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really liking these gargants, they just look so orky and awesome. keep up the good work

Missed a few updates here.

Enjoyed the fleet 'data', some fun little touches in there However it does appear as if Da Waaaghfarer and Da Bismork Manee have somehow corrupted your data library and switched in duplicate vid-grabs

Big guys are all looking good, but I really liked the battlewagons, particularly the 'brutal' based on the wartrakk, and the one using the old warbike. Nice

Oops bloogy Gremlins. Thanks for the kind words on the gargants. I'm happy with the Battlefortresses as well. They're a bit too big to be Battlewagons.

That is an awesome mob of Gargants My experience of playing Epic suggests you should always field two of them if possible (I lost a Gargant to two salvoes from a Warlord).

I really do like all the conversions you're doing on this force, and the fluff for your BFG Orks made me chuckle too.#

I have 6 Fighta Bommers doing nothing - PM me if you want them, mate.

Looking forward to the Epic battle reports ;P

Thanks a lot interestingly enough they seem to be far tougher in Net Epic. Glad you enjoyed the fluff as well.

Played my first game of Net Epic good grief was it brutal. The games resolve in fewer more action packed turns than 40k. It was 4000 pts I had a large Evil Sunz Warband, a shooty Deathskull Band and a large Snakebite host. I was facing a Veteran Company, a Devestator Company and a Land Raider Company with 2 Land Speeder Squadrons in support backed up by 3 titans 2 Warhounds and a Reaver. Basically in the first turn I charged with everything (literally every unit in my army was on charge orders and he advanced). In the second turn I broke the veteran company and had the Snakebites broken. The Boarboyz and Warlord and Evil Sunz warband both broke detachments in Assault. Unfortunately in the third term while I broke the two Landspeeder squadrons he broke the Deathskulls with Warhound fire and the few battered survivors of the Veteran Company lashed out in their deaththrows managing to break the Evil Sunz and giving the Marines the victory. Great fun. The nice things was that it looked right everything looked in scale especially hills. Basically it was a great game and has got me really fired up for more. I've also won elements for a large Kult of Speed on Ebay. I think what I enjoyed most was that it wasn't about precise playment and chiselly unit selection but instead about strategy and bloody glory. It was the most enjoyable game of anything I've played in ages.

Triples was great expensive but great. Ground Zero Games was there with lots of cool stuff. I've picked up a few packs of their 6mm vehicles mainly engineering gubbins and stuff for battlewagon variants. I also grabbed some of their 2mm artillery pieces and VTOL's for Zzap Guns and Dethkopta's the best bit however is the Bolo. I've wanted one since reading a lot of the reimagined stories especially John Ringo's Road to Damascus. I've also picked up a few Pendraken games Tankettes (tiny gunz definitely need more dakka) and some Flak 88's as Super Gunz. I'll get dat pesky Titan!


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Couldn't resist I'll be able to use it as a Battlefortress easily although the model would match a Squat Cyclops far better. It's worth bearing in mind that this model is 2mm it's mean't to work with models a third the size of an Epic Infantryman. With smaller scales where there are less reference markers it's perfectly possible to bodge and use models intended for different scales together. Especially with Science Fiction where the loser background means if it looks right itis right. That's one of the benefits of not buying these things online as it's something you need to gauge yourself when you can see the figure. A lot of the 6mm historical stuff I was planning to buy looked slightly off although I'll check again another time.

Heh the 2mm gunships I brought as gawky copters look a loot like the new Storm Talon kit...

Ebays been fortunate to me lately with several dozen ork vehicles won mostly metal and including three gargants. I've also added lots of 6mm historics to make the force even more eclectic. However being away for work means the painting and modelling has been badly neglected. Jobs going well however.

I've been doing well with work which means the painting and modelling has been badly neglected. However with several fortunate Ebay wins I now don't actually want more epic Orks I'm satiated. Well with that and an order from Microworld games to give me some more Feral Orks http://www.microworldgames.com/collections/6mm-fantasy/Orcs It's hopefully winging it's way to me from the states as I speak. At a grand total of 11 Gargants and loads of minions I've got all I'll use in a game. Now all I need to do is get them painted and finished.


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Oh and some toy dinosaurs for Squiggoths.

Just picked up some 1/700 ship detailing sets these will work great as spare turrets.

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Oh and some toy dinosaurs for Squiggoths.

Quite right too

Ship detailing kits are great for little gubbinz

Yep got a harbour scene kit as well. Nice Tower Crane perfect for an Epic scale Gargant construction site or Ork scrapyard or both at the same time. I've also decided one of the looted Warlords will definitely delight in the name "Rightyus Indygestun"

I'm enjoying my weekend with access to my bitz box an awful lot.





The Aoshima 1/700 ordnance sets come highly recommended for this sort of work. As well as the traditional looted Imperial Vehicles my Orks have also gone for some more exotic victims with lots of historic vehicles and some Ground Zero Games pieces grabbed as well. My favourite at the moment is the Simple Ork Mekboy Battlewagon (the one with the dozer bucket). Part of the joy of epic is the huge size of the armies. This project is going to be my focus for painting for some time as I can easily transport models. I'm still waiting on the Microworld games models and I'm also still looking for the dinosaurs. I'll be modelling for this project for some time to come as I've still got 5 gargants to prepare........

Nice selection of base models there That bucket arm is a nice little bit.

Yep it's from Ground Zero Games. I can't remember whether it's part of the diggers I brought or one of their engineering pieces. Can't take too much credit for the selection of base models they're mainly what I could get for a reasonable price on Ebay. except for the Ground Zero Games stuff those I selected from the stand.

The Microworld games lads came through yesterday. Their less detailed than the GW plastics but thats as their metal castings and they'll look fine at 3 ft away until I paint them. There is a good variety available with all the basic units for warhammer there.

From left to right you've got the Standard Bearer, Boss, Shaman & Musician (all from the Command Pack). Next to them are a Boar Rider 2 Orc Warriors 2 Orc Brutes and a Goblin Warrior.
These guys are going to be used to add numbers to my force and to bulk up my Wildboyz contingent. They've been blue tacked to a plant label which I've picked up a pack off as painting sticks for the ladz. Quite a few of my ebay Orks came off sprue as well.
Incidentally does anybody know where you can find little cheap toy dinosaurs (about an inch). I've checked the obvious candidates but they seem to have suffered inflation. Probably to stop children choking to death when everybody knows thats a perfectly good punishment for siblings who break your toys.

The two at the back are regular buggies but at the front we have a light tank and armoured car both were historical models I picked up heap on Ebay and a Ground Zero Games buggy.

Hmm. I'm not sure why I wasn't subbed to this thread, but I fixed that.

Too much stuff to go over, but really liking the Epic miniatures. Man, I miss Epic. A lot. My friends don't play it. In fact, all they play from GW is WFB and W40K. I can't get them into Blood Bowl or Mordheim or anything.

I'll be following along from here on out.

More Orks for you Ladz.
Blood Axes with Looted Rhinos nicked from a variety of Imperial Factions.

Naturally most were acquired from the Dark Angels.


These showcase the historicals and GZG models as well as the Aoshima weapons seriously for BFG and Epic scale check them out.


This Mekboy Speedsta use the larger GZG hull I've got and a Speedsta weapon. I rather like these large wheeled hulls.

That speedsta looks great, nice hull and the colour's lovely. Good job!

Cheers thats mostly an accident of the photo processing. Unusualy I got a photograph to process nicely.

WAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
Unleash da Rightyus Indergestyun.

I'm happy with this it looks like something from a Tehpriests worst nightmare an ultimate profanity against the machine god. I can't wait to use the blighter in a game.

I said I didn't need any more Ork models for this lot right? Well Ebay disagrees a lot. I also seem to be picking up a Chaos Force by accident. For some reason I just love painting 6mm. This model is my Goffic Rok Tour Wagon.

The chassis is a Wartrak rear unit, while Weirdboy Battle Towers provide the sound system and the searchlights come from the Aoshima naval kits. The band are Micro Art figures.

Epic goff rockers? On a tour bus/stage?

That is epic

Wish I could take the credit but it's an official Net Epic unit. Wasn't planning to do one but I couldn't resist. Now all I need is some small plasti dinosaurs and something for the wyverns and I've got my list (I could use the official models but I want a proper herd of them and surfing ebay gets expensive)

Ebays a bad habit. Managed to get the Squiggoths (although I still think the plastic dinosaurs would be fun). I've also slipped up and started to acquire a chaos army by accident. Currently I'm planning to mostly use repainted loyalists, my homebrew chapter is black with gunmetal heraldry so I'll be able to use them as both. The problem is that a lot of the cult troops are rare and going to be a problem to acquire chief among these are the Daemon Lords. However the Nurglings work nicely as a 6mm Great Unclean One while the weird buggy thing with knifes can pass for a Daemon prince of some kind. The engines are going to be even more problematic however.

Edenite tanks from the Exodus Wars range will work nicely however as well as some of the Micro Art models Beastmen.


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Hopefully Micro Art will begin produing some Daemon style aliens at some point

Sadly enough a mistake with the ebay listings means its back to plastic dinosaurs. An honest typo on the sellers part he wasn't trying to rip me off.

I also managed to get a game in on Saturday Marines versus Orks again with the menacing forms of two Reaver Titans backing up the Assault, Devestator and Veteran companies of the Salamanders. In response I had the Rightyus Indergestion, a Warboss, a Goff mob in Skullhammas, a Bad Moon Dred Mob and a Blood Axe warband. The first turn consisted of the ork mobs charging forwards with the only combat being an Assault detachment charging the Blood Axes As they were still inside the Rhinos over half the band were killed. The next turn was rather more eventful with the Goffs bundling another Assault detachment only to have a veteran company charge them. My warboss was killed charging the Land Speeders by a snapfiring Reaver. The Blood Axes dismounted only to be harged by another veteran detachment fortunately the Bad Moons Dreads could counter charge them. During the First Fire segment the other Reaver destroyed the Bad Moonz Boys leaving them dangerously understrength. The Assault phase was a swirling melee with the Blood Axes being reduced under half strength and the Bad Moons Dreads also taking hideous losses reducing them to under half strength. Fortunately the Assault Company was a stand away from breaking and the veterans were savaged. The Goffs were fairly happy in their ruck. My firing involved the Great Gargant overkilling a Vindicator Squadron and most epicly of all the 5 Skullhammas of the Goffs managing to destroy the Reaver avenging the Warboss in a massive volley of cannon fire ripping apart its legs. Sadly however I'd lost the two broken Clans and Matts two extra objectives taking him over the forty points necessary for victory. To be honest I'm finding these games too short and would like a few more turns so I'm probably going to suggest next game that we move the victor points goal higher. Matt deserved his win however with the crucial mistake being me allowing him to charge my embarked Blood Axes. The stars of the game were certainly the Goffs in Skullhammas with the Rightyus Indergestion probably being more useful for the morale bonuses than the weapons.y

Been thinking about the Chaos lads and currently I'm planning on painting them up as Word Bearers sadly enough though this means I'll have to ignore the Codex list for them as it bans cultists and I wants them. I've selected an Undivided legion as currently I have lots of chaos cavalry of Tzeentch, Khorne and Slaanesh with very little of anything else.

I've got the first main detachment for my Epic Chaos army done. I've gone with Word Bearers and I'll ignore the Codex the fluff supports my interpretation of them. The Chaos Renegade detachment I've done consists of an Epic Chaos lord, 5 Chaos Marine stands, 10 Beastman stands and 10 Cultist stands. The Chaos epic list has a lot of old skool charm.


Speaking of old skool charm SQUATS OF CHAOS!!!!!!Mwahahahahahheeeheehee

Plans now include some of the Dystopian Wars vehicles for Chaos Engines and either Dropzone Commander or Dark Reign miniatures walkers for Slaanesh knights. Microarts miniatures for some extra Beastmen and Evil Witch Elves for Daemonettes.

Some people go to huge lengths and complex details to make Squiggoths. Me I just chucked some Card plates and turrets on the back of a Dinosaur and called it a day! At 2.99 for 48 it's significantly cheaper than using proper models. I'll also be honest the simple bodges appeal to the childest part of me. What could be cooler than Dinosaurs? Dinosaurs in F14's uhh well Dinosaurs with Orks on the back are cool to. If anybody asks why they don't look like Squiggoths I have two excuses. a)Orks get sent back in time to the Dinosaur times. Orks cause extinction of dinosaurs in landing accident loot survivors as dinosaurs are cool. Ork responsible for humanity........b)looted SAUROPODS from HARRIHAUSEN!!!!!!

I'm also still not sure what to do with the two legged ones, any ideas?