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Nice loot and the army looks great all set up!

Strange question... What do your cupboard doors look like?

Ooooh.... i need to get one of those light boxes!
Nerf gun looks ace!

 Casey's Law wrote:
Nice loot and the army looks great all set up!

Strange question... What do your cupboard doors look like?

Ummm yep, strange question my friend! but to humor you for whatever strange reason..... here are my doors!


Oh yeah the lightbox set up is great I really like it and you can ALL be sure as soon as my camera arrives I shall be taking pics of every FleshEater in my force and popping a thread in the showcase threads! I can't wait to use it, lets hope i use it well, I've never used a digital SLR before!

The Maverick is the best inter-office sidearm you can have!

Haha, thanks man.

I'll be creating a dedicated hobbyspace in my house this year so I'm gathering ideas right now. I don't have a huge ammount of room so I have to make the most out of it. I was wondering if it was a glass display cabinet type door or something.

Plus I'm gakking mental...

 dsteingass wrote:
The Maverick is the best inter-office sidearm you can have!

Cost to Ammo capacity to Power to Fire Rate, it's pretty much the best Nerf sidearm you can have.
It's reasonably cheap, with 6 rounds, 30-40ft flat range and a decent size.
Personally I've found combining the Maverick with the Barrel Break (which effectively has the power of a Primary) is a great combo of sidearms - gives you the 6 shots of mid-range firepower, with 2 high power long range shots.

But a Longstrike + Maverick is a fairly solid setup anyway.

During the Inter-Office wars, the stock Maverick and a Cubicle wall was the only thing between me and the enemy!

Well, I'll be running the maverick as my main sidearm and the fairly heavy modded Longstrike as my dedicated range weapon! I have really sparked some interest in people that haven't even thought of Nerf wars lately and even my mate James and his wife are getting in on the action and buying Recon's to modify and donating their farmyard as a battleground! :-) should be great with us rocking laser dot sights and tac lights of a night!

I can't wait to get my 2 kits I ordered for the Longstrike and see how they go combined with the modded darts!


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Oh Casey, you are only as crazy as every other Nerd on this thread my man!

Beards, gun talk, and an army shot.......makes me all misty eyed ............................manly misty eyed of course




Damo.......there was something I was going to say but damned if I can remember what the hell it was now. We need to skype

Righto guys, I need your ass.... assistance that is

I've decided to take another plunge into something different! and committed myself to the most manly of forces for 40k! yes, that's right! Imperial Guard these guys are so manly they can weave their beards into their pubes and play them like a harp

my quandry is scheme! as usual I want them to look the tits! and I'm thinking a light brown fatigues with darker brown cardboard armour, pouches etc? but i don't want it to be too boring, any ideas? I was thinking of adding camo pattern but I prefer the solid colour look, i've googled as you would imagine but nothing is really jumping at me (apart from trapdoors in my backyard, but that's another story) so any pics, ideas, hints, tips, free stuff will be appreciated

i'm about to sign off for the evening and i hope to come back tonight to a plethora of inspiration and chit chat! and KC you home monday my time?

My ass is always here to help

The color scheme you describe sounds similar to what Iffy did on one of her latest commissions:


I think a bunch of IG grunts in that sorta paint scheme would look awesome!

I've always loved desert guard, even if its not tallarn. Though they are the pinnacle. The tanks especially look great in just one solid colour, no camo pattern. It's something I've really always wanted to do though I doubt I'll ever ever get around to it. It's been in my head for around 15 years. The rough riders were gonna ride cold ones.



....not mine sadly.

I think that idea would work better if you reversed the colours, so a dark brown fatigue and sand coloured armour.

I think the brown could work well, maybe you'd need a more vibrant spot colour though, all brown minis can sometimes look a bit poorly defined, I doubt you'll have this issue though, your painting is more than up to it. Maybe a blue or green spot colour, (then again i'm biased towards green, seems to be my default when my imagination isn't working.)

(btw im incredibly pleased your starting guard, always nice to steal ideas.)

Thanks for the input so far guys! I really hope i can produce enough ideas for people to steal while my marines are quite clean and don't have much ornamentation these guys are going to be kitted up and gritty! i'm even considering buying the FW masterclass books!

I won't be heavily converting any but I'll be using 3rd party conversion bits throughout to provide a different look, I have some cool ideas that play heavily on my skills i'm happy with, namely muted colours with strong bright lenses and sharp highlights,

Imperial Monkey, I really did consider that option too but I felt the lighter tone as the main colour meant i could follow more detail on the clothes without looking stark, the dark fatigues with the lighter webbing put me in mind of the old WW pics you see with the khaki and olive gear which i liked but felt it too similar to 'normal' cadians!

alanmckenzie, I agree with you too, the tallarn are great models and i wish FW did more than just the sparse few they have, but it's now going to be a pleasant challenge to create a similar theme with the cadians! make sure you keep me on the right track as i go!

Ramos, I'm glad your ass is always there for help! and you'd be right about that mini, I was going through my subs and reading Iffy's blog after i thought about the theme and her paint job sealed the deal for me! it looks great! my main fatigues i think will be a touch darker and more yellow as I'm planning on using The Army Painter desert yellow as a base.

keep the ideas and thought coming dudes! what about tanks and accesories? anybody know any aftermarket places to get some bits? mesh screen bedrolls etc?

This.....is....gonna....be........ EPIC!!! I can totally see myself keeping these guys!....... for longer than a month!

Awww sweet an IG build! The only army that I ALWAYS get excited for to watch!

Mesh screen? Goto the locla hardware store, and buy some window screen. Its super cheap, and is the same shtuff. Youre welcome. Tanks though....they need to at least be slightly dirty, even if youre going to that clean look, I mean tanks are heavy and burn diesel and are just beat to piss, even the ones sitting in front of VFW halls still look used. So at the very least, you need to make them look it!


AND! For one of the leaders of your Guard, you have to have him bearded. Its just the rules. And maybe a cigar.

Oh yes KC the tanks will be showing signs of wear and tear and sand and dust and bodily fluid and leakage and oil and melted cheese and everything that should be there!

Ah, flyscreen mesh! duh! of course, it's all so simple.....

Funny you should mention bearded squad types :-) i' already planned to have a squad seargant Brandon Hammerbush in my force and of course HE shall be bearded, I will of course need you to clip and send me a sample of your beard hair for colour comparisons....... I'm not trying to clone or splice you!..... honest....... *snort*......

Sgt Brandon Hammerbush thats fething hilarious. Just make sure I always die in the dumbest of ways. As a Sgt that shouldnt be too hard. Also, Im going to pretend you didnt just say you DONT want to clone me and that you will now have to have melted cheese on some tank somewhere at some later time in the future perhaps

Perhaps Brandon hammerbush' personal chimera can have a slice draped loving out of the cupola?

For netting and such, check out Cheesecloth, available at most arts and craft stores.

Wow, can't wait to see how you do the guards, Nerd
As a suggestion, how about buying some differently themed helmets from Pig-Iron?
Cool variants with awesome lenses (I personally use them for Tau pathfinders and some IG-veterans I painted for a friend)

Anyways, looking forward to seeing some models!

Cheers ramos and hemmis, Cheesecloth will work! I think i have some too! ideas are bubbling people!

and for heads I am using heads mainly from Mad Robot miniatures, the soudakadi heads in fact and the beret heads for storm troopers? :-)


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Oh can anyone who's not at work give me an idea of what size plastic tube to use for alternate lasgun barrels? about the same sze as a bolter muzzle? so i can grab some online and get ready!

According to the dial calipers over here a bolter muzzle is .08 inch (~2 mm) which is roughly about the same for the lasgun muzzle. The barrel behind the muzzle is about .06 inch (~1.5 mm)

 Ramos Asura wrote:
According to the dial calipers over here a bolter muzzle is .08 inch (~2 mm) which is roughly about the same for the lasgun muzzle. The barrel behind the muzzle is about .06 inch (~1.5 mm)

Thanks dude! now i can buy more stuff Bwahahahahahaha!

Looking forwards to seeing your desert dogs.

Also a nice local source for guard parts (in Australia) if your not aware of Vic http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/

Genuinely considering withdrawing my subscription to your thread nerd. I just cant allow myself to become inspired to start another project when I'm really struggling to find time for my current one haven't even started my planned foray into infinity and now I can't stop thinking about desert guard. I'd pushed it right to the back of my head for years and since your post, those guardsmen won't leave me alone. I certainly don't need to be seeing your new army coming together. Maybe it can be my 2014 plan.

I figure that if I use the mantic games corporation line and build my tanks like this guy http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/496680.page (which I actually really really like), then I should be able to get an army of around 1500-2000 pts for under £200. It all seems so reasonable.... ok, still 2014.... maybe. And, I'll stay subscribed, just to be polite.... not because i want ideas to steal.

 alanmckenzie wrote:
Genuinely considering withdrawing my subscription to your thread nerd. I just cant allow myself to become inspired to start another project when I'm really struggling to find time for my current one haven't even started my planned foray into infinity and now I can't stop thinking about desert guard. I'd pushed it right to the back of my head for years and since your post, those guardsmen won't leave me alone. I certainly don't need to be seeing your new army coming together. Maybe it can be my 2014 plan.

I figure that if I use the mantic games corporation line and build my tanks like this guy http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/496680.page (which I actually really really like), then I should be able to get an army of around 1500-2000 pts for under £200. It all seems so reasonable.... ok, still 2014.... maybe. And, I'll stay subscribed, just to be polite.... not because i want ideas to steal.

Lol that's terribad you even CONSIDERED leaving us! just for that transgression I shall make sure I produce something truly awesome (hopefully!) I have ideas coming out of my ass! heaps of conversion parts and things on way too! I really need all you guys to keep me correct though as I haven't the slightest idea of what is correct in squads and lists and such! so I'd hate to paint stuff and have it be wrong for playing!

and today I shall actually be painting! the final touches to Pyriels Sallies and also some work on GiraffeX's Celestial Lion! hopefully pics this arvo!

I've just posted a potential 2000pt list in the army list section

I need to stop.

No stopping now dude! I 'like you' had this idea rolling around in my head for years and now I can finally do it! you may as well plan the force and scheme and list and then work slowly to achieve your dream! I was just lucky I scored all the army in one swoop!

Yeh maybe. Next sizeable purchase is my infinity rulebook and selection of haqqislam models. 100 quid. They should hopefully go together reasonably quickly. That'll get me playing something while I get my space marines up and running. I'll just try to keep the imperial guard cogs rolling in the background at least til August ish. By that time the Angels should be almost done and you'll have posted lots of nice pictures for me to look at.