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 STC_LogisEngine wrote:
I guess I could, the problem is that I have no idea how to make stuff like that, making moulds and working withliquid resin and stuff.

Quite outside my area of expertise I am afraid.

If you brush some oil onto your original sculpt and then press some GS over it you can take the GS off once it's dried w/out the original sculpt moulding to it. You can then use the GS as a mould for the future, brushing it w oil each time you use it so that the mould comes away.
Not sure that was very clear but hoped it helps...

Interesting.. I'll see what I can manage. Thanks for the tips guys.

No problem

One question to you lot, since people wants a landraider, do you want a standard Landraider Phobos or a more unusual Landraider Prometheus commmand & control unit?

Love to see a Prometheus...

Prometheus. Dunno what it is but I love the whole idea of that tank

Then I will accost it with paint in a few days, mind you, it's not the FW-kit but rather a salvage-operation of a failed project from back in 2010.

May the God-Emperor bless you during the year .014 M02, Glory unto the Primarchs and the Golden Throne.

Prometheus

Oh, and have a great time for tonight

I am just going to say this: painting the basic layering on a hull as large as a landraider sucks.. it takes foreveeeer!

oh well.. almost done with the hull, I am seriously going to get some kind of finger-related syndrome from this...

I thought hand painting rhinos were bad not tried a LR.

I feel your pain, I've hand-painted Raiders and it takes forever. Even with an airbrush for the basecoat, the highlighting took ages. The results will be worth it, though.

You could at least post a teaser pic... Grrrr

Oh well.. just a few then!

That's all brushed on?

How do you get it looking that smooth and even?

Or do you airbrush?

Ooooh, shiny!

Looks cool!

Very nice XXX

 Miss Dee wrote:
Very nice XXX

I think you mean XX

It's all brushwork by hand Alpharius, I don't own an airbrush. (though I sure and frak could use one).

You just have to have an even hand and water your paints, thin layers is the key.

SOOO pretty....

 STC_LogisEngine wrote:
It's all brushwork by hand Alpharius, I don't own an airbrush. (though I sure and frak could use one).

You just have to have an even hand and water your paints, thin layers is the key.

That's what I like to hear - that this is all attainable by brush, if you have the talent, skill and patience.

We'll see how that goes for me - but it is working out spectacularly for you!

It's giving me carpal-tunnel syndrome, that's what it's doing!

Seriously though, water the paint up to where it's close to loose coherency due to surface tension and don't use a too large brush. Also, keep a fair amount of paint in the brush and spread it out as you go, this together with a high water content will ensure a smooth surface as it dries.

I use a citadel large brush with the tip cut of (about 5mm) to give it a straight brush head. It's not too large an unwieldly to splatter the paint all over but still large enough to hold enough paint and cover enough surface so it doesn't take all week to paint a tank.

Thanks xxxx

Well, I am still away traveling until thursday but it gives me some time for planning some kind of armylist for the Serpent Legion, so far so good.

Chapter traits is a damn mess though, the stuff you want usually only apply to either stuff you don't want in your army or only non-bulky infantry. Also, can I haz a captain that offers useful army support (like officers should!) and maybe has a useful gun instead of someone who is firmly planted into the carnifex-tipping market? No? Well frak me..

Now, I would skip a captain and dual-wield librarians for yummy Telepathy-support if it wasn't for that one.. small detail: It feels... wrong.

And I like command squads for one reason; all members may purchase from the sweet, sweet, Special Weapons category. Effectively turning them into a veteran equivalent of the Legion armylists' Tactical Support Squad.

Mmmmm Guns! None of that close-combat sillyness here.

Anyway.. chaptertraits.

The Codex ones are just plain unhelpful, sure they are good for a lot of specialised variants but if you want to play with an armored spearhead list dedicated to close-range firefights with the infantry being tactical squads you are kind of out of luck.

Forge World are more interesting with the update for the Badab War chapters. Carcharodons are really nice with army-wide Fear USR and the allowance to add a ccw at +1pts to all tactical squads for the dreamy loadout of boltgun-boltpistol-huge frakkin' knife. Also with the added quirk of getting Rage after destroying/ forcing a fallback to an enemy unit in CC and then having to consolidate towards the closest enemy. The stumbling block here is that all allies are desperate allies, and that really messes up the concept with having some IG and an Inquisitor in the army.

Mantis warriors are also nice with their reroll to Seize, move through cover and hammer of wrath to infantry but it feels of more use to an infantry-dominated force.

I have some antipathy for the Iron Hands due to the inherent possibilities of vast cheese due to It Will Not Die to Characters, having it on vehicles feels ok but it seems that IH-chaptermasters on bikes with Shields Eternal are everywhere... Yuck!

Still, it looks like I am leaning towards using the IH-supplement list for two simple reasons of wargear.

1.) The Tempered helm : 24inch radius bubble for using wearers Ld fore Morale-tests, nice, and nominate a unit within 12'' each shooting phase that gets to reroll 1s' to hit. Wait.. Wait.. Captain with support-uses? Yay!

2.) Betrayer's Bane : Mastercrafted Combi-Melta... with unlimited use of the melta. So.. does this mean? I can make shooty-captain? I would have prefered a plasma gun or something wierd with a bit of range but hey. Gun!

I recon Iron Hand's is your best bet despite the potential factor. Just steer clear of the bike masters if that's what you don't want. Their Chapter Relics are a plus too

Where are the badab war updates?

These are the chapter tactics he's talking about:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/F/FWchaptertactics.pdf

Well, why not Ultramarines, if you're not *that* attached to the fluff of your chapter ?

Their 1-turn boostS all fulfill what you need, even if you don't field Assault or Dev squads (sure, they're better if you do, but still have uses).

Or, the Imperial Fists ? Bolter drill seems like the thing you want, and Tank Hunter on Devs is pretty nice

As for the FW ones, I'm pretty sure there are some more useful and in line with what you're looking for than the Carcharodons... Who fears "Fear" in a game where most armies are Fearless / ATSKNF ? lol

I wish I had those painting skills!

ok found em