Here we'll be telling all about us and sharring our work with ya'll. We'll probably even put up some battle reports of the games we go through. I can start off with some stuff my bro and I did. Our user names btw are Corndoggy (my bro) The bringer (also my bro) and Andrecus (not my bro )

Some interesting stuff here. I really like the orky terrain, and the killa kan looks good too. Nice and orky looking.

You could make your orks even better by using the GW washes, the clothing on that boy looks a bit too flat as is. The skin looks good.

We have this really neat tool with this special metal wire and we run electricity through it and it cuy=ts through foam like better. It work real great for the basic structure of terrain.

Those pill box thingies look HAWT!!

Hello All,
I am the (not so) illustrious Corndoggy, (brother # 1 ) and i am the nid player of the group. Currently i own the Tyranid Assault Brood + a box of stealers.
Everything is assembled except for 6 stealers and my last fex (love the kits, so many pointy nid bitz!! )

Pics of some of my stuff

Nice jobs on the conversions.
Their pose gave them tons of character.

My bro and I (older) are planning on making an ork barracks. So far it looks pretty neat. I think we're going to use elmers this time instead of hot glue (too messy...strings absolutley everywhere). Maybe we can start that tonight >_<

LunaHound wrote:
Nice jobs on the conversions.
Their pose gave them tons of character.

Thanks
They were tons of fun to do, even thoguht the BL's right rendy thumb kept breaking off...

"To be, or not to be, that is the question"

love it
broodlord looks pretty sweet

lol
'zactly. Perhaps he is pondering assaulting a Termie squad...

Here is some of my terrain. None of is it finished.

not the best idea for a stealer
leave that to 2 stab fex's

Then here's some stuff I made out of foam. I just primered it with a special non-eating-foam primer.

Those stealers are awesome!! I'm diggin the bunker/walls, everything looks pretty cool guys! Keep posting!!

Great start; a lot of creativity with items commonly available. I am looking forward to seeing what the terrain looks like painted up. Keep up the good work.

Wait... could you use floam for this?

Wait, do you mean foam?

You could use it, but I don't know if I would suggest it.

I've been using this special fomy substance that you can even rub away with your fingers. Its really easy to form into any shape.

Is it Oasis?
Also known as Florist's Foam, Wet Foam, and "That funny green stuff nanny keeps her flowers in".



If it is, It's VERY fragile. I'd suggest getting a good few layers of hardening laquer on there.
Or just keep on using the insulation foam you guys have on that fort.

Great work though! Keep it up!

Wow guys, good stuff so far!

Hi, I'm Brother Captain Andrecus. I am effectively the fourth brother... I'm the brotha from anotha motha! Lol... Haha...

Yah, I know it's horrible. It's all I had up my sleeve... sorry.

Anyhoo.

I'm the lone Marine player in this bunch of filthy Xenos, so all you loyal Imperials out there can heave a sigh of relief to know that there is indeed a contemporary to the Hamlet-Stealer up above... It's a Hamlet-Termi! :-)

Of course, Corndoggy's conversion is much better than mine. It's hard to convert Terminators to look like Hamlet... Heh.

Anyhow. I have a couple of pics that are worth posting here. Namely my Ironclad Conversion, which I did recently.
It's set up with a Hurricane Bolter and Seismic Hammer.


That's the armor on him.


The whole conversion.


The Hurricane Bolter. (Not many people run Ironclads with this setup. IDK why...)


The Seismic Hammer up close...


He's striking a pose!

I'm known as Brother Captain Andrecus on the Bolter and Chainsword, which is where I spend most of my time. I also have an account with Imperial-Literature.net, which is a great place for fan-fiction writers and readers.

Soo... That's not all I've got, but I'm running on empty now, so I'll post more on the morrow, I guess.

lol at shakespere nid

Really amazing conversions!

Good job.

I used Shellak to seal it up and harden it a bit. It seems to have worked. I rub my finger and nothing comes off.


And yes, its florists foam. My dad has a load of that stuff, so I just leech it off of him.

A really promising start on the terrain!

Yah! That stuff. It's really weird stuff. Once you primer it it kind of petrifies and strengthens up a bit. although it's still a little week. You can make some really cool sculps with it. Especially ruins.

Whoops, didn't see your post above bringer *slaps self*

Tek wrote:Is it Oasis?
Also known as Florist's Foam, Wet Foam, and "That funny green stuff nanny keeps her flowers in".



If it is, It's VERY fragile. I'd suggest getting a good few layers of hardening laquer on there.
Or just keep on using the insulation foam you guys have on that fort.

Great work though! Keep it up!

We have this stone textured spray that's really nice for giving that stony tecture to terrain. I didn't use it though cuase it would have gotten rid of most of the cracks and detail I put into my little walls.

Well, we got a lot of the terrain primered. Now all we do is have to paint it. I was able to crank out an ork yesterday in a litle bit of free time. It took forever to paint him because of all the detail. I hate going over lines when I paint, so I'm really pickey about un-eveness.I couldn't batch paint to save my life. Well, after I wash it's decent. It's Jungle themed

Post up those pics, Brother!
(Oh, wait. This isn't the B&C... Do they still do the whole "Brother" thing here? IDK, I'm still calling you Brother. Force of habit...)

I painted the first half of my Terminator Chaplain. Frankly, that was the easy part, just going over the black undercoat with more black. I'm going to apply Vallejo gloss to the armor once I'm done, to shiny it up.

I also painted the skull and the parchment loincloth thing. The Crozius and Stormbolter will come next. Then, the gold bits on the armor, and then detailing and finishing touches!

Then, I'll make him a base. Probably a couple of Xeno heads or something... Actually, that gives me an idea.

Bringer, do you mind lending me a couple of your spare Kroot heads? This is Elder Chaplain Elijah van Kroot-mulcher we're talking about. (There's a funny story behind that name. I'm not about to tell it, though. Bringer would get mad at me. Although he did win the game... So... Yah. I mulched his Kroot with my Termi Chappy and three Tac Marines. Totally. Lolz.)

Anyhoo. More photobucket! For the winz!


My two Terminators that are actually painted.


Another picture.

I am a proponent of the style of play known as "Terminator Spam". It's a rare style, little known of. And I'm not very good at it. But it's fun. Any excuse for a 2+ armor save... (Artificer Armor falls under this category as well...)


That's my converted Terminator Sarge, he stands in as a Terminator Armored Captain every once in a while. His name? Why it's "Brother Captain Andrecus", of course! Lolz.

I hate the hairless grampa-Marine heads. It's just one more reason for the guys to make fun of me. Also, I have hair and my face isn't covered in metal service studs. So I made a headswap. Easy and fun. Minimal greenstuff required!


A close-up.

So... That's your daily dose of Tactical Dreadnought Armored Goodness!

'Lending' eh? implying that he would get them back?

I find your developing propensity for xenos heads disturbing

nice work on the scout -> termie head not sure why i havent seen that before, looks good.

In other news, I will hopefully be finishing more spinegaunts tonight.


so...many...carapaces >.<

Yah, horde armies are "fun" to paint eh? I guess the Carnifexes interspersed here and there make it worth it though?


And no, I wouldn't give them back... Lol.

Drew, just keep playing your termi spam. My suites are enjoying having an excuse for being so expensive.

FYI, the ones I used on you last were roughly 90 points a piece.

So I figgered... But I totally mulched those Kroot. Totally. Like, not even kidding. Complete and total mulchage. I uber-pwned you. I crushed you! (Just gotta keep telling yourself the same lie over and over. Eventually, it becomes the truth...)

Yah, I was actually extremely suprised at that. I was actually hoping that you would charge, becuase I thought that my Kroot could take you out. I completely forgot how good your Terminator Chaplain was.

The terrain you guy's are making are looking great especialy the piece with the insulation foam and the foam wall pieces and the poses for the nids are great i really like the shakespear style one.

Great looking stuff! I have always enjoyed making terrain out of common objects. Cuts down the cost to practically nothing, and it's truly amazing how much random bits of card-board or foam are lying around the average house, just begging to be glued together and painted.

Here's a boy I painted. I spent allot more time on him than my other boyz. I made sure to make the paint job precise. I think some of my washes need to be thicker. The ones I used on the clothing didn't show much.

I just finished my barricade thing. I used sand for rust, and through a variety of washes and drybrushing made it look somewhat okayish.

Cap, is your flash off? You should take pics of minis with the flash off, it makes it easier to see detail.

Wait, do you mean foam?

No Floam.



Its like a bunch of beads in sliperry plastic crap... It comes pretextured so all you have to do is paint for rubble sand and the like.

Does it stick well?

If it does or doesn't, I'd spray it with something to keep it together.


Whether you use it or not really depends what you want it for. If you want it for some strange alien terrain, you could just stick it together and not bother yourself with painting or anything else.

Oh man, that stuff is nasty...

What would you even use it for?

Yah, it was. It was really weird. It made the pictures bright.

Brother Captain Andrecus wrote:Cap, is your flash off? You should take pics of minis with the flash off, it makes it easier to see detail.

Yah, just use the macro function and turn the flash off. Then, when you're focusing on the model, hold down the button that you use to snap the photo, just put a little pressure on it. It should focus on the mini, and when you've got the focus that you want, push down hard on the button.

No-no, the flash was off. And I know about the focusing thing. The camera doesn't know what to focus on always. I also had it on the detail setting.

Oooo.

Your painted shelter thing is really good!

Thanks. It was a quicky for me. Its hard to see, but I poked some bullet holes in the top and added some blood smears. I was considering getting some of my Kroot bits and adding some more depth to it, but in the end I didn't. The rust turned out a little purply, but in the end it looked pretty good.

My commander is done. He is probably the best I've done yet. He took two hours! I also did use highlighting, and it look really good. I'm gonna get some picks up ASAP.

Here's some of the stuff I said I would put up.I tried to take better pictures of the boy, we'll see how he compares. That vehicle you see near the end, that was made completely from junk. We hand made the rivets and allot of the stuff.

Cool,that vechile is it just scenery or a trukk or something?

Yes, that is a vehicle. Its for a different game system called G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. Look it up. You get to make your own vehicles, and this one was made out of junk.

Just FYI, my brother put it up since its just cool, and it was next to some of our other terrain.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Cool,that vechile is it just scenery or a trukk or something?

Its actually for another system (as the bringer pointed out), its a local VSF game ruleset that we picked up at historicon a few years back, quite simple and fun to play. (not sure what its doing in the 40k thread though... )

The picture of the ruins posted by TheCapm show a prime reason i now shy away from florists' foam as a terrain material... All those bright green bits are places where my carefully weathered ruins were bumped against a large figure or shelf, and snapped completely off despite hardcoating and multiple paint layers

ah well, live and learn

Spinegaunts should be incoming later today/ tomorrow afternoon. just working on the fiddly bits now.

Ok, got my pics, here they are:



A side view:




Another side view:




Back view:



Front view:



And some more pics:











The camera nurfs it a little, I think it looks a little better in person.

Corndoggy wrote:

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Cool,that vechile is it just scenery or a trukk or something?

Its actually for another system (as the bringer pointed out), its a local VSF game ruleset that we picked up at historicon a few years back, quite simple and fun to play. (not sure what its doing in the 40k thread though... )

The picture of the ruins posted by TheCapm show a prime reason i now shy away from florists' foam as a terrain material... All those bright green bits are places where my carefully weathered ruins were bumped against a large figure or shelf, and snapped completely off despite hardcoating and multiple paint layers

ah well, live and learn

Spinegaunts should be incoming later today/ tomorrow afternoon. just working on the fiddly bits now.

I was wondering how you got that excelent shading, you got it to look weathered and worn both in and out of game I whant to build some more terrain today. I'm thinking about making like an ork lookout tower or something that looks like it's barely staying together.

WHAT IS THAT SHELTER!! But your stuff. Most impressive.

Do you mean the thing I did? Or something else?

The Bringer wrote:Then here's some stuff I made out of foam. I just primered it with a special non-eating-foam primer.

YOU SPEAK OF THIS PRIMER, DO YOU HAVE A BRAND NAME OR SOMEWHERE WHERE MIGHT BE AABLE TO OBTAIN IT?????????????

Yes, its called H2O by Krylon

Its made by Krylon
http://www.krylon.com/products/h2o_latex/ luvly stuff, works like a charm.

EDIT: dang, beaten to it, well here's a link in my favor

Go to http://www.globalindustrial.com and in the search box put H2O, you can get a variety of colors.

Darn it! You posted right as I did making my post useless.

At the site I gave; however, you can at least order it.


Andrecus, what did you get it for? At the site I found it was 4.50 + Shipping (Whatever that is).

I thought he got it at the Historicon, oh well. I suppose he could andwer ur Q better than me lol

The H20 was borrowed from me, by the way... I found it in a local hardware store for $3.99

Works like a charm on any kind of foam...

Anyhoo, my Terminator Chaplain is almost done, all that remains are some purity seals and other such tidbits. I really love the paintjob that I did for this guy, so I'm gonna post up pics as soon as I can. For now, life is taking its toll on my spare time. (Curse you Chemistry!!! Curse you again and again!!!)

Here are some conversions that I did recently-ish. They're Scouts wielding sawn-off shotguns. This way, I can add the combat blades as well, and they can count as either shotguns or Boltpistols depending on what flavor of fail I want my Scouts to be equipped with at any given time.






This fella has his arms magnetized so he can be equipped with a Heavy Bolter if I want.


This one has a magazine glued to the side of the shotgun. Double the ammunition-y goodness!


The Scout Sarge. No shotgun for him. There weren't enough included. S'okay though. He gets more attacks this way, and has a higher BS, so I want him to be a slightly more precision oriented model...

And yes, they still lack heads. I'm a procrastinator and I feel like fielding them without heads...
(You also might notice that I shaved the codpieces down. This is a pet peeve of mine. They just look funny...)

I just got two gun drones finished. They didn't turn out as well as my Shas'o with the highlighting, but they are better than my FWs








The pics I took weren't too good. In the back, its kind of hard to see, but to put more brown on it I colored the vent brown with orange on the inside.

Don't you have any metallic paint? A splash or two of metallics on that thing might make it a bit more mechanical looking.

Edit: NVM, I see the antenna tips there. Although I still think it needs a little more metallic paint.

love the drones as they are

I could still do a little work on it. Maybe I'll actually try and highlight the inner workings, that was the original plan, but I didn't have time for it.

Yah, I guess they look ok. Just need a bit more silver on them.

You changed the name? Cool.

One of my Tac Marines. This pic was one of the first good-ish miniature pics I ever took.

Edit: Gotta learn to re-size those pics...

Brother Captain Andrecus wrote: Edit: Gotta learn to re-size those pics...

Actually, I think it looks fine :| Much better than the uber-macro shots of your vet sarge you had up earlier. If you make em too much smaller you wont be able to see all the detail.

Wow! a lot cleaner ( and neater) than some of your earlier ones in your painting history (fow).

That was taken like, three months ago. One of the first "good" pics I ever took of my minis...

It isn't even recent...

But if you want recent, boy have we got a show for you!

As soon as Photobucket uploads my pics...

Edit: Ok! Had a bit of trouble with Photobucket, but things worked out. So without further ado, I present to you my Terminator Chaplain!








So, that's that!

Nice colors! Looks like mad fightin' beast beast!

Looks pretty good. Hes really shiny, so its hard to see some of the detail...
but from the bits I can see clearly, i would say youve outdone yourself.

Is he still WIP? (just wondering, as the bullet casings are still black, and the wingaling on his chest seems to be highlighted only on one side. ) Good work.

Here's a power generator I've been working on, I might add more to it.












I made it from a hardrive, a poor, dead VCR player, and some other stuff. It can spin!

Cool. Looks rad. (Oh my gosh, I just said "rad"! AH! I SAID IT AGAIN!!! I need to wash my mouth out with soap... Or... Coffee... Yah.)

Anyhow. It obviously needs paint still, but I'm glad to hear it spins!*

*It spins? What are you, six? Grow up dewd!**

**It spins!?! HOLY CRUD THAT'S SO AWESOME, hahahah ROTFLOL!!!!

Sorry. Breakdowns. Life=Stress. Fun!

I don't know what to add, well, actually, I do, but I don't have what i need.

Hah! I'm sending this from my dad's new phone! It's really cool. Anyhow, thx for the kind words about the Chaplain!

Andrecus, how are those assualt marines coming???

They're going okay. I've put them on hold until I decide how I want to run them. Or rather, how dad wants to run them.

I'm not sure yet.

Keep it up guys, your stuff looks awesome, especially the tau!


although i have to ask, did you ever convert and paint a tau battlesuit with two drones pinned into the base etc, and then sell it on ebay?

Thanks

No I didn't. Why?

i bought one and its in almost the exactly same scheme as your tau. too bad the leg to foot join broke. i had to jury rig it. lots of glue on that foot.

That's kind of wierd. I never saw anything like my scheme before except once, someone esle put green in the the cracks, but they didn't add any brown to their scheme like I did.


Also, I must credit my brother Corndoggy for giving me the idea about the brown, it really livens up the figures.

Hey, Bringer, I forgot to compliment you on your Shas'o... It's done exceptionally well!

Just felt like saying that.

These are a couple urban bases I made a while back. I plan to use them for my as-yet-to-be-assembled Assault squad...

They look really nice.

To keep you yellow paint in the lines, you could get a card or something and paint against it so you have a nice crisp line.

HAWT Power Plant thingy

Andrecis, i would suggest a delvan mud wash on all your models (it will be worth it.)

Oh? I use a Badab Black wash (actually, a Badab Black was equivalent...) on them already. Actually, not on the one I posted there... Maybe these will better illustrate what I mean...



Bringer, is that going to be a Tau power generator? Cuz they have those tall ones that look like squashes, from DoW, remember?

It looks like the IG power generator, kinda... Yah.


Anyhoo.

Yah, as I said its not really done. I need some more things before I can make it look anything like a Tau building.

But why a Tau building? Why not an Imperial building? They do have the most prevalent architecture in the galaxy.

Of course, a Tau power generator would look cool too.

Brother Captain Andrecus wrote:But why a Tau building? Why not an Imperial building? They do have the most prevalent architecture in the galaxy.

Of course, a Tau power generator would look cool too.

Possible because he plays Tau, and they have no interest in inferior imperial technology

I think its lookin good. It just needs to be a bit more smooth and rounded out methinks.
just my $.02

Do the Tau have Titans? No.

Truth be told, if the Imperium wanted, they could sqoosh the Tau with a big enough campaign. But really, they're busy with other things, and the fishheads are little more than an annoyance, really.

Someday, though, vengeance shall arrive. "Suffer not the Xeno to live!"

That's just what they make you think! >.<

No, it is a super-heavy Flyer
different teapot of marine wildlife

P4NC4K3 wrote:No, it is a super-heavy Flyer
different teapot of marine wildlife

Yep.

And frankly, the Manta would look like a flea next to an Imperator Titan....

Workin' on my Vindicator. Things are going pretty well, actually. I also ordered some plastic Cadians which I am going to convert into Vitrian Dragoons. (From the first Gaunt's Ghosts book.)

I'm an Imperial all the way. Imperium of Man FTW!

Give us some WIP shots of it please

It's all done now. Not painted yet, of course, but assembled.

And my camera's broken... So no photos...

You can borrow my camera...not made for the type of thing, but still it'll give you a feel for what it looks like. When you takea vid you can just take snapshots of the vid when you plug it into windows media player.

Mayhap.

But the camera will probably be fixed soon...

Alright! Big news! (Sorta)

I went to Cold Wars, one of the biggest conventions on the East Cost, yesterday, and I picked up a box of Terminators for a ridiculously low price! Now I'll be able to add them to my AoBR Termis and my Termi Chappy! Yay!

Speaking of my AoBR Termis, I have a picture of two of them... Let me just go to my Photobucket...

There we go!

I may have already posted that, but whatever.

Also, I got a free sprue of Wargames Factory Celts at Cold Wars. Free stuff, Wh00t! Their link: http://www.wargamesfactory.com/Home.htm

Dang.

Too long, too long.

Anyway. I am hereby resurrecting this thread, as I am one of the OPs. Thread, arise!

And now for the IG!








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Is it just me or is there a sm balancing act on the previous page?

There is indeed. :-)

Well, I fought a gamewith Andrecus the other day. He would've done better cept I took out his main reliance out on the first turn. Why don't you give em' a more detailed description of what happened Drew..seeing as I might give a bias point of view

Mine would be twice as biased.

I have the full(ish) Bat-Rep on my blog, but here goes.

He kicked my little Power-Armored tush.

And I think that's about it.

500 pts, lost my Vindi on the first turn to a trio of Deffkoptas, (Curse you, Deffkoptaaaaaas!!!)

My Captain killed a squad of Shoota Boyz. Sniper Scouts killed two Nobz (There were like twenty of them! With WS 5, somehow!!! Curse you, Bosspoooooooles!!!!) Bolter fire killed another.

Lost an entire Combat squad in CC when said Nobz smashed into it and shredded it with Powerklaws. I shot a Killa Kan with a Krak missile from my second Combat squad, but FAILED TO PENETRATE its armor. (Ridiculous! The Deffkoptas killed my Vindicator in one shot, but I can't even take out a freaking Grot-bucket?)

I was very sad. I'm also not a very good sport when I get tabled, but meh. I digress.

Anyway. My Captain did well, which was good. I still need to finish painting him.

It was the Waaaagh banner that did it.

Goodness gracious! This has fallen waaaay back into the archives... I can see cobwebs in the corner of my web-browser!!!

Thread, ARISE! (Again!) And this time, stay arisen!


Anyways! Developments proceed apace!

Here is a picture of my Chaplain and my Captain, side by side, bromides in war!



There you go!

Also, a red kroot that I painted for Bringer. (I ruv the krootsies!)

ver. nice

deff koptas are cruel

but seriously i love all the models on the thread

the chaplains lovely, the orks so vibrant and the tau....look actually quite menacing.

Haha. Thanks!

More guard!




This is the Sergeant of my Hardened Veterans squad. He is converted to represent a Vitrian Dragoon, (so he has carapace armor) and he was made from a snap-fit Cadian, a Space Marine chainsword arm, and a lasgun chopped down to pistol size. He's already up here, unpainted, but I recently finished painting him up!

The Space Marine arm is supposed to be a bulky augmetic, which is why its painted silver.

Well. It's been a while, Dakka. It's been a long while. This thread probably ought to stay dead, but seeing as we're all still doing 40k, I guess our joint 40k thread can keep going too...

Here is some new stuff.

Cadians with Pig Iron heads. They're Skitarii, and will count as hardened vets, possibly with carapace.







Gunnery Sergeant Harker counts-as





Made from greenstuff, Valkyrie crewman, and Space Marine Scout heavy bolter. He's on a special base that makes him tall, as you can see.




Platoon Leader

Ha-ha, this thread is so old. I've completed a lot since I've last been on dakka. It's time for a new blog as soon as I have access to a camera. I'm happy to say lots of our talents have improved since the last post on BOBA. Dude, my browser only shows me 50% of the pics on dakka...I'm sorry to say I can't see your pics Andrecus.

Some awesome little conversions coming along here.

The IG with the padded vests instantly reminded me of Adeptus Arbites....

Mano

Bleh... haven't updated this in a while...

Here is something I just finished:








I made it out of sprues and popsicle sticks, and the base is made out of mdf. Hopefully I'll update this more frequently... or just start a new thread.



EDIT:

I just finished my first two marines... and they're the first miniatures I've painted in a while.