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Thank you for providing us with this thread and your service! See you around!

ouch man, reminds me of one of the guys in my unit, he had a fully painted WFB high elves army that TMO got a hold of when he moved here. Needless to say it was smashed to bits.

Update: sorry everyone hav`nt had time to even blink more then twice a day.We have had alot of changes.I`m about ready tofind the highest point in Iraq and jump off. haha. it will probally be a 2 story buildng that will result in a broken leg.considering this is th flatest place I have ever seen.I might just have to hold off until we get to the states.Not much longer and I`m gonna kiss the ground as soon as we land.If i have time I`ll post some saved battle reports but dont hold your breath.

Safe trip home. That year away from home can challenging.

hope to see y`all..

New paint scheme!


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E_ninja13 wrote:hope to see y`all..

This thread will continue.Just needed time to regroup but we are back in the USA! Our time is pretty free too.We have been gaming our asses off,we took a few days break to paint our armies and let me tell ya they are looking amazing.I`ll conttinue to post regularly and see if we cant ressurect this thread with a 4+ rollback..lol

New terrain!

A wall made from scratch.Even carved the aquilla myself!

Good to be back! Thanks for your support throughout the year everyone.GAME ON!

Sweet jeebus, that lascannon looks good. How on earth did you do the buttons?

But yeah, the matte OD is awesome. E tells me he is going Elysian just because he likes the air assault. Odd, with him being an Armor specialist.

EDIT: Oh. I bought Tyranids as I am sure you all remember but kept getting so chewed up. I knew that to keep a versatile 'nid army would cost me a small fortune so I switched to developing Eldar. Though I will take some poetic liscences with their clown-ish helmets.

Very,very carefuly..lol

Hey guys. Here's some pics of the Eldar I have been working on, just in case you're interested.

BTW, the reason I stopped doing necrons is: with the exception of The Deciever or additional monoliths, I'm pretty much full of models, and secondly - I'm tired of getting my rear handed to me because 5th edition rules made it so hard to kill vehicles with anything but a monolith. And playing against guys like E... that's a pretty big deal. So I went with one of the "main" armies. Here's a couple of pics. The finished model is in rough draft so don't get too crazy on the critism... it's a working paintjob combined with my struggles to get white paint to handle well.


EDIT: PLEASE please please keep in mind that the bottom mini is just an example of paint scheme. Honestly if I wanted to show off paint job, would would have not been rough draft, the rez would be much lower, and the pic would have been further away. I just wanted you guys to get the general idea. And let me know if you do/don't like it and why.

THEY LOOK GREAT! I`m glad you chose eldar i really think you`ll be happy with them..They are way more diverse the necrons..let me know when you want to meet up in ATL to play.Don`t forget your eldar hahahaha!

Any gamers near the fort benning columbus area?

thats some nice terrain there E and a good colour scheme!

Thats a different colour scheme to what you normally see for eldar, diesel. I like it. The white is very crisp.

Its good to see that you guys made it back home safely and still going strong with 40k and the custom terrain

I'm not done with the one in the middle.

Of course, the first two there are the first two I've painted so they have different bases because I wasn't sure which one to pick. The one on the left is based with Gale Force 9's fine basing grit (no paint on it), a bit of winter grass, and then two layers of snow. The one on the right is based with a reflective silver micah flake paste and then covered in snow again. I'm deciding on which avenue I should go for, or if they both look horrible.

Just wanted to say "Welcome Home". I'm fixing to head out to Afghan next year, and i'm looking to see how I can manage bringing my paints and models to help kill down time. Might have to have the Mrs. mail them to me, we'll see.


Thanks for your service guys (and gals). Happy Veterans day. *salute*

Happy Veteran's Day (well, tomorrow) and thanks for your service and this awesome thread! This is the sort of stuff the hobby is about--scratch building terrain, bunch of buddies spreading the game, etc. Great painting and terrain making, I'm impressed.

I hope to see this thread alive and well, I rather like it

Any suggestions on what I should paint the "runic" antennas on the back of the Heavy Weapons team operator should be? I'm thinking the same red as is on the weapons.

I'll definitely post pics once I get a good group together, but I am still waiting on opinions on the basing terrain.

Go for the red, maybe a bright highlight up the middle, as if it were glowing?

GLAD TO HEAR FROM YOU GUYS AGAIN!!!!! Man, it is great to see these updates.

E: Those are amazing minis! Lookin' good! Nice terrain; I'd love to play against you.

Diesel: Those Eldar minis are looking good. Is there a chance that we might see your "alien" inspired 'nids?

WHOO HOO, they're back!

Thanx for the veterans day wishes.

Devilsquid,When we went to Iraq,we were allowed one tac box and at the time i did`nt have many models.I ordered alot of my stuff while we were there.But talk the game up the players will rally on you.thats how we did it.

Micaphone where are you from?


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Im gonna get some pics of PFC Delaney`s blood angels for you guys.I`m a huge fan of his color scheme.It looks very spartan like.But we have a four day weekend and plan on a game or two,so battle report by monday.I`ll tell ya,we have beenplaying alot.We really have`nt been documenting.we will now though.like I said we have time to kepp y`all updated.since I failed you towards the end of the deployment I`ll make it up to yall! matter of fact we started playing at the local games store too. so any players near fort benning be sure to give us a shout out!

Happen to know if there's any 40k fun in Afghanistan? Shipping out there in the not too distant future and I've really been waffling back and forth on whether I should take my stuff or not.

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Happen to know if there's any 40k fun in Afghanistan? Shipping out there in the not too distant future and I've really been waffling back and forth on whether I should take my stuff or not.

I couldn't tell you, because my collection started out there by ordering it through the website. If I were you, I would leave the models with family or a trusted friend, in already sealed and padded containers to ship. That way, if you find people who are interested (and a big enough place to do it), you can get them shipped - or leave them safe at home if not. Yhat you can get them to you in (mostly) one piece. I say mostly because once the packages leave the states, they're tossed around like garbage. So your pewter minis may need to be pinned if you want them to survive the trip.

As for if you can find it out there... well, all of the 8 or so people who got into it when we were there did it largely because of the interest shown by myself, E, and another guy named Kehrer. Once people saw we had a huge place all to ourselves where people weren't bothering us - and a hobby to do besides watch bootleg Iraqi movies - people flocked to it. I guess it helped a lot that the single guys were getting paid fairly well and had nothing to spend the money on. There was no real chance meeting of 40K fans across the battalion - it was really just E and the XO having some models they were assembling just for that portion of the hobby, so I jumped in and so did everyone else. If you want to drag people in, I'd say order some new models and tools once you are out there - just for fun assembly - and people will either recognize it or ask questions and get into it.

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Is there a chance that we might see your "alien" inspired 'nids?

Funny story. After playing non-painted nids a couple of times and getting my arse handed to me, I kind of went to Eldar. The "alien" paintjob just didn't work out for me... the solid black and glossy look just seemed... bad. I went with a more organic, perhaps zerg-like paintjob, but I only did one hormagaunt. It's not based and I probably could have done some touch-up work, but I do like the way it looks. Check it out:




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I must say, I'm beginning to wonder if the arctic terrain for eldar was a good choice. The one I used actual sand and grass on seems like it's just covered in snow. I dunno...

The new models and paint schemes are looking good all around.

I do have a thought on the arctic basing. You may want to try going with the sand and grass that you used with just a light dusting of the snow and a dry brushing of water effects to make it look more like the soil is frozen rather than just covered with snow.

Huh. Not a bad idea. I'll have to buy some water effects, though. Any recommended brands?

Hey, I retweaked the terain base to that one guy on the left. I put more "dead" grass on and, and tried to pile up the snow in a couple of spots. Let me know what you think.

Alright a few more guys done.I am actually taking my time with this paint job.I have a lot of customized pieces.I would like to show them and get some comments and see how im doing.I accidentally came across a way to make urban landscape on the bases.place the sand on your model then base coat.dab a lil codex grey and a muddy color and you get this..

Wow, I didn't know this thread was still going, great thread guys

Like the city basing E, looks really good. Going to have to try that with my IG, been meaning to base them for awhile.

Thats how i do my bases!

E: Sorry, I am in MN, so you'll probably never play me. But the future is a capricious place, so you never know.

Diesel: Sorry to hear that 'nids didn't work out for you. Glad to hear that you found an army that you like! to be fair, that hormanengaunt is pretty good looking. The Eldar camo is cool, look in the P&M Tutorial section for some tips on doing snow bases. They certainly helped me.

E: I love the way you do your camo, and your models look great. However, the shells laying on the ground just look too shiny and fresh for such a grim model. Perchance you could drybrush some black, or a brown wash over the pile on the ground?

Your flamer troop also looks good. Maybe try putting some black paint in the holes on the muzzle, and drybrush some black on the end so it looks used an scorched.