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Doesn't the armour save on the grav weapons become the grav weapons AP value for wounding or something which is why they are so deadly to monstrous creatures, terminators etc?
Plus salvo is just plain mean

Yeah, the armor save of the target becomes the wound roll for the gun.

Your productivity never ceases to amaze (and annoy!) I'm especially liking the freehand tribal symbols on the armour and it's a little thing, but the headlight on the chibi-hawk really stands out for me as super-effective. The weathering is top-notch as well.

Really nice stuff, subscribed.

Thanks guys! :-) just managed to prime and shade a Stormraven Gunship! never done one before and I'm looking forward to it but you'll see BigH's heads first and then i'll do another Baal Pred a normal pred and a Razorback and my stormraven all at once! :-)

Righto guys a quick update today I'm painting a few bare heads for BigH and worked out the ones he sent I had a few already half done so I just decided to gift him a few extras i'm going to have to try and save a few of them as they are a little muddy from when i lost interest before! but I think throughout the lot there'll be some basic sort of table top ones and some more up to date better ones, the Maxmini ones are really nice and I am now going to get my own set to build some scouts with!

anyway I hope the start is interesting enough, not that you'll really notice much major change later as it's all pretty subtle stuff but I figured I should at least show you

here's some beret heads I did a while ago which will go to BigH

some cap wearing heads the faces are done but the hats will get more paint

spec ops head #1 still work to do

spec ops #2 still work to do as well

Maxmini heads are cool! nearly done just need to tidy up some bits and darken the eye sockets



that's it for today, should be done next session

I hope customs opens it up and sees a box of small severed heads and has a conversation with Senor H about it.

Don't let it go to your head but they are fantastic.

Awesome stuff.

You certainly have a knack for teasing out something special from a head, Nerd.

Last row of heads, third from the right:

"Go naow! Gettoozeeechappuh!"

Nice flesh painting, as usual... **mn you Nerdy !

The Maori symbols on the 'Dons help make them some of the best I've seen.

Played two games of 40k yesterday first one was against DarkEldar and the result was 'suprising' ..............o.k no it wasn't at all.................I got my a$$ handed to me by turn 3 i fact here's an image of the entire amount of his models I killed in the entire game!



yep that's it, I WAS going to do a batrep, but it got kinda jumbled and then I was too far gone!

Then I played him again using his Space Wolves and promptly lost again!!!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
: i fact here's an image of the entire amount of his models I killed in the entire game!

Spoiler:

Well, it's not THAT bad if you played a 200-pts Kill Team game

Sorry to heat The dice gods abandoned you mate. Which army did you use?

Ouch. I'm really surprised, I'd have expected that many to die in overmatch.

*chuckle* Love that second pic!

==post sanctioned due to 80s glam rock references ==

Big fan of the tribals on your models, really sets them apart!

Thanks for the kind words guys! my guys just had the worst Dice luck everrrrrr! I rolled so many ones we thought gnats had taken over my Dev squad got wiped first turn and nobody pulled their weight, it's heavy practice and bolter drills for the boys now!!

so incensed was I about the pasting I started assembling some reinforcements for next time!

20 more Tac marines

5 Vanguard now primed

10 man Sternguard with Bolters

the start of a 10 man Death Co.

and a little air support


Next game I'm just gonna try something stupidly different and see what happens!

Certainly a bulk detachment of reinforcements mate. That red looks fantastic!

Looking forward to seeing them all.

I'm starting to paint a bit of red with my scions and I was wondering, what do you use for your edge highlighting?

Dang, that's one heck of a reinforcement wave! I can tell some of the DC squad are guys I sent, did you use the rest in the Tac squads, or still hoarding them for another project?

Looking great Damo!

Awesome, so pretty red.

That red is amazing, very vibrant. Any chance of a step by step?

Bring on the boys in red Nerdy, really looking forward to seeing the Raven painted up.

Shame about the games, you need to get some more practice in or bring bigger guns

How in the world do you do your red? its so saturated.

I think it might be related to Damo's love of Army Painter products.

I have a vindicator that looks exactly the same as the Raven on my painting table, but without wings!

I undercoated black and then sprayed with Dragon Red, it doesn't quite match the rest of my World Eaters so I'm trying to tone it down.

Its a very nice red though when done over black.

Nicely intense red you are using Nerdy!

Yep, the red so far is indeed The Army Painter Dragon Red all I do is after priming I wash with Agrax then do my highlighting up in stages from blood red,blazing orange, vomit brown with a 50/50 mix of each colour in between finally finished with a wash of Baal red or Crimson and that's it for the armour

Whaley you're right the DC are indeed all the spares you sent me! I just removed the arms (because they need to be red) and scratched a few bits of glue off and now i'm waiting for a drop from The Combat Company which includes Black & White primers! I'm thinking arming them with a mix of Power weapons and ?

I also got painting done! yes that's correct I finished BigH's bare heads! I did purposefully leave some areas like hats fairly bland incase the need arises to change them to fit in with the army? from arms length they look really good but of course at this scale enlarged some look like I painted them with a toilet brush anyway trust me they aren't too bad in fact I hope you may actually like some of them







So, now that leaves me free tomorrow to start the stormraven and if my drop arrives I can begin the prep of Ferrus Mannus