Hello all!

I'm totally new to Epic and this forum, so greetings to all and I hope I do not violate any rules by jumping in at this late stage of TOEG 2012. I have been aware of Epic since Epic 40k came out, but never got around to try it.

This September a buddy of mine and I decided to finally give it a try. Since we can only get together VERY infrequently, I have until the weekend before Christmas to paint up approximately 2000 points of Imperial Guard. I have been busy since our last gaming weekend, and after much searching for 6mm miniatures on the web, I finally got to painting.

I'm trying to finish a decent selection of Steel Legion formations until the deadline in December, and this blog will hopefully help to motivate myself. I will first post what I have painted since starting in early October.



I first ordered just over 0.7 kilogramms of metal miniatures from Dark Realm Miniatures...

Then I realised I didn't know what the paint scheme was going to be. I think that while most camo paint schemes look cool up close, they tend to do what they are supposed to do when viewed from a distance: They hide details and blend the vehicle into a lump of green/brown - at least when someone with my limited abilities is the painter.

So I went for this instead: (Copyright Relic or whoever made Homeworld 2, I guess)


I did a couple of test models to try out a few ways of painting blue and the orange markings...


And finally wound up with a couple of tanks I am fairly happy with:





The miniatures are DRM Chasseur tanks, the decals are from my wargaming shop and apparently depict the insignia of the 1st Polish Armoured Division. I didn't know that at the time though, I picked them for the funny winged boar - turns out it is a winged helmet...

Next up were two Hydras to give my infantry a little AA support:

Again DRM miniatures. They are called Firewall, IIRC.

A big thank you to Onyx, by the way, his blog was a great inspiration for me both in terms of motivation and choice of miniatures.

I'll post the rest of the pictures over the next few days, right now I have to finish the air cav and navy that has been sitting on my desk for days now, all grey and blue and no orange at all...

Jan

Welcome to the forums Jan.

Well it is kinda late to start TOEG2012 but then if Christmas 2012 is your deadline anyway that sort of works, I guess this balances out V putting his 2013 log up too early.

That all looks awesome, great use of decals.

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Thats one colourful guard force i must say.

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Neither can I.

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they worked on my phone, but not on my computer.... weirdly

nice work so far, these could be guard from one of the worlds ruled by the crimson fists.....

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Pictures show on my computer.

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Vanguard Miniatures

Link, http://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/

Stockist of:

Vanguard Miniatures
BattleGroup Helios
Onslaught Miniatures
Pyrkol Gaming Markers
Gregster's Lab
Microworld Games
Troublemaker Games

I can't really say why some people can't see the pictures... They are in a Dropbox directory, and I have to say I'm not really experienced with Dropbox. I have fiddled a bit with the preferences, but I'm not sure it helped. I myself can see the pictures, even when I'm not logged into Dropbox...

Can someone give me some tips for this? I am apparently getting too old to keep up with all that newfangled hosting-files-online business.

Alright, I couldn't see the pictures myself this time, so I rehosted them somewhere else... Should be displayed ok now.

I can't do anything about the picture size, though. Is there a way to change their displayed size?

Anyway, on to the next batch:

First up is a Basilisk battery...




...and their buddies, driving around a couple of Manticors



All of them DRM minis again.

Thanks for your feedback and welcomes, by the way!

I love your choice of colors, it looks really good, i like your painting style aswell. Can't wait to see some infantry.

Blind-

Thanks a lot! I already have an infantry company almost finished, will post pictures on the weekend. Before that, I need to finish my air support!

Jan

Welcome aboard, Jan.

I really like your paint scheme. Well done!

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Nicely done ! Reminds me of UN forces ...

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Great paint scheme. I love the DR Firewall mini

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