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Hi Vic. Yes, I am going to go back and redo the bread rolls. I learned a lot doing them.

I made a tank commander last night. I will have 4 sentinels, 8 rough riders, 3 troops, 1 vet and 1 Hq for this army. And some heavy weapons....which are coming in a box.

No idea what that mounts up to.


Coming down with a mancold.




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If anyone has a army list based on that and is willing to share i'd be really grateful...

Honey and lemon with some chopped up ginger.

"NURSE!!!"

just sipped my freshly brewed ginger tea, second miss dees suggestion! ginger will spice up your life a treat...cold or not^^

Things look great! Lovin' your work.

Miss Dee...

I read that and I was like...have I missed something? I'm getting slow in my late 20s.
Feeling a bit better today. I think it is the pollution. I think Manila is the 3rd most polluted city in the world in terms of air quality.

Vic!

I eat ginger nearly every day! With my noodles.

Tristan Gray!

Thank you very much!



So a little update.

I've done a tank commander. For a tank I have yet to build. I've done another Arbite. i've nearly completed the Ogryns, but need to work out how to do Shako hats. I am debating stripping my old school ratlings and making them Chosen Men as well. What do you think?

What else have i done? Oh I have nearly completed Rifleman Hagman. This was probably my most detailed GS to date (so this last week) as it meant building half a head from the GS. He just needs something I hope I have in my box.

What else? Seriously large amounts of painting to do for er every other army i have.

Ninjas
Firmir and Slaves
Halflings
Sigmar...
Orcs...

I think thats the problem. It is a daunting task. Anyway. Might be able to post pics later today.

i always wanted to ask you how the grub is where you live...
i for my part am really fond to spicey food...love cooking with exotic spices and new ways of cooking things together...my wife has recently turned an eye towards chineese cooking, particularly towards breakfast cooked and sometimes spicey too... treats you to a doese of warmth that stays in your bowels for a long time... the asians really know some thing or too to keep the energies in one self...

i would totally go for the ratlings as chosens...saw recently some conversions that went in that fashion if i am not misstaken...



looking for these? not done by me...but something i would love to have done^^

ah and i alwyas get envious at what cool minis you still have to paint...

keep well mate, vik

Nice update Manokky , look forward to seeing The ledgendary Hagman, btw i have only watched the first two dvds of sharpe , so no spoilers please ;-) Its on terestrial tv at the moment and i am trying to avoid it like the plague , eles be robbed of my own controlled viewing pleasure, lol

If you make ratskins like chosen men i want one! nice find Vik!
Only on Manoknoks blog would you find find
Ninjas
Firmir and Slaves
Halflings
Sigmar...
Orcs... in one sentance, and this in return is why we all find your blog AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME
There.....Outdid ya!

btw i saw some ogryn Vostroyan on ebay a while ago and their russian shako style hats look very nice , all green stuffed !

ah man, you know the drill pics or it didn´t happen!

nuff said^^

hi sorry forgot my camera so no pics. Since bunking of work early - to run errands, which I then changed my mind on running - I made all the bits to finish the Ogryns. And finished the last of my 4 Arbites. I want to try and make a mechanical dog. I guess once I've made all these I'll have no excuse but to paint.

I do love making the models. I hate painting them.

Vic - yes almost exactly that. With Shakos.

Neil101! Haha. Firstly can't believe you've never seen all the Sharpes! I am actually looking forward to painting my firmir - after 20 years! I have quite a few so, I may make one a captain or something. Would be interested to see the Vostroyran. I was thinking of doing a Vostroyan count as as my next army....after everything else is finsihed. So. 2012.

Honey and lemon juice in a mug pour in hot water add some chopped ginger and then drink.

mmm , sounds lovely , might just get me some of that , thanks Miss Dee

Hey everyone...

Rifleman Horg Toothsnap! Pretty pleased with how he, and his kin, have turned out! I've done 3 so far. I don't know many have to be in a Ogryn Squad. I might do a few more. I may not. I might save up for some plastic Ogre Kingdoms and do more. It seems a bit of shame to cover the metal models in GS. So what do you think?

Sigmar. I am going to remove that breast plate and do it again. I rushed it and it shows.

Arbites pretty pleased with them. I need a handful more. But, don't have any more of those style Perry minis.

Necron; I have a few of these from my 5 box deal. I have serious amounts of stripping to do! Bye bye fingerprints.

Tank Commander, I want to be your....



Redemionist Priest; I need a colour theme. I want them to match my Sisters of Battle...who also need a Colour Scheme...suggestions please!!

Rifleman Dan Hagman. Best shot in the Regiment. Gets a proper sniper rifle (my only one). Not complete as I want to attached a little thing that I don't have but I am sure I put in my box being shipped. Pretty pleased with my green stuffed face. Learnt a lot. Relatively easy. Next time I do eat will take more time and do it in stages...so I can make teeth.

Then...the rest is my work station, some sprues, some of the stuff I have left to paint (8 draws here and half a box in shipping), finished stuff, and I think that is about it. I have made a couple of bits of terrain also. I wish I had the patience to paint.


Comments criticisms very welcome!

If you look on the first page, I want to be told what to paint next!

So suggestions on a post!

Nice old oop Necron.

what a messy and unorganized workspace...i would feel at home in a sec^^,

your ogrynheads look really good, tho i have to say the pics shown the shakos i fell not sold on them. they are a bit to high for my taste..for my taste that doesn´t have to say they woudnt work, eh?^^

vik

Great update manoknok , love what your doing with the dragoons , and your tank commander looks , great , your ogryns look funny man , in a good way , tehy are ugly buggers , and i still cant get over the amount of old minis you have ? its like a bottomless pit. sniper guy looks cool also .

all seeing eye sees all:
Whats Machiavelli's 'The Prince' like? It sounds like an interesting book.

the chap with the bag on his head; is he the disfigured explosives expert guy?

HI Neil!

Thanks! Yes I have loads. I don't want to get rid of any...though I think I have no decided I will have a moratorium on buying minis for a few years. Till the last mini is painted, the last base er based.I really enjoyed messing with the Ogrys and the Naploenics. I have more to make-but just bog standard now.

Weety!

The Prince is one of my favorite books. It looks into the ideas of power and rule etc. The Patricia Cornwall books are my mums; she insisted on giving them to me even though they don't fit into my history/philosophy and what is now called Speculative Fiction according to the guardian but I call Sci Fi and Fantasy.







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Oh the model is from the Redemptionist gang from Necromunda. I picked it up the Christmas before last.

Thats a pretty good boxset. some nice heads. Want to blend them with my sisters of battle. (have 1 squad and a tank).

So I did a ridiculously large amount of painting last night. Unfortunately it was of the flat wall variety.

Got home late, and decided that I would just do some thinking on my stuff. Want to print out the collectors manuals and check off what I have. Also. Want to actually play the damned game so...

I knocked up two very WIP army lists. As I have played 4 games in 10 years (and hey I won 3/4 not bad...but that was because I used my old tactic...line up, look pretty, don't move, fire at anything)

I would like to have a working army list for each army...

Speaking of; I am thinking of limiting the Son's of Sigmar to 2,500 pts. As I likely have another 10,000 pts of marines on top of that...any suggestions on what to do with them? Two big armies?
I should probably have a small - ARGH I CAN"T BELIEVE I AM ABOUT TO SAY THIS - Ultra Marines force as I have a lot of their Characters; I have three bloomin Marneus Calgars!!

Anyway...suggestions! What is the smalllest Smurf force that can field Calgar....and what other forces can I use? I was thinking Aurora Chapter, GSing some Legion of the Damned, and er...that leaves me 5,000 pts...so....what is the least common force? What about the Flame Falcons...

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Flame_Falcons

I would actually be up for doing any army on this table ( I know I did it myself)...so suggestions please!!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/304222.page


Anyway;

For your interest, if you are.

Sisters of Battle (have all models except the Arco-Flagelants which are in the little Magic the Gathering shop in the mall, and have been for a long time, I may blow half my remaining yearly game budget on them(.

HQ: Cannoness
HQ: Priests (5)
Troops Cadian Squad (10)
Troops SOB (10)
Troops SOB (10)
Elite Arco flagelants (6)
Elite Calexus Assasin
HS: Immoliator

Total points c. 1000

36th Imperial Foot Regiment (I have no chimerias - yet...might use paper)

HQ: Heroic Senior Office Sharpe + Medic, Standard etc
HQ Advisors Psyker (5)
HQ: Commissars (4)
HQ: Priests (3)
Elites: 35th Chosen Men (Hardened Veterans)
Elites: 35th Large Fellows (2 Ogryns 1 Bonehead)
Elites: 95th Rifle Division (6 Ratlings)
Troops 35th Red Coats Infantry (10)
Troops 35th Red Coats Infantry (10)
Troops 35th Red Coats Infantry (10)
Troops 35th White Jackets Conscript (20)
Fast Attack Therebridge Volunteer Air Cavalry (Rough Riders 9)
Fast Attack Therebridge Volunteer Air Cavalry ( Rough Riders 9)
Fast Attack Therebridge Volunteer Walkers (Sentinels 3)
Heavy Support: Roaring Meg (Demolisher 1)
Heavy Support: Rocket Company (Mortar)
Heavy Support: lasGunnery Comany (lasgun)

Total c. 1500

What do you think? Can field both at once...and then...have Praetorians (if they ever show up) Catachans and Cadians...and some Feral World Stuff (based on necromunda ratskins...just need a few bits for that).

Then Space Marines...

Sorry not much of a update...but hey...I am supposed to be working...




Posted this entire update on someone elses blog by mistake.

Doh!


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It occurs to me that this guy

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Daemonhunters_/INQUISITOR-LORD-HECTOR-REX-AND-RETINUE.html

would have made a good Sigmar if I changed his weapon and shield.




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A better sigmar still

http://www.spikeybits.com/servlet/the-3162/Hell-Dorado-Augustinus-Raimond/Detail

?

The list is expansive manoknok, good job your painting , well walls count as well ;-)
that hell dorado mini is great btw, i do like their stuff.

Neil you are up very late. It is the middle of the working day here.

Wait. Why I am on dakka at work?

Shhhhhhh

Hey Dakkites!

So. My box of goodness should arrive in a little over 9 days. What with moving flat. Decorating new flat. Work. Travel (to work sometimes 10hrs) its not a great time to be a model in the Manoknok house. Flat. Flouse.

Anyway. I am plodding on with my Rifles.


Have done most of a HQ squad. But could not remember what else went in it. Have also done three more guardsmen.

I've been playing Game of Thrones Roleplay (I am actually not a great fan of mass troop movement - I like skirmishes and RPGS) which uses something called Tri-Stat. Good fun. Suprisingly!

Anyway, I need to paint some knights before sunday for the next session. I have several knights but only one house.

Cue men with coconuts.

So some of you will know that one of the main reason I left the hobby and switched to RPGs was that I accidentally destroyed all my plastic miniatures, arms bolters of metal ones included. This left me with a armles army and quite a large pile of gunk.

From their I descended into RPG and the passive aquisition of models;

'I'll switch you those LOTD you have for a crate of stella'
'I'll swtich you those 5 boxes of models of a LP player.'

Anyway. I've just picked up 58 arms on ebay for 2 pound!
Yay! They are in the UK...but hey step in the right direction!


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Gaming budget: 23

Also started 13 more riflemen and finsihed 6 last night.

Without ebay I think I would have never even thought about painting minis again.

Glad you found your arms - now you just need your second edition bolters- I have a few but probably not enough, I reckon if you type bits or bitz into the search you will find the droids you are looking for. Conversions are looking good

They are looking good i do like your conversions , the fix bayonet guy is perfect! and i reccomend that medic puts in a request for a set of hands from your new collection. £2 bargain!

two pounds on ebay... wher was i deep sea sleeping like a stone....
i could bit my own a... off^^

good luck with getting it to you after all then sir^^

Well. I've nothing to update.

I've done 6 more models. 20 guys left, then the artillery should arrive next week. Suffering exhaustion on this front so I might change tac:

What next? Any suggestions? I am tempted to strip evertying I sprayed khaki and paint it all white.

Erm. Might do some stripping. Actually. Might do some orcs or tau.

Need to PAINT!

by the way, your HQ looks super... love that bonesaw on that medic....

@ Vic Thanks! QUite a simple conversion really. Replaced one hand with the medic bandage from the Cadian Battalion Box set (have been harvesting from built minis...hence the no handed medic above) and having shaved away one hand atached. Then just used a plane victrix sword arm and attached a bayonet in a saw position.


Did 2 more last night. One lobbing a grenade. One, possibly my favorite non sharpe, pushing a chaos terminator helmet with his foot with a look of disgust and effort.

Think about 14 more to make, then 20 artillery incoming.


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So my Firmir and Men of Albion should arrive in the next 6 days in my box. There are about 500 miniatures in that box, several game boards, pretty much every roleplay book I have...

I hope it arrives safely!!

Anyway. Does anyone have any idea how I should go about this Albion army. Till now I have given it much thought. How would I play it? How should I paint it? I need to find some characters. I've been looking at the Giants of Albion DOW models...but they are way out of my game budget league.

Any advice would be great. Are they any Albion models available? And I am correct in thinking that Firmir were based in Albion? My thoughts so far have been about fielding these two speicies on the same side...not PM stuff....but I need to start researching paint and colour schemes etc...

If you know of any albion models I could use let me know!


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Well. Anything Albion is expenmsive on ebay. If I had the money these might make good fell beasts:




Then giants. Druids. Dogs of Orion. Barbarians....


Anything else?

not sure what this albion is is it a part of the warhammer world? like lustria? is that one? i am getting a bit confused
I remember the firmir from warhammer roleplay , and some scenariors in white dwarf, there was one like the seven samuari if i recall correctly with great art from paul bonner.

edit just did some research on albion , so its britain eh , i kinda thought it would be so if i were you i would go with a celtic feel , druids and lots of blue woad , a bit braveheart you could say!

The new plastic giant (ok not really new now) is pretty long and lanky limbed like the albion giants were, It might be possible to convert it to look more celtic. Or even just have it painted up the right way. Fimir definately were in albion. They had fenbeasts too.