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Ok, so I'll be prepping some of the stuff I printed to see if I actually play with it.

I've opted to use it for Epic: 40.000, in part because I've always felt the system is much more elegant than Epic: Armageddon is (I mean, yes, stuff is more abstracted, but at the level of play that is Epic... well, I'd much rather see the game do that instead of trying to be 40k writ large), but also because list building in E:40k allows you a much, much greater level of personalization, in no small part due to that very same abstraction, which at the same time makes the detachments much more special... and also allows you to map 40k armies into E:40k detachments, which I've always found very cool.

So that's what I'm starting with: mapping and painting all the painted HH Iron Warriors I have:



...which translated into these Epic units:



(There is a Contemptor, but those aren't at home right now, bear with me )

That translates into this Epic: 40k detachment:

LOYALIST IRON WARRIORS GARRISON (326 points)

Commanders
- Space Marine Captain (Detachment HQ): 50 points

Main Force
- Legion Terminator Squad (1 base): 19 points
- Legion Marine Squad (2 bases): 30 points
- Legion Marine Squad (2 bases): 30 points
- Legion Marine Squad (2 bases): 30 points
- Legion Heavy Support Squad (2 bases): 40 points
- Legion Heavy Support Squad (2 bases): 40 points

Support
- Siege Tyrant Terminator Squad (1 base): 20 points
- Tactical Support Squad (1 base): 10 points
- Tactical Support Squad (1 base): 10 points
- Tactical Support Squad (1 base): 10 points
- Tactical Support Squad (1 base): 10 points
- Legion Dreadnought (1 unit): 27 points

It's not really an ideal detachment, by any means, but it should be decent on the defense, and I could always airdrop it (either via drop pods or flyers) or add a whole lot of transports.

I also could simply split it up to be more "optimal", but I find that I'd kinda prefer to use "field" formations, meaning stuff that you could see yourself fielding as 40k armies or that would logically be the purview of a single commander.


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Two layers of shades to give them the proper metal tone:

Tiny (heh) update: I've started painting the detachment to a level I'm happy with:



Also testing basing material:

Quality stuff. I assme you didn't paint that iron skull on the banner by hand. Did you?

 CaptainWaffle wrote:
Quality stuff. I assme you didn't paint that iron skull on the banner by hand. Did you?

Ahahah, no, no way, that's a decal from the latest CSM decal sheet.

...the smallest one ^^

My favorite legion looking.....EPIC


Wish I could afford a resin printer, just got a FDM printer myself.

Great work Albertorius.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, guys

I've finished the detachment:



...well, except for all the transports, that is ^^

HQ and termies:



Tactical Squads:



Tactical Support Squads:



Heavy Weapons Support Squads:

A legion to be feared! Will you be adding a primarch to lead them?

 warboss wrote:
A legion to be feared! Will you be adding a primarch to lead them?

I do have a stl appropiate for it... but not for these guys, my IW are loyalist ones, dontchanow

I still need an opfor, though, so maybe ^^

Forgot to christen it: Iron Warriors 27th Garrison Detachment, 34th Grand Company, 102nd Grand Battalion, 51st Expedition Fleet. There.

Well, Perturabo was iirc a loyalist for a century or more during the Great Crusade sooooo....

Been asked to test print these guys from the designer, to see if they turned out OK:





The legs are probably a bit too fragile for actual use, but other than that, they turned out pretty well.

Also, the big guns:





And I do mean BIG:

Looking great! Those stripes and lens glares are great for bringing some life and character into the units. Do you intend to keep the bases simplistic or add some shrubs or debris on them?

Well, I still have to shop around to find some suitable ones, but the first order of business is making them table ready.

This week, I've printed and painted transports for the detachment:

Ok, small paint test for the land speeders I printed (I've ended up with a dozen of these):

Definitely small, but look good. Little bit of print lining on the hood, maybe a bit of liquid green stuff/Vallejo filler putty? Only really see it on the 2nd or third look, though, will look pretty good on the table!

Actually, I can only see it on the photo xD. OTOH, it's printed at only 0.05 per layer, you could go lower...

That said, I'm not sure it's that... I printed it at an angle, and that doesn't line up with it.

I can see the print lines also, BUT let’s remember these are extreme closeups of super tiny models. At regular arms reach and definitely at table length I don’t think they will be noticeable.

I will hold off on printing any epic stuff until there’s actual word on the game. I never got into it years ago, so I don’t have to worry about mixing sizes unless I start now and things change with the release.

The dire avengers guns look a bit large to me design wise, but maybe once they are painted it will look more inline with the 40k equivalent.

Nice paint work on the Iron Warriors .

Epic stuff is looking, well .... Epic!!

I shall show myself out, but seriously good work on the vehicles.

Thanks, guys ^^

Today I've been testing some different stuff, namely presupported minis from some Patreons that are starting to offer them.

I started testing some of Artisan Guild's last month release, Wasteland survivors. Bear in mind, I did all of these in a single print:







The only thing I've done with these so far has been cleaning them and ripping the supports off with my bare hands, nothing else. One of them had a misprint on a leg, but all in all, I'm pretty impressed.

Then I did these, also a single print; these from the same Artisan Guild set:






And these from the guy who's doing the supports for the Peculiar Companions' Patreon:







IMHO, the Artisan Guild's supports are superb: the minis print real well, and the supports peel off basically effortless. The other set is not quite as good, but it is still very good. I think that this is probably the next step a lot of Patreons are going to end up doing, as it gives real value to it.

those are some nice prints, almost makes me want to look at a resin printer. I still have a lot to learn with my Ender3, but glad to see the differences.

Presupported sounds great. I may have to try one or two of the presupported prints from my Titan forge patreon pledge to see if the Ender can handle it.

 Theophony wrote:
those are some nice prints, almost makes me want to look at a resin printer. I still have a lot to learn with my Ender3, but glad to see the differences.

Presupported sounds great. I may have to try one or two of the presupported prints from my Titan forge patreon pledge to see if the Ender can handle it.

Don't. Those are presupported for resin, it simply won't work as intended on fdm. You'll probably get better results the usual way.

They look awesome! I just saw those Wasteland sculpts this weekend, love the whole set. Also it's been great seeing more and more presupported STL on the market.

Is that last model part of the Spaniards? Or where is she from? Very nice details.

Boss Salvage wrote:They look awesome! I just saw those Wasteland sculpts this weekend, love the whole set. Also it's been great seeing more and more presupported STL on the market.

Yes to both accounts. I'm seriously thinking about using the wastelanders as some sort of rebooted ratskins for Newcromunda.

Theophony wrote:Is that last model part of the Spaniards? Or where is she from? Very nice details.

The last model is Yennefer of Vengerber from The Witcher. You can find her here:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4124582

And supported:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4461522



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OK, so I've finished painting all the forces I needed for the Epic 40.000 intro game I'm planning on make my group suffer:

The SM force consist of three detachments in total: Force Adonis is the one in the actual field at first, it will be defending one of the routs to Baile Alpha's main settlements, after the arrival of the Space Marines managed to break the back of Waa-Gogard's forces:



But Gogard wanted to avenge himself on the beakies, so after haphazardly managing to fix and crew Skull Smasha, his battered Great Gargant, he launched it again after Baile Alpha's cities, taking by surprise the human forces:





After detecting the giant war engine's approach, Captain Adonis asked for reinforcements and ordered his troops to hunker down and slow down the beast's advance.

The Space Marines' High Command assembled reinforcements as fast as they could, and sent Forces Citus and Lentus to relieve the battered squads of Force Adonis:

Force Citus:


Force Lentus:


We'll see how it turns out, I'll probably be playing as Gogard, at least on the first game ^^

Very impressive. Makes me want to start thinking seriously about things like BFG.

Absolutely beautiful work on the Epic Iron Warriors, Albertorius! Hazard stripes on 6mm boltgun.. wooowwww!

Arise, arise from thine ashes, oh tread of mine!!!

Ehem, so... the delights of having both desktop printers at home and poor impulse control ^_^

Last friday I got a squad of SW Legion's ARC Clone Troopers, now made using HIPS plastics, and honestly, they're a delight to work with... not at the level of GW's machining, but real nice, and the mixture of the plastic reminds me to tamiya kits:



Honestly, great little minis.

...and I am a HUGE Clone Wars cartoon fan. So, one thing led to another, and a weekend passed, and... well, this happened:







Everything printed at 20 microns per layer with x4 AA, too, so the minis are smooth as all hell, easily as good as most stuff in the market.

Fantastic stuff mate, where did you source the files from for the CW stuff? Should have done a pic with the Bad Batch front and center!

 ingtaer wrote:
Fantastic stuff mate, where did you source the files from for the CW stuff? Should have done a pic with the Bad Batch front and center!

Oh I have , just haven't uploaded them yet

The stuff above comes from two gumroad sellers: Skullforge Studios (Bad Batch, adult Ashoka) and Dark Fire Designs (all the rest)