A Quick Update Metal Cadians

Group Hug

 

Ok so I took this picture while trying to figure out how to use my camera better its a Rebel xsi I just got a wide angel macro lens which attaches to the end of my other lens.   So figuring out how to set all the setting is working out pretty well.  I learned all this stuff before but my camera has been sitting in the bag for awhile.  Sometimes I miss the ease of a simple point and shoot.  I did miss my Sony bloggie coming in the mail I hope the office is open today so it can be delivered. 

 

A quick painting update I did get started on the heavy weapon teams and I have a count on them at 60 teams.  16 Las cannon, 16 Auto Cannon, 10 Mortar, 9 Heavy Bolters, and 9 Missile launchers.  I might have 3 more Heavy Bolter and Missile Launcher teams but I don't have the bases for them I need to get some more resin to cast the sand bag bases.  Honestly though I don't see using that many HB or ML's *shrug*

 

Last night I was able to get the new acquisitions caught up with the rest of the teams so I should start knocking those out today.  I'm really looking forward to this 4 day weekend I hope to get a lot of painting done. 

4th Platoon Finished of my Metal Cadians

4th Platoon 1st Squad Metal Cadians

 

Well a project that started back in May of 2011 is just now only about half complete lol.  Back in May of 2011 I started these guys I got as far as primer, green base coat, brown on the guns and some of the straps, the metal for the guns, and black boots.  In order to finish these models I had to do a lot of touch up since the first time through I just wanted to get them painted enough to play them.  Even if they where half way painted I still feel pretty good about about painting 224 models in just over two weeks. 

 

Today I will begin working on the heavy weapon teams.  I have between 60-70 of them cant recall off the top of my head as some of them I only have 9 of while others more.  Mostly I wanted enought to field a solid heavy weapon team army.  I have played it a few times the worst part about this army is simply how long it takes to set up.  It is a blast to play and is what I plan to focus on in 6th edition.  Well atleast until I get my tanks painted.

 

So I have a friend that is in the video recording/production world and am getting advice from him on how to use my camera better so I can improve my picture taking abilities.  I'm looking forward to higher quality pictures.

Second Platoon

Second Platoon aka Brown Platoon

Ok so here are a couple of shots of the Second Platoon aka Brown Platoon.  For this platoon I have 3 melta's and 3 Plasmas so they can be run as Vets with either it wasn't until I finished them that it occured to me that it would be better to only have 1 of the meltas and 3 plasmas but thats ok with these guys and 3rd and 4th Platoons I can have up to 6 Squads of Vets with either Melta or Plasma.  I also did some Vox casters for these guys as well.

 

A close up of one of the Melta Gunners

 

Well for my daily update on this project I did finish the 3rd platoon and got several stepts of the 4th Platoon done.  It looks like it will take ma another day or two before I'm done with the 4th Platoon. 

Infantry Platoon

First Platoon First, Second, & Third Squad's

Here is the first Infantry Platoon I will have 4 in all.  The plan is to have them double as Vet Squads so I had to paint up extra special weapons for each squad.  As you can see from the picture or not as only the first rank or two are in focus but I have 3 flamers and a heavy flamer for each of these 3 squads.  I also painted up a Vox-Caster for each squad.

First Platoon First Squad

 

So Green Platoon as I am calling them has 3 infantry squads that can double as 3 vet squads with flamers or even go with 2 flamers and a heavy flamer.  The heavy flamer is a metal catachan model. 

 

I'm a little disappointed about the quality of the pics I think I will have to take some new ones and a lot more of individual models.  This will probably wait until I finish off the bases. 

 

As for my Daily Progress report I have been working on the 3rd Platoon I think I will make them the blue platoon which will leave fourth platoon being grey.  I could probably finish them up tonight and start working on grey platoon tomorrow.  That will make having finished up 93 models this week not bad if I say so myself.  Raising the total of painted models to 182 for just over 2 weeks keep in mind that these all had a base coat and some of the bits already painted but still I'm pretty proud of myself... Now I just have to finish the rest of the basic infantry models including my heavy weapon teams which is probably another 200 models counting each team as 3 models.

 



Platoon Command Squads

Here we have all 4 PCS & in the back the 2 CCS and way in the back is Marbo.

 

 1 Heavy Flamer, 3 Flamers

Unforutnatuly not all my models are the Old metal cadains so had to make do with some of the newer metal ones.

 These guys fit right in with the old metal cadains.  The problem with the newer style is that they just dont paint up the same for this color scheme.  They dont have the straps and belts so they look a little more bland to me.

 

Here is a closer look at some of the basic guys so I can field a cheap PCS if need be I might even paint up a few couple of more and add a sergeant so I can run them as Vets if need be have to see how many extra models I still have.  I would also like to make convert some of my extras in to snipers and grenade launcher guys.  I also need 4 more Vox-Casters.

As for yesterdays painting I gout about 3 hours in give or take.  Painted the brown, silver, and about half of the black steps on the 3rd platoon I am going to try and finish them up today.  If I bust ass this weekend I might be able to finish up the 4th platoon as well.  That would mean I could start work on the Heavy Weapon Teams early next week.

The Company Command Squad's

2 Company Commanders

So this first pic is two of the Company Commanders each of these will accompnay 4 plasmagunners I will eventually add in some other options that will need to be painted up.  I have a couple of Vox-Casters, Advisors, and Medics that I plan to paint up for these squads.  I would also like to get 2 more of these guys and some more plasmagunners for that 2nd FOC. 

I have 8 of these guys the all look pretty much the same so don't want to bore you with a ton of pics of models that all look the same... oh wait...

 

Other thoughts and short updates:

Well I did make some progress I put the stain on the Brown Platoon, and started on the Grey Platoon today I got 5 steps of the process done on 42 models.  That was about 4 hours of painting done today.  With any luck (or some hard work and not social life) I might be able to finish these up by Monday.  I'm afraid to let myself take too much of a break because historicly when I do that break turns into several days than weeks and eventually months and in some cases years... poor neglectid Nids.

 

On another note I ordered a Sony Bloggie so I will hopefully be putting up videos soon.  My plans are to do some video blogging, battle reports and maybe some product reviews. 

 

Tomorrow I will be posting the Platoon Command Squads pics and the break down of those.  I will probably post them at group at a time so I can spread out my posts... incase anyone reads this LOL. GO Diary speacking of which check this out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5jqZBEicDE

 

 

Retro Caidans

When I first started collecting my IG army started with some of the plastic guys and after building them and giving them thier base coat I got a great deal on some metal cadians.  Well I liked these guys a lot so I decided to sale off my plastics and get a whole army worth of the little metal guys.

 

After a bunch of ebaying and tradeing locally I ended up with several hundred of the little guys.  Well it quickly became apparent to me that I had to figure out a way to seperate these guys in to platoons/squads.  My first idea was to simply have a seperate group for each squad but that got out of hand quickly.

 

So about a month a go I had the idea of just breaking them down into 4 platoons which would take care of 2 troop choices for 2 FOC's than I had to decide on how many Infantry Squads I needed.  Than it occured to me that I needed to account for if I didnt want to run platoons and wanted to run.

So after much reflection here is the scheme I came up with.

Basicly I came up with the following

4 Company Command Squads (Gold Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 10 models painted
     Company Commander
     4 vets with Plasmaguns
  Eventually I plan to paint up some standard bears, advisors, vox-casters, medics and the like.


4 Platoon Command Squads (Silver Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 36 models painted
     Platoon Commander
     4 Basic Infantry Men
as an alternative choice I have
     3 Flamers & 1 Heavy Flamer painted up for 2 sqauds
     4 Melta Guns painted up for the other 2 sqauds
   Eventually I plan to paint up some snipers and maybe a vox-caster, maybe some other options but not sure yet.

For the Platoons I decided to go with 3 infantry Squads for each.  I also decided that these squads will also double for Vet Squads.  This meant that I need to make a bunch of extra special weapon guys for them.  I will have 4 color schemes and for each I will use a light, mid range and a dark tone for the colors.

First Platoon (Green Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 45 models painted
  Each squad consits of the following:
     1 Seargent
     8 Basic Infantry Men
     1 Special Weapon either a flamer or a melta gun.
I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad. To use them as vets I also painted up extra flamers including a catachan heavy flamer.  Some day I hope to get some snipers or grenade launcher guys to use as alternatives.
Second Platoon (Brown Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets)  51 models painted
   Each squad consits of the following:
      1 Seargent
      8 Basic Infantry Men
      1 Special Weapon either a plasma gun or a melta gun.
  I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad.  To use them as vets I also painted up extra plasma and melta guns.

Third Platoon (Blue Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets)  42 models
    Each squad consits of the following:
      1 Seargent
      8 Basic Infantry Men
      1 Special Weapon either a plasma gun or a melta gun.
   I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad. To use them as vets I also painted up extra plasma guns I started to run out of models at this point also didnt thing I would need more than this.

Fourth Platoon (White/Grey/Black Shoulder Pads & Top of Helmets) 42 models
    Each squad consits of the following:
      1 Seargent
      8 Basic Infantry Men
      1 Special Weapon either a plasma gun or a melta gun.
I also included a Vox-Caster for each squad. To use them as vets I also painted up extra melta guns I started to run out of models at this point also didnt thing I would need more than this.

I also have a painted up Marbo. 

To finish off the infantry portion of this army I also have 60-70 Heavy Weapon teams which I still need to color cordinate with these 4 platoons so I can mix them in if I watned to.

I haven't even reached my tanks.  Frist goal is to paint up the infatry guys than tanks than specil squads like storm troopers, psyckesand the like.

Pictures will follow.  Each command squad, platoon and any special characters will get thier own posting with pics.   This is just a general break down.