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I've just got the regular boxed game but those guys always looked like plasma servitors to me. And the regular necromorphs could be standard servitors for why not.

Even considering having 3 servoskulls take over a dreadnought, mount them by the sarcophagus like a digtrio...


I need to stop, urge to dig out my marines and bits rising...

Just got the shiny new assault marine kit- awesome sauce!

Eviscerator is massive.. 40mm long from pommel to sword tip! Very chunky too!

Has an old school power pack in there (the one with pipes on the back) and the combat shield can now be fitted to left or right arms. Plus pose-able legs (ok limited pose-ability but still!)

your wolf brothers have a slight kroot vibe... maybe you could add some bitz there to make them more individual?

@vik, I think the vibe if from them looking so feral and the loincloth
@angelofvengence, the new kits look great....but the prices even with 20% off its too much
@grimdork, you must make a servo skull faction you know you want too. you will be ASSimilated

Okay so I worked this weekend, the wife is under the weather, and the weather is lousy so not much achieved. It's a good thing I'm not back

Worked more on the crow warriors/plucked chickens.



Their are two basic guys there with spears, cause crows have good eyesight I guess , and the one with his arms raised up and the feather cloak on is the shaman for the Aurlock. The feathers are turning back into birds, I forget the game effect his spell has, but they did a nice job on the miniature to represent the effect.

I dunno, you're technically paying £5/model for this particular kit(RRP) and getting a shed load of bits to tinker with on top of that. That's a pretty good deal, whereas it used to be you'd pay the same price for 1 or 2 metal minis in a blister with 3 or 4 extra bits.

Yes, but I've gotten on a cheap streak and have found miniatures like these Alkemy ones that are fun to paint for about £1-2 each. Also I've got so many marines it's not funny. I haven't pulled my metal marines out in probably a decade but I should have a battle company of them plus terminators. The plastic marines are sitting at a full first company of terminators, plus three or four full battle companies. I had planned on having a full chapter with ALL the models plus tanks and support staff. Then GW got stupid with pricing, and I changed jobs and kids and stuff.

oh... you can change kids?...would such a change only be acceptable due to job requirements?...so... if my kids bring me to my knees nerve-wise...i could just change my job and be a relaxed man again......well...truly you live in an amazing country....

for a change of painting i recently got me some big robots from a happy meal... look tau-ish... remains to be seen how long they stay on my shelf of shame

It's easy to change kids Vik, the only problem is if you get caught you go to jail for a very long time . Bad punctuation was my fault.


Changing jobs was relaxing on one hand, going from 70-80 hours a week and not seeing your three kids except for when they were asleep or you were dropping them at daycare to being unemployed and getting quality time was nice. Till the bills come in. Finding a happy medium is not as easy though.

So stupid work thing that got me really angry and frustrated just over a week ago. Part of my job at the hospital is to switch out the privacy curtains in the rooms when patients leave who have a communicable illness. The housekeepers clean the rooms and call me to take the "dirty" ones down then I put new ones up when they are done cleaning the room. Well when they go into these isolation rooms they have to wear isolation gowns, which are just cheap plastic see through gowns that are disposable. Being plastic they get hot to wear and you get sweaty quickly in them, especially if the room temperature is high, which most patients prefer. I went to one of the rooms to take the curtains down, and as I approached the room I saw the female housekeeper and thought "something is amiss here." Well this particular housekeeper doesn't like the standard blue plastic $0.03 gowns, so she grabs the more expensive $2.00(or more I'm not really sure) see through fabric gowns used in the family birth place area that are white. SHe also can't tie the knot behind her back as that is too mentally challenging , so she wears the thing backwards, so the opening is on her front, which exposes her to any contamination. I'm thinking "oh well" then my spider sense tingles again and I realize that the gown color is not what was throwing me off. It was the fact that she took her shirt off before putting the gown on . There she's standing in her bra, with the see through gown on backwards in the room cleaning. I had it , I just couldn't stand the stupid anymore, it was on the ICU (appropriate huh) intensive care unit floor where families are walking by with their kids going to see grandma and grandpa for the last time and instead getting a show. I went to the nurse supervisor and asked her to go "talk" to her as if I had said anything it would turn into sexual harassment against me. I had to walk away and try and recover. This is not the stupidest thing she's done, just the most recent stupid thing, and she still works there. Good thing this job has REALLY great benefits, and I'm not talking the free peep shows of older women.

Happy meal robots . I don't go to McDonald's but maybe once a month for greasy fries, I'll have to check out what they have next time. I usually can find something at miniaturemarket for dirt cheap that keeps my painting fix satisfied...not to mention the thousands of figures I already have that need attention.

LOL...how i missed these lunacy hospital stories...
poor man... indeed you could have hung yourself after telling er directly...that would be equivalent to shovelling your own grave...the stupid will rule the world forever...unless someone intelligent does something stupid....a vicious circle...

It really had me in a bunch all weekend. Frustrated to tears on multiple occasions. The end is nigh though. I have one more class this fall to finish my degree and move away from stupid. That might be worth losing five weeks of vacation in itself.

i know that point... i quite a job full of mobbing when starting my apprenticeship...something like that can wreck a strong man even...
stay with dakka, we´re your amateur psychologists^^

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Saw this and immediately got "Courage the Cowardly Dog" episode with "Granny Stew" totally stuck in my head.

also... wasnßt there that youtube vid about someone helping to shake that uncle of the horse?

on one hand neat, on the other hand holy be jeebus.

What lurks in the shadows? No not Darkwing duck

it´s a spyre hunter...am i right?...quite good looking... will you add some flashy highlight to the claws maybe?

Yes Vik, you are correct

He will probably get another level or two of highlights on the metal areas, but in the mean time I need more primer


Wait how can you run out of primer on just 30-40 figs, seems like poor planning doesn't it? Well it gets easier to run out of primer when you prime 150-200 figures , long overdue project is getting closer. Those 150-200 figs are my KOW orcs I got last couple of years, and never painted but maybe 10-15 of them. With the new printed second edition rules due out next month I need to get a move on.

BATTLEMASTERS OGRES!!!

Nice.

I think your title had a bit of a "reverse psychology" effect, certainly drew me in

That Colossius looks really cool!

@bbb, yes they are, I think I have a few more.....somewhere. A buddy of mine and I spent a day traveling around st.louis 20+ years ago going to the 11 toysrus back then and buying ALL the battle masters sets we could, they were on clearance . I built a huge empire army and chaos army from the sets, he got all the undead from heroquest expansions and had like 60 mummies led by Settra. I've traded off most of that since then, but still have plenty of the Knights and a couple cannons, and minotaurs.
@RITides, well once those cubes start to arrive these will go back burner for a while, so hurry up

I think I'll try and build some huts for them before leaving for work. As they say......I have a cunning plan.

show us your huts....theo the hutter...er...the mad hutter.....naw... mike hut-chence? hmmm...


and... i am strongly reminded by your buy politics of shopaholics.... hello theo

Well Vik, these are last years buys.....but still insane

I decided not to build huts, instead I tried some oldschool painting on the ogre, which I use as mantic giants.

He will of course get more layers, but the cartoony look still brings back fond memories.

Spent most of the weekend healing up...again. I sprained my left ankle really badly a couple months ago, doctor had said I was borderline surgery candidate. Well after a month of healing I was good again, till last Saturday when I reinjured it. This last weekend I did nothing, and it was a relief, but back to work tonight, so we will see how tomorrow goes.

Huts might happen this week, just depends on how much moving around I can do. I need to use some tools that are put away to build the huts, plus get some supplies.

Very nice and I always respect folk who use gw stuff to count_as other systems now the circle is complete


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Also, stop injuring yourself! That's not free in your country!

Awesome to see some of the old Alkemy stuff on the table! I am in the process of getting some of my Triad lads and lasses together for playing Ronin. I was wondering who had bought the last Alkemy clearance items off Miniature Market! I used to get a pack or two every time I ordered something. At 3$ a box they were the pack of gum in the MM check out line

good looking start on that ogre...

about that ankle... man.. . a man your size should be very gentle towards his knees and ankles... really... they´re supposed to be with you for a lifetime... i really hope that this hospital job will soon be not needed any more for you because of better prospects...

Woah- Old school!

Not much happening, doing some orc painting, but not a lot of time to devote towards hobby stuff. I had an idea for some orc huts, but the rolls are too tall, so I'm thinking more of a farm silo now. I need to gra. More supplies so I thought I'd ask you all what looks more appropriate.

Wide wooden planks


Or more frontier style stockade poles

I like the wide wooden planks, reminds me of a water tower.

er... for a hut or for a silo...i am confused....

well for the former the planks, the latter the frontier look...er...hmmm... still confused...hmmm...how do you get it smaller? and maybe a bit smaller in diameter too?

If you could somehow cut those in half height wise... good for huts. Either, though I'd think the planks would be better for a village/established area, and the poles would make more sense for a temporary palisade/fortifications.