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Well, if they're magnetised, then you're golden. I'm just plodding away on basic marines myself right now as I try to bump some more undersized 3rd ed units up to 10-man squads and some basic characters for the time being. I'm happy to "break" the rules for existing models in my collection where I think it's appropriate, but when building new ones, I'm going to try and keep them legal (if not optimised.)

I like where this build is going! Consider me on board and subbed for the duration! Floating boulders, indeed!

As, I'm kinda in the same place but I've been magnetizing marines for so long it's just automatic now. I have some Enforcers built in one pose, but almost every marine has at least one magnet. It's nice for painting too.

Meer_cat, welcome aboard! Always nice to have new faces about. I'm fast tracking these boulders and then it's likely post apocalyptic terrain and any figures I can get myself to paint.

.Bases textured, about halfway through on top. Then spray, paint, jungle plants, and maybe some kind of mud made from a mutated snow recipe

That's a nifty idea. I may have to copy it.

If you do, let me know if you find a practical use for them haha. I can't think of much call for them beyond the current scenario.

 GrimDork wrote:
If you do, let me know if you find a practical use for them haha. I can't think of much call for them beyond the current scenario.

X-wing

hmmm.....

But but they're not tournament regulation size Theo!

I may try to hang enough vines off of them such that the ground floor could provide cover as well as difficult terrain. And the vines would also suggest a way for foot troops to get up top so they're kinda work like ruins.

Trying to update more often. Kind of a slow progress weekend especially given that I need the boulders for this coming week. WIP below. All based now. Need to wash and seal them tonight if I can so I can try to flock them tomorrow. Vines too. I want a lot of vines. Would like the bottom region to be dense enough to count as forest.

Also, bonus, I rebased 22 of my z-corp marines to clear acrylics. I've got three more who were gunners. I took the gun arms off and will finish them with mantic sci-fi/fantasy zombie arms down the road. I have two spare kneeling GCPS dudes and maybe I can swap the arms from some extant kneeling dudes to finish them off. Someday, literally zero urgency.

Rocky floaty things are looking good. I would say go with hotglue for sticking the vines, any thready bits will add nicely to the affect. Are you hoping to have troops stood on top of these!

Really interesting, when do you need them by?

Haven't nailed anything down but we were talking about the next few days.

Gonna try PVA+twine+flock for vines so I probably will hotglue them down.

And yes, the models are meant to go on top. Anyone on the ground in the last three turns or so is just taken out of play as lava boils out of the craters these rocks left.

I've tried to make them sturdy to keep model damage to a minimum.

I think it would be cool if you could get the amount of vines you are looking for so there is cover underneath. Not sure I'd stand under giant floating rock though, someone might turn gravity back on.

Yeah, risky. But so is standing in the open when you're getting shot to pieces

Further WIP included. Wanted to texture the bottoms similar to the ground but I'm settling with painting a similar color on them to indicate the rocks used to be in the ground.

Vines are pretty thick so I dunno about having as many as I wanted. Still need to seal and add some flock and plants.

They look awesome. An idea I had for vines is those furry pipe cleaners from my childhood.

Those could work.

I may get some thread and try for some skinnier vines to go with these. Game got delayed so I have more time.

Need more vines, flock, and plants... But that didn't stop scout squad Ramiel from calling in terminators squad Mendriel to deal with some mutants that have been reported in the area...

The terminators aren't afraid of big rocks falling on them . It's like one of the GW old stories where a Titan steps on a space wolf in terminator armor and keeps going, only for the space wolf to get up with all the armor buckling and cracked to keep on fighting.

They're built Mars tough (tm).

I'm thinking of marrying my rekindled enthusiasm for 40k with TNT which we'll be playing next.

Make an order machinum Inquisitor, a mini magos/Mars middle management d00d, keep the miners and robot from that last team, eventually include a spesh mahreen and a mechanicus robit or similar. Using the preservers rules.

Would need an Inquisitor, maybe infinity Sforza?

Have you considered using some Warmahordes Casters for those units? Some of them would make pretty good Mechanicus types, like Mortenebra.

Now that's just HERESY Barzam, heresy! They'd make some sick dark eldar haemonculi. I guess if you replace the scary face they aren't much different than those new mechanicus bosses either. Hmm.

Those floating boulders definitely have an Avatar vibe to them with all the vines. Of course that was probably what you were going for, huh? They look good so far and should make some fun terrain to play with.

I had not considered it. I've seen it and see what you mean though.

I started with the scenario parameters, then I got the can of great stuff. Hacked them down, stuck them on nails, and decided i wanted them to match the jungle terrain I'd made previously and that we had also used in the campaign. Some scenery I plan, some is fairly serendipitous. I was likely guided subconsciously by remembering Avatar and similar though.

Hmm. Avatar, maybe some inspiration in there for how to segue these in for dnd terrain.

Love the floating boulders. Very cool indeed.

EDC

Cool little vignette photos there, Grim. On with the Inquisitorial warband?

The boulders are looking awesome. The vines have come up really, really well. Makes me think I could hide all of my modelling sins on ruins I make with a few vines.

Thanks guys . Calling them done, photos with more vines attached below.

May do an TNT/Inquisitor band Az, may just keep it purely post apocalyptic. Can't decide if it's a peanut butter and chocolate situation or something best left alone. I also know I'm not steeped enough in 40k lore and imagery to really make one of those excellent INQ28 style bands anyway, the essence probably won't be there.

Been looking over marines to paint, and trying to get back in the TNT mood with scene and figures etc.

They look excellent and cast a nice shadow on the battlefield. It would be fun to see a couple of imperial knights fighting on a field of these. It would look like a strange soccer match.

Yeah I imagine most of them are at the right height to get supermega cannoned to rubble.

I suppose they could be gravitic mines tethered by cables disguised as vines and set as Knight traps

I always like seeing those photos of X a day for a year so I'm sideways copycatting that by doing a photo of painting progress a day. As of today. Lol. We'll see how long that lasts . May not post every day since yknow, may not be a lot of change.

As part of that, I am gonna try to put down at least one pick of paint a day. May or may not include prepping models. In the name of progress i may.

Man that new bigass dread is sweet. Unlike knights or the massive Tau suits though it's familiar. I think, aside from the price tag on the primaris characters, I actually really like everything that's come out for them so far. Rievers, agressors, the big box dudes, not to mention shots I've seen of I'm assuming hellblasters and intercessors from the eventual multipart kit. Well I don't love the tank, though I do like it's capacity of 10. Not sure I need a double box by any means but both halves are sounding attractive. If i could manage to make 3 deathguard from existing marines, I could do two squads of 5 marines and I have a crap ton of plastic sci-fi friendly zomboids. Anyway I'm carrying on, I'm still at least 30 models away from being caught up enough to work on that box. Till then I save my amazon points and bide my time. Gotta say though, he may need some of the plastic deamon prince armor bits, and a greenstuff plague belly...but one of those stage 1 plague lords may make a nice nurgle prince