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First time viewing this thread, and me likes =) Always good to hear someone back from deployment.

I like the bear theme, pretty cool. I'll be watching!

Okay, here is my attempt at Dual Autocannon made with some Spares and plastic tubing.





I think it looks nice and meaty all i could think of was the just like an A10 tank buster GAU 30mm Gatling gun, although it's not the same operating principle I like the aesthetic...



The "Rifle Bear" was born....

That is vast! It's a bit macro for my liking, but its certainly well put together and it gets the idea across

Thanks Flinty, I want to make another Identical one for the left arm, a true "Rifleman" Dread and use it for popping medium armour, flyers and Heavy/light Infantry. It's a bargain for the points cost.

The Rifleman looks terrifying! I'm really liking the concept for the army but I feel it could do with more Tomahawks on the characters......It' looking great as well. Neat and effective on mass!

Yeah I've got some but they don't look right, I got them from NORTHSTAR Miniatures. They are mainly Gun Clubs.

I will try and make some Big Tomahawks instead of Thunderhammers In future.

I knew I'd seen your army somewhere before when we where playing on Thurdsay Night!

Yeah and you Won!!! Damn it!

I'll put a picture of my Army before the This Weekends Tourney, you can get the inside. I'll probably get my arse handed to me anyway!

More Vehicles, 75% done. Oh and yes the Typhoon is magnetised so don't worry that the Missile launchers are skew!

Love the Rifle Bear Dred.

The dual autocannon is too much.





And that is why it is awesome.

Loving the return to the blog dude. You update more frequently than me, and that is a good thing. Keep up the good work.

Right went to the 1500pt Tournament at the weekend just gone with the following force.



The result was poor but I enjoyed it immensely.

Game 1 : - versus a Blood Angel Army + Mephiston + San Priest + Chaplain. Did a lot of damage overrall but the FNP really annoyed the hell out of me. Outstanding units, DEVASTATORS with the 3 xML and the DREAD. Managed to put 4 wounds on Meph tho!. Result LOST

Game 2 :- versus an Ultramarine Fast Attack, 6 x Landspeeds and 1 x Storms and Drop Pod + Vindi. Won this one, by Sternguard going ape with Combi weapons after drop pod assault. Out standing Units, DEVS, DREAD and STERNGUARD. Result WON

Game 3:- "Dawn of War" versus Space Marine Biker Army. Got Massacred, literally PWNED. He setup all his troops (BIKERS) half across the board, got 1st turn and destroyed my TACS in one turn and then destroyed my Army on turn 2 as the DEV's etc came on during my turn one. Outstanding Unit - Scout Bikers with Astartes GRENADE Launchers went toe to toe with their big brothers and routed 2 units, not bad for a 3 man unit! Result EPIC LOSS

Game 4:- Versus another Blood Angel Army with Descent of angels. Learned my lesson on FNP from last game leave them minimum targets and their massive assault advantage goes to waste. Lost this one by 1/4 of Inch, as my Tactical squad was straddling a Board quarter and my sternguard need to run 1.25 Inches and rolled a 1 in the shooting phase of turn 5. Close and massively enjoyable, best game of the weekend, another fellow dakkanaut Cheers SHANEWILS! Outstanding Unit DREAD + Sternguard. Result Damn close - LOSS

Game 5:- Versus "the Hobbit" with his Tyranids. "Dawn of War" Too much cover and all my heavy fire power from turn 2 was wasted with some good positioning of nid's in cover. Sternguard killed 25 Termagaunts in 3 turns before being swamped by Haumagaunts. Best units PRED and DREAD and Sternguard. Result - LOSS

In summary, not a great list or a bad list just kind of meh. I don't have a good all out assault unit. I will drop the LC RB for a HB variant, and the same with my Rhino. My Librarian will be Terminator with SS (3+ Inv is desperately needed) my terminators tho good lack the Initative to go up against all out assault armies like nids or BA. I will get a Vanguard Assualt unit I think with PW's and SS plus a RB with the Libby and drop the Termies. The high Init of most assault armies negates the advantage of lightning claws and Thunder hammers....

Back to the drawing board, but it was enjoyable!

Okay I have taken a short break from my SM army. I am now working on a Panzer Lehr Army for FoW. My disappointment in recent price hikes in GW makes me a bit annoyed, and I am not going to be buying anything much anymore.

I do however have 3 x Tactical squads to paint in bits and lots of spare characters. With this in mind I want to paint a more Colourful Space Marine Army, my entire paints collection is rather earth in colour and hue. I have always liked The Crimson Fists, Pedro Kantor gives some good special rules and I feel for a Tournament Scenario, he will prove a better leader with some extra punch to my assault units and I will run some big Sternguard Units to maximise my potential outgoing damage and the +1 Attack makes them +3 attack base. (a nasty surprise if you can get 2 x 10 man Sternguard within 12" of Pedro). Plus Stubborn, which takes away combat tactics but is not something i often use anyway.

I will pick up lots of Cheap fist pauldrons and Vehicle upgrades from GW and then work on using as many units from AOBR sets (which will plummet in price, when 6th hits). I will paint them quickly using the ARMY PAINTER COLOUR PRIMER, then drybrush them, final details and then a light coat of QS and done.

I will be collecting alot of models and then attempting to do the whole force in a month.

Sounds like a plan Stan, if you need anything give me a shout and as ever I'll see if I can help.

Okay, So where am I right now?

Right I have just about finished my PANZER LEHR Grenadiers, the link to my Army Profile is below in my signature. I have bought some IoB High Elves dirt cheap, and am in the process of painting them mainly as a break from painting brown/Green/Yellow.

My Bear Claws have been very quiet, but I am playing alot of games lately and I want to change around my core army list a bit. So i am working on Veterans, another TAC Squad, another Rhino and another Predator. My Bike Squads are finished, and as ever I have 3+ Characters to finish and keep buying more old school Metal Models just because, well, I like them....

My Crimson Fists are a optimistic ARMY, probably 1-2 Years off. Mainly because I want them done to a spectacular level, with a Custom Pedro Kantor and I want to use the FORGE WORLD armour sets to equip Everyone. Infact I want to go back to the Old school like Capt Cortez128 has done. I will use this image and the old school weapons packs to equip my entire force with Mk6 Armour and buy as many of the Pauldrons and bits from GW and FW off ebay as I am refusing to buy miniatures from source. Second hand only from now on, (apart from FW stuff!). I cannot wait to grab old style bolters and Missile Launchers, the nice thing is they are much more in keeping with the modern 28mm scale rather than the anorexic marines of my youth.

I also have a Pre-heresy 1k Sons, which i enjoy sculpting and painting using the weapons and extras from a Tomb Kings Battalion boxed set to give them that Ancient Pharoah and Egyptian look.



The Imperial Fists and their successors are pretty brutal.

EDIT - In the end, a club Horus Heresy Tourney came along, so I ended up with Iron Hands. I quite like them, so rather than the CRIMSON FISTS, I have done the Iron Hands to a pretty high standard (for me!). See my sig to see the WIP thread.

Okay I'm back on my original force, I have in the last 7 months got heavily involved in my Club and Tournament play. This has resulted in me having 3 Armies:-

1, The Bear Claws - Vanilla Space Marines.
2, 1000point Pre-Heresy Iron Hands Army for a Club Month long Tournament in Jan 12.
3, An Imperial Guard Tank Army for a Cities of Death Team Campaign in Nottingham.

With all this on the go, I have neglected my Bears a little. Well, I'm back, with a new force idea built around Captain Kayvaan Shrike...So using my Bear Claw chapter I have built a Shrike Model into my Bears. Furthermore, I have been expanding my Assault Marines and Dreadnoughts, specifically Ironclad's, so I can take advantage of "FLEET" Special rule for troops and the "Move through Cover" rule that an Ironclad gets. With it's standard configuration it can be very devastating in CC. So combined with 2 x Assault Squads, and some Tactical Squads I plan on advancing on the enemy rapidly.

My old tourney Army



Robo-Bear



Kayvaan Shrike



(used Chaos Terminator Lightning Claws, filled off the nasty bits to leave them as a Baroque set of LC's!)

My new 1500point one will be....

1 x Kayvaan Shrike
1 x 10 man Assault Squad (Sgt Lightning Claw + SS, Melta Bombs) (Assault Unit)
1 x Iron Clad ( Siesmic Hammer + DCCW + HF + MG) (Assault Unit)
1 x Dreadnought (MM + DCCW + HF) (Assault Unit)
1 x Dreadnought (TLAC + DCCW + SB) (firesupport)
1 x 10 man Tac Squad (Sgt PF, 8 Bolters + FL) + Drop Pod
1 x 10 man Tac Squad (Sgt PF, 7 Bolters + FL + Las Cannon) + Razorback HB
1 x 5man Scout Squad (Sgt PW + BP, 4 CCW + Melta Bombs)
1 x Landspeeder Storm (HB)
1 x Predator (Autocannon + HB'S)

Glad to see your Bear Claws getting some love. But I really want to see some paint on Robo-Bear.