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Game over man, game over!

stopped by miniaturemarket.com today, my ban on buying new GW models is


They had the tyranid box set there and it and all the other tyranid things were calling my name, buy the hive mind does not control me yet . Jones was not acting strangely today, although some large Star Wars:X-Wing boxes did get purchased. I am now the owner of a rebel starship and tantive transport. The tantive I must pick up tomorrow though as all they physically had today were being packed up and shipped out right then, but no worries, they have 1500 of them coming in tomorrow. 1500 I was like . Anyway while I was there a guy saw me ogling the nids, and gave m his contact info, he is looking to sell his new nids for dirt cheap . Lots o new models, assembled but not painted. I had told him ho pathetic my gaming budget was, even before I bought the Star Wars stuff, but seams h needs the cash quick so looks like a fire sale. I'll let you all know when/if anything happens.

The force still has a grip on you I see, LOL!

I wish we had such a widespread but high density gaming population here too, to have so much luck...good luck anyway to use that chance!


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Could you please give me the measurements of yon turdis? Got an idea planned and need some guidance... Thanks in advance...

Not as big a fleet as shaso, but mine has rules and worldwide tournaments .

Marine for scale. Now to drool over all the cards and counters that came in these boxes. The x-wing comes with the rebel transport, and has a slightly different paint job than the other x-wings.

So I'm guessing they changed scale for those two then?

Does that affect gameplay in any way?

Just out of interest, like..I have no intention of playing, and if I ever pick them up for display purposes (not an unlikely scenario ) I wouldn't be bothered...just curious.

MT, the big ships are indeed a different scale(from what I recall). As for the game itself, the regular system remains, but to field the big ships there is now EPIC play. 300 points per side on a larger mat, an these ships have different templates or movement. Also in regular games if ships "bump"( run into each other), they stop where they are at, no harm done, just lose movement and cannot shoot the ones in base contact with them. These big ships however bring a new plan, run into everything . If you hit a big ship you evplode . So crashing into a tie fighter swarm has so much appeal to me. Also I believe they block Line of sight as well, I must read the rules first.

Nice thing about my ships, I can get a copy of the Starblazers rules, and update them a bit for 2199(yes, there is a mini game for Starblazers) I would just be using the 2 scales for combat as the fighters are not 1/1000 scale, but, I do have me the ability to field 1/1000scales planes in groups as they did come with the ships.LOL

OR

I can adapt the fleet with "Full Thrust" rules, so I have just shot Theo's theory of my fleet down with a full particle beam broadside!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
I wish we had such a widespread but high density gaming population here too, to have so much luck...good luck anyway to use that chance!


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Could you please give me the measurements of yon turdis? Got an idea planned and need some guidance... Thanks in advance...

Asked again...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
I wish we had such a widespread but high density gaming population here too, to have so much luck...good luck anyway to use that chance!


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Could you please give me the measurements of yon turdis? Got an idea planned and need some guidance... Thanks in advance...

Asked again...

I totally missed the last times you asked about it. Sometimes I'll read a post when I get home from work 1:00 am, and not comment till I'm half awake 6:30am when I get up before my kids.

I'm guessing you mean my old cd sized competition entry

40x40x70mm
It could have been smaller, but the dice box that is the core of it was that sized. You could almost fit a space marine terminator inside of this, so GW rules would say it has a transport capacity equal to a storm ravem

I finished 9 more genestealers yesterday , I only have 6left before I'm out of tyranids . Glad i spent my hobby wad on Star Wars figs. Guess I should contact that guy I met at the shop the other day and see about his "good deal".

Also stopped at the grocery store last night and rented Thor:dark world,I never got to see it in theater so I hope it's decent.

Don't mind me, but that movie is not that good...but then again I thought the first one was rather weak too...

Sounds like you're addicted to nids now well I say ask that fella...alternatively you could kook at the swap shop here...

Also, no need to apologize mate, I knew you didn't ignore my call for help on purpose...
Indeed, your turdis is bigger than my attempt...which I will reveal today in ny own thread... also, thanks fir using European measuresment

Nice ships Theo. You'll need to finish your boob gun to go with one of them.

No problem Vik , I actually use metric when making smaller models instead of inches, makes everything easier.

The movie wasn't great, then again I've never been a fan of Thor, so it was better than expected.

Well since I'm almost done with nids, I need to find something else to do with painting, so back into the army box(basement) I go.

After digging around, shovels were involved, no pick ax though, I decided to work on this next

What you can't tell what they are in the bag.......

I think the blue/grey look would be quite good for them.
The KoS and pincer daemon don't necessarily have to match them though if you want to do something more exciting with them. Make them stand out a bit more from a sea of blue/grey boobs...

I kind of want to stay away from the blue greys that are so common though Dr. H, but I understand the idea of having the centerpiece different.

In other news, tyranids are completed....for now.
34 genestealers
16 spores
2 hive nodes
18 termagants.

Actually not done done, still have bases to do and some have stuff with them, like the space hulk stealers have skulls and armor pieces laying around.

Didn't realise that it was a common scheme. I've not looked into daemons yet, so know very little about them.

No problem Dr. H, grey is the usual skin tones you see on them, then purple, white or blue. At least that's what I always see when people paint them. Maybe yellow.......

Ah the best daemonettes made in my opinion.

not_u here on dakka did his demons in purple / grey/ pink...which I think looked bloody good...
I think demons is a good army to test new entirely different schemes you haven´t done yet...

and these look very cool...and I do like some nsfw every once in a while^^...so we definitely need an army shot of these soon

I see. Just had a quick browse of the gallery and a look at GW's, you're not wrong.

In fact, natural skin tones are a rarity for them.

@shaso, indeed they are the best deamonettes ever
@vik, I did follow not_u thread, I like his style very much
@Dr. H, I think the more natural skin tones might be the way to go

Hmmm, I am not that firm with demons, so I am not much of an assistance here for the scheme... But I think it needs definitely some spotcolours...green would be of course a good choice to the rather brownish current appearance..
You could do the eyes also as follows: a mithril base and then layers of your chosen wash for a cheap glowy effect.
And also...I do have a female minotaure in my collection...tell me if you might fancy that for a slaaneshy do...will try to take pics of her tonight...she is around 5-6 cm tall...

I used for mine a pink base, followed by dwarf flesh, then pallid flesh, maybe some fresh pink dots(freckles)

Purplish head-tacles. ivory claws were my way to go,

@vik, great idea about the silver eyes, I might even skip the wash and just go silver. It would mesh with the silver armor plates to be a mirror in the opponents soul
@shasho, how did I forget yours. Must be all the giant robots and starships you've done lately as well as section N.

I painted the boob worm in the same style, still not totally sold on it, but I think I need to pick up some more airbrush thinner this weekend so I can production line these like I did the genestealers.

Man it feel so good to look at my little tyranid horde and be impressed that I Painted all that in two weeks. Very cathartic, then I look at all my other untainted stuff .

I tried a purple slaaneshi daemonette, didn't like it, s she will be getting stripped, I just need to find n appropriate pole .

Edit: well I figured I had just enough thinner left, so I used the airbrush tonight, no kids woke up so that's good , so is this jump start.

Woot! 5000 post

5000th post and its got pictures. Double woot. Going to highlight the flesh with an airbrush?

Boobed worm, what will they think of next...

Silver eyes...that will look very nasty and scary...


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Oh and congrats on so many comments here...

@comrade, it makes me a happy panda that you have returned. As for highlighting with the airbrush, I've just started to use it for basecoating, and my skills aren't that controlled yet, so just mass basecoating has helped me get painting feverishly again.
@vik, the boob work and these deamonettes are older highly sought after Juan Diaz sculpts. I've been horsing them for well over 10years. What GW has thought of next is crappy looking pg13 deamonettes with bad hair.

Well it's my weekend off so much family time to be had. Beautiful weather so we are heading to the park for some exercise outside, shoot some hoops, and have fun. When all that's done my wife and sister in law will be here at home making cookies and hanging out. My niece and kids will be playing and I might get some free time to paint. My brother in law aced his first exam for being a certified public accountant, but is busy studying for the next exam so he'll be at home doing that so no game . Makes me sad that I just got these new ships for x-wing and they are just sitting there not blowing stuff up.

My pledge for creaturecaster kickstarter is not finalized yet, so I've been thinking(scary). While I've been hoarding these deamonettes I probably will never play them, like most of my armies, but since boobs are everywhere I don't want my kids getting bad ideas. So I think I might get them painted, just so I can say I did, and then sell them. If I do that I want to change my pledge to the angry demon from creature caster because I always wanted to build a khorne demon army.

I might throw these up in the swap shop again, maybe this time I'll get a offer.

Honestly, mate you should do a khornish angry marine army...if you couldn't do this, no one can...

And I feel your pain here...all the stuff I build will probably never (read in years to come...) get to be played with...which is annoyingly sad...

Got to ask this, even tho I already know you're an american boy...why could bewbs cause trouble with your kids? My would probably just snigger way dirtier than I could have thought and be over with it....if you know what I mean...

Angry marines have been calling me for a long time Vik....and they're yellow .

Bewbs are the issue because I have daughters not sons like you. Plus I don't want them to get some wired idea of what's
"Sexy" from figures with six Bewbs, claws and tentacles for hair.

I was considering khorne demon army though, not marines.

hmmm... khorne demons...well at least these won´t have that much in the bewb department then... tho...I think they´re horny all of the time...

khorne demons could look pretty good, soft transition from black to red...I bet that could be cool with an AB...

and I understand you... in fact that was a very good explanation and not some puritan one....so...respect from for that!