FORWARD MARCH Part 3

 Hopefully at least one part of this post will qualify for Keith's Forward March Challenge (unfortunately wont count for IRO's and Wudu's challenge as they're not guard ! LOL), first up the last of my scout squads that I took to a tournament that needed finishing, this squad had the most to do, some areas were only basecoated, other parts needed the detail work, and was missing all the symbols. The first three models are an old Space Wolf scout sergeant model and the two metal new style scouts armed with bolters ( when GW released the metal scouts, there was lots of options with bolt pistol and combat weapon, but the other three types just had two)

Next are four of the old metal scouts, the one on the right with the Heavy Bolter, was a conversion using parts from Necromunda.

The last three on the left was the first scout model GW made, I updated parts of him, the other two were made from mostly Catachan parts as the basis, the bolters came from the scouts on bikes.

Here is the squad shot.

Next up today is the third Speeder I got from Ebay, a scout speeder, it needed fixing, as it also had been put together incorrectly, and the crew were stuck solid, except two, because others had been placed wrong, they were mostly pushed in place, these two I pulled out and put on the base, to make the scene more interesting. The tree it's perched on has metal rod running through it for strength.

The last speeder is a new kit I got at the beginning of the month, as GW still sell the Dark Angels Vengeance speeder, I changed a few bits, and also gave it a assault cannon from a Landspeeder Tornado.

I'd like to get a second one to complete a squadron, but that will have to wait until I get a second one. That's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave 

FORCED MARCH Part 2

 Keith's Forced March challenge also includes vehicles, especially if you have done multiple. You may remember this landspeeder I did a long time ago

I've given it a quick update to include chapter symbol on the tail, claw tattoo's on the crews face, and chipping to make it look used and individual. For it's two squadron members I've had to look to ebay, as GW have ceased production of these vehicles in favour of the Primaris version. Both had been stuck together and crew glued in, unfortunately both had not been put together properly, and needed repairing before painting, no idea on what glue they used, but it was strong, so couldn't get the crew out, and had to paint them in situ, luckily the shoulder pads were missing, so I could add in my own symbols and paint them before gluing them in. The antenna snapped off in transit to me, which wasn't a problem as I replace them with wire, also both were missing weapons, but luckily I have plenty of spares.

As customary here is a group shot of the now completed squadron.

I have another speeder from this purchase, to show later, as that had more problems to deal with, but more on that in it's own post, so that's all for today, so until next time, stay safe and have fun !

Cheers Dave

FORCED MARCH part 1

 So Keith's Forced March has now begun and today I have my first entry the second squad of scouts that I got back at Christmas, once I heard of Keith's challenge I saved these for it. They were painted with the same method I showed earlier. The first three include the Sergeant, the demolition expert, and the sniper

I have one criticism of these models, the demolition trooper and sniper don't have a pistol in their boot holster, small niggle for me, the other four are basic troopers.

and here is the group shot of the whole squad

I'm thinking in gaming terms, I will group the snipers from all the squads I have, and also all the demolitions troopers in squads together, then move the troopers around to make up the numbers in the squads. That's all for todays post, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

MEDIC !

 As I've started my 1 st Company marines, they need their own air ambulance as I've done for other company's but with relevant looking models, being the veterans I've also increased the firepower of the landspeeder by using a Tornado assault cannon.

All the helmets are Grey Knight's the torso's have the sword in the centre for Wing Knights, and shoulder pads 

Above is a close up of the Apothecary, thought having him shooting while riding in the back would be fun, where I have run out of legs, these used to be chaos ones which I cleaned all the markings off of them, I also added the double helix to both the shoulder pad and chest symbols. Now I just need to get some more veterans ! LOL With this air ambulance finished I need to do two more, one for the 3 rd Company, and one for the 5 th Company, as this is the company I have the most models for, I really should do that one next ! LOL That's all for today, as I really need to get on with some squads for Keith's Forward March Challenge so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

THIS IS A TEST

 Back when I started my Night Hawk chapter, I painted up a squad of veterans (1 st Company) which got photographed for the White Dwarf article that featured my army, this was back before I had different symbols for my squads, here's what they looked like

You may notice some of the models I showed recently in my assault squad, as all the models here are no longer together or veterans. To mark them as veterans I painted the helms with a feathered pattern. Fast forward a couple of years, and a friend wrote some background and named the 1 st Company the Wing Knights, loved the name, and wanted to change the look to match the name, I've finally come up with a look I like.

The head comes from a Grey Knights, the shoulder pad is my own design, which I've also incorporated in a chest symbol on the harness. I think I still want to have MK VI beakies in the units as well, but it's a start.

I have actually finished another assault squad for my 5 th Company as well, these first 3 are a sergeant model, a plastic combination, and a MK VI Space Wolf Blood Claw.

The next 4 are all Rogue Trader models

The last 3 of the squad are metal Blood Company models and some of the arms actually came from the plastic blood company box as well

I did remember to take a squad picture as well

Many years ago when I worked at GW, my staff made a comment that if I ever ran out of Marine models to make up, they'd watch Satan skate to work, well apparently hell must have frozen over as I've had to resort to sculpting up models that I'd used for parts as you can see below

Yes I'm going to have order in more bits, as sections of the bits box is now completely empty, no bodies, no legs and no helmeted heads left, never thought I'd get to this point ! LOL

This will be my last entry for my challenge, don't worry I will still be following all your blogs to see if you post up entries over the next couple of weeks. That's all for today, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave

BACK IN TIME

 For any long term readers you may remember me updating my tournament scouts, as I hadn't finished them in time for the tournament, but still wanted to finish them properly. Well since the last squad I showed this unit has sat on my desk, with an occasional bit of work on them I have finally got round to finishing my shotgun squad. When this squad was built, there was only the metal scouts, of which there was only two models produced with shotguns, as you may have noticed I don't really like duplicates, which ment I was going to need to convert a 80 % of the squad. The sergeant was converted from the sergeant with bolt pistol and close combat weapon, as was the scout next to him, the third was made from the scout with heavy bolter.

The next three include the two production models, the third was a Space Wolf scout model which I converted.

The next four were all converted from scouts with pistol and close combat weapons, I think they have all been watching too many Tarentino movies with how they are holding shotguns ! LOL

Dai recently asked if I could start doing squad photo's, so here is me trying to do that to the best I can, hopefully they will improve with practice ! LOL

I have one scout squad left to revisit, and hopefully these wont take as long to finish, so until next time, stay safe, and have fun !

Cheers Dave