Finished the Valkyrie/Vendetta

The local GW painting competition "forced" me to finish this one. It's for my Strom Renegade Army.

The weapon mounts are all magnetized so it can change weapons and go as a Valkyrie or a Vendetta. I also made the side gunners removeable. It's designated as "01" but there will be no more flyers for my army (not for a while anyway...).

Raptor Chapter Armylists

Since I've been having some problems with finding a working armylist for my Marines I've been testing out some different ones. These two are the ones I will be playing with from now on.
First of the 1750 points list:
HQ:
Captain with terminator armour and Power Sword.
TROOPS 1 and 2:
Standard, full, Tactical Squads with flamers and missile launchers. The Sgt is armed with a chainsword and a Boltpistol.
TROOPS 3 and 4:
5 Tactical Marines and a Sgt with a Power Sword. Transported in a Razorback armed with TL Heavy Bolter.
ELITES:
A full ten men Terminator Squad with two Cyclone Missile Launchers. (Very expensive but a solid block of death).
HEAVY SUPPORT 1:
A Land Raider, with a HunterKiller Missile and an extra Stormbolter.
HEAVY SUPPORT 2:
A Devastator squad with two Heavy Bolters, A Plasma Cannon and a Las Cannon.

The 2000 points list:
HQ:
Captain with Terminator Armour and a pair of Lightning Claws.
Command Squad;
with Company Champion, Company Standard and two Veterans armed with Power Swords and Boltpistols.
TROOPS 1 and 2:
Full Tactical Squads with a Rocket Launcher and a Plasma Gun in each squad. The Sgt carries a chainsword and a Boltpistol.
TROOPS 3 and 4:
5 Tactical Marines and a Sgt with a Power Sword. Transported in a Razorback armed with TL Heavy Bolter.
ELITES:
A full ten men Terminator Squad with two Cyclone Missile Launchers!
HEAVY SUPPORT 1:
A Land Raider, with a HunterKiller Missile and an extra Stormbolter.
HEAVY SUPPORT 2:
A Devastator squad with two Heavy Bolters, A Plasma Cannon and a Las Cannon. In this edition this squad has 4 extra marines with Bolters.

The 1750 list totals at 1741 points and the 2000 points list ends at 1990 points.

Raptor Chapter Updates!

Since I've been trying to win some games with my Raptors I've also tried to have them look the best! So I repainted and touched up some of my units. I've also built and painted some additions that are currently collecting dust on my shelf.

First up there's my two Tactical Squads:

My Devastators and my personal favorite the Plasma Gunner:

Here are some Sternguards, yet to be tested:

Right now I've been beaten by Orks, Marines and a Guard Army... But I think I've finally found a armylist that might work for me!

Raptor Chapter Landraider

So I got around and added some last minute touches to the "Green Machine". Kind of hasty, but I needed it for a game last week. A game where it got ripped to shreds by an Ork Warboss in the third turn.

A bit of touching-up

I found two of my AOBR dreads I painted for my Raptors Chapter Army. I was a bit bored when I started them so I tried out a bit of camo on them. But I ran into a bit of trouble when I mounted them on their bases. When the glue dried the whole thing had bent out of shape. So I removed them, did a rework on the bases and touched up the painting a bit. I also added a bit of chipped paint and some scribbling on the scrolls.

Since there are no chapter-logo on this one I was thinking about adding a banner to its back.

A bit of a front/back shot of the first dread.

A total take on the Strom Renegade Army

So I got around to taking pictures of the whole army. (Well not really the whole army since the Valkyrie and the Sentinel aren't in the picture).
Here we go:

HQ (front and center) with banner, dual flamers, Vox-caster and Commander with two Body Guards. Also, to the right of the main HQ we have the "Dark Commissar".

I have two main Infantry platoons. The far most left one has a unit of (Zombie)Conscripts added to it. The units have a mix of flamers and granadelaunchers with a Vox-caster in every unit. The platoon command squads have a Vox-caster, meltagun, banner and medics.
If I am to pick out any favorites in my army, we have my dug-in Heavy Bolters, and not to forget the "Ogryn Autocannon Carrier":

And my Psyker Battle Squad, one of my overall favorite builds in this army:

Then the question is, "what's my next move? What plans do I have for the future of this army?" Well, first of I want to put two more Armoured Sentinels on the table - so I have a full trio of them. Then I'm thinking that I might want some Storm Troopers to put in my Valkyrie Transport. And another thought is to add more Conscripts to the squad - right now there are 20 of them. I might want to max them out. But that's all in the (near)future. Right now there are still some details to finish up here and there on my existing minis.

Project Multitasking...

I like to multitask! It's good to mix your painting-projects - so you don't lose your interrest along the way. Right now I'm putting my main interrest into my Valkyria/Vendetta -flyer, but I'm also getting some job done on some other projects:
First up is my re-painted Space Marine Scouts. They used to be Blood Angels but now they're part of my Raptors Chapter Army:

There are still some details remaining, like eyes and hair on two of them. I'm also working on adding some more infantry to my Strom Renegade Army:

Three more to go!!

Work continues!

Work is progressing on The Valkyria/Vendetta build. And now the work is starting to get into the fun part.

I've started the weathering process on some parts on the hull and I added some white stripes on the wings. I will also add some stripes to the fins.

A bit of a closeup of the left wing. The work will continue tonight as well as the planning of the placement of some nice Chaos-insignias!

Getting a bit tired of this!

For some time now I have been working on the Valkyria Transport/Vendetta Gunship. And I have to admit that I'm getting a bit tired of it. I will not be building another one of these kits, not in a while anyway.
But let's return to the progress at hand:

I masked the areas of the hull that's closest to the engines. I didn't want any of the weathering spilling outside the engines at this moment. I've also blacklined all of the different panels the hull consists of.

I've used the same technique for the weathering of the engines that I used for the Raptors Chapter Land Raider (still a work in progress but will be completed as soon as this bird is finished). I'm still pondering how much of the rest of the kit I will attack with my weathering. This time I'm trying to think before I start - I usually have a tendency to overdo the weathering part of many of my larger builds...

In an effort to try and save some space, when it comes to transporting this kit, I have magnetized the cockpit so it can be removed when it needs to packed away. I have also magnetized the two hardpoints under the wings and the cannon-mount on the left side of the cockpit. I can now chose freely what weapons it will be carrying into battle. I have also constructed two sets of Twinlinked LasCannons for the Vendetta-variant (still missing another Twinlinked set for the cockpit).

Airsupport!

So I really went back on the plan, not to add any vehicles to my Traitor army. After building my first Sentinel I wanted a bit of a challange - so instead of buing two more sentinels I baught a Valkyria Transport.
And right now I'm detailing the interior:

A bit of a top-view:

Side-gunner from the outside:

Pilots:

 


As for armaments I will magnetize the whole lot - and build some Lascannon-mounts so I can upgrade it to a Vendetta gunship. I have used the same paintingtechniques on the interior as I used on the Raptors Landraider. And as for the colour of the outer hull I will go for the same as on the Sentinel - with some nice Chaos Stars and insignias.