The Squats of Inso's Reach (Astra Militarum Squats)

[Inso]

Please,your Squats deserve rough riders.As Nike says just do it.

 

No :) .

 

I'm not building anything that doesn't fall into either Codex Astra Militarum or Codex Space Marines. At some point the index will be withdrawn and I don't have the Krieg books (and have NO interest in DKK anyway) so I would end up with a unit that is only a measure of the time I wasted on it, when I could have been working on something else. 

 

Maybe in the dim and distant future, I may change my mind but I have a host of other stuff that I am working on and, if they haven't got a place in the big scheme of things, little projects like Rough Riders will fall by the wayside.

 

Sorry :(

[Danny Cyanide]

Fair points Inso!  It'd be a shame to spend so much time sculpting a unit like that, only for it to be Squatted! Lol! 

 

Anyways, your work is inspiring to me!  You are a very talented sculptor and I'll continue to enjoy looking at your creations as you produce them! 

[Inso]

Cheers :)

 

I have now primed the dreads:

 

 

Now that I have got as far as I can with them, I thought I'd see what I could find in the loft and managed to uncover my Bullgryn squad. Only one of them had been converted... and he didn't have any weapons but luckily, I had thought about that earlier and bagged a lot of Bullgryn bits from EBay. With the bits already available, it was merely a case of a bit of sawing, drilling, pinning and gluing and I soon ended up with this:

 

 

He's a converted, Mantic, Dreadball Ork with GW weapons. He still needs some putty work to fill gaps and sort out a few niggles... but he's pretty much there :) . I have another four sat in a box beside me so I have enough for a squad of five. Tidy :) .

[duz_]

Looks great!
How big is he in comparison to a regular guardsmen or SM? 

 

So I see the dreads are primed... does that mean paint? :D

[Inso]

The Bullgryn is on a 40mm base and is 42mm tall (to the tip of his crest). He is less bulky than a standard Bullgryn but is pretty much the same height.

 

As for the dreads... no paint yet. I need to get some spray paint and I haven't got what I want nearby so it will have to wait until I can stomach paying £9.00 for a courier to deliver it..

 

EDIT: Scale:

 

Edited March 16, 2018 by Inso

[Aothaine]

Someone that can sculpt and paint. The gods do truly like to laugh at me ineptitude. 

 

Great work man!

[Inso]

The competition sculpt (Squat Berserker) has been cast up and I was sent a couple of copies so I painted one up:

 

 

A bit of back-story :) :

 

https://i.imgur.com/2lt2MPo.jpg

[Inso]

Although not strictly part of this army, I thought I'd put these in here because they match the theme :) . These are going to join the Necromunda Squat (when he gets released and I have bought it) as company and may expand into an army in their own right (not on the scale of the Squats of Inso's Reach though... more a platoon than an army). Anyway... enough chatter:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have stopped at three for now because I only have enough components for three and don't want to build too many, only to discover that the Forgeworld Squat is bigger/smaller and doesn't match :) .

[Major_Gilbear]

I've got to say, that's a perfect storm of component-matching there; they still look very obviously like Squats, but with much better proportions than any of the other models that you drew parts from. :D

 

That said, going by the size difference to the others in your army, I can see why these are their own separate project!

[WarriorFish]

The weapons work really well, but that is a surprising scale difference! Maybe they could be Primaris Squats :P

[Inso]

Primaris Squats... Hmmm... :)

 

It's been a while (commissions and house renovations have kept me busy) but I thought I'd share a Leman Russ Punisher:

 

 

It's just base coated at the moment... and those holes in the hull have now been filled :) 

 

Size-wise, it is the same height, length and width of a Russ so it's a really good little proxy. I added a Centurion lascannon barrel to the hull and built the punisher out of sprue from the kit and a pen :) ... apart from that, I haven't had to convert a thing :) .

[Tallarn Commander]

Nice conversion. The Punisher turret looks great and really improves the overall look of the tank when compared to the mockup you posted a few months ago.

 

The large turret reminds me of the Soviet KV series.

[Inso]

The 'mock-up' is destined for the great parking lot in the sky (or it will become a command tank).

 

These tanks are really cool and I only needed to convert the weapons... so they are relatively little work compared to some things I have tried.

 

I will be getting 10 of these in total (over a reasonable period of time) so that I can finally have a little tank company :)

 

I reckon it'll be 3 punishers, 3 plasmas and 3 battle cannons... with the command tank having a long barrelled battle cannon. No sponsons and the hulls will get a mix of lascannons and probably heavy bolters (but maybe heavy flamers).

[Inso]

Just need some decals to arrive now :) :

 

 

I've ordered some decals from here:

 

http://domsdecals.com/

 

and another two tanks from EBay. They will be converted to be the same as this one.

[Inso]

... and so it begins again :) . Two more Punishers have arrived:

 

 

I have the pens, I have the lascannons and I have the sprue for the punisher cannon.

 

Once they are converted, that will be the first section of the tank company complete. Then another two lots of three and a command tank :) .

[NightHunters]

i'm excited, any chance of a squat tank commander?

 

And thanks for the decals link, need me some of those!

 

edit: Actually just ordered a full pack of turret numbers!

Edited April 30, 2018 by NightHunters

[Inso]

i'm excited, any chance of a squat tank commander?

 

And thanks for the decals link, need me some of those!

 

edit: Actually just ordered a full pack of turret numbers!

 

There will be four tank commanders... one leading the company and three leading the squadrons/sections. Only the lead tank will be a tank commander, rules wise... the other three will be there just for show

 

Pleased to have helped with the decals... just be aware that it can take a long time for them to arrive. The decals are good but the service is slow.

Edited May 1, 2018 by Inso

[Inso]

Just a quick post to show off the second painted tank:

 

 

The third tank has been washed and will start this week. It'll be getting a visible tank commander to denote it as a lead tank but he won't be a tank commander, rules wise... he'll just be a normal tank (he'll just have a normal helmet rather than a significantly leader-like hat/helmet).

 

See? I can paint things occasionally :)

[Inso]

I was asked about the size of the tanks so here's a pic:

 

 

I have also had a delivery of three more of the tanks so they are sitting, waiting for me to finish the third tank, before I start on them.

 

The third tank is getting there but I am in the process of sculpting a tank commander in the cupola, so it is a bit slow because my sculpting mojo has left me... but I am still 'on-it'... it's just taking a lot more time than hoped.

 

In other news, I found some plasma coils to fit onto tanks 7-9... but they don't look very plasma-coily at the moment, they look like this:

 

 

Everything will become clear :o

 

As for tanks 4-6, they will be getting battle cannons and I have sourced the pens I am going to use for them so it is just a case of finishing tank 3 and then cracking on with the next conversions :) ... hopefully soon 

[Inso]

I've got a little bit further now. The platoon leader has been sculpted so I can now get on with spraying the turret and finishing the painting :) :

 

 

Still no decals though :(

[Inso]

The first command tank is coming along:

 

 

... and this arrived:

 

 

Squat Knight Titan proxy, anyone?!

[NightHunters]

Yes.

 

Immediately.

 

Strong look on the platoon leader, loving it!

 

And I too am still awaiting transfers. but patience is a virtue and all that!

[Inso]

I've ordered more transfers... I couldn't wait any longer :)

 

I will, most certainly, be building a Titan but it will not look like the pictured kit... I plan a radical departure from the original :)

 

In other news, I have build some plasma cannons for the next three tanks :) :

 

[Inso]

Unfortunately, the weather is slowing me down today because I can't get any spraying done... but that aside, I have managed to assemble everything, ready for spray painting so that's a bonus :) :

 

 

I have not glued the base, hull, turret top or turret base together because I will need to take them apart for spraying and fitting the wheels :) . Hopefully the plasma-cannons look OK. You can see that the nearest tank has it's top hatch glued open. That is ready for another little tank commander :) .

 

I have also base-coated the plasma-cannons so they look a little less vibrant ;) .

[Inso]

Now the third tank is finished (apart from the commander and decals) and the first of the plasma-tanks is base-coated, ready for a wash:

 

 

Hopefully, the first plasma-tank will be ready for decals by the end of the week... but who knows?