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Chainglaive... definitely.

As a red blooded male and a proud collector of man dollies i have to vote for the chain glaive. But why not take it a step further? Get two chainsword place them back to back and have a two way chain glaive..

Alternatively, if you can't be arsed make one, Anvil Industries makes some nice looking chain glaives.


As for the libby, i,have an idea. A crazy idea, but one that would look sweet as if executed right. Ok in the top pic the way the arm is positioned it looks like the lib has just passed his weapon off to someone else. What if you modelled up a traitor guardsman/eldar/ork/etc to be kneeling in front of him with the libs left arm on his shoulder holding him down. With the angle of the libs head and the death stare that particular head is rocking it would look like the lib is about to conduct a psychic interrogation on the unfortunate he is holding down. Then you just need a cherub or something to be dragging his staff away and the model is complete.

It'd take some doing but it'd look smegging awesome if done properly.

 Snrub wrote:


As for the libby, i,have an idea. A crazy idea, but one that would look sweet as if executed right. Ok in the top pic the way the arm is positioned it looks like the lib has just passed his weapon off to someone else. What if you modelled up a traitor guardsman/eldar/ork/etc to be kneeling in front of him with the libs left arm on his shoulder holding him down. With the angle of the libs head and the death stare that particular head is rocking it would look like the lib is about to conduct a psychic interrogation on the unfortunate he is holding down. Then you just need a cherub or something to be dragging his staff away and the model is complete.

It'd take some doing but it'd look smegging awesome if done properly.

You know Snrub that's a cool idea! but how about I take it EVEN FURTHER! and do my first try at magnetizing that arm? then I can convert an arm to be holding down a traitor and giving the death stare of doom and also have one with his staff in it as if he's thrusting it into the ground 'you shall not pass' style?

That sounds cool.
I like Chain Glaives.

Picked up a few of Anvil Industries a while back, and need to find models for the ones that are left to go on.

 nerdfest09 wrote:

 Snrub wrote:


As for the libby, i,have an idea. A crazy idea, but one that would look sweet as if executed right. Ok in the top pic the way the arm is positioned it looks like the lib has just passed his weapon off to someone else. What if you modelled up a traitor guardsman/eldar/ork/etc to be kneeling in front of him with the libs left arm on his shoulder holding him down. With the angle of the libs head and the death stare that particular head is rocking it would look like the lib is about to conduct a psychic interrogation on the unfortunate he is holding down. Then you just need a cherub or something to be dragging his staff away and the model is complete.

It'd take some doing but it'd look smegging awesome if done properly.

You know Snrub that's a cool idea! but how about I take it EVEN FURTHER! and do my first try at magnetizing that arm? then I can convert an arm to be holding down a traitor and giving the death stare of doom and also have one with his staff in it as if he's thrusting it into the ground 'you shall not pass' style?

Go even deeper. Magnetize the dude he is doing the death stare/grip/whatever so you can switch it to whatever army you are playing.

If someone can think up a way to magnetize it EVEN FURTHER we would suddenly fall into a DAKKAception!

 KingCracker wrote:
If someone can think up a way to magnetize it EVEN FURTHER we would suddenly fall into a DAKKAception!

Magnetise the base so you can switch the base depending on the battlefield.

Magnetise the arm holding the victim so that you can swap out the marine for someone else as the need arises.

Put strong rare earth magnets both below and above it repelling in both directions so the victim floats between them.

Daww.... Now you've got me wanting to craft an entire board out of neodymium magnets and line the underside of my skimmers with them =/

 GrimDork wrote:
Daww.... Now you've got me wanting to craft an entire board out of neodymium magnets and line the underside of my skimmers with them =/

That'd be increadibly overpriced.

Make an electromagnet, and have either magnets or electro magnets in your skimmer.

Bonus points if you make it detect when the magnet in the skimmer is over it, so you can move it across and it'll sit whereever you put it.
(I've seen a small scale of this, where a Razorwing actually flies over a 4x4 tile!)

Hollow out both models. Put a firecracker in each one. When you pass a psychic test and kill something you can blow the victim up. If the libby suffers a peril of the warp you can blow him up.

Magnetize the Librarian to have a regular back pack, or a jump pack. But to be even better, magnetize the regular pack to put wings on it for when he uses the flight psychic power

 Snrub wrote:
Hollow out both models. Put a firecracker in each one. When you pass a psychic test and kill something you can blow the victim up. If the libby suffers a peril of the warp you can blow him up.

While you're at it hollow out some predator turrets and put roman candles into them so they shoot fireballs at the enemy.

While you're at it why don't you hollow out a Land Raider and turn into a remote control tank?



Oh wait....

It's not completed unless it also has a decent sound system that can rattle it on the table, but then it has to be pink and black.

 Snrub wrote:
Hollow out both models. Put a firecracker in each one. When you pass a psychic test and kill something you can blow the victim up. If the libby suffers a peril of the warp you can blow him up.

Best... suggestion... ever!

 Gitsplitta wrote:

 Snrub wrote:
Hollow out both models. Put a firecracker in each one. When you pass a psychic test and kill something you can blow the victim up. If the libby suffers a peril of the warp you can blow him up.

Best... suggestion... ever!

Lol Whoa! that was some intense magnet conversation and no one even mentioned the insane clown posse! congrats! you wanna know the good thing? I have if i'm correct (and thanks for reminding me!) in my shed hidden a metal box full of rather good custom fireworks! and you know what that means don't you? yes..... i'm gonna blow gak up! I think a cracker (except for Kingcracker he won't fit!) will fit nicely in a terminator if I can set my camera for rapid speed we could have a cool poster of moment of explosion! I better paint a rather shocked face......

but on the libby, I think just a magnet arm will suffice

Hang on you crazy sumbeach... you ain't actually going to blow up a terminator are you? Those things are expensive!

Like 15 dollarydoos a pop expensive.




That does remind me though. I had a big cracker kicking about the place. Called a turban bomb. It was painted up to look like Bin Laden. Wonder where that went...

Go, go gadget Nerdfest!!

I'm a little late to the party, but try bottle rockets for jump pack.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
I'm a little late to the party, but try bottle rockets for jump pack.

FETH YES!!!!!

Snrub why aren't you asleep waiting for Santa? :-) how about once i get a little video camera to produce some painting vids I also have some fireworks fun too? anyone know of a good cheap little camera with a good zoom? then I'll paint and blow gak up !

Not blown up any 40k stuff, but back in the day used to fill various plane and tank kits with gunpowder and film them on my old 8mm, looked great when I remembered to set it to high-speed, not so great when I didn't

I thinik that's a cracking good idea... let's all blow 40k stuff up!

*searching eBay for SoB stuff*

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
*searching eBay for SoB stuff*

lol you need an Exorcist Skalk for maximum damage output with all the metal parts.

I always wanted to a jump pack army that levated above their bases but never worked out how it could be done.

The problem as i see it would be getting the miniature to stay hovering and not 'slide' off the base due to the magnets push/pull? but I think it could be done as a single experiment but a whole army could be bothersome :-)

I might see how i go with magnetizing the ONE ARM on my libby, I know baby steps! but if it doesn't seem too hard I'll have a crack at working something out for a hovering assault marine!

.... and then I'll blow gak up! :-)

now, while I have you here again :-) and yes i'm fluttering my eyes at you for some ideas //////// ///////// (that's me fluttering) I have my floors and walls for my ZM boards, but I need to find a suitable thematic style for the additions and painting? are we going to be in a dirty space hulk? or a clean space ship? or a imperial building? or a underground research facility? and how are we going to add interest to all the boards for each them? I want to include an apothecarion and or a cargo area with crates and ammo etc. but I don't know how dirty/realistic I should do it? i'm thinking fairly clean as is my style but what sort of detritus would be good?....


...sorry started to ramble, i'll let you take it from here.....

If you want to make something levitate like that you really want to use a diamagnetic material. When cooled down (usually with liquid nitrogen) the material repels magnetic fields. Place it above a magnet and it will hover above it. Or vice versa obviously.
The problem with using two magnets to do this is that the hovering one will flip over and stick to the ground one (thereby damaging your model).
Here endeth the lesson.

^ and that's why you're doctor hinternet eh! :-)