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Well, the end result is pretty stunning.

thanks Gits, I have a small blast marker I just found (yay for me!) I might try it again and this time take pics incase anyone is interested? :-)

Interested? I demand a full blown step by step picture-in-picture video-with-voice-over commentary and an extra DVD for extra contents by the director. :-D

In short: yes please.

Consider it done Leo! I'll even add directors commentary and special features if you like? perhaps a nice clip of me eating that showercap i promised Pyriel overlaid with some nice hip hop tunes?

Hey guys, can i ask a hopefully simple sort of question of you? I have bouncing around in my brain the idea of making a 5 man sternguard squad from parts i have already with minimum of cost involved, only 'problem' is that I only have ferrox umbra bolters to use for them (box cartridge/scope) I have seen that nearly everyone uses them (sternguard) with combi weapons as if this is a necesity for them to be useful? can i have them as a viable little squad just with them using the special ammo they can come with? or do i need to have melta etc?...
I have an idea of them podding or in a razorback using the special ammo to deny cover or bring down tyranids?

cool, that's all i wanted to ask before i go home to bed

catch you soon...

No, definitely not necessary. But for 5 points, it's one of the best point-for-value items the marines get... and the combi-weapons give them dimensions they don't have without them. The melta especially. In my unit, on some of them I just took little pieces of small tubing, painted it red and stuck it under the barrel and called it a melta nozzle. Everybody knows what it is when they see it so I've never heard any negative comments.

I've had some success in simulating combi-weapons by shaving off the muzzle of a bolter and replacing it with the barrel of a melta gun or inferno pistol. I've also made combi-flamers with the same method, as inspired by the forgeworld combi-flamer, here. It works out pretty good, and no one has complained about it so far, so

You can totally use them naked just fine. They aren't as hyper-competitive as they can be, but its always good to have options, and you can always make more later, right?

Best sternguard config I've ever run, 5 combi-meltas and 5 combiplasma in a drop pod. Drop on turn one, combat squad into the 5 man groups of each weapon (you can combat squad out of a pod). 5 meltas slag a land raider, 5 plasmas kill off 4 of the termis inside. They got pretty well messed up the next turn, but made up points and then some, plus took most of the fire away from other targets.

I thought I've seen pretty definitive proof somewhere in a FAQ that you can't combat squad out of a drop pod...

No book handy, but Im pretty sure DP have the rule that they can do this. You can't put 1 combat squad in the pod and the other in reserves. per the faq.

Excellent Battle report! Makes me want to learn how to actually play the game!

Gitsplitta wrote:I thought I've seen pretty definitive proof somewhere in a FAQ that you can't combat squad out of a drop pod...

Page 51 of C:SM, under the rules for Combat Squads:
'The one exception to this is a unit that arrives by Drop Pod. The Player can choose to split such a sunit into combat squads when it disembarks from the Drop Pod.'

Thanks for all the responses guys! I'll make up a 5man sternguard squad and use them naked, they're still going to give me some more scope and a bit more kick when I use them even like that! then i don't need to worry about parts and stuff and i can use what i already have hiding in the Nerd cave ;-)

@Vent: you need to learn how to play man! I've been 'into' 40k now for about 18 years but this was probably my 4th game i've ever played! the rules i find hard to grasp as there are so many variable factors, but thinking of the game like an action movie i wanted to play out helped me along, hence the style of batrep i did, makes me want to play more, that's also why i'm asking about different squads and stuff to make me more competitive, i'm even thinking about putting 3 dreadnoughts in my 3 drop pods just for a laugh! :-)

Ah! Thank you Ovion... nice to have that specified. Thank you!

hey damo,

thought i would add my two cent in on the sternguard. personally one of my favorite units can do a little bit of everything i usally run my little five man with two combi plas and two meltas but that is just me. awesome bat rep sounded very intense man. can't wait to read your next report. but if you want uber onpetiveness do what whalemusic said ten dudes in a pod with 5 combi melta and 5 combi plasma. (even combi weapons get rapid fire...please correct me if i am wrong though gents.)

Run them like that nerd. I run my squad with a HF and combi-melta. It's not the most competitive but it's fun and can tackle a number of units that way. Just go with what looks cool! It's the best way.

Thanks Imperial monkey, I am all about the fun aspect of this hobby and a bit of positive reinforcement goes a long way with me! :-) I just waded through my bits box to make sure I have all the parts to make the squad up and turns out I do! so when my ferrox umbra bolters turn up I'm set to lock and load those bad boys! I know they won't be really competitive but at least they will be something different and yet still quite capable of putting on some hurt! unlike other squads where you are nearly forced into certain loadouts to make them even remotely useful! I'm looking forward to having them in my arsenal.

speaking of looking forward to things :-) guess what i did? I just placed an order with an English company that makes fine resin miniatures! mostly I bought a gift for my best mate to cheer him up, today he came over and was quite vocal about how much he loves tartaros terminators so i thought i'd suprise him with a squad as i was planning on buying some small stuff anyway :-) and now i can look forward to his face when I give them to him as well as my bits i need!

and lastly, more w.i.p updates from me tomorrow, I've been working on drop pods and speeders and a couple more marines from Tac squad 3 that are nearly finished, nothing too exciting but at least you'll know i'm still working on my Flesh Eaters! :-)

Damo

I've got two sets of those... he'll love them.

your buddy is gonna be shocked and amazed i hope he likes em. oh cool ammo for the sternguard if your not gonna give em combis is the one that treat it like its plasma bolt gets hot and everything has the range of suck though (18 in) i might be off but i really am looking forward to your take on sternguard.

Very good thread this, impressed with what I've seen- keep up the good work dude!

Oh my lordy lord! I was tidying up my pics folders and I came across a bunch of old models i painted when i was getting back into the hobby about 4 years ago so to keep you interested while i continue painting my Flesh Eaters I thought it would be kind of cool to see how far i've come with the help of all the amazing Dakkaites with their skills in painting and modeling as well as rules and prep work! it's really strange how you don't realise how many things you learn as you go, i'd probably say mold lines and thinning the paint were two the biggest things that have helped me progress so far, as well as the subtle nudges when I cut corners and others picked up on it and gently put me on a better painting track, lastly the honesty and willingness of everyone on dakka to make me feel like I belonged even though my painting skills were far from brilliant kept me enthralled and wanting to learn everything I could.

So thanks Dakka, and to all the individuals (you know who you are) I couldn't have done it without your help! you all get an internet fist bump!

Well, to start off these were the first models i did when i got back into 40k the Exorcists, I liked the fluff and thought they'd be cool to do, but as you can see my reds were quite flat and I neglected a few details in order to 'finish' them off.







Next I tried my hand at my favorite chapter the space wolves this was where I discovered the joy of drybrushing and overbrushing, as you can see they turned out quite chalky but it expanded my repertoire and I eventually learnt how to use it sparingly and in unison with other techniques to produce nice looking stuff.



after realising that it was going to take me many years to get an army I was happy with I wanted a new force, something I could paint fast and still look good, I always loved the pic of the Raven guard in the back of the codex so i researched black, they were really fast to paint but not very spectacular as a model and i have since really adjusted the method to suit me and look much better (like my current 2 chaplains) these Raven Guard were probably painted 3 years ago?




first chaplain i ever painted:


And i'm guessing some you realise i don't enjoy painting tanks and vehicles right here's a couple of my first attempts! terrible terrible jobs,



and for a brief moment I was nearly lured to the dark side early on! thought Nurgle could be pretty fun!



well, I think i've improved a bit and it's nice to see some old work I did and now i'm inspired to go and work on my other stuff which i'm going to do right now.....

hope you enjoyed that brief trip down memory lane!

Damo

Really nice job on those executioners Damo. The one with the free-hand skull on his pad is especially nice, as is the termie before him.

Hey Gits, thanks mate, all I can see when i look at them now is mold lines, brush strokes and bad paint! :-) but they were a good starting point for me, the skull was a decal i painted over to try and do the chapter symbol.


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It's time to hijack my own thread again did some w.i.p on my 3 drop pods i'm doing at once! I was a bit torn on how to paint them up, I wanted them to be weathered as they hurtle through the atmosphere but I also wanted them to fit with my fairly clean look of the army so i've taken some artistic license so far, anyway here's where they're at.

to start i primed them all in plate metal, then used liquid mask sparingly before I used Dragon red primer on the red parts.



then i used the airbrush and shaded the pod doors and fins with a dark red mixed with black, then added more black and just feathered all the lower parts to begin the scorch marks, with the interior metal, i actually experimented a bit as i was running out of my last pot of Badab Black so I used Badab black mixed with a few drops of vallejo black paint and thinners through the airbrush, this I applied heavily to flood the parts, it then naturally separated from the edges and really darkened the metal parts, hopefully i can bring it up a touch with some dry brushing and details later on, I think i may have gone a tad overboard with the chipping in my opinion but it's too late now and i'll just have to work with it and hope once the details are done it will fit in with my army.






I also finished 2 more marines i did my heavy bolter guy and my melta guy for my 3rd Tac squad.






well, that's it for today, I also have been working on 2 attack bikes for pyriel but hit a snag or two which has put me behind with them, i had a mate assemble them and he stuck a few bits together that I had to prise off as well as attack some mold lines! but they're getting there, i just need to get some energy drink into me and a few good days off!

NF09

Worked beautifully I'd say... very clever idea!

Pods look awesome man. They are comming together rather beautifully. Like how the two new marines are looking too. I think the heavy bolter is my favorite bit right now looks awesome. keep up the good work my friend.

Love the Heavy Bolter guy a lot. I have never noticed how their backpack is basically where the magazine clip is inserted under an outer casing.

As usual, thanks guys :-) I'll keep going with my plan on the pods if everyone thinks they're o.k so far, next I might finish all the metal parts and work on the edge highlights lastly next week.
I also figured out what else i need to have enough for a good mix of tactics, so i'll also be doing a jump pack and termie Sang priest soon, as well as a couple of Baal's, speeders and a bucket of assault marines (of course) might even do a DC dred just for laughs.... evil laughs...... Mwahahahahahahaah!

Yeah the pods are looking very nice NF09, I like how much battle damage you've done. Really does look like they have come down through the atmosphere quite a few times in their lives.

Thanks giraffex! the more i look at the pods the more i like them :-) which is good considering they're mine eh! and when I put them next to my other models they look pretty cool even though the colours are slightly different, I'm going to try and get some work done on them but my work roster for the next 2-3 weeks is really nasty :-(

Hey guys, just a little Tac marine I finished of for Whalemusic360's Great Marine Swap! he was one of the first Dakkaites to jump on my blog and help me out with adding pics and working things out so he totally deserves this guy! I hope he likes him, i'm off now to add him the the GMS thread!