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That particular pose would be a bit tough, as his left arm is tucked under his chest. The "spotter" type pose followed soon after...

that was not to be seen from that angle...hmm...^^

Viktor von Domm wrote: that was not to be seen from that angle...hmm...^^

Excuses excuses I guess you could always blame the photographer, whoever that is...

shoot him on sight... bet that would be whillst shaving...^^

A Vostroyan, shaving his mustache?
Total Heresy!

dsteingass wrote:A Vostroyan, shaving his mustache?
Total Heresy!

Call the Inquisition!

dsteingass wrote:A Vostroyan, shaving his mustache?
Total Heresy!

Right? And the official GW line has three models with no mustache! Whoever is in charge of quality control over there needs to get canned!

Capitansolstice wrote:Call the Inquisition!

More like call the =]_,= they could rivet a mustache on there in no time

riveting a stche... now that is some delicate surgery...

So now that I've got my Marbo based and primed (as well as the first round of troopers), I need to figure out a good color scheme for him. I don't think the standard Vostroyan theme makes so much sense for him (as he's supposed to be all sneaky like ). I don't mind the red so much, as it's quite brown-y by the time I'm done with it, but the gold certainly has to go. I could paint the coat standard red, and I'm thinking do the armor in kommando khaki, a medium gray, or black. The cloak I think will be a camo cloak style with khaki base and brown/grey markings. What do you guys think? Any better schemes out there?

Thanks for looking!
Rawson

Umm, Union rules are :We don't answer unless you show pics first. Section 7, Par. 9. It's like asking me what color to paint a Wollywampus! I first have to SEE a Willywampas before I can tell you what color to paint one.

dsteingass wrote:Umm, Union rules are :We don't answer unless you show pics first. Section 7, Par. 9. It's like asking me what color to paint a Wollywampus! I first have to SEE a Willywampas before I can tell you what color to paint one.

Sorry to make you go back one page and see the pictures Here, let me save you the trouble and repost:

Rawson wrote:
More work on Marbo tonight. I need to come up with a sweet Vostroyan name for him.
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Thanks man!
Medium Grey or a Prussian Bluish-greyish uniform color sounds cool

It works with red spot colors too

i too had said grey... but where i am a bt off from your ideas is the camo... for vostroyans as i understand them...no camo... brass and shiny all the way... well you can forgo the brass but camo...no way... black would be fine too... maybe then a somewhat comissar like scheme...you know with red trimmings rather than red on big surfaces... the cloak could look rather like the hobbits claoks they got from the woodelves...you know...LotR style...

Well, today was my day off, so I got a decent amount of stuff done and even fit in a game!

1000 pts vs. Eldar. Couldn't make an armor or cover save if I wanted to, and my opponent couldn't miss one. I was getting hosed in KP, but we were playing an objectives match. I went second, and at my turn five, he held two objectives and I held one. My LRBTs pounded his troops to dust (with a little help from a nearby Chimera) and at the end of my turn it was me with one objective and him with none! Then we rolled and of course went on to turn six Game ended with each of us holding no objectives So we draw... Marbo made an appearance, but did absolutely nothing. Demo charge scattered too far, didn't manage to get into CC with the Wraithlord (which would have been nice since my HWTs got obliterated without getting to fire a shot) and only killed one guardian. Veterans made a good showing, mowing down a buch of aspect warriors.

Worked on the LRBTs, trying to get them WYSIWYG (since I had gotten the old apoc 3x set that didn't come with many options).

So I got the lascannons off of the front (which took a bit of doing, actually) and magnetized some heavy bolters that I had in my bits box (I think from SM landspeeders)

(Excuse the above pic, it's a bit washed out)

Here's the new little guys. People can hate all they want on the gunboat Leman Russes, but I love 'em.


I also started on another project that I dreamed up:

Question of the day: What can you make out of these two troopers?



Lastly, I've been second guessing the attached airborne squad and am more leaning towards Vostroyan colors and troops. Pilfer the meltas from the airborne squad and do some interesting weapon swaps. Thoughts?

As always, CC welcome and desired!

Thanks for looking,
Rawson

well with bolters...that look will always be classy so what can one say^^

as for the game... seems the dicegods weren´t in favor for both of ye...but if fun was still in it for you...who cares who won...^^

the kneeling or better soon to be kneeling sniper...that will be one heck of GS work ... as for the hat issue...how about hte already mentioned by you tricorne...that would be fitting for vostroyans...you could do it by yourself in GS or you might find a suitable headswap with pirates or some napoleonic minis out there... but could be a good idea!

as for the last question of yours...hmmm i seem to be in a state of bafflement as to what you want to be answered here...or for short...i am lost^^

hmm i like the pose of that one metal model alot, the one on the right.. and as for airborne, i've been backing the vost. colors since day one so that i agree with

Viktor von Domm wrote:well with bolters...that look will always be classy so what can one say^^

Thank you, sir!

Viktor von Domm wrote:as for the game... seems the dicegods weren´t in favor for both of ye...but if fun was still in it for you...who cares who won...^^

It was fun, in a panic causing sort of way

Viktor von Domm wrote:the kneeling or better soon to be kneeling sniper...that will be one heck of GS work ... as for the hat issue...how about hte already mentioned by you tricorne...that would be fitting for vostroyans...you could do it by yourself in GS or you might find a suitable headswap with pirates or some napoleonic minis out there... but could be a good idea!

Yeah, I'm starting to be a bit more adventurous with the GS. We'll see how it goes! As for the hat, I was thinking less Tricorn, more

Viktor von Domm wrote:as for the last question of yours...hmmm i seem to be in a state of bafflement as to what you want to be answered here...or for short...i am lost^^

Sorry, it seems that my clear, descriptive writing abilities were lacking last night. I have a primed Valkyrie on my workbench and I need to pick a color scheme. Originally I thought that the Valkyrie (the hi-tech, hovering aircraft part) didn't fit the Vostroyan theme, so I was going the have the 9th Brathian Airborne (or whatever the name ended up being) attached to the 104th Vostroyan Mechanized. That's where these guys came in:

But now I'm second guessing myself and think it would look more weird to have one random unit in my army than to have a Vostroyan Valkyrie. I'm leaning towards Vostroyan colors and converting up some sweet Vostroyan meltagunners (because GW, in their infinite wisdom, don't make Vostroyans with meltas).

Rogue Wolves wrote:hmm i like the pose of that one metal model alot, the one on the right.. and as for airborne, i've been backing the vost. colors since day one so that i agree with

Thanks, buddy! All I needed was a little push over the edge

ah...now i understand what hats/caps you meant...we used to call these "pisschen" ... and i wont translate this for any of you^^ because this might not suitable...beside i doubt if bubblefish could^^

also...for the troop issue... you said it was already primed your valk...hmmm...then it is a tough choice...or do you still see a possibiity to vostroyan up the valk? add more rifets and maybe get some more chunky rocketlaunchers form an empire set? fatty recently showed me a cool set...:





also maybe you could do the same with those troops like ezekiel did...just make some furr on their shoulders...to tie them in with the rest of your troops...

Yes, that hat is called a "campaign hat" officialy, but US soldiers refered to it also in a way I cannot repeat here

(crude word for female anatomy part-hat)

lol...it could mean that in german as well...seems soldiers are all alike all over the world^^

for the hat, defenatly try gs that nice pointy one.. and like vik said, as i am now a proud owner of most of the empires nice artillery, (STEAMTANK!!) alot of their peices could help in giving a nice vost/steam punk vibe

Hey Rawson, i doubt you'll appreciate my opinion on this too much, but i really reckon you should abandon those guys for this army and start again with some converted vostroyans for the airbourne squad, especially if you considering changing the paint scheme on the Valk. Means more work but you've done such a good job on the rest of the army that i reckon you could do great things with some GS'd vostroyans.

And as for those current airbourne guys, well, they'd make a cool bodyguard for some inquisitor.......

Hi Rawson et al, long time, no tuppenceworth from yours truly.Great to see the Vostroyans go from strength to strength that battle you had sounds great; no retreat, no surrender, fight to the last man etc my sympathies are with you viz a viz marbo. Nothing worse than investing a character with a lot of hope and believe and finding he fails to deliver. Had a similar prob with my Sanguianry Priest in Termie Armour. Shouldn't have painted him white cause all that happened was he was targetted by everyone on the opposing side and when I needed him to do his stuff, he failed miserably
Anyway, I digress; my tuppenceworth ref kneeling sniper. I reckon a GS hat similar to this chaps
http://www.toysoldiers.com/products-soldiers/images/firstlegion/nap0110.jpg
(sorry, couldn't copy and paste the pic )
alternatively, to make life a little easier, why not use a Valhalan head,one with a forage cap on it. I would imagine it would be easier to GS a moustache onto it.
As for your Valk, how about a german grey or battleship grey colour scheme with sky blue under the wings and belly of the Valk? No idea yet about the airborne component of your army; Vostoyanised weaponry and equipment maybe....
Okay, that was thruppence worth but, hey, who's counting

was afriad to suggest what axlbush said...but he sure has a point there... your vostroyans need to be lft on their own...no mixing with other minis...i too would suggest getting a vostroyan only army...

well, there is no reason to not include them, fluff-wise, as IG regiments travel from theatre to theatre, they either get reinforcements from their homeworld's foundings, or they get incorporated into other remnants. With the Firstborn, they are still pumping out replacements all the time, but the warp doesn't always allow things to synch up due to the way time flows differently. IG regiments might end up popping back into realspace in a different time, or a different segmentum, possibly never able to catch a lift back.

Like in the novel Fifteen Hours, one accidental number transposed by some bored-to-death administratum clerk ends up sending a ship full of new Jumael 14th Volunteers to the wrong planet, and the survivors end up being absorbed by the 902nd Vardan Rifles. The Navy isn't going to bother transporting them back to their own, men are the cheapest resource the Imperium has.

Wow! Whole load of comments!

Viktor von Domm wrote:you said it was already primed your valk...hmmm...then it is a tough choice...or do you still see a possibiity to vostroyan up the valk? add more rifets and maybe get some more chunky rocketlaunchers form an empire set? fatty recently showed me a cool set...:

Well, I think the rocket battery might be a bit big for the valk, but I'm sure there are more ways to Vostroy-ify it. I'll check it out

Viktor von Domm wrote:also maybe you could do the same with those troops like ezekiel did...just make some furr on their shoulders...to tie them in with the rest of your troops...

I'm not a huge fan of the furry shouldered Cadians. (no offence EZ). I more like what Axlbush said:

Axlbush wrote:as for those current airbourne guys, well, they'd make a cool bodyguard for some inquisitor.......

I'm just going to store them away for the moment.

dsteingass wrote:Yes, that hat is called a "campaign hat" officialy, but US soldiers refered to it also in a way I cannot repeat here

Fair enough Seems like soldiers always come up with crazy nicknames for things

Rogue Wolves wrote:for the hat, defenatly try gs that nice pointy one.. and like vik said, as i am now a proud owner of most of the empires nice artillery, (STEAMTANK!!) alot of their peices could help in giving a nice vost/steam punk vibe

The more I think about the forage cap, the more I think I'll stick with the Vostroyan hat. I really like the sculpt of that trooper and the Vostroyan hat goes down much further than a forage cap (all the way to his shoulders), which would make the sculpting quite difficult, I think. I'm more leaning towards giving him a cloak to visually tie him into the squad.

Axlbush wrote:Hey Rawson, i doubt you'll appreciate my opinion on this too much, but i really reckon you should abandon those guys for this army and start again with some converted vostroyans for the airbourne squad, especially if you considering changing the paint scheme on the Valk. Means more work but you've done such a good job on the rest of the army that i reckon you could do great things with some GS'd vostroyans.

Well, you read my mind, Axlbush. That's what I did today at the FLGS: started chopping up some lasgunners to convert into meltagunners! (so I guess I really do appreciate your opinion )

butchyboy73 wrote:Hi Rawson et al, long time, no tuppenceworth from yours truly.Great to see the Vostroyans go from strength to strength that battle you had sounds great; no retreat, no surrender, fight to the last man etc my sympathies are with you viz a viz marbo. Nothing worse than investing a character with a lot of hope and believe and finding he fails to deliver. Had a similar prob with my Sanguianry Priest in Termie Armour. Shouldn't have painted him white cause all that happened was he was targetted by everyone on the opposing side and when I needed him to do his stuff, he failed miserably

I feel ya on that one. He did a bit better today, but still didn't make up his points.

butchyboy73 wrote:Anyway, I digress; my tuppenceworth ref kneeling sniper. I reckon a GS hat similar to this chaps
http://www.toysoldiers.com/products-soldiers/images/firstlegion/nap0110.jpg
(sorry, couldn't copy and paste the pic )
alternatively, to make life a little easier, why not use a Valhalan head,one with a forage cap on it. I would imagine it would be easier to GS a moustache onto it.

Thanks for the ideas! As I said before, I'm kind of headed in a different direction with him (and he's in line behind the meltagunners and Valk )

butchyboy73 wrote:As for your Valk, how about a german grey or battleship grey colour scheme with sky blue under the wings and belly of the Valk? No idea yet about the airborne component of your army; Vostoyanised weaponry and equipment maybe....
Okay, that was thruppence worth but, hey, who's counting

I'd like to keep some color consitancy with the Valk scheme, but I like the two tone idea. I'll have to see where that goes...

Viktor von Domm wrote:was afriad to suggest what axlbush said...but he sure has a point there... your vostroyans need to be lft on their own...no mixing with other minis...i too would suggest getting a vostroyan only army...

On it (see above). Us Vostroyans are a reclusive bunch and don't take kindly to outsiders (but put up with the Commisars for obvious reasons )

My most sincere thanks to all of you fine gentlemen for your comments!

So, tonight I headed over to the FLGS (twice in a week! We're breaking records here!) I had another game against my Eldar opponent from Tuesday. Another draw, but this one felt better Not a whole lot of highlights: my two LRBT double teamed his Wraithlord and blew him off of an objective he was contesting, and the priest had a valiant showing, defeating a Farseer and a warlock in CC (but he only rolled a 2 to consolidate and got caught in the open the next turn :()

Lessons learned: Armored Sentinels are armored in the front for a reason. In turn 4, my three sentinels turned to shower his jetbikes with autocannon fire (which exposed their side armor to his warwalkers with scatter lasers). By my next turn, I only had one sentinel left

On a project note, I used the club dremel to prep my troopers for meltaguns and a few headswaps. Nothing really to show yet, but keep an eye out.

I've been dreaming up Vostroyan pilots for the Valk (since it currently has Elysian heads on the pilot and gunner) and think I'll shoot for something like this:

I think the tanker heads (with the soft skull caps on) would make a great starting point. Thoughts?

Thanks for looking!
Rawson

yes...i think i have seen the tankcrew heads used in so many ways... i think they are aa good start... and those goggles could be done by simply cutting tubed styrene...

i am really interrested now to see that lasgun to melta conversion!

Rawson, are you looking for any more snipers? I don't know if this has been brought up before, or you're aware of them, or whatever, but Khador widowmakers might make for some Vostroyan-able minis. Maybe even some other Khador stuff for other things.



Everything's continuing to look great though. Keep it up!

Viktor von Domm wrote:yes...i think i have seen the tankcrew heads used in so many ways... i think they are aa good start... and those goggles could be done by simply cutting tubed styrene...

Now if only I had some tube styrene...

Viktor von Domm wrote:i am really interrested now to see that lasgun to melta conversion!

Patience is a virtue, my young friend

Zefig wrote:Rawson, are you looking for any more snipers? I don't know if this has been brought up before, or you're aware of them, or whatever, but Khador widowmakers might make for some Vostroyan-able minis. Maybe even some other Khador stuff for other things.



Everything's continuing to look great though. Keep it up!

Thanks for the tip, Zefig! I'm not really in the market for any more snipers (I've got five either finished or in some stage of construction). They are more of a fun build that a part of the army list I'm working on, and are behind quite a few things on my to-do list. Sweet models though, I'm not really up on anything non-GW...

patience? whut?

Rawson wrote:

Viktor von Domm wrote:also maybe you could do the same with those troops like ezekiel did...just make some furr on their shoulders...to tie them in with the rest of your troops...

I'm not a huge fan of the furry shouldered Cadians. (no offence EZ). I more like what Axlbush said:

none taken, loving the look of your LRBTS by the way, those gun boats make IG what they are....and basilisks....plently of basilisks
also for you sniper teams if you can get your hands on the spotter from the lascannon team (link to gw site http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1080054)on idividual bases or on a dread base together (three teams of 2, spotter and sniper) they would go very nice together...one spotting ...one shooting !!


Good Hunting !!!


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ignore my stuff about the spotters ...i missed ur last two posts :S