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More IW Terminators Finished – Golden Throne Painting and ToEMP Final

dnyarak — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:07:34 +0000

Well I was happy to continue plodding along my with my Traitor Guard army (I have a handful of guys to add and half a dozen tanks to paint) but when I happened to stop by my local GW I was told about the Golden Throne painting challenge. Basically you get 6 weeks to fully paint a full force org chart. Although I do have plenty of guard to paint the was no way I could fill up a force org without buying a great deal of new guys. Instead I pulled out my old, metal Iron Warriors (the ones I painted many years back). I had already dunked a handful of them and after adding in the ones I was planning on adding to the green tank I am short only one bike of a full chart! It wouldn’t be a very competitive list (not sure the survivability of 3 man terminators and 5 man troop squads), but it fits the bill.

The first selection filled, my Elites with three 3 man squads.

Squad 1 is armed with three combi-weapons for maximum flexibility. These are all the old metal terminators but still look very nice next to the new plastic ones. I think the longest part to paint were all the skulls and tusks, but I think they ended up looking ok.

Squad 2 has the first Reaper Autocannon (which is actually the plastic one) and another combi-weapon and two chain fists for ripping tanks open.

And squad three is a copy of squad two (but with the metal Reaper). The ‘power fist’ on the right is one of the dreadnought close combat weapons I had added to the original guy and kept it on as a token of my previous work.

This project also completes the Final ToEMPs. Fallen73rd has decided that the time for ending the project is over and I fully understand, I know I have been neglectful to the group with updates and support so I makes sense to end it and start anew.

ToEMP points:

1 pnt per foot troop: 9 pnts
1 pnt for details: 9 pnts
Total for challenge 11: 18 points

Thanks again to Fallen73rd for starting the ToEMP and getting us all motivated to get things done. I would highly recommend keeping an eye out for his second ToEMP challenge and join in!

Next up are some old school obliterators that fill the heavy support slots followed by my HQ choices, it should be a action packed couple of weeks if I want to get everything done by March 16th!

Another Tank Swells the Ranks – ToEMP #8 Done

dnyarak — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:00:43 +0000

I have just finished another tank to my growing horde of traitor guard. This one is the dreaded Leman Russ Demolisher with sponsoon plasma cannons. Indeed it is a pricy tank, but when it lets loose, it is sure worth it. Thanks to the Lumbering Behemoth rule it can move 6″ and still fire off the demolisher and a plasma cannon, ensuring the destruction of any squad unlucky enough to get in its way.

The demolisher cannon is a kit bash using the Banehammer cannon that I didn’t use for my Baneblade. I had 4 Leman Russ kits, a built Leman Russ and an old built Leman Russ demolisher so I decided to build my own demolisher cannons to create two full squads of tanks, one of the traditional LR and another of demolishers (the other 4 tanks are built and painting has started so watch for them!)

Every weapon on the tank is AP2, ensuring that anything that the tank hits will not get a armor save.

I tried something different with the back by adding two extra barrels and placing a smoke stack on either side.

I also wanted to pull in a theme I’ve used on my troops by adding gas cans and ready-to-light torches to the storage bin.

This also complete the 8th challenge of The Tale of Even More Painters:

Vehicle: 10 points
Symbol: 1 point
Meeting deadline: 2 points
Total for Challenge 8: 13 points

And here is a sneak peak of whats coming next:

Bane Wolves – ToEMP #7b Done and Must Have Unit

dnyarak — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:10:37 +0000

This is a combinational post. First of it is to display my second entry for ToEMPs but also for FTW’s request for our “Must Have Unit.” I’ve only played a few games for my traitor guard, but in all the games my Bane Wolves have made a huge difference by either killing 15 marines in one turn or taking a lot of shots while my lowly platoons take the objectives. These tanks aren’t real tough but they are fast and they are very deadly, which causes many people to fear them to the point of ignoring anything else.

Even though there are the disadvantages of running these tanks in a squadron, it does give them more survivability – I really just need one shot from the chem cannon to make that marine player cry Also my fast attack slots are all filled with my scout and armored sentinels (which are other favorite units!).

Bane Wolf 1:

And its pack mate, Bane Wolf 2:

For the ToEMP this unit gives me an additional:

Vehicles x2: 20 pnts
Vehicle details x2: 10 pnts
Challenge 7b total: 30 pnts
Challenge 7 total: 37

Whats next? Well in part it depends on what the next challenge is for ToEMP but I have 4 Leman Russes in the mail to add to the one I have finished and the Demolisher I need to strip and repaint, this will give me a full squad of Leman Russes and a full squad of Demolishes! I would like to get these all done for Tanks-giving but we’ll see how that goes!

Tau Battle Suit – ToEMP #7a Done

dnyarak — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:09:20 +0000

I finished my body guard for the Shas’O. This is my second, and probably last for a while, Tau battle suit.

Armed with a plasma rifle, missile pod and shield generator this suit can either hunt tanks or MEQs at range, while sticking around for a bit.

This model is half of my submission for ToEMP #7 which earns me:

Large model: 2 pts
Icons/Marks: 1 pnt
Beating deadline: 2pnts
Meating Deadline: 2pnts
Total: 7 points!

I am also finishing up the second entry for Challenge #7 and here is the sneak peak:

Missile Launcher Squad – ToEMP #4 Done

dnyarak — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:26:03 +0000

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:

Foot sloggers x6: 6 points
Meeting deadline: 2 points

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:

Scout Sentinels Finished – ToEMP Challenge 3 Meet

dnyarak — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:24:01 +0000

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:

Walkers x2 5 points each: 10 points
Lenses 1 point per model: 2 points
Walker details 5 points each: 10 points
Meeting Deadline: 2 points
Bonus points for detailed bases: 5 points

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.

Traitor Leman Russ Complete – ToEMP Challenge 2 Done

dnyarak — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:41:08 +0000

Although I was hoping to have had a head start on the second challenge for 73rd’s A Tale of Even More Painters with my sentinels, I came back from my work trip to find the challenge was to paint an elites choice, and if none were available then a heavy support could be painted instead. I had neither choice planned for the short term for my traitor guard and didn’t even have any models I could put together for it, but luckily I had one of my brothers old Leman Russ tanks in the back of my closet. With his permission I have relinquished the tank from those who worship the corpse and added it to my growing horde.

I continued the Red/Orange/Yellow theme onto this tank to keep the army color scheme together. This is actually my first tank with “painted” armor, all my other tanks are silver for my Iron Warriors. This gave me the opportunity to apply paint scratches and wear.

The skull motif and XIV are unified across all of my tanks, linking them to the 14th Grand Company. The icon is from the dark elf warrior box, but works great for my tanks.

The process of pulling this tank together in just a few short days was helped by the fact my brother had this mostly built already. I simply had to add the tracks, remove those darn Aquilas and add some chaos flavor. Modifications were kept simple overall, some spikes were added to each sponsoon and around the top hatch. Chaos star icons were also added to the back of each sponsoon (those plates fit perfectly into that spot!).

I also felt the cargo hold on the back needed some filling up. I debated on adding actual cargo, a blood sacrifice pool or some gnarly chaos goo. I decided to go with a gnarly chaos sacrifice goo with a victim pleading for help. I continued this goo theme out the front viewing hatch of the tank (as well as on one of the sentinels).

I have yet to name this tank, I think I’ll leave that honor to my brother who was great enough to hand this tank off to me! (thanks Sean!)

For the ToEMP challenge this earns me:

Vehicle: 10 points
Icon/Symbols: 1 point
Eyes: 1 point (This is the only guy I’ve done the eyes on and he is dieing!)
Vehicle Details: 5 points
Meeting deadline: 2 points
beating deadline by 24 hours: 2 points
Game points: 185 (just shy of earning another assault card!)

Total for this tank: 21

Total so far: 32

Company Command Squad Painted ToEMP Challenge Met

dnyarak — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:28:47 +0000

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!

Joining A Tale of Even More Painters

dnyarak — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:51:22 +0000

Thanks goes out to 73rd for putting together A Tale of Even More Painters and adding me to the list. Although I am shooting for my own challenge deadline for completing 1,000 points by the end of the month, I look forward to 73rd’s challenges to keep me motivated past that point (painting 60+ guardsmen is tiring!) and providing interesting challenges to keep things fresh and enjoyable.

The first challenge is to have 75 points painted by the 17th. This should be very doable as I am planning on having my company command squad done by the end of this week, but you know how life goes, something always comes up. Speadking of which I will be spending most of next week out of town for work, oh well…