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Thanks chief, thanks and indeed, thanks!

Made it to the post today too finally

you´re still here...sitting at your comp? i thought you would be jiggin´ around with your better half by now???... shu shu shu

*shakes head*

but your minis look cool... i dunno of what your jacobus reminds me...red leather armor and a shotgun....hmmm...?

looks good graven happy anniversary and hope you two have a wonderful evening out. today is my folks anniversary too

models look good and grimdark :thumbs up:

Back from awesome tapas, beer and sacrifices to a dark god. Now too warm and drinking tea, because we're British happy that folk are looking kindly on the grimdark flagellants, I know what you mean about the red leather/shotgun combo she is now finished (boss was watching some other woman's baby) but I'm too far from the mini and value my life too much.

hmmm.... my wife and me always look in a special way to lil babies... well... i dunno if there will ever be a number three for us... we ´re still servicable in that direction... but seeing our sons... well they grew up to such fine kids... it would need then to start all over... sleepless nights... lots of poo and the yelling... but then you see a small winston churchill again and we go all oooooo^^

and what dark god would that be?

Yeah, another machine for turning money into poo might happen someday but it's hard enough with the two I've got
As for dark god, well the pink one, clearly
On an entirely separate (well, not really) note it really bugs me that grimdark chaos females are almost always slaaneshi. How about nurgle plague hags with suppurating nipples? Bah.

As for dark god, well the pink one, clearly

hurhurhur... be careful or you have more machines than you have energy to operate them

and well... that opens the complete cheescake issue again... if you ask me... i want boobarmor and i want cheescake marines and guard... if i add a fighting female to my troops where is the point in having her look sensible? for that i have my men

but... i think we can all skip out on nurgle fems... if you are into this... go...look for your landlords lady the one that yells at you for not wiping your shoes and so on...

spoilered for possible hurt on eyes

You are a bad man.

Yeah, I understand the cheesecake argument. Just rambling.

Any-hoo, Jacoba, as promised, although strangely dark pic. Hmm.



I've got a couple of other hangers-on I might get done today, but I suspect this is me for the next week of so (week-off/wee-cough - yay terrible puns ), and will largely be reduced to lurking through limited wifi availability.

Also, entirely unrelated, great
article in today's Daily Telegraph (of all places) demanding that David Cameron ban WHFB rather than porn.

Adios, amigos,
graven

Edit - aforementioned hanger-on, Ordo Xenos servitor.



Also, I have an idea for a contest when I come back. I'll float some ideas on here over the next week or so, hopefully.

Good work on the latest dudes. Colours work well.

Just love that servitor... so much character!

Liking the Grimdark paintjob!
The scribbles on the last mini is very realistic.

Brilliant updates, I particularly like the new Servitor! Keep it up, bud. And your considering a competition? Man, I'm going to be burnt out by the end of this year.


P.S. I'll get down to the Post Office tomorrow.

Dr H wrote:Good work on the latest dudes. Colours work well.

Thank you kindly sir! Quietly pleased with how my Ordo are coming together.

Gitsplitta wrote:Just love that servitor... so much character!

Yeah, it's from the Dkok quartermaster. It actually has a cherub atop the back piece, but I've left that separate to have as another servitor, cos let's face it you can never have enough fat, grimdark babies, eh?

SelvaggioSaky wrote:Liking the Grimdark paintjob!
The scribbles on the last mini is very realistic.

Sigura Micron pens are my friend!

Casey's Law wrote:Brilliant updates, I particularly like the new Servitor! Keep it up, bud. And your considering a competition? Man, I'm going to be burnt out by the end of this year.

P.S. I'll get down to the Post Office tomorrow.

Thanks man, and don't sweat running down to the old PO

And, yeah, the contest. My vague idea is a Great Repurposing: using minis for systems other than they are originally intended, such as (say) Dark Age for Death Cult or Urban War for Infinity. Basically, you have to take a model and make it recognisably part of an army for a different game system. I'm sure that most folk will go for making stuff for 40k, but I'm trying to be open minded. Also, I wonder whether to allow WFB>40k (or vice-versa)?

Your thoughts, mes amis?

Sounds like great fun, I have a tonne of ideas already. Scale is quite constraining and makes it a lot easier to convert Infinity into 40k, for example, than the other way around. The other challenge will be designing the rules. Should most of the original miniature still be visible? Otherwise you could just cover it up. Should the miniature be playable/fit the scale of it's intended game or just match the aesthetic?

I think you can be more than quietly pleased with them.
Anyway don't want people to think I'm trying to butter up the judges...

Sounds like an interesting and amusing idea for a competition. Would definitely want to watch that even if I didn't compete.
As Casey says, the rules will have to be water-tight.

Nice work, Gravem especially on the servitor. I love all the scrolls and bone work.

Good points chaps. I'm going to work out the rules thoroughly I hope! The idea is that you take a mini from one system and it be playable in another, and at the end of the day anyone trying to be awkward just won't win recognisable is another matter, however, the aim is to encourage creativity in modelling, painting and recycling!


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Oh, and glad the Servitor is getting much love. it is a fab little model.

Well I'll enter for sure, I'm looking forward to it!

That's the spirit!

Speaking of repurposing:


The middle one is clearly a "real" model, albeit with a plasma. The other two are kitbashes where the base model is an Empire Battle Wizard. This would be one type of Repurposing.

On the other hand (still very WIP):

A WM Cephalyx, Dark Age Saint and Confrontation Griffon thingy, all repurposed for the Ordo.

The idea then is that they're more than just stuck on a new base and called counts-as - they need at least minor changes and recognisable paintjobs.

How does that sound?

BTW I have, I think, some cracking prizes lined up for this; all stuff to be, yeah you guessed it - repurposed

Really nice examples! I think almost everyone will convert something to fit 40k but that's not something you can get around. Will there be an upper limit on the alterations you can make? I'm trying to figure out at what point you start getting marked down for changing the original miniature too much.

I didn't notice the servitor under the layers of scrolls.


As for contest I think you should count WFB for 40K. I could biased though.

Take care

i was about to chime in with all the others abou the servitor being my favorite of the last new models... but then the Cephalyx appeared... man that is a cool fella...really... !
as for all the others... your parchment looks really cool....love the hue and the "texture" of it ()

as for the contest... seems every body is about to start their own lil constest... damn and only theo ever wanted to join in mine...

but do count me in...even tho the rules are not written... i always like to repurpose my models... and i have an absurd bitzbox... so i am eager to know what we should do!!!

It is a good idea. My bias, of course, is to favor moving figs out of WFB/40K and into some other game system.

--B.

 Briancj wrote:
It is a good idea. My bias, of course, is to favor moving figs out of WFB/40K and into some other game system.

A tough job though, wouldn't you say? Heroic scale, by design, makes GW products hard tobreuse elsewhere. As an Infinity player I could only really imagine making a TAG or Vehicle from GW stuff to fit truescale.

Casey's Law wrote:Really nice examples! I think almost everyone will convert something to fit 40k but that's not something you can get around. Will there be an upper limit on the alterations you can make? I'm trying to figure out at what point you start getting marked down for changing the original miniature too much.

That's the theory! And no, no upper limit- I once used an ambull as the skeleton for a confrontation abomination, gs'd over the whole thing - as long as there's component WIPs, who am I to suppress creativity?!

albinoork wrote:I didn't notice the servitor under the layers of scrolls.


As for contest I think you should count WFB for 40K. I could biased though.

Take care

Yeah definitely going to include that rule. It's just about getting folk to rework something they have and don't use into something they can.

Viktor von Domm wrote:i was about to chime in with all the others abou the servitor being my favorite of the last new models... but then the Cephalyx appeared... man that is a cool fella...really... !
as for all the others... your parchment looks really cool....love the hue and the "texture" of it ()

as for the contest... seems every body is about to start their own lil constest... damn and only theo ever wanted to join in mine...

but do count me in...even tho the rules are not written... i always like to repurpose my models... and i have an absurd bitzbox... so i am eager to know what we should do!!!

Cephalyx is a lovely figure has a great Mr burns vibe- Excellent...

Briancj wrote:It is a good idea. My bias, of course, is to favor moving figs out of WFB/40K and into some other game system.

--B.

The idea is to let folk do just that! Thought you might approve

BTW here's my offering for the next panda Contest-
Thanks for your continuing support gang!


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@Casey ah but think of the bonus points for effort!

That looks rockin bud! And good point, I'll just have to put my thinking cap on!

Btw, did the package turn up?

Looks like a lean, mean, speedy killing machine. Good concept.

Very intriguing idea graven... hmmmm.

Casey's Law wrote:That looks rockin bud! And good point, I'll just have to put my thinking cap on!

Btw, did the package turn up?

Dunno -check my country flag did yours?

Dr H wrote:Looks like a lean, mean, speedy killing machine. Good concept.

Thanks mate!

Gitsplitta wrote:Very intriguing idea graven... hmmmm.

Glad folk like the concept. I plan on starting it officially after Briancj's, so about august 21st?

Very nice, Graven! I was thinking of something similar but with Eldar: Wraithbikes, Wraith Vypers, ec.

And, why are you in Spain? Holiday?