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Yowza!! Was that provided by GW at the contest (I've never done it but I hear they lay out boxes and boxes of sprues and bits for you to use) or did you have to shell out the cash?

Do you have more pics you can show us?

I bought all of it at my local GW (8th Street in NY) I like to support my local store! It took about 7 months (about 650 hours total)

Nice to see myself in picture 14 and 16 at top. I'm wearing Packers shirt and my friend, Dakka's own DAaddict, in blue.

We played Orks and kicked ass. Good times...

Almost forgot... My close friend and personal painter Mr. Sam Lenz snagged x3 Golden Daemons, Gold in LoTR single, Silver in 40k Diorama, Silver in 40k Squad, and final cuts in 5 other choices. What an amazing run. Link to his blog...

http://samsonminis.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=50

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:Nice to see myself in picture 14 and 16 at top. I'm wearing Packers shirt and my friend, Dakka's own DAaddict, in blue.

We played Orks and kicked ass. Good times...

Almost forgot... My close friend and personal painter Mr. Sam Lenz snagged x3 Golden Daemons, Gold in LoTR single, Silver in 40k Diorama, Silver in 40k Squad, and final cuts in 5 other choices. What an amazing run. Link to his blog...

I had you pegged as this guy from your username...



Congrats to your friend for winning so many!

I do love the tables at GD UK, I just wish my store was big enough to actually be abe to go along with a table of our own.

But anyway, at least this year it's the nearby Oxford store making the massive endless table of madness they do each year so we get to do a few steel legion platoons.

Amazing tables there as well, but I think I agree that the scratch buitl tables are much more impressive than the 'look how much terrain we can use' tables.

Scott B wrote:I bought all of it at my local GW (8th Street in NY) I like to support my local store! It took about 7 months (about 650 hours total)

Might have to pop into the store one day if you happen to bring it around, haha. Geez, you must have payed all the stores bills for the next 3 years with all the purchases you must have made for this thing. Can't wait to see it painted either...


Hey... Why DONT you have a thread about this thing? Its glory must be displayed to everyone with functioning eyes, and those without them too

If you come to the shop you can see it and last years Ork landship I built. I will post pics soon. I didn't post any before Gamesday so that it would be a complete surprise.

That is insane.

Some pictures I snapped of our tables before the start of GD. These were done by my store, Showcase Comics, and the BigGunz-NE gaming club.

The storyline had Ahriman leading a Chaos army into the webway in a monstrous ship built by Nurgle, Khorne, and Tzeetch some millions of years ago and 'borrowed' for a quick trip into the webway to raid an ancient eldar shrine, guarded by both Eldar and Dark Eldar.

You know what I love? Making those Gale Force Nine Elf Towers
look like they fit in by building up huge terrain surrounding them.

Awesome work.

malfred wrote:You know what I love? Making those Gale Force Nine Elf Towers
look like they fit in by building up huge terrain surrounding them.

Awesome work.

We did a repaint on them, with more silver/green than yellow/blue, and for the big game, they got mounted on top of giant discs of tzeentch as silver towers.)

GF9 also made the movement trays for our armies. They held 10 and 20 infantry, or 5 terminators. We needed dozens and they cranked out a special order and got them up to us. Great guys to work with.

Very nice! That's easily $10,000+ worth of models alone! I hope you have a special rider on your car insurance for transporting all that stuff...

Amazing stuff Mike!



I saw this beast as a WIP it must be more than 10' long, twice the size of the Ork Cruiser from last year.

Could this be the largest 40k 'model' ever?


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Scott B wrote:I bought all of it at my local GW (8th Street in NY) I like to support my local store! It took about 7 months (about 650 hours total)

I saw you working on it in NY, fantastic job! Please post some pictures here!

That color scheme on the reaver is hideous....
They may be painted well, but my eyes are melting from it.

TobyDog wrote:That color scheme on the reaver is hideous....
They may be painted well, but my eyes are melting from it.

And it has a twin.) Ahriman is quite happy about your eyes, didn't need the pesky thinks anyways.

Timestamps on images make baby jesus cry. Just saying.

Breotan wrote:Timestamps on images make baby jesus cry. Just saying.

Doubtful. I'd go with diaper rash.

The yellow is fine. It's just the flash from the camera in the earlier
pic that makes it seem too harsh.

I saw those titans up close, they looked great. The whole display was pretty insane.

Dez wrote:I saw those titans up close, they looked great. The whole display was pretty insane.

Wait until next year, already planning it.)

Where is GD next year? Did they announce?

Scott B wrote:The plane was made with about 25 baneblades, 20 stompas, 4 drop pods, 15 battlewagons, a bunch of trukks, a monolith, and a bunch of random bits. the canopy was made by cutting clear polycarbonate and cutting the rivet strips from the tops of baneblades. Sprue was used inside to make the airframe the way you would build wood model planes. Sprue is great for conversions. the other thing I used for covering the wings was Imperial Guard landing pads!

Isn't that like...$6,000 in kits or so?

chaos0xomega wrote:Where is GD next year? Did they announce?

Chicago again.

Kanluwen wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:Where is GD next year? Did they announce?

Chicago again.

I mentioned it in another post, but I snickered when they announced this. The man on the mic was getting all amped up and trying to get people psyched about the announcement he was going to make. When he finally announced it...nothing. Dead air. Silence. He was a bit flustered, and proceeded to try and get a Waaagh out of the crowd.

targetawg wrote:

Scott B wrote:The plane was made with about 25 baneblades, 20 stompas, 4 drop pods, 15 battlewagons, a bunch of trukks, a monolith, and a bunch of random bits. the canopy was made by cutting clear polycarbonate and cutting the rivet strips from the tops of baneblades. Sprue was used inside to make the airframe the way you would build wood model planes. Sprue is great for conversions. the other thing I used for covering the wings was Imperial Guard landing pads!

Isn't that like...$6,000 in kits or so?

You are right in the ballpark!

Scott B wrote:

targetawg wrote:

Scott B wrote:The plane was made with about 25 baneblades, 20 stompas, 4 drop pods, 15 battlewagons, a bunch of trukks, a monolith, and a bunch of random bits. the canopy was made by cutting clear polycarbonate and cutting the rivet strips from the tops of baneblades. Sprue was used inside to make the airframe the way you would build wood model planes. Sprue is great for conversions. the other thing I used for covering the wings was Imperial Guard landing pads!

Isn't that like...$6,000 in kits or so?

You are right in the ballpark!

Thumbs up to insanity then, it looked darn impressive

Dez wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:

chaos0xomega wrote:Where is GD next year? Did they announce?

Chicago again.

I mentioned it in another post, but I snickered when they announced this. The man on the mic was getting all amped up and trying to get people psyched about the announcement he was going to make. When he finally announced it...nothing. Dead air. Silence. He was a bit flustered, and proceeded to try and get a Waaagh out of the crowd.

Oh, that post. Yeah, I read it, I thought it was in reference to last years Games Day... damn.

Really, honestly, Chicago sucks. I don't mean the location, or the con, I mean the city. I hate Chicago, with a fiery passion... and as long as GD remains there, I won't be going... In fact, I would sooner go to Nottingham for GDUK than go to Chicago...

chaos0xomega wrote:
Really, honestly, Chicago sucks. I don't mean the location, or the con, I mean the city. I hate Chicago, with a fiery passion... and as long as GD remains there, I won't be going... In fact, I would sooner go to Nottingham for GDUK than go to Chicago...

Lol, not everyplace can be the garden of paradise that Jersey is. I'm sure Chicago and its residents will get along just fine without you.

chaos0xomega wrote:
Really, honestly, Chicago sucks. I don't mean the location, or the con, I mean the city. I hate Chicago, with a fiery passion... and as long as GD remains there, I won't be going... In fact, I would sooner go to Nottingham for GDUK than go to Chicago...

The part we were in was great. Nice landscaping, great resturants, nice hotels near the convention center, decent bars. Giordano's deep dish pizza, and two amazing steak houses. That's all I'm looking for.

Bah. Sticky heat is for losers. They need to do this in Seattle where the weather is actually pretty damned nice during the summer.