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How about green / grey stuff and then you have a mould?


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Yes, a distinct possibility... again, much time is involved.

As I've mentioned previously, I'm confident I can sort this out one way or another. I ask for everyone's patience as I try and work out a favorable solution in my own time. I have a lot of options that I am currently exploring so we'll see where they take me.

I think what we have here is the "To many chefs in the kitchen" effect. Everyone is trying to be helpful, I think because many of us feel like we have an investment in the MW. If we let you mess with it, you'll figure it out, I'm confident.

I second WM, I'm sure whatever method you try that the finished model will be great.

Hope your enjoying making and painting these models even with the deadline. Keep it up Gits!

Just made it to the section where everyone was talking about the Space Sharks taking control of the Mantis Warriors home world, and after reading everyone's suggestions this is how I saw the final moments of the turnover take place in my head.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Turnover_at_Ootheca

Very cool case... I like!

case013 wrote:Just made it to the section where everyone was talking about the Space Sharks taking control of the Mantis Warriors home world, and after reading everyone's suggestions this is how I saw the final moments of the turnover take place in my head.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Turnover_at_Ootheca

Cool story. I'd never thought about what happened when the Space Sharks took the world for their own...

That's something Goto made up isn't it?? Or is is supported by other fluff? It's not part of the original fluff...

EDIT: Yes it was

The whole of the story is told in flashbacks, but they lose Ootheca and are sent to crusade at the end of the war as penance, as well a Chapter Master is relieved of duty and imprisoned.

http://www.graemesfantasybookreview.com/2010/06/legends-of-space-marines-edited-by.html

This was the list of all the contents of that one book


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After all of these Badab War blogs, and then getting IA 9 and 10, I found myself repainting my AoBR marines. I may find myself doing one of these as soon as I can logically start posting images.

Gits,

I believe a return to Model Railroading will provide you with a post-Adepticon Solution. There has been a rise in 'roll your own' decals, with companies like Microscale printing custom sheets on their equipment.

While they may be amused, having them do a run of MW sheets (get all the MW people together, put in a minimum order?) should get you high-quality decals, and enough for the rest of your MW career.

Just a thought.

--B.

http://www.railgraphicsdecals.com/
http://www.microscale.com/custom.htm

@Gits: Did you get the predator I sent your way? And is it something that you can make useable again? =-)

Not a bad idea Brian, thank you. I almost went that route with the DIY Road I was working on back in the day. But the variety of decals needed for MRR was daunting. With my MW's, it might be a much simpler process. Still, the variety of badges is significant. The army I'm currently working on is essentially a RT era army, and the symbology I'm using reflects that time. Since then, BoLS and others have developed their own versions, IA came out it it's own version, and of course my post-crusade army has it's own interpretation of the badge including really spiff Chapterhouse pads. So with all this variation, getting multiple parties to agree on any single design might be very difficult. I'll check those sites out though (actually I'm pretty sure they're already bookmarked in my MRR link folder) & see how much "pain" would be involved in having custom decal sheets professionally made.

I finally got a decent decal sheet to print out last night, fixing the issues I was having with the printer. I let them dry overnight, and applied a couple of layers of spray coating (I think it's just dullcoat, but it's the stuff that came with the Testors kit) with plenty of time to dry in-between each coat. So far, no blurring or streaking has been evident... so perhaps I just needed to really slow down the whole procedure. I'll experiment with them again tonight.

Other than that, I was exhausted last night and went to bed early.

Heffling wrote:@Gits: Did you get the predator I sent your way? And is it something that you can make useable again? =-)

I did Heff, and thanks. Sorry for not mentioning it publicly... I've just been so preoccupied with getting this army painted up that everything else has gotten pushed to the side. I can definitely use it & it'll make a much needed addition to the early-period MW army. The idea of a mass of razorbacks and predators moving forward as an armored company has really captivated my imagination and your buggy will be a significant part of it! OH, added an entry for you on the RTL.

Gits

P.S. So, what does everyone think of the avatar? I changed it in a fit of pique after being called an "old man" on one of the blogs. It's not the best photo as I just took my existing Telion pic and blew it up to get the close-up, but I could take a better pic... or should I just go back 'splitta?

Go back to the spitta or your Mug pict.

I actually got so used to seeing your Ork that I didn't know who you were when you changed it at first!

I like it, but I'm biased

same! I cant tell who you are without your normal avatar. when I troll I look for your avatar. Maybe your stuck with it.

Just like when Samus_aran115 changed is avatar to another girl. It gets confusing. But I guess over time you get used to it.

OK, back I go!

No! I like it. Though it does make a mockery of my decapitated gitsplitta-wielding scout.

No.. stick with this one.. it's very much in line with the direction on towards Adepticon. Change it back afterwords. Right now I'd say hooo rahhh! on the Avatar.

Attitude focused!

*pant* *pant.... can I have a drink... ah thank you.
After a hardcore multi-day read of this ENTIRE BLOG, all I can say is holy fething gak! This is freaking awesome! My friends (whom you may know as lyzan locrius and invenerable) agree. you sir, have inspired me to make or at least start making, a mantis warriors army. In fact, I have 10 assault marines - with single sang guard jump packs on them. *EVIL LAUGH* but now here is the problem - I don't have the wing, heads, shoulderpads or chainsword mantis claw. Can you hook me up with some, or point me in the right direction???

I like the new Avatar, but apparently I'm in the minority.

I wasn't worried about a public acknowledgement of the pred, I just wanted to make sure it had gotten to you.

What's an RTL?

@Heff: Reputable Traders List

@avatar commentors (the lot of you): O.K., I'll keep Telion up until after Adepticon. Seems appropriate as SL mentioned.

@Darth: Welcome Darth, I'm impressed at your tenacity... don't think I'd plow through a 100 page, chatty blog... but I'm sure glad you did. There is nothing more gratifying to me than the thought that I may be inspiring people to try something new, or breathe a little more live into this long dormant chapter... thank you.

In short:

- pads can be purchased from chapterhouse for a reasonable price, if all you need is 10 you and I can work out a trade I'm sure
- swords are scratch built, but I can work up a tutorial on that easily enough *after* April 1st
- wings and helmets are made by BLACKHAND, so you'll have to PM him. He doesn't sell them but might trade you for them. I think you could make your own wings though out of plastic card and rod, which is how BH made his originals. That way you could make yours unique as well.

Feel free to post the results of your efforts here & if you do a P&M blog for the project (which I highly recommend), please announce it here so folks can swing by and take a look!

Best of luck!

Yeah 10 would be a great star - I commision paint characters only (long story), but ive only done it for people I know so far. Maybe that could work out. If you want a reference, PM invenerable about his heilbricht model.
I'll definately post here when I build them, and pm black hand too.


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I <3 the avatar change too

Finally...



Each pod will have a litany or motto, (on the plates on the lower part of the doors) which is added by the engineer/tech marine that gives it it's final check before deployment. Some are inspirational, cynnical, humorous... it all depends on the mood of the engineer at the time. Tradition holds that the motto is then adopted by the squad as their battle cry for that deployment, reinforcing the bonds between technicians and front line soldiers... as they are all marines. The technicians will often know which squad is assigned to which pod, and will chose a motto specifically tailored to the personality of the squad.

It's not perfect... but it'll do.

Two more, but now that I've been through this once, the others should go much easier.

I think it looks great!

it's not perfect?! I say it is!

That's one of the nicest looking drop pods I've ever seen.

I love the idea of a squad of MW charging into battle roaring "BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!!!"

I agree Gits! I've been quietly watching your trial and errors without anything useful to say and am quite impressed with that drop pod. Not that I would expect anything less, but it does look awesome.

Very nice work - as usual!

Thanks all! Making slow progress on the other two... just so many steps involved. At least this time I'm not guessing as to what to do next. Had nice little game with Thing 1. Poor kid gets so cranked up about how many models he's losing he completely loses sight of the victory objective and even when he does well (tied me today) he get really worked up about the fact that he lost more models then I did, even though losing models was meaningless in the context of the battle. Will have to work with him on that.

I fiddled with my list a little bit and I think I like the latest tweak. It's very minor but actually helped out in the game today, so it may be a keeper. (and no extra painting to do for it)

I just finished masking the pods so I can start the blending... first the darks, then varnish, then mask again, then the lights.... THEN I can start the black undercoat for the metallics. This is what I'm shooting for tonight anyway... have probably 5 or 6 hours to do it... so keep your fingers crossed.

Update:

Well, I got the darker shade done. Turns out my original dark shade was too dark so I had to go in with a lighter shade and blend it out some to make it closer to the original. Getting varnish on them right now & will begin working on the lights tomorrow morning.