Sunday, 15 November 2015

An Epic Tale (III) - The Imperial Guard - part 1


Back to my beloved Epic with this post, the first and core part of my Imperial Guard army. Yet again I was lucky enough to be given a decent chunk of this army including painted up tank, artillery and infantry companies. I then turned to E-bay, various fora and Facebook trading groups to pick up what I considered I was missing. Luckily(again) I fell upon some bargains and managed to add the extra infantry companies and various other units including a super heavy tank company for next to nothing price wise. I did hit a blank wall when looking for Valkyries and Support Platoons but was happy to pick up some proxies from Steel Crown and some nicer looking figures from Troublemaker games to replace the original GW Storm-troopers which I didn't particularly like.

So on to what I have painted so far, I'm nearly half way through and have painted up the core forces to make a small playable army with a few options:


Artillery Company with Hydra:




 
Bike Squadron:


Super Heavy Tank Company:



 
Thunderbolt Squadron:
 


The First Infantry Company, with additional Ogryn , Ratling and Support Platoons:




 











The first of an intended 3 Sentinel Squadrons:




(Old School) Hellhound Platoon:




(Proxy) Valkyrie Squadron:




(Proxy) Storm-Trooper Platoon:





Tank Company:



Regimental HQ /Mech. Inf. Company:







Only three whole infantry companies plus their Ratling/Ogryn/Support wpn platoons to do, oh and a Rough Rider platoon and two more Sentinel platoons and another platoon of Storm-troopers and two Marauder bombers and a Reaver Titan...


Wednesday, 4 November 2015

6mm Fantasy Project (4) - More Scenery



Just a short post to show the handful of fantasy buildings I picked up from Leven Miniatures at Fiasco recently and my "Dead Marshes" project using a few spare Microworld miniatures skeletons my mate gave me:









This little side project started because I wanted some marshy/swampy area terrain, and having just been given a few 6mm skellies, I thought I would try and make a sort of "Dead Marshes" scenic piece, for the water I have used Dimensional Magic stolen from the bosses supplies, which gives a great still water effect, although I am still getting used to working with it and was disappointed to notice a few lines where it hadn't set as well as I had hoped. Apologies for the plethora of pictures some of which are not very good, but I wanted to show the water effect and the skeletons in the water so needed to take pics with and without the flash.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Well that was an enjoyable distraction, now back to the Imperial Guard which I keep finding reasons not to paint.