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I thing Ygg is correct earth would work, I try to slightly a touch of red or rust, very very light thou.

SL

You know... I never commented on it but I've been remiss in my orkish duties. I really like that ork you painted up. I take it he's some kind of primitive ork with a few 40k bits added??

I've been contemplating getting some Black Orks for some time and modifying them to act as a unit of 'Aard Boyz. That's a ways away but once I feel a bit more comfortable about where I am on my marines it would be a nice diversion for a bit.

Solar_lion wrote:I thing Ygg is correct earth would work, I try to slightly a touch of red or rust, very very light thou.

SL

I'm not sure how the red would look, i may experiment with both the red and earthen looks.

Git, you are correct. That is a savage ork with ork boy bits. We ended up with a whole mess of great looking orks from combining the two kits. The idea is to have a ton of orks of all kinds because that is what an ork horde would look like.

In river news, I have flocked and painted them blue. I am over the hump, they should be done here sooner then later. I just need to add some blues along with with white then go back and add the frozen icy watery bits. I am super excited.

Side note: I built my first deff dread. Twice actually. I built it first and then realized that I had put to much dakka on the deff dread. NOW all orks know that you can never have to much dakka but in this case I had so much dakka I couldn't fit all of my arms on him. I had to remove some of the dakka. My inner ork was saddened by this. My inner ork said to make the body bigger and add even more arms.

At times it is hard to resist the inner ork.

That is the truth of it.

I finished up my river pieces today. Glued down some of my icy bits and decided I needed to give you guys a better view of my handy work. I am pretty happy with the results. The longest piece warped a bit in the middle which bothers me and I am unsure of how to fix it. Worse case scenario is I cut it in half. That'll show it!

Here are a couple of close ups using my awesome guest marines to give you some scale.


Captain Razzik with Brother Aquilum, Inushi, Inigo, and Nefas.

unknown battle brother.

Brother Walters

Brother Evrard, Desai, and Reven

Brother Kvothe and Brother Jaska

What a wonderful table that must be to play on. Great work mate!

Sweet!

Nice frozen water effect.
The only suggestion is to blend the river edges more to match your table . It seems the table had darker undertones. Could be the pic.

Wow great looking table! I might have missed something, but could you tell me how you got that amazing water effect?
Unless it's a well guarded government secret.

EDW

Please share the secret! amazing

Thanks guys!

Solar_Lion I see what you are saying but I think it isn't as much my table looks darker as much as my terrain isn't light enough. The terrain and my board are actually all painted with the exact same blues and whites. My wife pointed out almost immediately that there isn't enough white on my river pieces. I may go back and add a bit more and see how that looks. I will keep you posted.


As for the water effect, it was SUPER easy. I had recently redone my kitchen sink and had nearly a full container of silicon gel. After I had fully painted my river pieces I simply added a liberal amount of silicon to the river and then spread it out so that it was some what even. That was it.

On several of the river pieces I experimented with different painted effects but ultimately they turned out so subtle that you can hardly tell.

You need frozen mountains, or glacier edges... or something. Brilliant table though... should give the Ice Angles home field advantage.

Gitsplitta wrote:You need frozen mountains, or glacier edges... or something. Brilliant table though... should give the Ice Angles home field advantage.

I am not sure how feasible a frozen mountain would be unless the entire table WAS the frozen mountain. How cool would that be? From a terrain stand point I am not sure what else I really need except for some buildings and rubble. I've got a large selection of hills, spires, a river, and large areas of difficult terrain. Next on the terrain docket will be more ork buildings but that won't be for quite some time. I've got another marine swap to do and then I need to paint up some orks and finish the Ashurbani. Some where in there I also want to work on my dreadnought again. I want to try some battle damage on the rest of him to see how it affects the model as a whole.

SIDE NOTE:

I am battling a couple buddies today and I was tossing around the idea of fielding all of my guest marines. I took a look at what they were equipped with and determined I could only field them as jump pack less vanguard or honor guard. Not wanting to field more then one commander for points purposes I did a 10 man vanguard unit and one honor guard with Captain Razzik. After equipping them as is and tossing all 16 into a crusader I ended up with 1,010 points for 16 marines and a tank. Wow. Not sure how often that will get used, lol.

Pictures of the game will be up later on today. Get excited!


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Today we had an awesome three way battle. It was a single objective based game. You could only hold the objective with troop choices. It ended up being a draw but it did go for 7 turns. Here is the battlefield and a picture of the three armies. The tyranid player had other things in reserves but no one else did.





This was the first battle we'd played with the new river. We ran it as dangerous terrain. There were many deaths in the frozen river. Here is what it claimed in its first battle.


Over all the battle was a blast. I took 5 dreadnoughts which was a lot of fun. My tech marine actually managed to fix an immobilized dread AND repaired a destroyed weapon. It was the most use a tech marine had ever had in one of my armies.

I think your work is fantastic Ice, and I'm not just saying that because you asked mr for a bump

very cool battle by the looks of things

KillaKan in the drink, that made all the work you did worth it.

That river looks great on the table and with the natural light and table backdrop I take back my "darken the low points" suggestion from before. That looks about as good as it can get.

Lovely looking terrain Ice, the table looks great set up.

Also nice to see the orks and 'nids playing 'splishy-splashy' together.

Thanks guys!

1-i, something that I think i am going to try to do is actually add more white to my river pieces. I think that that will accentuate the recesses a bit more. After staring at the river for several hours while we played a three way battle I had plenty of time to examine my own work. The biggest difference between the river and my board is that I have more large areas of white on the board and the white only dry brushed on the river. I think painting the edges of the river white and being a bit more consistent across the terrain pieces will help the overall feel of the terrain.




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UPDATE:


A WIP picture of my marine swap for 1-i. I still have plenty to do but he is coming together nicely.

Nice start Ice. Always fun to see a new Ice Angel come together.

The battlefield looks amazing. My plain MDF board simply won' do any more! Consider me inspired!

Shelf 1

Shelf 2

Shelf 3

Shelf 4

Orks 1

Drawer 1

Ok, as you may have noticed I haven't done any painting, constructing, or even writing as of late. I have lost some serious motivation. Mainly because it has moved to other things, but that is besides that point. Every time I sit at my compute my Ice Angel army stares me down. All 20k points of it watching me. I do battle with them on a regular basis but my goal two years ago was to start fixing them up and making them look good. So far that upgraded treatment has only happened on perhaps 30 models and even now I think my painting has improved enough to where I may have to go back and have to upgrade and upgraded ones! As you can see I've got a long way to go. The pictures above are of my four shelves of Ice Angels, a drawer of non-displayed marines, and then a side shot of some orks.

It seems every day I check out my dakka subscribed threads and I cry at the awesomeness of it all. The amazing tru-scale marines, the ridiculous conversions, the amalgamation of crap, bits, goo, and paint that turn into tiny creations of AWE. When I even conceive the notion of starting up one of my next painting projects my mind poops a nugget of Gibraltar-halt.

And it doesn't happen.


SO, I would like some of your assistance. I want you to pick my next project. Rules: Pick one model in any of these pictures. I will post a close up of the subject and I will begin to work on him. I will paint him up to the best of my ability. If its an ork I'll even let you pick the colors. Once he is done I will start on the next model someone else has chosen. I will paint in the order they are posted. Please only pick one model.

The only models currently off limits are the marines swaps, (the non Ice Angels in the top picture) and Captain Ruusa as he was painted for me by someone else.

Thanks in advance.

I spy with my little eye both marines I sent you. I don't know if it was intentional, but it looks like Reven is stationed behind Xerin and his shield, shooting over his shoulder. Team work in action

Ice... help us to help you.

From a playable 40k standpoint... what do you have painted. I want an army list of what's painted... finished. Do NOT go back and re-paint the re-paints... that's a fools errand. What can the Ice Angels field already? Let's start there & then we can look at what you should paint next.

If you go at this haphazardly... you're definitely going to burn out without accomplishing what you'd like.

What Gits said, yes give us that.

But as I now jump to what I expect you to say finish your primary troops.


But still listen to Gits

Gitsplitta wrote:Ice... help us to help you.

From a playable 40k standpoint... what do you have painted. I want an army list of what's painted... finished. Do NOT go back and re-paint the re-paints... that's a fools errand. What can the Ice Angels field already? Let's start there & then we can look at what you should paint next.

If you go at this haphazardly... you're definitely going to burn out without accomplishing what you'd like.

Damn you Gits! For an ork player you make way to much sense.

How specific do you want the list of fieldable painted units?

HQ
Chaplains - 3
Librarians - 4
Captains - 3

Elites -
Terminators - 21
Priests - 5
Dreadnoughts - 5
Techmarines - 2

Troops
Scouts - 19
Tactical - 35 bolters, 9 heavies, 8 special, 13 sergeants
Assault - 42 with jump packs, 13 without
Death Co - 34 with jump packs

Fast Attack
Speeders - 4
Bikes - 9, 1 attack

Heavies
Devastators - 25 heavy weapons, 3 sergeants, 10 bolters
Vindicators - 2
Whirlwind - 2
Predator - 1

Transports
Rhino - 2
Landraider - 1
Crusader - 1
Drop Pods - 2


Extras -
Old school legion of the damned
3 assassins

unpainted drawer guys
baal predator
4 bikes
3 attack
7 termies
3 jump pack assault
10 random guys

Well it seems you can build a few solid lists out of that many troops. I would try to figure out what kind of army you want to play, see how you can field it with what you have and then see what needs work on. You have enough options there to make a cool list I'm sure.

I just read my post and probally should clearify
your primary troops = tactial squads

But after looking closely at your pics Id say go with one of the Speeders.

So... the "unpainted drawer guys" are the only figures that need to be painted? Everything else above them is done?

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:I spy with my little eye both marines I sent you. I don't know if it was intentional, but it looks like Reven is stationed behind Xerin and his shield, shooting over his shoulder. Team work in action

I don't know if they are working together but I did actually play a game with Reven the other day. He didn't survive but he did kill some ork lootas before getting eaten by a Trygon.

Sageheart wrote:Well it seems you can build a few solid lists out of that many troops. I would try to figure out what kind of army you want to play, see how you can field it with what you have and then see what needs work on. You have enough options there to make a cool list I'm sure.

I can build a lot of different lists and some ridiculous apocalypse lists. My favorite is still an entire jump pack army deep striking on the battlefield. It is usually a suicide mission for my marines but the rest of my team then usually gets a few turns to cause havoc while I'm the target. I don't recommend doing this against every army.

1-i wrote:I just read my post and probally should clearify
your primary troops = tactial squads
But after looking closely at your pics Id say go with one of the Speeders.

lol, it has been a long time since I used my speeders. A couple of them need some serious base repairs.

Gitsplitta wrote:So... the "unpainted drawer guys" are the only figures that need to be painted? Everything else above them is done?

Correct! The only figures unpainted, are in the drawer. All others are painted but to various levels. Many of which I painted a decade ago that desperately need to be repainted. The goal here IS to repaint my army. Outside of very small lists, when i field an army you get a wide variety of painted levels. There are certain models that I don't usually field because they don't look nearly as good as others and that just isn't fair to the models.