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Guardsman Hedman wrote:Speechless... AWESOME job, mate!
Have you abandoned us, or are you working on this fantastic army in secret? Update this, please!

My camera died after I painted the Rune Priest. I did finish some more, and I finally bought a cheap camera last week, so I'll post some WIPs in the next couple of days. Thanks for asking.

I also entered my very first gaming tourney, and did better than expected; I won 2 out of four 1300pt games. I'm not the most strategically-gifted player to begin with, plus I had been away from the game for a few years, so 50% was pretty satisfying. Most importantly, every opponent was either fun to play, was willing to give great advice while kicking my ass, or both. All of the armies were well-painted, and the tourney was well-organized with only a minor hiccup or two. I can't wait for the next one. I've got a 2,100pt tourney coming up in March, and I'm slaving away to get everything completed. I had to bring some minimally-painted troops for this last tourney, and was a bit embarrassed.




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metallifan wrote:If he WAS updating, don't you think he would've posted something somewhere in the LAST 4 MONTHS since this thread died?

And people say there're no stupid questions.

That's overly harsh, isn't it? He's just looking for an explanation of the lack of posts. Relax!

I am glad to see you are back! I can't wait to see the progress you have made with this army. I love everything, especially the rune priest!

This is AWESOME

Fantastic work mate!

So how do you paint the tartans?

Ok so that's not thread-raising anymore!!!

Glad to see you back, that's indeed not so bad for a comeback in the Hobby!!! Half of victories is something a lot wouldn't even dream of lol!!!

Let's hope your next tournament will keep you motivated to keep on painting (and showing around us all obviously!!)

Cheers,

Wow Awesome Work xD i love it kilts in space who'd have thought it would look so cool ?

Welcome back to the land of the living! Glad to see your return to power!

So I finally took some new pics with my cheap-ass camera,and they're bloody awful. Here's the best of the bunch:







I'll borrow a camera eventually to get some better pics, but wanted to post proof I'm not quite dead. In the last two months I've built and painted the unti you see here, as well as my new mounted Wolf Lord, and then rebuilt and repainted a Landspeeder Typhoon.

Right now I'm trying to finish painting the models I need for a tourney next Saturday, so back to work!

Very nice....

I love the bike squad, Mastiff.

Mastiff wrote:Hola!

Welcome to my Haggis-scented Space Marine blog. You may have seen the Ravenborn about 5-10 years ago. I'm trying to complete them again after a five year hiatus. So, here's their story so far...


To be continued...

Holy crap! Mastiff! What's up man? I haven't seen a post of yours in years. Good to see you around.

Drake_Marcus wrote:
Holy crap! Mastiff! What's up man? I haven't seen a post of yours in years. Good to see you around.

Heya! I took a long break, but I've been getting very involved again. I just played a tournament last weekend in fact. Won Best Sportsman too I think people like playing me because I'm so happy to finally be throwing dice around that I can't be bothered with frivolities like tactics and such.

You keeping busy too I hope?

loving it!

Really really nice

sweet, as a half scottish person i approve, and space wolves fit them so perfectly, please give one ofthem a set of bagpipes to complete the look

The effort you're putting into each mini speaks volumes to your passion. This is exceptional stuff, thank you for sharing!

"Alright, everyone pipe down, time for a family photo! MacInnis, stop poking MacConnor with your chainsword and get back with the other Blood claws. Where'd the scouts go? Damit, they were here a minute ago! Oh, there you are, yes, yes, you're very clever monkeys taking advantage of cover and camoflage, now get back in place please... for Feth's sake, why is the Dreadnoght burning!!! Get a fire extinguisher... oh, he's always like that? never mind, you can stop beating him with your kilt now..."



So this is the 1,400 pt army I took to a tourney last month. Had lots of fun, did moderately well. I was pretty light on elites and felt the effects. Next stop, really expensive units!

Zoom-o-Vision pic here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/96091-Group%20photo.html

The entire army is just amasing, a poem called Haggis hunting on BMX came to mind when i seen the bike squad and attack bike. Overall the entire army is well done and perfectly exacuted.

They look great! I really like the slightly different land speeder shape there. As a (half) scot i really like them! If you wanted to add tiny but clever detail on then create the clan logo and put it on their kilts! May be a bit much tho :/

Old friend! So nice to see a full army - it looking so coherent despite all the time that has passed, is testament to your skill. The sneaking in weathering is nicely updating the imagery to 2010.

GREAT WORK and thanks for sharing!

Someone in that army needs a banner that says "Ach! C'mon ya wee scunners!" or something similar

Yeah I love this army , love the theme and it looks awesome .

Love the additions. I hope this project will keep on growing.

Heah Mastiff, nice to see you back and painting. I would personally like to see your take on Thunderwolves.

You now need to include:
1) a set of bagpipes
2) a barrel/glass/glasses of whisky
Then you would have Scottish wolves

wyomingfox wrote:Heah Mastiff, nice to see you back and painting. I would personally like to see your take on Thunderwolves.

Well they must obviously be riding haggises (haggi?? ) you know; one leg shorter than the other for running around hills, with the little knot around the front keeping in all the whatevers in there (it really nice and i don't even know what it is although nowadays its stuff like oats and other non-traditional stuff!)
I love it though!

Wrong. Oats have been in there for a long bloody time. Traditional Haggis recipies list oats.

And the pouch it's all stuffed in is a sheep's stomach. Sounds bad, but tastes pretty damn good.

Nice to see the "whole" army. Brilliant. Your power weapon effect made me change the way I did power weapons in my own army, way back when the Ravenborn were first being put together.

Easily my favourite army ever seen. Love it mate.

I could be bias however as my name is Angus

I have never been one for copying an idea, but I am so keen to have a go at a similar theme once my existing project is over.

One bone though, considering the battle of culloden field was in the 1746 the last of several Jacobite uprisings, I would have thought the kilt had made somewhat of a mark prior to the 1800's! Well in the Highlands at least. But this is a minor bone and more of jest from a humbled admirer of your work!

Cheers.

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the feedback

I'm still enjoying working on these guys, but getting very sick of Vermin Brown. Ah well. I'm hoping to complete the army this year and move on to something else for a change of pace. Either Dark Elves or Dark Eldar, depending on my mood.

I'm working on my Wolf Lord on Thunderwolf right now for a painting contest May 1st. I've completed most of the building and conversion, but I need to speed it up to make the deadline. I'll post the pics tonight and try and update regularly, explaining how I do it. You may find the T-wolf underwhelming though, I'll be curious to hear what people think.

@MaliceInTheLookingGlass: I was a bit surprised when I researched kilts that they weren't as old or common as I thought. The plaid patterns existed before the 1700s, but pants were actually more common than the formal kilt. It turns out the English and Scots had a romantic re-imagining of their heritage in the 1800s (they retconned the highlanders!!) and it became very fashionable to paint every lord in a family kilt to show off those sexy scottish knees. It's been years since I read the history, though.

And copy away mate, I'll never claim that my army is original. I grab inspiration from any source that I can, and i've seen plenty of models since I started that make me slap my forehead and think "why didn't I think of that!".


@Imperial Monkey:
Bagpipes are coming!

@wyomingfox and Migs:
Heya guys! keeping busy I hope?