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@MrMerlin: That is just too awesome. Do that, PM me and we'll set something up. You are probably going to smash my army, but it ain't about winning for me man it's about having fun.
Also, don't forget to sign up for my Special-Christmas-Present-Challenge-Give-Away.

@runmymouth: Thanks man, I love it when people like my ideas. And normal minis is certainly not my forte, so no worries there. When I make something for someone, I make sure it's both personal and as good or better than what I'd make for myself

Consider this subscribed, so far you've made the only GK models ive been interested in

I really like the style you get with your figures.

Dan

Subscribed. Occupy Box.

That is by far the best idea for a stealth based unit I have seen. The fact he's 99% GW makes it all the more hilarious (and I'd argue the boxes count too ).

Oh wait, i totally forgot to participate in the Special-Christmas-Present-Challenge-Give-Away

Do a veteran in a box, as part of Harkers squad; y'know, those dudes who infiltrate and hide and shoot the enemy in the back
Or a Kommando, Ork conversions are always fun to do.
Or a bodyguard for a command squad; you could do some crazy psycho with a brutal and crazy cc weapon

I love the colour on the ogre head. it really brings the Grey Knight's eyes out . And I really like the "occupy box" sign! it made me laugh so much! I have been following your work and it is all amazing. if I was to win I'd like some sort of kommando ork hiding in something like a box or some other thing.
Hope to see what else you can come up with.

@D.Smith: Wow, thanks man! That really means alot. I do try to get a somewhat different style than most other Grey Knights with a more lighthearted and funny approach. I also try to get the feel of a ragtag, dirty-dozen-esque crew, rather than a conventional army.
Glad you like it, there is going to be more where that came from.


@DarkStarSabre: So glad you like it, that was my intention. (That, and I really didn't want to wait forever for a expensive metal model...) The only thing that is not GW is the toothpicks for the signs I payed dear money for those boxes, and I'll be darned if I'm not gonna use them!
Feel free to suggest more funny signs, they take like 10 min to make


@MrMerlin: I do have some plans in those directions, since that seems like what everyone who enters want.


@tarar2d2: Such kind words, warms me to my very soul, it does. The ogre head, yeah, I didn't really have a choice of color there, you see, I am really limited in the colors I own and red was the only suitable one (It was either red, blue or yellow/brownish, and only red/pink would have been a stark contrast to the white of the sword and the white of the tooth/horn/eye) I also only have one shade of red so there was alot of mixing black and white into that to even get any shades. But it came out good, so forget all that!
I am always happy when people like the direction I've taken with this army.


That will be that for this minor "update", I have not really been able to do any work lately, and probably wont be able to for some time. This is all because of many different things, such as constant rain only broken up by snow, a lot of things to do around the house in before christmas. I only have to spray one more guy, but the weather hates me. I'll do what I can, but the progress will be scarce during the holidays.

For those that wish for ork commandoes for christmas, it just so happens that I have scores of orky bitz just lying around. They're supposed to be sold, but until then, they'll be ripe for converting

And to end this with another reason for people to join in:
When I expand from 1000 to 1500 points, I'll get 5 paladins and something else (no tanks) what is your suggestion and how should I equip the paladins?

Merry Holidays, and a happy new year to those who follow the Gregorian calendar.

Holy crap, I want an entire army of Space Marines with top hats and canes. The Emperor's Gentlemen. The Gloved Imperial Fists. The Legion of the Dance. They'd follow the Codex Astaire, wearing mkIV Power Ascots, advancing in a well choreographed tap dance assault.

junk wrote:Holy crap, I want an entire army of Space Marines with top hats and canes. The Emperor's Gentlemen. The Gloved Imperial Fists. The Legion of the Dance. They'd follow the Codex Astaire, wearing mkIV Power Ascots, advancing in a well choreographed tap dance assault.

hell yeah, great idea! but do it as an ork intead!

nice work, I found the read of your friend painting his first model quite entertaining.

MrMerlin wrote:

junk wrote:Holy crap, I want an entire army of Space Marines with top hats and canes. The Emperor's Gentlemen. The Gloved Imperial Fists. The Legion of the Dance. They'd follow the Codex Astaire, wearing mkIV Power Ascots, advancing in a well choreographed tap dance assault.

hell yeah, great idea! but do it as an ork intead!

Why not both?
Only problem though, is that top hats are a major pain to make. The way I did it was; first you make a disc out of plastic, then you try to sculpt a cylinder out of green stuff.
Maybe if you had a length of copper tube or similar, of the right width, cut it up and filled with green stuff. Then you could really get cracking. Just remember to flatten the helmet so you get a surface to glue on to.

Canes are as simple as drilling a hole in a hand, shaving a toothpick to the right width and gluing a skull on the top.

I want to figure out how to make a good looking pipe so I can have a tweed wearing librarian with a monocle and a moustache.

There certainly needs to be more class in 40k

@natoRious: Thanks man, let me know if you want more stories

In the grim darkness of the far future; there is only crumpets and afternoon tea!

Dabedman wrote:
There certainly needs to be more class in 40k

In the grim darkness of the far future; there is only crumpets and afternoon tea!

haha this made me lol hard!

MrMerlin wrote:

Dabedman wrote:
There certainly needs to be more class in 40k

In the grim darkness of the far future; there is only crumpets and afternoon tea!

haha this made me lol hard!

I was just sitting at work, thinking about terminators and my army list when it hit me. 2 boxes of termies for christmas, 5 paladins, 3 regular termies, Thawn and a Apothecary. This is so I have something to swap around in the future and can expand to 1500 points, use the leftover bitz for a Techmarine and maybe the christmas present give-away.

Both Thawn and the Apothecary will have TOP HATS and other gentlemanly bitz, as is customary for immortal badasses.

So far the only entrants in the give-away is: Runmymouth, MrMerlin and tarar2d2

oh well.

haha roll a d3

if you're quick about it, you can start a new post about the give away somewhere..... kepp in mind that its still early in the us, so the 24th will last longer there....

I'm lovin your stuff here Dabedman! that vindicare assassin is just plain LOL!

Give away? What give away? Why not sign me up?

And Merry Christmas!

I have given this give away thing a lot of thought and with the help of Random.org, I have selected 2 people (out of 4)

The people who signed up were, in order:

1.runmymouth
2.MrMerlin
3.tarar2d2
4.Flying Pooo

I ran a random roll with the numbers 1 - 4

The winners are:

first roll


Second roll


I am going to need you to contact me so we can work out things such as what you want and how/where to send. Send a PM.

Congratulations and Merry Christmas everyone!

YAAAAAAAY, I haz WUUUUN!

will do some thinking, then pm you



Automatically Appended Next Post:
oh and merry christmas!

BIG UPDATE TIME!

But first...

DISCLAIMER
- The winners were MrMerlin and runmymouth
- I still have yet to hear from runmymouth, I am going to give him (you) one week to PM me about this, or I shall roll again and choose a new winner.

- For Merlin, I am going to build a Gentleman Sly Marbo, Sir Marbo, with a top hat and cane and all the accessories. No pics yet, still very early in development.

- I just finished my last GKSS member, giving me a total of 1000 points painted! yaaaaaay
[ /Disclaimer ]


On to my new personal project, more power armored Grey Knights, one Crusader and a Grey Knight Librarian.



PICTURES

They say a picture can say a thousand words... This picture makes a 1000 points! IT IS COMPLETE!


What do you think of that, huh? Pretty fancy in my opinion! Took me hours...


These are the members of my next Strike Squad, made with the Dark Angels Veteran box and the leftover bitz from two terminator boxes (hint, hint) and the Strike Squad box. They look both original and awesome!
Remember, these are all very WIP.






This guy was made from a AoBR marine i scavenged from the painting table at my local GW, casual painters who take the intro course/ mini are generous!


The shield does not give anything rule-wise, it is just cool (and I ran out of arms...)


Another intro mini someone gave me, now he is a Crusader Henchman (storm shield/ power weapon/ flak armour)


The Justicar for my new squad, he was built to the exact specifications of my friend who lives by the rule of cool. The assault cannon is a Psilencer and the power fist is just for show, it is just a big glove.




Introducing one of my favourite models in my army to date, rivaling both the Vindicare and Karamazov. How do you like him?

For the moment his name will be Chief Librarian Kitbashius of the Eternal Silence and Categorization

If you like what you see, there are more pictures in my gallery.

For the Next update:

I will continue working on these and when you next see them they will be completed. Probably not all of them, but maybe a few in the next update...

I will assemble some things from the other box that was hinted on somewhere else on this update.

And there will be pics of the work in progress on the custom mini Sir Marbo.

And maybe, just maybe, there will be news of the other custom mini, should runmymouth choose to claim his prize.

See you guys later, let me know what you thought of the contents of this update and happy new years!

hey there those are some very niche GKs! I like your metal!

I cant wait to see sir marbo!

Really awesome conversions you have going on there. Those are some good looking GKs.

Without a doubt one of the best P&M blogs around. Brilliant painting and creativity, fun and engaging conversations and regular updates. Perfect.

But then again what can you expect from a fellow swede?

Måste säga att det är skit kul att se lite svenskar som har p/m blogs, och en sådan underbar humor!

+1 and subbed

oh right, havent exalted yet




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done

I just read this whole blog and I must say I loved it! The GK are full of interesting colors, That vindicare is awesome! and finally the paint schemes are suitably grimdark!

Mini-update on account of insomnia...

Completed the Grey Knight Librarian and he is so awesome! Now I just need to figure out how to field him. I was thinking in a squad with my upcoming 4 paladins. But I am going to have to sacrifice some Inquisitorial stuff to make that happen.

I just realized that since he has terminator armour, he's got a wrong sized base... That'll be a pain in the christmasballs to switch... *sigh*






And I want to thank all of you guys for your kind words, it really is what keeps this blog going.
Of course, do not hesitate to strike up conversation, this is such a nice community and I'd love to bring it in here more; to my little corner of dakkadakka

^That sir is awesome!

Awsome model, your Librarian! Anh ooooh, yes, getting him on a bigger base will be hell of a pain in the A**, *ahem*.... arm. I just noticed the knife on his stormbolter is hanging below the base......

ARMYLISTS

I am going to add more lists as I think them up.
This post will be subject to change because this is where I'll keep track of my various army lists.
I just need a place to write these down. So this miniupdate is just for me (although you guys may tell me your opinions)

1000 point Strike Squad heavy list



1000 point Acolyte/ vindicare list

Quick status update about the near future.

There will unfortunately not be many new pictures up very regularly. This is because of an influx in work burden (at my job) together with a temporary loss of inspiration.

I vow, however, that Sir Marbo will be completed before the end of this month. This is quite a long deadline especially since he will be more of less the only model I'll work on, but things have gotten a bit complicated on a personal level...

I just wanted to give a heads up to whom it may concern (not as many as I'd hope, probably) but I don't think anyone will be particularly heartbroken over this.

I'll still do roughly weekly updates with ideas, army lists and thoughts, but there wont be quite as many pictures.


As always, if you want to speak your mind, feel free to do so and know that I'll definitely see it.
Please comment and critique, if you have any ideas, suggestions or you want me to do anything special on/ with the blog, just say so.

This is sort of like a personal document on this project, but it is first and foremost intended to be a forum where I do what you guys want. I am here to entertain, help me do so better.

Til next time.
The Bedman

hey there

nice to hear from you again. Im looking forward to seeing the model, but dont rush it. I completely understand that there are other things that need to be done first sometimes......

Update!

Work is almost finished on the give-away to MrMerlin and in later on we are going to have a second give-away because I promised two winners for the Christmas-roll, but Runmymouth did not claim his prize.


NEW GIVE-AWAY (explained above)
Until the 1st of February 2012, ANYONE (except MrMerlin since he won before, sorry man, I hope you understand) can enter by expressing interest in the blog and the event.
Those who do this will enter into a random draw where ONE winner will be chosen. The outcome of the draw is done through random.org but ultimately I have the final say. This means that someone can sway the rolls by appeasing me, lets see what you can come up with.

The Prize
A model of your choice (must be able to fit on a 40mm base, so no really big things) converted and painted by me in a style of your choice, with my personal spin on it.

I will not contact the winner and am going to be expecting to be PM:ed within one week of the draw, or yet another draw will be issued.

On to the regular project!
This has been a busy week, I found motivation to start painting heavily but I am daunted by the number of models I still have to paint/ glue.

That said, I now have enough to be able to play 1000pt games, so if any of you are Swedish or in Sweden and live/ are in a vicinity of Stockholm, give me a PM and we could try to set something up!

The robed Strike Squad is nearing completion whilst my Librarian is completely done. Karamazov finally got his basing finished and more than half of Sir Marbo is fully done and painted, could be done in a few days even, fancy that!

I have been thinking of writing up some entertaining fluff for my army, but I want to see what you guys think of it before I start. An example of my story-writing can be found of the first page where I tell the tale of my friend's first mini. And you can be sure that the writing will be grammatically flawless, as always.
So tell me if you would want to read some fluff, and also what kind of fluff you prefer; be it short stories or background for the Krew.

Pictures!

Karamazov finally has a complete base, now my flagship unit can be called complete!




The Librarian has a base that was NOT easy to do. I wanted him to walk away from a hellish bloodbath so I took all the Deamon bitz from the GK sprues, an Ork arm, Ork head, Ork choppa, GK termie hand and a servoskull. Then I painted Scab Red where I wanted blood, as a base, then PVA glue with red in it on top for texture and lastly, pure PVA for a shiny finish. It looks slimy and grimy and awesomely gruesome.


This is him from the front, I gave him some shrubberies to show that the carnage is behind him and he is walking towards the next fight unscathed.
He also has a name now, Greg! He is Grey Knight Librarian Greg, Keeper of the eternal Silence, Lore-keeper of "secret tomes that can be borrowed for a time, assuming that you turn them back in a good condition" and Hush-er of loud deamons.



I love hammers, does it show? Yes, it shows...



I still love the simplicity of this guy, and the Asterix-style wings do not hurt either. Converted AoBR- marine, if you didn't know or notice.



The Justicar completed, his robe came out awesome. Still debating if I should make the chest-aquila golden to centralize the attention of the model and balance up the big thing on his backpack, or if that + his eyes are enough. Let me know.





And last, but in no way least. In fact, rather the opposite, Is the completed Sir Marbo's Murderous Robotic Luggage. It has; Advanced A.I (actually, it is the consciousness of an inquisitorial gun-servitor bound into it, don't tell anyone...), Remote Control possibilities, two highly adaptable legs with sharp claws, integrated Explosive Launcher hidden within the side (among other weapons such as, sniper pistols, demo charge launchers and poisoned pointy bitz), a headlight, vast amounts of storage space within (storing such vital things as warheads, guns, top hats, fine whiskeys, 12 year old brandy, mustache cream, side-burn polish, canes, cigars and a large selection of fine formal wear)

The only thing missing now is Sir Marbo, and he just needs some Green Stuff touch-ups and a few (dozen) coats of paint. Then I have to figure out how to get him onto the base... but that shouldn't prove to hard.


Oh, and the lid opens and closes, which is awesome.
So, how do you like it?