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Hey Dakka,

I've seen some pretty cool ones, but what are the coolest themed you've ever seen? By theme I mean movies, books, video games etc.

I've seens some rather cool Halo and Star Wars themed armies. Several of which are on these boards if you search about a bit.

I'm also quite fond of my own Starcraft themed Deathwing army

didnt someone put up their killer clown chaos army up here?
there was a clown themed chaos army I saw.
In fact what got me into nids is was a bee/wasp themed nid army!

Wow! I've never played starcraft, but that looks like an awesome army! What did you use for the walkers?

I'm planning a Star Wars themed IG army

@Flinty. Loving the Sentinel convertion you did there. Almost as much Dakka as my MK4

here it is!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Clown%20Corps%20%28Alpha%20Legion%20rules%29

Those clowns...

I love the Plush Termies they look really cool!

TheFatElf wrote:Wow! I've never played starcraft, but that looks like an awesome army! What did you use for the walkers?

I'm planning a Star Wars themed IG army

You'll be wanting to use alot of Sentinels then. A nice bit of kit, legs can be a bit fiddly to get right the first few times. Converting them can be abit of a pain but so long as you have plas-card, a steel rule and imagination that kit is your best bet

@TheFatElf - The Goliath is a slightly modified Sentinel. I flipped the waist over and pushed the cockpit beckward and upward and then fiddled the engines a bit to make is closer to the original source. The weapon mounts are Predator HB sponsons with the old metal sentinel ACs added. The missile launchers are Landspeeder typhoon launchers.

@RibonFox - The Mk4 is extremely droolworthy! When will the vultures and mad cats be rolled out?

The other sentinel based walker I did for this army was the Viking using a heavily footled-with dreadnought chassis:



I can't find any pictures of it just now, but there was another fantastically themed army on here a while back. A Counts-as daemon army consisting entirely of melted and painted polystyrene cubes of different sizes It made waves, but I was amused and impressed in roughly equal measure:

Flinty,
A Catapult (CS Manitcor) next, then a pair of Fire Ants (CS Hellhounds) .

Just had a look in you gallary. OMG! SOO MUCH COOL STUUUFFFF!!!

That Starcraft army is pure awesome. My own SM army is running an FC Barcelona theme :>

Flinty wrote:I've seens some rather cool Halo and Star Wars themed armies. Several of which are on these boards if you search about a bit.

I'm also quite fond of my own Starcraft themed Deathwing army

What is EPIC.

Thanks guys. hoping to get more painting done on the army now we have finally finished moving house!

@Ribon Fox - MMmmmm... LRMs... argrglhlrghlrglgll

I was thinking about trying to convert some sons of anarchy bikers the other day. No idea when I'll get around to it, I'm already trying to start one new army, but I hope to do it one day.

The starcraft army is amazing - I wouldn't mind seeing a few more close ups of the zaelots.

Not wanting to hijack the thread toooooo much, I'll stick one more picture here as requested. Lots more pics in my Dakka Gallery. Thanks for the kind words... now to see if I can paint everything to a decent standard!

Wow, all these units look amazing! And you can hijack all you like, I did say if you have a themed army I'd love to see it

Clown army is awesomely disturbing. Starcraft army is just plain awesome, really love the mechs and vehicles.

I hate to be so self-promotional, but I'm having a LOT of fun with my Hello Kitty Crons.
Kittylith is my favorite I've done so far:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-47990-22875_Kittylith.html

Hello KittyCrons!

It's great to see some less serious ideas out there! Imagine the face of a gamer who gets beaten by an army of undead biomechanical kittens

Favorite themed army?

This one.

TheFatElf wrote:Hello KittyCrons!

It's great to see some less serious ideas out there! Imagine the face of a gamer who gets beaten by an army of undead biomechanical kittens

It's always interesting :B
Though the Kittylith seems to only work correctly when the lights are on. I was gonna put speakers on it, but I'm a little scared of a HAL-like rebellion <.<

The Tau armies that have been done as Covenant, with the metallic purple vehicles are particularly inventive. My buddy has an entire army of un-build Tau, and I have thought about getting some of them off him for small kill-team size games. My Kroot Mercs would make good Jackals.

Although with all the newbies in this game lately, my SW 13th Company, Kroot Mercs, or Legion of the Damned armies from 3-4th edition would probably be seen as 'theme' armies..........

Flinty wrote:I can't find any pictures of it just now, but there was another fantastically themed army on here a while back. A Counts-as daemon army consisting entirely of melted and painted polystyrene cubes of different sizes It made waves, but I was amused and impressed in roughly equal measure:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/355017.page

and I'm still not sure what to think of it. Pictures on the OP and first page, then jump to 4 unless you like debate.

I love my pony army far too much XD



(moar pics in sig)

the tzeentch armys pretty cool IMO and it only cost like £10 lol

Bounty wrote:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/355017.page

and I'm still not sure what to think of it. Pictures on the OP and first page, then jump to 4 unless you like debate.

Seriously? It's an interesting idea but I is anyone ever going to actually play against him?

I like the idea but I wouldn't. Maybe if he had one squad like this with a 'blockomancer' controlling it, but not a whole army.

tantan628 wrote:Seriously? It's an interesting idea but I is anyone ever going to actually play against him?
I like the idea but I wouldn't. Maybe if he had one squad like this with a 'blockomancer' controlling it, but not a whole army.

I have come to the conclusion that I am a Gaming Whore, as I've yet to see anything I won't play against. Though a lot of this is in the spirit of inclusion. A new player, or a guy who's starting a new army but hasn't got it all yet, gets a pass for not having dropped $800 worth of toys on the table. Same guy 4 months down the line is pushing it. But I don't know anyone who's had a guy who loved PaperCraft so well he's still proxying everything even just a month later.

How about the good ole' Blood-Letters? I can't find the pic, it's the one with pipe cleaners on bases, each trooper of a unit being a different letter B-L-O-O-D.

Bounty wrote:

tantan628 wrote:Seriously? It's an interesting idea but I is anyone ever going to actually play against him?
I like the idea but I wouldn't. Maybe if he had one squad like this with a 'blockomancer' controlling it, but not a whole army.

I have come to the conclusion that I am a Gaming Whore, as I've yet to see anything I won't play against. Though a lot of this is in the spirit of inclusion. A new player, or a guy who's starting a new army but hasn't got it all yet, gets a pass for not having dropped $800 worth of toys on the table. Same guy 4 months down the line is pushing it. But I don't know anyone who's had a guy who loved PaperCraft so well he's still proxying everything even just a month later.

I think its a fantastic bit of lateral thinking as well as an impressive artistic statement. Its not as if its a random selection of items cobbled together and jammed down on the table. There is logic in the shapes and colours used for each unit and it represents an army that comes fro the very stuff of randomness. I love it

Otherwise you're just getting into price bigotry by demanding that everyone pays just as much as you to play a game. Heh... I wonder if you could get into a tournament by only using polystyrene that came in GW boxes

Flinty wrote:Otherwise you're just getting into price bigotry by demanding that everyone pays just as much as you to play a game. Heh... I wonder if you could get into a tournament by only using polystyrene that came in GW boxes

I can support a little 'price bigotry' but I'm much more interested in "investment". There may not be a lot of MONEY in those, but they have time and effort in them.

Also, the TO would be within his rights to ask for proof that all your polystyrene came from GW boxes, which would be hard to present. Sprue Necrons however don't have that issue.