[hocky]

Well what can you say? Awesome effort mate, that colour scheme is quality. I really like the accessories on their belts and knives on their legs, that's great detail. I really like the 'v' and the 11 on the shoulder pads though. Did you freehand that or sponge?
Your faces are defo getting better but still need to be a little smoother in the flesh tones, there seems to be some wash 'gaps' in some of them. That is a minor point though they look ace! Can't wait to drop em on warhammer worlds floor...

 

[Jangalak]

You are absolutely right mate, I still have those faces on my 'to-do' list but time has got the better of me! I'll get them ready for the nex tourney...honest!

And the markings on the shoulders were freehand with white, then I 'weathered' them by going back over with khaki so the lettering looked chipped.

 

[TheReverend]

Just thought I'd post a couple of pics up from Friday...
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[Jangalak]

Rev - was awesome to see your wolves - thanks for the photos, apparently GW have our army on Facebook, but havent had time to look myself. I will post up any of the Feth v Rev's Wolves as soon as I get chance.

Cheers

 

[TheReverend]

They have, just seen it. That eagle on the tank really caught their eye by the looks of it!!

In fact, they have about 5 shots of your guard!!

 

[CLT40k]

REALLY nice work here... + rep

 

[Disciple_of_Ezekiel]

GOOD LORD Jang!

You have been pumping out some nasty looking units mate! (Nasty as in sweet) Your base work is looking badass as well brother, you are just doing a bang up job all around. I may have to watch my back...LOL!

That weathered chimera with the aquila is just plan PIMP! Good job!

Rep inbound Sir.

Regards,
DoE

 

[Jangalak]

Thanks CLT, much appreciated.

@DoE - cheers buddy, great to see you back. These tournaments always get the production line going and it was awesome to get a best army nomination again - I asked the judges what the final voting looked like and they said another two votes and we would have won. Thats gonna see me obsessed for the next six months now! The bases are not built by me - i buy them from Dark Arts minis - very nice stuff.

@ All - I have two more vendettas in the pipeline - both will get the aquila wings on the wings, and am looking to do some different nose-art to differentiate them. I will be using a doubleheaded eagle with a lightening bolt on one (from Dan Abnett's Double Eagle book) but I am struggling for another. I want something eagle/aquila related - anyone seen anything?!

I will also be going for some different and lighter colours on the vendetta as I have learnt that the lighter the main colour, the more cool weathering you can do! I may do one vendetta in kommando khaki and the other in a very light codex grey and space wolf grey camo pattern - sounds dodgy eh, but hopefully it'll work out. I am expecting the strong aquila designs will 'tie them together' and it will look good that they are diff colours - any comments folks before I get the airbrush out?

 

[Jangalak]

So our fourth doubles tournament was a success, probably the best fun for me as our opponents in each game were great blokes and talented players - we had one 'easy-ish' game but the rest were really challenging and became more like chess matches as the tourney went on.

We finished up 29th out of 114 and picked up a best army nomination along with five other armies - not bad out of 114, and the field was pretty good. Hocky pulled out all the stops (link below in signature) and produced his usual awesomeness to go along my army and we were really close to winning.

Here are some shots of us on GW facebook.

Here is a link to Hocky's tourney report. He has run through what happened each game.

On the friday night we had a game with the Reverend against his awesome Space Wolf army - here is his fantastic plog incase you havent seen it.

Here's some photos of our fight against the Rev...

 

[Hellados]

can you link a guide to show the way you did the scratches etc on the shoulder pads please

 

[Jangalak]

Hi hellados, I will post some stages up next time i do them, but here is how i did the written process:

1. Undercoat model (i used black on these and it provided a few useful shadows).
2. Paint armour kommando khaki
3. Using the 'detail' and 'standard' GW brushes i then went around the edges of each armour plate with chaos black. I painted fine lines from some of teh edges into middle of the model, and then 'played' the tip of the model around on each plate to depict fine and random scratching.
4. I drilled a few holes here and there to depict hard round hits and used black to create little 'starburst' scratches around these.
5. The i got some boltgun metal and filled in each bit of chaos black, trying to leave a thin edge of chaos black around each bit of boltgun metal.

Done! I thin down all my paints when using them so they are a milky consistency, annd the khaki takes a couple of coats to do. When i get chance, i will mix up some khaki and maybe space wolf grey to do some more edging around the scratches as that looks great on other armour i have seen. Hocky also uses an old brush to flick/spray black onto hsi armour which gives a great pitted look.

Hope that helps.

 

[Disciple_of_Ezekiel]

4. I drilled a few holes here and there to depict hard round hits...

LMAO...and they survived? :victory:

 

[Jangalak]

Hey DoE, go easy on these guardsmen - last weekend they took on untold Necron wraiths, dreadnoughts, and Necron Lords and still lived to tell the tale...well a couple of them did!!!

 

[Jangalak]

I am batch painting 17 veterens - a sprinkling of lasmen, some plasmas and a few more melta. With these boys complete I can field 3 sqds of plasma vets, and two Company Command Sqds with Quad melta, or PCS with melta or plasma, basically any of the combinations I have been playing with for the past year or so but not had painted up.

Now I have a new colour scheme I am happy with - battered khaki, i am loving painting the infantry for once. In these photos you can see a little of the process. On most of these I have undercoated, then badab black, the a watered down first layer of khaki. A few have been given the white face masks. Obviously much more to do on these but thought I would post a WIP.

I had an idea to use some of the guardsmen legs from the heavy weapons teams so i could have some crouching lasmen - I like how it has come out. Dunno what i will do when i need to build the heavy weapon squads but will figure that out later in the year!

I learnt a lesson in using forgeworld again this time. Having washed and undercoated them all I thought I was good to go. However, as I came to add khaki to three models i found that i hadnt got all the mould release off the resin models and the paint was not adhering. I ended up using an old toothbrush to clean them off and respray. Am gonna do that on all future models...

 

[shaantitus]

As for the hw teams, substitute standing spotters behind some cover. You only need crouching legs for the gunners. They are comming along nicely.

 

[TheReverend]

Hey mate,

these look great! And I really like the bases. Not sure I fancy facing them in the future though...

as for the FW release agent problem, I also had that this week in fact. Only on one backpack, but it was quite frustrating! I'll definitely return to using a toothbrush and warm water in future

rev

 

[TheReverend]

Jangalak, I just thought I'd post up the gaming pics on your plog too, to show off your Feth in action (read that as: slaughtering my Wolves )

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Thanks for the great day and the warm up to teh tourny this weekend, it was fun! I think I learned a lot about tanks from you so it was also educational :blackeye:

Rev

 

[Hellados]

they look amazing! i love the weathering on them

Rev i find that guard are my best army by far, my BAs always lose a bit and my Guard flatten everyone that goes up against them, it even ended my mates 3 year unbeaten eldar army on the second turn

btw the reason i mention it is because you need to combat the dice spam