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case closed after that wonderful advocacy^^

mate you know the drill a pic in a while wont hurt you^^

TBH I haven't done that much recently- I have a club campaign coming up though, and am currently spraying and painting stuff up for that- when that's done, I'll then launch another update, promise!

plus as an extra little something, I'll have pics of a certain liver-killing beast in early april

ROFL...

something like that:




??? a former friend of mine stitched himself up after half a bottle of this ...

no, not quite like that... a little more expensive and requiring a good few rivets ^^

hah... no rivets invlolved there...tho you might revolve a bit later on... and about the pricetag... try to research that one... each drop is quity chilly expensive.... no alcoholic will drink that for sure^^

I stand corrected ^^

oh, and I almost forgot- finally ordered those chapterhouse heresy-era jump packs I was on about a while back.

that was ages ago^^...about when will they arrive?

Well it's in america and I didn't really want to pay an extra £5 for first class, so probably a few weeks, maybe a month.

well the stuff comes quicker from there as stuff reaching there... they are quite paranoid...er... slow^^

Yup ^^

fun fact about mail services- the british royal mail gets the number of complaints in a day what the german mail service get in a year.

yeah... but i bet your postheinis are not as tough as our bunch... or are they...hmmm... but somehow germans don´t complain...

Words from david mitchell (british comedian):
"That's why I like our country's customer care- if you're working minimum wage with terrible hours, I wouldn't want you to have a huge smile on your face- that's the sign of either a liar or a moron"

ROFL... and in a way something that makes one nod...

aye...

on topic, I managed to get my tactical squad painted, and 3 mostly complete. (sergeant, melta gunner and a regular marine still need touch ups).

also, I started work on converting my chapter master, which I'm not sure I've posted on dakka, but I have posted links to,(a decent enough conversion, but too much regluing and painting stubbed the detail something bad) into Lord Corax- planning to retain a similar pose and the same wings coming out of a jump pack, stood on a pile of rubble, but this time I will be using a few true-scale techniques (filed down terminator legs, thickened torso, terminator arms but normal shoulders and hands), and the helmet will be a beakie.
Not much done yet, just touched up the legs and torso, and quite a bit of work on the lightning claw (started life as a pointing power fist, currently undergoing extensive filing to fit the lightning claw housing), and after this I need to order the jump pack (still deciding on which), to get a suitable head, *maybe* get new wings, finish work on the lightning claw, and to find a suitable 40mm base.
I reckon that should be done in about 2 days, not including time to order the jump pack (all the jump pack designs I like come in 5's...)
my goal is to get Corax built by the end of the month, in which time I also want to finish painting my tactical squad, my librarian and maybe 5 terminators.


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Just thought I'd set some deadlines ^^

don´t let these get you by yer throat mate... treat hobby not like work... or it may burn you down...

but if you would care to show some progress in pics i would be more than happy to oggle over these then...

^^ nice try, but these days by the time I get home it's pitch black, and the camera doesn't like low light, even in my room with the light on and a desk lamp on it, so it'll be this weekend at the earliest, and ATM it's not much to see.

ok... ye serioulsy try to make even more fall off of me now...*shakes head*

On the plus side, I've pretty much done all I can ATM for Corax- just need to get the jump pack and stick the wings on.
When I find my hobby drill, I'm gonna drill the head and right arm so the head can turn and the arm can be swapped with another- I can't decide whether to have Corax with claws outstretched at about waist height and head looking forwards or the right claw pointing and him looking where he's pointing (about 45 degrees from pointing forwards)

Problem is, I want a heresy-era jump pack for him, but they only come in packs of 5, and they cost around £20 per pack.

make him look like wolverine ready to charge...



thats what i would attempt...

Asked 3 people, and one says sneaky style (kind of passive, arms lowered, stood still), one says pointing, and you say running/claws ready to attack.
I think the pointing and the hip claws look the best, but someone else at my LGS has a corax model with the hip-height claws, so I might go with pointing.
I'll put a little extra work and see if I can't get the pointing fist how I want, and if I can't, I'll go with your suggestion ^^

sounds like a fair plan^^... besides everyone knows you cant beat wolvie in coolness...^^

Apart from ninjas, but nobody knows if they look cool...

http://www.theonion.com/video/ninja-parade-slips-through-town-unnoticed-once-aga,14181/

watched someother vids there...holy...these guys are beyond anything that could cover sanity... they wouldn´t even know what that would be if it bite them in the rear...

i just wtched fulsom flood desaster... cracks you up something fierce^^

Yeah, gotta love the onion...
I remember seeing a facebook page where a load of people were having a political dispute over an onion news article which they thought was real

lol...the first one after yours made me feel odd just about the time when there was absolutly no point in believing that even an american politician would try to make an act for tooling up kids to be internet capable to chat them up for sex on nikelodean chat...that was very cruel...and yet funny...

There's always those jokes that are so wrong but so funny... Comedians like Frankie Boyle spring to mind (scottish guy, very rascist, banned from the BBC for 2 years).

I remember laughing in the middle of titanic when we were watching it in lesson


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To be fair, it was that when the people are floating on the ice and the lifeboat sails through, the guy calls "is anyone alive out there?" and from the back of the room, the assistant teacher calls out "No!"

bit of 40k movement going on- painted another couple of marines, played an immensely fun 5-way 500pt game on a space hulk board, and have nearly finished making a hoover model as an inside joke for another member of the 40k club I go to at school.

good to hear form you... but you know the drill... every new year we need at least ten new pics of yours...or we raise a certain issue of yours again... name of norris...!