New Imperial Guard

When something new comes out of GW pages and sites about hobbies, flooding me photographs ...
The worst was probably the Imperial Knight. While this is a great model, epic in every way, I have little enough. What a lot of it and the pig will not eat :)
 I guess I am writing this because of some jealousy those who are, or may mieć.If my wife saw a model of this size would get a heart attack.

 But let us leave imperial knight because the topic is old and not fresh.
Rather I wanted to write something about Astra Militarum, or a new imperial Guard.
 My feelings probably are not other that throughout the rest of the Internet.

Infantry, is great. Especially scions. Probably not only to me reminds British commandos from battle of falkland. Perhaps even so was the idea of the designer.


















It is worse with vehicles. Let's say that hydra /wyvern looks good, although it is  another variation of the chimeras probably. Especially hydra has something, or I just like to antiaircraft guns.

 On the other hand taurox / taurox prime is ugly as November's night. To me it associate with KrAZ 6322. Maybe because a lot of these I have seen, in the army, so far in Poland they run in a surface mines.

 























 Perhaps taurox would be nicer if  caterpillars been replaced with wheels. Somewhere I saw a set of wheels to the Chimera.These four caterpillars simply look silly.

Painting fence for customer

Today I painted the fence model in 1:1 scale. :) It gave me some experience with polyvinyl paint.
It's kind of liquid rubber. I do not know how you can use it in modeling hobby.
But as my son says: "It's a chemistry that if you eat one teaspoon, you will hit the graveyard ." :)
A thinner to the paint is even worse. 
I dont know, maybe i can use it to make some terrain or dioramas. 

How to do wash of acrylic paint

I run out of  black wash, the model store in my city  did not have any, in Bard (local wargaming store)  had neither Army Painter nor Citadel wash. I needed it badly to move land raider painting. I dont want to wait, so buing it online was not an option.
So I bought a thinner for acrylics in paint store. Half a liter is the smallest package ...
Fortunately, I had a feeling and checked how it works on plastics. Probably the smell of the substance. Of course plastic was eaten. He first made a sticky, and later began to dissolve.
I could put it in my chaos army as a Nurgle possessed Land Raider.

But what to do ?
I looked through several online modeling forums, and found a solution to my problem.

How to make wash yourself:
Add paint to the water ? I tried it myself. It is not wash but only watered down paint.
It will not go into a depressions of the model, but remained on the protuberances and flat surfaces.
Dishwashing liquid is a trick.
Added to the watered down paint, causing it to behave like wash.
Choosing the appropriate proportions requires several experiments, but the results are satisfactory.

New projects

A long time I did not write anything, but you know the kids ...  In the meantime, a number of projects was born.
 
For example, the guards which I wrote about some time ago was sent to me.
From Russia with love :) 

Perfect castings, resin 100 times better than finecast. Zero bubbles and dropouts.
The only thing missing is a assembly manual.

 Another project is the dark angels devastator sqad. I decided to assembly them with dark angels veterans bodies (robes !) and equip a Devastators weapons.
When I got both sets, after seeing all the parts, I decided to magnetize weapons. I have used magnets 5x2 mm. The smallest I was able to buy. For power armor fit perfectly.
At last I found that I can have both teams, if magnetize appropriate number of weapons. I'm in the middle :)


The next project is a Landraider. I bought one on allegro. Being used. Judging by the pictures,  I should not expect miracles. What I got was a real disaster. All painted with red spray, hopelessly glued, missing several sections of the tracks. But above all, there is no weapon in sponsons !
Now  I have to buy weapons on ebay, and maybe turn it into a crusader.

 When I spent a few hours on it, it can still be saved. 

Dead men Walking

Finaly, my DKK guardsmen arrived. I cant stand the moment how they look like. Well its my christmas present that i did to myself. Unfortunatelly i must wait for tomorrow. Well i did other present too, and its also DKK (may be). Its Ivanka Kurganova miniature, from Raging Heroes. It will arrive in 15 days.

Merry and happy christmas everyone. I wish you found many plastic soldiers under christmas tree :P

Dark Angels progress

I made some progress in painting my DA army. Almost all Deathwing terminators are painted, except two from command sqad, one with glavie and one with assault cannon.

Help the faithfull in the name of the Lord

After reading some of Dan Abnett's nowels, i want Imperial Guard as a support for my DA army. Death Korps of Krieg is my choice. At start i want to buy enginers and command group. Because Forge World prices are to high for me, i want to buy them on ebay. I hope quality of this models will be satisfacting.