Hello folks,
Been a little busy with work and other real life stuff, but I've managed to squeeze in some hobby time and put together an update for your viewing pleasure.
First up, a wee update to my current Guard army.
WIP Stormtroopers; the helmets are blatantly ripped from Reach and ODST (I'm a Halo fanboy) and the colour scheme will likely be inspired by the same sources.
I've also been working something else I'm a little more excited about, a battlefield!
Picked up a RoB set from a friend and already had the plastic hills from years and years ago. The first task, as you can probably tell, was to hide all the bloody skulls on the thing with a layer of stones, slate an sand and I've now painted the entire board and the hills. Next on the agenda will be to start bringing up the texture a little more and adding grass. After that, I'll be painting up this lot. . .
Ferns and bushes to break up the battlefield and provide a little cover. Later on down the line I'll pick up some bigger trees and buildings, as well as more hills and cliffs, but for now this will have to suffice!
Cheers for now.
Greetings readers.
Its been a month or so since my last update and I've been busy securing some more reinforcements for the Latarians, increasing the infantry count to triple figures and the vehicle count to double figures.
Of particular importance are the second platoon, they will be armed with flamers, meltas and demo charges for some close assault action. I've also rearmed one of the veteran squads, dropping the three plasma guns and going for shotguns, flamers, a heavy flamer and a demo charge.
I haven't just got a lazy army shot to show off today, but also some close ups of the units I'm actually working on at the moment.
Stormtroopers; a direct homage to the excellent 3rd edition metal models, probably some of my favourite things from GW ever.
The Stormtroopers' ride; a converted Land Speeder Storm, this vehicle goes by the codename of Vixen within the inventory and will likely find itself replicated in the near future.
Shooty veterans; toting three grenade launchers and a heavy bolter, this squad is designed to compliment first platoon to provide a solid base of fire on the battlefield.
Assaulty veterans; the compliment unit to second platoon, this squad will provide a very powerful punch on the counter assault. Hopefully. . .
As noted in a discussing with Mr Maelstrom the weather is terrible for painting at the moment, far too warm and humid and generally icky, so my grand plan is to use the next few weeks to prepare as many models as possible, along with some terrain, so when the weather turns a little cooler I can break out paints.
Thats all for now folks!
Another quick update today folks, appologies for going quiet again. It's been a busy couple of weeks in real life land, and this has restricted my hobbling a little.
I fully intended to go straight into my German Heer force with all guns blazing, but after doing a couple if test teams I threw down my brushes with all of my nope as I needed to do something bigger and something that involved sculpting. On that note I return to 40K (dun dun duuuuuuuuuun!!!) and to my Latarian 1st Airborne.
This army consists of a modest infantry platoon, an HQ, a couple of veteran squads, a storm trooper squad, some sentinels, a single Tauros, a Vulture, a Vendetta, a couple of Valkyries and a Vixen (the small one). Infantry are converted Elysians, and stormies are heavilly converted Marine scout/Cadian hybrids, so I can flex my sculpting muscle a little!
That's all for now folks, more to follow soon.
