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Yep and yep. I have a stash of flaps for my packs. Haven't had too much of an issue with mine staying on, but I can see how that would be a likely problem.

Looks like a fun game to play. Will we be seeing a pic of the BA army?

oh and go BA! (Lamenters after all)

Dude, 480 pages! I just discovered this thread, I've been following your AdMech and Orks. I am in awe. I will never be able to rad through all the 480 pages, but I'll try.

@SL: There's already a couple of nice pics of the BA army SL... one page back... you just have to actually read the blog.

@Mattew: Thanks! Things have slowed down here a lot over the last year or so. While I've been painting a fair amount, it's been spread over several armies so the old MW's don't quite the exclusive attention they used to get. Still... lots of new additions this year including 6 cents, 10 terminators, 3 flyers, access to 4 Knights and a bastion. Don't bother reading every page... go to the OP and just go to the P&M summaries listed there. Also have many of my battle reports there too. Then if you actually want to try and make some sense out of all of this... you can try reading the blog!



To everyone else...

I have been making slow progress on both the cents and the bastion. Emphasis has been on the bastion since it's needed for the big game on Wed night. Both are coming along well. Sorry progress has been so slow but Thing 1 introduced me to "Destiny" on our Xbox-1 and it's been sucking up an amazing amount of my free time. *sigh* I'll make sure to post a pic of both projects by tomorrow night at the latest.

Wasn't sure since you said" we share our lists" that there wasn't any ' adjustments'. Silly me!

Good luck on Wednesday!

Welcome to the addiction that is Destiny. It is most fun while playing with people, hopefully you find a regular group.

My Sisters believe that your Mantis warriors are heretics. They will come to the aid of the Inquisitor. Plus, she really goes better with my army than Steve's anyway..

My Mantis Warriors believe that your Sisters are only fir as breeding stock for lesser men. As such, the universe is likely better off without you.

Harsh words from a mutant and heretic.

Ha! Destiny.

One of the things that really sucked up my time was when the ten year old community I was apart of (how old it was, not how old the players are in it, ) shut down last year. This year, I co-ventured one of the many communities I've owned and it was a blast.

Destiny, while it failed to deliver in a lot of respects due to Activision gutting it and making you pay for content that was already on the disc in the form of DLCs (basically just paying for an unlock code to that area,) is still a great game and a good jump towards MMOs on console, stretching a 60-70$ game to a few hundred by the time you are done with its life span.

I'd say it is a good stepping stone to MMO mechanics as well if you're just getting into them.

Enjoy the spare time, I mean, you're only 480 pages into your plog.

 Eiluj The Farseer wrote:
Harsh words from a mutant and heretic.

This, from the man whose avatar looks like she's auditioning for the 40,000 year anniversary of "Saturday Night Fever".

I'm not sure whic avatar you are referring to? My Eldar avatar? Or are you referring to my Dakka Avatar? She is holding a bolter in the air, much cooler than John travolta ever was, plus she's not a scientologist.

Can't see the bolter, just the "Stayin' Alive" pose.

I'm already thinking about how to work your SOB into the story line.

Now I want in!

I can get GK or Lamenters in easily...

Far from done but good enough to play with tonight.

Now that is a suitably impressive fortification to be defending. Good luck to the techmarine. He is going to need it.

That is looking excellent!

Thanks guys. The golds are only partially done (which is why they look so red and out-of-place compared to the rest). Once I get all of the steel reinforcements done and some more tarnished bronze bits on the bottom half of the tower, I think it'll all pull together nicely. Right now it's a bit too uniform with odd looking splashes of color here and there, that'll get fixed after tonight.

I love the old copper/bronze work with the vertigitas effect. It’s a bit at odds with the relatively clean bunker itself. For the metalwork to get that aged and tarnished, I’d expect the concrete to be a lot more weathered.

Loving what you have so far. Try not to get purged too hard in your game.

Very cool. Like the metals. should give you some protection as long as you can prevent them from landing troops on top.

Nevelon wrote:I love the old copper/bronze work with the vertigitas effect. It’s a bit at odds with the relatively clean bunker itself. For the metalwork to get that aged and tarnished, I’d expect the concrete to be a lot more weathered.

Loving what you have so far. Try not to get purged too hard in your game.

Good observation Nev. Any ideas how one goes about weathering concrete?

Solar_lion wrote:Very cool. Like the metals. should give you some protection as long as you can prevent them from landing troops on top.

With all the jump troops and Storm Raven Steve's got... not bloody likely. But... we'll see what I can do.

 Gitsplitta wrote:

Nevelon wrote:I love the old copper/bronze work with the vertigitas effect. It’s a bit at odds with the relatively clean bunker itself. For the metalwork to get that aged and tarnished, I’d expect the concrete to be a lot more weathered.

Loving what you have so far. Try not to get purged too hard in your game.

Good observation Nev. Any ideas how one goes about weathering concrete?

My first suggestion would be to find someone better then me to ask for advice.

If you drive around, there are plenty of real-world examples to draw inspiration from. Old buildings, bridge overpasses, etc. My knee jerk suggestion would be to use washes to stain the walls, with an eye for how real weather would hit it. But I’m not really a terrain guy, and barely do any weathering in the first place.

Chunky. Lovely verdigris. I approve!

One word for the battle tonight.... EPIC!

More later (full battle report, which may take a day or two to put together). I can't tell you how much fun 40k is when you and your opponent take the time to balance your lists against each other and come up with a fun & unique scenario that feeds a greater story line.

Oh, and just for the record... both BA and MWs just suck at assault. We were flailing away at each other like a couple of elderly bag ladies high on cough medicine...

Thanks for an epic battle! The scenario you thought up Gits was a blast and had me sweating bullets right till the end. Can't wait for the next one. The bastion looked great in person, as do all of your armies.

So utterly jealous. Only have one mate that would be interested in this sort of battle and he is only just getting into the hobby. Can't wait for him to get his first few squads together. Then I am ripping your ideas off....

Hey gang, want to apologize for not posting updates. Having major computer issues at home and am finding it difficult to get pictures up on the web at the moment. Have been playing a lot and having a lot of fun with my Mantis Warriors though. Did decently in a local tourney last Saturday with a MW list backed up by a small GK contingent. Took 4th out of 10 and won best painted (which I was proud of as there were several really nice armies on display). Basically the top three separated themselves... the next 6 were all within a few points of one another, I just happened to be on top of the mob. Won game 1 convincingly vs. Yorkright's Blood Angels. He brought a fluffy list and mine was somewhat competitve... I was also helped by a favorable deployment & mission. Fought Eluij the Farseer in game two. Fought to a minor loss but against Eldar with a bunch of D I'll take that as a pretty good result. Got crushed by Tau in game three. Just nothing I could do really.

Tonight we played a pseudo-Apoc game at the club... they called it "Cloverfield" night. What amazing fun! My Shadowsword and Venator took 14 hull points off an Eldar phantom titan before being blown off the table in turn two (we only got through 2 turns anyway). Still, really fun... looking forward to the next one.

Get to play tomorrow night with Yellowbeard and Solar_lion. Have a nify little MW list that should be fun to play (if not really competitive).

I have made some progress on both the centurions and the bastion since you've last seen them. Hope to finish at least one of them up this weekend.

Take care all, hope things are going well for you & thanks for reading!

Sounds like amazing fun. I have never actually played in an apocalypse game. Need to put it on my to do list. Looking forward to updates when the technical gremlins are expelled.

Thanks Archer, it's really nice to have the support.

Those folks who've followed this blog for a while know that I have a tendency to disappear of the summer to re-charge my creative juices and spend time with the family. I'm going to try not to do that this year (save for the spending time with the family bit) but I am fighting a tendency to be unproductive. I still go to the painting desk regularly but discover that I get bored quickly so I'm not making a lot of progress. Still, there are a lot of things I *want* to get done so I'll try and tough it out this summer.