if caddius is the scout with with the chainblade holding high, well its just an normal scout i thought, i own thsi model at least two or three times, never thought it was a special one....
but if you mean by him your paintjob, the shoulderpads look in all your minis a nice weathered shade... very good if you aimed for it...

so i guess when i will be going on a buying spree i will be buying me some devlan mud...havn´t had one before... is it really that omnipotent? seems you can do almost anything with it....

ah i never knew about ravengurad fluff.... but if they use the raven, the death bird for their chaptername then the skin is a good resemblance viceversa ....


korvydae looks ace as mentioned before by me, you can even hear him scream at you while charging in YOUR FACE!...

did you attempt a bit of lightning effect on the hammerhead? if so i see also some blood stuck to it.... my advice: only one feature as when it was a forcehammer the blood wouldn´t stuck to it it would be frizzled away...

Viktor von Domm wrote:if caddius is the scout with with the chainblade holding high, well its just an normal scout i thought, i own thsi model at least two or three times, never thought it was a special one....
but if you mean by him your paintjob, the shoulderpads look in all your minis a nice weathered shade... very good if you aimed for it...

so i guess when i will be going on a buying spree i will be buying me some devlan mud...havn´t had one before... is it really that omnipotent? seems you can do almost anything with it....

ah i never knew about ravengurad fluff.... but if they use the raven, the death bird for their chaptername then the skin is a good resemblance viceversa ....


korvydae looks ace as mentioned before by me, you can even hear him scream at you while charging in YOUR FACE!...

did you attempt a bit of lightning effect on the hammerhead? if so i see also some blood stuck to it.... my advice: only one feature as when it was a forcehammer the blood wouldn´t stuck to it it would be frizzled away...

hmm...good point with the hammer. I'll re-do it with no lood. It wasn't meant to have a "lightning" effect, just be oozing power mysteriously, with blue and white...
and that is no normal scout...it's an M&S scout... no really he has killed:
deamon prince
monolith
20 necron warriors
2 vindicators
tactical squad
2 predators
chaplain
2 creeds
2 kells
2 company command squads
chapter master
2 land speeders
avatar of khaine
2 leman russes

over 11 games. In close combat. Alone.
there is more but that's what I can't rememer off the spot.

sounds like your caddius is more of a serial killer than a scout^^...and whats M&S stand for?

Viktor von Domm wrote:sounds like your caddius is more of a serial killer than a scout^^...and whats M&S stand for?

It stands for Marks & Spencers, a british shop. In all thier adverts they say stuff like "this isn't just a chicken, it's an M&S chicken."

lol, so a serial murder scout with extra toppings? cool stuff lol

more of an assassin. He is equipped with meltabombs and infiltrates near the big toys. ^^

awww... he is a spoiler than, destroying other kids toys...

"don´t do that lil`caddy as it is not nice to stomp other kids tankytoys...now go and have a seat on the quite bank and rethink about what you just did...off you go now naughty boy...!"

He is quite old now, having turned down several invites to join Caan's honour guard tea party, prefering to stay as sergeant. He's even older than a few captains. In the game that he killed a tactical squad, 3 bikes chased after him. I callidus assassin jumped in and killed them, and they ran off into the sunset. Mrs Caddius now has 2-year-old boy, training to be an assassin just like her. Aw.

well thats nice to ave some kind of afterlife at least after the killing ends...er... then agian i recall the saying: "in the fourthieth millenium there is only war...", so no happy ending in sight...

Viktor von Domm wrote:well thats nice to ave some kind of afterlife at least after the killing ends...er... then agian i recall the saying: "in the fourthieth millenium there is only war...", so no happy ending in sight...

"in the forty-first millenium there is only war, then marriage, then more war, then kids, then more war, then retirement, then death."
They just ran out of ink.

lol that was the best ever, that is something worth your everthickening sig....

you have your wish. ^^


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BTW vik- shopping list:
stormraven- mid/early march
grey knights- B-day
dreadnought (furioso)- late april
this- http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/tools-and-misc/instant-mold.html- mid may
plasticard- late may
magnets- early june
CH stuff- late june
Xbox live- late july/early august
stormraven- early october
FW cadian command squad- mid november
decal sheet (blank)- late november
PI heads- late november
cadian battleforce- christmas
PI heads- christmas
trenches- christmas
33 cadians (bought off a friend, costing £25)- late december
PI heads- late december
cyclops vehicles- mid january
banewolf- late february
landing pads- mid march

so It'll be done by my birthday if I don't do any leaflet deliveries. Chances are, it being summer mid-way through and all, I'll do at least 3 of them, making it about this time next year, 2 months shy of my 16th birthday. Wow, life goes quick...
but then I might get a ssaturday job...If so, expect it to be finished off by christmas.

well gaming community will cross fingers for you not finding/being found by a girl ...this would surley spoil your shopinglist no ends^^ but at least shagging would may happen as a compensate....


love your sig^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:well gaming community will cross fingers for you not finding/being found by a girl ...this would surley spoil your shopinglist no ends^^ but at least shagging would may happen as a compensate....


love your sig^^

yeah, not completely into girls yet, well, actually, it's the other way round...lol...I just don't like any of the girls my age...
But yeah, shopping list needs to compensate for gum, other food, clothes and other miscellaneous distractions...when I say I've got my eye on something not-40k related, nag me until I don''t buy it.
unless I have more money than expected...
counting in about £30 for clothes and food, It'll be:
no extra cash- end of march (birthday)
leaflet round- end of january (this time next year)
saturday job- end of year (as well as a load of extra money spent on other stuff)

But you never know- the GK money is only for 20 PAGK, a character, 5 TAGK and a rhino-STC/walker or 20 PAGK, a character and a stormraven (probably the latter).

well sound good, and time will come when other "hobbies" will be a good treat more interresting, hope i wasn´t to graphic^^

are the beans spilled already as to what from the GK will come in what material?

as far as we can tell:
50pt upgrade that gives units 2++.
power weapons to normal GK.
2+ for PAGK?
dreadknight?- a MC
assassins whose sniper shots destroy any invulnerable saves for the rest of the game.
stormravens available
couple of new characters
plastic TAGK & PAGK
ISTs are available, but only as henchmen.
IST squads are unlocked if you take Inquisitor lord Coteaz.

this will sell a millions when released.... this will test my abilities as well to compose myself against buying some of these...

dreadknight sopunds like a Dreadnought for GK??? cool
and the ISTs sound like new IG minis to have more variety on the table when fielding blobs...

If they make a plastic IST kit, I'm getting it for my DKoK. I want a plastic inquisitor and GK grand master/brother captain (lots of wargear choice)

well even if prices are high at least the put enough of bits in the boxes...

any pics of the ISTs around the net?

Not confirmed yet, but I hope so.
BTW lenore nearly finished (can't find my bleached bone for purity seals, AARGH!)
IF libby nearly finished (I can't see anything that needs doing, but...it's just...missing...that...extra...extra something, you know?
champion nearly finished (complete with lightning-style power weapon)

I need to do the champion's shield and bolt pistol, paint over a couple of unintended patches of paint on lenore (no biggie), and paint the IF libbie's face and find that extra something. Hopefully finished by next week. I'll post pics once I get either all the termies done, or audax and lenore done, or the sanguinary guard jump packs.

so what does our favorite ravengiard army and DKOK army have planned for the future?

some seaside vacations for the summer?

I haven't looked around for a saturday job, but probably raven guard finished by july-ish (at the most) and death korps finished by the end of the year.
need to get for DKoK:
battleforce, death rider, commander, 33 cadians w/bits, trenches.
need to get for raven guard:
stormravens, landing pads, blank decal sheet, dreadnought.

BTW, update:
champion & lenore almost done (need bleached bone and codex grey), imperial fist libby almost done (need bleached bone).

dang.... i wanted to have that color too... was in the shop yesterday and forgott...man *facepalm* i bought some devlan mud and tomorrow i will know what good it did me as i painted some metalobjects with it...who knows waht mightbe made that way... tho i have to say i am a bit disappointed as it doesnt work the same as my old flesh wash... will be really missing this pott when it is depleted...

try doing a pale-skinned cadian.
the more detail on the face, the better.

oh i did taht too... guess i will be showing some pics tomorrow too... i mostly used deneb stone and white for basecoating the skin...then whatever took my fancy for wash atm and therefore i will be getting some nice and formost different cadians^^...

I'll try and find a scout heavy bolter from a bitz site for the shotgun if I can't find it.

so matey, as i saw on my calendar it is indeed weekend (nearly over) so whats what with the new pictureupdate bigman?

vik, with meaningful look in his beady eye...

killing the beady-eyed look:
Long story short, a visit to a friend's house for his 15th b-day suddenly saturday morning became a sleepover round a friend's house for his 15th b-day, so no pics. Funnily enough, we got to sleep at about 4:30am and I'm not even a teeny bit tired...hmm...it might be something to do with our food over those two days:
-can of fanta
-tic-tacs
-1/2 pint of coke
-crisps
-can of fanta
-spagetti bolognaise
-doritos
-lollipop
-popcorn
-lollipop
-popcorn
-lollipop
-can of fanta
-lollipop
-can of coke

^ very healthy, eh?

yep healthy to a point...when all sugar is out of your system your one hell of a sleepypupil^^ that will be funny...for all but you...be sure to get a friendly ride to your school tomorrow, as your going to need every hand^^

the longest time i stayed upright was 54 hours...on a convention...and i was pished as a doorknob...^^

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:yep healthy to a point...when all sugar is out of your system your one hell of a sleepypupil^^ that will be funny...for all but you...be sure to get a friendly ride to your school tomorrow, as your going to need every hand^^

the longest time i stayed upright was 54 hours...on a convention...and i was pished as a doorknob...^^

vik

hmm...I stayed up at a sleepover this late on a saturday night...and I was okay...I'm always tired on mondays anyway, so no difference there...lol...

well if your used to that and taken into acount your boyish prowess...well then all is clear! taken into acount that i am an old fart i think all is explained ^^

so now we...the viewers here... look pushy forward to moaaaarrrrr pics in the verrrry sooooon future...

I hope so.
Not got any more painting done...been revising and stuff...
so I'd better be going offline now...*waves*

well after all its a school day tomorrow...*sad pandaface*

Been to school, and guess what- NOT TIRED!!!

well both thumbs up, mine that is, you certainly need them to upload yor new pics^^ that you´ve made today^^

and if not, whats new in this so freshfaced new week?

not alot really...nothing bought since I'm saving up for stormraven A, and no painting done...
Any suggestions for the name of stormraven A?

Thunder Chicken

öhm what about Darkwing? no serioulsy...

also ravenwing would be nice but obviously taken...

had a quick stroll through a translation site and i sought the word crow there and they gave me "a murder of crows" as in flock of sheeps... nice isn´t it?




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also this might help?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven



this plane is called corvus phantom...so phantom would be a good choice i guess...also with the whole corvus and raven you could consider going nebula and other november originated names sakes...


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or what about black wing?

Nebula...I like it, but I fear people might make the more obvious connection from
40k -> space -> nebula
rather than
raven -> nebula

phantom...looking at the stormraven...it just doesn't suit it.


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wow...looking up "corvus" into wikipedia came up with the option of "Marcus Valerius Corvus". Corvus is latin for raven, and in legend Marcus was fighting Gaul, and a raven landed on marcus's head and distracted Gaul. Valerius is the name of the imperial guard commander stationed on deliverence during the heresy who convinced commander branne (IIRC) to fly over the istvaan, saving the salamanders and raven guard. lol.

BTW Viktor Croaks will be mounted on a horse.
the rest of his squad won't be, but he will be treated as a replacement for a commander (same stats and rules), but can leave the unit to go ride off or something.
I might model him w/o the vox, and make him signalling with a cane, much like this:

not tucked under the shoulder, but in a pose like this:

I can imagine him, a monocle-wearing, cane and power-fist wielding commander, charging alone through no-man's land on a horse...
This is provided his cloak fits when he's on the horse...

saw that tucked cane arm on ebay and i will shortly buy this arm^^ for a conversion of mine as nothing says i am in chrge than such a useless weapon...^^

Marcus Valerius Corvus has definitly the right ring to it as a name of high power!

i had some research too and the obvious choice i think you dont want to make or? huggin and munnin? two stormraven...well this is the real chance to use them and with an alternating paintscheme then? so to better show they are twins...?

Lord Kaesar II wrote:Thunder Chicken

ha. haha. hahahahahahah. A useless post, but nice to see another face on here!

Viktor von Domm wrote:saw that tucked cane arm on ebay and i will shortly buy this arm^^ for a conversion of mine as nothing says i am in chrge than such a useless weapon...^^

Marcus Valerius Corvus has definitly the right ring to it as a name of high power!

i had some research too and the obvious choice i think you dont want to make or? huggin and munnin? two stormraven...well this is the real chance to use them and with an alternating paintscheme then? so to better show they are twins...?

I might do white wings or cockpit...
Valerius is already in RG fluff, so no-go there.

apparently, the raven is most famous as being symbolic of death and a messenger, so:

vaitor (latin for messenger)
vindico (latin for to deliver/punish/liberate/avenge/protect)
excipio (latin for to capture)

I think vindico and excipio are my favorites.

hmm the names lack power in sound...try speaking the names out loud...then maybe you see what i mean... the traslations are all good but its their latin counterpart that sound duchebag...sort of...

Well, in terms of Latin, you could always go with something near Umbra, but I would still suggest Poultor, just considering the shape of the Storm Chicken (unless you're using a modified look maybe?). Warp, even the Phantasm could go, but that may be a bit overused. I recollect that one of the strike cruisers in the Raven Guard's arsenal during the Heresy was the Shadow of the Emperor, until the Death Guard destroyed it (least, according to Cadian Blood, by Dan Abnett, where the Raven Guard make an appearance, thereby making it canon), so that's where I' coming from, besides the Chicken remarks, instead making fun of the look of the SR, as I am certain you can appreciate.

Lord Kaesar II wrote:Well, in terms of Latin, you could always go with something near Umbra, but I would still suggest Poultor, just considering the shape of the Storm Chicken (unless you're using a modified look maybe?). Warp, even the Phantasm could go, but that may be a bit overused. I recollect that one of the strike cruisers in the Raven Guard's arsenal during the Heresy was the Shadow of the Emperor, until the Death Guard destroyed it (least, according to Cadian Blood, by Dan Abnett, where the Raven Guard make an appearance, thereby making it canon), so that's where I' coming from, besides the Chicken remarks, instead making fun of the look of the SR, as I am certain you can appreciate.

I'm having marines on rappel-lines (connected to thier belts), firing bolters one-handed, with a scratch-built dread-holding arcade claw on the back.
shadow of the emperor was indeed a raven guard ship.

Viktor von Domm wrote:hmm the names lack power in sound...try speaking the names out loud...then maybe you see what i mean... the traslations are all good but its their latin counterpart that sound duchebag...sort of...

douchebag actually...
I get where you're coming from. How about Vindicor? Excipius? Excipior?

still not bought...lacks manlyness

I'll think of something...

so i will ask again just as a running gag, will ther be pics MR. Shrike?

and how does the multipling business work for bits?

vik

LOTS of DA bits...
still need to build the tac. marines...need more glue...
oh and for the ursus assault rhino:

maybe this with a door in the middle?

this rhino looks quite good...
as for your ursus pattern rhino, what about a landing ramp in the middle? like the landraides has? maybe you even can get a hold of some LR parts for that idea... would be cool, bridesideing the rhino and then like what? 20 marines popping fromthat überrhino^^ in the middle of the fight^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:this rhino looks quite good...
as for your ursus pattern rhino, what about a landing ramp in the middle? like the landraides has? maybe you even can get a hold of some LR parts for that idea... would be cool, bridesideing the rhino and then like what? 20 marines popping fromthat überrhino^^ in the middle of the fight^^

I already have a front assault ramp, But now I'll have to buy the FW one and glue it there instead...


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shrike wrote:shopping list:
stormraven- mid/early march
grey knights- B-day
dreadnought (furioso)- late april
this- http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/tools-and-misc/instant-mold.html- mid may
plasticard- late may
magnets- early june
CH stuff- late june
FW dozer blade- mid july
Xbox live- early august
stormraven- early october
FW cadian command squad- mid november
decal sheet (blank)- late november
PI heads- late november
cadian battleforce- christmas
PI heads- christmas
trenches- christmas
33 cadians (bought off a friend, costing £25)- late december
PI heads- late december
cyclops vehicles- mid january
banewolf- late february
landing pads- mid march

by the way, whats paintwise happening?

Viktor von Domm wrote:by the way, whats paintwise happening?

regretfully, not a lot. I need to find my decent brushes...

lol i know that... sometime ago i bought some new ones and now i am searching for them... i searched today particularry for some hats and shoulderpads and i had to clean up my whole workspace to find them finally...
do you know the feeling to look continiously in the same drawer with a light preacher on your lips that if you look now you´ll find the things you´ve been looking for eevn so you had looked just 30s before?

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol i know that... sometime ago i bought some new ones and now i am searching for them... i searched today particularry for some hats and shoulderpads and i had to clean up my whole workspace to find them finally...
do you know the feeling to look continiously in the same drawer with a light preacher on your lips that if you look now you´ll find the things you´ve been looking for eevn so you had looked just 30s before?

yep.
Do you ever wonder how the last place you look is always the place where it is?

saw a guideline to searching once i think... taking potshots at search, looking from the side to cover mystyriaously hidden things and don´t forget the murphys law...its always there where least expected...no way there ups there it is...

Viktor von Domm wrote:saw a guideline to searching once i think... taking potshots at search, looking from the side to cover mystyriaously hidden things and don´t forget the murphys law...its always there where least expected...no way there ups there it is...

Isn't murphy's law "what can go wrong, will go wrong, at the worst possible time, in the worst possible place"?
or is that sod's law? I forget.
the answer is...
*drum roll*
because when you find it, you don't carry on looking do you? So it's the last place you look!

LOL

that last part is wise beyond years^^

and i meant murphys law as in the way you described it but put in that searching situation...

sod`s law??? never heard that...

Viktor von Domm wrote:LOL

that last part is wise beyond years^^

and i meant murphys law as in the way you described it but put in that searching situation...

sod`s law??? never heard that...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod's_law
I would have taken pics by now, but I awoke bright and early at 12:00, got asked to play footie at the green further down the road, and went with some friends. Got back 20 min ago, and immediately got in the shower to get off the mud.

playing football is ok^^ so rinse yourself and make some soddin`pics matey^^

thx for the linky...

will do ^^
vik- I was looking at the hellhound/banewolf/devil dog and the chimera- both the same hull and similar turret, but the chimera is £10 less. So I was going to convert one. Any idea how big the hellhound nozzle is?
I might have to scratch-build the muzzle...
never mind- I'll be buying the bits for about £3 including P&P.

£23 hellhound!!!


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shrike wrote:shopping list:
stormraven- mid/early march
grey knights- B-day
dreadnought (furioso)- late april
this- http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/tools-and-misc/instant-mold.html- mid may
plasticard- late may
magnets- early june
CH stuff- late june
FW dozer blade- mid july
Xbox live- early august
stormraven- early october
FW cadian command squad- mid november
decal sheet (blank)- late november
PI heads- late november
cadian battleforce- christmas
PI heads- christmas
trenches- christmas
33 cadians (bought off a friend, costing £25)- late december
PI heads- late december
cyclops vehicles- mid january
banewolf- late february
landing pads- mid march
http://davesgames.net/papercraft/gallery/gallery-03.htm- late march

sounds cool...i would normally tend to scratchbuilt the parts as i have collected quite a few small flasks from making cake and stuff...rumaroma and stuff... and will be having the chassis probably also from scratch...

something like that for the hellhound...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_s-SGmXnB2PY/SkOc_crxtBI/AAAAAAAAEJM/7KOEv6EEJgM/s1600-h/1hellhound.jpg

the devil dog would be a bit taxing to do but wasn´t there a chassis that used a gatling like weapon?

vik

vik- since I'm going on a family outing tomorrow, and getting back after dark, would you rather me post pics this week in artificial light, or next week in proper light?

ahhhh...that is a trick question^^

either way would suit me well^^ having no pics wouldn´t suit me^^

you know the golden rule of minisoldiers...
your money, your mini, your choice^^

but seriously i would love to see some pics, sonner better´n later...

choose and may cour choice be wideley...

Viktor von Domm wrote:ahhhh...that is a trick question^^

either way would suit me well^^ having no pics wouldn´t suit me^^

you know the golden rule of minisoldiers...
your money, your mini, your choice^^

but seriously i would love to see some pics, sonner better´n later...

choose and may cour choice be wideley...

I'll try tomorrow evening, but it all revolves around if my mum has the time to connect something or other into the hoodicky to create the whatsit.

lol, i wont argue with that...

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol, i wont argue with that...

lol, true...*yawn* off to bed...

risey, risey, risey....shiny new morning...
brush your theeth, eat a hearty meal...er...there was this thing with going away with the family...*sad panda face*
but later *brightens up* there mihgt be cake...er... pics....

Viktor von Domm wrote:risey, risey, risey....shiny new morning...
brush your theeth, eat a hearty meal...er...there was this thing with going away with the family...*sad panda face*
but later *brightens up* there mihgt be cake...er... pics....

currently at my dad's house, so limited internet time. Pics will be taken when I get home at around 5:00.

well them have a good time mte, and we read each other in the evening^^

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:well them have a good time mte, and we read each other in the evening^^

vik

will do. ^^
picked out a b-day list for my dad, and I've asked for the furioso, which should shave off a month.
I would get more 40k, but there's some monty python and AC/DC shirts I want, and then a few Xbox accessories...I'm sorry...

lol...sounds like a big birthday list...

what ac/dc shirts?? and show us the monty shirts too^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol...sounds like a big birthday list...

what ac/dc shirts?? and show us the monty shirts too^^

that on a shirt, but black.
and the classic:

I'm back now, but having dinner in about 5 min, so no pics yet...

so how was the meal...and you cant go wrong with ac/dc^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:so how was the meal...and you cant go wrong with ac/dc^^

meal was okay- I would have taken pics shortly after but I cut my thumb...
here's the story:
-I get told to make my sandwiches for school.
-No bread left.
-Mum- "Get a panini"
-me- "It's going stale"
-"It'll be fine."
-I cut at it with a bread knife.
-I push harder than normal to get through the harder outside.
-I break through, but simultaneously cutting my thumb.
-lengthways, running alongside my thumbnail, cut finishes about 2cm into the skin.
-I feel barely anything- papercut kind of pain, and go tell my mum.
-She runs it under the tap, puts a tissue on it and keeps pressure on it.
-I feel faint and have no energy.
-I lay on the floor with my arm in the air above heart-level to stop the bloodflow.
-I get skin tape that holds skin together, a big plaster and bandage tape on it.
-I feel better and watch TV.

AC/DC- shoot to thrill is my fave, followed by the razor's edge and if you want blood (I got it- in my thumb )
So pics will be taken byt the weekend.

just seen these bad boys on FW:

ouch...wounded in service so to speak...
thumb cut is nasty...now you know how often your thumb has to work...then it hurts...i had that my fair share of times too. one time i cut myself with sicors right in the thumb... thought i would do a cool cut and indeed it was...hurt like hell and bled like water...
you had luck you mum was around... when you faint and your alone that could get messy...hitting kitchentable with head and all...has been known to happen...don´t laugh...

my ac/dc favorite is thunderstruck and highway to hell asa seen in my slighter version of the titel in my sig...
if your a fan of ac/dc you definatly have to see iron man the movie...either part...then the sound gets an awsome new dimension^^

the flamertank is really cool...about time some cooler flamertanks appaer...the troopers look some kind of funny...strange scheme me thinks...last pic not working...

well here we are again waiting and musing for new pics..by the way which thumb did you mashed up? your still able to write? if not your freed of homework for now?

vik, who holds both thumbs up...lol

Viktor von Domm wrote:ouch...wounded in service so to speak...
thumb cut is nasty...now you know how often your thumb has to work...then it hurts...i had that my fair share of times too. one time i cut myself with sicors right in the thumb... thought i would do a cool cut and indeed it was...hurt like hell and bled like water...
you had luck you mum was around... when you faint and your alone that could get messy...hitting kitchentable with head and all...has been known to happen...don´t laugh...

my ac/dc favorite is thunderstruck and highway to hell asa seen in my slighter version of the titel in my sig...
if your a fan of ac/dc you definatly have to see iron man the movie...either part...then the sound gets an awsome new dimension^^

the flamertank is really cool...about time some cooler flamertanks appaer...the troopers look some kind of funny...strange scheme me thinks...last pic not working...

well here we are again waiting and musing for new pics..by the way which thumb did you mashed up? your still able to write? if not your freed of homework for now?

vik, who holds both thumbs up...lol

left thumb, but I was naughty and convinced a teacher that I was left-handed and "had" to use his laptop...
Get the iron man AC/DC album- it's basically greatest hits- and they've been re-done to sound better.
shoot to thrill, rock & roll damnation, guns for hire, back in black, thunderstruck, razor's edge, war machine, TNT, highway to hell, loads...

the thumb's healed up loads- it was 2cm, but now I've taken the plaster off after getting in the shower it's about 1cm...I think it's something to do with the fact that we got it all plastered and stuff in under 2 minutes...

nawww, your a young boy and your burstingly full with juices of youth... that is what heals you up to a treat...

see some old farts get hurt... they dont mend like your able to...

i got two albums worth of ac/dc ... one is a live one and the other is the back in black one...
when i do the dishwashing and headbanging whislt hearing the lyrics^^...


lol your a cracker... fooling your teach like that... what kind of dumb teacher is that not knowing what handed you`rè?

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:nawww, your a young boy and your burstingly full with juices of youth... that is what heals you up to a treat...

see some old farts get hurt... they dont mend like your able to...

i got two albums worth of ac/dc ... one is a live one and the other is the back in black one...
when i do the dishwashing and headbanging whislt hearing the lyrics^^...


lol your a cracker... fooling your teach like that... what kind of dumb teacher is that not knowing what handed you`rè?

vik

He never really pays much attention to most of us, there's a select 8 or so he does.
I got highway to hell, back in black and let there be rock on my Ipod, but in CD's I've only got the iron man one. You've gotta get it if you like AC/DC...only problem is it's in a cardboard sleeve...maybe find a spare CD case?

just thought I'd put in my tp 15 songs here:
AC/DC- shoot to thrill
Shinedown- devour
Foo fighters- the pretender
Nirvana- smells like teen spirit
Venus in furs- inside
Iron maiden- run to the hills
Bon jovi- keep the faith
Black sabbath- paranoid
Motorhead- ace of spades
Bill talent- red flag

man your a rocker...who would have thought in a body as fresh as a baby...there lives an old fart like me^^...so what about some other headbangers like blur...song two maybe? always loved this one from´em...
my kids i teached headbanging when they where just really small...like hlaf a year old with TNT...^^ gotta teach them early^^

and from nirvana i deeply suggest the MTV unplugged album...
and also if your up to some picking i would suggest the here and now guns´n` roses... like you could be mine and what about bon jovis blaze of glory??? that was cool too...

Viktor von Domm wrote:man your a rocker...who would have thought in a body as fresh as a baby...there lives an old fart like me^^...so what about some other headbangers like blur...song two maybe? always loved this one from´em...
my kids i teached headbanging when they where just really small...like hlaf a year old with TNT...^^ gotta teach them early^^

and from nirvana i deeply suggest the MTV unplugged album...
and also if your up to some picking i would suggest the here and now guns´n` roses... like you could be mine and what about bon jovis blaze of glory??? that was cool too...

My brother's more into screamo...I just don't get the appeal of men bellowing random stuff about killing and swearing...
gun's n' roses I like the classic "sweet child of mine".
I also, like every grown up, no matter how hard they deny it, like bon jovi's livin' on a prayer...
I'll go take a look at that nirvana album...
I'm gonna have to turn off the laptop early because i've got a school trip...about 10 of us going...finishing aat 11:00pm...

sounds cool, have fun, whats going to get inspected?

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:sounds cool, have fun, whats going to get inspected?

vik

We're crewing a show backstage for 15 hours...bands, dances and plays going on...
Pizza hut will love us- we have about 50 of us (inc. performers) decending on them at 8:00pm...

well this will be a tough time then for the huts^^...sounds like star wars^^

and what will be your job?

Viktor von Domm wrote:well this will be a tough time then for the huts^^...sounds like star wars^^

and what will be your job?

have you seen space balls, the american spoof?
my job is pretty simple- take on the flats (the background), and then back on again.
It's a load of different schools, and we're crewing our school's bit- for me about 1 minute's work, then it's back to the green room and having games of jenga, reading books, bouncing balls, eating and playing twister.
school time well spent. ^^

sounds like fun^^...and no more talk about bouncing balls...sheeshh what about the kids...

whats meant by

take on the flats

???

Viktor von Domm wrote:sounds like fun^^...and no more talk about bouncing balls...sheeshh what about the kids...

whats meant by

take on the flats

???

the boards with background painted on them, for want of a better example...
I'd better go now...nearing 9:00...better get my clothes ready...see ya!
space balls features "Pizza the hutt"- a hutt made out of slices of pizza.

^^

lol yep that was fun... now i understand^^ sometimes i am a bit slow on the uptake^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol yep that was fun... now i understand^^ sometimes i am a bit slow on the uptake^^

I am back!
our school came second out of 10 others, and we also won the awards for most interesting storyline and best lighting design- we were even up against a professional guy- we had a 15-year-old.

no news yet, but I now have about £25, meaning I'll get the stormraven in about 3 or 4 weeks.


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Viktor von Domm wrote:so what about some other headbangers like blur...song two maybe? always loved this one from´em...

ooh I forgot about that one...It got played at the school trip...massive speakers, full blast...pretty damn awesome...shame it was the only rock there, most of it was rave...

congrats...was about to ask anyway if you skip 40k now for fortune and fame in the showbiz...

second and with a 15 year old in the lead...? how cool is that man^^...
25 pounds...whats the stormraven all in all? have you seen hits the spot thread where he converted one and made him quite goodlooking actually?? highly recommended if you want some flying brick...

yep bet that was cool, loved it as hell when i was going clubbing in my days back then...some stuff you just have to hear at screaming level and i sometimes miss the tinnitus i had after partying fridays and then the ringing in the ears all weekend...^^

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:congrats...was about to ask anyway if you skip 40k now for fortune and fame in the showbiz...

second and with a 15 year old in the lead...? how cool is that man^^...
25 pounds...whats the stormraven all in all? have you seen hits the spot thread where he converted one and made him quite goodlooking actually?? highly recommended if you want some flying brick...

yep bet that was cool, loved it as hell when i was going clubbing in my days back then...some stuff you just have to hear at screaming level and i sometimes miss the tinnitus i had after partying fridays and then the ringing in the ears all weekend...^^

vik

the backstage crew, or "tekkies" as we are commonly known as, get little fame or fortune.
£41 for a stormraven.
I'll go take a look at the hits_the_spot thread...any links?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/780/306818.page

if link fails its on page 27...there you can see the converted stirmraven...he did some major conversion on the thing and they are not even so hard to do as i think...

pricey lil brick...ever considered scratchbuilding that yourself? you could use other kits like maybe a bomber of these stealth planes...


and also some starwars models could help there...


vik

thanks for the linky!
it's a pricey little brick, and I don't think I'll be scratchbuilding it any time soon.

yeah well, as it happens i have the kit of the stealthbomber lying around my workshop^^ so if ever i plan on building a valk or a stormraven this will be the first place to go from^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:yeah well, as it happens i have the kit of the stealthbomber lying around my workshop^^ so if ever i plan on building a valk or a stormraven this will be the first place to go from^^

I used to, but I think I selled it...
subscribed to the thread...

yep good decission, his blog is really worthwhile^^

Well I'm off to eat, I'll be back soon...
BTW I got bored and converted a shoota boy to a burna.
He has the body of a shoota boy, but holding the trigger and end of a shoota, the main body of which is a sentinel leg (I know, wierd, eh?), and ending in a flamer barrel. This gun is connected via tube to a fuel tank on his back. He looks decent, and when I accumulate the bits I'll make a squad of them.

lol now orcs as well?
well all i can say pic or it didn´t happen^^

eat up mate, by the way, hows the finger?

orks were my second army which I bought off my brother- I then added mr potato head and a further 10-man squad. It currently sits at around 60 boyz (inc. 3 nobz), ghazzie, the AOBR warboss, 5 nobs, robospud, a battlewagon, a deffkopta and 5 kommandos.
the thumb's getting better- as long as I have a plaster on it and I don't bang it, it's okay. I can't button up my top button of my school shirt, though...darn it- no suffocating at school...

Well, since it's half term, I'll be busy painting and such. I still need the right parts for the dread's arm- I did have the FW seige dread DCCW, but I've lost the wrist and arm. I have the main mount, so I've cut up a sentinel's legs and used a foot as a CCW, with the "toes" bent forwards...I just need the right forearm...

the ccw idea is a really nice one...never tzhought about that, but then again all my stuff is second hand and sometimes i really should save up some money to get me a fresh kit one day... i reall think about getting me a cadian set...man that building is for me now the real fun...

funny i knew you had the `tato head man but i never thought about you having an army of ´em too^^

and a quite big one at that...
sounds like your making the most of your cutup thumb^^
very resourcefull^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:the ccw idea is a really nice one...never tzhought about that, but then again all my stuff is second hand and sometimes i really should save up some money to get me a fresh kit one day... i reall think about getting me a cadian set...man that building is for me now the real fun...

funny i knew you had the `tato head man but i never thought about you having an army of ´em too^^

and a quite big one at that...
sounds like your making the most of your cutup thumb^^
very resourcefull^^

I reccommend the following kits for IG to build:
-sentinel. The legs are just too fun to pose.
-command squad. Lots of bits, extra weapons, and even a bandage roll and banner.
-catachan. The poses can be really fun.

well i got five catachans last week and built my vets from them... so i fully have to say i loved making them... now with the heavy weapons i say they are cool too...

got a half spend HQ sprue and i want to do the sniper next...this will take some time as some bitz have to arrive in the mail...

well i think the sentinel would be lovley too, but i got me now five of the red block walkers from AT 43 and they will have to be the sents now...

buying up already built minis isn´t as much fun as building them themself...but it gets you almost three times as much mins...deal with the devil and all that stuff...

vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:well i got five catachans last week and built my vets from them... so i fully have to say i loved making them... now with the heavy weapons i say they are cool too...

got a half spend HQ sprue and i want to do the sniper next...this will take some time as some bitz have to arrive in the mail...

well i think the sentinel would be lovley too, but i got me now five of the red block walkers from AT 43 and they will have to be the sents now...

buying up already built minis isn´t as much fun as building them themself...but it gets you almost three times as much mins...deal with the devil and all that stuff...

vik

do you have a GS near you?
I fully recommend the space marine assault squad- lots of poses available for that...I know you're doing IG, but still...

yeah well, same thing with all my SM stuff, all from ebay, all second hand but i converted like evil maniac with them and cut me through most of them...still will be working on the earthangels one day again...

have you actually worked with GS? i have a galeforece nine two tubes worth at home and also a fully unused milliput package at home but i am too afraid to use it...

Viktor von Domm wrote:yeah well, same thing with all my SM stuff, all from ebay, all second hand but i converted like evil maniac with them and cut me through most of them...still will be working on the earthangels one day again...

have you actually worked with GS? i have a galeforece nine two tubes worth at home and also a fully unused milliput package at home but i am too afraid to use it...

I meant LGS

lol we in berlin have only two GW shops and some other shops where they try to not sell GW stuff^^ well they all try to get the gamers to play other stuff... like warmachine...
getting the stuff i think is not the prob since you can buy the boxes from GW on their site, but actally flogging the money to them kind of hurts me in the soul...

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol we in berlin have only two GW shops and some other shops where they try to not sell GW stuff^^ well they all try to get the gamers to play other stuff... like warmachine...
getting the stuff i think is not the prob since you can buy the boxes from GW on their site, but actally flogging the money to them kind of hurts me in the soul...

I'd buy the tanks and metal kits, as they're no fun to build...plastics infrantry? Go nuts. Unless you're fed up with it.
BTW have you considered having a jolly good steampunker riding a jolly good horse?

of course... i guess now i should post some of my cavalry minis...got lots of fantasy imerial pistolieres riders and a noble rider from an old fantasy range too...and then some lancers (about 5-8 i guess) so i have quite a steampunky force waiting to be painted and remodeled...

i think it will take much longer with plastic kits to get fed up with... thats for me now the major fun part...only downpoit here re the fething moldlines...darn things...

Viktor von Domm wrote:of course... i guess now i should post some of my cavalry minis...got lots of fantasy imerial pistolieres riders and a noble rider from an old fantasy range too...and then some lancers (about 5-8 i guess) so i have quite a steampunky force waiting to be painted and remodeled...

i think it will take much longer with plastic kits to get fed up with... thats for me now the major fun part...only downpoit here re the fething moldlines...darn things...

Get a load of empire cavalry with blunderbusses and such, and re-model them to have IG torsos, heads and legs...
I see a steampunk mounted commander with blunderbuss and power sword...

just you wait and see...gosh sometimes it feels like i wanted to do all of my army at once in one go^^...
i fear if i dont purchase massive amounts of torsos i will have to do with the armoredm torsos of fantasy though just with the occasionla bit of 40k detail added and a matching paintjob...

Viktor von Domm wrote:just you wait and see...gosh sometimes it feels like i wanted to do all of my army at once in one go^^...
i fear if i dont purchase massive amounts of torsos i will have to do with the armoredm torsos of fantasy though just with the occasionla bit of 40k detail added and a matching paintjob...

your answer? LOTS OF BITS SITES...

well i placed a (for me) big order and i have to wait for them to deliver now... was about monday or even week before i guess...

this is what i ordered...:

1 x CATACHAN COMMAND BODY A (CAC03)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND HEAD E (CDC52)
4 x CADIAN LEGS TYPE B (CD38)
3 x CADIAN HEADS WITH HELMETS X5 (CD10)
10 x CADIAN GRENADE ARM (CD06)
4 x CADIAN COMMAND TORSO C (CDC15)
2 x CADIAN COMMAND POINTING ARM (CDC31)
5 x CADIAN COMMAND GAS MASK/BREATHER (CDC41)
3 x CADIAN COMMAND SINGLE M36 LASGUN (CDC33)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND ARM CARRYING LASGUN (CDC18)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND ARM WITH SWAGGER STICK (CDC32)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND LONG COAT TORSO (CDC12)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND LONG COAT LEGS (CDC07)

Viktor von Domm wrote:well i placed a (for me) big order and i have to wait for them to deliver now... was about monday or even week before i guess...

this is what i ordered...:

1 x CATACHAN COMMAND BODY A (CAC03)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND HEAD E (CDC52)
4 x CADIAN LEGS TYPE B (CD38)
3 x CADIAN HEADS WITH HELMETS X5 (CD10)
10 x CADIAN GRENADE ARM (CD06)
4 x CADIAN COMMAND TORSO C (CDC15)
2 x CADIAN COMMAND POINTING ARM (CDC31)
5 x CADIAN COMMAND GAS MASK/BREATHER (CDC41)
3 x CADIAN COMMAND SINGLE M36 LASGUN (CDC33)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND ARM CARRYING LASGUN (CDC18)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND ARM WITH SWAGGER STICK (CDC32)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND LONG COAT TORSO (CDC12)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND LONG COAT LEGS (CDC07)

...wow...

well there are some parts i saw here on some threads and i really like to create new minis and someof tehse parts will make an excellent commander of my troops^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:well there are some parts i saw here on some threads and i really like to create new minis and someof tehse parts will make an excellent commander of my troops^^

so what will the skipper look like?
what bits?
what weapons?

and will you have a model for the airship's captain?

1 x CADIAN COMMAND LONG COAT TORSO (CDC12)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND LONG COAT LEGS (CDC07)
2 x CADIAN COMMAND POINTING ARM

1 x CADIAN COMMAND ARM WITH SWAGGER STICK (CDC32

head is still a puzzle to me as i dont have a fitting one yet...could be either something brutal looking like creed one or something rather posh, depends where i could get some good looking heads from...i am constantly scouring ebay from uk and usa too...

Viktor von Domm wrote:1 x CADIAN COMMAND LONG COAT TORSO (CDC12)
1 x CADIAN COMMAND LONG COAT LEGS (CDC07)
2 x CADIAN COMMAND POINTING ARM

1 x CADIAN COMMAND ARM WITH SWAGGER STICK (CDC32

head is still a puzzle to me as i dont have a fitting one yet...could be either something brutal looking like creed one or something rather posh, depends where i could get some good looking heads from...i am constantly scouring ebay from uk and usa too...

Well if you don't make him before june-ish, I could cast the viktor croaks head....

would love to go that way... i fear but my slef as i have no patience when in the midst of unused bits^^
but your right the head would be just right for him...

If you want the commander before that, how about you pin the head to the body, but don't glue it in place. that way, when I get to give you the head, you can just pop it right on!

sounds like a clever idea...i have to see if i am able to do that this way... hmmm i never pined such small details... but after all this head might be able to get then more justice in painting then...

Viktor von Domm wrote:sounds like a clever idea...i have to see if i am able to do that this way... hmmm i never pined such small details... but after all this head might be able to get then more justice in painting then...

are you doing pale skin on him or not?
and BTW before you go posting him onto your blog, where other people bother to look at, make sure you paint the head/basecoat it...some don't take kindly to copying models...
*yawn*...I'll read you tomorrow, vik...

see ya around mate... will have a go at sleeping too i should^^

ähm... awfully quite around these parts here... no shopping lists and no updates whatsoever...i wont even ask about pis...ups seems i did so in a non direct way^^

I figured I had nothing new to add, so there'd be no point in posting my incessant babble about random stuff and bumping the thread...dammit I just did...
The stormraven will be delayed by a few weeks because I spent some money at the trip to crew that show...
I think I have about £15, and at £5 a week I'm looking at a stormraven in 6 weeks if the weather doesn't get warmer and brighter because I need to buy glue...and warmer & brighter because if it picks up I'll be doing a leaflet round...

the lists is something i associate with this thread^^

and this trip wasn´t it school related? why dont you get your money back by your parents? or did i get something wrong?

It was, and my mum gave me £5 for lunch (we went to pizza hut), but then it was a 16 hour day, and we all got pretty hungry by 8:00, and they had a tuck shop there...so...yeah...

gine with the wind...but eating is sometimes needed^^

yep, waking up at 6:30 am and getting home at gone midnight is pretty rough when you have school the next day...

ouch...your still fourteen and need your sleep...

yep, and interesting fact of the day:
teenager's body clocks run about 1-2 hours later than adults, which is why they like to wake up at 10:00/11:00am and go to sleep at midnight... Personally I like to wake up at 9:30/10:00 and get to sleep at 11:00...

and your insight is based on what empirical data collected about you and your friends...there is a scientific rule: only results really relyable is when done in big numbers... unless your friendship count is in the thousands and you got stabil data from all of them (all sexes too), then i am game^^

It's research done by scientists, I just heard about it...

aha...well...then...

Well, I guess it would explain why I wake up at 2 and go to bed at 3 am. Correlation? None known, unless I'm the later version of an adult night owl

LOL...

...another person looking at my humble little fluff and blog...aw...
No new fluff, but I might bome up with some more for the fight against "da armera"...maybe he got dragged away and revived by his loyal grots and built a kustom stompa...and went in a suicide attack against the marines, taking as many of them down as he could before getting blown up...hmm...

lol when your on look at the service site here and see for yourself the scorelist^^

^^
I'll go add some stuff...


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finished!
Look at the paragraph on praxis- there's some moar...

and now moar here:

"The army, so far, consists of Lenore, Audax, Praxis, 5 sternguard, a command squad, a kitbashed sanguinary guard unit, 5 devastators, an ursus rhino, a sanguinary priest, 5 "snipers" (name pending) and will soon get some allied ordo xenos and malleus. Later on: Due to gungnir's specialisation in hunting chaos and assassinations, they often encountered temple assassins and inquisition along the way- the inquisitor operating in-system was inquisitor Velox, famed for leading the assault on a tyranid hive ship and personally killing the norn queen, saving most of the deliverance system- a useful ally to have. Also, there is a small detachment of malleus operating in the nearby Targus system, in a training base on a small moon. In charge is brother Altus. Responsible for this base, but not in-system, is librarian Vendolius. Later gungnir's elite will go on to form a deathwatch squad, which will then prove so sucessful that they will be charged with training grey knight neophites and serving alongside the grey knights in action, becoming members of the ordo xenos. the majority of muninn go on to found a sucessor chapter- the bespoke talons, led by chapter master Lenore."

Praxis is armed with a heavy flamer, tactical dreadnought armour and his crozius arcanum. He is an old and venerated chaplain, and is the master of sanctity's right-hand man. He rose to this position through a campaign against the orks of a small tribe- the head hittaz. Led by warboss 'eadbasha, the orks had grown in prominence, and managed to become the leading tribe on thier planet. they quickly spread like wildfire across the system, recruiting other orks to his cause. when they stumbled across a bik mek who is only known as da 'armara, all hell broke loose. They pillaged through the system, and became large enough for a full-scale waagh!. The local PDFs were overrun, but the message got through before comms were cut short. And so the Muninn battle company responded in full force. Chaplain Praxis had served the raven guard for just over century when he arrived on the planet of Ghendor.

The twenty thousand astartes were greeted with a brigade of battlewagons, led by da armara' himself. The astartes became prepared for this, and had donned flamers and meltaguns in place of missile launchers and plasma guns. The space marines accounted for over 300 battlewagons that day, engaging in brief hit-and-run attacks in rhinos and on bikes. that is, until 'eadbasha arrived on da armara's kustom battle fortress. standing twice the height of a land raider and londer than a baneblade, the marines were ground under it's massive deff-rolla, including the then master of sanctity Chaplain Vetus. Then Praxis appeared in it's path. His rosarius saved him from being crushed by the huge, fume-belching monstrosity. Somehow clambering up the front of the ginormous vehicle and bringing his heavy flamer to bear, he torched the inside of the foul tank, stopping it in it's tracks. 'eadsplitta stormed out of an escape hatch in the side of it, fuming about how Praxis killed "da armara". He ran at the chaplain, and swung with his giant axe. The chaplain locked it with his crozius arcanum, and for a few moments, they were locked in place, each with both arms on their weapons. As the chaplain was slowly pushed into submission by the giant, he snarled through his skull-helm: "Victorus...aut...mortis." and drove his helmet into the beast's face. The ork lurched back, howling and clutching it's nose, when the chaplain burnt it into the ether with all the fury of his heavy flamer. With the death of thier leaders, the orks scattered and were swiftly killed by the remaining space marines. Vetus's broken body was entombed inside a chaplain dreadnought later.

"After the space marines had finished the remaining pockets of resistance weeks later, they were in the ritual of burning the ork bodies to prevent thier spores sprouting more of them up in the future. Then a huge smoke-belching monstrosity burst out of the side of a nearby hab, followed by a horde of thousands of orks, wiping out a full company of marines and several platoons of imperial guard. Apparently da armara had survived, and been buried under his battlewagon. His loyal grots had repaired him with bioniks and he had re-awakened, and spent the following weeks building and customising a stompa. He smashed through orks, men and astartes alike until he came across Praxis' accompanying land raider and flattened it with it's stomach-mounte cannon. It then smashed it's occupants, praxis' honour guard, into paste with it's giant wrecker ball, before making it's way through the imperial lines in an attempt to get away in all the confusion. Redirecting the group's deverstator squad's fire from the horde to the escaping stompa, praxis waited for the right moment. He gave the order to fire, and 3 missile launchers made it on target, the first making a mere dent in the thick armour, the second making a hole in it, but ultimately causing no serious damage, and the third, fired by sergeant Galenus, flew true straight through the hole and detonated the fuel stocks, blowing it from the inside out. The vast majority of the ork horde were destroyed in the ensuing conflagration, with da armara escaping from his prescious stompa moments before it exploded using an emergency conveted shokk attack gun to teleport away... "

so... second try^^

this installment of your fluff reads a whole lot better, scenic action and character portray...
i think you can build on this a whole lot of stories...you have a potential writersgene in you!
one minor thing i would change is the beginning... when writing fluff you have to decide if you want to do a listing of charcters or trying to tell a story... with this piece of fluff you did both and if you seperated both you would get more points from me^^ the begining reads a bit like a list and then gets on full steam in a blazing history lesson of your chapters far off legends and then you reach a point where you begin to tell an epic battle...big heros against even bigger villians...
you can do all of that and all of it would be cool and i will promise to like all! but mixing it is like mixing a hamsandwich with straberry icecream and a chewing gum...all good on their own but a bit too much together...did i make that understandable?

It then smashed it's occupants, praxis' honour guard, into paste with it's giant wrecker ball

....

with a line like that i think you give a good scenic description...but.... i think you could do a better one as this sounds a bit to comix like... you almost see that big letters above going: "BAAAM" ---"SMASHHH"---""FLUTSCHHH"...in big crayon colors...i think with that you kind of take away some of the awsomeness of your storytelling...üicture the scene in your head and then try to think like an old fart...and then how he would use the wording^^

dont get me wrong you got me with your chapter line hook and sinker and i am eager to read a whole lot more of their tales... hopefully real soon...whatr i think would be classy were stories of their everyday life... that would be a great challenge...and would make the big battles later so much more thrilling...you could do the part where they root out the remenant orkinfestations in that system...on a dayly basis slaughtering the orks... how the big characters interact with their fellow battlebrothers and such stuff...

hope i have not shyed you away from writing as i think with a head like yours you can make lots of cool stuff...in the spirit of the saying: you gotta teach`em while they are still young^^

vik (who still shys away from writing fluff in a foreign language...)

thanks, and I'll take it into consideration. I might make a second article with the actual story, and edit this one to have lists and the bare core of the characters...yeah I'll do that.
Having a day-to-day account of a space marine on an ork-infested world sounds cool, and I might adapt the fluff to have all three main characters in, as well as an ordo xenos inquisitor...

for me that would sound a bit like the tv series band of brothers... nice ring to it when adapted to 40k^^
your decision sounds quite good... the right direction i think... and i am not afraid to follow yet another thread^^

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/The_sons_of_Corax

Hey, vik!
I got a furioso for b-day, and I'm wondering whether to have it as GK or raven guard (RG "death company" chaplain dread or GK "libby" dread (instead of FW and rag cannon, NFW and psycannon))
so which? The sons of corax or the daemonhunters?
I think, as the raven guard are nearly done (stormraven and CH bits left), then I'll go GK.

well i would bed to difer i think... if you do the dread as a ravenguard your not hopping the badwaggon...also i think the claws of the furioso would be goodlooking as some visualstand in for the whole ravenscheme...
just my asked opinion...^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:well i would bed to difer i think... if you do the dread as a ravenguard your not hopping the badwaggon...also i think the claws of the furioso would be goodlooking as some visualstand in for the whole ravenscheme...
just my asked opinion...^^

But I've already put hints of it into my fluff...and it's too late now, he's already nearly done. I must say he's going rather well- Imagine a libby dread with psycannon for an arm, storm bolter on NFW, all the libby insignia and BA logos gone and a TAGK head instead of the death mask. I need to wait 'til saturday for the psycannon and TAGK head, but he's doing well.
Fear not- once I get up to around 1500pts, I'll be getting a chaplain dreadnaught with claws.

well if all is planned out already why ask then?...

by the way...when will we see some new footage of your new shiny minis?
you should have asked for a cam on your own for bithday...^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:well if all is planned out already why ask then?...

by the way...when will we see some new footage of your new shiny minis?
you should have asked for a cam on your own for bithday...^^

I asked before work on it begun...then I thought- "Meh. I'll make it GK."
Pics will be taken after I go shopping at GW on saturday and build them.

ok...so this is a date then...i expect pics to happen til sunday 23:00 greenwich time...

do i get an aye?

Viktor von Domm wrote:ok...so this is a date then...i expect pics to happen til sunday 23:00 greenwich time...

do i get an aye?

when I finish building them all.
This is about 40 models, so it might be into the week.
Would you prefer pics this weekend of a few GK's plus some raven guard, or pics later on of all the GK's plus some raven guard?

of course^^ unpainted , still on sprue...anything to feed the raging masses that are screaming for blood...er ... pics that is^^

I'll build as much as I can (going to LGS around 12:00-ish) in the time I have, take pics around 5:00 and upload them in the evening...
unfortunately my mum's gone off to geneva (switzerland) on a business trip, will be back saturday and going off again monday, so I have no idea if she'll be too tired to show me how to upload the pics (I'm hopeless with computers- upload this and dowload that, system errors, ect.)
Oh, and to make it easier, how do you upload to dakka? I did it a while back, but that was with a different PC and camera.

if you have the pics on your pc then that is easy peasy...go to your gallery and then you select upload more pics...then you can upload 10 pics at the same time each so this may take a while...you have to place the pics in a suitable folder on your pc...and then you jsut pick each pic and upload it ...rather easy...even i could do it first time^^

Just checked out the "Upload" thingy, and it all makes sense (for once).
So, just to make sure:
take pics -> USB cable goes into laptop -> save under my pictures -> dakka gallery -> browse -> upload?
I think this is what I'm gonna get:
dreadknight (trygon-sized dreadnought piloted by a TAGK)
inquisitor
vindicare assassin
10 termies
libby
interceptor squad (teleporting PAGK's)

really the dreaded knight? well i for one would not get into that... maybe if you convert it to the thing hit_the_spot had made ... that would be cooler...

have you decided on a GK scheme?

and the uploaddewcription sound good...this will work...!

The idea sounds crap to me, but I love the model and I don't know why...
I think one of these might be my scheme:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-10470-15392_Space%20Marine%20Paint%20Scheme.html

with what colors do you want to work to make GKs? i can do some tests to make a scheme as a suggestion for you if you like...i am not so bought on these of yours atm...

would do them tomorrow as i got a sore throat today...illness...and am a bit tired rightz now so will be heading for bed now...

Black, dark red and deneb/bleached bone...
I might have black with red inset pads and bone robes...
anyways, goodnight!

ups forgott between the last week to give your scheme a try of my own touch^^ will hvae to see if i can squeeze a bit of time in for that^^


vik

Okay so the GK dread has gone well...
Imagine a librarian dreadnought...
with all the libby and BA symbols cut off...
with a storm bolter mounted on top of the blade of the NFW...
with a giant storm bolter, with 7 barrels arranged in a circle mounted on a dread...
with the dreadknight bare pilot head inside instead of the death mask...
with a few GK symbols stuck on for good measure...
and there you have my dreadnought.

My dreadknight has the heavy incinerator (flamethrower)-type thing and the giant sword.
That's all I've built so far, and because of mother's day today (going out) and all, I don't know if pics will happen...
I also have, unassembled, 10 terminators, 5 PAGK's, an inquisitor being shipped and a partridge in a pear tree.
Later on, I will be buying a vindicare assassin, 5 more PAGK, 4 psykers, 3 crusaders and repainting my chimera and IF libby (diorama is not gonna happen anytime soon)

the psykers i was always bothered with... ow many different models are there currently? to make a real psyker battle squad there aren´t enough different ones available...

as for your GK dread... i sincerely wait know eagerly for pics to happen as i have quite big difficulties to picture that one for myself...^^

go on and you have your hands full like me^^ gosh there must be a nation we all here on dakka alone could buy up with all that plastic we buy for serious money...

Viktor von Domm wrote:the psykers i was always bothered with... ow many different models are there currently? to make a real psyker battle squad there aren´t enough different ones available...

as for your GK dread... i sincerely wait know eagerly for pics to happen as i have quite big difficulties to picture that one for myself...^^

go on and you have your hands full like me^^ gosh there must be a nation we all here on dakka alone could buy up with all that plastic we buy for serious money...

yeah...
the psykers can unleash a S3 AP6 5" blast shot, but for every extra psyker, it gains +1S and -1AP, so 4 gives me a S6 AP3 5" blast shot a turn for 40pts.

i have recently bought me some of these here:



about six i guess... and they will be one day modeled to be my psykers...

It's that star wars guy!
Me and my brother used to giggle and call him "egghead"...ah, childhood...

lol... exactly thats whay his fugly head will be vanished beneath a turban and they all will look alike and also i plan to make them look like indish local conscripts during the britsh rule in india...how where they called?

Haven't the foggiest...
so you have scottish ogryns, aussie catachans, indian shamans, and posh english?

yep, all multi cultural army...like the tau^^...probably need something like the vespids now^^

What're you gonna have for americans?
Rough rider cowboys?

??? americans? there was never any teaparty in the victorian timeline...maybe some closecobat scouts from an indian tribe? on a serious note i have some cowboys for real coming...^^ ebayed them on friday^^

You got anything for germans?
Sorry for being stereotypical, but when I think of germans and 40k I think of commissars...just the whole hitler thing and such...

yuck^^ but you´re probably right...but since i plan in the dark a chaosy footslogger adversery army made from warzone minis to be a yang to my victorian jing^^ i will use these rather german looking minis...

Any chance of DKoK, or am I being a little too optimistic? ^^
How about a DKoK commissar? only £10...

i am not so eager on DKoK... steellegion would be nicer for me to be honest... but the prices for now make me hesitant... a commissar is a nice oportunity...this will have to go into further thought sessions...

I had some SL, but I lost a few and most of the rest got cut up to make my scout/veterans.

so any updates of your recent work mate?

Not really...
the 5 PAGK's are built-
one stabbing downwards, finishing off an injured enemy,
one just looking around,
one holding his NFW like a pike, trying to impale a charging foe,
one spreading flames from his incinerator,
one about to swing his hammer two-handed.

sounds cool... does the sprueparts support these poses easyly or did you have to cut much and reposition them to fir your descriptions?

Viktor von Domm wrote:sounds cool... does the sprueparts support these poses easyly or did you have to cut much and reposition them to fir your descriptions?

All were easy to do, with the exception of the hammer guy (his arms and hammer had to be glued simultaneously to make sure it fitted).
the stabbing guy was a simple matter of cutting the blade off and pinning and gluing it back on the other end.

needless to say that a pic might go a million miles more eh?

Viktor von Domm wrote:needless to say that a pic might go a million miles more eh?

yes indeed...
Spraying of the dread and PAGK's will happen today, but instead of me visiting dad on suday, he's pushed it forward to tomorrow, so I'll take pics if I have the time.

*please hold the line....please hold the line...you are a valuable customer to us...please hold the line...*

Sorry, vik- football and food have happened, and so no free time was had until 9:00, now it's too dark.
I'll try tomorrow morning.

" don´t hang up on us now..."


FOOOOOOD???? well i´ve heard that on some point nurishment is needed in a form...but seriosly a sandwich and taken photos could happen in the same time^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:" don´t hang up on us now..."


FOOOOOOD???? well i´ve heard that on some point nurishment is needed in a form...but seriosly a sandwich and taken photos could happen in the same time^^

Not a full-blown roast dinner...

spoiled brat^^... i had selfmade pasta for dinner and it did me good to, didn´t it?

Viktor von Domm wrote: spoiled brat^^... i had selfmade pasta for dinner and it did me good to, didn´t it?

I rarel have roast...
last week consisted mostly of oven-ready pizza, self-made maccaroni cheese, spagghetti, mased potato, mince, ect.

no wonder you toppled in a game of foot the ball^^

no serioulsy who am i to stand between a growing man and his homecooked meal^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:no wonder you toppled in a game of foot the ball^^

no serioulsy who am i to stand between a growing man and his homecooked meal^^

^^
just popping out to spray some GK's...
probably just the dread and PAGK's ATM...dreadknight can wait until the 10 termies are done...

do you have a special plan to make him cool looking and not so lush looking as he is straight from the box?

I'm gonna make him nice and shiny, but with a load of bullet holes in a shinguard and burn marks around the incinerator...
the dreadnought I'm gonna try and do really well because I love how it's turned out...

i was more thinking about fleshing out certain areas and maybe covering up the whole hanging baby issue...

I thought- "WHAT?! Hanging a ba-oh...the pilot...
That might be on my agenda...I'll have a think...

personally i think the dreadknights arms and legs sections look classy and somehow give even the aliens heavy loader look we all love to bits... but that whole pilot to be exchanged with another one, cause the termie is only sitting there hanging up with his cool robot look is just stupid in my book...

here is my suggestion... cover him up totally, make it look like he sits in some kind of compartment like a sentinel pilot...that could help the look... also taken into account that i dont know the knew fluff of the GK i dont know the backgroundf of the DK is he also a terminally wounded GK that is now forever encased in a big `chine? or is it just a warmachine that needs a pilot...which can be exchanged whenever needed...?

Viktor von Domm wrote:personally i think the dreadknights arms and legs sections look classy and somehow give even the aliens heavy loader look we all love to bits... but that whole pilot to be exchanged with another one, cause the termie is only sitting there hanging up with his cool robot look is just stupid in my book...

here is my suggestion... cover him up totally, make it look like he sits in some kind of compartment like a sentinel pilot...that could help the look... also taken into account that i dont know the knew fluff of the GK i dont know the backgroundf of the DK is he also a terminally wounded GK that is now forever encased in a big `chine? or is it just a warmachine that needs a pilot...which can be exchanged whenever needed...?

^ the latter.
I'm trying to find an old lego clear "glass" sci-fi cockpit, but I can't...I might have to steal from a stormraven when I get it (after GK are up to 1500pts)

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_npmv=3&_trksid=m570&_nkw=lego+cockpit


ebay is the friend we all ned from time to time^^


would change tho the wording as then you might get more suitable hits... but even i foun d some goodlooking bitz in a few seconds....

was thinking that style one...
But backpedalling onto the current stuff, the GK's will hopefully be up here by tomorrow...

well my fingers are crossed for that epic endeavor^^

mine too, but until then...read ya later, vik!

good night too^^

Been busy recently, but sadly not on 40k. Just about to have dinner, and if it's still light I'll take pics.
Been fiddling about with the dreadknight and a sentinel cockpit, but I can't get it to work. If only the torso, arms and head were there, then it would. But the sentinel cockpit is only as big as that, so I get a pair of termie legs poking out the bottom.

sounds akward then... better then refrain from doing that... would look like fred flintstone then^^

^^
Though, after pointing it out, it does look rather...um...


Pics are too late, and I'll be getting up around 8:00 to go swimming with some friends, probably will be back around 3:00-4:00.


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BTW- for my paint scheme, should I go traditional silver, one of the three I put up earlier or one of your own reccommendations?

(If you have any of your own put them in SM painter)

i will give it a go, as i think yours look akward for a GK and the silver while classy is somewhat overused...will cobble something together...^^

and yep saw lots of images like:

...

somthing not quite fitting for a GK warmachine...

It would be funny if all the rest of the model wasn't so damn beautiful...

yep seems like the designer took his time off to take a leak and the cleaningwoman took over with the design for a moment^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:yep seems like the designer took his time off to take a leak and the cleaningwoman took over with the design for a moment^^

I was thinking about having a more avatar/matrix -type walker...

yeah that would be awsome! if you can do it i totally would like to see that done!

yet again, been out all day so too dark...maybe tomorrow evening...

ok...option for tomorrow...:

me seeing pics...or...going on strike...shrike^^

has a nice ring, hasn´t it?^^

no...i would miss the oportunity to banter senslessly into unknown terretories^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:ok...option for tomorrow...:

me seeing pics...or...going on strike...shrike^^

has a nice ring, hasn´t it?^^

no...i would miss the oportunity to banter senslessly into unknown terretories^^

^^

*insert cheeeeesy smile*


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did a bit of fooling around on the painter...
http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/sm/bpe=7D7D7D&bpj=7D7D7D&bp=7D7D7D&bpc=7D7D7D&hdt=AB1313&hdm=7D7D7D&hdl=7D7D7D&ey=FF0000&er=7D7D7D&pi=000000&nk=7D7D7D&ch=7D7D7D&eg=FFFFFF&sk=FFFFFF&abs=7D7D7D&bt=7D7D7D&cod=7D7D7D&ull=7D7D7D&lk=AB1313&lll=7D7D7D&lft=7D7D7D&url=7D7D7D&rk=AB1313&lrl=7D7D7D&rft=7D7D7D&slt=DED36D&sli=AB1313&srt=DED36D&sri=7D7D7D&ula=7D7D7D&lel=AB1313&lla=7D7D7D&lw=7D7D7D&lh=7D7D7D&ura=7D7D7D&rel=AB1313&rla=7D7D7D&rw=7D7D7D&rh=7D7D7D&bg=FFFFFF&rb=000000&gr=FFFFFF&wg=true&laurel=true&aq=true&cloak=AA0000&dm3=true&loin=AA0000&mk7=333333&mk8=true&chps=CC0000&pp=6E6D6D&pws=true&/spacemarine.jpg


looks to classy GK?...


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dead pic. put in the URL of the image.
oh and pics would happen right now but I can't find the camera- only the mother knows, and she's at work.

WAKEY WAKEY!
My AT43 red blok guys finally arrived, and though not raven guard, it's for my profile, so I can post in it whatever army stuff I like
currently konvertin' dem to be good an' propa killa kanz.
dey is all 'aving da flame frowerz dat come wiv dem, but da barrels of da shooty gunz is being cut off an' close killy weapons added in place.
as well as dat, dey is 'aving da killa kan fronts on dem, but over da normal torso, so dey are like welder's masks, jus' like propa burna 'umies 'ave.

hope that was understandable ^^
pics will happen when I'm happy with them (but before they're undercoated so you can see what's killa kan and what's Kollossus)

cool a sign of life on this thread^^

one question? do you own a holepunch? if not get yourself one... i recently did scratchbuilt a sentinel ccw ... that chiansaw thingy... that would be the blast for your kans...i will show pics of this shortly...^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:cool a sign of life on this thread^^

one question? do you own a holepunch? if not get yourself one... i recently did scratchbuilt a sentinel ccw ... that chiansaw thingy... that would be the blast for your kans...i will show pics of this shortly...^^

holepunch? yes.
for paper.
gimme a link to the one you got and I'll consider it.

something like that:


it really is a value for your hobby projects... might be around 15-20 pounds tho but if you buy a cheap one you later will want a better one... so the cheaper alternative would be to buy the better straight away,,, also i today bought me a circle cutter to even cut bigger circles than the holepunch allows... now 1 to 15 cm circles from cardboard are no problem anymore^^

well, when my ork dread mob (and Viktor Croaks) are complete I will look to buying one.
okay, finished the spray job on the killa kans earlier (just respraying areas that weren't quite hit the first time round), and hopefully pics after I paint them this weekend.

just respraying areas that weren't quite hit the first time round),

... that is something that really creeps me out... i think i can loose so much detail that way that i can get quite frustrated when this happens...

Viktor von Domm wrote:

just respraying areas that weren't quite hit the first time round),

... that is something that really creeps me out... i think i can loose so much detail that way that i can get quite frustrated when this happens...

meh, it's an ork vehicle. they were created so no matter how much you feth it up, it can pass as deliberate.

lol.... i read that argument before...but thats not gonna spare you from my opinions on your work...if you ever get around MAKING SOME WELL NEEDED PICS AROUND HERE!!!!!

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol.... i read that argument before...but thats not gonna spare you from my opinions on your work...if you ever get around MAKING SOME WELL NEEDED PICS AROUND HERE!!!!!

heh, well I'm off to paint at the LGS on saturday (I think, sunday if my dad's cool with it), so pics maybe then, or during the week.
oh and viktor croaks arrive in the post today, thing is, there isn't really that much of space on his trenchcoat to have a decent sized icon...hmm...

gosh can´t remember what icon this might be... too long ago...can you jump my memory?

shrike wrote:Oh I mean gothic-type, like this:


or maybe this, because it's easier to read:

Laurel:


So V.C in the middle, surrounded by a wreath, the inside of his cloak having celtic patterns?
I'll do a mock-up, and print one on my transfer sheet.

there we go, took a good 10 minutes of trawling through though
I'll see if I can merge the two.

a bit of editing and such later:

tho the "C" is cool looking, i would only go for the "V"...two lettres would be too much...and the "V" will be better to explain and doable paintwise...

Viktor von Domm wrote:tho the "C" is cool looking, i would only go for the "V"...two lettres would be too much...and the "V" will be better to explain and doable paintwise...

yeah, I was thinking that...will do another mockup later.

yeah do that, i love making mock ups...IF you could make a pic of yon croaks then i could shop him^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:yeah do that, i love making mock ups...IF you could make a pic of yon croaks then i could shop him^^

problem is that his back, due to the gas mask tank across it, has around half a centimetre of spare space. there is an area lower down which'll fit better, but I doubt an esteemed commissar would have his personal iconography on the bit of trenchcoat covering his arse ^^

lol...that i think too...also imagine him sitting on his icons...even farting... i bet a commissar does that too...probably when in a room he shoots someone else for polluting the athmosphere^^ best cover for flatulence ever...

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol...that i think too...also imagine him sitting on his icons...even farting... i bet a commissar does that too...probably when in a room he shoots someone else for polluting the athmosphere^^ best cover for flatulence ever...

or just this:
C is commissar, I1, 2 & 3 are imperial guardsmen.
C- *brrrrrrap*
I1- "who just farted?"
I2- "I think it ws the comm-"
C- *blam*
C- "he did it."
I2- "no, you di-"
C- *blam*
C- "who did it?"
I3- "urhm...guardsman one, sir."
C- "right answer."

exactly...always remeber the rules:

rule one...commissar is always right...
rule two...if commissar is wrong...remember rule one...

Viktor von Domm wrote:exactly...always remeber the rules:

rule one...commissar is always right...
rule two...if commissar is wrong...remember rule one...

so if a commissar is right then he's right and if a commissar is wrong then he's right because a commissar is always right but he can't be wrong because he is right. *head explosion*
note to self: uploading around 30 pictures takes a while and crashes your photobucket.

argh... why do you not upload here???

and yeah, this way a comm saves on bolt rounds...

Viktor von Domm wrote:argh... why do you not upload here???

and yeah, this way a comm saves on bolt rounds...

I am now after photobucket crashed

atta good boy^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:atta good boy^^

argh this is taking ages, 10 min to upload 10 pics, and taken around 40 pics.
then I have to say I made them, add tags, names, description, delete some, choose if I want the auto-adjusted ones...
all in all around 15/20 minutes work for 10 pics.

i totally avoid making tags and i always take my own pics, not the adjusted ones...but i grant you that that uploading is horrible time...

Viktor von Domm wrote:i totally avoid making tags and i always take my own pics, not the adjusted ones...but i grant you that that uploading is horrible time...

I've given up on doing tags, but like to do descriptions, galleries and names. Autocorrect is a help when taking pics in limited light like my bedroom

as i came to understand the auto function merely sets contrast and color up high...i think this mostly doens´t help me... and discription i make in the blog directly....

Subscribeded two!

lol

I'm not gonna link 43 pictures at midnight, so here's each gallery:
kollossus killa kan konversion:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-10470-17718_Orks.html

raven guard:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-10470-17717_Raven%20Guard.html

death korps:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-10470-17716_Death%20Korps.html

grey knights:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-10470-17720_Grey%20Knights.html

aaand viktor croaks:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/238745-death%20korps%20commissar.html?m=2
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/238810-shadowsword%20with%20commissar.html?m=2

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/238822-commissar%20and%20shadowsword.html?m=2

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/238746-death%20korps%20commissar.html


nice view of the mauser:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/238747-death%20korps%20commissar.html

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/238749-death%20korps%20commissar.html

the problem:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/238748-death%20korps%20commissar.html

i´d leave the icon off totally... IF you feel up to it you could add the laurels as a kind of seam to the coat... that could work...

pretty impressive stuff. and fully justified the long wait for some updates in pictures...

the commissar is the best mini i can say that so far... his paintjob is quite good (i say quite as i spotted some minor needs for touchups, me i can´t be all praise...) i lkie that he got the mauser, looks really good on him, it is the size of a boltgun for him, but the style is there to recognize... thanks for that and be sure to show it in zinges thread as well...
also the shadowsord is cool, the brownish color on some parts, an attemnpt at weathering and rust or a slight camo? either way, it looks cool.

if i would sum it up i have to say, some colors you do good and some other s you have yet to master. black and mostly brown you can do very well, the green on the shadowsword looks top! a drybrush there too? seems so to me...
the white seems to be too thick, but that is in fact a common problem... the paint is to my opinion just crap... one of these days i have to switch to valejo...
also there is something odd namly shiny on your red...very glossy... did you aply a wash already on your greyknights?
by the way the scheme is very uniquue and we have yet to see a fully painted knight to really vote for him... but i think this will be an outstanding scheme...
also i totally love the killakans^^ the drills i´ve seen and the faceplates look so lovley on those kans^^ they will be real cute once finished^^ love the pose of the grey knight about to smash^^


also this guy:


i have high hopes for him... will you do him with a black or a brown coat? i sugest the latter... to go with a brwon head... he will be ace looking!!! one day i will get me this one too...

with this libby you see hopefully that maybe next time you use a grey or white primer... although the metal bitz and the black of course will look mint when doen, the other parts suffer from a too thick layer of paints... for some reason from what i´ve seen your kans aren´t so thickly sprayed... the libbby has suffered much more, thus loosing deatil in my eyes... also i see tho he is still wip he needs lots of touchups... is that right gun of him in the set? cool thing always had a thing for gatlings...

oh and forgott, form what i see you are well on top of the metal paints... i found them sometimes tricky to do, but yours look very well done... specially the eupauletes on the croakes mini...


i am very glad to see some of your work done in pics^^

cheers, vik

Viktor von Domm wrote:i´d leave the icon off totally... IF you feel up to it you could add the laurels as a kind of seam to the coat... that could work...

pretty impressive stuff. and fully justified the long wait for some updates in pictures...

the commissar is the best mini i can say that so far... his paintjob is quite good (i say quite as i spotted some minor needs for touchups, me i can´t be all praise...) i lkie that he got the mauser, looks really good on him, it is the size of a boltgun for him, but the style is there to recognize... thanks for that and be sure to show it in zinges thread as well...
also the shadowsord is cool, the brownish color on some parts, an attemnpt at weathering and rust or a slight camo? either way, it looks cool.

if i would sum it up i have to say, some colors you do good and some other s you have yet to master. black and mostly brown you can do very well, the green on the shadowsword looks top! a drybrush there too? seems so to me...
the white seems to be too thick, but that is in fact a common problem... the paint is to my opinion just crap... one of these days i have to switch to valejo...
also there is something odd namly shiny on your red...very glossy... did you aply a wash already on your greyknights?
by the way the scheme is very uniquue and we have yet to see a fully painted knight to really vote for him... but i think this will be an outstanding scheme...
also i totally love the killakans^^ the drills i´ve seen and the faceplates look so lovley on those kans^^ they will be real cute once finished^^ love the pose of the grey knight about to smash^^


also this guy:


i have high hopes for him... will you do him with a black or a brown coat? i sugest the latter... to go with a brwon head... he will be ace looking!!! one day i will get me this one too...

with this libby you see hopefully that maybe next time you use a grey or white primer... although the metal bitz and the black of course will look mint when doen, the other parts suffer from a too thick layer of paints... for some reason from what i´ve seen your kans aren´t so thickly sprayed... the libbby has suffered much more, thus loosing deatil in my eyes... also i see tho he is still wip he needs lots of touchups... is that right gun of him in the set? cool thing always had a thing for gatlings...

oh and forgott, form what i see you are well on top of the metal paints... i found them sometimes tricky to do, but yours look very well done... specially the eupauletes on the croakes mini...


i am very glad to see some of your work done in pics^^

cheers, vik

I am yet to master white, but by far the easiest way is through cheating and using white primer.
the brown on the shadowsword is camo.

the libby actually isn't thickly painted at all, it's just the flash on the camera really shows up some on the raised details.

I thought brown coat too.

the red paint isn't glossy much, it's just the flash really picks it up.

fully painted knight, I'll see if I have time to do one this weekend.

the brown on the shadowsword is drybrushed, problem is sometimes I can do it very well and others it looks too flat for my liking...

I feared I'd have to ignore the icon, but rest assured he will be known as Viktor Croaks to me ^^

Viktor, I think, is my best infrantry model so far (paintwise).
what bits need touching up? I want both C's! ^^

ok, so here comes the criticism:

look closely at croaks...the rim of the coat is done in red, which is a very good and fitting idea, but when you look at how it is done there are gaps and partly you have gone into the larger areas of black too...i think this should be done first all around with a drybrush attempt(?) and later retouched with black...make it thus stronger (red) and sharper (with strong colorfrontiers)...
also there are some minor spots on the boots where the brown is not consistent enough...centre parts...
the chest looks really good, nothing to criticise there same with the shoulders... maybe do some more details on the gun? could be tricky but would look great...
and about the base there are some white spots (glue?) which should get some love...

i think for now this was all...

oh forgott...maybe some very thin hint of red on his goggles of the mask?

Viktor von Domm wrote:ok, so here comes the criticism:

look closely at croaks...the rim of the coat is done in red, which is a very good and fitting idea, but when you look at how it is done there are gaps and partly you have gone into the larger areas of black too...i think this should be done first all around with a drybrush attempt(?) and later retouched with black...make it thus stronger (red) and sharper (with strong colorfrontiers)...
also there are some minor spots on the boots where the brown is not consistent enough...centre parts...
the chest looks really good, nothing to criticise there same with the shoulders... maybe do some more details on the gun? could be tricky but would look great...
and about the base there are some white spots (glue?) which should get some love...

i think for now this was all...

oh forgott...maybe some very thin hint of red on his goggles of the mask?

the white spots are glue, if not the camera flash.
not gonna risk messing up the mask so I'll leave as-is.
I'll take look and touch up the red edges and boots.



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vik, one question: how do you get the image up?

go to your gallery, there is when you select a pic the possible uses for each pic...you click in the for "forums" text... then a popup shows up and ask if this text / link should be copied to cliupboard... which you say yay to^^ then in the post you just copy and paste it in the text of your posting... end of story and pic in thread...

got it, thanks.
posted pics up for zinge.
painted the core bits of the three killa kans and inquisitor velox, details need to be done and more paint needs to be bought later, though.

good morning my friend! sounds good, will you be making pics for us to oggle on?^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:good morning my friend! sounds good, will you be making pics for us to oggle on?^^

well the mother's gone on another business trip *sigh* and taken the camera with her, so not for a week or so.

doh...well...

so guess you had plenty oportunities to lend the cam?...or didn´t you? *nudges, nudges...*

Viktor von Domm wrote:so guess you had plenty oportunities to lend the cam?...or didn´t you? *nudges, nudges...*

darn i forgot...
but the summer holidays are coming up *hints, hints...*

*please hold the line....*

Viktor von Domm wrote:*please hold the line....*

^^
I read that first as a war-torn "HOLD THE LINE! REINFORCEMENTS WILL BE COMING SOON!"
Then realised you meant it as "please hold..." *elevator music*

yup exaxctly...^^ well there is a thought....if you aren´t productive with whatsoever then i am preparing to torture you into work by means of sa(i)d music style...^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:yup exaxctly...^^ well there is a thought....if you aren´t productive with whatsoever then i am preparing to torture you into work by means of sa(i)d music style...^^

NO! I'LL DO ANYTHING!*

*not meant to be taken literally.

busted!

Viktor von Domm wrote:busted!

Don't have to click play

but you didn, didn´t you...eh? eh? eh?
i knew you did, cos´i knew...see...easy mind trick...i can see right thru u^^ *sorry...those bloddy vibrations caused by the PC i am not used to anymore, seems i got a tad carried away...

Viktor von Domm wrote:but you didn, didn´t you...eh? eh? eh?
i knew you did, cos´i knew...see...easy mind trick...i can see right thru u^^ *sorry...those bloddy vibrations caused by the PC i am not used to anymore, seems i got a tad carried away...

I didn't actually.
If it was a blank frozen image, or didn't have the title, I probably would have.
Here's something even worse, because butchering someone else's song is worse than butchering your own:




Faith of all that is good and noble in this world=lost.

ok here goes, what i first thought was, there is a man singing that piece...
second was when i realized who sang that piece i thought curt probably had a flash forward and then he blew his face away because of the guilt and shame he felt when having that flash forward....

and you are probably right... i am so dazzled by tat that i am no competition against this weirdness...*searches for wirebrush to erase memory pn eyeballs and eardrum...scrubs away the pain....*

Viktor von Domm wrote:ok here goes, what i first thought was, there is a man singing that piece...
second was when i realized who sang that piece i thought curt probably had a flash forward and then he blew his face away because of the guilt and shame he felt when having that flash forward....

and you are probably right... i am so dazzled by tat that i am no competition against this weirdness...*searches for wirebrush to erase memory pn eyeballs and eardrum...scrubs away the pain....*

I watched it until around 1:00, when a random muscle spasm caused me to click pause, probably to prevent the large amount of self mutilation that would surely follow.
her dancing looks like an octopus being electrocuted.

so not much going on ATM, but a recent trip to my FLGS encouraged me to get cracking. When I build up the funds to do so, I will carry on my death korps, but going for the more expensive method of cadians + steel legion heads, meaning £35 per squad, meaning minimum infrantry ^^
I'm thinking maybe 3 squads in a platoon, 2 veteran squads, a hades breaching drill, engineers, and then enough tanks to notch it up to 3,000 points.
I want around 2,000 points of regular 40k squads, and things like my shadowsword to hit apocalypse size.
I will have to include them in my "sons of corax" story, but obviously as a sideline force so as to not stray from the raven guard too much...
maybe it will happen in a big battle, with orks fighting death korps, with inquisitor Velox present, and Lenore goes to that world with his assorted forces. I'll try and knock together an army list over the next week.

seems the summer takes it´s toll all over the hobby... not much done in terms of hobby from me too...

Viktor von Domm wrote:seems the summer takes it´s toll all over the hobby... not much done in terms of hobby from me too...

yup ^^
I'll write up the army list on here and edit it later because knowing me I'll loose any paper I write it on ^^

so first try:

general-commissar- 90pts
power sword
carapace armour
meltabombs

company command squad- 182pts
power sword
bolt pistol
melta bombs
vox caster
meltagun
carapace armour
heavy bolter
2 bodyguards
astropath

platoon command squad- 72pts
bolt pistol
vox caster
meltabombs
power weapon
flamer
grenade launcher

infrantry squad- 105pts
power fist
meltabombs
vox caster
meltagun
krak grenades

infrantry squad- 82pts
bolt pistol
meltabombs
vox caster
2 flamers

infrantry squad- 90pts
plasma gun
vox caster
power sword

engineer squad- 160pts
meltabombs
demo charge
gas grenades
vox-caster
+5 men (10 in total)

hades breaching drill- 50pts

centaur- 40pts

3 cyclops demolition vehicles- 75pts

3 leman russ battle tanks- 555pts
3 lascannons
3 heavy bolter sponsons

total- 1501pts

one point off...aw man...

that one point wouldn´t bother me... the hades drill is quite a cheap one, eh? and do you own the 3 LR already?

on PSP ATM so it takes a good 30 seconds to load a page. hades drill is the biggest bargain in 40k IMO- large S10 template over where it deep strikes, S10 ram and any engineer squads can arrive at the place it arrived. and i already have the tanks. will fully explain stuff tomorrow.

oki, off for now, see ya tomorrow^^

shrike wrote:Hades breaching drill is the biggest bargain in 40k IMO- large S10 template over where it deep strikes, S10 ram against tanks, a 3" blast meltagun shot and any engineer squads can arrive at the place it arrived in that or consequent turns. I already have the tanks, and I'll upload pics when I next go on a spray paint spee and get round to primering them ^^

I want 500 more points, then will add shadowsword, maybe get a leman russ eradicator (like a regular LRBT, but ignores cover saves- perfect for seige work)
might also add another squad in, but that would cost me around £250 to make up the 2,000 points.
shadowsword domination force will be fearsome indeed, but will need a few sentinels (maybe two or three)
that is a datasheet that lets 1+ shadowsword, 3+ LRBT's, and 0+ sentinels go together as a squadron. Any structure points taken on the shadowsword can instead be passed on to destroy a leman russ, and any hits on a leman russ can be passed on to a sentinel, so it's a nice meatshield heirarchy.
that's an added 550 points for that, plus 2 sentinels is 720...hmm, 280 more...
well, it's apocalypse, maybe they'll be joined by Velox and his henchmen.

the cyclops demolition vehicles are basically tiny tanks that can't do anything other than count as demo charges on wheels, controlled by an operator up to 24" away.
they drive into the midst of the enemy and blow up.
but they are 25 points each, so if it takes out just two space marines (which it well could), then it will more than match it's points.

holy crap... another 250 pounds... you add the big sums like anything^^ the meatshield sounds like a good strategy to last a bit longer in a battle... this way the shadowsword will get plenty oportunities to grind enemies to dust...

if the cyclops have to be steered by an operator... is the operatort seperatly to be picked out or is it cyclops after cyclops and then the operator? like always the common tactical SM dies first then HW and then the sarges?

Viktor von Domm wrote:holy crap... another 250 pounds... you add the big sums like anything^^ the meatshield sounds like a good strategy to last a bit longer in a battle... this way the shadowsword will get plenty oportunities to grind enemies to dust...

if the cyclops have to be steered by an operator... is the operatort seperatly to be picked out or is it cyclops after cyclops and then the operator? like always the common tactical SM dies first then HW and then the sarges?

£250...hrm...it's not too bad for a 2,000 point guard army, let alone death korps...
one puzzling thing, is that £35 a squad is what forge world charge for a death korps squad.
death korps are a lot more detailed and look better, but the combo has more bits, can be posed/easily kitbashed and I might find a decent price off a friend. (maybe £30 for 3 squads plus command squad)
the three cyclops count as seperate squads (consisting each of one operator and one demo vehicle). if the operator is killed, the cyclops can't do anything. if the cyclops is killed, the operator is at least one more set of hands holding a lasgun.

i have two DKoK sitting in a box at my desk... i won´t ever paint them as i think they are not my style... so we could do swapsies with that... will make a pic soon to show what exactly i´ve got...

not really worth it for two DKoK if they're plain footsloggers. If it's anything else, tell me

nope only footsloggers...^^

I like it, really I do!

heh, this is the old one.
try a search for "the sons of corax".

Either way I like it!

er.....

aaaaaand I'm back
(whooo!)
got another gaunt's ghosts book, meaning I have all three omnibuses. I would go on to buy the other two single books, but the 3-book omnibus for that's coming out in october, so I'll wait it out until then.
I got so addicted to that, I read some 1,500 pages from "the lost" and "the saint" out on my sunny balcony by the mediterrainean.
back on topic, I'll release another segment when I'm over the jetlag. ^^

nice to have ye back mate, reading seems a good pastime activity^^ ´m still on the hunt for gaunt´s books...

Viktor von Domm wrote:nice to have ye back mate, reading seems a good pastime activity^^ ´m still on the hunt for gaunt´s books...

you should start at the beginning, but the more recent books are the best as Abnett gets the hang of it.
my personal favorites are "traitor general", "only in death", "sabbat martyr" and "necropolis".

it is a tricky task as i have to get them books via ebay, otherwise i might have to buy them in german and that would be quite awful...translation always lacks so much athosphere...

Viktor von Domm wrote:it is a tricky task as i have to get them books via ebay, otherwise i might have to buy them in german and that would be quite awful...translation always lacks so much athosphere...

that it does.
gaunt's ghosts is my favorite book series, and is the only one that has accomplished (much to my shame) the feat of making my eyes well up.

well every one needs form time to time to reach out and touch his feminine side^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:well every one needs form time to time to reach out and touch his feminine side^^

heh.
oh and I just noticed the new "wow" orkmoticon:
and the new "ninja" one:

tho i can´t really see the ninja in that one you showed and discovered the yawny one on my thread...so now i do get the impression that you not only touched your female side but your alzehimer as well...i know cheap joke...^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:tho i can´t really see the ninja in that one you showed and discovered the yawny one on my thread...so now i do get the impression that you not only touched your female side but your alzehimer as well...i know cheap joke...^^

keep looking at the ninja one:
.......|
.......v
...-><-
.......^
.......|

lol... wasn´t the discovering part but more of a recognizing in what i failed^^ seems they are not good sketchers^^ whoever makes them signs^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol... wasn´t the discovering part but more of a recognizing in what i failed^^ seems they are not good sketchers^^ whoever makes them signs^^

I think it would be a lot funnier if they had nothing there. That would be truly ninja ^^

lol....yeah but then it would be all ninja as well...that would confuse lil ol me...

by the way... care for a bump?

Not much happening hobbywise- I'm currently saving up all my pennies to buy the new space marine game.
on the plus side, I've also purchased the life of brian and the holy grail on DVD for £6

ouch... that is dead cheap...even if i add a factor of 1.5 to the price tag then it would cost me about more then a double to get both movies ...*green with envy*

awwww....to loose time on a stupid game and not work on your hobby...*shakes sad head, and swithes to own game instead^^*

Viktor von Domm wrote:ouch... that is dead cheap...even if i add a factor of 1.5 to the price tag then it would cost me about more then a double to get both movies ...*green with envy*

awwww....to loose time on a stupid game and not work on your hobby...*shakes sad head, and swithes to own game instead^^*

well I have the money to get the normal game, but I want to get the collector's edition. only £20 more with a soundtrack, life size purity seal, bonus stuff in-game, a load of cards giving you tips and tricks for the characters and weapons in-game, and a graphic artbook.
Plus I feel for only £20 more, getting the game I've always wanted as my first collector's ed. game would be good ^^

yep sounds like a cool thing, but i thought this is not an online game... so why the extra ingame stuff? useful things or just things that you will eventually get later in the game?

Viktor von Domm wrote:yep sounds like a cool thing, but i thought this is not an online game... so why the extra ingame stuff? useful things or just things that you will eventually get later in the game?

it has two signleplayer campaigns and multiplayer with various mission types. The things I don't know whether you later get them anyway, but normally they have an exclusive something.

To illustrate how much blood and gore there is, if you do an "execution" move on an ork nob with a power axe, you nail it to the wall by the knee, disarm it, thrust our fingers into it's mouth and rip it's skull in two ^^
very suiting to a space marine and the grimdarkness of warhammer 40k in general ^^

here's a few:

i have to say, that is the goriest, bloodiest and most violent game i have ever seen!!! the ripping scene wasn´t by half the most brutal! the face stomping done my the marine in two ocasions is by far the messiest...
on a related side note.... watch the back and bum of yon marine looks almost as if the purity seal he has is some string piece of toilet paper coming from his pants...intentional to put a bit of fun into the game and makes it less grim??? who knows with gamedesigners these days^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:i have to say, that is the goriest, bloodiest and most violent game i have ever seen!!! the ripping scene wasn´t by half the most brutal! the face stomping done my the marine in two ocasions is by far the messiest...
on a related side note.... watch the back and bum of yon marine looks almost as if the purity seal he has is some string piece of toilet paper coming from his pants...intentional to put a bit of fun into the game and makes it less grim??? who knows with gamedesigners these days^^

yeah, this game's awesome. It's good that games workshop finally went "feth 12+, we'll make an M-rated game." They must have decided that if they were gonna make it M-rated, they might as well go to town on the gore ^^
yes, I noticed the "toilet paper" too. Good to see it wasn't just me thinking that ^^

lol... toiletpaper for the win!!!

and here's what I've been working on and off for the past weekend:

looking extremly good... a tad dark, but cool very much!

is this a complete model or a conversion?? the top head is very smart looking!

Viktor von Domm wrote:looking extremly good... a tad dark, but cool very much!

is this a complete model or a conversion?? the top head is very smart looking!

the darkness is as best as I could do (I couldn't get the flash on the camera to work.) Maybe 50+ pictures I took of him, and that was the lightest, with mutliple settings changed, sunlight streaming in, 2 lamps on and everything, still that.
It's a conversion from this fella:

the guns are from AOBR nobs, the right elbow and most of the right thigh is made from blue tack ^^