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Darn thier domestic Space Marineing!

Keep the shoulder pads the same, there isnt a big difference.

Sorry I was a bit backlogged and I think that the ML, TL Las dread is a better choice for your army. with all those scouts and sternguard you prolly wont be too messed up by transports, but you will be messed up by AV 14 that you cant pop from far away. Missile Launcher is good as well because it lets you hit troops too if there is nothing else to shoot at. I vote that the dread gets deployed with your TF cannon (Im guessing you got all this already) then the pod comes in turn 2+ without anything in it, meanwhile your other pods drop in. Not a bad use of 35 pts IMO.

Camo on the snipers cloak looks fine, it looks a lot like flecktarn, the type of camo that modern German forces use.

Cool Stuff, Keep it up

@Gitsplitta- Where are those vets??

I swear I'm not impatient... Ok maybe I am but I really like the ideas you had for them!

Sorry tony... sometimes life gets in the way.. happens when you're 47. Mine is getting in the way at the moment. I promise I'll work on them as soon as I can.

Grey Knight Luke wrote: I vote that the dread gets deployed with your TF cannon (Im guessing you got all this already) then the pod comes in turn 2+ without anything in it, meanwhile your other pods drop in. Not a bad use of 35 pts IMO.

Ok, that's for sure a pretty interesting tactic in the WH40k GAME...

Still, I don't think I would see a SM commander "waste" an empty Drop Pod launch on a battlefield.

e.g. :



Tactical Briefing by Captain Gitsplitta : - "Ok, so Venerable Dreadnought Brother Alpha will be sent in the fray with Squad Invictus at 0600 local time.
Then, 15 minutes later, the wrath of the Holy Emperor will rain upon our foes with an direct Drop Pod assault on the enemy stronghold, led by Brother-Sergeant Furioso and its Sternguards, Brother-Sarcophagus Tempest, and erh... how do I put it? Ah, yes... A third, empty Drop Pod."

Brother-Sergeant Impetus, leader of the eager-to-be-committed-and-unleash-their-fury-but-kept-in-reserve-in-the-Holy-Battle-Barge squad: - "Excuse me, Brother-Captain, would you mind if we got a lift through that EMPTY Drop Pod?!?!?"



I mean, that is a good and not so expensive maneuver, but I thought that your Mantis Warriors were all about the fluff??? Just my point of view of course uh...

Still, Grey Knight Luke, thanks for seconding the TL Lascannon on the Dread...

Cheers!!

I'm just messing with you man. I completely understand how life gets in the way...

Mantis pads are being sculpted atm. I just managed to screw up the first attempt *sigh* but thay are salvagable.
They should be finished tomorrow unless my real job doesnt interfere...

Wonderful Pyriel, I have every confidence that they'll be choice when complete. You guys know what you're doing... I'll just stay out of the way and play the patron.

:-)




On a side note, the Vanguard figure melted after a week in pine sol, and I never was happy with the paint removal... even after the melting, so it's in the garbage and I'll just re-build it with several modifications when I'm ready to do the unit. For the nonce, I have several Sternguard primed and ready to go, so I'll start there. I'm not happy about losing the torso and head though... those were special aquisitions. I'll post progress as I make it. Good to be back in the saddle again...

Dude, simple green. never had a problem, and im lazy and leave dreadnoughts in there for weeks. Actually still in there......

Yep, you and Blackhand both are pointing me in that direction. Can get it locally so no problem. I hope to make some quick progress on the Sternguard... at least get everything painted that's already built (including yours) and Pedro.

Cool, cant wait to see him, feel free to put him up here, then people can give me a hard time on my conversion work for a change. lol
At least you have extra termi legs to play with!

Mornin' all. Been a lot of yakkin' and not much paintin' goin' on. So I thought I would post my progress to date... not much, but give the 12-14 hr days I've been working I'll take what I can get. Have a 4-day holiday weekend coming up and though a good part of it will be spent fishing... their'll be plenty of time for painting too.

So here's the second member of the Vanguard squad to get painted... it's an old metal beakie that I mocked up to go with my Tranquility Snipers. Got his armory yellow primer coat and has been washed with sepia to get me my dark base color. You guys will laugh... I had to dig all the way back to page 7 of the blog just to figure out how I'd painted the last one! Couldn't remember. There are a few spots I need to touch up the wash on yet, will get to those before I leave for work this morning.

i really need to get some of those old rt marines again ^_^

Are you planning on only using RT marines?

For the Sternguard... mostly. I have one black reach marine that I converted over, and will be giving nearly all of them either new legs or modified legs to increase their stature a little bit, but it is my thought that this particular unit would be nearly entirely RT.

Well get ta hackin up some more vintage marines already! I know youve got some!

Never fear... but I want to paint the one's I've built first, along with Pedro. Then I'll do all the specialists with the combi-meltas and heavy flamers and such. Should do something special for the sergeant... have to thing about that one. Any thoughts anyone?

Power Sythe?

No, no, no... saving him for something special. Might be a while... still a nebulous idea, but a goodun' I think.

Maybe you should make a specialized "Mantis Dreadnought" that has a giant chainsword arm that looks like a mantis arm, that makes all rending attacks

Wow! A mantis dread would be crazy!

Is there some dread that can actually do that? He wants to keep it codex playable.

Even without the constant rending, It would be a really fun idea to have such a specialized Dread.

Would make a nifty DCCW idea for sure. Maybe like the Chaos Dreads from FW, only bigger

It might be cool to have a slightly leaner dread, a bit more in line with an actual mantis. Does that make sense?

Check back on the thread, someone else mentioned that a while ago and posted a link to an astounding scratch-built preying mantis dread... way beyond my skills... but way cool.

Sergeant for my Sternguard just came in today... very neat fig. Not GW, but will fit in just fine. Very ornate... be a good "veteran sergeant for the veteran squad"... you'd have to be pretty spiffy to do that I think. Will add him near the top of the painting list. Hope to have some progress to show tomorrow.

Can you show us a pic? Like maybe from the website?

Here's a link to the site. With a bit of fiddling I can make him fit right in... drop the shoulder pads, add a GW gun arm & back pack, that should about do it. Pretty reasonable price for a nice fig.

http://www.sciborminiatures.com/en_,shop.php?art=911

Wow, that is a pretty cool guy.

Have a two-fer for you today. Got up in the wee hours (when you're in your 40's, the term "wee hours" has a little bit different meaning than it did 10 years ago)... and was inspired to paint! So I finished the yellow on two of my tranquility snipers. Figured it didn't take that much more effort to do two figures instead of just one, and that way I could let one dry fully before working on the second.

The guy on the left is a metal beakie from long, long ago. The marine on the right is a Blackreach figure. This one's a bit of an experiment as the rifle is actually made from a sniper rifle made to look more like a bolt gun, rather than a bolt gun made to look like a sniper rifle. It's not a perfect conversion... and there are a few things (looking at the side-by-side photo) I could have done to make it closer in bolt gun shape, but for a one-off experiment it's close enough.



Next I'll paint the non-yellow detail, give it a light coat of varnish to keep everything in place... then the camo pattern. Depending on how much energy I have later tonight, I may have another progress pick for you before bed.



So, it appears that my next post is in the inter-page limbo... so I'm adding a bit to this one just to see if I can make it appear...





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OK, so now I have two posts, with pictures in limbo...