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Thus far mostly pretty simple conversions, waiting to see how the guns I ordered will fit, but as soon as my paycheck comes in I have an idea for a hovercraft...
Mostly I've been working a ton on the background, making sure that my guys have as much background and individuality as any other race in the 40 universe
Yeah... but I already have the codex Heh I just love the feel of the Orks, I feel like it fits them so much better than anything else... Especially them getting stronger when in larger units... swarming across the battlefield... It's a stirring mental image!
Don't think I would have had the impetus to get started though, if it hadn't been for this blog
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BLACKHAND wrote:Cool man, I know I speak for Santo as well when I say,
Welcome to the Horde!!!!
Indeed Welcome!
Yeah that's what drew me to the Ork's as well though I also think they'd suit Necron's oddly enough the "We'll be back" could be like a tunneling thing either way WELCOME and have fun making Ratty nonsense with the rest of us.
@Bossasaurus - I would love to believe that I could get to battlecry..but my partner will be 7 months pregnant by that point and I will be lucky to even get painting time let alone disappear for the weekend to play 40k..I hard a hard enough time convincing her to let me play in the doubles tournament this weekend..a tournament we are losing quite well in if I do say so myself
@Santobell - I have always thought that daemons would be a good fit as well, lots of opportunity for Verminlords, stormvermin could be essentially unchanged, flamer rats rats riding other giant rats the whole deepstriking is actually tunneling thing and giant mecharats as defilers could never explain away the lack of armour saves and the invun saves but still would be fun to play.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: I tend to glue metal models with a combination of BSI cyanoacrylate and my tears of frustration.
I did a skaven IG army back in 3rd edition when the White Dwarf has the PDF list in it.
You're blog is quite inspiring, and I think I may get that army back together again. The plastics to work with are a lot better now then before.
I think the problem in building these types of armies is that you want enough converted skaven on foot so it is obviously a skaven Guard army, but not so many as you would go insane before you finish.
I've got some ideas, and I'll post what I've come up with in a month of so when I can really get started.
BLACKHAND wrote:@Bossasaurus - I would love to believe that I could get to battlecry..but my partner will be 7 months pregnant by that point and I will be lucky to even get painting time let alone disappear for the weekend to play 40k...
Hey, congrats bud! It's one of those things that just kinda happens to the best of us I guess
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Of course not, he's starting his new army of invisible 40k chameleons from the lizard men range. Or have you finally capped you armies BH?
The castles are looking great btw the way. Possibly one of the most unique counts as vehicles I've seen. As always, like Oliver, I must ask "please sir can we have some more"
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This time I think I will be picking up a rhino or drop pod...
....I know, I know its not Skaven! But really I am laying away some units in anticipation of the release for my first love, the Grey Knights, I currently have 9 metal termies and 27 metal PAGK, with 35 Kasrkin, 2 inquisition rhinos and an Inq Land Raider as well as a GK Crusader and GK Dread.
This all may sound like enough gear but If the new codex gives us drop pods or rhinos for the PAGK then I will definitely need some..I reeeaaaly want to see my GK tear it up! And hey if the codex sucks I can always use DP or Rhino in my Sabre Legion
As for an invisible army....I have had vague ideas about giving my newest army vehicles cast out of clear resin to represent my psyker aliens using telekinesis to form the vehicles out of sub-sentient living water. Either that or floating trees with creatures clambering around on them that have been engineered into living weapons its a toss up at the moment and I have plenty of time to decide as it will probably be at least a year before I can get to them
BobtheInquisitor wrote: I tend to glue metal models with a combination of BSI cyanoacrylate and my tears of frustration.
BLACKHAND wrote:This time I think I will be picking up a rhino or drop pod...
....I know, I know its not Skaven! But really I am laying away some units in anticipation of the release for my first love, the Grey Knights, I currently have 9 metal termies and 27 metal PAGK, with 35 Kasrkin, 2 inquisition rhinos and an Inq Land Raider as well as a GK Crusader and GK Dread.
This all may sound like enough gear but If the new codex gives us drop pods or rhinos for the PAGK then I will definitely need some..I reeeaaaly want to see my GK tear it up! And hey if the codex sucks I can always use DP or Rhino in my Sabre Legion
As for an invisible army....I have had vague ideas about giving my newest army vehicles cast out of clear resin to represent my psyker aliens using telekinesis to form the vehicles out of sub-sentient living water. Either that or floating trees with creatures clambering around on them that have been engineered into living weapons its a toss up at the moment and I have plenty of time to decide as it will probably be at least a year before I can get to them
At first I thought cool idea see through tanks then I thought of this
So yeah that shot that idea down in my mind... oh but please fix it with some devilishly cool custom vehicle I dare you oh and that clip form Family guy about the invisible plane and the invisible toilet and not using the invisible sink.
Not to distract you from this new and exciting train of thought (although maybe that would be a good thing ) the more I read of the new dark eldar, the more I'm leaning towards them as the new base list for my 40k skaven...
I mean... the have hovercraft, they're wicked fragile (unlike my (Santo's) Ork idea), and their main weapon (splinter) fires chunks of toxic crystal...
Heh, what do you think?
I say go with it, I know the poison weapons looked pretty cool and are definitely fluffy.
The models would need very little conversion work in the case of the witches and mandrakes as well.
Will be very interested in seeing what you come up with!
BTW I have not dropped of the face of the earth!, I am just currently working on some commissions so that I can afford more skaven and casting materials, here is a link to my latest commission which I have posted up as a tutorial
I would've also said something about the size of the gun, but you noticed that yourself. How about a piece of muscle that actually sticks out of the arm and is in some way attached to a trigger?
Hey Mano, yes we hope to see a rodent revolution sweep across the face of Dakka!!!
As for the fotresses, in my fluff the skaven teleported their entire city with them when they came to the 40k unviverse. Unfortunately they get sick when they leave the city for any length of time so when they decided to bring skaven justice to their enemies they decided to to take their city with them They used human explosives to blast the ruins into chunks then pumped electricity into shards of warpstone and lifted those suckas straight out of the ground.
Makes total sense right?
BobtheInquisitor wrote: I tend to glue metal models with a combination of BSI cyanoacrylate and my tears of frustration.
BLACKHAND wrote:Hey Mano, yes we hope to see a rodent revolution sweep across the face of Dakka!!!
As for the fotresses, in my fluff the skaven teleported their entire city with them when they came to the 40k unviverse. Unfortunately they get sick when they leave the city for any length of time so when they decided to bring skaven justice to their enemies they decided to to take their city with them They used human explosives to blast the ruins into chunks then pumped electricity into shards of warpstone and lifted those suckas straight out of the ground.
Makes total sense right?
In a universe where fish fire rail guns and one breasted chickens are considered "seductive", anything is possible.
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Heh I just love the feel of the Orks, I feel like it fits them so much better than anything else... Especially them getting stronger when in larger units... swarming across the battlefield... It's a stirring mental image!
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