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What media enfluences have had an effect on your army such as something that inspired you to start an army, something that inspired the look or theme of your army etc.

For instance making a Ork Speed Freak army inspired by the Mad Max movies.

Personally I've had a few differant sources of inspiration, here are a few as examples.

1. The Stargate movie has been very inspiring in making my Necrons.

2. My Orks where inspired from the junk world in Star Wars The Force Unleashed (I forget the name, I think it's Raxus Prime?)

3. My Ordos Xenos Inquisitor is based off of Edmond Dantes from the Count of Monte Cristo (book not movie).

My Wolf Lord may or may not be re-enacting the "Alas poor yorick" scene from Hamlet... though that may or may not constitute media.

My Chapter Master (that counts as Vulkan He’stan) is influenced by the Black Axe from Mouse Guard, mainly his axe.

All my armies are influenced by various media,
my gaurdsmen are stationed at Hive Noveria,
my Command valkrie is being constucted with speakers,
my BFG fleet is going to follow Mass effect stucturing (1 battleship, some crusers and loads of escorts),
my gaurdsmen have small orange powerpacks on the small of their back that keep them warm (cookies for where thats from),
I'm doing a Grindlift Converion as a scenery piece for my Gaurd.
and i'm thinking of having my company commander standing drinking coffee.

However media only influences my models so much, however the background is seeded with references to various popular and not-so-popular media, once i'm finished it I might put up a little no winnings competition to see who can find it all

FM Ninja 048 wrote:All my armies are influenced by various media,
my gaurdsmen are stationed at Hive Noveria,
my Command valkrie is being constucted with speakers,
my BFG fleet is going to follow Mass effect stucturing (1 battleship, some crusers and loads of escorts),
my gaurdsmen have small orange powerpacks on the small of their back that keep them warm (cookies for where thats from),
I'm doing a Grindlift Converion as a scenery piece for my Gaurd.
and i'm thinking of having my company commander standing drinking coffee.

However media only influences my models so much, however the background is seeded with references to various popular and not-so-popular media, once i'm finished it I might put up a little no winnings competition to see who can find it all

Do i smell a Lost Planet reference?
I had a friend who made the Mule from Serenity/Firefly.

The TF2 orks...

Dark eldar are enfluenced by some stuff of the bible.When the Archon got his rank he had a version of lot walking away from gommargh.His own city is based off another city that was destrtoyed by gods wrath.Another enfluence by other stuff that i cant remeber right now.

The look of my Eldar vehicles was inspired by Eddie Van Halen's guitar. Those colors in turn inspired much of the rest of the army.

My Chaos Marines fluff is similar to the Gwar mythos. I'm in the process of converting them to the power of Slaanesh.

It seems like every time I watch a war movie, I think to myself than I need more guardsmen...

... just got done watching both Gettysburg and G&G. I totally need more infantry.

Ailaros wrote:It seems like every time I watch a war movie, I think to myself than I need more guardsmen...

... just got done watching both Gettysburg and G&G. I totally need more infantry.

Read a couple fo books and watched Zulu. I totally need to get praetorians.

Off the top of my head for the models themselves:

* Enemy at the Gates (Battle of Stalingrad). My whole army and its backstory (...I write too much) is partly based off of this conflict, though I ended up chosing the Germans inadvertenly.

* Jin-Roh: The Wold Brigade. After watching that film I knew I finally had the exscuse to get my carapace vets done. Now I'm sitting here with 20 odd grey armoured troopers which are about 40% greenstuff.=P

* The German army during WWII, for colour scheme, bit of background, uniform styling and a bit for the vehicles. No Nazi isignia or anything like that, I'm not an idiot. ¬¬

Course there's more to the army than that. Its a lot more backwards sci-fi than a WWII esque army. ^^

My eldar are all based off of various suits of iron man armor (said this before in other posts)
-Pathfinders=Stealth Suit
-Dire Avengers=Iron Patriot (from Dark Avengers series)
-Guardians=Original Armor
-Harlequins=Silver Centurian (hologram armor)
-Wraithguard=Hulkbuster
-Striking Scorpions=Samurai Armor
-Warp Spiders=Iron Spiderman (Civil War suit)
-Farseers and Warlocks=Mandarin (green for Farseer, red for Warlocks)
-Avatar=Fin Fang Foom
-Dark Reapers=War Machine
-Falcons/Wave Serpents/Fire Prisms=Avengers Quinjet
Wraithlord=Ultimo
-Fire Dragons=Inferno Armor
-Swooping Hawks=Modern Armor with Jump Packs
-Howling Banshees=Iron Woman (Pepper Potts)

As you can see...I really ran with this idea. Haha

timetowaste85 wrote:My eldar are all based off of various suits of iron man armor (said this before in other posts)
-Pathfinders=Stealth Suit
-Dire Avengers=Iron Patriot (from Dark Avengers series)
-Guardians=Original Armor
-Harlequins=Silver Centurian (hologram armor)
-Wraithguard=Hulkbuster
-Striking Scorpions=Samurai Armor
-Warp Spiders=Iron Spiderman (Civil War suit)
-Farseers and Warlocks=Mandarin (green for Farseer, red for Warlocks)
-Avatar=Fin Fang Foom
-Dark Reapers=War Machine
-Falcons/Wave Serpents/Fire Prisms=Avengers Quinjet
Wraithlord=Ultimo
-Fire Dragons=Inferno Armor
-Swooping Hawks=Modern Armor with Jump Packs
-Howling Banshees=Iron Woman (Pepper Potts)

As you can see...I really ran with this idea. Haha

Pics?

I play a lot of company of heroes, no surprise my guard look a lot like storm troopers from CoH. They're painted in a cinematic German style, black uniforms and grey tanks, except the armour is SS fall camo.

Painted up some storm troopers Grey and black in homage to Rainbow 6.

Watched Kingdom of Heaven, I now have some black templars sitting around, and bretonnians for WHFB.

Damn you media! You influence us so easily.

gazelle wrote:The look of my Eldar vehicles was inspired by Eddie Van Halen's guitar. Those colors in turn inspired much of the rest of the army.

That sounds cool.

Oh geez. I'm making/have made a vindicare, Mephiston, and librarian furioso dread that are straight out of the anime Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

I'm also trying find time to paint up a standard furioso dread that was modelled based on inspiration from kool-aid commercials

There is an Eldar player here who painted her Seer Council's bikes each to a different picture of a certain famous rock band's album.

Me being inept to the music world already made me forget the bands name, arg

I' going to paint my tau battle suit like the D9 robot.

Well, I tend to think of my Orks best when I think of Mad Max, since they are Speed Freaks. To me that movie is very Orkish with the vehicles.

I've named my Warboss Mag Maxx to that extent.

I have named my vehicles after various things. The autocannon equipped predator is "Sheila", after Red vs. Blue, the land raider classic is "Super Jackhammer Carrier Tank", for obvious reasons (homeage! Do not sue!), ect.

My chapter master is named after one of Caesars assassins. Public education system!

purplefood wrote:

timetowaste85 wrote:My eldar are all based off of various suits of iron man armor (said this before in other posts)
-Pathfinders=Stealth Suit
-Dire Avengers=Iron Patriot (from Dark Avengers series)
-Guardians=Original Armor
-Harlequins=Silver Centurian (hologram armor)
-Wraithguard=Hulkbuster
-Striking Scorpions=Samurai Armor
-Warp Spiders=Iron Spiderman (Civil War suit)
-Farseers and Warlocks=Mandarin (green for Farseer, red for Warlocks)
-Avatar=Fin Fang Foom
-Dark Reapers=War Machine
-Falcons/Wave Serpents/Fire Prisms=Avengers Quinjet
Wraithlord=Ultimo
-Fire Dragons=Inferno Armor
-Swooping Hawks=Modern Armor with Jump Packs
-Howling Banshees=Iron Woman (Pepper Potts)

As you can see...I really ran with this idea. Haha

Pics?

Don't have any pics up yet, and things like the Avatar are just started: I only currently have 1 Quinjet made up too: it's a long process. The Iron Spiders and Hulkbusters are my favorites. All the unit champions have non-helmeted heads too, painted with a Tony Stark mustache.