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Ooo i actually am in the market for what you are moving. Happy panda joys around. Well keep up the painting! it is nice to see you working on those models.

reply sent to your message. Hopefully these ladies can find a good home with you. I have sadly neglected them for far too long.

At church my wife tells me, lets BBQ today, invite the pastor and his family over for dinner. I say "okay" and immediately think "hide the boobies " then while I'm inviting him and his family she's inviting others. I don't mind grilling for a couple friends, but now were looking around 30 bratwurst, 20+ hotdogs for kids and burgers. It'll be fun but I hate smelling like a BBQ pit a few hours later.

Well I guess church is keeping me from the sinful slaaneshi demons after all

the thing is it works for everybody? every body invites everybody for BBQ and thus all are equal?...or not?...otherwise it could be a bit unfair... or do the guests bring stuff with them too?...

dude, god is mocking you for your idolatrous femmes

@vik, we do a "pot bless", everyone brings some sort of side dish or salad, we supplied the main meal, chips and drinks.
@graven, god has more to mock me for than my idolatrous femmes

Everyone just left, one family needed to get home because dad works nights, and the pastor needs to get ready for their shindig tomorrow. I am worn out from grilling , and look like I have a bad paintjob trying to show a sunburn. Now to unwind for a bit then .

A future home seems possible.

BBQ's are fun for all and smelling like them isn't bad. Haha... i would leave them on display as "art" controversial art, but art!

controversial art... hurhurhur...

and I remember working behind the butchers counter... I smelled of fish, cheese and well...dunno if you chaps know how fresh meats clings to your clothes and hair... all the dogs in the city were my friends...

pot bless... now there is a term I never heard of... but when we throw a party it is essentially like that too...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
controversial art... hurhurhur...

and I remember working behind the butchers counter... I smelled of fish, cheese and well...dunno if you chaps know how fresh meats clings to your clothes and hair... all the dogs in the city were my friends...

pot bless... now there is a term I never heard of... but when we throw a party it is essentially like that too...

Yes but why did you still smell the same at the weekend Vik

because...:

Maybe try this at the weekend more a balanced scent

Well don't forget the bacon shaving cream, bacon tooth paste and to really help the stereotypical man to be more like a pig .

Vik, that reminds me of the old joke of tying a steak around a kids neck so a dog would play with them. Usually because the kids so boring or ugly no body else would . Normally I drink 6-8 liters (1.5-2 gallons of water a day), yesterday I forgot to drink extra because of being outside and standing over the grill, so I was wiped out last night after everyone left and we finished the cleanup. Fun time with lots of good laughs. Today's plans with the family home? Maybe clean out the garage, clean up the basement, hopefully nothing too exciting as I do work tonight. I still have to clean up from Saturday when the brother in law took a break from studying and came with us and then we all came back to our house. I got in a couple games of x-wing , didn't use the big ships, and he's still learning the basics of the game. That didn't stop him from mauling me he second game though. I talked him into trying elite interceptors and a bounty hunter against my three bwings and an xwing. First turn of combat his dice rolled nothing except critical hits and he took out the xwing and stripped a bwing of its shields before I got to return a shot, which he evaded. In the end I think I dealt him 2 damage against getting tabled. But unlike GW games usually here's no turn limits in xwing and you play till a preset gmail is up or more usually until one side is completely gone.

I'm at a crossroads now. There's interest from comradepanda to purchase the ladies so I'm stopping that project right now . But now I needs something to work on. I can go a few routes.

1. Marines (most likely scythes of the emperor) half yellow
2. Marines (of the Angry persuasion Viks suggestion) I like me some yellow
3. Mantic orcs, still yellow
4. Other suggestions

A lot of this rides on selling the ladies. Obviously I have plenty of marines around to mess with so I might do some converting in the mean time.

There could be a surprise in the mean time too though

More Marines?

We like surprizes...

And the futures bright, the futures Yellow?!!!

6-8litres??? from a medical perspective I can´t belive this... I think then you would have washed out your body from every electrolyte you would have had inside...to survive you would need to spoon yourself some salt in beg heaps each day...

also...

either yellow mellow marines...
or
work again on your servoskull marines...

@vik, good point, I'm at dinner at work now and just started my second liter since getting here 3hours ago. Maybe that's why I'm tired often and have been having cravings for chips and salty snacks.
@panda, yes, I've always wanted a full marine chapter and I'm only half way there
@cam, well I'll surprise myself too. Really don't want to do more GW, but it's what I got. Plus Star Wars xwing is the only other game I play besides KOW, and I've got all the xwing ships out currently.

I have a cunning plan for the terrain competition, might actually join it .

Well, sold my ladies to a slaanesh player as she was really wanting to have a decent daemon rmy

Well looks like the ladies are going to a better home in short order, and will get a paintjob they deserve. Now onto other things.

I'm going to try some skin tones for a marine project. I've always liked the idea of the Salamanders, but couldn't justify painting the skin chaos black and giving them blood red eyes. Also I'd like to try and do something more Asian themed. So here is the start of skin painting a la marines.


Thinking of ordering these guys

But I've seen so many bad reviews of the casting quality from puppetswar that I'm leary.

Oh and if I did a Salamanders offshoot, I'd definitely have to buy this when it becomes available.

And I'm already thinking of bumping my creaturecaster kickstarter to include a dragon, probably the mountain dragon as a centerpiece.

Now to come up with an army concept to relate the dragons/salamanders and Asian theme. I'm currently leaning towards the Kappa. The kappa are Japanese mythological creatures that live in the water and are said to grab children and drown them in the rivers. They are believed to be based on the giant Japanese salamanders that are aquatic and actually are capable of grabbing small mammals and killing them in that way. Now I could see in the ancient times of some backwater deathworld of warhammer that the Salamanders decided to recruit from a water world where life is hard on the inhabitants and they keep their monastery hidden underneath the waves of the ocean and only take recruits from the heartiest fishermen/dockworkers/ divers that they find, dragging them underwater to "drown" and are never seen by their families again. The Kappa are a specialist army just like their proginators the Salamanders. They deal in Close quarter combat using specialized weapons (flames, meltas, grav guns).
Now to find some colors I can be happy with. If this turns out to b something I like then I think we will see an army develope. Which means my hundreds of unprinted marines may see color .

Edit: first attempts at faces

And another


Also instead of Japanese I could do plain old American and do a gator chapter swamp world, maybe make some rhino fanboat conversions .

Good head work Theo.
The skin tone looks real enough, but not that Asian to me. Maybe a bit paler, with some more cream/yellow tint to it. (I'm no expert on skin painting though)

I really like the fluffy ideas you´re weaving here...the kappa is for me the right decision... I think those Asian back banners could be easily scratchbuild... poles, thin PC heat treatment and you´re set...
add the helmeted heads of puppet wars or other manufacturers and some katana like powersords...golden!

as for colours... following the fluff of yours, brighter blues and greens... for now...

those faces look very good... tho...better picture taking wouldn´t hurt^^


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just saying...

Having made a Salamander Offshoot, I am sorely tempted for that mini as well as the pyroclasts

@vik, oh I want the whole models, not just the back mounted sashimonos.
@shasho, I've always liked the Salamanders, but just couldn't get over the skin and eyes.

The faces I did I stupidly painted the eyes black, I think I will instead go with a red, which will also link us back to the salamanders. There's some wicked 3rd party bits out there especially by spellcrow.com that I will probably pick up to build my army if I do this. And then there's also this guy

I would definitely field him against opponents with sticks up their bums about proxy models .

Either Kappa or Gators I'm thinking of using the fantasy lizard men army salamanders as counts as thunderfires.

LOL...that is a sweet piece!!!

for me the puppet war Asians are too modern high tech... but that is just personal taste...

Well the Kappa fluff is a great idea, lots of fun to be had there, but then you went and mentioned rhino fanboats..........now I'm torn

@vik, if I did the puppetswar guys then i would have to say the death world is a backwater hole where outsiders are unwelcome. To the point of execution for being found. Only the royal family is even unaware of the outside world/cosmos.
@ monkeytroll, while it would be fun a d I could go all redneck with them (catchcan heads with the bandanas showing a rebel flag) I think it would be hard to give a real swamp gator wrestling feel to the minis.

I am leaning more towards the Japanese flavor army with the more I think of it. I'll have to kick the idea around a bit longer and get some full figs done up.

Dragon lizard people would be cool.

 cormadepanda wrote:
Dragon lizard people would be cool.

Got those as my chaos marines stand ins

 shasolenzabi wrote:

 cormadepanda wrote:
Dragon lizard people would be cool.

Got those as my chaos marines stand ins

Is there an army you don have tucked somewhere? , your trailer must be like a genies lamp, regular size on the outside, but a hive ship could park in each of your twenty bathrooms inside without scratching a wall .

 Theophony wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:

 cormadepanda wrote:
Dragon lizard people would be cool.

Got those as my chaos marines stand ins

Is there an army you don have tucked somewhere? , your trailer must be like a genies lamp, regular size on the outside, but a hive ship could park in each of your twenty bathrooms inside without scratching a wall .

And thats coming from a guy that still conjures a new army every Thursday night from his magician hat and tells us he'd owened it for a millennia already...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

 Theophony wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:

 cormadepanda wrote:
Dragon lizard people would be cool.

Got those as my chaos marines stand ins

Is there an army you don have tucked somewhere? , your trailer must be like a genies lamp, regular size on the outside, but a hive ship could park in each of your twenty bathrooms inside without scratching a wall .

And thats coming from a guy that still conjures a new army every Thursday night from his magician hat and tells us he'd owened it for a millennia already...

I can relate...

cant we all?...