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I don't know what you do except painting but clearly you should stop and only paint (you can eat and go to the bathroom 2 times a day) so we can enjoy more of your minis.

Cheers mate, I think that's the greatest compliment i've ever had, so much so i have to sig that! It's funny you say that as that's pretty much the plan!

Well here's another update for you, not really a whole lot to do, just some free hand, neaten up the skeletons on the banner, eyes, etc.




For my Blood knights i actually plan on using Knights of Dol Amroth, the reason is that they are not actually blood knights but rather Lahmian Vampire knights. When i get the models i will be able to decide on if they need replacement heads or not. The other option is Morgul Knights but i think they would be better to represent proper blood knights rather than lahmian knights.

The more i look at the revanent infantry the more i want to replace them, i think one of the good options is the Army of the Dead box, then again they might make better spirit hosts? I guess another option is to use the Warriors of Minas Tirith with head swaps, weapon swaps and replacing arms and legs.

Arwen or even Eowyn could make a nice Vampire as well.

Finally i think the Rider if the dead (again new head) would make a brilliant Wight king

Here we go, finished now, i might do some minor tweaks but overall I'm very happy with how these have turned out.

I took a break from painting VC and did some other bits,

Hey itsonlyme would you mind showing a comparison shot of the mantic knights with a warhammer cavalry fig for scale purposes? cheers

Here you go




Mantic Commission I sent off last week




Vampire BSB WIP

Here's WIP of my first Landspeeder, hopefully I can get my hands on another two of these, fingers crossed

Rogue Trader speeders! Love those things!

The best landspeeder model they ever did, I am trying to get another one for the list, I have more ravens in the work, i have 2nd ed tactical squad in the works (i just need some new arms and bolters), command squad is more than half done. I ordered calgar the othet day so i should be able to start my chapter master conversion soon, at some point i will finish the hulk termies but how soon depends on how well the command squad does.

Can't wait for this massive influx of pure awesome marine stuff!

Well I also need to get my hands on some melta guns or combi weapons so I can convert some of my squad sergeants, when I get home today I will post the command squad however I'm at my grans atm so who knows when I will get taken home :(

I think you should use any combi-melta's you have for sternguard. Much better investment than on Sergeants.

Well I'm not actually using any stern guard in my army, basically my idea is to drop pod down two squads first turn, combat squad them ( I am thinking maybe one combi flamer, one combi melta) and then I'm not relying on a lone melta to take out a tank, twice the chance, if that fails then I have some powerfist as backup. Besides Its going to look damn cool!

Anyways here's some more WIPs of my Ravens

Command Squad


Captain I will never use but i thought would just look cool


Dread


Tactical squad

Is that the PF from the space hulk termi on the cpt?

yes it is, I have a load laying about from when i converted my assault termies

Very nice!

But you don't want to combat squad in kill point missions.

Sternguard are amazing (especially if you use Pedro with them).

When I get round to converting some up for my 'fists this is basically what they'll be:

roughly 300pts (not including the pod and Kantor)

3x Combi-melta
1x heavy flamer
10 models
Sergeant with lightning claw (and one of the three combi melta's)
drop pod
Pedro Kantor

This unit can take on pretty much anything and will most likely always make its points back.

Pods in, busts a tank with the melta's or ravages enemy infantry (pretty much ANY enemy infantry in the game) with a bucket load of dakka and heavy flamer fun.

They're also effectively a strong assault unit - 4 attacks on the charge EACH + firing heavy flamer/combi-melta's/bolt pistols (as available). 30 man ork squads, Terminators, assault squads - you name it, it's dead. The only thing I can think of that can reliably survive undamaged by this unit is a Necron monolith. It's an incredibly versatile unit - whether you want to hold objectives, launch a spearhead (with the addition of a locater beacon on the pod), beat things in an assault, shoot something up or whatever.

The only real downside to them is they're not particularly durable (heck, marines can shrug off a lot, but bring in that ap 3, 2, close combat monsters [abaddon, Kharn, Swarmlord etc] and they're in a tight spot. But even then they're likely to do some damage [unless they meet power weapons]).

Well I might have a look around and see if I can find any models which I think would make cool Sternguard, I might even get a unit of 6 or something in a drop pod, Hell I could use those in conjuction with my tactical squads and drop down in multiple targets

Anyways, heres a update on the command squad

//JAW DROPS//

Beautiful! Even though I can't see the pictures particularly well (mostly because of my laptops dirty screen and the fact that I'm currently on the motorway and the light is just stupid/random/flashing) they look absolutely amazing!

Also, you might want to check this guy out:

http://il.youtube.com/user/Shiznaft1

He has an insane amount of Blood Ravens done to a good (if not brilliant) standard, I can't remember as I haven't seen/he hasn't posted any videos for awhile and quite a bit of his more recent ones aren't about his BR.


Oh, itsonlyme, you should enter Golden Demon sometime, y'know that?

Cheers mate (I think), glad you like them, I will certainly check out the utube properly later, I had a quick look and he was talking about his blood angels.

Well heres my Dreadnought pretty much done, just really need to tidy up the skulls on it






I could always give goldern daemon ago i guess, I am meant to be going this year to help run some games so I might see about painting something up, If I get the marneus calgar conversion done I could always enter that, I doubt it would win with the obession of painting everything NMM, glowing eyes and OTT bases.

Next are the Sergeant Conversions





Next are the company Vets, still not 100% sure I'm happy with them, certainly part of me wants to paint the helmets a bone color however another part of me things I will making the army a bit to much un codex

Your Landspeeder is simply beautiful! When I saw it I just thought "oh my God, that is amazing". Keep it up!


Also, your models look better with red helmets - the bone colour would just make them look..eh.. y'know? They'd stand out too much, I think. I might be wrong - why not get a spare marine and try it out? Or better yet, just a spare helmet! Then again, a helmet on it's own won't tell us anything.. so no point in that!

Your power weapons are pretty nice, but they do look a bit dark - they don't stand out particularly much. Ever thought of doing a lightning pattern? I'm pretty sure with your amazing painting skills, you could easily do it.


Keep the great work up! Also, a pic of your entire force together (perhaps on a display board?) would be interesting and nice to see.


Edit: just noticed the robes on those veterans - I love the effect you've created there!

Good looking figs there, love the veterans!

Cheers guys! glad you like what I have come up with so far, With the bone helmets it works fine on the terminators and such however my thought is more would a command squad outside the first company have them?

Yeah the power weapons ate are abit dark, they are actually painted enchanted blue and then i have added a very slow lightning of the color across the weapon edges, personally I don't really like the lightning effect. the look alot darker now because I put a blue wash over them as I thought they looked to bright lol.

Anyways here's the army shoot, It isnt the great quailty however you work with what you have, thats a camera phone and no tripod :(

I'm guessing the drop pod on the left is actually black, and not blue.

Your army is very nice, although it's illegal in a normal game . However I think as an attacking army in Planetstrike it is not only legal but also would probably be pretty awesome!

3 HQ slots
6 Elites slots
6 troops slots
6 Fast Attack slots
3 Heavy support slots


So, have you played any games with this force yet?

Not its blue however I bought it 2nd hand for like £10 so It will get repainted when I get round to it

Yes I know it is illegal however the army had to change a lot from 4th ed, I also have most the bits to make to dev squads in my bitz box (I would just need a couple of extra missile launchers.

Originally the army was

1 Captain in termie armour with claws
2 8 man infiltrating tactical squads squads with vet vet sergeants and powerfist (also had truegrit)
10 scouts with snipers + missile launcher
2 dreads (1 assault cannon, 1 twin-las + missile)
5 assault termies (which I replaced with the space hulk termies).
2 8 man infiltrating dev squads (4 heavy bolters, 2 missiles + 2 lascannons)
8 Man assault squad (sergeant with powerfist)

When 5th came out that army had to go through some massive changes (which I'm still working on), I still need another drop pod for me dread, considering how close I am on a company I decided I may as well go the whole way and get a complete company plus some extra bits.

Also the army has alot more than 3 HQs , you have 3 libs 3 captains, 3 chaplains and will also have a chapter master soon (with the idea stolen from roleplayers).

Sadly the game wish the most I have ever played is 2k and that was in 4th ed, I am however hoping now that I have found a pretty good club, hopefully I can meet some people who would be interested in Apoc.

Never actually played planet strike but when the army is complete (well with enough drop pods for all the dreads and squads) I'm sure it will be pretty fun in a game of planet strike

itsonlyme wrote:Not its blue however I bought it 2nd hand for like £10 so It will get repainted when I get round to it

Yes I know it is illegal however the army had to change a lot from 4th ed, I also have most the bits to make to dev squads in my bitz box (I would just need a couple of extra missile launchers.

Originally the army was

1 Captain in termie armour with claws
2 8 man infiltrating tactical squads squads with vet vet sergeants and powerfist (also had truegrit)
10 scouts with snipers + missile launcher
2 dreads (1 assault cannon, 1 twin-las + missile)
5 assault termies (which I replaced with the space hulk termies).
2 8 man infiltrating dev squads (4 heavy bolters, 2 missiles + 2 lascannons)
8 Man assault squad (sergeant with powerfist)

When 5th came out that army had to go through some massive changes (which I'm still working on), I still need another drop pod for me dread, considering how close I am on a company I decided I may as well go the whole way and get a complete company plus some extra bits.

Also the army has alot more than 3 HQs , you have 3 libs 3 captains, 3 chaplains and will also have a chapter master soon (with the idea stolen from roleplayers).

Sadly the game wish the most I have ever played is 2k and that was in 4th ed, I am however hoping now that I have found a pretty good club, hopefully I can meet some people who would be interested in Apoc.

Never actually played planet strike but when the army is complete (well with enough drop pods for all the dreads and squads) I'm sure it will be pretty fun in a game of planet strike

Planetstrike is pretty terrible, actually. To play, you need like £200 of specific terrain first.

IMO try out some 1500pt and 1750 - I find they're the most fun point levels.

Well I guess I wont be buying that then!

Well I have been playing 1500pts games and they certainly are rather fun, I will have to give 1750pts games a try soon.

itsonlyme wrote:Well I guess I wont be buying that then!

Well I have been playing 1500pts games and they certainly are rather fun, I will have to give 1750pts games a try soon.

Ok, but beware that certain forces "peak" above 2k. 1750 is a good compromise - gives you significant extra "wiggle room" without reducing the importance of each unit too much, as in higher point games, each unit becomes less important as there are more.

beautiful work!