors

I've never really liked the current GW advisors, there's various reasons why but the most important one in my eyes is that other than the Master of Ordinance, they don't really fit with my force.

So, with that in mind, I decided to come up with my own as part of the latest TOEMP challenge. I wanted to keep pushing myself, so with that in mind, I decided that I wanted each one to tell a story so to speak, I also wanted to give fuse wire ago.

This is what I came up with .....

Spec Op liason team (Naval Officer)

I see these guys co-ordinating the special forces operating behind the lines delaying the enemies reinforcements.

Forward Spotter (MoO)

Signals Detachment (Astropath)

I quite pleased with this one as it involved the most wire work, I really had to think how I was going to pull this off. I haven't thought that hard about cables since I was in the signals - lol.

Hope you like them guys, I'm starting to paint them tonight, so wip pics coming soon.

TOEMP Snippers finished

I've finally finished them this afternoon, so I missed the deadline for the first of my TOEMP challenge. Never mind, I've learned how to dremmel, how to make green stuff cloaks and improved my skin painting a little.

All in all, I've chuffed, anyway, on to the pics ....


First the kneeling ones ...



Now the standing ones ...



Any CC is very welcome as always. Tonight I'll start working on my regimental advisors as part of the third challenge (my second). We're supposed to do a FA choice or a special character but I figure I've just done a special character with Marbo and I think the three advisors kinda follow the special character theme.

WIP pics coming soon.