gunnyogrady Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 Howdy folks! This thread is going to be a WIP-log for my homebrew regiment, the Carcathan 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion. I have a whole lot of models and a whole lot of fluff dating back from the last few years of gaming (8 years, on and off, I suppose?). Anywho, I'm coming to the end of my college days, and I want to finally get an army fully collected and fully painted, which I have never managed to do! So, this will be a blog of my plan, process, and (of course) pictures! TABLE OF CONTENTS Army List Miniatures Acquired/Painted Fluff Progress Pictures Thanks for reading! -O'Grady Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnyogrady Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 ARMY LIST So, my army list is really in flux at the moment. I've been working on some play-testing to see what I want my final 1850 list to be. When I have something I'm comfortable with, I'll post it here! The following is a fluffy list of the personnel, the surviving members of a Company from the 3rd Carcathan Regiment. For those interested, the titles in quotations are the callsigns for each unit. All of the Infantry models have the same callsign, indicating that they are all in the same Company. The Vehicles have different callsigns of related topics, probably acquired from often working with this company. "V1, T2+T3" mean that this particular squad is in vehicle one, and consists of fireteams two and three. Company Command Captain Donncha Geriod, "Joker One-Actual" Captain (Imperial Navy Support) Leupold Sin, "Joker One-Two" Gunnery Sergeant Ciaron Cathal, "Joker One-Three" Primaris (Imperial Navy Support) Lars Kai, "Joker One-Four" Chimera Command and Control Vehicle 1st Platoon, LAR Platoon (Veterans) Lieutenant O'Grady, "Joker Two Actual" - V1, T1+T2 Sergeant Polk "Joker Two-Two" - V2, T3+T4 Sergeant Deck "Joker Two-Three" (deployed as Scout-Sniper) Corporal Dunnly "Joker Two-Four" 1st Platoon Vehicles Carcathan-pattern Chimera LAR-vehicle (V1) Carcathan-pattern Chimera LAR-vehicle (V2) 2nd Platoon, Rifle Platoon Lieutenant Shanahan, "Joker Three Actual" - Command Team Sergeant Emerson "Joker Three-Two" - V1, T1+T2 Sergeant Cawn "Joker Three-Three" - V2, T3+T4 Corporal Band, "Joker Three-Four" - V3, T5+T6 2nd Platoon Vehicles Carcathan-pattern Tauorx-HMMWV (V1) Carcathan-pattern Taurox-HMMWV (V2) Carcathan-pattern Taurox-HMMWV (V3) Armored Support Leman Russ Vanquisher "Slapstick" Leman Russ Vanquisher "Punchline" Close Air Support Imperial Navy Vulture Gunship "Burlesque" Imperial Navy Vulture Gunship "Belly-Dance" Imperial Navy Avenger Strike Fighter "Soft-Shoe" Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4021162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnyogrady Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 MINIATURES ACQUIRED/PAINTED This section is super WIP at the moment, seeing as how I don't quite know what I want my final list to look like. Check back later to see what this looks like! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4021169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnyogrady Posted April 26, 2015 Author Share Posted April 26, 2015 The Departmento Munitorum's... UPLIFTING SAGAS! A Greeting from the Departmento Munitorum! Greetings Imperial Citizen, and welcome to the 7th Edition of the Departmento Munitorum's Uplifting Sagas! I know it seems like our 6th Edition came out just yesterday, but the word of the Emperor must be rejoiced often, and our Manufactorum print-presses have to stay busy doing something, right? Right! Speaking of print-presses, what a convenient transition! If the Space Marines are the sanctified ink heat-pressed into the hallowed pages of Uplifting Sagas pamphlets, then the Emperor's Astra Militarum are like the pulp shoveled into the arcane print-press to make the paper! Yes, the Astra Militarum are the stinking hot mass that keeps the glorious machine of Mankind chugging along! Remember kids: heresy denies religion, and debases this vast machine! This edition of Uplifting Sagas tells the story of the Carcathan 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, known now as the 'Autumn War Veterans'. What a pithy title! Good show old chaps! Our Journey Begins! Carcatha was discovered and founded in 770.M41 by our very own Departmento Munitorum Agricultural Colonization Fleet [AD5778-6]. Those guys in [AD5778-6] certainly are plucky! Everybody knows that old joke about [AD5778-6] -- as soon as those guys find arable land, they are quickly able to land! Good joke! By 775.M41, the people of Carcatha had raised enough young boys to offer their first founding to the Emperor's glorious Astra Militarum! In an unusual stroke of luck, these first fifteen regiments spent their first ten years of service fighting within their own Carcathan sub-sector. The brave men and women of Carcatha fought a slowly encroaching heretical invasion of their home-sector, besting the Arch-Enemy on planets both lush and arid. Small in number, but supported by larger and more numerous Militarum regiments, the Carcathans quickly became experts at Reconnaissance and Combined-Arms tactics. By 785.M41, it seemed like the planet-cluster had been completely sanitized of the tainted forces! Returning home to replenish their ranks with a second founding, the Guardsmen of the Carcathan regiments were looking forward to some poolside relaxation and a new stock of troops. That was when the Arch-Enemy delivered a suckerpunch to our boys in green! Oh no! The enemy in the sub-sector had cunningly left the last of their forces in reserve, and had receded to wait for the Carcathans to return home and let their guard down. The heretical forces struck out from the warp, launched an orbital assault onto the surface of Carcatha, and in the first 24 hours [all times in concordance with Terran Astral Years], almost two-thirds of Carcatha's military forces were destroyed! That's no good! A Grizzly Occupation Over the course of the next four years, the remaining Guardsmen of Carcatha's first founding fought a desperate guerilla war to defend their home world. Corruption spread through the civilian population, bolstering the foul heretic's ranks with inductees and cultists. The fungal, infectious, and necrotic warp-blight spread without restraint through the ecosphere, throwing into disarray the delicate ecological balance that once sustained Carcatha's abundant plantlife. The planet was thrown into a perpetual winter -- green plants all but died out, replaced instead by the reds, oranges, and yellows of a few breeds of unusual Carcathan flora, tainted by Chaos' touch. Many remarked that it felt like a four-year autumn. By 789.M41, the grizzled veterans of this 'Autumn War' were on the ropes when the glorious forces of the [CLASSIFIED] arrived, lead by the powerful and mysterious [CLASSIFIED]. With their [CLASSIFIED] and their [CLASSIFIED], they [CLASSIFIED], [CLASSIFIED], and [CLASSIFIED] the foul heresy that had gone just a little too far! The Horse's Mouth! But you've heard enough from me, a lowly Servitor Editus-Propogandus! Let's hear the tales from the fighters of Carcatha themselves! Join me, as we recount the brave exploits of these few men and women! Let's see how the Arch-Enemy of tomorrow lays dead at the feet of the Everyman of today! Take a bow, IG. Take a bow, little guy. You've caught the eye of the Departmento Munitorum's Uplifting Sagas, and I (for one) can't wait to hear what you've done! [End Introduction] Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4021197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnyogrady Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 WIP UPDATE 26 APRIL 2015Howdy Folks!So it'll still be a few weeks before I'm reunited with my little plastic men, but here are some WIP pics of the last stuff I was working on:Leman Russ, to be converted later into a Demolisherhttp://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/jonhogrady/Russ1_zps17ad174a.jpgHere's a shot of my 'Guerilla Veterans.' http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/jonhogrady/GuardsmenwithAKs_zpsf9cdcf7d.jpgThat's all for now! Thanks folks!PS: are these pictures too big? I'm still new to posting stuff online, so I'm not quite sure how to make them smaller. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4021203 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 This is good stuff gunny, I particularly like the simple scheme of the Russ. It works very well with the weathering :) I think the conversion work on the troopers is great, looks like a variety of bits and GS? Do your your troops have AKs or just the Vets? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4102126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderPirate Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Nice work - I love the style of the writing fluff. It reminds me of something, but I can't really put my finger on it. The Beano as written by George Orwell, maybe? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4102336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnyogrady Posted June 27, 2015 Author Share Posted June 27, 2015 Thanks for the positive feedback guys! WarriorFish, I've got two squads of vets -- one has AK-variants, and the other has AR15-variants. My infantry have converted guns, but nothing real-world specific. And CyderPirate, I love that description! I wasn't familiar with Beano, so I had to look it up! Haha. More minis and fluff coming soon! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4105333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Cool, what can we expect to see? I'm hoping for some more tanks... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4106038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnyogrady Posted June 28, 2015 Author Share Posted June 28, 2015 I've got some chimeras and a Vulture/Vendetta conversion WIP, I'll grab some pictures when I get home if the light is still good! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4106498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RhysW Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Really liking the Veterans, they have have a nice 'Spec Ops' feel to them! Keep up the good work! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4106595 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnyogrady Posted September 13, 2015 Author Share Posted September 13, 2015 Hey folks! Been a while since I updated my little men here, and I've been adding lots of bodies and making lots of progress! While it's still a little heavy on "toys" versus "boys," I am very happy with these guys as my 1850 list: http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/jonhogrady/Carcathan%201850%20Full%20_zpssg6wfmyt.jpg A shot of the whole army! The hardened survivors of the siege of Carcatha, requisitioned by Inquisitor Nicolai Emyrich (a Lok counts-as) along with the Grey Knights! http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/jonhogrady/Carcthan%201850%20Servitors%20_zpstbn3gazh.jpg Multi-Melta Servitors, modern "gun-cart" style, cruising with the Inquisitor's Retinue http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/jonhogrady/Carcathan%201850%20Command%20Squad_zpsx8xiyez2.jpg Command Squad for the Company, led by Captain Geriod, along with Naval Captain Sin, and repeating heavy Las-Sniper (Lascannon) in the middle of a jam! Oh No! http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/jonhogrady/Carcathan%201850%20Veterans_zpsiw1r7kel.jpg The first Veteran Squad -- meltavets riding in a Chimera http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/jonhogrady/Carcathan%201850%20Commandos_zpsdme0dmvh.jpg The second Veteran Squad -- meltavets again, this time with more of an "Operator" vibe than the "Guerilla" feel of the other squad http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/jonhogrady/Vendetta%20WIP_zpsnahq4wvx.jpg WIP of the Vendetta, with smaller hull size to reflect reduced transport capacity. Still needs wing-mounted Lascannons and some kind of engine components. Any ideas for where I can grab a couple engines for cheap? http://i1328.photobucket.com/albums/w521/jonhogrady/Vulture%20WIP_zpsdenjvd48.jpg And last, but not least, my WIP Vulture: aka Carcathan Pattern AH-1 Vulture, with twin-linked Punisher Cannons. Boom. Love this bird. The plan is to add a scenic diorama to the base of pinned squad emerging from a destroyed transport, so that at least 50% of the model is GW. Sneaky, I know. That's all I've got! The list looks like this, by the way: Astra Militarum CAD Company Command Squad (Lascannon, Vox-Caster, Officer of the Fleet, Camo-Cloaks ) 123 Veteran Squad (Lascannon, 2x Sniper Rifle, Vox-Caster, Forward Sentries) 99 Veteran Squad (Lascannon, 2x Sniper Rifle, Vox-Caster, Forward Sentries) 99 Veteran Squad (3x Meltagun, Chimera) 155 Veteran Squad (3x Meltagun, Chimera) 155 Vulture Gunship (TL Punisher Cannons) 155 Vendetta Gunship 170 Avenger Strike Fighter 150 Leman Russ Battle Tank 150 Grey Knights Nemesis Strike Force Inquisitor Lok 60 Inquisitorial Henchmen Warband (2x Jokaero, 3x Multi-Melta Servitor, Psyker, Chimera) 165 Terminator Squad (5x Force Halberd) 175 Dreadknight (Personal Teleporter, Heavy Incinerator, Greatsword) 190 The list breaks down into four rough elements: 1) Ground Fire Support Element (CCS and Lascannon Vets) -- sit in cover and hold home objective 2) Ground Mobile Element (Meltavets, Inquisitor/Melta-Retinue, Leman Russ) -- move to capture the "center of gravity" on the game board 3) Ground Close-Combat Element (Dreadknight, Terminators) -- drop in to support LAVs, or to disrupt enemy backfield 4) Air Support (Vulture, Vendetta, Avenger) -- provide Anti-Air and Anti-Ground fire, taking out key enemy threats Let me know what y'all think of this batch of little men! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4170853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 I like the Veteran squads, good mix of bits with a nice colour scheme :tu: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/306726-carcathan-3rd-autumn-war-veterans/#findComment-4171044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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