Cadian veteran!

I began to paint seriously all of my guardmen: this is the first of the first batch. the camo scheme is the usual urban camo made of medium grey as main colour and black stripes.

Right now i'm using Vallejo game and model colours and for the grey i combined:

• German grey
• Basalt grey 
• Cold grey

Black stripes are painted with:

• Black
• German grey
• Black wash or Lifecolor's Panzer Uniform instead of German grey

 Green fatigues are painted with:

• Yellow olive
• Cayman green
• Camouflage green

I'm particularly happy with the red patch of the squad's number on the left shoulder. This make my guardsmen really tidy, very clear to understand who is who on the battlefield!

Command squad part III

Third meltagunner of the company command squad, classic Cadian trooper! i love these models, i think they are much better them the actual Cadians which are kind of toy soldiers with those huge helmets and that vest quite looking like a skirt. i know, plastic models are much better to convert and i'm agree (in fact you can get great troopers with converted cadians, just swap their heads with something better!) but this classic metal stuff has a lot more of charme.

Kill Team camo scheme part II

 

more Killteam camo scheme! i chose to paint the flak armour grey in combination to the camo scheme of the fatigues just to give this soldier a ww2 feel... just think to Wehrmacht/SS soldiers on the western front in 1944, you couldn't find two men dressed in the same way, so this is what i'm trying to achieve.

the camouflage is done this way:

1. black primer
2. catachan green basecoat
3. bestial brown spots
4. bubonic brown spots
5. black wash
6. 50/50 camo green + catachan green highlight
7. snakebite leather highlight

This is a great day...

because i've just bought this

First batch of veterans finally painted!

this is the first part of my imperial guard mixed Valhallan/(classic) Cadian veterans. their scheme is a bit lighter than the testpaint because i made a softer highlight. i really like the combination of olive greens and greys. if you like, i'll post a tutorial about painting wood.

look at the meltas' muzzles: i've managed somehow to get a burned effect with a nice method explained on Citadel's "how to paint Citadel tanks" book: after painting metal, wash with watered down snakebite leather and then with bestial brown (and also with schorched brown if you want. i didn't), finally wash with very watered down black in order to merge the previous layers of paint. i find this method quite successful.

final goodie: a better pic of demo-charge dude.
that's all for now!

Veterans repoting!

here are my veterans, ready for the battlefield! i really love this scheme, pretty detailed and really close to the ground colours. this scheme will be the one with which i'll paint the veterans only, the platoon troopers will be painted like this lascannon team in order to distinguish them well and to reflect the fact that veterans get better equipent like camo uniform and extra stuff (not on these miniatures)... and i love that snow, yeah!

Veterans update

new things:
- light grey highlight, it looks much better now
- leather
- camo stuff
- wooden rifle shell
not that much to say

New colour scheme for my veterans

these pictures suck but i can do anything better for now. i'm painting with a new scheme some veterans (i have not stripped the others yet!) to test the colour scheme and, i must say i like them mainly because it merges well valhallan with cadians.

...and look at that flag on the shoulder!

Dear old cityfight cadians...

a bunch of years ago i painted a squad of classic cadians (but never finished) with the old urban camo scheme shown in the book Cityfight (3rd edition), led by colonel Schaeffer, that now hasn't any special rules. i want to create with them (i've got 10) a pair of veteran squads mixed with some valhallans, in order to get an informal mix of uniforms that emphasizes pretty well their veteran status. obviously they will be painted il a camo scheme to represent the camo cloaks similar to the one applied to my tanks so they will be somehow coherent with the rest of the army. the only thing i wanna read from you is: "ok man, you should strip that paint away" because it's kinda hard decision to take :-)