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Oh yeah, I was totally considering this,



With badge as well, also I was thinking maybe this as nose art..



But I didn't think the Omega symbol would work with all the Ultra 'Upsilons' in the army too, still toying with ideas really, regards to shoulder pads, I was thinking red with a white bar central and a Inqusition ][ thingy in the middle? I was thinking of making a Bestor too, maybe out of a hobbit or something, make a good 'Master of the Fleet' or 'Primaris' though he was never that overt..

@Tortured-Robot - Thanks! wanted them to look a bit different to the rest of my force (and the standard Kasrkin)..


EDIT: Oh yeah, the white stuff is just common or garden polfilla, works great as a cheap base texture, does have a slight tendancy to shear off it's base however and small 'glue wells' of superglue down to the base can help...

I've often thought about inverting the colors and Omega symbol on Ultramarines and making an Indianapolis Colts SM Chapter. But then I think how stupid that would be.

*Googles*

Oh yeah they basically already are the Ultramarine football team..

i love that Bugstomper, if i can ever paint that on a valk, then i will

I like you models only thing I dislike is the bright green edge on the bases. I would go for a darker colour. I went with scorged brown for my catachans.

Anyway keep up the good work!

^i usually dont like that either, but in a way it reminded me of waay old minis, so it has grown on me

oh my god, a B5 psi-corps style army would be awesome

Yeah I get a lot of flack for my 'classic' goblin green rims, I have considered redoing them all with static grass and Graveyard rims but that's over 120 Infantry to redo....my marines match too...so they would need redoing...

*shudders*

Yeah I'm tempted to do the Stormies as PsiCorps..

THE CORPS IS MOTHER, THE CORPS IS FATHER

Now that PsiCorps badge on the shoulder of the stormies would be great.

I also really love Ivanova's starfury logo design, also would look amazing on a valk...

http://www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/IMG_1169.JPG

Yeah that is a pretty logo...hmm lots of choices, still no nearer to deciding really..

MERRY XMAS TO ALL MY SUBSCRIBERS!!

HERE'S A FESTIVE PIC(ard) TO GET YOU IN THE MOOD!!

Thanks to everyone, we're nearly at 11,000 veiws which is quite mental, a little bird told me that Santa my have requistioned a few reinforcements too....

I hope all your Xmas wishes come true.

Love Randy

Merry Christmas Randy! I LOL'd and then felt sick, HAHA

Set course for Riza... Engorge!

Festive Yuletimes to you too Randy!

MAKE IT SNOW

Merry Chrimble to y'all too!!

fantastic work

Thanks a lot!!

back from the holiday period (my birthday was on the 17th so to me Christmas doesn't end until about now), I thought I'd show what I've been tinkering with recently..



First up reinforcements!! Thank you to various family members for their generosity, they don't usually get me toys but they seem to have relented...maybe it's because I don't appear to be growing out of this 'phase'.



I also got this puppy, a Contemptor, which is too beautiful to build....I will eventually but that's another blog...

I have built the tanks, here's the Hellhound:



Wanted it to have improved side armour as it has AV12 on the sides. I have just added the spare plates off the Chimera base sprue. I have made them slightly spaced, as the turret armour is too.



Dozerblade is to make it look more 'urban combaty'. MM in the hull so it can have a pop at Landraiders/Battlewagons should it be necessary.



Also in spooge cannon variety, for those pesky power armoured chaps..the barrel is just bluetacked in ATM so can be swapped to any variant needed. Wow that MM look gappy in that pic, might have to fill it.

I'll stick up some pics of No.4 Russ soon..

Ta Ta

My as yet un named hero Russ. Tank commander can be run as Pask, Plasma cannon sponsons and Vanquisher main gun.



I've used the muzzle break off the Eradicator cannon as I think it gives the Vanquisher a different look, I wanted it to look different to just a long Battlecannon.



As it's the new variant of the Russ kit I think it makes a more interesting boss tank as it is slightly different to the old types my squadron is composed of.



My sometimes Pask. I was thinking Wittman when I put him together..he needs another small session of greenstuffing to sort out his arm and to tidy up the goggle built over the weird Jordi LaForge type visor thing that head comes with..



But wait, what new devilry is this? I magnetised the sponsons, I glued a small magnet into the superstructure...





Covered it in GS and more glue, if it snaps off the hull I'll never be able to get too it as its within the track sections..



I made a small projecton to help it stay level and indeed on.



Inside the sponson I glued a bar of sprue with the same small magnet on it..



I found them a little weak and pulled the lot out with pliers and replaced with a big long magnet, held in place with GS. These seem more secure.



I have left the Vanquisher barrel unglued so it will slide out leaving the mantlet and base of the barrel, this allows easy replacing with a standard battlecannon. It's a little too slidey but a tiny GS nub or even just superglue left to dry might tighten the fit..



Here is the Exterminator variant, the mantlet setting has gone completly.



I've left the turret top unglued and built a bar of sprue across.



A magnet on the bottom half of the turret creates quite a strong bond as they can touch (not held apart but the thickness of the hull as per the sponsons) and it's possible to pick the tank up by the turret.

All the socket mounts for the sponson and hull mounts will be left unglued as well so it can be configured to whatever I want to try out. This was also done as insurance against 6th edition!

I'm going to postpone the Valk and Stormies as they are really hard!, I'm also thinking of retrofitting the Valk with magnets so it can be a Vendetta when required, I might as well use it a few times before the next codex ups the cost by 30-60pts!

I'm going to paint these tanks next but I am already feeling the call to paint some more ancients as the new Armies of Antiquity has been released and it's really good...bah

the tank looks fine, ive never used that russ varient before though

Cheers, no I haven't either, lookind forward to popping a few landraiders and giving the occupants a plasma bath.

Nice! Very cool-looking with the muzzle-brake!

Thanks, I thought the muzzle brake would be more fitting for a high velocity cannon.

Loving the muzzle on that cannon, looks very business-like!

Glad to see your exploits in the world of magnets, that hell hound is looking good as well (although I have a strong dislike of the 'Mr Whippy' nozzle they give you for whatever the variant is called).

You scored well with the Xmas lootz btw, I got me some sweet Dark Eldar stuffs and will be embarking on a blog of my own with em soon enough... (airbrush to get first from my tax returns). Which weapons did you get with your forgeworld dread?

(ps - won the dakkacon 40k tourney last weekend... you created a monster! )

i Have to say ive been loving this thread. Ive seen a few Macragge PDFs done before but yours really ranks among the top 3 that ive seen. Well done

oh and >>>>>>>

subscribed!

Top 3?



Always make me thing of that song, thanks for the sub!

Been a bit quiet on the IG front I'm afraid, might have something to do with these guys:



Yes been dabbling with the Dark arts of Warhammer Ancient Battles again..(more pics in the Gallery) but I will swing round to the IG again I promise!

MGS: I got the Kheres AC arm (H6? yes please) the DCCW arm (fleet? don't mind if I do) and the bolt on Cyclone launcher..It's pretty awesome though at 225pts it bloody well should be....

Yes the 'Bane Wolf' nozzle is rubbish but 'killing MEQs on a 2+' super flamer is nice!!

Gratz on the tourney, I assume you were Orking it? What Pts and what were you using? BW spam?

RandyMcStab wrote:Top 3?

Yeah, I lolled, not seen any other Mac PDF myself.

RandyMcStab wrote:
Yes been dabbling with the Dark arts of Warhammer Ancient Battles again..(more pics in the Gallery) but I will swing round to the IG again I promise!

MGS: I got the Kheres AC arm (H6? yes please) the DCCW arm (fleet? don't mind if I do) and the bolt on Cyclone launcher..It's pretty awesome though at 225pts it bloody well should be....

Yes the 'Bane Wolf' nozzle is rubbish but 'killing MEQs on a 2+' super flamer is nice!!

Wow, expensive but sexy dread, was it the claw CCW or the hand CCW? (I'm liking the sound of the graviton gun on the claw...)

Bane Wolf: True, so are you considering a conversion for the nozzle?

RandyMcStab wrote:
Gratz on the tourney, I assume you were Orking it? What Pts and what were you using? BW spam?

1k pts, I took 2 wagons (does that count as spam?), one with 12 burnas and a BM w KFF, the other with 20 boyz with nob pk/bp, 2x5 lootaz (one of which I forgot to deploy on the first game...), 1 deffkopta, 1 deffdread. 1st game was against DoA Blood Angels with FNP/meltas/flamers and rerolls galore - win - tabled, 2nd game was against BTs (very knowledgeable player) with PotMS vindicators x2, 2 missile covered land speeders, a razorback with lasplas and a rhino, the latter 2 containing an assault squad and a regular squad and the emperors champion - win - very messy and hard fought game, 3rd and last game was against Grey Knights, all terminators, 2 squads with psycannons and halberd things (1 had a librarian I think), 1 ubersquad of 2 wound individualised guys with all sorts of terrifying stuff... Which failed it's DS roll - touching one BW and fzarted out of existance - the penalty for all your eggs in one basket I think... - tabled him also. So 3 for 3, 2 tabled against 2 new and terrifying army lists and 1 hard fought against a canny dude with nasty twin vindy/land speeder pairs. More 'eads fer me boss pole! I did wonder how it might have gone if I'd just replaced the BWs with masses of 20 strong units of boyz... but then I wanted to field a fully painted army and, other than the deffkopta, I was able to, which was really nice.

I love that Flight of the Conchord song..

Hand CCW, yeah Gaviton is rad but if you're using a Cyclone you will have to be not firing something and it's too many points for a back up gun. If I wasn't set on the launcher I would have got it..

I can't be bothered to convert the Mr Whippy nozzle, I doubt I'll use it very often, it's nice to have options..

Is that 1k? Good list and good winz, you were lucky having those Paladins got lost in the warp (the irony), I had that happen in the opening game at Spolis of War. 1k lists, no heavy support(!), and I find myself fighting all Khorne Chaos daemons with 2x3 Blood Crushers and a Herald on Chariot and 30-40 Bloodletters..but he managed to lose a BL unit on the way in, really helped! That'll learn em to risk it. Nearly tabled him.

RandyMcStab wrote:
I can't be bothered to convert the Mr Whippy nozzle, I doubt I'll use it very often, it's nice to have options..

Any chance you could freehand 'stop me and buy one' on the side of the turret... (do you remember the Dark Future ice cream van in an ancient WD?)

RandyMcStab wrote:
Is that 1k? Good list and good winz, you were lucky having those Paladins got lost in the warp (the irony), I had that happen in the opening game at Spolis of War. 1k lists, no heavy support(!), and I find myself fighting all Khorne Chaos daemons with 2x3 Blood Crushers and a Herald on Chariot and 30-40 Bloodletters..but he managed to lose a BL unit on the way in, really helped! That'll learn em to risk it. Nearly tabled him.

Yep, it's the 1.k list I usually use, stripped of 1 BW, 1 20xboyz w nobpk/bp, 1 deffkopta, 3 lootas, 3 burnaz and all the bells and whistles on the vehicles and Mek (grot riggers, cybork and all that gubbins). I was very very lucky with that Grey Knights army and, as I hate that codex, was glad to see such a mighty op unit of doom not even get on the table (was a shame for the fella who I was playing, but he and I were tied for 1st up till then, so that's why we fought in the last game). I imagine they got stuck in the warp writing their names all over primarch daemon princes, the hoodlums!

Are you going to do any freehand banners on the dread? I was just thinking an old school titan styled pennant banner hanging from his assault cannon would look cool...

A pennant is an interesting idea,yes...hmm

I may do a 'stop me and buy one' as per that old Dark Future Ice Cream van..

Here is a link for all my Subscribers showing the stuff I've been working on recently, take a look if you're interested! Here

I've had some spare time this week as I have hurt my leg (not seriously, just can't walk far) and they have been the main beneficiary, i intend my WAB army to have a slightly higher quality than these guard, less speed painting..

Ta ta for now!

Dim rumblings have been heard, rumours of activity spread






Started this bad boy off, need a name for it, I want to do a slogan or nose art style thing (al la 'Grim Reapers' on my squadron command) on the nice big obligingly empty space on the side of the turret but am at a bit of a loss as to what to do...

Any suggestions?

Penetrator?

No?

Indestructable II?

halp

RandyMcStab wrote:

Started this bad boy off, need a name for it, I want to do a slogan or nose art style thing (al la 'Grim Reapers' on my squadron command) on the nice big obligingly empty space on the side of the turret but am at a bit of a loss as to what to do...

Any suggestions?

What about "The Judicatory" as in "pertaining to judgment or the administration of justice". I'm leaning more towards the "administration of justice" part