AoV's Hobby Blog 29/04/18 The Tomb World stirs p44...

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**GrimDork**

Looking forward to some more space marines then

**angelofvengeance**

Blood Angel SM yes. Though the Predator is going to the Dark Angels.

**GrimDork**

So.... I'm looking forward to seeing some more space marines then

**angelofvengeance**

GrimDork wrote:
So.... I'm looking forward to seeing some more space marines then

I might throw in some Necronage or Druchiiage too

Been neglecting them of late.

**GrimDork**

It's all good, bring forth these things that I may gawk!

**angelofvengeance**

So update part 1: Got my shiny new 6'x4' space themed mat coming Tues/Wed from the Eggbox Terrain Kickstarter. One of the few projects I've backed, that have delivered rewards more or less on time! So be prepared for some Battlefleet Gothic pics! I have a fairly sizeable Ork fleet (mostly cause I enjoy the amount of pain they can inflict at 15cm or less). Also have some Tau ships (not the god awful sculpts from GWs main studio, but the awesome torpedo spamming stuff from FW! )
My brother has some Tyranids and Chaos for his fleets.

**angelofvengeance**

Phase 1 of the Rebasing Crusade nearly complete...

Also- woot! 15 pages and 14k views!

**GrimDork**

Hmm those *do* look good. Nice work. I also like your paint situation!

**angelofvengeance**

Yeah they look pretty sweet! That was just about 1 pack and a bit worth of bases.There's still a shed load of Necron Warriors and Dark Eldar to do. May have to mount the wyches on top of the new bases as there's some that are posed to look like they're doing acrobatics.

**Paradigm**

I'd hold off on the DE as I don't think there's any guaruntee that they need 32s. Of course, you could do it just for the Rule of Cool, but I'd bet DE remain on 25s.

**angelofvengeance**

Paradigm wrote:
I'd hold off on the DE as I don't think there's any guaruntee that they need 32s. Of course, you could do it just for the Rule of Cool, but I'd bet DE remain on 25s.

Hmm Dark Eldar Kabalites do actually have a wide stance though Para, for some reason they have to stand legs spread lol.

**Paradigm**

I suppose so. My line of thinking was less that and more that, in the admittedly small sample we've seen so far (Crons, BA, and the Nids from the recent supplement), T4 things have generally been on 32s (Cron Warriors, Marines) while T3 things (Gants) haven't been.

But, the 32s do give you a larger canvas to play with artistically, and anyone who refuses to play them on 32s is probably not the kind of person you want to play anyway.

**GrimDork**

I don't think large bases tend to confer much of a benefit anyway. Not sure if 5-7mm is enough to change the math on max coherency and blasts, and it shouldn't be enough to matter in CC. Switching to 60s maybe

Doesn't *every* gw model have a wide stance? Necrons, marines, darkies... it's like they *wanted* to use up that whole base or something. It's part of the reason space marines are the same height as guardsmen... though I guess they both have fairly squatty poses.

Still working on my terrain piece. Starting to reconsider my choice to use plaster cloth coated in plaster/spackle stuff. It may just end up too brittle. Gonna see if I can do some treatments to make it better for long term, either a coat of watered down PVA glue or maybe even just brush dip the entire thing and let the polyurethane do the talking...

**angelofvengeance**

GrimDork wrote:
Doesn't *every* gw model have a wide stance? Necrons, marines, darkies... it's like they *wanted* to use up that whole base or something. It's part of the reason space marines are the same height as guardsmen... though I guess they both have fairly squatty poses.

Unless they're in a running pose, yes lol.

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Paradigm wrote:
I suppose so. My line of thinking was less that and more that, in the admittedly small sample we've seen so far (Crons, BA, and the Nids from the recent supplement), T4 things have generally been on 32s (Cron Warriors, Marines) while T3 things (Gants) haven't been.

But, the 32s do give you a larger canvas to play with artistically, and anyone who refuses to play them on 32s is probably not the kind of person you want to play anyway.

Gaunts and stealers I'd put on 32s as they're generally quite top heavy due to their posing. Gants I'd leave on 25s as the weight is evenly dispersed.

**angelofvengeance**

Still getting that Christmas vibe though I can't possibly figure out why...hur hur hur.. yeah ok crap joke.

Received my 3rd and final survey gubbinz from the girls and boys at Mantic. Loving all of it! Guess I know what I'll be on with at the weekend! Tacked the Strider together for a bit of fun and my fething god that chainblade and flamer is huge!

Also received my very much anticipated Space themed mat from Rick at Eggbox Terrain from his Starscapes KS. Really nice mat. Not quite as heavy as Frontline's mat but certainly tough enough to be played on.

The Carina Nebula which looks suspiciously like the Eye of Terror..

**GrimDork**

Excellent, I look forward to seeing what you come up with

**Paradigm**

Agreed. Grim already has me working on Enforcers, whatever you do with this may just end up Deadzoning my entire workbench...

**angelofvengeance**

New day, new update. Man, I don't seem to be getting much done lately...

Had a play around with the Deadzone Strider today as well as some lovely plastic-crack Enforcers & Peacekeepers..

In a word or two: fething awesome!

**GrimDork**

Poses look good, and that strider is quite interesting

**angelofvengeance**

Yeah I'm loving the giant flamer of doom on the Strider. As for the cockpit- didn't wanna mess about with the teeny tiny Plague pilot, so my brother and I decided to go for a more infested look.

Tentacles are green stuff and the weird gribbly mouth is from a very old Chaos spawn model. Brother also did the two enforcer and 'keeper fellas.

**Paradigm**

Great stuff! Have to grab me a Strider at some point, and if that's the kind of dynamism you can get from the plastic Enforcers I may have to get some of those too (I'm just going to gloss over the 20+ I've built in the last week

)

**Red Corsair**

that deadzone strider looks boss mate! Keep up the good work!

**angelofvengeance**

It's a nice kit and you get all the options for Plague, Rebs and Enforcers. The pics just don't do the Enforcer Genling 88 weapon justice. It's massive. Reminds me of the Volkite weapons from 40K. A great deal at £12.50 IMO

**GrimDork**

And it was a hell of a steal at 2 for 20 dollars!

**angelofvengeance**

Definitely Grim!

Anyways- the eBay bug came back and bit me this week and I managed to score a Vindicator siege tank for £15.00- assembled quite well but then it looks like the person has basecoated it with Caliban Green. Then realised all the gaps and slathered it with green stuff.

It then appears to have been abandoned and left to gather dust on a shelf somewhere. Dozy sod has also glued the Demo cannon so I can't get the siege shield on.

On the plus side, it doesn't have the sweaty-cigarette-factory-nerd stink on it so I don't have to decontaminate it. So I'll probably be sanding the bugger down to level all the blobs of green stuff out. Pic to follow later.

**Paradigm**

Sounds bad, to be honest. I think if I recieved something like that I'd send it back (if it wasn't clear from the pics how badly it was put together). I once played against a LR with what looked like GS used in place of glue (as in, all down the sides where the treads meet the hull!), and I think I may have visibily cringed every time I looked at it...

**angelofvengeance**

Sounds messy.

Found the pic:

The HORROR

**squall018**

That strider is awesome! I like that huge flamer it has as well. When I finally get around to building mine, that will be the go to weapon.

It sucks you can't get the shield on the demolisher (at least without lots of cutting and creativity) but I bet you can salvage it.

**Azazelx**

...and I've caught up here as well. Worth giving that Vindi a bath in Dettol, you think?

**angelofvengeance**

Maybe... My brother says he'll have it but then that would give him x2 chaos vindicators and x2 defilers to pummel me with. His defilers are scary accurate in our games for a BS3 vehicle!