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Love those terrain pieces SL! Beautifully done!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Just can't do a true loyalist marine army can you?

Those tanks look great! I thought the red one was an air compressor at first glance.

I consider my lamenters to be a loyalist marine army. They just suffer from the worst of the worst. Compared to the Soul Drinkers....nuff said.

Wow, your terrain is really something!

EDC

How do you get your checkerboards to look so neat? I'm just starting a Lamenters army (1 unit of Tactical Marines, a Commander, and 5 Death Company with jump packs) I've got the yellow just about down, but I'm having issues with the checkerboards.

Carlos....Thanks, thou not all of them are that clean. I wish I had the patience to go back and clean them up.

Paint white...Then I draw out my checks prior to filling them in. For the shoulder pads... draw a line splitting the pad in half. Split the half's again. You now have 4 equal splits. Split them once more and you should now have 8 sections. Draw your horizontal lines at the same height to make them square. Continue up the pad taking the curve of the pad in mind to keep it square. Note as you go up you will lose the square and end with a triangle. I try to get 5 lines up. Once complete paint in the squares. Take your time and touch up with either black or white as needed. Take care to remember the curvature of the pad.

After you let dry. I paint the white circle for the heart. I start in the center and swirl out to the correct size. Let dry. Once dry take a fine pen ( I use the micron ones ) and outline the circle ( pretty much just in the white sections) Paint the heart and blood drop. ( This just take practice to develop the right strokes )

Hope that helps.. oh and I paint all my pads not attached to the model. Easier to paint assembly style that way. I'm always painting some.

Can't remember but at some point I thought someone made a Lamenter resin pad for these..

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Onward to the new year..

From a Lamenters front. The plans this year is....

Get yellowbeard to play more! or in general .. play more games.

2 units of Centurions.
Fill in the special weapon gaps.. Namely 3 plasma gun marines, 3 Grav gun Marines. Same with my JP troops.
Fill in the Heavy weapon gaps. 4 HB marines, 4 Grav Marines.
Fill in the gaps for Preds. 2 additional turrets.
Finish and magnitize the 3 contemptors, Start on the Derado contemptor.
2 Land Raiders ( Magnitized for all 3 variants )

On the non Lamenters
1. Start a 30K Alpha legion. I need this for a Adepticon zone Mortalis game. Two 500 pt armies ( one attack, one defense ) Need to be complete by end of March ) Most models already purchased.
2. Imperial Knights. 4 for myself and 1 for a friend. ( which also must be done prior to Adepticon)
3. SW.. I got 2 drop pods and 10 TWC I want to paint for YB! So fun to paint and so different! I also need to finish his Preds: Magnetized side sponsons and swap-able turrets
4. More terrain to match my board. Set pieces as well as odds and ends.

This should keep me busy till the snows melt and the grass starts greening!

Good heavens SL, that's a lot of painting for other people! You are much too generous! (In a good way I mean.)

Going to be a great year of SL watching!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Good heavens SL, that's a lot of painting for other people! You are much too generous! (In a good way I mean.)
Going to be a great year of SL watching!

Just YB. Again I'm glad to help out a bud. Besides, it's fun to see nice painted armies on the table. You as well.. it just so happens that your doing it for your boys!

500 points isn't terrible. Do AL have any fancy special units you are going to use?

 whalemusic360 wrote:
500 points isn't terrible. Do AL have any fancy special units you are going to use?

Not sure yet, they have a special saboteur single unit which looks like fun, An terminator unit ( though I think thia will prove too expensive) they also ( if i remember correctly ) have a couple of interesting chapter rules. ( infiltrate, mess with reserve rolls ect )

Have you played? Might get a AL Contemptor for my attacker list. Currently working on the paint formula. I thinking less mute and a bit more glossy!

I'm starting out with a B a Calth box so I have a start. Thinking about replacing the heads to something more AL appropriate. I'll see when I get the test model done. Hopefully it warms up so I can be out in my work room. Until then I have to stop playing FO4 and collecting suits of Power Armor

I was advised by some veteran 30k players, that at 500 points you basically get an HQ, a tac squad & either some terminators or a dread. (for a reasonably competitive build) There are some really unique EC units, but they're all too expensive to add at the 500 point level.

I'm not well versed in 30k. Would be something I'd like to try though, most of my favorite 40k games are marine vs marine.

I feel your power armor collecting woes. I got up to 32 suits and realized I had a problem.

I must not be playing enough. I manage to get my hack and Pick skills high enough ( most are locked up) that I can run and steal.

Currently working on both the minutemen and BoS questline. Though was kinda weirded out by Paladin Danse's 'talk'.

Never enough ammo. I be giving it up soon for a while as I got to get in gear for Adepticon.

Thanks for the painting tips!

 CarlosTheDwarf wrote:
Thanks for the painting tips!

Anytime, be sure to post a link to your Lamenter blog ( hint! ). I love to see a fellow Lamenters work.

I'll definitely start one once I get a half decent camera and some spare time for painting.

Close to finishing these Terrain pieces.. the Double tank ( like it’s previous single counterpart )




And the Blue tank farm…




I still need to paint the ‘warning signs’ but then It’ll be time to move on to the next project.

Those turned out beautifully SL. Going to have to pick of some of those myself at the next Adepticon.

Really good stuff with those red tanks!

Fantastic stuff indeed!

EDC, Gits , IMGI SW and WM - Thanks. All these are for my own home table as I live in the wilderness, They won't see much table time unless I win the lottery and move Ramos out and fly the rest of you in. But I have it so I'll be ready.

I'll try to bring some to Adepticon. We have a portable 4x8 table top we bring in case the open tables are full.

On to building my Adepticon AL list(s) so I can start building figs.

Cool, stuff Solar. I really like the tanks.

 IceAngel wrote:
Cool, stuff Solar. I really like the tanks.

Thanks my friend... Any more thought about tripping down for AC?

Can't stress how awesome these are. Did you determine whether a Terminator was too wide for the gantries?

Graven, did not. Spaced it out. Didn't spend too much time in the shed due to it being so cold. -11 today.

Did manage to get 2 more of the ruins done.. 2 to go.


Does GW make these anymore?

I love the job you've done on those SL. Very nicely done. The black and white floor hints and former grandeur... excellent choice.

Thanks Brother,

Due to it coldness, I spent more time in my main dweling instead than out in the workshop. Been trying to put together two 500 pt HH list for a Zone Mortalis campaign at Adepticon.

I'm beginning to believethere are few options of this low a point army. At the least you have to have a commander and a troop choice. This alone will cost you 200 of you 500 pts without any adds or upgrades.

At this point you can go with a Contemptor or Terminators. Once you add on the necessary gear and weapons your not going to be able to affords another squad.

So I started building figures with this in mind. 1 Commander, 5 Termies, 10 Tactical and a Contemptor, I'll have some figures from the box set to be able to add some additional special weapons load out if i need to replace any figure and I'll build the Contemptor with both weapon options.

I'll have to assume some bulkhead breaking options in each squad so they have the ability to move around the board as well as manage my opponents Contemptors or dreads.

I've decided to go with Alpha legion. There is some chapter benefits, thou at his point level I'm not sure they will come into play that often. This should work well as I go forward in the future on my CSM army. Was originally looking at TS but this works out well as I have a lot of cultist in my Army.

Next, finish the general builds and do a test model. I'm going for a slightly greenish blue for these guys.

Ooo I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the Alpha Legion.

EDC

Am I wrong in thinking that this might be a project you'll take your time with?

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Am I wrong in thinking that this might be a project you'll take your time with?

Not sure how I should reference the question? Does my stuff look quickly painted? or will progress be slow?

I'll need to get these done prior to Adepticon is my only restriction?

Of course not, your stuff always looks great. But I also know that a lot of what you do has pretty quick turn-around times and you rarely get to stretch your legs as an artist with your figures. I'm hoping because these will be a very small group of units, you might be able to linger on them a bit.