Chaos militia build up thread

[elotsip]

Sure!! But you have to let me stay home and not work...

Now that I have completed the Ogre army I can start back up on my CRM army. I've been wanting to do some rough riders for a while and finally traded for some bits to build some.

Here are the the first WIP pics:

[elotsip]

I also have been giving the leaders of my cmd sqauds bolters so I decided to convert a couple of guys to have bolters.

[Captain Brown]

Excellent conversions there elotsip.

Happy New Year and all the best for your painting log in 2008.

CB

[elotsip]

Well, no junior officer would be complete without a fancy hat. So I tried my hand at making a couple. This is my first attempt and I think they turned out okay. I also gave them knee pads and redid the shoulder pads on one.

[elotsip]

I started looking at the rough riders I had and they look pretty ragtag. So I started toying around with making them blend in with the army a bit more. I may end up going this route, what do you think?





Edit: No I didn't paint these, I got them in a trade and I am too lazy to strip them. I will just prime them and repaint if I use them.

[elotsip]

Finally, I started working on some veterans. I want my veterans to have 3 melta guns and shotguns. mostly because they look cool. I wanted them stand out from the regular guys but still look similar. So I thought I would try to use the catachan legs/arms for this with some marauder shoulder pads and various bits added to make them look well equipped.





What do you think about there guys?

[old guard]

Nice job on the horses, in fact, nice job all round I'm storing some of thes ideas away for when I revisit militia. Theyr a bit on hold at the mo though I have done a few of the worker rabble. i've gone to the light side for a while!

Great stuff keep it coming.

[HorgothTheGreat]

One thing, though I'm sure you've already noticed and are already fixing, on the RR Gas masks, the holes on the breather portion seem a lil, "bleh". Maybe add some more detail?

[elotsip]

Yeah, I am new to green stuff so I am not very familiar with with how to get good detail with it. I will see what I can come up with though.

Thanks all.

[3vilX]

I like the RRs and veterans so far, can't wait to see you finish those up.

[elotsip]

I made three more last night, including the vet sgt. I need two more with shotguns and then 3 with melta guns.

[Mr Feral]

Very nice Veterans!
One minor gripe is that the bionic arm looks a bit too thin where it's attached to the body, perhaps some GS wiring into the shoulder could bulk it out. I like the well-supplied look of them as well. Keep it up!

[elotsip]

Yeah, thess guys are not done yet. They need a little GS to clean them up, like the bionic arm area you mentioned. That will be fixed before they are painted, just some WIP pics to keep me going and get some feed back.

I'm thinking of doing them in a dark camo scheme to make them contrast with the regular troopers. maybe some dark greys and blues?

[catbarf]

Nice job, how'd you make the officer hats?

[elotsip]

I just plopped a ball of green stuff on their heads and started shaping it. Just took a little time and patience.

[Triggerdog]

I like the shotgunner with the bionic arm, very renegade militia looking.

[elotsip]

I didn't like the rough rider gas masks so I started making some new ones.




I also made the three melta gunners:




Another trooper, with some guts on his blade:

[elotsip]

I did some more work on the sgt. I added some muscle to his bionic arm. The shoulder and tricep muscle. The arm had a nice bicep cylinder already so I left that alone. I also gave him a knee pad and a hat because everyone likes hats. Plus it will make it easier to tell who the sarge is.

[Mr Feral]

Arrrr a CRM pirate! Nice GS work there.

[Easy E]

I'm not sure about the hats on the CRM officers.

The horses are one of the coolest things ever.

Finally, where is the officer with the bolters right arm from? It's very cool.