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Whips... now thats creative!

Thanks Wolfshadow.

Well, I played my first game last night. At something my LGS calls the "Young Generals Friday." To say the least, I felt very out of place. All the kids there (minus the 'teacher' that I played) was about 9ish...And they were all almost my height....
Since there were 5 of us kids, I played the teacher in a 1 on 1, and we chose 750 points. It was fun... The only thing is, I don't have a playable army, since I'm making a 1st company, of veterans, I don't technically have any Troop choices...so I had to pull out a heavy weapons guy from each squad, and replace them with something that looked like it was holding a bolter (I had to use the "Plasma is Totally Worth it Marine" and a librarian. :p)
So I ran: 750 points
Space Marine Captain-
Thunderhammer and Storm Shield

Dreadnought-
TL Lascannon and Close Combat Weapon

10 Man Tactical Squad
Heavy Bolter, Powerfist

10 Man Tactical Squad
Multi-melta, meltagun

5 Man Tactical Squad.

And he had 4 squads of Imperial Guardsmen, 2 lascannons, 6 flamethrowers, 3 meltaguns, and 3 plasmaguns.
We played killpoints.
He killed my 5 man squad, and the Multimelta squad. And I killed all of his guardsmen. The Dreadnought didn't do much, and my Captain almost failed all of his attacks. He finished with 1 wound left, but we never did anything, though I'm sure its basically just another save.
He walked me through the dice rolls, and moves and stuff. And then after the game, since he never shot at my Dreadnought, he explained to me armor saves.

So I need to finish those scouts...so I can have enough troop choices, or just make 6 or more extra Tactical marines, to shuffle into my squads for normal games.
I don't know what to do. Maybe if I don't end up using all my squads in a game, I can just shuffle in those marines.

Here is the Vanguard squad. They're awaiting greenstuff shoulderpads like the Heavy Bolter squad has. And bitz. Tons of little bitz that I'm waiting for from eBay.


Like these


And the Vindicators were sprayed. And then I slaved over the black paint to go over them again...that was no fun...


Monday starts Finals, and then Wednesday is the end of the semester, so hopefully I'll be able to model for a nice month before next semester starts. (Yep, thats right. I get a whole month and a half off without classes. )
Oh, and the Thunderbolt sold. But I say that I don't ship internationally, and the person who bought it is in Australia. So their shipping is $41...vs my listed $11. I'm still awaiting payment...

Thats a crapton of Vindicators.

And I too feel your pain on wating on the mail. Except I'm waiting on shipments from the swap shop and from GW itself.

I'd have some photos to update my log with, except for the fact that my wife has wandered off with the camera.

Ah well.

Nice work. Those GS whips are a nice, different CCW touch that will make your guys stand out on the tapetop.

Find the camera yet?

Woohoo!!!
I had my last final today! Yess. So I have until January 22 to do nothing! Sweet!!! So expect updates. Ppprobably by Friday.

Here is my first Vanguard Squad, the sergeant's whips need to be redone. And of course, they need proper detailing.

WELL! My first day of freedom. And my FW bitz arrived...though they're the wrong pieces....I'll have to make due..


It looks alright. So I'm not worried at all. I just have to make sure to glue on the engine cover.

Lets see. I also got some ork bullet casing things. In little piles and streams for my heavy bolter guys. The ones on the bases will be placed correctly, I had to squeeze them in there for the picture.


And I got a butt-ton of tiny Terminator Crux's... supposedly 200 of them. Which is much more than I need, by a long shot. But just in case.


And you know, I took my math final early this morning. And I'm feeling REALLY mathy still...



Why so many box magazines you say? Well, there are 22, and I have to outfit around 50 Sternguard with bolters, so I think that this gives a bit of variation I'd say.

And I've also finished assembly of my Lascannon squad. Put some greenstuff shoulderpad icons, some sand, and I can be ready to paint them!
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Might want to use the Dakka Gallery. All your images are showing Bandwidth Exceeded. :-)

And I found my Camera... link is in my sig.

wolfshadow wrote:Might want to use the Dakka Gallery. All your images are showing Bandwidth Exceeded. :-)

And I found my Camera... link is in my sig.

I'd like to, but I also post on Ammobunker, BolterandChainsword, and Warseer, etc. I don't want them to think I'm cheating on them with another forum now do I?
I broke out Shortsonfire81's Photobucket account, so now we're in the clear.

Thats a crapton of Stormbolters sacrificed.

I hope you got those bitz cheap, or had them lying around. And also... Wow, thats a lot of Crux Teminatus'....

And heck, I dont know if it works, but I wouldn't care, as long as the hosting works. :-)

Photobucket isnt too bad, but Imageshack gets filterpwned by a lot of work filters.

Thats the other thing that I really like about the Dakka gallery. It almost completely circumvents most work filters. A lot of Dakkaites 'visit' while working and if the filter is at all a good one, Photobucket and Imageshack will be blocked.

Wolfshadow. Thanks. I kkknnooowww its a ton of storm bolters....They were pretty cheap, $6 for all of them if I remember correctly. And I'm not stressing, since every SM tank you buy comes with one anyways (unless you get it used) A TON of terminatus'.
I'll contemplate the Dakka gallery. I know a lot of people use the Warseer one too...

I haven't done much recently, but I stayed up all night watching Avatar, and I managed to base all my unbased models.


And I've started adding veteran marks on a few of them

they look really good,but i think a wash would really do you some good.
but i think they look great.

Thanks Jetjetex: I'll go back over them once I finish them all to give them final touch ups, like washes and details.

Threw a rhino together last night...exciting


And the old army shot. October 4th, 2010


And the one from today. December 22, 2010. There would be 2 Thunderbolts, (duh) but one of them is sitting in a box, because I'm waiting to GET PAID FROM EBAY!!!! Grrrrrrr. Its been 3 weeks since it sold, and I haven't been paid. Filed a complaint with eBay a few days ago, see what happens.

That's some impressive modelling work going on here. Keep it up.

Thanks Iior.

All I was able to do tonight. I did the eagle wings all over the mini. In retrospect, I should have done the eagle's body on the shield as well...oops. I'll just have to do it some other time.

Another Maxmini fan.

And did I read that correctly?

50 SternGuard? WTF?

Most legal in a regular army would be 30......

It is quite a nice army all together, and the rhino is very neat.

Wolfshadow, definitely a Maxmini fan. If I could buy more of their product, I would. Yes, you read that correctly. My 1st company will have 20 Vanguard, 60 Sternguard, and 30 Terminators. Counting to 110, plus heros and command.

Jetjetex, thank you very much...and...its just a rhino... hahaha

Sookay. Here we go. Back to the drawing boards with the Big'un. I'm looking for some ideas to populate the top of my Land Raider with, and I'm not sure of what to do. I've gone with the obvious hatches...but I'm thinking that 4 more on top is a bit too many (not including the 2 on the frontal section).


Thats the old Dark Angels Chronus I made. I've moved on, but I will be placing a Chronus look-a-like somewhere on my model, and I liked him in the back, where he'd be deaf from missile launch. I know for sure I want a Chronus and possibly a stormbolter or something. (I was initially thinking multimelta...but with 4 lascannons, I think I'm set with the heavy weapons)

I could take one of the hatches off, and leave the back with 3.


Haven't started the panel details yet...
Pretty much any advice will be taken. I won't be making any promises though.

Is this strictly a modelling project or do you plan on actually playing with them?

Um....not sure. hahaha. So far, its just modeling. If my LGS ever plays Apoc, I'll be there. But I've only played one game so far anyways, I didn't have a lot of fun though.

Alright, I had planned on staying up all night, since I normally don't go to bed until 2AM, and I was hoping to be able to fall asleep at a reasonable time at my girls tomorrow...but its now 5AM, and I'm sleepy...rats.. I kind of burnt myself out on the modeling in one go...

But I did manage to paint majority of my vindicators. I got the blue done to my liking, and the black is...passable. I haven't done any details yet, but I reglued the name tags on.

I'd really like to do some freehand on the 3 siege shields, but I don't know what I want on there, and if I want them to be a story all together, or have their each individual stuffs.

And this is how I plan on laying out the blue and black on all my Rhino based variants.

We have a similar color scheme and a similar name. :-)

If its strictly a modelling project, then all the power in the world to you with your 50 SternGaurd. :-)

I'm contemplating doing about 20 SternGaurd total, eventually for my army.

I like this idea a lot. If you want variation in your SG magazines then use the round drum from the ork boyz shootas.


Much like this one (thank arakasi for the picture)
Just trim it to fit the slot for magazines in the bolter.
A nice idea with some decent conversions, how old are you btw, cos you talk about teachers and stuff....and this is some really good work.

Imp. Monkey

I like the look of this army a lot, especially the giant Land Raider.

Wolfshadow: Yeah, I saw that. That was pretty cool. I think, I'll probably end up with 55 sternguard, so in normal games, I can take out the heavy weapons, and count them just as troop choices. I think 20 is just enough for any army. They're way too expensive to use en masse.

Imperial monkey: Thanks for that! I originally used a more 'rare' Imperial Guard grenade magazine for my drum mags. I think I shall be using Orks if I can find me some. I'm 18. Though, with my stature, I could probably pull of 16...





Cvife: Thank you. I've been working on that Land Raider since October 2008!!!

GAHHHH@ Mold lines!

Right along the fingers next to the auspex.

These are purely awesome. The land raiders are amazing. The whips are an artwork and the...... Everything is superb. Keep it uppppppp.

Omg awesome army. It makes my army look like a bunch of relic.

comisarmilo wrote:These are purely awesome. The land raiders are amazing. The whips are an artwork and the...... Everything is superb. Keep it uppppppp.

Thank you.

Asherian Command wrote:Omg awesome army. It makes my army look like a bunch of relic.

A bunch relic? Isn't that good? hahaha. I wish my army would look like a relic. Thanks man.

wolfshadow wrote:GAHHHH@ Mold lines!

Right along the fingers next to the auspex.

I always thought thats how the fingers are supposed to be, like...layered armor. Hah, oops.


Thanks guys. I've been working on some freehand..sort of.
I haven't made much progress. Originally, I was going to do an Imperial Eagle like the vindicators from a past GW article.


But its not snazzy enough. So I decided to try a battle scene, notably from my story, "War for Atalcina" which was my marines combined with PDF and Ultramarines against a splinter of Hive Fleet Leviathan.

You can see a little bit of art above the shields. Thats supposed to be a Hive Tyrant standing on an exploded Stormlord. And a Vindicator (which I should have put behind the blocky thing) that is supposed to be a wall, with marines on it... yeah...art isn't my strong point...
I'll try and come up with a more plausible idea...

wow you're models are looking very impressive.
that vindicator idea will look epic when it's done

Thanks Moonshine.

I've decided in a few minutes that I will follow the Eagle.



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o quickly ran into a problem with the icons that I placed on the shields, so I attempted to remove it, which came off quite easily, but left a ton of glue residue...which I didn't know how to handle, so I got out my powerdrill, and a large bored drill bit, and just chunked it off. Then placed green putty over the holes to smooth out. Didn't turn out well...


Fail.

But I started work on the Aquila anyways. I deliberated a long time on where I wanted to put the center at. I decided to offset it from the cannon after finding that the head wouldn't be big enough to span the large gap.
After 20 minutes of failure with a pencil and no marks at all on the shield, I just decided to line out with yellow paint. I plan on making this a rich orange, with yellow highlights in the end.
I think at the moment, it looks pretty good, if not too splotchy. I hope you can make out what I've done so far.



Let me know what you think please.

Well..after burning myself out on Minecraft (or so what I think) I think I may have time to rediscover my Mojo.
After 6ish hours of Minecraft (yep....and thats only today. Its been about the same for the past 4 days...) I spent a half hour on the Aquila, at 3:30 in the morning... I think I'm pleased. The wings turned out alright but not fantastic. The gap between the dozers was the hardest part, and I still have its left side to do...
The first wing on both blades were definitely the hardest...and I'm not pleased with them at all...too late to go back though!
The Defiant's (right) blade's wings will obviously start curving sooner, since the Aquila's body isn't placed exactly center. So I think if I can pull it off, it'll leave me with a nice effect.
Let me know what you think.
Oh, and if you can't make heads or tails of what what line goes to....don't worry about it...I can't either. :p I tried to mark at the edges of each wing so I would know when painting time comes...


Thanks.

So I messed up SEVERAL times on the right side of the shield....took me a while to get it. And it still looks naff (hehe, I love using British slang...or whatever its considered. )


And then I blocked it in. I blocked it in in the lightest color I had that was foundation paint: Dheneb Stone. It will eventually be a completely different color. I messed up many areas. But I didn't bother blocking them all in in black yet. I did a few around the head, but I decided to do the rest once I finish the orange final color.


The right side of the eagle is slowed looking, I know. But its the best I'll be able to do.
What do you think?