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2021/02/25 09:10:17
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Wow, that is some very cool printing going on.
The torso looks huge, it's going to be a chunk
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2021/02/25 09:44:43
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?
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Warboss_Waaazag wrote:I really like what you're doing with these Necrons, Theo. They look great.
Thanks Warboss , I really need to take time to start the hoarde part of them since I have 60 warriors to do . I hope the weather holds a couple days so I can assemble and prime them.
GrimDork wrote:I'll probably talk myself into it eventually, but learning a new tool is so outside my available time right now haha. Are you doing ABS or PLA? Your prints also seem pretty darn smooth for a filament printer, but I agree that a resin sounds nice.
PLA all the way, ABS may be cheaper, but the quality and the smell combined make it a non starter for me. As for learning, it’s a small curve as I am not a tech guy at all. A decent computer, my desktop is 10 years old and still runs the newest CURA software easy.
Slinky wrote:Wow, that is some very cool printing going on.
The torso looks huge, it's going to be a chunk
Yes.Yes it is , I’ll have to try and pose it correctly, but the image I loved had it rearing up with its front claws over the top of the Castelean Knight Titan. I think it’s base may be large enough to play Kill Team on .
Added the chest plate and head, I’ll reprint the chest as it had some issues.
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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 |
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2021/02/25 15:38:41
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Holy crud, that's a big bugger.
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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven. |
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2021/02/25 21:25:46
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?
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Yeah, I had to look hard for this image
Automatically Appended Next Post:
I just keep hearing the Insecticon voice from the Transformers talking about all the good ElectronsElectronsElectrons….numnumnum.
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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 |
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2021/02/25 21:28:54
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Ooof, daz big.
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2021/02/27 04:10:12
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?
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He might be Giant, but he has lots of little friends.
That’s only half of them .
Also glad I grabbed the second Indomitus box this week, looks like the sprues with the necron characters and the ones for the Imperial Characters are $140....each .
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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 |
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2021/02/27 05:17:04
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Holy crap! I was thinking the marine one would be $120, necrons less. That's....madness. oof. Wow. I guess at current prices for everything, You're basically getting the eradicators, blade guard, and one character at regular price with two extra characters technically for free.... But ooooof.
Nice scarabs, I think after nabbing some spares on eBay, I'll be able to do the max 27.
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2021/02/27 09:42:19
Subject: Re:Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?
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I saw someone had cut down the swarms in half as there are two pegs on each clump. Add stuff to the base like dead enemy or terrain bits and you can double the number you get. I think it looks too sparse myself, but then again I have enough old marine bits laying about.
The price was based off what it showed up on AUS preorders for, we will see in a few hours here for sure. Also the kill team terrain packs have less in them than before for more money. I think GW is about to get rid of another CEO. Price their stuff so far out that people like myself walk away for 4-5 years again and someone will pay the price. They have no idea how much plastic I have hoarded besides my printer running constantly.
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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 |
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2021/02/27 15:26:55
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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3d printer go brrrrrrrrt!
What I have ended up with is 24 legitimate basis of scarabs, I have cut off one scarab from about a third of the bases and pressed molded them in oyumaru. Then I added 4-5 greenstuff scarabs for each borrowed one to make the bases look more full than official. The last 3 bases to cap out will end up with 5-6 loose legit scarabs and greenstuff filler to match the others. I was seriously contemplating just making half of my bases entirely out of green stuff but then I saw nine bases on eBay for like 30 bucks and figured why not... And then the second indomitus got me really close lol.
The kill team scenery definitely sounds too expensive to me, but I like building scenery out of free junk. I remember when GW first started making Warhammer scenery buildings, not the old third edition ruins and trees, I mean the modular buildings. Were something like $22 a set and they made a huge chonky ruin or a few good small ones. Definitely diverged from that these days.
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2021/02/27 16:25:17
Subject: Re:Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?
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I have tons of the Necromunda bulkheads, I had over 200 of then, but then gave some away a while back. I think I have 5 sets of Necromunda cardboard and a couple sets of the outlander cardboard too. When my print of the Seraptek is done, I might make some prints of the sold can terrain. Right now though I need to do some digging and find all my 3rd edition 40K building rubble wow hack up for my Necron bases.
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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 |
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2021/02/27 16:51:29
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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The other problem for me with GW scenery is that it's so detailed usually. Between that and the expense, I feel obligated to paint it like its a regular miniature and that takes too long
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2021/02/27 20:13:44
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?
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GrimDork wrote:The other problem for me with GW scenery is that it's so detailed usually. Between that and the expense, I feel obligated to paint it like its a regular miniature and that takes too long
Perhaps I’ll use that excuse why all my bulkheads still are not painted .
I put the rulebook from my second Indomitus up for $45 at the FLGS and it sold within an hour . I should have gone higher as I knew none of the local shops have been able to get more in. I have a bunch of store credit there now and I’m thinking of taking some other books up to try and sell. I might pick up the Bladeguard box they have sitting there and use the extra parts in it to customize the second unit from Indomitus, but like you I am still torn as to which way to paint them up.
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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 |
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2021/02/27 20:45:40
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Yeah, I was thinking of trying to monopolize on the book somehow. Maybe the shop owner wants a store copy and would trade it for store credit? I mean, technically, it's a limited edition...but the contents are identical hmm.
Customizing them does sound nice. I should have it easy with Deathwatch, I'll probably just lop the arm off at the shoulder and replace it with a chapter specific one from the old upgrade kits...and then put the sword back in that hand. Also how I intend to convert the lieutenants into bladeguard, trade out that pistol for a dark angels power sword or similar.
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2021/02/28 06:55:34
Subject: Re:Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Really cool to see the Necrons progressing in paint and print! And a second box of Indomitus never hurt nobody
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2021/02/28 20:37:30
Subject: Re:Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?
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A second Indomitus never hurts anybody, but may affect their spending account for a while .
I painted the other bases of Scarabs for a total of 18 done . Played around with paints some more and I think I found a black that I really like.
Base corvus black, drybrush dawnstone, drybrush (praxeti White) though I may grab a lighter grey drybrush and give it a shot instead. Paint all with Black Templar contrast. I did a few small highlights of dawnstone drybrush again afterwards, but basically that was it.
Why? Well Scythes of the Emperor are lovely, but ultimately tiresome to paint. The black was not drawing me either, so I wanted to try out a couple things. Also talking with Grimdork reminded me how much I enjoyed the Templar’s back in the day and got me thinking of doing them again. The black could also be used for Ravenwing which is another strong possibility. I would go Blood Angels, but I really HATE what has been done to them with the Sanguinor and even the all gold Honor Guard. My shop has a bunch of Death company Intercessor boxes, which I could use if I went that route....but I’ll have to play with red again before I make that commitment.
Oh well, found a use for sigmarines in the mean time
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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 |
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2021/02/28 21:13:07
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Go homebrew buddy. How about the Voice of the Emperor?
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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven. |
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2021/02/28 22:19:33
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber
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Picking a marine chapter is seriously difficult. I know some people have no problem with it but for me, it's an issue.
Black looks solid doesn't sound like it's super hard to do, I'm hoping the black Templar contrast will do a lot of work for me as well.
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2021/03/01 05:44:04
Subject: Re:Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
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One thing that I would caution you about if you want to paint your Marines with contrast paint: most contrast paints will leave a somewhat uneven color unless you put on multiple coats, which to me defeats the whole purpose of using contrast paints. YMMV, of course.
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2021/03/02 15:12:16
Subject: Re:Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?
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Yeah, I've been more using the Contrast as a wash than as full coverage, more of a tool than a solution in my book. Plus it is helping me with brush control.
So messing around with colors. I decided not to do Black Templars. For the same reason as I stopped doing them years ago, way too much Black. That said I got this guy a little further than whats in the picture before I decided that.
But I had tried a couple others using a similar approach.
He is done exactly like the Templar, just with a contrast wash of Militarum green instead of the Black templar. Now If I decided to do Dark Angels then I could break up the Black of the Ravenwing with the Green of regular troops and then the bone of the Deathwing. Still not sold on that Idea, but it's in the running.
The bone of the Deathwing would start off similar to this. Morghast Bone with drybrushing of terminatus stone and one other which name escapes me right now.
The guy has now joined the circus and has 5 or six different colors on him as I wanted to try some other contrast paints out. I really was liking the Blood Angels Red on top of this, Pics of that will come late tonight though. Seriously it pushed me towards going back to the sons of Sanguinus. It gives the depths of reds that I was always trying for but couldn't lock in. I may have to find a way to do a Contrast gold for the Sanguinary Guard
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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 |
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2021/03/02 15:35:02
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Dark angels are probably in as good a place as they've ever been, but blood angels are doing fine too. Both have pretty neat color schemes.
I really like blood angels red, it was the first contrast I picked up and I like how it looks.
I've seen people make gold out of bright silver covered in aggaros dunes. I'm gonna try that on my necrons. I'm hoping to silver bomb them and then follow up with a couple of contrasts and a wash but we'll see!
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2021/03/02 15:48:17
Subject: Re:Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Posts with Authority
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Fast, good, Necromunda Bulkheads:
Prime brown, then use weathering powders (rust). You'll do a couple of passes of applying the reddish-orange powder (the brighter the rust, the more recent it is) and mattle spray coat from a rattlecan.
You can use this to blast out GW terrain as well, but use some of the darker powders along the base/bottom quarter of the buildings, after you drybrush and wash them. So, it'd be: Prime base color for the building, wash for the recesses, drybrush, apply weathering powders, seal.
Hope this utterly un-asked for advice helps!
--Brian
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Falling down is the same as being hit by a planet — "I paint to the 20 foot rule, it saves a lot of time." -- Me
ddogwood wrote:People who feel the need to cheat at Warhammer deserve pity, not anger. I mean, how pathetic does your life have to be to make you feel like you need to cheat at your toy army soldiers game? |
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2021/03/02 21:24:31
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Calculating Commissar
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I'm not so keen on the greens and blues in the contrast range. I find they give really weird coverage even with a really good mix before hand.
I tried the agaros dunes over gunmetal and it comes out really dirty; I've not tried it over really bright silver though so that might make a difference
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2021/03/03 03:15:15
Subject: Re:Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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So got home and had a second look at Sir Mixalot the color pallet warrior.
I’m still really liking the Blood Angels Red on his shoulder pad, it’s dry now, his head is freshly coated so is still slightly glossy. I’m going to put a layer of basilica grey on top of the red to see what that looks like and also try some black Templar’s on top of the red. That way if I decide to paint Blood Angels I can see which one will work for the black trim parts and chest eagles.
Also painting some bases with the morghast bone to see if I can find a cheap matching craft paint to use as the base color.
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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 |
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2021/03/03 18:01:45
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Calculating Commissar
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For the morghast bone, you could always do what I've been considering. Paint a square of paper with the colour you want a lot of and take it to your home decorating place that mixes paint to match any sample and buy a pot.
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2021/03/03 19:59:46
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?
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endtransmission wrote:For the morghast bone, you could always do what I've been considering. Paint a square of paper with the colour you want a lot of and take it to your home decorating place that mixes paint to match any sample and buy a pot.
I have done that before using Home Depot, and I will probably do it again for this. I have a test model waiting for me at home tonight that I quickly did this morning. I forgot to mention its morghast bone, Skeleton Horde contrast, and then three layers of drybrushing, then Blood Angels Red contrast. I will try adding Kindleflame drybrush when I get home to see if that's even necessary. It was looking good when I left though.
Edit: you know when you’ve done good work, but think “Maybe just one more coat of contrast” . I think I may have gone just a little two far.
Still looks good to me though. Some more details to work on, finish the weapons.
The big questions I have with the scheme are
1. Backpacks. I have seen black backpacks as standard and I have seen red as standard. I think I’ll stay red so that I can do the symbols and insignia in black.
2. Helmets. I was never a fan of doing the yellow, blue and red helmets for the different squads . I might do the gold for honor guard, but that I think will be it.
3. Black shoulder trims on regular troops as a throw back to the Heresy Era. I’m for it. I think with Rowboat back and rethinking the Codex, I think there is room to return to some older traditions.
What do you guys think?
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LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 |
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2021/03/04 13:46:06
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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My opinion is
1) Red backpacks
2) Coloured helmets --> Blood Angels canon heraldry doesn't use the squad role shoulderpads, plus having the occasional yellow and blue will help break up the red.
3) Black shoulder trims --> Blood Angels canon heraldry shows company heraldry through coloured blood drops on their shoulders anyways, where normally squad
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2021/03/04 20:19:44
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Hard to tell on the phone red seems a little rich/deep for your typical blood angel but that doesn't mean it looks bad.
I like when other people do the colored helmets on their squads although I have never done it myself.
space Marines squad markings confuse me so I can't offer you much there!
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2021/03/04 20:41:59
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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I lean a little towards black backpacks to break up the colors. But red works too, especially with black trim elsewhere. And your red looks very nice. Most GW reds look flat to me, the BA contrast red helps that a lot.
Helmets- ditch the multi-colored insanity. It looks awful, and no throw-away lore is worth making the models look awful.
They came up with that 'official' scheme during 2nd edition (when they still weren't even sure about the concept of official color schemes), and the 'Eavy metal painters were _obsessed_ with bright primary colors, regardless of what they looked like. Its a bad legacy worth rejecting.
Black trim looks good, breaks up the relatively big surface the pauldrons bring to model.
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2021/03/04 21:00:57
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Not to throw a cat among the pigeons, but I saw excellent samurai marine helms on Thingiverse. Rising Sons...?
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Theophony"... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot."
Solar_Lion: "Man this sums up your blog nicely."
Anpu-adom: "being Geek is about Love. Some love broadly. Some love deeply. And then there are people like Graven. |
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2021/03/04 21:21:28
Subject: Theo's Thread pg 80, Bushido: Risen Sun
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I think kromlech or puppet's war has something like that too!
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