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Hi folks, As a fith act in this series, here is today's addition: a Goliath truck to be used qs q Tqurox proxy. Becquse remember thqt I am not starting a GSC army... But is there someone that really believing this? In CtA23, year ago so, I painted some kit bashed Scions from old plastic scouts. These lads deserves a vehicle to go at heart of the fight. and if it comes with some fire power, better. A Taurox fits the role but... I had this Goliath Truck from the Patrol box, and as I am not starting a Genestealer Cult, it migh be a perfect proxy for such a Taurox? after all, it has autocannons too. and shifting the stubb-gun for a storm bolter will imperialize it enough. I used the Russ grey colour I used for my other armoured vehicles of my IG as SW auxilliary. receessed wased with diluted Apothecary white and a good Ulthuan grey drybrush. Not much in fact. rest is small touches of details. It took me weeks to get me decided to start painting it, but in the end it has been a 24h job. The resulting vehicle is as bulky as required: In any other cases than fielding this force, it might even be a good sceney piec in my Urban or Mechanicum environments. See you soon with more stuff. Bouargh PS: I will wait until disclosing my Nov. pledges in 12 Months of Hobby do declare my next project. It will be associated with (some of) the "Mystery bases" showed in a previous Blog entry. So you still can try to find out what it will be. So far suggestion box is still... as dead empty as a servo-skull. But, hey, might this be a clue may be?

Hi folks, As a fourth act in this series that I left aside for a while, here are some progresses to be shared: the kit bashed HW teams have been painted. As previously ibntroduced in the second part of this serie ( or was it the first one?), using a single kit of ooP Cadian HW plus GSC cultists and extra crew members from the GOliath kit allows reaching 18 footsloggers and puting in service 3 types of HW. In my case; ML; Autocannon and mortars. I like the vibe of the last HW, very Band of Brother - the Pacific... ALthough arguably efficient gamewise. I used a blue and white paint scheme that has been inspired by a LR pic from WarCom with a tank commander in that set of colours. It is a scheme I used tentatively on a catachan fighter mounted at the rear of my kit-bashed Macaldor Defender (see BCK vehicle challenge gallery). But the quality I have been able to achieve is several steps bellow. It is BTW a painful experience that painting GSC models. I did not succeed into finding the proper balance due to the complexity of the molding. All the details do not leave many place to error and it is, let say, a series of "unforgiving" sculpts. At least it is how I felt it. The results: Should I set a background story, I would define these models as belonging to Mittgard's PDF, now destroyed. Because they are potential SW auxilliaries, remember the LR I painted 2 or 3 years ago. Either this or members of Kallidus PDF, a hive world Space Hulk's players will remember as being the setting of the SW Wolf guard termies scenarios: a world that used to be a theater of war in HH era, disputed by DA and SW and finally leal to SW... But victim of a GSC infestation and subject to Exterminatus by the Space puppies themselves... But I am not playing GSC (am I?) so this is a very very hypothetic second option... As one can see, it also solves part of the "Mystery Base" I set in the previous Blog entry. As no-one dared setting any hypothesis, the treatment of none received proposals is made easier for me: no-one found. Yet these are only 9 bases from the 12 proposed, so there is still opportunities for the 3 remaining ones! Don't be shy, go and propose something for the muddy bases! See you soon with more stuff.

Hi folks, After last post presentation of the HW squads, we left the story to a point where I was left with the Truck and 11 bodies to be kitbashed. The Truck, as a proxy Taurox, does not require much work: weapon system is dual autocannon, as the genuine model, and removing the cult emblems and adding some Imperium symbols was not a big deal. The same with swapping the machine gun for a sanctionned stormbolter (after all these kit bashed are supposed to be SW auxillaries, in my very own piece of story telling) But what to do with the 11 bodies?... Hum, after some chats here or there (most of these being sterile), I found myself in a situation where no-one was going to help or enlight me. I am concerned by the future of my IG force, as I anticipate that the current state of the Datasheet may be a transitional one: will units such as the all-comer command squad and vanilla troop squad remain a thing or not? Choosing a tool up becomes therefore a risky business as it may all change (or not, who knows) in the coming months. In the end I decided to go as I felt and it led to configuring squads more under a feeling of what I like as an outlook rather than based on expectation of future rules or list optimization. You noted the plural? SquadS. Indeed, how to make best use of 11 bodies? I reserved one for an officer, proxy Castellan/Captain/Commander or alike. But the other ones could have gone as a troop squad or as 2 command squads. I went to the second choice. Reason was simple; I am completing a set of Regimental advisors, and now that they must be fielded by 3 and in a COmmand squad, I beed one. and remaining with 5 bodies unused not being an option, they will be a segond squad. And this is where my choices and decisions may become topic of controversy (but remember I always decide on what I feel cooler rather than on rules). First squad was defined as a supporting one, with purpose to give orders far away - So Vox stuff, 2 sniper rifles and a grenade launcher. Should I had an infantery squad tooled as a DKoK later, this Command will join with(and get more sniper rifles or grenade launchers). Last squad was tooled to grad and hold objectives - so Standard, Medic, and... I have these SN scouts Heavy bolter left, so an additional HW team may be worth, even if the CT of the AM is poor. But I like the idea more than its yield. Should I add in the future a troop squad, I will (if it remains i the rule) join with a vanilla Ig trooper squd, just for the satisfaction to add a second kit bashed heavy bolter. Anyway, things are not engraved in marble, so any of these squads can be reshuffle and mixed in a different way. Next installement of these Not GSC but AM will be in a, may be not so far, future, when I will enlist them into the CtA 2024 challenge. But these will be part of a second vow, so first let´s complete my fist one!