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You definitely want to keep some for the sigmarite army, keep that as along-term project, actually working on the units as and when if you want to start another force. Get rid of your duplicates and some of the stuff you don't think you'll use, but keep anything you might regret losing a short time later.

Right that's what the head says.

The heart says : NOOO. Don't let them go, they's pwecious things.

Not that I'm a pack rat or anything you understand.

they mention the 2 lost legions in first heretic... I mean forgotten not lost.

Hey Guys,

First of all thanks for the all the feedback!! Really good to read!

@ Miss Dee I won't, I don't think I need the backpacks its really just arms I seem to be missing...and bolters.

@ Fosner170s, thanks man - I don't really like playing, but I like the story element, so you liking my story makes me happy! And yes, I will go and track some down this weekend! Do I just dip them in, or do I paint it on?

@ Blackhand! Oh no! You too? I think that is what I am going to do, sell off say 30% over xmas and then just have a really simple army to do...I can get 60 Imperial Guards men (non-GW) for 50 dollars, so thats what I am going to do, another 20 on roughriders, and 10 on a command squad...10 on heavy weapons, that a non-mech army for 100 dollars...btw...having not played Imp Guard in oooohh...12 years what is a decent 1500pt structure...

@ Monkeytrolll...haha...precious....my precious...silly lanky gamer....

@ Miss Dee...whats first heretic?



Update:

So. Having not done any painting for over a week I knocked out 4 minis sunday night for a roleplay session (D&D but beggars can't be choosers). Seen as I had those particular minis since I was 7 it was nice to finally get some paint on them after 20 years.

Last night I hit a landspeeder with a basic top half of astronomican grey (will be giving it a street camo on top) and fenris grey on bottom (will be giving it a cloud camo on bottom), I did 25% of a marine, and knocked out 2 jet bikes and one rider...so not bad....

I think they will look pretty good if I put on some wash.

@Weety, if you are reading this I am varying my pallet!



Anyway, what else?

For my new, as yet unamed army, I am going to use this guy as a commander:



and

I think I have found my Sigmar;




Both models will require some 40kisation...but

what do you think?








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They look cool!

As to the sale of your miniatures I would say maybe keep a few for old times sake. I think they will be worth a lot of money though and if you don't think you want to paint them all then its a shame to miss out on all that lovely money!!
Maybe split them into army types so you got a group of imperials and a group of squats. Take lots of photos - making sure to concentrate on expensive characters and heavy weps. And mention them by name in the write up. The title should include the words rogue trader, oop and the name of the army as these are the kinds of keywords obsessive collectors like myself are always searching for. Give it a long bidding period. Make sure to mention exectly how many minis there are and if any are plastic or have missing bits.
The problem is pricing - you can start really low and then everyone will bid and you will probably end up getting about what they are worth but you might get a bit more or less. Or you could decide how much you want for them and put them on at that price but then they might not sell first time round. Or you could even put them on individually at 99p each which would save you paying listing fees. this tends to work quite well as you often get one or two people determined to buy as many of your minis as possible to get a postage discount for multiple purchases (be sure to offer one) and the bidding can get quite high on desirable minis. But then if things get complicated you might end up posting minis to a dozen different people.

So have fun and be sure to post a link to your selling on here cos I might have a pop at your squat engineer.

pics link is broken for me?

Where are these guardsmen you are using going to be from? (pic link is broken for me also neil but I think the link underneath also shows the pics)

Great looking sigmar model!

Paint it onto the parts that you want it to go. You can experiment with different colors to get different effects.

First heretic is a HH book, how many arms and boltguns you need and perhaps we can trade if thats ok?

manoknok wrote:
@ Monkeytrolll...haha...precious....my precious...silly lanky gamer....

Hey how'd you know I was lanky

Must be psycopathic.... I mean Telepathic.... or a member of Psi Corps

I'm sorry, I must accept your first answer

And it was a pointles answer and puts £250 into the jackpot.

Those Imperial "Lightnings" Look like they're made of plasticard.... it's cool though..

Hey followers of Sigmar!

Well. I have decided I am going to sell 1/2 my imperial guard, any duplicates I have, and a handful of the OOP spacemarines...Ill post pics of what I am going to put on ebay when I get home.

@ Captain Cain: I will show you, as long as you don't steal my idea! I've ordered three packs of these http://www.wargamesfactory.com/wargames-factory-store/british-firing-line-zulu-war
I will then just mash up some imperial guard weapons, convert the Tichener models I showed yesterday into Sergeants, make a command squad from a few other models I have found online.
I'm going to use http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_ranges/single_packs/darkest_africa/british/?sector_id=2 as my heavy weapons, and http://www.blacktreedesign.com/uk/product.php?productid=25260&cat=2513&page=1 as my rough riders...then all I need from then expensive GW is a couple of tanks and I am done! My budget for non GW is 100. I don;'t know what I need from GW to get a 1500pt functioning army. Oh. And I am going to plith up some of my ogryns....any advice on what I need?

@ Fosner1703 Will do...and I will post pics asap!

@ Monkeytroll Have you ever read Enduring Love? Thats based on me....haha joke!!! Seriously though. I've just been going through your trash and living in your fridge.

@Raen! Actually I couldn't find any so I just made them out of thick cardboard. I am going to buy some GW spray gun stuff over xmas so I can paint them, and my vehicles (and lets be honest I am going to spray my models too) quick....


Anyway...continuing the trend I started 3 more models last night but finished none. I now have about 20 models half painted.



Manok!

Ps. Weety good advice thanks! Will bear it in mind...I am debating the squat...considering I didn't know what it was, and I am not too found of the model I may put it on...,

It'll go for a lota $$$!

I've always assumed monkeytroll was lanky too - I think because he has an elf as his avatar and they are always beanpoles.

Hope it all goes according to plan

So i won you over to historicals hey
Vik von dom is also doing a pretorian style steampunk for his airship!, i like the blue and white style navy one personally. just picked up a nice leutenant my self as well , just so i can say i have one , are you going to mix and match your historicals with real 40k guard? , i am finding the size differences a bit difficult , except for cavalry.
good luck with the new project mate! btw the minis look nice !

have i read you correctly? you want to pith helemt ogryns? maybe you should use this:



just shave off the button on top and you should be good to go...

cool idea, waiting for the execution tho^^

vik


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Well, I just hope you wash your hands after going through my trash before getting back in the fridge. And that explains where all the cheese goes.

And that's no elf weety, that's Raque Servalan, pilot of many internet spaceships and CEO of a small corporation I'll have you know, no pointy ears on that girl

Looks lanky anyways... eve online huh. is that your avatar then or did you half inch it?

Looks like Shadowrun to me.

Eve it is, and yes that's my avatar, or at least, it's one of my avatars A bit over 4 years old now, although she's not been on much this last year, but is atm thanks to some free-time issued by CCP Really should get some others on while the freebie voucher lasts.

And if a pointless answer puts £250 into the jackpot, I want to know who's holding my jackpot. We find them and we can solve all the world's financial issues.

Check out the pith helmeted ogryn by col. gravis

http://www.40konline.com/community/index.php?topic=186515.0

a lot of work but a pretty cool result

@ Blackhand that is awesome. And yes...a lot of work, but basically want to achieve. It will be slow steady as I need to learn GS techniques!


Never played eve. In fact the only games i have played since 2000 is CIV 4 and Vietcong. I made a promise to myself in 1999 that I would not play a game till fallout 3 came out (having spend a week straight playing fallout 2) am saving myself for Fallout 3...yes I know its out already but my PC sucks as does my bank balance.

Unlike a lot of haters out there, I really enjoyed Fallout 3. However, it is not in the same league as 1 & 2, not even the same sport Not trying to put you off, like I said, I think it's a pretty cool game, but it's not the Fallout we loved

yeah more like a video game version of the road! so bland................and fallout 1/2 are my alltime favourites as well. saying that I did persuade my fiancee to get me fallout new vegas, for crimbo , technically fallout 3 , same storyas unreleased 3rd one and similarlocation as 1/2 . i also think its being developed by part of the original team.. but also looks more like fallout 3.and a half than an new game.

So I have done a huge amount of painting the past couple of days...for me at least. Admittedly most of these will be appearing on the WFB blog I have on here...but I have done a Landspeeder, a ratling, half a apothecary and I think I did something else. I've started a LOTD as well. Realising that I had over 40 models with paint on and not finished I lined them all up in a que and have been working on them in order. My somewhat unrealistic aim is to finish the remainder in the next 10 days leaving me with about 100 models completed in 3 months or so.

I also have done a somewhat silly thing. Having ordered the 63 minis (for 60$s!) this has left me not only with a gaming budget of 0 but also a general budget of 0. And I don't get paid till the end of the week coming. Narg.

What else. I have been trying to organize my models into ones I want to sell, but I am struggling to part with any, and in fact, for now, I have decided not to.

Anyway, I am pretty pleased with what I have done recently. Not my best work, but knocking out 10 models like I did this morning makes up for it. And I hope that when i do get washes they will sort out the rest for me. Will it?

Anyway, I will post pics tomorrow. Really looking forward to tackling my Praetorians when they arrive...but I am not going to do that till I have finished the Sigmarites...

Sigmar is on his way.....

So, I have found my camera but not my charger. So no pics.

I did however produce 1 mini every 45 mins last night between 9pm and 12. They were to a decent standard as well. With a wash they should look mediocre.

I am particularly pleased with a Ratling that took 37 minutes.

Well...I now know where my charger is. About 13 hrs drive away. I left it on the site. So its on its way down with a colleague.

Knocked out a Chaplain and a Veteran last night. (I also started 5 other models not in my que! Focus Manoknok!) I felt pretty rough last night. I had been doing really well weaning myself off coffee (from 7+ a day to 2) but fell off the wagon yesterday and was a bit hyper/sleepy. Don't know if you know that feeling...when its 2am and all you want to do is sleep but your actually cleaning, or in my case searching for 2 missing pieces of my veteran. Did a really simple conversion for the weapon in the end (the original axe broke off so gave him a blunt weapon) and couldn't find his shield so I took part of a dread and made a simple one. Realising later that I had already used the spare part so the dread is now missing a piece. But I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

Making real progress at the mo. Hopefully 4 or 5 minis tonight...bringing me to about 15 in 4 days, all to a decent tabletop standard...


Anyway, question about green stuff: Do I sculpt it when it is hard or when it is soft. How do I do detail....I have a huge amount of GS work incoming...

Er.

I remembered a friend a long time ago had a Sisters of Battle army...and I know he doesn't play anymore...so I just FBed him and asked if he wants to sell it for a squid a model.


Fingers crossed.


The Chickeny Chicken

manoknok wrote:Knocked out a Chaplain and a Veteran last night. I had been doing really well weaning myself off coffee (from 7+ a day to 2) but fell off the wagon yesterday and was a bit hyper/sleepy.

Jeez, mess with manoknok's caffeine intake at your peril - he starts punching out 'rheens!

Sigmar is Coming.











Ok. So I wanted to be all Fatty Nowork (Grr Martin). I finally have my camera charger. And my order is arriving in 4 days. Hoping to do 3 more minis tonight.

And yes. Don't mess with my coffee intake.