Finally getting around to catching up on my subbed threads in the ol' P&M Blogs, the 6th rulebook has been distracting me. Speaking of which, nice summary on 6th all those pages back, very interesting insights. I'm looking forward to getting more games under my belt. I'm loving 6th so far.
Valks looks great, but we've I see we've moved on.
Airbrushes are great for getting an even basecoat down, I don't know what I'd do without mine!
What's the plan in terms of colour scheme for the Tau?
Finally getting around to catching up on my subbed threads in the ol' P&M Blogs, the 6th rulebook has been distracting me. Speaking of which, nice summary on 6th all those pages back, very interesting insights. I'm looking forward to getting more games under my belt. I'm loving 6th so far.
Valks looks great, but we've I see we've moved on.
Airbrushes are great for getting an even basecoat down, I don't know what I'd do without mine!
What's the plan in terms of colour scheme for the Tau?
D
The tank gets an earthen scheme, like a desert scorpion. The Skyray/Devilfish gets a two-tone blue and grey sky-camo scheme.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Okay. One down, one to go! Tau Air Caste Skyray/Devilfish, with fully swappable options. Magnetized for your pleasure. Getting better with the airbrush. Seeing that I need a finepoint one, so I can do panel lines. Not sure if I can afford a rig anytime soon to paint the O. I'll have to do all the heavy and medium work with the airbrush, and then switch to regular brushes for small and ultrafine.
It is nice to have options:
Skyray (Yes, I know the weapons loadout is illegal):
Devilfish:
Undercarriage:
Onto the Hammerhead, which is about 50% painted. Debating decals for both. We'll see.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Rivets! I've been very busy working on my part-time job, which is Artemis: The Spaceship Bridge Simulator. We're gearing up for GenCon, I'm now on the Board of Advisers, and I've been placed in the position of being the Community Manager/Visionary for expanding the game above and beyond. Which means that I am responsible for imagining things like "Artemis: The Toilet Paper".
Anyways! I managed to get a small project done that's been in my brain. I've ALWAYS been fascinated by what 'civilian life' is like, in the 40th Millennium. Now, let's face it. In reality, if we survive, humanity 40,000 years from now will be absolutely unlike anything we could possibly imagine. *WE* could be the Tyranids.
But, since we're not, and all the artwork is, pretty much, humans with (at best) funky cyberwear (the bioware is pretty much reserved for Space Marines)... We can build things. Like parking lots.
And trucks.
I hope you enjoy this trip into the madness that is my mind.
hey brian... no fair to show us a fully painted pic of that nice truck...what about a nice wip too? i think i see some GW bitz used but was the bulk scratchbuilt? people demand to know
Sorry, no Wip. I bashed this out in the space on an hour or so.
The cab is from the Manticore/Deathstrike kit, the flatbed and 'ramp' is Chimera. Wheels are older Ork wheels, treadwheels are bitz from a Baneblade and standard IG treadlinks. The side panels over the treads are trimmed down Rhino top hatch doors, and gubbins are a fuel tank from a baneblade, generic IG 'box', two IG 'tank hooks, and a cut-down 'cover' from a Space-Marine twin-linked somethingorother. Probably a Land Raider TwL Heavy Bolter or Lascannon. Ladder is cut down from a Baneblade kit.
The Manticore cab is, of course, filled out with plasticard and rivets.
2. No Thread Necromancy. If a thread is more than a month old, leave it alone. If you're really interested in the topic, start a new thread! There are exceptions, like updates to modelling blogs or threads in forums that don't get much traffic, but in general bringing back old threads is simply annoying to the bulk of the posters who have already moved on.
But on the awesome side, it getting bumped prompted people to start posting active updates, so yay me!
You want leaves and foilage? Go to your Supermarket, go to the baking spice section, AND GO TO TOWN.
If you're SMART, you'll find a COUPON in the Sunday paper (or on the internet) that'll get you a dollar off your purchase, giving you TEN TO TWENTY TIMES the amount of leaves/rough flock for HALF THE PRICE Secret Weapon is charging. I'm all for companies making money, but this is RIDICULOUS. Buy the cheap giant generic brand container.
BASIL. The secret is out.
--Brian
PS: My spice shelf reveals that Oregano Leaves also work well. And if you want to 'shop smart', a large jar of "Italian Seasoning" or "Herbs de Provence" will not only provide lovely 'rough/forest' ground cover, but will also season most dishes, and goes well on eggs.
YOU'RE WELCOME, CITIZENS.
PPS: Don't buy Gale Force 9 flock, EITHER. Buy the larger Woodland Scenics shakers. Too expensive? Find four friends, divvy up the cost, and you'll STILL get 2-3 times as much flock as what GF9 charges. Same goes for SAND and TALOS and ROCKS and their stupid tools and their little styrene packs and their styrene rod 'sampler' and...
It only smells for a week or so, less if you clear-coat it, but they will change color if you just use the supermarket variety, Is the Secret Weapon basil dyed? If so, dying or painting dried herbs is a bitch, how much was the Secret Weapon leaves and how much comes in the pkg?
If you get Woodland Scenics, buy the big quart shaker bottles of flock, they don't make one blended as nicely as GW's Glade Grass though..that is good stuff, and they give you a decent-sized tub.
Well, back in the day, there were rules for Civilian Vehicles. And, as Kid Kyoto said in his thread, in over 25 years, GW has never produced 40K civilian vehicles.
So, civ vehicles are great for terrain, scenarios, kill team, patrol clash, and all other types of mayhem, especially now that 6th edition has such a heavy focus on non-tournament play.
Which suits the -=[_,=- eague just fine.
Also, here's a few shots of things I've been working on, while staring fruitlessly at the...oh, yeah.
FOLKS, I've decided to change the name of The Big O. I cannot, in all good faith, ignore the dictates of my heart. The name of my epic missile-launching Adeptus Mechanicus creation is now:
ORDINATUS FALKEN
A bitz bag to whomever "gets it" first. DIFFICULTY: NO Internet Searches! Either you KNOW it and GET it, or you DON'T. No posers.
Also, I've decided to paint the missiles white, due to me not wanting to put up with "Red + Green == Christmas" jokes.
Now, back to the pictures.
I've been fiddling with the last of the Salvage Valks. I have a bit of a setback, because I couldn't straighten out/recover the heat damage of the tail booms. But I was able to experiment with some stuff, and get some forward progress. It'll be a few days to a week before I can make serious progress, but you can see where I'm going.
So, first, the original Valk. It is the one in the center.
New and old parts, after stripping the valk into major components/assemblies.
I honestly don't get the reference either, and google didn't help for that matter lols
Yeah Civie vehicles makes sense, I was tempted to do something with this: http://blightwheelminiatures.jumpseller.com/staghound-mk4 as something vaguely civie like... and I havent found anything else so far that I liked enough to use.
My guess on the Falken then Falk is the swedish word for falcon. and the falcon flies down to its prey at an increadible speed. the enemy/prey will never see it coming (kind of happily unaware). just like the missiles on your ordinatus when they are launched.
That Civilian Truck is looking good Brian, nice quick kitbash. Did you get any inspiration from that thread posted with more civilian vehicles? There's some real cool stuff in there!
Folks, a quick FYI. I was laid off, this morning (over the phone, no less). I'm going to be off-line for a bit while I concentrate on my vmware ICM class, and acing my VMware certification exam, so I can improve my chances of getting a new job.
That totally sucks that they couldn't even do that to you face to face! Cowards! And I wonder how this is supposedly a "recovering" economy with folks getting laid off so much?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Lot's of luck in getting back on your feet man!
Briancj wrote:Folks, a quick FYI. I was laid off, this morning (over the phone, no less). I'm going to be off-line for a bit while I concentrate on my vmware ICM class, and acing my VMware certification exam, so I can improve my chances of getting a new job.
That really really sucks. let me know if there's anything I can help with.
well... another fine gentleman down on his luck... for those that know me... i am pretty much a red sock (so not one of the right wingers at all...) and seeing this and the deeds of the have-to-much... well i hope that the punishment will arrive soon for those that even can´t act decent in such circumstances... really... there is definatly the need for a revolution...
Thanks for all the support. Networking proceeds apace, class is going well, and my gut is getting better. Oh, and my girlfriend gets home tonight from her trip to Chicago.
Sucks to hear dude, I went through much the same about a year ago (day after my birthday none the less). It gets better, dont worry. Virtualization will really help sell yourself to forward thinking, forward moving companies. A good call one IT nerd to another. Thin clients with View is what we are rolling out in the next few years at one of the biggest hospitals in the state. We already use it for server virtualization and desktop testing.
In truth, WM, the future is the end of traditional IT. It will become cheaper for most companies to simply buy "IT as a Service" (ITAS), which means a massive round of IT layoffs is coming, within the next 2-3 years. Large organizations will keep going, but even they will start removing their datacenter presence, in favor of renting from a Managed IT Provider.
A handful of industries with very strict rules (Hospitals), or things to hide (Banks) will maintain their DCs.
We're seeing the slaughtering of the middle-tier of the IT workforce. There will be a low end (Max, $60K a year) and a high-end (100K+).
We lost our Data ops team about a year ago. They were offered positions throughout the foundation, mostly I'm lower end positions, at a pay cut. I'm going to be going after the network side myself, as that will continually be needed.
Briancj wrote:In truth, WM, the future is the end of traditional IT. It will become cheaper for most companies to simply buy "IT as a Service" (ITAS), which means a massive round of IT layoffs is coming, within the next 2-3 years. Large organizations will keep going, but even they will start removing their datacenter presence, in favor of renting from a Managed IT Provider.
A handful of industries with very strict rules (Hospitals), or things to hide (Banks) will maintain their DCs.
We're seeing the slaughtering of the middle-tier of the IT workforce. There will be a low end (Max, $60K a year) and a high-end (100K+).
--B.
That blows, in ways I can't even describe tbh. I can't say I've heard that happening here in the UK but tbh, I doubt its far off from happening, considering how many british companies outsource the stupidest of things for the sake of cheaper pay to making profits ratio.
And people wonder why we keep dipping into a recession...
anywho, enough of this serious gak... I can't really say any more than whats already been said as well as what I said before, I just hope your keeping it together dude, as you can tell were all here for you!
now enough of this touchy feely gak and do some modeling to cheer yourself and us up
The only work IS in Managed Services unfortunately. SLAs will ultimately kill us all. They want to run IT like Fast Food, a big flowchart on the wall that they can drop any dummy into and measure his efficiency of following the chart and making an IT burger. This won't happen though, because they forget we are a skilled labor force requiring complex problem-solving on-demand.
And there goes my DCM sub. Ah well. Timing is everything!
Hopefully, this weekend up at Skalk's Place should provide a good time. Presuming I remember to, you know, pack everything. Having to scramble to handle unemployment and ex-work-gak in the middle of a week of intensive study? Yeah! Woo! Woooooooooo!
Briancj wrote:Thankfully, Mass will be spared the 'bow'. We'll get some microcells forming, but nothing like what NYC, CT, and RI are going to eat this evening.
Ah, so you are spared that at least, on top of the other garbage. Good luck again man.
Perhaps, but yours would be better... besides... you have to finish the Ordinatus no matter what you build out of those bits, so you might as well dream big!
How about the Dwarven war train thingie... that would be cool & I'm not sure anyone's done that seriously.
Gitsplitta wrote:Perhaps, but yours would be better... besides... you have to finish the Ordinatus no matter what you build out of those bits, so you might as well dream big!
How about the Dwarven war train thingie... that would be cool & I'm not sure anyone's done that seriously.
No, I have some very, very bad idea for what to do with those wall sections. Oh, yes.
As for the Squat Land Train, while I've ALWAYS been in love with Squats, I'm not going to start ANOTHER army.
If they come out with Squats ever again... you and I my friend... we're going to build a couple of Squat armies & field them with our team at Adepticon. We'll come up with some flimsy excuse to work them into the theme... SL will rage... and we'll ignore him and field and awesome Squat army!
Gitsplitta wrote:If they come out with Squats ever again... you and I my friend... we're going to build a couple of Squat armies & field them with our team at Adepticon. We'll come up with some flimsy excuse to work them into the theme... SL will rage... and we'll ignore him and field and awesome Squat army!
Nothing technically stopping us, now. Use any Marine Codex, some RT era stuff, and the bad-ass Mantic Warpath Dwarves... RT era Rhinos (since, you know, they could have them back then), convert some of those sweet Spartan Land Raiders into Land Trains (use variant Land Raider chassis the represent the different cars), and convert Stormtalons or Stormravens (depending on the codex) into Squat Gyrocopters.
And if you don't think I've already converted the Imperial Marauder Destroyer Bomber into the Squat Airship, in my mind, then you, sir, have another think coming to you. Possibly two.
Gitsplitta wrote:If they come out with Squats ever again... you and I my friend... we're going to build a couple of Squat armies & field them with our team at Adepticon. We'll come up with some flimsy excuse to work them into the theme... SL will rage... and we'll ignore him and field and awesome Squat army!
HUH?
I'd be all over doing a Squat army. Like you don't know me at all! ( checking Mirror for a tear.... ahh... nope) Mole mortars. There was this cool transport tunneller.. Every lord had a gaviton gun.
SL I might have a lead on a complete squat army - long shot if he'd sell it but.....hummmm
Well, if you can settle for 25mm, there's tons and tons of Mon Calamari figures from the Star Wars miniatures range, and they're about a buck a figure on eBay.
Solar_lion wrote:Ahh scarcasm back at me....... failed my FNP roll! Ahhhhg!
ITS A TRAP!!!!!!!!
Briancj wrote:Well, if you can settle for 25mm, there's tons and tons of Mon Calamari figures from the Star Wars miniatures range, and they're about a buck a figure on eBay.
So! This weekend, I had the pleasure of heading up to the wilds of Vermont, to visit Skalk and his friend Finn. I asked Galorn if he would like to come along, and epic adventure was had!
First, I'd like to thanks Skalk and his household for hosting. It is always a risk to have near strangers over for a visit (even if they're mostly vetted due to interacting on Dakka), but they made us feel very welcome. A big thanks to Cathy and Kaitlin, with Kaitlin pulling dinner duties. They were fine and gracious hosts, and I really appreciate their putting up with a day of gaming craziness. Also, the food was DELICIOUS!
(I hope I have spelled Cathy and Kaitlin correctly, I'll edit if I am incorrect!)
Here's a few shots of the Epic Game Jam Room of Epicness. I didn't get shots of his other shelves, which stored stacks of magic cards, terrain, and tons and tons of older GW product. This room is a shrine to both Heavy Metal and Old School GW. Skalk even knows who Bolt thrower is. Very important, that.
I have a pair of BatRep writeups to prepare. We managed to squeak in two games, one four-player "Carnage" ( a mission from the dark days of 3rd edition!) and a team game, Nurgle/Nurgle versus IG and... Necrons?! Yes, fear the horror of the Doomshackle Scarabs...
All in all, a great day and well worth the 7 hours of driving!
My BIG thanks to Galorn for handling the driving duties. Riding up in the comfort of a mini-van made the trip that much more enjoyable.
dsteingass wrote:Squats, even beastmen, or fishmen are perfectly legal abhumans in 6ed Imperial armies now...nothing stopping you from doing squats at all.
"FISHMEN"...Scarcasm is my only gift to the world!
Galorn was right on it!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Nice Man cave indeed!
Hmm. Might want to edit that first pic. I'm not sure the Mods love Metal as much as we do, but I'm fairly certain the adjective on my poster will draw unwanted attention.
Well, somedays the gak stick hits people you like. Got back from visiting a friend in the hospital, who had his appendix and a swatch of small intestine removed due to "canceroids", which is cancer...ish. He should be okay (praying, positive thoughts appreciated) but it does give you a sense of your own mortality, that's for sure.
So, let's see what's on the workbench.
Here's a shot of a couple of "noodling" projects. the last of the Salvage Valks gets some engine treatment, and a $10 toy I picked up at the Hobby Bunker gets some prelim attachments. It is made of standard toy plastic, which doesn't take ANY glue. So, I'm going to have to drill, baby, drill to permanently mount the extra bits. But I think you can see where I'm going with this.
And, I know you're all impatient, so here's some progress shots. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?!
After much internal debate and gnashing of teeth, I decided it would be best to go with AdMech red across the board, including the main decking and missile launch tableaux. The next pass will be boltgun metal, which I may or may not apply with an airbrush, we'll see. Then, a wash of black. The missiles have gotten their dark grey (Krylon dark grey automotive primer for the win) basecoat (away from the dark green I was originally thinking of). I chose to run away from the red and green Christmas Ordinatus. Ho, ho, ho. The missiles will be brushed up through a medium grey, then white, then washed with black, and a final white coat, before decals and details. I used this technique on the "Coast Guard" rescue Valk, and I was very, very pleased with how the white came out on that. So, duplication of successful effort = win, right? Right.
After I wash down the Ordinatus sections, I'll be going in full throttle with the brushes. The airbrush I have isn't fine enough to do detail work with, which is fine. Once I'm done, then I'll seal the model, and install stained glass in the windows.
Vitruvian XVII wrote:Looking good brian! Lovely and red. Nice to see youre back on this project.
Is that a gorgon i see taking shape?
It is, in fact, a dirt cheap Gorgon taking shape. If it works out, I may have Galorn cast up some of the assault ram/ramps, and make a small fleet of them, for giggles.
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evildrcheese wrote:
Briancj wrote:AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! JOB, YOU ARE MINE.
Excellent stuff Bri.
So what is the plan with all the panels???
D
Well, I have two needs, really. One is for a city-fight table. But, for that, I'm thinking more toward the Pegasus Hobbies intact buildings. No, the panels, I think, will go into storage for a bit, while I acquire foam, some spackle, some craters, and some medium-weight chain. Oh, and some wooden display bases and wooden support rods. And a couple of skyshields. And maybe for Fortress of Redemption, and some bastions. Yeah.
The ordinatus really needs some sparkly gold bits and an angelus on top looks great mate, I always find it a challenge to get things painted after spending ages on a modelling project.
the red looks very good... i think a tanklike superstructure like the ordinatus is quite fitting related to the admechs...
and illnesses like cancer, aids, and alzheimer are the stuff i have nigtmares about... everything else is quicker and get´s you over sooner than the above... better qucik than slow i think... and hopefully a long time still far away in the future... best wishes for your friend!
The Gorgoin afaik is just a full strength platoon carrier.
It was made for the DKK to transport 50 man platoons over the trenches and across no-mans land. The front ramp is basically an uber siege shield rather than a fortification breacher, its just an incredibly thick front armour piece, for when it charges head on at guns.
Briancj wrote:Well, I have two needs, really. One is for a city-fight table. But, for that, I'm thinking more toward the Pegasus Hobbies intact buildings. No, the panels, I think, will go into storage for a bit, while I acquire foam, some spackle, some craters, and some medium-weight chain. Oh, and some wooden display bases and wooden support rods. And a couple of skyshields. And maybe for Fortress of Redemption, and some bastions. Yeah.
Cool. Looking forward to see what you pull together.
Well your thread has it all. I really like your Guard in the early pages. The Minotaurs are cool, too. The head swaps are very fitting. Then there are the Blue Angels, nice. And, of course, you built a freaking Ordinatus. That think must have cost a fortune! I salute your skills and courage sir!
40kFSU wrote:Well your thread has it all. I really like your Guard in the early pages. The Minotaurs are cool, too. The head swaps are very fitting. Then there are the Blue Angels, nice. And, of course, you built a freaking Ordinatus. That think must have cost a fortune! I salute your skills and courage sir!
Not as much as you might think, as I already had a pair of superheavies lying around from payment for services rendered. The killer, really, was buying up a ton of Manticore Missile Parts.
That is a monster. We should get a game of APOC in before the end of the season. APOC CARNAGE!!! Man, that would be horrific. 12X4, say a 5K per army limit? I'd have about 1/2 of my Death Guard out.
dsteingass wrote:I'd fly out to Waaagh with yous guys if they made a foam tray customized to fit a Marauder Destroyer and a Thunderbolt..but no one does!
Yeah. No one but the mighty D!! Make your own!! You know you can.
Get to it. I'll check this thread again tomorrow morning. There'd better be pics.
dsteingass wrote:I'd fly out to Waaagh with yous guys if they made a foam tray customized to fit a Marauder Destroyer and a Thunderbolt..but no one does!
In a way Battlefoam does... (custom tray creator FTW...)
Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
dsteingass wrote:I'd fly out to Waaagh with yous guys if they made a foam tray customized to fit a Marauder Destroyer and a Thunderbolt..but no one does!
Yeah. No one but the mighty D!! Make your own!! You know you can.
Get to it. I'll check this thread again tomorrow morning. There'd better be pics.
Well I have an Army Transport Division (rolly bag) so I need foam that fits my bag. I'm NOT going el-cheapo when it comes to protecting my expensive FW investments
dsteingass wrote:Well I have an Army Transport Division (rolly bag) so I need foam that fits my bag. I'm NOT going el-cheapo when it comes to protecting my expensive FW investments
What tray size does that use? BF has a setting for GW standard size, BF, standard size, SABOL standard size...
It fits three stacks of their standard Sabol trays or one doublewide tray and a single. The Marauder Destroyer is just about 19" square So it wouldn't even fit the doublewide tray. I would need a full 24" tray, and I don't believe anyone makes one.
dsteingass wrote:It fits three stacks of their standard Sabol trays or one doublewide tray and a single. The Marauder Destroyer is just about 19" square So it wouldn't even fit the doublewide tray. I would need a full 24" tray, and I don't believe anyone makes one.
So, one of the things I'm goign to GenCon for is to hope and pray that Catalyst Labs has solved their LEVIATHANS problem, so I can throw money at them.
Last year, I busted my ASS to get two full fleets. Now, I'm giving them WWI era 'authentic' paint schemes for the French and British, running mast rigging, and adding Battle Ensigns. Woo!
Unfortunately, I found that their claim that the paint on the ships is just as good as primer, and you can just paint right over it to be... WRONG!!!!!!!
So I'm repairing masts, adding new masts, and primering the HELL out of them. Oh yeah.
This will be holding my full attention, so there will be no Ordinatii progress until after GenCon. Sorry Folks.
Have a picture of some Leviathans.
How can you pass up flying Battleships? I don't think you can. ELECTROCOALPUNK FOR THE WIN.
You got my hopes up there - I had visions of further giant 40k vehicles. If you like flying battleships, though, you should check out Spartan Games's Uncharted Seas and Dystopian Wars stuff.
Dystopian Wars is, for the most part, water-line wetnavy fleets. Yes, they're 'steampunk' maybe even a bit of ironpunk, but only a few "Nations" have flying ships (like the German ZEPPLIN, which is, admittedly, cool.)
However, I dislike their rules systems. Great models, horrific gameplay. This is my $0.02. And I own an entire BOX of "Firestorm Armada" fleets.
No, I shall be sticking with my FLYING TESLA-POWERED WORLD WAR ONE BATTLESHIPS, thankyew very much!
I started with a dark primer, and then went over with a medium grey. I realized that I was just annoying myself.
So, I switched to a lighter primer (Thanks, Krylon!) and Secret Weapon Minis Soft Body Black Wash.
I'm working on applying actual WWI paint schemes to my ships. I've repaired and added extra masts, so I can hang flags and some cabling/rigging. The French Fleet is a mid-darker grey, the British Fleet is a lighter grey.
The French were washed with SWM Soft Body Black, barely diluted. The British were washed with the same Soft Body Black, but diluted with about 4 parts water. I kinda wing my washes, sorry.
Cool, faintly reminiscent of Space 1889 which I used to love, sucker for Victoriana. Agree about Dystopian Wars, watched a few games and the rules seemed odd.
Are you bringing any minis.armies to GenCon for a possible pick-up game Brian? I don't care about rules, they are AMAZING! You'll have to get me started on these badass ships, tell me where to start.
dsteingass wrote:Are you bringing any minis.armies to GenCon for a possible pick-up game Brian? I don't care about rules, they are AMAZING! You'll have to get me started on these badass ships, tell me where to start.
I believe I could bring 1000 points of Minotaurs, Dave.
1) Be at Gencon.
2) Giving away ships.
3) If you work the events and staff like I did, you can get two entire fleets, like I did last year.
Or, just buy the games, and play the demos to gets some extra ships.
Here's how it works:
Each demo you play in gets you a destroyer. You can TRADE UP, each time you play a demo. So, the second demo nets you another destroyer...or turns your destroyer into a Cruiser.
I also wheeled and dealed at their booth, to get the last ships I needed, as I dropped $200 on Shadowrun and Battletech. Due to an issue with China, they had no Leviathans boxes last year. THIS year, they have everything, and people are already having their box sets arrive at home.
Heh, Yep, it was good to meet you too man! I wish we would have had some time to meet and talk more, unfortunately schedules were packed and we had an incident Saturday: Lauri had her badge hung on her bag during a game, and it must have ripped off when she got up from the table, in her neck pouch, of course was her Credit Card, about $300 in cash, and her driver's license. So we had to go to the nearest bank branch and take care of things, no one tried to use her card, but lost & found never got it either, so we figured someone swiped the cash and trashed the rest, who knows?
UGH! Yeah, we saw about a dozen backpacks, two watches, and several swag bags get left behind at the Artemis room. Thankfully, it looks like everything made it back to their rightful owners.
awww.... that sucks... makes the whole show a bit less sweet than hoped... (to laurie) hopefully someone stays honorable still and she gets everything back... *crossing fingers*
I'm with Vit...what are the silly honourable battlefield things
And quite obviously, with all that terrific terrain type items you'll be constructing a multi-storey car-park that chimeras can career crazily off of in spectacular suicide crashes as they try to stop the rampaging ordinatus (admittedly that would have worked better if you had a giant b-movie nid monstrosity)
dsteingass wrote: Do you mean the set with the Space Marine Statue, the broken aquilla, and the ruin that they forgot to put into the Shrine of the Aquilla box?
Oh come on guys, its obvious. After making the Ordinatus he realized that it won't do him any good if he can't get it down onto the planets surface. So what better way to do so then, the ORDINATUS DROP POD!
Ordinatus Drop Pod - 50 points
Capacity - 17000 models - Ordinatus counts as 17000 models, btw.
Weapons - 1 storm bolter
IceAngel wrote: Oh come on guys, its obvious. After making the Ordinatus he realized that it won't do him any good if he can't get it down onto the planets surface. So what better way to do so then, the ORDINATUS DROP POD!
Ordinatus Drop Pod - 50 points
Capacity - 17000 models - Ordinatus counts as 17000 models, btw.
Weapons - 1 storm bolter
IceAngel wrote: Oh come on guys, its obvious. After making the Ordinatus he realized that it won't do him any good if he can't get it down onto the planets surface. So what better way to do so then, the ORDINATUS DROP POD!
Ordinatus Drop Pod - 50 points
Capacity - 17000 models - Ordinatus counts as 17000 models, btw.
Weapons - 1 storm bolter
Well there are the Imperial landers like the ones on the IG codex cover, although, I doubt anyone has the house space for one of those
I did that once with a Polar Lights Scooby Doo Mystery Machine model kit. We shipped that thing all over the world, everyone who got it, took pictures of it, posted them, and shipped it to the next person.
Briancj wrote: Acquired: 32 square feet of foam, two forms of lightweight Spackle, six feet of black plastic chain, a can of spray foam, and 4 "D" Cell batteries.
Gitsplitta wrote: I got it! You're building Terra... the whole planet... in 28mm.
If I've done the math right, and I probably haven't lols, if he was to build it in 28mm heroic scale... it would be 649686539.2996mm in diameter or for you mile officianado's thats 403ish Miles...
Sooooooooooooooooo, about a month ago, I traveled down to Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts. Home to a WWII Destroyer, Submarine, two PT boats, a former East German Missile Corvette, and the USS Massachusetts.
What does this mean for you? Well, it means a smackload of real world weapon reference photos, suitable for Imperial Guard and ORKS.
Have at 'em! Here's a sample, and a link to the Gallery.
Go! Lookie! Enjoy! someone tell Klaus that I have interior photos of a Battleship, if he's looking to make more dioramas, including a midship medical surgery room! There's 30 weapon reference photos up in this here Gallery.
Gitsplitta wrote: So Brian... is this thing you are planning to create well known or is it something out of some piece of obscure, Imperial Guard bit of fiction??
A variation of what I've always wanted to build is in the new main rulebook.
Gitsplitta wrote: So Brian... is this thing you are planning to create well known or is it something out of some piece of obscure, Imperial Guard bit of fiction??
A variation of what I've always wanted to build is in the new main rulebook.
was just having a glance at the Rulebook, and nothing for me personally, stands out all other than the cathedral and the star-port.
Well! It is Labor Day here in the US, and that means it is time to relax and celebrate the American Worker!
Well, that was fun. Let's liveblog a day of 40K craziness, instead!
I started by doing dishes, clearing off my workspaces, and getting organized.
Here's a mid-course shot, I've cleaned up the table, and started sorting stuff by project. My obsessive hoarding of ziploc baggies that product has arrived in serves me well, here.
And here's a shot of the "Project" box, which is kind of a staging area for upcoming madness.
Here's a nice clean table, ready to be wrecked again, with the first project on the table, doing some minor repairs to WM360's GMS Land Raider. He did a gorgeous job, and I look forward to showing it off.
Here's the project box, now pretty much full.
Finally, a shot of the worktable in my kitchen, which needs to be vacuumed.
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Up first, WhaleMusic360's Minotaurs LAnd Raider Redeemer, with THE MOST BAD-ASSED TECHMARINE EVER. "Drive Me Closer, I'm going to leap out of this Land Raider and rip that guy's throat out!"
I think it is important to note that not only does it have a full interior, and everything is detachable/magnetized...but he also painted bottom details, like the bronze eagles on the tracks. I am very, very impressed. But now I need a name for this BEAST.
There were a few things that fell off during shipment, they have been repaired, and the LR is ready for some ass-kicking.
Now, what next? How about "I burned an entire pot of "Baal Red" Wash"? Yup, I sure did...
Aww, which parts brokeded? Damn USPS! Bonus scoobie snack if you can name the stormbolter origin. I wanted to give it something that could be the stormbolter option, or just a cool commander.
Sorry I didn't paint the Aquilas in the white you use, there weren't any
whalemusic360 wrote: Aww, which parts brokeded? Damn USPS! Bonus scoobie snack if you can name the stormbolter origin. I wanted to give it something that could be the stormbolter option, or just a cool commander.
Sorry I didn't paint the Aquilas in the white you use, there weren't any
A couple of small tracks fell off, and one of the Flamestom Cannon 'shields' fell off, and his power fiste fell off. All very, very minor.
It appears to be a plastic Terminator Storm Bolter with a single Crux Terminatus on the cowling, but f'ed if I know where it came from.
Well! Got my laundry done, ran an errand, did NOT get a copy of the new starter set, and realized I really don't WANT one. I just want the rulebook. Helllooooo, eBay.
Well, I didn't get as far as I'd liked, but today was a good day. Ran errands, I'm ready for my next projects, and I have clean laundry. Good day, right? Right.
Here's a shot of six massive missiles, in progress. Note: Holding a 40K scale "Weapon" that I could reasonably, actually cause harm with? Yeah. That's a spicy missile. And this thing packs six of them.
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Years of work. Months of planning. Decades of searching for the ancient STC that took him to the very halls of Ancient Terra. Weeks of interruptions by that unbearable Tyrant. Days of programming cogitators and logic matrices. Fourteen servitors destroyed, and an uncountable number of slaves died in the process. The slave corpses became fodder for the Arch-Magos' lessers to build more Servitors from, ensuring a near-endless supply of labor that would work until their second death. And sometimes their third.
Toward the end, the sound of bombardment and battle approached, sometimes distant, sometimes uncomfortably close. The Arch-Magos was assured that these great fortifications has stood since the time of the Horus Heresy, but that was cold comfort each time the floors shook and ceilings crumbled. Thank the Machine God nothing had happened in his area...to HIS work.
But the Great Project was done. Standing in the control room, Arch-Magos Falken inserted the final key, entering the final sequence while a choir of specifically-created Servitors chanted the sacred Rites of Awakening. A moment. Two Moments, nothing happened. A look of concern flashed across the Arch-Magos' face, before a sub-harmonic, undetectable by lesser beings, caused him to smile for the first time in a century.
On the small screen that connected the control room to the Machine Spirit within the Ordinatus, a line of text appeared.
"Hello, Magos Falken. Would you like to play a game?"
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Better pictures when I have better light. And now, I sleep.
1.. why the heck has it been so long since ive been here.. 2. I LOVE those bays your making, the shape is very nice and im looking foward to seeing all the little details you add!
whalemusic360 wrote: That, on 40k scale, would be sick for some boarding action games.
yes, yes it would. from the movie "avengers" and based on real ACCs... I want to say two standard "40k" tables long and five deep (each deck is a pair of tables...)
Not a lot of progress. Spackle has been applied as a test, seems to work as expected. The 'bowing' of the foamboard is fairly impressive. Note to seld and other, the spray foam takes a LONG time to fully 'cure', and it has the strength to deform/bow white foamboard, possibly pink/blue foamboard.
Bought paint, other stuff. Probably going to need more spackle, we'll see.
Acquired more plastruct sheeting for the floor of the destroyed landing bay.
But I'll be delving deeper later.
