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This battle was fought at my house two tyranid 1500 army list versus a space wolf and blood angel army list also at 1500 points each.

enjoy! Tyranids won this one (but they has lost the two previous). Very dense terrain for this one, objectives game was rolled.

Great photos! Love all the vintage minis

Amazing minis! Is that white assault marine unfinished, or what?

obi-wan34 wrote:Amazing minis! Is that white assault marine unfinished, or what?

well that is a great question.

It's my beat up space marine figure from 1989 recently found at the bottom of my son's toy chest (this figure had a history playing against my buddy in space hulk and it was immortalized by the red tear drop on right knee after a particulary great showing , we used the regular marine rules for space hulk that came out in white dwarf back in 1989-1990 era). I scrubbed him up, gave him new weapons and now he is ready to go to battle once again on the 40K 5th edition battle field (I remade him into a blood angel sanguinary priest as his original paint was white and I barely touched the original 20 year crappy paint job in order to keep its originality).

awesome pics you got, games with fully painted armies look impressive no matter what. I love the terrain and some closeups of those would be awesome (working on a table myself)

Wow everything looks so good! Really well done with all the painting!

I like it except for one thing. Blood angels fighting alongside the puppies??? Guess the dogs needed some real help after all.

misfit wrote:I like it except for one thing. Blood angels fighting alongside the puppies??? Guess the dogs needed some real help after all.

LOL! I suppose Tyranids have made stranger bed fellows....

misfit wrote:I like it except for one thing. Blood angels fighting alongside the puppies??? Guess the dogs needed some real help after all.

Why is this bad? There's no bad blood between these two factions, only Dark Angel's and Space Wolves have bad blood, as far as I know.

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Looked like quite the battle, I prefer games with lots of good terrain like this, makes it more interesting then just a flat board you just shoot across for 6 turns.

Amazing man how did you paint those awesome space wolves.

Is OOE that small? The minis in that battle a beautiful!

Beautiful armies mate and awesome terrain, must have been a pleasure to play on that board !

Always good to see fully painted games going on! Big Kudos to you and your mates!

Fexor wrote:

misfit wrote:I like it except for one thing. Blood angels fighting alongside the puppies??? Guess the dogs needed some real help after all.

Why is this bad? There's no bad blood between these two factions, only Dark Angel's and Space Wolves have bad blood, as far as I know.

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Looked like quite the battle, I prefer games with lots of good terrain like this, makes it more interesting then just a flat board you just shoot across for 6 turns.

I'm just being sarcastic, i like BA over SW.

Loving the nids!

Most of those characters are painted in outstanding fashion! Love the vintage Baals on the table. The board itself looks fantastic! Nice pics, you should have made a battel report out of this!

Thank you for the great comments , I'm blessed that I belong to an incredible group of players that dates back to rogue trader 1989 . We all collectively took 4th edition off but now we are back. I will post pics of other battles along with some reports!

The death company and the aussalt marines for ba look great man

How did you guys make the foilage looking pieces of terrain? It looks like those plastic plants you buy for fish tanks but I've looked at those before and they don't really "stand up" very well...

mk2 wrote:

obi-wan34 wrote:Amazing minis! Is that white assault marine unfinished, or what?

well that is a great question.

It's my beat up space marine figure from 1989 recently found at the bottom of my son's toy chest (this figure had a history playing against my buddy in space hulk and it was immortalized by the red tear drop on right knee after a particulary great showing , we used the regular marine rules for space hulk that came out in white dwarf back in 1989-1990 era). I scrubbed him up, gave him new weapons and now he is ready to go to battle once again on the 40K 5th edition battle field (I remade him into a blood angel sanguinary priest as his original paint was white and I barely touched the original 20 year crappy paint job in order to keep its originality).

Awesome idea! I love the idea of adding "trophies" and marks of honor and battle damage to minis after a particularly interesting game
You could re-make him, too, from a new assault marine (same pose, etc.) and paint him nice and clean, give him some extra gubbins and really deck out your favorite boy!... I mean, battle brother

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Kurce wrote:How did you guys make the foilage looking pieces of terrain? It looks like those plastic plants you buy for fish tanks but I've looked at those before and they don't really "stand up" very well...

I purchased the terrain plants back in 2001 , they were available on the web for 25mm games . You did have to paint the bases.
The foliage pictured has been super resilient over the years .

Old thread is old.

coolyo294 wrote:Old thread is old.

I know it's not as cool as a coffee or tea poll like you have posted in the past but I thought I would answer some questions on a real nice picture thread that I lost track of, and that was not started that long ago . thank you for your understanding and your positive response

You're welcome.

Wow thats amazing.

A visual treat, thanks for posting!

Uhlan wrote:A visual treat, thanks for posting!

Thanks ! I'll try to post some more pics .

Threadnomancy or not, it was brought back by the OP which is generally considered okay. The battlefield looks great and I love how the minis look. Next time you should try writing up a formal battle report so we can get a better idea of the play by play, because these minis are fantastic!

Really nicely painted dude.
Also: good pics