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Truely amazing, everything. i'm so on my ass !

Hah! That's awesome, the corporation marines and dreamforge troopers are pretty slick, I'd put them up against guardsman any day! The corporation guys clean up a little slower, but i really like mine now that they're done.

Sounds like a steal of an acquisition!

 Luciusletroll wrote:
Truely amazing, everything. i'm so on my ass !

If your talking about the Ork stuff, thank you. Your Ork Meganobs and Dakkajet are the standard I try to work up to.

If your talking about the Cerastus Knight Lancer, that's the Forgeworld stock art

GrimDork wrote: Hah! That's awesome, the corporation marines and dreamforge troopers are pretty slick, I'd put them up against guardsman any day! The corporation guys clean up a little slower, but i really like mine now that they're done.

Sounds like a steal of an acquisition!

Can not say the Corporation Marines are my favorite, but like them enought that I've told myself I would get some if I could get them cheap, and I did.

I'm a fan of the Dreamforge guys, but didn't really have a use for them, that I didn't already have other models for. They look a little to heavy for IG, and a little to light for marines. The guy I got them from was using them as AM Stormtroopers, and I'm happy with that. Also gives me an excuse down the line to buy more of therm.

The Taurox and Ogryn were a nice bonus. They are the kind of models I think look great, but weren't really planning on buying.
Worst case scenario I have new big Nobz and a Trukk.

If you didn't get the Eisenkern storm troopers accessory kit, I highly recommend it. I don't like their aesthetic a whole lot, but a lot of their tools work for other models. And if you actually have the Eisenkern dudes, you'll get a lot of mileage for 15-20 bucks.

If nothing else, you would get a bajillion stikk bombz for Orks

and pouches, lots and lots of pouches.

The mules look interesting. Probably make decent objective markers.

Yeah, they looked fiddly so I left them on the sprue for now, but the pouches are just... lovely. I wish mantic would make a scifi-ier variant. Or anybody really.

Pouches ? Bah !!

No one in the grimdark future lives long enough on the battlefield to need to reload.

Must be the case... Or I guess a good reason to carry around a chainsword as a space marine. Though... if you're being even remotely realistic about your fuel consumption.... you'd need spare fuel for chainswords every 30 minutes to an hour or so.

 GrimDork wrote:
Must be the case... Or I guess a good reason to carry around a chainsword as a space marine. Though... if you're being even remotely realistic about your fuel consumption.... you'd need spare fuel for chainswords every 30 minutes to an hour or so.

RT Era fluff stated that all the high tech stuff was really high tech and miniaturized to the point that objects were only as large as they were to make them easy to handle.

That Chainsword has some sort of miniature reactor in it that keeps it going for hundreds of years, it might as well be magic.

A good decision...I totally want to see you tackle guard...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
A good decision...I totally want to see you tackle guard...

OoH ooh Ooh... I could Orkify the guard vehicles and use the AM rules for Orks who can shoot straight !!

Except then I'd have about 200 AM footsloggers with nothing to do.

That's jsut as dangerous as my idea of a Tau army using all humans instead of fish heads.

 adamsouza wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
A good decision...I totally want to see you tackle guard...

OoH ooh Ooh... I could Orkify the guard vehicles and use the AM rules for Orks who can shoot straight !!

Except then I'd have about 200 AM footsloggers with nothing to do.

That's jsut as dangerous as my idea of a Tau army using all humans instead of fish heads.

Just make sure every human in that not tau army has coke bottle lenses in their glasses and I think you'd be good.

I don´t get it....

I'd get Orks being tetrible shots needing glasses to see straight, if they were being used as Tau.

Really, though I was just thinking of using human heads and feet on all the Tau Fire Warrior models. Humans that were seperated from the Imperium for hundreds of years and have joined the Tau Protectorate.

Haven't fallen off the Earth, but I have been on vacation and out of state for the last week.

When I came back I was pleasantly suprised to my Cerastus Knight Lancer waiting for me.

Since it's not really connected to scratch building, I think I'm going to start a seperate thread for it.

Cool, hope your trip went well. Do link your thread for the Knight Lancer whenever it comes to exist.

^what he said... peeps need to be in the knowing...

I will let you know here when I start the new thread.

So far all I've done is tried to remove the extra resin pour tabs and managed to cut my thumb up.

I do have to say that I am thouroughly impressed by the kit.

Got my AM army in th email a few minutes ago. They found an extra sentinel and threw it in, no extra charge.

I'll take some pics later tonight, after I find out what my wife did with the camera

hmmmm.... cool...extra loot is always nice!!!

and I hope your thumb heals quickly!

My daughter is back in school Monday morning, and my son follows the week after. Once they are back in school, I am going to dedicate an hour a day to woking on my models.

First the Cerastus Knight Lancer. It's freaking beautful and I'm really intent on building and painting it .
The Orks will be an ever ongoing project. I have soo many half finished ork projects, it will take most of 2015 to clear them out.
(15+warbikers, 10+buggies, 2 Stompas, 45 Tankbustas, 45 Lootas, plus the regular boyz and grots to fit inbetween, and I want a Morkanaut)
Astra Militarum (200+ foot sloggers, 12+ tanks, 50 Sentinels)
Necrons (2 Ghost Arks and 2 Scythes with no instructions, wraiths, canoptek spyder)
Grey Knights I own a single squad of Grey Knights, but I figure if I'm going to field a Space Marine force it might as well be the one with the lowest model count on the board and the simplest paint job
Imperial Knights I love working on the larger scale models. They are impressive to field, easier to work with, and easier to paint.
The plan is to eventually have one of each of the Imperial Knight variants (right now that is 5. The Two standard, the White Dwarf Exlcusive one, and the two Cerastus Knights from Forge World)

I'll aslo keep this thread alive as I have tons of Terrain I've started, or intend, to build.

Also plan on building an 8ft4ft gaming table with storage.

well that certainly will keep your hands literally full of work ....

I can't wait to see it all!

This weekend's gaming session involved my friend bringing his new Tyranid force. We got to talking and I dug out my Tyranid force that I had assembled back in 2nd and 3rd edition. Technically it's playable, and for some reason I have more Lictors thans any same person should own. Feeling nostalgic I made the mistake of looking at Tyranids on Ebay. Ended up scoring another 50 or so Tyranid models for $50.

5 Warriors
17 Termagaunts
17 Hormagaunts
10 Genestealers
?? Ripper swarms

So...umm....yeah...add Tyranids to that list of things I'll be working on, as soon as I can find a cheap hardcover codex.

At the very least I'll post some pictures of my old stuff that was painted. Not going to win any awards, but decent table top standard paint job.

I'm considering aquiring and ultrasonic cleaner to assist in stripping paint off models. Does anyone have any experience with that ?

I cleaned up all the pour channels and whatever flash I saw, then spent a few hours test fitting and playing with the Cerastus Knight Lancer



This puppy is going to be awesome. Gallery with larger versions of following images can be found here

Foot parts


Legs




Torso








Head Assembly



Waist






Shoulder Joints


Lance Arm


Shield Arm





Now I just need to figure out how to pose him



I'm going to paint the armor plates seperate and add them on after the body is assembled and painted

Wow that's big, looking forward to seeing what you can do with... wait... that's a 'thats what she said' joke just waiting to happen...

But yeah, awesome model, looking forward to the results

Recent Tyranid reinforcements from Hive Fleet Ebay



This Tyranid warrior evidently had a run in with a Warhammer Fantasy Spearman, whose remains are on his base, and whose spear is in it's thorax



Needed more Hormagaunts.



More termanguants and Warriors are always welcome additions as well



Genestealers, they infiltrate everywhere

Nice!

Considering I only payed about a dollar a model, it wasn't a bad deal at all.

Oh no not at all. Too bad I didn't know you were after tyranids

 GrimDork wrote:
Too bad I didn't know you were after tyranids

I didn't really know I was after Tyranids, just saw a low bid an placed one myself.



Just a quick WIP shot before I run off to work. I'm having a slight problem with the build. The magnets I used at the Torso are not strong enough to support the weight of the upper body with the arms attached.

Think I may just scrap the magnet idea and just putty and glue it in place.