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Made in us
Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





Affton, MO. USA

the grot tank is sweet. Needs a mini Oscar (really furry grot )the grot to drive it.

LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13

I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14 
   
Made in us
Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

Got distracted, again

Read thread talking about Dawn of War inspired terrain, started building Dawn of War inspired terrain, ended up building something more suitable to Necromunda.



Picked up New White Dwarf....Sweet Orky Goodness....

Then Supply Drop. Went to dollar store and picked up over 200 bases for my Necron Army, I plan to bring out of their hibernation

Got home, Supply Drop number two !!! Mail Lady dropped off Eldar and Tau armies, I bought while half asleep on Ebay.

Orks, Necrons, Tau, Eldar, oh my !!

The Eldar Army is unpainted, well assembled or still on the sprue, Was the better deal of the two.

The Tau are half painted and were assembled by someone who didn't understand the concepts of pinning or that you could use too much superglue. They used some sort of weird snow texture on the large bases that broke up during shipping and left a mess.

   
Made in de
Shroomin Brain Boy





Berlin Germany

now that sounds like you have your hands full...for the next decade...

superglue disaster might be able to get saved with just a knife... in my view superglue is so brittle that it will come off if nudged the right way...

terrain piece looks good too...nice buttresses

   
Made in us
Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

Lordy, at least we know you'll have something going on for the next.. forever

 
   
Made in us
Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

I promised myself I would play Orks "soon", but I am going to wait until at least the new Codex to come out before I start wroking on them.

The Tau mostly need paint. Vik you are right about the superglue. A sharp razor to clear it off, Pin vise drill and paperclips for new suppprt, and surgical application of superglue and it's good as new. I have to sit down with the Tau Empire Codex and see what all the hype about Riptides is about before I commit to working on them.

The Eldar are like new, and honestly I'm going to try and convince one of my friends to take them off my hands.

I had a Necron force before the last codex dropped, and they were too vanilla for my tastes. With the newest codex they seem pretty interesting to play. Unfortuantely I had them painted in some Blue and White winter paint scheme which was incredibly time consuming, and now I don't know what the hell I was thinking when I did it. To be honest, I think I may just spray paint the entire army black and apply red, brown, and silver to make the entire army look like a rusted heap with glowing green eyes.




   
Made in us
Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

I can not reccomend the gw technical typhus corrosion and ryza rust enough for such an undertaking!

 
   
Made in us
Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

I'll see if the LGS has those paints, when I pic up my next White Dwarf.

DWEZ has plans on his site to build Space Marine Plasma Generators out of 40K.


Since these have absolutely no value to my Ork, Necron, Tau, or Eldar forces I'm supposses to be working on, I of course am building one.

Will post some pics of it on Monday.


   
Made in us
Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

Huh that's pretty cool. The beetlegeuse stripes are a welcome change to standard hazard. Look forward to seeing what you cone up with.

 
   
Made in us
Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

I didn't stick with DWEZ's plans, as they are unpolished, and I didn't have any clear pens on hand at the time, but I am happy with the results so far.



I've had these Mage Knight Mechanical Dragonfly Calvary for years. I liked the way they looked, and figured I'd find a use for them eventually.



Forge World has Necron Canoptek Acanthrites. The stats are decent, and they look like flying bugs.

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Made in us
Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

Looks like a pretty solid plasmawhatsit. The dragonfly dudes don't scream 'crons, but they aren't far off of the aesthetic either, I'm sure you can make them work.


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Looking at them compared to the spyder thing... closer that I thought on first glance.

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Violent Enforcer






Australia



This thing would look killer with some sort of lighting all up in it's tubes.

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Made in us
Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

 Xendarc wrote:

This thing would look killer with some sort of lighting all up in it's tubes.


I agree. That's why I'm planning on building a second one that does.




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The only problem I see with them is no obvious place to attach a gun.

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Made in de
Shroomin Brain Boy





Berlin Germany

Use the tail, free space there and the design implies that it could bend...

Ace job on the plasma generator!

I would love to have a whole set of dawn of war terrain!

   
Made in us
Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

I tried to make Dawn Of War terrain once.

Decided to install the game so I could get a good view of the buildings.
Instead of building terrain, I spent a week playing Dawn Of War.

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Made in de
Shroomin Brain Boy





Berlin Germany

Lol...that is a classic reaction.

   
Made in gb
Fixture of Dakka





6 foot underwater

Hmm, those dragonflies look useful...Mage Knight you say?

cyborks & flyboyz : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/300067.page
heretical ramblings : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/302773.page
imperial preachings : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/303365.page
Da Waaagh-ky Races : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/325045.page
Briancj: You have the Mek Taint, MT, and the only thing we can do is watch in horror/amazement.

 
   
Made in us
Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

The dragonflies are part of the Atlantean Faction, "Soaring Gunners" and "Soaring Crossbowmen".

They come with riders and clear dragonfly wings.

   
Made in gb
Fixture of Dakka





6 foot underwater

I wll look into these

Riders and wings will be consigned to the bits stash.

cyborks & flyboyz : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/300067.page
heretical ramblings : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/302773.page
imperial preachings : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/303365.page
Da Waaagh-ky Races : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/325045.page
Briancj: You have the Mek Taint, MT, and the only thing we can do is watch in horror/amazement.

 
   
Made in us
Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

Maybe put the gun right between the eyes? Wow.. anywhere else that would sound like such terrible advice... It would be in-line with where they are on the official models, and there may be just enough room?

 
   
Made in us
Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

Base coat on the generator.
Finished the tracks on tracks on the grot tank.

Just won an auction for a Necron Army
Spoiler:

132 Warriors
38 Bases of Scarabs
6 Destroyers
3 Heavy Destroyers
1 Destroyer Lord
1 Tomb Spider
1 Monolith

For the Canoptek Acanthrites I thinking about building a gun on a backpack for them. That's basically what the official model has. Between my influx of new models and the impending Ork codex, I may shelf the Acanthrites for now.

For my own personal reference
Spoiler:

Necrons I was able to find laying around

Monolith x 1
Lord x2
Destoryer Lord x1
Destroyers x8 ( 3 on sprue, 2 painted, 3 damaged)
Destroyers Heavy x3
Pariahs x5
Tomb Spiders (metal) x3 ( 1 with gun arm)
Warriors 40+
Painted x20
Unpainted x10
Damaged x10
Flayed Ones x12
Scarabs x8 Painted
Metal Scarabs x4
Scythe Flyer x2
Wraiths x5
Deathmarks x10
Ghost Ark x3


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Made in us
Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

Plasma Gen WIP




   
Made in de
Shroomin Brain Boy





Berlin Germany

hmmm.... looks really hard to do with foamcore...
would cardstock be the better choice for material?

   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

Most of the surface area of the orange one is foamcoare with a layer of cardstock over it.

The Foamcoare is really just there to give it thickness. There is a learning curve to using it, but I find the finished models end up quite sturdy.

Layered cardstock would work. Cutting that many layers to matching cardstock would be more labor intensive than dealing with the foamcore, to me at least.

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Made in us
Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

Those are looking pretty spiffy, and dag, that's a lot of necrons! Definitely stick to the spray/drybrushing

 
   
Made in us
Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

TBH I don't think I've fielded a Necron Army since they went from metal to plastic. I really like the terminator/undead vibe they have. I've absorbed 3 other people collections at this point. The current Codex is solid, and looks like it may have gotten stronger in 7th edition.

The plan in on alternating between painting Orks and Necrons, so I don't get burnt out painting green.

Also, if everything goes right, I'll be playing 40K against close friends Weekend Nights, and popping into the LGS Saturday afternoons. I'm thinking Orks for the casual games with friends and Necrons for the slighty more competitive league play.




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About using foamcore and cardstock. Considering that I covered all the edges, and most of the surface with thin cardstock, you could probably get away with just using corrugated cardboard for the added thickness

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Jinking Ravenwing Land Speeder Pilot





Pittsburgh PA, USA

wow man, I love your stuff, going to have to try out a few of your designs! Cant wait to see what you do next!

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Made in us
Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

Thank You !!

I really appreciate the encouragement.

Nothing is cooler than when someone likes your stuff and tries to make one for themselves.

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Went digging through my cellar for my Eldar forces. Hardly found any Eldar but found that I had more Orks and Marines than I remembered. I have Marines and Orks from all the way back to the RT era. Found a box with a Kult of speed, heavily converted from Dollar store vehicles, missing the riders. There were three partially built Stompas, one GW and two kustom.

Now that the Stompa and Morkanaut are in the official codex, it may be time to finish building them. One was a bit smaller, and I was inthe process of bulking it up, but now I think the runt of the litter may end up a Morkanaut, Cunning, but Brutal.

I'll have to add pics of the Kult of Speed stuff to my gallery here on dakka

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Copypasta from Orks rumor thread

Spoiler:
HQs listed as
Big mek, Zagstruk (!!!), Badrukk (We knew that was coming), Grotsnik, Mek (Not big mek), Painboy, Warboss, Weirdboy.

No Wazdakka, no Zogwort.

Relics are in. Not had time to read.
Buggys don't get new weapons, do get Grot Riggers at 10 points.
Not seen anything about FNP at all yet.
Grot riggers don't just work for IWND on 'nauts, any vehicle that has them, but cost per vehicle seems to differ. 20 to put them on a 'naut. BW don't seem to have the option.
Looks to be a lot more options with selecting wargear for meks
"A Big Mek may take items from the Mek Weapons, Melee Weapons, Runts & Squigs, Orky Know-wots and/or Gifts of Gork and Mork lists."
Mob rule is replaced by the D6 roll, yes.

Kustom Mega Slugga is a thing.
A Big Mek with mega armour can take one of the following
- Tellyport blasta
- Kustom force field

Relics:
Gifts of Gork and Mork
Da Dead Shiny Shoota
Da Finkin’ Kap
Da Fixer Upperz
Da Lucky Stikk
Headwoppa’s Killchoppa
Warboss Gazbag’s Blitzbike

D6 Result
1
If the unit is locked in combat, it passes the Morale check or Pinning test. If the unit is not locked in combat, it fails.
2-3
If the unit includes one or more Ork characters (including Independent Characters), it suffers D6 Strength 4 AP- hits, and is then treated as if it had passed the Morale check or Pinning test.
4-6
If the unit has 10 or more models, it suffers D6 Strength 4 AP- hits, and is then treated as if it had passed the Morale check or Pinning test. The hits are Randomly Allocated. If the unit has fewer than 10 models, it fails the Morale check or Pinning test.


Tellyporta blasta is the back mouned thing I've been describing and seems... uh, situational at best? Very short range weapon but causes instant death on a 6 wound. Rolling a 6 on AP causes a penetrating hit regardless of AV.


Stompa in as super heavy

BW up 20 points.


D6 Warlord Trait
1 Prophet of the Waaagh!: Mork (or possibly Gork) has chosen this Warlord for greatness, and every Ork under his command knows it.
The Warlord gains the Waaagh! special rule. If the Warlord already has the Waaagh! special rule then, in addition to the usual effects, all friendly models with the ’Ere We Go! special rule gain the Fearless special rule when he calls a Waaagh!, until the start of their next turn.
2 Bellowing Tyrant: This Warlord is an unholy terror, a roaring lunatic whose every (very loud) word is law.
The Warlord, and all friendly units with the Orks Faction within 12" of him, re-roll failed Morale checks and Pinning tests.
3 Like a Thunderbolt!: This Warlord is a master of the all-out, no-holds-barred, headlong charge into battle.
The Warlord, and all friendly units with the Orks Faction within 12" of him, can re-roll all the dice when determining Run moves or charge range.
4 Brutal but Kunnin’: This Warlord has a sneaky streak a mile wide and knows just where to hit his foes.
The Warlord can re-roll one failed To Hit or To Wound roll each turn.
5 Kunnin’ but Brutal: The Warlord knows when to roll with a punch, and can shrug off the hardest blows.
The Warlord can re-roll one failed armour or invulnerable saving throw each turn.
6 Might is Right: Made of muscle and aggression, this Warlord is the embodiment of the Orks’ warlike nature.
The Warlord receives +1 to the Strength characteristic on his profile.



From NotMyIfurita:

attack squig nerfed to 1 reroll in melee per turn

Badrukk has the rules listed for Da Rippa, but it is not listed in his wargear.

Yay Tankbustas can shoot at whatever they like, and Bustas and Burnas can take dedicated trukks



Kommandos get Stealth now, thats nice.. and they didnt see a point hike like burnas and tankbustas

eww.. Ramshackle got clobbered.. 6+ save when you take a pen, if successful downgrade to glance

Buggies in units of 5, gained outflank and a minor point decrease.

Snikrot is not HQ, effectively works like before when you add to Kommandos. Listed Elite. No slot if you bring Kommandos. He has Ambush and it gives Shrouded instead of Stealth the turn they arrive... still no charge from Reserves

Killkannon still lowers transport on BW

Rule for planks is a little complicated. If you get out of open topped and declare a charge, add 2 to the charge range

Deffrolla gains AP4 and loses half the hits

Lootas HS and cheaper (shocking)

I dont see any way to get Kans or Dreads as troops

Kans come in 6 packs

Wow.. Ghazzy is a LoW but I can't see why.. they didnt change him

Wow.. if you take an Ork Warband detachment, you can Waaaagh every turn after the first

Weirdboys gain a Warp Charge point if there are 10 or more models with the 'ere we go rule (Pretty much any Ork from what I've seen) in 12" but has to take a psychic save or take a hit.
Power of the Waaagh! and Daemonlogy disciplines.
Can be upgraded to Psyker level 2.

Primaris power is Frazzle (Blast witchfire).
'Eadbanger is now a focussed witchfire.
Warpath is a self blessing
Da jump is what used to be 'ere we go.
Killbolt is a beam attack.
Power vomit (Yes really) is a template witchfire.
Da Krunch is a barrage witchfire.

Ded shiny shoota: 6 shots twinlinked shoota, rolls of 1 hit one of your own units. The bike relic has an AP3 deff gun on it, Hedwompas choppa is a +2 str, AP5, rending choppa that beheads on a roll of 6 (insta death). Da finkin kap gives your warlord an additional trait from the strategic list.

Big Mek doesnt change your FoC, nor does warboss (no more nob/dred troops).

Mek is a slotless HQ, 1 per actual HQ bought

Ghaz can take runts/squigs, but looks the same, its lord of war.

Ork psychic powers are all cool. Either high strength, or teleport, large blast etc.

Shock attack gun roll of double 6 is vortex!!!

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/d/Dred_Mob.pdf

Cheap IWND on vehicles (5 points on Kans, 10 on dreds)

Relics are cool and give variety.

Psychic powers are good.

Warlord traits are all useful (none of this "gives fear" rubbish)

Alot of point drops across the board.

KFF can be combined with mega armour and bikes, Shock attack gun seems to be combinable with bikes.

Git finda on SAG mek?

Painboy is IC, so put him where you need him, can take a bike.

Mega nobz look cool.

Dedi transports available for burnas and tank bustas now

Badrukk is a HQ (3+, 5++, str 7 AP2 assault 3 gun) , Snikkrot an elite (doesnt take a slot if taken with Kommandos) (shrouded on arrival, you pick an edge to outflank dont roll)


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Made in de
Shroomin Brain Boy





Berlin Germany

boy...what sizes do you get your cellars in???... sounds more like a vault^^

you are of course right, foamcore adds thickness way faster and easier than layered card of course... and ones hands get not that sore...

may I ask how much you paid for that necron army?...
and I keep my fingers crossed for a good gaming time of yours...

   
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Gargantuan Gargant





New Bedford, MA USA

Cellar is something like 25ft by 30ft. It's the footprint of my house, with no interior walls. I've got a permanent 4ft by 8ft gaming table set up, although it's curretnly burried under boxes of miniatures. I'm planning on cleaning it up and getting a regular game night going again. Used to play there 2-3 nights a week, before I had kids.

Chip board and Cork are fairly expensive in the US, so I grab my foamcore when it goes on sale for a $1-$1.50 for a 20"x30" sheet. I've got a stockpile of it, at the moment, so I'm inclined to use it.

The Necron Army I just picked up was $260.

I was in the market for Warriors and Scarabs and the auction gives me another 11 boxes worth

$399.75 132 Warriors & 38 Bases of Scarabs
$100.00 6 Destroyers
$ 77.00 3 Heavy Destroyers
$ 31.50 1 Destroyer Lord
$ 33.50 1 Canoptek Spyder (It's the old metal one, still looks cool)
$ 66.00 1 Monolith

So about $700 worth of Necrons for $275, after shipping

Most of it is either unpainted, or basecoated silver. There is a squad of warriors painted blue, and a squad painted red, they didn't look bad. Not a choice I would hav went with, but at least it will make telling the squads apart easier.

Combined with what I already own, the only thing I'm missing is Immortals and Crypteks. I'll probably just convert some Crypteks.

At the moment I'm thinking of running a Scarab Farm with warriors and ghost arks to back them up, led by a Destroyer Lord



   
Made in de
Shroomin Brain Boy





Berlin Germany

rules wise I can´t be of any help... but I see that this was a bargain...and to have a whole cellar of the size of the houses footprint to be used as you see it fit... that is amazing!...I know that small endeavours like building something can still be done with kids around, but often the bigger stuff like cleaning out a cellar gets so often postponed into oblivion...

I always find it quite weird how different things are so differently priced here and there... chip board is rather cheap here and I know at least three places in the nearer distance to get it quick... and have you looked for cork in the wooden floor department of your DIY market? it is often used for quieting the floors...big rolls of cork mat...
foamcore is for my own taste currently not that cheap here... and also a material I have to search for or drive longer than I want to...

   
 
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