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Did someone make a fisting reference??




There Damo, all the motivation you should need to stay on target

Hahaha..LMAO!

lol very good

Wheeeeeee! I sleep for a while and come back and it seems Slaanesh has indeed not only leeched into my double entendre filled mind but also started on the rest of you! this I can only see as a good thing! we need a place we can all feel safe in, a place we can all grease up our power fists to maximum lubrability and proceed to love wearing animal print while we wash in the blood of a thousand heretical virgins! so pretty much just a normal Saturday night here at the old Nerdington Manor!

and Theo..... YOU started that

hey, guess what? yep, no supplies yet so I'm still trying to tame my feverish mind from straying from the path of what i already have thanks to GFX I am sold on doing a SH type set up, but still not sure which way to go as yet? as I'd like to use the Zone Mortalis rules so probably need fairly wide coridoors and rooms? I still think the Armorcast Starship ones are my favorites even though they have no walls, but then that should enable others to help me convert and build them *cough...cough*.... *Dave*.......*cough wheeze* I can imagine making the actual walkways slightly wider by covering the pipes at the sides with a grate of some sort? so it has some depth and ease of use? but I still come up with nothing that shows a marine for scale! Oh well, back to googling!


*snicker*...... fisting....

LOL.. The cheapest option by far will be Hirst arts molds, http://www.hirstarts.com/molds/moldssci.html a 50# box of dental plaster, and a LOT of time pouring repeated castings

Yes i know you're right as per usual Dave!! :-) but I don't have the time nor space for casting and putting it away so the Armorcast ones seem to be the go to choice for me, although I think looking at them i can use some COD walls or the robogear? ones? also any help on what could be used as metal grate in our scale?

My go-to is 1/4" chicken wire

http://thereisonlywar.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/taking-look-around-forge-world-website.html

so i don't forget! :-) as a League member after some consideration, I should really do this myself eh! and this idea seemed like a damn good start! feel free to read and point me in any direction that may help create a sort of zone mortalis/space hulk esque board! i'm thinking grates and pipes along the sides etc.


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Thats very interesting, I think a home made ZM board set is the best way to go, Space Hulk boards just dont have enough room.

 nerdfest09 wrote:
http://thereisonlywar.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/taking-look-around-forge-world-website.html

so i don't forget! :-) as a League member after some consideration, I should really do this myself eh! and this idea seemed like a damn good start! feel free to read and point me in any direction that may help create a sort of zone mortalis/space hulk esque board! i'm thinking grates and pipes along the sides etc.


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We have that same terrain at my brothers house, the walls I mean. They are excellent and very sturdy and pretty cheap to boot

Yes I think i'm on the right track now, I might try and get hold of Panic as i've been following his version of a ZM board too, I really just need to work out how many 1x1 boards I need and what wall designs to go on them, then I will grab my materials and start working on it instead of another army :-) I priced the set from FW and it's $585 Aus, I hope i can come in under that figure lol! should also be easier to do as each tile is a independent and I can build them and work on them one by one!

does anyone know if the tile lines are used for playing movement? I think they do but need confirmation :-)

next step will be trying to find some sintra? I wonder if i can just get some cut into 20 1x1 squares for ease? hmmmmm? would be better than plyboard i'm guessing!

That's a great use for Pegasus wall panels!

 nerdfest09 wrote:

does anyone know if the tile lines are used for playing movement? I think they do but need confirmation :-)

Space Hulk yes, Zone Mortalis no (uses 40k rules).

Thanks GFX! made my mind race just a bit more now!!

Have you seen neil101's blog his scenery skills are totally off the chart.

Since I'm STILL waiting for my bits supply! I thought i'd at least do something productive, so I thought I best do a test mini for my project I hope to do in 2014 (which really isn't far away!) this year will see me finish my Imperial Guard & my Slaanesh force, yes they will be done! but next year I plan on dropping some coin and going Horus Heresy Imperial Fists omg! if i haven't challenged my painting yet I sure will doing that army

so I sat down this morning and had a go at the yellow, this guy took me roughly 1.5-2 hours start to finish and I know it's modern armour but that's all i had in my bits box

Righto, to start he was undercoated/primed with the same Desert Yellow I use for my Guard &washed with Agrax.


then I added some daemonic yellow at about 50/50 and went over the armour again followed by pure yellow, then i added some bleached bone and kept highlighting up to pure bone.


next step is to go over the whole model with watered down yellow ink, I used the one from P3 and it's very strong so make sure it's well watered and you dab off any if it's too strong in places.


not too exciting so far, but once you start adding the other details and lenses he really pops and comes to life!


and a little touch up and basing and he's ready for battle! until he stops for a chat with his mate Barry from the FleshEaters






now to go plan more of my terrain project!

Tooo many close-ups... brain exploding....

Oh wow, you made yellow work Nerdy!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
That was fast guys! I don't mind the models but they are quite big even for termie themed characters and i still want them to fit in, I was thinking of making them shorter and using normal bases if the models allow me to?

Obliterators are larger than regular Termies, so it's probably okay.


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Also nice work on the Fist.

Do one of you guys want to tell him about the Aquila circa the Heresy era?

Thats a very nice yellow you have going on there NF09.

You have made me realise that I've not started a new army project this year :(

Thanks guys! I am a little more relaxed now i know how to tackle the yellows, a squad together should look pretty cool :-) and i'm guessing the chest eagle should be red? i've been trying to find a pre heresy scheme but there is soooooo much contradicting info i'm not sure what to take as gospel.

hey, do you think I should start a separate thread to focus on terrain stuff? I am planning that ZM board and it should be pretty involved as far as planning and work goes, I thought I may have it by itself so this thread doesn't get cluttered with Imperial Guard,Slaanesh,Flesheaters AND a game board?

Some of your readers are interested in Guard and boards

Oh yeah! there is that I suppose ;-) in fact I need to send you a PM tomorrow and bounce some ideas around with you if you don't mind?

PM all you want dood! Tomorrow is good, we're going to Indy today to see Bob Dylan and Wilco!

Damn you Dave and your life of luxury and fun!

Haha yeah well, remember, it's summer here. While you are out gallivanting, I'm freezing my balls off

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Thanks guys! I am a little more relaxed now i know how to tackle the yellows, a squad together should look pretty cool :-) and i'm guessing the chest eagle should be red? i've been trying to find a pre heresy scheme but there is soooooo much contradicting info i'm not sure what to take as gospel.

hey, do you think I should start a separate thread to focus on terrain stuff? I am planning that ZM board and it should be pretty involved as far as planning and work goes, I thought I may have it by itself so this thread doesn't get cluttered with Imperial Guard,Slaanesh,Flesheaters AND a game board?

Ive seen both red and black. Black looks considerably better, imo. Red looks like the McMarines.

Leave the board here, it wont hurt. I promise.

 dsteingass wrote:
Haha yeah well, remember, it's summer here. While you are out gallivanting, I'm freezing my balls off

I'd watch what I say around nerdfest recently, things have gotten a little strange .

That yellow is excellent , but I'm going to challenge you to paint the fist with their yellow and red color scheme and make them look good. Yellow and black look great, but not fluffy.

Some good ass IF blogs (or at least in part).
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/270/383678.page
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/514200.page

That's a good yellow NF.

I've done one IF and he had the red eagle and looked fine (although you can't see much of the eagle behind his gun).