Eastern Alliance

hello all. this is such a good idea these diaries mainly becuase it means we can all help each other with their armys or wat ever. well anyway heres a pic of my work station
it could do with a clean. so anyway at the moment during thursday night a guy called rob is running a campaing similar to an articall posted in the wite drawf magazine ages ago (the tale of four battles). basically we get 9 weeks to paint 1500pts of 40k. i have chosen to do pre heresey emp children;nice purple armour and resin eagle shoulder pads, always a good combo. the company i work for (dark art studios) has designed a few sm sholder pads, theres an eagle one which is awsome and we have made a laytex mould and can produce loads. they don't look like the proper emp children ones but they do look awsome(in my oppinion better).

i have tried the colour schem out twice. one with black under coat and one with white. the black one was worse than painting white arghhhh. the white one looks well good and took only an hour to paint the armour(and that was on terminator armour)
hope u enjoy. this is squire sam singning out

Nice painting desk, you lot are a messy bunch, when i get five mins i'll post my painting area

Interesting colour scheme Sam, it works!!!

I really like it.

Looking forward to seeing these custom shoulder pads your working on in more detail.

well ive had the idea for a while now, i think ever since i started reading the horus heresy ive wanted to do that army, mainly cos ive never seen one before. i was talking to dan at GW on sat about bases and he was saying about the emp children's nome world was a masive jugle of mushrooms. so i think im going to get some of those modeling leaves and make a variety of different mushrooms(button,toadstools etc...). it is rediculous though becuase beau and i have done this conversion commision for a guy called jhon levvet and he has paid beau his £40 but haswn't given me my payment of spacemarines, a bit sh*t really cos i have 2 weeks on thursay to paint 21 marines any tips?

John will get the stuff to u soon (fingers crossed)

Best tip for when they do arrive.

*Base coat*

If all else fails just get the basics on your model:
main armour colour
shoulder pads
Faces
Guns
etc.

If nothing else this will mean that you will still be able to achieve what you need to for the painting challenge

You can always tart em up later on.

Or

Alternively do u have any other sections of the army that you could work on in the mean time?

nah. its all with jhon. basically he's giving me an assembled and filled 1500pt sm force with case. just for bending some wings and sculpting some feathers, me and beau did it in a night lol. beau is getting me the shoulder pads. i have made a cool staff for a librarian.
here is my 500pt list-
HQ
Epitolary
+term honours
+plasma pistol
+master crafted force weapon
total 160pts

TROOPS
9*SM
+sergent
+heavy bolter
+power fist
total 340pts

TROOPS
9*SM
+sergent
+heavy bolter
+power fist
total 340pts

not bad little force to start with
is the choice of weaponry in the squads what johns atuff comes with or is there some cunning plan behind the power fist and heavy bolter combo?

im not sure but it means the squad is flexible and is good in combat and good at shooting. and yeah its the stuff john had. lol

well that helps then!!!

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i have now started painting my guys. my hqs are nearly finished and i have half a squad done heres some pics of my hqs and a sergent
just got to wait for the nice shiny resin shoulder pads

i have finished one squad, except for the shoulder pads. i have an idea for the base here it is:-
forest leaves (atumn,spring)
mushrooms (at little cluster,varying hights)
heroes with slate.
any tips on how i could achieve this. maybe some links or shop titles that sell leaves for bases

Leaves, ummmmm they do sell them in langleys but i think there about £6 or something not cheap.

A website to check out is woodland scenics, good selection of stuff for groundwork.

Will look very nice when done.

I like the marine in blue, the scroll could do with abit more weathering, abit darker around the edges and at the bottom, especialy with a forst basem imagine all the damp and mud it would collect.

Allways blend the miniature into the base, if not he looks like a miniature on a base instead of being apart of it.

heres a pic of the squad

very nice

what are you going to do for the bases?