Posted November 24th, 2007 by Malface

OMG! An update?!?! Yup, it’s true - reports of Cutthroat’s demise have been greatly exaggerated! Granted, no one’s posted in just about six months, but that’s no reason to think we’re gone for good, is it? Unfortunately we’ve all been busy in other aspects of our lives and haven’t had too much time to post… even though we’ve all had several hobby projects on the go. Well, I am going to make it my responsibility to motivate the other Cutthroats and hopefully pump some life back into this site!

To start things off, I’ve photographed a couple of models I painted up for this weekend’s Cities of Death / Combat Patrol tournament held by The Lost in Trenton, ON.

Panzergrenadier Cmd

Posted May 29th, 2007 by Malface

Well, I should be working on my Challenge entry, but I just ordered a giant set of paints and am going to wait for them to arrive before starting. Instead, I began painting the skin on my Flames of War Germans - my first attempt at 15mm scale miniatures! Last night I ended up completing my PzG Platoon Command base:

I’m quite happy with how they turned out, especially the camo. I did a lot of web research before starting in order to pin down at least an approximation of historical accuracy. The Panzerfaust trooper has a crest painted on the side of his helmet; I’m not sure how accurate that would be, but I saw it in a reference piece and thought it looked neat.

Since I didn’t have any experience painting at this scale, I decided to try the whole base start-to-finish before adopting a more factory-style process for the rest of the infantry; this allowed me to get an idea as to how hard it is to get detail on these models, and how long they take to paint overall.

These guys were painted in a base coat, black-lined (allowing a thin line of the black primer to show through at seams - effective and fast shading) and then spot highlighted on certain edges. The camo got a thin wash of Vallejo Smoke to bring down the contrast.

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Posted May 14th, 2007 by Malface

Another unit for the Urban Combat Cadre; a Sniper Team! Though proving to be an early & easy target for the Ravenwing opponent I played, the Sniper Drones do pack quite the punch! Honestly, I think that Broadsides or Hammerheads would be better suited in games of 1,000 points or more, but under than The Snipers do make an effective yet inexpensive heavy support choice! Though limited in their usefulness versus ‘nids and other horde-ish armies, they’re more than their points worth versus heavy hitters like Terminators and the odd Dreadnought.

Posted May 8th, 2007 by Malface

Well GamesDay has come and gone, and with it the Grey Knights’ combat patrol tournament. About four days before the event I decided that I wasn’t going to get my Urban Combat Cadre done in time, and opted not to rush the paint jobs. I ended up taking a similar list (swapping a Crisis Suit in place of the Pathfinders) using some finished models from my previous 40k challenge with Nomad.

Here we have the Stealth Team (sans Drones) that was responsible for a lot of Deep Strike-y goodness in my matches! These guys were originally painted up for the regular Tau force, but I liked the colour scheme enough and decided to try doing more models along the same lines - and so the UCC was formed! I only had two of the newer XV25 suits remaining, and so I ended up filling out the unit with one of the older XV15’s (I had a blister lying around from my Shadowsun conversion project).

The unit was looking kinda plain, so at the last minute I decided that, like my plan for the Fire Warriors, the Stealth team leadres will have white/bone “helmets”. The resulting contrast was strikign and really worked well on the tabletop - I’m quite happy with the way these guys turned out.