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**fullheadofhair**

Posted By stonefox on 07/19/2006 8:21 AM
The red rock is not magnified enough. I can't tell if you even have a highlight on that thing. Anyway, I think that blending and layering 50 layers on it would be a good start to a golden demon. You could even get a few more rocks and, like a good modern artist, attempt to symbolize something with your abstract piece. Anyway, go with an NMM "ore" piece. I think that might win. You can even freehand a symbol on it. Now that I think about it, I am seriously contemplating submitting a rock piece for next year's GD.

KK: Sorry but that's not a rock. That's a boulder. Way out of this league. You're comparing a terminator to a gobbo! Of course one's going to cost more and I'd pay more for the better sculpt too.

Have you seen the Victor Hardy version? It is mainlining heroin, and if you turn it upside down you can see richard and the twins next to an upright smile and he has named it "Sesuj". When it got DQ, he whined about the 50,000 hours and 25% of his remaining life force that he had put into the miniature and how no-one appreciates his free hand skill, and in no way was he trying to court contoversey. The name was just a coincidence and people read way to much into things.

**deitpike**

Have you seen the Victor Hardy version? It is mainlining heroin, and if you turn it upside down you can see richard and the twins next to an upright smile and he has named it "Sesuj". When it got DQ, he whined about the 50,000 hours and 25% of his remaining life force that he had put into the miniature and how no-one appreciates his free hand skill, and in no way was he trying to court contoversey. The name was just a coincidence and people read way to much into things.

how do I quote this???
see, that is my honest opinion of the guy, not just a joke about the rock!

**Elusive71**

Four pages for the rock!

Posted By fullheadofhair on 07/21/2006 3:55 PM
Have you seen the Victor Hardy version? It is mainlining heroin, and if you turn it upside down you can see richard and the twins next to an upright smile and he has named it "Sesuj". When it got DQ, he whined about the 50,000 hours and 25% of his remaining life force that he had put into the miniature and how no-one appreciates his free hand skill, and in no way was he trying to court contoversey. The name was just a coincidence and people read way to much into things.

Perfect!

**Zubbiefish**

It is the greatest item GW has ever made available. It desreves all of the attention we can give it. I say we go for 10 pages of praise for the rock. That would be a fine start.

**stonefox**

Fullhead- That's great! I can't wait 'til a well-painted rock is put up on ebay. I'm sure it'll sell well.

I'm still wondering why they're selling such a great sculpt at such a cheap price. Normally stuff this good costs $15.

**deitpike**

I'm going to order one
then, in 3 weeks when I get it, I will paint it, base it, and put it up on e-bay!
keep this thread alive!

**fullheadofhair**

Posted By deitpike on 07/23/2006 10:43 PM
I'm going to order one
then, in 3 weeks when I get it, I will paint it, base it, and put it up on e-bay!
keep this thread alive!

well I hope it is painted as well as this one. It was entered into a GD.

**magine**

how did it place in the GD? I think it wins based on originality, humor, and have yo useen a better pained rock?

**KiMonarrez**

Honestly?

Yes.

**deitpike**

ooohhhh......I wasn't planning on spending that much to base it!
=Þ
stiff competition!

**warlordty**

Someone enter it into the UK GD this year. Open catagory, it's a citidel miniature, what's the problem?

**fullheadofhair**

Posted By warlordty on 07/24/2006 5:10 AM
Someone enter it into the UK GD this year. Open catagory, it's a citidel miniature, what's the problem?

Actually, even though it is an open category you still have to have a large %age of your model made of citedal stuff or sculpted by yourself. The new GW rocks aren't as big and this was made by mother nature so the entrant is in fact a dirty cheat. I believe that they should now be banned from all GW shops and GW run tournements - oh wait, that's not a punishment.

**fullheadofhair**

Posted By deitpike on 07/24/2006 3:06 AM
ooohhhh......I wasn't planning on spending that much to base it!
=Þ
stiff competition!

ahhhh I see. So what your saying is your not dedicated enough to the hobby to make the effort. Despicable. If you look at the Rackham scenery you with see their rocks have 50 levels of highlights (after 20 glazes and an inking or two), though at least two of your friends will bore you for an least an hour telling you how crap NMM looks on rocks and you should just drybrush it.

Get the latest Cry Havoc. They do a 10 page spread explaining how they did, using phrases like "insist the hightlights" and other badly translated impenetrable phrases. If, whilst reading it, you listen really closely you can hear a frenchman laughing and saying "lets see those stupid Americans try and copy this with these instructions".

**Hans**

Personally, I'm waiting for the Forge World "Rock Update Set", as it's rumored to include 4 sharps, a half dozen blunts, and a packet of pebbles.

-Hans

**magine**

After the forge world rock update set I hear there is a dirt update set in the works, but that is just a rumor I heard from a red shirt.

**Hans**

I guess dirt would be cool too, but would that be covered in an existing Codex? or the next Imperial Armor book?

**magine**

It would be covered in the new codex, either that or is dirt covered by the now chaos possesed?

**Shrewsgod**

Just wondering if it would be OK to proxy my rock until it arrives. It kicks-mule!

**Task and Purpose**

Well Im gonna do a tru-scale rock or pre-Heresey...I just need to pick a side metamorphic or non?

**stonefox**

I agree with fullhead. I love the Rackham quality of painting that puts 'Eavy Metal to shame. It's also pretty funny how those who can't do NMM complain about it - envy I guess. (I'm working on my highlighting skill via feathering and wet-dry and hopefully I too can do a 500-layer mini someday. Someday...)

Anyone who's waiting on Forgeworld are just setting themselves up for disappointment. The "super rock 5000's" rules made by forgeworld and costing 10x as much will only kill 0.5 MEqs/turn, rather than the original rock which can kill 2.5MEqs/turn.

**Vengis**

I hear the new Igneous Rock will be coming out for the Medusa campaigne soon.

**stonefox**

I hear the new Igneous Rock will be coming out for the Medusa campaigne soon.

Is it a splash release like the urban basing kit?

**fullheadofhair**

Posted By stonefox on 07/24/2006 3:15 PM
I hear the new Igneous Rock will be coming out for the Medusa campaigne soon.

Is it a splash release like the urban basing kit?

It is a mini specefically for the campaign codex but it won't be available until part way through the campaign.

Four months later, 2 people in the whole wide world (or universe) who made powerful (x2) rock armies will be heard to whine ad nausem because their highly converted one trick pony army has been banned from GT's. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth as they complain that they won't be able to use their army ever again in their whole life.

1,000,000 extra people join Dakka to say how this has personally affected them (x4) and never post again. One of those poster will say one of his friends knows some-one who played against some whose sister was married to a man who actually had a rock army and if we don't join a petition "it could be your army next". At least 10 people will respond saying the army isn't hard to play against and that they have never ever lost a game of 40k ever in their whole life and other people's tactics suck.

Someone will then say that RAW makes that list totally illegal, and their will be a 4 page heated (x5) debate over the word "rock" and whether or not it can be also armed with a pebble.

Accurate?

**Kid_Kyoto**

5 pages for the rock.

Gawd.

Some of you guys must be seriously stoned.

**Hans**

LOL and here I saw that Kid Kyoto posted on this thread, and I expected a preview for Codex: Box of Rocks

but yeah, we pretty much must be on something at this point.

-Hans

**nyarlathotep667**

Dude, lay off my rock! It's my constitutional right brah!

**Kid_Kyoto**

Posted By Hans on 07/24/2006 4:58 PM
LOL and here I saw that Kid Kyoto posted on this thread, and I expected a preview for Codex: Box of Rocks

but yeah, we pretty much must be on something at this point.

-Hans

And WHOOSH!

About the only thing worse than my pun was not getting it.

**magine**

heh heh heh he said stoned, heh heh heh heh. Uhhhh shut up butt wipe

**Kid_Kyoto**

y'see the joke is that I said stoned in a thread about a rock and uh...

wow...

did you ever look at your hands? I mean REALLY look at your hands? They're all like... wow.

**Jester**

Charlie Brown got a rock. He also got herpes from Peppermint Patty, but that isn't relevant to this topic.