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From what I can glean from the formation rules in the spoilers, due to them not being IN MY HANDS due to Chinese manufacturing and labor unions(don't get me started...), I wanted to go with at least one of the big bad formation if only for that re-roll of 1s on invulnerables. The old school fleet is rad too, even though the pistols they carry tend to be rad, I find myself typically wanting to play fleet wrong anyways due to being old and beardy. If I read crusader plus fleet right though, you roll 3 dice for charge range, get to reroll one of those dice and then pick the two highest? Because that is cool. It seems designed to go with Dark Eldar or Eldar, which I don't care about at all at all. Maybe when Aspect Warriors go plastic and never with Dark Eldar ever. The Elites Solitary formation is cool though. The reroll to 1s feels like it takes some glass out of the glass cannon to me. I don't know the mathhammer on it. I ultimately do want to build and model them anyway. The jetbikes I feel I could do and the weavers aren't extravagantly big, plus I have ideas. Honestly, the only thing threatening to stop my further plunge into more Harlies is my excitement about my other, already established armies.

Also, some help is needed here. I have two of my new hotness troupe who are using chaos marines as "basing material" with their kisses stuck in said Chaos Marine's head. Now, I have gone 2 decades+ in the hobby and never painted a Chaos Space Marine. Other than finishing it with BFTBG pouring out of their orifices, I have not much in the way of how I should paint them. Any ideas out there?

Slaanesh was the God bourne out of the fall of the Eldar, so I'd suggest picking one of the Slaaneshi Legions, and using that color scheme.

Issue with that is Emperor's Children is pink and black, thus Solitaire is no longer unique scheme. Also, they kill not Slaanesh as well.

 moonpie wrote:
Dude, the cold...

Just stop it, winter!

So, stopped by the store and got some pics taken of what I have been working on.

Pics COMMENCE!









So, thanks, Matt, for taking the pictures. They were a lot of fun to paint. Hope you all dig them.

ah, beautiful bolter fodder Moonpie!

@Kelly502: Thanks, bro!

It's true, though. I am more afraid of a bolter than I am of a plasma pistol or a lascannon with these guys. Weight of fire is going to crash their party. But if I can just get in there, they will beat that face up!

I think the Shadowseer is going to be what makes these guys deliverable. Either way, this is definitely one of those armies you lose with a bunch of times before you win.

Solitaire looks great, moonpie! I love the pink.

I've got some Harlies and conversions on my table that I'm working on. Hopefully I can get a few done soon and show them off.

@Yellowbeard-Ooh! I'd like to see that!

Smashing, with a hint of bubblegum

No Harleen or Mr. J?

These guys look great!

I can't wait to see the chaos based ones!

Fantastic work!!

Thanks.

Update: Built first Skyweaver. Need to get my Troupe painted up, so I am not bogged down with unpainted models. Trying to paint as I go.

Skyweaver is great. though. Definitely flew it around in my hand and did pew pew noises.

 moonpie wrote:


Skyweaver is great. though. Definitely flew it around in my hand and did pew pew noises.

That's a always a good test to see how well it will do in a combat situation

 GiraffeX wrote:

 moonpie wrote:


Skyweaver is great. though. Definitely flew it around in my hand and did pew pew noises.

That's a always a good test to see how well it will do in a combat situation

You need to try it out with some “Fwoosh” and “Zoooom” noises to test how it will do in the movement phase as well.

Right. Vroom: check. Zooooom: check. Movement phase good.

Pew Pew Pew: check. Shooting phase good.

Chop chop whisk: check. Assault phase good.

Putting some paint on things and listening to The Name of the Wind. I like to paint 4 or so at a time. This is, however, the exact opposite of assembly line. I paint one or two colors on one or two guys and move around.

As to the Chaos marines, I have a Vallejo color Old Rose I am using for them. Going to have silver trim. Washing Agrax Earthshade. I want them to be dirty and beat up looking. It will prove a good contrast against the Harlies. Old Rose is a pink, but not really bright.

I suspect that the Solitare would be the equivalent of the slap chop in 40k! you following me camera guy because its about to get serious!

For those that don't know


And that is how you threadjack

So quotable. "You're gonna love my nuts!"

So, I got more Harlequins painted. I have gone further from the diamond pattern as the standard. I did it on the regular harlequin with the green coat. Whoops. So, I got discouraged and moved on with something different. I just sort of threw some designs and patterns and whatnot.














Also, my Harlequin codex is snowed in at Memphis. So, I lit my apartment on fire and now live on the street.

There was a saying if I recall.... Orange and green should never be seen? apart from the colour choice I really dig the free hand and the soft blends on the cloak really stand out

Really nice work on those!

Nice harlies

Especially the troupe master who looks to be backflipping and the player (green jacket) who looks like he's doing some sort of corkscrew manoeuvre.

Inspired. Congratulations!

@Knightley: Orange and green ninjas should be the best then, because they could sneak up on you...
I'll keep that in mind for the future.

@Paradigm: Thanks. Looking forward to seeing yours painted.

@angelofvengeance: My next 3 have even crazier poses. Stay tuned.

@Gits: Ooooh! Is that Gitsplitter?!? He's famous! Have to get my ribs in this way, since Adepticon isn't happening for me this year. Have fun and thanks for the grats. It's appreciated.

I am going to finish off what I have with all the Harlies I have built and bought, but then it is going to be slog time with the Empire. In mid to late April I am going to play my full collection against Chaos to celebrate The End Times. I just got the Archaon book, so that will be the last money I can spend on the hobby for a while. Luckily my unpainted and built pile is huge.

Fantastic work, moonpie. I love the green one. Very cool pose. And great work on the diamonds.

Beautiful paint jobs. They really look the part.

 moonpie wrote:
Gits: Ooooh! Is that Gitsplitter?!? He's famous! Have to get my ribs in this way, since Adepticon isn't happening for me this year. Have fun and thanks for the grats. It's appreciated.

Just not the same with out you guys for sure.

To start: I acknowledge these pictures are worse than garbage, but it is what it is.

I just set up all the dudes I need to get done for my Empire army-about 100 models to make a legit Grand Army to celebrate the End of the End Times with a Gigantor battle against Matt's hugezorz Chaos army.

So, with all that work done, what do I do? Start painting a Space Wolves flyer.

Get some!

This is like the evil opposites pic to oppose Git's perfectly airbrushed FW tank. I would love to get an airbrush, but I don't have the budget for it. That money will buy a tooth crown, pay a judgement, get another bookshelf, or a halfway respectable couch.

So, I went to the art store and got a $4 pack of crap brushes and it was the best investment I have made in a looong time. That is what that ridiculous orange brush in the top of one of the pics is.

I'm going to go back in later after the inevitable cleanup I'll have to do after the gold. There is not enough dark in it.

I have been worrying about how to do my vehicles for the Space Wolves for....years. So, it's nice to just have done it. Just bang it out and do me.

Btw, when you all come out to Gen Con, you need to come with me to Prizm Art Supply up on Allisonville. It 100% rules. If you don't have a dedicated fine art store(run by a huge Steelers fan, btw) then bummer for you. Next door is the Ale Emporium which has awesome wings.

So, with ado adone, I give you my Stormwhatever-Fang? I can't ever remember:

With another couple layers yet-needed to be cropped.


Unadjusted:


Dakkadjusted:


Might have had those backwards. One is adjusted one isn't but I labeled them wrongly.

This is the one that also contains some poorly positioned members of my Rout to try to demonstrate the painting "technique" I use on them. It's, to put it politely, "impressionist". It has source highlighting, but I do it from the position that there would be hundreds of sources of light on a battlefield.

Note, the bright orange crapola brush that actually totally rules.



Yeah, those pictures suck, but they are pictures nonetheless.

So there.

I'll try to get a picture of the latest finished Harlequin I have done.

I'm hoping the color matches. I used new GW Space Wolf colors and finished off with old school Space Wolves Grey and White Scar(which I adore). This allows me some greater amount of control when doing these big pieces.

So, I put paint on a tank. Yes, Whale, I know it is a flyer not a "tank". But you all get it. I'll have to do the drop pods at some point too. Those are for sure just getting banged out.

As further ado, as I hinted about above, I had a great night running around picking stuff up for this and the Empire project. It really highlighted enjoying living in Indianapolis. I watched Chappie on the 70' wide IMAX for free with a buddy. I dropped by my girl's work to drop off some water, because she doesn't drink tapwater, but is adorable and makes me happy. I hit Prizm which is a place that makes me really happy. The staff is amazing-apparently there has been difficulty getting Kolinsky Sable lately due to it being declared endangered in some places and not others and paperwork blah blah. Plus it is chock full of rad art stuff. Not most of it is of help to this hobby, but art supplies make me happy. Zipped down to Lowes where I could find parking and was not solicited by itinerant day laborers of questionable immigration status. I picked up 2 rolls of Duct Tape(hot pink and sunshine yellow). I then zipped up to one of the two FLGSs I have within a 10 minute drive of my apartment, where they were having Fantasy League night and 4 separate games of WHFB were going on-picked up overpriced GW primer because...reasons. Hit Arby's, Jamocha shake and Classic Roast Beefs with Horsey sauce. Went home to paint with Patrick Rothfuss audiobook for frees courtesy of the Indianapolis Public Library. I try to not talk politics, as I am a rabid libertarian, and this is not a normal view to have. My boss knows, as he is also a Heinlein fan, so it has come up. He is not a rabid libertarian, and his best offense against my view is public libraries. Don't know what to say about it. But didn't Jefferson come up with that idea. That makes it ok right? Dude wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Plus, we have reached temps that it can't snow at. Bam! Of course, it was raining and our roads are destroyed. He giveth/taketh away...

Anyways, it's a good town to live in. Makes me happy to be here and near enough to Ice to play games and eat his in-laws' food(they killed it tonight). This midwest boy feels comfortable here, a comfort I just never felt in Los Angeles-no matter what amount of COOL STUFF they had there.

Also, to those that play D&D or other RPGs, I killed my first PC as a GM today. I felt a little bad.

But, don't charge the big bad guy by yourself without full hit points!

Hope you guys dig it. If you find yourself some excess good vibes on Friday, send them my way after 5pm eastern time.

The pie painted a tank! Hooray!

Looks awesome. I believe it counts in the tank category by the way. I would paint the pilot myself but I can see the ease of not going that route. Looking forward to all the Wolf bits yet to finish. Trim and gribblies always take me the longest and somehow I always miss something I notice months later during some game. I did enjoy painting the 2 for YB but am relieved that their done and gone.

Looking forward to seeing you ( and these SW ) at next year’s AC.

Looking solid Moonie!

What charge what for that PC to die? please don't tell me it was a level 1 wizard being killed by a giant rat type of embarrassment? also, I'm not talking out of experience here.... yeah that's it.

Moonpie, I DEMAND to see you at Gencon.

 Knightley wrote:
Looking solid Moonie!

What charge what for that PC to die? please don't tell me it was a level 1 wizard being killed by a giant rat type of embarrassment? also, I'm not talking out of experience here.... yeah that's it.

My in game sister Karo, the level 8 human monk, charged an ogre barbarian with a human bane ogre hook. She got jumped by a couple weird ogre dog things along the way but was chopped down in one round by the nasty ogre hook. 74 points of damage, or something like that in six seconds.

It was very sad. We quickly avenged her but it was too late for my sister. Has Moonpie mentioned that he permanently blinded my character two weeks ago? What a jerk......