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 Defeater wrote:

 Thunder wolf wrote:
Im just starting my first army, Im getting space marines and hopefully I'll learn to sculpt some robes on them so they look unique but whether they will look decent is another thing entirely lol

Hello TW. You know you have an amazing resource on this site for painting information and tutorials. Also, if you have any painting questions you can PM me and i can share what i know. Glad to have you my friend!

Thank you I'll PM you when I get a chance as Im only on for 2 mins now because i could use some advise with painting

What`s up 40k world! alriht some good new. We had our first tournament! It was organized by SPC. Corrales, its was fun alot of crazy stuff happened. but we have alot of pics and videos to post. They should be up soon.. I think you`ll be surprised by the winner.Stay tuned....



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Sounds like ya'll are having quite a time over there. me and the army guy i work worth once we complete our armies might have to make our way out there for a game or 2. Finaly got all my tau in and some eldar as im starting them up as well. While he is putting together his chaos demons. Hopefully make it out soon.

Sound good alkaid .Let us know. sundays are thebest time to play.

Hey everyone - deploying in a few months and looking to use the time over there to paint up an Army (I mean, besides the gym and movies we all know there is nothing else to do )

Hate to pimp it, but I have a thread looking for cool Army theme ideas so I can buy everything, build and convert as required, before heading over so I only need to paint while I am there.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/480784.page#4844922

Any suggestions would be awesome. Otherwise, looking forward to being a part of the Thread! Cheers

Anyone here at Camp Leatherneck?

Hey everyone we are still here. it has been pretty hectic. Lots of training going on . I OWE YOU ALL SOME PICS! and they will be here soon. i didnt expect uch a big detour in my posts. but pics will be up soon.

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Well I am on Camp BASTION with a small force of my pre-heresy Thousand Sons if anybody would like a game.

Ok Dakka We are back in the United States again, and it is good to be home.. Our deployment in Kuwait Was supposed to be chill ,it turned out to be extremely busy , and our internet was to terrible to support the forum. But we saved alot of pictures and video. I am now in my new apartment with very good internet. My circle of players and me, are all on block leave right now. We managed to sneak in a game before everyone home. So much has happened since our last post!...


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Spc. Reames decided to play gray knights instead of regular space marines..he now has a decent size gray knights army. He also acquired a resigning players ork army about 1200 points.And to top the cake he still has over 2000 points of space marines.

Spc. Corrales has a large space wolf drop pod force. well balanced and capable of beating anyone..I believe he said the force was complete and he is thinking about starting another army.

Spc. Wells impressed me the most. he said he was going to buy a few eldar things.. Instead he now has over 3000 point of eldar and waiting for the 6th eddition codex before he buys more. I`ve seen him overcome the difficulties of playing eldar and refine his skills.I know that when they get updated he`ll be a force to be reckoned with. In addition wells was our nid player. He already had 3000 points of nids and aqquired a resigning players nids and has almost as many nids as I have IG.

Spc. Aguayo Is our sisters of battle player. He is the guy who said he wanted to watch us play and he did`nt want to spend the money...LMAO! yeah right, He Bought the sisters of battle army and it is worth way more then I would ever spend,BUT they are not to be taken lightly. He was more then successful with the sisters, and put the Ass whoopin on a lot of us..His force is well balanced in shooting, melee and armor..very tough, and very capable. He has started a tau army..

Spc. Marcove Has Chaos space marines, THEY ARE MEAN in melee. He has an large of uknown amount of points between what he aquired in kuwait and what he already had. And with the 6th eddition update,they got me worried..

Spc. Wideman Is my fellow IG Player His force in Kuwait was Huge. mostly cosisting of ARMOR, one would think he would do very well..But wideman had a very very rough time while we were deployed. He is my friend but to be honest I`ll say he suffered 80-90% losses. But a new fire burns in him. He combined his forces from Kuwait and now here and I know he will turn the tide and get some wins..He owns the largest Imperial guard armor force out of anyone I have ever met.

Sgt. Gilley stills has a big force of Necrons and is continuing to increase his number. I STILL OWE YOU FOR THAT ONE GAME SERGEANT!

RESIGNING PLAYERS: Unfortunately There will always be players that will play on the deployment then stop before you return home, for their own personnel reasons. But I would like to thank you for playing, and it was a lot of fun and maybe you`ll find your way back to the circle..


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As for me ,I`m Still playing strong..And I`ll always stay loyal to the imperial guard! There is a certain Honor in playing imperial guard. You have the means to fight back , but you also have the human chance of getting blown out of the water..No Over powered, and not to under powered. an army of mortal men fighting the nightmares of the 41st millenium..Gotta love it....

Before we deployed I had been working on perfecting an air assault tactic with valkyries and veteran guardsmen. and that was still when valkyries were skimmers..And the emperor heard my prayers and answered..6th addition hit and boom! 5 five valkyries are now flyers! so I got some more... Now I have 8 valkyries . I have also bluprinted and tested my air assault and it has been very very successful. currently have over 8000 points of IG .. Me and the guys have been talking and we think it might be time to get into apocolypse..Im Excited..


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So I had a computer crash while we were deployed , it had all my pictures on it but Spc.Aguayo has duplicates.. in the mean time I have a few projects to show you.. First off , I wanted on Vandetta, Piloted by an ACE.. So the vandetta had to be different then all my others..I looked at some world war 2 paint jobs and this is what i came up with...( This is 90% complete)

I put the allied striped on the tail and wings..In the center of the stripes is a aquilla..I used red as a highlight color..red seemed very ace like.

rotated ..

Side view, added a spike nosecone radar..custom touch..

Maverick and Goose Helmets for the pilot and gunner, And kill count painted on the side of the cockpit.. I plan to paint an ace card on the side also to signify my ace crew..

And I wanted the exhaust burns behind the engines..

And lastly I always have this problem of glue fumes spreading around the cockpit glass and fogging it..so this time i decided to work with it.. a bullet hole in the glass where the glue fogged, an i also added cracks in the glass..kinda like the glass is damaged , spiderwebbed..whatever..lol


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It is not perfect and I`ll go back and touch of some of the flaws , but I`m happy..

Next a few quick pics of my finished Gunnery Sergeant Harker!


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He has a small chip in his boot..easy fix!

Next is my custom mod, Castellian Creed..I have the actual creed model when he is old also..

This one is a model I am very proud of...I love the books ..Commissar Gaunt.. Forgive the small chips in my paint jobs these models were mailed 7000 miles..

This is my custom made Captain Al`Rahem..I always have a ton of bits laying around but, I cut his goggles from plastic scraps, His headdress is made from a very carefully cut piece of notebook paper.. the rest of him are IG and eldar bits..

Looking good mate!

Well I had never seen this thread, so I thought I'd pop my head in.

Currently in Afghanistan, RC South. Unfortunately, I'm the only "gamer" here on my COP, so I build models in my tiny whack shack, and the only talk of 40K or mini-gaming at all is through some of my friends back home, on facebook.

If you're on Apache or at KAF give me a holler, maybe we can link up sometime for some excellent chow at the DFAC, and we can talk 40K.

There once was a guardsman unlike the rest..he was capable of any mission passed to him..he was elite, he was a killer , he was a legend..he was Guardsman Marbo.. Marbo was assigned to my unit..The lucky 13th on various occasions..I praise his courage and efficiency .. But He was replaced..The replacement is a perfect soldier..Built from scratch starting with his DNA, trained from a child , cloned again and again over thosands of years..He serves the emperor and the lucky 13th..never faltering..He has been successful since his arrival to my unit..SOLID SNAKE!


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He is played off of the Marbo rules,but Snake is a way cooler piece...


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 Firehead158 wrote:
Well I had never seen this thread, so I thought I'd pop my head in.

Currently in Afghanistan, RC South. Unfortunately, I'm the only "gamer" here on my COP, so I build models in my tiny whack shack, and the only talk of 40K or mini-gaming at all is through some of my friends back home, on facebook.

If you're on Apache or at KAF give me a holler, maybe we can link up sometime for some excellent chow at the DFAC, and we can talk 40K.

Be safe over there brother..and welcome to the thread..This is a military friendly thread so give shout outs and game invites as much as you want..and feel free to post pics of your army..It don`t take much to build a circle..it starts by displaying your army and not being embarrassed over your models..I`ve been called a nerd.. warhammer is not a nerd game it`s a war game that requires a brain..But anyways..boost the game, and the gamers will come..they will come.. If you run into a CPT Upton-Robbins tell him "E" said what up..


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 HAZZER wrote:
Looking good mate!

Thanks Hazzer feel free to post some pics of your army! Welcome to the thread..it`s yours as much as it is mine.


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 Firehead158 wrote:
Well I had never seen this thread, so I thought I'd pop my head in.

Currently in Afghanistan, RC South. Unfortunately, I'm the only "gamer" here on my COP, so I build models in my tiny whack shack, and the only talk of 40K or mini-gaming at all is through some of my friends back home, on facebook.

If you're on Apache or at KAF give me a holler, maybe we can link up sometime for some excellent chow at the DFAC, and we can talk 40K.

And also feel free to go back to the early pages of the thread you`ll see how we developed a circle while deployed to Iraq..it may help get some gamers..

I leave my models on display, and a few have inquired about it, but nobody has shown interest. I live on a small COP/FOB with very few Americans(most are Romanians). I picked this hobby up from a team leader from my last platoon, so my PSG, him and I would get together regularly and play. My platoon sergeant used to ask if I wanted to play a game. I'd tell him that I can't due to the patrol the next day, so he'd turn to my PL and tell him to send 4th squad or something. My squad loved me for that, squad leader would send me off to the PSG's hut to ask him to game so we could have a day off. It was pretty entertaining. Our internet sucks(obviously) and I'm having problems getting to my photobucket. I'll try again tomorrow and post up some of my work while I've been here in the ghan.

 Firehead158 wrote:
I leave my models on display, and a few have inquired about it, but nobody has shown interest. I live on a small COP/FOB with very few Americans(most are Romanians). I picked this hobby up from a team leader from my last platoon, so my PSG, him and I would get together regularly and play. My platoon sergeant used to ask if I wanted to play a game. I'd tell him that I can't due to the patrol the next day, so he'd turn to my PL and tell him to send 4th squad or something. My squad loved me for that, squad leader would send me off to the PSG's hut to ask him to game so we could have a day off. It was pretty entertaining. Our internet sucks(obviously) and I'm having problems getting to my photobucket. I'll try again tomorrow and post up some of my work while I've been here in the ghan.

Word brother I know the feeling of trying to cram 40k in between missions.. Well stay in contact , we`ll be posting quite a bit more now that I`m home from over seas.. Hopefully we can help tame your 40k needs! Be safe, Stay in cover and Godspeed man..

Here we go!




This is the work I've completed to date. I've got plenty of other models built, just not painted or primed.

The ultramarines are looking good man! How many points you got ? Have you played the sixth edition rules yet?

6th came out about 2 months before I left for the ghan, so I got to play a few games. I have about 1500 points of BT at home that I was playing with.

I started the Ultramarines army as a project while I was here. Heres the link to my P&M Blog http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/503589.page. I have nothing playable here right now, so I've just been taking time to accomplish projects I want for when I get home. I have another tactical squad in the works, and a devastator squad that I'm still working on. Unfortunately, due to my time getting shorter and shorter here, I have stopped painting and have focused on building so I can get them home in a figure case, then all I have to do is paint when I get home.

Firehead158, the models look good.I`ll check out your thread now and again too! Deployment is one of the best times to catch up on your painting,Hopefully you got some good brush time in..Where are you stationed out of? So you have Black Templar, working on ultra marines..any other armies or just space marines?

Hey everyone,
This has been a long time coming..I have`nt had a chance to lay out everything I have since 2010..I have acquired a few things since then..Check it out..

This is my tally of models. I have yet to due my true model points value without upgrades..but I have 3 Vendettas, 4 Valkyries. I actually have The Vendetta upgrade kits.. All my Valkyries are Solid OD green with a yellow stripe on the the tail shaft. My Vendettas are Camouflaged Except for the ace that is silver and red..


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The valkyrie in the back has yet to receive a Yellow stripe..