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2014/04/05 18:22:52
Subject: Price's Tau, Pokemarine and other random models plog.
Hello and welcome to my first project log here on Dakka!
This was originally dedidcated to my Pokemarines (Below) but after the british weather has stopped me from base coating miniatures, I wanted to be able to date the thread more often and so decided that the thread would be shared between them and my beloved Tau! The thread will have fluff, tactics, painting guides (If people want them) and generally the random musings of my mind. So enjoy!
Spoiler:
In a recent discussion with a friend of mine, we started to talk about how fun it would be to see a 40k army based on pokemon, mainly for the laughter value, but also because it would be something very few people had come across and would be a very unique and personal army and it just so happens that I have a pile of Space Marines half painted from years ago.
Being the kind of hobbyist that I am, my head began swirling with ideas not only for colors, squad markings and fluff wanting the army to be not only fun but also, able to fit into the 40k universe! And that is the basics of my idea and the project.
I'm not the best painter or modeller in the world (Far from it) so that is why I decided to document it on here so that as the idea progresses different ideas and input from you lovely people can come through helping to improve not only the army, but also my skills in the areas I'm lacking. So as I wait for my paint stripper to arrive (Biostrip 20) the various number of undercoat sprays and some odd bits to help flavour the first squad, I'll use this time to type down what is in my head and begin to gather the fluff together.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Soft earth gave way as the yellow power armoured fingers bent to find something to grip onto, something to help bring back the strength that had suddenly left. Devrak couldn't recall what had happened, he remembered only the impact and his form bouncing across the ground as he hit, only his armor protecting him fro what would have been certain death. As his senses slowly returned, to normal state, he could hear hushed voices a few meters away, all talking at once and each filled with the sound of fear and uncertainty.
"You catch it"
"Me? Why me?"
"You're the one who seems to think it's a legendary"
The voices were young, thirteen, maybe a little older but none belonged to an adult and none held any dialect or accent he was familiar with. The strength in the Astartes muscles began to return and the shock of such a impact had all but gone now and with a grunt, Devrak rolled his body onto his back an stared up into the sky. White clouds hung low in the air but instead of blue, a ripple of purple backed the clouds broken only by the occasional, silent crack of lightening. What had happened? Where was he?
Donk!
"Huh? It didn't work!"
"Perhaps someone has already captured it..."
"I don't think so, even dexter has no information on it. It's a legendary, straight from the sky!"
Another clunk on his helmet followed and then several more. Leaping upwards, Devrak turned to face the small group of four boys reaching down and pulling free the bolt gun that still hung at his side, thank the emperor. With his weapon held forward, finger ready to pull the trigger, Devrak studied the now petrified children cowering in front of him. They were nothing that the Astartes had seen before, bright coloured clothes and various shades of hair that stuck up and out in all directions. Around their feet were a collection of red and white balls which is what he assumed they had been the impacts on his helmeted head. They didn't seem a threat and with no visable weapons, the marine slowly lowered his pistol.
"My name is Davrak, loyal servant to the god emperor. I demand to know where I am and where are my brothers?"
The children stared at the giant, his figure standing several foot higher than any of them and shoulders wider than all four side by side.
"I..i...it's not a... a... Pokemon"
One said as he burst into tears and collapsed onto the ground.
"You fell from the sky. Fell out of the meteor that made the purple come"
The eldest of the boys pointed towards the sky to emphasise his point and prove it wasn't a lie
"But now, a battle! You may be big but I'm a trainer and my Rattatta is in the top percentage of Rattatta!"
The boy stepped forward and threw one of the red and white balls to have it open up and with a beam of red emerged a small, blueish rat creature with fangs bared and ready to fight. Devrak lifted his bolt gun and within a second the rat creature was a crater in the ground, stained red with innards, bone and blood.
"I win"
Tau
Spoiler:
Commander Iron-Bark
Firewarrior squad A
Firewarrior squad B
Pathfinders
Crisis Suit squad A
Crisis Suit squad B
Broadside
Hammerhead
Riptide
This message was edited 6 times. Last update was at 2014/05/01 22:45:09
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
Wow. Could be fun, but my first thought, is you must be rich:p to build a whole army as a "joke"...still though, I hope you do it! Could be a gas to follow this one go buy yourself a lotto ticket just in case
@ Bepo: Haha, not rich just lots of left over models from when I was younger, didn't have children and sent all of my disposable money on SM even though there was no hobby store in miles of where I lived! But if this does indeed pick up and I get lots of ideas going, I'll buy more for the army (If the boss says it's allowed, because, well... she's the boss)
@Xysis: Indeed it shall!
I suppose I had better start with what my initial ideas are with the army and what I want to gain out of it.
My first thought that it is going to be a very troop sized model heavy force, fitting in as many tac squads that I can with each having a different theme. The chapter symbol is going to b a pokeball (Could it have been any other?) and that will be the main thing that will tie the whole force together, as each squad will have unique armor depending on the pokemon they are based on.
These are what I have so far:
Tactical Squad Pika (Pikachu) - Yellow armour with 'ears' made from tau antennae with the tip painted black. The exhausts on the marines helmet will be painted red to represent the electric pouches and brown spikes on the lower leg to tie in the tail aspect as marines with tails, might look odd.
Tactical Squad Mander (Charmander) - Red armour with bold orange highlights. Mouth grill will be white/grey the same as fingertips for charmanders teeth and claws. Fire markings up the lower leg and two flamers as special weapons.
Tactical Squad Urtle (Squirtle) - You guessed it, blue armour with the backpack a shell colour and groin upwards the same shell colour for squirtles underbelly. Not sure what to have on the lower leg here, maybe water drops or a swirl pattern for squirtles tail? Will have to think on it and see how brave I am to attempt freehand.
And that is the three squads so far. In terms of basing, I am going to look more in depth at the battles in the pokemon games, as they have a circular piece of land beneath the pokemon, so I'm going to try and copy that to some degree. My ideas are all over the place at the moment (So the posts will be too) but there is a sort of base to it all
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
Just by reading the title my reaction can only be described with the magic of GIFS:
This I MUST see.
"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
I'm still waiting for post to get started and my fingers are twitching because of it. But so far, fluff wise they were a chapter created during an early founding (Ten, eleven, maybe) and every hundred years, sends a company to Mars to help in searching for lost technologies... like those small white and red balls that somehow seem to capture Daemons >.>
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
So, I thought a nice 1500pt goal would be a decent size to aim for and as I said before, I want LOTS of infantry sized models. Here is the list I have just come up with along with a few notes to better explain my idea for each, subject to change (Alot of change).
HQ
Not too sure what to do with him. I was thinking of maybe swapping him out for a libby and doing a floating pose with Mewtwo colors. But that is far away yet, the tac squads come first so lots of time to alter this idea.
Troops
These will be based on the badge associated with the gym in the town, choosing pokemon that fit with the color theme. The only exceptions are Pallet town and Lavender Town
Tactical Squad Viridian (Green)
x9 + Sergeant
Bulbasaur. Dark green backpack with lighter green armor. Lower left leg will have the darker green spots. Some pretty awesome modelling ideas could happen here, vines bursting from the ground anyone?
Tactical Squad Pewter (Grey)
x9 + Sergeant
Geodude? Golem? There is a distinct lack of grey-ish pokemon that will translate well onto SM I coould also get away with Machoke, with a greyish blue (SW grey?) with the gold belt buckle and darker groin area
Tactical Squad Cerulean (Blue)
x9 + Sergeant
Squirtle. Blue armour with backpack painted as a shell. Front of chest plate to be a mid town skin color with swirls on the bottom left leg to represent his tail.
Tactical Squad Vermillian (Yellow)
x9 + Sergeant
Pikachu, the squad which began this project. Yellow armour, tau antena stuck to the head and tips painted brown for Pikachus ears. Brown jags on lower left leg for the tail. Thunder hammer?
Tactical Squad Cinnabar (Red)
x9 + Sergeant
Charmader. Red armor with flames up the lower left leg. White fingertips and perhaps toes painted on to represent claws.
Again, quite difficult. I was thinking Drowzee as the purpley-brown legs over the yellow could be quite striking. Will have too think some more on this one.
I have seen some robotic winged backpacks somewhere on the net and instantly thought of Zapdos. This could be effective if I can model each squad member with beakie heads and paint the beak as the, well, beak.
Assasult squad Celadon (Rainbow)
x9 + sergeant
Pidgeott. The same site I saw the robotic wings, there was some feathered wings too. I could paint these up various colours at the very tips and maybe find some plumes to stick on the marines head to represent the plume on the pokemon.
This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at 2014/04/10 21:39:12
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
Soft earth gave way as the yellow power armoured fingers bent to find something to grip onto, something to help bring back the strength that had suddenly left. Devrak couldn't recall what had happened, he remembered only the impact and his form bouncing across the ground as he hit, only his armor protecting him fro what would have been certain death. As his senses slowly returned, to normal state, he could hear hushed voices a few meters away, all talking at once and each filled with the sound of fear and uncertainty.
"You catch it"
"Me? Why me?"
"You're the one who seems to think it's a legendary"
The voices were young, thirteen, maybe a little older but none belonged to an adult and none held any dialect or accent he was familiar with. The strength in the Astartes muscles began to return and the shock of such a impact had all but gone now and with a grunt, Devrak rolled his body onto his back an stared up into the sky. White clouds hung low in the air but instead of blue, a ripple of purple backed the clouds broken only by the occasional, silent crack of lightening. What had happened? Where was he?
Donk!
"Huh? It didn't work!"
"Perhaps someone has already captured it..."
"I don't think so, even dexter has no information on it. It's a legendary, straight from the sky!"
Another clunk on his helmet followed and then several more. Leaping upwards, Devrak turned to face the small group of four boys reaching down and pulling free the bolt gun that still hung at his side, thank the emperor. With his weapon held forward, finger ready to pull the trigger, Devrak studied the now petrified children cowering in front of him. They were nothing that the Astartes had seen before, bright coloured clothes and various shades of hair that stuck up and out in all directions. Around their feet were a collection of red and white balls which is what he assumed they had been the impacts on his helmeted head. They didn't seem a threat and with no visable weapons, the marine slowly lowered his pistol.
"My name is Davrak, loyal servant to the god emperor. I demand to know where I am and where are my brothers?"
The children stared at the giant, his figure standing several foot higher than any of them and shoulders wider than all four side by side.
"I..i...it's not a... a... Pokemon"
One said as he burst into tears and collapsed onto the ground.
"You fell from the sky. Fell out of the meteor that made the purple come"
The eldest of the boys pointed towards the sky to emphasise his point and prove it wasn't a lie
"But now, a battle! You may be big but I'm a trainer and my Rattatta is in the top percentage of Rattatta!"
The boy stepped forward and threw one of the red and white balls to have it open up and with a beam of red emerged a small, blueish rat creature with fangs bared and ready to fight. Devrak lifted his bolt gun and within a second the rat creature was a crater in the ground, stained red with innards, bone and blood.
"I win"
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
1400 points of EW/MW Italians (FoW)
2200 points of SoB and Inquisition (40K)
1000 points of orks (40K)
Just starting out with Ultramarines (30K)
Four 1000-2500 point forces for WHFB (RIP)
One orc team (Blood Bowl)
I hate myself for loving that small story. And for giving me the excuse to write the following words:
Space Marine used Bolter.
It's super-effective!
Ratata DIED!
"Fear is freedom! Subjugation is liberation! Contradiction is truth! These are the truths of this world! Surrender to these truths, you pigs in human clothing!" - Satsuki Kiryuin, Kill la Kill
Haha! Glad you people are secretly cruel inside too
I was going to have him grab a Pikachu and, well, squeeze. Maybe next time.
But on a model front! I am at my mothers house, she's nuts and hid away my marines but I'll be getting them out over the nexttwo days and then can start stripping and sorting for next week when I can FINALLY get some modelling done on this project!
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
@ Sir Samuel - That.Is.Awesome!! If I can get my force looking that magical, then this will all be worth it!
@Bubble - Soon, work will commence very soon
I had a rummage around today and found just one box of the three that I have stored away. It isn't the full force but three tac squads, two rhinos, a dreadnaught and a landraider (Pics to follow) so all that is left is to strip and then I can get started! Fething excited!!
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
This is what I managed to find today, so the stripping will begin tomorrow and then hopefully through the week glueing the pikachu ears onto the first squad ready for priming!
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
Well, what started as a comedic army is getting pretty serious in my head, I even wrote about a Rattatta getting a boltgun shot right in front of a innocent child... Dark times are ahead I think, very dark times.
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
That would be awesome! You totally should!
Between us, eventually, we may be able to adapt every anime into the 40k universe haha!
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
That Pikachu makes me both happy and sad at the same time... I now really want to watch the Pokemon movie. I may be able to justify it to the boss as research!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Stripping has begun!!
This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2014/04/14 13:32:05
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
That would be a seriously big undertaking! Perhaps I could do each as a side thing if I can pick up some very cheap models on Ebay to keep the costs down...
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
Col. Tartleton wrote: From the title I thought you were going to do one marine for all the Pokemon. That would be a whole chapter at this point. Scary stuff.
Might be less extreme if you started with the original 150(1), rather than all...
"-and all that time in Paris, when you were wallowing in debauchery with your doxies, tarts and pirates... you were trying to convince me you were a disgusting, swinish, lecherous, drunken sot... Well I want you to know it worked.
Haha yeah it is.
Would look pretty cool though. I could do a pokerap with marines as the pokemon when they pop up. That would be Youtube gold!! :O
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
First squad now completely stripped, drying and the second batch has been placed in the goop!
I have also decided that, although using older models would be cheaper, I'm going to buy a tac squad tomorrow because, well, I want/need new toy soldiers >.>
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
"-and all that time in Paris, when you were wallowing in debauchery with your doxies, tarts and pirates... you were trying to convince me you were a disgusting, swinish, lecherous, drunken sot... Well I want you to know it worked.
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
"-and all that time in Paris, when you were wallowing in debauchery with your doxies, tarts and pirates... you were trying to convince me you were a disgusting, swinish, lecherous, drunken sot... Well I want you to know it worked.
That's why I play with plastic toys! All the gentlemanly scholars do it.
"I hate 6th! Fix it GW!!!"
"Seventh edition? Feth that GW! I'm sticking with sixth to show you who is boss! Via la revolution!"
"I'm not buying anything from you no more! Apart from three riptides, new codex, starter set and rulebook... but that's it!"
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1400 points of EW/MW Italians (FoW)
2200 points of SoB and Inquisition (40K)
1000 points of orks (40K)
Just starting out with Ultramarines (30K)
Four 1000-2500 point forces for WHFB (RIP)
One orc team (Blood Bowl) 
"If the Warmaster has turned his back on Terra, what are my orders?" -"Tell him his brother Rogal will have him answer for it". 
DIY 3450pts 
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