The 23rd Tolaren Grenadiers - Jonik's IG blog
Update. Month 1, February 2008
Cash in hand £50
Item(s) bought this month 1 Codex (£12), 1 Box of Space marine scouts (£12), 1 IG cadian sprue (£6), 10 Old Stormtroopers (£20)
(4 will be converted with plasmaguns, using plasma pistols - do I need to pay for the pistols?)Cash carried over £0
Picture Updates1/2/082/2/08Hello and welcome to my first text based update!
Well, as you might have guessed I'm working on a grenadier force to add to my growing guard army - they've always been cool, I've never had any, and that's about as far as the reasoning goes...! It's also allowing me to get some chimeras (which I have never used before!) so that's something I'm looking forward to doing.
Now, before anyone mentions it, I've done a deal on the trading forum for a lot of the things I'll be using over the coming months, but as of yet I haven't started on anything. (apart from a mock G36design autogun). I'm also taking part in the 'combat patrol by 31st march' thread in the IG forum, so my month 3 (and possibly a bit of 4) will have been done in month 2 - I'll still update this as if I was doing it at the time but I've been allowed to do it this way. Anyway, it's not as if I'm cheating - I'm actually adding more to my pile of things to do! [watch this space to see it go tits up!]
The scouts box as some of you have asked is being used for my command squad - NOT my grenadiers. I'm using the metal ones for my grennies. (hmmm... not sure I like that abbrv!) Anyway, i have the basic design sorted for them, and am working on it at the moment, but probs won't post pictures for a day or so until I get them looking presentable rather than a bluetac filled lump of plastics...!
Righto - I think that's it!
Jonik
3/2/08Hmmm... seems like I'm the only one updating this...
AAAAaannnnyway. Picture time!
Here are the stormtroopers I'm working on. I'm planning on two squads of 7 atm with 2 plasma each. Not being able to buy or find the specific plasma models I have been chopping away at them, which for metal models was a pain... anyway here they are so far
Oh and a sneak peak at the commander's arm
5/2/08Here's a few more picture uopdates that I did yesterday. Not much changed, but they're new pictures... so...
6/2/08Hello for my second big update. This time sees what I've been doing with my scouts and IG bits...
Here's my command squad! 4 armed with lasguns (or g36 variant autoguns) and the commander is armed with a laspistol and sword (sheathed knife, I don't have any cool bits for a sheathed sword
)
13/8/08OK I've started painting my stormtroopers, but am having slight issues with the UK camo pattern I chose.
It looks...ok... but its probably more the fact I haven't finished the rest of the model so the black is sapping out all the colour I've put in.
(bigger pictures can be found on page 2)
20/02/08Just a small update, I have all the fatigues of this month's models done.
Another update!
Here's one test figure with the brown and silver added. Tis looking better (though the pic doesnt show it, its almost 11pm here so no decent light)
(Bigger pictures page 3)
22/2/08OK, I've been playing with my phone camera settings, and with a Light box thingy that I've just made I now have pictures of the following quality
YAY!
1/3/08So, its the end of the month.... Unfortunately I've been lumped with such a huge amount of work in the last 2 weeks that I've not had the time I wanted to finish off my (nearly!) finished units. If I only had 2 more evenings to get them done... Nevermind - I'll have to take this hit next month.
Anyway. I started with a box of scouts, some cadian parts, 10 metal stormtroopers, some plasma pistols, glue, greenstuff and a lot of ideas. I'm very happy with the way that my command squad has turned out. I still haven't figured out how I'm going to base my leader (i'm thinking a tree stump on the base maybe...) apart from finishing off details they're pretty much done. A bit of highlighting on the armour, the odd bit here and there, and base them...
The storm troopers didn't get quite as far. They're in the brown and (soon to be) silver stage. I'm not happy with the gun being completely silver, so I'll have to think of something to do to correct that, but otherwise they're turning out pretty good too.
The camo scheme I've chosen is looking much better now there's colours on them other than black. i was a bit worried at the beginning about that.
I'm not sure there's much more to say now apart from showing the pictures. I do have plans for next month's project (a chimera) so I'm hoping I can get that and the remains of these painted by April! Annoyingly the work I have atm won't be out the way til mid to late March.... but then that's half the fun isn't it?
A note about the stormtrooper pictures at the bottom, the unlucky sod who fell off my table and broke whilst I
was taking pictures made me decide that late night picture taking wasn't the best idea.. so I stopped! They're all at the same stage anyway.See you next month!
Jonik