Cadian 127th Regiment

"Tonitrus" (Thunder) B23 - Basilisk - Finished

2011-12-22T09:55:00.002Z

The tanks just seem to keep rolling off the production line at the moment. This Basilisk is another model that has been waiting to have minor touches added before it can be called finished - and now those are done, here are some pics:This is Basilisk is "Tonitrus", meaning "Thunder", and has the designation B23 (B for Basilisk, and 23 is the vehicle number). Like I said above, "Tonitrus" has been

"Veneratio" (Honour) 621 - EFTC

2011-12-13T14:15:00.000Z

Any week (or two), and another tank for the Emperor's Fist tank company.This week's finished tank is 621 "Veneratio" (Honour). Veneratio is 2nd squadrons command tank. Being a command tank, I wanted there to be some defining feature. The comms aerial's are straight from the accessory sprue, but the turret device is not meant for the Guard. It has in fact been converted from the Apocalypse

"Imperator Furor" (Emperor's Fury) 601 - EFTC

2011-11-28T20:30:00.001Z

I'll admit this at the beginning, but I thought that I had actually finished this tank. In fact it had been sitting on the shelf pretending to be finished. So I grabbed my drybrush and got to work.So here is the company command tank - 601 "Imperator Furor" (Emperor's Fury). As with the rest of the tank company, the tank name and designation is painted on the underneath. Above can be seen the

Decisions, decisions....

2011-11-16T15:54:00.004Z

.... and I ask my fellow bloggers for their help with this decision.As many of you know, one of the best things about blogs is being able to see pictures of other peoples work, whether its a photo of a finished model or a series of WIP pics.My current problem is that I don't know what style of picture to use for my completed model's.The choice is between two styles, which can be seen below. A

Squad 4-1-4 - Finished!

2011-11-02T12:23:00.000Z

Sqaud 4-1-4 is finally finished! And I actually mean finished, not my half arsed job when I still need to seal them with varnish.All of the shoulder pad squad markings have been painted on and the Cadian symbol transfers applied. They've all had their Devlan Mud washes, and then got sealed with Purity Seal.Here is the squad shot, nothing more to say here. Leading squad 4-1-4 is our blonde

Squad 4-1-4 - WIP still :-(

2011-10-27T20:28:00.000+01:00

As the title says, Squad 4-1-4 is still a WIP. The squad is however somewhat closer to completion than it was a month ago. Even my ridiculously slow painting hasn't stopped me!What has stopped me, or at least slowed me even further, is my broken finger. I broke my proximal phalanx of my ring finger on my left hand saving a shot while playing football (stupid me). Luckily I'm right handed so I can

More infantry - Squad 4-1-4 WIP

2011-09-27T09:58:00.000+01:00

So it's taken me a while to get the pcitures and blog post sorted, but I finally got of my arse to do it. The new infantry squad is going to be squad 4-1-4, making it part of Platoon 4. The pictures above show the troopers that are the furthest from completion, obvioulsy having no arms or head is a bit of a problem. I am currently painting up the lasguns for the two headless/armless

More Infantry on the Way

2011-09-07T18:46:00.002+01:00

Its ben a while since my last post, but in the mean time I've been working on some more infantry, because as a Guard player you can never have enough infantry (or tanks!).I haven't got any pictures available at the moment, but I'll hopefully get some up when they are complete.I already have a platoon of flamer wielding squads, and another platoon of grenade launcher guardsmen, so now I'm making a

Another Citadel Finecast Review

2011-07-07T17:55:00.006+01:00

Like a lot of people, I was very sceptical when I heard about the new Citadel Finecast range. Price rises each year I can kind of accept, I mean have you seen how much everything else in the world has increased in price. My worry was how this replacement would compare to metal and other resin, like Forgeworld. So I decided to buy a model that I've been holding off on, the Lord Commissar. His pose

Armies on Parade

2011-06-22T19:01:00.002+01:00

I popped into my local Games Workshop (Stoke-on-Trent) today for the final part of my intro to 5th edition, which was a 1000pts game. It ended up being a pitched battle annihilation, my Guard force against Ravenwing Space Marines.I took:1x CCS with autocannon and 2 flamers1x PCS with autocannon and 3 flamers2x infantry squad with grenade launchers1x veteran squad with 3 flamers1x heavy weapons

Platoon 7-1, Command Squad 7-0-1

2011-06-06T22:33:00.000+01:00

After several weeks of waiting - Command Squad 7-0-1 is finally complete. Rather than boring people to death with text, like I did in the last post, there will be more pictures. Enjoy!Command Squad 7-0-1 parade photo7-0-1 - front angle7-0-1 - front view7-0-1 - right side view7-0-1 - back view7-0-1 - left side viewThanks for reading!

Command Squad 710 WIP, Part 2

2011-05-31T23:05:00.005+01:00

Long time, no blog. These past weeks I just really haven't been motivated into picking up a brush. But then a couple of days ago, whilst tidying the study, I decided it was time to brush the dust off the command squad that I foolishly proclaimed would only take a few days to finish.So now that I've got around to doing some more painting, I thought I'd give a little update. I really honestly hope

Armoured Sentinel - Red Angel 4

2011-03-31T09:15:00.004+01:00

Armoured Sentinel - Red Angel 4Once again my modelling plans get altered immensely. I foolishly decided that I should be able to finish a 5 man command squad on a couple of weeks at most. I was happy painting, and thought this should be a piece of cake. However, its been three weeks since I picked up a brush. One week was lost with a family holiday to Florida, so I'll let my self off for that

Scout Sentinel - Red Angel 2

2011-03-02T13:11:00.005Z

Scout Sentinel - Red Angel 2To break up the work on the command squad, here is the second of my scout sentinels. Designated Red Angel 2, this is the partner sentinel for Red Angel 1, and is another scout (Cadian pattern) sentinel. There will be a Red Angel 3 at some point. There's not much to say about this model. It was painted in the same way as Red Angel 1, Dark Angels

Command Squad 710 WIP, Part 1

2011-02-22T20:22:00.005Z

For once I've moved quickly on to the next project, Platoon 7-1's command squad, CS 710. This squad is built mainly out of parts from the Cadian command squad box set, but I did take some bits from other places.To start with, all of the bits were removed from the sprues and mold lines were cleaned up. To be honest, the mold lines were almost not existent which is a nice change. Next up I did a

Scout Sentinel - Red Angel 1

2011-02-18T17:42:00.005Z

Scout Sentinel - Red Angel 1Now that the Valkyrie is finished, I've got the tiem to finish off some scraps of projects that have been sitting around with only a few things left to be done. One of those projects is the three sentinels that I currently have. I did post some info about 2 of the sentinels a while ago here.As with most of my projects all I had to do to finish the model off was apply a

Ride of the Valkyrie, Finale - Valkyrie 72 "Sword"

2011-02-13T23:55:00.000Z

Valkyrie - 72 "Sword"The Valkyrie is finally complete! (And there was much rejoicing!)This project is done, and it really has taken some time. There was one little addition to the Valk before completion, and that was a magnetised flying stand. I drilled out the holes on the section that is meant to be glued onto the bottom of the Valkyrie. I then glued a magnet into each of the 4 holes. Once the

Ride of the Valkyrie, Part 10

2011-02-06T17:00:00.002Z

The Valkyrie is nearing completion. There's been a lack of updates recently as to be honest, I haven't done anything until the past couple of days. My time has been spent either at work, or watching DVDs that I got a Christmas or playing the several new PS3 games that I also got at Christmas. But on Friday I decided to give some time to the hobby that I've neglected for the past month and get the

Ride of the Valkyrie, Part 9

2010-12-21T16:00:00.000Z

Getting down to the nitty gritty bits of this project now, and giving my self a chance to practice some simple techniques that I've not tried before.One of these is using a dark wash in the panel gaps. I've seen this technique used, and I wanted to give it a go to make the panels stand out a bit more. I used the normal GW Badab Black and applied a heavy wash into the recesses. I also applied it

Platoon 9-1, Squad 9-1-3

2010-12-04T12:45:00.002Z

In a break from the Valkyrie, I added the finishing touches a another infantry squad. All they needed was a wash of Devlan Mud and a coat of matt varnish, which is normally all I have left to do on most things.So I did the usual and took photos of the front and back of each model and then used the wonders of Photoshop to get them all on the same image. I'm still extremely happy with my light box

Ride of the Valkyrie, Part 8

2010-12-01T16:45:00.001Z

Due to the snow in the UK, I could't get to work so I decided it to do some painting (after playing on Gran Turismo 5 for several hours).I worked on the pilot and co polit, and their cockpit's and also the under wing weapons. Here are some pics for you to enjoy:First of all a pic looking at the two crew members. Like other's, I wanted to give them an individual feel, and painted the helmets

Ride of the Valkyrie, Part 7

2010-11-14T21:10:00.001Z

Thanks for the ideas and the votes on the poll, the outcome is that the underside of the Valk will be done in the same camo as the rest of the model. Having this weekend off from work meant that I could get some work done on the model (note - I say some work). So I broke out the spray gun and propellant, grabbed the two paints I needed and covered the kitchen table in cardboard (so the missus

Ride of the Valkyrie, Part 6

2010-11-07T20:37:00.001Z

Just a quick update. With the build complete, it was time to spray the model black. I just had to do one thing first...And that one thing was using some masking tape to hold the doors in place and to make sure there is no way that the spray can get into the interior. This was an immensely annoying job as the interior is too small to get a hand into so I ended up using bits of sprue to poke the

Ride of the Valkyrie, Part 5

2010-10-27T18:00:00.001+01:00

Let me start by saying "oooh magnets!", closely follwed by "curse you magnets!".This week I've continued the Valk project by magnetising the weapons, which I'll get onto in a moment. First off though I attached the cockpit section the main body and then added the landing gear. The first pic is just all the landing gear laid out having been removed from the sprue and cleaned. For those that

Ride of the Valkyrie, Part 4

2010-10-15T20:45:00.000+01:00

Continuing my extremely slow construction of my Valk, I move onto the next stage, the cockpit. The first stage is getting the two crew members placed in their seats and then getting their arms attached. This is pretty easy as the seats have the grooves in them to align the arms more easily. The only choice I have to make is which head to use. So I went with the closed visor for the copilot

Ride of the Valkyrie, Part 3

2010-10-02T20:25:00.000+01:00

So its time to take a look at how this project is progressing.When I started this project I thought about magnetising everything using Col. Corbane's excellent guide here, but I kind off forgot about it and by then it was too late. So instead I've decided that I'll just magnetise some parts, and by some I mean the wing mounted weapons and the nose weapons. However, I'm not quite at that part of

Ride of the Valkyrie, Part 2

2010-09-22T19:20:00.000+01:00

Time for an update on my continuing Valk construction project.Things are progressing quite nicely, I think. I decided not to add any more detail to the interior. I think that the drybrushing does the job well enough and people seem to like it, so why mess with it.My next task was to get the door gunners completed. This meant undercoating all the various components. I chose not to use spray paint

Ride of the Valkyrie, Part 1

2010-09-07T15:08:00.009+01:00

So having got fed up of painting infantry, and not being able to motivate myself to finish my sentinel or any more Leman Russ' for the moment, I thought I'd start on a project that I was looking forward to - a Valkyrie!Before I started I had a little think about how I wanted to build this model. In the end I decided that I was going to build the troop compartment and paint the interior, then

Platoon 9-1, Squad 9-1-4

2010-08-29T20:07:00.002+01:00

With all of the pictures of the completed squads of Platoon 7 now up on the blog, I thought it was about time that I showed Platoon 9 some love.The pictures are done in the same style as before. All of the Platoon 9 squads are going to be kitted out in the same way. Consisting of a Sergeant, Grenade Launcher, Vox Caster and 7 regular Guardsmen. So here is Squad 9-1-4:My only concern with this

Platoon 7-1, Squad 7-1-2

2010-08-14T17:59:00.006+01:00

The final squad that I have completed for Platoon 7 is Squad 7-1-2. This was actually the first squad that I finished, but they have been sitting on a shelf waiting to be updated with a wash etc before having their mugshots taken.Here is the front shot of 7-1-2. I love how even though the models were placed in pretty much the same place for the photos, and the camera wasn't moved, that some

Platoon 7-1, Squad 7-1-4

2010-07-22T21:49:00.004+01:00

Continuing with the rest of 7-1 Platoon, next up is Squad 7-1-4. Yesterday I showed off Squad 7-1-3 here so today is another squad.I had planned on having a third squad finished by tomorrow, but I haven't quite finished all the squad yet, and then I'm off on holiday on Saturday so they'll just have to wait.So without further ado, here is Squad 7-1-4.As with the previous post, there is one photo

Platoon 7-1, Squad 7-1-3

2010-07-21T18:00:00.005+01:00

My slow painting has finally produced some results, so this will be the first post of several showing the completed squads.The first of these squads is 7-1-3. There will be squads 7-1-0, 7-1-1 and 7-1-2 as well, but so far only 7-1-2 is completed, I'm just waiting for the shoulder transfers to dry. 7-1-0 will be the company command squad and 7-1-1 will be the "grenadier/veteran" squad and will

Reinforcements have arrived!

2010-07-10T13:51:00.005+01:00

So once again it's been a while since my last post. I promise you that I have done some painting since then. The infantry squad I was working on is finished so I just need to get some decent photos of them - I got a new camera which I'm still fiddling about with.In the mean time, I got a nice little delivery of items from Maelstrom Games - used one of their discount vouchers!In my lovely little

Infantry Camo Scheme - two choices

2010-05-17T09:28:00.004+01:00

Ok so whilst painting up the latest infantry squad to be added to my army, I thought I'd try something different. My usual paint scheme for the models is Snakebite Leather clothing and Goblin Green for the armour, with Graveyard Earth camo pattern added to the armour. This can be seen in the picture below, which will be named scheme A.The something different scheme, which will be scheme B, is

Regimental Command Squad - "Atten-shun!"

2010-04-26T14:10:00.009+01:00

"Atten-shun!"It's taken me several years but my Regimental Command Squad (RCS) is finally finished. It's taken me so long as I just cannot stand painting metal models. I like being able to paint the different sections of a model and then put it together. But I had to get these models done, so here is a nice group shot of them.From left to right is: Guardsman with Heavy Flamer, Guardsman with Vox

613 "Tundo ab Redemptio" (Anvil of Redemption) - EFTC

2010-04-18T13:49:00.004+01:00

Well the third tank is complete for the EFTC. When I say complete I really mean it just needs a spray coat of matt varnish, but I've run out and can't be bothered to order any more at the moment, but I don't think it'll make much difference in how the tank appears in the pictures. Although hopefully when it is sealed the turret numbers won't be so shiny. I've also got a new camera phone which is

612 "Marcus ab Morsus" (Hammer of Pain) - EFTC

2010-03-03T12:39:00.011Z

As promised here is the next completed tank for my EFTC. This tank is designated as 612, 2nd tank of 1st squadron of 6th company, and has been named "Marcus ab Morsus" by her crew. This translates to "Hammer of Pain".Once again I put my freehand skills to the test on the bottom of the model, to get more practice and for ease of identification. I'm going to go into a bit more detail about this

611 "Auctorita" Take 2 - EFTC Squadron Command Tank

2010-03-02T19:31:00.007Z

Sorry for the long winded title to this post, but it's the only way of describing what is to follow. A long time ago I posted some WIP shots of one of the squadron command tanks for my EFTC. Those of you who haven't seen it can take a look here. Now this tank has been listed under my "Recently Completed" title on the right of my blog, which is technically a mistake as it was still a WIP. I am

EFTC Cont. Part 8

2010-02-15T15:50:00.009Z

The transfer fun continues at pace now, and it's time to do the turret markings. I followed the same approach as normal when I'm doing transfers - couple of layers of 'Ardcoat on the surface I'll be applying the transfer to. Once I had all of the transfers cut out (there were a lot!) I began to carefully apply them to the turrets. I only applied one transfer to each turret at a time so that I

EFTC Cont. Part 7

2010-02-11T09:33:00.004Z

Work on the EFTC is continuing at a slow, but steady, pace. Having finished up the sponson and hull weapons, I now had to break the small glue bonds that I'd used to attach the weapon housings onto the tanks while they were being sprayed. I did try using large amounts of BluTack, but for the side sponsons it just wouldnt hold properly. For the hull sponson, I didn't have to use any glue as they

EFTC Cont. Part 6

2010-01-29T11:08:00.003Z

Once again I take ages to follow up on a post, but never mind. Work continues on the EFTC, some of it successfully some of it not so. On the good side of things, I finally managed to get all of the sponson and hull weapons completely finished. I decided that I would put Camo Green highlights on the Goblin Green sections of the weapons, as after testing the idea on the heavy bolter above, I

EFTC Cont. Part 5

2009-12-09T17:22:00.006Z

Ok just a quick update, but with lots of pictures. I finished doing all the masking on the turrets so that the four tanks could finally have their coat of Knarloc Green sprayed over them. So here are some pictures of the tanks with their appropriate turret added to them. Now I couldn't actually put the turrets in place properly because of the masking tape, but you get the idea. So

Emperor's Fist Tank Company Cont. Part 4

2009-11-25T09:33:00.007Z

I got a little bit behind and disheartened with my tank company. I think that the amount of work that I had to do kind of struck me and left me not wanting to do any. However things have changed. I decided that the tanks had spent enough time on my shelves gathering dust and it would be good if I actually worked on them. The first thing I had to do was break out the tank brush and give them all a

Regimental Commanding Officer

2009-11-23T14:13:00.013Z

I'm back, enough said. First of all I am going to start this post with something that I have never tried before, and that is Green Stuff. Now I have seen some amazing work over the net where people have used GS to create all kinds of things. This made using GS seem a little bit daunting. But I guess that these guys weren't born with the ability to make brilliant models so I decided that everyone

Emperor's Fist Tank Company Cont. Part 3 (ish)

2009-09-08T12:34:00.003+01:00

Don't know if this can really be classed as Part 3, but never mind. As promised I have managed to take some pics of the now spayed Leman Russ'. Unfortunately my poor planning struck again and I ran out of paint before I could do the turrets - crap! So for the moment there are no pics of the turrets. The shot on the left is just a general one of the 8 tanks. My proper production line building

Finally Some Progress

2009-09-06T20:12:00.002+01:00

It has been way too long since I actually did any painting or model related stuff. This is partly due to a two week training course for some voluntary work and also partly to me being a bit lazy recently. But I have finally managed to get my arse in gear and get something done. Unfortunately my PC has once again decided it doesnt want to work so I have no photos to put on yet.So I have finally

Emperor's Fist Tank Company Cont. Part 2

2009-07-23T09:31:00.014+01:00

First of all I apologise for the uninventive name for this post - quite frankly I've got so much to type that I couldn't be bothered with coming up with a better one. Plus it explains what I'm talking about nicely.I hope to show everyone what I've managed to get done since my last post, and I'm quite glad with the progress. So without further ado...I'll start with a shot of all six tanks with

Emperor's Fist Tank Company Cont.

2009-07-08T09:36:00.006+01:00

This is continuing on from my post on Monday of me actually getting stuff done on my EFTC. And it's been a fairly productive couple of days. There are quite a few pics of this WIP so I'll try to put a bit of explanation with each one. Ok so I started off by gluing the underside of the hull onto one side section. I did try gluing the top and bottom sections of the hull together and then

Its been a while

2009-07-06T10:32:00.004+01:00

It has been over just over a month since I actually posted anything, other than the odd comment on some of the blogs I follow, and for this I apologize. I've spent the past month mainly helping out a friend with some things, but I did find some time to carry on with my Emperor's Fist tank company, and I'm quite glad with the progress I made. Here are some WIP pics of what I've got done.

Command Tank 611 "Auctorita" ("Power") - EFTC

2009-05-28T08:59:00.004+01:00

Well I promised some pictures of another tank for my EFTC, and here they are. This tank is going to be the command tank for one of the squadrons. It's numerical designation is 611 and I've stuck with the name "Auctorita" (meaning Power), from the list of names I came up with way back near the beginning of my blog, here. Anyway this little beasty is at about 90% complete. All that

Presents

2009-05-22T13:08:00.002+01:00

Well it's been a long time coming, but the majority of the things that I wanted to order have arrived.The picture on the left is the stuff that I ordered from Gamers Warehouse which was nice and cheap, especially with the free postage discount I got. In my order was the new Guard Codex, which I've been dying to get my hands on, one new plastic Cadian Command Squad, the Citadel Spray Gun and 2

Money Money Money

2009-05-05T14:31:00.003+01:00

First blog in new house!Well its taken a while, but I've finally got some free time in order to post something after the move. There are still the odd boxes sitting around but pretty much everything is where it needs to be. Still waiting for our new bed to be delivered which is annoying but bearable.As those of you who have moved house before can imagine I've had pretty much no time to do any

Update

2009-04-10T12:37:00.002+01:00

Well due to packing everything up other the past few weeks I have not been able to do any painting or building at all. This means that I've been spending the past few days with absolutely nothing to do other than play on my PS3 and rediscover how hard playing America's Army online is.I have however found a nice site that do discount Warhammer stuff. I don't know if any of you have used it before

2009-03-26T23:00:00.004Z

Things around the home have been just a little bit hectic recently. This is done to the fact that the misses and I are moving home. As of today we are still waiting on hearing back from the letting agency about the place we wan't, but so far so good (touch wood). We are moving from our current 2 bed terrace in Derby, where our landlord is charging a high (ish) rent to a 3 bed semi in

Fire Support Squad - Heavy Bolters

2009-03-18T21:13:00.005Z

Continuing in my strange way of actually posting some completed models here is my first Fire Support Squad consisting of 3 heavy bolters. A second FS Squad of autocannons is in the pipeline. So here is a photo of the entire squad.I'll now try to explain each model, starting with the team on the right. These team was done to try and look like they had basically just set up their weapon and hadn't

Red Angel Sentinels

2009-03-14T18:48:00.004Z

When I decided the other week to try and put the finishing touches to a few of my tanks I also thought that this would be a good chance to finish two Cadian pattern sentinels that had been collecting dust - no change here I'm afraid.So now that I had this brilliant idea to get them done I sat about staring at the little walkers for a while. And I came to the conclusion that whilst I could add

Mortar Support Squad

2009-03-12T00:42:00.007Z

Well I've finally managed to finish the mortar squad. Be prepared for an abundance of posts over the next couple of days - including a completed heavy bolter squad and several Sentinels.I'll start this post off with a picture of all 3 of the mortars.I'll start off by explaining the team on the right hand side of the above picture. Starting with a picture of the front of the team I've tried

Mortar Squad Update

2009-03-04T03:02:00.003Z

As promised here are a couple fo pics of one of the Mortar teams awaiting completion.The first picture is just showing the team from an angle at the front (with my nearly complete sentinels in the background).The second picture is obviously a top down view. The crate at the front is just from the Imperial Guard tank accesory sprue whereas the one at the back is from ForgeWorld. I'm debating on if

PC Rides Again

2009-02-28T06:54:00.005Z

Well after several hours I have my Pc working again. I had to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows but it finally works.So here is a pic of the tank sponson weapons as of about 12 hours ago. Basically the heavy bolters that are nearly complete are at the top of the pic. These just require another coat of Goblin Green and a highlight. The heavy bolters at the bottom require several coats

Argh! Stupid PC

2009-02-26T07:03:00.005Z

Argh!!!! For some strange reason my PC isn't liking google at all at the moment. every single thing related to google does not work. This of course means that I am unable to update my blog from my own PC. So instead I am having to use my fiancee's laptop to do this update.First of all, thank you to those that voted on what I should try to complete next. The vote was tied between my Lascannon

Sleep Patterns

2009-02-16T05:24:00.005Z

For the past week I've been matching my fiancee's sleep pattern - which basically means that I've been waking up at about 7.30pm and going to sleep at around 9.00am. Strange isn't it.Anyway, thats not the main reason for this post. One of the reasons is to inform everyone that there will be some more pictures appearing on here of a few tanks that I've managed to finish (apart from varnishing (at

Baneblade Super Heavy Tank - Vengeance

2009-02-11T21:29:00.008Z

I think that the title for this post says it all.I have finally finished my Baneblade that has been collecting dust for the past couple of months. I can't believe that I hadn't managed to finish it. So without further ado here is "Vengeance":This is the name plate on the right hand side of the tank just under the turret. "Vengeance" is a transfer from the FW Imperial Guard Vehicle sheet. Although

Progress

2009-02-04T00:22:00.006Z

As the rumours of whats coming out for the Guard continue to circulate, so I near final final completion of some infantry squads.Both squads for Platoon 7 and Platoon 9 (4 squads in total) are just awaiting varnishing. This is currently not possible with the freezing weather - damn! I have however managed to get some quick pics of a sergeant and vox-trooper - using my camera phone - hence the

Apology

2009-01-26T21:23:00.004Z

As the title suggests, it's time for an apology. To those of you that read my blog, I apologise that I have not posted a substantial item for a while now. This is through me just being a bit lazy and also that I've been saving the pennies to get some new paints.However, I truly hope that within the next week I will be uploading some pictures of the Command Squads before they are painted. I also

Imperial Guard Banner (Poles)

2009-01-13T23:48:00.006Z

This post is about banners and poles for the Imperial Guard - as the title suggests. However it is not about designing banners like the post on the From the Warp blog - my drawing skills really really really leave something to be desired.It is in fact about me creating a suitable looking banner pole to be carried by a future model. Now I haven't yet decided on how I want the model to pose, but as

Guess What I Found?

2009-01-11T00:07:00.004Z

Whilst being bored beyond all comprehension today (and also having seen some cool poems/rhymes on both Col. Gravis' and Admiral Drax' blogs) I had a look through some old files on my PC and came across a piece of my GCSE English coursework.This piece of coursework is a short story - or at least was meant to be a short story. It is in fact a 10 page story entitled "The Tenth Battle Honour".

Onwards Forever Onwards

2009-01-07T11:16:00.003Z

First of all, I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and New Year, and that people got what they were hoping for.Secondly, I'd like to thank Ron over at FromTheWarp, who has decided to put a hold on blogging for a while. He's been a great help and I hope he comes back to the Warp soon.On the model side of things. I haven't actually started back on my Command Squads yet as there has just been

Quick Christmas update

2008-12-23T11:29:00.004Z

Well as Christmas fast approaches I've had to put my painting on hold as transporting all the stuff I need to carry on with my infantry project was just going to be too much hassle.I would have loved to have brought all my stuff down and managed to make it to Exeter for the "Orks Drift 2" battle as mentioned by Col. Gravis, alas I was unable to shirk from family duties. Looks like I'll be keeping

Let there be pictures! Part Three

2008-12-18T16:35:00.008Z

Thanks to all of you who have managed to trudge through "Part One" and "Part Two". Now if you haven't died of exhaustion you can take a look at the current armour attached to the Cadian 127th Regiment.Ok so the first tank is my company command tank for the Emperor's Fist tank company. The tank is 601 Imperator Furor (Emperor's Fury) This is the first tank of the EFTC to come close to completion.

Let there be pictures! Part Two

2008-12-17T12:28:00.008Z

Welcome back for those who have had the patience to read "Part One". In Part Two I'll be explaining the infantry squads from Platoon 9 and also the heavy weapons teams. Unfortunately, the armour will not be included in this part but will be in Part Three, which if this morning is anything to go by, will be on here some time later today - but don't quote me on that.Right then, the above pictures

Let there be pictures! Part One

2008-12-17T08:42:00.011Z

Finally, after a month and a half, I have managed to get off my arse and take some pictures of the majority of my army. Please bear in mind when you look at these pics that the models and still in varying levels of completion - some may only need to be varnished whereas others obviously haven't even been undercoated yet.The pictures will be in some sort of order - so HQ to Heavy Support etc. I'll

Busy, busy, busy

2008-12-03T09:35:00.001Z

Taking some inspiration from the article on the GW site about the Emperor's Fist tank company, I decided to come up with some names for my tanks - a nice respite from painting. Here is the list of the tank names and their markings: