Traitor Guard Army (Militarum Traitoris)

[renegadeguard]

My finished Primaris Psyker, which was my completed third vow for the call to arms challenge

 

[sitnam]

Great pictures! I've struggled with taking pictures myself, mostly relying on bright Texas sunshine to take pictures off my old grill

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Your new photos look good - but to me, your old photos looked good too, as I never saw the issues you had with them.  That said, I'm glad you got them worked out.

[renegadeguard]

Well, been a bit busy lately, but here's my first infantry squad - in HD this time. As this was the test unit for the army there's actually quite a few minor differences in how I paint now compared to then - but the biggest peeve I have with this lot is I forgot to paint eyes on most of them! Gonna have to go back and do that sometime...

 

[renegadeguard]

Here's something new - a Mortar Heavy Weapons Squad.

 

I'm never greenstuffing sandbags ever again.

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Those look great!

 

If you don't like greenstuffing sandbags, military miniature modelers such as Tamiya have some that you can buy, made in plastic.  Here's an example of the Iteri one, though the price seems a bit steep and you can likely find it elsewhere cheaper.

 

The modeling kit is great for static emplacement like you were doing, though you might not get enough "bend" to made them curve as tightly as you might want.

[renegadeguard]

5 minutes ago, Dr_Ruminahui said:

Those look great!

 

If you don't like greenstuffing sandbags, military miniature modelers such as Tamiya have some that you can buy, made in plastic.  Here's an example of the Iteri one, though the price seems a bit steep and you can likely find it elsewhere cheaper.

 

The modeling kit is great for static emplacement like you were doing, though you might not get enough "bend" to made them curve as tightly as you might want.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of these. I might get some and pull the greenstuff ones off 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Glad that was helpful - here's pictures of some of the Tamiya ones I used.  The group with the bent one is from the GW cadian heavy weapon set - the Tamiya one's don't bend at all.

 

That said, your greenstuff ones look fine for what they are - a bag with sand in it.

 

Tamiya also has a great brick wall set which is good for 50mm bases with heavy weapons crews - let me know and I can share some pictures.

 

And here is a link to the Tamiya sandbags set - they also have another that isn't curved, which is what I have, but I can't seem to find any pictures of it.  Anyway, the Tamiya kits seem to be about half the price of the Iteri one (at least in North America) though they may have less pieces.

Edited October 15, 2023 by Dr_Ruminahui

[renegadeguard]

Last post for today before I go to bed because I am full of grandfather Nurgle's blessings this weekend...

 

All three of my scout sentinels

 

 

 

[Bonehead]

Fantastic work! I love the attention to detail on literally every model. Simply can't fault it anywhere.

[renegadeguard]

On 10/18/2023 at 11:06 PM, Bonehead said:

Fantastic work! I love the attention to detail on literally every model. Simply can't fault it anywhere.

 

Thank you :) I still can't believe I decided to paint a heavily converted horde army to display standard, I must subconsciously hate myself

Now that Nurgle's rot has left my system, I got some good snaps of my combined mutant catachan squads. I'm planning three squads this size based on how many spare parts I have in 25+ years worth of bitzboxes 

 

[Bonehead]

Nice work again. Looking better than the vanilla catachans, too

[renegadeguard]

Much scrounging in the bitzbox and the purchase of two old rat ogres has left me with these monstrosities - big mutants (bullgryns with shock mauls and slabshields) 

 

 

[renegadeguard]

Been a bit quiet, but here's twenty more mutants in the works - 

 

Edited November 26, 2023 by renegadeguard

[renegadeguard]

So I decided to get a picture of the entire project so far:

 

 

Bad idea. The lighting at this time of year here in England is appalling (although you could argue that all four seasons are merely different varieties of overcast). I was also using a zoom lens as it appears I don't have just a regular ol' normal lens. 

 

Anyway, I don't think that's bad for 13 months of painting! 82 models so far - 1 Leman Russ, 6 Bullgryns, 1 Primaris Psyker, 3 Sentinels, 2 Infantry Squads, 1 Mortar Squad, 1 Command Squad and 2 full-size Catachan Squads. I've never painted an army to this standard before. Hopefully come summer I can get a better picture and the horde will have grown also :)

 

What do we think I should add next? I have some more infantry in the works right now, but after that? Did I hear someone mention chaotic Rough Riders a while back? ;)  

Edited January 14 by renegadeguard

[Bonehead]

Rough riders are definitely not a bad idea, I'll say that.

Looking reat so far. Whatever comes next, I'll be happy to see it!

[renegadeguard]

Finally got some time to edit some pictures so here's my second full mutant Catachan squad 

 

[Gnasher]

These look superb, looking forward to your next post/creation

[renegadeguard]

I finally got a decent photo of my Tzeentchian infantry squad - I'll post something new soon, I promise!

 

 

[renegadeguard]

Something new! I'd been wondering how to differentiate Cadian Shock Troops from my regular ol' infantry squads and Catachans. Then I remembered some classic Rogue Trader era art depicting chaos squats. So now, in the lore of my army, the heavily forested world of Sylvanis is covered in vast mountain ranges converted into hive cities, with men living in the upper areas and kinfolk mining deep in the depths below. When the great rift tore across the galaxy and engulfed the Sylvanis system, both human and kin fell together, taking up arms against the Imperium.

 

It's mostly the Wargames Atlantic Einherjar kit with blooded arms and a few extra bits sprinkled in :) 

 

 

[AutumnEffect]

Amazing army, well done!

[Tallarn Commander]

As always, wonderful stuff.

 

And as someone who has painted up a little over 2,000 points of Traitor Guard to a high standard I have this to say Yes, the process will drive you crazy. But it will be worth it. You could even be like me and name all your 150+ troopers. 

 

Nostroman 9th, "Hell's Horde!"

Edited March 2 by Tallarn Commander