tirsdag 18. desember 2012

Return to the Guard

Got a good buy on Ebay last night, won three pre-built Cathachan heavy weapon teams, so I thought I would finish my first three Cadian teams.

The three teams had the weapons painted and assembled, and also the gunners were assembled and glued to the bases.
The spotters were assembled and painted, but they were not attached to the bases yet. So I had to find out what spotter to assign to the different gunners, and then glue them to the right base in the right position.
When this was done I started to add the extra equipment. I had almost finished painting up 4 belts with bayonet holders, water bottles and magazine pouches, so I finished that and glued it to two of the fireteams. The remaining fireteam will have theirs in a couple of days, I have the equipment but need to paint it up before I can glue it on to the troopers.
I will also add small details like field showels and a bayonette to the bases. And I will add lasrifles.
The bayonette is half painted, as are the field showels. The lasrifles are primed, but needs to get the metal parts painted.

There are also four troopers and one sergeant that are awaiting completion. These five Guard soldiers will join a unit of five previously assembled troops to make up a unit of ten.
The status on these last five is as follows:
All five torsos are painted. The sergeant and the heavy weapons expert have both arms attached to the torso, but the three riflemen are missing the arms. During the long storage in the livingroom I have managed to loose one arm, but I will have to think of something extra for that trooper anyway as I have thought him to be the communication expert, and then it would be nice to find some way to keep one arm free. I think I have some spare arms in the bitbox, so I will find a solution for him.
I have all the extra equipment I need (backpacks, etc. and this just need to be painted). Then the five troopers needs their wash.

Also on my table there are three Commissars with most of their skin and uniforms painted. There are some details left though but this will be relatively fast to paint. I think I will take them in between the other troopers while the paint dries on those.

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