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we sure did mate! stick around/hang around^^ glad you are back mate... and seems you have quite a schedule in front of you.... and that in the prospect of working full time! wow...cross fingers for you!

I found out that I actually tend to be more productive when I am working.... I just feel more motivated to get stuff done...

Ah well.

Back to cleaning my house >.>

so when will you be able to update your squat blog as well?

i know that feeling of productivity too... sometimes good stress brings you much further than too mach boring uneventfulness...

No clue yet, I doubt I will end up being very productive at first. One of the things Im almost out of is glue....semi important when assembling stuffs....

yeah... you could always try to assemble your stuff with wishful thinking...but i know that feeling well... when you have to look for money in the sofa to buy some suplies...

Well my order of Warpath came in about three days ago.

So I am currently in the process of looking over the sprues and considering wether or not to start clipping things from said sprues. I so need to get in touch with a mate to see if I can get my glue and basecoat back now.... (I am actually done clipping with all the Warpath stuff now, I still have a load of Avatar of War Bezerkers to do -_- )



Well I'll give you a picture of all the sprues sitting on my coffee table, currently watching Jeff Dunham as I remove everything and sort all the little bits into plastic containers.

Front Right - Hero
Right - Steel Warriors
Left (in front off the glass) - Stormrage Veterans
Further Left and out of Frame - Jotunn Heavy Hailstorm Cannons

Lots of clipping to go as well as try to sort out how to use the models as guardsmen, and the hailstorm cannons will most likely become Hydra Flak Tanks, based so their size matches that of the official versions.

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So here is a part listing for the Jotunn Heavy Hailstorm Cannon. Ill include the easier parts guide as well as a step by step seeing it is not included with the model (as mine came in plastic bags).



1.) Vehicle Chassis
2.) Tank Treads
3.) Pilot with Sidearm
4.) Shielding, Top
5.) Flak Cannon Parts
6.) Shielding, Lower
7.) Flak Cannon, Tip
8.) Ammo Feeds




So above I added the overly complicated image I made initially followed by a somewhat step by step guide to assembling the vehicle. As my basecoat is still at a friends place I have not started on painting it yet. So bear with me.



Step One: Attach the Tank Treads (2) to the Vehicle Chassis (1). Assemble the Flak Cannon (5) by glueing the two parts together. You will be left with the parts above.



Step Two: Attach the Lower Shielding (6) to the front of the Vehicle Chassis (1). Attach the Tip of the Flak Cannon (7) to the rest of the Flak Cannon (5) which you glued together in Step One. Finally attach the two Ammo Feeds (8); one to the rear of the Vehicle Chassis (1) and one to Flak Cannon (5). As depicted above. The Flak Cannon Ammo Feed might give you some issue but it is possible to attach it so it sits straight as opposed to slightly crooked as I've seen in most images.



Step Three: Start by attaching the Top Shielding (4) to the Flak Cannon (5), there is a special slot for the part to be glued into so it should fit without too much hassle. Assemble the Pilot (3) by adding the sidearm to the slot in his back then fit him onto the Vehicle Chassis (1). Finally add the Flak Cannon (5) to the Vehicle Chassis (1) as well. Make sure that the thing will fit and the Top Shielding should slide in just behind the Lower Shielding.

And there you go.



I included a size comparison shot here in order to get a better idea of how big (or in this case small) the vehicle is when compared to other 40K vehicles. I wanted to use them as possible Hydra Flak Tanks. As you can see both the Rhino and the Chimera Chassis actually seem to fill out an entire basic Regiment Base for Warhammer Fantasy. So I figure in order to use this as a stand in model I need to place it on a base that is at least a similar size and measure everything from the base as opposed to from the model itself.

Hope this helps all of the people out there getting busy with Warpath or contemplating using the Forge Fathers for Squats (like I will be).

See you all later.

as i said in your blog... a very clever idea to use the unitbases of WHFB for sizecomparrision...

also the parts look promising...but together they lack for me a certain IG look... but i guess for a dwarf army^^ that is fitting

Now J3r, I reckon that Jotunn will serve you well as a Rapier or Thudd Gun battery for your Squats.

I was considering them myself, until I realised I needed 9+ of them, and I don't think my wife will let me do that any time soon.

Close to three years since I posted....and only now did I recently play my Squats for the first time....

Also started another IG Penal Regiment....which of course with the new codex kinda needs a change in direction.

Working on my Deathwing as well as my Nurgle marines, yep slowly getting back to work....currently ive been managing 2> games per year ._.

anyways im back...ish

Hey j3r...good to see you're back.

Look forward to seeing some pics when you're ready.

welcome back mate...


I guess after all this time the standard phrase pics or it didn´t happen sounds a bit weird......