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Best wishes, Ygg. How exciting!

Termies look great! Good luck ring shopping!

Congrats ..

Glad to see you have your priorities straight! (the paint I mean)

Good luck!

Congratulations, Yggs.

Bon. Chance mon Frere!


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moonpie wrote:Best wishes, Ygg. How exciting!

Well the raid went smoothly, now I'm excited about the time I offer it to her !

Lucarikx wrote:Termies look great! Good luck ring shopping!

Thanks ! Shopping was... Quite unusual lol !

Solar_lion wrote:Congrats ..

Thx mate

Gitsplitta wrote:Glad to see you have your priorities straight! (the paint I mean)

Good luck!

Well after all, I preferred coming back home earlier than risking another hour for hobby-shopping... But the priorities are back, now that I'm home !

Kanluwen wrote:Congratulations, Yggs.

Well, shouldn't you wait until I get her answer ?
Still thanks uh


As for the Deathwing, I mostly focused on the Librarian tonight... And corrected a few airbrushing mistakes in the others...


Librarian & Apothecary


Cyclone missile launcher - Command squad


And the rest...

Something I've done wrong is start the OSL, while it's the last thing to do, even after weathering !

I'm confident they'll be ready for Monday's battle... I have already fiddled with the list and it's going to be really, really tough...
We'll see !

they looking good Yggs! nice even bone colour is good to see and i like the blue youve chosen for the librarian.

They are really starting to come together now.

Wow, those look amazing. The camo works really well for Terminators!

San76 wrote:they looking good Yggs! nice even bone colour is good to see and i like the blue youve chosen for the librarian.

Thanks mate ! Funny that you should say that, as I'm not really fond of the blue... It's a 3-layer colour of the 3 airbrush-able blue paints I have... and it doesn't scream "Librarius" to me

GiraffeX wrote:They are really starting to come together now.

Yep they are... Battle is on Monday, so I can't mess up !!!

Fun fact #1 : Yesterday I took a "complete" model from my first Terminator squad (the one I painted last year), put it near one of the latest ones (still incomplete), and... There aren't a lot of differences lol !!
I guess either : 1. my standards were REALLY low when I painted the whole army (I did have to rush it to match the deadlines, I know), or 2. my standards are really HIGHER now....

Well, I guess it's more 1. than 2. ...

Lucarikx wrote:Wow, those look amazing. The camo works really well for Terminators!

I do agree with you

Your comment made me think about the fact that I didn't explain why the Command squad was different ! When I painted my Whirlwind mostly in black, with only a few parts in camouflage, it looked so much better that I decided I would try it again on the Dreadnought... And since it worked pretty well too, then I had to try on infantry models ! And the command squad was the perfect unit to try it, with a black armour and a camouflaged tabard...

So here they are !

Fluffwise, I imagine they are "another Circle" within the Night Stalkers chapter, where the members are allowed to repaint their armour (or vehicle) in black due to some secret achievement related to Fallens... I still have to work more on that one part

Tonight was a night out, so no progress... Cheers !

Hey guys, sorry for the lack of updates, but internet access was a luxury where I was on holiday...

But I haven't been lazy, building-wise !

What pics to expect in the next few days :
- DW Army, fully painted ;
- 10-strong DA Veteran squads, built ;
- 3 WIP Killa Kanz, built ;
- Star Phantoms Hunter, built (still undecided about Hunter/Stalker, btw... Any one got some table experience with them ? As I don't have a real preference modelling-wise...)

Cheers !

I vote Stalker. Better imo against both air and ground and I reckon it looks cooler too.

Ok, thanks ! TBH I do think the Stalker is more effective, but it was longer to build, and I (somewhat) prefer the bulk of the Hunter... But I'm still unconvinced !

Any other experience ?

I made my Hunter/stalker interchangeable/ I can also use it as a Rhino/ Pred./ RB with the right extra parts.

 Solar_lion wrote:
I made my Hunter/stalker interchangeable/ I can also use it as a Rhino/ Pred./ RB with the right extra parts.

Well, I had thought about that, but the turret base parts just don't fit "tightly" enough for them to hold onto the model if unglued... And I fear I might forget about it and risk the turrets falling off ! Did you magnetize everything ?

TBH I'm not sure I want to spend the time needed to be able to realize both...

Anyway, here's the WIP pic :



As you can see, I didn't have the "extra armour" parts, as I used them on the Command Rhino... But I wanted to add a little "extra" to that one anyway, so I went with one of the crew fending off closing foes with his bolter... What do you think ?

I also spent some time on the Kroot squad while on holiday at my "soon-to-be-fiancée" 's grandma... Not close to completion yet, but closer !



Next up are pics of some Killa Kans, and Night Stalkers Veterans !

(Still debating on the Hunter/Stalker issue, so any help is welcome !)

Cheers,
Yggs

Hey man, I have no idea about the usefulness of stalker vs hunters but I can tell you that the guy with the bolter looks fantastic . Adds a sense of movemt to the rhino model chassis; love it!

Kroot also looking good man, very striking!

 San76 wrote:
Hey man, I have no idea about the usefulness of stalker vs hunters but I can tell you that the guy with the bolter looks fantastic . Adds a sense of movemt to the rhino model chassis; love it!

Kroot also looking good man, very striking!

Hey, thanks mate ! That's what I wanted to do : put something different on the "classic" Rhino

As for the pics I had promised :

- A Night Stalkers Veterans Squad, complete & with close-ups :









(Please forgive grandma's beautiful napkin(s) as background uh )

- Then some Killa Kans :


(My first Kan ever !!!)



- And, as a last pic, my WIP take on Stormclaw's Kan character, Krumpa :


I'm thinking that he's about to stomp, not a Space Wolf or an Eldar, but a poorly Grot ! Indeed, Krumpa's fluff is all about his bullying his comrades ! An Ork shows he's the boss by bullying Grots, so Krumpa stomps Grots to show he's the Boss too !!!
What do you think about that idea ?

Yggs.

Very nice Yggs. I really like what you did with the tau gun as well, such a great idea. It has just the right amount of ork custom gubbins to make it fit right in.

Sounds good Yggs, Those kans have lots of character, they look great.

I love the Komedy Kan!

Loving those kanz. Krumpa and the rokkit kan are awesome!

I love the idea of the grot!

Enjoying the new stuff.

I like the looted rail gun. The grot dreads look great so far.

Nice kans! Is it holding the Rail gun in 2 hands? Cant really make it out!

Sorry Guyz, I've been on a long training course which isn't over until the end of October, so internet access is scarce !!!

I'm home for the weekend so I've managed to spare a few minutes to reply... But no updates sorry, though I've worked a bit on my models (building only, sadly)...

IceAngel wrote:Very nice Yggs. I really like what you did with the tau gun as well, such a great idea. It has just the right amount of ork custom gubbins to make it fit right in.

Thanks, it was both funny & challenging to find the correct balance... I'm still pondering whether to add a Grot Rigger to the model, and what should it count as... Maybe a Kustom Blasta S8 AP2 Gets Hot ? Looks quite the same than a S8 AP1 railgun, with downgraded range and the extra Orky randomness !?!

GiraffeX wrote:Sounds good Yggs, Those kans have lots of character, they look great.

Thanks mate !

inmygravenimage wrote:I love the Komedy Kan!

Komedy Kan ? Which one is that ?

Brother Payne wrote:Loving those kanz. Krumpa and the rokkit kan are awesome!

Thanks !!! They should be 8 when I'm done with them... Wish me luck !!

Sageheart wrote:I love the idea of the grot!

Enjoying the new stuff.

Hey yeah, thanks for the support... Stomping a strong foe like a SM was too heroic for a Kan, I thought it'd look better if it was bullying a weak "komrade"

PDH wrote:I like the looted rail gun. The grot dreads look great so far.

Hey hey can't wait to have time for more !!! Those models are incredibly fun to build !

SJM wrote:Nice kans! Is it holding the Rail gun in 2 hands? Cant really make it out!

Thanks ! Sadly no, the Kan body is too bulky to be able to wield the railgun two-handed, and I didn't have enough bitz to make it work... The left arm is the Tau broadside left arm, with a buzzsaw attachment... I'm not that happy about it, but the Railgun makes up for it IMHO !

As for what I've built, there are : a DA Assault Squad, with a JP Librarian & a JP Chaplain ; a Librarian biker ; a 5-man Grey Knights Interceptor squad... Expect some more bikes before I get to the Orks !!!

Good luck to you all, sorry if I cannot follow all your Plogs & update mine as much as I want to....

Cheers !!

Yggs

Wait, not new models? Not even a tempting dinner pic for shame!

Well it's not that I haven't built models...

It's rather that I haven't taken the time to upload the pics...

[EDIT : ok, here's a bad quality, iPhone 3GS pic as a treat for you graven

nice .. even with your limited time..

still curious how your covert mission turned out!

 Solar_lion wrote:
nice .. even with your limited time..

still curious how your covert mission turned out!

Ha ! Well, I covertly got the ring in Paris, got back, proposed on the 14th of August (11years after our first kiss ), and...