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Damn it the song from your video is stuck in my head FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Not fun sitting on an AWACS all morning with insanity playing through your mind constantly

Corvus wrote:Damn it the song from your video is stuck in my head FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

I want that mug. More than I want a Klondike Bar

Hahahah I definatly want that mug.

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Okay guys, I'm down to the last few guardsmen off the sprue. What would Dakka like to see next? Russ? Bassie? More Sentinels? Going to pick something up with the $88 Tax Incentive that the BC Gov't kindly dropped in my mailbox last week. Take THAT Gordon Campbell!

I think I'd like to see a Russ, although I think the Gw model doesn't fit the army too well, needs to be less Sherman-esque more Abrams-ish.

person person wrote:I think I'd like to see a Russ, although I think the Gw model doesn't fit the army too well, needs to be less Sherman-esque more Abrams-ish.

lol yeah ironically enough the tanks that would fit best with Metallifan's army would be the Rhino (M113) and Predator (Bradley/Warrior IFV). And I suppose the rather BMP-esque Chimera/Hellhound

I'd like to see a Basi please! I'd be interested to see how you'd convert it.

Corvus wrote:

person person wrote:I think I'd like to see a Russ, although I think the Gw model doesn't fit the army too well, needs to be less Sherman-esque more Abrams-ish.

lol yeah ironically enough the tanks that would fit best with Metallifan's army would be the Rhino (M113) and Predator (Bradley/Warrior IFV). And I suppose the rather BMP-esque Chimera/Hellhound

And Leopard tanks as Baneblades?

I always thought the Baneblade looked more like the super-heavy Maus tank the Germans came up with during WWII, only with SPONSON GUNS

I think the Stormsword/Shadowsword/whatever combination of the words Storm, Shadow, Sword, and Lord you can come up with super heavies were more Leopard-like

I'd quite like to see a few Hellhounds myself.....

I second a baneblade. good old germa-... mechanicus engineering.

Well, I went with a Russ... Well, Okay... Not one.... More like.. uhh.. ...three. BUT IT WAS $110 CAD FOR THE SQUADRON AND $50 FOR A SINGLE! Who could say no to a free Russ? And especially since it's the -old- squadron box. So it still has the accessories sprues!

And I picked up another Battlefield in a Box set. 5 Wall sections that perfectly match the Ruined Corner.

AND, I found a store here that sells sheets of plasticard, including Textured stuff. Oh, happy day!

Pics will follow when I stop freely tting my pants with joy

The old Russ squadron, and Textured Plasticard all in one day.

Damn thats lucky!

Text-only update:

2 of 3 built. 3rd at 85%

Also found out that Crapnadian Tire now stocks Krylon H2O in large quantities. Life continues to get even better.

Well painted better than I can do...
But they're skin seems alittle yellowish if the skin tone was tweaked a little they'd be great.

The Gate Keeper wrote:Well painted better than I can do...
But they're skin seems alittle yellowish if the skin tone was tweaked a little they'd be great.

I know! Gahhhh! I have no daylight bulb so bronzed flesh comes out yellow

S'okay. Once we have more daylight and it's actually above 'cold suck' here, I'll take some outdoor shots. But yea. It's just Bronzed Flesh with Devlan Mud. If you've seen that combo you can imagine what it -actually- looks like

EDIT: Also finished 2 of 3 priming coats on my Russes tonight. Likely have some shots of the bestial beauties tomorrow

Progress on the tank squadron has been slow. I've been getting sidetracked by terrain projects (Oh how I love thee )

I did get the Russes all primed though, and I've just begun putting paint on the command tank. Here they are at the moment:








And here's some of the terrain I've been working on:

An Urban themed Crater that I slapped together.


A large Chemical/Promethium storage tank. Note the red triangular Hazard sign on the bottom left corner. There's another one painted next to the filler hatch on the top.


A ruined armoury that's been sitting unpainted for the longest time. I can see where I got some DA Green on the floor near the ammo crate. Might clean it tomorrow. Not a huge priority ATM.


And then a shot of all the Urban terrain in my collection. That big processing plant in the bottom corner is also new. Forgot to get pics


That's it for now. Night' folks!

Nice terrain.

very nice terrain. You're ready for a Stalingrad-style campaign if you ask me.

The little Guardsmen corpses dotted around your terrain are a nice touch!

Thanks guys.

Corvus: You've got the right idea. The terrain is themed around the siege of the system's capital, Patavium. The city has the population of a large Hive, but due to a relatively lower atmospheric ceiling, and the costs and dangers associated with building a Hive spire through the atmosphere, it's laid out like your typical 21st century urban centre.

Imagine 2 or 3 times the population of China all living in a North-American style city. The city is so large that even if it's under attack, most people on the oppposite end of it wouldn't be aware in the slightest without the broadcast system. It was a really fun bit of fluff to work on, and I felt that the siege was thus where I should focus, seeing how I enjoyed that the most.


Cadian: Heh, yea I made those because I didn't have enough bits to make another legal squad

There's a few marines that suffered the same fate


I've beat ME2. Assuming I don't get snagged up by the prospect of exploring the other options for the game, I'll have some Russ pics soon. My Command tank is about 50% done (Thank you simple black hull paintjob!) so that should be up here anytime.

Lol awesome backstory for your army and city. I can't really do much fluffing for my army. I mean what's to fluff? They're Necrons. They do what all Necrons do, sleep until the AdMech blunders in and wakes them up, then they quietly go around killing everything

Corvus, you should repaint your Necrons to look like Geth

Sorry, been playing too much ME2 lately

metallifan wrote:Corvus, you should repaint your Necrons to look like Geth

Sorry, been playing too much ME2 lately

hahaha but they don't even look like Geth in terms of body style I hear you tho, ME2 is insanely awesome. I pretty much spent all day Sunday in my dorm playing it. (In my defense, the entire base was covered in ice and snow, so its not like I could have done anything else )

Corvus wrote:

metallifan wrote:Corvus, you should repaint your Necrons to look like Geth

Sorry, been playing too much ME2 lately

hahaha but they don't even look like Geth in terms of body style I hear you tho, ME2 is insanely awesome. I pretty much spent all day Sunday in my dorm playing it. (In my defense, the entire base was covered in ice and snow, so its not like I could have done anything else )

Give em' some Geth heads with GS and smooth the chests?

Damnit. I may have to start a small 500pt Necron Army just to do that

And snow and ice mean nothing! You still could've gone on a forced march.

We did that plenty during our BMQ. First time was... eventful. Granted, we were wearing our PT gear, and running shoes just don't grip like combat boots. Fully half the platoon slipped and busted noses, wrists, and elbows going down a hill, but they made us finish the run because we were already 2K in, and everyone's legs were still fine.



Also: Command Russ done. Need to take pics once I get home.

yeah, for whatever reason the Air Force isn't big on forced marches (with some exceptions), and my base is in a place where it doesn't snow a lot, so when it does, everyone freaks out

That would be so awesome to see a army of geth in 40k.

I like it, hellhounds would have been more in keeping with city-fight idea though...

I will get up a blog of my Guard army (the Cadian 3rd) at the weekend!
It all looks really nice though!

Imp. Monkey

Metalli where the feth are you?! I WANNA SEE TANKS DAMNIT!!!!