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You mean building in mongoosematt's post? Looks like dropzone commander card buildin

tneva82 wrote:
You mean building in mongoosematt's post? Looks like dropzone commander card buildin

No, in Fajita Fan's photograph a couple of posts up.
I should have been more specific, apologies.

Only my 6 knights, 4 Warhounds, terrain and basing.

 Eiríkr wrote:

tneva82 wrote:
You mean building in mongoosematt's post? Looks like dropzone commander card buildin

No, in Fajita Fan's photograph a couple of posts up.
I should have been more specific, apologies.

It is the drop zone commander buildings, I printed and laminated them. Search Hawk Wargames buildings and you’ll see them, they’re PDFs.

I also bought some styrofoam blocks at Walmart, they’re 4.9” tall so they should cover enough of a Warlord to count as LoS blocking and then made a building template in Publisher that’s 8 stories tall. This should be pretty easy terrain to make on the cheap, they’re laminated so they last longer.

Due to slight issues with warhounds ended up with more than i needed for my loyal legion. Solution? Start traitor legion. This way maybe get local opponent by providing models! So today got reaver and tomorrow pick warlord. With 2 warhounds about 1250pts and i have total 12 knights in 2 schemes to use as well.

Reaver ready for magnets. Went for more adventorous pose. Think mortis for colour scheme. Challenge to do that black armour

I’m using white glue (all I have here) for this foam and the building template, dunno if this will hold when it dries.

Just finished a Legio Astorum warlord and reaver Titan today. I’m happy with them, although worn out on edging armor plates for awhile

Those are gorgeous. I can’t decide whether to do my Loyalists as Astorum or Metalica.

On the subject of paint schemes... does anyone know if there's an official colour scheme for Legio Praetor? (The Legion that fought the Tyranids at Maccrage alongside the Ultramarines?)

Warlord for legio mortis coming up. Not sure should i leave buildings there though...seems like warlord might trip there. Not gluing in eitherway before titan is painted up.

First warlord out of 3 so far that i think i haven't yet screwed up in building

tneva82 wrote:
Reaver ready for magnets. Went for more adventorous pose. Think mortis for colour scheme. Challenge to do that black armour

Be mindful of the way you glue those feet to your Reaver's legs! I believe they're on the wrong way round on that particular photo.

As for my current project(s), I am currently waiting on the next box of Knights to arrive. And I may or may not be planning on adding a somewhat more special conversion to the Knights of House Atreus, despite my expectation that it will not have rules for years to come.

How they are wrong way? Anyway too late as by the time photo was taken it was already glued up.

tneva82 wrote:
How they are wrong way? Anyway too late as by the time photo was taken it was already glued up.

They are backwards and on the wrong legs.

I believe the lower legs are also backwards. It’s hard to make out in your pic, but the eagles should be at the rear of the leg.

tneva82 wrote:
How they are wrong way? Anyway too late as by the time photo was taken it was already glued up.

Oh yeah, now they mention it, I see it too; the entire foot is like 180° from where it should be: the three toes close together are the front of the foot.

Eagles are in rear. I had hard time figuring originally which way they should be but figuring that with armour plates eagles at front wouldn't be visible anyway so right or wrong eagles rear so they can at least(barely) be seen.

See what you mean with feet...Whoops. Well I think I should be able to get rest of pieces glued in place so small enough issue. Compared to knees at back warlords this is minor issue.

tneva82 wrote:
See what you mean with feet...Whoops. Well I think I should be able to get rest of pieces glued in place so small enough issue. Compared to knees at back warlords this is minor issue.

Eh, it happens. I think I only spotted it due to spending waaay too long on the legs of my own Reaver. And note to self: when I get a Warlord I need to be wary of the knees. Good to know, thanks!

With this I have 3 warlords and 3 reavers of which only one warlord is correctly assembled Assuming I don't screw up in magnetization/armour plate part! Got the skeleton properly done(I think). Both warlords have knees backward(idiot could not read) and one is missing one defensive gun(dropped it and could not find anymore). One reaver I twisted leg too much forward so the armour plates did not settle naturally and one ended up losing parts of head detail due to assembling half sleep, having trouble and basically handling it with plastic glue in fingers...Luckily the head plate covers most of the melted part so one would need to peek closely from eyeslits to notice that damage!

Warhounds I think are okay except one's legs might be bit weird pose as it collapsed and was half dried up so ended up in bit unintendedly tilting pose.

One reason of many why I avoid 40k scale warlord like plague. Apart from price and the fact gaming wise it's virtually useless(6k points...sheesh. Would need like 20k+ army to really make sense) I'm sure I would mess up 1500e model somewhere

For the reaver with the feet backwards, have you tried putting it in your freezer? It can help weaken the super glue. This being said, if you try be extremely cautious and don't break it.

I found the trick a while ago here
https://robhawkinshobby.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-death-queue-making-progress.html#more, scroll down and read the part titled "Terrorgheist". I did it on a partially built model, took me a while, working very cautiously and involved some cutting and twisting but eventually I could separate the parts I wanted to separate. The model spent a night in my freezer before I started "dismembering" it. (sounds like a serial killer …)

tneva82 wrote:
Eagles are in rear. I had hard time figuring originally which way they should be but figuring that with armour plates eagles at front wouldn't be visible anyway so right or wrong eagles rear so they can at least(barely) be seen.

See what you mean with feet...Whoops. Well I think I should be able to get rest of pieces glued in place so small enough issue. Compared to knees at back warlords this is minor issue.

Before you glue the armor on you could saw straight through the ball joint, swap them, then plastic glue them back on.

This is my first "Completed" GW specialist game. Blood bowl and Space Hulk next!!!!

Mendi Warrior wrote:
For the reaver with the feet backwards, have you tried putting it in your freezer? It can help weaken the super glue. This being said, if you try be extremely cautious and don't break it.

I found the trick a while ago here
https://robhawkinshobby.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-death-queue-making-progress.html#more, scroll down and read the part titled "Terrorgheist". I did it on a partially built model, took me a while, working very cautiously and involved some cutting and twisting but eventually I could separate the parts I wanted to separate. The model spent a night in my freezer before I started "dismembering" it. (sounds like a serial killer …)

I use plastic glue specifically to ensure the models stay as they are once assembled even if they say fall to flofr. So only way to separate them now is cut them and that results in more visible issue

I haven’t looked at my terrain sprues yet other than the small pieces for basing material. Is that really all the GME makes?

That looks really great, I need to get cracking!

Yeah. The plastic terrain looks nice but if you want plenty of los blocking terrain that could even hide warlord you need to buy lots of it. As is you get enough to give some -1 to hit, maybe one or two place to hide knights and that's it.


That's why i went with dropzone commander buildings. Cheap and being nearly twice up scale plenty of warlord hiding buildings as well as shorter ones

tneva82 wrote:

Mendi Warrior wrote:
For the reaver with the feet backwards, have you tried putting it in your freezer? It can help weaken the super glue. This being said, if you try be extremely cautious and don't break it.

I found the trick a while ago here
https://robhawkinshobby.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-death-queue-making-progress.html#more, scroll down and read the part titled "Terrorgheist". I did it on a partially built model, took me a while, working very cautiously and involved some cutting and twisting but eventually I could separate the parts I wanted to separate. The model spent a night in my freezer before I started "dismembering" it. (sounds like a serial killer …)

I use plastic glue specifically to ensure the models stay as they are once assembled even if they say fall to flofr. So only way to separate them now is cut them and that results in more visible issue

That rules out that super glue trick.

I see your point, the angles are the tricky one there. Just thinking out loud, what about repositioning the toes? If you do, beware of the alignment for the front, lateral and back pistons, looking at the picture I think you'll have some slight issues there as well as it is now.


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 doktor_g wrote:
This is my first "Completed" GW specialist game. Blood bowl and Space Hulk next!!!!

Well done, very nice stuff.

Once again hobby update arises. Due to rapid appearance of TWO Audax players (why, people?) in our company, I feel a bit outclassed in maneuverable department - you know, Warhounds and Knights, engines that are actually able to move. Not keen on adding more Warhounds, the choice was given to knights as an independant force for scouting. But what if they face something big and would need a ranged support; what knight can match a titan in durability and firepower?
Answer is Acastus chassis, specific cally Porhyprion knight. So, our Zhao-Akhad knights need two of theese to aid thier Warhound-free comrades of Legio Xestobiax. Since supplements with additional knights are not released at this moment, Porhyrions are planned to be count-as Warhounds without the ability to push reactors and a Scale of 5 - it should go fine.

Mendi Warrior wrote:
I see your point, the angles are the tricky one there. Just thinking out loud, what about repositioning the toes? If you do, beware of the alignment for the front, lateral and back pistons, looking at the picture I think you'll have some slight issues there as well as it is now.

Those should be okay. What WILL be problem though is right arm...Whoops. The darn raised knee gets bit way. Next time I build reaver assemble and magnetize upper torso first so I can check how weapons affect leg position!

It's not total disaster but does look bit odd if you peek up closely. Wonder if I could reposition the right arm parts a bit so it would look more natural...

edit: Funny btw reaver gets all the comments and not one comment on warlord which is the one I was actually hoping for some comments!

tneva82 wrote:


edit: Funny btw reaver gets all the comments and not one comment on warlord which is the one I was actually hoping for some comments!

prolly cuz pics of reavers are so far rare in this thread =P

 FrozenDwarf wrote:

tneva82 wrote:


edit: Funny btw reaver gets all the comments and not one comment on warlord which is the one I was actually hoping for some comments!

prolly cuz pics of reavers are so far rare in this thread =P

Mine is on the previous page if you need some Reaver action

Regis_sotum wrote:
So, our Zhao-Akhad knights need two of theese to aid thier Warhound-free comrades of Legio Xestobiax.

I am covering the Prospero campaign with my forces too - have you uncovered any text on Knight forces on the side of the Thousand Sons?

Mocked up some Warlords as I paint, still bluebtacked together before gluing. Also did a pair of Warhounds and scratch built a pair of new Reaver volcano cannons. So much to paint...still have four more Reavers to build.