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Thanks for drilling out the barrels. I hate doing that crap, but I know it is necessary.

Your linked bases gave me some ideas on how to do a unit of Empire. Stealing.

Wow, genius idea on the bases, I can hardly wait to see if more fit together for a truly cinematic group of marines!

Thanks guys! I don't necessarily have specific plans for a display board or for other marines, what I do have is a whole mess of terrain stuff that needs to be used. I think I am now out of space marine legs actually....... but I have several stacks of ork parts calling my name.

To the tools!


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And I may have finally updated my avatar.


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I hope it doesn't startle any one.

I am startled.

You & moonpie have been wonderfully busy Ice. Those are all fantastic looking models! The paired bases are a brilliant idea... I never would have thought of that.

Before I begin posting some more WIP pictures, I have to share an image from another dakka members P&M thread.


This is a kan that Yggdrasil has been working on. For those of you who haven't subscribed to his thread, go do so now.

Any ways, it has inspired me to make my own kan / tau creation.


I really enjoyed putting this thing together. I hope you guys can see the little grot arm sticking out of the left arm hole. While putting this together I couldn't help but laugh. I hope you enjoy it too.

Very nicelyrics done Ice. Properly orky.

Ha Ice you got me !!!

Yours is pretty awesome ! Lots of small details that make it stand out (protruding spear, Grot arm, Grots on the base...)

The Kustom Ion Kannon turns it into a fearsome mortar, it looks impressive !!!

Can't wait to see it painted

Thanks guys. I have no idea how I'll paint that guy yet. I hoping to get to some priming this coming Wednesday after I buy more primer! We'll see how quickly I get to that thing though. I think the Ice Angels are calling me first.

To celebrate Grot Labor Day, GLD from this point forward, I went ahead and completed my unit of kans. I present to you, Grotholamew and Grothomas.

Grotholamew was a quiet little greenskin that spent most time licking mold off the dark side of rocks and guessing how many ammo casings he could shove up his nose. That all change though when Lil'Mek Orkstein got a hold of him. The mek decided to try out some of his new cybork parts on some smaller grots first. What better way to see how morky or gorky they were?

When the experiment was over, Grotholamew was turned into a raging kan that wanted nothing more then to kill and maim everything he could see.


Grothomas on the other hand was a twitchy grot that spent most of his time running from larger greenskins. One of his favorite games was to toss clamp squigs onto greenskins while they slept then run away laughing. Grothomas thought he was good at the game until Orkstein got a hold of him too.

Now Grothomas runs towards whatever he wants with little disregard for whatever is in his way. He even has his own clamps now!


Here is a picture with everyone together. That'll bring the kan collection up to 9. Once painted there will have to be a group shot for sure.


Happy GLD everybody! I hope you are all relaxing, laughing, and eating something grilled. I know I am. I have some ribeye's waiting to be consumed.

Excellent group of kans there Ice. Very creative.

Grottaskik

Very cool and highly creative with the Konversions

Thanks guys.

Looking good, Grotholamew's stance looks almost khornate, really cool

Liking those Custom Kans!

Good stuff.

Thanks guys!

Sorry I don't have any updates but destiny has been commanding much of my attention.

40k! Models, plastic, space marines, blood angels, ice angels GO! I need to get my head back into things over here. Besides Destiny being way to much fun. I have also been hooked into X-Wing. We had a great 280 point 7 person game the other day. Rebels for the win! Well, at least we were winning when we ran out of time.

On the 40k front. I have some jump packs and bits to sort through. I have yet to pick up any more primer, which I desperately need to do. I also have some things to ship out to Whale_music. I'm hoping some of these things will bring back the motivation to get back into the painting and modelling spirit. I think the primer is going to be the key.

Yesssss! You've been away from the Hobby for far too long! Come back to us!~

You need to get in a good game where you smash Moonpie and he blames it on a govement cover up! ( complete with pictures and dialog boxes of pithy comments) or Moonpie smashes you and you release those photos of his trip to South America you been holding on too just in case he got out of hand!

Like I could keep it together long enough to renew my passport. That thing expired years ago...

It took me three years and a State Trooper threatening to steal my car to get my license and registration renewed..

Gubmint. Harumph.

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Like I could keep it together long enough to renew my passport. That thing expired years ago...

It took me three years and a State Trooper threatening to steal my car to get my license and registration renewed..

Gubmint. Harumph.

Silly man! don't you know you don't need a passport for anything anymore.

Seriously. Thats what they make car trunks and wool blankets for!

I finally bought some primer. Woot!

In gaming news i had a fun game with moonpie and another friend of ours. Moonpie brought about 2200 points of his wolves. I brought 1200 points of tyranids, mostly proxies for the new models that have been arriving recently. Our friend ralf brought 1000 points of orks which was in the firm of a stompa and some grots.

The two of us fought moonpie in a straight fight. No objectives just kill. The game was a lot of fun. Moonpie did manage to take out the stompa but not before he lost most of his army to it.

I wish i can say i got a good feel for the new nids but they didn't do as much due to poor reserve rolls. The new drop pods are great. The mucolid spore mines are definitely worth the points. I recommend some of those for sure. I still like the mawloc. It had an amazing opening attack.

Any ways, if the weather cooperates i may get to prime. The forecast doesn't look promising though. Pictures once it happens.

Any pics? GW is putting out a lot of new Nid stuff.. wondering if were going to see a new updated codex or are they going to force folks to by the WD.

I thought i had read some where that the new models would have the new rules included in the box. Either way a 4 dollar white dwarf wont break the bank.

Today I managed the paint for the first time in months. It was a small amount but it was progress. Pictures will arrive in the near future. In the mean time I have been enjoying the Shield of Baal stuff. The new Nids are neat. It makes me want to pick some of them up for sure. Before I do though, I need to get through this mountain of plastic that has slowly been growing. Sitting to my left is about 25 Ice Angels all primed and ready to go. It is an interesting collection of marines. Everything from the remaining Sanguinary Guard to a space hulk terminator to some forgeworld apothecaries. It's time to get crackin!

Good to hear mate, been missing the fluff story updates of late

It's a good thing I got acute bronchitis! Yay for your hobby.

I still got out to play a game at the GW store, but I wouldn't have made GMing. I would have lost my voice and started coughing or something awful.

Plus baby and all.

Glad you got some work done. I took an inventory of my to do list just for Empire and it's bad. SW is even worse.

Glad you're back at it my friend. Looking forward to the pics.

@moonpie: Exact same thing I was just diagnosed with. Must be going around...