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Looks good, E. I wish you were here so that we could throw down.

I cannot take a hint from a moderator, and choose to troll military personnel.

If you are going to paint a lot of serial numbers a stencil (can be bought in any hobby modeler shop) could help you to have neat, equal numbers.

M.

Looks great E!

LOUIE.ROCKETFINGERS wrote:arent you guys too busy shooting civilians?[/quote

Look man if you arn`t in Here to talk about gaming go somewhere else. There is no reasons for you to talk about what we do as a job because you did`nt have the balls to deploy there.So have some respect.If you wanna talk games,welcome. If not step off!

Thanks Miquel and Agro.I`ll take the stencils into consideration,Are they availible that small? Anyways I painted some of my storm troopers.I was watching blackhawk down at the time,and I decided to give them black armor like delta.. tell me what you think..

Segeant 1

sergeant 2

Ok this is a piece I have been wanting to do for a very long time.This is a tribute to my buddies,Combat medics!


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I asked sergeant bird man what he thinks of the new muti-cam uniform..

He has since been demoted to corpral!

NICE WORK!

I love this thread, it gives me hope that I'll be able to get more guys in my company to play 40k before we deploy.

DickBandit wrote:I love this thread, it gives me hope that I'll be able to get more guys in my company to play 40k before we deploy.

It`s easier then you think.40k is like crack alll you have to do is advertise and distribute....lol

Unfortunately I feel like most guys in my company wouldn't be able to comprehend the game because they have the IQ and attention span of a slowed squirrel that's been run over by a semi hauling 2 tons of stupid.

*sigh* Had to be an infantryman.

Well its good to see other military types playing this plastic crack addiction hobby , we have just started a "club" at our WTB to aid some of us in socialization and CPT not to mention get us the hell out of our rooms, and its been pretty succesful, we are hoping to possible get it used as a worksite, so it can count a therapy outlet.
That being said in 2 weeks we have grown to a whopping 4 members, but more are expressing intrest, and a few of these guys I have to restrain from buying to many minis to quick , so yeah they have been bitten hard by the hammer bug.

So good luck, and keep us informed whats happening we will do the same, we have a 4day coming up and its going to be terrain building time .

P.s. my mos 13f just for info.

I just had a 4day this past weekend. Gave me a lot of time to finish my tau.

Awesome a fellow Tau player I have some pics of my little blue dudes in my gallery if you are interested, and I would like to compliment you on your excellent taste in armies

I just wanted to put this out there without it becoming a big deal. Posts like the one near the top of this page, since removed by a moderator, have happened before on this thread and will happen again. Any thread this big will get trolls. And anything to do with anything vaguely resembling the American military will receive derogatory comments from arm-chair activists who fail to see three-dimensionally.

If this happens, it can be really insulting to guys like some of us who, whether they agree with the war or not, have lost years of their lives and their friends in the military. I can understand an angry reaction. But do me a favor...

Next time something like this happens, please do not validate their actions with an angry response. Or any response. Inform a moderator, or PM me to do it. They are usually very quick about such things.

As a future member of our armed forces, I am glad to see that there are people in it that enjoy this hobby as well

great work guys especially the storm troopers.keep up the quality and stay safe out there lads.

First off /salute to a fellow armed forces member. Man i would kill to have guys in my platoon that play WH. I'm stuck in Afghanistan right now and am itching to play. Tried to get a couple guys into it before we left but sadly that fell flat.

E_ninja13 wrote:Ok this is a piece I have been wanting to do for a very long time.This is a tribute to my buddies,Combat medics!


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I asked sergeant bird man what he thinks of the new muti-cam uniform..

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Great job. keep it up. glad to see that your pages has gotten other military folks playing.

Hey E I know you were looking for a way to get a decent company guidon/standard for your IG and here's a dakka article that might help you out. If you don't like the one you have with your standard model, I would remove it and pocket-drill a hole in the hand, boring out a spot for the guidon bearer to hold a brass rod, similar to how I did with the guardians.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Creating%20Banner%20Art%20in%20Powerpoint

Loving the pics guys! Wish more of you were in Oklahoma (okay not really no one deserves that lol) so we could have an Army vs Air Force throw down. I'd just love to tear into some delicious Eldar and Guardsmen with my Chaos Marines I'll post some pics of them once I get home from my TDY and have access to my desktop.

Diesel, if you have any questions about Eldar, let me know, I've got an Eldar army and can tell you what works and what doesn't. I will tell you right now to stock up on Fire Prisms. Those things are AMAZING.

OK I have anothercustomized model for ya! I made a customized NORK DEDDOG. I took one of my existing ogryn And added some armor.The ogryn I used looked similar this before.same paint job any ways.

This is the Nork model.Granted his cybernetic eye is on the wrong side but I don`t mind.It was actually kinda easy to do ,but one of the funnest mods I have done yet.His chest plates are made out of ork shoulder pads,I just bent and cut them.The spikes on his shoulder are from orc nobs I think.His shoulder plates are terminator plates,but I took an extra aquilla I had and cut it in half then put each half on a opposite sides.His knee pads are just carved scrap plastic.I painted the metal plate things in his head.And to make the blood shiny to look kinda wet,I used water effects.Another model I`m proud of.well let me know what you think.I am working so dang hard to complete my armie`s paintjob,and it feels like I am making lil to no progress.I might try to play a game this weekend.All you guys out there should post some pics we would like to see what everyone else is doin!


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I could`nt wait for the water effects on the knife to dry,you can actually see it in th pic.But anyways you get the idea...

Any of you guys any good at web design? I bought my own domain and got a forum up but content manager stuff like Drupal or Geeklog to get my website set up without coding is turning into something so complex that I had might as well hand code it.

...actually, I just might. I mean, a content website is easy to code and I've got to hand code my Army List generator web form for school anyway.

Anyway, it's going to be largely based on 40K with other nerd hobbies sprinkled in with videos of wargame stuff, vlogs, ect. Maybe I can get E to finally do his Ork rap video as DJ Fico Fresh so that I can post it.

I'm not going to give the web address out yet, as there is no actual functioning site, and you have to directory navigate to the forums.

As for getting other military to play, it really wasn't that hard for us. Initially the only non-nerd that played was E, but as people saw how much fun we had, we went from three players to 9 or 10 in a handful of months. The best thing to do is to market it to the guys who play a lot of video games. Don't treat it like a nerd hobby or something like Dungeons and Dragons. Drink and smoke and turn it into something more like hanging out with the guys instead of something they will probably imagine at first... like LARPing. *shudder*

yeah thats how we do it here minus the smoking and drinking ( to many meds ), and the great thing about having military in a game club is this for instance.
We had been playing now every weekend for the past 4, and in each game we were using magazines a books for terrain on a pool table , and in one weekend after making a plan to build some terrain, our group dropped around 1000.00 bucks on minis and terrain to enhance or gaming experiance, and not a single devisive word was spoken each guy pitched in and bought stuff, it went off smooth as silk.
Its not hard at all to get other military guys to play this game especially if they have been in a combat deployment....I mean after a person has gone to a hellhole and done things that 99% of our population can't even fathom, and returned to tell the tale, well I reckon we can play with toy soldiers without worrying if its "nerdy" or not....not many people would have the guts to come into a room of combat vets and make fun of what they were doing to help aleive their PTSD symptoms.

That being said its not for everyone, but I have not had a single negative response to our pastime, one of our club members wife, even paints his figs for him, and encourages him to get more stuff...lucky stiff

well time to charlie mike again and continue painting my Tau..

P.S. I will check around the unit and see if we have anybody with the web design skills you need.

Which battalion are you in, in Fort Rich? I was in 1-501 C co from 2005 to 2008. I hope they got rid of those ancient barracks by now. And I miss the Moose's Tooth. Good lord, I drank a lot in that time.


EDIT: Oh, right, WTB. Well, which infantry batallion were you in (I mean, attached to I guess... being 13F) before that?

3/509th B co. now in the wtb, but they treat us pretty well, and the barracks are ok, as much as a barracks can be I guess ( we have all lived in worse )

I don't know about a Moose tooth but we have a "Artic chill " here on base, but its not my scene, I am a old cantankerous type, so its playing games and this for me