Landing Craft - 2

A ways back when, I talked about making a landing craft a-la starship troopers for my guard to use in place of valkyries. Well I just read this article which shows a brilliant conversion of a storm-raven gunship using a valkyrie as base, and looking at it there is a lot there that I think would go perfectly in creating a starship troopers landing craft.

I recently bought an old valkyrie from someone at the local game store, cost me £10, and I'm going to see if I can't pull it apart and have a go at making something from it before I start working on my new-in-box valkyrie.

I might just have some real content to post here before too long.

Company Command Squad

Another long absence, sorry about that.  Here's the final models that I built before Christmas for my starter Mobile Infantry army.   They are - 

The Company Command Squad:

With Iron-Hand Straken to represent Lt. Rasczak

     

... and here is Sgt. Bastonne representing Jonny Rico, who will be my veteran squad commander.

     

Hope you like them, they may see some paint in the near future too

Squads 2 and 3

Its just a teaser, I snapped a couple of pics of MI squads 2 and 3 after priming them but before painting.

I discovered just how quick the painting can be as when I did get to sit down with these guys, I managed to do all the fatigues and armour on them in about 2 1/2 hours from undercoat to dried washes with only the flesh left to do.

I've got a company command squad, most of a platoon command squad and a couple of extra guys to do as well. Lots of pics will be coming along soon.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Well, here I am nicely settled with my family, a couple of pre-christmas drinks and relaxing well into the holiday. I just want to wish you all the most Happy Christmas and a very lovely New Year.

I'll be returning very early in the new year with lots of new pics of my progress.

See you in the new year.

bG

Squad 1 complete

Here they are, very quick to paint, nice and easy, and the colour scheme is pretty close to the films:

The fatigues are codex grey, the armour is adeptus battle grey, weapons etc are black, everything gets a good dry brush with fortress grey and the insignia get painted with it, washed with badab black, flesh then gets a quick coat before being washed with ogryn flesh.
Thats it, painted up, bases will be earth colours drybrushed up to bone to give it that sandy/dusty look of the bug planets.

The painting probably only took me a couple of hours for the entire squad (the trouble was finding that time) so I think I can bash out a decent sized force of meat for the grinder in little time when I get the opportunity. These guys may be shelved temporarily for a bit as I'm going to concentrate on the wolves for a month or two with all the lovely new releases :D

C&C welcomed. Cheers, bG

Getting married

So I had some plans for the models, but thats pretty unlikely.  They were meant to go in this post but that won't happen now, I'm getting married on Saturday and the in laws turn up tomorrow.

I'll see you all on the other side of married life!

cheers, bG

Provisional army outline

I've been thinking a little about how I'd put together my guard army to represent elements of the Starship Troopers mobile infantry. Things like including lots of auto-cannons, grenade launchers etc. I've also looked through the special characters in the guard codex to see which ones seem to fit somewhat either fluff-wise or effect on the game.
From this, I've sketched out the below list:

HQ: - 235pts
- Straken (Raszcek), Medipak, vox, standard, flamer, krak grenades
- Astropath (Carl Jenkins)

Elite: - 65pts
- Marbo (Dax - ST2)

Fast: - 290pts
- Valkyrie (Lander for the vet squad) - lascannon and multi-rockets
- 2 x Armoured Sentinel (marauder battle suits - ST3) - lascannon, missile-launcher, smoke

Troops: - 451pts
- Vet Squad (Roughnecks) - Bastonne (Rico), vox, 3 x grenade launcher, demolitions doctrine (represents Rico riding the flame bug)
- Platoon Command squad: bolt pistol, melta bomb, powerfist, medipak, vox, lascannon
- 2 x Infantry squad, bolt pistol, vox, grenade launcher, autocannon, krak grenades

Army total - 1041pts

Its just a start but I'm going to work towards it and see where I go from there. Should only need a cadian battleforce, extra command group and a valkyrie and I'll be close to having everything in this list.

Other possible character drop ins to consider are:

Officer of the Fleet: Carmen (Electra)
Chenkov: Sergeant Zim (from the training camp)
Harker: ?
Master of Ordinance: ?
Pask: ?
Commissars: ?