Guardian's Raven Guard 2nd Company - Gallery 1st post

[Guardian of the Rage]

 

Picture of full Raven's Talon Strike Force at 1850

 

 

Hi All,

 

Been repainting everything for a little while now so I thought that I would share some images. Frugal use of Forgeworld RG upgrade bits and lots of Resin bases.

 

I am doing the entire 2nd Company and have started with a small force led by Chaplain Torovac. I will post more as I go and the entire list within the posts of this thread.

 

Thanks for looking

 

 

GotR

Edited May 28, 2016 by Guardian of the Rage

[Guardian of the Rage]

Chaplain Torovac - Built from the new BA chaplain and then bits from the RG upgrade kit and Captain Korvydae's jump pack

 

 

[Guardian of the Rage]

Shadow Strike Kill Team - Vanguard Veteran Squad Fury with 3rd Scout Squad broken into 2 Demi Squads.

 

Vanguards have the older style upgrade bits and the icon lightning claw pattern load out.

The scouts have the Dark Eldar Scourge Heads with Anvil industry bits everywhere else

 

[Guardian of the Rage]

2nd Company Elements

 

2nd Tactical Demi Squad in a Pod

3rd Tactical Demi Squad with Plasma

7th Assault Squad with Flamers

 

All with Forgeworld RG upgrade bits sprinkled around

 

 

[Jacques Corbin]

Those look sweet brother! I have just the Chaplain w/ Jump Pack from off the GW site. Korvydae's jump pack is a great custom touch.

 

I am still experimenting with greens for 4th Co, any suggestions?

[Guardian of the Rage]

Thanks Brother, the BA chaplain has surprisingly little BA iconography that is not easily swapped. The blood drop on the forehead was easily filed down as well.

 

In terms of the green for fourth company, I like the RG to be quite dark so I would be tempted to go for one of the darker base colours like call an green from the GW base range.

 

Cheers,

[Jacques Corbin]

Yeah, I tried Caliban, but it hardly stands out like the gold. I have Warpstone Glow, which I like for the coils for plasma weaponry.

 

I am more a tabletop gamer than a modeller. My marines have black armor, red lenses, white aquilas, and metallic accents, although I leave the armor joints black just because.

 

Also, what color(s) did you use for the fatigues on the Scouts?

[Guardian of the Rage]

Ok, if you like it to stand out more then you will need to go lighter as you suggest. Do you wash it black as well afterwards?

 

For the fatigues, I actually used the really old GW colour scab red. You could get this now with a dash of brown in Mephiston red I guess, or possibly 2 heavy layers of brown wash over the straight colour.

 

Cheers,

[Guardian of the Rage]

Hi All,

 

Reinforcements to Battle Group Raven's Talon; this is the Raptor Wing known as the 'Shadow Talons'

 

To strike unseen and unobserved before moving on to their next prey is this formation's way of war.  A worthy addition to Captain Aajz Solari's 'Shadowborne' 2nd Company.

 

 

 

[Jacques Corbin]

Sweet! Still haven't finished my own Raptorwing yet. Yours is awesome! The only thing I would do differently is the bare-headed pilot in the speeder. Shadow Captain Aethon Shaan makes us all wear our helmets in 4th Co.

 

Nice job on the Corvid Rising on the shoulder pads. Is that free hand or a transfer.

[Race Bannon]

That looks free-hand on a few models, but mostly FW, I'm guessing.

 

Very nice army here!

[Guardian of the Rage]

Thanks guys, the squad symbols and markings are free hand but the Raven symbols are usually forge world (either shoulder pads or brass etch). Still got much more to work on but getting nearer to the 1850 painted all of the time.

 

Cheers,

[Jacques Corbin]

Keep it going Guardian! Between a job, evening classes, a wife, and 2 small kids, I still haven't finished the Vanguards she got me.

[Guardian of the Rage]

More updates

 

Showing the Pinion BDC

 

Full Pinion with 2 scouts supporting the Devs and helping the Rback to Outflank

 

3rd Squad in Rhino

 

4th Squad with Rback with Twin Assault Cannon

 

Scouts with Shotguns (modelled as Sub Machine Guns) and LSS with Assault cannon

 

Scout Snipers with Nihilus

 

 

[Guardian of the Rage]

Shadow Strike Kill Team

 

2 Scouts

2 Vanguards (1 all Lightning Claws, 1 all PF and SS)

 

 

[Guardian of the Rage]

Full Raven's Talon Strike Force

 

Pinion BDC

Chaplain

3 Tactical

1 Assault

1 Devastator

2 Scouts

 

Raptorwing

2 Stormtalon

1 Land Speeder

 

Shadow Strike Kill Team

2 Scouts

2 Vanguard Veteran

 

1850 - 63 models

 

Edited October 27, 2016 by Guardian of the Rage

[Jacques Corbin]

Outstanding! Excellent work @Guardian! I am down to Transports, Fliers, and rounding out my Devastator heavy weapon options. Way to go brother!

[Race Bannon]

Looking really good! The Raven Guard could use you in the ETL ^_^

[Guardian of the Rage]

Thanks very much guys; it took a while....

 

Also, i realise that i forgot to include a couple of pics.

1. The Tyrant's Bane Vanguard Veterans

2. A better picture of the head swaps on the scouts

 

 

 

[NiceGuyAdi]

When I first saw the BA Chaplain I thought it might convert really well to Raven Guard, before going off the idea. You've really pulled it off and I think I might have had my mind changed. Nice work.

[Guardian of the Rage]

When I first saw the BA Chaplain I thought it might convert really well to Raven Guard, before going off the idea. You've really pulled it off and I think I might have had my mind changed. Nice work.

Thanks very much and looking forward to seeing it.  When I tried it, I was surprised by how few blood drop symbols there were.  If memory serves I only had file of 2 and they were both very easy (I am not a great hobby-ist).  The specific RG shoulder pad and korvydae's jump pack made all of the difference.

[Guardian of the Rage]

Hi All,

 

An update on my Raven Guard 2nd Company. Reinforcements designed to adapt the force to move toward an orbital strike force.

 

 

[Race Bannon]

Nice!  :tu:

 

That's A LOT of leveled RG pads.  How did you get them?  I also really like the head swap on the Librarian - good idea there.

[Guardian of the Rage]

Nice!  :tu:

 

That's A LOT of leveled RG pads.  How did you get them?  I also really like the head swap on the Librarian - good idea there.

Like a gluttern for punishment, I bought them all from forgeworld. About half of them have the torso too!

 

The head seems to fit really well doesn't it; I haven't seen many uses of it other than on the actual model and people usually swap it out.

 

Cheers,

[Alcyon]

Very slick, crisp army painted to tabletop standard. I love the 2nd Co yellow too. I aspire to have my RG look like these! Very cool and flavourful conversion with the whip re: Corax's wargear. Glad to see a nice headswap on that Librarian too, I hate the bearded face.