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NICEEEEE!! Got my thanatar on the way but have to wait until December to get my grubby painty hands on it. Such a wicked model. Way bigger than I imagined, which is AWESOME!!!
not looking forward to those ammo feeds though ><

Squeeeee!

That Thanatar is all kinds of badassness!! Holy gak. He's a big lad isn't he?!

The competition sounds like an awesome idea. I'll probably enter, see what happens. It'll be good motivation to paint something, at least even though I'll be stomped by all the other fantastic painters on Dakka.

I was looking at your BA. And while they are nicely painted, it was the photography the caught my attention. The colours are just so vivid and clear. How do you do it?

Hot dam, that's a big model!! I bet it cost a bomb to gak to Aus Looking forward to some paint going on it.

Januine wrote:NICEEEEE!! Got my thanatar on the way but have to wait until December to get my grubby painty hands on it. Such a wicked model. Way bigger than I imagined, which is AWESOME!!!
not looking forward to those ammo feeds though ><

Ammo feeds were fine mate just blu-tac the one on the rear and position the arm to fit, I didn't even have to heat it up!

Gitsplitta wrote:Squeeeee!

Did a grown man just Squeeeee?

angelofvengeance wrote:That Thanatar is all kinds of badassness!! Holy gak. He's a big lad isn't he?!

He is kinda big isn't he he's more solid than tall though, he really looks like a fully built engine of war when you get him in your hands!

Zambro wrote:The competition sounds like an awesome idea. I'll probably enter, see what happens. It'll be good motivation to paint something, at least even though I'll be stomped by all the other fantastic painters on Dakka.

I was looking at your BA. And while they are nicely painted, it was the photography the caught my attention. The colours are just so vivid and clear. How do you do it?

Hot dam, that's a big model!! I bet it cost a bomb to gak to Aus Looking forward to some paint going on it.

Thanks Zambro, more the merrier for the painting comp, the FW stuff is always pricey especially when buying from Aus with the dollar but in my opinion it's worth it as they are simply awesome models! I've got a heap more to assemble too

Oh man if only you knew how frickin' hard it is to get a good shot of red painted models! I spend ages making sure the light isn't too bright, then diffusing the flash with white card and take bunches of shots to try and get a decent one....or two

Looking forward to Nerd 30K

My Purple from Lucius

White Primer
Base: Hormagaunt Purple (thinned through airbrush)
1st Layer: Liche purple (45 degree through air brush)
1st Highlight: 50/50 liche purple/warlock purple through airbrush top down
Wash: Druchii Violet
2nd highlight: Warlock purple on raised edges of armour

Gorgeous work, mate. Very moody and grimdark.

Great work on those BA - a lovely rich red on them. I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do with that colossal Mechanicum was machine!

Late as usual. Absolute stunning reds mate. And here i was a year ago thinking the BA scheme has to be sooooo boring. Wow!

Nice looking FW stuff, i plan on getting some as well later down the line. Probably after current Mechanicus project. But man, Thanatar and Triaros...

[drools in Romanian] )

Thanks guys, I haven't gotten around to doing any more to the Termies but I will have to shortly as they're going on my Armies on Parade board so expect an update on them soon.

also I did a quick, very quick add up of my 30K Mechanicus force! so some numbers may be slightly off......

*HQ- Magos Dominus, Plasma Fusil: 95
*Elites- Myrmidon Secutors, Volkite, Graviton,Rad: 210
*Troops- Thallax Cohort, Icarian, chainblades: 175
*Troops- Thallax Cohort, Multi Melta, chainblades: 165
*Troops- Thallax Cohort, Photon Thruster, Chainblades: 175
*Castellax x4 (using Kastellan models) Darkfire cannonx1: 440
*Fast- Vorax battle automate: 195
*Heavy- Thanatar siege engine, paragon of metal: 285
*Heavy- Thanatar Calix, paragon of metal: 330
*Heavy- Myrmidon Destructors, Volkite,Photon, conversion: 230

Total: 2,300 Points

Should have some more assembly shots this week of that bunch of Resiny goodness!

Very nice Damo. Can't tell you how excited I am to see your army come together. Here was my plan.

Legio Cybernetica:
HQ: 2 Archmagos
EL: 1-2 groups of tech priests w/ 4 servitors
TP: 2x2 Castellax
TP: 20 Covenant
TP: 2x6 Thallax
HV: 2 Thanatar

Even with the Covenant there's far fewer models than a typical army of mine and should look great and be really fun to play. No FA but I'm not sure it's necessary given the rest of the army. I suppose time will tell. I do really like the vorax though.

I'm just hoping what I've bought is usable! :-) would hate to have spent on it and couldn't play one day. once I have it all assembled I'll probably work out a counts as for it as no one plays 30k. here.......

Well, I developed my list during a running conversation with YouTuber winters SEO who's been playing 30k AdMech for a long time. He makes fantastic battle reports. Here's a link to a few featuring his army. Will give you a really good idea how they play. I love winter's bat reps. Beautiful table and models. Short on dice rolling and long on narrative. I don't see anything about your list that isn't viable, so you should be fine. Spoilered YouTube links below so they don't monopolize your blog. Enjoy!

O.k i'm just brainstorming here a few ideas for my 30k Mech project. as you know i'm very dominant with whatever theme I choose whether it's colour of the force, style of painting or additions and conversions.

Since I don't feel the Forge World models require any conversions I'll be leaving them well enough alone all bar a few extra mechandendrites etc.

So that leaves how I paint them to make them something cool and eye catching. I was thinking along a few things and I have decided the metals will all be mainly the gold/brass as I did on Kiera Knightly so that leaves a nice chunk of armour plates to be a different colour, The colours I am toying with is an army green sort of a khaki with the addition of serial numbers and designations so they almost look military? or a havily weathered bone/off white such as I did on Mortarian, this was my original idea but I'm not sure I can get it correct across the board? now my last idea and the one I'm leaning towards as I've not seen it yet is to have the underlying theme of my Mechanicus force to be Monks :-) this will mean brown robes and earthy tones hopefully with a good choice of coloured lenses in either a red or a cool grey (sort of like glass)

I'd love to know your thoughts on this so I can begin the planning phase and get some shots up (you'll wet with excitement when you see them all)

The Blood Angels are coming along nicely.

Re mechanicus, they"re certainly gorgeous models. I think the bone/off white would be really cool and very eye catching. The brown doesn't excite me...although I'm not exactly sure what you're seeing in your mind's eye...

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What about doing the green you did on Vulkan? That would certainly be unique.

O.k I'm just gonna put this out there for future reference but I REALLY want to own and paint a Ghostkeel Tau suit!

Are we going to start taking bets on when you'll get one painted? I reckon within 6 months, anyone else?

1st week of January. If it doesn't happen at Christmas, then my next bet would be on the January sales...

Is that the big stealth suit? Both of the new mechs are a bit underwhelming for me.

Yep, the big stealth suit not the tea bagging one! and good to see Whaley out of the grip of Destiny for a while :-)

Hard to play Destiny at work. Easy to get on Dakka.

O.k plan now is to finish and paint up my 30K Mechanicus army in brass and a dark red and do a bang up job on them so I can sell the army when it's done! there's no one who plays 30K near me and I currently have no car so I'm going to smash a top Nerd job on them and then see if anyone is interested in them :-)

A red army? If I didn't know better, I'd think you like the color or something.

Oh yeah pretty partial to red! :-) but this time it's going darker and richer.

I don't normally like new models. But I always thought the mechanicus deserved to be done properly, and they HAVE done them properly! Finally models to go with the illustrations and descriptions. I'm sure you will do them proud.

Obviously I would love to have a naked nerd statuette so if I can come up with an idea I'm in.

You should be able to make an absolute killing on a FW army painted to your quality! The scheme sounds great!

Thanks guys, Weets you're very correct! they are really awesome models whether you know what they are for or not! well designed, well sculpted and i'm looking very much forward to doing them soon. I'm hoping to get around $1,200 Aus for everything painted including the book (I won't paint the book)? the models alone is $840.00 Aus so I don't think i'm far off as far as price goes? but feel free to correct me if i'm way off :-) they should see love soon too!

Shame you can't get a game with them. I wait to be amazed.