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2018/07/07 06:53:57
Subject: Re:Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Crow-snakes
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Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps
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Certainl in pre-literate societies you are almost exactly write Ynneadwraith. Most of it go's through exactly that path.
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"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
Mekagorkalicious -Monkeytroll
2017 Model Count-71
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2018/07/09 14:01:19
Subject: Re:Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Crow-snakes
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Agile Revenant Titan
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Brill! Glad my hunch was close to the truth
Although we're moving on slightly, we haven't seen the last of the snakeskins in a spot of excellent timing the Naggaroth Nightmares BB team has just come up for pre-order with an assortment of scaly cloaks and tabards:
For now though here's the first of two bigger models for the Crows. Been waiting to finish this one for a while!
"Truly they're an affront to the Mechanicus," the robed Martian intoned, "Brimming their scrap-carts with sacred machinery, scurrying away to the dark to dismantle and tinker and construct." The venom with which the mechanical spat those three words took even Hjalti aback. "Heretical creatures. We'd retaliate if they weren't so beneath our attention. For now we have to console ourselves with pot-shots as they flit about our periphery."
Well, that guy took forever to paint! I honestly have no idea how people can paint whole armies of tank-sized dudes.
Still, dead pleased I made it there's something delightfully anachronistic about a band of spaceborne scavengers descending in a lighter/shuttle and then a horse-drawn cart wobbling out to load up bits of tech-gubbins too heavy to be mutant-portable. Plus, it's useful for carting your wounded back to the ship even when the main fighting's over battlefields of the 41st millennium are dangerous places to be...
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2018/07/09 15:30:49
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Crow-snakes
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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All right that is just friggin awesome!
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2018/07/09 18:37:37
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Crow-snakes
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Executing Exarch
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Very good entries on both accounts +1 having a minor enthusiasm for legends and lore and an extensive knowledge on 40k ic an see how this can all intermingle it flows rather nicely its rather sad and power at the same time if you just take it from a context less and empathic view though
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2018/07/09 19:16:13
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Crow-snakes
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Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps
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Excellent work with the Corpse Cart bash I know what you mean its like gim dark gigeresque lovecraftian Firefly.
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"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
Mekagorkalicious -Monkeytroll
2017 Model Count-71
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2018/07/09 22:10:10
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Crow-snakes
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Veteran Inquisitorial Tyranid Xenokiller
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Great stuff dude,your thread is a pure joy.
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2018/07/10 00:23:09
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Crow-snakes
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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Another slam dunk. Loving that cart.
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2018/07/10 04:20:56
Subject: Re:Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Crow-snakes
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Fixture of Dakka
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Very nice!
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2018/07/10 13:21:02
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Crow-snakes
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Omnipotent Lord of Change
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I usually just quietly appreciate this project from the shadows, but nice work on the scaly bois and even nicer work on the cart. That pink mutie pony Been following the teasers for Kill Team? Feel like it's a great way to get a lot of these grimdark warband projects onto the table (though I don't expect you're worrying too much about that end of things ), with some counts as crowbaring ... - Salvage
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2018/07/11 18:24:07
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Voracious Kroothound
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I finally read through all of your Crow entries and all I can say is “Wow!” What an incredible job merging the visual and verbal storytelling. There’s so much history and depth to these guys just from a few short snippets and the pictures of the models themselves.
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2018/07/19 14:32:09
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Agile Revenant Titan
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Haha thanks a ton guys! Really glad you're enjoying it as much as I am
I get what you mean AlabamaHeretic, and glad it threads its way through the background nicely. Their story's quite tragic, although as far as the life of a mutant in the 41st Millennium goes they've done quite well
@Salvage I have been following Kill Team! I've also been keeping a close eye out for the Necromunda rules for House Cawdor as they might fit quite nicely
Really I just need to go find some decent narrative games as you can usually shoehorn the rules to do whatever you like provided you find the right atmosphere
Onwards and upwards though! Next model, and it's a biggun (for me...)
Two things make a crow happy. Scavenger technology, and not having to trudge through this god-forsaken mire. These two must think they've died and met the Allfather.
And sadly faultie now that you've caught up with them this will probably be the last Crow for a little while, at least until the Cawdors come out and/or I get my hands on a couple of DE Blood Bowl models. But don't go anywhere! There's so much more to see So far we've seen a little under half of the warbands I've got in the works, and I've got a few more ideas underway for my existing cultures, so stay tuned!
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2018/07/19 16:27:14
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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This latest model fills me with delight. So awesome.
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2018/07/19 23:18:25
Subject: Re:Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Fixture of Dakka
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Nicely done indeed. Great example of low-fat technology scavenging.
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2018/07/20 13:09:04
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Omnipotent Lord of Change
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Brilliant. The dragoon is one of my favorite AdMech kits, really love how you've striped it down and donated to the Crows
- Salvage
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2018/07/20 15:56:42
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Deadshot Weapon Moderati
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Ah haaa, you're the one from Instagram. I always enjoyed your prose about crows. Inspirational stuff.
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2018/07/20 16:51:46
Subject: Re:Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Brilliant and dark, 40k at its best!
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2018/07/23 03:04:27
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Executing Exarch
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it's chickenception! really cool gubbins
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2018/07/23 20:37:24
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Making Stuff
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Oh, that strider is glorious.
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2018/07/24 17:49:00
Subject: Re:Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Veteran Inquisitorial Tyranid Xenokiller
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Beautiful model as always dude, are you going to try to convert the crows to kill team or just Necromunda?
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2018/07/29 21:58:35
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Calculating Commissar
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A fortnight until Cawdor is released, and then we can see what goodness you have planned
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ChargerIIC wrote:If algae farm paste with a little bit of your grandfather in it isn't Grimdark I don't know what is. |
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2018/08/02 19:49:27
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Using Inks and Washes
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Incredibly inspiring, as always. The crows and subspecies you've been working on have been one of my favourite projects to follow for a long time, but these new vehicles are something else. Thank you for continuing to post.
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2018/08/22 12:30:07
Subject: Re:Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Agile Revenant Titan
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Long-time no post, but thanks a ton guys! Really glad you like them
The walker is definitely one of my favourite models so far. Particularly I like sticking its scavenged-high-tech next to the wood and draft-horse scrapcart
I was originally planning these guys for Necromunda (as much as I ever plan anything to fit a ruleset), but it occurred to me that I'm not actually that far off a 500pt Renegades and Heretics army which would be really neat
Well, Cawdors have been released...and I'm still waiting for mine. Ordered them through a third party site and forgot that the last time I did that (Eldar Triumvirate) they turned up about a month after they were released. Not cool.
Still, I haven't been idle while I've been waiting
When frost and ice extend their claws,
From northern woods and tundra-moors,
Come lonesome ettins and their kin,
To hunt young kaerls for meat and skin.
-Extract from the Edda Óvættr (An Ode to Monsters)
See those markings carved into that rock? That's trollsign. Means there's ettins about. Rare that you see them this far south. Cave-dwellers. Maneaters. Bad news.
Ogryns? No. These are a completely different animal. An ogryn wouldn't know the butt from a barrel and will happily club you over the head with either. These guys build traps. Make their own gunpowder. One-for-one...they're as cunning as us.
I had the idea for these guys while I was reading about how a society of solitary predators might work over on the Worldbuilding Stack Exchange (fantastic resource btw). First off they'd be fiercely territorial so face-to-face communication would probably be very limited, but there's a wealth of opportunity for written markings and messages carved into trees and rocks along the borders of territories. Struck me as an interesting way to do an ogryn-like abhuman species while actually making them environmentally viable (ogryn fall squarely into the 'Too Dumb to Live' category so favoured by TV Tropes).
Also, figured I talk about kaerls enough I might as well make some more on those later...
Next though, is some more Crows got hold of some Dark Elf bloodbowl dudes and dudettes so my snake-cult gained some new members
The scaled priests bickered amongst themselves. Since time immemorial they had recounted fables of the Many-Headed Snakes. Tales of tricksters as lessons both good and ill. Now, among the smouldering ruins of the Thorn Moons...they had met their gods. For the first time in thousands of years, they could not agree where their loyalties should lie...
And the snake cult as it stands
Ahead of finally getting my grubby little mitts on the Cawdor kit I've also made another little female crow (Cawdors will be all male so will throw off my proportions a bit).
So that makes 4 regular crow-women (well, one of them's a concubine)...
...4 more crow-women of other groups (a snake-cultist, two mudlarks and a grey-heron)...
...3 rooks of 3 different cultures...
...and two out of three of the priesthood!
Roll on Cawdors
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2018/08/22 20:25:56
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps
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Are the Ettins based on Ogres or Orks as the base model?
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"But me no buts! Our comrades get hurt. Our friends die. Falkenburg is a knight who swore an oath to serve the church and to defend the weak. He'd be the first to tell you to stop puling and start planning. Because what we are doing-at risk to ourselves-is what we have sworn to do. The West relies on us. It is a risk we take with pride. It is an oath we honour. Even when some soft southern burgher mutters about us, we know the reason he sleeps soft and comfortable, why his wife is able to complain about the price of cabbages as her most serious problem and why his children dare to throw dung and yell "Knot" when we pass. It's because we are what we are. For all our faults we stand for law and light.
Von Gherens This Rough Magic Lackey, Flint & Freer
Mekagorkalicious -Monkeytroll
2017 Model Count-71
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2018/08/23 01:22:04
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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Looking fabulous. The ettins are especially remarkable.
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2018/08/23 02:50:21
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Giggling Nurgling
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Wow, your stuff is great! Reminds me of Keith Thompsons old work, very grim, grimy, dark.
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2018/08/23 13:15:44
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Omnipotent Lord of Change
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Lovely crow round up The tall bare mid-drift chick (concubine? ) is still one of my favorites, although all three of those rooks are superb representatives of the style. And well done expanding into the snake crew further! Very cool that you continue to delve into the tribes, while continuing to explore new avenues with fresh things like the Ettin. - Salvage
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2018/08/23 18:10:19
Subject: Re:Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Warning From Magnus? Not Listening!
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Simply beautiful... what's next?
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2018/08/28 12:28:54
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Scrap Cart
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Agile Revenant Titan
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Thanks guys! Really pleased you like them
@llamahead the Ettins are based on Orruk Brutes. They're a little smaller than Ogres, but slightly bigger then Ork Nobs
What's next? Well, I finally managed to pick up a set of Genestealer Aberrants a few weeks back. Why on earth they haven't released these as a dedicated kit I have no idea as they're brilliant sculpts. Used my first one to make this:
Feth, that's a wargor. Bad news. Sixteen hundredweight of muscle, steel and anger.
Once was a time they were all as such. A time of blood and the ruin of worlds. The elk-men who inhabit these forests are the sons of cowards who fled rather than fall on the battlefields. Every so often the old blood percolates up from the deep.
Their genesis is...not pleasant. Muscle appears torn and stretched upon their distorted frames with little apparent thought for previous biology. The favour of the bronze god is not to be sought lightly...
So that's a wargor I've been wanting to push things a little further with the chaos-influence on my elk-men. Even though they've largely been abandoned by their gods, I'd imagine the effect on their bloodline would linger like a curse...
Also managed to get this delightful little shot
Mammut looking down on his diminutive (relatively speaking) kin Buck>Stag>Wargor>Mammut
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2018/08/29 05:38:49
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Wargor
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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Diggin' it. Keep that good stuff coming, man. I am really into how low-tech they seem but are still able to slot right into 40K.
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2018/09/01 09:37:07
Subject: Rogue Trader-esque spaceport warbands (more INQ28 than anything really): Wargor
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Veteran Inquisitorial Tyranid Xenokiller
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Awesome stuff dude
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