Tankhunter Sentinel and Hellhound

Well, yesterday I was working in two of the vehicles of my old army. They was about to be finished but remains some details to do. So, I repaint the cammo colours in the areas that were weathered or something and repair some bad (really bad, guys) painting from them (when I painted these models, my weathering and highlighting technics was so rudimentary - lol).

So, the sentinel is already weathered, and remains highlighting and some more use weathering (tripulation access door, exhausts...). Visors and windows will be painted in the same way as my veteran goggles.

The hellhound needs more work before detailing, but it goes in a good way and I've already started to weathering it:

This afternoon I'll do some sculpting for my ground crew of the navy (fuel and weapons operators and some technicians) and for a test of an engineer. I'll do about two or three models test for the engineer division, and then open a poll to choose one, hope you'll help!!! :D
I'll also clean all the pieces that I purchased about a month ago or two from ramshakle games, to start mounting and basecoating, while I await for my airbrush piece (I broke one of it's pieces long ago :( )

Sorry for the sentinel bad photos, next ones will be better.

Veterans; Red gloves

Hi all!

yesterday I was working hardly on some stuff. The first five vets are about to be finished, it just remain some highlight, specially in the gloves and guns, and I must paint the visors and glasses, but I don't know how I can imitate the glass (ANY HELP WILL BE PRICELESS!). So, here they are:

Auspex:Reloading and plasma gunner (weathering and plasma effects remaining):White stripes detail. This is a badge used for identify airbone troops:The plasma gun is a scratchbuild version. I have found a plasma pistol from assault marines in my bitz box. Then I made an easy and rudimentary mold with green stuff, using plasticard pipes as guides. The rest of the parts are obtained from a laser rifle and a plasticard pipe. I like the overall product. In some time I'll build another two plasma gunners and three fusion gunners, so I'll post a tutorial about how I build it.

The heads are cadian heads, with handly made covered masks and airbone goggles. These are supposed to be used just in the jump, so no one of them wears it on. I know, my sculpting abbilities are rudimentary, but I'm learning.

The gloves are characteristic from airbone troops, and I remembered the dark red berets of the british airbone commandos. I thought that colour will be a nice contrast and will be a nice distinctive for my vet troops.

I have two problems and need help to solve them.

First - I don't know how to paint glass (for the goggles)
Second - I don't know how I can paint the plasma rifle. I was thinking about painting the pipe like it was transparent, with some kind of fuel inside, but I have no idea how I can do this.

If anyone could help me I will be more than satisfied!!!!

Chimera of First Armoured Company

This is the Chimera that you saw in the photos of the bassie entry. It will be one of the APC's that will be attached to the First Armoured Company.

They will carry my Panzergrenadier troops, scorting the tanks.


Remember: comentaries and critics are always wellcome!!!

First Artillery Company - First tank of A Battery

Hi guys!

In a few entries I'll show you the stuff that I already have finished and will be used for the army, starting with the first field artillery company. The structure of the company will be the following:

- A Battery (ATP Guns - Bassies)
- B Battery (ATP Guns - Griffons)
- Provisioning and mainteinance (the vehicle park of this unit must be detailed further)

So, this will be the first vehicle of the A Battery.

Here with my finished Chimera:

Searching for references (Phase I): The museum of the Spanish Air Force

This place is a very important place for me bacause I growth visiting it constantly, as well as other museums of Madrid. I return there after about 7 years and guys, it's really a great place!

The references that you can find in these places are priceless.

Ok so, here you can enjoy with things like these:

F-104 Starfighter:
Cabin Detail
And a 3/4 View

BF-109 Hispano Suiza Version:

DC3:



With a JU-82 behind

Stratotanker:

And weapon stuff!

If i'm not mistaken, these are Aircraft MG-42 and MG-34 (bottom and top respectively) with and without magazines, which were placed in the defensive turrets of the german manufactured bombers. This will be an excellent reference for my navy marines, because I like the WWII german look and the steel legion is perfect for this purpose.

And finally, there's a moment in the life of a man when you feel a lack in your guard, and then you know that it's the moment to construct one...a real legend. Ladies and gentlement, I introduce you one of the few remaining functional 88's in the world:



When the mentioned moment arrives for me, I will upload a full report of this beauty, messenger of hell.

Disclaimer: If someone wants photos of stuff from early 1900's (not only planes; weapons as maxims, field mainteinnance cars and materials...) for any praetorian guard army for example, please let me know and I will upload first quality stuff!!! That period in the spanish military aviation was very tricky, and this museum has tons of this things.

Hope you like the entry!

Origins of Hydraphur 212 Marine Infantry Regiment (The Spanish Marines and the battle of Lepanto)

I started playing WH40K when I was about 15 years old. My first army? The guard. Why? well, soldiers always moved me. It was a mix of military themed films, country history and family tradition.

I'm so afficionate to military history and, as a spanish citizen, my country has a plenty of it! But for this entry I will concentrate only in one point. The spanish marines (Infantería de Marina Española).

It was the first marine corp of the world, and it's fire bautism was in one of the greatest naval battles of the history, the battle of Lepanto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto_(1571)) in 1571. This battle was a large confrontation between Spanish Empire and it's allies (Holy League) and the Otoman Empire (actual Turkey), which ended with the victory of the allies.

In the hardest point of the battle, 3 spanish galleys assult the otoman capitana, the Sultana, which receive reinforcements from 7 janissaries galleys. At a first time, the spanish marines were repelled from the deck with great loses, but then, the third galley at the orders of Don Álvaro de Bazán arrives to join the battle. Then, the marines capture the enemy ship and kill the turkish commander Ali Pasha showing his head on a pike, which destroy the morale of the turkish troops.

The figurehead of the Sultana was taked out by the spanish marines as a war trophy, and it is weared by the insignia ship of the spanish navy since this moment. It is currently held in the Prince of Asturias Carrier.

I read about this epic history when I was very young and the spanish marines has a special place in my life since it. So actually I decided that they are the best inspiration for my 40k guard army.

Then, and talking about the guard, how I will adaptate this soldiers to the 40k universe? well, it won't be easy, really. I will buy the new codex along this week, so I could tell you more in detail about this. Anyway, I have some planned points to follow:

· The actual navy must be converted in a "space navy", so my soldiers will not have boats; they will have air transport.
· The army will depend directly from the imperial navy, not the imperial guard.
· The army must have high mobility, including base equipment and field artillery (this is solved by a huge order of ramshackle games stuff, already in my hands).
· As navy marines, they will have access to any resource they need, so, they will have a multipurpose engineering division (this will be the hardest and funniest step of the creation process, also temporary solved by ramshackle stuff).
· They must be autosufficent. This means that they will have, for example, a base structure with workshops, comms center, hospital, cantine and, obviously, ship manteinnance and repairing workshops and platforms.
· They will have a special ops division (already in the workbench) which will work as a veteran force.