Returning to Guard after 15+ years

[Cap'm Heckus]

Seconded, under RT and 2nd edition the Sentinel sported an assault cannon.

[Thoridon]

Thanks, I did think it was.

 

I might look at removing the assault cannon to use on a Marine vehicle as I need some there. Then I should have an old multilaser somewhere after putting heavy flamers on my newer Sentinels I can put on, or just add a heavy flamer here too and give it a Catachan feel to fit with the others.

[Thoridon]

It seems to have been a while since I posted here! Most of my painting focus has been on my Blood Angels but I have been working on my Guard still, including adding quite a few models to the collection.

 

Here are a couple of Hellhounds I (mostly) finished off this weekend for my Catachans: Burny and Toasty.

 

 

I need to matte out the shininess of the number transfers on the side and I’m thinking if I add more weathering or leave it at this level.

[Thoridon]

And my Catachan infantry to go with them:

 

 

6 infantry squads all running flamers, a flamer special weapons squad, command squad with 3 flamers and a heavy flamer and a couple of non-flamer command squads (heavy bolter and snipers) as I’d used up all my flamers elsewhere...

 

My Catachans like their flamers.

 

The old metal Sly Marbo model is now a platoon commander wearing a power fist requisitioned from a suit of Terminator armour. Don’t ask me where he got it, but he sure likes punching things with it.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Impressive work.

[Mordian Glory]

Loving the flamer spam, very catachan :)

[Thoridon]

I just realised how bad that picture of my Catachans is, but it was a quick phone snap.

 

I added a little more to Straken's base and took a picture in better focus:

 

 

The shotgun looks a bit chalky in this which I hadn't seen in person. Guess I need to get a smoother finish there

Edited June 3, 2020 by Thoridon

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job on the Colonel.

[Thoridon]

Thanks :) His supporting Company/Platoon Commanders:

 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Again, good job. Does the one on the left remind anyone else of SGT Apone (the late Al Matthews), in the 1986 film Aliens?

[Thoridon]

I might have to give him a moustache.

[Thoridon]

Getting my Praetorians finished off and magnetising heavy weapon teams at the moment:

 

[WarriorFish]

You have been productive indeed, great to see! We'll need some close ups though ;)

[Thoridon]

Been finishing them off but by bit over the past month. Just about done with them all now :)

 

Regimental Commanders up first:

 

 

The Major wields the legendary Sword of Lego, a relic he discovered after his Chainsword was shattered in half. Some say it snapped in combat against a greater daemon, others insist the officer fell off a shelf and landed on it. Only he really knows what happened to his last weapon.

[Thoridon]

Heavy Weapon teams:

 

 

Most of the teams are magnetised (as can be seen from the two at the back), I just need to paint up about 30 different weapons from newer Cadian sprues.

 

I used some of the casualties/wounded models from my original Praetorian box on these.

[WarriorFish]

Excellent stuff, the officers came out very nicely and the HWTs especially so :tu: The classic models are real gems :)

[GreenScorpion]

All I can think about when I see the casualties on the bases is an officer looking at them and saying something like: "Hey! No sleeping on the job!".

 

Those look really nice :)

[Thoridon]

Thanks :)

 

One of the Infantry Squads:

 

[Thoridon]

The full detachment:

 

 

I don’t think I’ll be winning any awards for the angle of that photo but hey :p

 

With the 4 special weapons and extra heavy weapon teams I can mix the squad setups up a bit. The idea when they see play is to run 4 infantry squads, a heavy weapon squad, 2 command squads and the officers.

[WarriorFish]

Sacrifices have to be made when you're taking pictures of many models :P Always great to see an army shot but all the more so here :tu: What's next on your list?

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work.

[Thoridon]

Next project on the list will either be my Cadians or Valhallans, though I do have a couple of Catachan Leman Russ and a Basilisk needing a repaint which should be done first to match my new scheme for those.

 

Then there’s a Vulture, Lightning Strike Fighter and a bunch of supporting characters (Priests, Commissars, Psykers etc.).

[duz_]

This look great! I really need to finish the batch of Mordians I started! :tu:

 

Flyers next please! :D :lol:

[Thoridon]

That’ll be these two then :)

 

 

I’ve had that Lightning since it was first released, which is quite a while now! About time it gets painted.

 

Both are magnetised for the missiles etc. In case of future rules/weapon changes.

[Thoridon]

I haven’t started on the fliers yet as I wanted to get my Valhallan infantry painted up first. A little WIP of my new company commander next to the original attempt from ~20 years ago:

 

 

I’ll be stripping the older copy and thinking of kit bashing him a bit to make him look different. No point having 2 identical officers! The new one came from the Platoon box I picked up from the recent Made to Order run which gave enough to bring my Valhallan numbers up nicely alongside the older batch.