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Nice. The extended stripes work better from the side-view now.

Looks great next to the marines

Much improved

Thanks guys.

In board news, i reclaimed those bits from our old display board. Some of them will be integrated into the new board. A little chiseling and they came right off. That will be my plan for tomorrow. I want to get the landscaping done tomorrow. Then hoepfully I'll be able to get all the texture down on the board during the week. That'll give me the month of March to paint and get all the details together. Not to shabby.

I need to revisit my list and see what else I need to do. Outside of my HQ I'm not sure I have too much else to do.

@ RiTides: I did that one for a swap for Ice. It is way too much work, but that was kind of the point for a one off. You just can't argue with quartered or halfsies marines. It just looks so good.

About above: Then we hit it with a hammer. Ice will post pics.

Moonpie is exactly correct. He and I were discussing damaging our board some before we got to the sand stage. Here is what we had to work with.



As you can see we have a lovely road that needs some texture and something to make it pop. We decided what better way to show the trauma of war then by hitting it with a hammer. HAMMER TIME!




This last one we went a bit far when we decided to hit the foam with the hooked end of the hammer. Not so sure on the results.


OH, i almost forgot. Here is a picture of my salvaged wreckage from my older board.

Ohh... the hammer makes excellent impact craters.

I'm to guess who suggested the hammer technique. Moonpie?

I like the one with the claw hammer, it reminds me a bit of the sink-holes which have been opening up in some parts of the UK where ground has just subsided or collapsed, this could be the same sort of thing what with hammer time making the earth move.

Universal solution: hit it with a hammer.

Thanks guys! I'm glad you like our "craters". Work on the board has been slower then planned lately. I've worked on adding in some more little details here and there. The next step will be to move in back into my garage, sand some places to smooth things out, cover it in glue, and add textures. I'm hoping the weather will warm up at least a little bit in the near future so glue will actually dry in a timely manner. If we're lucky maybe it'll warm up enough for us to prime the thing too!

On a side note, I reviewed my Adepticon army list and I've gotten everything completed except for my HQ. This year I decided to spice things up and bring a librarian as my commander. Is it a good idea? I'm not sure. More importantly, what does a Tiger Claw librarian look like? Should he still be blue? Should he still have stripes? Should the stripes be blue or perhaps orange? Should he be black with blue and orange stripes? I'm not entirely sure. The mind boggles with the possibilities. While I'm typing this I'm thinking to myself, a blue librarian with orange stripes would be neat. Then again so would an orange librarian with blue stripes. I've decided to field a terminator librarian as well. I think its silly librarians don't come with any kind of invulnerable save so I feel obligated to equip him with one. More importantly, it'll give me more area to work with for my stripes.

So please tell me what you think. I'd appreciate some serious audience participation at this time. Thanks in advance.

I like the blue with orange stripes idea!

I bet blue with orange stripes would look awesome!

^It would make my eyes bleed - in a good way

Black with blue and orange stripes sounds cool, but I think it would end up being a bit busy on a figure. Blue with orange stripes does sound dramatic

It looks like blue with orange stripes is a go. Next question. What shade of blue should I go up to. I think a darker blue would be better then an ice blue. Thoughts?

Definitely darker, it'll added definition and depth. And something else beginning with d. Possibly dingos.

Dinosaurs...darker definitely develops dinosaurs

Dynamism.... or doorknobs. One of the two.

I've put some paint on my librarian, but first. Some pictures of an Ice Angel that's been hovering around my work station for several months. I finally got him all put together and ready to go. After cropping the pictures I think I may add a slight glow to the end of his weapon but other then that he's all done.

Very cool Ice. Is that a custom-build boarding marine? What kind of gun is that?

Volkite Weaponry.

That particular one is the Volkite Caviler, 30", S6, AP5, Heavy 2, Deflagrate (units take extra hits equal to the number of wounds caused by the initial shots).

Nasty...

I'm not entirely sure that combination of weapon / shield is legal but I thought they looked cool. I've got an interesting assortment of weapons planned for this squad of marines.

Update! Despite my lack of posts I've been slowly working on things. My librarian has seen a lot of paint. I finally got a shield for him. I'm using one of the dark angel deathwing storm shields. I scrapped everything off of it so that its free of any Dark Angel taint. It needs some priming before it gets attached to anything, same with the shoulder pad. The board is now covered in glue sand and other bits of debris. The first round has already dried. I'm now waiting for some of the touch ups to dry. I think there will be one more round, i'm going to experiment with some texture things. More on that later.

In other news........ hmmm. I had something else to talk about but it has slipped my mind.

OH YES! I started working on the base for my storm talon. Still a lot to do on that one but I'm hoping to have pictures of all of this stuff in the near future.

So it dried alright? Thank goodness for this weather.

Did you end up using that libby shoulder pad or do you need another one? I have spare Crux Terminatus shoulder pads.

Is the plan to put first coat of paint down on Wednesday? I have the day off.

Yeah. If we could paint Wednesday that would be awesome.

Excellent progress guys.. can't wait to see pictures.

PHOTO DUMP!


Librarian WIP

By the way, he is not attached to that base. He is merely standing on it. His base will match that of the others in the army. I'm not a huge fan of the skull lined stairs.

Tiger Claw Army Thus far



After all of these pictures were taken I did begin some board priming. I hit the road with a textured spray paint. I hit the crater and the ruins and the rocky corner with black primer and then did some spot priming. The goal is to have some variation under the browns and other colors we add to it. I'm still not sure how I want to do the trench but I've got time to mess with it. Today I also got some more done on the base for the Talon. A couple more things on that and it'll be ready for paint. That should be a quick one. Only a few more weeks until Adepticon. In gaming news I picked up the new Tyranid codex. Lots of fun stuff in there. It's hard to process everything without doing a lot of play testing. I certainly love the new models. I can't wait to dust off my horde and see how it does but not until after Adepticon of course.

They look great.. I like the blue you used on yor Libby.

Still looking forward to even more pics of the display.

They look fantastic Ice. Congratulations!