Gitsplitta wrote:Very nice work Ice... really like the tin bits kind of shade on the jump pack. Excellent work on the scroll too.
Thank you sir! As I look at the picture I realized I didn't highlight the jump pack tin bitz area, actually. I need to revisit that.
Solar_lion wrote:Nice ,really well done
We should swap a Assualt Lamenter for an IA
We should! I will do so after I complete my task of repainting 23 assault marines though. I will let you know when that is done. I'd love to have a lamenter in my marine swap unit. Could I ask for a Lamenter assault marine without the jump pack?
Really nice indeed ! The painting is top-notch, though I would have preferred the wrist to be bent a little, so that the top of the infernus pistol was more facing forward... It would have looked more natural, IMO.
Yggdrasil wrote:Really nice indeed ! The painting is top-notch, though I would have preferred the wrist to be bent a little, so that the top of the infernus pistol was more facing forward... It would have looked more natural, IMO.
But great piece uh !
I see what you're saying and that was actually how I had him originally, and I made another guy with that look. For this guy I was going for a multi-tasking feel. As if he had just murdered someone with his pistol and was already moving towards his next objective. I always pictured super soldier space marines to be a couple steps ahead of the game.
Step 1: Shoot pistol at tanks weakened plate, exploding its contained ammo.
Step 2: Cut through two corrupt guardsman with chainsword
Step 3: Fire pistol at sergeant, turning his skull into red mist.
Step 4: Have tea on the bodies of the unit I have slain
Step 5: Wait for pick up
Step 6: Rinse and repeat at next drop point
GiraffeX wrote:He's looking really nice IceAngel, love the blue colour your using.
Thanks GiraffeX!
Solar_lion wrote:sure. Let me know what load out you want
Any combination of close combat or specialized weapons you want. More specifically, anything that I can purchase as a blood angel honor guard member. OH! How about an apothecary?
SIDE NOTE! My wife and I were discussing the need to back up some files once again, something we don't do nearly as often as we'd like, and I started looking through some ANCIENT pictures of old epic space marine models. Good lord I loved that game. Did you guys ever play that game? Fantastic. Any ways, I found some old pictures of my squat army. I have seen some people make some amazing Leviathans. There are some awesome ones here on dakka even, but has anyone seen someone try to make a Colossus or a Cyclops? GOOD LORD would that rule.
Here is a random ork biker that i've been playing around with. I took nearly a dozen pictures of this guy and I'm still not satisfied with the shot, but what do you think?
Asherian Command wrote:Wow Awesome. I wish i could paint still. But my hand is been disagreeing with me lately.
That sucks. I hope your hand heals up, its hard to paint without them.
Gitsplitta wrote:One problem. There is OSL in places that light could not possibly reach... like the outside of the light hood.
Other that that I really like it!
Good point Git. I feel a bit dumb, but it has been fixed. Thanks!
dakkagrot187 wrote:the lamenters storm raven is amazing cant wait to see it finished
dakkagrot187 I think you may have skipped a couple of pages, the lamenters storm raven has been completed by Solar_Lion. Check out his blog or gallery, or my gallery for the completed pictures of his flying taxi's. They turned out awesome.
The painting front has been slow. I've spent more time writing more fluff! Check it out.
I have however done a little bit here and there. First of all, a side project that I've been working on to help me get into the heads of orks.
Next we have my progress so far on my assault marines. These are my repainted models, completed and ready for battle. Throughout the process I was surprised how many of them had names already. To explain, I only give out names to marines if they do something cool in battle, like survive battle against a greater demon, or some other odd defying act.
IceAngel wrote:I only give out names to marines if they do something cool in battle, like survive battle against a greater demon, or some other odd defying act.
@briancj - you are more then welcome to use my naming technique. Let me know how it turns out.
Solar_lion wrote:Like the way you did the Kan. Nice use of color. good to see someone doing something out side the "box"
Is this the color scheme for your orks?
On a side note: Does the Ice Angels have a company badge?
Do the Ice Angels have a company badge? - yes they do!
Is this the color scheme for my orks? - I think I will show you some pictures and let you decide.
First picture is my painted horde so far. Second is my painted unit of kans, I still have three more waiting for their turn. Third is my warboss. Fourth is one of my favorite ork characters, Nutsnippa. As you can see there is no over all theme and that's just how I wanted it. Usually when I want to paint something or try some new technique I paint it onto an ork. I also teach my friends how to paint using orks. I let me friends kids paint my orks. In general they are the big experiment. I also use them as my house army so when people want to learn how to play, they get to use the ork horde.
I like the non-uniform colors for the cans and the blood on the warbosses claw is excellent. The problem is Ive grown out of positive things to say about your painting so perhaps if I use negatives with and if you take them as complete opposite of the negative then that would be the better way to show my positive reaction to your orks.
Or maybe by explaining this negative = positive you got the gist of my compliments of your painting.
1-i wrote:I like the non-uniform colors for the cans and the blood on the warbosses claw is excellent. The problem is Ive grown out of positive things to say about your painting so perhaps if I use negatives with and if you take them as complete opposite of the negative then that would be the better way to show my positive reaction to your orks.
Or maybe by explaining this negative = positive you got the gist of my compliments of your painting.
Thanks 1-i! I think.
Solar_lion wrote:On a side note: Does the Ice Angels have a company badge?
Do the Ice Angels have a company badge? - yes they do
Can you show it please or send it to me? I wanna add it to a display.
SL
They do have a badge but I haven't been able to actually paint it to a satisfactory level. I merely took the blood angel logo and replaced the blood droplet with an ice shard. I also painted the wings blue to white instead of red to orange.
So today I battled a couple friends of mine. They used the orks and the above pictured Nob, Nutsnippa. I fielded my tyranids for a change of pace. We played 2000 points and it was a simple annihilation game. It ended up being a total slaughterfest for both armies.
However this particular Nob racked up a staggering number of kills. 1 venomthrope, 1 carnifex, 3 warriors, a lictor, and 5 termagants. Now he did have some assistance with the carnifex and the lictor but the rest he handled by himself. He was the nob of a simple 16 boys unit with choppas and sluggas. At the end of turn 5 he stood alone in his unit. At the end of the game he was one of four ork models on the table, the others being a trukk, a deff dread, and a weaponless immobilized killa kan.
The Tyranids did win the battle, but at the end I had three monstrous creatures walking with a single wound. It was a very close game.
I've made that argument before myself with some of the local traveling tournament players and lost every time. They claim that the "squadron" is intrinsic to the unit so no matter how many there are (even if you only buy one initially) it is by definition a "squadron" and are subject to all the normal negatives of the squadron rules. (which are FUBAR in the first place)
To the above: yes.
Always yes, now if only the last dude left of any squad became an independant character. Actually that would just be way to chaotic.
1-i wrote:I like the non-uniform colors for the cans and the blood on the warbosses claw is excellent. The problem is Ive grown out of positive things to say about your painting so perhaps if I use negatives with and if you take them as complete opposite of the negative then that would be the better way to show my positive reaction to your orks.
Or maybe by explaining this negative = positive you got the gist of my compliments of your painting.
To celebrate the horrible loss of the Packers yesterday I painted this.
Over X-mas my buddy Dimoriel created his own version of Captain Razzik for me.
I didn't take enough pictures to make this a full out battle report but here is the deployment from my New Years Day battle. As the sun set between the twin peaks of Quervin, the Ice Angels found themselves between two xenos forces. The all devouring tyranids and the rampaging orks. Will they survive?
The answer was no, but it was a fun battle.
Love that Kan. Lord they were pathetic, weren't they? Giant's played well, but were beatable... Packers played like a bunch of high-school kids. Just awful.
That's a pretty scary scene on that table. Are you outpointed as well as being outflanked?
There were three of us playing and we all had 2000 points. The objective was to see if I could live long enough for my reinforcements to arrive. They were trying to see who could kill more ice angels.
Model of the game was a grot that shot and killed a terminator then defeated one in close combat. That really gives you a good idea how bad my dice rolls were.
This Sunday I will be participating in an apocalypse game. Each person is asked to bring 4000 points worth of models. I am bringing my Ice Angels and my entire force will be deep striking onto the field. It should be fun. I'll take pics!
In other news I built a few more orks, I love kit bashing. I also picked up my Ice Angels and started working on my assault marines AGAIN! I've got 6 on my desk WIP and then only 10 more. The six I have started I plan on finishing before Sunday. Slowly I'm getting myself back into the painting mind set.
I finally finished the Ashurbani. I also completed a couple more assault marines, only eight of them are left. The above picture is of course the Veteran Assault Unit Squad, the Ashurbani.
CalasTyphon216 wrote:Nice work, they look really good
Capitansolstice wrote:
CalasTyphon216 wrote:Nice work, they look really good
+1 and subb'd
Thanks guys. After I finished these guys I started working on my boarding master. I am very excited about how he is turning out. I'll put up a wip pic sometime this week.
At some point in the near future I need to figure out what I will be making for solar and knightley. Time to visit the bits box.
Knightley wrote:The guy I'm making you is about 70% bits picked out, just need to figure out what he's going to look like
Oh man! I'm getting excited. Have you figured out how you're gonna paint him?
Styrofoam04 wrote:Great Work. I love your Ice and Winter effects, cant wait to see more.
Thanks Styro! I like the winter effect too. I think one of these days though I'm going to have to attempt some snow. So far I've only gone with the tundra permafrost look. Any one have any good snow tutorials?
Another update on my boarding master. I also gave him a name!
Bel Quapoo, the Boarding Master. A member of the Gray. One of the sacred few given the task of training all future Ice Angel recruits in the art of ship to ship warfare.
Time for some squiggles and some washes, but he's nearly done. Thoughts?
@Capitansolstice Thanks. The multi colored purity seals actually do mean something. If you check out my veteran squads they each have their own color of purity seal. The boarding master, due to the fact that he teaches everyone, has a collection of every purity seal in the chapter. Save the librarian ones.
@bigfish I will certainly keep them coming. After reviewing my bits I discovered I need to do some shopping so I can make some GMS marines. More pictures and updates will follow!
@Matt.Kingsley I haven't really thought about how I'd field him. Playing him as a captain would probably be the easiest way.
@1-i Thanks 1-i. I wanted the Ice Angels to be a bit dark. I really liked having my death company be white so I figured I mine as well have a black armored chapter.
DrGonzo wrote:Wow man you have some really great stuff here keep it up
Thanks Dr. Hopefully this weekend I'll be adding the finished Bel Quapoo pictures and also pictures of another WIP, the Unspeakable.
Styrofoam04 wrote:I think it needs more purity seals, Besides that I love it!
Is there highlights on the the black as well?
There are subtle highlights on the black. I took a 50/50 codex gray and black highlight. In a few sections I highlighted it a bit more but for the most part left it that deep charcoal gray highlight.
I had some pictures of the Unspeakable too but I didn't like how they turned out. Sorry.
EDIT: New picture.
The Unspeakable is a shadowy figure that never leaves the Ice Angels home world of Shattermantle. It is said that he hunts the hives and subterranean forges of the planet searching for any lurking evil or corruption amongst the population.
After posting this picture I once again found plenty of things I still need to work on and fix. I need to highlight his helmet more along with fix my lame attempt at OSL on his plasma weapon.
Yes the blue is really good. thou I suspect that you should be getting to be a expert on all things painted like ICE!
My only suggestion is to do a more pronounced highlight on the black. I have had decent luck with dry brushing a grey or silver on my blacks to give them a crisper more defined edge. I see it on the Boarding marine but not so much on the plasma pistol guy.
I see what you're saying there Solar. I'll have to up the highlights a bit on the Unspeakable. Something I did run into is the way I laid the greenstuff on the Unspeakable's helm. It didn't give my any good lines for highlighting. Any suggestions? My green stuff skills need to level up.
Sometimes you can paint in the edges. Theater set painting does this alot. Not the same as a crisp edge but can be pulled off if done right.
I can barely use GS to fill gaps. My GS Kung fu is weak.
My plack painting is getting better. at least you have white down. White always gives me trouble.
begin rant:
Day light savings is such a wonderful idea, isn't it? However, something really bugs me. The simple changing of time creates a ripple of funk that seems to affect everyone. We just changed time! No one slapped you this morning and pooped in your coffee. Stop freaking out! Complete rhetorical question, but why is change such a destructive force in today's society? Don't answer that!
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When I got home today I was very happy to see two packages. I love getting packages! It doesn't matter how often I get them or whether or not I am expecting them. I just love getting packages. Perhaps its the opening of the packages that I look forward to, or perhaps the simple enjoyment of something new. I don't know, but today when I got home and saw two tiny packages in my mail box it made my day better. I found that these two packages had a lovely synergy as well. One was my phenomenal marine from Knightley that I spent about 45 minutes staring at. The other was bits that will be soon converted into an Ice Angel and sent to Knightley!
See! All is right with the world. All I'm missing now is my third package that has the body parts I'll also be using. Get excited!
Knightley your marine arrived in pristine condition. His base has been started. I've also started working on Solar Lions marine swap and Knightleys marine.
Here is Solar's guy.
Here is Knightleys guy.
Sorry this pic doesn't have him put together but you get the general idea where im going with him.
After some cleaning and some attaching, I've got Knightley's marine mostly put together. He is now ready to be primed. I've also picked out some bits for Chemicals marine. Apparently I'm in some sort of lightning claw kind of mood. I hope thats okay with you chemical!
Nice Ice. Great looking group shot. Just goes to show how sucessfull the GMS is.. ( Kudo's to WM for starting it). What you really need is a Lamenter ( first thing up after adepticon)
@ Whalemusic360 - All of those are from your thread except Aquilum, the yellow and pink guy.
@ Solar - I agree! After Adepticon I am expecting an epic Lamenter from you. I want to marvel at these checkers up close.
@ Knightley - Thanks Knightley. I think he looks good on an ice world. He'll be fun to write about, but I've a lot to cover before we get to know Brother Micus.
As some of you may know I have a lengthy Ice Angel fiction page. I've been working on it for I several years now. I've noticed over time as I write more and more of it, my physical army has begun to change with it. (the BA codex changed too!) I've got a boarding party, more dreadnoughts, lots of assault trooper for ship to ship combat, yet I have a lot of models I can't see myself every using again. For example, I've got 20 some bikers. When would Ice Angels ever use those? Personally, I've never been a big fan of space marine bikes but I acquired a bunch of them years and years ago.
The question that I now present to you, is should I keep them or sell them to someone who'd get some use out of them. As much as I like saying I have them, they are just collecting dust. They are at the bottom of my repaint list and honestly I can't see myself ever fielding them, even in an apocalypse game. I know there are people out there that field them. At Adepticon last year there were entire armies of them!
Now, it may sound like I've already convinced myself to get rid of them, but if I apply this logic to all of my unused guys I'd be getting rid of all sorts of stuff. My scouts for example. As a Blood Angel codex player, you don't have a good reason to field scouts when you can bring assault marines. In terms of fluff, would Ice Angels field scouts? They wouldn't be much good in the void of space. Then again, that raises a whole new set of questions, what would Ice Angel recruits start as if not scouts? I guess they could still be scouts but spend most of their earlier career doing planet side missions. Forward recon and such. More importantly though, do I want to repaint old metal space marine scouts?
Hmmm, now that I've rambled for a few minutes I'm going to go back to painting my GMS marines, but please tell me your thoughts. I'm sure many of you have been in a similar position in the past.
I was struggling with a similar question about my Eldar army... most of it anyway. Got a lot of varied advice... all great. In my case, I've decided to keep my favorite elements as the foundation of a future army (should I decide to get back into it), then sell the rest.
Same here.. I even more than Git keep most of what I have, personal attachment issues I suppose. I will part with things I have no attachment too; but I'm inclined to do so with only things to help with new folks or friends.
No real solution, you have to decide what your attached too!
Picture of further WIP of my marine for Knightley.
Due to the fact my marine is going to be added to his army of squiggly lines I decided he needed some right angles to stay sane. I still have some more angles to add and another layer of white to add in a couple of places. I need to finish the base and due some plasma pistol cleaning, but I made serious progress on him today.
First off, I apparently had become unsubbed from the fiction thread, and now have an unholy amount to go through. Challenge accepted.
Second, you seriously need to tell me what the lc is. Seriously.
Thirds, I sell almost nothing. Im a bit of a mini hoarder (have 3 of the 25th anniversary marine still in wrap). My warhams room looks a bit like a game store...
whalemusic360 wrote:First off, I apparently had become unsubbed from the fiction thread, and now have an unholy amount to go through. Challenge accepted.
Second, you seriously need to tell me what the lc is. Seriously.
Thirds, I sell almost nothing. Im a bit of a mini hoarder (have 3 of the 25th anniversary marine still in wrap). My warhams room looks a bit like a game store...
Enjoy the read! Not to toot my own horn, but I feel my writing has greatly improved over time.
I feel out of the loop, what's lc mean?
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Knightley wrote:Looks to be the perfect counter piece to squiggles! is there any chance of a clean base so I can have him match my army's bases?
Damn! I totally spaced the base thing. I apologize. He is currently glued on and based with sand and other rocks. You should easily be able to paint it to match your scheme and add your flock. I can try to remove him though if you'd prefer.
It's a good thing I posted the wip before I added the ice crystals, that'd really not work with your basing scheme.
OH MAN! As you can imagine, Adepticon was awesome. I got to hang out with my team and check out all sorts of stuff. I believe the most beneficial part of the weekend though, was the sheer amount of inspiration that the event provided me.
That and the ability to shop at forgeworld! Hmmm yes. So here is a pick of my haul from Adepticon.
The box is one of my bits boxes but the baggies on top are all of my new goodies. More of that later! After returning from the awesome weekend trip, my typical OCD kicked in. I completely unpacked within minutes of returning home. Even my bits had been put away! Good lord, I have issues. That's a whole other blog though, lol. That evening I began to stare at my Ice Angels and I realized I have some that I don't like and some I want to get rid of. The last few hours of the evening were me planning, plotting, and scheming. Here are the results!
These guys are getting repainted. btw, those guys plus a few others will complete my assault squads to a grand total of TEN legal squads.
These guys I demolished, cleaned, and then gave them a bath in simple green! I think you'll like some of the things they'll become, more on that later though.
Lastly, here are some guys that I plan on selling. PM if interested in anything, otherwise keep an eye out for ebay in the near future.
Throughout my wonderful weekend I managed to get some modeling started. Here are some of my WIP pictures. What you see will turn out to be 15 assault marines, a techmarine, and a priest.
NOW, here is my important question of the day. I have an old blood angel techmarine that came with a jump pack. I don't want him on a jump pack so I stripped him and tore him apart to be re purposed. Now I don't have any tech marine bits so I decided to try and make my own servo back pack arm contraption. I wanted to step away from the multiple arm repair claw look. In essence I wanted guns, however while this process started I thought to myself, "If I were a techmarine what would I want to bring to a battlefield? A flamer? no. A meltagun? nope. I giant rocket launcher? HELL YEAH!"
So I ended up with this.
Here are all of his pieces.
I am still tweaking him and determining what works and what doesn't, but I need some assistance. Is that rocket launcher to big? Should I try to find some counterweight? Am I out of my mind? Any ways, let me know what you think before I pin it all together. Oh, one more thing, with the current configuration, that missile arm will swivel!
See how his feet are positioned bigfish? See that left foot coming off the ground?? That's because he's falling over due to the weight of the missile launcher!
bigfish wrote:i like the logic i would want assult cannon. Anyway think he looks a bit heavy on the rokit side, what are you doing with the other side?
I haven't decided yet, some sort of counter balance. I don't think it will be another gun though.
Gitsplitta wrote:See how his feet are positioned bigfish? See that left foot coming off the ground?? That's because he's falling over due to the weight of the missile launcher!
He is running, not falling over. Thank you very much. I mean missile launchers can't be that heavy. Can they?
Yellowbeard wrote:Very nice. I love the three-eyed, lightning-clawed assault marine!
As for the missile launcher, do you have a cyclone you could use?
Thanks yellow beard! I don't have a cyclone though. I have this missile launcher and then some other typhoon launchers from the dark angel sprues. I'll mess around with it some more today. More WIP will be coming!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Here is a picture of my final assault squad. The second photo is one of the models I particularly liked how he turned out.
Here is a WIP of sergeant Hwolock and some of his squad mates. They are coming right along. Technically, Hwolock isn't part of a veteran unit but he has yellow on him. Don't judge me! Any ways, its nice to have some of the old models mixed in the new ones but I find myself working more on the old repaints more then the new guys. After I finish this small five man unit I'll be working on my swap for chemical. He has been based and primed and is ready to go.
Oh, one of the guys I stripped we'll also be turning into a Tiger Claw instead of an Ice Angel. BRING OUT THE ORANGE!
UPDATE:
I finished up the squad. Hwolock got his white fists, yellow gems, fired up jump pack, etc. The others received similar touch ups.
IceAngel wrote:The helmet is from a chaos marine. It typically has a giant horn coming out of the side but after some cleaning up it works great as a typical helm.
Ahh, that's what I thought, but I didn't recognize it without the horn. You're right, it works very well as a tactical helm.
IceAngel wrote:Brother Venthu of Tactical Squad Plafwu. Sword is done. What do you think?
I like it (and the rest of the marine) quite a bit. I'm always impressed by such fine highlighting. I've seen similar lightning effects that finish with a wash over the rest of the blade. Are you going to do that or just leave it with the thin lines?
Yellowbeard wrote:I like it (and the rest of the marine) quite a bit. I'm always impressed by such fine highlighting. I've seen similar lightning effects that finish with a wash over the rest of the blade. Are you going to do that or just leave it with the thin lines?
Do you mean a green wash? There is a wash on the blade, but its more to subdue some of the green effects.
@ Solar and Git - Thanks!
@Chemical - I look forward to checking out your guy in person. I'll post a pick once he gets his ice base.
So a few weeks ago a super cool marine landed on my front porch. Brother Tek'ar was sent to me from Chemical Cutthroat. The paint job is superb and very unique. I think he looks great with my collection of marine swaps. Here is a picture of him after I've based him to fit in with everyone else.
I need to get a picture of him on my board with everybody else.
From my own WIP desk I bring you a Baal Predator that I've had laying around for a long long time. It had been primed and ready to be painted for longer then I would have liked, but I finally decided to get it started. Here is a WIP pic. What do you think? Sorry the lighting isn't the greatest in that shot.
Thanks guys. I have pondered how to paint my tanks for a long time and I think this recent rendition will finally be the one I'm happy with. I still need to clean it up a bit, but irregular swatches of ice blue seem to work.
While I was working on the Baal I figured I mine as well get started on the Raven too. So far I've got a lot of the various bits put together and primed. These pieces are the only painted ones I've done so far. Outside of those particular bits I'll have only a handful of blue sections on the raven itself. It will still be primarily black. Jury is still out on what irregular stripe or section will be blue'd. Any thoughts?
Does your chapter have a specific symbol? (I glanced through your blg again but didn't see anyting specif, unless you use the BA symbol.). You might paint the symbol in blue, blue wings or such....
That is such a nice blue. Make sure you don’t paint the areas that need to glue together. I had to scrape clean a lot of my ravens after I painted the sections separately. Learning the hard way.. yea!
The only suggestion is the one I get all the time.. dirty the blue up a little, maybe a edge hightlight too.
whalemusic360 wrote:Sad that I got those 2 ravens at launch, and your going to have the 1st one together.
My wife tells me it not the person who has the most clothes, but the most fabric is the winner ( Wifes a costume designer) .. so by that measure I bet you win!
Dude, I'm so winning if thats the case. I just bought a bunch more stuff too. Why? Cuz prices were going up and clearly I need 2 whirlwinds. And all that other crap. On the up side, if I get sick of 40k, I can open a hobby shop.
whalemusic360 wrote:Dude, I'm so winning if thats the case. I just bought a bunch more stuff too. Why? Cuz prices were going up and clearly I need 2 whirlwinds. And all that other crap. On the up side, if I get sick of 40k, I can open a hobby shop.
Do you need an employee? I'm sure that, between the two of us, we could anchor the local bitz scene...
Here are some more WIP pictures of the raven. The base is nearly completed along with the cockpit. I've got it sitting together in the top two pictures to give you an idea what its going to look like. The engines on the end of the wings will be blue and there will be a bit more blue on the tail. I will then add my random irregularly directed stripe. Other then that, lots of little details still need to be done.
Arakasi wrote:Is that meant to be red OSL on the marine? (If so, it looks *very* thick) Other details are coming along great though.
Yeah, that is indeed my attempt at OSL. As you can see, still working on that technique a bit.
I haven't been able to do any more work on the raven, but it did get into its first battle yesterday. It delivered my death co dread and a unit of jump pack marines into the fray quickly. Its shooting was rather dismal before it was torn out of the sky by a rather large number of ork weapons.
Solar_lion wrote:Do we get to see a battle report?
SL
Hmmm, no. I took one picture of the deployment and then we got into it and I never took any more. I will tell you generally what happened. My death company dreadnought killed three times his points worth of ork boys and storm boys. My Baal predator died before it fired. My storm raven blew off a LOT of weapons from kans and the deff dread before being destroyed by a kustom mega blasta. We had a total grind in the center of the board except his 6 killa kans and 4 close combat armed deff dread destroyed everything because I couldn't roll ANYTHING. I also charged with multiple assault squads into a unit of nobs that was somehow immune to my damage. In two rounds of combat I lost both of my units.
At the end of turn four he still had six kans on the battlefield (4 of which had no gun), his deff dread(minus two close combat weapons), and a unit of knobs with his warboss. I only had a sanguinary priest and a typhoon land speeder. Ouch......
IceAngel wrote:At the end of turn four he still had six kans on the battlefield (4 of which had no gun), his deff dread(minus two close combat weapons), and a unit of knobs with his warboss. I only had a sanguinary priest and a typhoon land speeder. Ouch......
Here is a completed assault marine sergeant. I was working on in between Raven and other things. I haven't completed the raven, or even made any progress. Instead I got side tracked by 6th edition. BUT! I did finally break out some old GW terrain bits and after staring at them in there crisp unused glory, I decided they needed to be orkified.
SO here are some major WIP's.
On the left you have the ruined Imperial Aquila, now with a ork barricade on it. In the back you have the Space Marine Statue with a nest on top. In the third picture you can see some of the different pieces. I still have a lot of work to do on that guy but you get a good idea where I'm going with it. The final plan will be to have an ork glyph face on the front along with a plethora of supports holding the nest up. Oh, and ork graffiti of course. The second picture is a mobile gun turret you can have if you'd like to pay the points for it.
I think the nest is much to clean looking for ork construction... I mean the box itself is too clean a form. Needs to be more ramshackle looking with bits and pieces missing.
Gitsplitta wrote:I think the nest is much to clean looking for ork construction... I mean the box itself is too clean a form. Needs to be more ramshackle looking with bits and pieces missing.
I agree completely. I think I'll apply some liberal battle damage to the statue then add a ramshackle support structure to help hold up the nest. The nest itself will have a ork glyph on the front amongst a collection of dangly bits.
Yellowbeard wrote:I really like the assault marine, Ice. The leather wrapped handle is excellent.
Thanks Yellowbeard! I hope to use this particular marine in the near future. He, unfortunantly, didn't make it into my battle yesterday. Speaking of which. Enjoy some battle pictures! Here are the four armies invovled. We did two teams of two. 1500 points each. In essence a 3000 point game. We played using 6th edition rules. We used Vanguard Strike deployment with The Relic as our mission.
Here are the four armies involved. I have army lists, let me know if you need them.
Here is deployment
Now this game took WAY longer then usual because of us trying to learn the new rules as we went along. So we only got through three turns.
Here is a picture of the beginning of turn two.
General battle recap for the three turns we played.
Turn 1 - Tyranids ran forwards, crossing the river and attempting to flank with his winged tyrant. (the unpainted model will have wings) BTW we rolled for the river and it turned out to be an Iceblood river. Neat, except nearly all tyranids have move through cover so they ignore dangerous terrain, boo! Orks surge forwards as well. The grots move up to take the aegis defense line and the quad-gun. Ice Angels and Space Wolves respond by shooting a lot at the flying Hive Tyrant, taking it down to one wound. The Ice Angels assault the Warriors to get their butts kicked and the death company launch forward to take out over a dozen hormagaunts in the assault.
Turn 2 - Orks continue their push, the unit of nobs disembark from the trukk and along with a large unit of stormboyz kill an entire blood claw unit plus its wolf guard down to a single man in the shooting and assault phase. The winged hive Tyrant flew over the long fangs to try a vector strike but does no damage because of blessed power armor. The genestealers avenge the hormagaunts by killing all of the death company and the Ice Angel assault squad gets killed by the warriors and the charging tervigon.
In response the Ice Angel reinforcements arrive. The storm raven flies onto the battlefield guns blazing, BUT it nearly gets taken out by the anti-aircraft quad-gun. The little grot manning the quad gun, NEVER MISSED, the entire game. Fortunately for me, he only took one hull point after hitting with every shot. My Baal Predator outflanks into enemy territory and moves as fast as possible towards the lootas and grots behind the wall. My vindicator moved forward onto the river into a better firing position. Our shooting phase killed a lot of genestealers via the raven, all other shooting was dismal. During our assault phase the last blood claw died and that was it.
Turn 3 - Orks charge across the river, loosing one nob to the river. Remaining stormboys get killed by overwatch fire, which was cool. Genestealers charge forward into the other gray hunter unit with the Rune Priest. Hive Tyrant flies over the vindicator and attempted another vector strike. It lost one hull point from the attack. The tyrant was then standing over top of the relic objective. The Trygon also appeared this turn right behind In the shooting phase nearly everything on the board fired at the raven and nothing did any damage. The grot manned quad-gun couldn't fire because it shot at me when my reserves arrived. Close combat phase turned out to be very bad for the space wolves. The high initiative genesteales ate up a lot of the gray hunters. The rune priest nearly died as well but three, "look out sir" rolls were made to keep him alive. Meanwhile the nobs assaulted the long fangs, but the long fangs held their own thanks to the wolf guard wielding a powerfist in terminator armor.
In response the Ice Angels deployed from the raven the tactical unit, preist, captain, and death company dreadnought. The Baal Predator moved up behind the lootas and subsequently killed them all. However the rest of the shooting wasn't very good this turn. The vindicator scatted onto the nothing. The zoanthropes saved from all of the ravens fire. In the assault phase the death company dread charge the genestealers and his blood talons went crazy killing 7 of them. The genestealers however killed the remaining gray hunters and the rune priest. The tactical unit ran over to the relic to hold it. The long fangs held out versus the nobs leaving only the warboss. A small three man unit of wolf guard charged the tervigon killing it in one turn.
Currently the Imperial forces were up, however we were being flanked, our forces were engaged on all fronts and most of the ork kan wall was closing in on us. It was looking grim but who knows how the dice gods would have treated either one of us.
Overall the game was great. I need to study the flyer / monstrous flyer rules some more. It will take awhile to iron out all of the new special rules like vector strike and the hammer ability. I think the new edition will be cool though once we get used to it. Fliers are going to be a big part of it until all of the armies have a response for them. In the meantime the quad gun is a great way to deal with them, assuming you can hold the position and use it. I did enjoy how both players were staying engaged during all turns. Orks shootiing at my reserves and overwatch, etc. The wound allocation stuff will be cumbersome until we all have that down but I think adds another layer of strategy to how you place your models and move your forces.
Sorry I don't have more pictures to share but once the heat of battle took over there was no time for pictures, bathroom breaks, or anything other then dice rolling, or getting more refreshments!
Thanks Gits. Something I forgot to mention before. There was a lot of combat with tyranid things and a lot of them are fearless because of the synapse stuff. In close combat if a fearless unit gets defeated, they used to take wounds equal to the amount they lost by. I don't see that any where in 6th edition. Now fearless simple stats that you pass all morale checks but don't mention any additional steps such as taking additional wounds in close combat if you've lost. Is that correct?
Thanks Solar. Only a few more things to add to my terrain collection and I should be all good to go, well as good as any hobbyist can be. I have a feeling once I have a large enough terrain collection I'll make another board so I can play some apocalypse games.
One down side to the way I built / store my board is that it has warped a little over time. I'm not sure I could make another board and have them lay flush next to one another.
OH, while I'm posting, check out some more brainstorming shots of my ork emplacement.
That entire structure is free standing, nothing is glued down yet. I'm still tossing around some ideas but this gives you a good idea of where I'm going. I want to have waist high barriers all the way around on both the third and second floor. I have a bulk head to fill the hole in the back and also serve as the entry point. I'd add some guns, orkify the base, and count it as a bastion. Thoughts?
Rough attempt at adding some orky like barricades at the top of the wall. I like how it looks but I'd like to see what you guys think. Next step would be to do that all around the top level and mix in some other bits such as tank doors and such. Thoughts?
Also, any one know where I can get that thin paper/plastic that has the metal diamond pattern in it? I'd like to use that for the floor on the top level.
As to the diamond plate, online is prolly your best option. It took me looooots of searching to find mine. Got it at a Hobbytown USA, but it was (at least for me) a hard to find item. Looks great on ork stuff though
Thanks guys! Diamond plating will definitely be in my future. Despite my busy weekend I did manage to get some things accomplished on this.
As you can see the orkificatons are coming along. I did finally glue down the general structure. The statue has been based along with some more orks. I need to figure out what chapter it should be painted as. Any requests? Mantis Warriors, Tiger Claws, or Emperor's Fools perhaps?
As for SM chapters.... How about SoM.. the green would appeal to the ork in order to keep it as a part of their structure..
Heck yeah Necromunda Door. I took the bulk head with the door in it, I then made a door from some board added a handle and an ork glyph. DONE!
Sons of Medusa? I do love their color scheme. I'll think about that one. After my previous post I thought about trying a generic stone looking statue. I've never tried that before. It may be time to search for a tutorial.
Some more ork bastion updates. Here is a better picture of the rear entrance I created.
Here are pictures of the four guns that are attached or are about to be attached.
Here is an updated picture of the front.
Rules question: In the 6th edition rules it states that an Imperial Bastion costs 75 points, its access points and fire points are determined by the model itself and it comes with four emplaced heavy bolters (typically one facing each side). My question is how accurate do you think I have to be when creating my own version of a bastion. Should I change the points of mine because it doesn't have bolters, it has two assault cannons, a plasma cannon, and a missile launcher? Or should I play them as "a counts as" heavy bolters?
Next question: Do you think I should add more wooden barriers, perhaps some facing down on the top most platform? My wife suggested I do so beacuse, "orks wouldn't be that precise"? Thoughts?
I agree with your wife on the barriers front, also i would play test and see what you think works better fairness wise, if they are "two assault cannons, a plasma cannon, and a missile launcher" you could just even it out with ork balistic skill so its still fair for the points
Good lord it has been to long since I have posted any WIP. I have been modeling and painting just very sporadically. Having a kid will do that!
Lets forget about my several month hiatus and talk about the real thing here. Adepticon planning is in full force and its now the fall SO what does that mean. Very little actually but it sounded good in my head. What have I been doing you may ask? I started working on my tech marine Philosir, seen below.
I also put some hurt on some orks here recently among many other things. To give you an idea of what I've got on my table, I took a picture of it!
From left to right, orks, assault marines, Huron, raven and talon, thats a stompa in the box and a lifta droppa arm in pieces on the right. All sorts of random crap that needs to be done. As of right now the plan is to complete Philosir and paint a few more Ice Angels. After that I want to complete the raven and by that point I should be mentally prepared to paint Lufgt Huron. Oh yes people. Huron will be attending Adepticon 2013, as a Tiger Claw, like he was meant to be!
Thanks guys. I'll make sure to let Steve know you approve of his Talon.
@ Solar - I think people don't paint the interiors just to save time. So much of it is very detailed yet lost or hard to see once you put the cockpit on.
MORE UPDATES!
Techmarine Philosir is completed. Thoughts?
The second image turned out a bit foggy but you get a good overall feel for him. Yes I know he isn't legal but that is irrelevant in this case. That is how is currently equipped in my fluff. Speaking of which, if you haven't read it you should!
The enigma takes shape! I really like him Ice! Though.... I am not wearing my glasses and am on my phone so all I can see is a tiny, blurry red figure... but what I can make out looks fantastic, top notch!
Thanks guys. 1-i I'll try to get a back shot up this weekend. I think this mostly painted raven will see its completion this weekend. I need to clear up some of this space for some Tiger Claws!
I completed the raven. I like the way it turned out but I have to say, I think it may look cooler if I added some damage onto it. I know I've said this before but its a daunting task when you haven't had much success with it in the past. For now I'm going to leave it be and work on some other things. I may try some test damage on some orks first then return to the Raven.
Ramos Asura wrote: Ive never really tried chipping, but I figure Adeptus Battlegrey then Boltgun over that would work well.
I started on some battle damage on the raven. Used codex grey then boltgun and in spots added in some mithril. Seems to work fairly well, I just need to add it all over the raven. Pictures will be forth coming.
In between debating on where to do the damage and managed to work on the last few ice angel assault marines. Only three left and all fifty of them will be finished.
I have returned! Here are three of the five Tiger Claws I have put together over the weekend. The pictures of the other two did not come out. More pics incoming!
Huron will be painted once I finishing remembering how to paint my tiger claws again. It's been two years since I last painted one. Pics will soon be forth coming of my WIP on the other marines.
My terminators are finally en route to my house. I only need to locate a few more missile launchers and I'll have everything for my army list. I have ALL of next week off so be prepared for some massive updates then. My goal will be to make some progress and have an update at least four times next week starting on Monday. Please hold me accountable!
Step 1 (after building, drilling, and basing) Brown on Base
Step 2. Brown on marine, (one on right)
Step 3. Mix in orange and begin highlighting, (one on left)
Random Exorcist shoulder pad that other marine will be standing on WIP.
Here is my teammates home made Thulsa Kane model for his Executioner army.
Still very WIP but he added on a book, per his rules, replaced the crozius with the executioner axe that Thulsa brings to battle. I didn't get a picture of the back pack but he added some nice little touches on the back pack, heads and things.
Time for audience participation! What badab army should the helmet be that my flamer marine is holding be?
Sweet more progress!
Its great to see your process on how you do the orange. Very similar to the mixes I ended up using- though a bit brighter. Im excited to see more paint on the guys!
@cormapanda Thank you sir. Welcome back. I should have another update tomorrow and I should be able to get more done tomorrow then I did today. The plan is to have a couple more marines browned and another level of orange highlighted up on the flamer guy at least.
@Solar_lion I think I'll do a space shark head. I actually have a red scorpion helmet to use some where else.
@ Yellowbeard Thanks yellow beard. I'll let Steve know you like the Thulsa Kane model.
@ Ramos Asura Thanks Ramos. Our systems maybe similar but yours still turn out way better. As I add more pictures please give me some tips and pointers as I go along. I don't have a lot of guys to paint for this army so I need to make sure they look good. My guys look great from about three feet but once you get up close its another story. It also doesn't help that I am sharing a board with Gitsplitta and Solar lion. I may just have to have my guys in the back, lol.
Ya sure- Ill do my best to chime in now and then And hey your stuff is better than most I've seen. I think its looking great! All painting really ends up being is just time and practice.
Maybe the first thing I can probably mention is your color progression. I notice you leave just a little bit of black in the recesses, giving the panels and recesses shadow. I usually find straight up black to be "unnatural" looking, as it outlines the colors like a cartoon (for lack of a better term). What I usually do for everything short of areas of absolute shadow is to paint it a shadow color similar in hue to my main color. As an example, lets look at that WiP you posted, and the Termi I painted in Nerdfests comp:
Where as all your panels and armor joints are outlined in black, mine are in a dark brown. This gives the different areas shadow, while still maintaining a similar color family between the details.
I use several layers as well in this orange- Starting with Terracotta, I washed it heavily with Devlan Mud, making sure to let it pool a bit in the recesses. I then brought everything but the shadows and recessed panel lines back up to Terracotta. This I find is one of the most important and useful steps in painting shadowed areas. The wash helps create a sort of gradient, then little highlight layers sell the effect. I progressively added more and more Blazing Orange to the highlights until I was satisfied with the color.
Hope that helps a little bit. Just my take on painting, ymmv.
IceAngel wrote: It also doesn't help that I am sharing a board with Gitsplitta and Solar lion. I may just have to have my guys in the back, lol.
Your guys were awesome!. And having a bright colored army attracts a lot of attention. Like Moths to a flame. Not necessarily the painting. ( TAXI!!! ) Besides yours and Steves camo patterns are way more difficult to produce.
I think starting with black as a base might make it difficult. thou it's make the orange a bit darker. When I did my penal trooper I started with a white undercoat and started with a darker mix of Orange. Hummm indeed!
@ Solar - I think I prefer my guys to be darker. My guys have a very autumn palette and I don't necessarily want to lighten them up. Keep in mind the above level of orange still has a ways to go.
@ Ramos - I may try your method on a test marine. I see your point with the lines but I'm almost afraid that your method will work too well and then I'd have to redo my other guys to have some uniformity. I'll build another tactical marine today and prime him up for the test, meanwhile I need to start painting so I get have another update for all of you today!
Btw, today's random musical selection to enjoy while painting is....... Muse, Linkin Park, T-Payne, the sound track to life aquatic, and Ren and Stimpys Crock o'Christmas!
Ren and Stimpy are a fantastic bizarre part of my childhood that I always laugh at. Clearly you are just too old to understand the humor in it, lol. Would you rather I replace it with the Leave it to Beaver sound track, or perhaps the music from I love lucy?
I imagine you had to look those up on Wiki as your parents were probably in grade school when those were popular.
Ren & Stimpy are well within my realm of animation awareness & I did watch them from time to time when the show was popular. Unfortunately the show was pretty asinine... even for the style low-brow, gross humor show that it was. Sponge Bob borrows from it in certain ways, but is more intelligently written.
Hmmm... that's kind of trolly. Sorry Ice, didn't mean to rain on your nostalgia parade.
11/20 painting update: I added the next layer of orange/brown onto flamer marine after giving him a nice delvan mud wash. I added brown onto another marine and I did some easy dry brushing onto all of the five marines bases. Overall, I didn't get as much done as I would've liked. I took some pictures but I am not happy with the lighting so I'm going to try and take some more here in just a minute.
Okay, here is an updated picture of my WIP today. For some reason when I switched lenses and stood about 12 feet away the picture came out much more to my liking.
@Ramos: I'm not sure if this is what Ice is shooting for... but that "black lining" technique is very indicative of the way GW painters went about their business back when the Badab War first made it's appearance in WD. While it may not be the most sophisticated painting approach, it does make them look more like they come from that era. Just a thought...
Gitsplitta wrote:@Ramos: I'm not sure if this is what Ice is shooting for... but that "black lining" technique is very indicative of the way GW painters went about their business back when the Badab War first made it's appearance in WD. While it may not be the most sophisticated painting approach, it does make them look more like they come from that era. Just a thought...
Ah is that so? Interesting. Id never thought of that. The most i really know of "old school" gw painting styles is green bases
Okay. Today I added the next layer of orange. I added the first high light. I also started working on some other bits. Started adding some blue onto his purity seal and added some blues to his eyes. Highlighted the aquila on his chest. Painted the helm several layers of gray and added on a thick wash of mud to give it that dirty feel.
Still need to add the final high lights around the model. He needs his stripes and of course some junk on his base. Other then that I think he is almost completed. Thoughts or suggestions?
Thanks guys! I managed to get a few other things done before company started arriving. Added brown onto all of the arms that are unattached and I brown another marine. Only one more marine to add brown too and then I can do some mass oranging. If I forget to mention it tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving!
Pictures will arrive most likely on Friday if I can get around to it.
Okay, I admit I'm a few days behind in posting my pictures. I blame Halo 4, X-Com, and Strikefleet Omega for the delay. DAMN MY NEED FOR GAMING!
Here is an update of where I'm at. The guy on the left is oranged up to where I want, he just needs the fine details and a bit of cleaning. The second guy has one round of orange put on him. The other three have only the level 1 brown on them. I also started on the arms and the back packs. The arms actually have the first level of orange on them as well. There is still much to be done!
Music played while this post was created. (Charles Mingus, Leon Parker, Herbie Hancock, and Cypress Hill)
Solar, I do not but I'm thinking about doing so on my tiger claws.
Cormadepanda, I know...... but its tough when my wife demands I play halo 4 with her so she can take out her job frustrations on random online strangers. That and its hilarious!
Here is an updated picture of my team mates Executioner Scouts. He still has to finish their bases and determine what he needs to do with the cloaks. He is very undecided at this time about how to paint them.
As for myself I did some painting today but I failed to take any pictures. I know, I'm a slacker. I should turn around and take some but its late and I'm tired. I did manage to paint up some more orange levels and do some random things, like eyes and lenses. I worked on one of the missile launcher back packs. It wasn't terribly productive but I'm slowly getting there. OH, I did get to the point where I could attach one of the missile launchers onto the marine, so two of the five are ready for stripes. Three to go!
The hoods are from a German website. He did minimal GS to make them work. I'll have to have them brought back over to take a closer shot. Unfortunately the close ups I took got washed out.
Solar, they do have a redemptionist feel to them.
Any one have any suggestions on what color he should paint the cloaks?
Hmmmmm Perhaps some sort of urban camo? A color to stand out from the (excellent) camo, yet still fit the scheme.
I can see them being like a mottled gray color.
Here is another update, with pictures from my new camera! Fancy, I know. You can see the orange is coming together nicely. Two of them still need some final high lights. As I look at my pictures I do notice lots of little things that I need to touch up. After I work on the orange for the final guy I'll probably tackle the stripes and chapter badge.
I think I need to scour the internet for a good missile launcher photo. They are the one heavy weapon I am never 100% happy with when I paint. I'm not sure what it is but I think I need to try something else. As you can see in my photos I have hardly done anything except for a light dry brushing.
I really like your army colors, the stripes are so cool and eye catching, how do you get them? They remind me of a style that uses tape to move some areas then spray with paint and pull tape away after, is this what you do or do you do stripes by hand?
If I recall correctly (my marines have been dormant for years <.<' ), I usually paint the big boxy thing in front the same color as my bollters. seems to give it just enough definition from all metal.
Loving that orange by the way- looks amazing!
You need to bring back the Marines Chrysemys. I don't recall how to properly spell that, but I always liked your marines. Brother Jaska is one of my favorites.
PICTURE DUMP! Here is some WIP from my team mates Executioners. As you may all remember, the color of an Executioners shoulder pad designates what kind of unit he is in. The green is for tactical, purple for devastators, red for scouts, etc. As you can see here there is a full tactical unit and further down a devastator sergeant. I hope you like!
Thanks guys! I believe that the Executioner army is very near to completion for our 2013 Adepticon tournament. Once he completes the bases, touch ups, and paints the bodies of some loyalist scum, I'll try to get a full army shot.
They are the standard terminators. I'm not sure if Adepticon is allowing any Heresy stuff into the tournament so I went with the basics. I have punched them all out and have started to clean them up, drill barrels, etc. Once the Holiday season ends I should be able to reclaim my table so the painting and modeling can continue.
118 days left to Adepticon. In that time I need to complete the previously pictured Tiger Claw missile launchers. Complete my terminators, paint Huron, locate two more missile launchers and build them. Then my army is all set. I also need to do some writing but that doesn't really belong in the P&M blog. Does it? Nope.
Now that the holidays have passed, I have been able to get at least a little bit of modeling done. I drilled out some barrels and put two terminators together. Expect some pictures once I base them. I also discovered that I was incorrect with the number of tactical marines i had already made for my Tiger Claw army so I now get to make two more! I already have some ideas for them.
I'll be having a New Years day battle. I may try to have some live event day coverage if you guys would be interested. I'll be bringing the Tiger Claws. Hopefully the Executioners will be arriving as well. You can never have enough practice with your army. I want to play a few more times before I mess with my list to much.
1/1/13 - I got some stuff done. I had a battle and it was good.
First up some WIP of some of my latest Tiger Claws. I will apologize in advance for my greenstuff fo.
Top image shows the four most recent builds I've made. The bottom shot is a close up of one of the terminators. The idea is that he has come across some banners of an enemy and is about to knock them over. I wanted to have some bits of ripped banner hanging from one of them.
Here is the army I brought to todays game. My Tiger Claws with a handful of Ice Angels being thrown in for proxies.
My teammate the Executioners.
The Tyranid Army
Here is deployment from our battle today. For some reason not all of my pictures uploaded properly so I'll be editing this post shortly, but in the meantime check out the action right before it started.
This was how one of our dice rolls ended up. Perfectly cocked on its corner. One of the lovely side effects of a textured board.
Thanks Gits. I added a few more photos and then discovered I was having uploading issues because of file size. Time to do some trimming before more get added.
To summarize the battle. 2,000 points Executioners and Tiger Claws versus Orks and Tyranids. Dawn of War set up, relic scenario. The other team stole the initiative and the game was afoot. 60 boys, 5 warriors, 2 zoanthropes, and a venomthrope pushed for the relic. A trukk full of nobs supported by Lootas, and on turn 2 genestealers, moved up our right flank. The tervigon mass produced gants for the first four turns on our left flank and fed them into the center. The trygon came up on our left flank as well trying to surround the relic but scattered WAY off.
My Tiger Claws pushed for the relic in the center in mass while the Executioners covered my flanks. His assault squad took out the zoanthropes and eventually got into the tervignon before succumbing to the monsterous creature in close combat. (mostly due to horrible rolls) The center was at first a hail of bolter fire tearing through the hordes of ork boys. My terminators assaulted a mob of boys and in close combat his boys took out ALL of my terminators leaving only Huron to fend for himself, which he did! Meanwhile nearby Thulsa Kane led a tactical unit into combat with a recently arrived Trygon. Kane defeated the creature but lost all of his unit. He then charged into the same mob with Huron. The two commanders finished off the squad and sent them packing. The squad then regrouped and Kane charged them again but this time the boys were to many and Kane went down from their massed attacks.
Huron then called in an orbital bombardment on the nobs with the warboss killing all of them except the warboss. Huron then joined up with one of the two remaining Tiger Claw tactical squads which quickly fell back with the relic. However they weren't fast enough. The warriors, which were still at full strength ran them down and killed most of the tactical marines. While the lootas and hive guard killed the remaining members of the other squad.
At the game end the board was rather desolate. My only remaining marines were Huron and two tactical marines, all which were still engaged with the Warriors. The only remaining Executioners were a full 5 man devastator squad with missile launchers. Of the Tyranids there remained three warriors in combat, two hive guard, and two genestealers which were hiding off to the right to get line breaker. The only remaining orks were a couple of lootas that had managed to keep their heads down.
Final tally, Imperial 3 victory points, Xenos 2 victory points. It was a great game and it came down to the wire. The Executioner devastators were the MVP taking out both the Tervigon after it killed the assault squad and taking out the Warboss after his retinue was blown away by the orbital strike.
Why does the termi with the banner poles have his pads on e wrong way around? Normally don't care on power armor, but there is a left and right side of them for sure on terminators.
Dang it. How did I do that? More importantly, how did I not notice that? Hmmm I'm not sure how I'm gonna fix that one. Thanks for catching that one whale.
Okay, after a rough week trying to remember what it was like to be at work again, I finally got my painting station back in order. For those of you keeping track Adepticon is 103 days away.
I assembled more terminators and continued cleaning up the previous put together marines. I'm hoping that when it warms up this week to get some priming in.
Painting has been minimal outside of working on some missile launchers. I added the first layer of gray to the bodies. Need some washes and highlights and they'll be done. After that its time for stripes!
Yellowbeard, I actually have a mixture of playground sand ( the super fine stuff ) and the slightly larger granule that I can't remember where I got from. There is actually a third size in my mixture as well but I'm almost out of that stuff so it doesn't come up often.
Yellowbeard, I actually have a mixture of playground sand ( the super fine stuff ) and the slightly larger granule that I can't remember where I got from. There is actually a third size in my mixture as well but I'm almost out of that stuff so it doesn't come up often.
the larger granules look like "fine" or "ultra fine" ballast from a model railroading shop. Brian has more experience with that end of things so I would deferr to him on this but thats what that looks like to me.
Despite having a terrible terrible day, (I had to put down my 16 year old cat Valdez) I managed to get some painting done on my Tiger Claws. It was a nice distraction.
They are pretty much done. After looking at the blown up close up of my guys I see a couple minor things that need fixing. What do you guys think?
So sad! 16 is a good life for a cat. Sympathies my friend!
They look great. I like the color breakup of the weapons, especially how it make the ML look like serious hardware.
Thou not a contest .. I think the picture caption YB just started is now in full swing... My entrys...
" Fritz...Quit codex shopping and get in the game" or
" Marine on the right " Hey you guys said and we all agreed we were going to take flamers!. fine.. I'm taking this helmet and going home!"
Thanks guys. I appreciate all the kind words both in regards to my cat and my models.
I don't have any more pictures today but it was warm enough today to get some priming done. Expect some color down on models this weekend. I think I'll be attacking the last three tactical marines first.
Any one else have amusing captions for my previous picture?
Yep. I found that the SW codex was the closest to My Red Corsairs play style. When I was Chaos I didn't use any mutations, deamons, or even marks! As you can see from my sig that didn't work out too well. SW was the easiest fix. They come with the same 3 weapons as a Chaos marine. Also being able to pick and choose gear made an easy Huron (Wolf Lord). As for Fluff The Red Corsairs Captured the Wolf of Fernis. Some of the SW turned and aided Huron. It is also not too far of a stretch that Huron used the SW geenseed to make more wolves... Huron's Wolves!
And that what I call them "Huron's Wolves"
Now with the New Chaos Codex I'd like to try them again. I have bought the Dark Vengence set. So instead of converting the SW back to chaos I will have two Red Corsairs armies. Plus the cultists would be perfect remanence of the Badab PDFs "Tyrants Dogboys"
i still have to buy that codex or play a 6th ed. game for that matter.
I've always loved the old Astral claws pattern, I've been wanting to do that army as well. Thats why I love yours! I dont think I could do them the justice that you accomplished. Cant wait to see more.
Stormsung, thank you for your kind words. It was very tough, but luckily we were fortunate to have such a phenomenal cat with sixteen years of fantastic memories to look back on. I'll probably never own another cat capable of so much affection yet still able to stare down 100 pound dogs and make them whimper. (true story)
Solar, I think I may have an idea where you are going with that. I may have a surprise in store for you, but I'm not posting any pictures until I feel they are worthy. Progress is being made, don't you worry.
Ramos that shoulder pad is from Chapterhouse. I have made several purchases from them and always enjoyed their products. If you look at my various Tiger Claw marines you'll come across all sorts of Chapterhouse pads and helms strewn about. I also have an Ice Angel with one of their twin bladed lightning claws. Good stuff!
I think its worth it. If you are really into the raised shoulder pads with icons and such, I'd go for it. Grab some other ones as well. I have used their exorcist and salamander pads in addition to the non-chapter affiliated pads and been happy with all of them.
More progress on one of the tactical marines. I think he is coming along nicely but there is still much to do. I should be able to finish him soon then move onto the others. One of which already received his next coat but the third is still a lovely brown.
( first thing up after adepticon)
but its tough when my wife demands I play halo 4 with her so she can take out her job frustrations on random online strangers. That and its hilarious!
