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 Briancj wrote:
One of the sad results of post-Chapterhouse GW is a prevent-third-party-parts-use design philosophy.

--Brian

I would not be surprised. It seems the Adeptus Mech Vanguard/Ranger kit was the last one that was remotely friendly to kit bashing.

I guess Frostgrave and Medge are picking up that baton.

So close to being done!



The Imperial Family of War Rockets are the Battle Fleets standard ship-to-ship bombers meant for space or non-atmospheric environments. They can function in atmosphere but it strains their grav-plates and requires extensive maintenance. Generally dedicated in-atmosphere craft like the Marauder are preferred.



The Class III War Rocket has a crew of seven - Pilot, Co-Pilot, Navigator, Vox/Auspex Operator, Belly Gunner, Bombardier and Tech Priest. The final two being located in the rear section. In addition 2-3 repair servitors are usually onboard for both routine and combat repairs.



Each War Rocket has more than enough firepower to decimate a City Zone or tear through even the reinforced armor of a star ship. Even Knights and Titans must pause when they detect the approach of a flight of War Rockets with a payload of plasma bombs.

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To be done, decals, highlights and... is that it? Wow.

With 3 Ferratonic Furnaces, 2 Alchomite Stacks and lots of random Valkyrie and Ork Fighta Bomba bits it probably cost almost as much as the resin model but this one is MINE and that makes the extra work and time well worth it.

Kid_Kyoto,

Well the big guy is still flying and the base has not collapsed so that worked out. The sheer size of the War Rocket is demonstrated with those troops for scale.

Cheers,

CB

I'm as shocked as anyone the whole thing didn't fall apart when I breathed on it. Let me tell you Revell plastic cement does not #$%@ around. Doesn't seem available in the US though

So this kit has followed me around for over 10 years since I started my quest for the perfect Imperial car but I finally built it.



1/48 Tamiya Citroen Staff Car, ~$20 and just about the right size. It looks small when models are in action poses but if they were standing normally, and had less than 3 arms, it would look perfect.



The original plan was for the Patriarch to be busting out Incredible Hulk style but he's too big, and the car too small for that particular idea. I think it works though, sort of a homage to the old armored Limo.

Well this isn't good.

Not good at all.



I was sent the wrong item and allowed to keep rather than attempt an international exchange. So now I have 5 plague terminators.

My first real army was Nurgle Imperial Guard, followed by Plague Marines.

I didn't realize just how much stuff is out there now, termis, plague marines, a host of characters, plastic plague bearers, even plastic Mk 3 marines for some regular dudes... I could redo the whole army!

It is only the soul-crushing thought of buying and painting rhinos again that keeps me from heresy.

I will be strong, I will finish my cult, and move on to my civilian/spaceport.

Well maybe just paint these five, I mean since i have them.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:
Well this isn't good.

Not good at all.

dun-dun-DUNNN

It is only the soul-crushing thought of buying and painting rhinos again that keeps me from heresy.

Ain't that the truth. I'm resurrecting some old armies for 9E and man, I do not want to buy or build or paint yet another of that same rhino

Anyway, good luck with your Surprise Cameo Bad Guy Squad

The war rocket is looking great. And big. Great big rocket.


As to the sudden unexpected Nurgle incursion, you wouldn't have to build and paint lots of rhinos.

You could build a bunch of custom flying slug transports instead.....

Thanks guys!

I did a thing tonight.



It was a night of lasts in many ways. I saw someone do a Chaos Warrior Arbiter in an Inquisition warband and had to do one. And it worked! As it happens this was my last Chaos Warrior though

Strange how the 2000s Chaos Warriors make better Imperial Agents and Space Marines than Chaos...



I also wanted a squad that was undercover in trenchcoats, so my last four Empire Militia coat bodies and last Elf Archer went to this.

A quick evening's work, reminded me a lot of those days of the 2000s just smashing bits together to make something that was never meant to be. Current kits are just too specific and locked to a single build.

Not that I would trade these days of plastic Necromunda, Adeptus Mechanicus, Custodes and Genestealer Cults but I do miss the Empire Militia and similar kits.

Very cool looking chaos marine! And I hear you. I just put together a battle company's worth of the old space marines. It's a kind of farewell project before they go the way of the dinousaur/squat and I found myself lamenting that I would never be able to have as much fun mixing and matching bits from various kits with the primaris stuff.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:The original plan was for the Patriarch to be busting out Incredible Hulk style but he's too big, and the car too small for that particular idea. I think it works though, sort of a homage to the old armored Limo.

Funny, I was getting an Avengers-film-battle-in-New-York-traffic vibe off it. Nice.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:It was a night of lasts in many ways. I saw someone do a Chaos Warrior Arbiter in an Inquisition warband and had to do one.

Very Blanchey!

 monkeytroll wrote:
The war rocket is looking great. And big. Great big rocket.


As to the sudden unexpected Nurgle incursion, you wouldn't have to build and paint lots of rhinos.

You could build a bunch of custom flying slug transports instead.....

Make the slug bodies out of clay, attach extra GUO and beast of Nurgle heads, then a plasticard howdah for the marines and...

Oh why do I even listen to you!

Nah the thinking now is Terminator Daemon Bomb army with some of the plague mortar tanks for presence on the board.

Now can someone tell me why the Great Unclean One is NOT in the Death Guard list? Don't you people have a $140 model to sell?

Well July is over and my month-long new model fast can end as I order some-

(looks at calendar)

July Thirty-ONE?! When did they add that!

Ah well I can wait another day.

LOL... you are truly a card

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
LOL... you are truly a card

OK now it's the real August 1 and the order for 36 Maelstrom's Edge Broken is in. AKA 40k civilians.

Of course I won't see them for 2 months or more but that's the world these days.

it´s a bit like drinking before 12 o´clock...somewhere it is already 12 o´clock...so...in a way it was August 1 already somewhere too...

Kids are asleep, homework is done, time to get painting and...

Blackout.

Which is why I have the rechargeable lanterns!

#indominable



40 more children have joined the ranks of Unity, 40 more converted Chaos Cultists.

20 shotgunners.



20 double pistols (count as shotguns)



And a command section



Left to right we have the Countessa, a noble-born rife champion who found the value of Unity.
The legendary gunfighter and master of disguise Tan Zar.
Doctor Venom, originally assigned to investigate a report of Xeno virus in the slum sector he came to embrace Unity as Unity embraced him.
Doctor Mindbender, whose strange gifts help to enlarge the circle of Unity
Cultist Commander, who ssserved many yearsss in the defenssse forcesss and now assssssitsss the ssservants of Unity
And finally Laird Estroy, his clan has supplied weapons since the wars of Ancient Terra and now advises the forces of Unity.

Some more backlog assembled today.



I picked up these 2 Tamiya US Army Staff Cars (1/48 scale) back around 2008 or 09 figuring they'd make good IG staff cars. Well then I moved, and moved again, and got married and kids and long story short today I got around to building them.



They have diecast metal bottoms giving them a nice weight especially for tabletop use. And they look like the perfect size for an officer, driver and maybe an aide and bodyguard.



They seem OOP now which is a shame, glad I got them when I did.

(2020 self high-fives 2008 self. 2008 self sneaks away and washes his hands.)



And FINALLY used up my last 20 Chaos Cultists. AND used some of the various Tamiya and Dragon bits I've been hauling around forever. This squad required a few conversions which was especially annoying since I've run out of H2H guys and only had rifle men. So a simple weapon swap required cutting away the left hand so it could be holding a grenade launcher rather than rifle. I manage to do it and only pricked my thumb once so that's a win.

But it's nice to finally be done with the Cannon Fodder portion of the army and finally change focus to something...



Oh sweet mercy what have I done...

And got to some frontlog as well.

Built the traitor guard from Servants of the Abyss/BSF in record time. They'll count as more Neophits for the Cult, 1 squad of riflemen, 1 of double pistols (count as shotguns).









They need some more cleaning up and more hand swaps for differentiation but are very nice figures.

A word on the Abyss kit, I got 2 of them plus 21 of the traitor guard from a bits site to make 2 squads of 20 (+extras). Since it's half the villains from a board game it's a fairly random assortment of stuff. 7 traitors, 2 Ur Ghouls, 2 beastmen, 2 Negavolt dudes, 2 spindle drones, a psyker and a random stray Chaos Marine. I heard there's 40k rules for them in BSF but they're not included here.

Of the 7 traitors you get: A sarge, a flamer, 2 pistol dudes, 2 rifle dudes and a grenade thrower with a rifle. All are fantastic looking figures with dramatic poses but, other than the 2 riflemen who are aiming, not very conductive to making units. The running dude shooting his pistol is awesome, but 3 or 4 of him in a squad just look like doubles, no amount of simple weapon or head swaps will help. And of course the models are designed to frustrate converters, one guy has part of his head attached to his rifle, so good luck converting that!

They also need the spike count reduced by about 50% but that's easy. Heck you could lose half the spikes just getting them off the sprue.

It's possible to make a 10 man cultist team out of just the Servants box, 7 traitors, 2 beastmen and then a Negavolt dude or rogue psyker as the boss. But you'll end up with a lot of random odds and ends. Almost all of which can be used in a Chaos army, except for the spindle drones, I've no good ideas on how to use them. Probably just turn them into xenos ships for BFG.

Glad I got them but man, GW is just making it hard to play their damn games.

Are the spindle drones the smooth little robots? Would you be willing to trade one away for some spaceship stuff?

Are the spindle drones the smooth little robots? Would you be willing to trade one away for some spaceship stuff?

Are the spindle drones the smooth little robots? Would you be willing to trade one away for spaceship parts?

Weird double post. Dakka is slow.

Thanks for asking but looking at them they should make for some nice Necron escorts or something.

Besides, somehow the mail in Egypt is worse than the mail in India and with the pandemic things are taking 2 months+

They should be fairly cheap on bitz sites or ebay since well, no one has any use for them.


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If anyone is wondering I found the Servants rules for 40k. They're meh.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

I don't know exactly what it is about this guy that makes him so cool, but he really has that "Don't F with me" vibe.

he has a certain mando look going on?

So excited with the new Necromunda terrain!

So many conversion and layout possibilities!








$4 toy pipes. I'm thinking gunmetal spray, grey spray and brown ink and they're done. Do they need a base? I am a bit worried about sliding.

Awesome find, those pipes- I'm jealous! I'm always on the lookout for toys like that and I agree- the possibilities are huge for all the things you can do with those.

As for basing, I've had the same internal discussion about pipe terrain when I was making plaster casts with the Hirst Arts molds: to base or not to base? The first pieces I made actually went into a little diorama/scenic deployment bit, so no need. For loose pipes, I'd be tempted to to cut circles the diameter of the pipe mouth that touches the table out of one of those magnet advertisements that come on the new phone books and stick to your refrigerator- this might be enough to keep them from sliding. Or even that rubbery shelf liner you get in rolls from the dollar store- anything like that might work well. But I would mount them on a full base- running end to end of the section- unless they prove tippy or you want to scenic the base to reinforce the visual idea of the terrain (street pavement, metal grids, etc).

My two cents, anyway.

Again- fantastic find- I look forward to seeing what you do with these!

Hrm thinking of weighing down the ends with rocks and capping them. that should help.

On the Wargaming Toys thread someone suggested these aquarium supplies as walkways...

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33012259729.html

Holy cow! Aquarium under-gravel filters and all the other fish crap cleaning paraphernalia are natural-born Necromunda-ish terrain pieces- great idea! I'm wondering what other common, household items are just lying about, their utility waiting to be discovered ...

On that note, I am starting as a special project a vehicle scratchbuild made from nothing except the bits my wife has saved out from the trash during the lockdown. It's promising so far.

Can't waint to see how those pipes look painted and weathered. I would not base them, just use some weight as suggested.

In the meantime I need to find such toy pipes...