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23/11/2012 update :

Nothing serious here, just settled on the Tactical squad heavy : he'll be armed with a Lascannon !

Am building it ATM

[edit : Or not. Maybe I'll build & paint both a PlasmaCannon AND a Lascannon gunner, after all... ]

Yggs , your chosen are amazing . I look forward toseeing how the bikers turnout

Thank you Neil...

AS for bikes, they'll end up camo'ed and with awful airbrushed OSL, most probably

Hey y'all, a minor update on the Tactical Squad & Librarian... They are fully built !

As for the first squad, I tried to make minor conversions on each of them to avoid twins in the army...

Here's the tactical squad :



And here's the Librarian :



I'm aiming at basing them tomorrow morning, then beginning painting this weekend...

Wish me luck !

Looking forward to seeing them painted up ygg's

Nice! Also looking forward to paint

Great looking squad!

Squad looks great, and that was a quality pose on the plasma biker

Can't wait to see these painted up

Hey, thank you guys !!

Bases are drying by now, I hope I'll be able to spray the first layers in a few hours...

That is, if "significant other" allows me to

Great looking build! No doubt they will be excellent when finished. Looking forward to seeing what you wind up with.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Great looking build! No doubt they will be excellent when finished. Looking forward to seeing what you wind up with.

Thank you Skalk !!

Nothing I can be proud of (and certainly not something my god*a** airbrush can be proud of), but I've made some progress on both the Tac & Bike squads - not to mention camo-ing the Librarian cloak...

Here are the pics, still WIP :





Hope to do more by Friday (Doomsday anyway )

Cheers !

Oh wow, that OSL is amazing! Looking good man!

Group looks good together Yggsie. Bikes are looking quite nice too!

Tyranid Horde wrote:Oh wow, that OSL is amazing! Looking good man!

Thank you ! Still have to brush-paint the sources in bright white, and they should do...

Gitsplitta wrote:Group looks good together Yggsie. Bikes are looking quite nice too!

Only problem is, there is one static biker (with plasmagun), while the other four are quite dynamic... Don't you think it's strange ?

I guess I don't see it. They look fine to me.

The camouflage looks really good! I'm always impressed with camo patterns (the ones that look good anyway) because of the intense effort and attention it requires. Bike squad looks like it is really coming along as well.

That is some full on osl mate, looks like they've been fitted with LEDs! Would love to see a shot of one on a black background, just to complete the illusion. Masterful work.

Gitsplitta wrote:I guess I don't see it. They look fine to me.

Ok, great then

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:The camouflage looks really good! I'm always impressed with camo patterns (the ones that look good anyway) because of the intense effort and attention it requires. Bike squad looks like it is really coming along as well.

Thanks Skalk !! Though camo doesn't really take that much effort, I'm really cheating with 1. an airbrush, 2. some masking paste & blister foam !!

You can see an example a few pages back, though I might try & write down a tutorial in some time, if there really is demand...

inmygravenimage wrote:That is some full on osl mate, looks like they've been fitted with LEDs! Would love to see a shot of one on a black background, just to complete the illusion. Masterful work.

Lol, I'll try to, though I'm not sure that'll help much TBH ! Still have things to do on them however.

I also have to thank you, as you seem to be almost the only one who sees it as OSL, and not "airbrushing stains"

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No new update since that, job pretty much got in the way... Not to mention my best friend & "his" addiction to coop Borderlands 2 !!

I'll be away from home for a week, so don't expect updates any time soon...

I'll be leaving you on those fine words :





That is, if we're still here in a week

Cheers,

Yggs.

That is awesome. Borderlands 2 is amazing isn't it? Have you checked out all the downloadable content?

Great game!

Seeing how it's alreadt 12/22 in parts of the world, I'd say we missed out on this:

lol nice one skalk! unfortinatly we are still here, but my school was suprisingly cool enough to have a zombie apocalypse themed assembly!

Coming on nicely Yggs..

As to the biker poses, I'd say the plasma guy gunned ahead just so he could get first shot

IceAngel wrote:That is awesome. Borderlands 2 is amazing isn't it? Have you checked out all the downloadable content?

Great game!

Nope, except for the Mechromancer character pack... Which is insanely awesome !!! And the "Anarchy" game mechanism is really funny to boot !

We're playing the game coop with my best friend, so we're quite slogging due to our different agendas... And Halo 4

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Seeing how it's alreadt 12/22 in parts of the world, I'd say we missed out on this:

Indeed ! Glad we're still here !

Rogue Wolves wrote:lol nice one skalk! unfortinatly we are still here, but my school was suprisingly cool enough to have a zombie apocalypse themed assembly!

That looks nice ! Did anyone avoid dying in there

monkeytroll wrote:Coming on nicely Yggs..

As to the biker poses, I'd say the plasma guy gunned ahead just so he could get first shot

I bet he did...

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Quick updates :

First 700pts are done !!!

Here was the state of the 3 armies on the 4th of January (Necrons is by my FLGWHC manager, Slaaneshi Marines by a colleague, and Camo-ed Angels by me)...



We did a small 3-way game, 500pts each... Best moments :
- My 2 plasmagun bikers killing themselves when shooting the first salvo :(
- My Librarian killing 3 of his fellow Tactical Marines in HtH, due to the Necron Triarch special gear (psycho-something scarabs ?) : failed Ld test, 1d3 attacks (rolled 6), 3 hits (3+), 3 wounds (4+), power weapon....

I guess I'll have some practice, and luck-mongering exercises to get !!!

As for January, I decided to paint the Terminator squad... Here are the pics :

Assembled :



Camouflage done :



Finished !!



Now, I'm off to building a Nephilim jetfighter... Pretty underwhelming rulewise, but... What else can I bring to defeat the upcoming Heldrake & Nightscythe ?!?

Until next time...

Very cool indeed buddy. Only thing I'd suggest is maybe a spot of white at the "top" of the lights to complete your insanely full on OSL.

OSL is just full on madness! Love it

R

I just had to laugh at your plasma misfortune... My sternguard plasma cannons and combi-plasmas wipe themselves out all the time! Usually on the first shot of the game. Nice to see the tradition is being kept alive.

Yggs, I like how you gave the terminators glowing knee pads. That's a nice touch.

 IceAngel wrote:
Yggs, I like how you gave the terminators glowing knee pads. That's a nice touch.

They are sore from kneeling to the corpse god

I like the bikes - much more dynamic than the usual poses without being OTT.

Hey Yggsie... I didn't know you were in a dance company! LOVE the outfit... and the haircut. (psst... you should trim your finger nails though)



(this was on the wall of my kids' school hallway)