Company Command Squad Painted ToEMP Challenge Met
by dnyarak on Aug.13, 2009, under Finished Works
I have just finished my Company Command Squad for my Traitor Guard and in doing so met the first Tale of Even More Painters challenge. I know Admiral Drax (and his troops with hand painted Aquilas) beat us all done, but I think I may have just finished second.
Equipped with power weapon, bolt pistol, metla bomb, krak grenades, plasma gun (I love plasma…), medic, regimental standard, vox. Total Points: 137
There was little conversion done on this squad, just a bit of kit bashing and work with the knife/file. The regimental banner already had a sculpted on Chaos star (well perhaps it is some silly loyalist symbol…) and the medic looked crazy enough with just the needle and chain knife (a bit of a Fabius Bile flashback).
Yes my company commander is Inquisitor model, I liked the model so much I decided he would make a perfect leader for my army, even if it is a bit ironic. I filed off the Inquisitor icons and filled in the icon on top of the head. I may go back at some point and paint a Chaos star on his chest, but for now he is considered done.
Points Earned:
- Foot Sloggers x5 = 5 pnts
- Icons/ Symbols/ Marks (the banner counts?) = 1 pnt
- Eyes/ Lenses/ View Finders (commanders eye lens) = 1 pnt
- Beating Deadline by at least 24 hours = 2 pnts
- Meeting Deadline: 2 pnts
Total Painting Points: 11
I have to spend some time figuring out what is up next to paint. Options are: 2 heavy sentinels, 2 scout sentinels, missile launcher squad or a mortar squad. I haven’t tallied up the points I have painted, but I think I’m getting close to the 1k I need for the painting competition at my local GW. Because of time constraints (I’m out of town all of next week for work) I may start with the heavy sentinels to add some more character to the army. I am going to paint them like Dezartfox’s World Eater Rhinos over on the Vanus Temple. After painting so many tanks for my Iron Warriors, I want to try out a “painted” tank (aka not another silver one) and although I’m trying to stay away from the blood pact theme, bloody walkers could look so intimidating!
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August 14th, 2009 on 1:05 am
Looks a great squad dnyarak. I really love the blending on the commander's cloak and I think the Inquisitor mini looks great and with the addition of a few chaos symbols at a later date would be an exceptionally brilliant traitor commander. Top stuff, I'm just hoping I can catch up with you and meet this first deadline!
August 14th, 2009 on 8:46 am
Thanks Elazar. The cloaks have been one of the few things I've been
blending/layering lately so it was a nice break from base/wash/highlight.
Your hell cannon looks to be nearly done and you still have the weekend to
finish it before the dead line.
August 15th, 2009 on 3:49 am
Ok wow, they are so characterful! I seriously like every single one and you even beat the deadline!
I will emailing the details of next deadline to the group in the next day or so but seriously nice work!
73rd
August 16th, 2009 on 12:49 pm
Well done ! Do we have to make our own calculations ?
August 16th, 2009 on 6:52 pm
I'm sure 73rd would appreciate it
August 16th, 2009 on 6:53 pm
Thanks 73rd!I had a good time picking out heads and creating colorful pieces.
August 18th, 2009 on 12:33 pm
What I like the most : The use of the imperial bannier as a Chaos bannier : cool ! (and evil).
What I like the less : the green lassgun.
August 18th, 2009 on 7:13 pm
Some ingenious kit bashing here, and congrats on finishing before the deadline. Can't wait to see what you have in store for the next challenge.
August 20th, 2009 on 10:08 am
11 points actually my friend!
5 points – footsloggers
2 points – beating deadline by 24 hours
2 points – meeting deadline
1 point – standard
1 point – lens
11 points total!
Nice work mate!
August 25th, 2009 on 9:23 am
Ah yes, thanks for catching that!
August 25th, 2009 on 9:40 am
From Gregory gloarmy.blogspot.com/:
What I like the most : The use of the imperial bannier as a Chaos bannier : cool ! (and evil).
What I like the less : the green lassgun.
(I'm posting this because it doesn't seem like his comment is actually showing up! Sorry Gregory, I'm looking into how to fix this!)
August 25th, 2009 on 9:40 am
Thanks Gregory! not sure why you comment isn’t showing up, but hopefully my reply will make it reappear.
I know the green is a bit clashing (I was going for that a bit) but what would you suggest instead? I’ve painted some of the others in the platoon squads light brown and dark brown, as well as some more green.