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Rogue Inquisitor with Xenos Bodyguards





Eastern edge

Very nice paint works on that Knight! I do love the symmetry as well as the fact it is different colors based on the base paint it sits on.

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Ynneadwraith, Shasolenzabi, thank you kindly! Glad you like. I'd basically finished the armour plating when I decided to add the Aquila. I still wasn't sure how it'd go until I finished the edge highlighting, it really pops now
   
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So, I've decided to go crazy. I'm building an Ordinatus. Not one of the Forgeworld ones, something a bit bigger, with a giant turbolaser thing as the primary weapon.

I have no pics yet.

The rear will be twin Baneblades. The front will be a pair of Leman Russ tanks linked to the Baneblades with bitz. The sides of the Baneblades will each have a Haemotrope Reactor fused to the sides, with the AdMech skull poking out. The chimneys off the reactor will be fixed in place of the Baneblade's exhausts, at the rear. The cannon will be parts from the Sector Mechanicus Ferratonic Furnace and Alchomite Stack kits.

The main gun is over 20cm long, from a mock-up I made out of the scenery at the local GW. I will probably place sponsons on the Baneblades, and maybe forward hull-mounted weapons on the Russes to represent point defence weapons.

It will not have rules, most likely, but should look awesome... Time frame, 8-12 weeks to buy and build this beastie. Stay tuned.....
   
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So, here's the barrel for the Ordinatus. Or most of it. It's an Alchomite stack. It still needs a Ferratonic Furnace to form the rear of the cannon. This will be an Ordinatus Majoris

   
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Agile Revenant Titan






Good Lord this is going to be enormous!

Just had a thought. You could set a whole game of Inquisimunda/Shadow War entirely on the platforms of an Ordinatus engine. Would be a kickass way of representing one tiny aspect of a wider battle, with two squads trying to wrest control of the Engine from each other.

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Ynneadwratih, that's amazing! I shall do this! Thanks
Once I finish building the giant, kinda pointless monstrosity
I was thinking Armies on Display board, but it's going to be too big
   
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Oh man this is going to be so cool

You could definitely end up with something roughly 2x2x2, which would be perfect for a Shadow War game with lots of platforms and gantries

Check out may pan-Eldar projects http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/702683.page

Also my Rogue Trader-esque spaceport factions http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/709686.page

Oh, and I've come up with a semi-expanded Shadow War idea and need some feedback! https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/726439.page

Lastly I contribute to a blog too! http://objectivesecured.blogspot.co.uk/ Check it out! It's not just me  
   
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I just reread Fallen Angels; those siege guns they find on Diamat are described as being 3 baneblades long, with 2 abreast. This thing is going to be at least 2 long and 2 wide, so not far off. I have utterly no idea what rules to use for it, but I'm thinking at a minimum Titanic, Void Shields, 50+ wounds 2+ save

I used the remainder of the smoke stacks from the Alchomite Stack to make these gubbinz, they'll be built into the floor of the Ordinatus either side of the cannon as recessed power/ cooling pipes. I mighyt link them to the haemotrope reactors


   
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Continuing with the Ordinatus, I picked up a set of Haemotrope Reactors and a Ferratonic Incinerator today and made them into a deck for the Ordinatus and the power generators for the main gun. Once I have the 4 Baneblades I'll need for this, I'll assemble the track and lower hull sections, with their side sponsons as defensive weaponry for the Ordinatus. The deck and main weapon will go on top of the hull, and I'll use various pieces to gap fill and finish the model. Basically, the Baneblades will be reduced to just tracks to cart this single giant gun around.

Here's the cannon roughly in place. I'll need to figure out some mounting gubbins. The Terminator is for scale



And a top-down view of the deck; each Baneblade hull will come to roughly the middle of the decking. The Haemotrope Reactor actually takes up most of the side space for the sponsons, so the front-most chassis start just forward of the reactor's base



The sides of the tanks will have barriers built from spare Incinerator parts. I'm tossing up between a command pulpit at the rear, possibly with a Magos-Dominus manning it, or a crew of lesser tech-priests at the fore of the machine. I think It'll have to have a few dedicated Skitarii on the model too.
   
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France

This is completely mad, I love it ! Keep it up !

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Damsel of the Lady





drinking tea in the snow

Ha, this is going to be amazing. And amazingly huge.

realism is a lie
 
   
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Thanks EDC and Amazingturtles; I'm really looking forward to finishing this mad project It's going to take a little while, since I need to buy 4 baneblades and that's a few months worth of budgeted hobby right there. But I'll get there! It kinda weirds me out that, even at Australian GW prices, this monstrosity is less than buying a Warlord from Forgeworld (which I will totally be doing, later)
   
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The warlord construction has begun! With this:

   
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Got the sub assemblies sorted! Floor and Moderati, Princeps on throne, and the rest of the head
It won't be magnetised because I didn't think of that to start with and don't want to risk breaking the head peeling the top off, but I still am going to paint the lot just so I know it's done



Also, by the end of the fortnight I'll have an Armourcast Reaver and Warhound to add to the legion, courtesy of a lovely lady on ebay
I'm thinking of painting the titans like the Knights, but with more spot colours and individual insignia and heraldry
   
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Got these two in the mail today:





Need to sort out how I'm going to base them, since they'll need to be raised about 2-3 inches each to get roughly the same height as the current Forgeworld builds. They'll go nicely with the Ordinatus, for which I bought a Baneblade today, and with the Titan Guard upgrade kits Forgeworld is shipping to me soon
   
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France

Wooow, lucky you ! these should be magnificient with your already impressive batch of unique machines.

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Thanks KernelTerror The guy who runs the local gw is helping to bling them up a bit; the sculpts are a touch plain when compared to recent stuff. I got one of my bane blades out and assembled, then turned it into the rear right section of the Ordinatus



The fighting platform around the outside of the gun will be covered with tech-priests, armed skitarii and maybe some admech guys in power armour with heavy weapons; not myrmidons but still well armed. The front of the model will have a tech priest dominus wired via mechadendrites into the deck and control systems
   
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Some work on the Ordinatus and Reaver











   
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Last weekend the local GW had an Apocalypse game. I only made it to the Saturday battle because I was sick on Sunday. With the aid of my titans, the Imperium triumphed.. On Sunday, the Imperium were utterly crushed :(
Saturday was a blast; one of the Chaos players had a Warhound with plasma and turbolaser and 5 chaos knights. He knocked off most of the Reaver's wounds with the turbolaser turn 1 and then launched his knights into it. The Reaver died to a Thunderstrike Gauntlet, but then tore a savage amount of wounds off all the traitor Knights when it went critical. When we resurrected it later in the battle, it one-shotted the Warhound and cleared the remaining threats from the table in short order.
The Warhound fared much better, destroying Tau flyers and Tyranid hordes with vulcan bolter and inferno cannon.

A good first run for the titans
   
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I decided to build a Mechanicum blimp as a counts-as Marauder Destroyer to back up the Taghmata. Here's how it's going so far.

Engine room:





And part of the balloon/ gas tank/ antigrav generator thingo



The rear fin is actually turning the ship to one side, so I'll need to work out how to properly model it turning
Thoughts/ questions/ comments/ ideas for the next bizarre misuse of scenery welcome
   
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France

Wooooaah, a mechanicum blimp ! That will be massively awesome, brilliant idea.
I am not sure how actual blimps maneuvered. While they have fins, I thought it was mainly a matter of different engine speed on one side or another.
Does the Taghmata Hvergelmir have any kind of light flyers ? Maybe some could dock the blimp as an hommage to the USS Akron and Macon

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Cackling Chaos Conscript





Dortmund

The scale of your work here is truly mind boggeling.

I'm very much looking forward towards seeing those good ol' armorcast boys getting involved!

   
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KernelTerror, I was not aware that was a thing... But yes, they will be getting some flyers. If nothing else I can do jump pack troops hitching a ride! Thanks for pointing me in that direction

VyRa, thanks for the view and comment! I think I err a little too much on the side of brainless lunacy some days, but thanks
   
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Schweet! There's little cooler than a zeppelin as far as I'm concerned

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Also my Rogue Trader-esque spaceport factions http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/709686.page

Oh, and I've come up with a semi-expanded Shadow War idea and need some feedback! https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/726439.page

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Thanks Ynneadwraith! Have some more




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France

Taking shape in both cases, well done. Will there be open space between the blimp's balloon and its cabin (as now), or do you plan to fill it ?
Oooh, and any thoughts on catwalks large enough to fit models ? So that sharpshooters can have a blast ?

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plan is an electro priest manning the controlls and a skitarii sharpshooter facing aft, and a secondary enclosed cabin at the front with more weapons attached. As for the Ordinatus it'll have almost a squad of skitarii mounted on it with other models operating controls and such
   
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You sir are mad, utterly mad. I like it

I can't wait to see how that blimp turns out.




 
   
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Hell yeah you can really see it taking shape now.

Check out may pan-Eldar projects http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/702683.page

Also my Rogue Trader-esque spaceport factions http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/709686.page

Oh, and I've come up with a semi-expanded Shadow War idea and need some feedback! https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/726439.page

Lastly I contribute to a blog too! http://objectivesecured.blogspot.co.uk/ Check it out! It's not just me  
   
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Stealthy Space Wolves Scout





Still working on the Ordinatus-Primus and the blimp, but I started painting this guy so I thought I'd share it with you first: a Forgeworld Knight-Styrix I grabbed when I was England in August



The armour plates are mostly already halved, so they'll be getting the bone/ black of the Taghmata, and since this Knight is a rarer beast than my earlier one, it gets some crimson highlights to tie it to the Omnissian cult a bit more.
   
 
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