JaydeeOT wrote:
not seen a lot of love for these guys, they were incredibly awkward to paint though, but here are my Reb Zee's codename's Bitz and Bobz:

Like those Zees. If they're anything like the DB ones, they are teeny-tiny for painting
I've only used a single Zee thus far (using a DB Zee).
Their scavenging ability is cool but they are complete pants at any type of combat.

Hadn't thought of using cat litter as basing. Hmmmmm.

yes the cat litter was an idea from and old white dwarf publication when Necromunda was still in its early days.

They are the same size as the DB zee's perhaps a little larger due to the armour etc... I personally think the Zee's might be key personel in the Reb force, people emphasise too much on combat ability but the Rebs victory points are mainly gained through scavenging or escaping a hotzone etc... and if you think about it, the figures are small enough to get a better chance of cover making them harder to hit while other, more scary looking Rebs draw fire

Plus if they're tiny, there's not much model to paint

Good points.

Finally finished my first/trial s3 and a test cube of Battlezones scenery.



I got some blood in his eyes while I was experimenting with the airbrush for blood spatter, I'll have to fix them. Any suggestions as to which color to go with when I do? I could almost leave it...

I'm fairly happy with the cube, I may look into adding additional types of weathering like scorch marks, graffiti, and most likely some ad-boards and such. The rust is pretty basic but it's obvious at a distance.

Cool looking. Why 'fix' anything? Sometimes when you're a murderous 3A mutant, you get victim juice in your eyes.

I'd be ok with that, but what do I do for the rest of them that don't get convenient blood in their eyes?

 Gadge wrote:
Some great minis, giving me the push I need to paint my guys. Here is what I ve done so far.

I don't recognize 5he dude with the sword, is that in the KS package? Good work though!

Corporation wp officer.

nice stuff GrimDork, perhaps the standard bright white eyes would stand out against the green and look quite zombie like, or you could go orangy yellow for quite a demonic alien animal look? I like the test panel for the buildings too but its got me thinking now... Im sitting here feeling quite intimidated by the mountain of grey plastic scenery, I need a quick way of getting them painted but detailed at the same time, whats everybody's approach to this because I need some inspiration.

Gadge, those red coats are smashing!
Well done.

Gadge, i cant believe I actually missed you posting these first time, these are some great mini's the red coats are really vibrant and the warpath corp. officer fits the rebs force really well

I'm not really into Deazone but the last time I ordered hobby stuff I added a Rebs Commander to my shopping cart.
Here's my painted version of it.

oh man thats good, the beaten leather effect on the coat is great, how did you get it like that if you dont mind me asking?

Also impressed with the face.

Mantic's models are so much smaller than the heroic scale that getting the faces done nicely (you've done a super job here) is a real challenge for me.

Finished enough of the Marauders for a strike team. 66 points, first round campaign legal.

Those marauders look sweet!!! Nice job there

Very well done, Blood Dave.
That's advertisement quality work there.

Yes, those Marauders look really fine.

Some damn good stuff there and with that paint job the ripper suit actually looks fairly decent and not over the top or ridiculous .

Thanks you guys. I've started on the warlord. There's a lot of detail there, so it may take a bit longer. Also, tomorrow is my Deadzone campaign night, so I won't get home until late, so probably not much painting tomorrow night.

Wow, those Marauders are phenomenal. I really don't have the patience with Restic to do much more than base and wash. I doff my cap to you, sir.

My first marauder just finished up. Whodathunk the Marauders were such fans of our 16th president.

Some sweet marauders have cropped up, nice work both of you.

I finally finished my first plague strike team, boosh:


Since I got my enforcers done too (was just missing the sniper), bonus:

The full team is here. The Captain America with the helm is actually the open faced Enforcer Captain with a bit of Green Stuff. Shield is from a Chaos Marauder covered in GS. The others have been shown before.


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Hmm, not sure why the picture is so tiny. I'll try to fix that.

That should be better. Enjoy.

Hah! That's awesome

Next up, in homage to the awesomeness that was Captain America II, a certain brown haired Captain America replacement during CW will be joining the ranks shortly. He's built, and partially painted. Should have him done by 6, I'd imagine.

Will you be painting him as the cap or his other persona?

Painting him as his Cap persona. He's done, actually, just drying now. And he needs to be based, which'll take a hot minute. And I think he looks fantastic.

Bucky is done. I realize when he's in his Captain America gear, he has his bionic arm covered by the uniform. However, I like the idea of him showing his bionic arm, so I went with it. Hope you guys like him.


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Beginning paint work on my Frank Castle version of Captain America. Sculpted his cowl and skull from GS, and he's wearing his shield on his back. I'm hoping to have him posted by the end of the night. He's outside priming now, and probably ready. After this, I need one more shotgun and I'll make US Agent as the final member of the squad. So, somebody please send me one Space Marine scout shotgun!! An unborn plastic life is at stake hear!!

The Marauder Warlord. This is the most expensive single non-vehicle model I've ever bought, at $12.00 (USA) It's metal, big and heavy.

More images here: http://imgur.com/a/28UZn#0

Nice Marauder Captain, BloodDave!!

Punisher Cap is now up, and Bucky Cap is at the bottom of page 21. Punisher's base isn't done, and his shield isn't finished either, but you can't tell from these images. When somebody finally sends me one more Scout Shotgun, I'll do up a US Agent mini as well, and the Defender squad will be finished.

Ha sweet. I'll look at my bits box but I never had very many scouts.

I wonder if I'd have anyone give me issue for using the Punisher Cap-Defender in a game of Deadzone, seeing how the shield is on his back. It actually slots right on perfectly. Once I have US Agent done though, I won't have any more defenders to occupy my time. Back to the grind of everyone else. Oh well, I still have my X-Men rebels.

-thanks for looking for me, GD!

-second edit: I'll post a picture of the full Defender squad once US Agent is done.

As long as you make it clear they are defenders I don't think anyone will mind. I know I would be happy to play against fun conversions like this.

Yeah just declare the facing. Given the shield interacts with facing alone and not LoS, only asshats would brother you about it if you explain before game.

Grim, if you're able to find that Scout Shotgun, just gimme a PM. I have the model built except for the gun, so I can have him without the gun for now. I'll be painting him tomorrow morning before I leave for Easter with the family. I'll post a picture of the handless wonder in the morning, but it's too dark to prime outside, plus it's a bit on the late side too.

Will do but it may not be quick in coming, tomorrow bodes to be filled with family activities on both sides lol.

 blooddave wrote:



The Marauder Warlord. This is the most expensive single non-vehicle model I've ever bought, at $12.00 (USA) It's metal, big and heavy.

More images here: http://imgur.com/a/28UZn#0

Love this model. If I played 40K Orks I would totally have this as my Warboss. Nice paintjob too mate

Yeah, that model is cool and it's been very well painted.

Defender squad is done! US Agent is missing his shotty, but with a strategic angle, the squad looks nice. Definitely feel like pictures don't do the same justice as the actual models, but I'm still happy. Enjoy guys, and Happy Easter. Going to dinner with my sister, so this is my only picture for the day.

 GrimDork wrote:
Yeah, that model is cool and it's been very well painted.

Thanks you guys. Unfortunately, I just discovered it is too big to fit in my storage box. I'm going to have to use a different box. Oh well. It seems I've let myself get talked into playing Warpath, as well, so I think I'll get a new box for all my Deadzone / Warpath mins.

 blooddave wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Yeah, that model is cool and it's been very well painted.

Thanks you guys. Unfortunately, I just discovered it is too big to fit in my storage box. I'm going to have to use a different box. Oh well. It seems I've let myself get talked into playing Warpath, as well, so I think I'll get a new box for all my Deadzone / Warpath mins.

How tall is that model by the way? I have one coming for my Kickstarter part 2 survey.

26 MAR - Using Mantic's online system, I submitted a ticket about a missing Sorak from Rebs starter

20 APR - Baggie with Sorak and Yndij trooper (because they come in a baggie together) arrived in our mailbox in Maryland, US.

Thanks, Mantic!

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 blooddave wrote:

 GrimDork wrote:
Yeah, that model is cool and it's been very well painted.

Thanks you guys. Unfortunately, I just discovered it is too big to fit in my storage box. I'm going to have to use a different box. Oh well. It seems I've let myself get talked into playing Warpath, as well, so I think I'll get a new box for all my Deadzone / Warpath mins.

How tall is that model by the way? I have one coming for my Kickstarter part 2 survey.

I'm at work, and the model is ay home, so I can't measure it, but here's a pic that might help:

A good bit bigger than your average Orx Marauder then lol

Hey, some really nice things popping up, loving them all =D

Finally got round to finishing the Judwan Medic over the weekend, I only really painted him for the challenge since I doubt I will be using him much in a game.











Just wanted to add this last pic with the following line "God damnit Captain!! I'm a doctor not a mobile phone technician!!"

Judwan is looking cool, and the caption is funny.

Yeah that's really nice, good work

Nice looking medic there mate. Good job

Very well done.

Finished US Agent. Turns out I had one more player who went a little crazy when he wasn't invited to the party. I don't want him to bring back the green and purple, so I guess I'll have to give him a shine in red white and blue. Well, red silver and blue, more accurately.

Cheers guys, really enjoyed painting the Judwan, its a shame they are non combatants though

hey Timetowaste85 good to see more marvel inspired colour schemes and characters, I'm not 100% sure who you were referring to in the last post though?

Oh and I've managed to get a bit more done on my Deadzone board, hopefully I'll get round to doing some buildings soon but in the meantime no matter who your playing, Rebs, Enforcers, Marauders or Plague... Keep fighting for those forgotten places and the secrets they hide.

Going from green and purple to red white and blue wasn't a workable hint? Hmmm...if he didnt get invited, he'd go back to throwing blondes off bridges. Does that work? And yes, he's a hugely major marvel character.

Meh nerd street cared will take a blow but I'm still clueless personally. I'm really interested in marvel and, hell, even DC, but comics just aren't a medium I can get into. For whatever reason, so I must live vicariously through hardier nerds with more nerd versatility then me. I do look forward to seeing whatever it is that we are talking about

Jaydee, your board work is nothing short of inspirational, keep it coming it makes me smile


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Than! Damn phone trying to punk mah grammarz!

Guy who dressed in green and purple and threw blondes off bridges, and eventually donned a star spangled costume? Man..thats...that's like a dead giveaway. He's also rich. Has his own company. If I give any more than that, I'll be up to his name.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Guy who dressed in green and purple and threw blondes off bridges, and eventually donned a star spangled costume?

Wait, what? When did that happen?

 GrimDork wrote:
Meh nerd street cared will take a blow but I'm still clueless personally. I'm really interested in marvel and, hell, even DC, but comics just aren't a medium I can get into. For whatever reason, so I must live vicariously through hardier nerds with more nerd versatility then me. I do look forward to seeing whatever it is that we are talking about

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Than! Damn phone trying to punk mah grammarz!

I'm with you, man. Can't get into comics. I read a crapload of books, though. sci-fi, fantasy, horror. The new Deadzone Containment Protocol short story collection is OK. Good fluff, OK writing.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Guy who dressed in green and purple and threw blondes off bridges, and eventually donned a star spangled costume? Man..thats...that's like a dead giveaway. He's also rich. Has his own company. If I give any more than that, I'll be up to his name.

You know, the only person i can think of is Norman Osborn, something I must have missed.


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 blooddave wrote:


I'm with you, man. Can't get into comics. I read a crapload of books, though. sci-fi, fantasy, horror. The new Deadzone Containment Protocol short story collection is OK. Good fluff, OK writing.

hey blooddave if you have the containment protocol stories does that mean you have already received your second survey package or did you buy it separately?

 JaydeeOT wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Guy who dressed in green and purple and threw blondes off bridges, and eventually donned a star spangled costume? Man..thats...that's like a dead giveaway. He's also rich. Has his own company. If I give any more than that, I'll be up to his name.

You know, the only person i can think of is Norman Osborn, something I must have missed.

Best go back and wiki the outcome of Secret Invasion then. It explains the temporary new leader of SHIELD, the Avengers, and the Brillo-hair league for men.

I stopped reading Marvel (and comics in general) just before Secret Invasion started, but I've heard about some of Norman's crazier exploits, should be interesting to see your take on the character.

 JaydeeOT wrote:


hey blooddave if you have the containment protocol stories does that mean you have already received your second survey package or did you buy it separately?

They sent out a link to the PDF (and a Kindle version, too) a few weeks ago. Wave 2 doesn't ship until June, I think.

Ok, so does the containment protocol collection offer any insight into the backgrounds of some of the major races or is just a collection of short stories?

It's mostly short stories. I'm not sure I would have paid the $7 for it, it's only 100-110 pages. I liked most or all of the stories, but I don't think any of them gave anything away. The enforcers seemed a bit more human than robocop, but only just. The marauders were portrayed as pretty smart though they play dumb to take advantage of suckers. All in all, they were pretty grimdark, bad stuff happens, and when it does it sucks to be you

You might get some insight, but its not like they lay out all of the names of the biggest corporations and the shape and size of the corporation's holdings. They don't tell you what kind of training an enforcer gets or detail the military hierarchy. They talk about the faster than light travel consistently enough that we can probably consider that canon. I would put the stories, on average, as better than what you get in the Ironwatch magazine, but only by a bit (one or more of the writers in the compilation have stuff in the magazine too, I probably like Breach as much or more than anything in containment protocols).

 Paradigm wrote:
I stopped reading Marvel (and comics in general) just before Secret Invasion started, but I've heard about some of Norman's crazier exploits, should be interesting to see your take on the character.

Well, I was unhappy with the red portion of his armor, so I have to switch it to a more metallic red. I didn't get anything accomplished with him, but I did build a new conversion, and I am definitely in need of an open faced enforcer captain head to finish the conversion. I'll actually be leaving the head as is, it needs no work, but the green stuff has to dry before I do any more work on it. Magnets are involved. And weapons. Lots of weapons. The model is pretty much a walking arsenal. A machine of war, if you will.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
A machine of war, if you will.

Subtle

I have a way with words. Hehe. I actually FOUND the head with the visor up though, so he's built and will be primed and paired immediately after work tonight.

 JaydeeOT wrote:
Ok, so does the containment protocol collection offer any insight into the backgrounds of some of the major races or is just a collection of short stories?

Nexus Psi is the book you want for background on the factions. About 5 pages for all 4 factions, and a page for each special character.

ahh excellent cheers Scarletsquig

After my less than subtle comment about the newest member of my team, here he is, Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes. What, you expected him in his traditional silver on silver armor? Fooled you!! Also, both big guns are magnetized and interchangeable, so whether you want going into battle with a burst rifle or a missile launcher, just put the one you want facing forward and the other one facing up. He can switch hit at every game.

Looks pretty cool, I like the use of magnets.

He'll be pulling double duty as a sergeant for my HW Enforcer Squads, counting as the commander with a blade/pistol. He's the only one I'm doing, as it was a pain to get it right with the tools I had, and I don't want to chance a round 2 fail. Lol. Stormin' Norman Osborn is almost done, I just have to finish the shield. I decided the red looked decent after a wash, and left him as is. If there is public backlash, I'll switch the style for the red to something else I know has worked in the past. Rhodey's base is unflocked at the moment, I'll get to it eventually to try to hide the platforms.

The patriotic bastard used parts from the following:
Body-Missile Launcher from Deadzone
Head-Commander from Deadzone
Missile Launcher-From Deadzone
Burst laser-from standard Enforcer kit
Hands-Eldar Guardians
Wrist Guns-Enforcer rifles cut down
Right arm-metal burst laser arm
Left Arm-plastic burst laser arm

Norman Osborn is affiliated with captain america? For that matter the punisher too? He must get more hardcore at some point.

 GrimDork wrote:
Norman Osborn is affiliated with captain america? For that matter the punisher too? He must get more hardcore at some point.

Nick Fury was removed from SHIELD at one point and Tony took his place. Following Secret Invasion, Tony Stark was seen as weak and ineffective, and Norman Osborn pulled a stunt on television that made him look like a hero. The public flocked to him, he took over SHIELD, turning it into SWORD, gained control of the Avengers, and access to all of Stark's work. He took the suit and since Cap was dead, he merged the two into a single character: Iron Patriot. He led the Avengers until he went nuts and Goblin came back out. Then Cap came back, sorted things with Stark, they hugged it out and booted Norman to the curb. And they lived happily ever after. The end.

And Punisher borrowed the look to fight against some kind of racist douchebag for a short time and SHIELD told him "no", and gave the suit and shield to Bucky.

Ahh OK cool. I was thinking shield and sword were concurrent, with latter being cloak and daggery. Shows how little caught up I am

You're right, sorry, I misspoke. Should have been HAMMER, not SWORD. It's been a while.

Oh cool, my memory is kinda poor. Are you doing the captain as a hulkbuster or did you already have one from warpath?

I have two from warpath that are already hulk buster.
I may try to make one more hulkbusterish, but not sure yet. I do have two more schemes for snipers as well that would require alternate models. One will require another Recon model, the other I have already. Both will be standing sniper alternates.

I'd offer to trade you a recon for... something... but honestly you could probably nab one off of miniature market or similar for little more than it would cost me to send one, I seem to recall their small item shipping being pretty decent.

I thought I had seen one or more warpath captains before, but my memory is poor.

I mentioned to GD that I wanted a Hawkeye model without the Bane mask going, and the smallest Elohi head fits on Recon's body perfectly. Currently fixing him up and actually making him look as close to Clint Barton as I can with Mantic parts. My other sniper wearing black leather and a sultry Russian accent is almost half done as well. And seriously, nobody better need a further hint than that, or I'm throwing my Xbox at their head.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
I mentioned to GD that I wanted a Hawkeye model without the Bane mask going, and the smallest Elohi head fits on Recon's body perfectly. Currently fixing him up and actually making him look as close to Clint Barton as I can with Mantic parts. My other sniper wearing black leather and a sultry Russian accent is almost half done as well. And seriously, nobody better need a further hint than that, or I'm throwing my Xbox at their head.

Will she be some kind of spider maybe a black one that maybe has last it's husband?

Is it spider woman? Are you going to use the venom bolts to represent the sniper rifle?

Avengers, ASSEMBLE!!!


Anyone got an issue with Hawkeye and Black Widow being my sniper models?

That is a pretty awesomely themed force you've got yourself there I'd be down with your snipers just fine, they're like twice as easy to shoot so as long as you told me I was playing five enforcers and which was which I'd play against that force all day.

Or well, I would...


If somebody had remembered to give the Pyms a call. I guess its not like anyone else remembers them if the movie was anything to go by

Those are super cool Timetowaste, all you need now is Loki in charge of some plague.

Also, has anyone thought of doing count-as conversions for Deadzone? I've been thinking of doing a elite Veer-Myn force counts as Marauders using Nightmares as the base model, you guys think
that's a good match theme/rules wise and more importantly would in be legal in pick-up games and tournaments providing I follow basic wysiwyg rules? As far as I know Mantic have no issues
with conversions.

 GrimDork wrote:
That is a pretty awesomely themed force you've got yourself there I'd be down with your snipers just fine, they're like twice as easy to shoot so as long as you told me I was playing five enforcers and which was which I'd play against that force all day.

Or well, I would...


If somebody had remembered to give the Pyms a call. I guess its not like anyone else remembers them if the movie was anything to go by

The Pyms are there, they just don't translate well to the 28mm scale.

And Rolt, I actually have Hulk and Friends set as the Plague: Hulk, Smart Hulk, Red Hulk, Grey Hulk, etc are the S3s, A-Bomb (Rick Jones) is S2, and Abomination is S1. Doggies I got lazy. Lol. The Plague Enforcer will be a Hulked out Iron Man, of course.

I kind of want to get a 15mm human and convert him into an Ant man and use him as a Zee, then get a Kraaw-Wasp thing going on... just so they can have some love But then I'll want to start doing every Marvel character you've yet to do and thats... just too much going on at this point Spider Yndij, Colossus Grogan (sonofabitch I just now thought of that /cry) and so on... Must... resist!

 GrimDork wrote:
I kind of want to get a 15mm human and convert him into an Ant man and use him as a Zee, then get a Kraaw-Wasp thing going on... just so they can have some love But then I'll want to start doing every Marvel character you've yet to do and thats... just too much going on at this point Spider Yndij, Colossus Grogan (sonofabitch I just now thought of that /cry) and so on... Must... resist!

Uh...Colossus Grogan isn't in my painting gallery only because I haven't inked his torso yet and was too busy on my Ironforcers. Sorry...lol. He's 95% done. I went with Beast for the Yndijj, btw. Gonna cut the tail off, I think.

Ahh good, you did that one. I was concerned it was going to pull me in You're a good man.


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I'll cover something else cool so you don't have to sweat it. Maybe when Mars Attacks! hits the shelves I'll do a Stargate Team from the US soldiers


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Just so you guys don't give me trouble for blabbing all the time and never posing deadzone progress, here's my Marauder Captain:



Captain Grim will be joined by his crew shortly. I may have said already, but does his outfit vaguely suggest any characters you might recognize or did I miss the mark? I have to say I quite like brown orx so far.

Was the Judwan medic supposed to be a part of the Strike Force pledge? I really like that model!

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Avengers, ASSEMBLE!!!


Anyone got an issue with Hawkeye and Black Widow being my sniper models?

Awesome. Who's next?

The Marauder Hulk is a fairly obvious one, but what are your plans for Thor? Forge Father with a heat hammer?

Any plans for some villains?

 primalexile wrote:


Was the Judwan medic supposed to be a part of the Strike Force pledge? I really like that model!

Hey man, cant remember if the medic was part of the strikeforce package or not, he's one of the Reb booster models and If I remember rightly he was in a bag along with the missile launcher team and the Kraaw warrior so if you have those you should have a Judwan medic somewhere.

 Paradigm wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Avengers, ASSEMBLE!!!


Anyone got an issue with Hawkeye and Black Widow being my sniper models?

Awesome. Who's next?

The Marauder Hulk is a fairly obvious one, but what are your plans for Thor? Forge Father with a heat hammer?

Any plans for some villains?

Actually, Hulk is with the Plague. He's S3, A-Bomb is S2, Abomination is S1. No plans for Thor at the moment, but if I did, he'd definitely be a ForgeFather.

Yeah he was just part of the booster/booster bundle. He should be in one of the smaller Rebs boosters available at retail now (or soon, can't remember).

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Avengers, ASSEMBLE!!!


Anyone got an issue with Hawkeye and Black Widow being my sniper models?

Awesome. Who's next?

The Marauder Hulk is a fairly obvious one, but what are your plans for Thor? Forge Father with a heat hammer?

Any plans for some villains?

Actually, Hulk is with the Plague. He's S3, A-Bomb is S2, Abomination is S1. No plans for Thor at the moment, but if I did, he'd definitely be a ForgeFather.

What's difference between A-Bomb and Abomination? I thought they're the same character? (Correct me if I'm wrong)

Abomination is Emil Blonsky, an ex soldier, and a common Hulk villain. A-Bomb is Rick Jones, after he got a gamma bath. A-Bomb is also blue.

Plus, sadly, the Abomination is currently dead.

One of my favorite villains...

As for A-Bomb - I think he's still active?

But I can't be sure!

 Alpharius wrote:
Plus, sadly, the Abomination is currently dead.

This is Marvel. Give him a couple of months to walk it off and he'll be right as rain.

Stupid superman, he ruined death for everyone.

Right? My comicbook lore is pretty weak but I was thinking the whole death/regeneration coma thing that superman did was the break in the dam.

Hey everybody, I saw in a recent update from Mantic that they were looking for photos of painted Deadzone miniatures and battlefield scenery etc.. I sent an email to their new community manager and she said if anybody would like to share their work with them either tweet them @manticgames or upload pictures on facebook I think they are mainly looking for painted Deadzone scenery

I saw that too. Did they have a window over which they were taking photos? I've only got three structures right now so it would be kind of a lame entry

I dont think they have a window, I think they might just be interested to see what everybody is doing out there with their creation and I guess the more people posting pictures and tweets will raise more awareness about Mantic games and be good promotional advertisement

Share what you have so far anyway grim.

Hmm, I think I should send my "Avengers Assemble" Picture over to them on Facebook. But then you guys would all know who I was in real life.

Hate to break this to you but...


...we already do.

 Alpharius wrote:
Hate to break this to you but...


...we already do.

Gak. *ducks and runs up to some random stranger*

"Guy, they're after me. They know who I am"
"I know...I'm Alpharius. We're ALL Alpharius"

*blam* "exterminatus complete"



Pardon me, all, I just got served some dry cider that is CLEARLY high alcohol content, and despite only one, I feel like I've been drinking all day. Doesn't help that it was delicious! And a local Michigan cider and it was inexpensive. I might have two tomorrow.

Finally!! My Kraaw is finished, to be honest I'm not overly happy with him, the casting lines were virtually impossible to get rid off so I just gave up and painted over them like usual, I also think I should have gone for a different skin-tone.









If this guy was Jesse Pinkman It would be... "yo yo yo, I don't need to be subtle..... I HAVE WINGS BEATCH!!!

I think he looks great, now I want to paint one of mine!

That Kraaw looks awesome! Liking the vein details on the wings too Jaydee

I am painting so many minis these days that I just don't care about mold lines anymore.

My buddy just got me into Warpath. I've got 70 Orx grunts to paint. Only the worst mold lines are going to get attention.

Color primer. Skin, face, weapons, boots, belt, base. Dip. Done.

EDIT: Warpath Orx are barefoot. No boots. Even better.

Cheers guys, and I know what you mean Blooddave, I guess I've been spoilt by GW miniatures over the years but it is annoying when you have something that looks like a pouch or a grenade with a casting line going through it and your left thinking "what the Hell is that!?"

Well just the Terraton, Drones and heavy weapon team to go and that will be the Rebs done then im going to have to look at trying to do a salvage job on the Enforcers my brother started painting.... To be honest I think I might wait until the second survey shipment gets here and see if casting issues have been resolved on the second batch of Enforcers.

 JaydeeOT wrote:
Cheers guys, and I know what you mean Blooddave, I guess I've been spoilt by GW miniatures over the years but it is annoying when you have something that looks like a pouch or a grenade with a casting line going through it and your left thinking "what the Hell is that!?"

Well just the Terraton, Drones and heavy weapon team to go and that will be the Rebs done then im going to have to look at trying to do a salvage job on the Enforcers my brother started painting.... To be honest I think I might wait until the second survey shipment gets here and see if casting issues have been resolved on the second batch of Enforcers.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like someone's been doing a bit of work on the DZ board?

 angelofvengeance wrote:


Correct me if I'm wrong but it looks like someone's been doing a bit of work on the DZ board?

Oh yeah, just been adding a bit of foliage and moss to add a bit of colour to the board, it's pretty much finished now and just needs buildings.







Got a few updated shots with figures on it too but I'll have to post them later.

Finished my first Plague model.



I experimented with some glow effects around the largest collection of green insides, but it didn't work out as well as I'd hoped, so I limited myself to a few clusters. I might come back and some around the concrete, but until them, I'm now working on the Gen twos.

Interesting take on the plague Stage 1, I like the glowing green insides but I think they're a bit lost with the colour of the rest of the body, perhaps a wash of black or dark blue ink then highlight again with the green, that should really make it stand out I'm looking forward to seeing how you do your stage 2's

Thanks mate. The photo doesn't show it, but the insides are actually quite vivid. The porblem is if i use the flash it washes out all the shading and highlights at the expense. At some point I'll get the hang of this photography lark.

I'm going to try a bit of an experiment for the Gen 2s. I want the Gen 3s to be the red raw look that mantic's have, which means the G2s need to be a ste between.

My plan is ot do the green underoating as above and try a red wash. I have no idea how it will turn out, and it says a lot about my life that I find that uncertainty exciting.

hmmm that certainly sounds like a challenge but that's what makes the painting fun. I know what you mean about the photography, the camera can really add something or alternatively make the model look completely different.

I really dig how different everyone is going with their factions. One more ripper suit to go and the Marauders are done. Only the Rebs left to do, which I figure I'll do the Teraton first and get the big guy out of the way.

Wrath is painted up in the same armor scheme as I used for the Enforcers as a bit of mocking them. Marauder General keeps with my Army of the Potomac take for the Marauders.
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I was dreading painting the Mawbeasts, but then looked at the Blaine figure I did and decided it was a Mawbeast coat, so it clicked. I hated the Mawbeasts and still want to nut punch whoever thought chainsaw mouths was a good idea, but the figure is starting to grow on me.



Ripper suit number 1, base is Vallejo English Uniform. Absolutely loving Vallejo paint, which I hadn't used too much before the Marauders.

Great stuff!

Those are awesome, Triple9! Nicely done.

Loving the Orx and Wrath paintjobs Triple9. Great stuff .

Thanks for the compliments. Just need to finish basing and varnishing the 2nd ripper suit and the Marauders are finished. This faction, early on, almost turned me off to the game in general as I wasn't a fan of the sculpts nor of the mould lines when I got them. They turned out to be an absolute pleasure to paint though and have probably been the most fun of all the factions to paint.

So, enforcers, plague, marauders and all the mercenaries are done. Only the rebs faction left to do, Light is finally at the end of the tunnel. Think I'm going to take a week off before picking up the rebs. I'll post some faction shots in the next few days once I have a moment.

Hey Tripple9, nice looking Orx there and I like the wrath paint job I'm only half way through my Rebs and i haven't even started the Enforcers Or Marauders yet on the up side though I have finally started to paint the Deadzone scenery, after 5 months of putting it off I grabbed a grey and white can of spray paint and went crazy over the weekend... I'm going to paint a group of the same types of panels and get it done in bulk but there is just so much plastic to paint!!!

 JaydeeOT wrote:
Hey Tripple9, nice looking Orx there and I like the wrath paint job I'm only half way through my Rebs and i haven't even started the Enforcers Or Marauders yet on the up side though I have finally started to paint the Deadzone scenery, after 5 months of putting it off I grabbed a grey and white can of spray paint and went crazy over the weekend... I'm going to paint a group of the same types of panels and get it done in bulk but there is just so much plastic to paint!!!

I see your board got a mention on Mantic's Facebook

Really? I tweeted a few pics but I didnt know they were on their Facebook page, can you send me a link?

Triple9 wrote:
I really dig how different everyone is going with their factions. One more ripper suit to go and the Marauders are done. Only the Rebs left to do, which I figure I'll do the Teraton first and get the big guy out of the way.


I was dreading painting the Mawbeasts, but then looked at the Blaine figure I did and decided it was a Mawbeast coat, so it clicked. I hated the Mawbeasts and still want to nut punch whoever thought chainsaw mouths was a good idea, but the figure is starting to grow on me.

I agree about the chainsaws. Honestly if I had kept the mawbeasts I would have clipped the tongues out.

Not me! I think they're ridicawesome. I kind of wish they didn't all have bombs, but since I'm not likely to take the exploding kind... we'll just call those crude generators for powering the chainsaw tongue and Jaws of "life" thing they've got going on. And now I've got a color scheme picked out so hopefully I'll dump some shots soon.

What's not to like about chainsaw mouthed exploding attack doggies? lol


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 JaydeeOT wrote:
Really? I tweeted a few pics but I didnt know they were on their Facebook page, can you send me a link?

My mistake- I meant twitter! They retweeted your pic! Check inbox

Cheers man I mocked up a bit of the Deadzone scenery so I could compare the colour scheme and contrast with the board, what do you all think?

 JaydeeOT wrote:
Cheers man I mocked up a bit of the Deadzone scenery so I could compare the colour scheme and contrast with the board, what do you all think?

Looks like they've built new stuff on top of some old stuff- nice

Quick question to you all while I remember. Is it worth leaving stuff unglued and just held together with clips? Cause I've destroyed about a half dozen worth of clips taking buildings apart and reassembling them...
Managed to salvage a few with plastic glue.

Honestly I think your custom stuff looks better.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Quick question to you all while I remember. Is it worth leaving stuff unglued and just held together with clips? Cause I've destroyed about a half dozen worth of clips taking buildings apart and reassembling them...
Managed to salvage a few with plastic glue.

In my opinion, no. Just considering the time it takes to assemble and disassemble a small building I wouldn't bother keeping all the bits unglued (and clipping/unclipping all the time will knacker a paint job). I glued up six main building modules plus three bridges from the bits I had but chamfered the lugs that hold the bridges to the buildings so I can rearrange everything relatively easily. That lot plus some barricades, billboards and the various crates and barrels you get still allows a lot of flexibility in building DZ layouts. And that's before I start throwing in the old AT-43 scenery I have knocking about.

I'm hot gluing everything into modular structures to be combined later as desired. When my connector bundle shows up with shipment 2 I may clip and glue the clips, but I'm pretty partial to hot glue.

 GrimDork wrote:
I'm hot gluing everything into modular structures to be combined later as desired. When my connector bundle shows up with shipment 2 I may clip and glue the clips, but I'm pretty partial to hot glue.

Hot glue- It doesn't warp your tiles at all then?

Not a bit so far as I can tell. I have one of the mini guns, like the 4-7 dollar size. I don't think it gets particularly hot, just enough to melt the glue, but I haven't had any problems yet. The DZ tiles are really thick and tough, compared to .5 or 1mm plasticard. The .5mm stuff can warp a little but not a whole lot really. But the DZ tiles and accessories are entirely immune as far as I can tell.

Really the hot glue isn't even all that permanent, I'm pretty sure I could spend a few minutes with a hair dryer and pull any of my structures apart. The paint along the joins would get ruined, of course.

I should say however, while the glue itself is safe, that the metal tip of the gun *can* melt into tiles if you rest it on them. I don't see boring through them, just slagging the surface a bit.

The stuff needs gluing, and it needs the clips as well (for tension, to hold stuff at right angles).

Yeah, I use *some* clips on the inside of buildings. I usually use straight clips on the outside to secure things in place before hot-gluing, then pry them back off once the piece is set.

 scarletsquig wrote:
The stuff needs gluing, and it needs the clips as well (for tension, to hold stuff at right angles).

Not seen any of your DZ stuff yet scarletsquig- care to share?

 carlos13th wrote:
Honestly I think your custom stuff looks better.

Cheers Carlos13th..... I think... You know when you have one of those moments when you think "hey somebody thinks my stuff looks good... but do they think my other stuff looks bad then? "

 angelofvengeance wrote:


Looks like they've built new stuff on top of some old stuff- nice

Quick question to you all while I remember. Is it worth leaving stuff unglued and just held together with clips? Cause I've destroyed about a half dozen worth of clips taking buildings apart and reassembling them...
Managed to salvage a few with plastic glue.

I was going for a brand new built over worn old look, I've got a bit of a background with this "outpost" where the original structure is battered by Tsunami's, Typhoons and sand storms but the area in question is of great value both in natural resources and scientific research so the corporation provide cheap structures to do the job every year and rebuild after they finally collapse.

Ok onto the Deadzone scenery debate: Yes these things are fiddly to construct and take a bit of effort to keep together but I think glueing them might be a bit of a permanent solution to something which is supposed to be a variable modular kit, If you have enough money and time to buy more kits and paint them to make enough buildings to cover most scenarios then I would say "do it" if not then there are a couple of options.

1. Glue only the most used configurations together, if your constantly sticking the same floor and wall panel together and is a constantly used configuration cut down the time and stick them together.
2. Stick them together with a rubber Adhesive such as Bostick or UHU, this should hold them together but be easy to peel off after your done but don't expect to keep your paint job in tact.
3. Blu/White tack or Plasticine, You can pick up a large pack of this for pretty much next to nothing and just use it to reinforce the corners and connection points, its a bit time consuming but it should do the job and leave your paint untouched.

Any other suggestions to add?

 JaydeeOT wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
Honestly I think your custom stuff looks better.

Cheers Carlos13th..... I think... You know when you have one of those moments when you think "hey somebody thinks my stuff looks good... but do they think my other stuff looks bad then? "

 angelofvengeance wrote:


Looks like they've built new stuff on top of some old stuff- nice

Quick question to you all while I remember. Is it worth leaving stuff unglued and just held together with clips? Cause I've destroyed about a half dozen worth of clips taking buildings apart and reassembling them...
Managed to salvage a few with plastic glue.

I was going for a brand new built over worn old look, I've got a bit of a background with this "outpost" where the original structure is battered by Tsunami's, Typhoons and sand storms but the area in question is of great value both in natural resources and scientific research so the corporation provide cheap structures to do the job every year and rebuild after they finally collapse.

Ok onto the Deadzone scenery debate: Yes these things are fiddly to construct and take a bit of effort to keep together but I think glueing them might be a bit of a permanent solution to something which is supposed to be a variable modular kit, If you have enough money and time to buy more kits and paint them to make enough buildings to cover most scenarios then I would say "do it" if not then there are a couple of options.

1. Glue only the most used configurations together, if your constantly sticking the same floor and wall panel together and is a constantly used configuration cut down the time and stick them together.
2. Stick them together with a rubber Adhesive such as Bostick or UHU, this should hold them together but be easy to peel off after your done but don't expect to keep your paint job in tact.
3. Blu/White tack or Plasticine, You can pick up a large pack of this for pretty much next to nothing and just use it to reinforce the corners and connection points, its a bit time consuming but it should do the job and leave your paint untouched.

Any other suggestions to add?

From some of the stories I've read in the Containment Protocols collection, Corporations are kinda douches so I can imagine them abandoning a few souls on a hostile world until they feel it benefits them.


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Cheers man I mocked up a bit of the Deadzone scenery so I could compare the colour scheme and contrast with the board, what do you all think?

Look who it is

http://manticblog.com/2014/05/08/modular-scenery-what-you-can-make/

wow 0.0

 JaydeeOT wrote:

 carlos13th wrote:
Honestly I think your custom stuff looks better.

Cheers Carlos13th..... I think... You know when you have one of those moments when you think "hey somebody thinks my stuff looks good... but do they think my other stuff looks bad then? "

Hahaha no it wasn't a back handed compliment. The custom stuff just looks a lot more sturdy and realistic with a lot more depth to it.

Introducing a new recruit for my Plague strike team. And a taste of things to come...

I'm almost done with my Plague minis, but for the life of me I just can't get through the Plague Swarm. Won't one of you post a photo of yours so I can steal, er, emulate your paint scheme?

 JoshInJapan wrote:
I'm almost done with my Plague minis, but for the life of me I just can't get through the Plague Swarm. Won't one of you post a photo of yours so I can steal, er, emulate your paint scheme?

Im exactly the same, every plague figure painted except for the swarm, I just keep looking at it trying to figure out what goes where and what each thing is, It's going the be a nightmare to paint

Ok got a few more scenery panels painted up and I figured I would try clipping a few of them together.... DAMN these things are hard to assemble without some sort of tools so I'm also seriously considering glueing a few together but before I do I was wondering what the most commonly used buildings will be? Any suggestions or examples?

Have you got access to Nexus Psi? If you plan on doing those campaigns, at least 5 (and possibly all but one) of the scenarios involve a 'setting up the game' style section. One has a large landing pad, another is a series of walkways. One has a largish fortified building. If you are worried about the specifics I can dig out my PDF and elaborate a bit more. Otherwise... I think people who have gotten to play a lot will be able to tell you what to focus on for terrain.

My personal focus has been on a couple three 1x1x1 cubes with plenty of access, 1x2 or 1x3 x1high narrow structures, 2x2x1high building sections (stack them to make larger buildings!), and one or two 2x3 buildings. I've also got a couple of 1x1x2high towers and another pair or three with an extra cube of height. I plan to interconnect them with walkways most of the time I set up my own board.

 JaydeeOT wrote:

 JoshInJapan wrote:
I'm almost done with my Plague minis, but for the life of me I just can't get through the Plague Swarm. Won't one of you post a photo of yours so I can steal, er, emulate your paint scheme?

Im exactly the same, every plague figure painted except for the swarm, I just keep looking at it trying to figure out what goes where and what each thing is, It's going the be a nightmare to paint

Ok got a few more scenery panels painted up and I figured I would try clipping a few of them together.... DAMN these things are hard to assemble without some sort of tools so I'm also seriously considering glueing a few together but before I do I was wondering what the most commonly used buildings will be? Any suggestions or examples?

Snip a little off the a corner of the connector plugs and it will help them click together more easily. Was murder on my fingers when I started putting it together without doing that.

 GrimDork wrote:
Have you got access to Nexus Psi? If you plan on doing those campaigns, at least 5 (and possibly all but one) of the scenarios involve a 'setting up the game' style section. One has a large landing pad, another is a series of walkways. One has a largish fortified building. If you are worried about the specifics I can dig out my PDF and elaborate a bit more. Otherwise... I think people who have gotten to play a lot will be able to tell you what to focus on for terrain.

My personal focus has been on a couple three 1x1x1 cubes with plenty of access, 1x2 or 1x3 x1high narrow structures, 2x2x1high building sections (stack them to make larger buildings!), and one or two 2x3 buildings. I've also got a couple of 1x1x2high towers and another pair or three with an extra cube of height. I plan to interconnect them with walkways most of the time I set up my own board.

Ok this is helpful, I will hopefully be getting the Nexus Psi in the second shipment I havent bothered downloading anything just yet since I've been so busy with everything.

I've been experimenting a little and using a small file I've managed to round off the corners and straighten the edges of the connector pieces and they seem to be going together a lot easier now, I think I will still glue a couple together to save me time in the future though.

I really like the gritty stuff you made combined with the more prefab looking DZ terrain. White was a good choice to differentiate the two styles and make it a little grating, which is cool

I really like that white and orange scheme you've got going JaydeeOT. Mind telling me how you did the lining on the panels?

 Gallahad wrote:
I really like that white and orangehairspray've got going JaydeeOT. Mind telling me how you did the lining on the panels?

To be honest it takes a lot of time and effort, all the panels need to be spray painted first then the bits to be painted different need to be masked off with low tack decorators tape, cover the panel and use a sharp knife to cut out the bits you need to paint which means you can get the pieces spayed In bulk with the colour of your choice.

The other bits like the metal were masked off in the same way but painted black, drybrushed silver/iron, use a sponge to dab on layers of light and dark brown followed by a bit of bright orange then dry brush again in silver/iron, the sponge dabbing should add a slight bit of texture to the plastic and when its drybrushed againshould make it look rusty and uneven.

hope that helps, cant wait to see your results

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Introducing a new recruit for my Plague strike team. And a taste of things to come...

Some help please fellas- which bits should be painted in bone colours for my Stage 1? Most of it looks fairly boney to me but I don't want it to look too out of place with the rest of my strike force? See previous post

Great work, JaydeeOT. I'll have to file it deep in my memory banks for when I finally get a chance to paint my own terrain.

@AoV, the best I can do is show you what I did with mine:



There's a lot of armor, but there's a lot of area that can be construed as skin or muscle instead. My choice was what seemed the most reasonable mix to me at the time.

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Introducing a new recruit for my Plague strike team. And a taste of things to come...

Some help please fellas- which bits should be painted in bone colours for my Stage 1? Most of it looks fairly boney to me but I don't want it to look too out of place with the rest of my strike force? See previous post

Hey AOV, The stage 1 does look a bit complicated up close, sections that look like they should be bone seem to merge with other bits that should be muscle or squidgy bits with no clear definition so I would suggest a bit of wet blending from one colour to another, just try to imagine which bits would be in constant motion to remain soft and which bits would become solid, Grimdorks stage 1 is a great example of this.

And pretty much the same direction for mine

Yeah, Jaydee makes a good point about the flexible bits being your guide. I forgot how much I liked that Plaguelord, it's fancy.

 JaydeeOT wrote:

 Gallahad wrote:
I really like that white and orangehairspray've got going JaydeeOT. Mind telling me how you did the lining on the panels?

To be honest it takes a lot of time and effort, all the panels need to be spray painted first then the bits to be painted different need to be masked off with low tack decorators tape, cover the panel and use a sharp knife to cut out the bits you need to paint which means you can get the pieces spayed In bulk with the colour of your choice.

The other bits like the metal were masked off in the same way but painted black, drybrushed silver/iron, use a sponge to dab on layers of light and dark brown followed by a bit of bright orange then dry brush again in silver/iron, the sponge dabbing should add a slight bit of texture to the plastic and when its drybrushed againshould make it look rusty and uneven.

hope that helps, cant wait to see your results

Thanks for the help, that does sound time consuming, but the results are really nice.

AoV, for my S1 I did something similar to what's suggested above, with the blending between the flesh and bone if in doubt. I figure the bone areas had actually pushed through the skin from the inside (hope no one's just eaten ) so there would be 'almost through' bits where I blended it. Hope that helps.

Cheers guys. Will be having another look at it at the weekend. Currently, I've just done an all over Incubi Darkness basecoat and a Coelia Greenshade wash on it. Thinking about it, for the spikey bone potrusions I'll tip them with a bone colour to make it look like the rest is beneath the flesh similar to DE Grotesque gnarlskin.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Cheers guys. Will be having another look at it at the weekend. Currently, I've just done an all over Incubi Darkness basecoat and a Coelia Greenshade wash on it. Thinking about it, for the spikey bone potrusions I'll tip them with a bone colour to make it look like the rest is beneath the flesh similar to DE Grotesque gnarlskin.

looking forward to the finished result, If your going to make the bone look like its under the skin I would drybrush it in a slightly lighter tone than the flesh itself then keep adding layers of washes until it looks a uniform colour all over, that should give it an "under the skin" look then just highlight the tips of the protrusions and maybe add a few little blood trails

Ahhhhh finally, managed to get the Reb Terrarton finished over the weekend, this guy took forever... Damn tenacious teleporting techno turtle!!

Very nice Terraton, the colour choice is great and the white is stunning.

Agreed! That Terraton is great The skintone, spot color, little blue lights, and the white are all very nice!

 JaydeeOT wrote:
Ahhhhh finally, managed to get the Reb Terrarton finished over the weekend, this guy took forever... Damn tenacious teleporting techno turtle!!

I imagine it's even more surprising when a Plague Teraton teleports lol.

Really liking the paint job!

Green and white armor is a good look for him, JaydeeOT, and I think the white armor in particular helps set off the natural bone coloring of his horns and tail spikes. The detailed reptilian eyes are fantastic, too; looks like you painted a mean-looking vertical pupil inside his iris.


I agree, the Teraton takes forever - and all I've done so far is clean and assemble him. On the other hand, it's hard to regret putting in the time when the end result is that good. Without models like this one to remind me why I love doing this, I'd get out of this expensive, time-consuming hobby pretty quick.

cheers guys, I wasnt too sure about the colour scheme at first but when the gold went on the white and green suddenly looked good, its nice to get some reassurance.

I dont know if anybody else feels the same but I kinda think the terraton model is unbalanced, the gauntlet guns look a bit to big and make the whole thing look top heavy. Im tempted to remove his right hand claw and replace it with some kind of power shield

Hmm, I could have sworn I saw a converted Dozer terraton MVP with what I think was one of the KoW ogre swords for a weapon. Not sure if it would look good on the DZ terraton or not though.

Keep an eye out on the Mantic site, my Avenger Enforcers are going to be getting shown off soon!! I brought them to an event and handed them to the Rep, he loved them and wants to put them up for display. Thanks guys, for encouraging this thread (I told him about its existence), keeping it going, and generally just keeping ideas flowing between us all. I know I wouldn't have started the X-Men Rebs unless you guys had requested them. So thank you for pushing me, they'll be going up on site as well.

Haha, excellent! Grats, too. They definitely deserve to go up, really fun and characterful conversions

 Vermonter wrote:


I agree, the Teraton takes forever - and all I've done so far is clean and assemble him. On the other hand, it's hard to regret putting in the time when the end result is that good. Without models like this one to remind me why I love doing this, I'd get out of this expensive, time-consuming hobby pretty quick.

Plague Teraton takes even longer lol

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Keep an eye out on the Mantic site, my Avenger Enforcers are going to be getting shown off soon!! I brought them to an event and handed them to the Rep, he loved them and wants to put them up for display. Thanks guys, for encouraging this thread (I told him about its existence), keeping it going, and generally just keeping ideas flowing between us all. I know I wouldn't have started the X-Men Rebs unless you guys had requested them. So thank you for pushing me, they'll be going up on site as well.

Yeah man, great work!! your Marvel inspired conversions are fun, creative and deserve to be shown off. Got any ideas for the next batch? I was thinking that the enforcer commander with his helmet on looks like a very well built conqueror of Latveria

That's, um, that...I NEED TO GET HOME AND START PAINTING!!!

Getting close, oh so very close to being done with the first wave. I'll have to pull them out of the bookcase to get lighting for a better group shot.

Just the Sorak and Yndij to go...and yes, the Teraton is pink (Reaper brains pink base).

Nice work! Eagerly awaiting these aforementioned detail shots

very nice indeed, you've been really busy triple9 I like the display too, I might have to do something similar although saying that I haven't even started the enforcers or marauders yet and I've still got a mountain load of scenery to paint, at this rate I'm going to be still working on this lot until next year.

Thanks Guys. I'm lucky in that I often work from home and pick up a brush when I need to clear my head for 5 minutes. Finished up the Sorak yesterday and the 3 Yndij are on the bench mostly finished. Should be completely done all the Deadzone minis I received by tomorrow.

Two more minis closer to finishing my Reb force.






Air support and reconnaissance needed... Drones dispatched and inbound

Nice, especially like the shot with scenery

Agreed - I particularly like your solution for mounting the drones without using the plastic stands, which I'm not fond of. I was planning on looking into transparent flying stands, but now wire is another good idea to consider.

I guess I can show these off now...!




Something must've gone wrong in the post processing for that last set. The colours used on the green building were the same as my fortress set too:

 Daedleh wrote:
I guess I can show these off now...!




Something must've gone wrong in the post processing for that last set. The colours used on the green building were the same as my fortress set too:

Really awesome stuff, possibly the best DZ terrain I've seen, particularly the last pic.

Does anybody know when the second survey stock will begin shipping?

June or July I believe?

Yeah, I think it's July, as the FF/Asterian retail release was pushed back to August so the KS backers got their first.

so something thats been bothering me. using the green camoflauge fortress for reference, if you look at the piece of terrain that is at an angle with the shuttered windows, i think its called a reinforced wall? you can see the way that the windows are pointed.
then if you look at a regular open window tile that matches the shuttered window, doesnt it look like one is upside down?

yeah i think i see what you mean but it think its just the angle the shot was taken at, perspective does funny things to the eyes sometimes but I guess we'll find out when we get our next batch of scenery.

Speaking of which, I've managed to get a few more variety of tiles finished and I thought I would quickly build a small structure and see how they look together as a single piece, so here's my little house in the deadzone

Nice building. It also reminds me that I Really need to start working on scratch-building some more DZ terrain and maybe even a raised board like yours.

Cheers, really look forward to seeing another custom board and scenery =D

hey everybody, just encase your interested I've just posted a few suggestions on the Mantic forum for scenarios between the same faction, any comments or critique would be cool since I'm still working on the details, these are just rough outines.

http://forum.manticblog.com/showthread.php?8371-Scenarios-for-faction-infighting&p=105429#post105429

Good stuff after a quick look. The captured S1 idea is really cool.

Meet Geoff and Terry.

If you've named them, what are their back stories?

Geoff drinks too much at office parties and is an outrageous flirt,, and Terry likes long walks on the beach and lives in fear of his James Blunt CD collection being found.

You've made them look great I like the lower angle you've given the leaping stage 2 as well.

Hmm, it seems like I never posted the most recent group shot of everyone:


Click it and zoom around if you like, the vast majority of it managed to be in focus.

Also, here are a few offerings from the "third faction" of a DZ game:


Back side of Watchtower Five.


Inside shot of Command center Gamma


A crack team of steel warriors securing a corporation command post in their salvaged APC.


An interesting angle of a chemical storage tank, and some imperiled enforcers!


And a pill-sorter dumpster serving to cover for a frenzied hell hound.

More on the blog and in the gallery, and thanks for looking

As always, keep up the awesome work in this thread guys!

Because some of you demanded it, I've begun working on the conversion for our favorite Latverian dictator as an alternate group of enforcers. Also, to piss off a friend, we started singing MmmBop by....Hanson, was it? Only MmmBop was changed to "doombot". Watching her froth at the mouth at such a thing is worth it. Doombot. Doobehdah doombot. Woahoah doombot. Etc.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Because some of you demanded it, I've begun working on the conversion for our favorite Latverian dictator as an alternate group of enforcers. Also, to piss off a friend, we started singing MmmBop by....Hanson, was it? Only MmmBop was changed to "doombot". Watching her froth at the mouth at such a thing is worth it. Doombot. Doobehdah doombot. Woahoah doombot. Etc.

Post exalted! Hanson and Dr. Doom in on post cannot go unrewarded.

 GrimDork wrote:


Also, here are a few offerings from the "third faction" of a DZ game:

Very nice. How did you do the rust effects? They're particularly eye-catching.

Thanks

The rust is very simple and achieved using two of gw's new technical paints. I put down the metal followed by 1-3 layers of typhus corrosion to build up a little texture (its got teeny little microbeads) then a dry brush of ryza rust. Quick and simple, but I have a rusty metal shelf nearby and the colors are very similar, those paints are good stuff.

hey Grimdork, nice looking scenery there, that rust effect sounds really quick and easy to achieve, I think I might experiment using your method on a few of my scenery pieces, I must admit those technical paints do an awesome job.

oh and timetowaste85.... Doombot. Doobehdah doombot. Woahoah doombot. OOhhhh yeeahhaahh DOOMBOT. Inspired

 GrimDork wrote:
Thanks

The rust is very simple and achieved using two of gw's new technical paints. I put down the metal followed by 1-3 layers of typhus corrosion to build up a little texture (its got teeny little microbeads) then a dry brush of ryza rust. Quick and simple, but I have a rusty metal shelf nearby and the colors are very similar, those paints are good stuff.

Wow, that is pretty good. I got some of the rust effect paint spruiked on the mantic Radio cast a few months ago, and it's pretty good, but the rust effect is the really heavy, flaky rust of really olf structures. Although it looks realistic as hell I was hoping for the most light rust you got.

I'll pick some of that up, thanks.

I'm down for anything Dr. Doom related!

I'll post him tonight, alph. I jut have to ink his gun. And make the blade prettier.

Also, I got my second Recon model, so he grew some hair and he's ready to become a pissy Cap villain with a metal arm.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
I'll post him tonight, alph. I jut have to ink his gun. And make the blade prettier.

Also, I got my second Recon model, so he grew some hair and he's ready to become a pissy Cap villain with a metal arm.

Sounds awesome...

All tremble before the might of DOOM!!


Actually, I want to make a couple small fixes on him (His cowl should be a little more rounded, and the yellow needs a touch up). Other than those, he's pretty much good to go. Oh, and flocking. Can't forget that. Thanks the_operator, this is the Captain I got from you that was unbuilt! Followed by the Recon I got from you as Winter Soldier next!!

Looks like Doom. Sweet.

That. Is. Awesome.

Seriously awesome!

Well done!

Now I have to do the Doombots too. What have I let you guys talk me into...

Yes. You should.

And it was all your decision. Totally yours...

Winter Soldier is 90% done. He looks like the Black OPS character he's supposed to be, I just have to finish his knife and shoulder.

HHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhere's BUCKY!!

It's hard to see with my iPhone camera, but the cloth parts are black with a shadow grey and black ink over it, while the boots, chestplate and belt are "leather" and are made with black and 'Ardcoat.

Loving your Marvel-verse Deadzone stuff! That Enforcer Captain looks particularly badass as Von Doom! Shame you can't get some sort of lightning projectors in Deadzone lol.

Looks great.

Next up will be the Survivor. Only he's being renamed as "The Traveler". Anybody know which mutant got that name in the early 2000s?


And seriously guys, thanks for all the encouragement, support and suggestions. Definitely helps from burnout. It's much appreciated.

Following the survivor will be my Blaine conversion. Guy with blades attached to his wrists and a dirty fighter? Yeah, like he needs any explanation, bub.

Snikt bub!

Yes you're not the only one who was tinkering with Blaine's model today. I put him together this afternoon and I had to give his arm a dip in boiling water to straighten the wristblade out. Gotta say- he looks badass even without a paintjob lol.

While not painted yet, I thought I'd share with you some of my newest plague muties from my Plague Booster set. Again, raided the possessed CSM bits box for their "upgrades"

I'm not going to be able to show both painted right away (went to visit family for Father's Day, left the white paint I need for Traveler's hair at home), but I'll get the pictures of them primed up in a little bit. If the Traveler bit isn't enough of a hint, the other hint will be "big guns never tire". If that AND the white hair comment don't do it, then you'll all have to wait until pictures to up, and I will rip up nerd cards. And be disappointed.

Here are pictures of the primed models, guys. They'll be painted...soon. Not 100% sure when, but hopefully finished by Tuesday night at the latest.

Nice Blaine conversion (I really need to get some more Mantic points to grab that model).

I'm afraid I'm going to have to surrender my Nerd Card, I still can't work out who the Survivor has been converted into. I kind of want to say Deadpool, but I don't recall him having white hair...

He'll have white hair, carries big guns and travels. A lot. Through time. Don't worry though, your nerd card is revoked. He is, well, friends (I guess) with Deadpool.

Cable? Do I get the Card back now?

Hmmmm, seeing how the only additional clue was being friends with Deadpool...you can have half of it back. I ate the other half.

The blaine looks like the sabertooth? Both should be pretty suave.

Half is better than nothing... In my defence, I was never as much of an X-men fan as I was an Avengers one.

GD: yeah, I thought about that (Ultimate Sabes, anyway). I was considering cutting the jacket so it would look closer to civvy Logan, and since you picked up on my only hang up...I'm gonna cut it.

For me it's got to do with the fur of the coat around the neck, seems one of his iconic things from what little I recall. Coat too though. He would work pretty well as either really.

Well, classic Civvy Logan had the brown, fur-lined coat in the cartoon. Which is what I was going for. The Marvel Legends Civvy Woverine had a fur-lined coat too. Sabertooth had a fur-lined body suit, rather than a coat (except in Ultimates). I know it's a minor detail, but it would drive me buggy. Besides...the hair is CLEARLY sculpted to be wolverine hair.

Yeah, but again they're kind of similar. I think it's the hair going down the side of the face that's making me think sabertooth over logan. I'm sure once you have paint on it, i won't be able to mistake the two

Actually, I just went back and looked at Blaine's stats: really tough, 3+ to hit, AP2 blades...yeah, I'd say he's going in every Reb list. 19 points and no leadership skill, he'd better be the best he is at what he does.

He's basically a quicker compact 1st gen, with a pistol to boot. Rebs have a terraton, plague has... most of it's list... Blaine would seem to me to add the most to marauders and enforcers.. maybe.

True. But my Enforcer list has Iron Man to punch people to death already!

Ewww... that guy needs brawler and more than a 5+... stat! At least he's good at bossing your snipers around into making more shots


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I've been doing a lot of banter, but not a lot of pictures, huh? Well these have been around for a while, but the pictures are new:


Corporation Marine green squad, one man MIA, the search continues...


Corporation Marine gold squad, veterans all, one man down and not pictured, needs some medical attention.


Ranger squad Zulu


Ranger squad Gamma, with improved visors.


Z-Corp Marines, staunch allies... just make sure you don't become part of their supply chain!

I've got as many z-corp as I do regular corporation guys, but I've got to transfer them over to clear acrylics still. And I really need to get my corporation commander guy painted up.

Very nicely done, Grim! Love the zombies. I guess I should get working on Cable. Dad is putting some work in at his new house, and I have all the chicken and shrimp sitting happily in a marinade, waiting for dinner time. MMMM....kabobs!

Oooh Kabobs indeed! I think I'll be sticking to hamburgers and brauts... as long as it doesn't rain.

I had a bunch of fun working on the Z-corp, I can't wait to get ahold of the DZ plague zombies. I may even get another 10-20 corporation dudes to splice in even more parts The only thing is that I kind of wish I had kept the colorscheme the same... I may come up with something similar to the standard marines, but faster, for the future zombies. Then maybe *someday* these guys will get a repaint.

Everybody's been posting some really cool stuff lately, really liked the Dr Doom enforcer captain and a retinue of enforcer doombots would look so damn awesome anyway my creative drive has been flagging recently but I've finally managed to get the rebs heavy weapon team finished.

Last Stage Two done:



Geoff and Terry are joined by their good friend Elmer:

You know better than that, Mikes...where's the backstory?! That's the nice thing for me-my guys have back stories done by others.

Also, as an aside, I taught it to the AM at my favorite store (played Rebs and gave him a fight, but ultimately made sure he won), and two others saw and demanded I bring it in again. I have converts!!! Time to teach them...mold them...then crush mercilessly with my Enforcer doom list!!

 timetowaste85 wrote:
You know better than that, Mikes...where's the backstory?!

You know that guy everyone hates to have around? The one everyone else in the group makes fun of behind their back?* That's Elmer. Geoff and Terry only put up with him because he has a car.

* (If you can't see one in your group of friends, chances are you're Elmer)

Way to steal that from Dane Cook. And "That guy" is supposed to be Brian. Seeing how I am Brian, I got that covered!! Hehe

I had to google Dane Cook. Never heard of him, but his middle name is Jeff, so it was obviously meant to be.

I got a suggestion at my game store how to paint my Marauders in a Marvel theme, and I LOVE the idea he came up with. I finally have a game plan to paint them.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
I got a suggestion at my game store how to paint my Marauders in a Marvel theme, and I LOVE the idea he came up with. I finally have a game plan to paint them.

Are you going to paint them up in same colours as the Skrull empire by any chance?

That would actually be another good idea...hmmm...crap. Two hard choices. Skrulls or Hydra? Dammit!!

hmmm Skrull would be good if your doing traditional green skin but the uniforms style and tech are more suitable for hydra, its a difficult choice but I think the hydra look would be pretty cool. What colour skin are you going for?

That's what I was thinking, but I'm not familiar enough with them to know if they even have a readily transferable/notable scheme.

The skin is reddish-brown. Not going for the traditional Ork color scheme. So yeah, Hydra it is.

Cool. My marauder tone ended up darker brown so it'll be good to see someone else do red in that case. I may still try to work in some different tones, no reason they're all the same shade.

Tuskgor Fur is the shade I used. Forgot the name for a bit. I have the first guy started, and the influence is definitely Hydra. HAIL HYDRA!! HAIL HYDRA!! Leaders will, of course, be Red Skull, Baron Zemo and Wolfgang Von Strucker.

Sweet. I haven't thought of any good tribute/themes for my dead zone stuff. I've got all manner of ideas for my growing infinity collection, but deadzone and warpath stuff so far has been fairly neutral/serious. I'll just have to work in some levity via billboards and other terrain elements.


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I think one of the vampire count boxes had an extra big skull for a standard topper, would almost work for red skull, but I guess he usually has a no-skin muscles showing face doesn't he...

I've heard the other names but don't know enough to make suggestions.

The Marauder Captain from Warpath will be the Wolfgang Von Strucker model, seeing how he has that GIANT gauntlet up in the air-works fairly well for Strucker's famous life-stealing gauntlet. Zemo is going to be the close combat specialist model with two knives, when I get him in. He'll be wearing purple!!

Had a first attempt at the Marauders last night- going for a Cadian-esque AM scheme I think. Now I hate painting flesh generally but I think I made a pretty decent job of the Ork I was painting last night

hey AOV, cant wait to see how your marauders turn out, im still undecided about mine since im not a big fan of orcs usually. If you want a few ideas about painting flesh let me know, I've picked up a few tips over the last few months

Free at last...just finished the last piece of terrain about an hour ago. I've fully finished my strike team pledge and now plan to take a little break. Will pull out the good camera tomorrow evening and take pictures of each faction. I've shown bits and pieces, but the iphone pics just aren't cutting it.

Decided to have fun with the terrain and play with inks, washes and dry brushing. All were primed with Army Painter Uniform Grey spray, then some were color inked directly, some were inked in black and then washed and some were just washed. Then everything was dry brushed with whatever I had on hand. I think the black ink and then brighter colors (like orange and red) gave the best effect.



Half the mercenaries.



and the other half.

Am liking your mercs there Triple9. Wrath and the recon unit are looking particularly badass

Thanks, Recon was my favorite to paint of all the minis.

Pulled out the real camera that has macro mode. Tonight, I'll put up the Enforcers Faction. I took shots of a few of the older sculpts up previously, but will put everything up just to be complete, plus the new photos show better color seperation. Plague to come tomorrow.





Sniper is the only one that has a different color scheme. No light grey and a darker grey base scheme. Love those mould lines.




Nothing new here, but liked the shot. Pretty much same photo I showed way back when, but added in the Captain (and terrain).

Love em!! They look great, and look like they'd fit with many different space style backgrounds.

Awesome Enforcers Triple9 . My brother has yet to apply more than just the primer to his (I think he may be suffering Painter's block as to where to go with em).
I like how you've posed the heads- as if they're on patrol, checking rooftops for threats

sweet, lots more cool stuff coming in, Triple9 I love your enforcers and the merc figures are great especially the Recon and Wrath mini's.
Not sure what to make of the muli coloured scenery tiles though, were you going for a shipping yard approach with lots of crates and buildings from different suppliers and companies?

I don't know about the rest of you but there is some kind of arcane joy about taking discarded trash, bits of packaging and empty model sprue's....



Splattering them with paint, glue and sand... and breathing life into something that was dead....



Modellers are indeed Trashromancers!!!

(Reb 1: "you ever play that old game... Resident evil?"
Reb 2: No... why?
Reb 1: ....No reason...

Looks quite nice! I agree about the junk, put some recycled pill sorter dumpsters and a coffee can chemical storage tank up on page 27. I keep doing found item terrain over my deadzone stuff

Thanks folks. I think the mercenaries in general were a blast to paint as I didn't have to think about context of an army color scheme. Rebs were fun for a similar reason due to the alien skin tones.

My thought around the garish colors of the scenery was that it's such a miserable place to live/work, that one of the few joys in life are the bright colors. One of those things that I tend to associate with pictures of harsh living conditions in magazines is how much more vibrant colors seem to be. I probably could have just primed as I did, inked everything black and highlighted and stopped there. Definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but I had fun and learned a ton about using inks and washes.

Plague incoming. I've put up the 1A and 2A's before, but including new shots of them again for completeness. I'll do Marauders tomorrow and Rebs as well if I have time.

Pants are Feldgrau and skin base is US Army Green, but the separation isn't coming across very well on the pics. I didn't do eyes on the 3A's beyond shading as I wanted a dead eye effect. Noticing in the pictures that green in general tends to not photograph as well as it looks in person. Shading and highlighting don't seem to come across and the colors seem to just muddle together.









My original plan for the scenery was to do it the same as the 2A on the right

I haven't posted here in a while, but great stuff everyone!

@JayDeeOT and Grim: I'm with you entirely on turning random junk into terrain, it's great fun and really something unique. I reckon since I started repurposing junk, I can fill nearly twice as many squares at ground level. I'm also getting an ungodly amount of bottle-cap barrels.

 Paradigm wrote:
I haven't posted here in a while, but great stuff everyone!

@JayDeeOT and Grim: I'm with you entirely on turning random junk into terrain, it's great fun and really something unique. I reckon since I started repurposing junk, I can fill nearly twice as many squares at ground level. I'm also getting an ungodly amount of bottle-cap barrels.

By bottle-cap barrels? I may steal that idea!

Just take the caps of two soda/coke/whatever bottles, glue them together and sometimes put a plasticard band around the middle if the join is ugly. Bob's your uncle!

Grimdork has some examples a few pages back in his project log.

Super easy, look pretty ok. I need some more DZ/Infinity/scifi friendly signs to print out though

If you want images of the ring of card inside the barrels look up Adamsouza's scratchbuild on the cheap thread, a few pages back from current, he recently built a bunch and did it right (mine are going to fall apart eventually ).

Damn Infinity and Dr Who minis.... I really need to get back to my marauders

Those are awesome. I'm definitely lifting the bottlecap barrel idea. Fewer mold lines than restic too.

Triple9 wrote:
Those are awesome. I'm definitely lifting the bottlecap barrel idea. Fewer mold lines than restic too.

What he said lol.

If only I had come into this epiphany of junk usage before I bought upwards of 14 battlezones Oh well, it'll all get used eventually

Seriously considering making my own version of that Dreadball Xtreme prison dreadball pitch, basically a large area marked off by 1 high bz tiles, with some higher platforms and such, enough to fit one of the DB pitches into it. Could double up as a sport/arena for other systems too.

My DZ painting is coming to a pause. I'm in the process of moving AND just started painting up my Khador models. Oh well, my main Enforcer squad is painted, as is a full Plague squad, so I'm okay with pausing. Expect my return to painting in full strength with a bunch of AoA rebels to show in the future.

 GrimDork wrote:
If only I had come into this epiphany of junk usage before I bought upwards of 14 battlezones Oh well, it'll all get used eventually

Seriously considering making my own version of that Dreadball Xtreme prison dreadball pitch, basically a large area marked off by 1 high bz tiles, with some higher platforms and such, enough to fit one of the DB pitches into it. Could double up as a sport/arena for other systems too.

A dreadball area a converted into a refugee camp so you wouldn't have a massive open space?

Have the dreadball pitch/refugee camp as removable pieces and your golden

^Yes, this is a good idea All manner of junk would likely be strewn about on the pitch/arena, unless a given scenario needed the open space.

Marauders are up tonight. Previously, I've put up the General, one of the Mawbeast and a ripper suit (maybe both), but much better pictures this time around. Finally figured out how to use a light source with the camera. Rebels to come tomorrow; I don't think I've posted any of them yet, so will get to snicker at the pink dinosaur.

I really hated this faction when I first got it, but they were a pleasure to paint. Used an American Civil War Union color scheme, but couldn't figure out how to make it work with the ripper suits, so went with British Khaki.

These guys had a horrible mold line right down the middle of their face, which was one of the primary reasons I was dreading painting them, but the paint hides it pretty well.






I had planned to paint them in Berdan Sharpshooter uniforms, but the green on green would have been a bit much.

Nice work, the green and blue make an interesting combination and I approve of the different schemes for the different types, better overall presentation.

Been awhile since I worked on any Deadzone stuff, but I got a couple enforcers done this evening.

Nice, I like how you managed to give Recon the proper mohawk. The mold line across mine was so bad, when I finished I had to turn it into a helmet.

Triple9 wrote:
Nice, I like how you managed to give Recon the proper mohawk. The mold line across mine was so bad, when I finished I had to turn it into a helmet.

I bought him at retail awhile back. I don't know if that helped (as opposed to getting the KS version, which was probably a 1st run) or if I just happened to get a better copy.

Wait, Recon had a Mohawk? I thought it was a strip of armor. Lol. Either way, mine got a custom 'do. Both of em.

Crazy, huh. Never would have known if I hadn't gone to Mantic's website. After I trimming the mold lines on mine, he had no ears, so I treated it like a helmet.

http://www.manticgames.com/mantic-shop/deadzone/mercenaries/product/recon-unit-n32-19.html


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Last faction I finished up are the Rebs and don't think I've shown any of these to date. These guys were pretty fun to paint, but I saved the Yndij for last and I was getting burnt out on restic by the end. Became a real chore.

Not going to touch a brush until after the 4th and then think I'm going to paint a Flames of War Open Fire starter for a change of scenery.

Most of the sculpts came in pairs so I went with an alternating color scheme for their uniforms.

Sick! Nice colors all around. I think the terraton's pinkness works well, with the scheme and in general. Good work

Awesome stuff Triple9. Liking the Rebs commander and Teraton paint jobs in particular :-)

Just found this thread now. Some really nice stuff going on here.

Are people ok with proxies that are being used in mantic games, or is it mantic minis only? I have some of each.

Proxies will depend on your playing group, but personally, I'd have no issues, especially if they were aesthetically similar.

 Paradigm wrote:
Proxies will depend on your playing group, but personally, I'd have no issues, especially if they were aesthetically similar.

Counts-as is generally okay for most people (i.e. Space Marines as Enforcers), which is what people generally mean when they mention proxies.

Proxies, on the other hand, (i.e. AA batteries as Enforcers) are generally not quite as acceptable.

Rule of cool tends to win the day with a lot of folks, and avoiding obvious powergaming. Running plague and using tiny hunched/crouched/prone figures for your dogs, 2nd gens, and other melee units would be pretty nasty and I might have objections to playing a game with such a person. But playing with cool models that you'd rather use should be fine.

I wonder if those Mawbeasts the Marauders have can get infected by Plague? Cause they don't seem to be an Orx sub-species? Could use those instead?

They're larger, and where being small is a nearly overpowering advantage for melee units, I certainly don't see it being an issue from the rules side. Plague dogs aren't nearly as good in combat as the maw beasts though so you might be unfairly influencing the psychology in that way

Think I may ask Mantic if they're considering Plague-ifying them lol.

Hey triple9, I like your reb terraton, the pink skin with blue armour is really quite striking, are you sure he's not a scret worshipper of slannesh or Tzeentch

Right then, Ive been putting this off for far too long but i have to take the plunge and start painting my Marauders, question is what colour should I paint them?

I don't know if I really want the traditional green skinned orks and I want a uniform which says "were professional bad-ass space mercenaries" what would everybody suggest?

I may do a variation of Cadian for mine (no green clothing though)

hmmm interesting, just saw an ork colour scheme with purple skin, conflicted to whether I like it or not :

http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/painting/180066-purple-orks-wip.html

Without the warpaint I don't think I'd like it, but the white faces have me sold.

Those paintjobs looked nice but I wouldn't go with purple skin for Orks. Green is best!

As the Marauders are effectively mercenaries, why not paint some of them a darker/paler green (like the cadian green) to show they're older and more experienced?

I would (and have) stick with a dark green, not the GW cartoon green but green is best for Orx, especially if you make it rather muted.

Ive been looking at a few other paint jobs and found a desert ork, the skin looks pretty damn awesome so I think I might attempt something similar:

http://www.allancarrasco.net/uploads/pics/nob-ork-beige1.jpg

Now i just need to decided on uniform colour's.

I like the cartoony green so I'll be painting mine like this: http://taleofpainters.blogspot.se/2011/12/tutorial-painting-orc-skin.html

ok I think I've got a decent idea about how they're going to look, pale greenish yellow skin with a cadian inspired outfit, steel legion drab clothing black leather and possibly dark green armour plates but im still undecided about this since it might clash too much with the green skin tone. whats everybodys thoughts on this?

 JaydeeOT wrote:
ok I think I've got a decent idea about how they're going to look, pale greenish yellow skin with a cadian inspired outfit, steel legion drab clothing black leather and possibly dark green armour plates but im still undecided about this since it might clash too much with the green skin tone. whats everybodys thoughts on this?

Take a decent black and white photo of a bog standard model, print it out then try the scheme on that first instead of your models

Huh, interesting approach, I may have to try that some time.

Learnt that from Catattafish (or however you spell it)

One thing I forgot to mention is, use a permanent marker to mark out the recesses before you start, so it looks something like the finished result.

** EDIT: 01/07/14: Looky what came in the UPS van...

ohh cool, was it just the battlezone kit or is the second survey shipment being shipped out now too?

 JaydeeOT wrote:
ohh cool, was it just the battlezone kit or is the second survey shipment being shipped out now too?

Just the kit. Though I imagine this is how some of the 2nd wave stuff will be packaged.

The box is about 20"L x 12"W x 12"D for the ruined quadrant

Nice, looking forward to seeing what you do with all of that.