Once more unto the breach!

As I stated in my last post, I have got back into painting and modelling my Imperial guard. I really do like the idea of vast numbers of troops and armour forging its way across an endless battle and the Guard just fit that role perfectly.

So lately I have been working on the armour side of my guard for a brief break from the troops.

Firstly, I have done some more work to my Chimera. There is a lot still to do, but I am trying out different techniques and the like.

I purchased the forgeworld painting guide and it has lead me to a realisation that I need to purchase a proper air brush and compressor. So next month, thats what my spends will be on.

Next I decided to paint the first of many Leman Russ's I plan to have. I have another 2 sitting in a bag waiting to be built, but I thought i'd see how quickly I could get onbe to a standard where it might pass for completed on the tabletop.

I painted the tracks on the sprue and drybrushed the colour on the tank on tope of a black undercoat. It seems to work reasonably well to getting it to a very basic tabletop standard.

I tried to make the plasma coils look like they where building up and I thought the blue would offset the drab colours of the tank colours.

Today I finally built the 2nd of my super heavy tanks. I love this kit, it is just such a nice model to build. I can see my buying a 3rd tank to make a shadowsword at a later date but at the moment I am happy with the 2 of them.

The size in comparrison to the Chimera is quite shocking. The poor Chimera is just dwarfed.

I have even found the time to work on my Valkyrie. It had a grey undercoat and I am doing the shading at the moment. the idea I have for my force is that all ground vehicles will be brown with a little bit of grey added in as camo, but my airforce will primarily be grey. It seems to look reasonably okm, but I have a lot of work to do.

I do love this model and once it is finally complete, I may just have to purchase a vendetta to go with it. however before that I will probably pick up a Malcador as I think that is a gorgeous tank!