Stormtroopers... finally

As you can see I finally finished the last 3 Stormtroopers to complete my 1st ST squad.  The other five can be seen here, and these guys round out the squad.  I know the pics a bit light, but I had a hell of a time finding the right place to take pics this morning and that's the best I could get.  Now, I'm not overly impressed with myself with the paint job on these, I know I've done better, but as I alluded to in my previous posts I had a hard time getting back into the swing of things and I'm still working on.

Hmmm, the next squad is armed with a meltagun and a flamer...  I might have to hit up Ebay and find a different special weapon as I really hate flamers.  I know, I know, thousands upon thousands of gamers swear up and down about how great they are, but I hate them.  No good reason really I just don't like the idea of them, and because I want my army to look like I imagine it in my head I don't use them.

Well I'm off, it's nice to be back and here's to more regular posting.

*and three my painting points

Last project for 2009!!

Well it's been a rough 2 weeks.  My laptop broke and took everything with it, and with the holidays I don't feel like looking at it.  But I managed to get myself to finish one last project before the years end.

 

Here's my completed DH Stormtrooper squad.  These guys will also play as my ST's in my IG army as well, so they are actually duel hatted but hey as long as they the Emperors enemy's that's all that matters.

On a final note for the year,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!   

See you all next year.

Stormtrooper Sgt (part 2)

Well I did a little more work on the ST Sgt over the weekend as you can see below.

I removed the powersword and replaced it with a PF that I had in my bitz box.  The PF is actually from the original SM box from way back when and originally had 2 missles on the back.  Those were carefully removed so that they can be used later.

As you can see the highlighting on the fist is a little different, in my mind I envisioned the red highlights to actually be part of the armor color and the grey highlights are just that, highlights.  I still need to paint the unit numbers on, but I need to buy a new bottle of white paint as mine was left next to the heater yesterday and has become a brick...

Stormtroopers

After reading quite a few discussions lately on the pros and cons of Stormtroopers I decided I might have to give them a go and find out myself.  Now seeing that I'm not a big fan of playing with unpainted mini's that's going to mean that I finally drag my ST's out of retirement and paint'em up.  Below is Sgt. Isavia, I wanted the colors to be different from my normal joe's for two reasons.  One to represent the fact that they are "Special Ops" and second so that they could also fit in with my DH/WH Inquisitors when I get them done.

Of course it could be years before I make any sort of progress on my Inquisition forces so we'll see where this goes.  Now all I have to do is finish 9 more of these guys so I can start trying out their rules, I'm especially looking forward to have some troops that can Deep Strike again.

In the last edition I almost always played my IG as drop troops (maybe the Rgt. name gave that away already) but with the release of 5th, and no cheap way to get your normal platoons to drop I've been playing them as of late as either mech or light infantry.  But ST's come with Deep Strike and the special mission "Airborne Assault". Allowing you to the chance to re-roll your scatter dice if need be.  That combined with the improved hot-shot Lasgun could cause major problems behind my opponents lines.