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@comradepanda, yes, they are rather cool. It's the one thing that keeps bringing me back to 40k, even if only to the bleachers, the background and concepts.

Well just backed the kickstarter for some bloodbowl models. They had a 40mm samurai oni, and a hot looking bar wentch . Might add a little more, but the models aren't the best and it's really just to get the funds for remolding.

Woke up to a water main break and no water in the house , have laundry to do and need a shower before work later. They say the water will be back on in a couple hours, it's just one of those first world problems of taking something for granted.

Primed a whole load of figs yesterday, pics to follow shortly. Might take the kids out and about for a while, possibly by miniaturemarket .

Oh and chicagoairbrushsupply.com (where I got my compressor) is having a Father's Day sale this week. 11%off of most bundles and paints and stuff. Code for discount is FD11

Come on boys lets show these imperial dogs what for!

Hell yeah...you reap what you sow...

Since you have your eyes out on Asian models...ever looked into ramshackle games? The have some reasonable prized tall Japanese looking robots...could be interesting for you...

And about that first world dilemma...whenever our water heating gets down I am a barbaric again too...I would then rather stay smelly at home then set a single pinky outside...without a shower in the morning I am nit even half the man I am used to be...

I just fell in love with the look of this guy when I saw the render




And who could pass her up for $5.00




I'd buy that for a dollar or $5 as it may be. Will make a great civilian figure for a diorama of bloodbowl or dreadball.

There's also a platypus bloodbowl team



they use the goblin team rules. I'm on the edge about ordering them.

Thinking of picking p deadzone today at miniaturemarket, either that or another sedition wars box (or two )

Also forgot I had another leviathan crusader unbuilt, happy day when I went through the desk drawer and found THAT huge box.

Muhahaha...a Perry army...my kids would be all over the place I have no doubt...
The oni mini reminds me of a bass guitarist...slamming and jamming...
The bar/beer maiden look very hot in the concept...but in the render appears a bit brittle...

The elephant ...wtf ???

And not many peeps could be that forgetful about a titan stashed away for rainy days...

Nice mini collection, MM has the clearance sale of That game for 40bucks! 50 minis is a haul

@shaso, that's where I got it from, and getting another 1 or two....or three later
@vik, totally forgot about perry the platypus, I could totally see making them in those colors and creating one in a trentchcoat . And I guess the elephant is supposed to be the trolls on the goblin team. But last I heard there weren't elephants native to Austrailia.

Well I didn't want to mess up the paint scheme I had so far on the strain models I had done, but wanted to see if I could make it more iron warrior ish. Also was concerned about having too much color. Still touching up the skin in spots where the wash ran over. I'm thinking more of these guys to act as obliterators in the army.



Still need to pick out their eyes, teeth and finish up the flesh fixes.

I always liked the idea of the iron warriors binding demons with cybernetics to control them, I think these really bring that idea home.

In and out today, have a few contractors coming over to give bids on some masonry work. Hopefully get to run out in between.

Edit: had a little time, started the next obliterator, was doing metals first and thought......oooooooo albino , won't stay that way, but just looked cool to start.

these strain models (?) look very mean... a mixture of a biovore and some chaos stuff...I think for exactly that reason you certainly chosen the right scheme...

but it isn´t finished...something is still missing...probably the right amount of bare metal...

Vik, I'm actually going to use the scales color there as my metals for he iron warriors. Trying something slightly different than just paint silver and add hazard stripes. No crazy spikes or mutations, more of a traditional marine sort of build with the strain models being (rejects from geneseed implanting, bio test subjects, and beasts lashed into service) constructs of war.

Ordered the Deadzone rule book and nexus prime expansion books today, will pick them up at miniaturemarket tomorrow. I didn't get the box set as I have so many necromunda bulkheads that I will try the rules that way first.

In other news if the weather is nice tomorrow the kids and I are going to have a nerf war either outside or at a nearby park. It's been raining so much lately and they need some outside time with daddy.

Well Deadzone and this other game sound like potential grab bags of goodies

@shaso, I only got the deadzone rulebook not the boxed game, sedition wars sucks as a game supposedly, but a good haul of loot.

Deadzone $15.99 80 pages
Deadzone:Nexus Psi campaign book $15.99 64 pages

Also

Another sedition wars boxed set $39.00 (rulebook...who cares, 50 figs, 50 bases and stuff)

Also picked up a can of primer at the hardware store to be able to continue priming things

Cool beans! books are a brargain! I do want the buildings and minis fromn Deadzone strain and other minis sound good, I would have to read the sedition wars rules to get an idea if they are awful or not.

Totally sold on these guys now, you are doing a great job.

The other bits look very interesting, not 100% on the elephant dudes mind you, but the rest look great.

o.k. I like them anyway^^

and I dunno how you yanks get to spend so much money on hobby stuff...(I am only addicted to ebay^^)

Miniature market is having mega sales Vik

well....^^....if I had such a shop near me...there is no telling how flat my wallet would ...be/stay...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
well....^^....if I had such a shop near me...there is no telling how flat my wallet would ...be/stay...

It is not near me, I order it all online, LOL! and it can impact my wallet greatly!

@shaso, miniaturemarket s a better deal for you because you don't pay taxes (out of state) and free shipping if over $???. I'd be better getting most of my stuff through thewarstore.com, but I'm impatient, and some deals are too good, like the sedition wars stuff.
@vik, I like eBay, but its hit and miss, plus I shop he real bargains at MM. Got all my mantic Orc stuff there for less than kickstarter prices while they were clearancing them out.
@cam, thanks , they are great models that really paint themselves for the most part. Lots of cleanup with mold lines, but I'm not going for golden demon quality, just tabletop.

Well , the new primer messed up. I should have figured because I shook the can for three minutes before the little ball even began to rattle in the can. Luckily it only messed up one figure, too bad it's my forgeworld nurgle sorcerer . He'll get stripped soon and I can get another can of primer somewhere else.

Dakka was being weird earlier, my last post I wrote three separate times and it still isn't showing the pics I had attached. So here's what I painted earlier today.

He's no longer an albino, but he is looking good to my eyes.

Also the loot from earlier

Now that I have two sets of sedition wars, I can use the accompanying tiles that come inside the sets and do bigger layouts and show both sides. There are (???) 5 double sided boards I think, each are approximately 1'x1' so that's a good sized table.

I've got some decisions to make on my next purchases. Probably a third set of sedition wars, that I'll net me a third mauler (alligator looking strain, and obliterators number 5+6. I can also use the phase 5 strains to be dreadnoughts or at least robots used by the iron warriors.

Oh, I was kinda digging the albino look Looks like they'll fit in nicely with Iron Warriors now though

I see Sedition Wars is going cheap on Amazon over here, getting more and more tempted by those Strain

"Iron within. Iron without"

So decided to look at what I had done previously with iron warriors and have them next to the sedition wars stuff.

Leviathan mortis has had a few colors tossed on him, but I'm not happy with how those are progressing .

Rabble ratings from sedition wars. Led by siege lord wielding the dark mace of Sauron . Demon lord spiky junk, dreadnought (contemptor) Titus, and spider tank/vindicator "Fred".

All three of whom were made with the bodies of khorne juggernaughts, sentinel legs and assorted bits....and magnets. I was especially happy with Titus.
Terrible picture I know . But he has a chain fist (close combat arm) which has a magnetized heavy flamer and I think a plasma cannon(lost in the warp currently). The other arm is a dual autocannon which is also magnetized. Never got around to the other weapons. I just like the styling of the robotic body on him. And the pose he's in looks like an angry swagger as he's advancing.

Also accompanying him is the demon lord "Spiky Junk". Named for all the spiky growths between his legs. He is a close combat beast with jump pack/wings, I wanted a demon lord who fit the iron warriors idea of bionics and brutality.


Lastly is the spider tank "Fred", who is about a 1:1 scale representation of the tarantula that greeted me the first morning I woke up in Nicaragua a few years ago. Luckily it was one of my room mates that got up and showered first and located him in the shower.

His front legs, the two short ones with smoke launchers on them have magnets to hold alternate weapons(also lost in the warp).

That is some really heavily converted iron warriors.

Great stuff dude, toally love Titus.

Thanks guys
@comrade, they are from a while back during a conversion kick. I want to make more dreads though.
@Cam, he's one of my favorites that I made over the years. The juggernaughts are just so nice of a design, just like the sentinel legs.

Also I don't think I showed off my Gator-Mauler yet, at least since he's joined the iron warriors. Hopefully there's enough but not too much on him.

Nice work on the various Iron Warriors and good job on the Gator-Mauler. Keep it up.

That is looking real good Theo!

@Dr. H, thanks, everyone loves alligators
@shaso, thanks man

So tried painting deathguard sorcerer even though the primer messed up. Still not close to done yet, but here goes.



He looks like he's yelling at comradepanda's emperors children marines " you emperors children for wiping your cheeto hands on my nice cape "
Tried to freehand the biohazard symbol on the loincloth. The cloth is so tattered and torn that it doesn't matter how bad it is it almost looks genuine . I originally chose the orange to go with the strain figure pants to see how they look together, and did the skin tones the same. I think he looks good with his cultist followers.

I must say I am very impressed by your painting skills mate!
the gator mauler alone looks splendid... and now that sorcerer is promising as well!!!!


also... again...many thanks for that care package back then... I now really can appreciate for the first time these cool magnets of yours!!! big thank you mate for these !!!

Yeah Strain really do fit as the techno-bio mutations ravage the men with the sorcerer.

That is surprisingly well fitting. I like what you are doing, and go for the dread.

I was thinking making a DZ/SW mixed plague force.

@vik, no problem brother . I'm glad you got to use them.
@comrade, yes more dreads are needed , and more weapon mounts for them as well.
@shaso, I haven't even opened the DZ rulebook yet, but hats what I was thinking as well.

Well work was a bit tense today. I've mentioned hem giving me the supervisory position as a backup for vacations and sicknesses, and Saturday I ran my fourth shift as the supervisor. Now I've worked 40 hours a week since I was 8 years old at our family business. Last year while I was unemployed was the only time I haven't worked at least that, and for the last 13 or so I've been in management running small businesses all he way up to running a 39million dollar a year store so managements nothing new. Saturday however three of the ladies working under me (crew of seven total that night), kept playing games seeing how far hey could push me. The 3 of them took 35 minutes to get heir stuff ready and leave storeroom (5 minute job), 2 of them went to the third floor and hung out for another 15 minutes and didn't see me watching and timing them. Then those same two stole an extra 20 after clocking in from lunch and hung out in the main lobby ( once again didn't see me standing 20' away cleaning up a spill ), but hen hey saw me they ran into the women's restroom to hide, but I was staring right at them hen they saw me . It went on and on all night long. Well tonight all four of us were working and he big boss brought hem each into the office, lots o tears later I now have three coworkers that want me dead, one of which is on a final notice. I'm usually easy to get along with, just don try an play me . Boss told me i Handled everything right, duh, I've go more experience than he does, but to keep my nose clean because they are vindictive. No problem here , the mess with me now and its retaliation plain and simple, goodbye o heir jobs if I happens.

In other news I have Thursday-Sunday off and were taking h family for just a single night out of town. Looking like we may head to Hannibal MO. couple hours drive from here, lots to see and do there. Also Sunday is my aunts 60th jubilation. Jubilation, what's that? It's like an anniversary for being in the Catholic Church. She has been a nun for 60years and still going strong pushing 80 years old. I'm very proud of her and her service, even though I keep asking her when she's going to kick the habit . Lots o relatives flying in for the party including one my other aunts that I've only seen 7 or 8 times in my life, and I turn 40 in a couple weeks.

Lots o do the next couple of days and then I'll be out of contact this weekend, so try and be good till I get back