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The Guern wrote:
Dear all,

Craig Charles who played Lister has an excellent show on Radio 6 where he plays funk and jazz, i am sure you creative americans can find a way to listen to it; it's very much worth the effort (like wise Robert Llewellyn's (Kryten) carpool which is I believe free on Itunes).

Theo, I wonder if I may ask a question? The Dust tactics Quosenne Huts you have look fantastic and I'm about to invest in a set, but have you used/bought/seen their tennement buildings? Do you have an opinion on them? They look interesting to me but not sure how well they scale with heroic scale miniatures?

WIth Kind Regards

The Guern

Ask Dstein I seem to remember seeing one in his thread

@The guern, I bought the dust tactics expansion called operation: Cerberus. You get a three story tenement building in the box along with two special characters for a better discount. They are perfect scale for warhammer, and can flex a little higher o lower scale and would just be seen as architectural design choices. They are nice and hefty pieces the inside is not detailed though, but would allow for great detailing like dsteingass has on his current buildings. Also miniaturemarket.com usually has pretty decent discounts on the dust stuff. If you check their deal of the day often you can get some really good deals as well. Not sure of international shipping rates as hey are about 30 minute drive from my house.
Here's some pics, you can see the special characters next to a dreamforge trooper and my leviathan before painting.

Here's a pic of one type of wall next to a necromunda bulkhead.

Here's a shot from the book showing what comes in the operation:Cerberus box. You get enough to make a one story tenement house and a two story tenement. You could make three, but they only give you two doors.


Hope that helps. More pics in my gallery under other companies, most dust stuff is on page 2.

@dave, she'll get her revenge after the bombs drop dave. When you come out of stasis her descendants will be in charge. Then who do you thin will be the smeghead
@shaso, don't worry, I'm sure she's well taken care of aside from the occasional sure gluing to the floor or catching he falling exacto knife. I for one can't wait to come out of stasis to work o my new canine overlords. Unless they are controlled by poodles.

Pro wrestling marines idea is up for grabs for whoever wants to do them. I might have an idea that will help me stay on my marines and still compete in he bad ass competition. Will be trying to flesh it out today.

Oh and for humor sake.



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Well, I went and entered the bad ass competition, here's a look at my entry.

The giant scythe is the standard for their banner, the blade is ceremonial, but the standard is carried into battle and into the heart of he enemy.....position. Here he is attacking the genestealer that is tearing apart a fallen terminator, one of the few remaining from the tyrannies invasions.

Well, guess the badass is going over like a .....was going to say brick, but vik got comments on his bricks , o well.

Threw some paint yesterday for a little while, but realized photos were really blurry, will retake them shortly. Also GW cannon has the scythes terminators being all yellow.....not sure about that, would like to continue the pattern since I have it on my Titan. I might make it where special terminators and veterans are all yellow, but not sure yet. This guy also lets me branch out into painting nids. I had a nid army years ago, but sold it after third edition, don't think I'll go back to it unless genestealers become what they should. I think I'm going to do a hive fleet behemoth color for these guys, or at least a variant there of.

Pics to come.
Here's the blurry one for now.

Excellent idea Theo, that shouts bad-ass to me

Dear Theo,

Like you I suspect that all yellow terminators will not look as dapper as your base scheme. If I were you I am sure that I would stick to your current scheme. I am confident that you can come up with a sufficently fluffy reason is you should want to, perhaps it's a particular campaign livery?

I must confess that I'm not sure about the length of the scythe... mayhaps if her were using it as a polevault to leap over tyranid no.1 whilst firing at tyranid no.2.

Kind Regards

The Guern

Well the Nids are supposed to be the next 40k codex done. I'd imagine they will fix the Genestealers so they don't completely suck like they do currently. I can tell ya my wife was rather pissed about how gakky they became in 6th considering how many she had. Let me tell ya.... being out swarmed by Genestealers friggin sucked, because she really only need a couple to make it to combat to kick faces in lol

@kc, that's why space hulk was so good, cause the stealers could rip apart termies. If they get lose its game over man game over.
@the guern, yeah I'm going to stay with the yellow and black scheme on the termies. The scythe is the standard pole, so it needs to be giant, not really intended for combat, but will become an improvised weapon when ammo is depleted.
@ruglud, thanks. Never doubt a marines toughness if he's carrying the chapter banner, especially into combat. Was unsure o helmet less as that goes against everything I believe with marines, but as I told vik on the competition page. Bad asses don't wear helmets

Well more painting as I woke up early this morning.
Full scene

Billy bad ass, the nid cowboy....yea haw!

Close up, I've never done faces, much less skin before.

looks pretty good ont he face man...dont worry i hate doing faces and skin also yet i have an ig army <face palm>

Theo is rocking that scythes look

@bama, I'd love to do guard, just too many bodies to paint to only have on the board one turn
@shaso, thanks, I'm really digging the look myself, and I guess that's what matters.

Well painting is happening more and more. Also if you didn't see it in the bad ass blog, I added the banner to my guy so maybe the pole will look less like a weapon and more like a banner pole like it should.

Then back to the Titan, with deciding to make the weapons all black it stood there starring at me with two yellow arms, I think if it was loaded here wouldn't be anymore added to this blog . So painted the right gun arm all black. And added a matching chevron to it as well.

Then figured I should finish up the face, shoulders and top with the highlights.

I still need to work on some tactical symbols or army badges for it, I'm thinking of painting "sotha" on the black stripe that is on the top. Sotha was the home world for the scythes before the nids came over for breakfast.

Next it was time to give the body it's second yellow coat, this time the yriel yellow. It's also gotten its wash since this pic has been taken.


Next up is to highlight the black on the gun arm and legs, and the center chest shield as well.

I keep forgetting to post picks of the back of the beast to show off the cool power plant. The kit comes with the smokestacks, but I also had the cooling plant from the kick starter as well. But the archaic smokestacks fit the 40k universe better I think.

Wife has a football game to coach a tonight, so the kids and I are on our own. Might check the local cheap theatre to see what's playing, or get a redbox movie or two. The parks an option as well since its a beautiful 74 degrees here right now and should be the same tomorrow.

go out in the bleeding sunshine...i am not in favor for too much watching TV... one movie is the limit for me and our kids...

i didn´t knew the titan was that modular...
i know i probably come over as a jerk now, but i liked the yellow gunarm...but black is always cool...

are the nids of yours red or what color is that? could be pink even for that weird warm light you use...

also... one idea i had... the scyth probably wouldn´t look that active as a weapon on the standard if the blade would face the other way?...you know what i mean? the wind is blowing the banner and if the blade would follow...would look not as menacing then...

The Titan is really nice and modular vik. The weapon arms pop on and off with a twist up around the shoulder. Mark calls them hot swaps, you can change your Titan weapons before the game to customize against your enemy.

The nids are mechanicum red, with a red wash over the top. The shell is black with necron abyss and enchanted blue highlights.

Picked up Star Trek into darkness to watch after the kids sleep. Going for a walk with them after dinner.

All sounds good Theo.
I may decide to get me some as they are advertised on WGF and the Eisenkern truppen would make for good platoon of Kruegerian 144th Soldaten, and the Leviathan a good solid light titan, like the warhounds

the mecharite red is actually my most used color... somehow all my schemes end up with that being used...^^

and it sounds a bit like the bionicle joints...hopefully the plastic is sturdy enough for often sawp uses...

seeing this i actually am in the mood to start a titan again...

@Vik,Depends on how big you want the Titan. The 28mm one is an inch shy of a fw war hound Titan. The 15mm one that's shipping next week is the same size as a dreadknight. Both have the same weapon arms options coming.
@shaso, the troopers are insane, with tons of options in each box, and they have others coming n the future including all female troopers

Well, I would scratch build it anyway^^
For that 15mm I look forward mostl eagerly

Here's the 15mm version that dr. Mathias here on dakkadakka painted up for gencon.

They were able to take all the detail down to the 15mm scale, and still have all the pose ability of the larger one. Believe that's their version of a dreadnought base it's standing on. I didn't order any small guys, originally I was going with 4 of the big guys, but decided to just do one big guy and weapon arms, and troops. They have some excellent looking stuff coming in wave three, especially the heavy troopers hich can give marines something to aspire to become .

@shaso, the troopers are insane, with tons of options in each box, and they have others coming n the future including all female troopers

Well, I also am looking forwards to getting the Protectorate troops and such when they come out to make the new style Khadrovian Iron Guards with a revised kit, maybe they will be my version of GRU troops

Really nice leviathan paint so far theo!

Dear Theo,

I should have known better than to doubt your judgement, with the banner added the scythe looks so much better.

Kind Regards

The Guern

@the guern, thanks, the praise is unwarranted, but the banner does help get the idea across and brings it into perspective.
@comradepanda, thanks, more to show below.
@ shaso, the Russian faction is highly anticipated, but will be a ways off as this is going to be a year since the last kick starter and wave two is about to ship, wave three is at least six months off. Then the next one is the aliens, then possibly the Russians as that is the next that I've heard.

Worked on the yellow, it's all done now yeah! So tacked on the head, shoulders and top, here's a looksie.

And the promised back of the Titan which I keep forgetting.

The only thing I don't like is the segmented smokestacks, but I guess there was no way around that.

Off to highlight arms and legs.

I see..they don't fit tight enough to eliminate those gaps eh?

That is what gray/green stuff is good for!

@Dave,The big gap is from me resting this on its back, it has separated two parts of the stack.
@shaso, unfortunately I've already run wires through the smokestack so I can't separate it and use putty.

Well the kids are up now, but I was able to finish the upper torso and these two arms.


Watched into darkness last night. Can't say I was a big fan. The effects were too different from the old series I guess and I just kind of shut down after that. Plus a submersible enterprise in the atmosphere . The guy who played Khan also didn't do it former either. Oh well.

Completed Titan....except for some heraldry.

Titan with engine primed and lights on.

Still haven't picked up any cotton balls or steel wool, so it's just paper towels in the smokestacks to look like......smoke.

..You haven't seen Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock then. Once you see that, you accept his genius as Khan for some reason. I dunno. I think he should've been the next Doctor myself. Looking awesome Theo!


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.>Also....in RL, the Eugenics wars never happened in 1996, so I think they sort of got the Khan bit out of the way early on in the story.

wow... the titan looks awesome!!! the scheme now has a very strong wasp vibe going on! I like that! you pulled off that scheme with flying colours! very menacing!

That Titan is looking great - will you be weathering it or leaving as factory fresh?

I will admit though that I'm not a fan of the smoke stacks tops, they just look to archaic on such a technological marvel - having said that I don't know anything on the fluff for these models so maybe there's a reason behind the design?

Well. I am a loss for words.

I like the stacks, they are really quite Baroque, and fit the Fluff of the Imperium IMHO