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So which pad are we leaving off again? cuz the one is going to be hard for heavy weapons.....

Okay, I call either sergeant or heavy weapon slot 2, because i have a marine with a meltagun (or you could give me another weapon, i have a whole dev kit to use). I could also do the troop 1, but it'll be harder. Which do you want me to do?

That's very cool Lenny, thanks. Yeah, if you can leave the weapon loose, I can paint up a melta gun or flamer and swap them out as needed. That is unless someone else really wants to do a special weapon marine, in which case I'll have separate figures with different load-outs.

What chapter is he?


@pie: A heavy weapon slot would be great... plasma cannon is already spoken for, but anything else will do just fine.


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whalemusic360 wrote:So which pad are we leaving off again? cuz the one is going to be hard for heavy weapons.....

Theorhetically it's the right pad... but if that doesn't work for you, it's OK with me, you can either leave the left pad off or none at all. There will be plenty of inquisitorial heraldry in the group, I'm sure.

Thought about using the two originaly camo marines as force commanders? Brother Dimshade and Brother Leanman were the two first RT era camo-marines!

I'll have to give some freehanding a go then, Im worried that if I hack it off it will eff the whole deal up.

I'll do the sarge. I have some unique old figures that I will be able to look at donating.

What chapter do you want me to paint? I'm open to about any.

Gitsplitta wrote:That's very cool Lenny, thanks. What chapter is he?

He's an Evocati from my Crimson Paladins Chapter, They have a bone-white armour, similar to that of the Deathwing.



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Hey I found a wip mini to give you an idea.




If you had someone else doing a special then I can send you this guys as a bolter marine if you like. LMK.

Wow, that's beautiful LS... love the way the white and blue work off each other!


OK, updated the list on P 28. Special slots are filling up... no regular troopers yet.

As for the bases... if you want to flock them in your own style you're welcome to do that, if not, I'll be happy to do it here so they match the rest of the army.

Okay, i'll do trooper 1

time to get paintin'

I'm sorry, but I haven't been following the thread to much lately, but why is the Ven yellow, if its a Mantis Warrior?

"Tranquility Campaign Sniper" camo. One of the two color variations shown in the original rule book.

Oh, I should have known that. Sorry.

So its official Git, the next IA book is indeed Badab Wars. Now my FW order will be ven harder to choose!

Be interesting to see what models they produce to support it. Both excited and nervous... Any proposed date? You think we're talking a couple of months, or a year or more?

1st wave is supposedly comming by sept 27th, 2nd wave (and 2nd book) by xmas. Chances of me starting a B-war chapter.......HIGH

Outstanding! That's two of us for Adepticon... might be able to talk Solar_Lion into it eventually too. Though if FW is doing the Badab War, I suspect we'll just be one of many teams following the theme.

I wonder why they'd need an IA just for the Badab War... that's solidly Mark VI... nothing then that we don't have now, just older versions.

Not sure, but I did hear from someone that is there that they have a named guy for every chapter, including MW, in the book. Depending on sales of the RS and Astral Claws, they will do more models. There are I think 16 different chapters in the book.

Yeah, Im really hoping Adepticon is doable this year, I think it is now that I dont have a car payment each month (WOOT)

Meh, well... even IA is hardly more official than a fandex... still requires the consent of your opponent, so I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Would be very interested in their take on the figures... though really they might not be anything more than their mk 6 armor with the old MW pad design... which I'm not using anyway as my version of the Mantis Warriors takes place well after the Badab War.

But... you never know. They do make some kick-a** models, so here's hoping for something cool!

They have promissed at least transfers for all the chapters, so may be something there. IA is a bit more usable then fandexes, depending on where you go. Ive taken my LR helios a few spots just for fun (its not that good)

I think they will make shoulder pads to alot of chapters. These are ofcourse just some rumours and don't know how good it is. I read it on warseer, you could check it out.


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And by "I think they will make shoulder pads to alot of chapters" I'm refering to the badab war chapters.

Transfers even I can make with my little color printer...

Well, we'll see... at least for me, I have my shoulder pads in the works for the "Mantis Warriors Penitent"... it would still be cool to see some of the old pads done in 3-D. And I didn't mean to insult the quality of Forge World's efforts, it's just that no matter how good... if I have to get my opponent's permission to use it... it's a fan dex, plain and simple. The fact that the "fan" is a subsidiary of GW doesn't change the fact that it's not really official.

Chaps my a** though sometimes, I have an awesome FW ork big mech that I can't really use yet because I haven't figured out how to field him legally. Right now he's just for show...


BTW: I am getting some painting done (other than working on T1's trades), hope to have a bit of dreadnought progress to show by tomorrow night.

Gitsplitta wrote:Outstanding! That's two of us for Adepticon... might be able to talk Solar_Lion into it eventually too. Though if FW is doing the Badab War, I suspect we'll just be one of many teams following the theme.

I wonder why they'd need an IA just for the Badab War... that's solidly Mark VI... nothing then that we don't have now, just older versions.

I'm in. Thou I'm all about doing a traitor chapter. Something new for me. Astral Claws.

My God man, you aren't still at work are you?? Go HOME son!

Cool beans, love to see the Astral Claws. There are some great renditions of the Red Corsairs out there (what the Astral Claws became), but I haven't actually seen anyone doing the original Astrals.



Well, have a little bit of an update...

Made some progress on the dread. Colored up the yellow 1 layer (2 coats) and did a considerable amount of work on the guns... mostly the right, but got some done on the left as well.



I also painted the eyes and made the helmet black. I'm not certain that this was a good choice. It sounded good, but rather than being a contrasting focal point, the head is just kind of a black hole in the center of the figure. Thoughts??





I don't hate it... but I don't think I like it either... and the head looks much more "black hole" like on the real fig at tabletop distance.

Maybe white might be a good choice? It signifies veteran status in a lot of chapters after all

Well, if black didn't work, try white! I like it alot.

I like it. Perhaps more black in the general area might help - the aquila perhaps?

Are you doing any regular mantis warriors atm Gitspitta? I'm kinda missing the green lately

I also vote for a white head on the dread, should look awesome ones the camo pattern goes on

Hey all: I think what I'll do is leave the black on for now, and wait until the rest of the painting is done. The body will look a lot different when all the ornamentations and seals are completely painted, maybe that will make a difference. Since the eyes are done, the helm should be relatively easy to re-paint if need be.

@Limbo: At the moment I'm not, I'm working on 1 MW and 1 marine swap at a time. While there will eventually be a lot of green as I work my way through the units (assault, devistator, command, terminators, etc) they don't play a major role in the current army build that I have in mind... which is primarily scouts and Sternguard. I will work some Vanguard in as soon as I come to a final decision on parts, they'll be green... but the only "full marines" at this point are in tranquility camo. That being said, I'll be doing a number of regular marines for swaps... so you'll get to see some green with those.

Mainly though, I'm waiting on my shoulder pads from Chapterhouse to come in... it's not an issue for the Sternguard as I've decided to model them completely old school and concentrate on the camo pattern rather than chapter markings.

How about red for the helmet or yellow just with a red stripe.

When you put on your camo markings make one on the helmet but in yellow, I think that'd look cool.