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Made in ch
Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!





Holy Terra.

Wow.

Are those T-Spons bits custom built or purchased from somewhere?





Also fear not my desk is almost twice as big and has about the same amount of free space.

   
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Ultramarine Land Raider Pilot on Cruise Control





Macragge

You better watch out... at the rate GW is going through (storm)/bird names the thunder chicken might have an official model someday rendering yours invalid...

   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

EmberlordofFire8 wrote:Wow.

Are those T-Spons bits custom built or purchased from somewhere?


I bought them from Kromlech ages ago and rediscovered them in one of my bitz bins. It was a happy find! I have a front section as well, just need a Rhino to put it on...

brushcommando wrote:You better watch out... at the rate GW is going through (storm)/bird names the thunder chicken might have an official model someday rendering yours invalid...


Hmm yes, I see it now. A thunderhawk that launches eggs from its rear which upon landing, spawn squads upon squads of baby space marines!

   
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Macragge

You laugh, but imagine that instead of eggs, they were drop pods. Now you have a thunderchicken skyhammer annihilator retribution wing. Inform your opponent that this formation is often called "Steel Rain torrent of egghammer." Also, GW also has the habit of putting things inside of other, similar things, i.e. centurions, and dreadknights. Therefore, it is reasonalble to expect the thunderturducken to be a real model some day as well...

   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

Well Rogue trader did have ball shaped drop pods after all!


Spoiler:


   
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What's left of Cadia

The Thunderchicken would be a great counter to the Hell-Turkey that the CSM have

TheEyeOfNight- I swear, this thread is 70% smack talk, 20% RP organization, and 10% butt jokes
TheEyeOfNight- "Ordo Xenos reports that the Necrons have attained democracy, kamikaze tendencies, and nuclear fission. It's all tits up, sir."
Space Marine flyers are shaped for the greatest possible air resistance so that the air may never defeat the SPACE MARINES!
Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
 
   
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In a Trayzn pokeball

Those ball shaped pods make more sense than the ones we have now.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
The hobby is actually hating GW.
 iGuy91 wrote:
You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
 Elbows wrote:
You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote:
Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming?
 
   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

War Kitten wrote:The Thunderchicken would be a great counter to the Hell-Turkey that the CSM have


Haha, Hell-Turkey actually sounds kinda scary!

CREEEEEEEEED wrote:Those ball shaped pods make more sense than the ones we have now.


I always imagined that they would just roll around the battlefield like large marbles though. A teardrop shape seems more practical as it's not going to go into a crazy spin on the way down. Don't want your battle brothers puking all over the machine spirit inside anyway

I was always quite fond of this design actually. Not sure if it's totally official but if memory serves correctly, GW Aus sold them for a bit, could be wrong though...


[Thumb - Drop Pod MKII (1).jpg]

[Thumb - Drop Pod MKII (2).jpg]


   
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My ancient "lab"

Interesting, i've not seen those drop pods before. Very pillar-esqe and probably very useful in conversion work!

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Florida

First let me say this army has come a long way and is awesome! Love your kit bashing and conversion work.

 Commander Cain wrote:
So FW just showcased a bunch of their upcoming HH models and believe it or not they they had to go and make TSons mechanicum didn't they?




Second: When did these get posted??? How did I miss this? Those are awesome!

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JSF wrote:... this is really quite an audacious move by GW, throwing out any pretext that this is a game and that its customers exist to do anything other than buy their overpriced products for the sake of it. The naked arrogance, greed and contempt for their audience is shocking.
= Epic First Post.
 
   
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Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!





Holy Terra.

I kinda want to buy 6 of them and model Khalophis floating on one of their bases. I wouldn't be able to use them on post-Battle for Prospero (also why I wont buy a Warlord to represent Canis Vertex... RIP), but it sure would look awesome.

   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:Interesting, i've not seen those drop pods before. Very pillar-esqe and probably very useful in conversion work!


Yeah they're pretty cool, I spot landspeeder engines but I don't know what the other bits are!

SickSix wrote:First let me say this army has come a long way and is awesome! Love your kit bashing and conversion work.


Thank you sir! Pretty happy with how much I have improved my modelling skills over the years!

EmberlordofFire8 wrote:I kinda want to buy 6 of them and model Khalophis floating on one of their bases. I wouldn't be able to use them on post-Battle for Prospero (also why I wont buy a Warlord to represent Canis Vertex... RIP), but it sure would look awesome.


To really make a statement you need to buy a Warlord titan and have him floating over the top of that instead

   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

Pretty dull update but I finally got round to finishing off the landspeeder. Turns out all that stuff on my desk doesn't combine well as some sculpey was resting on a plastic base which, after being left there for a while, melted the base into a heap of black goo! Chemistry is fascinating sometimes...



I also picked up a really nice display cabinet and started filling it up. After installing some lights it is coming along nicely




I may need to get a couple more shelves as there is a lot of wasted space. Either that or get some more flyers to float around.

For now I need a break from painting red so Mechanicus are up next!

   
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My ancient "lab"

Even though it's small, it's great! Land Speeder looks excellent finished, and the display cabinet is well decorated with your TS.

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Pious Palatine






Nice! Everything looks very snazzy in the display cabinet.

EDC
   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

Thanks chaps! It's nice actually being able to see what I have painted rather than just hiding it away in a cupboard once it's all finished.


My attempts at painting some ad mech failed as it was super warm the last few days which is very odd for Canada this time of year. As a result I've been outside stroking the grass which has been buried for months on end.

I did however snap a picture of the Pyrae squad I built complete with very scary looking flamers



Sorry for the huge image, Dakka has been compressing them really badly the last few months so it's either this or a teeny tiny picture!

   
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My ancient "lab"

Nice lookin' squad! I don't have the space for an actual display case in my room, stuck with leaving them on shelves. BTW, have you gotten Inferno yet? Sounds like a hit to me.

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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

Thanks Justaerin! If I were to get Inferno it would only be for the pretty pictures haha. What I really want is to see what the Prospero Spireguard looked like. No art exists of them yet and it is super frustrating!


After photographing the squad I decided it wasn't ornate enough so I added some small crests to their helmets and added a banner so that I could paint the cult logo on it at some point. I am also sculpting some flames to add on one of the guns. Not sure if they will make it onto a model though as my sculpting skills are appalling at the moment...



The crests were salvaged from the spinal columns of a few Necrons I had lying around, I know, creepy huh?


   
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Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!





Holy Terra.

Admit it, you stole the BaC and rubric marine mesh from me.


Great job, I especially like those crests.

   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

Oh don't you worry mate, I had the idea well before the rubrics were even out!

They do have a fair bit of scale difference bit the kits still meshed pretty well.

   
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What's left of Cadia

Those Pyrae marines are gorgeous!

TheEyeOfNight- I swear, this thread is 70% smack talk, 20% RP organization, and 10% butt jokes
TheEyeOfNight- "Ordo Xenos reports that the Necrons have attained democracy, kamikaze tendencies, and nuclear fission. It's all tits up, sir."
Space Marine flyers are shaped for the greatest possible air resistance so that the air may never defeat the SPACE MARINES!
Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
 
   
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My ancient "lab"

Clever work! Naturally the Egypt marines would take parts from the Egypt Xenos.

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My personal favorite YT WH40K channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHCy9ID33sHp6Quirb1-XA

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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

War Kitten wrote:Those Pyrae marines are gorgeous!


JustaerinAtTheWall wrote:Clever work! Naturally the Egypt marines would take parts from the Egypt Xenos.


Thanks gents!

Sorry for the long hiatus, I've been pretty busy working two jobs and have had no energy for painting but now that Canadian summer has finally shown up I managed to get some stuff sprayed and should have some more updates soonish.

In the meantime I have started to polish up and rebase an old Raptora squad. Still a wip but at least it's something!



Here was the squad back in 2012 so as you can see they will be getting some reinforcements and fancy new robes




I still find it great how a slightly larger base seems to give the model some much needed breathing room. A simple change but one that makes quite a bit of difference in my opinion.

   
Made in ch
Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!





Holy Terra.

Are those DA robes? They look awesome

   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

Thanks! They're a mix of DA bits and some Anvil Industry parts which turned out to blend together quite nicely

   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

While I finish working on the rest of the Raptora squad, I thought I would show off how the new captain is looking.

He was originally an Inquisitor Coteaz model wrecked by bubbles as he came from the finecast era. I salvaged most of him though and am pretty happy with the results.

I feel like he needs a splash of a tertiary colour somewhere though to contrast all the red , gold and brown he has though. Normally I would add some white patches but I am not really sure where to put them.

Either way here he is for your viewing pleasure!


   
Made in ch
Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!





Holy Terra.

Pretty cool, where'd you get that head?

   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

If memory serves me correctly it was from Maxmini along with a few other really cool helmets!

   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

The squad is nearing completion! I just have a few details to fix up and the bases to paint and then I can move on to something new and shiny.



I'll snap some decent pics once they are all done but I hope you all like them so far

   
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Phanobi






Canada,Prince Edward Island

Today is a freakishly nice day with no wind and just the right temperature so I decided to break out the MKIV Astartes-Pattern Stick of Basecoating and got another 50 or so marines primed in preparation for my weekend which can't come soon enough!




I think I'm gonna have to go and enjoy the weather now though so it looks like the Raptora squad is going to have to wait to get their bases finished...

   
 
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