I have just finished my Company Command Squad for my Traitor Guard and in doing so met the first Tale of Even More Painters challenge. I know Admiral Drax (and his troops with hand painted Aquilas) beat us all done, but I think I may have just finished second.
Equipped with power weapon, bolt pistol, metla bomb, krak grenades, plasma gun (I love plasma…), medic, regimental standard, vox. Total Points: 137
There was little conversion done on this squad, just a bit of kit bashing and work with the knife/file. The regimental banner already had a sculpted on Chaos star (well perhaps it is some silly loyalist symbol…) and the medic looked crazy enough with just the needle and chain knife (a bit of a Fabius Bile flashback).
Yes my company commander is Inquisitor model, I liked the model so much I decided he would make a perfect leader for my army, even if it is a bit ironic. I filed off the Inquisitor icons and filled in the icon on top of the head. I may go back at some point and paint a Chaos star on his chest, but for now he is considered done.
Points Earned:
- Foot Sloggers x5 = 5 pnts
- Icons/ Symbols/ Marks (the banner counts?) = 1 pnt
- Eyes/ Lenses/ View Finders (commanders eye lens) = 1 pnt
- Beating Deadline by at least 24 hours = 2 pnts
- Meeting Deadline: 2 pnts
Total Painting Points: 11
I have to spend some time figuring out what is up next to paint. Options are: 2 heavy sentinels, 2 scout sentinels, missile launcher squad or a mortar squad. I haven’t tallied up the points I have painted, but I think I’m getting close to the 1k I need for the painting competition at my local GW. Because of time constraints (I’m out of town all of next week for work) I may start with the heavy sentinels to add some more character to the army. I am going to paint them like Dezartfox’s World Eater Rhinos over on the Vanus Temple. After painting so many tanks for my Iron Warriors, I want to try out a “painted” tank (aka not another silver one) and although I’m trying to stay away from the blood pact theme, bloody walkers could look so intimidating!
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Looks a great squad dnyarak. I really love the blending on the commander's cloak and I think the Inquisitor mini looks great and with the addition of a few chaos symbols at a later date would be an exceptionally brilliant traitor commander. Top stuff, I'm just hoping I can catch up with you and meet this first deadline!
Thanks Elazar. The cloaks have been one of the few things I've been
blending/layering lately so it was a nice break from base/wash/highlight.
Your hell cannon looks to be nearly done and you still have the weekend to
finish it before the dead line.
Ok wow, they are so characterful! I seriously like every single one and you even beat the deadline!
I will emailing the details of next deadline to the group in the next day or so but seriously nice work!
73rd
Well done ! Do we have to make our own calculations ?
I'm sure 73rd would appreciate it
Thanks 73rd!I had a good time picking out heads and creating colorful pieces.
What I like the most : The use of the imperial bannier as a Chaos bannier : cool ! (and evil).
What I like the less : the green lassgun.
Some ingenious kit bashing here, and congrats on finishing before the deadline. Can't wait to see what you have in store for the next challenge.
11 points actually my friend!
5 points – footsloggers
2 points – beating deadline by 24 hours
2 points – meeting deadline
1 point – standard
1 point – lens
11 points total!
Nice work mate!
Ah yes, thanks for catching that!
From Gregory gloarmy.blogspot.com/:
What I like the most : The use of the imperial bannier as a Chaos bannier : cool ! (and evil).
What I like the less : the green lassgun.
(I'm posting this because it doesn't seem like his comment is actually showing up! Sorry Gregory, I'm looking into how to fix this!)
Thanks Gregory! not sure why you comment isn’t showing up, but hopefully my reply will make it reappear.
I know the green is a bit clashing (I was going for that a bit) but what would you suggest instead? I’ve painted some of the others in the platoon squads light brown and dark brown, as well as some more green.