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Last year I got my armoured battalion to a playable state, even if not completely finished, though most of the time I was painting BFG ships. The monthly painting competitions were great for keeping pace.



But hey, if there's a challenge for Epic here this year and I'll mostly be playing it anyway, that sounds like a perfect excuse to finish more little dudes. Especially when my opponents so desperately want to see more infantry instead of pure walls of treaded steel facing them, that they've graciously printed me a whole bunch of Chimeras, it would be rather rude not to...

 Overread wrote:
I like the inclusion of camouflage on the artillery! Something the original Epic 40K metal models had all over gun barrels and such which we never really saw again once they went to 40K scale updates and then back to modern models which are very clean built.

Gauze and superglue, there are rolled camo nets on the battle tanks' sides as well. Though my own military stint was in communications rather than dealing with tanks, all of our grunts go through the same ruckus of learning to camo everything when the action stops or get wrecked in short order Thus everybody gets their share of stowage and netting in this force, which represents the mobile fist of a planetary defence force in our group's longer campaign.

 Overread wrote:
Lefthand to middle 2nd row from the back - artillery ^^

I think Doc's joking on the artillery being thus camouflaged and as invisible as John Cena ;P
But seriously speaking, yeah, there's three Basilisk batteries, two field gun batteries and two Deathstrikes in that pic alone, so it's not like there wouldn't be any.

Got some 60 little bawkses greebled enough to roll onto the painting station. Chimeras, Manticores, Hydras, Wyverns (Griffons) and the like to expand my Guard into the realm of some non-4+ RA steel for a change

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
That right there is a Wargasm!

Also, seems I forgot to share pics of my completed tanks.

Lock that load, ye horn-Doc

Nice bunch of tanks you've got there too, fresh out of their factories and straight into parade formation.

Some lighter armour for the Guard!

Just Chimeras with autocannons, Chimedons would be sporting the stripped-down yet still massive Conqueror battlecannons. Chimerro is basically just lugging an HK missile along and the less we talk about the abomination that is the Chimerax the better

Some AA rolled forth from the tiny tank factory this afternoon. Brrrrt!