Friday 29 January 2010

More Guard (and Rolf)

OK, the highlight of my week has to be:

As well as meeting Rolf, I've spent this week working some more through my Guard project. My plan is (still?) to build up a 1k list and then see how i like it and then maybe upgrade to 1.2 and then 1.5k. My initial list (painted items in red) being:

HQ
Company Command Squad (4x Meltaguns) 90
Chimera (Multi-laser & heavy flamer) 55
Troops (2)
Platoon Command Squad (4x Meltaguns) 70
Chimera (Multi-laser & heavy flamer) 55
10 Troops (Grenade Launcher, autocannon) 65
10 Troops (Grenade Launcher, autocannon) 65

Platoon Command Squad (4x Meltaguns) 70
Chimera (Multi-laser & heavy flamer) 55
10 Troops (Grenade Launcher, autocannon) 65
10 Troops (Grenade Launcher, autocannon) 65
Fast Attack
Scout Sentinel (autocannon & Smoke Launcher) 45
Heavy Support
Leman Russ 150
Leman Russ 150


Anyway, on with the new pix. First up are the second troop squad:



I equipped this squad with a pile of flamers because I loved the look of the mini. It's not codex-legal, so they will just be proxies for lasguns.

Inspired by the really nice comments that I've had about my previous Guard paintjobs, I really pulled out the stops for my mortar squads, trying to have each one tell a story in a way. They wont be included in my 1k list, but hopefully I should be able to work a few into the 1.2k list:

And finally a scout sentinel (again proxying an armoured one for a basic scout):

TBH I'm not 100% sure about this one. The colour-scheme is a bit dark and I'm sure I could do a better job. I'll either hawk it on the bay of e and build the one that came in the second battleforce or try and redo the paintjob somehow.

EDIT: Since the first version of this entry, I've now finished the 2 Russes:



And finally a couple of shots of the lead tank:


The plan for this week is to paint either a Chimera or the PCS - or maybe redo the Sentinel.

2 comments:

  1. Only commentary I've got on the tanks is that I'd black out the insides of the barrels more - it's quite noticable on the bottm picture of the closed hatch one.

    Otherwise all looking good!

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  2. yeah, im going to redo the tanks completely as im not 100% happy with them either

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