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that´s beginning to sound like a true villains army...

the black olives idea is a very sound addition...hmmm.... I am thinking more like a chestnut colored barcounter....with that raised rim so that the beer doesn´t topple over when the barkeeper shoves the pints over the surface...

personally I think currently the martini glass idea is the strongest one...that and a nice shaker...I can also imagine some olives carrying a giant stirrer as a kind of battering ram...

Need to know what army your going to field them as for further hilarity. If it were marines I'd have to say use the olives with umbrellas as assault marines with jump packs . If your doing fantasy(KOW), then the stirring sticks idea sounds great, along with those plastic drink novelty animals for their mounts.

On another note the glue still isn't dried on to plan "d" or are we to " h" yet? I'm considering breaking down and buying a casting kit now for this build. I should just get back to my orcs aNd nids.

no idea as to what to field them as...(KOW) might be the current best idea tho...

as for the glue still not cured... before you hand out a mountain of cash... one more try... add some super glue to the mix...the amount of glue could get complicated...but worth a try...

Not responsible for Korn flake marines but I have seen them as well didn't forge world do an april fool's joke with corn flakes

See cheap glue is bloody useless thats why it is cheap glue try a hair dryer on it might help

Vik what about shot glasses as mortars crewed by olives of course, if you go fantasy you could use toothpicks to build a spear unit or even rough riders if still 40k then you could use a novelty drink animal for the mount O no what have I become

@ldd, you have given in to the dork side .
@vik, king of war( KOW) is great fun, you could build them as a green army versus a black army and for big games they can tag team together. I think doing abyssal dwarves might be good as you could have the fire breathing olive unit (jalapeños?). Or you could just field them as orcs, but they have no firepower but are tough buggers. They do have chariots though so mount the glasses on coasters instead of bases.

All this is making me want to build a similar army , maybe I'll forget the minions and make a peanut army. I can have the planters peanut guy as the general. Then one day we can actually get together and have a beer and pretzel game . It'll be nuts I could even have pirate allies, they'll be the salty nuts . "BAR FIGHT"

Who else will join us in this insanity????

Theos first army challenge. Build a king of war counts as army 500points. Must be bar humor.
"It's time to raise the bar on these challenges"

Man walks into a bar " OUCH "

Dork side I like it call me "darth as a brush" Bar themed you have stolen most of the good ideas already

Come on ldd, there's the spicy peppers, wings, chex mix, lemons, limes, cherries(or combine them into the citrus gang), heck make ogre sized army of the condiments(salt and pepper, ketchup, mustard) or even a cigarette/cigar army. Anything bar related.

I don't even mind if someone else does nuts as well. Or other nut varieties like cashews.

 Theophony wrote:
Come on ldd, there's the spicy peppers, wings, chex mix, lemons, limes, cherries(or combine them into the citrus gang), heck make ogre sized army of the condiments(salt and pepper, ketchup, mustard) or even a cigarette/cigar army. Anything bar related.

I don't even mind if someone else does nuts as well. Or other nut varieties like cashews.

So when we say "bar theme" we can include bars that serve food ermmm that allows more options, after looking at your list you obviously have higher class bars than we do around these parts

Ldd if you so want to do a fish and chips army go right ahead. Lamb chops are welcome too.
Just army of hookers and used condoms. We have plenty of those here too

Edit: fixed stupid 2am iPhone typing

 Theophony wrote:
Ldd if you santo utile a fish and chips army go right ahead. Lamb chops are welcome too.
Just army of hookers and used condoms. We have plenty of those here too

LOL no its more like moaning old farts or kiddies club for the under age drinkers no up market cocktail bars around here

Okay so then should it be expanded to any condiments from the pantry or refridgerator?

Edit: played around with the vein color on the stealers and spore mines. I think. Have what I want....lt blue.

It's kind of glowy , possibly bioluminescent, or just alien blue goo blood.

Suggestions? I don't want it to overpower the rest of the model .

Currently via phone I can't say for sure...but lightning bolt blue could assist the scheme but not over power it in my opinion...

Bit hard to tell from the pic a little blurry but what I could see looks good, subtle would be the way to go don't overpower it.

Yeah, subtle blue is a good option.

Thanks guys, its been a busy weekend, so time for me to reawaken and get doing something.

We stopped by a party supply store this weekend to pick stuff up for church event. I had to buy some weapons

250 cocktail spears for the eventual ogre army(Mr. Planters party animals )

More that need painting

And primed some reinforcements


Completed stealers

The front few just need the blue added. All will get their basing done seperately later.

Edit: close up of the blue

Those spears look interesting, and I really like the colour scheme on your nids.

I currently own a package of clear coloured spears/sticks... they have a kind of tear drop shape at the other end...always wanted to use them for my lasguns...

the nids really look creepy...something about black fingernails that makes my spine curl....

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
...something about black fingernails that makes my spine curl....

You'd be amazed at the looks you get with black fingernails. Second only to the looks you get with patterns painted on them...

Good work Theo.
Keep it up.

er...well...I like to get paint on my fingernails only in context while painting my minis

It also stopped me from biting my fingernails at the time.

man up, I know you don't have daughters vik, or you'd have pretty nails too. Usually I only let them do my toes as I can wear socks. But now thinking about it, what would people think if I were in a car accident and they took my socks and shoes off .

The painted toenails? ... Not much really. Those guys (some of my best friends are in Fire and Rescue) have pretty much seen everything. Plus, they're too busy saving your life to care anyway. The stories they can tell though...

I draw the line at pink, any colour she likes but pink. The joy's of having a little girl.

 Theophony wrote:
man up, I know you don't have daughters vik, or you'd have pretty nails too. Usually I only let them do my toes as I can wear socks. But now thinking about it, what would people think if I were in a car accident and they took my socks and shoes off .

the thing is my wife is a beauty without any makeup or additional colour whatsoever...thus we actually have one bottle of nailwhatchacalling at home anyways... and mind you... saw a woman in the telly doing her nails... BRUSHSTROKES all over the gawd damned nail.... is that a way of painting???...I say nooooo

thus...case rested...

Loving the airbrush ,

19 termagants
16 stealers
All base coated in just under an hour
1 more termagant got half primed before it got clogged, spent half hour unclogging it, I think the last guy will just become battle damage

At these to the
18 finished genestealers and my production rate has increased by a factor of 1000 over the three previous years combined.

Now the brushwork begins

half an hour cleanup is quite an amount... any idea as to why that took so long?

also... A BIG CONGRATZ YOU OL` GIT...125 pages of lunacy...!!!

Yup grats on 125, there must be something in your lunacy!!!

Great to see you popping little creepys out allover the place, but this airbrush mallarky sounds more hassle than its worth!

It really isn't that bad. I was watching tv and cleaning at he same time. Plus I couldn't find my airbrush cleaning brushes, did a full strip down of the airbrush, and some o the paint I used had clumps in it that I missed . I'll get better with it and quicker with the cleaning as time goes on. PLUS I wanted to make sure I didn't botch this one like I must have botched the last one.

Already did the dark brown on four of the others genestealers, needing to run errands and eat something so I might be back later today with more of an update. Day off from work, doesn't mean no work to be done. Been wiped out plus a 20 degree F change in weather has been bothering my sinus, I've been hiding under a blanket instead of doing stuff. Time to get moving again.

I feel your pain mate, weather is all funny currently here too and my heads feeling like a pumpkin most of the mornings too... that and private stuff that has gone ugly that is way too much currently but not really fit to be said here......

as for the AB... I hope you never use any sharp stuff/tools to clean it up... that´d be a sad thing to do...

Vik, feel free to pm me if you need to talk

Back from errands, wanted to see how this scheme translates to smaller critters.


I like it, messed up the eye and teeth, but that just needs a little touch up.

Really tempted to run over to miniature market and buy a whole swarm, or at least a big guy.....or two.