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as my entry..

On a side note - does anyone happen to have a poor, unfortunate Guardsman they'd be willing to donate to the project? (I literally have 0 monies to put to this, hence the use of whatever random crap I already had xD)

I can live without it of course, but I had a cool idea involving a guardsman corpsical.

 Ovion wrote:
On a side note - does anyone happen to have a poor, unfortunate Guardsman they'd be willing to donate to the project? (I literally have 0 monies to put to this, hence the use of whatever random crap I already had xD)

I can live without it of course, but I had a cool idea involving a guardsman corpsical.

I do, but idk if it'd get to you in time :-\

Would it be likely to arrive by say, the first week of June some time?

Going to build up the framework today I think.

 Ovion wrote:
Would it be likely to arrive by say, the first week of June some time?

Going to build up the framework today I think.

I won't be able to ship it until the end of the week, say what 2 weeks so ship across the pond, that leaves you with like a week to paint it up :-\ There might be another dakkanaut that can help better than I can D:

Painting random Guardsman X (deceased) wouldn't be an issue... xD.
It's be the rest of it - posing / converting that might make it cut close, if someone else is willing get one here faster, that's great, if not, I'll let you know!

Casey's Law wrote:Looks great Snrub!

Thank you.

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice job on the GS work there Snrub!

And thank you. The leg was much rounder but i kinda smooshed it flat by accident and didn't realise until after the GS had set. So I'm gonna have to improvise and try and hide it somehow.

Dr H wrote:Good pose Snrub. The left arm could have been slightly further back, but is fine. Good job.

YES that is exactly what it needs! Cheers.

 Solar_lion wrote:
as my entry..

I'm not sure a bits thumbnail qualifies....


Can someone in the UK help Ovion out with his guardsman request? Thanks!

Sounds really good gits but I'll have to back out of this one as I have Mocks of Mocks of Mocks coming up in the next 3 weeks or so and want to well.

No worries Haz! Nothing says you can't hang out and watch the fun!



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So... believe it or not my local video store actually has the space marine movie, so I rented it for the boys and I.

Adeptcon proved this year how completely inadequate standard SM armor is... but it was nice to have my observation confirmed by the official movie. Power armor is clearly made of paper mâché.

And how exactly do a half-dozen novice marines take out what... 30, thousand-year-old chaos marine veterans of untold conflicts? Including the Heresy??



Any heavy bolter that can completely destroy a fortified strongpoint is something I want in MY army!

Ovion: PM me mucker, I'll see what I can do

Btw, sent some bits to llamahead today, fudge me UK post's gone up a lot lately! Sending bits is essentially the same whether it be Sheffield or Wisconsin now.

Your bits are on their way to you as we'll inmygravenimage. I was going to ship Friday, but locked my keys and package in the car, had to wait till wife was off work. then Saturday got buggered. But they shipped first thing Monday .

 Gitsplitta wrote:

 Solar_lion wrote:
as my entry..

I'm not sure a bits thumbnail qualifies....

Lawyering up..
"The rules...

 Gitsplitta wrote:
1. Entries must NOT be started before the issuance of this challenge (May, 14th). Build progress must be shown on either this blog or your own (with a message and link left on this blog so people can follow along, cheer you on, spy on you, etc.). Take a picture of your disassociated bits before assembly if you can. You don't need to post every step here... just pre-build, build and final paint. Of course if you want to add the intermediate steps, that's fine.

1. Picture is a picture. Cell phone in my case!
2. DAM IT JIM, I'm a project Manager not a photographer!
3. That's what I had time for.
4. I accept!
5. I'll replace it when I get a better pic.

It's an epic scale mantis warrior

 whalemusic360 wrote:
It's an epic scale mantis warrior

Everyone .. My new lawyer.. WM..

LOL! Well played WM.


So... Further random comment. I have been working myself up to spending a ton of cash on a new Eldar army that was all wraith guard, wraith lords and wraith knights. (Sorry, I forget the craft world name)

Then I went and looked at the pics. The knight is total Gundam drek and the new flyers are rubbish on the wing. Neither fits the Eldar design ethic worth a damn. Thank you GW for saving me hundreds and hundreds of dollars.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled competition.

Nice figs so far guys

 Gitsplitta wrote:
LOL! Well played WM.


So... Further random comment. I have been working myself up to spending a ton of cash on a new Eldar army that was all wraith guard, wraith lords and wraith knights. (Sorry, I forget the craft world name)

Then I went and looked at the pics. The knight is total Gundam drek and the new flyers are rubbish on the wing. Neither fits the Eldar design ethic worth a damn. Thank you GW for saving me hundreds and hundreds of dollars.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled competition.

I KNOW! I was contemplating starting Eldar, but GW has priced themselves out of money . I was planning like a full force (something to take advantage of the airbrush with), but not anymore. Looks like I'll spend my monies on other things

Aye, they almost got me to start eldar after daemons, but way to expensive... especially here in Aus...

Should get a painted pic of the loyalist up later, unable t at the mo.

Nice competition We have here

Pretty exited, as I started painting the first Space Marine of my life.
Truly happy It is a mantis Warrior too, Git deserves that
(The above sentence is not to get more points from the judges )

I just had a look at the new Eldar, Games Workshop has completely fallen of my radar without me realising, and I see your concerns. What a pathetic and lackluster release, almost as bad as Tau, I honestly don't remember the last time I got excited about a GW release.

Hopefully I'm not coming across as one of those guys who keeps droning on about how they hate GW and how everyone should know they aren't planning to buy anymore miniatures from them. I've felt a complete lack of interest for a long time now but purposely avoided telling anyone. It's like watching a pet get old and lame, I'm sad about it I'm not angry. It's particularly poignant since I brought out the box for my first purchase to store stuff in, like having a picture of that old pet when it was young and full of life...

Just thought I'd get that off my chest a little. Sorry, bit depressing.

 Casey's Law wrote:
I just had a look at the new Eldar, Games Workshop has completely fallen of my radar without me realising, and I see your concerns. What a pathetic and lackluster release, almost as bad as Tau, I honestly don't remember the last time I got excited about a GW release.

Hopefully I'm not coming across as one of those guys who keeps droning on about how they hate GW and how everyone should know they aren't planning to buy anymore miniatures from them. I've felt a complete lack of interest for a long time now but purposely avoided telling anyone. It's like watching a pet get old and lame, I'm sad about it I'm not angry. It's particularly poignant since I brought out the box for my first purchase to store stuff in, like having a picture of that old pet when it was young and full of life...

Just thought I'd get that off my chest a little. Sorry, bit depressing.

I had no problem with Tau, we got some new toys, we got some old toys back, it was sad to lose Targetting Arrays though, and not to get more Kroot goodies.
Plus Sniper Drones are freakin amazing now - 2x9 drones, an ethereal and a bunch of warriors with DJ Tank Commander on a Railgun! Watch them fall.
And I am happy that we can make a full Wraithguard army (plastic Wraith warriors, best part of the release!).
I will probably get the Master of Metal Spiritseer... and give him a rocking guitar! then 60 Wraithwarriors, a Wraithseer and 3 Wraithlords. Maybe Wraithknight... but I doubt it.
And lo, a horde of the moving dead is born! ETA... prolly November 2014...
Though tbh, I'll leave judgement till after I've read the codex.

That's kind of what I was shooting for myself Ovion. I was just so disappointed in the new releases (for me, aesthetics is everything) that it pretty much convinced me not to spend a ton of money on something I wasn't likely to be happy with.

I am trying to figure out if there's a way I can size-up a wraith lord though & make my own wraith knight. It's impossible of course, but I can dream.

I liked everything but the flyers and prices towards the end.. the rumor thread managed to make me like the look of the WK...

Wraith infantry are nice, though, always my favourite part of the eldar.

Personaly I like the flyer.

Good points, Ovion but I have no beef with the rules. Like Gits:

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I was just so disappointed in the new releases (for me, aesthetics is everything)

and probably even moreso, aesthetics is my focus and I haven't seen anything exciting from GW in a long time. DE weren't abhorrent but they aren't an army I'm personally very fond of. But I don't want to complain too much. I'm more apathetic about it than anything, and as I said, a little sad.

I'm disappointed in the little I've seen from GW recent releases. But at least they are consistent. Flyer, big robot, retool of a unit, overpriced everything....glad I have plenty of plastic crack here to last a while. The looks of the knight and flyer also don't do it for me. And why have cc wraith guard? Did they run out of guns?

Back on topic... (sorry, my fault - been that kind of week... feel free to continue to bitch about the Eldar, I will)

I've been working diligently on graven's scout... unfortunately, it's not the kind of progress that makes for a good picture. Little stuff, lenses, buckles, details... some very subtle edge highlighting. With my wife traveling for work this week I'm pretty busy so my only time for painting is what I can sneak in early in the AM before the kids get up. But, I am making progress.

Quick update, last one disappeared into the warp. Got new ca glue, and it's holding rebuilt my mantis warrior minus the deathwatch pad. Too much happening with the pad on him, also narrows down the color options. Hopefully the rain stay away Ida and I can prime him sometime today to receive some paint this week.

Good news indeed Theo. I'm excited to see some paint on these bad boys.

Thing 2 decided he wanted to get in on the action, but the I had to spend the next 15 minutes trying to explain why purple and yellow weren't very Mantis Warrior like. Managed to talk him down to yellow, black and red... . We'll see if be actually finishes it. He has a tendency to take my minis... half-paint them and declare them done (meaning he's bored with them).