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Some progress on a number of fronts:
A jetbike group shot as promised


Left-hand end guy has sarcophagus experiment, which I like but think will work better with the Ven Dread visors. I like the guy looking at the sergeant, as if to say "Where's your other arm gone?", the answer to which is on the end of a bloody great executioner's axe so he can be a Khan counts-as.

Nice group shot of LotD in various stages of WIP:

Loving playing with individualised backpacks, these guys make a happy distraction.

Shrike returns, with new claws, chains and... Teleporter!

I have another 20 of these ready to adorn my assault marines... Yay! And yes, he is primed. And so it begins.

Or not.

Alas, one bitter disappointment.

Much of my paint has solidified irrevocably. This is both a nuisance and an expense I can do without.

On a brighter note, I decided Solar Lion's chapter master needed more Grrrr:

Big claw is good, no?

Thanks to all you guys who've helped with countless bits scrounging efforts of late.
And a huge thankyou to the mighty sonofruss for his contribution:




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Some progress on a number of fronts:
A jetbike group shot as promised


Left-hand end guy has sarcophagus experiment, which I like but think will work better with the Ven Dread visors. I like the guy looking at the sergeant, as if to say "Where's your other arm gone?", the answer to which is on the end of a bloody great executioner's axe so he can be a Khan counts-as.

Nice group shot of LotD in various stages of WIP:

Loving playing with individualised backpacks, these guys make a happy distraction.

Shrike returns, with new claws, chains and... Teleporter!

I have another 20 of these ready to adorn my assault marines... Yay! And yes, he is primed. And so it begins.

Or not.

Alas, one bitter disappointment.

Much of my paint has solidified irrevocably. This is both a nuisance and an expense I can do without.

On a brighter note, I decided Solar Lion's chapter master needed more Grrrr:

Big claw is good, no?

Thanks to all you guys who've helped with countless bots scrounging efforts of late.
And a huge thankyou to the mighty sonofruss for his contribution:



Later gang!

I find it ironic the guy with the crosshairs on his pack has a flamer. Way to brag you always hit your target, Battle Brother Douchecanoe! Some us actually have to aim.

Wow!
looking good Graven! the jetbikes arent so lopsided now either with the addition of the wings on the front, the LotD are looking wicked! loving the customised look, and im with WM, the cross-haired flamer made me lol
Shrike looks kickass with the chains, reminds me of Ghost Rider for some reason o and the big claw is nice and hefty now, S_L will love it i bet
wish i could have helped with the bits situation, but since i bought the majority of my SM army pre-made, i dont have much of a bits box :(

And the mail is for??

inmygravenimage wrote:Some progress on a number of fronts:
A jetbike group shot as promised

they look like they're playing mariokart lol
complete with wii remotes...

I look awesome- nice work!

Dude! What kit is the lion banner from? If it is the White Lions I will just have to buy the kit it has so many parts I want.

Thanks for all the comments lads.

shrike wrote:they look like they're playing mariokart lol
complete with wii remotes...

I look awesome- nice work!

Really glad you like them. They've been hard to get right since the outset. The other thing still to add to the unit is the Mk2 Jetbikes as Attack bikes, getting them tonight off a buddy.

Gitsplitta wrote:And the mail is for??

It's a dice bag

whalemusic360 wrote:I find it ironic the guy with the crosshairs on his pack has a flamer. Way to brag you always hit your target, Battle Brother Douchecanoe! Some us actually have to aim.

Yeah, I thought just a little humour in there somehow fitted the LotD. Glad you spotted it, I thought when I was doing it, no, this is a daft idea, no one will get it.

Revenent Reiko wrote:Wow!
looking good Graven! the jetbikes arent so lopsided now either with the addition of the wings on the front, the LotD are looking wicked! loving the customised look, and im with WM, the cross-haired flamer made me lol
Shrike looks kickass with the chains, reminds me of Ghost Rider for some reason o and the big claw is nice and hefty now, S_L will love it i bet
wish i could have helped with the bits situation, but since i bought the majority of my SM army pre-made, i dont have much of a bits box :(

Cheers for the words Rev; don't be daft about the bits and, hey, if you do need stuff, just pm me. Dakka is a whole lot of pay it forward, after all.

BLACKHAND wrote:Dude! What kit is the lion banner from? If it is the White Lions I will just have to buy the kit it has so many parts I want.

The Lion banner is a regular marine standard with a white lion icon from the Chariot. The banner topper and shoulder pad lion's head are also from that. The strange things one finds in the old bits box, eh?

Keep em coming folks!

Way to brag you always hit your target, Battle Brother Douchecanoe! Some us actually have to aim.

they look like they're playing mariokart lol
complete with wii remotes...

just one word.....just one....ROFLMAO.

inmygravenimage wrote:

Revenent Reiko wrote:Wow!
looking good Graven! the jetbikes arent so lopsided now either with the addition of the wings on the front, the LotD are looking wicked! loving the customised look, and im with WM, the cross-haired flamer made me lol
Shrike looks kickass with the chains, reminds me of Ghost Rider for some reason o and the big claw is nice and hefty now, S_L will love it i bet
wish i could have helped with the bits situation, but since i bought the majority of my SM army pre-made, i dont have much of a bits box :(

Cheers for the words Rev; don't be daft about the bits and, hey, if you do need stuff, just pm me. Dakka is a whole lot of pay it forward, after all.

Thanks Graven! thats a really generous offer

You pinched the teleporter idea I had for my Night Lords Rapter squad.

Bikers looking cool there, just hanging back playing some playstation, waiting for the action to start.

Nice individualisation of the marines, also liking the crosshair trophy

Like the chains on Shrikey, and yes, big claw is good.

Although big Klaw is better



Chainmail dice bag? lol



edited as 1 monkeytroll banging on a keyboard cannot spell.

Get IE Spell.

No pics today. I did attach 20 teleporter packs to assault marines though sorry for brain theft Miss Dee - guess chaos marines don't have to worry about jumping through the warp and going crazy eh?
Did make a lot of progress: the assault marines all have chain attached, and both units are now ready to be primed. I also tidied up my one and only tac squad, made backpacks for scouts, primed some more lotd, decapitated a chaos marine for Nisk's base, and drilled a variety of barrels. Leg work, but very satisfying and productive. Oh, and found some plastic flight stand rods in my bits box! Hurrah, etc.
Now, of course, I have to start planning vehicles: I'm thinking LR Prometheus. High tech, and a whole lot o heavy bolters.
One other thing: I have a lot of fluff in my head (no laughing at the back there) which justifies a lot of my modelling decisions, and just idly wondered if that would be of interest to folk.

The rules for the LRP are kinda meh. It looks cool though. How about an LR Achilles?

That tank is cool but has big gaps. pop over to my blog here on Dakka and take a peep.

What does the LRP do again? other than be a DSing AV14 brick full of guns of cors
im always interested in fluff (teehee) seriously though, any army is better when theres a story behind it i find.
p.s how did i miss the chainmail dice bag ??!!
p.p.s nice to see The Grin back

Basically, its got the 2 twin linked heavy bolters (not 4, which is lame), gives you +1 to reserves, Night vision, and makes cover saves (from it) -1. 12 transport. Oh, and its an Elite choice. Which is weird.

Would it be wrong to say that I find your Shrike looks better than the official GW model...? I like the transporter poles sticking out of his pack, very Gundam beam-saber-esque.

And without that nasty raven-shaped bird dooky pattern on his helmet (as in the original), your gritty model wins loads more cool-points than the standard one! (apologies to anyone who actually likes the GW Shrike's "unique" helmet)

whalemusic360 wrote:Basically, its got the 2 twin linked heavy bolters (not 4, which is lame), gives you +1 to reserves, Night vision, and makes cover saves (from it) -1. 12 transport. Oh, and its an Elite choice. Which is weird.

Thanks WM
woah that is one weird LR :S (i heard that the LRP was the original name of the LRR, hence my confusion)
it does seem to fit the high-tech idea though. and that many re-rolling heavy bolters is gonna shred pretty much anything (4 would have been better though).

@HF Inazagi: Truly, I'm honoured!

Cheers WM, I'd forgotten it was an elite slot. Whilst on one level that's very Mentors, it's also quite limitting. I have crusader and a apoc command kit sitting unbuilt to convert into the LRP, might just pimp it instead.

LRC > LRP. I got one just cuz it looks cool. Though I got a helios and terminus as well, so there's that.

Yes, please throw out your fluffy stuff. Fluff is always good, more so if it has a bearing on your modelling.

A wee update here: some great marine swap stuff -
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/2070/305404.page#2718755

And further jetbike work, now with ven dread visors -


Tomorrow I'll try to get detailed shots of the gms stuff up (BA Termies and grot), maybe even some fluff too.

Impressive jetbikes... even though a part of me thinks they are tad small for today's Marines. On the other hand, Shrike is pretty good with that "you're next" pose and chains.

Ok, this is more fluff-related today. The LR dilemma is not going away. Somehow, it just doesn't feel right; not subtle enough. Equally, I've never liked the look of drop pods especially - so am going to use these:

There's a comment in imperial armour apocalypse about Termites being legit as drop pods - win!

Which of course leaves me with a LRC.

And a box of GKs I raided for parts.

And an Inquisitor with retinue in amongst my guard army.

Oh bother.

I seem to have a small GK army there.

Latest stuff is looking great dude, very characterful

Very nice Graven! Have you got much dirt erupting from the bottom of the mole machine transports?

Your Jetbikes are also looking pretty pimp Glad to see you're starting to collected a small Inquisitor force as well

Thanks chaps. Yeah there's more dirt around the base than the image suggests, and the model's more detailed too; they redid it since the painted version went on their site. A pound of resin mind you (450g), it's a bit of a beast!
Careless of me to end up with a GK force really. I have a xenos =I=, callidus, servitors, mystic etc. More to paint!

Welcome to the GK party, let me know if you need anything before you go aout and buy it!

right arm storm bolters.