Love the zoat.

Guess everyone trying to do Trygon to scale. hehe. I'm going in the opposite direction and cerating monstrous size Tyranids.

Great looking stuff !!

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Praise from the conversion-master is praise indeed. Thanks for the kind comments as well (L4 and Lextar).

Happy New Year! I finished my fantasy army two hours before the first game of the tournament (finished and finished, tournament requirements were three colours and basing). I will finish it over the year, but now I can return to my finish some Epic armies off and start a few more.

I managed to finish some Inquisitorial Stormtroopers for my Ordo Malleus Strike Force, and to give them some Rhinos. The Storm Troopers are the standard SG ones, and I have to admit they grew on me. Because they are so uniform, I decided to paint them in Ordo Malleus colours and disregard that they are part of the Inquisitorial Forces of the army list. Then I decided to paint them in an inverted colour scheme compared to my Grey Knights, so I picked out a deep red for the uniform with grey plasteel armour to match. Hellguns are black.





Ordo Malleus and Mystics do not match well, so I modelled a standard instead. The standard will represent a Command Squad, thus improving their FF skills. I also intend to run this platoon as a second Storm Trooper Platoon for my Steel Legion. The standard will then represent a Commissar (Leader and Fearless go well with standards). Now, I just have to paint up some Valkyries to match.

The Rhinos were painted like my Land Raiders, but with a little more contrast added to them. I think it paid off, and future Grey Knight Land Raiders will be painted in the same way.

The Rhinos are old plastic ones, and I changed the front armour a bit, adding a bit of plasticard, some etched brass and greenstuff laurels.





and a shot of the entire formation



After a trip to the Canary Islands, some gribblies and Chaos miniatures will make their appearance.

As always, thanks for watching (despite the crappy pictures. I never seem to have time to set things up properly).

/Fredmans

More great stuff !!!

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

beautiful stormtroopers and rhinos! The models grew on me too...
You've really brought out the detail on them.

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Nicely done.

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Had not seen this post before, have just read every page.....the painting detail and conversions are quite simply stunning!

Defo the best looking nid army

Regards epic

Very nice work

Great, the inverted colours give a very regal look. I really like the SG stormtrooper mini myself, but have yet to paint any

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Nice converting on the old Rhinos & the Stormtroopers look great! Amazingly clean painting on the infantry & it really shows the detail.

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It's all really cool! Don't think I'd flicked through this lot before :-)

Zoat is ace, Inquisitorial force looks like it's going to rock and those stormtroopers are dead clean! I was thinking of buying two formations of them for my new guard army but they were just too expensive so I've used GW plastic guardsmen instead and will be using EW trench soldiers as normal infantry.

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Thanks for the warm response. Regal is pretty much the impression I was trying for.



I am with you on the money issue, I bought these several years ago, before the latest price hikes. I really like EW and DRM:s human soldiers, and will be using them liberally in my Chaos project. I think the GW plastic guardsmen will work just as well. It is a really good sculpt.

This year has had a promising start. I have almost finished a batch of Genestealers to go with the Zoat along with a second Harridan. And I have finally got time to finish the Khorne Coven I started so long ago. I am trying out some water-effects, and am still undecided about the result.

I have also received two commissions, a Necron army and a second one, still to be decided (looks like it will be Eldar or Marines).

I am in correspondance about the actual size of the army, and therefore I wonder how many Infantry Phalanxs people usually field in 3-4K.

/Fredmans

As promised, a quicker update than the usual two months or so...

Finally finished my Khorne Coven. I'd really like to get the time to turn this into a full-sized painted army, and I will surely try to make it this year.

I want to portray three themes running throughout the entire army; daemonic incursion, mutation and the malign Chaos Marine forces that started the uprising. Therefore, I have sprinkled Beastmen parts throughout the coven and placed some Chaos Marines amongst the cultists to bolster their will to fight.

First off, a Khorne Daemon Prince (with retinue). It is a Bloodthirster familiar, flanked by Beastmen, a Chaos Marine and a Daemon-Prince-in-becoming.


One Beastmen has claimed the role of Herald.


The Big Mutants follow the theme of increasing mutation. The ogryn-sized minotaurs are more human than the full-sized minotaurs. The daemonic and malign forces are represented by the Jugger-riders. Every stand has two shooty and one close-combat mutant.





and the retinue:


/Fredmans

update part 2.

I will use beastly daemons for chaos hounds. So for Khorne Covens, this means Flesh Hounds.


The Cultists are a mix of DRM and GW miniatures. For GW plastics, I have made head and weapon swaps to spread the beast mutations around. Cultists will have a heavy weapon to distinguish themselves from mutants. Mutants will be more mutated, obviously.


For Traitor Fire Support, the Chaos Marines are in charge of the heavy weapons, which explains the better stats.


And the whole lot together.


For Cultist colours, I have used red and black or red and khaki. The khaki parts are inked with a red and brown ink mix to get the Khorne taint. Gloves and boots are black or natural leather, mixed with the two colour schemes to produce four variations and add to the Chaotic feel. The Chaos Marine scheme is red with black helmets and hands. Daemonic red has a bluish tint to it, and beastly red (Dogs) has a more brown touch to it.

The bases start off with the same colours and materials as my Ordo Malleus force. Khorne units will add burnt grass and pools of blood/daemonic ooze to easily distinguish them from other daemonic forces. There will be Nurgle and Tzeentch variants as well.

As always, thanks for watching and commenting
/Fredmans

Very cool demons and traiters. Great detail work!

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My armies:
Imperial Guard: 5000+P
Necrons: 3000P
Space Marines: 3000P (WIP)
Tau: sometime eventually