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**Brother Captain Andrecus**

Yah, horde armies are "fun" to paint eh? I guess the Carnifexes interspersed here and there make it worth it though?

And no, I wouldn't give them back... Lol.

**The Bringer**

Drew, just keep playing your termi spam. My suites are enjoying having an excuse for being so expensive.

FYI, the ones I used on you last were roughly 90 points a piece.

**Brother Captain Andrecus**

So I figgered... But I totally mulched those Kroot. Totally. Like, not even kidding. Complete and total mulchage. I uber-pwned you. I crushed you! (Just gotta keep telling yourself the same lie over and over. Eventually, it becomes the truth...)

**The Bringer**

Yah, I was actually extremely suprised at that. I was actually hoping that you would charge, becuase I thought that my Kroot could take you out. I completely forgot how good your Terminator Chaplain was.

**littlewood93**

The terrain you guy's are making are looking great especialy the piece with the insulation foam and the foam wall pieces and the poses for the nids are great i really like the shakespear style one.

**G. Whitenbeard**

Great looking stuff! I have always enjoyed making terrain out of common objects. Cuts down the cost to practically nothing, and it's truly amazing how much random bits of card-board or foam are lying around the average house, just begging to be glued together and painted.

**TheCapm**

Here's a boy I painted. I spent allot more time on him than my other boyz. I made sure to make the paint job precise. I think some of my washes need to be thicker. The ones I used on the clothing didn't show much.

**The Bringer**

I just finished my barricade thing. I used sand for rust, and through a variety of washes and drybrushing made it look somewhat okayish.

**Brother Captain Andrecus**

Cap, is your flash off? You should take pics of minis with the flash off, it makes it easier to see detail.

**Ratbarf**

Wait, do you mean foam?

No Floam.

Its like a bunch of beads in sliperry plastic crap... It comes pretextured so all you have to do is paint for rubble sand and the like.

**The Bringer**

Does it stick well?

If it does or doesn't, I'd spray it with something to keep it together.

Whether you use it or not really depends what you want it for. If you want it for some strange alien terrain, you could just stick it together and not bother yourself with painting or anything else.

**Brother Captain Andrecus**

Oh man, that stuff is nasty...

What would you even use it for?

**TheCapm**

Yah, it was. It was really weird. It made the pictures bright.

Brother Captain Andrecus wrote:Cap, is your flash off? You should take pics of minis with the flash off, it makes it easier to see detail.

**Brother Captain Andrecus**

Yah, just use the macro function and turn the flash off. Then, when you're focusing on the model, hold down the button that you use to snap the photo, just put a little pressure on it. It should focus on the mini, and when you've got the focus that you want, push down hard on the button.

**TheCapm**

No-no, the flash was off. And I know about the focusing thing. The camera doesn't know what to focus on always. I also had it on the detail setting.

**jamunition**

Oooo.

Your painted shelter thing is really good!

**The Bringer**

Thanks. It was a quicky for me. Its hard to see, but I poked some bullet holes in the top and added some blood smears. I was considering getting some of my Kroot bits and adding some more depth to it, but in the end I didn't. The rust turned out a little purply, but in the end it looked pretty good.

My commander is done. He is probably the best I've done yet. He took two hours! I also did use highlighting, and it look really good. I'm gonna get some picks up ASAP.

**TheCapm**

Here's some of the stuff I said I would put up.I tried to take better pictures of the boy, we'll see how he compares. That vehicle you see near the end, that was made completely from junk. We hand made the rivets and allot of the stuff.

**Deff Dread red Edition**

Cool,that vechile is it just scenery or a trukk or something?

**The Bringer**

Yes, that is a vehicle. Its for a different game system called G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. Look it up. You get to make your own vehicles, and this one was made out of junk.

Just FYI, my brother put it up since its just cool, and it was next to some of our other terrain.

**Corndoggy**

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Cool,that vechile is it just scenery or a trukk or something?

Its actually for another system (as the bringer pointed out), its a local VSF game ruleset that we picked up at historicon a few years back, quite simple and fun to play. (not sure what its doing in the 40k thread though...

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The picture of the ruins posted by TheCapm show a prime reason i now shy away from florists' foam as a terrain material... All those bright green bits are places where my carefully weathered ruins were bumped against a large figure or shelf, and snapped completely off despite hardcoating and multiple paint layers

ah well, live and learn

Spinegaunts should be incoming later today/ tomorrow afternoon. just working on the fiddly bits now.

**The Bringer**

Ok, got my pics, here they are:

A side view:

Another side view:

Back view:

Front view:

And some more pics:

The camera nurfs it a little, I think it looks a little better in person.

**TheCapm**

Corndoggy wrote:
Deff Dread red Edition wrote:Cool,that vechile is it just scenery or a trukk or something?

Its actually for another system (as the bringer pointed out), its a local VSF game ruleset that we picked up at historicon a few years back, quite simple and fun to play. (not sure what its doing in the 40k thread though... )

The picture of the ruins posted by TheCapm show a prime reason i now shy away from florists' foam as a terrain material... All those bright green bits are places where my carefully weathered ruins were bumped against a large figure or shelf, and snapped completely off despite hardcoating and multiple paint layers

ah well, live and learn

Spinegaunts should be incoming later today/ tomorrow afternoon. just working on the fiddly bits now.

I was wondering how you got that excelent shading, you got it to look weathered and worn both in and out of game

I whant to build some more terrain today. I'm thinking about making like an ork lookout tower or something that looks like it's barely staying together.

**Golden Eyed Scout**

WHAT IS THAT SHELTER!! But your stuff. Most impressive.

**The Bringer**

Do you mean the thing I did? Or something else?

**deadly chicken**

The Bringer wrote:Then here's some stuff I made out of foam. I just primered it with a special non-eating-foam primer.

YOU SPEAK OF THIS PRIMER, DO YOU HAVE A BRAND NAME OR SOMEWHERE WHERE MIGHT BE AABLE TO OBTAIN IT?????????????

**The Bringer**

Yes, its called H2O by Krylon

**Corndoggy**

Its made by Krylon
http://www.krylon.com/products/h2o_latex/ luvly stuff, works like a charm.

EDIT: dang, beaten to it, well here's a link in my favor

**The Bringer**

Go to http://www.globalindustrial.com and in the search box put H2O, you can get a variety of colors.

**The Bringer**

Darn it! You posted right as I did making my post useless.

At the site I gave; however, you can at least order it.

Andrecus, what did you get it for? At the site I found it was 4.50 + Shipping (Whatever that is).