Red Platoon, ATTEN-SHUN!

There it is, Red Platoon in all its glory. 52 soldiers, and that's less than half my infantry! Bwahahaha! Tremble and despair, enemies of the God-Emperor of Mankind!


...I'm so doomed.


In the taking of this photo, I realized that the Sergeant from A Squad and the whole of D squad still need to have their shoulder pads done. D'oh! Guess I know what I'm doing tonight...

One Troops Choice...Complete!

Wow, it's been a while. If anybody cares, the delay was caused by swine flu, a new job at Rockstar and snapping the pin vice bit I need to make Yukoni lasguns. Anyways, I am still working, and here's proof: pictures of Red Platoon, finally complete. That means I know have almost half of my infantry done, and Green Platoon is almost completely built, even if I am stalled on them until I get to a Canadian Tire and replace that bit.

Red Platoon Heavy Bolter Support Squad:


Their shoulderpads are numbered by gun, rather than by squad. Here's a detail on the loader for No. 2 Gun, complete with product placement for my wife's place of employment.


Here's the completed Command Squad for Red Platoon, a detail of the piper. Best tartan I've done yet. And yes, I know, that's not saying much.




And, finally, the only mostly-built members of Green/C, the last I did before the snapping of aforementioned bit.


I'll get some pictures of the full platoon for the next update.

Heavy Bolters, Piper and Green/C

Progress continues. The piper and heavy bolter squad are now done, aside from basing, and ready for paint.

I redid No. 1 Gun's base entirely, and I'm pleased with how it came out. Like with the rubble on the other gun, I'm going to try and pile the sand/gravel up around it to try and suggest that it's a half-buried ruin, as opposed to them being in an urban area.


The piper. I gave him a shoulder strap for the pipes as Itkovian over on the Ammo Bunker suggested.


And the first four members of Green/C, the hustling squad. The meltagunner is braced as he provide covering fire.

They've got good heads on their shoulders.

Wee, my heads finally arrived.

Tragically, the sun is gone and the lighting in here is terrible, so the pics are worse than usual.


First up, the assembled piper. I did the blowpipe with GS, and I think it turned out alright.



The heavy bolter squad is almost done. I'm still not sure what to do for the base on No. 1 Gun, as using only sandbags with need a lot GS. I think I'll have a root 'round the bitz box and see if I can turn up something.



No. 2 Gun, with the gunner yelling at the loader to hurry up and load.


The sandbags I made to complete their makeshift cover.



And No. 3 Gun, with a much more relaxed loader having a cuppa after filling sandbags.




Finally, I started working on Green/C. I'm posing them as though they're hurring across the field, while the meltagunner and a couple others pause to provide covering fire. To this end, I reposed a bunch of legs based on the awesome Drogan 22nd Voltigeurs over on the Boot Camp by Digits. They mostly turned out well, though one or two could be better. Ah, well, I'll know better next time.

Guns and Pipes

The Heavy Bolter support squad is getting closer to done, just needing basing still. And heads. I went by my favourite scale model/railway hobby store, only to find they'd closed down and become a used book store! Arrrgh! Now I have no supply of plasticard and other such things. Not a total loss, though, as it's a great book store and I got an August Derleth anthology, and his stuff is impossible to find. They also had at least three copies of Mein Kampf.



I used the last of my GS to make a couple of sandbags, but I'm not sure how well they turned out...



The piper is also nearly complete. I need to sand his base, and once the new heads arrive, hopefully in a few days, I can finish him off.





And finally a group shot of Red Platoon's leadership all together. I built them a flamer guy, but he's boring and didn't warrant a close-up of his own.

Two more

Here's a couple more pics I forgot to take. The scabbard on Stiles' sword:



And the wrist and hand for the piper. The hand is a little thick, so I may paint it as a glove. The wrist I'll paint as a wrap or a bandage.

I blame the rain.

So it's coming down outside (rain in September in Vancouver, who'd'a thought?) so I had to take these pics inside, which is why they're atrocious. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.

Captain Stiles' facial hair. I think I just about had a stroke trying to get this one there. I'm not sure what's happening, but my GS is hardening really quickly and making it really hard to get it to actually stick to anything (other than my fingers, of course).



And here's a pair of Sergeants I cobbled together for Green Platoon, giving me two complete, though not completely painted, squads.