Sentinel is done! (almost)

I finished building the Scout Sentinel today, all that is missing now is some paint on the engine and the drivers cage, and the usual round of washes. Plan to do this tomorrow, or perhaps later tonight.

This was the old sentinel model, and that is partly why I chose to make it a scout sentinel. The model is a combination of plastic and metal, and I am not too fond of that.

As i understand the new sentinels are all plastic, and also seem to have more equipment to add and choose from. I plan to add some to the army at a later point, but for now my main goal is to build and paint what is in the shelves and there is a lot to choose from.

The veteran squad lead by Sergeant Bastion is comming along nicely. I had a little challenge painting the resin black, as the paint wouldn't stick right, but I got there eventually.

I find this a little strange, as the grey went on without any problems at all yesterday.

What is missing on the elites now is to do the leather, the skin, and the metal parts of weapons and insignia. The sniper's cape needs to be painted on the outside, and some of the models needs to have head or arms attached to their bodies.

Catachan command squad

The eastern part of the continent is not as industrialized as the western part. The eastern part is mostly farmland, forrests and some swamps.

The troopers based in this part of the continent need to rely on airsupport to move fas tfrom place to place. They are mostly different kinds of infantry, supported by sentinels and Valkyries or Vendettas. The big unit in the east is the 82nd Airborne Division (Nicknamed the Fighting Falcons).

Their first platoon is lead by this command squad:

Lieutenant Hill, with boltgun

Medic with lasgun with foldable stock

Standard bearer with lasgun

Vox operator with lasgun

Specialist with sniper rifle

Several troopers have grenades.

The Catachan troops have flak vests, and they sre painted catachan green

Their headgear are painted Necron Abyss (same blue as the legs of my Space Marines)

Here are some pics:

Cadian Command squad

The Cadians represent as said earlier the troops from the western industrialized zone of the continent. They will be joined by Ogryns and ratlings.

The troops will have access to Chimeras, and will be backed by Leman Russ tanks, Ordnance batteries, hellhound variants, sentinels and hopefully som big and heavy tanks.

The units are gathered under the 101st Infantry Division (nicknamed The Roaring Thunder). Their tactics is based on attacking in force and hitting their enemies hard and brutal.

Here are some pics of the command squad for the 1st Platoon. It consists of the following troops:

Commander: Lieutenant Katz (might be renamed at a later time), with Plasmapistol

Standard bearer with lasgun

Trooper with heavy flamer

Medic with laspistol

Vox operator with lasgun

Here are some pics:

Imperial Guard Cadian troopers

At the moment my Imperial Guard army hails from the planet Xerxes IV (might change this name later) a small planet located in the Mordant Zone between the more known planets Pavonis and San Leor.

In my army the Cadians reperesent troopers from the industrialaized western part of the continent, and this is how the standard troopers will look like...

The helmet, boots, armour and synthetic material on the weapon are Chaos Black

The pants are Adeptus battlegrey

The coats are Fortress grey

all metal is Chainmail

The waterbottles and grenades are Dark Angels Green

all leather is Beastial brown

First Easter update, mostly IG

Just before the Easter holliday set in, I got a package from Forgeworld with the replacement for my dreadnought assault drill (that I managed to break while cutting it clean) and my Imperial Guard veterans upgrade kit.

Naturally I wanted to make my Cadian veteran squad at once, and this meant I had to clear some room on the table. I had two plastic command squads almost finished, so I finished and washed them, and I also washed the five troopers that I made earlier.

I originally wanted my troopers to have a clear contrast between the torsos and legs, but since I suck at thinning and mixing paint and washes I decided to use a thin layer of Badab black on all grey and metal areas. The result came out much better than expected and they look like a gritty band of troopers that has seen some time in the field.

The brown parts were washed with Devlan mud and the green, gold and blue got their respective washes as well.

The pictures will be in my next post, I just took them and need to pick the best pics and crop them a little to get the right sizes.

I also started on a scout sentinel (the old type that is part plastic and part metal), and wanted to make something out of the base, so I hightened the base and made a hole in the middle to create a river using my MIG watereffect set. But since it is a battlefiled I wanted the river to be red with blood, however the result looks a lot more like a river of tomato soup... Still I think it will be ok when I have finsihed the base later on, and I have thought up a new way to make rivers bloody in the future...

The cadian veterans are in different states of ready. I had a little problem glueing resin to resin, but hopefully that is solved now.

4 veterans are armed with shotguns, two with lasrifles (one of these is the vox operator), two veterans have grenade launchers, and the last veteran is a sniper. They are lead by my version of Sergeant Bastonne, armed with a powerfist and a boltgun. I have tried really, really hard to find a "regular" hand with a powersword, but I have not been able to find this. So I had to use a powerfist instead, the most important thing is that it is a powerweapon after all. Also I could not find a left hand with a gun, no matter how hard I looked. So I ended up taking a spacemarine arm and cutting off the hand and attaching it to an Imperial Guard arm. It ended up a boltpistol instead of a laspistol, but I figure that will work fine as that also is the preferred weapon for commisars.