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Those termies look really good. The turquoise-and-black works really well.

Thanks Josh, I stumbled on the color and like it.

 GrimDork wrote:
So what do you folks think? It's the snow mix but with red/orange instead of white.

If i we're gonna do something that could conceivably be earth sand, should I mix about half tan into that or should I just go with fully tan? Thinking I'd like something suggestive of alien landscape as well as fallout desert. Thoughts?

Terminators coming along.

Necromunda coming... Wonder if I should wait on Dark Imperium...

The Red Earth looks great. You know that many parts of Australia genuinely look like that as well, right? (just google "australia red earth" instead of me clogging up the thread with images).


Finished Termies look great, and I love the biker conversion. I may have to rip that off. Need to finish more stuff before I start something new, though. I've got a figure selected to (hopefully) ignore all else and just start-to-finish this weekend, but I need to build and prime it first.
I'd love to see that biker Techmarine finished, but if you're needing a break from fiddly bits he might not be the best choice. Take a break with the Scouts maybe?

I did not know that about Australia. Cool. I knew somewhere had to be at least modestly orange red but to know that something similar to that shade actively exists is cool. I think I'm just gonna make a huge batch and coat a 4x4' sheet of insulation foam. Kinda like the snow board but with no hills or features attached. Then I'll do the more standard slightly based terrain and maybe a little red dust on some cars and buildings. Maybe, some time.

I think the techmarine would be ok. He'll be a different color and while between him and the bike there are a lot of tedious bits, it's just a single model and even after I throw on some DA iconography he still won't be as bad as two more terminators. Does a techmarine's bike match his chapter or his own red armor? Hmmmm... I also need to adjust his mechandrites, he was originally gonna have a servo harness but I think in basic terms the single arm he comes with and a storm bolter will keep him cheaper. The harness doesn't make you any better at repairing this edition.

I do have 6 scouts in the painting box, almost too simple but I'll not complain. Never painted a bike before so I'm kinda interested in seeing how that goes.

Looking forward to your project.

More good work here! your Marines grow in strength!

Thanks

Yeah I think they're up between 1100-1200 points right now. Hardly optimised but ehh its whatever.

I've asked elsewhere but I'll ask here too.

Land raider, see below.

Is it gonna be for the Angels Ascendant or for the Death Guard from DI?

I think the DG need the lascannons more and the conversion would be fun plus it *did* start life as a chaos land raider.

Of course, converting it to a DA crusader would mean I could cart around 5 terminators (knights), 5 veterans, and Asmodai as a nasty little beatdown crew.

What do you even put in a chaos land raider? I wonder if DG vehicles will get disgustingly resilient?

What do you guys think, does the never completed chaosraider get reclaimed and purified or does it go back to its roots?

Nurgle is getting its own tank, so I think purify this one with lots of soap .

If you want to DG it, then I'd wait a month or so until the DG codex comes out and see how it looks there. I can't imagine it not being one of the next pair.

I guess you'd also consider the overall transport situation with the Angels. How are you for Rhinos/Razorbacks, and do you want to be able to drive the Termies around?

Reclaim it for the God-Emperor!

EDC

Hmm the readers here seem to lean loyalist huh?

Good call Az, I wasn't likely to get to it sooner anyway. I have upwards of six rhino chassis with one predator turret, two predator sponson sets, and a number of guns I could get to pass for razorbacks.

I imagine deathguard would claim 2-3 rhinos as well.

Do we even know what DG will have access to, vehicle-wise? I wouldn't put it past GW to either remove an option, like Land Raiders (since they're getting new vehicles after all) or straight up nerfing the ones they do have access to. I say stick to keeping things loyalist for now, hang on to a couple arhinos for the DG and wait and see what GW decides to allow them to use.

Yeah, we don't know. Hoepfully they wouldn't remove DG Land Raiders, what with the Legion origins and all - not to mention the number of people's existing armies out there, but the wait-and-see approach is best for the Death Guard right now. And Thousand Sons for that matter.

Good advice. I think I'll put it up on a shelf to wait till I know more. I'll reconfigure my DA list without one to be safe.

Meh painting scouts is crawling even as simple as they are. I think I may have to take a break after them. Maybe do some terrain..or something I can do with very simple basecoats and washes...like some zombies/plague or I dunno something.

Doing the silver has m a bit less pessimistic, barely any work after that.

Eclipse day here, traveled a bit south to a relatives to catch about 1.3 minutes of totality. Will try to paint tonight if we get back before too late.

I'm worried about traffic, St. Louis is shutting down sections of highway because people have "camped out" spots where there are open stretches of road to get wider views.

We had a bit of traffic on the way down. Gonna back road it on the way home I think.

Grim got abducted by shadowmen during the eclipse, normal service will resume once they realise just what they have.

Yeah nobody would wanna keep me around once they figure out how boring I am

But really I've just been rather unproductive. That will likely continue. In addition to the eclipse, the stars may have lined up enough for me to swing a dnd session this weekend. Just the boring old library game day, but I'll take whatever. Even if a group doesn't form I may stick around to do random board games just to have done something.

Of course that means making sure I have something to run so I'll be digging through my mimic chest for characters and adventures to murder them with instead of painting

Did run D&D, fun enough. May focus on stuff for that for awhile. Nothing cool to show off now though.

As usual enthusiasm tends to spike for whatever I've most recently done so of course I'm contemplating more D&D books over Dark Imperium.

I dunno though DI is a preeety stellar deal and I probably wouldn't really *have* to expand it after the fact. I could convert a few plague guys and give them the Land Raider and be done.

I do want to finish out 2000+ points of Angels Ascendant just because I never really finished a full painted 2k army but after that I'm starting to wonder about making another force of something. Either Enforcers or idontknowwhat. Just thinking on what I have... Forge fathers? I've probably got better than 50 total infantry with a unit or two of the squat terminators, a decent 5-10 man brokkrs squad, some militia etc. They'd Basically be more space marines but yknow.

I guess it could be deathguard too lol.

Save your pennies for Necromunda in November you know you want to. New previews of the figs just popped up in N&R.

We'll see. The preview video made it look halfway like a a boardgame. If it doesn't promise to play like old necro, I've got plenty of gangs from other sources to use.

I'm thinking of drafting the Joker crew and about half of the suicide squad from the BMG starter to be a TNT remnant mutant/raider warband. Raiders would work except Mr J would be super easy to kill. Make him s mutant with carapace (diamond skin maybe?) And it's not so bad. Harlies a raider brute, most of the rest are raiders. Croc is a mutant alpha with carapace and some kind of melee mutation. Etc.

Not saying no to necro, just hedging my bets till I know more.

Think those figures would make good proxies across many settings, even Necro gang if and when. I am with you on the wait and see, I really want Necromunda back, but this might not be Necromunda, just have to wait and see.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Think those figures would make good proxies across many settings, even Necro gang if and when. I am with you on the wait and see, I really want Necromunda back, but this might not be Necromunda, just have to wait and see.

I like the look of the figs, but it's worrisome that it's 2D out of the box. Some have said that it's to interest board gamers, but board gamers HATE having to assemble figures. I see it as just the way to get the initial price point down. Supposedly there are rules for multi level fighting but the base game is being fought in the sewers.

Yeah Necro is a very wait and see subject for me.

Hmm...

Haven't been random enough lately.

Sooo...

30*20" cellar/dungeon map converted to glorious 3d?

That seems like a quick and easy project for you to knock out in a weekend!

Weekend? Pfft give me a day and a half tops.







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Oh and on the off chance any of you d00ds like podcasts of tabletop RPG live play or whatever, check out the Glass Cannon Podcast. It's Pathfinder, but even I got over that in all of my 5e fanatasism. It's been very entertaining vying for (and winning) my attention from the also awesome Critical Role (especially since they are a twitch thing and podcasts come up *eventually*).

I just watched Adam savage (myth busters) make a scale model of his childhood home out of foamcore. He did the whole house in a day with time lapse photography. It was really interesting, and this would be a perfect style to do that in.

Well I'm no Adam Savage haha. I'll probably use extruded foam and maybe paperboard for the thin walls.

That was pretty cool I watched a bit of it.