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Evening....Well I've been painting Magos Spur (and the Scavvy Zombie proder) this week and he is coming along nicely. I've noticed a few areas that could have done with a little more filing, when it came to removing skaven symbols, but never mind a few move gs purity seals will sort that out. I didn't get anything done tonight because the bottle of bordeux caret, A History of Violence (hottest scene ever) and Abigail were a much more attractive options (besides a lot of wine and painting will never end well).

Anyway the main point of this post is to show you guys this link... JRN has created a fabulous model.....

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/353742.page#2570895

It is totally Blanchian in concept and made me ever so happy (and a little creeped out) when I found it. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I have.

Now I've drank a bit too much I'm going to bitch a little about Grey Knights. Grey Knights are fantastic but I much preferred them as Imperial Agents or rather Dark Millennium bonus unit. (yes I know I'm living in 2nd ed). Is it wrong of me to think they should only be fighting daemons rather than every other bugger too? I'm also a little upset that my soonish to be started Imperial Guard army will not be allowed allies. Of course I feel totally in my rights to use the Daemon Hunter codex since GW haven't replaced it. The new Inquisition options sound good...its an orangutan (I'm actually excited about the model, shame I'm not allowed to buy new stuff until I've made a dent in what I've got) I just wish Inquisitors along with assassins (that really need new models) were an allied elite choice for all Imperial armies. Anyway enough of my ramblings, goodnight.

Neil - No worries. Both are great games and totally different and both bring totally different modelling opportunities.

Peter

haha ha cool update peter , blanchitsu links and drunken ramble, i imagined going from loud to a murmur near the end .. bloody GW bloody GK Bloody everything

Morning Neil....indeed it is a great link which I had to share. I really should have just gone to bed when Abi crashed out. Because this is a family friendly forum.... Well boys and girls drinking is bad for you...it lowers your inhibitions ...and gives you a lovely headache the following morning. So please drink responsibly.....and if you don't, well just ramble on Dakka (but make sure it all goes in the correct forum).

As a teenager I was always confused by my parents getting up early at weekends. Now that I am an adult I have the same problem. It doesn't matter what time I go to bed or how rough I feel. I always wake up between 7 and 7.30 just like a work day. Sucky.

As for my comments about Grey Knights...from what I've read they seem a little over the top. Instant Death force weapons on the whole unit from one psychic test! Ignores daemons instant death rule (on a Ld test)! Now imo this is just wrong....how did Angron manage to kill 100 grey knights before they banished him? Anyway this really is the wrong forum for this debate.

Peter

man your an early riser , i cant get up before 10 at a weekend , i was a little dissapointed with the new GK as well , not fluff wise , but i see where your going with that, i have the deamon hunter codex and its really good , all gothic and specialised , i would hate the fact if they become another generic SM army , it was the only SM army i would of considered , although i think i will still make a GK diorama to face of against the Art scale word bearers. I dont know why iam dissapointed , they do look nice , i think once you go artscale you cant go back . ;-) they kinda look short and stubby now lol.

SM models always tickle me.
If only they were true scale they would be so much better,
The legs on the new GK models are somehow funnier than normal, which is odd cos they look generic.

Feel for the guy in the DreadKnight baby carrier. The hips!! ouoooouuuch!!! Those hips have been ripped apart to get in that thing. He'll not be walking without the aid of a zimmer frame again.

Amen, to your "living in the 2nd edition" opinion!
"Hi kids, I'm a greyknight, I was born and raised for only one purpose, purging daemons. Unfortunately the bad economy and budget cuts forced us greyknights to take any job we're offered. So in between fighting the creatures from the warp we also stand ready to kill your household pest, clean the gutters or take out the garbage, just call 555-fortheemperor ..."
When I first discovered the GK back then I was like "Wow, those guys are so badass, they are only called when the (daemon) gak hits the fan! Look at the price of a five man squad, imagine deploying more than 5 man! But they will kill those daemons for good..."
Well, well, we're old I guess. Plus I was having this discussion a lot, that was years ago when the first ordo malleus codex came out. So we're also too late...

Great stuff on this thread! The =I= stuff is my favorite.

The Magos Helix is looking very promising, hope to see it painted soon.

neil101 - I hear what you're saying about art scale. Its something I've not tried yet...but sometime I'd like to do an Iron Warrior and/or a Night Lord....its not happening any time soon though. I'm rather fond of the new models mainly because they look like the old metal models. I'll be buying the codex as soon as it comes out just for the read. At some point further down the line I'll probably buy a box of terminators to use as allies (I'm just going to copy and paste that allies part from the Daemon Hunters book over a picture of something in the Grey Knight book )

Chibi Bodge-Battle - The only thing I'm not keen about on the new models is the move away from fake latin to english. As for the Dread Knight the GW pictures look dreadful. I saw one in the flesh and I quite like it...the pose is important. In fact I think I saw a good one on dakka...hang on let me have look....http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/353042.page. But I know what you mean though about the hip dislocation. I don't actually have a problem with the Dread Knight (though I think I'd have preferred a power armoured marine in it) because it means that any new plastic greater daemons will be huge.

Baiyuan - Exactly how I feel about the Grey Knights going against everything. The old 2nd Ed Imperium/Inquisition would have just sent a few million more guard that waste a Grey Knight on Orks. As for the price of space marines it is getting ridiculous. 5 Grey Knight Models for £20.50 is bad when you can get 10 Tactical Marines for £23. I know there is a difference in detail and extra bits but still. As for being old...I can cope with that and it's my aim to attract old farts to this thread....I shall use Neil and Chibi and monkeytroll as good examples

Northen - Cheers...the =I= stuff is my favourite too. I'm hoping that my friend Martin and I will both have finished warbands, including background, by Easterish (I'll try and get him to post too). Magos Spur is coming along nicely now, I got a bit of painters block. I had to take a step back and concentrate on certain parts. I'm looking forward to finishing him so I can start on modelling his Skitarri and female ganger (I felt he would need un-augmented follower to go where he cannot).

Peter

PDH wrote: As for being old...I can cope with that and it's my aim to attract old farts to this thread....I shall use Neil and Chibi as good examples
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that will teach me to read replies to other people

I'm looking forward to finishing him so I can start on modelling his Skitarri and female ganger (I felt he would need un-augmented follower to go where he cannot).

Me too, very curious to see your take on the skitarri (not sure you got the spelling right, but don't know any better, didn't it spell with a double "i"...). And nice thinking to have an unaugmented member, I like that.

Yeah, it is Skitarii. Although, it would probably be a Hypaspist or a Hypaspist Tribune. Skitarii is a term for all of the fighting forces under the Adeptus Mechanicus (apart from Titans and certain Vehicle Companies), equivalent to "The Imperial Guard".

Neil (and Chibi and monkeytroll) my apologies...but lets be fair its true Oh and it does serve you right.

Baiyuan - Thanks about the unaugmented member comment. She is a conversion I've had in mind for years from an Escher model. The problem I faced is a distinct lack of female arms...Thank you GW for the wyches

Baiyuan and Vitruvian XVII - Ok, I misspelt it in my above post because I was going to write his actual rank, then changed my mind. Skitarii would have been the correct spelling. To be precise his actual rank and name is Skitarius Hyspasist Praetorian Evars Secgharf. A quick break down of his rank Skitarius (singular of Skitarii) Hyspasist(Infantry) Preatorian (Elite). He is not going to be a major conversion just some alterations to a Vostroyan (like ditching the fur hat), seemed like the perfect choice since they have close ties to the Mechanicus. But no touchy until I have finished Magos Spur. Which is really what I should be doing now (along with the washing up).

Peter

Did someone call for old farts? Sorry it took me a while to get here, my zimmer frame has been looted.

Umm, what did I come out for again?

Whishling up the old farts?
I'm 83 you know, and still have all my own teeph!

...all thwee of thwem.

Ok I'll edit my above posts to include you too monkeytroll.

Talking of above posts I just found these at Reaper Miniatures....Now for some reason these chicks can get away with being naked in my sci-fi universe...it kinda works in their case. I must stop making blanket statements


Zombie Strippers

Sod painting... I think I'm going to watch Zombie Land instead.

Peter

Wow Peter, how the hell did I not see this thread before...? Awesome stuff! The Ikit-Magos is definitely a brilliant conversion!

And zombie strippers FTW!

Girls stripping is okay but doesn't really do a lot for me tbh. Zombie strippers, good grief, you can stop now love, that's your skin you're removing and it ain't turnin' me on!

Wow, Peter, that last Ikit-based Adept is awesome...

It could deserve an award all by itself...

Damn you Peter, stop stealing my brain waves! I Vostroyans and that platoon box has been going mouldy on my shelf for years now, just because I couldn't find a proper excuse to use them. Until some weeks ago.
I don't intend to make Skitarii out of them, but I'm removing vostroyan fur hats these days too. Nothing fancy though, minor conversions, they are supposed to become inquisitorial (storm) troopers. You will see them on my blog in the not to distant future (still waiting for bits to arrive and must get cortaro done first).

Why doing you watch the movie Zombie Strippers? Yes here is actually a movie called that and yea that is what it is about

Baiyuan wrote:Damn you Peter, stop stealing my brain waves! I Vostroyans and that platoon box has been going mouldy on my shelf for years now, just because I couldn't find a proper excuse to use them. Until some weeks ago.
I don't intend to make Skitarii out of them, but I'm removing vostroyan fur hats these days too. Nothing fancy though, minor conversions, they are supposed to become inquisitorial (storm) troopers. You will see them on my blog in the not to distant future (still waiting for bits to arrive and must get cortaro done first).

Oh boy. I'm starting to wonder how its possible we keep having eerily similar ideas. After talking about the Delaques I decided to put them on hold because I was afraid they would be too similar to what you were doing with your Delaques after we both got the Vahallans stuff! So I decide to go back to my =I=munda and have gotten the group excited about starting a campaign and decided it was finally time to flesh out my Inquisition force, which, of course, uses Vostroyans as Inquistorial storm troopers.

Oh well, I guess great minds think alike. It's still awesome to see such a thriving Necromunda/=I=munda community here its all very inspiring, and I guess these things are bound to happen at some point.


Oh, and Peter, your Magos is insane. Easily one of the best models I've seen in quite awhile. I am really excited to see him painted up.

HF Izanagi - Thank you

Chibi Bodge-Battle - Ha ha I have to agree....on the three occasions I've been to a lap dancing bar I always felt ripped off.. (edited because it probably wasn't funny in the way I intended or appropriate). The Zombie Stripper models were just amusing but at least they have a reason for being semi naked.

Yggdrasil - Cheers. He is proving to be a pain to paint though. Lots of fiddly bits that the paint brush just doesn't want to get near... without painting other things. Oh well its keeping me out of trouble.

Baiyuan - Ah well there is a limited range of cool GW models and the world is a pretty big place. Their is nothing new under the sun as the saying goes. I am sure if I looked I would find some Vostroyans already converted up to Storm Troopers and Skitarii. Now let me find a nob with a good looking vent for his Hell Gun.

sum1thtdiesalot - Oh no.....please tell me you're kidding...apparently not http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0960890/. Whoot is stars Jenna Jameson. I bet the acting is first class.
I actually decided on painting after all last night....I managed to paint a few armour plates, a bicep and a bandage.

Cadaver - Thanks I am really happy as to how he turned out too. After undercoating a few areas could have done with a little more filing but never mind. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your =I=munda because I totally missed the thread until the link showed up in Baiyuan's thread. The muties look brilliant. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the Vostroyans.

Since I kinda accidentally updated this blog in Scarper's http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/510/272328.page yesterday I thought I'd better quote myself here:

@PDH - Thanks so much! They're designer I really like the idea of a display base, actually. I'll bear it in mind, though my flat's a little small for any kind of terrain at the mo :( Have you managed to paint up your Magos yet? I'm really looking forward to seeing you take on all that red!

If he's buying designer jeans he is getting paid too much! Shame about the lack of space for display board....but i know how you feel. I'm lucky having limited space under the bed in the spare room.

Hmmmmm this week I've been painting red... and white checkers on that nobs power claw. The Magos currently has a red cloak and grey armour plates. Tonight I am going to paint a weapon on a scavvy, while watching The Sweeny. Tomorrow I shall paint some more of the magos.... I promise to paint both his arms at least (no its not an April fool). It feels odd to update my blogs on yours?!

Peter

edit damn The Sweeny isn't on.

Well so far so good this morning. I've painted very little of the Magos's arms. I have painted all the gold on the model instead! BLING. The arms are still within reach today, so I'll let you know how its going later.

Peter

ha ha the update becomes official, glad to hear your mastering you mini , you know what they say the paintbrush is mightier than the mechadendrite. but i am getting a little worried , gold bling and zombie strippers , what sort of a blog is this becoming ? are you now the zombpimp daddy! it will be the genestealer cult limmo next. ;-)

Neil - ha ha not quite but its very tempting to become a DCM so I can have the rank of zombpimp daddy! As for Genestealer cult limo...very unlikely.

Well a slightly unusual WIP painting picture from me.



The battle servitor is done pretty much... I will be dirtying the group up as one to get some consistency. I'm thinking of recreating the torso of this model on mansized legs (Tau stealth suit) and giving him some arms, so he can be used a battle servitor in normal games. Possibly with a drum fed autogun arm and a bionic claw. I'll just have to get another matching flagellant head and zombie torso, from some where.

As for the Magos...well he is started but a long way off. I plan on putting hazard stripes on all the mechadendrite claws and pincers. As for the barrel on the power fist I'm thinking porcelain with an ice blue OSL. Bionic eye will be green OSL. The half skulls on the axe will be bone (I was planning on doing one black and the other bone but I think they both need to be done in bone). I will add a cream/white line around the bottom of the cloak and possibly the hood to add some further contrast. He isn't really photogenic at the moment and the gold looks better irl but I think it needs a final mythril highlight. In fact most of the model needs a further final highlight.

Any suggests one this one will be much appreciated.

Peter

Ikit is definitely awesome... With hazards stripes, that'd look even better!!!

Cheers Yggdrasil.

I've finished painting for the day now....from my point of view good progress. I'm so slow. Time to get ready for my little sisters birthday meal. Mmmmmm Tapas.

Both arms are painted* and all the metal work is complete bar a final mythril highlight, I've started on the shoulder mounted lasgun, the axe skulls and base coated all the hazard stripe areas. So hopefully he will be completed by next weekend (maybe).

What colour should I paint the cables and wires etc?

I got to listen to The Horus Heresy - Garro: Legion of One, whist I was painting this afternoon. Its pretty good but somewhat predictable. I really hope the next garro story will be an actual book because audio dramas never make boltguns sound right.

On a terrain note I also got my hands on a couple of cans of rough coat from my local gw last night (whoot for finding stuff in the basement). Looks like my Imperial mining out post is a goer afterall!


Peter

*this doesn't mean finished.

Looks good so far.

Off the top of my head I'd say yellow, green and blue are the choices when it comes to the cabling.

Hey Peter , great to see your work again , and quite humbling too , your patience makes me feel like a , 5 year old who needs his rittelin dose
you have given me hope that the dred legs can have a use after all , other than an ed 209 conversion. the ice blue pottery on the power fist sound like it will be great and i would suggest using this blue or turquise for the cableing, i also found a useful little app . for colour schemes.
i think this colour would suit your guys cables http://colorschemedesigner.com/export/

and here is the site. http://colorschemedesigner.com/

have great night , and i never knew 40k came on audio books thanks for that too!

Good to see some more of your stuff Peter! Love the Ikit model and you've made it even better!
PDH + Ad Mech = sure fire winner!