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Mr12toe wrote:Anyway, I have to say 2500, that army looks really good.

Thanks!

Viktor von Domm wrote:at 2500kgm3

as much as i lkie your camo marines....i have to add one thing:

your my cardboard hero!!!!!!

what on earth made you built this big outstanding beauty??? how did you cut all that from just normal cardboard? man that had to take ages...
this cathedreal is absolutly gorgeous. even non painted it blows my mind. if you have any templates for that please pm me!!!

thanks in advance.

vik

I have some friends that wanted to build some scenery items. The front part of the temple, the main gate section, was built over a whole summer by traditional methods of cutting and assembling with a standard blade. The other part of the building was built over 2 days once we got access to a laser cutter. It is funny to see how much work it saved us.

KingCracker wrote:I second this, holy COW that is some awesome cardboard work. Did you use a template or something?

Also the fluffy hoods on your scouts is just awesome. And those sniper rifles are sweet, shotguns/boltes right?. Really nice work on your army

In fact, I designed it myself, and assembled some templates, reference images and building instructions in a PDF in order to be able to build it. I don't know how to share it, though. The design has several problems and incoherences from an structural point of view, so I started building a more detailed, bigger, architecturaly correct version. It is still on development, unfortunately, and it is likely to remain like that for a looong time, since building the plans for these things is quite consuming.

Regarding the sniper rifles, yes, they are more like assault rifles. I considered a more compact version would be much better for infiltrating scouts... Well, and I had no way to get true sniper rifles, so I made what I could with what was at my reach. I was quite satisfied with the result.
I found these hoods to be a great idea for snow themed, helmetless units. Although given that dark angels wear hoods over their armour, maybe fluffy hoods over helmets might work if done right.

26th cadian wrote:

2500kgm3 wrote:
SNOW LEOPARDS

Are you by any chance a mac user ?

To be honest, no, I am not. I have never used anything beyond a PC. But I got the name when I started getting into the hobby, as in the initial version of the lore, these were supposed to be troops devoted to the Astronomican, which is located in an area of Terra that was once populated by snow leopards. As I have been developing a deeper knowledge of the lore, this has been changed, but they have kept the name I originally gave them.

Love the camo paint job on those marines. Just awesome.


I must agree with the other folks that the cardboard work is incredible.
The fine detail work on that thing must have been a major pain to do.
Two big orky thumbs up my friend.

2500kgm3 wrote:

26th cadian wrote:

2500kgm3 wrote:
SNOW LEOPARDS

Are you by any chance a mac user ?

To be honest, no, I am not. I have never used anything beyond a PC. But I got the name when I started getting into the hobby, as in the initial version of the lore, these were supposed to be troops devoted to the Astronomican, which is located in an area of Terra that was once populated by snow leopards. As I have been developing a deeper knowledge of the lore, this has been changed, but they have kept the name I originally gave them.

Ahhh well my mistake but you can see where i was coming from.

That's an incredible army you've got there. I've never seen a 'snow' themed army that screamed 'I'm COLD!' like that one. Awesome that you didn't just go with white and a few blue/grey highlights.
And yes, I'm jealous of that Cathedral, too!