Daniel36's Log - Vindar 136th and other stuff

[Daniel36]

Hey everyone,

It has taken me a while, but I finally managed to take some pictures of my Imperial Guard army, which I like to call the Vindar 136th.

These pictures also show some new scenery built by some of our clubmembers to go with our slowly but ever expanding City of Death scenery.

I won´t write a comment for every picture, since I am lazy.... I will now Orbitally Bombard you all with a bucketload of pictures.... They are not all of perfect quality, and I am way too lazy to do some photoshopping, but I hope you enjoy them nevertheless.

I intend to update this topic every once in a while. I have several armies I am working on. My Imperial Guard army is my first and favourite army, but I am working on a couple of Death Guard things that involve a lot of greenstuffing, which I found out I am not half bad at, and I am also planning to add some Imperial Fists Space Marines to go with my Imperial Guards. Perhaps I will even get around to painting those Eldar I have lying around....

But enough about all that, on to the pictures!










Now, this log will eventually encompass more than just my Vindar army, but I am into them right now, so there. You will also find scenery, Death Guard, Necromunda, mayhaps some Epic in the future, and undoubtedly some Fantasy stuff as well, if I feel like it again sometime.

[Daniel36]

And another batch.

Quick sidenote. I decided to give each squad it´s own letter and number. This to make it easier for me to build up my army. For example, my first troop choice would have a command squad designated A-0, with 10 man squads designated A-1, A-2 and so on. My second troop choice would be B-0, B-1, B-2 and so on and so on.

Some more pictures!

[Daniel36]

You might find it strange I chose a red brown desert camo for a city fight army, but I have my reasons.

At first I had the base all painted up dark brown, but my miniatures kind of became blurry because of that. (Does that make sense?)

Since we are also building dark brown desert style gameboards, I figured they are the desert recon army that had to pull back into the city to defend it from whatever attacked them from the desert. The grey bases make my miniatures stand out a bit more! We're making sure the City of Death pieces can connect nicely with the desert board.

[Daniel36]

None of these 4 tanks are completely finished, but I have difficulties finishing things... It is a miracle in itself that I managed to pull of painting 75 Shock Troops.... It took me long enough too, but once I had the ball rolling, it went along quite nicely...

Now all I have left to finish besides these 4 tanks are another tank (with 2 more to be bought soon enough), 5 Sentinels (all equipped with close tops), my HQ squad, several Commissart, hopefully a Baneblade soon (Who knows what my b-day will bring me), a Kasrkin squad and 6 Heavy Weapons...

[Daniel36]

The Cities of Death modular pieces are a club effort. I built most of them as of right now, but I am glad it finally got other people motivated as well...

I tend to build things that are pretty simple, whilst another friend of mine likes to throw in tons of detail. (The one with the Ork Bike and the sandbag bunker are his)....

One of our younger members went on a painting spree and helped paint up some of the store-pieces. He finished his third piece today, the other two are in these pictures. He did the red Manufactorum and the small green building with the sandbags on it. The rest are mine, I think.

[Daniel36]

And the last two pictures for now...

Hopefully I can show you some pictures of my Death Guard Landraider soon, and who knows, I might even paint up Captain Lysander, whom I will use as a generic Lord for my Imperial Fists detachment, that I really would like to paint up...

I am also working on a really cool looking Orlock Necromunda gang, which I put on really nice textured bases by Micro Art. They look pretty cool, though the colour scheme is pretty simple... Oh well...






Hope you enjoy my pictures. Please leave comments. Criticism is always welcome!!

[Jon Young]

Terrain made of awesome! I am Jungle-camoed with envy (picked that smiley because it was green, sorry, not to stick my tongue out...)

Your force looks excellent (especially since I feel your pain on bulk shock-troop painting) but especially since you seem to be really good with a camera! The shots as a whole are really pro standard. Congrats!

How is that red built up, by the way?

[Daniel36]

Hey there Jon.

I am not that great with a camera haha. It was just luck and a little bit of post Photoshopping that did the trick. It didn't hurt that I was able to use a pretty expensive professional camera either...

The paint scheme is actually quite easy.

For the Shock Troops armor:
Black Undercoat
Scab Red Basecoat
Edges highlighted with Blood Red
Blood Red painted over with dilluted Scab Red (for Blending)

Shock Troops clothing:
Black Undercoat
Scorched Brown drybrushed highlight
Nothing more.... Though I might add a real quick Bestial Brown highlight... For now though I am content.

Aquillas:
Tin Bitz
Highlighted with the first gold I can get my hands on

The tanks I gave a Scab Red and Scorched Brown basecoat with highlights drybrushed on with Blood Red and Bestial Brown. The grey dust was a quick hit of Codex and Fortress Grey both drybrushed on.

Thanks for your comment! Appreciated!

[Max Keeren]

Sweet, so Dan, what are you planning on using as a list? Or are you just painting as you go?

Cheers,

Max

P.S. 2 more weeks and then (hopefully) holiday for 6 weeks and then i'll come and haunt you guys again.

[Jon Young]

Hey there Jon.

I am not that great with a camera haha. It was just luck and a little bit of post Photoshopping that did the trick. It didn't hurt that I was able to use a pretty expensive professional camera either...

Heheh... an expensive camera does make a difference It's really good to see well painted models combined with proper scenery though. Brings out the best of both. I'm only just getting started on terrain myself (since I found a good modelling supply shop) but I'll be scanning your pics again later for ideas.

Thanks for the painting guide, I'm thinking that's about the red shade I'll be after for my Orks

[Daniel36]

Hey there Max, funny running into you here!

I paint as I go... It is going to be an Apocalypse army anyways... So theme over winning potential...

@Jon: Yeah, the reason I hardly ever play any games is because I hate to play on an empty board, and I don't like having to fight grey hordes either... At least the scenery is starting to get better and we are starting to get a pretty big board as well! And lo and behold, my army is actually starting to get finished... Time to buy more models huh?

[Daniel36]

Hey there everyone,

Having done a lot of work on my Imperial Guard, I wanted to do something different for a little hobbying variety. I wanted to get some greenstuffing experience, so I began working for a bit on my Death Guard Land Raider.

Here's something I stuffed on the side of my Raider. Enjoy, and as always, criticism more than welcome!!

[Daniel36]

I feel pretty fast today!

I stuffed some more to give the impression the heads are popping out of the side of the tank, kind of like what's on the Forgeworld Death Guard Dreadnought.



I think it needs a little bit more work, but I am pretty happy with how it's shaping up!

CRITICISE MY FRIENDS!!!

[DonKarst0n]

May I ask how you painted the rust effect onto the chimera's dozer blades?
Your army looks really good!

[Daniel36]

Hey man, thanks for the kind words.
The rust isn't extremely hard to do. I started off with drybrushing Tin Bitz over the metal, after which I stippled (a technique where you take a big flat brush, dry it (like drybrushing) and basically push it onto the surface) it with red, yellow and orange colors until I was satisfied, making sure I left Tin Bitz showing around the edges.

[Mr Zephy]

CRITICISE MY FRIENDS!!!

How can I, since you have no friends?

[Joke]

No, all looks really great, you have an entire box of zombies? I'd like to see if an arm reaching out somewhere would be good.

[Daniel36]

Anything disgusting enough really.... I drilled a hole in it just now... Mayhaps an arm reaching out, but I was thinking more octopuslike tentacles and mouth for this bit!

I will show more pictures as things get done.... Maybe in an hour or so. Cheers for the kind wordsQ

[Daniel36]

MAN I am on a roll!! Things are going well!!

[The Laughing God]

The landraider is coming along nice.

I really like your guard army too. The dusty effect on the tanks looks awesome.

[Daniel36]

Maaaahaaaan.... I went toooo fast today....



How do you guys like this? I am not toooo sure about it, but I guess it's alright... But what do you guys think?