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Quick update:
CARE PACKAGE SENT!

MrMerlin, YOUR VERY OWN CUSTOM-MADE SIR MARBO IS ON HIS WAY OVER TO YOU AT THE TIME I WRITE THIS MESSAGE!

He should be arriving by the end of the week.

Finally! The christmas give-away is done... Now on to the Hannibal Lectork for A1rebirth

great! cant wait to get home! (on monday or tuesday)

This is going to another fluff update, because that is what I have had time to do lately...

But do not fret, I have recently gotten a revival of inspiration in the area of painting, so on Monday the 20th, there will definitely be A LOT of pictures with updates on my various new projects.

I also went through the whole entire blog to try to get an overview and I realized that I have not updated with progress pictures in about a month! Sweet Mother of Kittens!
There is not much that shames me greater than finding that I have not been interesting almost since the new year.

Therefore I am going to announce a major update due this Monday. This will include but will not be limited to: personal WIPs, Hannibal Lectork wip, thoughts and ideas (give-away prize), upcoming army additions and questions. There will of course also be TONS of pictures, so before monday, tell me if there is any part of my army you would like to see clearer or just more pictures of and I will do that.

I want this blog to be fun to visit, and for this I also turn to YOU, the reader, and I ask:
What do YOU want to see and read? No answer is too stupid, no question unnecessary.

Tell me if I suck at painting, tell me how you would do the minis, tell me how you want the fluff to turn out, tell me what you want to see more of. What you want to see less of. In my mind this project has still only just started and I want it to be as good as it can be in the future.


FLUFF
Some more story today, picking up where we left off with Thawn stalking through the streets of an unnamed Hive City in pursuit of a mysterious man. Powers from the warp getting stronger and stronger around him, all the while the general population seems to be indifferent to both him and the rising chaos around them.
This is a time when everything and anything might happen.
To one individual in particular, this might be the most dangerous and thrilling adventure ever. Or at least since last Tuesday.

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If you are eye-catching enough, then no-one will remember you. Sure they will notice you, but they won't see you. Humans are by nature paranoid, a trait developed over millions of years to make sure only those smart enough not to feed the big, hungry kitty cat with the huge teeth or eat the colorful beetles and frogs, would carry on their blood line.
Predators have always used tactics and subterfuge to catch their prey and so the prey gets very good at spotting traps and moving shadows.

Justicar Anval Thawn knew this because he had often been the predator. But eventually, he realized, the prey starts to expect traps and ambushes; becoming blind to that which is painfully obvious.
So Anval Thawn made no effort to be invisible, the trick was to be so visible that no one looked for you in the first place.
Still, a robe was useful, the " =][= " made people nervous.

So he walked through the streets unseen, tracking this "leader" as they all called him. The air tasted a bit like rusted metal, as unnatural powers often do, so he decided to follow his nose. No doubt his target would be found at the epicenter.
Directions from a few tortured citizens and a renegade PDF-soldier, in fact the last surviving member, gave him the last of what he needed, the trail was hot now.
And the PDF had finally been killed to a man, as is custom.

This slow, meticulous and sometimes violent journey would go on uneventfully for a few days more before anything more worth noting happened.
So we skip forward.

A swift cut split the oncoming chair, causing the wood to catch fire as it flew past and hit the wall behind. Thawn had barely even entered the room when this happened, so someone had been expecting him. A quick look around the circular office revealed a massive metallic desk with a, most likely, bolterproof window behind it. There was also an absence of chair, a few diplomas on the wall, flower pots, small tables, a sofa, some lamps, Valhallan hand-woven carpet, small man with a plasma pistol and ethereal energy crackling around him, a rather nice painting, striped wallpaper, powered off servo skull and hold. on. just. a. moment...

Plasma scorched the wall as he just managed to throw himself to the floor.
He raised his head only to have his whole world enveloped in blue energy before everything went white. Because that is what happens when you get hit square in the face with pure light, even your corpse gets blinded.

To be continued...
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Oh c'mon, what kind of end is that? Hurry up with the next chapter!
I really like your fluff. Your writing style is great, I had to laugh out loud several times when I read the last three chapters! More!

You know Merlin, cliffhangers are what keeps people coming back. Just look at Lost.

And anyone who wants to make suggestions as to the story, PM me with your ideas if you don't want it to be "public".

That would be awesome, because I just make it up as I go along with a plan behind it it would be several times better, I expect.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
I have decided to make a separate thread in the Dakka Fiction section for the fluff that I write.
It will still originate in here, but I feel as some people have come with very positive feedback, that I should gather all of my stories into one neat post.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/430585.page

For those who like what I write and doesn't like it when it gets broken up over several pages.

UPDATE 2012-02-20

Now, I know I promised a major update today (monday) and the thing is... That's what is going to happen! I have twenty pictures ready for you guys and some good ideas for some transitional fluff.

I also have a few projects within the project to talk about such as:
- Turning a Leman Russ Battle Tank into a Rhino or Razorback (or super-tiny Land Raider).
- Ideas for the give-away model, it has been slow on this one but I think I am gaining speed on it. Hannibal Lectork shall rise!

This update will be in these segments:
- First pictures of the last members of my esteemed Grey Knight Strike Squad. And some thoughts and group shots.
- Leman Russ project and thoughts.
- Thoughts about some Heavy Support (dreadnought or dreadknight?)
- Hannibal Lectork
- Fluff
- Thawn

Thawn is the big thing for the moment, but it has soon run its course. I think I am closing in on the end of the Thawn spotlight fluff. Which probably means another half-a-year, we'll see.

PICTURE TIME!

Strike Squad
I wanted this guy to have a very shiny sward while the rest of him was quite dark, to get a cool contrast. I think I pulled it off. Also, the point behind some of my force weapons actually being regular swords is that they would actually not always be powered on, so I take that as an excuse to do whatever I feel like with them. Mine is an army of individuals and I refuse to paint something in a way i don't want it painted.





The thought behind this guy was that I decided on him having a shield as I ran out of normal arms when I was going to build him. The special thing about him became the lantern on his waist, where the OSL looks very cool from afar if not from this up close.





These are the regular Grey Knights with swords that I have. This will be the squad I enter into a competition at my local GW for the anniversary. It is a 2 versus 2 tournament, 100 points per player and only troops. Hopefully my friend can come too or I will have to join up with some random kid, which is okay, though not quite as fun.




Leman Russ Project

Now this is where things get weird. I have had this badly converted Looted Leman Russ for the longest time and finally it shall actually have a real purpose.
Now, Grey Knights can not use Russes, unfortunately, but they have Rhinoes and Razorbacks. So since I already have this thing, I shall try to Inquisify it as best I can.
Shouldn't be a problem really, if you look at the concept art for the inquisition; there isn't too much of a difference from Ork design...



Yea, so there is a lot of work to do on this one...

Hannibal Lectork

Very much a work in progress...
Black Orc heads for head, string and chains to keep him restrained. Should look cool, thinking of having a GSed straitjacket and a stretcher.

Humble beginnings, huh?


FLUFF and Thawn

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They say that no one knows how old a Space Marine can get because no Astartes ever get to die of natural causes. However, they also say that Orks are creatures with no grasp of higher technology whose very society is built on violence and scrap metal.
Which is true, but the fact that many interpret this as Orks being a stupid and lower form of life is actually one of the major reasons that marines rarely get to be very old.

Thawn knew this to be a fact, alone among his peers, owing to his rather unique experience of many things more deadly than commonly thought.
Plasma guns, however, everyone knows they are deadly. And Justicar Anval Thawn had, when we left him, just gotten a reminder.
We find him now in a plaza, his armor still on but battered and broken, his lifeless body hung up publicly as a statement and a warning.

Okay, he thought as things started to buzz into life inside his head. Time to go through the good old checklist.Fingers? Yes. Toes? Fine. Ears and eyes? Yes , and... Yes. Blurry though. Sense of pain? Yep, very functional. Wounds? Healed, as usual Now, can I get down from this pole? Let's find out!

Five minutes later, after much struggling and wriggling, a scream and a thud confirmed his success. He scuttled away into the darkness, scornfully rubbing his chin.
As our immortal avenger continues his pursuit, the eye of narrative moves across the plaza and over to a pole by now only decorated with a note stuck to it with a knife. The note made of canvas, read:

Dear Murderer,

You're pissing me off.
You do NOT want to see me angry!

Yours Sincerely,
Me.

As he hurried through the streets on his way to the local inquisitorial watch house. No doubt it would be abandoned and looted in these circumstances, but it would make a good base of operations.
It was painfully obvious that he would have to enter a whole new level of commitment. Now it was personal...



Anval Thawn, Justicar in the Grey Knights, decorated with terminator honours, would have to go into SCOT MODE!

Braveheart facepaint engaged, preparing kilt. Celtic banner standing by.


As this process is going to take some time for him, we'll join him again when he is done.

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'Til later
Dabedman

P.S. I'd love to hear some suggestions on the Leman Russ thing, what should I do?
Story Ideas would certainly be very welcome as well.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
And the update continues.

I want to hear you guys' thoughts, Dreadknight or Dreadnought for heavy support?
DreadK Pros:
- Real weapons ( sword, hammer)
- Easy magnetizing
- Lots of conversions to take inspiration from.
- Good in game, feared on the battlefield.
- Awesome for "gentleman" conversion with hat/ cane etc.

DreadK Cons:
- Kit is hard to put together.
- Hard to pose, kit is fairly monopose.
- Bad rep, in game and due to Wardhate.
- Mainstream.

DreadN Pros:
- Classic.
- Awesome kit (I get a venerable dread kit, just because it is more awesome)
- Also good in game. But shootier and slower.
- Easy to switch weapons.
- Also a lot of conversions to grad inspiration.
- Cheaper.
- Easy to make detachable hat/ mustache. Maybe magnetized cane.

DreadN Cons:
- Fridge on legs.
- No sensible/ supercool weapons ( swords, hammers)
- Monopose, because of few possible positions.
- No baby carrier jokes.
- Worse in game ( I want it to be kitted as a CC machine)

Your opinions? I am leaning towards a ven dread to use as a regular dread. ( Or actual Ven. Dread if list allows)


And to round off this evening, here are some funny pictures that I have made and can be found ( among LOTS of other funny things at my deviant art)
VISIT this site: http://dabedman.deviantart.com/

Self-explanatory...


Baconmarines chapter


I play SO much Team Fortress 2, this was of course a given.
Pyromarine!


Might even do an actual Team Fortress themed Tac Squad.
If there are any other huge TF2 fans out there, PM me and we can get together on steam

You have been busy!

The strike squad is looking good. It will be interesting to see what you do with the Leman Russ and Hannibal Lectork.

I'm really liking your fluff. It's not like stuff you'd read from BL... It's something better. the Anval Thawn mini is so cool too.

If you're leaning toward a Dreadnought then get one. However if you want it kitted out from they're not as good as Dread Knights. My favourite Dreadnought weapons load out is a twin linked autocannon. They can just tear almost anything up!

I LOVE the bacon marine. maybe you should make a bacon marine tactical squad instead of a Team Fortress themed Tac Squad. I've Never heard of Team Fortress Sorry. I might check it out though!

Now THATS an update! I love the look of Thawn, and the fluff and drawings are hilarious! More of these please!

As for the Russ, imo its lacking a big, brutal (preferably multi-barreled) gun. I'd love to see the fina result no matter what do make of it though!

Dredknight or Drednough?
Well, if you prefer the drednough id say go for it, but personally I think the knight is more fitting (and cooler, if it wasnt for the baby-carrier....)

And I also really want to see how that weirdboy turns out, so bet busy

Quick Mid-week update.

Thawn's kilt is done.



Discovered a fantastic new way of getting steadier hands. Origami! Cranes in particular I've found to be seriously beneficial to my painting precision.
The trick is to try something quite simple and then make it smaller and smaller. I started with post-its and then started to divide them into smaller squares as I got better and more bored, until I hit my size cap at one sixteenth of a post-it.




Try it

Dreadnought turnout
I bought a venerable dreadnought yesterday and started assembly today. I was not disappointed!

I figure that if I use blue-tack or blu-tac or whatever it is called, and then use glue sparingly, I can have a dreadnought with a thousand faces and six load-outs from the kit alone.
It also means that I can use one of the front panels to make a detachable top hat/ monocle/ mustache. You'll see...

However, I will not go down the route of a regular old psyfleman dreadnought, that just feels dirty. I want it crunching people in a brutal melee like in the DoW games, all the while going; "Cheerio, good chap! Mind if I butt in? Oh I do say the weather is quite lovely today, For The Emperor and crumpets and all that."


SO, Current projects are!

In order of importance.
- Hannibal Lectork ( still in planning stage, need to buy small chains and devise a way to make a stretcher and warp-powers)
- Thawn ( 85% done, just the banner left)
- Paladins ( 4 of them, assembly soon)
- Dread ( under construction, couldn't keep my hands off of it)
- Russ ( least important, will have to do some major work on the turret in order to get some sort of mean looking cannon)

Til Later in the week, where I will answer to the wonderful comments you guys have made, warms me old heart it does.
DaBedman

I love the kilt! awesome idea

The project list is looking intresting, I especially want to see how the weirdboy turns out!

Must admit I haven't read everything yet, but have looked at all the photos, and this is full of win
The GK paint jobs look really nice, I liked the Acolyte conversions on page 1. Great work

I really suggest you to read everything! Dabedmans fluff is really, really funny and very well written!

Thanks guys, it's really nice to know that people like what I do. It's what keeps this blog going.

@rodgers37: Thanks man, glad you like the pics. Incidentally, though I don't know if you actually mean the fluff, but if that is it then I have just made another thread dedicated to JUST that.

Also, my new dread will get a special conversion treatment along with it being VERY customizable.

@MrMerlin: Thanks again man, I'm glad to have you as a regular. Also, I might even do another quickie tonight with fluff and some dread WIP pictures.

Dabedman wrote:

@MrMerlin: Thanks again man, I'm glad to have you as a regular. Also, I might even do another quickie tonight with fluff and some dread WIP pictures.

This is one of the very few blogs I comment on frequently. Might actually be my fav blog (apart from mine, maybe )

MrMerlin wrote:

Dabedman wrote:

@MrMerlin: Thanks again man, I'm glad to have you as a regular. Also, I might even do another quickie tonight with fluff and some dread WIP pictures.

This is one of the very few blogs I comment on frequently. Might actually be my fav blog (apart from mine, maybe )

I feel privileged, I really do!

In the next update I will tell my tale of my day at the local GW store.

Among other things I won around 130 dollars worth of Wh40k books in a small tournament.

I played my first games. A free-for-all special character brawl with Karamazov (didn't go well)

I won four games in a row with my 100pts of Grey Knight strike squad. The tournament was max 100pt, only troops, 1v1 on a very small and square board.

Games (so I don't forget):
#1: versus Immortals (my own models, as a matter of fact...)
#2: Immortals again.
#3: Eldar Guardians.
#4: Crimson Fists space marines.

Also won best painted squad.

There will be pictures and some fluff about the victories! Stay Tuned!

Sweet! Lets hear the story!

[b]This is the Games Workshop Anniversary update, from Games Workshop in Stockholm![/b]

I spent the entire day at my local GW and it was awesome. This is the story of my anniversary day.

Lottery in the street. That is me in the turquoise Tobuscus hoodie, and some people I made friends with during the day.
Came so close to winning, just a few numbers to high, had fun though. But it was freezing outside.


Arena of Death
Next up was the Arena of Death Special Character Free-for-All that wasn't so free-for-all after all.
I ran Karamazov, the only sensible thing to do, and was randomly deployed next to a Tau commander whom I dispatched fairly quickly.
I decided to team up with Crimson Fist character Pedro Kantor versus a death squad of other characters across the map, who were also teaming up.

Before I could get into bombarding the living hell out of everyone, however, I became tied up in a deadly duel to the death with Cypher, the fallen angel.
He was the brother of the Tau commander I had just devastated, and wanted revenge. Gentleman as I am, I cannot refuse a man the right to a chance to redeem his brother's honour. This battle became one for the ages, blow after blow was dealt but none would relent. Fierce swings narrowly missed the agile Space Marine and in return; attacks would bounce off of the massive hulk of the Throne of Judgement.
After 3 turns, we had each dealt one another 1 wound, Karamazov was hurt from earlier, so each also totaled 1 wound left.
In the end, Pedro Kantor charged in and dispatched the pesky Dark Angel. Joy to all but to Cypher, Karamazov was now free to fire his orbital strike relay and promptly got his brain fried by an Eldar Farseer.
Feth it.

Statistics would have had me kill him 3 times over. The dice did not agree.

100 point mini tournament

Setting up.

Games were played on a roughly 30x30 inch square.
Rules were:
Deployment - Roll to see who goes first, this person picks a side and deploys within 6 inches from the edge, in squad coherency. The other person deploys on the opposite side in the same fashion.
Rules and Restrictions - No terminator armor (kind of bummed about that, would have loved to see my termies go to town). Only troops and nothing else. May take upgrades if points allow. Not a single point of leniency, 102 points is not acceptable. Winner is the one who has the most points on the board after 20 min.

Game one: Grey Knights vs. Immortals
Immortals won deployment and first turn, sets up in a tower so as to deter me from charging. I set up for a shooting game and we duke it out. Volleys of gauss energy tears the ground around our heroes as they prepare to return fire from behind a chest-high wall. Expert reflexes do what shining armor cant and not a single shot finds a mark. Now it's their turn.
Storm bolters flare in the rain, psilencer starts warming up to fire with a low humming as the knights take aim and fire at the skeletal outlines at the top of the tower.
One immortal falls but returns, true to his name.
As if that was not enough, the necrons' next volley reaps the life of one of our shining heroes. Morale is low, things look grim.
That is, until the psilencer can bring its power to bear and end the existence of a full pair.
Immortals... we put their name to the test.

With renewed resolve, not even the loss of another battle brother deter the Imperiums' Finest from easily wiping out the remnants of their foe.

*Brofist*


Game two: Grey Knights vs. Immortals
Once again my opponent wins the roll and deploys on high ground. I try for another shoot-out until I lose a man to the first barrage while not actually managing to kill anything myself.
I decide to do a suicide charge, death or glory!
Psilencer carrier stays behind for covering fire and manages to pick off an immortal as his brethren advance, swords at the ready. Armor gleaming in the sunlight and gauss igniting the grass beneath their feet, they press on, losing a second brother to the unearthly fire. As the end of the game draws near, clock ticking, they descend upon their prey. Two swipes each makes short work of the lumbering robots and the retaliation does nothing but scratch the metal of their blessed suits of armor.

A desperate gamble and yet another glorious victory for the imperium.


Game three: Grey Knights vs. Eldar Guardians
I win deployment on a map with a big building on one side, standing on this building will give you a 3+ cover save, so no boon for my marines. But I figure that I can lure my enemy into a trap.
I deploy so that if he chooses to set up in the building; only one of his units will be in range to shoot me at a time while I can shoot with all of my guys.
Should he choose not to deploy in the building, then he becomes extremely vulnerable to getting charged.

He deploys in the building and gets shot to bloody Eldar chunks.

Game four: Grand Final, Grey Knights vs. Crimson Fists



There was an unpleasant chill in the air as the two former allies lined up on either side of the forest. Although the enemy was only an outline in the early morning light, there was no doubt as to their identity.
The inquisition had since long had this particular squad of Crimson Fists pinpointed without their knowledge. It had been deemed that what these unfortunate souls seen during their recent and successful campaign against a deamon host in this planetary system, was far too dangerous to let slip.

As Justicar Caestus the Aeigs performed his pre-battle customary armor-maintenance rituals, he admitted to himself that he would actually wanted to think that the purge of his fellow Space Marines had been a difficult decision for those in charge to make. But his highest superior was Lord Inquisitor Fyodor Karamazov.
During the briefing; Karamazov hadn't even cared to listen to the finish, he'd just shouted "PUUUURGE!" and waved his sword, which he incidentally also used as a walking stick when not carried around on his throne.

They could see that the Crimson Fists milled around apprehensively, not quite convinced of the threat, but still keeping their distance. Thus first strike went to the Grey Knights, reaping a casualty before the prey even had the time to react.
Scrambling to retaliate, the red hand marines started to charge forward through the trees.
As a stray bolter round managed to pierce Justicar Caestus helmet, his brothers went into a righteous fury. Flames of vengeance burning behind their eyes, the Grey Knights also began to charge, force swords flaring furiously in sympathy.

All caution thrown to the wind, the melee became nothing short of a bloodbath, chainsword wailing and biting into power armour while glowing swords sliced the very air and set fire to the rain.
In the end, only two were left standing. Standing tall above the slain, two Grey Knights; their armor sullied with the blood and gore of both brother and foe.





I also won on the painting side of things, bringing me up on a uncontested 16 points (3+3+3+3+(4 for painting))

This is what I won.


So. Many. Books. That. I. Won't. Read!
Though I AM very happy with this, I am painfully aware that Black Library isn't really high literature and it's certainly a bit sour to think that I could have gotten a 1000 point Draigowing army for the worth of these books...
First world problem... I guess I'll read them and then gift them to friends on birthdays.



And lastly, a quick picture of my Dreadnought in progress.

That looks like an interesting GW visit! I really like the store in Stockhom, but I've only been there twice....

Sound fun!
I'm reading little by little Your fluff and finding It awesom, plus the minis You paint are just great.
I'm not a lurker anymore ehehehe

Just finished yesterdays update, edited into my latest post for continuity.

Sound fun!
I'm reading little by little Your fluff and finding It awesom, plus the minis You paint are just great.
I'm not a lurker anymore ehehehe

Thanks man! And welcome to the fold, never hesitate to post!

That looks like an interesting GW visit! I really like the store in Stockhom, but I've only been there twice....

Indeed, it was a lot of fun!

I dig your work. The lantern OSL seems just very fine.

On a side note, and I hate being the bearer of bad news, but I am pretty sure Thawn is wielding a halberd. But does that beat wearing a kilt? I am not sure. I like the kilt.

That is a custom-made halberd, notice the very long handle.

Awesome awesome awesome! This is my favorite blog.... I will be back waiting for more updates and the fluff...... one of the most entertaining reads I have read yet! Keep it coming man! Best blog out yet!

HONAW wrote:Awesome awesome awesome! This is my favorite blog.... I will be back waiting for more updates and the fluff...... one of the most entertaining reads I have read yet! Keep it coming man! Best blog out yet!

High praise indeed, I feel honored. It is feedback like this that keeps me inspired, it really is. Thanks!

That dread is going to kick ass! Your painting is awsome, not surprised you won best painted. That local gw day looked like great fun

I bet they are not the best read....... but they might be better then Charles Dickens. I said "might" as I am reading "Little Dorrit" right now to see and to prove to my sister that I can read classic literature.

HONAW wrote:I bet they are not the best read....... but they might be better then Charles Dickens. I said "might" as I am reading "Little Dorrit" right now to see and to prove to my sister that I can read classic literature.

I´ve never actually gotten around to reading Dickens. But I do read tons and tons of Terry Pratchett, and that man uses the language like no ones business.

Also, YAY on breaking 5000 views! Celebration by update tomorrow!

Dude, I agree on the Pratchett reading, my English started with His books!

Very cool indeed, nice wins as well