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Such an amazing game. Some really good luck and both armies looked amazing on the table.

That table looks amazing. I really think it adds to the game when you're playing w/ quality scenery / terrain.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:That table looks amazing. I really think it adds to the game when you're playing w/ quality scenery / terrain.

This is why I'm a big advocate for more people being interested in terrain. A good table can do amazing things for the atmosphere during a game. And it only cost $40 to make that entire amazing looking table?! That's the price of just one realm of battle pieces or whatever that kit is called.

I got around to finishing the veteran squad this morning before work. The wash is still wet on the sarge and I think he could use a bigger bore on that pistol but very happy.



My "messenger" for my army, I should have done a black aquilla to fit in with the rest of my army but I love painting gold too much for my own good sometimes. I have to do more highlights and clean up on this guy then he'll be ready for wash probably tonight.


And the priest. I wasn't enjoying his static looking forward facing adventure he was on so I decided a slight tweak of the arm and head would make him look a lot more engaging and it worked. The extra chains might be a tad overkill but I'm okay with this. He's a bad-ass.

THESE LIVES ARE WORTH NOTHING!


Finished! Completely and utterly done. No more paint to be spilled on these fellas ever again. Now work can begin on the trenches themselves. I'm a little worried about getting those done but it wont finish itself.




My messenger model finished.



And my marine helmet objective.

Every model washed and even dry brushed the bases so no one feels left out.

I think I've earned myself a little break, on Sunday I'll be assembling maybe one or two test plague marines for my death guard army but I won't be trying to do any more than that. Thanks for reading!

Army looks great! Only concern is no tanks. Are you sure you don't want to add a Leman Russ or something similar?

Looking forward to your Death Guard

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Army looks great! Only concern is no tanks. Are you sure you don't want to add a Leman Russ or something similar?

Looking forward to your Death Guard

I've already got 2 basilisks made up and half painted, as well as 3 more chimeras and a hellhound. There is quite a lot of tanks when I bother to take them. I just didn't want to cheese out on plasma on my first game and I think in 1350 a basilisk with my scatter rolls wont do much good at all.

I did assemble one plague marine yesterday for fun and here he is.




I would want to do some really extreme woulds and stuff on a set of plague marines I do for my army but I don't have any zombie kits. Anyone recommend a few cool kits that might meld in with the death guard idea?

Nice GS! You're off to a good start, looking forward to what comes next!

I love this thread. Absoloutly love this thread. You're awesome.



You, sir, have inspired me.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Nice GS! You're off to a good start, looking forward to what comes next!

Nothing will be coming for a while I think. There is a lot of other stuff I NEED to get done before any other 40k comes to the front.

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:I love this thread. Absoloutly love this thread. You're awesome.



You, sir, have inspired me.

HAHAHAHAH Love it!
Thanks heaps man. It's good to hear, since there's so many people on forums just like this (and of course ON dakka) that inspire me, I love to hear this.

Wow, the freehand 'Nurgle' on that PM's shoulder is incredible..!

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Dang.

JBrehaut wrote:Wow, the freehand 'Nurgle' on that PM's shoulder is incredible..!

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I laughed so hard. Cos some dingbat thought it would be good to paint "nurgle" on my marines shoulder like stevie wonder.
Bring on tomorrow. Paint til chaos fills your mind.

Capitansolstice wrote:Dang.

Dang?

Dang they're amazing!

Capitansolstice wrote:Dang they're amazing!

Oh okay! Thanks a lot !

So... I went to games workshop yesterday to support a mate of mine that is working to a deadline for his chaos marines to support and help him out and ended up accidentally making a bunch more marines...





I must say the one with his arms raised up with the slight run has to be my favourite in here, and I won't be super-nurgling all of them up as I have a plan for different levels of nurglefication within the army to separate proper plague marines from the ones that just need a little helping hand from nurgle.


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My mate also suggested perhaps starting a new thread dedicated specifically to my marines when they start to cover more ground as there is a lot of garbage on the early pages of this one to wade through. Anyone else agree? I wanted all my collective work together but it might be a good step.

The cat it seems has made a habit of sleeping in the chapel a lot and I went for the obligatory animal-involved-in-hobby photo.



I used a solder iron for a very exciting way to give the spaces between all the trench systems a bit more roughness.
The downside is that I don't have the paddle pop sticks to finish this just now. So tomorrow after work I have to make an hour trip to go to the only store I know that sells the specific kind I'm after. Ho-hum.

I went through my guardsmen bits and some of my bags of stuff and found a bunch of bits and pieces that would work with this trench well so I'm excited to get this looking a little more finished.

I worked more on the marines, after saying I wouldn't but its so much fun. I have plans now on what to get, and could easily have a decent 1500 army in only a couple of box sets.



I did see some amazing and inspiring plague marine stuff the other day while browsing the net and it's totally demoralised me from what I've done so far so I may have to up the ante on their grossness.


I also need to buy a bunch of plasma guns and meltas which I'm not looking forward to, I've bought myself a complete ton of heads to use as blight grenades which may be overkill but oh well, trophy heads at the worst case?

And also A powerfist from every space marine chapter just to get a nice mix of sargaent poses with them, a bunch of loyalist parts, shoulders, guns and chaos varients too just to mix it up a bit more. I've got big plans and with how quickly I'm putting these together... I'll be at a fairly large size army very soon.

I'm not sure if I should make this guy a sargaent or a lord with the pose he has and the extra cables (probably don't show up in the photo at all), but he has a menacing look about him, now just to gear him up as such. But I am partial to daemon princes. They just do better.

In a few weeks I'll be selling off my old chaos marines, and with that money buying up hard on the new packs and getting myself at least one battleforce worth, plus a prince who I am hoping to convert a bit, a zombie kit for parts for arms and whatnot, and one squad of loyalist marines perhaps for that slightly more ancient look.

Really inspiring stuff with your trench system, duane! Your marines look great too - the small changes and reposes really make them stand out. Ace!

Scarper wrote:Really inspiring stuff with your trench system, duane! Your marines look great too - the small changes and reposes really make them stand out. Ace!

Thanks! I'm meaning to actually push them a bit further than where they are. Grosser, slower, tougher.

I've sort of wound down to the end of my line with the bits I have now, I am missing a section of tread that I swapped with a friend and now he can't find it so I'm waiting for that unfortunately.


The first rhino off the rank, not completely finished as I think it could still use some grossing out, The glossy parts are my attempt at making some sort of pox holes, by drilling out then overdoing the plastic cement, and proding the holes to make them less uniform and more crater-like.


Quite happy with the side door, it still comes off to show the inside where the spikes come from, but I might add more to that as well. I was keen to perhaps model something on the inside of the back door, any ideas?


These two guys are made from leftover pieces of cupolas I've had lying around for a while and since the first cupola marine came out so well, decided I wanted to start on the others. Really like where they're going but might make these guys a little more attached to the cupola in the spirit of nurgle.

I still do have a predator and 2 terminator kits, so I might make up just one nurgle terminator squad to start and see how it goes, the models are so busy already though I'm worried about it getting lost or looking too over the top, so I may swap to loyalist terminator bodies to get it done. We'll see after I try a practise one.

Loving the new Chaos space marines and your guard look amazing in the group shot.

The rhino's are also very cool. Nothing about your's in particlar but personally i dont like marines peeking out of the turrets of tanks for me it really presses home the size/scale discrepancy between the tanks and infantry in 40k.

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omgitsduane wrote:

Lol just noticed this

Perkustin wrote:Loving the new Chaos space marines and your guard look amazing in the group shot.

The rhino's are also very cool. Nothing about your's in particlar but personally i dont like marines peeking out of the turrets of tanks for me it really presses home the size/scale discrepancy between the tanks and infantry in 40k.

I'm normally in aggreeance with a statement like this, but I figured it was a chance to make some really unique characters for the rhinos and I have literally like 15 of these bodies, buggered if I know how, and wanted to try and use some.

I love the guard too, it's been such an amazing army, with very interesting and interchangable kits and great fun to see it all come to life like it has. Way more fun than making chaos marines

The apocalypse game went well! There was a bit of a screw around and we got there much later than intended but managed to squeeze a full 4 turns out of the time we had in a 10k game which is good for how disorganised we are.
Photos are up here, the camera is amazing too, will be using it for more games.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77386221@N06/

Eldar and space marines vs chaos guard and chaos space marines. Our side didn't deploy well at all, and all my small infantry didn't make it on the table which ended up being a fatal mistake sadly when the drop pods started to arrive...

I lost almost my entire flank of heavy weapons and creed/kell in the first turn of bolter fire, but the chimeras came back swinging next turn killing handfuls of space marines each bright blue blast. Ogryns also came out but didn't make it to where they were needed, assaulted the next turn they actually won combat against the space marine squads they fought every time, I'm very impressed to be honest but they are a bit pricey.

After the initial turns we started to think more tactically and slow the pace, ending up marbo coming in and stormtroopers on the last turn to contest both their held objectives ending in a victory for chaos! I'd have liked to write a proper report but I didn't have any notes or reference photos to go through. It was very close at points and I lost all hope after the very first turn. Can't wait to do it all again.

I've been writing list after list for plague marines, experimenting and seeing how far I can push the 1500 to go and I think I've found a list I'm very happy with.

I have a predator kit and 2 terminator kits still untouched, but a large lump of greenstuff on its way to be in the mail to allow me to custom both of them, I may end up converting some obliterators from the terminators too, but I'm not fond of them in all honesty.

Daemon prince with wings, mark of nurgle and warptme (but I may remove that after the FAQ broke it)

Dreadnaught with close combat arm
Dreadnaught with close combat arm
3 Terminators with combi meltas

7 Plague marines with 2 melta guns, champion with fist, personal icon and rhino
7 Plague marines with 2 melta guns, champion with fist, personal icon and rhino
7 Plague marines with 2 melta guns, champion with fist, personal icon and rhino

5 Havocs, icon of chaos glory, 2 autocannons 115
5 Havocs, icon of chaos glory, 2 autocannons 115

The list isn't perfect, but with the recent games I've been playing I think this kind of thing would deal well with the enemies I face. I'm trying to find a way to squeeze a multi melta or lascannons onto the dreadnaughts but otherwise I think at 1500 this is a good starting edge.

The future it looking... rotten.

I like your army very much,totaly chaos!

Pie_vendor wrote:I like your army very much,totaly chaos!

The guardsmen? My mate always rags on me about them not being chaos enough, but I wouldn't convert 100 individual guardsmen just to show them being more chaos. It's way too much effort, even if it would be cool.

I actually like the chaos guardsmen to be simple in their looks,its closer to my aesthetics.One doesnt have to be a monster with horns to be a traitor,am i right?

Pie_vendor wrote:I actually like the chaos guardsmen to be simple in their looks,its closer to my aesthetics.One doesnt have to be a monster with horns to be a traitor,am i right?

I've probably mentioned it a heap of times, but when I started this army I NEVER wanted to go with daemon guardsmen from the eye of terror, I simply wanted betrayed and unenlightened guardsmen, still human but dislike the imperium now. I may add on a platoon that is heavily daemonised and corrupt but a champion of chaos can only last so long with his weak human form.

And we're back!

I've been messing around with bits and peices here and there, assembled my first predator and was considering buying a second then when I went to check my closet for some of the citadel terrain I bought a while back and found a second predator.

I have been messing around in my head for ideas for my marines, I have two more battleforces on the way, 2 dreads and a prince so things will be getting serious very soon. I'm very excited.



The picture doesn't show a lot of detail, but I'll be working on these more when I get the other bits I've ordered as well as all the marines on their way. I bought bolters and helmets and shoulderpads, as well as powerfists galore.


My first rhino.


Predator 1


Predator 2 still needs work


Terminators with combi meltas, I magnetised the armless guy so he can take a chainfist if I want to in other games.

And my obliterator.

I was going to make a few more of these but don't think I can spare the terminator bodies. Either way I'm happy with where it's all headed but undecided with the color scheme still.

Time to get a bit spammy with pictures. I've been holding off on this til I was sort of happy with the greenstuffing and also to make sure this was a good step, but I put a soldering iron to the tanks and terminators tonight for a few reasons.

The first being the type of wear it brings to the tank, is slightly melted and organic looking holes in the hull as well as little nicks and scrapes that would just look too harsh with the use of a scalpel.

The second being I have cut my thumb badly about 4 times the past week, and the index finger once from carving chunks of these guys up and I'm tired of having blood stained blades. Plus it smells bad.

So here are the results of the tanks.

another view
another view
another view
another view
The predators came out amazing, worn out and diseased, covered with mutating filth but no tentacles or crazy bits coming out of the hatches either, which is aesthetically not what I'm after.



The rhino recieved the same treatment and am very happy with it. I have 2 battleforces coming and with them more additions to an already impressive army. I'm so excited.


A close-up of one of the sponson lascannons, to show the kind of wear that I like on these things.


My terminator photos didn't come out as menacing as I wanted them to but I did take this to show what I've done to their power weapons which will be interesting when it comes time to paint, but again, another thing I think works for this army.

I'm also slowly getting around to making a lictor for a mate of mine out of bits and pieces.

I ended up here so far, I have to sculpt or kit bash some nice big lictor talons and probably try and pose him a bit more interesting but I think the vents on the back are a nice look, I may add something like that to my rhinos as I have a box full of tyranid bits.

Wow, wow, wow!

Lots of cool stuff, too much to comment on everything but,
I LOVE the obliterator (that head on it is just ace!)
And the soldering iron effect looks great, I agree on the 'organic' feel.... Nurgly goodness!