Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I decided to kinda show off a bit of my ripper project...I've been, slowly, collecting rippers of all types from people... my goal is 100 rippers by the end of 2009. Maybe more... they will be ran with my digestion swarm.

All FW rippers = ohm242's lovely blessing of a trade...

I'm at 43 rippers right now, 9 of which are flyers when I finish and base em


For the rippers not on bases, and one of the flying ripper bases, I will have some guardsmen and marines being eaten or attempting to fight the swarm... I'll green stuff a few new ones for those bases... I've got some sketches and will upload when I'm not lazy/busy

NOM NOM NOM!

Digestion swarm?

i think you need some malanthropes
if you want a nice theme add malanthropes and raveners and you got a theme

Very cool, I've always wanted to make an army with tons of lil rippers. You might want to think more about modeling guardsmen on the bases though, when you model your army fighting another army on their base it looks pretty weird when you actually play a battle.

That looks like a fun army. I'd like to drop some railgun Submunitions on it sometime .

I NEED MOAR RIPPERS...

and yeah your right on the looking funny maybe...but still, I'd love to have them eating something

Check my threads for mr mega-ripper...related, very, to topic. I havn't touched him for a bit though.

In regards to digestion swarm: Pretty much what I've coined ripper-spam... EAT EM UP AND DIGEST

I need to make some pools...


But yeah, again, if anyone has rippers they dont want...

ill ask about with a few local gamers, alot play nids, yet i dont see rippers, they may have them in bitz boxes


if you want to make a malanthrope for a reasonable cost (rather than buying one from FW) you can build one using the fex model, some GS and a few sare parts (including the terrain from the stealer box)

ripper swarm... army? Is that even a good idea? Or are they deadlier then Im thinking?

cracker: they never run, allways moving closer, cheap on points, lots of attacks, upgrades, they are annoying
allthough they cant take objectives :(

is it ok if i fire 3 super gatlers at em? haha jk. sounds cool tho

JD21290 wrote:ill ask about with a few local gamers, alot play nids, yet i dont see rippers, they may have them in bitz boxes


if you want to make a malanthrope for a reasonable cost (rather than buying one from FW) you can build one using the fex model, some GS and a few sare parts (including the terrain from the stealer box)

similar concept, its not a malanthrope, I mean similar modelling concept...

thats a super-mega huge ripper (or life size tiny ripper!)... imagine a mobile digestion pool that can vomit rippers and bio-acid on it's targets when attacking close combat

but yeah, Im gonna make a malanthrope eventually, just not a priority yet.

i have a few pics of one i made a while back somewhere on dakka, ill dig them out for you tomorrow.
only about 20 mins work and £25 ish cost, and its more stable than GW's ones