Warhammer 40K: Dark Talon, Tactical Marines, Company Veterans Complete

Just spent the day getting overdue models done, primarily the Dark Talon.

Dark Talon

 

 

 

This took me quite a while to decide how to paint some of the key part especially the white of the wings as unit on the box had a blue tinge towards the tips. Tried to emulate that with Guilliman Blue without success. At least now we have one more major unit out of the to do list. I will be adding some close ups later. Enjoy the closeups below.

 

 

Tactical Marines

Have not quite decided which squad in the 5th Company they will join. Not even sure if they will be devastator or tactical squad. Perhaps at a later time, the accompanying insignia will be painted.

Company Veterans

 

Part of this company will be joining the Command Squad (since the Company Champion is completed). The rest will be assigned to various squad in the 5th Company. Despite having done my roster, I will be assigning them all to specific squads at a later time.

As a preview on the 5th Company roster (1915pt),
- 1st Tactical Squad (1 Plasmagun, 1 Heavy Bolter) (175pt)
- 2nd Tactical Squad (1 Plasmagun, 1 Multi-Melta) (175pt)
- 3rd Tactical Squad (1 Plasmagun, 1 Missile Launcher) (180pt)
- 4th Tactical Squad (1 Plasmagun, 1 Missle Launcher with Flakk Missile) (190pt)
- 5th Tactical Squad (1 Plasmagun, 1 Plasma Cannon) (Dark Vengeance) (180pt)
- 6th Tactical Squad (1 Plasmagun, 1 Lascannon) (185pt)
- 1st Assault Squad (2 Flamer) (190pt)
- 2nd Assaunt Squad (2 Plasma Pistol) (210pt)
- 1st Devastator Squad (1 Heavy Bolter, 1 Missle Launcher, 1 Plasma Cannon, 1 Lascannon) (210pt)
- 2nd Devastator Squad (1 Multi-Melta, 1 Missle Launcher with Flakk Missile, 1 Plasma Cannon, 1 Lascannon) (220pt)

I have yet to decide the exact gear for each of the squad's sergeants. All of them will be veterans for 10 points each.

Warhammer 40K+Misc: 5th Company, Tau Commander Arra'Kon and Zong Shi

5th Company
Just a little pictorial post to record the work done so far until now. More units now join the rank of the 5th Company. The devastator squad and scout models are basically the only infantry models I have yet to acquire.

Company Veterans

The company veterans are completed except for the single company champion. Since the Veteran Squad is a loose group drawn from the existing companies with no dedicated company assignment for them, I will be integrating them within the various companies itself. Also to note, the existing model for the 9th Company Master is included above as I found another model instead. You can say he is demoted. He will be joining a dedicated command squad instead.

Tactical Squad. All bolters. Not a legal squad

Assault Squad at 50 percent

At this point, I realised that I am not exactly consistent in the colour used for the various iconography. I will be adding a page later to keep this in check since it can be a little tiresome to search for the very specific steps.

Commander Arra'Kon

Model is done. Left the bast to be done. Will be keeping the base colour red in consistent with the existing Mars like desert scheme as done in the previous 2 models. I may just add some grass in as to show it is not all lifeless.

Zong Shi

From a boardgame I got some time ago via Kickstarter with a friend, I decided to give the models a little life with some colour. The above is the Jade Buddha token used as a start player marker in the game itself. the model is very well detailed, although a little sticky to hold for some reason. Inside the box for too long perhaps. Since the model above is suppose to be jade, I used various colours of green and mostly dry brushing.

1. Basecoat with Caliban Green
2. Wash with Nuln Oil (I previously washed with Beil-Tan Green. It was not dark enough to my liking)
3. Drybrush with Caliban Green
4. Drybrush with Kabalite Green
5. Drybrush with Warpstone Glow
6. Drybrush with Moot Green
7. Glaze with Waywatcher Green
8. Apply Hardcoat to give it a shine

The drybrushing should be lighter then the previous layers.

The masters and the apprentices above are painted accordingly to their colour. Although the colours are not exactly the same as the original token, they should be approximate enough to match their corresponding player tokens.

Warhammer 40K: Land Raider Complete

Decided to call it a day with the land raider since I have no further ideas on enhancing this. It is my prototype anyway. My first large model/vehicle.

 

 

 

 

Most of the parts were drubrushed with Necron Compount do create a dusty look on the model. Hopefully, the next Land Raider I build (either Redeemer or Crusader) have a better job than this. Anyway, a sneak peek on what is coming in next.

Dark Angels Company Veterans. These guys will be populating around every company (at least 2 10 man squad) except for 9th Company Assault since robes are not exactly jet pack friendly.

 

 

Tau Commander Arra'Kon of the Farsight Eight. The legs from the finecast, for some reason, was quite tilted to the back. I decided to give him an action pose of dodging back an attack and moving to retaliate. And yes, I forgot to take a photo of the sprues for my sprue post, which kinda suck since this is from the Tau Commander finecast which is a web exclusive. In my defense, I was actually drooling when I unboxed it. Never expected to see this in the shop.

Macross/Robotech: HWR-00-Mk II (Monster/M.A.C.) Part 2

Finding the right time even on long weekends was tricky especially when there is a lot to do at home. At least I got some progress on the MAC II.

 

 

 

One thing for sure is that I lack focus when comes to painting large models like this, evidently from fact that the Land Raider and Dark Talon is still not completed. Also scheduling several hours in 1 shot to work on them is tough. At least now I have a new paint station which you see above, thanks to my lovely wife who got it for me for my recent birthday. It certainly helps as it allows me to clear the table away away for dinner without the need to pack everything off and to continue when dinner is done. I will probably need to get the GW water pot since that is the only thing that missing to allow me to paint on the go as the cup I am using topples easily on this station.

In the mean time, here is a sneak peek on new units joining Balthazar's company.

Got the assault squads since I wanted to check out the spruce and bits load out and at the same time get some other squad type units since I already have terminators and tactical marines. I was initially hoping to get the devastator squads but those were not available at time of purchase. These units were from the vanguard veteran kit since they had more bits available compared to the standard assault marine kits. And I have used up most of the variant weapons available permitted by the codex. I will certainly need to grab a wider range of kits if I were to have at least every possible weapon options.

These veterans were from the upgrade kit I purchased while building up my land raider. I finally decided to make them with some of the spares available from the vanguard veterans kit, again with multiple weapon combination possible as permitted by the codex. I was only able to make 3 out of 4 since there were not enough arm piece for use with the storm bolter. Definitely need to allocate more funding for more kits, or look around for space marine bits bins. Sternguard Veteran bits perhaps?