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 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
Okay, thanks.

Ill try to make some hands/arms for the guns out of green stuff. (which will be fun)

I may even make my own plasma guns out of modelling putty!

sounds exciting

Here is the visor:

(please note-the boots and the base aren't finished)

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
Here is the visor:

(please note-the boots and the base aren't finished)

that looks much better! the high lights are a little to soft tho. like the blending to that color is brilliant, but you need to extreme the edges just alittle more. imo you can easily work with what you have. now what you need to sell it is a glossy varnish over the area to catch the light

In real life, the edges look more highlited, but there was weird lighting in my garage due to the rain...

Ill probably get around to finishing Sunday.

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
In real life, the edges look more highlited, but there was weird lighting in my garage due to the rain...

Ill probably get around to finishing Sunday.

sounds great! i plan on doing a big old group air plane shot soon! you should do one too!

But I only have two planes...

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
But I only have two planes...

I only have one

Dont feel too bad

Very nice progress my friend. I'm looking forward to seeing this army carried to completion, especially since I'm redoing mine from the ground up.

I'm about to update my own blog this weekend with my new purchases: I'm replacing all the infantry in my army with either actual FW elysians (thanks to ebay & dakka swap I got for great prices) or a kitbash of Elysian/Corporation Marines & Defiance UAMC Marines (command).

I'm also sculpting some custom helmets for my stormtroopers & veterans squads based off helmets from Halo. The vets are getting ODST helmets & the stormies are getting Emile helmets.

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
But I only have two planes...

Gotta get some more . In my basic Elysian army without any allies at 2K I have 7: Vulture x2, Valkyrie x2, Vendetta x2, Sky Talon. At 2.5k I have 10 including the Avenger that accompanies a regular IG detachment, the Arvus Lighter supply shuttle & a Lightning strike fighter as an escort.

I dunno what FW was thinking not giving Elysians access to the Avenger, it just doesn't make sense, I mean c'mon, really? I sincerely hope that we get an updated army list soon that brings us into line with 6E. Maybe even allowing us some sort of drop pod assault type rule where we can deploy entirely in reserve & up to half of our reserves DS in on turn 1.

Okay, thanks for the encouragement guys.

Pics wil be up Sunday; I'm leaving for the next few days.

Red_Starrise-I'm planning on getting a Vendetta, and put an Elysian Sniper Squad inside. Do you know (or anyone for that matter), in 6th edition, can a flyer with hover mode deploy as a skimmer on the first turn and use the Scout rule to move to a building and drop off the squad? (my rulebook is still in the mail, and I have been borrowing my friends book)

Thanks!

 cormadepanda wrote:

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
Okay, I'll try to get to that sometime this weekend, as I have an essay to work on

Ill try to have pics up by Sunday.

sounds good, dont worry if you are late tho, school comes first over warhammer.

So true, but cool thread subbed.

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
Okay, thanks for the encouragement guys.

Pics wil be up Sunday; I'm leaving for the next few days.

Red_Starrise-I'm planning on getting a Vendetta, and put an Elysian Sniper Squad inside. Do you know (or anyone for that matter), in 6th edition, can a flyer with hover mode deploy as a skimmer on the first turn and use the Scout rule to move to a building and drop off the squad? (my rulebook is still in the mail, and I have been borrowing my friends book)

Thanks!

No. Rulebook says that all flyers must start the game in reserve. However, when it enters the board on turn 2, it can enter in hover mode (or deepstrike in hover mode) and drop troops on the first turn.

Dang it. Is there a rule that says that half of your units must be on the table?

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
Dang it. Is there a rule that says that half of your units must be on the table?

The rules, in a nutshell:

1) All your flyers (and anything they are carrying) start in reserve.
2) Of the REMAINING UNITS, no more than HALF can start in reserve.

An example:

You have 5 flyers: 2 Valkyries, 3 Lightnings.
You have 7 other units. 1 Command Squad, 6 squads of veterans.

If you start 2 of the vet squads in the Valks, you are left with the CCS and 4 vets, or 5 units. You may put only 2 other units in reserve.

Enjoy!

--Brian

PS: At the end of either player's turn, if one player has no units on the table, they lose automatically.

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
Okay, thanks for the encouragement guys.

Pics wil be up Sunday; I'm leaving for the next few days.

Red_Starrise-I'm planning on getting a Vendetta, and put an Elysian Sniper Squad inside. Do you know (or anyone for that matter), in 6th edition, can a flyer with hover mode deploy as a skimmer on the first turn and use the Scout rule to move to a building and drop off the squad? (my rulebook is still in the mail, and I have been borrowing my friends book)

Thanks!

Vendetta are really good for their points as flyers. However, I personally prefer to run a more mobile unit inside them personally, such as a vets unit like one of the ones I use: shotguns, lascutter, 2 melta, plasma, demolitions.

Although, I'm not real sure what kind of power weapon a lascutter counts as now, doesn't seem to be something FW isn't real worried about. Personally, I feel it's S9 I1 AP2.

Thanks Brian!

Red_Starrise- the lascutter is s9 ap3 i1

Hmm, yeah, you can in a normal ig list, lose your game on purpose if you like.

Okay, here is a group shot of my 1st Veteran Squad.


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I'll have zoom shots up soon...

looks good mate

Thanks cormadepanda.

I tried putting Badab black all over the top of the Vulture, and it definitely made it appear darker, to camo with the terrain I'm working on.

it is much more grim dark with that wash! excellent look/feel.

Thanks, cormadepanda!

I am almost done with the Valkyrie; I just need to put some final touches on it. (like the Badab black wash...)

EDIT-I know that the picture is kind of blurry, but it is supposed to be a general idea picture.

Hey man that cameo is looking better and better, the wash really did bring it down comparing the picks. Simply well done.

Thanks!

 Scout Sniper J. wrote:
Thanks!

Dont thank me... paint me more eye candy!

Okay, sorry for the lack of updates; I've had a busy schedule for the past week.

My Valkyrie just needs the white stripes on the rear, and the pilots are almost done.

Okay, my "eye candy" is finished!

I did a "group air plane shot," which consisted of a lot of aircraft... (not)

In case you all were wondering, the pictures are really crappy because my camera broke, and I had to use a paper clip to take pictures...

the group shot of the army looks well done lad!
crafty fix to the problem!

Thanks for the encouragement!

I played against Chaos Deamons on Sunday... Vulture Gunship caused 650 points of damage, and Valkyrie killed three seekers (I swear, the scatter die was loaded!)

Next up is a Sniper Squad and a Vendetta!


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Pics of my Grey Knight friends on Tuesday.

Very cool! yeah vultures..well...there predators.