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Hello everyone or anyone who visits this blog! My name is Daniel and I just got into warhammering, this is the story of my first small army.

Everything about this project started when I found the citadel finecast version of Inquisitor Karamazov in my LFGS; and after being lectured on the wonders of finecast by the local redshirts I was hooked.
I later bought the codex, a pack of terminators and got a squad of space marines from a friend of mine. These will be used as Warrior Acolytes.
I plan on posting all progress in form of pictures and explanations, please give me feedback.



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On to the pictures!






Please give me feedback!

my own comments on this: The camera is certainly not flattering for the paintjob, but things have turned out basically the way I want them to.
A few points of interest:
1. the power sword - I wanted it to look like a normal sword with an aura of blue power and I think that came out well (in real life more so).
2. The skulls will need some sort of white-ish highlight.
3. The halo effect on the skull decal is more of less invisible when looked at in real life - I consider it a non-issue (for now)
4. I am very pleased with his face and the armor turned out okey - it is not supposed to draw attention from the sword, hands and face, rather highlight them as i made the collar and upper breastplate more golden so as to make the face more central.
More pictures will be added soon, mainly of the acolyte squad I have.
A note on the marines as acolytes -> I am fully aware that they will not technically be space marines, just regular humans that are almost 7 feet tall, wear power armour and uses bolters. They also all count as having a chainsword.
This makes them almost as good as regular marines with just abit higher cost! The squad also contains 2 plasma guns and a flamer.
total cost of acolyte squad? 177 points!

The army list will be as follows:
1x Karamazov - 200
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5x Grey Knight Terminators - 225+ (probably more)
| 1x brotherhood banner
| 2x halberds
| 1x Deamon hammer (just because it looks awesome)
| 1x force sword (on the justicar, because it looks awesome with the =][= logo by the hilt)
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5x Grey Knight Strike Squad - 100 (probably more)
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10x Warrior Acolytes - 177
| 7x bolters
| 2x plasma guns
| 1x flamer
10x power armor
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total
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702 points before I bling out the termies and the GK squad.

update! I have more or less completed the inquisitor and have moved on to the acolytes.



That is a carved-up ork head on the base, by the way

The marble shoulder is far from finished in this picture and have since gotten a few more layers and some imagery

far from done as well, he is going to get a parchment-like look with lots of scribbles, I think it will look cool. made with GK terminator bitz, btw.

Now on the the primed acolytes that still need attention





Not going to say much about these now, I am going to save that until they are painted.

GROUP SHOTS!




And another picture of my beloved leader, sadly missing torches (not sure what to do about those as I am afraid they will break any time I transport him... might try some sort of pinning or magnets)

Dear diary,
today I changed the title of my blog since during my research on the internets about the grey knights, I came across what seemed like an animosity towards them.
Strange, I thought at first, how can something so point expensive and close combat oriented be considered ?

Turns out that that was more or less the exact reason; that the grey knights, even though their cost, was ridiculously point-effective and survivable with crazy elite choices able to be made troops with equally powerful characters!

Apparently, if you make the right choices in your army composition, your models will refuse to die no matter what while still bringing almost silly amounts of pain down on whatever enemy is faced.
Now, my force wont be like that, I'm following the Rule of Cool when constructing this army and I pledge to use the most beautifully silly hit-and-miss attacks and powers available to me.

So expect to see jokaeros, psychotroke grenades, suicide rhinos (I want to be the first one to coin the term Stern-bombing" with his zone of banishment), Karamazovs friendly-fire orbital bombard on jump troops (imagine a teleporting dreadknight going into the thick of battle with the sole purpose to get tarpitted and bombed the crap out of by a madman on a dreadnought throne) and of course, Warrior Acolytes in power armour as the shooty support. (not that that is very silly, it's just what I have at the moment...)

see, NO CHEESE, and some day all my dicerolls will be blessed and someone will crumble under the might of the Throne of Judgement!

on to the pics.

The work so far.


Two of my "completed" models, i.e - I cant figure out what more to do on them please C&C
Spike guy and Implant guy (better names in the works, this goes for all the acolytes)


Two more acolytes, the plasma wielding fellow I feel is done, Scribbly, as the other one is named, may see some more attention later, but for now he remains completed.


A close up of the last of the done pieces, Club Guy, based on an angry marine I have seen. Do you recognize the parts that to not normally belong to a marine? (the arm, the club and the shoulder skull thing - better view of that in the gallery)


And to round this post off, another picture of the painted gang, this time with a different focus


please leave a comment, I do this blog so that people may see what I do and get ideas, to get feedback on what I paint/model and (hopefully) get some sort of dialogue going.

Let me try to start some sort of discussion by asking 3 questions:

1. This plan is for a 750 point force to begin with, when I later expand, what unit do you feel would best compliment what I have, based on both tactic and the aesthetic feel I am going for.

2. On my army list I am 48 points short of 750, what upgrades would be most suitable for filling out this void? I was feeling psycannons or incinerators, maybe going MC on the justicars, what are your thoughts? Maybe a dedicated transport would be best, although I'd be happy to keep my money and go for something that is already in the boxes I have. Let me know!

3. How would you guys feel about vindicare assassins? and how would you feel about conversions for one, or the actual unaltered model? I always wanted one that was basically a cardboard box with a sniper rifle. (metal gear solid- type of thing)

feel free to ask or answer anything!

They look nice, however I would like to point out that Warrior Acolytes aren't Space Marines, they have a human statline and flak armor. I believe you can buy power armor for them though.

Nice to see Inq. Karamazov being used, hes a cool model

Also like the OSL on the plasma gunner

DarkCorsair: Thanks for the kind words, friend. ...and about the whole "they arnt real spehss mahreens"...- I do get that comment alot and I assure you; they are basically male SoB in that they do not have the complete implant package but are still 8 foot tall. I actually had one guy go all "Champion of the Fluff" on me and declare that what models I used were wrong until I asked him to procure a more suitable example of a human wearing power armour than a standard MEQ. He could not. (I try to convert them so that they are more like individuals and wont be confused with true marines, you'll see as the project progresses
Basically, why I even have them in the first place was that I had a box of 10 tacs from about a year ago when my friend stopped playing Wh40k and I got some of his stuff (unopened box actually, funny that...) And I have to use them someway, dont I? It is true, a Warrior Acolyte may upgrade to use Power Armour and even bolters at a somewhat ludicrous cost, they also come equipped with chainswords by default unless swapped with a special weapon like say, a flamer or a plasma gun. They are not terrible, but they sure arnt marines.

Brother-Captain Scotti: Karamazov is more or less the sole reason this started, it is an awesome model, truly is.

Thanks man, means alot. You would not believe the amount of time and effort I put into that plasma guy, pheew, way to much in comparison to the results really, but he has become somewhat of my pride and joy.

No matter how much i hate the Grey Knights and Matt Ward i have to say your painting is beautiful

These are looking really nice, what kind of basing are you going to do?

@Dabedman - I wasn't saying that they didn't look excellent, however, that some people may give you issues as in the army list you posted you didn't buy PA or bolters for them.

DarkCorsair: You are absolutely right, I realize that I had made no indication that the acolytes all were upgraded to PA. The army list has now been fixed. Silly me...

GiraffeX: I am going to go for a quite simple mix of sand, gravel and grass. just your basic old run-of-the-mill dirt plain for the acolytes and karamazov. Terminators may get something of a slightly bigger scale, some sort of road or path perhaps.

My reasoning is this - small bases (especially in numbers) can easily look cluttered, so I avoid a bigger engagement with those. with the Inq, I looked all over the internet for pictures of dreadnought size bases and frankly, the ones that I fell for were the very basic ones that are non-intrusive. The terminators on the other hand have large bases with alot of room for experimentation.

Nightwalker: To be honest I am not very fond of the Ward-man myself, and if I had read the GK codex earlier, this project might have been about a complete different army.
Now, the grey knights as a concept and especially the inquisition, are very cool IMO. In the future this armeh is going to have alot of focus on the inquisition and the henchmen.

About that, I might need to get a cool Coteaz stand in as I dont like his model, but love his rules...


I thank all of you guys for the kind words! But dont hesitate to call out the blatant mistakes I am bound to make.

Update time!
Finished two more models and started laying the groundwork for a few more.
No rants this time, on to the pictures!


Picture was taken before I painted the skull he is holding, so he is actually complete as of the present.

Painted up the first of my terminators, starting with the justicar.


I am very happy as to how this guy turned out, and I must admit that the paint scheme GW has in the codex looks very cool. So I based mine off of that, and the tutorial on www.beastsofwar.com - mine is not an exact copy off any of them, but was fairly quick, easy and looks good. I wont go into detail to avoid a wall of text in this update, but I'll write it up if you want.

To round of the completed models of this update, here is my new aquisition, Acolyte nr. 11!

My friend Richard painted this. For those who want the story, it is below.


On to some other stuff!

Tried some gore-effects of the Ork skull this guy is supposed to have chainsworded, let me know what you think and I might tell you how I did it. Also, It might need more gloss varnish...


Tried out some basing, this is my first army after all - I have to experiment with every thing I want to do! People have told me not to base my models after I've painted them, but screw those guys, I do what I want! (also, I dont have the glue/sand/grass and stuff to do proper basing at home, have to do it at the GW store where they let you borrow their paints and stuff.)
Also, how do you propose I paint bases like this (they are going to have tufts of grass in the end, but one step at a time)

Since I cant spray the sand, how do you think foundation paint works as a suitable base?
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and that is me done with the painting section of the update, on to the conversion/creationing!

Acolyte 6 - very much redone. he was supposed to have a plasma gun in the original army list, but he is going to end up with a flamer (oh well, same amount of points atleast)

I might end up remodelling the hat because I messed up the mixing of the green stuff, but that is the gist of it. He´ll get a mainly black and white paintjob.
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that section will get bigger in the future....
finally, acolyte 8, painting in progress


looking forward to see what you guys think!

Update time! Am soon done with the acolyte squad, only one left to paint, then i'll be moving on to the terminators, which I am considering also doing a bit different paintjobs on. None of them detracting too much on the overall GW standard paint for GKs, but rather various things like a Half/half with silver/gold with alternating details of the other color, or something like an old matte black medieval armor, chipped around the edges from wear and tear.

I also started work on my Vindicare assassin yesterday, now I only need an exitus rifle or equivalent to complete my vision.
Another model I have been staring creepily at is the Techmarine with a conversion beamer to bolster both my henchmen (you get some servitors in the box), my vindicare (the bolster ruins thingy ability) and to provide crazy long range shooty goodness. Ill make the conversion beamer myself from some necron bitz, probably, in the future...

Since I have made some changes to my army composure, I shall make a revised list in this update. In the bottom, so it looks cool.

Before the new pictures, I just want to ask a question: What are your feelings about adding Coteaz as my second HQ and how should I build him (I guess the only things the model requires is a storm bolter and a hammer, and those will be aplenty since its a GK army)
I really do not want the standard Coteaz model, I want a cool pose and a no weird mutant bird. What do you guys propose I do, help me!

anyways, picture time!



Think he came out nice, I felt that he didnt need any fancy colorwork, correct me if I'm wrong


Complete opposite; super fancy paintjob. Dont know what I was thinking really, figured grey and pink would go together nicely and then I gave him an orangy face. Forever dubbed the Oompa-Loompa guy.


Oopma-loompa guy from the back to show off the work I did on the clothing. Another thing about this guy is that he is an experiment on the non-space marine concept, so I gave him an Imperial guard torso and pants that I managed to come across. Dont really think I'll do that again...


Dubbed "flamer guy", the only special thing about him is that he has a tankbusta bomb to act as the tank for the flamer, complete with a valve. He also got a scope because, why the feth not?


This guy will cost me 90 points! Brotherhood banner AND psycannon on a terminator is perhaps the most stupid thing since pre-sliced toast, but it looks awesome!
I had a blast with this base and It is going to look crazy awesome when painted.


Random Items for basing, I want my bases to kind of look like the outskirts of a town or village that was overrun by orks, so there is a bit of ork bitz on a few and a bit of road on others and on this one there is a IG campsite thing I'm going for.


60% of my terminator squad. The others will both have halberds.


A summary of what I managed to accomplish last night.


Sneak peak of the vindicare assassin!

Lots of pictures today because I figured that when I look at P&M blogs, It is the pictures that I like to watch, and the comments by the guy/girl who painted them. Let me know how you guys want me to do in the future:
1. change nothing (do as I feel like every time)
2. More painty, less talky (all business with lots of pics) p.s. there are a LOT more pics in my gallery if anyone is interested
3. "We want more talk and more updates! we can live with ~7 pics every few days, but please write more often!" (It'll be more of a conventional blog then)
4. All of the above! many updates, many pictures and lots of talking!
5. None of the above! come on, that ain't nice! Why do I even have this option?



Revised army list

- Inquisitor Lord Karamazov (1) 200
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- Terminator Squad (5) 250
^Banner
^Psycannon
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- Grey Knight Strike Squad (5) 100
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- Warrior Acolyte squad (11) 191
^11x PA
^2x flamer
^1x plasma gun
^8x boltgun
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Total 741

I need to find something for 9 points or less! It is probably going to be a vanilla 4 point acolyte and something else. Better suggestions would be nice.

Until next time! Bedman singing out




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Changed the title to something more amusing
any reference to radical movements in present day may or may not have been intended and I do not support their views in any way, shape or form.

very nice stuff here!

That Vindicare made me laugh. Good idea, and your termies look awesome. And I love the new title, especially being a Jew

MrMerlin & baneofmorgoth: thanks guys! It's comments like that that makes it all worth it.
I'm glad you like the new title


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What is that? Too many group pictures? There is no such thing as too many group shots!


Completed another terminator yesterday! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
Painted him in a darker shade of metal than the other one because I felt that a guy with a frikkin huge hammer needs to be dark, brooding and awesomely chipped. So that is what he is supposed to look like.







Primed the Bannernator at the same time, I'll start him up tonight and probably whip up the two halberdnators as well.


Experimented with the gold/silver idea my friend proposed. Let me know what you think about using something similar on one of the termies, since I rather not risk ballsing one of them up with a paintjob that aint worth my time




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Dabedman wrote:


Sneak peak of the vindicare assassin!

HAHA LOL, thats a great job! Keep it up!

Ok, update time! Didn't do much work during the weekend and am way to tired to write a lot this morning, but I want to mention a few things that I've thought about.

1. Valtrex, Astral Claws master of the forge from forgeworld shall be my Techmarine in the future! He shall be more kitted out with awesomeness than any techmarine before him! Orbital Relay, Servoskulls, Conversion Beamer and as much bling as he can carry.

2. I need to make more henchmen, for that purpose I may buy a Cadian Command squad box in order to make: 1 acolyte and then a few others...

3. need to buy a last box of PAGKs, then my project may be completed.

4. need to sell alot of old orks (this is more of a reminder for myself, I use this as a sort of warhammer diary ) Orks just don't do it for me anymore.

5. I may start a necron army as I've got a few models lying around from a few years back. I have: 1 lord w/ res orb on destroyer body, 24 warriors, 6 scarab bases, 2 immortals (metal), 3 flayed ones, 1 pariah and a C'tan shard (formerly The Nightbringer). These are all very, very badly painted and assembled with bad glue (and lots of it).
However, with a HQ, codex and an immortal box I will have a playable army after they are fixed.

6. There has to be a theme to every army I do, or at the least some gimmick to make it more unique. How would you like to see some necrons painted?


PICTURE TIME!




















(all the mould lines will be remedied, do not worry.)
Thoughts?




also, LOLCATZ

haha vindicare in a box



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lolcats

That banner is just...I hate you

Good job!!

Thanks guys I really appreciate it.

People seem to like the vindicare-in-a-box. I assure you, he shall not dissappoint.
Do you guys want me to tell you the story behind the 'care-in-a-box? Otherwise I shall save that for when he is complete.

I love the banner. Now all you need is a pet cat for one of your guys ( with a caption on the base perhaps?)

Although I did do an update yesterday, I did manage to do quite alot of work during the evening which merits another batch of pictures.

Especially since the VINDICARE IS COMPLETE!







This guy turned out exactly the way I imagined him and I would like to point out that even though the only plastic part is the necron Deathmark sniper rifle, he consists of 99% Games-Workshop parts. The box was made of a space marine tactical squad paper box, the sign as well. The box is held together with green stuff and GW superglue. the only foreign bit is the toothpick that holds the sign.

I bought a lot of stuff (by my standards) during my lunch hour walk yesterday, namely the PAGK box, the new necron codex and a box of immortals.
You heard that right, I shall start a second project so that I can have 2 armies of corresponding points value.

But before all that jazz, here is a picture of the 3 grey knights I assembled yesterday, bringing me up to 5 unpainted models and 19 unbased models. sigh I hate basing...


more pics of these in my gallery and soon after I paint them. Will probably prime them during the weekend since I work all the good priming hours of the day this week.

Now a preliminary army list for the necrons:

Destroyer Lord - 155 with orb
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Immortals x7 gauss blasters - 119
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Warriors x24 - 312
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Scarabs x6 - 90
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C'tan Nightbringer shard - more than 200, outkitted to make the army reach 1000
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Total: ~1000


Alternatively I'll scrap both the C'tan and/or the D.Lord and get one of the cool characters and some more warriors/scarabs.

1000 points is because now my GK army is also almost that size with the vindicare.
GK army total: 746 + 145 = 891

Now I have 109 points to spend on my Knights, HOORAY, I can justify a techmarine now. dont know if he can afford a conversion beamer though, will have to think this through.

@tarar2d2: I'm certainly going to have to try to make that happen but I have no idea where to find one... maybe in some old lego box maybe? I'll see what I can come up with.

Over and out


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Mini update: I just figured out what I shall do with the stray 109 points for my Grey Knights! (not that many people care...)

The last and final henchman, making the squad a full dozen.
for 24 points he gets power armor and a flamer.

that leaves me with 85 points that I shall use for a Ordo Xenos Inquisitor with a conversion beamer and 2 servo skulls (84 points)

Time for another update!
These have been very frequent these last few days (every day) because I started to become a bit bored with painting in favour of building. This means that there is a lot of new stuff completed every day. I am probably going to build the last 2 regular grey knights before going back to painting as soon as I can prime everything during the weekend.

Looking back at my last update and the pictures I took of the vindicare box, I realized that he needed this:


and now he is ALL DONE.


NEW STUFF!

Servo skulls!




The last and final acolyte (with power armor/flamer)




And last, but not least! the Ordo Xenos Inquisitor with a conversion beamer and power armour




Since I have run out of IG and SM legs and can't spare any GK legs/torsos (what I had was basically the front bit of a tac marine torso since you get extras in the tac squad box).

Since coherent bitz were sparse, these two guys were kitbashed together with more or less everything I had lying around. The quite impressive list of bitz that went into these goes as follows:

- Grey Knight strike squad flamer, heavy weapon arms and unhelmeted head
- Grey Knight paladin head, badges, purity seals, overhead-book and various decorations
- Necron deathmark torso back part and sniper muzzle
- Necron immortal tesla carbine
- Ork boyz lower torso and legs and shoulder pad
- Orc (fantasy) black orc legs (Inquisitor only)
- Space Marine torso front part and various decorations
- Inquisitor Karamazov´s spare crotch cloth
- Green Stuff bloody everywhere

Consequently, these guys have the widest stance ever seen outside orks and sumo wrestlers.

I really do think they turned out nice, and will look awesome when painted.

My reasoning goes that the stance comes from them having carried those huge guns all the time and since they are both part of the Inquisition, getting overly extensive bionics and weird armor/ metal bitz is an everyday occurance.

let me know what you think about these guys

should I give the Inquisitor another head or a hat maybe? give me feedback on them as I whipped them up on a whim.

I love it! especially the vindicare, brilliant idea.

ROFL, that vindicare is brilliant! i love the "handle with [vindi]-care thingy. Great model!

It has been a while since my last update but here it is again, complete with editing some of my earlier updates and a new title. Particularly editing my grey knights list as the second servo skull didn't work out. So I'm getting another hammer, which is never a bad thing

@MrMerlin: Glad you like it, I might do something more on that kind of theme in the future so hold on to your hats
@DarkCorsair: Thanks man

PICTURES!








Now I have only 7 more models to paint for my GKs!

INTRODUCING NECRONS!










I am going to make a 1000 point army list for these guys soon.
I think that the Trazyn model works well as a stand-in for Nemesor Zandrekh too, with one of the old metal Pariahs as Varguard Obyron. For variety.

thoughts?

EDIT: Have been playing around with the title, I think I'm done now though

love the osl!!

UPDATE TIME!
Who would have guessed? I am sorry to those who even remotely care about this blog, but I have been busy these couple of weeks.
And by busy, I mean of course playing Skyrim. (Argonian mage, if you can believe it)

But I have also been working frantically on my painting and ideas for the future of my armies.
Such as, how to expand to 1500 pts of Grey knights? I am thinking Paladins, like 5-7 of them with all the wound shenanigans, just to be a real male reproductive organ with all the trimmings (and to get to paint the awesome terminator models again...)

But no one comes to this blog to read, so lets get on with it.

Picture Time!

Lets start light, with an objective marker. This is Excalibur (also detachable from the stone, because I am just that awesome)




Moving on to another light one, Karamazov finally has his reading torches and I think they came out really nice since I do not actually own any yellow paint... just snakebite leather and shining gold, but it worked. The rest is just run-of-the-mill scribbles on parchment, nothing too exciting.




You may have seen this guy before if you have read this blog (or just looked at the pictures, I wont judge) but now he has gotten a dash of paint on him along with generous amounts of light from his conversion beamer and he looks quite decent in real life, something that cannot really be said about him here.




Another blast from the not-so-distant past, the flamer kitbash.




Now who is this handsome fellow? It is a try to make a sword in NMM with wetblending. In all honesty, it turned out fine but I need to use more layers with more thinned out paint in the future. But how to learn such things if you never practice, huh? This guy was immensely helpful in studying the techniques i tried, and some day I'll figure it out.


Close up on the sword




Now this little number is one that I am very pleased with. Of course, that ogre head wont hold up to very close inspection, but it is good for what it is, I feel. I might go back and even out the layers at a later date, should I have the motivation.


A close up on the ogre head, I did put a lot of effort into this, and gosh darn it if I don't show another picture!




And here is the gang, together at last! Can you spot the one who doesn't belong? Hint: he is a rather bland and colorless fellow.




LESS SERIOUS PICS!

I have cleverly hidden my funny holiday shenanigans in a spoiler somewhere in this blog-entry, sort of like a treasure hunt.
And if you weren't excited enough, I shall tell you what may be found in the "picturepresent" as it were.
Featuring
- Pimp-Acolyte
- Cut-out-Charlie
- Hipster Vindicare
- Smiley Vindibox

(That box is just a bounty of happiness, so glad I came up with the idea!)




For those that like my work, open this spoiler! Others can look away!



'Tis the season to be jolly, fala-lala-laaaa lalala-laaaaaaa
Have a nice day.

hey dabedman, love the look of those knights!

i just saw that you're from stockholm! Chances are, I'll spent Jan/Feb somwhere 200 km from there (near Katrineholm), most likely in a rented house with my family. Thing is, there lives another 40k freak (my best mate, he got me into wargaming!) and we will most likely visit stockholm a few times, to go to their GW!
Now i know for a fact that my lovely orks love nothing more than smashing Grey knights, so if you came the same day as us you might even get a chance losing a battle against me (im always self-confident )

So if we go to sweden this winter, i can pm you if my clan decides to visit stockholm!

I absolutely love the assasin model. Fantastically creative. Sad to say if I were to win it wouldn't be a normal mini I would want but a box assasin of some sort cause that's just too awesome.

Favorite sign is I am just a box don't shoot!