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The main ships seem to have at first a cross between afterburners and spinning like propellers, more so on the space sub UX-01 and a torpedo boat but the sub and big battle cruiser will not be out until October. I am watching out for more as I seem to have finally won my fighting with Social Security, once the review is done, I will get my full checks, bills and such can now be p0aid, and I can resupply my mud paints soon, and replace the faulty motherboard in my computer

But yeah., I have been able o watch 1-22 of Yamato/Starblazers 2199

The models are the old 1980's Gamilon so small it will be a destroyer aka escort class

the two in the box set are the heavy cruiser and high speed light cruiser, they will also have a reflex gun satellite as an extra.

so, 150mm for the little guy
240mm for the light
270mm for the heavy or bigger version.
they are releasing a battlecruiser at 283mm long withthe 144mm space sub.

I am also going to order the set with the 160mm destroyers and 350mm battleship, the reboot is amazing!




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Oh and I do get a itty bitty 1/144scale tank with this set

They guy who helped redesign the Nids and stealth suits had much nicer looking crisis suits designed, GW stuck with their blocky design rather than go all fresh, most we got was the "Gundam" er, I mean Riptide.

Meanwhile, Vasily's boys have their diamonds as Vets on.
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Rat is up to something
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And they have a much respected and feared "00" unit designation\
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The numbers and diamonds are decals from the IG sets.

 cormadepanda wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
The numbers and diamonds are decals from the IG sets.

how many ig troops do you have now?

Practically a battalion

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
I smell a melta effect coming up really soon....yes?...*makes lil jig*

Soon it will be revealed what the humorous "Rat" came up with.


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Gamillon ships and satellite are on their way

Okay, your patience is rewarded! here is what Rat does, before a battle, he makes a new pointed sharp object to attach to a stick or metal rod, and then makes a simple flag and inserts it into the melta barrel, and it is yes, a corny joke, but Rat likes jokes both corny and sublime to also practical, such as one time emptying out the fuel tank of a general's staff car and replacing the promethium with the general's 18yr old Amasec! A whole case of the stuff!, well except one bottle he brought back to the ready room for the lads to share as he told of his exploit! The general in question never learned who did the deed, and was at first wondering why his personal staff car smelled like Amasec being distilled.

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@Dave; LOL! I did grow up watching the old Bugs Bunny growing up in NY.

@Vik: Yes he is! and oh wait till you see my next images

I unpacked a box which is part of the one thing peeps have not had a chance to view, my work on a unusual Chaos army. The massive armored troops coming thru the portal in my story along with the Daemons? I may have used the last edition codex for these but they are not exactly space marines who have been exposed to the warp.

Meet for now K' ah-Tes-Rahk war leader of the Kraal' q Dominion, the old owners of the sector of space the other races are living in. Their ancient ruins and monuments are scattered through out the "Pearl Strand " sector.
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These reptiles went the route before humans of worship of the dark gods
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Their colorations of their skin denote their initial affiliations of the Gods, their armor denotes where they have been walking along their spiral path to ascending to their own power.
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They have starships laying about that have been only viewed as massive hills they have sat so long waiting for these dark masters to return to start them back up
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The weapons they bear look primitive at first, until they hurl the energy of the warp making them the equivalent of any present day weapon with the added bonus of also being close combat weapons.
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 Theophony wrote:
I like the natural snake color stripping he looks wicked evil.

Thanks! now for his Slaanesh worshipping counterpart, the first one I also referred to as "Abba-Lizard" as an Abbadon counts as mini.

Now for Shorr' Kesh-Nahk-Roh a very gaudy dresser.
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Followed by one who transcended time and space, partook with the old Beastmen in the storm of chaos but now works with the remnants of the Dominion, the "Super-Beast!" wielding an aether blade
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Aether Blade up close
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Now the triumvirate of evil! Lucky folks are dead fast, others eaten, the unlucky are enslaved or made into spawn to hurl at the enemies of the Kraal' Q Dominion.
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 Dr H wrote:
I'm liking all the colours except the light green on the shoulders (seems to clash, but I think that is the point, yes?).

Yes, a riotous clashing of gaudy and garish colors as the ones who go for Slaanesh worshipping tend to be unreactive to bland more subdued colors.

Camkierhi wrote:Love them, great paint work. Especially like your blending on the last one.

Oh and I get the reason for the green but gods that's garish.

Keep it coming dude, even if they don't have tracks.

Yes, the colors were to hurt the eyes and senses of my opponents.

Viktor von Domm wrote:I am a bit speechless...


where the bloody seven hells did these come from???

what model range are these from? I see the odd bit on them too... but really?
they´re bloody amazing!...
and they throw a totally different light on your painting prowess now! that painting sure is not compared to your usual stuff... I think you should do more often chaos style stuff.... I am seeing here a strong analogy to my recent green skinned endeavours...

wow...
specially the purple fella is stunning good looking!...

They were unexpected.

Reality, they were boxed away for a while, read the little back story for them and they have been waiting to spring their vengeance.

Reaper minis Reptus range for their Warlord game.
Thanks,
I wanted to mimic actual lizard and viper patterns. The armor is more geared to the powers of Chaos

Ah, you like "The Super Beast" aka Khaar' Phaos who lead a horde of Beastmen a few years back during GW's world wide "Storm of Chaos" campaign. I have a whole army of these that i intend to finish

 Galorn wrote:
They look pretty good. The pictures make the m look very monotone. If there is shading it isn't really comng through.

Two factors involved as I did shade them, I have odd eyes in that I can actually see gradient subtleties past what most other guys can see as males actually have varying degrees of colorblindness so while I easily detect the edges where I used a lighter shade fo red or purple, I tend to forget others may not catch it.

The other factor is the flash can "bleach" out colors as it is so overwhelming, so I took some unflashed pics. the downside is more shadows
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odd pall over this image
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In the shadow, you can make out the inner flesh as lighter
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scales edged in a mix of red/orange
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A bit more light, also, I am thinking these are screaming for washes to be used as I was not at the stage of using washes to help details stick out more!
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Khar' Phaos w/o flash
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Hello Ladies! these are females of the species, and all soceresses of the 3 gods that allow magic as a weapon
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No thoughts on the reptilian ladies of chaos?

Thing is, my lamp is an overhead one, so there will be shadows on the models that only a flash will expose as my last pic of the lady lizards

Group shot
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Lady of Slaanesh, I need to redo the clothes to be gaudy and garishly bright!
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Lady of Nurgle, with a hearty constitution, I may use a pva glue trick to show "Molting" but their saliva is like a Monitor Lizard's a cocktail of infection in the green scaled Nurgle worshipping Kraal' Q
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Lady of Tzeentch
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Flash exposed details of the ladies
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I then revisited their Lords
Abba-Lizard
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Slaanesh Lord brother
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@Cam, I need to find some magical staves.

@Vik: the Reptus line has it listed as females, the only clue is the wild back scales that protect the neck and head. Yes, Slaanesh one is further along, I got interrupted on the other two.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
of course female reptiles wouldn´t look like mammalians ^^

Exactly. just differences in colorations and markings and other features

So, with the remake and retelling of Starblazers/Yamato 2199, I got nostalgic when I ordered a kit and added the old 1980's kist of the Gamilon ship, the proportions seem comical as the tiny ship has almost the same sized barrels for it's turrets as the new 1/1000 scale kits and the bridge is almost the same height though more cramped looking if used in that scale as a 120meter long patrol ship.
But here are pics that will show major differences that have taken place from then to now.

Original kit
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Size difference between kit boxes
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HUGE differences!
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Nostalgia kit built, and paint on the ramming blade, and it has a 60mm companion, a scout ship.
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Next to the first segment of the 2199 heavy cruiser version! HUGE!!!
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Nostalgia next to sections 1 & 2 of the 2199 version, and already dwarfed!
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3rd section as shows the parts slide together and this model is bulkheaded! double bulkheaded! it would put shame to the Titanic!
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More to come of this new kit as there are 2 cruisers and a satellite in the bigger box set.

Theophony wrote:On the ladies I think you need to do a dark wash on the green one to bring out details on the wings especially. the blue one could use it as well, otherwise they look good for female lizard deamons

I have azurman blue for the Tzeentch one, and Thrakka Green for the Nurgle one.

Dr H wrote:That's a pretty cool flying-space-submarine-craft model.

Yes, Starblazers where Navy vessels and rockets/jets merge!

Now with the 3rd section closed up
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4th section added
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With the original nostalgia ship next to it to get a sense of mass and size
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As it is bigger, the added structure and decks for the turrets shows how much more detail can be added in
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Belly sections being added now.
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Belly turret
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Side by side
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Tail fin/Rudder for landing as they do so on the surface of planets in the show
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Briancj, episodes 23-26 have not yet made it out of Japan as they just showed them as a movie in theaters on the 24th, but I am awaiting them to play at animeplus.tv


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So, as you can see the cruiser is faithful and yet more uppdated, but also, the turrets are not glued down, just tight fits so I can do this with them! Broadside barrage!
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Left and right flank cannons added
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New and improved bridge superstructure in place
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Note not just the size differences, but the shape of the "wing" or side fin
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More comparative imagery
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Cruiser fully assembled with engine and new shaped side fins next to the original design
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I jumped the gun and did work on the high speed cruiser there are less sectionings on this one, but 2 belly plates as with the big guy.
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I have a few more and then more to download and more pics to take as I camoed the cruisers, and I have the reflex cannon satellite that was used to reflect the beam at the Yamato/Argo




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High speed cruiser has more sensor "eyes" than the big one, which has the bigger sensor eyes anyway.
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This one also has a keel turret, seems a common theme for the Gamilon fleet
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Nostalgia ship is still small next to the high speed cruiser, but the lighter cruiser is 240mm as opposed ot the heavier cruiser which is 270mm to the 120mm for the nostalgic model.
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High speed cruiser fully assembled
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Now, having seen the purplish effect in the anime for the Geschtam drives (Yes, actual term used for the warp engines), I applied the color mixes to mimic it as best I could

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Nostalgia ship/light destroyer
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High speed cruiser
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So, now for the belly of the high speed cruiser
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This image the beam was directed from around Pluto by satellites


like this one. the 4 mirrors are angled at each satellite to send the beam along to it's destination, normally to make asteroids into planet bombs to rain down on target planet after altering the molecular stability of the asteroid, and hurling it on it's way.
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if I get more such sets, it will no longer be a lonely reflex satellite
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Ships camoed, and lights of the bridges in place. More paintwork is on the way
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 Viktor von Domm wrote:
Wouldn't have thought that camo would look good on spaceships... Makes little sense to me, but looks still good.
How much for the lot by the way? These could be used as.eldar or tau vehicles too...

More close to Tau. There are actual camoed ships like that with other colors used in the show, I have seen them in some episodes. Even a battleship, with a single white camo stripe., they have the standard plain green, and blue for the Imperial Guard, they are not nice at all.

Oddly enough, looking at the size fo the bores of the turrets on the little version from the 1980's the things seem almost as big as the updated ship's turret weapons! except the side blister cannons, they stay small looking in comparison.
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Oh and two different version of the battleship

 Camkierhi wrote:
Loving the ships, like your camo especially, great job. Nice work on the glow for the engines too.

Thanks Cam, I went back to the show a few times for that glow color for the engines. Camo was in the show and in pictures that others painted their models of these cruisers in.
Plain greens and camo for fleets of the Gamilon forces, Blue is just for the Leader and the Imperial Guard since blue is the color of the leading Gamilon race, yes, even in space there is racism. Guy in charge of the Imperial Guard of Gamilon is a major jerk, and yet it works for making him the right character to hate. The new version of Dessler seems to be a bit insane, but he has been Emperor of the Gamilons for 103years.


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So, I took belly shots of the ships, and the scout is more like 55mm or 55meters long, so still a small crew and cramped at that based on this new find. Old style stand hole for it is classic round, so it may wobble and spin some.

Pic; scout w/o flash
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Scout w/flash
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Light destroyer/patrol ship w/o flash
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LDD or Patroller w/flash
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Kelkapia class high speed cruiser belly w/o flash, so much detail work here.
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Kelkapia w/flash
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Now for a surprise, the bellies have a plate that can be popped out, like below
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I had to use the paint to write the name as the name plates are in Japanese, which I have not yet learned to read
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Torpedo tube launch hatches are now colored up as well.
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Hey Dave, I sat through these, they are subbed, so some reading is needed the first time or so, but the styling is awesome, I liked the original, but now that I am no longer a 14yr old, the dialogue in English seems corny on Starblazers.
New 2199 is more serious
This website has episodes 1-22
http://www.animeplus.tv/uchuu-senkan-yamato-2199-anime

But the small Nostalgia kit is what the original looked like, and the bigger stretched version is influenced by it. the original Gamilons were cool designs, but rare and hard to find, and compared to today's work, very 1970's cartoon like.
These remakes are amazingly detailed and like a real ship, building the Kelkapia reminded me of when I built a 700scale or so model of the German cruiser Blucher


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Oh flash powered head on of the High Speed Cruiser
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Heavy Cruiser Destoria class belly details
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With the stand plate removed
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Kelkapia on stand, engine shot, they did a lot in the new series as the ships are showing off that they are dynamic and fast!
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Direct for more glow action!
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Back of Destoria w/o flash, very dark, a little blurry
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Light angled to show the torp turbes
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tilted into a nose dive for the lower torp tubes.
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So, looking over the new cruisers,

Kelkapia High Speed Cruiser(HSC) has 4 x torpedoes in the lower chin, 6 x torps on the hull forward in a grouping, and 2 x torps to the rear, 2 x more blister launchers for bigger torps, a aft firing missile battery which fires 6 missiles, and has 2 upper hull and 1 lower hull particle beam turrets with three barrels each.

Destoria Heavy Cruiser sits with 4 x torpedoes in the chin, 4 x torpedoes aft, 4 x wing mounted cannons fixed forwards, 3 x triple barreled turrets upper hull, 1 x triple barreled turret lower hull. and 2 barbettes on the side hulls with triple beam cannons forward and aft.

And kits always go fast for me, scratch builds take longer as there is a lot of thinking and effort to them.




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So, here is that lower torpedo shot, flash used
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Side shot of aft torpedo tubes
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Pardon the handwriting with the brush, things got shakey, but it is still readable!
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And now, the scout ship, small enough for a crew of less than 20
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Lit up
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Now to paint the satellite, and wait for the Earth ships and Battleship set

Old style Battle over Pluto, in the 1970's this was the top animation for pace battles:



updated battle of Pluto, big difference in style, and design of the ships upgraded, more detailed, and the fight is faster at times than was possible back in the 1970's



Odd that the poster put it in backwards


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Here we go, right side around, still no subbed dialogue.

So, I am expecting a new shipment hopefully fulfilled soon, the United Nations Cosmo Navy


And a really big ship with escorts and the tank

Roughly 100 vehicles from sentinel variants to super heavy tanks, and hundreds of soldiers, between 500-600 men I haz.

 dsteingass wrote:
You should buy an old cargo van, and convert it into a Massive troop ship

With my legs, I am more likely to get a smaller vehicle, but it would still be the Troop Transport taking my armies for games for the most part. IG is in roughly 4 containers, so I would need such for Apocalypse games, Tau are also in another 3 containers, Orks in a duffle bag, Necrons are still small enough a force for 1-2 boxes or 1 army transport. My SM are 2 containers worth

Oh yeah, gonna buy reaper paints from now on, 4bucks for GW pots is now just making collectors look dumb! I know Tom Kirby is looking to retire with a galleon's worth of wealth, but this is too much!!! I get paint in the eyedropper bottle, and it will last longer if I am not using it, for 3.29 a 1/2 oz bottle, the GW paints are what a .4 or 1/4 oz bottle for 4dollars is just insane!

My source for now, maybe others in future, but GW has outpriced themselves to death paint wise
http://www.reapermini.com/Paints