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Looking forward to a group shot soon Really like that vibrant colour scheme!

Gracias chaps!

 thesilverback wrote:
Great job. Is it just me but every time I look at the Karist, all I can thing of is the Necros from Chronicles of Riddick. Great paint job, and I like that you are doing both forces.

I'm unfamiliar with Riddick, but I googled it and yeah, I see the pointy kneecaps and shoulder guard resemblance!

High time for an update! I have:

* Finished two more Tempest elites and a wall, and thereby...
* ... finished my 120pt Karist force! Oh joy.









If you would like to see _every_ painting flaw in one of those Tempests, please enjoy this 360 degree view:


Group shots of Karist force and all finished terrain so far:











And, to round up, here's my 120pt list:

Kaddar Nova 120pt detachment
1x Kaddar Nova
6 Angel Minnows
4 Karist Troopers: 1x Quintarch, 1x Radwave Emitter, 2x Dudes
5 Karist Assault Troopers: 1x Quintarch, 2x Ripper Grenade Launcher, 2x Dudes
3 Tempest Elites: Hellstorm Energy Mortars
1x Shadow Walker
1x Mature Angel

The keen observer will have noted that I've actually painted more than these guys: 3x Tempest Elites with Ravager Pulse Cannons are in reserve. Also, because I made a mistake in my force list I had to paint over my clever yellow stripe on the Pulse Carbine mk2 on one of my Quintarchs... will probably have one in my 150pt list though .

Next in line are the remains of the Epirian force, including a Hunter . Terrain-wise I'm transitioning to non-man-made items.

Excellent job there and I see no flaws in that 360 degrees view! (How did you do that by the way????)

That's extremely high-tech. I printed a 25mm circle with 18ish 2mm bars across, with 10 degrees rotation between them. I put the model on that and took 35 pictures from a tripod, turning the model one bar between each picture. I managed to mess up the first image so had to redo that (not ideal). Then load stuff into a stack in photoshop and have it work its timeline magic, export as animated gif, presto!

Huh! Clever. No other words for it. Good effort.

Finishing one motivates to finish the other, apparently! So, in more update-y goodness I've finished the Epirian Hunter and a Scarecrow with Chemtek sprayer. This completes 120 pts of Epirians, all shown below. Terrain-wise I painted four sections of crumbled wall and, venturing outside the compound, three sections of rocky outcrops.











And the whole force:





Note that the Epirians have a small reserve too: I've painted one more Scarecrow.

Edit: forgot to post the list:

Journeyman Bot Handler with Command Booster, Maglock Dominator Pistol & Aux Grenade Launcher
5 Contractor Engineers with 2x aux grenade launcher
Another 5 Contractors with 2x grenade launcher
4 Spider Drones with Cutter machine guns and Apprentice Bot Handler
1 Scarecrow with Maglock Railrifle and Clingfire Sprayer
1 Scarecrow with Maglock Railrifle and Chemtek Sprayer
5 Firefly Drones
Hunter with Maglock Chaingun & Flakk Cannon, 2x Strike Missiles

For your viewing pleasure, a 360 degree view of the Hunter (note: large file)



The Plan following the completion of both forces is to build and paint the various objective markers used in the various missions whilst finishing off the terrain. When that's all sorted, maybe a battle report

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:

 Sgt. Oddball wrote:

This is brilliant. Love the idea and the way you executed it. Will be thinking about stealing this

Terrain looks great too

I agree. Love the ghostly look the conversion gave the Mature Angel. I might steal that!

That hunter 360 looks awesome Love how the whole Epirian force looks together.

Thanks Lego

 dicewar wrote:

Love the ghostly look the conversion gave the Mature Angel. I might steal that!

Be my guest! All it takes is some greenstuff sausages and a paper-clip. Though I guess someone with actual converting-skills can make it more awesome

Been working on objectives and more terrain. I already showed my Epirian faction objective here, now I've added the tiny Karist faction objective: the secret cache. Also did a bunch of hills and trees. With my table in its 6x4 configuration, I can now fill it nicely. Just want to add a few crates and barrels and stuff. Maybe a dirt road out of the compound.

Table looks great!

Thanks!

Some obstacles built from cool things I had lying around and a set of Cybel Refinery objective markers built from scrap bits and the control panel from the Maelstrom's Edge terrain sprue. I've never really had a good idea of what a 'cybel refinery' of this size is supposed to be, but these are sort of terminals for tapping refined cybel energy from a partially underground source. Maybe terminals on a larger system, I dunno. They'll suffice .

Anyway, I now have painted everything I need to play the Purple Gold mission. Stay tuned

Loving the terrain! Where are the oils drums, crates and blue canisters from?

Cheers! I believe all those were at one time produced by GW? Ah, Googled a bit, and they're still for sale it seems, called the "Battlefield Accessories Set". Amazingly, there are no skulls.

The skulls are obviously inside the drums.

Great looking table!

Please keep updating, your blog is very inspirational

Thanks, I will! However, I have loads of 'life' happening the coming two months so might be quiet for a while here :(.

Alrighty, I'm settling back into doing some MEdge stuff. My little dudes have hit the table and I have a battle report coming up. For now, though, I've painted up another objective: VIPs

Great painting but, damn, those sculpts are ugly. The Karists look like the bastard offspring of sex between a Dark Eldar and a Necron. Human ones are a little better and I like your scheme.

Thanks! The Karists are actually also human .

Posted a battle report here.

Moar Beastie!

So there's three models left from my original Kickstarter box that I had not yet painted: a Hunter, a Shadow Walker, and a Mature Angel. I figured I'd do these three models next, and here's the first of them, a stock Mature Angel:


Slightly out of focus, sorry :(


With friend

Second of the batch: another Hunter. This one armed with m0ar dakka! (Aka 2x suppressor dual machine guns.) Quite looking forward to using this one. As may appear from my battle reports, the Epirians can use some help

Really love your hunters - the spot colours are excellent and just make the muted main colours pop so nicely.

Here's the final model from my Kickstarter box, the second Shadow Walker. Hurray!







So, next, I figured I'd build and paint one each of the Karist Praetorians and Epirian Suppression Team new units. I also have a couple more terrain ideas

As an intermezzo, here's all the units that come from a single box set:

So for the past months my stuff has been in boxes (and still is), pending construction on our new house. My newly arrived Broken sprues, however, are not in said boxes, and I couldn't resist digging out some paints...
Because the Broken are a horde type army, and 120 points could get you an insane 80 guys (not going there...), I resolved to paint my Broken in a really simple and, more importantly, really fast fashion. Slap on some mucky colours, douse liberally in wash, et voila: my first Broken Rabble squad. Armed with two slug rifles, an auto slugger, and a Boss with beam pistol and grenade harness. That's a 6 point unit right there .

I have a functional hobby room again and, better yet, my stuff is no longer packed away. I've now finished some Karist Praetorians with cybel glaives and a Karist temple for them to guard against those pesky Broken outlaws...
Also, this is the first time I actually set my terrain on fire doing the photographs. It was an accident.


Broken patrol runs into Karist temple at night.








Kaddar Nova checking out what's going on.


If you can't hack it, shoot it.




That's my fish.




You shall not pass.


Darn these stairs.

Awesome stuff, love it How long did the temple take to build and do you have build pics?