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Nice work!

I really like the old school vibes of those kits.

Yeah they really do give you all sorts of visons of Epic 40k and the old Armorcast models with more refined lignes.

I absolutely love the doomblaster and the tower of skulls is growing on me They both need more chains and skulls to be truly Khornate

logg_frogg wrote: more chains and skulls

That is true of all things in 40K.

*edit becasue I'm a bonehead*

Tower of Skulls looks amazing and yes it does remind me of Epic. Remember when it was simply called Space Marine?

very impressive stuff you got going on here! i can only dream of having a gamer cave like that one day...not to mention all the cool minis!

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

logg_frogg wrote: more chains and skulls

That is true of all things in 40K.

*edit becasue I'm a bonehead*

Tower of Skulls looks amazing and yes it does remind me of Epic. Remember when it was simply called Space Marine?

Haha yes I also remeber when Battlefleet Gothic was a brand new gam eand it was awesome and when LR's came in a 3 pack..... oh the old days of gaming...

allibator wrote:very impressive stuff you got going on here! i can only dream of having a gamer cave like that one day...not to mention all the cool minis!

Thanks! Having the cave really helps because I can just close the door and leave a project there if I need to

I wish they were a pile of painted mini's

The Tower of Skulls is looking very impressive.

GiraffeX wrote:The Tower of Skulls is looking very impressive.

Thanks It's a really massive model! I will have to take a piture of it beside my warhound when I get home

I was a little lazy last night but I got few things done.

I got my set of tracks trimmed up




I finished installing the upper turrets and the exhaust pipes



Then just for fun I took some comparison shots between the unis





Then I fit up and trimmed some of the final parts



Now I just have to rewash the rest of the parts and do some heavy trimming on the rear *engine* plate

I can taste victory

I'm really intrigued to see how this turns out. I do think the tower looks very top heavy, although certainly epically epic

haha yes! Idoes not at all look like a practical war machine. I can picture piles of bloodletters dancing around on the upper platform throwing things at people . Other than being a good vantage point/shooting platform it seems a lot more ornamental than anything lol.

Here is the work I did last night:


I did the final wash on all the remaining parts



And then I installed the side sponsons



I just realized right now that the skulls on top are going to make the track install tonight a bit of a pain in the ass lol.

Hopefully tonight I finish the tracks and finish fitting up the rear motor panel. That panel, unlike everything else in this kit, does not fit worth a damn... It's about 1/8" too wide and requires pretty intricate trimming to be fit up.

2 more nights to work on this then back home for 2 weeks

*throws money at the screen!* Where can I get that awersome kit?

The twins look amazing, can't wait to see them painted!

Dakka_Dok wrote:*throws money at the screen!* Where can I get that awersome kit?

The twins look amazing, can't wait to see them painted!

Haha! To get a hold of one of these kits you need to get a hold of this guy http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/user/profile/35712.page

If you look back one page he actually even posted in this thread


I am for sure really pleased with these kits! I can't wait to finish off the tower and lay some spray on them when I get home

Nothing like a little precision razor sawing to start the night off right



I had to trin about 2mm off of each side of the rear *engine piece* and then re-notch some of the cut outs to get it to fit up. I really can't complain because this was the only part of the whole model that fit funny and it was exactly the same on both tanks.



The I put my tank on my handy dandy track assembly stand to clear the turrets while I worked.



Don't mind the *glue weathering* I had a little bit of leakage from behind the side panels over night. I'm just happy it didn't glue itself to my desk!

Second time around I even got fancy and pre-bent two of my track parts (while they were hot after washing) to make assembly nice and smooth



It's starting to look complete



That exhaust just screams badass



Only one more track to go..... And oddly enough only 1 more sleep before I get on a plane and fly home for 2 weeks

I should be done this later tonight Then It's time to pack it up and bring it back to the shop for final wash and to maybe lay down a base coat.

All finished and just in time to fly home for 2 weeks!







They are now all packed up and ready to make the trip back to the game cave

They are awesome...

They still have on the front. Maybe you should desecrate them or something. Or strap assault marines on, I dunno

yes... damn aquilla's..... I will sacrafice a great champion of the empror and use his bones to carve the blasphemy of the false emperor from the hull of my great war machine!

Truthfully, my razor blade is just dull s hell lol. I went through 2 blades doing this project! I brought 3 with me but somehow the third is a replacement for my other knife >.<.

Stick the blunt blade on the front as sacrifice!

If the edge were more jagged it would work supremely well....

Aquila bling on your Chaotic rides?

Perhaps they will spread and convert your heretical treadskis back into loyalists?

Truly, Imperiatus is begin to grow...

JB wrote:Aquila bling on your Chaotic rides?

Perhaps they will spread and convert your heretical treadskis back into loyalists?

Truly, Imperiatus is begin to grow...

I just thought it was a good place to pour the blood of the followers of the false emperor

I started trying to chase the weathered white look I am going for and I think I found some success with it

I don't have a picture of the base coat but it was done in a grey that is very close to the colour of GW plastic.

First coat, light grey to pick up highlights and build up to white





Then a coat of light brown to show weathering on the lower half of the tank









and then I built the whole model up to white







(eep I may have to clean up that overlap it looks terrible)

I'm pretty pleased overall with the look but am thinking of building the white up on the top sides a little more. What do you guys think?

Once I feel happy with it I'll be moving on to damage and weathering

Really, really nice - I like the high contrast between the grey shadows and the white in the second pic, so maybe ramp up the white another notch to emphasize that on the final model, yeah.

Thats looking very nice indeed, a whole convoy would look amazing

inmygravenimage wrote:Really, really nice - I like the high contrast between the grey shadows and the white in the second pic, so maybe ramp up the white another notch to emphasize that on the final model, yeah.

Thanks! I will be building up the white a bit for sure but mostly to even out the colour in some places

GiraffeX wrote:Thats looking very nice indeed, a whole convoy would look amazing

haha yes! I plan on doing several to this point this week now that I have a basic colour scheme and painting process established

Here is a picture of what the tank looked like before I started shading it




Today I swapped out the standard bases on my Traitor Guard for some sweet resin snow/ice themed ones that I picked up from Dark Art Miniatures a while back



I may have swapped out a few bases ....



I'm loving these bases! Can't wait to paint them!









Back to painting tomorrow

Is it me or are you basing your Aegis Defence Line? If so its a very good idea.

GiraffeX wrote:Is it me or are you basing your Aegis Defence Line? If so its a very good idea.

Maaaybe I finally found a use for it outside of snazzy looking terrain

I didn't get to painting today but I did get to finishing up my Vendetta's








That finishes off everything I need to base coat

Swish! Love your crew there.

Thanks! They were a lot of fun to build

My whole army is now base coated and even got it's first taste of local 6th edition tournament play last weekend!

I will toss up some more details later but all in all I felt that My army was quite strong.

I am now back at work and am frantically building some models to participate in an apocalypse game when I get back to town

I will be posting a few pics tonight

 logg_frogg wrote:
I am now back at work and am frantically building some models to participate in an apocalypse game when I get back to town

I will be posting a few pics tonight

Eh...Assassin fail again?? Grumble...mumble...you just can't find good ones anymore.

Wait, you mean you need MORE models before you can play Apoc? I call Shennanigans. You've got more Chaos models than some people have blood cells.

I may or may not have been ordained to bring a number of *apoc only* and FW models to the table Regardless it's a good excuse to clean out my bitz/projects boxes.

I need to get a GF that loves to paint

P.S. The vindicare assassin was far less appealing than the anime assassin! I will however admit that she was also far more sneaky

Here are a few pics of what I have been up to over the last couple days:

I built 2 Decimators







and then a build them 2 blood slaughterer impalers as friends.


and now I'm starting up a much larger project........ Warhound #2!



See you all again soon