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DUDE love the tank idea so consider that taken

Those tanks are genius. Personally for bionics I prefer the simplistic approach of just using Space Marine arms and limbs. They seem to look good as them.

The original idea for those tanks isn't mine; unfortunately I've lost the link to the original creator, otherwise they would be getting full credit.

I've looked at sticking Marine arms on, but it was obviously a marine arm. I'll stick a photo up later of the one I've done; someone may have an idea of how to improve it

what about using necron arms

Ghost in the Darkness wrote:what about using necron arms

endtransmission wrote:I'm loathed to shell out for Necron bits just to make the occasional arm/leg that will look... Necron-y.

D'oH

Heh. Easy to miss, thanks for thinking of it though

this blog makes me want to start ig. Too bad i got no money.

So you got some of inspiration from odst?
Because i noticed some models look strangely farmilar.

I've seen them before but i don't know where?

So how many IG do you have now?

There's no inspiration from ODST as far as I know... I've not played it. The Pig Iron heads on the original test models look a little bit like them I guess...

Things are going very slowly as life keeps getting in the way.

I've got three chimera and a Hellhound partially built; one primaris, 7 psykers and a handler for the PBS, a tech priest and 4 servitors, a priest and a random selection of about 20 guard of differing types... not enough for an entire squad in one design yet though.


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As promised the other day, here's my attempt at a bionic arm. It looks ok, but I'm sure it's possible to do better...

For what it's worth, I'd love to have a bionic arm of that caliber. I'm sure it's possible to do better, but I don't think that one will look terribly out of place among the GW ones.

Adrian has posted a battle report from our little skirmish last week. You can read it over in the battle report section

I made a stupid mistake and forgot to write down the army list; misremembering it, so I was 40 points more than Adrian's Orks. Doh!

The game was fun, though it has made me go back and rethink the structure of my 500 points somewhat... time to see if I can squeeze a fourth Chimera into the list by turning vets into a platoon instead; dumping all the special weapons and just going for speed and as many multilaser/heavy bolter shots a turn as possible.

Unfortunately no more painting before xmas as I'm being shipped off to Austria with work next week.

I love that Chimera and I wouldn't worry about the fire ports none much. I never found them useful.

The Christmas break has allowed a little bit of time to do some work on my Guard. For now I'm sticking with the standard Chimera turrets until I can work out something better. Sticking tracks onto 4 chimera chassis in one sitting is... tediously dull. I can't believe it took 3 hours to do 4 sets of tracks. So much for doing a mechanised guard force!

First there are the two Chimera for my Vets




Then there's the Command Chimera, used by my Primaris and his PBS bodyguards (or my Inquisitor, depending which force I'm using)



And then there's the Hellhound. Ready for some paint too.



The PBS and Primaris are getting there paint wise, though I'm not overly happy with them yet (hence no photos).

I've also decided to add a force of Red Scorpions into the mix, starting with a tactical squad and Razorback. Following the FW rules, the tactical squad will be led by an Apothecary

[update : Scorpion chatter has moved to it's own log]

How did you achieve that dudes epically mustached face.??

That's one of the least Space Wolf-y Space Wolf heads in the Pack box. I thought he looked quite like a Victorian era, British general... which seemed to go with the whole Red Scorpion - slightly crazed, must do it exactly by the book theme

Oh. If anyone is looking at him and thinks that lighter grey spot on his arm is left over sprue... that's battle damage. There are various bits carved out of the armour as I want to make the whole force a bit ragged and battered as if they have been on a long campaign with no rest or repair time.

Ork inflicted perhaps?

Possibly. You never can tell with these things

I may split out the Red Scorpions into their own log to make things easier to track... what do you think?

how do you rear mount the turret? is there a tutorial for that build?
your vehicles look fantastic! i've always had a soft spot for that style of Hellhound. a soft spot, but not a budget for one! and as mentioned, those chimeras are really sharp as well!

alarmingrick wrote:how do you rear mount the turret? is there a tutorial for that build?

Thanks
I need to do another Chimera for my revised 500pt force, so I'll try and put together a brief description with the steps when I order it. There are only a couple of steps necessary, so it's quick to do and makes for a much more interesting vehicle. You do need lots of stowage to cover up some of the gaps though.

alarmingrick wrote:i've always had a soft spot for that style of Hellhound. a soft spot, but not a budget for one!

I love the FW Hellhounds, they look much nicer than the new plastic kit or the old metal turret. Originally I wanted to use the same turret on the Chimera; unfortunately FW won't sell them separately :(

yea, you never see any women in the minitures, they are all over books... wierd aye

rockmetal_mig wrote:yea, you never see any women in the minitures, they are all over books... wierd aye

Because sculpts with boobies make teenagers suffer hormone attacks

hahaha lol

Not a model update, but hey. It's about the army, so it's going in

Over the last couple of weeks I've managed to squeeze in a couple of games to see how things are progressing with the army.

In 11 turns (across 3 games) my PBS have only ever passed ONE (1) psychic test. They have caused more casualties to themselves than they have to the enemy... so they are going into retirement for a while. Last night the only Ld test they passed was when they got decimated by enemy fire and they decided to stick around to take some more. Idiots. Likewise, the Primaris also has very bad luck in ever casting anything. Looks like I'm just not cut out for rolling for powers.

On the other hand, last night both the Vet squads worked brilliantly with maximum meltas and Chimera to get them places, so they can stay and will no doubt be joined by more vets at some point.

As we were going for a surprise assault Guard/Ork combo I decided to try a CCS with Straken, medpack, Priest, 3 meltas, MoF and two bodyguards. I know medpacks and Priests get slated by guard players, but both were worth their points last night (and then some!). The priest's "reroll missed CC for the unit" and FnP allowed the vets and Straken to pull down 7 marines, a vet sergeant and a chaplain... winning us a game we should have, by all rights, lost. They can come and play again. Plus I may have to add some priests into the other Vet squads to give them some more punch. Carapace armour on the vet squads was also well worth the points as melta squads tend to take plenty of fire.

So. Some plans for the coming weeks.

- Paint existing models!
    - possibly buy airbrush for tanks

- Restart the casting process
    - Design new body that will take Cadian arms without too much fiddling
    - Make sure the carapace body fits Cadian arms
    - Make some extra sets of legs for variation
    - Order maxmini shotguns and plenty of Cadian arms

- Build a proper Straken "counts as" and CCS

- Buy some Catachans and new Gors to make Imperial beastmen
    - Decide if these are going to be Whiteshields or Penal legion

Don't worry about it, my 2 Ork Warpheads have between them passes 1 psychic test in their entire gaming history. Granted it is only about 3-4 games I have played with them, but they killed about as many of my own models than the enemy

Can't wait for more models, IC's and PAINT

The PBS has become the standing joke; so they are being shipped off to Earth to power the god Emperor, to be replaced by a much maligned abhuman unit that will hopefully be more useful

Haha! Good stuff!

endtransmission wrote:The PBS has become the standing joke; so they are being shipped off to Earth to power the god Emperor, to be replaced by a much maligned abhuman unit that will hopefully be more useful

Maybe Da Plan of the Ruinous Powers was to get them sent back to Terra so that they can envenom the Emperor's soul with their most-dubious psychic powers!!!

Death to the False God hahahaha!!!!!

Yggdrasil wrote:

endtransmission wrote:The PBS has become the standing joke; so they are being shipped off to Earth to power the god Emperor, to be replaced by a much maligned abhuman unit that will hopefully be more useful

Maybe Da Plan of the Ruinous Powers was to get them sent back to Terra so that they can envenom the Emperor's soul with their most-dubious psychic powers!!!

Death to the False God hahahaha!!!!!

Fiend

Sweet ass army, bro! Keep it up!

don't forget the how to on the Chimeras!
and that sucks about the PBS!!