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 cormadepanda wrote:
really love the pictures of the bulls in action. Its quite dramatic.

Agreed. Love seeing them sized up next to some scrubs. They look awesome.

The Gore Bulls are freaking brutal looking. I love the picture where the one is up in the Soul Grinder's face like "COME AT ME BRO!"

I will say, however, I think the capes look unfinished. I think some more highlights or shading would make them look a lot better. Perhaps a complete overhaul color-wise to make them a deep, dark red or a dark, ruddy brown. Right now they look like unfinished capes you sculpted out of grey putty.

Thank you all for the kind words- I really appreciate them and it's really helping the army along.


Young_logan- I'm not really thinking of doing any forge world stuff just yet. There really isn't any thing that I'm interested in using yet. Tho I am liking the idea of having a war hound Titan, or may be a beastmen primarch.... But nothing solid just yet.....YET....



Dearth bob- you are right about the cloaks I think. i felt that some thing was missing or something else needed to be done to it when I thought I finished, but I didn't want to over do it because I might just spoil it... I was just not sure what. I want to keep it a grey color because i think it works well graphically so I think I'll just try highlighting it some more and hope for the best I guess. Thank you for that

Just wait until the Horus Heresy book with the Space Wolves comes out... ;-)

 mayajid wrote:

Dearth bob- you are right about the cloaks I think. i felt that some thing was missing or something else needed to be done to it when I thought I finished, but I didn't want to over do it because I might just spoil it... I was just not sure what. I want to keep it a grey color because i think it works well graphically so I think I'll just try highlighting it some more and hope for the best I guess. Thank you for that

I do think they look nice in gray. They just need a bit more depth rather than the somewhat "lacquered" look that they have now. I look forward to seeing the updated ones as I have no doubt that, with your painting skills, you can make them look much better.

Just a little bit update with the gorebull- I changed the color of the capes to black because the other one didn’t really looked as finished as it could be…. If that means anything….









On a side project but still relevant to beastmen 40k-


GOTHIC METAL !!!!!!


A group of us here decided to do a Battle Fleet Gothic campaign. I already have an imperial fleet, but I figure this gives me an awesome opportunity to TRY to come up with a suitable ride for the metal beast mercenaries.

Transport for them to get to where ever they need to be, do whatever it is they’ve been hired to do, come back, and get paid.

I figured that their fleet should be-

- Small and fast (to get to where they need to be as quickly as possible and get away quickly after).

- able to not get into space battle or any battle at that, if they are not getting paid for it (or if they don’t have any other choice.) basically the ability to just slip by unnoticed.

-may be just enough fire power to cripple ships so they can take it over or just buy time to do what they need to do.

Looking at all the fleets and their rules, I really like the rules for the dark eldar fleet (I played with them before and it worked for me well).

Space wolves wise- I know it doesn’t fit at all- but metal beast wise- I think it works great- with their access to the mimic engines (just so they can drift by undetected), and they are fast at getting around.

The impailer assault module is just in case they get hired to clear out a hulk of tyranids, blow up part of a ship (hired for sabotage, or to kidnapping some people (Slavetaking rules), etc…..). an also just enough firepower to do a good amount of damge…. Having the shield couldn’t really hure either …

Had to rush them and get them done within less week before we start of the campaign this Saturday (18th November) here they are.











The big ship is an eldar jetbike upside down, with spikey bits from the tzeench lord on disc of tzeench.











Metal beast escorts (dark eldar corsair class escorts)














These are the battle fleet gothic eldar shadow hunters also turned upside down and spikes added to them.


Metal beast Cruisers (dark eldar torture class cruisers)






















It's not much but I think it adds alittle more depth to the fluff of the army I think

very lovely, it adds a nice fluff to the beastmen, all you need is a homeworld now.

Really like them.
You could maybe ad some kind of flagship for them.

Wow !!

There definitely aren't enough BFG models around here... Yours are great, and the yellow / dark grey makes for a nice contrast in the void !

Yes! The capes look fantastic now, mate. Great call on a do-over as it makes them look far more brooding and, well, gothic!

As for the BFG fleet, that's a great idea and fluff addition for your Metal Beast army and I'll echo Yggdrasil in saying that there aren't nearly enough BFG fleets on this forum. Really creative way to make the ships, also. Who'd have thought that simply turning an Eldar ship upside-down could yield ships that look so much different. Great job!

Blood, Sweat, and tears of joy mixed in some sadness…

And, Finally I give you-

Bestigor in terminator armor (Wolf guard terminators)




























































alright boys- let's go get paid!!!!




















Well there it is… 8 months…. hundreds of hours on the net looking for bits, lots of paint and tons and tons of green stuff later – I managed to acquire 5640 points worth of 40k beastmen army (well space wolve army really… but still)…. Laying them all down on a table it looks something like this:






























































I’m sorry to report that is probably the last update from me on for this project... I’m very happy that the metal beast army is as complete as I want them to be (and 8 month of seeing the same colors(yellow, black, silver) can sends you loopy sometime), but also very sadden at the same time because it’s more or less over…. Probably…. Well for a good long while any ways….

Really want to thank everyone here in the dakka dakka community for taking interest and following this project. Thank you all for taking the time to write kind words, advice, support, ideas, and comments on my pm blog. It has help me so much, and I appreciate all of them more than you’ll know.


So…. for a final send off for this project, I want to leave all of you lovely, lovely people with this little add-





































Once again thank you all

nice what a great way to end a plog glad to been apart of the journey cant wait to see your next project. any hints at what it will be?

Bravo Zulu, sir. Bravo Zulu, indeed.

Valete,

JohnS

Stunned!

Incredibly cool. There's so much about this army that's awesome, I don't even know where to begin...

Absolutely love the arm blades on the "Terminators" and the army shots are great. Really like the narrative "real life" shots.

Absolutely stunning thread, from start to finish!

I think my favourite part isn't even the flawless execution, but the sheer scope of your army project! And though I am a little sad that it has to end, the army really seems complete and perfectly realised. Excellent job!

Be sure to post a link to your next project here, mate! Wouldn't want to miss it!

Awesome army, cool concept. Really like the altered profile of those drop pods. First drop pod ive ever thought, "now that thing looks nasty!"

 KrautScientist wrote:


Be sure to post a link to your next project here, mate! Wouldn't want to miss it!

Absolutely agree!

Thanks for sharing all your work on this army.

Its over? The army done? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Seriously though, thank you so mush for all this awesome stuff, superb inspiration and cool pics. I will really miss you sniff sniff

Cheers

Just an amazing project. Wow... definitely wow.

Just looked through the entire thread and I am very impressed. You certainly have an army to be proud of.

This is completely and utterly awesome.

Brilliant work! Great thread

Excellent work. Sad to see the ship sail, hope for something greater!

I am sure to "adding" bug will bite you soon, but more importantly! what is the next project!?

great stuff!

Sick conversions

Absolutely incredible force, and in my long years of looking at other's work on various forums I can safely say this is one of the most original, and well executed, forced I have ever seen. I hope you post all of this on the showcase section, it deserves to be seen by everyone!

Wonderful job you should be extremely proud of it

*Standing ovation*
It really is such a great army, love the ad

Will be watching this space for any other projects you do =)

That really was a genius end to a class act. Thank you!