Catachan Updates

So I've done a little work on the Catachans over the last week, adding a few details to the tank after I decided to drop the idea of painting a camoflage pattern on it.

I've added a second layer of Death World Forest as well as some grey and metal to the tracks and cannons.  Beyond that I'm going to try and make it look grimy all over but not in an industrial way.  I might also drybrush some Helion Green onto it in a similar manner to the way I've drybrushed my Cadian tanks.

Apart from that I've started working on the Scout Sentinel,  Again I'm going to use the same techniques I used on the tank to finish off the Sentinel.  Besides that though I added a Sniper by the simple expedient of taking him from my Cadians.  For this guy I decided to try and paint a camo pattern on his cloak.  It didn't turn out brilliant, but I think with a splotch of Moot Green added here and there might fix it.
























Finally I want to add a Leman Russ Punisher to this army, but I can't decide if I should give it sponsons.  You see the cannon is awesome and looks every syallable of that word.  I feel that if I add sponsons to the tank, they'll detract from the cannon.

 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                                                                                                                             

 

How Camoflage Turned to Rust

Having decided that my Leman Russ Exterminator would not be joining its sister on the frozen battlefields that my Cadians fight on, but instead fighting in swamp-infested jungles with my Catachans, I thought no jungle fighting tank would be complete without camoflage.

Now I've never painted camoflage on a tank.  I've tried on infantry but that's a simple case of adding a few bits of complemantary paints to a main basecoat.  With a tank that doesn't tend to work as I found out when I tried adding Skrag Brown to the basecoat of Death World Forest.  The initial stages were enough to put me off doing anymore.

 

The pictures you see above are the result (yes I should have kept the pictures I used the flash on) and at the time I was disheartened but tonight while I was applying another coat of Death World Forest, I realised that Skrag Brown makes for some pretty good rust so I left bits of it on to add some character to the tank.

This time I did use the flash and while the close up of the back isn't brilliant it does show how the Skrag Brown makes for the rust.  Quite whether I'll stick with going for camoflage I'm not sure, but maybe with something that's mostly peeled off.

Catachans

Having backtracked from my earlier position that Catachans were gay softcore porn, I've been painting a few up recently to go with the twenty or so I bought years ago.  I've also expanded that small collection by adding in a Leman Russ Exterminator.

I was not sure about that but having covered the tank in Death World Forest, the end result has been well worth it with the tank a satisfyingly drab green.

However, I've also heard talk of the next IG codex coming out in the early months of next year.  At the moment it might be in January or March, depending on where the Orks end up on the release schedule, though as talk has it both will have to wait until after the Tyranids who may be out in November.

According to some of the rumours, Company Command Squads may be the only HQ choice possible which they kind of where in the old codex where you had to take a command platoon.  Those same rumours also talk about Veteran squads being limited to 2 special weapons instead of 3 to prevent plasma spam.

Doubtless we'll hear other rumours in the coming months and I'm sure if you look on the forums you'll already be able to find pages and pages of them.  Anyway here are some pictures of my newest tank.

 

 

I'm going to add another layer of Death World Forest to the tank before trying out some camoflage patterns using Skrag Brown.  I'm thinking to go for more of a disruption pattern than standard camoflage.

I've also got a Scout Sentinel with Missile Launcher that needs painting up and I'll try to use the same patterns on that when the time comes.