Not sure how many of you follow the lifehacker.com blog but they just posted a great link to an article on how to take great close-up shots. For all of us this is very fitting since we are continuously taking pictures of our small plastic men.
Well I was hoping to have finished both this squad as well as the mortar squad for the 4th ToEMP challenge, but alas, I got distracted yet again. The 4th challenge was 60 points of what ever we felt like, as long as we gave a reason why we chose what we did. I picked this squad (and wanted to finish the mortar squad) because they are the “last” troops I need to paint for my traitor guard. And when I say last, we all know that means: “all I currently have at this time, until I get inspired to buy more plastic crack…”
Any way onto the pictures:
I want my traitor guard to be colorful, but not over the top with mutations and such (the Iron Warriors really don’t like that type of thing).
For the fourth challenge I earn:
Total Points: 8
Total to date: 69
Hmm I didn’t really push my self to much for this challenge did I?
One of my many distracts for this last week will probably be part of the next challenge and I give a sneak peak here:
I finished these a few days back but haven’t had a chance to post until today. These are two more sentinels for my traitor guard army but scout versions armed (currently) with missile launchers.
the biggest conversion done on these is removing the roll bar and adding some spiky bitz. The banner is from the WFB flagellants from the Empire range.
The missile launchers are magnetized in case I decide multi-lasers or auto cannons are a better choice. I doubt I will mount lascannons as I have 6 of these on heavy weapon squads and having only bs 3 I would rather have multiple shots or blast weapons.
This also completes the current ToEMP challenge (I didn’t count the two armoured sentinels as I started them before the challenge was announced). Althogh I finished painting these a few days back I’m not counting these as complete until I post them here. For painting points this gives me:
Total for Challenge 3: 29 points
Total Overall: 61 Points
I have only two heavy weapon teams left for my traitor guard to paint but I just dunked a bunch of my old Iron Warriors into a Simple Green bath so they may be up next on the painting desk.
From the Warp The Painting Corps Dave Taylor Admiral Drax Son of Slann From the Warp Group
