5th Company 2nd Tactical

I have made some progress with my marines... Just one marine missing from full tactical squad :)
Now I finished painting the sergeant. It came out pretty nice I think... I refined little bit my "damaged armour" technique... Basically just made the high lighting more visible around the damages... that made the chipping look better. The head of the sergeant model is really cool. Half of it´s face is actually metal, and other eye is "cyber eye". It doesn´t show very well in these pics :(


This is probably my last post of the year 2009... My New Years promise could be, to finish the 5th company 2nd tactical sometime next year ;) I also have a time taking miniature project coming up at the start of the 2010, when my 3rd baby is born at start of the January if everything goes well... (hope I dont have to use too much green stuff on him...) So there´s going to be a little break on Blogging I´m afraid. But I´ll catch up as soon as possible, between the diaper changes :)

Happy New Year everybody!!!

Lunars for Rune Quest

My purchase of the week... As I wrote earlier, I bought some Celtic warriors for my Rune Quest RPG, that I´m gonna paint as Orlathi and Humakti warriors...

Now I had to go and buy box of "Imperial Roman Auxiliaries", that are gonna take the role of Lunar Hoplites in my RPG campaign...

Our local Gaming shop had lots of Romans to choose from in the Warlord Games range... Like "Imperial Roman Legionaries" or "Imperial Roman Veterans" etc... But I chose the "Auxiliaries" for they have round shields... And I have this picture in my head, that Lunars use only round shields in Glorantha setting... (Hope you correct this if you have better knowledge :)) Have to do some research...

At first glance the minis look great..! Casting seems to be better than average quality... I´ll put them together and clean them up at some point to see what they´re really made of.
But first I´m gonna paint the Barbarian "horde" before I get involved with the Lunars... I already have too many projects going on :D

One more Tactical Hellfire

I finished this one yesterday... I´m pretty happy with the painting. I tried new method of painting chipping in the armour.


I first made the dark spots in the armour with several layers of Devlan Mud. Then high lighted the edges of all spots with orange and yellow... Worked out pretty good. I also used the Mithril Silver on few spots to make more damage look.


Marines head and bolter are taken from Chaos marine bits. Spikes on the left shoulder are from Orc bits. Rest is from tactical marine box :) I decided to paint the 5th company symbol on the bolter. Dust and dirt on the boots look different in the photo... Much more contrast than in reality... Maybe the flash light did it :)

With Cannon you can... ( Part 1 )

I´m not a fan of the Multi-Melta... It´s a great weapon for some serious cooking of enemy vehicles and big bastards that get´s to close range...
But still, I like better to plug things with me Assault Cannon...

I only have the Dread that comes with the Assault on Black Reach box. It´s a cool mini with only one thing missing... The Assault Cannon :)

I desided to do something about it. Convertion is not my strongest line of work... but I´m gonna give it a shot... (or a burst if you will...)


Here´s what I started with... The grey thing in front is taken from my Battle for Macragge box. Can´t remember what it is... Maybe a power source for Aquila Lander or something. ( Leave a comment and correct me with this...) The blue "barrel" things are cut from cotton buds and glued together...


Something like this...


And like this... with some knife and file. Cotton buds might not be the best material for this, but it´s all I got at the moment... And it worked fine for me.


Next I drilled some holes to the "power source" (that´s what I´ll call it untill you correct me) with my trusty old pin vice. Six little holes makes it look like a Cannon already :)

Then I cut it in half with a saw...

And used the file to make straight surfaces for attaching...

As next stage, I Glued the parts togerher and added the barrel. Barrel is made of piece of Goblin spear. And the hole with pin vice again...


With a cruel slash of knife I said goodbye to the barrel of Multi-melta... "Chomp"


Drop of glue... and say Hello to the Cannon. It´s much longer than the "official" Assault Cannon, but that was my plan from the start... To make it look like unique. That´s the whole point of converting... :) I think...


This is how the Dread looks so far... (Really bad pic... sorry) Still got lot of work to do. And I´m afraid I´m gonna have to go Green Stuff on this one... (Where´s my little green bag?) Have to make the ammunition hopper and get rid of the "pyrum petrol fuel mix" tanks... for they look quite unreallistic with the Assault Cannon... I´ll be back with the "part 2" shortly, I hope!