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PAGE 9! so awesome....

@Rev. Reiko - Thank you

@Graven - I'm sure you'll do your guys some justice as well, we all had to start somewhere and with the community backing you I'm positive your skills will shine.

@Blackhand - Cheers, and thank you for taking the time to post on my blog, I know your time is limited when it comes to modeling.

@DSS - No worries, what in particular were you looking for in a tutorial? I can assume you mean the bone, but want to be doubly sure.

@Markillius - I'll do my best not to disappoint on the rest of the Paladins!

@Kenshin - Thanks!

So Update time:

We had a 3 day weekend in NZ of which I spent most of it away from home either chilling with mates or family, got to see the new X-men movie and got a small amount of painting done (probably only 4 hours or so)

So, attack bike sitting at approx. 80% possibly 85% done. The realization that I hate painting bikes weigh's heavily on my enthusiasm for this model and the last two I have to make. However one of the last two is a jet bike, and the sgt to boot so I will be upping the modeling game on that one.

Pics below
Taken on Sunday night


Taken on Monday night

More the weapon and helix effect than the bone. I'm just thinking Bonesabres like that would be.....niiiice.

I'm telling you - bikes kill hobby enthusiasm... that being said - my Ork bikes were quite fun. I wonder how fun reavers are to paint?

Time will tell.

Might buy me a battleforce for my next purchase, instead of Incubi and a Venom... hmmm

Looking awesome so far buddy.

@DSS - Ah, the helix etc, I think its relatively easy to do. I'll take some stage by stage pictures on the next sword blade I do for you and make a small how to.

@Elbrokendo - I agree with you 100% on that one, only 2 more left to do... only 2. Get the battleforce, so much more win

@Graven - Cheers!

Update: Bike done, pictured (about 4 of them below) and got some work done on the next GK marine. I tried the eye effect from the paladin on this guy as well, what do you guys reckon?

Repeat with me now, I hate bikes, I hate bikes, I hate bikes.... There we go! It's all very therapeutic this chanting......

Front left


Back left


Top view


Back right


Front Right


GK marine number 2 WIP

Attack bike looks excellent as always
I would also love to see a tut on the double helix


"i hate bikes, i hate bikes, i hate bikes...."

I meant to say, I like your use of the DA pad. It looks perfect, and you wouldn't know otherwise.

Excellent work as usual Knightly. Your NFWs are getting better as you go. The palidin is amazing.

At first i have to admit i wasn't sure about the colour scheme but the more i see of the army the better and better it gets.
The paladin looks great like that and your NFWs are stunning!

Like the bike...:L it looks like a grey night bike! well done mate!

Grey-Knight-Riders... Knightley, fancy doing a step-by-step on your NFW technique?
Edit: Oh - and just realised the driver's got a BT pad. Sneaky - love it.

@Rev. Reiko - I'm happy the chanting is catching on I'd be happy to do a pic by pic of a blade for those who are interested (might see how I go on the GK marine number 2 and see if his one comes out any good)

@Graven - Sneaky kit bashing seems to be my specialty (spelling?) and I can't believe you went there, I'll have to make a name for my last bike..... Kit....

@Chrono - Thanks man!

@Warwookie - Thank you very much for taking the time to check out the blog and commenting

@Stoned - Thanks

Update:

Got some colour onto the next GK marine, and pretty much glued him all together as the last parts to do are his robe, not sure how the effect will come out but I'll give it a try.

Front shot - apologies for the washing out of the colour because I had lights to close to it.


Top down view


C&C welcome of course

Oooh, nice use of the DA robed body there. I'm quite curious to see how this turns out in effect

I likes it! Especially like the use of the Termi Honor's shoulder.

SWEET!

WOW! I feel ashamed I hadn't seen this blog earlier, but I really like the conversions you've done with your GK's. One of the cool things when you find a blog after its been going for awhile is you can easily see the growth, as your painting and modeling keeps improving.

I especially think the ironclad and techmarines are fantastic. I love all of the writings and details you've added to the normally smooth blank gray armor as well. Keep it up! I look forward to more updates.

@DSS – Thanks man, I’m just as curious as to how it will come out.

@Markillius – Cheers!

@IceAngel – Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, I hope to keep you entertained as the blog grows.

Update time:

I didn’t get much painting done last night, mainly because I got to have my very first game with my GK’s with the new rules. I apologize that I have no pictures so I’ve done what I can with MS paint, please go easy on me (MS paint is not an easy medium to use to convey a battle!) and it doesn’t end pretty. I made an army list up on the spot in 10 minutes and didn’t even have my codex on me.

Army lists should have been about 1000 points.

The Map

The map 3 tier building to the bottom center, two tiered building center left, hill in the center right, Red circles are objective markers, two tiered ruins in each of the corners.


Deployment
Purple are Dark Eldar, Grey are Grey Knight’s.
I won the roll to deploy first: Razorback full of Strike squad in cover with Techmarine hugging the wall, Terminators and Brother Captain in reserves. In the top of the tower are the Purgitation squad with the Interceptors behind the building.
Opponent deploys: Everything is in cover, can see the back side of the Venom and that’s about it Scourges are sitting on his objective at this point


First turn: Me
Interceptors move from behind building to behind hill. Interceptors are too far away to shoot anything, just noticed that the I included both my moves and my opponents moves in this one, bugger

First turn: Opponent
Raiders move out one behind the other and shoot at Purgitation squad in the tower, Talos moves out shoots at Purgators all models die at this point, The venom moves very far right and can see and shoots at Interceptors and kills two, Scourges move south shoot at Razorback and immobilize Razorback


Second turn: Me
The Interceptors run back into building recently vacated by the Purgitation squad and hid in the bottom because it has no windows or doors. The Techmarine tries to repair the immobilized Razor back but he fails. The Razorback then opens up on the Talos scoring a wound which bring it to two wounds. The 5 Terminators and the Brother Captain teleport in and they don’t scatter, they all shoot at Raider with Wyches and the Archon and only manage to destroy a weapon.


Second turn: Opponent
The Archon and Wyches disembark and its raider moves far left of the field, The Scourges Jump back, The Talos floats back up and the Venom scoots back as well. Everything that can fire do so at the Terminators. The aftermath? they kill all bar two of them leaving the Psycannon and Brother Captain who is on 2 wounds. The Archon and Wyches then assault and kill the remaining Terminator and the Brother captain (he didn't get snow globed by the Archon which was nice)

Third turn: Me
The Razorback fires again on the Talos and brings it down to one wound, the Techmarine attempts repair the immobilized Razorback and fails again.


Third turn: Opponent
The Talos and Venom move south and shoot at Razorback scoring a hit and destroying the Heavy Bolters. Scourges move down again, and again shoot at Razorback but do nothing. The Warriors disembark their Raider and their Raider moves to Archon and Wyches who will embark the next turn.


Fourth turn: Me
The Strike squad disembarks from the Razorback and move towards the objective marker. The Interceptors realizing that it would be pointless to teleport over to my opponent’s objective decide to hop over to my objective. The Techmarine manages to repair the Heavy Bolter! The shooting does quite well here, both the Interceptors and Strike Squads shoot at the weaponless Raider, and of them hits penetrates and rolls a four to become immobilized, but because it had boosted forward in the last turn it ended up wrecked and crashes to the ground (first kill for me - yay)


Fourth turn: Opponent
The Venom moves south shoots at Strike squad, and kills two, the Talos moves south and shoots at Razorback it does nothing, The Scourges hop south next to objective, however they had to run to get there and do no firing but are within contesting range. The Raider with Wyches and Archon boost south and his Warriors move to his objective.


Fifth turn: Me
The lone incinerator marine steps out of cover… arc’s up at the Scourges and Raider (gotta love pie plates) and he manages to kill all the Scourges and even manages to wreck the Raider. This left the Wyches and Archon pinned for his next turn! The Techmarine attempts repair the immobilized vehicle and succeeds! The Razorback again fires on the Talos, but again does nothing. The three remaining Interceptors fire at the venom, but do nothing.


Fifth turn: Opponent
The Venom flies in behind the Razorback and deploys the Trueborn who both fire into the Interceptors, this was followed up by an assault by the Trueborn into the Interceptors after combat only one Interceptor was left. The Talos charges the Razorback but because it didn’t move it gets hit hard, I think it got 6 penetrating hits, needless to say the Razorback explodes, what’s the best part? Its blast is three inches, it hits the Techmarine, the Interceptor and the five Trueborn and just covers the Venom. The result you may ask? All make saves except for the five Trueborn… their squad gets wiped out! After my laughter subsides the Talos consolidates closer to the Objective. Because of pinning the Archon and Wyches cannot move nor do anything.



Sixth turn: Me
The incinerator marine moves sideways and the remaining members of the Strike squad filter out in a line making sure to still be 3 inches from the objective. Mr Incinerator opens up and kills all but the Succubus and Archon! The other two GKs storm bolter fire kill the succubus. It was at this point I had a choice to make, do I take the charge from the Archon and have him pull my guys off the objective or do I charge the Archon? Either way I’m screwed right? Better to charge than be charged I say. The boys head on in, A flurry of dice turns out they do no damage and they lose combat. This leads them to get melted by the Archon and they all die. The lone Interceptor charges the Venom, he doesn’t do anything. The Techmarine charges Talos Hoping to get one wound and slay the beast… he hits nothing and then promptly gets melted by the Talos who consolidates closer to the objective.


Sixth turn: Opponent
The Venom breaks combat and moves away from Interceptor spins 180 degrees and fires on him and finally takes him out, I got tabled.


Final map shot


So, I learnt a lot in this battle, Dark elder have better range than I do, pain tokens hurt, don’t deep strike terminators with no support and incinerators rule!

It sounds like a hard fought battle, and DE are tough no matter what you play.

If there was one piece of advice that I could give you, in any battle under 1000pts, you've GOT to have numbers, atleast from what I've read. I'm hoping to get some experience playing this weekend or next week, but it's generally a good rule to balance the value of strength and the value of numbers.

Like your diagram btw. Really nice way to show off the battle report!

MS paint rules! Your battle rep reminds me of the really old school space marine (now called epic) battle reports they used to do. Anything you would definitely bring or not bring next time you fight the dark eldar?

@Mark - Yeah, it was. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the best general in the world and not knowing what the other army can do really didn't help either ( I knew they would tickle, just not that much)

@Ice - Cheers man, Epic battles, the ones where you have 5 marines on an oblong base and tanks the size of a phone's SIM card? if so I used to play that back in 1989 before I started 40k. What would I have done differently?

1) Rolled better
2) Not put the Purgitation squad in the bell tower (I put them there because I didn't know DE had better range than me)
3) Bulked out the squads more, small groups of 5 leads to more pain tokens when they get wiped out
4) Not DS the Terminators without backup or a ward staff - they weathered a massive amount of fire power but still didnt do anything worthy
5) Rolled better
6) Brought something that could attack first, however I'm not sure if marines have anything that could do that anyway
7) Not taken Interceptors, the jump is entirely situational and they didn't really preform that well.
8) Rolled better

Knightley wrote:@Mark - Yeah, it was. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not the best general in the world and not knowing what the other army can do really didn't help either ( I knew they would tickle, just not that much)

@Ice - Cheers man, Epic battles, the ones where you have 5 marines on an oblong base and tanks the size of a phone's SIM card? if so I used to play that back in 1989 before I started 40k. What would I have done differently?

1) Rolled better
2) Not put the Purgitation squad in the bell tower (I put them there because I didn't know DE had better range than me)
3) Bulked out the squads more, small groups of 5 leads to more pain tokens when they get wiped out
4) Not DS the Terminators without backup or a ward staff - they weathered a massive amount of fire power but still didnt do anything worthy
5) Rolled better
6) Brought something that could attack first, however I'm not sure if marines have anything that could do that anyway
7) Not taken Interceptors, the jump is entirely situational and they didn't really preform that well.
8) Rolled better

The Interceptors work most effectively either entering late in game, or using a GM to give them scout, then using their 32'' shunt to get within 18'' of enemy units, then wailing on them with psycannons, then into assault. Cheap, but it is legal and works!

But yeah, in under 1000pt games, I'd never run them, unless you have everything streamlined.

Nice bat rep! love the use of Paint!
it does kinda sound like you didnt make a save all game.....except at the end to wipe the Trueborn, that was hilarious!

Sounds good, great batrep. I'm playing 1500 Tuesday, I might try to do likewise! You mention Warding Staves - they seem to me a waste of time and effort. DE are vicious; my (initial) experience of GKs is they're now pretty much an assault army except v daemons, ironically. Because in the magic space future of giant death rays, the guy with the biggest pointy stick wins.

@Markillius - Yeah I can imagine a full 10 man squad scout moved in then gate jump 30 then open up with psysilencers/psycannons with psy ammunition. in fact that sounds damn right dirty to me.

@Rev. Reiko - Cheers man, it was about half way through the game that I realized I should be making notes of how this went so I could learn from it. At the beginning I didn't make many saves, hit's or wounds. but the terminators took about 30 - 40 shots so they did well enough to weather all of them.

@Graven - Thanks mate, let me know when you've posted up the BR and I'd be dead keen to see how you went. A warding staff would have helped when I was facing the lance weapons, they are AP2 I think and negate the Terminator base armor save so you have to take the invulnerable one which is 5+ iirc, where as with a warding staff that's still 2+ which means only on a 1 does the lance weapon kill the terminator, much easier to save men when you die on a 1 instead of living on a 5 or 6 (even just taking 1 would help there)

At least that's what I think was what they meant.

Update: Just got back from a LAN and haven't done any painting today, hopefully tomorrow/today (1:34am) will provide more results - oh for those who are interested stay tuned for a new fluff piece I should get that posted soon enough

Wowo is evil, but man I love it.... Don't make me talk about it, I might go back there... Love the marines though, cool work.

Yeah, I didn't realise how bad it was till I uninstalled it. I was coming home from work and itching to jump back on and play. No I come home and I'm itching to paint/model....

Update: GK marine number 2 done, I took these pic's before adding some inscription to his robes, but you get the general idea.

Brother Graku Front


Brother Graku Rear


Brother Graku top


And guess what I'm working on next?

Clearly not a Dreadknight. I'll go with a stealth suit.

That robe guy is beautiful Knightley.
Forcing Termies to make that many saves is the best way to kill them off (and i totally didnt realise there was that much fired their way ), but still seems like you had some poor luck.
One quick query, i thought the warding staves were only of use in CC?

Oh, nice turnout with the robe mate. The detailing on the trim is superb and really ties it in. Getting any ideas for a whole robed squad now?

Also, as to what you're working on now...

Hmm.

I'm going to guess that it's clearly an Ork.

Clearly.

Sweet! I love the quantity of ideas I can thieve from here. I was puzzling how to do my robed GKs, good solution on the colour. Like it.

@WM - Oooh so close, definitley a suit though.

@Rev. Reiko - Cheers for the comments, yeah his entire force opened up at them, 2 survived all shooting then died in CC, a warding staff was advised after the fact because its 2+ invun to all attacks (I took his word on that because I didn't know the rules)

@DSS - Thanks mate, I'm glad you like it, I took a chance on how it would look and I was pleasantly surprised, only took 4 coats as well. There's still plenty I need to repaint who have robes so yeah, definitley could have a robed only squad Your guess is close, its got dakka, but its not green.

@Graven - Well, I'll be taking ideas from your blog (like the Techmarine Dread for example) so it's all good

Update: I got some more time to work on the next WIP. Managed to get a coat of red on one of the weapon housing's complete with first stage edge highlights, and a first coat on the other. Managed to knock out all the gold on this part as well. and some first coats on some of the armor plates.



Seeing as there was a lot of interest around the Paladin head - here's a WIP of the pilots head.


Thanks for tuning in.