1/2 of Mil-Mi 24 'Hind' Valkryie proxy completed

What else should I do to it? I'm going to add yellow warning bits on the rear rotor, some insignia and more weathering. I need to also paint the windscreens and steel around the cotpit. What colours should I paint the glass? Thoughts? It won't be as weathered as my BMD-1.

Cheers.

Battle testing, Mil-Mi 24 Test colour scheme.

Midgame. SO many things exploded.

Hello.

Had a couple of battles. I have now tested my 1000pt VDV army list.

It seems to perform well. I have no problem killing tanks at least, the army having a vendetta and 9X Melta guns. 

I played a non conventional game: My 1000pt IG army, Vs another 1000pt IG force which included a leman russ, 2x valkryies, a chimera, stormtroopers with lord commissar and veterans.
There was another force with 2 Leman Russes, a rhino, and 11 space marines Including a captain. (these belonged to a new player, who was defending an objective worth 3 Vps, and the 2 other objectives were only one each.

 I managed to kill all the Imperial Guard armour as well as the space marine russes. (the Hind valkryie killed a leman russ via multilaser shots to the rear armour! :D (I had a lot of good luck though)

There were two survivors by the end of the game: A lone space marine and a wounded Lord Commissar. I had an immobilised vendetta contesting the IG players objective, my valkryie was contesting the Space marines 3pt value one and my chimera full of meltavets was on my objective. Unfortunately the commissar ran 6" and contested the one I held. Draw! GG too.

However I need a bit of fine tuning. The vet unit riding in the valkryie has this:

Plasma gun, Flamer, Autocannon, Forward Sentries

130pts

 

Their role is to either deploy on an objective on foot, while the rest of my force moves forward. But I'm not sure this is wise, as they''ll get smashed in assault. I think since my valk usually outflanks they should ride in it almost always, as mobile objective takers. 

might scrap the auto cannon and forward sentries and arm them with 2x plasma and a flamer.

so Plasma gun x2, carapace armour, flamer for 135pts. I figure they'll be able to attack the rear armour of tanks due to their mobility, they could kill some MEQ or hard units, flame weak ones, and maybe the carapace armour will be help them survive to contest or take an objective once they deploy. 

 

 

Below are pics of another battle. 

Hind test paintjob...Going to undercoat it green I think.

I am return

I replaced the machine gun with a multilaser. now it's Imperial Guard lol.

Hallo Kameraden. Been working and cathcing up with friends. Instead of making warhammer when I should be studying ;)

Now Uni's back, Warhammer is back.

Progress is (just today actually) some Ak-74's have arrived for my VDV.

I also made the first Valkryie/Mil-Mi 24 Hind Gunship. Apologies for messy desk.

Expect more soon. Aus.

Planning to make my Paratroopers.

BMP-2...so small!

 Today I saw a 16yo girl who slashed her wrists, another 16yo with cardiac problems, a man with a messed up back from an industrial elevator compressing his spine, and other sick and dying people.

Pretty sad.

Back to blog, I am just examining what products are available to help me shake off the Cadian look a bit. I'll include a mix of Cadian and Russian gear, to highlight the ragtag equipment veterans have (and Russian ones especially)

It's bad luck to go into combat berets them on (in the VDV) but It will help Identify my NCO's. 

From Redstar Minitures, a great new company. Modern Ruskie helms.

These are mainly Interior Ministry Troop heads (MVD)..I may use a couple though. Perhaps for Spetsnaz?

Maxmini aks...I'll have mostly these, but some lasguns too.

Dragunov. I only have one sniper in my army list. But perhaps I could do up some 'Ratlings'

I'll give my flamer vet squad these. Maxmini again.

If I cut the box things of regular cadian helmets, it will look like this. But should I just leave the helmets?

I can convert the cadian helmet to be a K6-3. Only problem is, doesn't fit with airborne theme. WAY too heavy.

I'll use a few berets, for my srgts.

Revell 1:48 Mil-Mi 24 'Hind'. THIS!!! Will probably buy this after some Cadians and the bitz seen on this page.

With regards to the valk/vendetta conversion, should I get some TL lascannons and a multilaser? To 40kify it a bit more? I'm still going to keep the rotor blades. I don't think I need to convert the rocket pods (see pic). Perhaps I can convert the nose machine gun to be a multilaser. Otherwise it can be cut back. The equipment on my real vendetta snapped off.

See this page for Images of Russian equipment.

Ciao!