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Did you just doubt your ability Kernel?

Just do it

Already mentioned this on the LoER thread, but great job KernelTerror! The four pieces you made in the last four contests look great together and made a beautiful table all on their own. And like Josh said, it would be great to play on.

Thanks a lot fellas, much appreciated !
More heresy soon...

I think I've said it before, but your work does a great job of capturing the "chaos" of Chaos, instead of just making them seem evil.

Thanks a lot Fifty, here is some more chaos randomness :

Found some cool looking piece of wood, so intergrated it as part of my next dark mech archmagos :


Made some decent progress on the mortars


And placed a raging hero model on some tentacles :

So, Kernel, when will you delve into the insanity that is a renegade and heretics Mutant army, that would be right up your ally now wouldn't it be?

Also a valid point for your mortars

Oh but this is ! These mortars are the proper base size and will receive a second servant in order to be heavy weapon teams.

I hope 9 of em is enough ?

 KernelTerror wrote:
Oh but this is ! These mortars are the proper base size and will receive a second servant in order to be heavy weapon teams.

I hope 9 of em is enough ?

Not really mortars are one of the few good r&H units and can be taken in groups of 3-6 per slot.
And believe me, go for an optimized list, field the full 18 mortars.
(also only 144 pts soooooo)

Good to know ! If I like the look of that first batch I might then go for 9 more then ! But trying bigger guns in the meantime, like basiliks or hellhounds would be fun too...

 KernelTerror wrote:
Good to know ! If I like the look of that first batch I might then go for 9 more then ! But trying bigger guns in the meantime, like basiliks or hellhounds would be fun too...

Heavy mortars aren't half bad, atleast from my experience with them.
They also aren't great but they do allright and their profile fits anything from a siege mortar to a fieldhowitzer. Which leaves alot of room for kit-bashing, modelling and 3rd party involevement. And in your case probably to a wierd tentacles based trebuchet

You could go 18 mortars. 9 heavy mortars and 3 Earthshaker based guns and then fill the rest up with mutants and enforcers.

What did Napoléon call such a formation? Grandé Batterie?

Most probably yes ^^ ! Apparently he also had "artillery on horseback" whatever that means ^^ !
Starting to have some ideas for a very big gun....

 KernelTerror wrote:
Most probably yes ^^ ! Apparently he also had "artillery on horseback" whatever that means ^^ !
Starting to have some ideas for a very big gun....

So the schwerer gustav idea just got revived? Ohhh boi.
Now I am curious

Not exactly the gustav, but something alongside the same class of gun yes. Don't hold your breath though, I still have a bunch of component to locate, and many legs to build....

Today was more about tentacles !

What diameter barrel do you want?
Got a plumber in my family that has plastic (well the industrial one for canalisation) pipes, i am pretty sure I could whip up some?

Oh, that is very kind of you to offer, thanks !That part however is already taken care off, the barrel will be around 5.5cm in outer diameter, and will shoot 3.5/4cm diameter shells, for which I just ordered some platic parts...

Wont be too long of a gun either, I am thinking something looking like an oversized sturmtiger gun...If it was made in the warp.

 KernelTerror wrote:
Oh, that is very kind of you to offer, thanks !That part however is already taken care off, the barrel will be around 5.5cm in outer diameter, and will shoot 3.5/4cm diameter shells, for which I just ordered some platic parts...

Wont be too long of a gun either, I am thinking something looking like an oversized sturmtiger gun...If it was made in the warp.

You remember my Eyechild.
Why not make one but bigger? The tentacle legs would surely not be a problem for you.
Your warbands have a lack of big spidery things

Edit: now that I think of it, i probably know what my table project is going to be

Of course, the eyechild is imho one of your best models, a giant version of it would definitely be a sight to behold.
But for this build, the plan is to go even more spiderish. For now, I started to make a leg :


The main problem is to have some kind of repeatable recipe, because I want the thing to have 20 of them. Components so far are some washers, aluminium and wooden rod, and some kind of plastic bag closing things. I have decent amount of all that. Just need one more raid to the hardware store to see whether I can find some sem circular piece to do some frontal armor and to build some claws out of plasticard...Should then be ready for painting that first prototype...

20 legs.
?!?
Someones going to get slightly insane.

Meh, I'm beyond redemption...

 KernelTerror wrote:
Meh, I'm beyond redemption...

I kinda feel bad now for instigating further insanity.
I should attempt to balance it out

You're going to build twenty of those? NotOnline is right, your mind has been tainted by the warp...

Sounds pretty amazing. I'm looking forward to seeing your progress

Thanks a lot folks, the idea is to have simple easy steps in order to build those.
Today I build half of the pistons, and assembled the leg structures

Now that sounds more reasonable

Right ? Now half of the pistons are attached, sounds like a good way to spend one weekend's hobby time !

Pah. All the more reason I live out my sudden burst of bunkermania

And all 20 leg skeletons assembled, now I have to rivet all that...

Primaris scum for scale

Have you allready thought about mandibles?

Mandibles would have been cool, but the plan is to stick to ranged weapons. Maybe it will get an axe though, but will be mostly ceremonial, or to beat the servants into loading the big gun...

All legs complete and attached to the chassis now, starting to look like something. And yes, had to remove 20 of the 40 leg pistons when I decided to attach them inside the chassis...But looks better really...


And also started working on this ships. I got it off ebay for a fair price, but it lacked several components, which I now have to build :

Those legs are looking creepy... love it!