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Thanks bitzjunkie, they were fun to make

@hotsauceman1 - Then raise the bar and do some of your own. Others will soon follow (also pics, or it didn't happen )

Good idea, I will look at my bits box and see what i can make.
Maybe a bolter nest, or something.

Agreed my store uses the standard objectives but they dont object to us using our own home made objectives

Wow, I'm loving Flinty's turrets as well. Solid-looking shapes, and it all fits together well. Nice job.
What do you use them for? You mentioned they're deployed in a 'Terranwing', but I haven't heard of that before.

Thanks. The base is a trimmed down Tau drone, and was the fiddliest thing to get right as I needed to smooth down a portion of the top of the drone. The flamer is a land speeder heavy flamer, the RFAC is a Dark Angels land speeder assault cannon with a trimmed down Guard autocannon barrel. The gun shields are from the Guard HW kit. The stand they are on is a trimmed down teleport homer from the Terminator box. The random fiddly bit on the back is a Tau grenade pack thats there just because there is a similar bit on the SC2 versions

I've been doing a homage to Starcraft 2 through the deployment of a heavily themed Deathwing army, hence Terranwing. P&M blog here.

Wow, I've just had a browse through some of the pictures. Nice conversions! Very good-looking miniatures.

These are mine, just made'em
I think they are good, better then tank traps.

Excellent, valuable chapter relics to be recovered. Definately more interesting (and noticeable) than tank traps Now do the hard bit and get them painted

Looking good hotsauceman1 !

Now do the hard bit and get them painted

.... but I'm with Flinty too - paint the buggers!!

Here are the two I have made after being inspired by this thread. They are painted, just need basing:



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Found them to be a fantastic way to try new techniques

Turned out quite well treadhead1944

What kind of basing are you set on?

BITZJUNKIE wrote:Turned out quite well treadhead1944

What kind of basing are you set on?

Thank you for the compliment sir. For the teleport homer/vox caster I am going to try the new GW texture paints. The field expedient chapel I was thinking sand, static grass, and tufts of vegetation. I love my local model railroad shop...

Thank you for the compliment sir.

Credit where credit is due .

For the teleport homer/vox caster I am going to try the new GW texture paints. The field expedient chapel I was thinking sand, static grass, and tufts of vegetation.

Hmmm... posting pics when you have these completed? I was considering getting some of the new stuff from GW, but just haven't been able to force my hand yet...

I love my local model railroad shop...

And who wouldn't?

BITZJUNKIE wrote:

Hmmm... posting pics when you have these completed? I was considering getting some of the new stuff from GW, but just haven't been able to force my hand yet...

I will do so sir. I am going to try and lay down some thin masking tape to act as an expansion joint, try and make it look like tarmac/concrete, as well as try to leave an oil spot. Pictures will be forthcoming, hopefully by Saturday AM US time...

Treadhead, looks good, very simple, not overly complicated but they get the point across.

is it possible to create an objective that will create cover when capped?

DijnsK wrote:is it possible to create an objective that will create cover when capped?

A bunker/building/massive hole in the ground with a flag in it?

DijnsK wrote:is it possible to create an objective that will create cover when capped?

I believe the rules are the objectives cannot give cover, and are not considered area/difficult/dangerous terrain. AFAIK they are essentially holograms

As promised here is the based marker. I used the GW Astrogranite texture paint, with Tamiya masking tape for the expansion joints. Overall I found the process to be quick and painless, easy, and perfect for a "quick and dirty" basing. To finish, I washed with Nuln Oil then dry brushed with Codex Grey. The pictures aren't the best, but you can get a good idea of how it looks.

I love the new GW texture paints. I use armagedon dust with an agrax earthshade wash for a desert efect.

Looks good. I also managed to shake off apathy and put some paint on my objectives over the past couple of days. I'm even happy with the yellow, even though it was a pain





And a smidgeon of half assed OSL for kicks (it actually looks better in the photo than in real life...).

Those look awesome.

@Flinty... Nicely done sir. If that is you at half an arse, I shudder to think of the results if you put both cheeks in.

Thanks Treadhead - Seriously though, in person it looks kinda smudged. I obviously had some kind of awesomesauce filter attached to the camera that I didn't know about

Flinty wrote:Thanks Treadhead - Seriously though, in person it looks kinda smudged. I obviously had some kind of awesomesauce filter attached to the camera that I didn't know about

If that is the case, can I borrow your camera? I have to take some pics of me to post to a dating site...

Now don't tell me no one has anything new for this thread!

Here are some of my ones.

As you can see it's all the usual suspects, The rifle in the ground with a helm on top; A box of ammo...with a helm on top; a box of ammo and a jerry can with a lasgun resting on it...with a helm on top; Some jerry cans and a box of ammo (no helm on that one); And the...not sure what you call that act but you see it alot in old war films with a helm on top

This is what I use as my home objective, or as the Regimental Standard.




Corpral Nobby Knobs is very protective of the bivie, I like my regiment belive that no matter where you are there is always time for a nice hot cup of tea

Does he have a writ from the commasariat stating he is human? Nice stuff, well helmeted. The "mystery" formation of rifles with a helm on top is called a stack (or that's what we called it anyway.)

Ribon Fox wrote: And the...not sure what you call that act but you see it alot in old war films with a helm on top

It's a Rifle Stack, although we call them Stove Pipes sometimes.
Always use the helmet on those, they bloody well fall down next to it otherwise!
All of them are looking nice though!

Hey folks, whats the point of an objective marker?

Ive been modelling 40k for a couple of years off and on... i dont play the game or ive never really bothered with the rules, but the objective markers look cool to make as anything goes really.

Is there any size requirements or anything i should know before making them.