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Thanks Nev, I appreciate the support.


On another positive note. I took the bin of things to be sold over to our now local mega-gaming store (Noble Knight Games) and got $750 in credit for a bunch of old D&D minis I was never going to look at again (nor hadn't in 30 years or more). That should keep me for a while as I've got something like 1k credit over there. I did splurge and picked up Belakor (sp?) for use with whatever chaos army is appropriate. Jeez I can't believe the price of GW miniatures now-a-days. It's insane.

Nice!

Having a large lump of guilt-free store credit at the FLGS is a wonderful feeling. I had that when I got out of M:tG and started my blog. Just the ability to say “Sure, I want that!” And walk home with the new shiny, and not have to worry about budgeting or justifying it. So nice.

I should check if I could thin out the Pile of Shame locally. A new place opened up not far away, and I think they do second hand mini sales. So much stuff collecting dust, but not worth the time to catalog, list, pack and ship.

That's my issue Nev. I'm sure I could make more money if I sold everything myself... but who's got the time for all of that? I wasn't using it anyway and Noble Knight has been really supportive of both 40k and Bushido... so why shouldn't they make some money on it? They have the infrastructure to handle this stuff without breaking a sweat!

Besides, this gives me enough lee-way to pick up some major pieces in the future as you say... guilt free. I'm all over that!

Thanks for the update Art. Thinking of you and yours. It's such a conundrum with your own kids, I'm already dreading mine reaching that stage. And, looking forward to more purple princelings!

Good to hear from you, good shout on the models, trading stuff that you will struggle to get to is the best way of supporting this hobby. At least someone will likely get the good of it..

Thanks graven. The CSM army should really look nice if I can actually get my studio cleaned to the point where I can paint again!

My Studio is storage now.. I had to move some stuff just to get to my desk. I have aboot 2'x2' square space left. just enough for a desk and a chair.I can barely access my bits or older paints

I cant wait for the new CSM codex. You planing on a CSM army?

Yes!! I'm going to resurrect my 30k Emperor's Children as 40k CSM with a healthy amount of "dark mechanicum" (to explain the beasts and a few other substitutions).

Also planning on a chaos demon army as well (which should be fully painted assuming the future codex can be brought into compliance).


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I did something!

These are 30k Mechanicum Ursurax. They'll be doing duty as 40k Warp Talons for my CSM army as one of the Dark Mechanicum elements.

Have always fancied doing a crazy themed demonic army, ever since your Halloween one. No doubt this will look amazing once you are done.

Got a game in with @Solar_lion on Wed! A few shots for you. SL had an interesting army with a lot of dreads that I'd never seen before. Unfortunately for them I had a lot of long range heavy firepower. In all fairness, this is my tournament army (though AdMech is a shadow of what it used to be). I've been tweaking my list in order to compensate for all the latest rule changes. I like this list at 2k better than 1750 (which is what our next tournament is at).

SL's fantabulous Necron terrain formed the back-drop of our contest.


There's nothing subtle about my list... It's a high damage gun-line. Come and get it. This is after my movement in T1. The only assault element in the entire army are the 3 warglaives, and they fit very nicely into the gun-line aspect as well. My idea was to hide the vulnerable infantry until they were either needed as speed bump or short-range fire power. Since we weren't playing with objectives, I didn't need them for anything else.


SL's deployment/ pre-move on T1. Man that's a lot of big dreads.


Big, scary dreadnought...


A pair of Retributors pushing towards the flank.


Marines take the center of the table... forcing me to bring my vanguard out of hiding (really... they were cowering behind a building) and cut them down.

Surprise!! I actually did some hobbying!

So... I saw an EC list by some guy on the web that seems to know what he's talking about. Luckily for me, there was really on 2 models that I needed to buy in order to make it, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Nothing strange in it really. At least it's a place to start. The primer went on pretty gritty... but I think I can clean them up enough prior to painting to make it workable.

I've had this idea for a long while to include a Laer in the army. That's the indigenous, Slaanesh worshiping reptile race on the planet Laerin that Horace was corrupted on. I found a remarkably close model already made by GW and made some minor modifications to make him fit the stat sheet. I'm very pleased at the final result. The Laer will serve as my Master of Possession (psycher).


I needed two blastmasters for my noise marine squads. Luckily I had some heavy sonic weapons in my 30k stocks.


Couple of examples of the phoenix terminators and the group of 10. The combi-bolters are made from the original plastic bolt guns.




Lastly, the whole batch for a size comparison.


On a side note... I played a game vs. the local 40k bully the other day. He conceded on T3.

Nice looking group of guys waiting for paint. Snake should be a fun project.

Grats on the win.

Sweet sculpts. Nice . Look forward to seeing them.

Nice conversion work on the snake, he fits right in. And fancy terminators are always fun.

The batrep up the page is inspiring stuff, a beautiful board and impressive armies!

I absolutely love the snakey boy, I'm a big fan of serpentmen of any variety. Also, kudos for crushing the bully

That Laer is awesome! I may steal that idea, I made them up so I feel like I should have one in Syl's warband.

Thank you all! I really appreciate your taking the time to stop by and comment. I'm really looking forward to getting the laer done. It's been 15 months since I've painted anything besides terrain. Thus I'm a bit nervous... but I'll jump on that horse soon enough.

In the meantime, I built a dozen rangers for my AdMech which will get sent to Nerdfest09 (along with a number of other models) for painting. And that will complete my AdMech collection! Really excited about that!



Solar_lion is helping me get my CSM army painted up (and he's donating to it as well). He's starting me off with a hellbrute and Dark Apostle! Need to get the basing finished on these so they can join their finished brothers! Thank you Solar_lion!




He's also painting up the "Dark Mechanicum" bits of the army. Have a few pics to share... venom crawler and Ursurax (will count as possessed or warp talons).

These are looking immense and gribbly. I really like the notion of doing the big Sylvaneth thing (with the naked chick and sticky hives) as Slaaneshi / EC, think it would suit your aesthetic.

I'll be honest graven... I don't know anything about Sylvaneth... I am intrigued though. What gaming system is it from?

AoS - Wood elves:

I mean granted flies are very papa but these are sticky bees and could be all gold and purple plus they can be left off. There's also wormy things she comes with. I leave up to you if you think they could be ... sexy worms.

Wow, that's a very cool model. I see your point.

Progress is progress.

All looking very cool. I think that the Sylvaneth could be repurposed for a Slaanesh theme quite nicely. I mean elves from GW have always had a bit of an excess bent anyway.....

She needs nipples. I don't mean that in a pervy sense... but as a biologist... there's no point to breasts without nipples. Just sayin'.

You know, I had never noticed that fact. But it goes with GW's "censored" models these days. I still remember the Diaz Daemonettes or the Dark Elf Harpies.

Gitsplitta wrote:She needs nipples. I don't mean that in a pervy sense... but as a biologist... there's no point to breasts without nipples. Just sayin'.

Well, see more reason to paint get her and paint her

I managed to put together a 1750pt EC army with what I've got painted already. I can do a bit more if I tossed everything in.. probably 2500 points... but this level gives me enough space to actually build a functional army without just cramming together random units.

Here's what I came up with... I won't go into all the details, just giving you a general idea.

HQ:
Demon Prince (wings)
Dark Apostle
TP:
5 noise marines (blastmaster)
5 noise marines (blastmaster)
5 legionaries
EL:
Leviathan
Hellbrute
Master of Executions
FA:
4 bikes
5 warp talons
HV:
Predator Annihilator (2 las cannons)
Sicaran (2 las cannons)

Not a bad little list. Certainly not a powerhouse... but good enough to play casually and gives me a chance to explore a good chunk of the codex.


As you know, I'm trying to find ways of getting my old Halloween list back into action. Have high hopes on the new demon codex, but parts are going to make appearances in the CMS list. Current ideas as follows...

Warp Talons... which is what the bodies are anyway. Need to make the claws more obvious like the one guy.


No idea... the wings screw him up for use as a character. Might become the defacto leader of the warp talons. If I replaced the wings he could be a Master of Executions.


Master of Executions... though I really do like the new figure for this so he may find another role in the chaos demon army.


Contemptor Dread... obviously!


Chaos Spawn... which is what they were designed to be in the first place. Kind of a low profile for the model but I suppose they'd be fine in casual games (or if we just play them as the height they should be).

Some new work, all small stuff as I slowly get up the nerve to start actually painting again.

Got the basing done on the models Solar_lion painted for me. Nothing special but at least they match.




Got the claws done on a small unit of Warp Talons.



To do my part in finishing up my AdMech, I've been adding just a little bit of detail (forward melta barrels and engine details) to the Termites that Nerdfest09 painted for me. I'm trying to add their secondary guns, but I've only found one set and that set is missing one of the gun mounts... so I'm trying to come up with something using pins or magnets. It won't look fantastic but at least it'll be better than the empty compartments that are there now.




That's about all. Played my AdMech for probably the last time (for a while) before I switch over to EC in a local tournament. Played 3 CSM lists. Lost the first game but it was rather frustrating for both of us. He came forward, I retreated and shot him. Lost clearly on points as I gave up table control. Game 2 vs Night Lords... should have been an easy win but I had the worst dice rolling that I can remember and he just walked over me. Game 3 vs Black Legion was a win, but my opponent had a very non-optimized list (we were bottom table) and the deployment and scenario finally helped me a bit. I do hate Nephalim. Being strangled for CP just sucks, especially for AdMech. I'd rather they got rid of them altogether and just play the game straight.

All looking spicy. Sorry the game isn't giving you what you want. Hopefully it perks up.

I hope so too. Maybe it was just a bad day.

OK, got one of the termites "finished". At least it has some small details and the heavy flamers now. No insignia, but given what these guys do, I don't think they'd stay on very long anyway.

Next project. Quick re-paint of some EC cultists.