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Why you no post?! :(

TheLordOfSins wrote:Why you no post?! :(

damm... i dont know... wow its been so long since i updated this on dakka... currently having fun making projects to enter in Comrade and Ruglud's comps here on the p/m blogs... and ive completly forgot to put them on here...

lone dirty dog wrote:The Leeman Russ is a nice change but still keeping the look of the original design

Everything else looks great what was the base model for the scuds transporters the bike squad I love they look cool all in there posing stops them looking repetitive

The VOSS Is lovely I want one of these it is such an awesome looking craft

Love the aliens different but the M41 steals the show works really well for 40k and design and scaling, as always amazing work

the things i really dont like about the russ is the lenght compared to the height, it just seems too small to be a propper mbt, so adding the lenght to it just seemed right, like thats where the engine would be placed.. once i lengthened it then the turret seemed way too small for it so i added the stowage bins the the back, then the optics on the left side... all that coupled with with my track armour seemed to make a shape i like... all my russes are gonna look like this from now on.
the base model for the superheavy deathstrike ballistic missle platform was a 1/35 scale HEMITT us army 10 ton transporter.
like this...

on a side note... i just love the design of this truck, something about it just suits the guard look without much messing around.

the VOSS is great... fantastic model and lots of fun to build and paint... suprisingly large aswell for a small interceptor.

xXWeaponPrimeXx wrote:I love this army!!

I'd like to see more non-humans incorporated though.

im totally working on that... i have so much half finished projects its not even funny, but il share a secret with you... my entery to comradepandas comp will include xenos...

TheKillerCoconut wrote:Any tips for noobies like me?

patience/practice, money and time is all you really need... i have plenty of all these... although motivation is always a struggle...
any questions at all about my stuff please just ask, im on dakka alot now and although i dont post much pictures, il always be happy to answer questions... promise.

for all the other comments, thanks very much guys, i appreciate your great comments and hope that when i do post pics, its gonna be something worth looking at.... thanks for stopping by



just gonna post up the pics of my recently finished models that i entered in the comps.

this model won the Comrade and Ruglud's Round 5 :Tank Round.
this is a count as macharius omega with the plasmablastgun...




and my thunderbolt conversion.
this model came third in Comrade and Ruglud's Round 6 :Attack Speed Round:

Gorgeous work mate!

Holy gak man, has that Thunderbolt been converted from a Valkyrie?

Can we have a tutorial? Pretty please!

Tibbsy wrote:
Holy gak man, has that Thunderbolt been converted from a Valkyrie?

Can we have a tutorial? Pretty please!

I totally agree with this share your secrets

I'm in love with this every model has it's own personality and every conversion is painstakingly detailed.

just, just wow

also, im really digging the psyker conversion on page one, for obvious reasons

That thunderbolt is amazing and I want 12 of them.

that interceptor... so cool!

The OSL from the engines is pretty awesome.

 xXWeaponPrimeXx wrote:
The OSL from the engines is pretty awesome.

I thought that as well gives a real sense of heat.

Great to see you updating your blog, I second (third, fourth ?) the calls for a tutorial on your Interceptor, that is such a wonderful model and I want to make some

Good to see you back here mate, you have a great blog!

Tibbsy wrote:Holy gak man, has that Thunderbolt been converted from a Valkyrie?

Can we have a tutorial? Pretty please!

yeah, well techniqually you need a donor valk plus another side door and two sets of russ autocannons...

i would like to do a tutorial but until i get around to making another i cant really do a stage by stage... plus im a bit rubbish at tutorials... but i can take more pics and perhaps draw pics showing what cuts to make.

Psycho_Mantis wrote:I'm in love with this every model has it's own personality and every conversion is painstakingly detailed.

just, just wow

also, im really digging the psyker conversion on page one, for obvious reasons

thanks dude, gotta love mantis... he was the first model i made when i got back into wargaming... i was going to do a german army theme, but decided away from nazis in space considering my girlfriend is german... so i chose US insted lol...

sparkywtf wrote:That thunderbolt is amazing and I want 12 of them.

id like the money for 12 of them... but i would get seriously bored making and painting that many... i dont have the stamina for that lol..

Meade wrote:that interceptor... so cool!

thanks, looks great next to my lightning, avenger , vultures and my stealth bomber (pics soon)

Ruglud wrote:Great to see you updating your blog, I second (third, fourth ?) the calls for a tutorial on your Interceptor, that is such a wonderful model and I want to make some

as i said, i could try to write something but i dont think im gonna make another for quite a while.



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im pretty sure i havent shown you guys the AC130 im working on (i say working on, havent done anything on it for months)









my favorite 40k weapon... the punisher cannon.


earthshaker cannon


this is where i got all the spare parts for my thunderbolt and vultures... the AC130 is made from 3 valk hulls, joined and widened ... the rest is pretty much made from foamalux sheets.

but thats as far as i gotten for now, once i finished of my entry to the bad ass round comp il get this finished and out of the way.... well after i find a 24'' 20mm thick acrylic rod for the base, that wont cost the earth.

Dammit, now I want one of those too.

You do fantastic conversions. That is sweet.

That is so cool and clever, makes total sense to use the sides but widened them in the centre

Plus the detail in the interior is great and the punisher feed is a nice touch, however I would thought the rounds would have been larger that that

Anyway this is so many kinds of awesome cant wait to see you return back to it

I like it, but isn't that cannon too big? I mean, wouldn't firing that thing throw the entire ship off course and/or rip it apart?

Nah, a real Spooky gunship has a 105 (or a 155, I forget) and every time it fires it, the planes moves sideways a few feet.

the AC130 IRL has the howitser 155 , an bushmaster autocannon and a minigun... in 40k terms im gonna put a earthshaker cannon , a punisher cannon and im thinking of a twin linked autocannon ...
that with chaff launchers as defenses...

maybe have the armour values as
F12 S 13 R 12 with 5 HP ...

the plan is to mount it on a 2 foot acrylic rod at a 45 degree angle so the guns face to the ground , it will be primarily an anti troop weapons platform...

i might even mount it higher depending on its weight and base size ...so small arms fire cant hit it.


id like it to have some special rules too... one i thought of was
Sipping on air .
due to the fuel requirments of the gunship it can only maintain a limited flight time, after turn 3 , roll a D6 and if the dice roll is the same or above the turn it stays in the fight, if it is under the turn number it heads back to base to refuel... effectivly this removes the aircraft from the game.

im making this for apocalypse events that im gonna have, and i like making new things...

if any of you can think of other rules or write me a cool datasheet ( impartial of course) with points and special rules that would be awesome... also id nlike to point out that the weapons inside are magnestised so they can be swapped out for a different loadout, so points values for weapon swaps would be cool too...
im thinking of a lascannon loadout and mesusa cannon aswell... something like that...

That just makes it that much more sick!

I eagerly await more updates!

These are utterly fantastic conversions. I have subscribed. Great conversions.

All sorts of EPIC WIN

your color scheme and scratch builds are very gdi, there fore 100% more awesome. Keep on going dude, can't wait to see a full army on the table.

Love, love, love your stuff. I've had the idea of an IG C-130 Hercules dancing around my head for some time now. Nice to see one coming together. I may have to borrow some of your ideas for my IG army.

hey guys, thanks for the great comments, ...

as far as updates go... well im just posting up the darksiders command section i entered into ruglad and comradepadas most recent 'badass' comp...




and sadly thats all...

and for once i have a good reason.

about a year ago i dropped my sony dslr and the mirror inside pointed in a slightly different direction, throwing off the auto focus and making the picture lower than the actual picture being taken...
well my camera decided to commit suicide again and i fear its had it for good... i really should take better care of my stuff... id take a photo of it but...

anyway, ive decided to buy myself a new nikon d3200 for xmas, and ive promised myself to take better care of it and to not store it places where it might fall off.

so you guys aint getting no pictures till after xmas when im back from germany...

so for the next 2 months im gonna make my fluff and maybe write myself a codex to accompany my force ... im thinking of an amalgamation of guard codex and with some fluffy additions like the k9 units and drones etc... regarless its gonna give me something to do while im away and gives me something to post aswell...

but until then im still working on my force... i have just finished 2 more chimeras (one with hf and the other with autocannon) , the darksiders rangers vet squad are also finished . ,and working on a malcador stand in, a minotor stand in, the bikers are nearly finished, the other medusa is built awaiting paint and other odds and ends...

Ooh! Can I write some short fluff for your codex?

sure... let me just get the rough main story thought of and id love to get some decent input on fleshing it out ...

been reading the forgeworld horus heresy book 1 at the moment and i really think the story would suit the time just before the age of strife...

for instance, Eden the ship would have left the mars dockyard looking to find a new location to set up a 'new' earth, not long after the ship left the warpstorms cut off eden (ship) from the imperium and thats when they got lost in the warp and ended up in the far depths of the eastern fringe.... hidden from imperial veiw.... cue the age of strife....

id also like to add that the eden ship is techniqually a massive factory and terraformer ship, with a still intact and fully funcioning stc and stc factory... this is how the EDF have acsess to build all imperial type vehicles and many thought lost by the mechanicum...

ownng the last fully functioning stc makes the EDF the prime target for imperial and mainly the mechanicum to find them... althought they know of the existance of Eden, its location is still unknown.... the only race that know of the EDF are the tau.... and the alliance between the tau and the imperum are growing stronger , its only a matter of time before the imperium are told of Edens location.

tau vs eden wars.
the tau as a fledgling empire first found Eden and attempted to overpower the planet, the tau were still new at fighting and struggled to take the planet... dispite the taus doctrines they saw the people of eden as deserving their respect to live on independant of even the tau way of life and chose to insted use the EDF to help train and guide the tau on how to effectivly defeat human imperial forces... the tau use eden for trade and have a small base on the northern glacier, for this the tau errected massive camo , shielding and ecm feilds to effectively hide the planet and its inhabitants from imperial view. (something like that)

bullet points

# ship left mars circa m25 perhaps?
# largest ship ever constructed with mission to create a new earth.
#Eden (planet) uses 21st centry styled government and democratic protocols, EDF use similar era fighting methods.
# the eden crash landed on the planet and it took 12000 years to cultivate/ terraform.
# eden has an incrediblly powerful psyker called the envoy that targets potential candidates for eden citizenship and directs then how to get to eden via a pickup service (or something like that)

# the main capitol of eden is built around the crashed ship , housed inside a giant tau built energy dome that protects the city.

# eden the planet has two suns that rotate together around half of the planet, one half of the planet is constantly in direct sunlight forming an instense desert envioment and the other side is perpetulally in darkness, forming a massive ocean and mountanous area with a freezing glacier in the center.. the 1000 mile band that join the two halfs are lushoius jugles and fertile fields.

the EDF forces names are based on the two halfs of the planet (lightsider and darksider) denoting their military training grounds and specialisations.

im gonna do a peice about edens laws and governmental system, regarding the use and discovery of latent psykers... races within eden society, the make up and tactical uses of the EDF, the implentation of the EDf against the oncoming threat of the imperium. etc.


thats all i got for the moment... i feel like ive been creating this for a few years in my head now and i want to get some proper write up on the go... as my force deserves a boost in morale... its tough sticking to them when theres some great other armies out there.

So much great stuff. Subscribed and exalted

I like the fluff so far, only nit pick is if they have a function STC they access to functioning technology that would according to fluff surpass the tau on many levels, and be insanely powerful. (It made space marines and conquered the universes type deal.) I feel you down played the EDF's capabilities to much, and made the Tau to important.

I like the origin and organization.

I see thier stc as the tech long before space marine was even thought of.. therefore the edf have not created their owner legion of marines... perhaps the stc is for various war machines... I also dont want the edf to have acsess to titans of any kind... for the same reason.
Eden left pre emperor, pre age of strife, pre crusade... so I guess tech like marines was not around even before thunder warriors

Late to the party, but this is AMAZING

Want more - go buy a new cheap camera (please)