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*cough* we are much, much more than "an island nearby", Dave

Of course, you have the most breathtaking Country on the Planet! I'm still amazed all that is there!

Oh MAN! Val Venis! That guy was hilariously bad. Good grief that brought back some childhood moments.

Stonecold Steve Austin was exactly who I was hinting about when I posted it haha! Nerdwench haha, my wife would lay the smack down on me so fast if I said that.

Hobbitses, ey?
We must go out and find of of those tricksy hobbitses soon, my precious. It's my preciouses's special day very very soon, my precious, and we knows that my precious loves some juicy-sweet hobbitses!


ahem.

Assuming Fire warriors, you could even have squads with slightly different livery having different heads. As in, helmeted for the majority of both/all, but a few unhelmeted figures in each squad, with several squads being regular Tau while others are Promethians and others from various ranges out there...

Those expressions on the fourth and fifth ones.

Oooh I forgot about those ones! I like the first and third ones the best, might have to just do the usual Nerdfest thing and over buy everything then give what i don't need away lol ;-)


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anyone else addicted to candy crush saga? I usually hate those games on phones but this one...... this one has me

I guess I'm lucky to not have even heard of the game.

I believe those maxmini heads were designed by our very own Major Tom when he was deep in his Genestealer Cult project, I think someone else sculpted them though. I may be remembering that wrong mind you...

But I really [/lurk]ed to tell you I'm really enjoying everything you are doing. I'm not a big IG fan so I haven't had much to say and now I feel guilty for not leaving any replies. Your busting out a load of great stuff though, keep it up!

I love the game, but refuse to pay to get mor than the original levels, and I don do Facebook. Signed up years ago, but never did anything with it.

I know, I don't have facebook either but my dog Oscar does :-) so he gets the requests lol! and Dave that pic cracked me up! I need that on a T-shirt for sure!

Casey, thanks for popping up and saying G'day! sorry you don't like IG, that's a shame and I hope they invent a pill to counter it soon ;-) but you stuck in there and rest assured I shall be visiting my old marines again as well as that exciting Tau force i want to do, I have a crazy idea of painting the stealth suits like predators cloaking? not clear but rippled camo?

speaking of Tau anyone got the codex willing to help me work out a list?

Nerd you should have a request in our mailbox, if he kids are feeling good in the am I'll get it hipped tomorrow

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Oooh I forgot about those ones! I like the first and third ones the best, might have to just do the usual Nerdfest thing and over buy everything then give what i don't need away lol ;-)

Maxmini are pretty awesome and will usually give you a custom mix of sculpts if you ask nicely. There's only a few of their sets they can't do it with.


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speaking of Tau anyone got the codex willing to help me work out a list?

Ah crap! I just ordered a bunch of codices and forgot to get the Tau one! DERP!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Casey, thanks for popping up and saying G'day! sorry you don't like IG, that's a shame and I hope they invent a pill to counter it soon ;-) but you stuck in there and rest assured I shall be visiting my old marines again as well as that exciting Tau force i want to do, I have a crazy idea of painting the stealth suits like predators cloaking? not clear but rippled camo?

I don't really dislike them to be fair, they just don't excite me much. I have been enjoying following your progress though as your doing a brilliant job on them! The Tau sound like they are going to be really fun, so I'm particularly looking forward to that.

I have the Tau codex, if you need to know anything let me know, I might have to read it now

Package on it's way.


Hope your post office is more polite, min go pissed that I had cut down a flat rate box, said they would still charge me the $59.95. Tried to explain hat it had been used once and instead of going into the recycling bin I reused it again. She ignored it and told me I either repackaged it or pay the $59.95. Took it home and put in another box I had stuff stored in, had to repackage it, and was lucky enough to get the same person when I returned. It came out a little cheaper than what had been quoted the day before, less money for the post office. They don't need it anyway, they're doing great business . You should have it in two weeks she said.

I too have the codex, if you need any info.

Stealth suits are MEANT for cool predator cloaking paintjobs. I mean really...even a bad job would make it cool. I once saw a guy that casted a unit of them in clear resin, and THEN painted the parts that werent "cloaked" yet. That unit was simply the coolest thing Ive EVER seen in the mini world.


Cant wait to see your effort!

Hey guys, firstly thanks Theophony! I shall be eagerly waiting to get them from my friendly post office I overcome this problem by wrapping my packages in brown paper first but I feel it must be a post thing as my post lady doesn't smile much is very brusque and business like, she's lovely though and we can joke around but I daren't take up her time too much!

Casey, well, thank you for liking my progress on a model range you don't like much that's actually a pretty good compliment! and the models I bought from Theophony will be the start of my force which I will be open to any ideas or thoughts regarding my work on them i would love to do the idea that KC mentioned on the stealth suits! but sadly I don't have the skills to cast clear copies of them so i'll now have to push my brush skills to do something different? ideas? thoughts? examples?

Azazelx, another good thing to know I never thought about seeing if they can do custom orders I've bought from them a few times and the products are always really nice, resin is quite hard/brittle but clean and with great detail on everything!

Ah crap! I just ordered a bunch of codices and forgot to get the Tau one! DERP!

Ha Ha you deserve this- dork! ....... after I talk to Ovion and GiraffeX I'll telly you how cool it is lol

righto, bedtime for me i'm back to nights tonight so I'll see you later tonight,well, I'll 'read' you later tonight!

Damo

I've got the day off today, my box of stuff from Trolltrader arrived - Scibor resin bits, a bunch of Warpaints, some Secret Weapon powders... but I can't paint, because we've got our learners-game of Relic still laid over the folding table I'm still temporarily using for both painting and boardgames.

Looks like at best I'll be spraying some tank traps with another coat of matt, and maybe finishing some eeeevil skull fountains by spraying them with matt and then adding water effects once dry.

O.k, some input needed this morning and I'll be back this arvo

I am seriously considering my 4th force to build and it's looking like Slaanesh marines will be on the cards, bright pink and bronzes, good aesthetic and something I can try conversions with quite happily, I don't want a big force and would like to mainly use models that I like and want to paint so I had a quick (very quick) look through a mates codex and this is what I'm hoping will suffice? any ideas from those chaos lords out there? more on how to use what I want and how to equip them rather than buying more models at the moment

HQ: Daemon prince

Troops: Chaos Marines

Elites: Chaos Terminators, Possessed

Fast Attack: Spawn

Heavy: Forge Fiend or Mauler Fiend, Defiler

I have been ruminating on this for a few days now and as i'm not into the dark gods I'm a blank canvas for the scions to mold my mind to their visions!

And now I', gonna have a shower, pop on some comfy clothes and begin painting some Tanks for my guard!

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...and begin painting some Tanks for my guard!

Best idea of your whole post IMHO

I want them to make a soft cover, cheaper Tau codex, in fact they can and should make a cheaper soft cover for all of them

Their soft cover binding process has been a joke for a lot of years though, especiall on the bigger books, anyone have a General's Compedium that hasn't fallen apart?

I just prefer to pay 30bucks when I have it instead of 50bucks for a much needed book, this is where GW is sticking it to folks, charging inflated prices for over elaborate productions, I will gladly uses a B&W mostly Codex if they made it, I hate Apple and will not buy a 700dollar tool to download a 50dollar download either

Alright, I did do some tank work! nothing exciting enough to twirl your skirt up though, but I managed to run the ink wash around every rivet on my two Punishers as well as nearly finish Bruce and do some gluing of my Storm troopers!




and my DEVGRU heads from Mad Robot arrived today too! so I blu tacked them onto the bodies and then glued on their packs, the heads look so good and I think will make some very different and striking storm troops.



I need to appologise for my lack of painting lately I have simply been burnt out with hobby and work, lacking that spark to put brush to plastic, i've basically been comatose on the couch or bed with the hours moving by in a blur of nothingness, sounds pretty sad doesn't it! but I've got 4 days off in a few days and hopefully I can recharge my Nerd batteries we've got the RSPCA Million Paws walk to raise money for the animal shelter on Sunday and we're taking the furry kids along for some butt sniffing fun lots of dogs, lots of people, lots of games and a good 5km walk, i'll take some pics and pop them up when I get home if no one minds?

Now,my ideas for Slaanesh models I plan to convert a Daemon prince using the plastic kit and some choice parts like the head from the Skaven Vermin lord model, and paint his soft pink flesh in a similar fashion to how i did the sarcophagus on my DC Dreadnought with filigree like tattoo over the flesh, should look really good do you think he should have eyes? or is it more sensory and creepy to have no eyes?
I also want to paint a Decimator Daemon engine those things just look nuts and are huge! as for my troops I shall use mostly what I have lying around, so the bodies will be normal marine bodies with Puppetswar pads and CH pads that look a little baroque http://www.puppetswar.com/product.php?id_product=168 i'll use a mix of both of these styles on both the marines and terminators http://www.puppetswar.com/product.php?id_product=155 speaking of termi's I am using the robed terminator bodies from the new DA release so i can give them black robes to contrast with the pinks and purple, head wise I like the temistokle heads http://www.puppetswar.com/product.php?id_product=89 and for bare heads I want to use some very normal beautiful heads in a mockery of the Blood Angels regal standing as well as some demon style visages like these http://www.puppetswar.com/product.php?id_product=51 any other I don't know about that'd be good?

sorry there's a lot of text today but I needed to talk

Those stormtroopers look fantastic! I'm really loving how unique they are! When they're done they are gonna be incredible!

Slaanesh marines sound like they're going to be an awesome army, as for the DP, my vote goes to no eyes, think Alien. Creepy stuff right there!

Glad you're back to painting, you've been missed!

Proto

Tanks looking good, and with "Not Bruce" as commander, real good there! The troopers are coming along nicely as well.

In regards to the Slaanesh army, I'll be back

Oh and Bruce really does look like Bruce which is quite scary