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Ultramarine Master with Gauntlets of Macragge




What's left of Cadia

Gudoza and crew are looking super cool! Really well done

TheEyeOfNight- I swear, this thread is 70% smack talk, 20% RP organization, and 10% butt jokes
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Space Marine flyers are shaped for the greatest possible air resistance so that the air may never defeat the SPACE MARINES!
Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
 
   
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Pious Palatine






Excellent work as ever.

EDC
   
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Gargantuan Great Squiggoth





Not where I should be

Beautiful work, lush red.




 
   
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Huge Hierodule






Nottingham (yay!)

Well, Gudoza's crew are good for wrecking tanks, but how about some anti-Astartes firepower?









Go on. Charge all that I5 FNP Plasma. See what happens. Can take them as Havocs, or if HS slots are tight - or, if they need to Sternguard a tough position, Chosen. No need to WYSIWYG Chainswords on them now everyone only gets two weapons.

But wait? How do all these gunners get into position? Got you covered:









So far, they've racked up a pretty good body count - even killing a rival Chaos Lord who expended his Biker minions to get through the hail of firepower, only to find his Power Sword inflicted No Pain on the Champion whilst the unit slowly pulled him apart. That taught him not to follow a slightly unorthodox interpretation of the Book of Lorgar!

I'm going to miss Slaanesh being awesome, and having access to troopers armed with rifle, pistol, and chainsword.

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UK

Great squad and rhino!

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Melbourne .au

These Word bearers are going from strength to strength. Gudoza's squad looks the business, as does the plasma squad. I especially like the use of different marks of Plasma gun, right down to some being adorned with Chaos iconography while others remain plain - very much in keeping with the look and ethos of the Traitor Legions in the 41st Millennium!

   
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Nottingham (yay!)

Looking at 8ed rules again, I think I'll have to play the banner bearer's drum-fed Bolter there as a Bolt Pistol, 3ed True Grit style, and add a Chainsword to his belt. Slaanesh is strictly a melee unit's deity as of this weekend. Still, Plasma squads look incredible with a Chaos Lord cheering them on - I've got parts for making a Dreadclaw to drop them right on some corpse-lovers.

Speaking of dropping in melefic entities, here's some Chaotic critters:









When I roll Incursion, these are my go-to beasties after I've summoned some Bloodcrushers and I've gotta go faster. They run rings around enemies, bouncing off enemy units at supersonic speed. And they can easily turn those gribbly eyes on backfield gunner units - snooping as usual!

   
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Nottingham (yay!)

Played and won my first 48K game this week. I was intending to get a final game of 7th in, with 20 Cultists, 20 CSMs, a Baleful Icon Dark Apostle and a Palanquin Sorcerer, but everyone's on 8th so I went with it. Faced off against Orks and outnumbered them. Hah! Neither my Sorcerer nor his Weirdboy helped either of us. But 20 Khornate marines with melee rerolls... wow. They slaughtered everything (except some grits, who suicided on the Cultists' flamer). Frag grenade took out four Boyz. Nobz rolled a 3 on a 4" charge. Turn three I declared a charge against his entire remaining army and finished them off. Definitely liking hordes and guaranteed charge rerolls.

The victorious commanders:









HD versions:

Spoiler:









Moloch's pistol is an amalgam, I wanted a bayonet and ammo belt. I think I'll keep it, it adds to his relentless appearance. Not sure what role Fuster will have nowadays, think I want a Sorcerer with Jump Pack to buff the front lines, and a Summoner wants to be unmarked for versatility. The Nurgling behind him has had a whiff of Nurgle's Taint and is feeling a bit worse for wear.

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Albany, NY

That superheated axe tho!

Great contrast between the two leaders, on top of stellar paintjobs, etc.

- Salvage

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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Madison, WI

Beautiful work on those figs linds. Glad you had a successful first outing. Definitely a melee game now.

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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Unstoppable Bloodthirster of Khorne





Melbourne .au

That's a great looking pair of characters there, and the screamers look fantastic as well.

   
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Nottingham (yay!)

I seem to be pretty much up to date on my Chaos photos! I have a few more units to photograph, and I'm thinking about expanding into some World Eaters support and have my Death Guard to add, but apart from that my collection's at a pretty playable level now so this blog will probably slow down a bit whilst I get cracking on my Primaris-heavy Novamarines.

Got my second game in, against Ynnari. I misunderstood the restrictions on Summoning, but the Daemons I brought in didn't really do much other than catch some bullets. I had 20 Marines, 10x2 Cultuists, 5 Havocs with Autocannons, and the two new HQ above.

First turn, Havocs shot down a Raider and Marines took out the passengers. Second turn, Cultists flamered some Wyches and Marines shot the survivors. Third turn, Autocannons & melta guns killed a Wraithlord, and thanks to Warptime the CSM horde charged the remaining Guardians & Farseer. Astartes outnumbering Eldar 2:1, with re-rolls to hit... we called it at that.

It seems that a horde of Word Bearers is a pretty formidable force! I was thinking about replacing the Bolter guys with more duellists, but having an even split between the two is working well - I can castle for a turn or two, taking casualties out of the riflemen, and still make some brutal charges. I'm trying to tweak my list to have 250 Reinforcement Points at 1K - this seems to have a lot of potential, allowing for Be'lakor, a Keeper of Secrets, or 2-3 handy units.

   
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Nottingham (yay!)

Moloch, here. Horus was right about everything, and any rumours that Lindsay has started an Ultramarines & Novamarines army blog are vicious smears by desperate corpse-loving heathens who refuse to accept the Primordial Truth revealed by Universal Lorgarian Empyrean Polytheism.

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Your chaos army is a work of art. Congratulations on the win.

   
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Nottingham (yay!)

Well... I said this project is taking a step back in priority. But now my local WH store is preparing to start a summer campaign, ending in a three table Apocalypse lock-in... yeah, I want in, there, and I can't see myself getting 100pow of Novamarines done in a couple of months! So, I think it's back to the forges of Ghalmek, to fill out a few more units and get a few more toys that will hopefully bring down some corpse-lovers. I'm thinking... more Warp Talons (assuming Warptime from deep strike is still go?) and a Hellforged Predator with ALL THE FLAMERS.

Got a good practice game in today, a Dark Angels gunline expected to draw out my 20-man Marine blob so that Deathwing Knights could teleport in and kill my Sorcerer & Havocs. Nice plan, be a shame if... Warptime were to put that frenzied mob right in your face on turn one and need the Terminators to fight it off! Despite some terrible accuracy, Missile Launchers and Smite did some serious Terminator killing, including a Master of the Deathwing whose chasing down of Cultists to beat a kill point out of them left him stood in the open like Benny Hill. Krak! 5W gone. Frag frag frag frag! Try to save all those! I figured 4D6 S4 AP- was a more reliable way to take off a final wound than 4S8 AP-2. On reflection, it might not be, but it worked this time - and I pulled out a two point lead.

35pow games are really tight but still fun. That's the level I've got to get used to for the first round of the campaign, so no Summoning... unless... oh, no, Mister Flibble, we can't possibly do *that*. Who would clear up the mess?

   
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I've lurked for quite a while, but I can't let this go without comment...
 lindsay40k wrote:
...so no Summoning... unless... oh, no, Mister Flibble, we can't possibly do *that*. Who would clear up the mess?
...and without for Red Dwarf.

Great work throughout.

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The army- ~2295 points (built).

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Nottingham (yay!)

Work started on Hellforged Predator. Shoutout to Mister Barfoot, my late maths teacher - trigonometry and algebra are awesome.



If this template works, I might consider investing in a laser cutter. Not got much access to space for it, though.

   
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Nottingham (yay!)

Bit more work done.



Seems to fit ok. I'll conserve this one as the template, I'm happy enough with the symmetry. And I have several ideas on what I'll do to make a Rhino variant, none of them suitable for family hobby centres.

   
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Madison, WI

Wow... that's pretty spectacular!

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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Very pretty.

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* -=]_,=-eague Spruemeister General. * A (sprue) Hut tutorial *
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Oh, I'm looking forward to this...

   
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Nottingham (yay!)

It hungers!



This photo revealed to me some symmetry faults which I've since corrected. That's a good way to review your work, by the way - hold it in front of a mirror, take some digital photos with a good lens and flip them around a little, and if there's off bits that have become normal to your eye they will likely stand out like a sore thumb.

   
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Not where I should be

Fantastic as always, that is going to be stunning.




 
   
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Nottingham (yay!)

Well, that was quite a battle. My Missile, Autocannon, and Plasma Havocs, led by Sekou and letting the Cultists have the glory of being the vanguard, faced off against Guard with two squads, a sniper Command squad, a Plasma Sentinel, a Missile squad, an Officer...

...and a Tank Commander.

Uh-oh.

Better use that fort in the middle of the board to block LOS and creep through the ruins around it.

Okay, it's Open War, units are worth their Power in VPs with a multiplier for a Warlord kill, let's see what the Twist is...

...oh, shooting is limited to 12", with the fog gradually lifting.

Onwards! We Advanced the big guns onto vantage points. The medium ranged stuff legged it forwards. The Tank Commander...

...rolled towards us. He wanted to get in range, and he blew up a lot of Cultists.

And was within 18" of every Plasma and Melta gun.

That didn't work out too well for him! By the time the heat rays had dissipated, he had one wound left. One! That'll never do, let's fire the Cultists' Flamer at him. Ka-boom! He exploded and took a bunch of his troops with him. Autocannon fire saw off the rest, and our own Missile troops shredded their counterparts. The Cultists charged the Sentinel, to deny it a few kills, and it ran off next turn to let the surviving infantry blow the Cultists to hell.

But that left them and their Command squad very close to ten Plasma Havocs, with an Icon of Excess. At this point the corpse-lovers decided they'd had enough and legged it. Horus was right!

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In other news, work continues on the Predator:



Did a bit more tweaking and got these bits glued on. Just need a bit of gap filling and sanding, then it's time for rivets and then the green stuff comes out.

   
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Nottingham (yay!)

Got the riveting done and the trellis 99% neatened up. I'm mostly using Humbrol liquid poly to stick plastic and filling gaps with either thin plastic or Army Painter thick plastic glue. A stroke of thin poly neatens up the surface and a shave with the scalpel flattens it.


   
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Not where I should be

Grats on the enjoyable gaming, and that rhino is amazing.




 
   
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Nottingham (yay!)

Got a lot of work in today.



I drilled holes for copper wire and secured it in place with superglue. Took a saw to the exhausts - they're getting chaosed up.



Gave every wire a thin coating of GS and let it cure for an hour or so. The length of covered sections was considered with a view to the next step. You can see how the clusters coming out of the cupola and the turret mounting have been fixed into a chunk of GS, enabling me to lift them out for tricky sculpting and perhaps painting.



Bent the wires into the shape of Hydra-inspired weapon systems and pinned in place Chaotic muzzles; I have quite a few from fifteen years ago, recogniseable by a pale colour, that are a softer plastic - a couple of them broke during positioning and needed replacing. I'll try to find the missing jaws and repair them, or else repurpose them sometime.

Each muzzle has two mechatendrils - one supplying fuel for the weapon, and another for the pilot flame; the combi-Flamer also has a stubbish Bolter muzzle. They've tangled together and grown into knotted masses; had to slice the cupola in half to accomodate sculpting. The Lasher Tendrils also had to be pulled off as they get in the way - they'll be remounted once sculpting is finished so that it may slake its Infernal Hunger.



And finally, connections have been added wherever mechatendrils come close together; these will help hold the positions I've fine-tuned, and will serve as a foundation for connective tissue that had grown where a Helbrute-style dermal layer has grown over two sections that have tangled close together.

...

In gaming news, I hope I'm not TFG'ing. I've yet to lose a game in 8ed, fielding lists that either use a Warptimed 20 CSM Horde as a sledgehammer, or else take three Havoc Squads to qualify for an extra CP in Patrol-sized games. That said, I'm being actively invited to games, I'm in a metagame where people cheerfully threw Krak Grenades at Fliers in 7ed & we've had at least one Roboutte mirror match, and I think most of my decisive victories have come down to unforced errors by opponents - like driving a Russ within Melta range, or flying a Raider straight at Autocannons when there was opportunity to block LOS.

I'm looking forwards to getting this mechanical beast in play and going back to a dynamic and risky strategy, rather than this highly effective firebase that deals with missions calling for CQC by shooting everything and then marching over the ashes.

   
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Madison, WI

That's fabulous linds. Really brilliant execution too.

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

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Stalwart Space Marine




Uk

Looking really cool! Can't wait to see it complete and painted. Call me a heretic but I'm a bit jealous of those chaotic conversions!

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Charleston, SC

Great stuff! Fuster rules!

   
 
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