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swampyturtle wrote:The camo cloaks bonus to ALL 30 members of the squad makes them VERY hard to shift.

The camo cloak gives the bonus to the whole squad?????!!!!!!!

Rabid Ferret wrote:

swampyturtle wrote:The camo cloaks bonus to ALL 30 members of the squad makes them VERY hard to shift.

The camo cloak gives the bonus to the whole squad?????!!!!!!!

Indeed

Hello Dakka!

I am back now with a new/old army of mine. Death Guard!

I am resurrecting a plog and army that I have not touched since the end of 2010 and never finished, mostly because painting 150+ IG got in the way. I will repost some of the content from the original plog and add new as I work on the army. Feedback is appreciated.

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Hi Dakka!

I got inspired and decided to start a Death Guard army to work on alongside my Alcatran IG army.

Unlike my Alcatran army however, this army will be more focused on overall quality and less about getting models painted fast. No quickshade allowed!

I envisioned this army to be be an elite, low model count plague marine army. I am going to try and make it semi-competitive while keeping it pretty fluffy. I am going with a heresy era color scheme... white and green while keeping the later Death Guard's level of corruption.
Something like this!:


The first model I wanted to work on is my Demon Prince. He is going to have wings and warptime and be a kind of standard CC monster. Rather than use wings I wanted to do something like a heresy era jump pack however. To that end I decided to go with a set of turbines from an A-10 Warthog Snap-Tight kit.

I will be cutting it down to size and sculpting green stuff to make it meld into his back. My model will start with the standard Demon Prince of Nurgle model and build from there.

I also wanted to redo the head extensively. I am not a big fan of the stock head and I wanted to do a sort of gas mask on the model. Something demonic looking and connected to a barrel of Emperor knows what on his back. The head will look something like this with more cables and tech/steampunk parts.

World of Warcraft Geist is Copyright of Activision Blizzard

Bases are resin cast "Infected" bases from Dark Art Miniatures http://www.darkartminiatures.com/
Pretty sweet. Fast shipping to the US. They look nice.

I am going to get started! I hope to have more WIP shots as I keep going.

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The engines are clearly way to big for the model... amirite?
I am thinking of cutting them here. I like their diameter but the are too long.

Hmm... I dont have a power saw or even a good cutting guide. Jeweler's saw may have to do.

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A LOT more greenstuff work to do and some guitar wire and other bits, but it is starting to look like something...

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So that was all I ended up doing with my DG... The Demon Prince is still not done, but I have sculpted some more recently and I have added tentacles to him on the arm that has the sword on the original sculpt. Its a little over the top but I like it. I also have some terminators! Very WIP. I am about 50% done with these guys. A lot of bronze/patina and rusty chains/chainmail/bolters to go but I like what I have so far. You can see the white and green Death Guard colors tarnishing into a bone white and dark green. I am trying to paint first and then mount them on a finished base to see how that goes. Some folks have recommended that to me. I will be pinning them to the Dark Arts resin bases.






So that's it. What do you think?

they are awesome !

one comment: it's a real petty that you didn't remove the mould lines completely.. it's not that big of a deal and it takes one minute longer but it makes your mini look and 'feel' real..

Yeah I noticed the mold lines on the heavy flamer termie after I took the photo. I cleaned up a bunch of lines but I think I missed him.

I need to take my time more and look them over before spraying. Thanks for checking it out.

Looking good!

Holy Crap and update...

Wow. Far too long. Avengers and business trips are to blame.

I went to AMC Theatres 2012 Leadership Conference where I saw The Avengers 3 weeks early. OMG IT ROCKS SO HARD!

Then I went to CinemaCon in Las Vegas. Watched 10 mins of The Hobbit in 48fps. Mind blowing. Also got to see Oliver Stone, Ang Lee, Martin Scorcese, Tim Burton, Jerry Bruckheimer, John Lassiter, Jefferey Katzenberg, Johnny Depp, John Travolta, The Rock, Charlize Theron, Sacha Baren Cohen and many more in person.

Followed by releasing The Avengers in my theatre and lo and behold: Biggest opening weekend of ALL TIME!

So yeah, not much time for wargaming. Also back surgery, blech.

But now I have content! Death Guard Termies are done. They look a little washed out in the photos. I think they look way better in person but that is how it goes. What do you think?

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Hope you like em! More to come. Rhinos and Death Guard troops.

Welcome back! Congrats on surviving the back surgery! Sounds like a bunch of good and one length of suck.

Yeah... the back parts of two vertebrae are gone now... its pretty nasty. Open spinal chord and all with only skin and muscle to cover it. When my wife rolled over in bed and bumped me there it was like getting hit in the funny bone from the waist down. NOT FUN!

Thanks for checking out my plog.

In other news! I am making a gaming table. I am considering putting up a tutorial if it goes as well as I hope. It will be 6x4 with locking casters for easy moving and will have a shelve setup for terrain and other storage underneath.

Here are the materials set aside for a free day.

And the secret weapon for ultra sturdiness! Simpson Ties!

More to come. I will post plans and tutorial if it turns out to rock.

Hello Dakkanauts!

Just checking in to tell you that the table is done! A lot of work but MAN is it sturdy. Attached some locking casters to it so I can roll it around and it is ready for a gaming mat or realm of battle. I can't wait to start playing on it. Handy storage shelf underneath for terrain and such too.





Would anyone be interested in the plans or a tutorial for this? Cost was around $170, but that is a hell of a lot cheaper than retail options. What say you?

Please!

Nice looking Guard stuff you got there. I have some Vostroyans and vehicles saved up for a later day and I like some of the ideas you have in here.

LOVE the FW Deathguard stuff and the conversion on your daemon prince.

Also, mark me down for wanting plans on that table!

You should write up a full Dakka Article about the table.

Ok! I will do a full article and tutorial for the gaming table. I will get it started now and hopefully will have something done by the end of the week.

Real quick, just posting parts list for the gaming table. Hoping having this as a visual would help.



Article to come...

Excellent! Something worthwhile to use my Lowe's gift carn on! Looking forward to the plans!

Just got back to Dakka myself, glad to see you're here. Excellent DG as always, and man that is a monster of a table. What's the structural point value of it? Ha.

Looking forward to more of your work. Welcome back.

Ok! Article is done. I hope people get some use out of it. It is a fantastic table.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Rabid%20Ferrets%20Ultra-Sturdy%206x4%20Rolling%20Gaming%20Table

Crashing now for need of sleep

So I am kind of bouncing around army to army now... My latest project? Tyranids. I played them in the long distant past and I felt like having another go. Here is what I have painted so far.





26 Termagants of tabletop quality. Very fast to paint. I used The Army Painter Purple on them as a base and then washed with Druchii Violet. The bone is Zandri Dust with sepia ink heavily washed and then feathering with more Zandri Dust.
Have a bunch more nids to assemble and paint. Not like I don't have enough projects as it is... What do you think about the scheme?

I really like the scheme. It's been a long time since I've seen anyone paint anything purple on a Tyranid.

A couple of quick teasers of what I am working on. FW Death Guard Dread. Also... he has no feets! He will have feets. Don't you worry. Also more blood, rust and goo.

Im really liking the paint work on that dread! a nice mix of colors that I like seeing in chaos armies

@RogueWolves Thanks, glad you like him. Hopefully in 6th CSM Dreads won't be so friggin' pants-on-head crazy zomgshootanythingthatmoviesevenmylittlebuddies! and well... actually useful.

I am trying for a look that is somewhat between the grimy post heresy colors and the pre-heresy white and green scheme. Also the patina on the bronze will tone down as most powder pigments do when I seal them. It should look more like it does on the termies when the sealer is on. There will be some rust pigment added to the silver as well.

I must honestly say im a sucker for those who do nurgle and dont use green as the main color ( like in your case ), its not that there is anything wrong with green nurgle, because thats what he is, its just a personal preference, and its more challenging to get a convincing non green plague which i respect

Oh man. You know how much I like Nurgle themed stuff. Great job so far, looking forward to seeing what comes next!

Rabid Ferret wrote:Hopefully in 6th CSM Dreads won't be so friggin' pants-on-head crazy zomgshootanythingthatmoviesevenmylittlebuddies! and well... actually useful.

You forgot 'zomgRAGErunintotheopentowardsclosestenemyandgetblowntobitznextturn!

Uh... yeah. I wouldn't put too much hope on that one. I'm not sure about 3rd or 4th Ed because I was gone for those, but 2nd Ed started that insane Dreadnought rule and I have to say I stopped playing them because of it. I have... maybe 10 of them? All display models at this point.

Welp... new chaos dex should be out in the next few months and that should bring with it some changes. Hopefully chaos dreads become viable again. Also I heard that plastic plaguebearers are imminent as well.

Oh my god... 6th edition Nurgle Daemon Allies. SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW.

T6 MON bikers with FNP that wound on a 2+? Yes please!

I hear you loud and clear. I am so getting some of those. I'm going to exploit this so much that I'm going to embarrass myself.

Sadly, Dreadnoughts are still subject to RRRRAAAGGHHHrunrunrun so I'm likely not going to spring the points for shooty guns and instead kit them out for the most disgusting OTT CC brutality the rules allow me to do.

Ok, Just about done with two/three units of Hive Guard for my Nid army. I was a little worried about how larger bugs would look in this scheme but I am pleased. Still WIP as I have a little detailing to do but these are 95% done. Note the PVA drying on the grass tufts. Lots more to come. I think the big bugs will be rather quick to do in this scheme. Now what to start with... Tervigon? Trygon? Tyrannofex? Choices choices...

I really think that the two purple-and-cream 'nid armes I've seen, highlighted with bright green, make me really shudder. They look ALIEN, which is what they should look like. Non-terrestrial in any way, shape, or form.

Excellent work.