40k on a desert planet - oldhammer chaos beasts

[Steam Flunky]

Decided it was time to take a few photos of old 40k stuff. I think the last 40k miniatures i bought were a box of Kroot in 2001 so most of these will probably be older.

Warfare on a desert planet
My setting is Torq XLII, a desert mining world where many squats fled to after their homeworlds were invaded by tyranids. Around the same time a badly damaged eldar craftworld carried out a "controlled" crash landing on the planet stranding the survivors. Although the eldar and squats often trade peacefully with each other, the arrogance of the eldar and the squats pride and their ability to hold a grudge often leads to conflict.
Also on the planet is a small Kroot colony and a few imperial guard units such as the Ratlings in the first photos here below.

These photos are my first attempts to work with Photoshop (Photoshop Elements 11). Up to now i have only edited size and lighting on my photos with Photoscape, a free internet software download. My other photos are on a couple of threads on the fantasy board or here - http://steamflunky.deviantart.com/gallery/

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[Blue in vt]

these are Fantastic photos....thanks for sharing!

Cheers,

Blue

[Elbows]

Love stuff like this.  I wish Lead Adventure would put together a yearly album of the best paintjobs and best photos like this and sell it...what a great coffee table book it would make.

[DivisMal]

Excellent photos, dude! Thank you for posting them.

[Ragnar]

Great photos!

[beefcake]

They look very cool. I must upskill in that sort of thing.

[Vanvlak]

Very nice - I like the choice of troops too.
 

[tomrommel1]

really really marvelous pictures

[The Voivod]

Really awesome pictures. nice.

[von Lucky]

Very evocative. And if this is you just startig out in this medium it's only going to get better.

[The Rock]

Very nice!

[Steam Flunky]

Thanks all.
Nice weather at last here in NW germany today so i will try to take a few photos outside where i can get some REAL fire and smoke into the pics. No idea if that will make the photos better but i remember as a kid how much fun it was to burn and blow up old model tanks and buildings and i dont think i have changed much.
If i know me, i will probably have no eyebrows left by this evening 

[randycarter]

Safety first, for god's sake 
Great photos, this is realism!

[Davout]

Really great pics. I love those old rattling sculpts. I would love to see some tanks in the next set of pics 

[Steam Flunky]

Really great pics. I love those old rattling sculpts. I would love to see some tanks in the next set of pics

Thanks.
There are no tanks in the next set of photos but i will try to find some time soon to take some more with tanks. Unfortuanately i only have 3 tanks so there so i dont have much to choose from.