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Grim, I've seen your Infinity and Mantic purchases... mine are just more focussed on a singular faction.
Trust me though, I didn't set out to accumulate a hoard, just ended up being fortunate enough to catch a good deal on an army's worth at time 3 or 4 times.
Now, I just need to find a few people tired of playing Daemons
GrimDork wrote: Yeah, if I actually had a good 40k community, my stuff may be along the same lines as your own.
I had to trick my friends into playing, giving them print outs of the rules they needed and letting some of them borrow my armies to play. Once they got a taste, they were hooked.
Did this for my own personal amusement
Gaming Table, 48" across, with enemy on their 12" deployment line border
6 Canoptek Spyders and a swarm of scarabs ready to dash across the board
Spyders moved up 6" and spawned Scarabs. Each scarab base is placed as far forward as possible while remaining within squad coherency and within 6" of the Spyder that created it.
The Canoptek Scarabs spawned furthest out should now be 12" into the center of the battlefield.
The Canoptek Scarabs then advance 12"
The view of a satisfied Necron General
I'm still planning on summoning a Daemon Army, and it's come to my attention that Daemons love Void Shield Generators. The one I was originally working on it loosely based on the limited edition model, but I feel it looks a bit too much like Imperial Standard Template Construction Technology to look like something Daemons would create. The one on the left if the first steps of an Arcane Void Shield Generator. It mostly came about after I had the idea of a spinning Chaos Icon being the focus of the Generator.
and a WIP Portaglyph
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I don't know how familiar you are with Chaos Daemons, but the Portaglyph basically is a portable a Star Gate. You throw in on the ground and it has a 50% chance each turn to poop out 1d6 Daemons.
Happy with the basic shape, so I added a Tzeentch emblem, and the compulsory spikey bits
The Tzeentch emlbem is 4 layers of thin card
Added even more spikes and capped the towers
This is the most amusing thing I've read on the internet, today.
Falling down is the same as being hit by a planet — "I paint to the 20 foot rule, it saves a lot of time." -- Me
ddogwood wrote:People who feel the need to cheat at Warhammer deserve pity, not anger. I mean, how pathetic does your life have to be to make you feel like you need to cheat at your toy army soldiers game?
2015/03/17 16:35:07
Subject: Re:Mostly Scratch Built Stuff on the Cheap
Before the Kings Of War 2 Kickstarter I had little interest in Chaos Daemons. The kickstarter got me to dig out every Demon model I owned to field as Forces of the Abyss. They sat in a box until recently, when I'm was starting to get burnt out building, painting, and fielding Necrons. I started a thread for the discussion of that army, and figured out the shopping list of models I'll need to field it. In the mean time, I intend on amusing myself by fielding a force of proxy and converted miniatures to get the battlefield experience with them I'll need to take them to victory.
Bigger and meaner than any Daemon of Tzeentch model, it's an action figure from one of those Japenese TCG TV shows, I picked up in the clearance isle at ToysRus. I'll be using him to proxy for Kairos Fateweever until I can get my hands on an official model.
This fellow used to part of some creepy looking Centaur action figure I picked up in a Cumberland Farms convenience store, a decade ago at least. The horse half was huge and clunky so I figured I replace it with a serpertine tail. I'm planning on using his as a Daemon Prince
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Great find on that Tzeentch-y action figure! Any idea what it's called? I may track one down and use it as a place holder for big blue birdy daemons too
My Googlefu is strong today. The action figure is from the Redakai series and it's name is Harrier.
$10 MSRP, which is still about $35 cheaper than a Daemon Prince or Greater Daemon.
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The Gray Demon was, I kid you not, from a keychain I bought in Electronics Boutique. I believe he may have been a vidoe game villain.
The model base coated Black on the far right, is the Marvel Comics Character Dragon Man. His torso and legs are die cast metal, and the sword I added from some random action figure.
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"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2015/03/21 15:34:24
Subject: Mostly Scratch Built Stuff on the Cheap and now some Chaos Daemons
I've raided my Mage Knight, larger than any person should own, collection for suitable models for Irridescents, Icon Bearers, Musicians, and Heralds. What is grinding to a halt is Incursion. I just don't think I have anything that makes suitable proxies for the Elite and Fast Attack options Chaos Daemons have. Don't get me wrong, it's always been part of the plan to buy actual GW models, but with the sheer stupid numbers of things you can possibly summon during a game, it's not reasonable, or realistic, to buy and paint that many models in an amount of time that would make me happy about doing it.
Just redoing the core 1500 point army I play at a unit a week would take 3 months, and doesn't include ANYTHING that would be summoned. I was easily adding 2-4 units per turn to the board, sure some of them were just single models like heralds, but GW's heralds cost as much as a unit of basic daemons.
So the plan.... I'm going to continue conveting models, but I'm now going to direct my purchases foccusing on the Elites and Fast Attack. When I get enough of those, I'll eventually turn around and start replacing my proxied/converted forces.
I'm also thinking of sculpting and casting my own Screamers of Tzeetch. If I can cast my own Screamers it will give me something useful to summon with Incursion, and I can make my first GW purchases Fateweaver and Greater Daemons. I shold probably nab a few greater Daemons before GW goes all plastic Bloodthirster kit crazy on them and doubles their price.
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Honestly... unless you really like the Greater Daemons GeeDubz sells I HIGHLY alternate models. Here are some alternatives (albeit most at around the same price as the new thirster, but mostly because the models are amazing and in resin)
For the Blood Thirster you can stick with a GW model and save a ton of cash by going with the LOTR Balrog which even looks better than the newer more expensive Thirster.
Another option that costs a bit more is either BaneBeast Krull (first) or Ultraforge Greater War Daemon (second)
For Lord of Change there is not many bird daemon models other than GW and Ultraforge Vrock. I own one of the Vrock (check my avatar ) and I am puting up this picture because he is HUGE (nearly half again as large as GW model) but SOOOOO worth it.
Keeper of Secrets has several options. Spoiler'd for a bit of NSFW boobage... it is slaanesh after all
Spoiler:
Ultraforge Pleasure Daemon is not bad, fits more as a flying DP.
Bane Beast Euryalia fits KoS perfectly. I own both of these models, and like the vrock, VERY worth it.
Great unclean one is obviously the easiest to proxy, it seems nearly every company sells a NotNurgle greater daemon but some of my favorites,
BaneBeast Blood Maw - could use some extra nurglefying but this model is AWESOME
Ultraforge has two nice models. Plague Daemon (first) and Greater Plague Daemon (second)
I realize you prefer cheaper than GW stuff rather than more expencive stuffs but as a fellow Daemon player... they have GREATER in their name for a reason... they are SUPPOSED to be epic.
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2015/03/22 17:32:17
Subject: Mostly Scratch Built Stuff on the Cheap and now some Chaos Daemons
Thank you for sharing those. I was aware of Ultraforge but I had not previously heard of those Bane Beast models. They are all truly epic. I'll keep them in mind as upgrade options.
After my first game with Chaos Daemons, I realised that I probably couldn't have enough Heralds. For the price of 1 Warp Charge and 1 wound you can summon another herald with 30 points of upgrades. For a Daemon Factory list, that's another level 2 psyker and 2 more attempts at drawing possesion. Digging through my Mage Knight collection I found some great looking Draconian models that I thought would fit the bill.
These are Whelp Alchemists. I'm experimenting with a quick and simple way to pink them up using a white base coat, followed up by a wash of GW's Carroburg Crimson Shade. I'm shooting for a quick tabletop standard, since I have hordes to paint,a nd I think this looks nice enough.
I have about 50 D&D Dretch Miniatures and a dozen Lemures I used as pink horrors. Each is only monopose, so it left the units without Irridescents, Icon Bearers, and musicians, which is unfotuante since those are free upgrades when you summon them. The Shyft faction from Mage Knight had this whole Draconian and Avian look to them, so I'm repurposing them as pink horror command models.
Just raided Toll & Toad's Mage Knight singles. I can now field up to 10 sets of Pink Horror's Command and Heralds.
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adamsouza wrote: I have about 50 D&D Dretch Miniatures and a dozen Lemures I used as pink horrors. Each is only monopose, so it left the units without Irridescents, Icon Bearers, and musicians, which is unfotuante since those are free upgrades when you summon them. The Shyft faction from Mage Knight had this whole Draconian and Avian look to them, so I'm repurposing them as pink horror command models.
I dig it, another smart use of repainted prepaints. And I appreciate that your spammed heralds use the same model over and over, feels somehow fitting
Also: my Harrier gets here tomorrow thanks to Amazon Prime, and may well become a Lord of Change until I finally get my Vrok built
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