Long Time, No Siege

It's really been FAR too long since I posted on this blog, but i've been working on a few things which i'll post soon. Most of Red Platoon is now painted lacking only a Chimera to finish it off entriely.

With the first two squads of Yellow Platoon painted along with their transports its getting very close to having a fully painted legal army. Barring a few models for the company command squad and Yellow platoon command squad that is, which are in progress.

Even the third platoon (Green, I must think of some better names than just their colour) has its basic command squad sorted ready for painting (although this may be some time away) to go with their finished chimera.

Hopefully i'll get round to posting some of these finished squads and transports as well as getting more things done. At last count there's about 3500 points painted, but that does include a Baneblade which isn't exactly easy to shoe horn in every game.

Command Chimera Conversion

For each of the command squads in the army, they'll have a tank for transport, much the same as the regular squads. Although while the regular squads are using the newer model with thinner side pods, any command vehicles are using the older style.

Newer kit, left (squads) - Older kit, right (command)

However, the company command tank needs to stand out a bit more. Forgeworld have a different door which would have been easier to fit if i'd remembered before i'd attached the regular one. But it still went on ok.

To make the tank a bit wider and give it more presence on the field i decided to make the tracks wider, initially using tracks from the Baneblade. However they're roughly 25mm wide, which would be huge. Comically huge. So instead after a few days of searching and pondering I settled on Land Raider tracks, which are a bit smaller and marginally easier to get hold of outside of a kit.

While I waited for the tracks to arrive I worked on the dozer blade, which also now needed to be wider to accommodate the new tracks.

Fortunately there are two types of blade in existence  one with and one without edges making something a bit more unique for the tank.

The turret was made some time ago and now finally finds its place on the right tank. There aren't any pictures during the painting as it actually came together fairly quickly, plus it's better as a finished result.

The track guards had to be adjusted too to be wider, although at this point the tracks hadn't actually arrived so making them was a little tricky guessing the size. The lamps on the front were from a dreadnaught kit, but work pretty well.

And when the tracks turned up, it was all good!

First of many posts to the Cadian blog with a bit of luck.

Raising the Company

Finally! With a nearly completed first platoon it's about time I got round to sorting the blog i've been meaning to do for so long with the progress of the army.

It's not much yet, but soon i'll be posting a lot of the work i've already done to them.