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@WM: Got yours today... thank heavens... looks like almost all the kids will be there. I'll be up until 3 am tonight painting them... but they look great, thanks!

@GS: Thanks! The only thing that is unsatisfying about this figure is that I don't get to flock it. Don't get me wrong... I understand completely that Styro should flock it to match his army/table... but it makes it feel "unfinished" to me.

@Rose: Thanks... took a while to sort that green out... think I ran 6 or 8 test marines before I found the right combo.

Glad they got there, sorry I didnt have time to send more, would loved to strech my objective marker legs. I did a few for my self, they will make their way to the interweb eventually! Hope you, and more importantly the kids, have fun tomorrow!

Saturday!!! Not tomorrow... don't make this any more difficult a task then it has to be!

Lol, sorry. It'll be tomorrow in a few hours.....



THE PRESSURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1i1!!!!!!!!!!

The helmet with the knife is awesome!

Dont know if you have been keeping up with the FW marine news git, but the next IA is supposed to be IA: Badab War. We already know FW has a woody for RS, I suspect we will get several others, maybe some MW goodness (and more people playing your chapter!)

Can you use a few less acronyms please? I don't know what the heck you're talking about...

FW= Forge World
IA = Imperial Armour
MW = Mantis Warriors (who alligned themselves with the Astral Claws in the Babad War)
RS = Red Scorpions (Who fought against the Astral Claws alliance for a time)

For more info on the Babad War see http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Badab_War

Lol, He said the next Imperial armour forgeworld release could be a Badab war supp. As such it would included Mantis Warrior stuff and would undoubtedly result in more Mantis warrior armies.

Oh yes and a very happy birthday to your son, I'm sure he'll have a great day.

Can you imagine the mantis warrior upgrade kits? They'd be really sweet!

wyomingfox & Lennysmash: Thank you for translating. I went to school in Iowa so the IA really threw me off... and what he said sounded exciting which made it all the more frustrating to not be able to translate it!

It would be fun to see more mantis warriors around... but then the wouldn't be MY mantis warriors any more as I'm sure Forge World will do their own take on them. Might be nice models though... expensive to be sure. But, by the same token if there are more people playing them there may be more neat things available for them, which is a good thing. Who knows, might eventually get enough people to put a Badab War team together for Adepticon (which is what I'd really like to do eventually). Though it would be most fun if you had multiple chapters involved (MWs, Lamenters, Astral Claws, etc)

Thanks Len, I'll pass it on!

That would be cool btw what colour scheme do the astral claws have ?

I'm not sure... the only page I have left over from my old RT rule book is the one with the Mantis Warrior on it... don't think the Astral Claws were on the same page. Might be in the Lexicanum though...

As I recall there were 4 chapters involved in the rebellion, so it's a natural for Adepticon.

The red corsairs, MWs, Exicuitionors and Lamenters. There were many other chapters involved in the badab war tho.

During the Badab Wars though aren't the Red corsairs the Astral Claws chapter. They only become the Corsairs after they flee and they become a pirate warband.

Tomato, Chaos tainted Tomato


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Oh, if I find I can make it to adepticon, sign me up for a Badab slot.

haha,

Slightly OT but whats the deal with all the RT era marine camo by the way. I know from git's thread that it occurs in the Badab wars, but is there any RT reference to it outside of the conflict?

I was thinking it might make for an interesting swap piece or objective marker for me.

Anyways! They were hella complicated colors for some reason. Did you see the exicuitioners or Fire Hawks? Crazy stuff there (and yet im intreagued.....)

I think one or two marines would be ok but a whole army? I think you'd quickly go stir-crazy.

Tbh I still love the idea of the rank markings for marines though.

Im already crazy. Couldnt be much worse then robes and all that crap that I do anyways.

Lennysmash wrote:haha,

Slightly OT but whats the deal with all the RT era marine camo by the way. I know from git's thread that it occurs in the Badab wars, but is there any RT reference to it outside of the conflict?

I was thinking it might make for an interesting swap piece or objective marker for me.

If you're talking about Marine camo in general in the RT rulebook it mentions that the Tactica Imperialis says that all units are supposed to use camo, but some Marine chapters didn't like using it so they didn't.

Ok so I could feasibly field a small squad of Corvus vets in camo, excellent. I think I may look it the FW upgrade kits for them.....

..wanders off to plan another pipe dream..

The chapters involved were quite a bit.

Executioners
Lamenters
Mantis Warriors
Astral Claws
Fire Hawks
Marines Errant
Red Scorpions
Minotaurs
Novamarines
Howling Griffons
Star Phantoms
Salamanders
Exorcists
Fire Angels
Space Sharks
Sons of Medusa

@Whalemusic: I just checked lexicanum. You're right, most chapters involved did have complicated schemes.

Oh! Space sharks. I remember those

you forgot Salamanders

You're right. Editing it.

I thought IA was the acronym for Ice Angels. I was really confused for a minute, but I figured it out. lol.

Have you guys been enjoying the forgeworld kits they've been showing pictures of? I like those different bolter patterns they're coming out with, especially the one with the attached chainsword option!

I have about 50 of those left over from my RT days... maybe more. I do like the really early ones though... without the cowl the bolt guns just look kind of weak. But I always did like the "combat blades" of the old days... basically chainsaw bayonets.

There were a lot of chapters in the Badab War, but I think only 4 rebelled.

The last couple of objectives are going nicely... Tau and chaos marines. Had to use white glue in places so I'm waiting for it to dry. The chaos marine one is fairly simple, but I've got a good little story to go with it so I'm sure I can sell it. Thing 1 went down the line and pointed out which objective goes to which friend.

Hope to have more photos later.

@Whalemusic: Hope I didn't butcher the paint job on your objective too badly, it was a fun one to paint with all the little bits in it. Thing 1 picked that one to go to his best friend (Guard player)... I'm sure he won't care about the fact that most of the bits are SM & not Guard.

Glad he dug it! Knew I kept those slightly damaged bits for a reason
If your doing stories behind each marker, my thinking behind that one was that some Space marines of the (insert chapter name) had made a last stand near a damaged homing beacon hoping reinforcements might yet make it through.
The other one was a Tech marine that had found a weapons cache and was calling in for help to get the stuff out of their. Clearly he had addapted some of the tech to "help clear out the tech" aka it was friggin cool! Dont let the assault cannon fall out tho, he looks like hes doin disco

Bit of an update:

1. The Mantis Warrior shoulder pad greens are in Nick's hands at Chapterhouse and he'll be making the molds as soon as he can. The process inches forward... but I have so many other things to paint that waiting has been no problem (other than being anxious & excited about the project of course).

2. After spending most of the last month painting my marine swap project and the objectives markers for Thing 1's birthday party, I've decided to treat myself to a little time working on my own project. The Venerable Dreadnought project will be getting my full attention until it's completion.

3. Will start the process of building for my next marine swap... a "bug boy" for Arakasi... that is an ork storm boy nob who "thinks" that he's a Mantis Warrior vanguard. I'm pulling together bits and pieces for the project now... it's going to be a challenge... but should be really fun too. Unlike Arakasi, I'm not smart enough to make two of them so I can keep one for myself... but I think it's highly likely that I'll eventually make one (or more) of them for my storm boyz squad. Actually, if I can find enough parts... I make make my whole storm boyz squad "bug boyz"... we'll see.


So, in a day or two I hope to have some photos of progress on the venerable for you. I'm really jazzed about it after seeing how well it worked when combined with the sternguard (as a screen) during the game at the birthday party. Really motivates me to finish both it and the sternguard.