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**Revenent Reiko**

Hmm thats quite a list graven, but one thing at a time is the best advice there is (and already given by Solar, Gits, and Sabre).
cant wait to see it all unfold

**inmygravenimage**

Hey guys,
Just a quick apology. After a hectic week at work, I had hoped to get through my GMS stuff this weekend, but I spent yesterday in hospital having woken up with crushing chest pains in the middle of the night. Not good. Turns out, after much poking, prodding, zapping etc, that I've managed to pull the muscles on the left side of my chest, which is infinitely preferable to anything else it could've been, but bloody uncomfortable.
Anyway, I'll try to get some paint on toys over the next couple of days.
Later,
graven.

**Gitsplitta**

Glad it's nothing more serious buddy, take care of yourself...

Gits

**Reaper Man 2020**

I'm also glad it wasn't anything more serious! A bit of R&R is needed.

**Revenent Reiko**

Woah that sounded a lot scarier than it turned out!
Glad you are ok bud.

**inmygravenimage**

Aw, thanks guys. Sore still but my bros-in-law are filling me with belgian wheat beer which helps vastly. Just a dull ache now really. I've got done stuff: paint 1 on counts-as Straken, painted interior of GK LRC, and 5 GK Paladins built (no tilt shields, they look rubbish, too busy). Next big build is a Furioso conversion to GK Ven Dread (Psyfleman/Psyflamer swappable) standing over a Dragon Lord dread wreck. Mebbe.

**BLACKHAND**

Hope you feel better soon Bud, can't wait to see the GK Ven

**Revenent Reiko**

inmygravenimage wrote:Aw, thanks guys. Sore still but my bros-in-law are filling me with belgian wheat beer which helps vastly. Just a dull ache now really. I've got done stuff: paint 1 on counts-as Straken, painted interior of GK LRC, and 5 GK Paladins built (no tilt shields, they look rubbish, too busy). Next big build is a Furioso conversion to GK Ven Dread (Psyfleman/Psyflamer swappable) standing over a Dragon Lord dread wreck. Mebbe.

You lucky lucky man, i have exams for the next coupleweeks (and ive been revising for what seems like forever) so no beer for me

Really glad you are ok tho

Looking forward to the next projects, but make sure you take it easy!

**inmygravenimage**

The GK dread was a treat for myself - well, went into gw for a finecast Termie Lib with the family and the wife's reaction was, "Seriously? You've dragged me in here and that's all you're getting?" Sorry dear, I'll go buy more toys...
He's largely built, with magna grapple and swappable Flamer/Halberd and Twin AC arms. Need to get some GK iconography on him though, pics later maybe, tomorrow if not. Tilt shields may finally have a home on this bad boy.

**Reaper Man 2020**

I just picked up that fine cast Terminator Librarian too! It's lovely model but I had a few bubbles in the resin. Unfortunately my wife did not have the same opinion as yours and dragged me out of the shop!

**Revenent Reiko**

inmygravenimage wrote:the wife's reaction was, "Seriously? You've dragged me in here and that's all you're getting?" Sorry dear, I'll go buy more toys...

*shakes head in astonishment*
Lucky, lucky man......

**inmygravenimage**

Hey gang,
Proof that I have done some stuff when I should be prepping for a job interview:
endtransmission's count-as Straken. This is just a first set of colours, really.

And another view:

Need to clean that heinous mould line I now see on the bottom of the plas!

Just to show I haven't forgotten the great and glorious Mentor Legion, an experiment for the pack on assault marines:

Helm looks odd in photo, not sure why. Hmm.

And a slew of GK pics.

First, not a GK - a very old Callidus, now with some paint:

Obviously not actually a Callidus, but I think she does the job, no? Not sure how to do the pistol, thoughts?

Picked up a finecast Libby, as mentioned. No obvious blemishes/holes, easy clean up, takes glue well and seems to be happy to have bits added. More to come on this, but I'm pretty sold, tbh.

I was very impressed that I could shave the skull easily off the back of the hand and then attach it to the side of the sb. The resin is surprisingly durable.

And now this gorgeous beast. Furioso no more...

Bit of GS needed at the top of the blade on the lapel, and I'm not sure about the tilt shield/wings on the other lapel. The tilted up head, btw, is a nod to the fact that I conceived him as anti-air/rifleman.

L'il bit of cleanup needed here also, I know, I know

Weapon Loadouts. First up, Psyflamer version:

Point out the gap at the top of the flamer cable at your

peril!

And the Psyfleman version:

Playing against the glass ninjas tonight, 1250, going to run:
Crowe
5 purifiers, 3 halberds/2incinerators
5 purifiers, 3 halberds/2incinerators
5 Paladins, apothecary, banner, falchions
Librarian, 2 powers, homer
LR Crusader.

Comes in at 1217, so I'll juggle, maybe gate the LRC. I'll let y'all know how it goes!

Later, and C&C as ever,
graven

**Gitsplitta**

All looking wonderful graven! :-) Nice to see your mentors getting some love.

**Revenent Reiko**

Wow, some great looking minis graven!
that is a pretty bad-a$$ mould line on the Plasma

One thing:
Theres some flash or something on the Librarian's banner and on his outstretched fingers.
For the Callidus, isnt there a Termagaunt size devourer? (the cone shaped one with lots of little holes in it), ive always thought that would fit a needle pistol (it is meant to be a Needle pistol right? :S)
The Dread is fantastic! the autocannons especially really look good

erm btw...theres a gap at the top of the flamer cable...........

sorry couldnt help myself

**inmygravenimage**

Must... not... kill... Reiko... with... spoon...

re: pistol - nice idea, though I kinda meant more how to a paint the one I've given her. Cheers for the spot on the Libby. Love my dread...

@gits: forgot to put this guy up for you, Brother Draven of the Weeping Angels:

**Revenent Reiko**

inmygravenimage wrote:Must... not... kill... Reiko... with... spoon...

SPOOOOONN!!!

Sorry dude, it had to be done

re: pistol - nice idea, though I kinda meant more how to a paint the one I've given her. Cheers for the spot on the Libby. Love my dread...

ahh i see, me being silly as usual

in that case..... im no help at all im afraid.
No worries on the Lib, i have heard on the grapevine that the flash is fairly easy to remove. also, judging from some examples of finecast i have seen (not all, but quite a few, you have been a little lucky in getting a model with no flaws. Quick Question, did you have to check any others for flaws/miscast?
I love the Dread too

**Gitsplitta**

Looks beautiful graven... hope I can do him justice with my half of the trade.

**endtransmission**

Straken is looking great, thanks! I'm getting an Arnie/Terminator vibe from the head, can't wait to see him finished. There's also a bit of flash on the end of the shotgun if you're going back to clean things up a tad

I took photos of your guy, but it seems I left the camera cable at work. Doh!

**whalemusic360**

I thought Straken was an IG guy?

**BLACKHAND**

Everything is looking great Graven, loving that rifleman!

I like the tilt shield btw.

**endtransmission**

whalemusic360 wrote:I thought Straken was an IG guy?

He is, normally. His stats read like a Space Marine though, so I figured this would be an interesting use for a GMS Marine. As the Mentor Legion are known to send individuals out to train Guard forces, Graven has been a star and agreed to make me one

**inmygravenimage**

@endtransmission: glad you like him - and glad you like the arnie face! I'll fix that bit of the shotgun, sorry.

@wm360: endtransmission wanted a mentor for counts as. Certainly fits the mentor fluff.

@Blackhand: cool, and thanks for the

on the tilt shield.

Played GKs v eldar tonight. Won, but not a terribly satisfying game: GKs felt totally overpowered. I know that partly this is a problem with Eldar, but, still. Hmm.

**Llamahead**

Your Coteaz looks great. So didn't find the finecast to much of a problem to work with then? I haven't worked much with resin and I'm a little leary of it

**BLACKHAND**

inmygravenimage wrote:Played GKs v eldar tonight. Won, but not a terribly satisfying game: GKs felt totally overpowered. I know that partly this is a problem with Eldar, but, still. Hmm.

I'm not sure, because I have only played one game vs eldar and I thrashed them, but it may the GK. In the tournament I played in on the wekend there were 4 Eldar players and one of them took 1st place so they must be competitive to some degree.

Did your opponent take the Eldar fella that makes psykers take their perils test with 3d6 rather than 2d6? I would have thought that would give the GK justicars a bit of trouble, it certainly shut down my SM Libby something wicked.

**Revenent Reiko**

Yeah i would have thought the Runes of Warding (i think its those runes) would have given you more trouble.
Congrats on the win, but shame it wasnt as enjoyable to play as you wanted.

**Knightley**

Really liking the Psyfleman dread, but that might have something do to with the awesomesauce dread body.

Probably another dreadnaught I may have to buy and convert now.... why do you do this to me Graven, why?

**inmygravenimage**

That's interesting guys about the psykers. To be fair, he assumed I was running SM or IG, so went without psykers and loaded up on Hawks, Scorpions, Reapers and Rangers.

Completely stuffed the Reapers and Scorpions deployment with 2 servo skulls placed strategically; general discussion among our usual crowd (SM, IG, SOB, and Daemons) was that at 5 points they're preposterously good.

Scorpions tried to put the hurt on Paladins but just got shrugged off. I have to say I wasn't overly impressed by the apothecary, at 75 pts he's a big buy when I could have another Paladin with Falchions.
Crowe took down Morgan Ra (sic) terrifyingly nasty.
Hawks managed to disable LRC, though not before being absolutely crucified by Hurricane Bolters (psybolt ammo on LRC FTW!)
Termie Libby did well, very versatile, wasn't sold on the paying for powers thing but it meant I could have maximum versatility (Sanctuary and Sith Lightning v potent). Purifiers were good but are, relatively speaking, quite fragile, so I'll need to watch that.
It was a good learning experience for us both but not necessarily a great game. Rematch in a fortnight though!

Oh, and @ Knightley: what can I say, I'm a bad person. It's actually a pretty quick and easy conversion, assuming you've got 4 IG ACs kicking about. Furioso lends itself well to the job (but just ask BH, I've been planning this for about a year!)

Later,
graven

**Miss Dee**

Love the Incinerator

**Solar_lion**

The last pic of the series shows a mentor with a red Right shoulder pad. I thought they were green? Is this a special desigination you use?

SL

**inmygravenimage**

@ Miss Dee: Cheers m'dear!
@ S_L: Well, that's the unit insignia pad (Clearly, in the magic space future, we don't have tech to do that for us :-? ); I've decided to colour code my units, with red tones for assault, White for sternguard, black for LotD, and blue or green for devastators. I'm using aobr for tacticals, so that's separate. Seem reasonable?