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I take back the 'only bugs' comment ! I demand more of this once in a while to !

Okay guys, this is it. I'll be offline for a while while we move to the new abode. I should be back in a week or two, hopefully with stuff to show off. Thanks for all the good times, fellas (and luna), but for now, 'piezzzout!'
--FP135

The guard are making a comeback... for the first time in many months, I did some work to my guard army.

I've been distracted lately, making one-off conversions for the 40k RPG Dark Heresy. I did manage to get my Creed "counts-as" kitbash done in between converting bouts. I also liberated a righteous tool of the Emperor from filthy Xenos Ork hands, and have been making an effort to restore it (it's pretty rough, as you can see in the picture.

Quick tip of the day: the clear plastic safety covers on disposable razors make good track guards-- used some on a Basilisk and they provide seats for the crew as a bonus.

cool dude you play DH 2??? i love that i am in love with that game

IG GENERAL wrote:Quick tip of the day: the clear plastic safety covers on disposable razors make good track guards-- used some on a Basilisk and they provide seats for the crew as a bonus.

Hey wow, that sounds like a great idea. I'll have to try that if I can find any of my old disposable razors (yeah I'm cheap son of a .)



@Papaskittels: I recently acquired the game and it is so far awesome. We have yet to try it out in my gaming group, but most of them are experienced DnD'ers so the transition shouldn't be too bad.

your Dark Heresy are incredible!! fantastic work!
what bit did you use on the shotgun's slide? really like how that looks.

The slide for the shotgun is a fore-grip from a bolter. Since the SM scout shotgun has a hand attached, I just cut out the old one and dropped in the bolter's. It is a bit wider than the shotgun, but centering it up doesn't make it look too weird. The back end is just the receiver and stock of a regular lasgun. Is there any interest in a mini-torial?

i would appreciate a tutorial!

Yes of course!!!

Your combat shotgun looks fantastic!!

Great minis all round. The cadian respirators look great on those models.

Ok, I'll go make a mini-torial. BRB.


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Ok, shotgun tutorial is up:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/272273.page

thanks FoxPhoenix135! that was very educational. and simple enough for me to pull off!

The shotgun is pretty great. Hope you don't need a lot of them, though; finding all the bitz would be a nightmare.

The bits are not too bad, if you are both an SM player and an IG player. Most IG players will have a ton of lasguns laying around, and most SM players will have the boltguns. The only trick is finding the scout shotguns, as they are only available with the regular scout kit, and most people use scouts as snipers.

this is why i like Feebay or certain bits sellers. i never seem to have too much trouble digging them up.

Best. Anniversary. Gift. EVER.

On my blog ( http://foxphoenix40k.blogspot.com/ ) I am holding a naming contest for it, if anybody is interested!

A note about the heavy bolter door guns: I don't like them. At all, really. I ended up replacing the silly twisting sticks with a pair of tripod-mounted heavy bolters from the HWT set. Luckily I had extras. I set them back in there far enough that they rotate in far enough for the doors to slide shut.

I've been getting some painting done on the valkyrie... in fact I put in 6 or 7 hours worth of it in just today alone! I got the cockpit and crew completely painted, and put in the canopy. Basecoating the gray took FOREVER, since I do it by hand. I had to thin the paint a bit so it would not get too thick and blotchy, and then I had to paint on several layers to get the coverage I wanted. I wish I had done more detail on the interior, but since it was so hard to get a brush in there I had to settle for a quick and dirty metal drybrush. I got some pictures of my modified sponsons, however. I am using the bodies of the gunner crew for a pair of meltagunner vets (pics of those tomorrow, hopefully), so these remain unmanned. The crewman bodies just looked too awesome, and I thought they'd make fitting stormtroopers if anyone wanted to try the conversion.

I am fairly impressed with this kit... it has almost as much modularity as the Demolisher kit. A few things make it fall short of that though: There are no options for Lascannons to make a vendetta, and there should be a way to swap out MRPs and Hellstrike missiles to really make this a truly modular kit. I put the MRPs on, figuring that it is better to have it and not pay for it than it is to not have it and not be able to take it later, right?

Righto. Anyhoo, onto the WIP pictures!

Nifty Valkyrie. I thought the Creed model could do with more gear and gubbins though....

I like that arbites you did for your wife, when do you think you'll have it painted?

It has been painted, just moved to a separate blog for DH characters: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/272825.page

I also just got a bunch of =I= witch hunter models, so I will be painting those up and adding them to that blog soon.

I finally got the bits to convert my Valkyrie to a Vendetta. I am hoping I'll like the new variant, since I couldn't magnetize it the way I built it.

I used Leman Russ side sponsons (the old kind) that I had torn off a tank, and cut the heavy bolter off. I then took a pair of TL Lascannon arms from the dreadnought kits, and cut the lascannons from those and glued them to the sponson housing. The lascannons on the nose are from a razorback, I believe. I imagine that a predator's sponsons would work too.

What kind of tactics do you use for a Vendetta? For my valkyrie, most of my tactics involved moving it as far as possible to get it's save, and firing the MRPs (considered a defensive weapon) at any juicy horde targets that would present themselves, then dropping off a squad of rock-hard veterans to contest/hold objectives. It looks like now I'll be circling my deployment zone, sniping at AV14 or high-wounds, high-T targets. That limits its efficiency as a transport, don't you think?