На бой кровавый | To a bloody battle
Святой и правый | Sacred and just
Марш, марш вперед! | March, march, forward!
Рабочий народ | Working people.

Пусть ярость благородная вскипает как волна | Let noble wrath boil over like a wave
Идет война народная; священная война | This is the people's war; a sacred war

 OneManNoodles wrote:
Your images don't work.

In fact they have never worked for me, I remember when you started this thread, they didn't work then.

If you can see them and no-one else can, then you are probably hosting using a service that people need to be signed into to view them...

Minigiant wrote:
As for the statue my first thought was MIERCE MINIATURES - Euryalia, Queen of Ker-Ys

http://mierce-miniatures.com/index.php?act=pro&pre=mrm_dkl_ysn_kys_wld_001_000

 Excommunicatus wrote:
EDIT 2 - I've found free, legal 3D printing.. plans? for The Motherland Calls!, which I think will result in a 13cm tall figurine, which is about 4cm shorter than Herself. How easy would it be to 'embiggen' the plans? I have no experience at all in 3D printing, it may as well be magic.

amazingturtles wrote:Just wanted to say that you've got some great stories going on here, keep it up!

Minigiant wrote:Then I also found this but it is bigger than a few titans

https://www.3dprinteddebris.com/listing/626790699/large-rodina-volgograd-the-motherland

Boss Salvage wrote:

 Excommunicatus wrote:
EDIT 2 - I've found free, legal 3D printing.. plans? for The Motherland Calls!, which I think will result in a 13cm tall figurine, which is about 4cm shorter than Herself. How easy would it be to 'embiggen' the plans? I have no experience at all in 3D printing, it may as well be magic.

Just found these myself, maybe they're the same? https://pinshape.com/items/21837-3d-printed-the-sculpture-the-motherland-calls

The proper programs can scale these files up and down, though I have to assume some details might get distorted one way or another, but maybe not? Another limiting factor will be the size of the printer itself - how large the bed is, how high the extruder can reach. I've printed just a couple things using my local library's printer, and we had to down scale some prop pieces because they wouldn't fit on the printer bed. But that was also a few years ago, using public owned machines, so I can only assume things are even better now.

Also ya Slaanesh! And high five for them Escher, looking good.

- Salvage

Tyranid Horde wrote:The resin blocks make surprisingly good barricades! The toothpicks aren't half bad either. Are you planning on flocking the garden once you paint it?

Commander Cain wrote:That daemon lady looks terrifying! All those chains and spikes are a great addition.

Loving the terrain as well, it's amazing what you can whip up with a few bits lying around

Schliecher sat, and waited. Brother Maynard, Bearer of the Holy Orb, was due to lecture the Neophytes from the Book of Armaments. The clearance of Site 3 had not gone well. Squad Drei and Squad Vier had been tasked with clearing the eastern sector. There they had found witches; 'weirdboyz' in the Xeno tongue. Squad Vier had been eliminated; their transport 'Fahles Pferd' wrecked. Four Brothers from Squad Drei had gone to their Emperor. Witches were unheard of on Harrow Gate, their very existence an affront above and beyond the Xeno. Snapping out of it, Schliecher realised that Brother Maynard had arrived and was beginning.

"Und der Kaiser sprach, sagen: Zuerst..."

Schliecher drifted away again. He could picture the barrage with perfect clarity; could see every bone and tooth on the talisman of the witch responsible for it.

"...und die nummer der zählung ist drei..."

Schliecher felt the hate rise. He remembered the words the Chaplains had imparted to him. Abhor the witch. He would feed the hate, stoke it. He would use it to avenge the Astartes he had not had the opportunity to call 'Brother'.

"...funf is verboten..."

Abhor the witch.

Tyranid Horde wrote:I like the replication of history in your infantry, gives them some extra flavour that they may not normally have.

Nice to see some Imperial stuff too, you've not completely fallen to Chaos!

PossumCraft wrote:Some really awesome stuff in here, keep it up!

Who'd have thought adding bondage chains and a whip to the 6-boobed naked demon giant would make it look *less* like a sex toy and more like it actually fits into a warzone =/

+++The following excerpt is reproduced, without permission, from The Inquisitor's Guide to the Galaxy, 3rd Ordo Malleus Ed., revised+++

The Kronstaat system is located to the Galactic east of Agripinaa and to the Galactic west of Fenris, on the main Cadia-Terra/Mars supply route and relatively close to the Eye of Terror itself. Despite this location, the system has been spared much of the ravages of the region and has endured without major attack for almost three thousand Terran years now. Because of this location – and the abundant mineral resources under the systems's planets – it forms a minor, but vital, part of the gargantuan apparatus designed to feed the Cadian Gate.

It is composed of six planets, numbered 1-6 rather than named. Only K4 and K5 possess breathable atmospheres, though weather patterns on K5 render the planet surface inhospitable in extremis, Imperial presence on K1, K2, K3 and K6 is limited to a single mining facility with a Defence Force garrison on each. K5, known locally as 'Lubyanka' [dead link], is currently designated a prison planet. Latest records show a population of ca. 450m resident inmates.

K4 is a similar size to Terra and has a current population of some 60bn living across four habitable continents, known locally as 'oblasts'. To the north and south are frozen poles where temperatures in mid-summer struggle to rise above -50c. All four oblasts lie separated by small seas, except Krim and Volga Oblasts, which are separated by the 12,000km wide K4/C-137, known locally as Ladoga Ocean.

All four habitable oblasts are covered, to an extent between 96 and 99%, by high, steep mountain ranges which cannot support intensive housing schemes, accordingly the population is low compared to other planets of comparable size and mineral wealth and the population concentrated in a few centres. Ten [?] cities currently exist on K4, all are principally concerned with refining mineral ore in some capacity. Excepting Kirch, Oradour and Oryel, all of the cities and both the Korova and Konev Facilities possess star-ports.


Map of K4
Transit between population centres is achieved by means of light rail and road networks in thin ribbons between the harsh terrain. Most transit between oblasts still takes place via water, surprisingly, though flight is also readily available and in use amongst the planet's elite and intelligentsia.

K4 is exempt from Astra Militarum planetary tithes owing to its largescale production of essential raw materials, but is required to maintain a standing Planetary Defence Force. Despite being known as the K4 Defence Force, they are actually tasked with maintaining the security of all the system's planets. At any one time approximately 25% of the planet's population is enlisted, and over half are based in garrisons in and around Kotlin. Organizationally, they are best described as 'unorthodox';

- 100 troopers, or 'soldats' as they are known locally, comprises a Battalion and is led by a 'KomBat' (Komandir Batalona, in the local language) of rank roughly equivalent to a Captain;
- 20 Battalions makes a Company ('Roty'), led by a 'KomRot' (Komandir Roty - Colonel);
- 10 Companys make a Brigade, led by a 'KomBrig' (Komandir Brigada - Brigadier);
- 15 Brigades make a Regiment ('Polk'), led by a 'KomPol' (Komandir Polkovoy - Major General);
- 15 Regiments make a Corps, led by a 'KomKor' (Lieutenant-General);
- 20 Corps makes an Army, led by a 'KomArm' (General).

They are equipped and armed by freighters en route to Cadia and therefore bear a striking resemblance to the famed Cadian 'Shock Troops'.

Each population centre, maintains at least one Adeptus Arbites garrison. The presence of the Ecclesiarchy is negligible. Locally, rumours persist that the Korova Facility, founded by His Holiness Archbishop 'Len' Brennan in M36, is an Adepta Sororitas training camp, but there is no truth to this at all. The Korova, in fact, is no longer an Ecclesiarchy property, being transferred to [redacted] in [redacted] owing to [redacted].

Notwithstanding that the system has not faced major attack in recorded history, Kronstaat remains a vital link in fundamental Galactic defenses and supply chains and its loss would have severe 'knock-on' effects for Cadia and other vital Imperial interests. Therefore each population centre and mining facility on each of the system's six planets possesses several Planetary Defence batteries and each is perfectly capable of fending off a medium-sized fleet without aid.

As a result of the strong defenses, large Defence Force, numerous extra-planetary probes and proximity to Fenris the security status of the system is – low; least concern.

- Last Edited by =][=Toth420 [view edit history]

 amazingturtles wrote:
That is the kind of world building i always enjoy, even when it's a bit [redacted].

So, what would the inquistor's guide to the galaxy have on the cover? I can't imagine that the letters are friendly, no matter what it is.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Thanks for your comments. Barbed wire is in progress, just not worth showing yet.

I'm torn on trenches. I do want them because this is essentially the 'Eastern' Front in spaaaaaace but I also want my board to be modular and the more fixed stuff you put on it the more likely it is for things to be misaligned (especially so since my process is basically 'wing it') or become stale and boring.

A possible solution is to make six 2'x2' foam tiles as my main board and then another three 2'x2' tiles that feature a trench-line that can be swapped in as needed. The pro of this is that this 'soup' is now planned to top out at 10k (maybe 12 if I get silly and buy a Warhound) so I'll need a board roughly 10'x4' to play a 10/12k game on anyway. The big con is of course that storage starts to become an issue.

Not Online!!! wrote:

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Thanks for your comments. Barbed wire is in progress, just not worth showing yet.

I'm torn on trenches. I do want them because this is essentially the 'Eastern' Front in spaaaaaace but I also want my board to be modular and the more fixed stuff you put on it the more likely it is for things to be misaligned (especially so since my process is basically 'wing it') or become stale and boring.

A possible solution is to make six 2'x2' foam tiles as my main board and then another three 2'x2' tiles that feature a trench-line that can be swapped in as needed. The pro of this is that this 'soup' is now planned to top out at 10k (maybe 12 if I get silly and buy a Warhound) so I'll need a board roughly 10'x4' to play a 10/12k game on anyway. The big con is of course that storage starts to become an issue.

I personally plan for my trenches to be on a small wood piece. Basically a foxhole morsoe then a trench.

Not Online!!! wrote:
Baricades actually are also something that can help, however they are more for city fights i feel.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Just catching up on this thread as I've been away for the past few days, you've got some great world building going on and the summoning circles look top notch! They remind me a bit of the Dawn of War summoning buildings. Might be the spikes.
The chains around Zarakynel look solid too, well done.

The call came from Kotlin for the forward drive,
to the trenches with the regiment; prepare yourselves to die.
At roll-call next morning, just a handful survived

Voyna Narodnaya; Once Upon A Beginning

Petrov's Defence - Part I.

It started, as these things often do, innocently enough on 616.808M41. A young man, known to be fond of the zydrate, had been walking back to his hab-block one evening when, upon navigating a particularly troublesome corner, he had lost all balance and stumbled face-first into a passing hover-freight travelling well in excess of the posted limits.

He died, of course. It was a terrible shame, of course. Nothing was done, of course. No family could be found and so off he went into a mass grave. A few former colleagues raised a fuss at the shoddy treatment of a fellow worker, nobody was interested. A few more former colleagues raised a bigger fuss and before anyone knew it supervisors were put against the wall and Oddyssa, a city of 500m, was alight.

The Arbites waded in, achieving significant early gains and pushing the workers back into the industrial maze of Oddyssa's central district. The Honourable Justice Rodion Ivanovich Petrov, in overall command of Arbite forces in the district, elected to lay seige to the workers. As an example to others considering challenging the Arbites, they would be starved.

It is not entirely clear what happened inside the seige-lines but what is clear is that on the morning of the sixth day a horde of workers attacked the western flank of Petrov's Arbites and broke out, screaming unintelligible gibberish. They quickly circled back and attacked neighbouring Arbite forces from the rear. In the confusion, more workers poured through the breach. With his line collapsing, Petrov committed his reserves, but they were too few to stem the tide. The horde simply over-ran them. He called for reinforcements. None were available and the Defence Force were a day away, at least, and couldn't be spared in any event. Desperate, Petrov threw in everything he had. Fighting swirled inconclusively for three days with no clear front-line before the workers prevailed and turned their sights on the star-port. Petrov was captured and hanged.

Oddyssa's star-port was under-strength and garrisoned only by the 62nd Independent Coastal Army. For days the soldats had faced the prospect of turning their weapons on fellow workers, possibly people they knew or family members even. Indeed, initially some units did refuse to fire – and were appropriately censured – but the sheer violence of the worker's attack meant that for most soldats self-preservation was a more pressing concern than ethics. For six days the rabble assaulted the star-port, for six days the star-port was held. A message was received, forces were being mobilised to reinforce the 62nd Coastal. Then on the evening of the seventh day, another message was received; reinforcements had been diverted and the 62nd Coastal was ordered to withdraw. There were more pressing concerns and they were needed elsewhere.

The city of Oddyssa was to be sacrificed.

Panic in the Streets of Kotlin- Part II.

News of the insurrection was tightly controlled, but word got out that Imperial agents were persecuting Oddyssa's workers regardless. Solidarity protests were attempted in all of Kronstaat IV's major cities and facilities and all were crushed with extreme prejudice. All except in Cebastopol. In Cebastopol, the seat of Imperial power in the west, the workers fell upon the Arbites and the Defence Force with a ferocity and frenzy that scarcely seemed human. Within a week almost two-thirds of the entire workforce of the city, some 850m people and abhumans, were mobilized against the Imperial regime. For two weeks the entire Arbites garrison and six entire Defence Force armies were pushed back inexorably to the harbour and Cebastopol's star-port. Within three weeks the Arbites were no more and the Defence Force's 3rd, 34th, 42nd, 55th, 8th Independent Coastal and 16th Independent Coastal Armies were pinned down at the star-port.

It has been argued in the years since that six professional Armies, still close to full-strength, dug-in to strong, prepared, defensive positions should easily be expected to hold out against civilian rabble armed mostly with cutting lazers and bits of pipe. The argument has its merits, but it ignores that those six armies had previously been expected to easily hold the line and yet had been relentlessly driven back by that civilian rabble into a small, admittedly defensively-ideal, pocket. It also ignores that stemming the flow of Heretics was not good enough, nothing less than annihilation would do. Whatever the reasoning, STAFFKA sent orders from Kotlin; they had decided that Cebastopol and Krim Oblast were more strategically important than Oddyssa and Kirov Oblast were and that six armies were not, in fact, enough. Kirov Oblast could be retaken later.

The fall of Cebastopol simply could not be countenanced.

Rodina - Part III.

Somebody had to hold the line while the rest of the 62nd Coastal were re-deployed. Somebody had to make the harbour and star-port unusable after they had gone. Many had volunteered, few had been chosen. She used to work with explosives in the mine, so she had been one of them.

The noise here was unbearable now. At least she wouldn't have to listen to it for much longer. She wrapped the last wire, stood up and sent the mission-complete code. They were the last. They had nearly been too late.

She looked at her squad, looked at the gate, raised her lasgun. They followed suit. The screams from outside were unimportant; the incessant babbling of the rabble just vibrations in air. She looked at the panel as the gate gave and the horde flooded through. 00.33.4. They had done it. Oddyssa would rise again and Cebastopol would be saved.

She smiled as she fired. It was a good day to die.

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Looking good so far! I reckon the red stars will make them pop and tie them together.
Quick question, with your models so dark in colour, why is the flag such a bright yellow? Will you be keeping it that way or toning it down later?

 Commander Cain wrote:
I really like the skin tone on your IG, they look like they need a couple of days in the sun!

Tyranid Horde wrote:Bet you're excited to get your hands on that!

I saw on the painting competition thread your paintjob was ruined on Zarakynel? Any update on her?

Ezki wrote:I really dig the renegade command squad, well done!
I'm interested to see where this project goes, I will surely come back!

 Excommunicatus wrote:
It took the U.S.P.S. two days to get The Motherland Calls! from California to Hamilton, ON, which is about an hour's drive from where I live.

In the six days since, Canada Post has sent it to Toronto, then back to Hamilton, then to London, ON. It arrived back in Hamilton this morning.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
London, Ontario.

When Britain was colonizing Canada we apparently couldn't be bothered to come up with new names so we just recycled names of British places.

Thus there is a city in Ontario called London and through it runs the River Thames. Over the Thames is Blackfriar's Bridge. They even called their market Covent Garden.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
None at all.

There's some clean-up work to do, but nothing major, and once that's done (and I find the bottle of Nihilikakakakakakak wash that I bought) she'l be painted and pinned to the pink foam stepped-pyramid plinth I'm making.

I want her to be obviously and recognizably The Motherland Calls!, but IN SPAAAACE, haha.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Every army needs a Malcador.

Post up some pics, bruder/брат/Brosef Stalin

The Kronstadt rebellion (Russian: Кронштадтское восстание, tr. Kronshtadtskoye vosstaniye) was a major unsuccessful uprising against the Bolsheviks in March 1921, during the later years of the Russian Civil War. Led by Stepan Petrichenko[1] and consisting of Russian sailors, soldiers, and civilians

Oh yeah. For sure. The city board is going to be built to represent 'elastic-defence', ie. a city (named Ржев/Rzhev) that has been taken by and occupied by an invader, retaken and now faces attack once more. This all started as a tribute to the 1921 Kronstadt Rebellion but has shifted since to being largely an amalgam of the Battles at Rzhev, the Battle of Stalingrad and general overarching Eastern Front/Red Army influences.

Not Online!!! wrote:
Well you can always just use the style for the Statues and plant them seperately in glorious poses split off from each other in order to let soldiers move through them relatively freely?

 Excommunicatus wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
Well you can always just use the style for the Statues and plant them seperately in glorious poses split off from each other in order to let soldiers move through them relatively freely?

True.

It could also be a nice little nod to the fact that until I was eleven, my school put on a show and made me (and the other students, natch) dance around a May-Pole every single year. And now I think about it, I have a promo Southern Comfort lighter in the shape of an alligator that would work for the centre...

This is not helping my already problematic lack of focus, bruder.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Probably not. I'm vegan and the whole point of Swiss chocolate is the dairy that's in it.

The thought is appreciated though, haha.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Get off my shoulder, devil.

I would dearly love to recreate



with the fountain replacing the stupidly muscular soldat sculpture in the midground there, but;

i) that would then mean that five of my initial six tiles (2x Summoning Circle, Statue Garden, Mamayev KurBen and the approach to Mamayev KurBen) for the board would have nothing on them taller than single-storey ruined buildings;

ii) it would mean that the tile with the fountain on it would always have to be set up in a way that lined up with Mamayev KurBen; and

iii) it won't look much like Stalingrad ca. 1943, it'll look like Volgograd ca. 2018.

Mamayev Kurgan is the dominant height overlooking Volgograd so for sure I want to convey that impression of a commanding position. There will be sandbags. There will be barbed wire. There will be poured-concrete barricades with barbed wire. There won't be emplacements, but there will be Support Squads.

- can't be used in GW stores/events

- Doesn't contribute to bitz box.

Not Online!!! wrote:

- can't be used in GW stores/events

So long GW fails at producing a Cultist line so long there will be a place for them since they are literally equal in hight and size.

- Doesn't contribute to bitz box.

I don't know, i have atleast 2-3 legs over and about 12 bodies? Also way to many Lasguns, i feel like in my grandfathers home.
I also have around 8 Heads over, they generally have 7 heads and send 2 stripes for 1 squad it seems.

"We moved back, occupying building after building and turning them into strongholds. A soldat would crawl out of an occupied position only when the ground beneath them was on fire and their clothes beginning to smoulder."

FORWARD! FOR THE MOTHERLAND!

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Yeah, Soviets called the CCCP "the Motherland."

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

They'll be shrunk to size, printed, cut out, a few will get ripped up and then they'll be literally just pasted on with a PVA glue wash, in much the same way old-fashioned bill posters used to do it.

Then they get the wire-brush treatment, 'cause this is a war-zone not Red Square.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
It depends on what you mean by counter-propaganda. There'll be anti-Imperial, anti-government and pro-Chaos graffiti.

There won't be counter-propaganda posters.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Well, while the details have drifted away from the Kronstadt Rebellion, the main plotline of this thing is still very much tied to it.

And unfortunately, the story of the Kronstadt Rebellion doesn't have a happy ending.

For anyone.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Well, while the details have drifted away from the Kronstadt Rebellion, the main plotline of this thing is still very much tied to it.

And unfortunately, the story of the Kronstadt Rebellion doesn't have a happy ending.

For anyone.

I am not using The Motherland Calls! in the context of it being a memorial to the Great Patriotic War. It's just another nod to the setting.

There'll also be posters bearing military orders. STAVKA Order No. 227, springs to mind.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Great army, subscribing!

amazingturtles wrote:The last billboard is probably my favorite, that one captures the feel of "real"* propaganda the best

*as real as propagand can be, i mean.

Not Online!!! wrote:


Come to think of it, my grandfather still has the total mobilisation order from 1914 from his father hanging around, if you want i could take a picture tomorow and send it to you for Inspiration.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Haha, yeah I sort of figured it wouldn't be Tsarist propaganda.

My great-grandfather was one of Monty's 'Desert Rats' in WWII, a fact of which Mother Dear is impossibly proud and which causes arguments at almost every family event, since I take a somewhat dimmer view of Churchill sending his army to North Africa to protect British imperial interests while leaving the Red Army to get on with the actual business at hand.

Unfortunately there's a lot of texture on the base image and my GIMP skills aren't good enough to remove it.

 Excommunicatus wrote:

I need backpacks for them but the only bitz sites I know are U.K.-based and I don't want to pay transatlantic shipping for literally two bitz, or to support the British economy in any way shape or form, so does anyone out there have two spare Space Wolf backpacks I can buy from you?

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Random Aside;

how do y'all pronounce Slaanesh? I noticed a few days ago that the DoW: DC narrator-bloke pronounces it 'Slah-anesh', while I've always pronounced it 'Slann-esh'.

You?

Voyna Naradnoya II: Something Wicked This Way Comes

The Incident at Site 9 – Part I.

On 646.828M41, Konev Facility's Site 9 failed to report. Repeated hails were not answered. Located high on a remote plateau in the northern Ura Mountains, Site 9 was a weather-monitoring station with around 100,000 staff. Air reconnaissance of the area reported an impenetrable blanket of thick cloud and violent electrical storms making approach by air nigh-suicidal and so a Defence Force Battalion was loaded into Chimeras and dispatched on the two-day overland journey.

On the evening of the first day, KomBat Tikhonov reported that the cloud extended to ground-level and his forward patrols were approaching. Three hours after that, Tikhonov reported that he had been forced to halt by weather conditions at the Diatlov Pass. Four hours later his vox-channel opened, but no message was received. Tikhonov did not respond to hails.

After much deliberation and procrastination, with aerial patrols reporting the cloud and the storms remaining firmly in place, a further overland expeditionary force was launched; four Battalions strong this time. As before, Expedition Leader KomRot Kuznetsova reported her forward patrols entering the cloud on the evening of the first day. Four hours later, she reported entering the Diatlov Pass. Then, silence. For thirteen hours nothing further was heard from the expedition. A third expedition was being mobilized when, weakly, Kuznetsova's vox-channel opened;

“...impossible to say what happened here and I am not inclined to speculate. Here are the facts: At 0100 forward patrols entered the Diatlov Pass. At 0135 long-range comms failed. At 0245, forward patrols found the Chimeras of Tikhonov's Battalion seemingly hastily abandoned. They found no evidence of damage to any of the vehicles. At 410 they began to discover arms and armour, apparently discarded. At 0425, they found Tikhonov's Battalion. At 0440, they found Tikhonov. Each soldat was discovered in a state of undress, in advanced rigor mortis. Each was missing lips, nose and eyeballs. No other injuries were observed. Tikhonov and his command staff were decapitated by means unknown; the wounds cauterized. No blood-spatter or pooling was found. Tikhonov's genitals had been removed and were not found. No other injures were observed. Their heads were not found. No evidence of any hostile force could be found. No evidence of survivors was found. I have ordered four squads to remain in the Pass and the advance on Site 9 to proceed. Message repeats: This is KomRot Tatyana Mikhailovna Kuznetsova of Second Expedition, we have located Tikhonov. However, it is...”

The message repeated for almost two hours, then cut out as suddenly as it began. Kuznetsova did not respond to hails.

Before Third Expedition were loaded into their Chimeras, it was reported that the cloud was dissipating so they were disembarked and then re-embarked onto Arvus Lighters. Further reports indicated that the cloud was in fact not dissipating, so they went back into the Chimeras. Finally, it was determined that the cloud was dissipating and they disembarked the Chimeras a final time and re-embarked into the Arvus Lighters again. The flight to Site 9 was unremarkable, though heavy fog remained in the area. Despite being repeatedly hailed on approach, there was no response from the ground. On landing they found the site powered, but seemingly abandoned. The sites vehicle fleet was discovered undamaged and five squads were ordered down to Diatlov Pass.

Third Expedition searched Site 9 inch-by-inch but discovered no trace of any of the staff, their remains or indeed any clues at all as to their fate. Personal effects were not removed. No evidence was found to suggest the presence of hostile forces. Squads scouting the Pass found the corpses of Tikhonov and his Battalion but nobody alive; no evidence of hostilities and no further bodies. No trace was found of Second Expedition until the third day of searching when, in a supply store, the headless body of KomRot Kuznetsova was found slumped against the backwall. Above her were two words scrawled in blood;

“Tamam Shud”

The blood was not hers and remains unidentified. Her head was not found.

Vox Populi – Part II.

Lizz Kroekin wrote:OMG I canot beleve what I am reading!! are you all IDIOTS??? Hav you even read kews posts? VOyna naradnoya was a FASLE FLAG! The elites in Kotlin started it! DO YOUR RESEARCH !!!!11! They insistigated Oddyssa so that Cebastopol would rebel and they could KILL everyone. Two billion comrades ded!!! WAKE UP!!11!! This is teir paln, they are EVIL!! DAEMON-WORHIPPERS!! and we are just SACRFICES!! for their scik socalled god. I have a freind in the K4WDF so I now what iam talking abut.

CSKAMoskva4lyfe42 wrote:Daemons aren't real, you ninny.

Kryten wrote:

Lizz Kroekin wrote:-snip-

Go back to school.

Ivan Denisovich69 wrote:Right, I totally believe your “freind” is totally 'in' on this totally secret plan. I imagine all 15bn K4WDF soldats know about it.

Knees wrote:

Ivan Denisovich69 wrote:Right, I totally believe your “freind” is totally 'in' on this totally secret plan. I imagine all 15bn K4WDF soldats know about it.

LMAO

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Ovechkinator wrote:

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Die in a fire.

foodbabefan wrote:Well, actually, STAFFKA did allow Oddyssa to fall to run up the casualties but the rebellion in Cebastopol wasn't intended at the time. There's a relic in Cebastopol they need to summon daemons so I doubt they'd purposely endanger it.

Bill Posters is Innocent!!! wrote:[Citation Needed]

Knees wrote:

Bill Posters is Innocent!!! wrote:[Citation Needed]

LMAO.

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Nunc pro Tunc wrote:Daemons don't exist. Are you literally five years old?

Knees wrote:

Nunc pro Tunc wrote:

foodbabefan wrote:Well, actually, STAFFKA did allow Oddyssa to fall to run up the casualties but the rebellion in Cebastopol wasn't intended at the time. There's a relic in Cebastopol they need to summon daemons so I doubt they'd purposely endanger it.

Daemons don't exist. Are you literally five years old?

looooooooooooool

WeAllFloatDownHere wrote:

Lizz Kroekin wrote:OMG I canot beleve what I am reading!! are you all IDIOTS??? Hav you even read kews posts? VOyna naradnoya was a FASLE FLAG! The elites in Kotlin started it! DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!!11! They insistigated Oddyssa so that Cebastopol would rebel and they could KILL everyone. Two billion comrades ded!!! WAKE UP!!11!! This is teir paln, they are EVIL!! DAEMON-WORHIPPERS!! and we are just SACRFICES!! for their scik socalled god. I have a freind in the K4WDF so I now what iam talking abut.

Nurse? Nurse? He's out of bed again, nurse.

- republished from freerepublic.net.co.k4

The End of the Beginning - Part III.

At 0608 Central Kotlin Time on 656.828M41, contact was lost with K1, K2, K3, K5 and K6 along with the Lavochkin, Rokossovsky and Chuikov Mines on Volga Oblast; the Konev Facility and Oradour on Oktyabrskoy Oblast and Kirch on Krim Oblast. The Korova Facility. Ilyushin and Lyudaskaya Mines, along with Oddyssa, Cebastopol and Oryel reported that they were under attack by worker rabbles.

On the far edge of the Kronstaat system, in the bleak darkness, something ancient stirred. It was detected by a probe, which prepared a report and released it into the labryinthian Imperial bureaucracy.

By the time anyone noticed the report, it was far too late.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
I was back and forth as to what to do with the Heavy Stubber and as you can see, I was swayed by the points cut into slapping it on the Basilisk. D6 S4 shots at BS4+ for 2pts is not to be sniffed at.

CA 2018 in general has been pretty good to me, actually. I haven't worked out exact savings for my R&H yet but my 2K Daemon list (60 Daemonettes, eighteen Seekers, six Heralds, six Chariots, six Fiends) dropped by 283pts. Now that Herself is painted and KoS got a massive points drop too, I can run Her as a regular KoS day-to-day without gimping myself too much.

Which is nice.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Oopsie on the Heavy Stubber. It's still a great price for a weapon the army sorely needs at Heavy 3.

The Violet Heart is finished except for a layer of gloss varnish on her left arm glove and right leg stocking. I just don't have the skills or patience for tattoos or gubbins, nor do I have much will to spend more time on painting Daemons, honestly. I'm over the whole Fifty Shades of Purple thing for now.

EDIT - 460pts off my 3.5K 'full' Daemon list. That's nuts.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
You have their backpacks? I assumed they came without. That would be crazy helpful. Again, let me know how much postage is. Maybe you'll actually let me pay it this time, haha.

As these guys are metal, I bought a bottle of nail polish remover, with acetone, from Dollarama and threw them in that. I've never had it take this long before, but it is working. For plastic miniatures, I used to use acetone-free nail polish remover which is cheap and plentiful over the pond but over here I use Simple Green, which you can get at basically any hardware store. I've also had good results using an ultrasonic cleaner and isopropyl alcohol on really stubborn ebay rescues painted with enamel paints. The only resin mini I've ever stripped is Herself and the paint basically fell off of Her, so it doesn't really count.

Of course, I'm dumb and my initial clean up attempt on the Wulfen used a plastic toothbrush and of course the acetone melted the plastic, which hasn't helped matters.

Private Benjamin wrote:That's terrible! Did your landlord give you the legal 24 hours notice before entering?

Private Benjamin wrote:There is the posibility that a supernatural presence may have been the culprit; your building is probably over a hundred years old ...

amazingturtles wrote:Dang, that is no good. I hope the repair work isn't too much.

I like the contest idea! my brain is barely working right now but I will give this thread a good look through at some point and see what i may find.

What a generic sentence that is

 Excommunicatus wrote:

Private Benjamin wrote:That's terrible! Did your landlord give you the legal 24 hours notice before entering?

Nyet.

He's a very naughty boy.

Private Benjamin wrote:There is the posibility that a supernatural presence may have been the culprit; your building is probably over a hundred years old ...

If Slaanesh wills it...

amazingturtles wrote:Dang, that is no good. I hope the repair work isn't too much.

I like the contest idea! my brain is barely working right now but I will give this thread a good look through at some point and see what i may find.

What a generic sentence that is

I couldn't find any of her fingers and basic rules of sharing space with a dog has dictated two hooverings since, so there won't be any repair work.

Mein herz brennt, but it is what it is.

You may notice she's no longer undamaged and you may remember that I was on a train to Toronto with my boss. I was in Toronto for three days and Sasha Aleksandrovna was staying with friends. I came home from Toronto and found her on the floor with her fingers and sword snapped off, so I suspect my landlord has been a naughty boy

Private Benjamin wrote:
btw i did some sleathing and used Google Maps to take a look at the address you provided me prior to sending the Wulfen;
the wood-framed building it appears to have been a general store with above dwelling before used as rental accomodation?

If only those walls could talk; have you taken any photographs indoors and noticed the appearance of odd orbs or lights?
I've wondered if there is anything hidden in the walls, floorboards or ceilings in these old rooming-houses...

After reading about the lost Space Wolves 13th Company, I sent you a varied selection of plastic Space Marine backpacks.

Although i thought the postage was covered, Canada Post charged additional due to the thickness of the sprue;
hopefully they make their way to you safe and sound!

Not Online!!! wrote:

You may notice she's no longer undamaged and you may remember that I was on a train to Toronto with my boss. I was in Toronto for three days and Sasha Aleksandrovna was staying with friends. I came home from Toronto and found her on the floor with her fingers and sword snapped off, so I suspect my landlord has been a naughty boy

Wait he did what?

No excuse as to why? Also atleast he could've payed for the damage.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
It's not supposed to be snow, no.

I primed the Basilisk before I added the sand, which just happens to be very white. It'll be painted to match the basing on my other minis.

As mentioned, this is the first vehicle I've modeled in nearly ten years so I'm still figuring out the correct order to do things in. It would appear that beginning the weathering process at this stage was a mistake (happy little accident - V).

 IGtR= wrote:
And keep the landlord away from the models!

"I am 25 years old and I have killed 309 fascist invaders by now. Don't you think, gentlemen, that you have been hiding behind my back for too long?"

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Are you saying that the grenade soldat gives the impression that she doesn't know what she's doing?

That's not at all the impression I was trying to convey and will change her up, if so.

Honestly, the way she holds her lasgun is the part of the mini I like least and ironically it took the most work.

 Sageheart wrote:
Great stuff here.

but I've managed to lose it somehow and had to cobble something together from a lasgun left arm, special-weapon left hand and the 'bare' lasgun.

I'm going to re-do her, I think. It's more important that she appear competent than she be left-handed. I definitely do not want to add my voice to the small, but loud, minority of misogynists that exist in this hobby, even accidentally. Plus I'm not a fan of how the lasgun's stock gets in the way of her face, anyway.

Could it be saved by simply rotating the lasgun so that it is pointing forward, do we think?

Spoiler:

 Excommunicatus wrote:
I'm not alleging that anyone here is misogynist and, for clarity, I welcome the feedback you all provide.

I just don't want some leering neckbeard to look at her and go "hur-hur girls can't even hold a gun right".

 Excommunicatus wrote:
It's true, it definitely does accentuate how dumpy the rest of the mini is, but then again you don't have to be a size-zero waif to serve. Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko certainly was not what you'd call petite.



The plan currently is for there to be 122 visible faces in the K4WDF by the time it hits 2k points, and with these new additions 29 of them (24%) will be (or I hope will be) noticeably female. I'm not super happy about that and think it's rather low, personally, but making more soldats female pushes this project beyond my budget.

I'm going to be using Victoria Minis Arcadian "bald female heads" inside the empty Cadian helmets for all but 5 of them; three will have Daemonette heads and two now have Escher heads. All but eight of them will have female Arcadian legs, which are noticeably slimmer than Cadian legs are. One will be modeled, if not run, as a Tank Commander and doesn't require legs, the other seven get regular Cadian legs.

As things stand, I cannot afford to make a purchase from Victoria Minis though, so these two are a product of "what do I currently have to hand" combined with my guilt in not updating this in any meaningful way for a long time.

Not Online!!! wrote:
Tbf if you put lyudmilla in modern / guardsmen equipment you probably couldn't tell her apart from male counterparts in the same equipment from afar.

 Excommunicatus wrote:


Precisely my thoughts on the matter.

For clarity, I am not ascribing this sentiment to anyone here, but the idea that women have to be subjectively attractive and dressed like a virgin's idea of a Domme in order to exist is as objectionable as simply ignoring their existence altogether.

/

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Ayuh, that's the one.



EDIT - So I bought a copy of Index: Imperium 2

Vindicare Assassins seem ludicrously good for their cost, what am I missing?

 Excommunicatus wrote:
Games Workshop sells 25 shades of grey. There's a joke in there somewhere.

If the colours are somewhat accurately represented on their web-store then I think that Eshin Grey is the dark grey I need and Warpfiend Grey is the light grey.

Obviously I'll buy AP/Vallejo equivalents, rather than pay through the nose for a tiny amount of paint.

 Excommunicatus wrote:
That would require mixing and a pot to keep the mix in, which is precisely what I currently have and what I'm trying to avoid, though.

I don't really care for painting, it has always been my least-favourite part of the hobby and I procrastinate like crazy when it comes to picking up a brush so I have to make the process as smooth and wrinkle-free as possible or I'll just make excuses as to why I can't paint today.