Tim Prints Epic

You gotta get that infantry moved safely somehow

Can’t say I immensely enjoy army painting half a dozen IFV’s like this but they be done. Though I do now realize I will probably need 3 more to transport the support squads and snipers I would like to attach to the formation.

next up probably my last mayor prints for this faction until I’ve painted more, I have printed 7 more Leman Russ tanks, including 4 mars pattern ones for variety. Luckily since my first tank prints Mkhand uploaded alternative designs for pretty much all russ turrets, including two alternative vanquisher turrets, so I replaced the old one with the big bell on the end with something a bit more reasonable.
Assuming I can get myself to paint all this I might end up printing 3 more hulls sans sponsons, for the conqueror and executioner variants (I think those are the ones) and some tank destroyer and thumper variants as well should I wish to play as a tank legion. But first let’s paint these 10!

Something tank company is coming this way I think, but for today I have something that provides a bit of reach.

The barrels on these are just wedged in there, since I am planning to make a medusa variant barrel soon.

I’m also testing a infantry autocannon design right now, so I can re-base my infantry with a bit more accurate weaponry. Especially for support squads this should get me a long way I think, using the left over engineer and spotter models I still have.

For today’s progress (and its coming daily, tomorrows stuff is already printing) we have 3 hellhounds fresh of the priming, and the first camo scheme test! I’m trying to go classic IG camo scheme on these, I quite like the result, its a bit involved to be doing 30-40 tanks in but lets see how far I get with batch painting these.

With my printer churning away while I work, I’m beginning to build a small force already. Of course I did end up going for all the shiny things first, so I will need to put in some work to make this a field able army, but here is what I have now.

So, my question to everybody reading this are these:

1. what colour scheme shall I go for? I feel in 6mm a brighter scheme is needed or else the model will somewhat disappear on the tabletop. But you can still do a bright camo scheme.

2. What should I print next to turn this into a viable playable force? Nearly any imperial guard units I can find files for, and those I can not I could make myself without to much trouble. However I’ve never played Epic armagedon, so I’m not sure what would make a fun balanced army to play.

I really need to start painting, any suggestions for camo schemes for the tanks would be appreciated! Since I took the last pictures I’ve printed:

-3 chimera

-2 deathstrikes

-2 hydra

-2 more super heavies

-all the weapon to make the SH’s stormswords, stormblades or shadowswords. I needed some heavy flamer turrets and sensors for this so I did a quick CAD of them, hardly any details but they look decent at this scale.

With the super heavy turning out quite well I gave some russes a try, very happy with how these turned out, lots of turret options for them as well though I’m not sold on the muzzle break on the longer barrel.

In the beginning… I wanted to try and print the epic war-hound titan found on thingyverse, that went pretty well and I couldn’t stop myself printing a shadowsword while painting the titan.