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ROME TW? Yea it's PC. It's an old game but it's one of the best Total War games out there IMHO

Only annoying thing is trying to keep your more distant cities from revolting. I always end up having to purge them down to minimum population every few years or they start rioting regularily, even with a governor. It can be a real pain in the arse.

EDIT: Found camera. Pictures taken. Distracted by SPORE though, so never got to uploading. Will do so tonight.

But there is one city where everytime the city rebels you can bribe them to recieve a full 2 line army of velite gladiators. Somewhere in the meiddle east i think.

can't wait for the new pics

keep it up

I just kill em' all and loot their homes. It's much more thorough

Anyway, updates:

I finally finished all my Tactical squads for the company. 60 Marines ready to go:


I also fired off 3 Techmarines:


This one I've had since my Black Templar days. He got a nice long bath in Simple Green, and a full on brushing that would make a Dentist proud:


I don't even remember where this guy came from, but he was salvaged the same way as the above. I loved his helmet style, so I had to include him:


This one is just made from Tank gunner bits with a backpack on him. Simple, yet effective:




This Apothecary also got a good bath and scrubbing. No wash yet, but I'll be giving him Shadow Grey when I have nothing else on the go. You might recognise him from the old Command Squad box:



--TERRAIN--

I just slapped these together quickly. Two pieces of packing foam from a box of juice bottles, some plasticard, and a chopped up popsicle stick for the awnings over the doors:


Honoured Imperium - the ruined wall section was painted grey and gold, then given a light dusting of both Codex Grey and Skull White to simulate concrete dust. I think it turned out well:



My Space Marine statue. Forgive the bad lighting on the front - I was just in a rush to snap a shot so I skipped the lamp on all these pics:


And the broken Aquilia. It's kind of hard to see, but the Bleached Bone was heavily washed in Devlan Mud to produce a sort of marble effect that turned out a lot better than this picture indicates:



And there you go! Updates for now. Still got plenty of marines on the To-Do list, but it's getting smaller and smaller.

Looks great! i really like!

Oh yeah these are ace pics. Loving the marines.

keep it up.


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No i meant 'is the codex pc based?', not RTW.

Yay! more pictures!

Good and simple color scheme for those space marines, and it seems remarkably similar to your guardsmen.

the highlight of this update has to be the scenery, that fallen arch and the Aquila look stunning.

I think the middle techmarine are originaly from the blood angels honor guard box, could I be right?

Yea, I'm constantly changing my fluff for them (And I'll likely continue until I finish the whole Chapter years down the road ) but the one thing that remained solid was the fluff behind the matching colours.

The Chapter suffered severe losses in it's early years after the third founding when a Chaos force descended upon the system through mysterious cairn stone sites on each world. They managed to save two of the system's planets before Chaos could corrupt them, but the capital world wasn't so lucky. Sorcerers from the invading Chaos forces cast a spell through a ritual thatcaused the ground to turn to barren stone. Hostile, unshielded organic life was turned to ash, and many of the Imperial Guard and PDF regiments fighting on the surface were wiped out. The Chapter's forces managed to make planetfall and disrupt (And kill) the sorcerers before the spell fully consumed the continent. They didn't regard it as a success however. The huge loss of life due to the spell, as well as the Chapter's late arrival on the capital is seen by many within it as a stain on their banner. They adopted the capital world's traditional funeral shades as their Chapter colours to remind them of those events every time they don their armour.


The Guard, on the other hand, revere the Chapter and praise it for what they consider a success. As far as the planet's inhabitants care, Chaos was defeated and the world did, for the most part, survive. The ecosystem has slowly been recovering near the coastlines, and those cities lost or destroyed have since been reclaimed or rebuilt and are fully inhabited once more. This difference of views has caused quite a bit of friction between the Guard and the Chapter, whose new Fortress Monastery now orbits the Capital world on one of it's moons. The Chapter feels the Guard mock their inability to prevent the devastation that befell the capital world, despite insistance otherwise from the system's military officers.

So that's basically where the capital regiments got their uniform from.

Rose_Mountainz wrote:I think the middle techmarine are originaly from the blood angels honor guard box, could I be right?

That could be - I did have a tiny BA force back in like... '01 or '02

Ohh... nice fluff. I'm really liking the looks of both these armies.

Keep it up. Do you think you could provide a few more pics of the sentinel or tanks?

Awesomee.

I'm liking the fluff, besides the undogmatic approach to not just preforming a quick exterminatus and killing all the guardsmen who may have been 'tainted'. Oh yeah, I'm also liking the dedication to building up this chapter from scratch physically. I know I have yet to finished so much as half a company, yet I've been at it for years upon years

Determination, Determination, Determination

The reason they didn't perform Exterminatus on the planet is that there's a Forge City just south of the Capital (No I'm not pulling that out of my arse - It's on the terribad MS Paint map that I made for recreating the campaign) that produces a huge amount of vehicles for the Segmentum's forces, as well as a Naval Fleet Academy in low orbit around the world. Not wanting to lose both of those very important assets, which would've crippled a large chunk of the military forces on the Pacificus border, the order was given to save the world if possible.

metallifan wrote:The reason they didn't perform Exterminatus on the planet is that there's a Forge City just south of the Capital (No I'm not pulling that out of my arse - It's on the terribad MS Paint map that I made for recreating the campaign) that produces a huge amount of vehicles for the Segmentum's forces, as well as a Naval Fleet Academy in low orbit around the world. Not wanting to lose both of those very important assets, which would've crippled a large chunk of the military forces on the Pacificus border, the order was given to save the world if possible.

That makes sense, my guys and your guys should team up, they both seem to like nuking their own territory

very nice story to start off. your gun emplacemtent is amazzing and i think your imperial gaurd boys re superb especially your commissar keep up the good work.


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Oh very nice terrain as well good work

Hey guys, been playing Spore, so I haven't been working on my stuff much (Stay away from that game - it will eat your soul. And several dozen precious hours of your life )

Luckily the W-unit plans to drag me off my arse to get some painting done, so hopefully I'll knock out a few more things

I love the look of this army, keep it up!

I must say you do some very great painting I really like the work on the guards and those tech marines look good as well.

COuld you provide a quick tutorial on how you did the disembarked crew?

Yea, like I said in your thread, when I get unpacked. For the commander, I just used the bits off of the Russ Accessories sprue, a Laspistol, and half a Power Sword blade mounted on a chainsword arm with the shoulderpad filed off. For any crew with weapons, it's a matter of just shaving down and sanding the shoulderpads off. The one guy with the laspistol and the scar uses the Command Sprue head with the scar on it and the harness, shoulder, and beret are just GS. The Welder is just a cut-down flame thrower.

It doesn't substitute for pictures, but at least you get a general idea of how I made these guys.

metallifan wrote:And yes, I'm aware the flames are on upside down. M buddy was putting them together with us last night and there was beer involved... Yea. Nuff' said.

This is so sigged.

Then I'm changing my sig to say "Officially quoted in 7 sigs"

metallifan wrote:Then I'm changing my sig to say "Officially quoted in 7 sigs"

Aw. I'm only qouted in 1. Metallifan, when I get older, I wanna be just as succesful as you!

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:

metallifan wrote:Then I'm changing my sig to say "Officially quoted in 7 sigs"

Aw. I'm only qouted in 1. Metallifan, when I get older, I wanna be just as succesful as you!

*Pat pat* there there, my boy. Your day will come soon.

metallifan wrote:

Golden Eyed Scout wrote:

metallifan wrote:Then I'm changing my sig to say "Officially quoted in 7 sigs"

Aw. I'm only qouted in 1. Metallifan, when I get older, I wanna be just as succesful as you!

*Pat pat* there there, my boy. Your day will come soon.

Really papa? Oh boy!

Beautiful terrain Mettali, I gotta come over the next time i'm in town.

Heh, I actually moved a block down. My terrain is still at the old place. Soon as I get some shelves/storage set up and I get a new (Slightly smaller) table built I'll be bringing it over. I'll PM the adress to you though so you can have it handy for whenever you're down here.

Not really a P&M Update, buuuuuut...

I went down to the FLGS after work today to pick up some Codex Grey, as mine is nearly out (Okay, so... kinda a P&M thing. A bit. ...Not really... Anyway...) so I grabbed that and then wandered through the isles a bit to the back of the store... Where I found...

THE HORUS HERESY BOARDGAME! *SQUEE!*

It was only $109.00, so naturally I was on it like white on rice. Overjoyed, I skipped back to my car with rainbows trailing behind me, flowers blossoming, and dainty, happy-go-lucky music playing in the background.

Well... Okay, it didn't quite go like that, but suffice to say I was very pleased with myself. And not in the bad-touch way.

Practically shredding the plastic with my bare hands when I got home, I opened the box, rapidly unpacked the contents, and was greeted by the following:












And of course... A shot of the EMPRAH'S house


Did I mention that it comes with an -extremely- in-depth, behind-the-scenes, never-before-uncovered look at the evens of the Horus Heresy? It even details (In gruesome coverage) exactly what sort of injuries Horus gave the Emperor, it tells us his dying words, why Horus lowered the shields of the Vengeful Spirit, etc...

So yea. That's what I did. Now then, I did paint a dread and a russ as I've been saying, but whether or not I get pictures of them will be determined by how capable I am with a camera after all the beer I plan on drinking tonight

Cheers!

What size brush did you use for the commisar

You mean what sizes

No one should ever be using 1 brush size to paint a mini. I use standard for applying basic colours, fine detail for small things, and small fine detail for bits like eyes, scars, and other tiny details on the mini.

I use a standard drybrush or a standard brush for applying washes, and I use a standard drybrush for applying things like weathering/dusting to my units. As I'm going for tabletop/just above tabletop quality work, this combo suits my needs perfectly

If I counted right, you've made seven mentions of being drunk, and five of drinking while modelling.

My guess is you enjoy drinking?