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DAMN U GAMES WORKSHOP!

I’ve just done two big army projects that use all GW bits and NOW GW decide to hold a ‘Armies On Parade’ contest in the UK!
Both of my latest projects will use non GW bits; the Thousand Sons use shoulder pads and helmets from two companies & the Kroggs use pig iron heads. I’m also discovering that while the Tau commando suit looks badass I don’t think an army would look as interesting especially given the dark angel like paint scheme.

THIS IS DRIVING ME NUTS!

The Thousands Sons will be my next official project and I’ve started the log for it; HERE! But I’m having a hard time deciding what to do for the Armies On Parade contest which I want to enter. So far these are the options I've thought of...

KROGGS (BUT WITHOUT THE ORKS)
Sadly GW doesn’t have a good selection of heads I could use for my large hordes of Kroggs which is why I’ve instead used the pig Iron heads. However if I was to drop the ork codex and use maybe the Blood Angel or Space Wolf codex I would have less of a problem as I would need fewer heads so I could use the small selection from the marauder horseman, chaos knights, etc. As for the power armour I could easily represent the armour save with Khrone berserker legs and maybe an armoured gauntlet.
These are some old models I did a while back…



DA RIVALZ
An idea that I forgot to mention was an ork army theme where split the army in half and had two identical forces with two themes: Mech Orks with war boss in a buggy, nob bikers in black orc armour and gretchin painted in blues, metals and greys. On the other side feral orks war boss in a chariot, boarboyz nob bikers and night goblins painted reds, bronzes and browns.
The idea of them being in a contest to see who can stomp the most, even include a score board objective. 2X Warbosses with 10 nob bikers and 2X10 gretchin sounds like an ideal army; small and with a great theme but game wise it’s a point and click army; turbo boost the nob bikers and reak havoc that’s it, and for that reason I’m just not too keen on it.

THE DARKMAKERS RETURN!
Some of you may remember my Darkmakers undead army, well given how well the grots redo went I’m tempted to go back and try and rebuild them but this time as a nurgle cult. Picture this worn Dark Angel robes legs, a pipe covered torso with the space marine head with the breathing mask with a metal shade (probably made from the tau shield generator) with the backpack converted from an ork shoota to look like it’s pumping out toxic gases. I’d use the pre-heresy ‘Gears of war’ style FW bolters and having the FW beserker ogryn as my daemon princes.
The robes will be dark green and the armour painted a rusted metal, as for the display board I model it so that the grass and everything appears to be dying as the Darkmakers walk by.



At the moments It’s between the Darkmakers and Krogg Marines for the Armies On Parade project, sadly the Tau seem to be out of it because I don’t think an army of 16 suits with minor differences, 20 sheild drones and 12 fire warriors will look good. What do you think?

Go with the Krogg.
If I cant get to see some more awesome Tau, the Krogg are the next best thing.

alexwars1 wrote:If I cant get to see some more awesome Tau, the Krogg are the next best thing.

How come I haven't seen any feedback from you on the tau commando thread? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/349436.page

Because I haven't been paying close enough attention...

Seriously though, I've been away from the forums for a while.

Because you didnt link us in this thread until now.

whalemusic360 wrote:Because you didnt link us in this thread until now.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/347708.page#2489817

Ah, dang end of page crap. I just missed it then.

FINAL RESULT
Okay here’s my final decision for this vote. Now the clear winner was the Tau commandos but after building the first miniature I realised it wasn’t going to work as an army because…

White was proving hard to paint and the dark angels paint scheme while commando like would make the details and differences of each of the suits hard to spot from a distance.

While the model looks great, another 16 similar versions and 12 identical fire warriors and 20 shield drones won’t make for an interesting army.

An entry into ’Armies On Parade’ needs a centre piece and this army doesn’t have one (given that all the suits look the same)

Also the tau codex is rumoured to be the next non imperial release after/before Necron. So this army might not be legal in a year.

So I’ve decided to go with the post-apocalyptic Kroggs first, mainly because I can make them with nothing but GW parts, compared to the Thousand Sons that uses both non gw heads and shoulder pads. That way I can enter them into ‘Armies On Parade’.

Anyway here’s the links for the project logs…

Can I have the tau guy then? Seriously though, would you consider doing commissions for a few of em?