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Man, you're really cranking these tanks out.

EDC

@Zerg - Sadly I haven't had the chance to make any russ tanks yet, however my kit bashed predator did use Russ tracks and they were fine.


@MarsNZ - Treads look fine from my PoV

@EDC - Yep, really easy when I only need one brush and one paint, can streamline the whole thing.

Update: Body of the Baneblade done, which means all the tanks are completed!


Tank together


All Tanks together

Very pretty. Man I'd hate to have to face those with my scouts!

Scary. Looking great.

Good stuff, gotta love all those tank models! Tanks are one of my favorite things in 40k, it's a pity they aren't that good in-game right now.

@Gits - Melta, lots of melta and all tanks start to quake in their boots.

@Cam - Thanks man!

@Zerg - Agreed, seems the meta is all about fast moving units for maelstrom games eh?

Update: battle report time, after reading what Mad had written on our last battle report I thought I might throw my hand at it as well. Its taken from the point of view of the sgt for my large blob of sisters used in the battle and everything I think she would see.

Battle of Outpost 82-720
Sister Superior Alberta scanned her Auspex a second time.

"This can't be right..." she trailed off. For the second time in the last 5 cycles there was a faint contact which had then vanished.

She'd heard there was something big happening, but as far as details go there was very little filtered down to her level, that damn Inquisitor and his misinformation. That combined with a malaise which had settled over the outpost, had the civilian populace in the area fleeing to the underground bunkers in fear.

Looking out at the outpost force she was with her Battle squad of nineteen sisters they had the honor of being equipped with two holy flamers in the squad, they were accompanied by their newest priest 'Fazier' a strong willed young man and a dab handy arm with his power axe, they were also backed up with a mighty Immolator. Part of her current training meant that the high Canoness Trineth was watching over her command of the squad, if felt good to have such an esteemed member of the order nearby in case anything went wrong.

Back near the bunkers was their firepower in the shape of two mighty Exorcists. She was aware there were two other Sister superiors, however they were junior to her and as such only had 4 other sisters under their command. Out scouting their flanks were two elite Dominion squads with the forces melta weapons, scouting in recent times had become quite dangerous and immolators were sent out as transports with the Dominions.
The trump card was an Imperial Avenger Strike Fighter at an airbase a few Kilometres away, ready to support them if required.



Looking out towards the old abandoned bastion there was a thick green fog that had rolled in, Alberta had heard tales of outposts going dark after a preceding fog having been spotted, but this information was haphazard at best due to the informant usually rambling about unseen horrors at the same time. The High canoness had seen the fog as well and ordered Sister Superior Belleas to advance to the bunker in front of them, there was a cogitator at the bunker which allowed for telemetry data to be streamed to their power armour allowing them to hit fast moving flying targets, there was a similar cogitator inside bunker 720.


Suspecting there was going to be something bad happening very soon, Alberta directed her squad to start heading to the ruins of a building, the ruins might offer a better vantage point of the battlefield. It was a fair hike so she ordered the squad to double time to get closer. At bunker 720 she heard the Exorcists unleash their first Salvo of firepower, the rockets streaked overhead and she heard unearthly screeching and the muffled explosions from the rockets. The Enemy had arrived!


Suddenly there was a horrifying howl and something large flew out of the fog, Alberta had never seen something so horrific, it was huge, it had large bat wings, a drooling toothed maw and what looked like two sets of arms holding what organic weapons, it took aim at Belleas’ squad and unleashed a raft of firepower felling two of the sisters squad, more sisters were hit but their holy armour protected them. She turned to face the ruins and out of the green fog there were small sized creatures with wings jumping around the ruins, she spotted one slip and fall to the ground and heard the creatures’ neck snap, forced with two threats she momentarily froze.

Again she heard the Exorcists fire another volley, this time in the distance there were deeper sounding screams, it seems the mighty tanks had found their range. Her ears picked up the high pitched whine heralding the arrival of the Strike fighter, this brought her focus back to the battle,

The Canoness pointed at the Flying monstrosity and ordered the squad to bring it down. The sheer amount of shots poured into the beast was impressive, the Immolator, Exorcist, Strike fighter and both sister squads put everything they had into it, the beast evaded with an agility she did not expect from a creature so large, she saw the large amount of damage on it, but the beast would not go down.


The beast turned tail and flew out over the ruins at great speed. The sisters cheered, they had beaten back the attackers! Belleas’ squad were cheering right up till the moment that their heads exploded, Alberta had not heard any shooting and she realised it had been a feint, there was a larger force coming and they had been drawn in to a trap.
There was a large clap of thunder from the sky, Alberta raised her eyes skywards and saw a flaming meteor come streaking down from the heavens aimed directly at bunker 720, it narrowly missed the bunker and impacted the earth creating a burning crater, had these beasts managed to control meteors and drop them, it didn’t seem possible yet there it was. She had to blink her eyes twice, something was moving in the crater. A huge creature from nightmares of old emerged and stomped towards their Exorcist bringing its hideous weaponry to bear on the rear armour of the tank. She didn’t think it possible that any Xenos creature could take out one of the mighty imperial tanks but when the smoke started to billow out of the tank she knew they were in trouble. Behind the horrible creature something else was happening, a large sac looking thing was starting to float out from the crater and it was heading their way.


“Time to move! Get to the bunker NOW!” She yelled at her squad, as the unit looked to bunker 720 they felt the ground shake and an even bigger creature emerged from the ground right in front of the entrance. There was an audible gasp from a number of the squad members, Alberta could sense the squad was close to breaking, intent on not letting Canoness Trineth down she looked at the young priest and told him to start a prayer, they were going to save the civilians in that bunker and they would need to take down that monster to do it.

“Prepare for combat sisters! For the Emperor and for the Rose! CHARGE!” Pulling her pistol out she fired at the huge monster and charged in. The creature swung its claws and crushed two of her squad, in retaliation the fury of her squad’s attacks was immense, the monster started bleeding from many cuts and holes, they had done some serious damage but it still stood.


Taking stock of the fight Alberta had realised they had made another error, the small flapping creatures had been left to their own devices and had now cleared the ruins and were quickly hopping towards her squad. “Redouble your efforts Sisters bring this creature down!”
The holy priest began chanting one of his war hymns and the effect on the squad was uplifting, while the squad continued to beat on the huge creature the priest moved over to the newly arrived brood and laid waste to four of them with his axe.

The huge creature let out a strangle gurgle as Canoness Trineth jammed her Chainsword into its neck, the creature faltered then fell into the hole it had created and ceased moving. Alberta didn’t have a chance to cheer as the flapping rats were spitting a purple goo at the sister’s eyes, she readied her Chainsword for their next attack.


She needn’t have worried the war hymn from their priest had whipped the sisters into a wild frenzy and they tore the winged gargoyles to pieces, now they weren’t in combat and there was a sudden volley of inaccurate fire from the floating sac, the sheer amount of shots it put out tore down a number of her squad.


“We cannot allow this thing to pollute our planet sisters, ready your blades!”
Her squad had been bloodied in combat with many of the Xenos creatures and this one would be no easy target, they all charged in and with the priests rousing words they battered the floating sac and tore it to pieces.
“Well done Sisters, you have proven our worth to our Lord and savior this day! Let us get to the Civilians and see if they are all right”

Alberta looked to the bunker entrance and her heart dropped, right at the door was the hulking creature that had destroyed their tanks and it was heading in the main hanger door.

Next on the board is a Libby with a "jump" pack I used the interceptor warp packs as counts as jump packs.

ohhh - nice take Knightley. Those swap-ins are gonna look great

That is a well narrated batrep, really captured some epic moments in the game. That last bit of the batrep almost made me feel bad for playing Tyranids with the Tyrannofex heading into the bunker for a feast. The game was awesome fun and I really enjoyed it, looking forward to the next battle for sure!

Hopefully next game I don't roll quite so many ones

@Januine - Thanks, I was going to run him stock, but after painting 3 of them I wanted a change

@Mad - Cheers man, will have to schedule a game this month, see who the Nids will go up against!

Update: Continued blocking the base colours

It is a interesting concept for his backpack I like the theatrics. Loved reading the battle report, great write up.

Nice Narrative Batrep. a really gripping read!

EDC

@Wolvey - Cheers mate, appreciate the time you took to read it

@EDC - It was pretty gripping to play as well heh.

Update: got the reds underway, the face done and the whites mostly done

Librarian is looking great so far.

EDC

Thanks Man,

Update: got the blue bits done

Nice work! His face is looking sharp - looking forward to see another result from your new cape painting style.

Looking great sir, agree that face is looking fantastic.

@LDP - Thanks bro!

@Cam - Cheers

Update: Work on the cloth commences!

Very nicely done Knightly - cloth is coming along dandy. Love that blue on his powerpack too. Gorgeous shade of blue

Thanks Januine! I had to recall how I did the lightening generator bit in the centre as I think the last time I did it was over 2 years ago, whelp sat with another model in front of me while I tried to match it.

Update: Libby done

Nice work on the Librarian, and a cool take on the old Jump Pack.

Beautiful highlights on the blue.

He looks awesome! I love his psychic hood about his hood. The blue highlights just make that armor pop!

Beautiful. Love the shading on the armor and cloak.

Loving the scrawlings and details on the cloak! Keep up the good work!

Are the squiggles hard to do? I tried to do some on my Tau Piranha near the cockpit and was thinking of doing more but they didn't come out that well. Maybe I need to use a better brush or something. Your libby looks great btw!

Looks awesome. I really like the pose.

And they squiggles make my heart leap with joy!

EDC

Lovely job! Interesting take on a "jump pack" libby.

@Azazelx - Cheers, he really needed to match the rest of the army, I did end up buying 25 of the warp packs from an overseas bitz site as I didn't want to shell out $400 for the GK kits to get them.

@Graven - Thanks man, I don't know if you notice this, however this libby doesn't have any squiggles on his armour, its all on the cloak. The more you know

@Wolvey - Thank you!

@Gits - I did try something a little different on the cloak, nothing to major just a new way to shade it, will be trying it on a cloak very soon.

@JatW - Thank you, I have a loyal fanbase who only come here to see squiggles so I intend on doing it more

@Zerg - There are ones which are hard, I use a Micron Pen to do the black ones, quick tip you NEED to let the black try for a while as it smudges very easily if you don't (I've made that mistake to many times) For the bone ones I use a 000 brush and while drawing the line make very small movements up and down, take the brush off and put it down with a gap. It just takes practise.

@EDC - Hahah you and me both mate!

@AoV - Cheers I'm glad you like it.

Update: got a fair way through the "Jump Pack" Chaplain

Update: More work on the Chappy