This Citroën Kegresse Type P19 was on display at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels.
As early as 1911 Adolphe Kegresse conceived a vehicle featuring both wheels and tracks for more efficient driving on difficult terrains (snow, dirt and mud). In 1920 he teamed up with Andre Citroën for the production of a “half-track car”. That same year a demo of the “Citroen 10HP type A” fitted with the Kegresse tracks enthused both Andre Citroen and the military. The Citroen company acquired exclusivity for the Kegresse licence until 1934 and produced a series of vehicles featuring the Kegresse system. The Citroen Kegresse P19 was used to tow artillery.
At GamesDay 2006 I purchased a box of Ork Kommandos. They were a release from Games Workshop as part of the Medusa V campaign. I also got a couple of Kommando with a Burna. This is a nice model. The Ork Kommando with Burna comes as two castings, which provides four components, the main body, a backpack and the two arms, one of which has the actual burna. I constructed the models and I added some slate and modelling sand to the base.
The next stage was to give the models a black undercoat, where the black spray has “missed” areas this was touched up with thinned down Chaos Black paint. Having given the models a black undercoat, they were drybrushed with Tin Bitz.
I really liked the Cathayan Sentinel especially the paint job which made it look like it was terracotta.
Though one model does not make an army, and the other Cathay forces would need painting.
However… I was intrigued by a recent posting on the Warhammer Community where Lewis from the Warhammer Studio had painted some Jade Warriors as terracotta warriors.
I decided to do something different and paint a unit of terracotta Jade Warriors to match my Cathayan Sentinel. They were painted mainly with drybrushes, which I intentionally left quite dusty and textured to give the illusion of the hard terracotta. This was followed by washes to provide some deeper shadows, then static grass and foliage were added to give them an ancient feel, as if they’ve just been awoken in Grand Cathay’s time of need.
Lewis went on to say:
This is a great way to get a unit painted quickly. I even contemplated painting a whole army in this style, but I prefer the idea of having a unit or two done like this, given context by the surrounding army of living, breathing warriors.
I started thinking about creating and painting a whole army in this style. I think the use of grass and foliage would enhance and break up the muddy look of a terracotta force, which would otherwise could be quite bland.
Thinking about it.
There are some guides out there from the community on how to paint terracotta, so useful help there.
The Battle of Signus Prime was a diorama at Warhammer World where the Blood Angels Legion are advancing towards the Cathedral of the Mark across the devastated landscape of Signus Prime.
At GamesDay 2006 I purchased a box of Ork Kommandos. I got the Kommando with Big Shoota to add to the force. I put the whole model together. I added some slate to the base.
The next stage was to give the model a black undercoat. I then gave the model a drybrush of Tin Bitz.
More photographs of the model from the workbench, as well as the GW painted version.
The Mark IIb Land Raider Phobos is one of the earliest marks of the standard pattern of Land Raider, and it still bears similarities to both the Land Raider Proteus and the Spartan Assault Tank that served as the models for the design.
The Mark IIb Land Raider Phobos is the only pattern of the standard Land Raider Phobos that uses the older armoured sponsons, as they do not allow the weapons they hold to fully rotate. This pattern of Land Raider is mostly extinct within Space Marine Armouries, having been replaced with newer marks and patterns of the standard Land Raider Phobos. However, some Chapters may still possess one or two as treasured relics of their ancient past.
The Land Raider MkIIb is probably my favourite Land Raider variant. I do have one of them in my collection. I knew that if I was going to get a Land Raider it would have to be the Forgeworld MkIIB Land Raider. I did get one in the end at GamesDay 2006. Sadly it was recently retired from the range. I wrote up some reflections on my MkIIB Land Raider, on the current state of the painting and what I needed to do next. In the end I went down a different route.
I had both a Grey Knights Terminator with Psycannon and a regular Grey Knights Terminator. These were metal models, which went together very easily.
I gave them both a black undercoat.
…and then I lost interest. However I have got them out of storage recently. As you can see the models have suffered by being in storage and there are parts of the models where the undercoat has been worn away. I don’t think though I will redo the undercoat at this stage. I am thinking about painting them with Leadbelcher, but I may need to get a new can of spray as my current can doesn’t seem to be doing the trick at the moment.
More photographs of both models from the workbench.
The Malcador Infernus is a variant of the venerable Malcador Assault Tank design. It is not widely used by Imperial armed forces at the present time and is in fact little known even within the Imperial military. In many regions of the Imperium, the Malcador passed out of common service many millennia ago. The few Malcadors that remain in the Emperor of Mankind’s service have been relegated to the Departmento Munitorum’s strategic reserve, to the arsenals of second-line Planetary Defence Forces or are maintained in active service only by a few units of the Imperial Guard due to ancient tradition. The Malcador Infernus variant has been mostly replaced by the faster and more reliable Hellhound in front-line Imperial Guard regiments. The Infernus is armed with a massive, vehicle-sized Flamer known as an Inferno Gun.
In 2007 I purchased the new Space Marine Librarian in Terminator armour as I really did like the model and for me would certainly fit into my Grey Knights army with all the books and purity seals.
Obviously at £8 I thought it was quite expensive for a single model at the time, but then when has Games Workshop even made “cheap” models. Of course today the plastic Librarian in Terminator Armour is slightly more costly at £26.
Nice model and nice that all the weapon options are included. The model comprises three castings, once I had put these together I gave the model a black undercoat.
I then started painting the armour, using Leadbelcher…
…and then I lost interest. However I have got it out of storage recently. As you can see the model has suffered by being in storage and there are parts of the model where the undercoat has been worn away. I don’t think though I will redo the undercoat at this stage, especially as I had already started painting the armour.
