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Confusion resolved!

I want step 5. :F

Cormadepana - you'll have to be patient. Step 5 will be here soon enough!

Its now time to step away from the board for just a moment and show you some painting WIP.

The Inquisitor is slowly moving forward.

Beautiful work Ice!

That's a lovely Minotaur.

Beautiful work, Ice. Very nice hihghlights on the bronze.

Thanks guys! I've made some good progress on the mantis display. Tomorrow I plan on sanding the board and if everything dries in time I may put down some primer. If I can get that done then I should have the board done in a few days.

very nice..the red in particular and the cleanness of the rope. excellent job

And this is just the beginning

BAM!

I don't know what that was.

Today I finished my Inquisitor. I thought about posting some pictures but before I created this post I saw the great job Solar did on his guy. His post seemed to come out of no where. It caught me by surprise. I mean, I didn't even know he was making a mantis warrior. SO I then thought to myself, maybe I should not post any more pictures so when the final product hits the web, it'll be like. BAM!

You can now all thank Solar_lion for surprising me because I will now refrain from posting more WIP pictures. Not until the project is finished will your eyes be allowed to massage my photos. (That sounded inappropriate, I apologize)

In other news, I am out of red paint.

Usually... the closer I get to the end of a project, the more reluctant I am to post every WIP, just for the reason you say. Gotta have the BAM!

Brother... not my intent.. It was hinted that I post to many WIP pic and in my defence I don't have the time to take a lot of in-between pics.

If I was looking for "BAM" I would have waited till the 14th or the 15th. Instead I needed to finish it while I had some spare time. Yeeeschhhhhh!

As you all know, time is running low. Saturday is the due date. There is still much to do but it's nearly completed. The seven figures are all painted minus some details here and there, including one mantis insignia. The necessary paint for their display base has arrived. That's my project for tomorrow evening. Shouldn't take to long, depending on drying time for the paint.

Trickiest part of the completion will be the pictures and how I want to post them. Due to the number of figures and the size of the board, I may go for a single file with multiple image collage effect thing. I'll post lots of separate pictures here but only one on Gits page that will highlight some of the coolness of the display. I think that sounds fair. I don't want to clutter Gits thread any more then it is.

You can post a collage pic in the main post on my blog and include the supporting pics as spoilers. When I link your "entry" for the judges (and everyone else), I'll link them to the submission post on my blog so people can see and judge everything if they so choose.

Looking forward to seeing what you guys came up with!

Anticipation... it's making me wait!

MANTIS WARRIOR COMPETITION PHOTO DUMP!

Dam ice those look awesome. I really like the libby and the tech marine, very well done and painted

You should add the detail photos as spoiler in your submission post. Seriously awesome work, you should use the bully pulpit of my blog to show it off!

Wow! Fantastic work, Ice! Love the blind Mantis Libby.

Amazing

Loving the character You pun in all of them.

Thanks guys. They were a lot of fun to put together and paint.

Good job. Nice collection of characterful chaps. Nice freehand as well.

Thanks a lot Dr. H.

I have to say, after flying through the Mantis Warrior project I have come to a complete painting halt. Instead I've been doing a lot of writing. My desk, though, is still covered with unpainted marines, some terrain, and a now silver stompa. I hope to once again have some motivation to get some painting done. We shall see!

Hey ice. BE MOTIVATED NAOW THAT STOMPA HAS MY EYES BLEEDING TO SEE IT

Panda, I will see what motivation I can drum up.

 IceAngel wrote:
Panda, I will see what motivation I can drum up.

BAM!

It has been almost a month since my last post on my own P&M thread. That is disgraceful. I have been working on random things but I don't have to much to show for it. HOWEVER, i did get my Apocalypse rule book today. Before the book had even come out I had already scheduled an Apocalypse game. There will be a battle report. There will be pictures and it will be awesome!

After I read through the rule book the scenario will be created and more information will be dumped. It looks like we'll be having an Ice Angel and Space Wolf army versus a Tyranid and Ork horde unless any of you live near me and want to hang out August 7th. A short narrative will be created. If any of you fine readers would like to some how contribute to the narrative some how please let me know. I'm always up for suggestions. Heck, if any of you are planning to have any battles between now and then please let me know and I'll use the results to influence our game. That'd be fun.

Briancj, if you're reading this. Prep the Ordinatus!

Da Bomma Korps of Boss Rottslagg are at your service! Active force: 6 Deffkoptas, 3 Fighta-Bommas, two pulsa Rokkits, and one Blasta Bomma "Da' Beheada"!

May Gork and Mork bless your upcoming scrap!

Ramos don't you live in Ohio? You should join!


I managed to chat with everyone today about the game and I got a good idea of where we'll be at points wise. It looks like we should somewhere in the 10,000 point neighborhood per side. The Ice Angels and Space Wolves will be 5k each, the orks have come in just under 4k and the Tyranids will be around 6k worth. With this in mind I started thinking about the table and how everything will fit onto my board. I have an 8 by 4 board fully painted and more then enough terrain to cover it all with some to spare. Do you guys think that'll be enough space? There will be a Green Tide and an Endless Swarm. I could always use another table it just wouldn't look as cool. Now that I think about it. I could always make another board. I'm not sure that'll be necessary though.

Next thought: I have well over 5,000 points of Ice Angels. What should I bring? I know my teammate is bringing the Space Wolves Great Company. Of all the Blood Angel detachments I only have the models enough to field The Black Rage, which will be happening for sure! I don't have enough Land Raiders for the Lucifer Armoured Task Force and I only have half the number of 10 man assault squads required for the Wings of Sanguinius. Both of those detachments should be easy to obtain in the future though. Outside of that, I am so excited about this game that I don't know what to bring. I think my Ice Angels will be forced to bring as many large blast template weapons as I can field.

I do ideed, Ice. However, I've no money to travel anywhere, nor do I have anyone around here that plays 40k! (well, save for WM, but I KNOW I dont have enough points to match up against him!

Alas, ill have to sit on the sidelines and root for da Boyz.

As for the size of the board.... Hmm... Its a lot of models, and not a massive space... I think it'd be tight, but manageable. Just expect a few hours per assault! xD

And definitely templates galore! Xenos mobs go BOOM!