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Arakasi wrote:The green is DONE! Wait... I still need to do tha armour and clothing.... Nooooooo.........

The Green is never done, always there, always waiting, more green, more green...MOAR GREEN

Maybe just a touch of green on the deffwing

Yep, this stuff can be tedious . They're looking good, keep it up!

Arakasi have you thought of investing in a spray gun? then you can spray them green from the start.

@monkeytroll: There's the cloak and DA helmets on da Deffwing... doh!

@CommissarKhaine: Thanks! One of us will be finished soon...

@Rose_Mountainz: They *were* sprayed green from the start! Unfortunately, the GW spray gun that did multiple layers of highlighting and multiple colours was an April Fools day joke

Unlucky...at least once finished you should have a brilliant looking force to be proud of!!

Imp. Monkey

That is the idea. It is already leaps and bounds ahead of my younger days efforts - which had many more models, less conversions and even less paint.

I'll be able to build it up at a slower, more considered pace after this too.

I don't even need to buy more models at this point - in my drive for bulk discounts and bitz I still have more unassembled boyz than assembled (with or without paint). From memory, I should have 70 boyz (30ish assembled), 10 lootas/burnas, 12 warbikes (1 assembled), 4 trukks (3 assembled), 5 meganobz (1 assembled), 20 grotz - not to mention 2-3 AOBR sets of Orks...

Looking forward to Looted Wagons and Battlewagons too - but they will need more bitz

Take a looted DA Land Rader.

Hey Arakasi! Since I've finished my last swap, yours is next. Hope it goes together quicker than the last one. Have a pretty clear idea of what I want to do with him though and think I have all the parts. Should start on him next week. - Git

@Miss Dee: Definitely on the cards. The trick is in making it suitably Orky...

@Gitsplitta: If it goes together faster than the last one, you will finish well ahead of me! I haven't had a chance to make any more progress (well, other than thinking) on yours this week. Next week may be light on as well as I try to get as much painting done before Silver Sorcerer. After that I should be able to dedicate the required amount of time. Your progress should help to inspire me though Not like I need sleep or anything. Looking forward to starting my own Deffwotch!

Arakasi's Dark Angelz (Orks) vs Imperial Monkey's Dark Angels - Game 2 - 750pts (pic heavy!)

Great report Arakasi! Go Dark Angelz! My sympathies to ImpMonkey, hard to be competitive when your luck with dice fails you on a regular basis (as mine does).

ImpMonkey's rolls sound like those for my ill fated (or should that be suicidal?) Psyker Battle Squad!

@Gitsplitta: Thanks! On the upside it meant we had tie for two games...

@endtransmission: Are your ill fated Psyker Battle Squad making it to Silver Sorcerer?

Right, so its mainly been paint. After much green last week, I started with some more green - tidying up the clothing/armour. Then onto red - tidying that up. Then brown on the bases. That was this week up to yesterday. Today I started cleaning up the black. 3.5 miniatures later, and, well - thats not getting completed before Silver Sorcerer! Tomorrow night (and perhaps Friday morning) are my last chances to paint - I think the couple of patches of white undercoat on the Painboy and perhaps a few details on the Nob Trukk are in order - but thats probably about as far as it will get before Silver Sorcerer. Looking good - but *so* far still to go...

Meanwhile - also working on Gitsplitta's Nob trade and twin - updates below. (Making sure to spend time painting *first*. Modelling is the reward, *sigh*. Still up too late... hope I can stay awake this weekend!)



Only the heads are now blu-tacked. The rest comes apart in four parts - Base, Space Marine corpse, Nob body and Rokkit Pack/Shoulder pads - for ease of painting hopefully... A bit more progress, but mostly the second one. Why make one when you can make two in twice the time?

Hmmm... Wayland have a discount voucher this week... I may have picked up a Predator and Battlewagon...

Arakasi

Very excellent.

Like the look, you've really made them look bulky! I'd consider changing the position of the kopta blades a tad making them look more like wings. Right now, I don,'t really see a use for them.

@alexwars1: Thanks!

@CommissarKhaine: They are Nobz after all - they are bulky by default. And need extra big Rokkit packs to keep'em airborne! The reason the Kopta blades look useless/not like wings is because they aren't finished yet Think humerus

Keep'em coming! (comments/suggestions that is!)

Arakasi wrote:@endtransmission: Are your ill fated Psyker Battle Squad making it to Silver Sorcerer?

They will be in the case and may get the chance to commit suicide on sunday, but they are staying well clear of Saturday's games.

Bwahahaahah my Nobz are safe bwahaha....

I thought you were on radio silence today huh?

Glad to see your painting is coming along nicely? (never thought I'd use that word when describing Orks).

I'm loving the poses on your storm boys nobs.

Keep it up!

Thanks!

I've decided, post Silver Sorcerer this weekend, to go back to concentrating on, and finishing, small groups at a time. I think it will help save my sanity...

Arakasi wrote:Bwahahaahah my Nobz are safe bwahaha....

I thought you were on radio silence today huh?

I was going to, but all this painting in one day is driving me batty and I need a few breaks

Your Nobs are safe because a unit that has yet to kill anything other than itself isn't being used? Ok, now I'm officially confused

Yeah, I thought that afterwards too...

Hey Arakasi... could I see the back, side and top views of one of those models? The guy I'm making for you is going to have a jump pack too of course, and I'm not sure how I'm going to go about it. I'd like to see how you engineered yours before making a decision on mine.

Still. Leaving them at home makes space for a Valk with twin linked lascannon or a Hellhound variant of some sort... if that makes you feel happier

I think your plan to go back to doing smaller groups is a good idea. It'll give you more chance to look at your awesome looking Nobs. I think the blades look like an interesting back banner alternative

Gitsplitta wrote:Hey Arakasi... could I see the back, side and top views of one of those models? The guy I'm making for you is going to have a jump pack too of course, and I'm not sure how I'm going to go about it. I'd like to see how you engineered yours before making a decision on mine.

No problem - will do them when I get home in a couple of hours...

Ha! - I thought I was getting a normal Nob to go in a Nobz mob - no problem though, just misunderstood Here I was thinking, you know, I'm really going to have to do 4 Stormboyz at some point to make a legal unit - and now I'm looking at 8! I'll have to see if I can persuade some of my other trades to make the other 4 boyz. Could be hard though, I don't imagine people have Stormboyz just lying around (its not like they come in AOBR). Then again, there does seem to be a lot of Marine Swap specific model purchases going on...


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endtransmission wrote:Still. Leaving them at home makes space for a Valk with twin linked lascannon or a Hellhound variant of some sort... if that makes you feel happier

I think your plan to go back to doing smaller groups is a good idea. It'll give you more chance to look at your awesome looking Nobs. I think the blades look like an interesting back banner alternative

Hmmm... not really...

Shush!

My mistake! I can make you a normal nob, no problem. I was thinking that because we were patterning his weapons after one of my vanguard that he'd need the jump pack too. But doing a straight nob would be much easier & faster as the jump pack is a serious conversion.

I'd be happy either way, think about it and let me know what you'd prefer.

Easier +1
Faster -1 - I know you are worried about speed, but I don't think you fully appreciate the absolutely "glacial" pace your Stormboyz Nob is going to progress at. I only hope to make it up with pure awesomeness. Really - take all the time you need! I will be...

Like you (I assume), I doubt I'd field a Stormboyz Nob without a Power Klaw (and Bosspole - you wanted a Bosspole right?). A diversified Nobz squad - well there are a lot more valid options. But really, my preference here is predicated on whether I'd be happy to "counts as" or not - and I'm pretty sure (assumption again) that I'll be happy with what you decide.

Ultimately though, I think rule of cool is going to win out - I want what you envision - and if that works out as a Stormboyz Nob with Big Choppa (or whatever), or regular Nob, or whatever - then so be it. I don't want arbitrary restrictions sabotaging the vision!

So, in order of preference:
1) Cool/Your vision
2) Legal/Playable/Counts as
3) My Preference(s) as above

I'm sure I could put a Stormboyz Nob in a Nobz mob - he might have words with the Mek about lugging broken bits of junk though

OK my friend.... you asked for it!

"The spice (creative juices) must flow!"

Arakasi wrote:

@CommissarKhaine: They are Nobz after all - they are bulky by default. And need extra big Rokkit packs to keep'em airborne! The reason the Kopta blades look useless/not like wings is because they aren't finished yet Think humerus

Interesting - though I think dual rotors would suit him as well! Mechanical wings or some leathery WWI/Da Vinci construction?

Dual rotors? That's so... yesterday! Mechanical