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Whooow, an acceidental triple post me thinks

Miguelsan here you go.My deathstrike was the first vehicle I ever put a mod on.It`s not too shabby for limited materials.I still think I could have done better,but the Point is made from a spike found on a spikestrip we use to stop vehicles at checkpoints.The body of the missle is a krazy glue bottle with tape around it.the fins are clear plastic like an elite might come in.The launch arm of the missle is mad from sprue,foam and random bitz.I had to custom make a twist piece for where the turret used to be.It`s just a hellhound with a crappy made missle hanging out,but I think the paint hides it pretty good.I plan on two manticore/deathstrike models when I get back.The games workshop models...

More highlight pics!

Looking down the firing line.My heavy weapons team.
Custom mod:Ejecting shells

Deathsrike inbound! the models it killed were removed before this pic was taken.
Death count:9 Space wolves and 3 Necron pariahs

Vadettas destroy deepstriked monolith

Dreadnaught drops in attempting to destroy My Artillery.Turn 1..

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destroyers move across the battlefield.They have been giving our tanks problems since early in the game.

My teams combined air assualt mission.My stormtrooper just barely make a successful deepstrike behind a space wolf squad.Blood Angel assualt squad,Chaos Space Marine Raptors,and Imperial guard Storm Troopers all successfully deepstrike on turn 3.I still have one 10 man storm trooper squad in reserves,hopefully they`ll be useful.

20 necron squad plus,necron lord teleport next to defiler and imobilize it.Demon prince steps p to take out necron,

Sorry for triple post there. Sweet battle pics looks epic!

Mario and Luigi: Bowser's inside story is the best DS game I played all deployment. Eats up a good 40 hours too.

cool battle. I like your mods. The missile isn't the best looking thing in the world, but you've done a good job. As usual, your painting is superb, especially the camo on the vehicles. The shells coming out of the heavy bolter was a nice touch.


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cool battle. I like your mods. The missile isn't the best looking thing in the world, but you've done a good job. As usual, your painting is superb, especially the camo on the vehicles. The shells coming out of the heavy bolter was a nice touch.

cool battle. I like your mods. The missile isn't the best looking thing in the world, but you've done a good job. As usual, your painting is superb, especially the camo on the vehicles. The shells coming out of the heavy bolter was a nice touch.

Hey, has Deisel gone back stateside? Are you guys having a heftier work load? Just wondering about the lack of updates.

I just got back from leave. Back in Iraq now, in transit to Echo.

Melissa tells me my models arrived at her place in the Battlefoam case but my Nightbringer still broke off an arm somehow. ARRRGH! I want to fix it SOOO bad. It was so perfect. I need to figure out why it happened.

With all of my models back in the U.S., all that's really left is Erickson's (who is currently waiting to get to base with me) and the XO's, who is likely waiting for another battle or two with E.

I'm not sure where this thread will go from here. Hopefully E will have a couple of more battles to post before it's all over, but if things turn out the way Melissa is indicating, I may start another thread in a while about me teaching her to play and getting her set up on her own army. I tried convincing her to play something besides Necrons (which she claims is her favorite) and the only thing she seems to really like is the kroot (warriors, hounds, krootox, ect.)... I may have to loan her my 'crons while I build Tyranids. And then after that...? Death Corps of Krieg IG, I guess...

Sorry it's been so long. E and I have both been enjoying our time off. Two weeks getting hammered and watching Mystery Science Theatre 3K with Melissa and other fun things pretty much tied up all of my free time. I wanted to do as little as possible and drink my share of booze. Plus she doesn't have a computer at her place (which I will rectify when I get out of the Army and move in with her), so I couldn't check the forum. I don't know if I would have if I could.

Anyway, stand by for some kind of news on E and the XO. Maybe I'll have some more stuff for you. And E's got a ton of pics he still hasn't posted.

jeez guys, thats pretty steep. Whats it like to be just sitting around tho? Isnt there something to do like...I just dont understand. How can military life be that non eventful.

I'm joining up in the next 1 or 2 years, (Im Australian) And frankly I'd love to play 40k in the army, but I cant see myself finding the time. Anyway, best of luck to you guys, god bless you all.

Glad to hear you enjoyed yourself Be sure to update us on any new threads like this any of you guys may start!

Yeah, you deserved a break and a chance to put your feet up.

Stay safe now !

I'm back in FOB Echo. Finally. Remind me no to re-enlist.

I guess if there's still going to be a couple of games, I'm going to try to learn another army. Maybe IG or SM. Tau? Tau seem pretty complex for just a "pick up and play" game. From what I've seen, their wargear is insane to keep track of.

I got here late as heck and I'm not sure what the big plans are, since I need to coordinate with all of the other 40K players. If not, I may just get my kicks on Vassal. But the only codex I know virtually by heart... or at all... is the Necron one. And I'd like to branch out. And in my opinion, something is lost in Vassal... maybe a third demension? Hand-crafted terrain seems, like your models, to be an extension of you to love.

Melissa is totally supportive of me setting up a game board in her (soon to be our) house. But to save space for both of us, I need to think of a way to make the board easily detachable. Perhaps I'll just by a sand terrain mat from a HobbyTown and just store "hills" and "ruins" and "necron crystals" seperately. I don't even know if she's got a 6x4 ft. table anywhere in the house. Or anything remotely that big... And I'm going to have to watch out that her cats don't take off with the plastic minis. Heh heh.

Glad to hear that most of your models made it home safe. Take care and be safe. thanks for all the work you do.

We're trying to get everyone into the swing. Our tables dismantled and our bunker commandeered for a layout, we're kinda trying to see if we can pick up some of the pieces and have some fun before we all get sent home.

The plan is to get my 'nids to the barracks they will inevitably stick me in, and work on that. Maybe play a few games. And the Atlanta Games Workshop is near where I will be moving, so I think I will continue to meet up with the XO, E, and maybe some of the others to play in Atlanta long after I am done with the army.

I'm trying to convince the XO to set up a game with me so that he can play his SM army and I can grab someone elses' army... maybe Delaney's Blood Angels. We'll see. I doubt it will be pic-worthy... we threw out all of our terrain when I went on leave, because we thought I wouldn't be coming back here.

thats a bummer to lose all your terrain.

This Melissa isn't the same one who plays SoB and posts regularly, is it?

micahaphone wrote:This Melissa isn't the same one who plays SoB and posts regularly, is it?

Clearly his Melissa didn't know anything about Warhammer before he introduced it to her...

sorry. misread some of this thread. just reread it. You're right. Hope the soldiers are still doing ok.

I guess they made it home. I hope they will enjoy their time off.
Thanks for your service.
TSgt Leach

Try pinning the models then gluing them its a bit of extra work, but stuff is really solid then.

and keep up the good work.

Alright guys. I guess if E is playing any more games back in Iraq (I came home before he will) then he's not posting them. Unfortunately, I did not have time to play any more games back home and nothing has advanced in any other depaartment than my fury with how many of my miniatures broke during shipping in their battlefoam case. I think I'm about to swear off super glue forever. I will continue to be posting on the DakkaDakka forums, but this will be my last post here on this subject. Thank you all for your support. I truely appreciate it. Now if you'll excuze me, I've got a nightbringer that fell too pieces during transport and I have to figure out how to get the arms to stay on while the JB Weld dries.