37th/41st Rat Trappers

[Explodingboy]

Long time lurker, occasional poster.

With Spring Break now upon me, I find myself with plenty of spare time to get through the mountain of painting and modeling that I have been putting off. 1 week off school and the approach of the new IG codex, it seems only fair that I make them my first priority and so before I blabber on too much, I believe pictures are in order.



To start off we have the 1st demolition charge totting veteran of the 37th. Currently I just need to finish the final highlights on the green and abit of work on his glasses, but he does a good job of showing off the overall colour scheme.



WIP of the complete veteran unit (minus 2 who were apparently out of shot) This is part of 2 units of Veterans, both upgraded to demolition specialists who will be riding into battle in Valks, when the models are released.

Since the 37th have been whittled down to the select few veterans, the rest of the army will be made up of the 41st, I should have a test model and colour scheme up by tomorrow morning, but it is most likely going to be Cadian straight from the box, in a reversed colour scheme, green fatigues and brown armor, but until I try it out later on tonight that may still change.

I fully intend to keep this moving at a decent pace, the first unit should be complete tomorrow and I just need to finish modeling the veteran sarge for the second unit before painting can commence. Also assembled and awaiting undercoating is the Penal unit, made from Catachan Jungle fighters whos test figure (somewhat blurry) can be seen here



Tomorrow shall see completed squad pics and the customary workspace photo so be sure to comment and check back soon.

Explodingboy

Edit/update;

Completed army shot so far, 1 Vanquisher, 2 Veteran Demolition teams, and 1 Marbo.

[Low Altitude]

Wow i love your veterens, very uhh.. vetereny?
What torso + head did you use in the second photo bottom right guy?

[Explodingboy]

bottom right is the sarge, better pics of him will be up tomorrow. The head is the standard Cadian bare head, mic shaved off and green stuffed hair. The body is a normal torso with plasticard V plate and ribbing added

[hur@n]

very good veterans i love

[Lord Zso Sahaal]

very nice start to this, need MORE from you

Sahaal

[Explodingboy]

Thanks for all the responses so far.

Did allittle work on the 41st Test scheme, going with Catachan Green armor and Bleached Bone Fatigues, picture will be up later on tonight once he's finished.

Instead to wet your appetites, and having posted a quick snapshot of him in a different thread here is the first completed Storm Trooper of the 31st





gotta run

[Explodingboy]

And I'm back.

Ladies and Gentlemen I present the first model for the 41st, No squad numbers have been added at this stage, as I intend to work out placement once I have a few more assembled, but without further deviations here he is



Unlike the members of the 37th, the 41st are a newly raised regiment fresh to the field of battle, and very green. The 41st have been assigned to fight with the 37th bringing numbers and armored vehicles to aid the few remaining units of the 37th as they clear roads and secure strategic location, before waiting for units of the 41st to relieve them.

Somewhat later than I intended but better than never, the customary workspace shot.


Incase anyone was wondering about the plate, my Gf was demanding that I do things in the kitchen with her, so I decided we should bake a cookie, of truely gigantic proportions. Unfortunetly the oven isn't that big so I had to comprimise and only make a pizza sized one



One chocolate cookie, with milk chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, Heath bar and chunks of milk chocolate. (It may be fair to say I have a sweet tooth, or diabetes by the time I finish it, we shall find out later)

Tune in later for the finished veteran unit and photos of the assembled second unit.

Explodingboy

[Dimitrios]

DUDE..... COOKIE OF DEATH!!!!

E-mail me one ....

Really nice crisp look on the newer guard as well Look forward to seeing a squad.

[Lord Zso Sahaal]

Feth the Star Cannons and the Titans, use the Cookie of Doom! It shall end you all!

Sahaal

[Neknoh]

Consider that armour designed nicked, it looks about equally cool as greatcoats in my eyes, and is a helluva lot easier to do, just need to shave down the helmets or find alternate ones.

So, as said, consider the idea nicked

[Explodingboy]

3 cups of coffee and half of the doom cookie devoured, it's picture time again.



1st squad of the 37th is ready for action. Armed with 1 demo charge and a heavy stubber (I'll probably go count as heavy flamer, as I don't feel it suits anything special weapon wise, or though house rules as a heavy stubber would be my favorite option)



Here we have a close up of the sarge, showing off the war wounds, battle damage, and most importanly, the modified armor plate that has relieved allot of comments. Very simply two plates of plasticard, with a slim strip to make the raised rim.



Here we have the squad marksmen, displaying the impressive camo cloaks that most of the squad wear in the event of me bothering to pay for the points to use camo cloaks on them (not sure if they're going to be worthwhile in the new dex at the moment.) As well as showing off his lucky playing cards pinned to his helmet.




and finally two pretty faces to show off my inability to paint eyes, expect improvements by the end of this log.. at least by the time I've painted 80 odd pairs of eyes I should have improved through mass practice at least. Also shown off is the squad markings which happily move around on all the squad members, just to add to the rag tag look.

Finally I move onto the ramble part of this latest update, with my little speech titled; What on earth do all the girls see in Edward Cullins?
Along with the monster cookie and mass caffeine, I also watched "Twilight" with my Gf while waiting for paint to dry, but for the members living under rocks on the moon Twilight is a soppy teenage love story about vegan vampires who don't roast in sunlight, and rather than staking through the heart require pulling apart and burning. Either way The main vampire dreamy love boy intrest is Edward Cullins and for the life of me I don't get it. Really bad hair, Chalky make up and the Eye brows... O_O I still can't get over the eye brows, I swear I'm going to have nightmares about them tonight.

.. sorry got abit distracted..

next update most likely tommorow morning, will feature pictures of the 2nd veterans unit ready to base coat, the Penal unit also awaiting base coat and I may start assembling more figures for the 41st. Either way, until the morrow, Beware Vampires with creepy eyebrows.

Explodingboy

[Explodingboy]

minor double post, Last night was not as productive as intended so the 2nd Veterans squad will take somewhat longer to complete (letting capes and bases dry before undercoating and such) This mean that the 5man Storm Trooper unit attached to the 37th will be tonight's update, although the Sargent is abit up in the air at the moment as I'm making him a new arm.

In other news, construction of the 41st is going ahead fairly smoothly, hopefully I shall have 2 squads assembled by tonight, both units totting Grenade Launchers and Autocannons. Ideal fire support against both heavy and light armored infantry.

I've also been trawling through the rumour pages and have come up with a rough idea for the army list so far for your review, aiming for a 1500pt list and here it is;

Veterans, demolition spec
Veterans, demolition spec
2x Valks + door gunners

Infantry platoon (all with vet sarge and Vox)
squad 1, AC and GL
squad 2, AC and GL
squad 3, AC and GL

Infantry platoon (Catachan Jungle fighters here)
squad 1
squad 2
HW squad - mortar
HW squad - mortar

The next part of the list I have no idea about yet, but all remaining points will be going towards a bare bones HQ and anti tank weaponry, either tanks or HW squads the jury is currently undecided.

[Earthbeard]

The Vet squad look like true mid war veterans. "Sod the cleaness guys, lets you get to the MEANESS"

I think with these delightful conversions and painting I'd much sooner see more of them than the cleaner cadians Look forward to more updates.

p.s the cookie looks tempting

[Explodingboy]

Unfortunately no pictures for tonight.

Rather than painting I spent the day assembling the first 2 squads for the 41st, and there respective ACs. Plus some alterations to the veteran unit as I wasn't entirely happy with a couple of the 2nd squad.

As it seems to be that the veteran units are getting some very positive responses I'll probably add a third and fourth in the not so distant future, but I'm tempted to wait for the new command set as they contain some very usable pieces.

In fact, depending on the feedback, in regards to this question will have a fair bit to say in what happens next; Should the 41st stay sparkly and fresh or should they also get a good helping of city fight battle damage added?

Right hopefully, pictures will be up in the morning just to prove that I have done something but quite what shall have been done isn't entirely decided just yet.

Explodingboy

[Explodingboy]

Being abit naughty with a double post here, but I have pictures to make up for it.

First up the PIP veterans for unit 2 of the 37th. Going 5 at a time batch painting to keep it all manageable, This is the basic starting point, cloth a 20-80 mix of black and brown, bolt gun metal on all the armor plates and finally Catachan green over all the pouches and cloaks. Afterwards and also the longest part of the paint job, Flesh Wash and Badab black liberally applied to the entire model one after the other. (pictures here are taken after the flesh wash was still wet so no badab black for a while)



Also PIP is the last 2 of the first 5 storm troopers, the sarge was a step behind everyone due to wet glue from a broken arm sustained after I dropped him for the 4th time this evening. (I may paint well but I'm not lying when I say every model gets dropped at least two too three times between assembly and final lick of paint, I am a real butter fingers at times)



Final pic is a close up of the Storm Troopers home made bionic arm. Quite what happened to the original I have no idea as I found it at the bottom of my bitz box after a two or three years stint away from the hobby. Once its inked and painted, the detail will be somewhat clearer.



I've got behind on my painting schedule, but if I get in a good days work tomorrow I should be able to catch up and have the Veteran squad finished along with the storm troopers in a short while. Tomorrow I intended to have everything pictured tonight up and completed, so look forward to getting back to you all with more pretty pictures soon.

Explodingboy

[Explodingboy]

And its update time once again.

I'm happy to report some steady progress being made on the painting table, the first 5 of Veteran unit 2 have been completed and the first 5 ST are not far from being finished aswell, so without further nonsense, its picture time.



Front and back, apollogise for the first pic, only just noticed that the second row was out of focus, but we luckily we have close ups still to come.




There we have some pretty faces and squad/kill markings. I will say right now, that it is that odd time of evening and the camera flash has done the models no favor at all.



Here we have the work in progress ST unit, melta, flamer combo, Will be brought up to 10 men by the end, but I felt like painting them in 2 halves to break up painting the troop choices.



This is the second half of the veteran unit, awaiting 2 cloaks (tonights job) before painting will begin, my favorite model in the unit, the Demolition man.


Right, That about wraps it up for the pictures tonight, I'm at a friends wedding tomorrow but hopefully I shall still be able to finish the ST's and get a pic or two up of my progress.

Explodingboy:skull:

[Explodingboy]

Wedding was allot of fun, cut into my painting schedule as expected, The 5 veterans are now almost finished, just awaiting touch-ups and the little details (kill marks, unit number etc) but I have pics while the lighting is still in my favor too show off.



Demo trooper is still my favorite by far, but in setting up the picture I realized I had smeared dwarf flesh across the top of his helmet.. no idea how that happened. Still the picture looks good and it shows the all looking lovely which is what matters most.




Here we have two close ups of a couple of the old guys in the unit, and the sargent's favorite hat.



On an unrelated side note, while awaiting an ink wash to dry, I took a little time to paint my Gf who was sitting too close to me.. didn't come out so great as I changed my mind mid paint job from smiley face to star, and then it was too late before I remembered that I can never draw/paint stars.



Finally, I tried out the scar technique, from someone elses log.. can't think of the name, but its the Goliath gang that appeared a few days ago. To decorate my penal trooper into looking abit tougher, I like the way it came out, and if he sees this log, Thanks for the idea of using flesh wash.

Now with 20vets completed, I'll probably actually finish the storm troopers at long last.. for some reason I've found them unbelievably hard to motivate myself to get them done. Also having trawled through the rumours again, I'm thinking of making up a Vet sargent Harker conversion... once I figure out what his special heavy bolter is supposed to look like.

[Ragsta]

These dudes are looking great, mate, really gritty and characterful! Yours use of WFB Empire heads is a nice touch and I love that guy with the demo charge, you should devote extra love and attention to him! Probably steer clear from painting stars on him tho.

[laudarkul]

Fine looking guys...Looks like they have a good fight in some jungles/sewers...This could be a Veteran Regiment///

[[sgt.Harris](voltarian)]

very very nice units you have there.

BTW im stealing that V armour plate on the sarge and DKOK style shoulders

i also painted a star but it was on one of my russian guard models and it came out ok regarding that i cant ever paint or draw stars either

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