I am in a state of absolute shock and awe right now. This is.... this is freakin' incredible! I thought my 5k points of IG, GK, and SM TOTAL was a lot but this..... D*mn!

You, Mik, are truly a mighty champion of the Emperor! Nothing else can explain such madness!

This work inspires me to tackle my projects. Blogs are good for motivation (sometimes they remind me of how much work I have to do too).

I take inspiration from this...

It is NOT my army... I repeat... It is NOT my army

It is a Games Workshop rendition of a FULL Ultramarine chapter

check out these two pics posted in 2002 that state they were built "a few years ago"

http://www.peteandkellie.com/wh40k/gwuk.html

It is NOT my army... I repeat... It is NOT my army

yet!

Mik

I need to get my jaw off the floor now

That is a lot of warhammer right there

Before you start your next army, give me a day's heads up and I'll go buy some GW stock

Okay, I'm floored. Six Baneblades? That's a lot of hardware. Vance Stubbs would be damn proud. And even though I'm not too sweet on Games Workshop tanks, not after my stint with scale modeling, I must respect that amount of firepower.

Troy says it’s a 10 step painting process…

Step 1 - undercoat with black

Step 2 - paint armour with ultramarine blue then wash with asurmen blue

Step 3 - paint all gold in a 50/50 mix of shining gold and bestial brown

Step 4 - paint joins, grills, tubes, bionics and chains in boltgun metal then wash with badab black

Step 5 - paint capes with 50/50 mix of bestial brown and mechrite red then wash with baal red

Step 6 - paint purity seals, scope glass and crystals in mechrite red, paint books in beastial brown, paint straps in snakebite leather

Step 7 - paint ropes and scripts in astronomican grey then wash scripts in devlan mud

Step 8 - paint swords and highlight chains with chainmail

Step 9 - with 75/25 mix of shining gold and bestial brown, highlight gold in shining gold

step10 - highlight blues in ultramarine blue, highlight capes in mechrite red, highlight purity seals in blood red, highlight crystals and scope lenses in blood red, highlight ropes in skull white.

Mik

I posted this on GW fb page and sent it as an email to GW
I dont care about the price rises or changes to resin...
I do care about dictators.... so many have been assassinated

To Games Workshop... Hi from Australia
To whom it may concern:
Please explain how you can justify enacting a busness accumen that allows a supplier to dictate to retailers who they can and cannot sell to.
It is criminal to hear that northern hemisphere retailers cannot sell your products to southern hemisphere customers.
I have over 100,000 points of current 40K Apocalypse GW products, and I am not finnished buying yet. I have bought from 5 GW stores in 3 States in Australia, from GW direct sales, from 3 local hobby stores, and from 2 online stores (one in Australia and one in UK)... and I have purchased from Forgeworld as well.
I have been collecting since 1987 and also have over 50,000 points of GW Epic products... HOW DARE YOU tell me who I can and cannot buy from... HOW DARE YOU dictate to anyone... you sell to retailers... end of the decision making.
If you dont like who buys your product.... GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS.
WE buy your products... WE keep you in business... WE give you profits... and WE can take it all away from you.
(Lord Castellan Mik) Brisbane Australia

I love the world of Warhammer 40K, why would I want to give it up. I detest business and organisations that manipulate others...
GW dictated to Maelstrom Games (UK) that the GW shops in the southern hemisphere are not making enough money because the customers are buying from Maelstrom.... so, we are going to destroy some of your business so we can get some of that money back

I've been with GW since 1987, my first White Dwarf was number 124... I've known that their management team are arrogant pond slime for a very long time, and I've known that their business decision making skill is childish as thy proove it every year.

I dont complain needlessly, I dont theaten to move onto another system... I dont care if they kill themselves in the hobby world... but dictating to one business that they cant do business is unethical, criminal, anti social, idiotic, and mindless

I think i've paid my fair share in dollars to GW to state my case... I still will not stop, only move even slower

Mik

i'm in absolute agreement. gw are toilet water drinking smeg heads with no brain cells between them, and to think i have given these vacuous morons a lot of money over the years just hurts. i cannot abide stupid, useless people, and gw are the most useless.
i had planned on buying a lot of the formations boxed sets when they were released, but alas, by the time i had the money for them, the week of release was over as it seems to be for most of gws few good ideas, even though the prices are ridiculously high.
i started collecting 20 years ago, and i've had many issues with gw, some still unresolved, and i can see them going under unless they grow up and listen to us, the customers, instead of their shareholders.
end of line...

Thanks for the support mate

Though guys.... please do not add or comment on my venting

Its my thread and I was dissapointed, so i vented

Please lets leave it at that and use the correct treads for the other topic

Thanks

Mik

dodgex1 wrote:Out of interest, Do you actually have someone/a group to play this many points against

Do not ever let minor details like this get in the way of awesomeness...

This is absolutely insane, in the best way possible. I'd love to know how many glue tubes you've gone through, and how much you think you've spent on the force and then all the paints? Don't think me rude for asking though

This is mad! It'll take you forever! If you got such a good payout - employ Grots to help. Good luck - you're gonna need it!

dang.. i just vomited on my screen.. i don't even know why.. plain awesome.. thisis totally mental.. did you take a mortage on your house to by this stuff?? damn you must be broke by now ^^ do you realize how much time that's goign to take befor all that is painted?? I m doing 1 year and a half over 5000 pts of marines.. it will take me 15 years to complete that force.. totally insane.. i hope you finish this or die trying

Subbed, as there is sooo much win in this thread

Truly amazing.

I remember seeing the start of this years ago on L.O.

Good to know your still going!

exalted! this is pure awesomeness

What did you do with all of the AoBR Orks?

Wow. Two year threadomancy! Even though it is awesome beyond belief....

I am still alive and very slowly working on this project

Just a little bit of scenery collected over the last two years...


CoD Imperial City (x2)


Bastions (x4) and Aegis Defence Line (x3)


Skyshield landing Pad (x3)


Shrine of Aquila (x2) and Honoured Imperium (x1)


Fortress of Vengeance (x1)


WoM Imperial Defence Network (x 2)


WoM Aquila Strongpoint (x2)


WoM Firestorm Redoubt (x 4)


WoM Veangeance Weapon Battery (x3)


Mik

PS... I still have all the Orks

Once done, it will be the most incredible display of love for the hobby in our time.

Just,just .... .

Really enjoying the progress you are making through sooo many mini's.Keep up the great work.

This knocks my friends 10k of SM into a cocked hat....Let alone the paltry amounts i have ( in my sig ).

Hi all

Sorry for the obvious threadomancy, but, I still live and I am still collecting... and still moving slowly, but steadily

lots of purchases since we last spoke

Stand alone games...
Assassinorum: Execution Force for the assassins
Space Hulk for the marines and genestealers
Deathwatch: Overkill for the Deathwatch team initially
Kill Team for the terrain... killzones and lots of extras

Primaris...
What can I say, over 200 marines plus 10 characters and 4 Redemptor dreds...started with 4 sets of Dark Imperium then eBay

Because of a lot of genestealers... I have gone into Genestealer Cult mainly for Kill Team and Space Hulk games Apocalypse style


Photos soon

Mik



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Life Update…. for those that are interested

4 years ago I was diagnosed with degenerative osteo arthritis to most of my joints (fingers, toes, knees, elbow, shoulder, and lower back)

Over a period of 2 years I had a range of symptoms that made standing, sitting, walking, and laying, difficult and painful to a point that I had to retire from the workforce and am now on a disability pension

I could access my superannuation but it was not enough to stay where I was... so we bought a block out west (350km) and a small kit home and hunkered down with a small solar system but no internet

Then the gak started... my wife was diagnosed with Parkinson's… she is my carer, so thing went down hill rapidly

We couldnt physically build the kit home and no friends were able to help and no money to pay someone

i know some will say why buy all that stuff then... well, primarilly it was for my sanity and also they were 30-40% discounted

The biggest problem was that all our possessions are packed into a container, including all my wargame collections... except Primaris and Kill Team...i haven't seen it for 3 years now

To top it off, my younger brother passed away 12 mths ago from the same cancer that got our dad

and just for fun, coz we can't build the kit home (which is up for sale) we live in the end of a 40ft container... luxury camping... we have ALL the mod cons

thanks fo listening

Mik





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My Primaris component is attached to my Ultramarines Chapter as reserve company attachments

6th Company... 6x squads of Intercessors (60)
7th Company... 6x squads of Intercessors (60)
8th Company... 2x squads of Reivers (20), 4x squads of Inceptors (24)
9th Company... 4x squads of Hellblasters (40), 2x squads of Aggressors (12)

2x each character...
Captain in power armour as Company Champion
Librarian, Apothecary, and Chaplain

Plus 2x Five man bodyguard, and 4 Redemptor dreds

Added with the 4x Command HQ sets from Dark Imperium... I can activate any combinations from the following...

2x full strength Primaris Battle Companies
4x full strength Primaris Demi Battle Companies
60% of each Reserve Company (6-9) as Primaris

Looking forward to the new Primaris Vanguard marines from Shadowspear

Painted Primaris is a sample of my Primaris Ultramarines

Mik

I forgot about Shadow War: Armageddon again for the terrain

Sorry again for the obvious threadomancy, but, again, I still live and I am still collecting... and still moving slowly, but steadily.

Still building the extras from Dark Imperium.

Well, Shadowspear came... I swapped halves again and ended up with 4 sets... plus multipart Infiltrators and Eliminators.

Still building the extras from Shadowspear.

Now I'm waiting for Indomitus ... hopefully end up with 4 sets, then wait a bit longer for multipart Bladeguard Vets.

Mik

He's back! Nice to hear from you again Mik and good to see that the ludicruous pruchases are still going on! I've been away from the hobby for about the same time as from your last post, but funnily enough I was thinking about your collection about a week ago. Sorry to hear that things have been a bit rough for you of late. Best wishes, and hoping that things become more positive.

Thanks for that mate

Indomitus arrived and I got two boxes with the aim to swap the Necrons for more Primaris... but so far to no avail

Good news though, GW seem to be following Dark Imperium schedule of releases... so very soon will be
Multipart Bladeguard
Primaris Techmarine
and hopefully more

Mik

I was lucky
Sold my two Necron halves
Bought two Primaris halves

Broke even with the spending... Now have 4 Sets

Mik

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Bladeguard Captain
Bladeguard LT x2
Bladeguard Ancient
Bladeguard Chaplain x2
Bladeguard Veterans x12 (4 Squads)
Judiciar

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Not finished assembly yet... just push fitted

Then paint... for a change, I really like these guys

Mik

Very nice. Paint? I don't think we've seen that yet.... If I lived near you, I'd offer to come and paint some with you.
Do you have a photo of everything you've collected and built?

Thanks for the offer

Mik