I've decided that, instead of rudely hijacking other Dakkaites threads, to come up with my own Blog (that word sticks in my throat- not a fan of it).
As some of you will no doubt know by now I have fingers in a fair few pies. Probably to my own detrement. So in order to focus my brain I will be logging my activities and probably provide a few laughs for those of you who will read this madman's diary.
Most recent activity involves Mantic's excellent (if sometimes frustrating) Deadzone miniatures. I am gradually grinding my way through my small Plague force and I think to be fair, it's not too shabby. Next project will be Orx Marauders (though I can't quite decide on a scheme dammit!)
For your viewing pleasure, here's some of my 'orrible, gribbly infected muties.
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Also created a rather nice looking Necron Lord for my Nihilakh Dynasty army
Apologies for the awful pic quality on the Nemesor
Today's update includes some of my DA which I thought I'd put in here. Most of it is from last year, which is when I really made a push back into the hobby.
Please note, I have since been back to some of these models to correct any snots of paint that got in places it shouldn't have. I just haven't bothered to put an updated pic up yet.
Some of my brother's Xenos creatures.. He's currently working on a Tyranid Hive Fleet Behemoth splinter.
Zoanthrope- using the old metal Ravener tails.
These bits will be going on my brother's Old One Eye Carnifex to represent him being the Alpha. The claw is from the Exocrine kit with a bit snipped from bog standard Carnifex claws
Just got myself an Avatars of War Skaven warlord (OK it's called something else on the site, but for all intents and purposes it's a frakking Skaven. To say he's a bit of a brute would be an understatement. He really dwarfs the IoB plastic one..
Furthermore- I'm going to need more room to store my upcoming Heresy Miniatures Dragon.. cause damn that sucka is big!
they do exist. I thought they were a myth for he past four years. I'm both sad and glad I skipped ordering that thing back then when preorders went up, the delays would have sent me on a rampage. Love the rat ogre with the hook arm by the way , a little too smooth and clean for a rat, but nothing some battle damage wouldn't fix.
Theophony wrote: they do exist. I thought they were a myth for he past four years. I'm both sad and glad I skipped ordering that thing back then when preorders went up, the delays would have sent me on a rampage. Love the rat ogre with the hook arm by the way , a little too smooth and clean for a rat, but nothing some battle damage wouldn't fix.
Yeah Andy's had some financial problems the past few years, but from the look of things he's pulling himself out of the mire. I'm perfectly happy to wait for mine, as his casting process for them is gradually evolving as he rolls them out. So by the time I get mine it should be pretty much a doddle to put together . I believe he's eBaying the ones people don't want so keep a weather eye on eBay for Heresy Miniatures if you want one!
Rat ogre: Yeah I had some spare bits from a DE Talos and then I saw one of the art pieces in WHFB Armies: Skaven and poof! Hook armed Rat Ogre
I present the latest hapless victim of a Medusae parasite as well as my Hurn mercenary (from Heresy Miniatures- now OOP) which counts as a Sslyth (after all, the Archon court is loosely categorized in the codex )
Apologies for the pics- still stuck with this frakking iPhone piece of crap.
Newest addition to my Deathwing... Primed and ready for paint- since I took this picture, I've basically just basecoated all the armour plating with Ushabti Bone.
Yeah apart from the kicking of my ass lol. Company master got impaled to death by Hive Guard!! Deathwing Knights are SOOO worth their points. Killed x2 Carnifex lol (with the assistance from a LRR with Twin assault cannons i might add!)
**Edit: On a different note, I've been tinkering with my Marauders from Deadzone this evening. While I usually hate painting flesh, it has come out quite nicely I think. Photos to follow later. Maybe once I've dropped this killer headache caused by acrylic brush cleaner fumes! I need an extraction fan in my hobby room I think..
Soo.. Lots of things going on of late. 100 bucks worth of Mantic ruined scenery goodness ( 20% off courtesy of England football team's massive World Cup fail), 60 bucks worth of miscellaneous scenery bitz all on their way .
Effectively it's
Sci-Fi Ruined Quadrant (762pcs) as well as the freebies they're throwing in there with it!
As well as various Imperial Bastion,Aegis Defense Line etc etc bits. Next few weeks will be doing lots of buildings/ruins etc. I'll also be having a bit of fun with my Plague muties this weekend in a game of Deadzone with the brother fielding Enforcers. Only the 2nd game I've played sadly.
I will be picking up some of that ruined scenery as well. I have a landing pad, and battle sector that I have kept unbuilt so I could mix them in with the ruined sprues. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it all.
Sadly I didn't get any games in this weekend, nor did I get much painting done. But I have made quite a promising start on my Chaplain. ie this 'un-
Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get my hands on his rather nice helmet or the base that comes with it(eBay). But I have found a suitable replacement (bare head) that has the p***ed off, kill the xenos look to it. He'll be facing as though he's looking down the iron sights of his bolt pistol about to cap something as he strides over the crest of a rocky hill. Bringing his Crozius down in quick succession.
squall018 wrote: I will be picking up some of that ruined scenery as well. I have a landing pad, and battle sector that I have kept unbuilt so I could mix them in with the ruined sprues. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it all.
Thraxas Of Turai wrote: So...much...terrain. Enjoy the sore thumbs from putting it together. Cannot wait to see what you do with it.
I've found that snipping a tiny bit off the corner of the "pins" on the connector makes for a less painful assembly. You're right though- first time I tried putting stuff together= soooo many sore fingers lol.
On a different subject I today got Tactical Objective cards for nought after a fubar by GW's email system a couple weeks back.
A few weeks ago we sent you an email telling you that the Warhammer 40,000 Tactical Objective Cards were back in stock. As you are aware this was an error, and we’re really sorry its taken us so long to get in touch. You can’t trust Gretchin to do anything!
I know it’s frustrating to be told that something you’ve been waiting to get your hands on is available to buy when it isn’t. I’m really sorry. To make it up to you, we’re giving you a Virtual Gift Voucher. Use it to buy your Tactical Objective Cards, or treat yourself to something else. Either way, it’s on us.
Your voucher code is printed below. Just click here (or on the button beside the code) and log into your account. Then, you just need to click on 'My Virtual Gift Vouchers' and you'll be taken to a page where you can add this voucher code to your account.
Thanks for your understanding, and rest assured that order will be restored to the Gretchin pens in swift and brutal fashion as soon as I can find my heaviest spanner.
Yours sincerely,
Erik
Webstore Big Boss
Still a bit annoyed I had to pay £3.50 for postage. FOR CARDS!
So I feel I may be getting rid of my IoB Skaven stuff. Simply because painting hordes and hordes of ratmen will drive me to madness. I may go for Dark Elves instead since they're less horde reliant..
GrimDork wrote: Yeah hordes are kind of lame... i mean when i was younger i had more time and energy for it but... meh.
Dark elves are cool, and you can always paint them for the table, or go nuts and make them extra shiny.
Plus I'm already up to my neck in Dark Eldar for 40K so what the hell? Why not have a fantasy army of em IMO.
But nobody is EVER EVER EVER going to have me calling their infantry Dark this or Dim that. They're crossbowmen, swordsmen or spearmen end of discussion. Lol. Seriously, who took Matt Ward on? He's awful.
Haha. Just don't be too much of a nerd and research the D&D drow names for everything
I, too, have a huge pile of dark eldar... not sure they'll ever get revisited. If mantic gets their stuff together regarding their twilight kin, I may someday consider having a dark elf host.. but meh. I'm somewhere around 75/25 scifi/fantasy these days, used to be a lot more even.
I think I had one of those old school dark elf sorceresses standing in for an archon for... ever. Pistol and a whip, then the corset, dress, and crown really just suited the role.
Skaven are one of the best horde armies to paint, though. Lots of brown ink or Devlan mud, etc and you and up with a great looking force. Dark Elves require much more care in their paint than Skaven...
But there are an awful lot less of them to paint...
That said there are fewer finer sights than a fully painted army of rancid ratmen arrayed on the tabletop, and as Azazelx says they can be relatively quick and easy to paint up.
It's currently looking like I'll be doing a joint Beastmen army with my brother- been reading Malus Darkblade "The Daemon's Curse" recently. A lot of conversion ideas.
So I got a good look at the Battle Systems Terrain today- pics by Slinky on here, looks like I've got my hands full. But it'll be a nice break from all those 'urty push fit plastic clips the Mantic stuff uses lol. My poor fingers!
Nice- I think I have enough terrain to go with for now though. Speaking of terrain, I picked this up a while back. Fond childhood memories of this game . Nice terrain for fantasy/40K too I think (the Castle bit at least.)
Heh. Was a brilliant game IMO.
Gots my Battle Systems KS pledge reward through in the mail today, courtesy of Wayland Games. Loving it. Really nice heavy duty cardboard.
Didn't do much with it this evening due to home made burgers and Captain America: Winter Soldier awesomeness.But... did get this rather awesome turbine piece put together..
Observe. Plus my newest Mantic Battlezones building...
OK- So I've just got my Deadzone Pt 2 pledge. Asterian weapon platforms are HUGE. The Asterians themselves are a bit small. Definitely not a good substitute for Wraithguard scale wise! Got all my missing bits and pieces too for the Enforcers and Marauders, as well as some awesome Merc goodness in the form of Sgt. Howlett. Though the Marauder Warboss' claw is substantially larger than his lol.
Mantic Zombies are awesome! Some really good variety in there. Even some female zombies which I've not seen many of.
I tried to collect Skaven in the past when was really much younger (think 10 or 12 at time) and due to attention span gave up as they were a lot, really good to paint but just got boring.
May try Skaven again in far far future so next year or so forth.
Azazelx wrote: I like that DA Sar'nt, though he makes my neck hurt for some reason. Zombies look good, but I'm still not sold on those Orks. Or Orx. Whatever.
Think there's an issue with the upload on that image- when you click on it, the zoomed in picture is rotated clockwise :/
Oooh, that claw arm is big. For some reason I thought it was an entirely new metal cast, is it just restic with a metal add-on then? The zombies are just easy to work with and effective, cannot wait to see someone paint a mass of 100 odd of them.
Thraxas Of Turai wrote: Oooh, that claw arm is big. For some reason I thought it was an entirely new metal cast, is it just restic with a metal add-on then? The zombies are just easy to work with and effective, cannot wait to see someone paint a mass of 100 odd of them.
And...more DA please.
Yeah- I'll just stick to DZ strike team size force thanks lol. He's one of the original Marauder models from Deadzone, I just pulled an arm off and whacked that on . Needs some filling on his arm pit though. I also got some metal head options as well as some bub snikt claws (which look awesome I may add!). Can't praise the zombies enough. Really nice kit.
DA army wise, I'm in the middle of painting a bike Chaplain to lead my Ravenwing into battle. I got my hands on one from eBay for a pretty good steal of £8 or £9. Not too bad. I was painting up his faithful steed last night. Not much left to do on there.
To be clear, it's this model
On a further note I've put in a pledge for the Dungeon Saga: Dwarf King's Quest by Mantic. A mighty pledge of $155- the Dungeon Master pledge+Crypt Stalkers add on+ Legendary Heroes of Dolgarth. I may also throw in some more pennies for the Warlords of Galahir add on package for $25.
Who DOESN'T like a small horde of murderous greenskin barbarians??
I'm probably gonna get the base game and however many expansions they come out with for Dungeon Sagas. Could use a nice fantasy board game, with options for expansion etc blah blah.
What do you already have coming from Mars Attacks!? You've got enough left to pick up escalation if you didn't already (or another one, it was one of the best for the money sets), a stompy robot or two, multiple giant bugs, I think you could get 3packs of the trucks or saucers for 50 couldn't you? Also there were those resin crashed cars from antenocitties, both of those would eat 50 bucks.
GrimDork wrote: I'm probably gonna get the base game and however many expansions they come out with for Dungeon Sagas. Could use a nice fantasy board game, with options for expansion etc blah blah.
What do you already have coming from Mars Attacks!? You've got enough left to pick up escalation if you didn't already (or another one, it was one of the best for the money sets), a stompy robot or two, multiple giant bugs, I think you could get 3packs of the trucks or saucers for 50 couldn't you? Also there were those resin crashed cars from antenocitties, both of those would eat 50 bucks.
I've got the $50 MA scenery pack due to be delivered at some point. Attached is the list sent by Mantic. I'm thinking MOARR DZ scenery and some bugs as "dangerous terrain" for 40K.
Azazelx wrote: That Chaplain is a fine model. I should get around to painting my one one day, so I'm keen to see what you do with yours!
Not a lot really, other than putting Ravenwing bling on the front mud guard and a Dark Angels power pack. Managed to get one with the pennant though which should look cool when its on (I miss those!) Maybe some more (!) purity seals. The chaplain's armour is already blinged up to the eyeballs as it is so there's not much to be done there. I've left the grenade launcher off as I feel it just gets in the way. I'll have some grenades mag locked to his hip instead.
As another plus, it came with x3 Umbra pattern (big beefy things with stocks on)boltguns and x3 combat knives-I use the term loosely,they're bloody nasty cleaver things! (which I'm giving to some of the veterans in various tactical squads.)
Azazelx wrote: Aha! A Second-Edition bolters, backpacks and knives sprue?
Oh yeah! Not much difference in scale either which is good I may give my brother the knives though thinking about it. They seem good Plague Knife material
I love the metal Mawbeasts from Mantic. Much beefier and more angry looking! Rather liking the claws for my Marauder commando too
Some of you requested more DA pics so I've thrown up a WIP shot for you all for Mr Beat-stick biker That's it for now. Off to update the Heresy Minis KS thread now..
GrimDork wrote: Haha, those look nice, too bad I didn't get a pack, maybe at retail!
Nice big dogs too!
Some of these DZ models and bits were put in my KS Pt 2 box because they'd missed some stuff out in Pt 1. I ended up with x2 Bomb Mawbeasts but no normal Mawbeasts. I was also missing some CC arms for my Commandos
Yeah I knew there were cards and vaguely remember seeing one w/o a bomb... just so much to sift through to know for sure. Meh, I figure the bomb can just as easily represent a power cell for the jaws and saw
I really like some of those conversion parts for the Marauders, they really serve to a nice bit of variety to the faction. The big gun looks especially badass, quite similar to that of the Hulk. Have you had any balance issues with the metal add ons to the restic bodies?
Good work on the Biker Chap, it must have been around at least 18 years (it is certainly in my GW 1996 catalogue) and it has stood the test of time. Nice to see one of the old pennants in use too.
Thraxas Of Turai wrote: I really like some of those conversion parts for the Marauders, they really serve to a nice bit of variety to the faction. The big gun looks especially badass, quite similar to that of the Hulk. Have you had any balance issues with the metal add ons to the restic bodies?
Good work on the Biker Chap, it must have been around at least 18 years (it is certainly in my GW 1996 catalogue) and it has stood the test of time. Nice to see one of the old pennants in use too.
Cheers all for the feedback!
Yeah quite like the new bits for my Marauders. Makes them look really Orky. I may consider getting a Hulk but I won't use that orrible looking head Mantic made for it. I'll most likely put a 40K Ork head on that.
Balance wise, the metal bits don't really cause much problems. I will say this for Mantic, their bases are good and chunky.
I was quite surprised I got hold of the biker chaplain with the pennant in the kit. GW appears to have discontinued that model fully now. I guess the moulds have packed in at last.
As for the Mantic credit I had for Mars Attacks! KS, I went for the following
Any 3 Giant Bugs for $20- x2 Giant Ants and x1 Giant Spider
x1 DZ Scenery standard pack (MOAR!) $25
x2 DZ Scenery- Accessory Sprues $10
Nope, and I'm not sure if I put in for courier, and it's going to my parents house (kind of in the country so nobody would bother it), so I probably won't know anything until it magically arrives, I just hope since it likely isn't courier they'll actually leave it instead of putting a tag on the door.
GrimDork wrote: Nope, and I'm not sure if I put in for courier, and it's going to my parents house (kind of in the country so nobody would bother it), so I probably won't know anything until it magically arrives, I just hope since it likely isn't courier they'll actually leave it instead of putting a tag on the door.
Ah that sucks. After seeing some of the stuff you've been throwing out there Battlezones wise Grim, I may have to step things up a notch over here with mine. A lot of it is just sat there doing nothing currently!
Fancy land raider, kind of like that tank for as much as I don't love 40k stuff in general anymore.
The DZ scenery is great
Looks like a fairly playable board as-is, I really need to downsize my current landing pad and add a tower like yours, I've seen other people do those too and they're just awesome.
At some point yeah lol. Got a pretty hefty queue of painting to do lol.
There's another set of stairs on the front (facing toward the ground level pad). Didn't like the idea of using x3 triangle pieces to make a double width staircase so just chopped the plugs off x2 staircases and stuck them together. Works much better that way.
I'd have to see it but I think I know what you mean and I did that too. If you put a triangle in the middle it makes it waaa'aaay harder to put models on them too cause of the narrower-than-a-base spot to stand.
Those little micro clips that don't seem to have much of a use? You can stick them in the back of the top of the stair piece to make the stairs come straight off the side of a building. Sometimes they don't line up well with details on the building, but it's another way to use them.
Yeah that's what I was getting at lol. Was kinda tired at the time of posting! I'll be posting a pic of it at some point today. I was fiddling about yesterday with my tanks- you can easily move a Rhino-chassis tank on to the ground level pad. Land Raider is a little big for it though. I'll probably pick up another LZ kit to make a xl size one for a large vehicle drop off point
Just a few things done yesterday, I'd put up a front shot of the Land Raider but my Cam-Fu was crappy last night so it came out all blurred. I'm not sure how I got Leadbelcher all over the tank but it works in my favour for battle damage IMO. I don't know how well it shows up in the photos but in the LR Left photo, one of the side panel appears to have 'dimples' (above the sponson and exit hatches). I had originally intended to fill that with Green Stuff but I've decide to leave it alone and just have battle damage there (say from an angry xenos beastie?)
It looks good. If you are gonna play, you might want a little more in the bottom right corner, 3x3 empty square is no friend to things that well.. don't want to die I like all of the structures though quite a bit.
What are you using for ramps between the buildings? Almost looks like 40k cities of death floor panels but it's probably something else?
Got it in one Grim- they're spare floor sections from the Shrine of the Aquila kit. I had considered putting another building there, but there's a gun emplacement inside the building with the dish on top. It was a desperate last stand by the colony's militia to fend off the Plague in that sector, but they were overwhelmed. Now containment protocols are in effect, a lucky strike team might be able to use the building's extra firepower...
Ahh huh. I guess thats why I recognized them but didn't at the same time, I only had a manufactorum set. May need to go dig it up now though!
They actually gave the gun that comes with the fortification sprues stats and rules for using, they're pretty nasty but sorta hard to get them to work and I don't think they shoot down well.
That scenery looks really good Never really had any scenery you built up from GW or other companies apart from one like oil refinery like structure used for Space Marines.
But going to aim to getting some scenery from GW and built up round with other materials
Just a teeny tiny update with big big results... Locked in my Creature Caster pledge this evening- so Novemberish/Decemberish time I shall be receiving some rather badass 'Uge Monsters . In the form of: A Warrior Daemon, Mountain Dragon and a Zombie Dragon! The latter of which kind of makes a mockery of GW's Zombie Dragon size wise. I'm hoping CreatureCaster won't disappoint and it shouldn't for what I've paid out for these beasts.
So- for those of you not familiar with Creature Caster, here's some 3D sculpts of these awesome dollies..
Nice selection, I was torn on what to order, and he took too long so I pent my mountain dragon funds on x-wing . I'm just getting the pincer demon now. Can't wait to see yours show up and get painted.
The Zombie Dragon and Warrior Demon are for my brothers Undead and Chaos Daemons/Chaos Marines armies. The Mountain Dragon will be a mount for my Dark Elf Dread Lord. The GW dragons are too wiry for my liking. I may be inundated with Dragons now though with Heresy's Emperor Dragon and Mantic's Tyrant of Halpi coming up lol.
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Theophony wrote: Nice selection, I was torn on what to order, and he took too long so I pent my mountain dragon funds on x-wing . I'm just getting the pincer demon now. Can't wait to see yours show up and get painted.
You play Slaaneshi stuff I assume then Theo?
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DarkMistro wrote: Wow they look really huge, how much did that cost you to get them 3?
That sounds pretty decent price for them kind of detailed models May think about saving up to get myself an apocalypse large titan style creature from them
DarkMistro wrote: That sounds pretty decent price for them kind of detailed models May think about saving up to get myself an apocalypse large titan style creature from them
I believe you can buy them from Creature Caster regardless of whether you were in the Kickstarter campaign.
Had a look they are all out of stock lol but think the Kick starter campaign may still be in effect but unsure need to see and find out as may help some kick starter projects
DarkMistro wrote: Had a look they are all out of stock lol but think the Kick starter campaign may still be in effect but unsure need to see and find out as may help some kick starter projects
Be warned- Kickstarters can be highly addictive lol. I've backed 12 projects thus far, and I've only been using Kickstarter a matter of months lol. As if I didn't have enough to do already!
I'm sure if you drop Creature Caster a message on Kickstarter or Facebook he might be able to hook you up with monster awesomeness.
DarkMistro wrote: Will be doing as the size scaling are perfect and I mean PERFECT for true daemons of mass strength (so like Greater Daemon and such alike)
Best get building some scenery for him to hide behind lol. Which one are you looking at getting? I assume since you're a Slaaneshi/Khorne worshipper you'll be after the Pincer, Spider or Warrior daemons.
Well my main Warband is following mostly Khorne so it be that Warrior daemon to start with
He looks so amazing, oh I am building scenery that I'm sure he will love to be in aiming for a very long term project in scenery wise a Fortress of Khorne
So got a little done today- primed up some of my brothers chaos marines plus, after the re-release of Space Hulk I revisited the terminators.
Here's a not quite polished off BA terminator..
GrimDork wrote: Looks pretty solid to me! The red looks pretty rich and I like the other colors you've got going with it.
Cheers- I used the guide they've got in the White Dwarf this week. Say what you will about GW, their guides are pretty solid and do generate good results.
So I had a friend from college over for a game of 7th ed 40K. By the time we got set up, it was getting too late to start. So out came Space Hulk (3rd Ed). Only managed to get the 1st mission in but my god it was bloody! Brother Deino and Sgt Lorenzo were on fire with their shooting. At least a dozen stealers between them for the most part of the game. Sadly their luck ran out on overwatch, and both of them were slain in close quarters. Brother Zael managed to leg it to the Escape Pod control room after a very close encounter with a stealer chasing him down the corridor. The beast ran out of AP just as he reached Zael and I was able to torch the place.
That does look very close lol too close for comfort having some gene stealer right behind you :O but it could be a Slaanesh and then other unearthly manner will happen lol
Thanks! I've finished off the cabling on his head and power fist arm as well as the scope on the storm bolter. Followed it up with 'Ardcoat but I'm not sure if I should throw some Lahmian Medium to get rid of the glossy effect left by it.
Also, I've started up a new blog for my joint Beastmen project for WHFB. I've decided to keep the Sci-Fi and Fantasy stuff separate.
Bits and pieces today really. Primed up my resin Wracks and got one of them started up. Loved the red flayed look of them in the WDW (#34) this weekend so I thought i'd give it a go.
C&C welcome.
Plus, did a bit more with the Space Hulk terminators and had a go with Brother Zael today.
Both look nice Terminator really pops between the lighter spot colors and the well done red. What is your secret on the red? Or did you already tell us and I'm just oblivious?
I like that scheme for the Wracks too. I really want some of the new Dark Eldar but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to stop myself once I started.
GrimDork wrote: Both look nice Terminator really pops between the lighter spot colors and the well done red. What is your secret on the red? Or did you already tell us and I'm just oblivious?
I like that scheme for the Wracks too. I really want some of the new Dark Eldar but I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to stop myself once I started.
Yeah I did- GW's paint guide in WDW #33, Though I went for Drybrushing with a large drybrush. Plenty of raised details to go at on these. I'm trying to smash my way through the obscene amount of painting I've got to go at.
Base Mephiston Red Shade Agrax Earthshade Layer Mephiston Red Layer Wazdakka Red Layer Fire Dragon Bright
GrimDork wrote: Yeah it's all of those layers I'm seeing. Usually when I try something like that it doesn't turn out well for me. Keep it up though, great work here
Practice makes perfect I guess. I think most of it is trying to gauge how much paint to leave on the brush which for me, was a huge pain in the butt at first.
Gotta say, the free hand for the besagew was quite nerve-wracking! Did not wanna have to go back and do that again lol
Ah you've gone with their new look of the skin has being removed due to muscle how did you get them Wracks anyway if don't mind me asking? as they are still pre order? or is it that you are a white dwarf sub so get it with them?
DarkMistro wrote: Ah you've gone with their new look of the skin has being removed due to muscle how did you get them Wracks anyway if don't mind me asking? as they are still pre order? or is it that you are a white dwarf sub so get it with them?
They're the 2010 Finecast resin ones. Plastics are up for pre order
So GW have just posted the video on How to Paint Wracks to their YouTube channel.
Apparently my flayed skin look wasn't a bad try by any means- but the paints they used for that look are as follows,
The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that some of the Wracks on the webstore product page and the back cover of White Dwarf have red skin rather than pale white. According to ’Eavy Metal it’s not skin at all, but rather a complete lack of it, the Wracks having flayed themselves. Yep, they’re wrong ’uns. This disturbing effect was achieved using Ratskin Flesh as the basecoat followed by highlights of Ungor Flesh and Ushabti Bone. The skin was then shaded with Carroburg Crimson and glazed with Bloodletter for that glistening red effect.
I don't know why but glazed/glazing paints (although good for keeping the paints protected) makes them look extremely shiny and unreal looking. but that is just my opinion
DarkMistro wrote: I don't know why but glazed/glazing paints (although good for keeping the paints protected) makes them look extremely shiny and unreal looking. but that is just my opinion
The Citadel stuff doesn't appear to make it shiny from my experience, just seems to make things really stand out. ie the eye lenses on Space Marines.
If you make it shiny, you just have to dullcote or otherwise matte varnish it. I pretty much have to do it to everything I do since I almost always dip.
Azazelx wrote: Ah cool. I didn't get the finecast ones, but I thought the ones in your pic looked just like the ones in the GW preview from a few days ago...
Yeah- screw the finecast Wracks. I've already broken one of the bone spine things on mine (coincidentally the one that's in the photo)
The ones I painted were fine cast, they are really delicate buggers to cut out, bet even world leading surgeons couldn't cut one out without snapping bits lol
"I am now going to cut out this squad leader wrack off its spues" *half model details snaps away* xD
Better than 3rd ed Incubi IMO. Didn't like the punisher helms that much, the splinter pistol thing on top was a bit silly. I'd have mounted it on the shoulder. Vect's Incubi looked the business though.
Sinister is what I was going for. Plus a likk of red paint makes fings go fasta!
Yeah, I didn't love the hats, it was like they told the designers that they had to 100% strictly adhere to the 1/2handed rules and setting base attacks up was a prohibited activity. They were definitely working within a box when they made those, even if making them was kind of thinking outside the box, it wasn't the big box if that makes sense.
Vect's trenchcoat incubi still are awesome, got both of them left. I guess I have vect but he's kind of lame. His slaves/entertainment may still be kicking around too.
Those Incubi look damn solid, what did you edge highlight them with? I've been seemingly unable to decide on a Glaze, Shade or an Edge to go over Incubi Darkness with lol... I am pretty terrible when it comes to finding complimenting colours
Though the Swords on the Incubi are pretty dissapointing (on the table top, paint jobs great), I have yet to kill anything at all with the Demiglaives so far.. My Incubi are literally just meat shields for my Archon, he does all the killing they just sit their failing to hit or wound anything lol.
Senstara Nightwhisper wrote: Those Incubi look damn solid, what did you edge highlight them with? I've been seemingly unable to decide on a Glaze, Shade or an Edge to go over Incubi Darkness with lol... I am pretty terrible when it comes to finding complimenting colours
Though the Swords on the Incubi are pretty dissapointing (on the table top, paint jobs great), I have yet to kill anything at all with the Demiglaives so far.. My Incubi are literally just meat shields for my Archon, he does all the killing they just sit their failing to hit or wound anything lol.
Base- Incubi Darkness Layer 1- Kabalite Green Layer 2- Sybarite Green Glaze- Waywatcher Green (all over the armour)
Still undecided with the horn colour to be honest. I've always found Incubi to be quite useful for chopping up my brother's various Chaos Marines. Not tested them on 'Nids yet but soon... I don't get why all the hate for the Klaives- they look awesome with all the Druchii runes on them.
Really nice work on both the Space Hulk Termies and the Dark Eldar. As others have said, the Librarian eyes are great, and I'm also a fan of how those Incubi came out. I really need to pull my fist out on my own of both sets of figures some day.
Had a bit of a play in the Hobby room last night, and found my unfinished Haemonculi *pets*. This one here is made from bits of Chaos Spawn, Galrauch (Metal) and the Talos kit. The musculature was done by my brother (I don't have the patience for sculpting). I know Grotesques can't have chain flails but I wanted something unique for my unit. I can sort of imagine this one being the fetch and carry sort when the Coven accompanies the Kabal on a raid. So the Wracks chain people up to this guy and he drags them off (probably kicking and screaming in most cases) through a webway portal. Next up (later this evening I think) will be a Liquefier Grotesque also made up of Chaos Spawn bits with some Rat Ogre elements here and there.
I'm tempted to replicate the look of one of the Wracks from the plastic kit and give him a 2nd vestigial head lol- like a Wrack who's submitted himself to LOTS of attention from his master lol.
I don't think I've shown you all the scheme I'm going with for Dark Eldar but here you go. I have used browns but I think maybe a metallic paint might be better. What do we think?
Thraxas Of Turai wrote: I go away for a few weeks and you go Dark Eldar mad! The plastics are some of my favourite kits, just so many great miniatures in the range.
I quite like the DE colour scheme you have chosen, the brown seems left-field enough to work. DE wise what have you got constructed/painted thus far?
Currently?
Let's see-
Archon
Heresy Minis Hurn counts as Sslyth(OOP in light of the upcoming AvP game)- I do have an actual Sslyth but don't appear to have snapped a pic yet.
Medusae
A couple of Heresy Minis counts as Ur Ghuls- going to repaint them though I think- don't have pics of them yet so this'll have to do!
A couple of counts as Khymerae for my Beastmaster's pack plus a few counts as Clawed Fiends (all from Heresy Minis) which I shall upload later. but for now here's the pic from Heresy plus my own painted doggy
Then there's all the stuff I've put up recently.
Still need to do my core army though which I am grinding my way through but I seem to be addicted to painting specific character models recently.
Wow that is a lot of Dark Eldar models you got there and planning on getting, times like this wish was a bit more wealthy then could do kick starter stuff lol
Whilst I was painting up my Kabalites, I had a go at a Mandrake today. Also, after watching Spider-Man 1 (Sam Raimi's) I found myself a little inspired and went for some Green Goblin-esque style Hellions. After some snipping and gluing of Hellion heads and swapping them out for Dark Elf Sisters of Slaughter heads. Looks awesome IMO.
I was gonna use some reaper bats for razorwing flocks, but I've got a boatload of old dark eldar models and always get conflicted about using them or replacing with new, to the point where I spin my wheels for a few days and drop the matter entirely
Paradigm wrote: The Mandrake is looking good, I like the choice of blue over the standard green look!
Goblin-hellion looks good, but you HAVE to give at least one a pumpkin bomb! Do DE have grenade arms?
Yeah the Scourge kit has them. In fact that's the only DE kit that has grenade wielding arms! What's amusing is that the Helliarch can upgrade his board to have Phantasm Grenade Launchers. They fire small disc shaped grenades made from a reactive substance that upon contact with the air, dissolves into clouds of PSYCHOTROPIC GAS. Sounds like classic Green Goblin!
Expanding the Coven some more with another Grotesque, this time made from one of the rank and file Ogre Kingdoms infantry. Not sure where to go with the belly hole though- they usually have one of those giant belt buckle things on. Suggestions welcome.
So I've pre-ordered the Haemonculus Covens book- from GW's blog today there looks to be a good amount of background for this supplement. Can't wait to unleash my monstrosities on the battlefield. Already have a good number of flesh constructs (Talos and Cronos mostly) as well as a growing number of Haemonculi and Wracks! I had forgotten to mention I'd painted up a couple of Talos (one's still a WIP) Pics to follow... In the mean time, I found these on the GW blog today...
Quite like the gangsta pose on the Wrack in the 1st pic
I hate those big holes in the ogre kingdom models. You could use their torsos for all sorts of sweet conversions if it wasn't for that damn massive hole.
I would just make some sort of belly armor for it with a shield, or something big enough to go over it. You could also have some weapon coming out of it, and make it look like it was surgically inserted there. That may be more of the DE style.
And now for a teeny bit of the Kabal. Went for a more metallic brown shade on the pauldrons- Screaming Bell with Agrax Earthshade wash to tone the shiny-ness down.
Bit of a change in scenery- the first transport is on the way... Coming along nicely.. The black panel on the prow- what to do with it? Paint it blue same as the rest of the vehicle or give it some sort of squad marking?
Just a quick post- here is what I intend to use as a Succubus for my HQ if I'm in need of some good old fashioned melee ass-kicking. I got my mitts on the Death Hag from the recent Cauldron of Blood release. Snipped the chalice hand off at the elbow and swapped it for a venom blade. Wounding on a 2+ (IIRC?) she should be well equipped to tackle most opponents.
GrimDork wrote: Looks about right, though perhaps better suited to the old school wyches than the new ones, however I'm sure they'll get along just fine
Not really. She doesn't have the porn star looks- collagen lips and big bust etc
Well yeah not that, I just meant thematic style, she's got similar armor and hair. The new wyches look almost more like a street gang in biker leathers. Both are cool, she just seemed to jive with the older aesthetic, if not sculpting practices.
Ah right- gotcha. Well the new Dark Eldar Succubus that came out has a nice action pose but I'm not really digging the top knot thing or the head in general for that matter.
Here's some more members of my Grotesquerie courtesy of my in-house Haemonculus. The Altered come for you... *claps hands twice and giggles with glee as the serum injectors engage on his pets*
GrimDork wrote: Not 4 and a minder? I thought they had a chance to blow up or be stupid or something. I guess I'm an edition behind though.
Rat ogre grotesques are awesome.
Stop making me want to burn my old 3rd edition DE on a bonfire and run out and buy new GW kits
Nope don't need a nanny anymore though they do benefit greatly from one. They used to go berserk if you didn't have a Haemonculus in your army. Tbh I don't think the 3rd Ed Warriors would look too out of place if you mixed em through with the newer ones. I've got my old Reavers mixed in with the new and they do look quite nice
Dont' give me any excuses I'm already neck deep in space marines
I've had half a mind to chop up my sedition wars and some zombie parts to mix with the warriors to make wracks for a lon time... the official aesthetic is pretty awesome though.
GrimDork wrote: Dont' give me any excuses I'm already neck deep in space marines
I've had half a mind to chop up my sedition wars and some zombie parts to mix with the warriors to make wracks for a lon time... the official aesthetic is pretty awesome though.
Lol your partner must love you a lot with the amount of stuff you've accumulated
On a further bug related issue, my Mars Attacks KS gubbinz turned up today. Gotta say- loving the giant mutant ants and spiders... Got the little Martian beastmasters with em too. Didn't realise quite how tiny the Martians themselves were. The plastic is quite bendy too which makes for some interesting experiments with posing.
GrimDork wrote: Think I definitely like the ant better, but the spider is still cool.
Neat!
The big necron thing is pretty cool too, always liked those.
Yeah I think the giant ant looks more bad ass. Regardless, I'm going to run them as Clawed Fiends for my Dark Eldar I think. My Kabal is renowned for having exotic beasts and Wych cults with them when they raid. I may poke Mantic and ask if they intend to have either of them in Dungeon Saga- That'd make for some interesting critters to fight! My recent bug obsession originates from watching the 1990s Spider-Man animated series over the past few days! Forgot how awesome the Man-Spider is (Neogenic Nightmare storyline)
Furthermore, here's a test paint of one of my brother's paintjobs for Hive Fleet Behemoth 'nid warriors, which I think looks pretty badass. Can't wait to see the rest of his army painted up like that!
Nid does look pretty much spot-on for the color scheme and the glossy coat is a nice touch.
I did like that spiderman show quite a bit, watched it again on Netflix only a year or two ago. The other spiderman stuff they've got on there is kind of meh compared.
GrimDork wrote: Nid does look pretty much spot-on for the color scheme and the glossy coat is a nice touch.
I did like that spiderman show quite a bit, watched it again on Netflix only a year or two ago. The other spiderman stuff they've got on there is kind of meh compared.
angelofvengeance wrote: Ah right- gotcha. Well the new Dark Eldar Succubus that came out has a nice action pose but I'm not really digging the top knot thing or the head in general for that matter.
Their heads are all interchangeable with the rest of the range, aren't they?
In fine Druchii tradition, one of the Mercs in my Court is a Sslyth warrior. The scales colour scheme is the same one used for GW's studio scheme for the Lizardmen Carnosaur/Grimloq Coming along rather nicely. Though I'm a bit stumped with the sash around the mid section. Colour suggestions please?
On a further note, this will be the last iPhone 3GS pic I will ever upload. There is a God! My upgrade has finally gone through so snaps from here on in will be from a rather badass camera on my new phone.
I've also decided my Cronos will be painted in a similar style to my brother's Tyranid warrior (in terms of the striations on the carapace). My brother heavily converted it from Carnifex and Daemon Prince bits to give it a more freakish nature.
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Paradigm wrote: That Nid does look good! Will you be posting the rest here, or even getting your brother to start his own blog?
I'll probably put some more up on here to be honest. ASSUMING MY BROTHER PAINTS SOME MORE- I KNOW YOU'RE READING THIS, BROTHER. LOL.
Thraxas Of Turai wrote: That Sssssssssslyth is one hell of a cool miniature, IIRC is it some sort of bodyguard for an Archon or is it a character in its own right?
The Grotogre conversions are excellently done.
The Sslyth is part of the Archon's retinue, but I tend to use models from other ranges, to represent the various alien races who offer their mercenary services to the Dark Eldar.
You can also run the Archon's retinue as a separate HQ choice and just have a squad of them. I should also point out that I've removed the crappy knuckle duster and flimsy finecast sword and replaced it with a Venom Blade (not an option but I think we'll agree it's a cool looking sword!)
Ahh that sounds like another change then maybe, I've got to resist buying the new codex (there is a new codex right?) because then I'd want the new rule set
Yeah if you don't have an Archon in your army, it's classed as an hq slot just like a command squad for space marines.
There is a new codex yes. With a rather bad ass looking Archon on the front. Power from Pain now runs on a turn by turn basis instead of having to kill units to gain pain tokens. So by turn 3 or 4 your army is quite a potent killing machine. If you run Haemonculi cult lists your grotesques, wracks, talos and cronos engines are very potent indeed.
This afternoon I had a game for the 1st time using Dark Eldar 7th ed rules. Very satisfying indeed. Sure my brothers tyranids have large monsters in, but that didn't stop my aircraft and skimmers from knocking lumps off em. Cronos and Talos engines took down a Trygon (admittedly at the cost of the Cronos' death from acid blood).
Also I received my Games&Gears paintbrushes on Friday. Really nice products.
What material are the bristles made of? I've come to swear only by Kolinsky Sable, it's some damn fine arctic weasel fur!
Your table looks fun, a drab urban block thoughtlessly plunked into the heart of an alien wilderness, sounds pretty Imperial to me
Glad to hear you are having fun with the new rules and new codex, people tend to gripe, sounds to me like you're 'doing it right'
Of course Darkies are usually a bad match for the Buganids what with all of the poison!
Oh yeah, if you don't mind... did anything happen to the balance of raiders/venoms? Are venoms still the go-to craft for spammy lists of doom, or did they get a price hike somewhere? Obviously your cult dudes will have always favored the raiders but y'know.
GrimDork wrote: What material are the bristles made of? I've come to swear only by Kolinsky Sable, it's some damn fine arctic weasel fur!
Your table looks fun, a drab urban block thoughtlessly plunked into the heart of an alien wilderness, sounds pretty Imperial to me
Glad to hear you are having fun with the new rules and new codex, people tend to gripe, sounds to me like you're 'doing it right'
Of course Darkies are usually a bad match for the Buganids what with all of the poison!
Oh yeah, if you don't mind... did anything happen to the balance of raiders/venoms? Are venoms still the go-to craft for spammy lists of doom, or did they get a price hike somewhere? Obviously your cult dudes will have always favored the raiders but y'know.
The brush bristles are made from Red Sable. (I'm no expert, but these aren't far off Kolinsky standard from the look of them)
I'm a firm believer of 'try before you cry' where rules are concerned.
I managed to strip a fair few wounds off the Tervigon with my Razorwing- 5 outta 6 wounds! Disintegrators are nasty! To be honest, I usually run with Raiders but I thought I'd try something new this time around.
Venoms no longer have access to some of the upgrades such as Night Shields (which now provide Stealth and Shrouded rules instead of silly reduction of ranged weapons), Torment Grenades, Shock Prow (seriously, why would you ram something with a light vehicle like that?!) and Splinter Racks (not much room on the Venom for lots of ammo anyways). They still come with Flickerfields though.
Raiders now come with Disintegrators (still 36" S5 AP2 Hvy 3) as standard and the Lances are 10pt upgrades. I kept mine with the Disintegrators and did not regret it at all. Lotsa pew-pewing. Splinter racks now apply to ALL splinter class weapons. Haven't quite managed to get raiders close enough to try shooting like that. I probably need to move them further in the opening turns.
Worst moment of the game so far (finishing later this week).Losing my Razorwing to GOD DAMN SNAP SHOTS FROM fething DEVILGANTS!
Best moments of the game so far: hammering the Tervigon to near-death with the Razorwing and having my Dark Artisan formation (1 Haemonculi, 1 Talos and 1 Cronos) go lay the smackdown on a Trygon. Murdered that stupid thing!
GrimDork wrote: Oh well night shields sound fairly useful then!
Oh wow splinter racks for splinter rifles? Maybe my classic 3e warrior overload could be useful
Devilgaunts rule, they harsh out the bullet storm.
Yeah it didn't help that I failed my stealth cover save for the Razorwing. My pilot was stupidly flying with the top down for this battle, and thus ended up having lots of devourer worms entering the cockpit and crashing the plane. I suppose I was asking for it when I named it Starscream lol.
GrimDork wrote: Oooh fancy. Is it 30-something% larger than the other one? Seems it costs that way.
Does look pretty fancy, I may someday pick up a DE flyer just to paint it cause they look so cool.
Larger wingspan to accommodate the quad engines, and weapons. Has x2 missile pods on the belly and that Void Mine, which you can have as stowed or ready to deploy when you assemble it. As well as the wing mounted twin void lances/dark scythes (basically a really big Blaster weapon)
I dunno man... the Darkies are preeety hedonistic, literally getting high off of the pain of those around them and eating souls of their victims mid-battle. I'm sure some of them have their ball-gags and riding crops (and more advanced dark eldar S&M gear) at the ready while they go out for dinner and a show (IE: surface raid).
Bit hard to focus on killing stuff when you're doin that lol. They do however, have hooks and barbs in their armour to sharpen their senses when in combat. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
Do realize that I'd be doing mostly 3rd ed models as that's what I've got and I'm on a self-imposed hobby budget freeze
I haven't looked at the newer schemes lately. I was thinking actually If I were to do them I might steal an idea from my current project. Paint them silver then use Blood for the Blood God in a couple of layers to get a medium-dark metallic red for the armor, do delicate black lines in all of the creases and stuff for definition, and then either traditional black evil/space/spandex-cloth parts, or maybe very dark grey or so. Sickly purple splinter crystals probably to go with the red theme. Kabal of the Life Drinkers Wyches would be the cult (or is it a different word) of the Dark Lust, and they'd be pink, not necessarily breast cancer awareness ribbon or bubblegum pink, but a kind of pink, pale skin, old school gladiator wyches or bust. Coven stuff would be maybe black with red or purple tabards.
Basically metallic red for the main force and everything else is within a step of that, either pink or purple.
Vehicles would be... interesting. Not sure what would happen when I tried to thin BftBG into a consistency such that it would be airbrush viable.
Wow... I think I've put entirely too much thought into this already...
Oh I know how much cooler the new stuff looks. I seriously considered it back when it first came out. I don't think I can buy anything else from GW from a real, honest, gaming stand point. I could see buying a single box of kaballites, well a single box of anything and that being it. More than one box I mean, just not in the degree that you'd need to fuel an army. Too expensive...
If I could ever resolve it in my mind that I was buying the models just to paint them, then I would probably get some of the new stuff. But as long as I'm still stuck on buying field-able battle-ready armies, there's just no way I can let myself at the newest DE stuff cause I'd go into debt
Oooh yeah those are nice. I also applaud your use of a power lance on the commander of a mostly shooty unit, definitely a fluffy and visually appealing choice
Well jump units now get a special "Hammer of Wrath" attack to give the impression of that unit slamming into an enemy from the sky which is resolved at initiative 10. Plus power lances give you +1 Strength on a successful charge. And given they're all Initiative 5 you're generally pretty quick in close combat anyways.
Did jump infantry have HoW in 6th too? I only got to play a few games and never used any such units then.
Scourge seem like one of those units that you could do some pretty neat things with but that the internet at large dislikes because they aren't 'the best unit evar'. I'm sure there are occasions that even these s3 t3 models can swoop down and make a difference.
No haywire grenades- just haywire blasters. Which are nice cause they're Assault and not Heavy and they don't roll for armour penetration like other weapons do.
Yeah that's how they were in 6th too. Haywire 'nades would have made them that much better, but then what would wyches do? Certainly not fight things in cc, that's no good
GrimDork wrote: Wyches do now? But they still get haywires right? That was my go-to solution for tanks of all sizes, and the only real use for my wyches at that.
Apologies for no pics of late. Been suffering with man flu (still am- goddamn mucusy coughing). Was a real struggle just to assemble 10 fething models at the weekend: WHFB Beastmen Un-Gor Raiders- see Children of Chaos Blog.
GrimDork wrote: Wyches do now? But they still get haywires right? That was my go-to solution for tanks of all sizes, and the only real use for my wyches at that.
Only the squad leader can take haywire grenades now (that's Bloodbrides AND Wych squads) instead of a full squad of em packing haywire grenades. So basically your squad is fethed vs armoured vehicles over AV10 if you lose the Hekatrix or Syren.
Looking good! As for the studs, I tend to use the brush side-on almost parallell with the surface so I can keep it away from the leg/pad but still hit the studs.
Of course, you could just paint them as you normally would and touch up the bone-white, that's probably simpler!
Yeah all I've every figured out to do is just be extra careful, do the sniper half a breath out thing, and hope I don't mess them up Also I can do a brief check to see if my hands are fairly steady or jittery beyond the norm, in the second case I stick to basecoating another model or something
Looking like a good start, the dark angle is of a suitably dark green, no mistaking him for a salamander no sir, and the knight is coming along nicely.
I like the border you put on the neck-cloth for the terminator, though I can't help but see it as a bit of an ascot
I don't have any left either, I had a buddy making all/mostly jump troops force and he was a bit crazy for the beakies. They do look kind of disturbing on actual classic armor. Like what's up with this guy, kind of puts you off a bit. Not as cool as the ogre/oni masks samurai might wear, but still kind of a mind game to play.
I find I can never decide on the beakies. I'd never use them on anyone high-ranking for some reason, it's generally either the Mk3 flat plate or the Mk7 normal helmet for them, but on other models, I find they can really add to the sense of aggression and direction by adding another 'point bit'*
*technical term for a part that draws the eye in a certain direction, usually combined with others in the same facing to accentuate effect. Possibly the most useful thing I ever learned from White Dwarf...
If I ever make any more space marines, I've got those bunny/feather wing hat things, I thought a unit of 5 of those would make for a pretty epic vets/honorguard kind of unit. maybe all of them DW power weapons just because
I am actually doing a Company Command like that. Using these heads...
On a further note, you may remember I got the Necron giant centipede of doom a while ago. I'm considering putting that bad boy together, but the question is- pin the body together or just superglue it? I'd have thought superglue is enough for resin on resin, but I'm concerned about it breaking if posed in a particular way. Also, the legs being resin and all, would I be making a rod for my own back if I have him rearing up to murder something?
GrimDork wrote: Those wings look new, and maybe half the size of the ones I have. Still look pretty sweet, especially with the newer design of beaky helmet.
Can't help you on the resin, foreign territory for me.
Yeah that's a fairly new model- Ravenwing Company Champion from the Ravenwing Command kit. With added twin plasma guns! They have an alternate build for Black Knights which are basically Ravenwing company veterans. Oh and they're all packing the twin plasma guns on their bikes as well as a sweet stasis grenade launcher upgrade.
Yeah I picked up the codex when it came out, I just never really got around to playing games with them. I already had a lot of models so I didn't heavily research the new ones which is why I missed out on knowing which that one was.
Just a small update today as sadly, Royal Fail didn't manage to get my Dark Angels gubbinz delivered to me before the weekend. Anyhoo. I had a mooch around on the Element Games site and picked myself up some more paints for the various projects I have going currently, as well as getting myself some MDF paint racks from TrollTrader- both excellent shops and pretty slick on delivery times! I caved and went to GW for my Dark Angels gubbinz. Bad I know, but some eBay sellers were REALLY fething kicking you in the nuts for models that are so easy to come by. Plastic models DO NOT cost that much to post!!
Bought myself 2 Rhinos as my 5th Company is embarrassingly slow to get to the front lines at the moment. I also went in for one of those Nephilim fighters. Much nicer looking than the Stormtalons and not quite so cluttered. I may magnetize it to kit it out as a Dark Talon but I'm not overly fond of the weapons it has (Hurricane bolters and a rift cannon..meh) with exception to the Stasis Bomb which could be fun, and very useful against Tyranids.
, a little too smooth and clean for a rat, but nothing some battle damage wouldn't fix.
. I believe he's eBaying the ones people don't want so keep a weather eye on eBay for Heresy Miniatures if you want one! 
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. I'm just getting the pincer demon now. Can't wait to see yours show up and get painted.
