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It's a tough call. I love the execution, but my eyes hurt - but then, that's the point!

Looks good! I also like to see the pilot, but can see the draw of not having to do that part. I also vote for SL providing a massive pile of MkIV Marines with RS pads. At least 30.

But seriously, you should put the Maelstrom swirl opposite the chapter logo on the back.

^ That would be my kind of flight stand

Solar, it might be cool to see the pilot, but screw actually doing it.

Ice just showed me the model IRL and it's pretty sweet.

Here is a nice little change of pace. Some early WIP pictures of our Adepticon display board. I won't even bother telling you more about it. We've a long way to go and I'll just randomly toss pictures of it online for you to all look at.

ooooh..... OOOOOOOHHHHH!!

I'm really liking how its shaping up already! This is gonna be good

And so it begins...

Awesome.. Only 7 weekends to go!

Solar why do you have to be so negative. GOSH!

In other news, while watching the olympics tonight I manage to punch out about 20 orks. Surprised? I was surprised. Every once in awhile you just want to WAAAAGH. I also received my marine from Lucarikx. Once he is based pictures will arrive. Before the Olympics I also managed to collect some more random things for my display board. I need to grab some more filler or spackle or whatever. I'm also thinking about putting together some sand bags. It may be time to get some plumbers epoxy and make some, perhaps a LOT of bags.

What else? There was something else to report but I seem to have forgotten............ The smooth beats of Aphex Twin are distracting me.

Nice looking table, Ice

Good to hear you got the Storm Warden, your Ice Angel has been given a very important role as Chaplain!

Looking forward to seeing more of the table.

Lucarikx

Reality... keeping ya grounded..

Nice thing is that the board should be able to be used beyond AC.

Precisely! After Adepticon the board will most likely be repainted a different color and kept around for small games or an extension board for apocalypse games.

In other news, I received my marine swap from Lucarikx. Here is a WIP of him. I'm still finishing up his base.



I also started working on a Tiger Claw Rhino. It's coming along nicely. Pictures of that later.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
I also vote for SL providing a massive pile of MkIV Marines with RS pads. At least 30.

Let me see what I have ... hummmmm.... Maybe not MKIV.. but....Hummmmm

I'm back! that chibi flier looks pretty impressive, how did you do the canopy? (to much to read through to go back in case it was back there)

Welcome back my friend! The cockpit was a simple blend of a dark royal blue up to an ice blue. I mixed it all while it was still wet. Before hand I picked a corner to highlight up to and a few minutes later, BAM! It was done. It was my first attempt and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm glad you like it too.


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I almost forgot. After taking a few days to involuntarily purge every fluid out of my body at seemingly random times, I finally felt human enough today to get some stuff for the display board. I don't have any pictures yet but I did hit it with some more light weight spackle to smooth out some of the features.

Side note: Have any of you guys tried removing glued down terrain features in the past? I have one of the four display pieces from my very first Adepticon and I'm thinking about cannibalizing some of the bits off of it. I have an old metal land speeder and some other things that may work better on my new board. I'm not sure the best method to remove them from the board though. I have several metal scrappers that would probably work well. Any one have any other suggestions?

RE: Sidenote... a few questions:
1) whats it glued to?
2) do you care about damaging what its glued to?

Yeah, Ice tried to kill me. My two biggest things to look forward to are 1. Yay! For my Tuesday/Wednesday weekend! TGIM! 2. A solid bowel movement. A man can dream can't he?

This is what best friends are for.

Also, we have sandbags from Pegasus. Note to everyone: Don't talk to the train guy at the hobby store. He'll take 10 minutes to tell you they don't have sand bags or things for wargamers, when it will only take you 2 minutes to just find them yourself. And trees. They had trees.

Back to some WIP.

I've been playing around with some different stripe options. After staring at a zoo book that my 18 month old loves, I came up with a different stripe pattern. Thoughts?



I still have lots of things to do to it but I got my initial stripes down. I feel like it may need more. I still need to figure out where to put the Tiger Claw emblem too.

I like that very much! Nicely done Ice.

That looks really nice so far.

Not sure if it needs the stripes to extend down the side a bit further?
Think putting another set of stripes on the sides would be too much, but it feels like it might be a litle bare compared to the top. Maybe if the emblem went on the side hatches that would add more of the tiger aspect to the side elevation.

Thanks Git!

Monkeytroll I think you may be right. Perhaps I should lengthen some of the stripes on the side and add the emblem on the hatches. I shall start with that!

 IceAngel wrote:


For those of you that read my fluff thread, you'd know that I managed to write an entire book here on dakka. I'm in the editing process right now to clean it up a bit. While this has been going on I've also begun the brainstorming and outlining of book two. Moonpie, first supplied Brother Aquilum in book one. For book two he has supplied me with this lovely marine.

He is from a secretive chapter of marines, known by outsiders as the Twin Sabres. This particular marine though is very special amongst his peers. He has obtained a rank shrouded in mystery. SO shrouded that even his own brethren can only whisper about the thought of it. This rank is so highly honored that no one dare mention it or even write it down. The sheer idea of limiting this all inspiring rank or confining this level of aptitude with words and icons would defeat the purpose of its existing. Instead, the Twin Sabres simply erased this marines name and history so he can take up the mantle of............. the Celestial Unicorn!

This scheme is so striking... and looks like so much work!

Very well done, and can't wait to see more of your Adepticon board, too

 IceAngel wrote:
Monkeytroll I think you may be right. Perhaps I should lengthen some of the stripes on the side and add the emblem on the hatches. I shall start with that!

That'd be my suggestion as well. Currently its a bit top heavy. Lengthening the stripes on the sides, particularly towards the rear of the chassis, should give it more balance. Hatch emblems should class it up a good bit as well!

Agreed - looks a little as if a spider landed on top, excellent as paint job is - and maybe a white front hatch?

I agree with the others, maybe striped like this

Tomorrow, I'll lengthen the stripes down the sides and try to lighten up the front some. Thanks for all the great feedback. I'll get some updated WIP pictures this weekend.

In other news, I think I've finally decided what I'm going to do with my HQ. More on that later.

^Cyber-Tigers that count-as Thunderwolves?

Could work as thunderwolves... have a friend who has turned some high elves lions from the Tiranoc chariot set into a similar creation, then he uses them as ravenwing, to suit his DA army... After all their Primarch is the Lionel Johnson and lions feature in their imagery

Here is an updated picture. I extended the stripes almost all around the thing. I worked on the head lights. In the first picture I took I notice how overly highlighted it came out. I'll be working to fix that a first. I also added on the chapter badge. I added a little bit of damage around the bottom to try and give it a more well worn feel to it.

The next picture I took was next to some of my marines to make sure the orange was still matching up well. The tank was air brushed and one of those marines was air brushed the rest was painted normally.


Thoughts?

Very old-school looking. Perfect for the Mk-1.