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Well I guess the two things you have to ask yourself are: what is the army for and how much free time do I have?

If this is a cabinet army then I say go all out. If this is for the table top then I would be thinking more of the two hours saved per model. You could always go back over them at a later date (he says laughing to himself because I have more to "re do" then to do in the first place!)

yeah it will be cabinet army, mixed with the odd battle here and there, i might practice the same wing again but corner of the edges a bit to make a bit more grimdarkbadman. at the moment i'm planning on buying a host of modelling stuff to fully get me going, like specialised brushes and more paints. I'm also getting the DA company master and i have enough money left for another box. What do you think guys? it has to be less than £27 GW worth (i buy from Darksphere so it will only cost me £20). I was thinking ven dreadnought? or Mk 2 vets i can buy in GW ( Darksphere don't stock them))

try online as some places have 20% off GW

just checked, weyland and maelstorm are out of it. Weyland not only pay direct charge, but then also P+P, while Maelstrom does not have stock. In all honesty buying from the shop could be the best option as there is no postage fee (i will have to ring up if they still stock it though...), thats if the vets are the best choice, i was even contemplating another pred but this time a lascannon one.

Which Vets are you looking for D6S?

Also glad to see you still support the sphere, have you been to the new shop of late or are you out of London?

i live in cardiff, so i buy online. its amazing how a small shop in london is able to sell GW models so cheap and so many different other wargames.

On-top i was possibly thinking of getting the mk 2 vets, but really i couldn't care less as long as it is SM and £20 from DarkSphere (so basically that means termies, vets, predator etc)
on a note of termies, perhaps assault termies would be pretty good to get, but i don't know.

Hmm? tough one. I'd go with assault terminators if I were you. They're fantastic models and tbh a must for any DA player.

When you get them though DO NOT glue them, grab yourself some magnets off Ebay I'll send you the link of the guy I use 50mags for £2.44 with free P+P and then save up to get the AoBR terminators either off bits and kits if they have them or off ebay again.

Then magnetise all the arms checking the polarity is the same for all of them and voilà ten assault terminators or 5 assault and 5 shooty. I think I may have a spare heavy flamer somewhere too which I can send tyou if you want a special weapon in your shooty squad. Let me know.

on my old termies, i have 3 special weapons.... XP and DA can only get 1 *double XP*, though i can compensate from a free termie from an old WD. the poses are not good as well. but i can use the heavy flamer *the only one i've painted DA colours* to be used in CC.

but yeah i'll think about magnetising, it sounds really cool. (btw i also have £65 worth of euros i got from when i went to austria to see relatives, if my dad will let me convert in the post office i could buy a crusader and maybe more termies! (or vets or whatever)

Oh in that case snip off the pegs on the arms and use the magnets to add on the TH or LC. Keep the other arms too. This way you'll get ten assault termies for the price on 5, bargain.

Don't think about magnetising just do it, lol. It's the best way to maximise your options both if you do decide to play more games but also conversion wise when newer stuff comes out you can magnetise that as well and create even more cool stuff.

Final if you do chose to ever sell any of you stuff you will 9/10 get far more money for them as they're aren't fixed, which of course means you can buy even more stuff with the extra money you make.

In case you hadn't guessed I lie to plan 40k projects before I've even finished/started my current one.

Try http://www.totalwargamer.co.uk/index.php?aff_id=5583

or giftsforgeeks.org

I just ran some of TWG's costs every thing I ran was more expensive from these guys. Compared their army deal and it was £15 more expensive which is another squad or transport when you think about it.

Gifts are the same, more expensive. I used to shop with them.

Darksphere nearly always come out cheaper but they'd don't offer the direct orders/ FW stuff that some of the others do.

Swings and roundabouts really.

Lenny you have a link?

For Darksphere? Yeah here you go.

http://www.darksphere.co.uk

Thanks mate you are a star, there is a shop near me but they dont return my emails.... How Rude (in voice of anoying star wars Jaja binks)

hey guys, just a quick heads up on what the next update will (hopefully) be.
1.) at least a couple or even all the rest of the bikes
2.) possibly a test model for a side project, I'll go into a bit of detail below
3.) another freehand practice

expect the update either Saturday or probably Sunday.



now to the 'side project'. the idea is to have a vanilla SM army, with kit like the LS storm and other non-DA stuff. but i can also use them either as proxies or use their tac marines and integrate then into my DA army.
the idea is to make a welsh themed SM chapter (and sometime in the future a welsh themed IG force) called the Crimson Dragons. fluff wise i'm going to say the companies intergrate all 3 types together sometimes (e.g. a squad consisting of 6 tacs, 2 heavy weps + 2 assault marines) as if they are small specialist teams. the project will have its own blog. along with this a lot of the names will be in welsh, welsh with a few letters changed, or just made up welsh-sounding.

here's a quick B&C SM i made to demonstrate how they might look. feel free to criticise and recommend any changes. remember it must be primarily red, with either white or green. why? check out the welsh flag (it's cool!)

P.S. to those who have no idea what welsh is, its an ancient celtic language still spoken in Wales by many people (though very few are fluent at it). For anyone who doesn't know what Wales is, it's the bit sticking out to the west of mid-england. hope that helps...

Umm........No. Sorry D6s they're just looking like Santa legion.

What about a more predominant green and white as on the flag.




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I just think you need to tone down the red vs green tbh. This one you see keeps the green/white divide of the flag with a touch of red. You could always add more red components like making the whole helmet red.

Lenny's one looks better.

yeah, i was contemplating trying a half+half, but thought against it. though this one looks great! perhaps they have red helmets for sergeants or stuff. ill make some sketches on how the chapter icon will look like, i think trying to get a welsh dragon will be pretty hard, and the 3 feathers (although i will intergrate it elsewhere) has nothing to do with 'crimson dragons'. perhaps a dragon-winged skull?

The most simplistic device you could do would be GS dragon scales. Remember there are no hard and fast rules that say every army must have a heraldic device.

Something like this;


Thinking back on the colour scheme as well you could have all the soft armour red as well.

See you have to be careful with the Welsh colours. You look at them in a sporting arena and their main colour is red with white as the main addition. Randomly there is little in the way of green from what I can immediately see. The reason I say this is because I just don't see Wales in the newer version. Also I'm afraid, depending upon how the red was done (as in how orange it turns out), it could easily be Irish!.

True the sporting teams are in red but from what he said in his earlier post he's drawing on the flag for inspiration.

And as for the feathers, they're the heraldic device for the Prince of Wales really.

Miss Dee wrote:Lenny's one looks better.

D6S I gotta agree with Miss Dee Lenny's version does look better and almost sticks with the DA theme also . Keep up the good work.

Lennysmash wrote:The most simplistic device you could do would be GS dragon scales. Remember there are no hard and fast rules that say every army must have a heraldic device.

Something like this;


Thinking back on the colour scheme as well you could have all the soft armour red as well.

looks cool, i was thinking about painting the scales on aswell, although the process will be arduos.

taffiarti wrote:See you have to be careful with the Welsh colours. You look at them in a sporting arena and their main colour is red with white as the main addition. Randomly there is little in the way of green from what I can immediately see. The reason I say this is because I just don't see Wales in the newer version. Also I'm afraid, depending upon how the red was done (as in how orange it turns out), it could easily be Irish!.

the red will definetely be red gore, so the highlights will move more towards blood red

Lennysmash wrote:True the sporting teams are in red but from what he said in his earlier post he's drawing on the flag for inspiration.

And as for the feathers, they're the heraldic device for the Prince of Wales really.

quiet you! last time i checked it was the heraldry of Chapter Master Glyndŵr, so keep it shut! it doesn't have to draw on the flag if the sport colours are better, although a banner will definitely be like the flag.

GreyDeathOne wrote:

Miss Dee wrote:Lenny's one looks better.

D6S I gotta agree with Miss Dee Lenny's version does look better and almost sticks with the DA theme also . Keep up the good work.

Treachery! i'll never hear the end of this!

Also may be tied to the Sister of Battle Say no more.

You know all the other Chapter Masters are going to laugh at him and call him " Feathers"

"ooooh feathers, you're no Space Marine you're too downy soft!"

Leave him alone! *sobs*
well i could make some changes, perhaps replace the feathers with talons/knives/long-edged power swords etc etc, any ideas?
ICH DIEN will have to be replaced with whatever the latin translation for I SERVE is though...

Why not go with Quod Sumus Hoc Eritis!

Its my new favourite latin saying, and yes before everyone starts that is from Kingdom of Heaven but guess what they didn't actually come up with it....

I misspelled that sould of been tyed to a Sister of Battle ....

Had another go for you. This time keeping the red more predominant. Thinking Blood Ravens meets Mentor Legion. I think its important that they don't just end up looking like BA marines. You got remember there are a hell of a lot of red armies going round atm.

Anyway what do you think?

Grey would obviously be for boltgun metal/ chainmail.

"And Are This Will be"... whats that supposed to mean?
looks pretty cool. yeah i understand alot of armies are red, thats why i want a really dark red mixed with something unique. the green makes them blend in a bit too much with DA methinks, perhaps a salamander-type green? or possibly even no green at all, as green is a bit meh with red. red+white might stand out a bit better, but i don't know.

p.s somewhere in the blog i did a test figure for some other chapter which was red with bone trimmings, how would it look with white trim? (think 2011 wales rugby kit, though with darker red)


can't use B&C painter atm because of maintenance or something