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Thanks FoxHybrid. Yeah, it's a well-known phenomenon that human brains see anything "too small" as cute, even if they are tanks or other machines of death and destruction

Yep, the killer robots do look kinda cute. Great level of detail on such tiny minis, especially the tiny tech priests. The revenants are developing very nicely too, what are your plans for colour scheme?

 gobert wrote:
Yep, the killer robots do look kinda cute. Great level of detail on such tiny minis, especially the tiny tech priests. The revenants are developing very nicely too, what are your plans for colour scheme?

Cheers, it's always a good way to spend inordinate amounts of time fretting over

There's not too much material to go on with the Revenants, really. This is the only canonical picture I've come across:



Very utilitarian storm gray, spattered with gore and what's described as "charnel imagery". Where later Blood Angels come to be known for their sublime artistry and decor, the Revenant Legion was pretty much the opposite. Stuff comes out of the factory, gets slapped with a few tactical rattle-can markings and the rest is basically madman's scribbles between operations when individual lunatics might decide to liven up their gear a bit.

I've primed them brown and zenithaled some light grey on top, gonna test out a rougher transition between the lit up parts and deep shadows this time. The faces and blonde curls they're sporting must jump out amidst the lighter but blood-strewn plates, radiating warmth like the sun breaking stormy clouds. We'll see if that succeeds.

On our Kill Team front, we had a nice evening with a casual three-way match between my wasteland guard, sadist elves and alien chickens.






After a catastrophic start for the guard against the elven meatgrinder, I managed to halt the chickens on one flank and convince them to take up arms against the elven onslaught in time to stabilise the situation and begin a counteroffensive, which saw the thin line of men ultimately triumph and throw back the xenos pirates. Tea and irradiated medals for the humble rifleman with 1 wound left standing on an objective surrounded by broken Kroot bodies

Beautiful in-game shots. Go the lone guardsman!

How briliant to have a game with mates with well painted minis on well painted terrain. Life is good, Sherrypie. Thanks for sharing!

PS - colour scheme on those Kroot is gorgeous, well done to your friend.

Cheers tzurk, visual flair is indeed the life in this hobby. Speaking of which, more battles from the club

The Iron Hands attempt a surprise strike on the Death Guard, who are priming a nuclear silo to blow up the whole continent. Though the Tenth bravely trudge through the roiling hellscape of phosphex and chemical clouds, their push is ultimately thrown back by an unyielding wall of terminators. The XIV hold their post doggedly, raise their middle-fingers to the sky and disappear in the mushroom cloud alongside the Iron Hands' hopes of a larger campaign effort.

Wow! Those club shots are amazing! Is the background picture post processing or do you have a giant backdrop sheet?

The Revenants sound awesome, proper grimdark . Can’t wait to see their blood splattered and graffitied primer!

 gobert wrote:
Wow! Those club shots are amazing! Is the background picture post processing or do you have a giant backdrop sheet?

The Revenants sound awesome, proper grimdark . Can’t wait to see their blood splattered and graffitied primer!

Thanks gobert. Background's added in post, when I remove all the butts and backbags you'd usually have cluttering gaming pictures. Also removed a bunch of layabout dice and stuff. It's a bit of extra work, but gives the end result just that nice little extra touch of atmosphere.

The Revenants are starting to get a few licks of paint on them:



The scheme as it stands is a bit on the Space Wolf side, but we'll see how that develops as details get added.

Nice, adds some cool flavour to the pics. The revenants are looking nice and grimy!

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We do not build
We do not liberate
We are but ghosts
Memories of the Old Night

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Kill Team M29, Revenant Legion done! Let loose the angelic cannibals of the IX!



The commander requires your attention, don't lose your head!







Fire support requires occasional aiming.




Phosphex and assorted grenade-shaped treats for everyone!




Some proper dakka is needed even in the rad-wastes.




Sons of the Angel, knowingly or not, murderers one and all.





With bolt and blade, no mutant shall threaten the nascent Imperium ever again.

What an amazing squad, so many sweet details going on with each model, so many throwbacks to the high chaos (lower case) of RT times. The extreme contrast between the angelic heads and blood-soaked, filthy bodies is of course a delight. They're a bit over-weathered for my personal tastes but I can appreciate the effect and down-in-the-muck ethos.

Also props on one of the most effective dynamic decapitations I've seen

 Boss Salvage wrote:
What an amazing squad, so many sweet details going on with each model, so many throwbacks to the high chaos (lower case) of RT times. The extreme contrast between the angelic heads and blood-soaked, filthy bodies is of course a delight. They're a bit over-weathered for my personal tastes but I can appreciate the effect and down-in-the-muck ethos.

Also props on one of the most effective dynamic decapitations I've seen

Ta, the best part of these small projects is to play up those unique and individualistic details on each model

The weathering is a bit overt, yeah, but in its context it's still somewhat subdued compared to the absolutely bonkers gore-showers that many of their engagements seem to be described as in the background materials. Like, strategically the Revenant Legion was just sent somewhere for X years in hopes that they keep the local muties and raiders at bay while tactically they often went with the tunnel-rat style of diving into a hole, butchering everything and appearing days later soaked head to toe in blood from the other end of the tunnels. These fellas would probably sport a mean corpse-paint if their pretty features weren't a thing already

They turned out amazing! The excessive blood soakings are really well done, the chainsaws certainly seem to have been put to good use

 gobert wrote:
They turned out amazing! The excessive blood soakings are really well done, the chainsaws certainly seem to have been put to good use

Cheers gobert, they sure have been whirring happily on the wastes.



We started testing out the KT SpecOps campaign rules, combined with the area control shenanigans from Ashes of Faith. One week and a bunch of games later, the desert-trapped shrine city of Everflame has seen its fair share of bloodshed as a local freedom fighter movement (Genecults) rises to defend the forgotten catacombs from roving technonomads (AdMech Hunter Clade) and cannibal angels stalk the streets in murderous raids (Intercessors).




A frantic threeway clash to cap it off.

While over all the locals managed to retain control of most territory along with hearts and minds, the Revenants took home every match proper and drunk enough kerosine in the final match to outscore their opponents combined with no permanent losses incurred during the battles. The first upgrade for my guys was naturally a med bay asset, for the IX rides immortal Good thing too, I'm always left with just 1-2 guys standing in a pile of broken enemies at the end of each game. Poor technonomads had a rougher time at it, constantly recycling damaged warriors into new warframes. Good fun, would chainsaw again.

Awesome mood shots! The desert sands in the background of the last shot is super cool! Glad you all had fun!

Thanks gobert, fun's the name of the game 'ere

On the gaming front, my pal's recently minted Blood Angels stumbled into the wrong neighbourhood in today's ZoMo and got whacked hard by the inexorable XIV.





On the slow-going painting desk, a couple of brutish Kill Team M29 Thunder Legionaries have began their long march towards an actual paintjob.

Wow, thunder legionnaires looking super cool, loving the mix of sophisticated weapons and armour and bare feet exposed skin, really captures the vibe of ancient warrior become scavenging nomad.
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Awesome take on T. Warriors, brutal af

Rad game shots as ever too.

Cheers Barry and Boss, hoping to get them finished sometime during the next month with some new friends tagging along

Sweet thunder warriors, seem quite techno-barbarian to me. Great looking battle pics too

Great work on the Revenant Legion!
Also really liked the game pictures, thanks for sharing them!

 Sherrypie wrote:
Thanks gobert, fun's the name of the game 'ere

On the gaming front, my pal's recently minted Blood Angels stumbled into the wrong neighbourhood in today's ZoMo and got whacked hard by the inexorable XIV.

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On the slow-going painting desk, a couple of brutish Kill Team M29 Thunder Legionaries have began their long march towards an actual paintjob.

These Thunder Legionaries are glorious!

gobert wrote:Sweet thunder warriors, seem quite techno-barbarian to me. Great looking battle pics too

Ezki wrote:Great work on the Revenant Legion!
Also really liked the game pictures, thanks for sharing them!

tauist wrote:
These Thunder Legionaries are glorious!

Cheers y'all, you savages

More gaming happened in Epic scale, as we're all waiting for the Legiones Imperialis to slowly dripfeed into our systems there's always good ol' Epic: Armageddon to smash. Or in this case, orks faces to bash with both hands as the capitol city of Miami V needed defending, twice in a row!

First battle saw the orks thoroughly scrunched against the hot'n'hateful steel of Mechanicum.






The second battle saw an almost unstoppable triple-mob charge pour through one flank of robots, but the day was still carried by remorseless robots marching to the ork home base through a burning channel ripped in the earth by a nova cannon shot from the backfield Ordinatus.









It was also finally a good excuse to take a family portrait of the Mechanicum painted thus far

Awesome mini-minis. Epic always looked like a cracking game, something about the towers they used in WD somehow grounded the scale really well. Seeing your pics reminds me so much of those

 gobert wrote:
Awesome mini-minis. Epic always looked like a cracking game, something about the towers they used in WD somehow grounded the scale really well. Seeing your pics reminds me so much of those

Thanks gobert, the retro WD aesthetic certainly has been burned into my brains as an easily influenced youngster. Reading is dangerous like that

...so how about some more? A 2v2 Epic: Armageddon match was had yesterday, as Death Guard legion and their Mech + Guard opponents drew a bloody stalemate. Some 12k points of mostly my stuff on the board, except for the Krieg and their Thunderbolts belonging to my pal.

Man, I'm sooo jealous looking at that table!! Lot of effor to reach that quality, good job!

Great table and very impressive game of epic!

Totally stunning table of minis!

Great terrain well laid out. It looks like a proper installation and a real objective to fight over.

muette wrote:Man, I'm sooo jealous looking at that table!! Lot of effor to reach that quality, good job!

The Red Hobbit wrote:Great table and very impressive game of epic!

gobert wrote:Totally stunning table of minis!

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Great terrain well laid out. It looks like a proper installation and a real objective to fight over.

Thank you all, good table setups are love and life for my hobbying

My hobby time has recently been taken up by ambitious gamesmastering duties and research, half-painted models languishing forgotten on the painting table, but at least there's been some tabletop time in there. More gaming pictures it is, then! This time it's been a solid weekend filled with a couple of big Titanicus clashes full of nuclear fire and fender benders with our loyalist line taking the cake against a traitorous mutant horde.










Exidium Ultimum got to take a walk in the second game, crushing three Warlords after the scenario forced us into a very aggressive spearhead deployment