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So after many hours of 40K and Capt'n Morgan, me and my friends started a brainstorming session on building a 40k table for a friend's daughter's slaneshi daemonhost. We decided, since his prescious little girl was involved, that we would build the terrain to be....drum roll please....Candyland. peppermint trees, jawbreaker boulders to hide behind, hedges of ribbon candy... the whole 9 yards. This monrning, after the headache subsided, I started to wonder about the sanity of this idea, seeing as his 24 year old child might not be so ammused. This brings me to my point of inquiry, what is the most "what the heck are you thinking?!?" ideas you guys have had, and did you ever follow through. PS: I'll post up a follow along as we build the Candyland Table...

I think a Candyland table would be pretty fantastic and can't wait to see that come to fruition.

Since I'm pretty new to the sport I havent had many crazy ideas yet, but the one I think would be funny would be to see a couple looted Monoliths. Since the power would long be gone they would be pulled by grots with long ropes.

If his daughter is 24, I can see that she might not be at all pleased or interested. She's not a 5 year old, after all.

I'm considering a nurgle chaos army painted and modelled up like Santa and his merry elves.

Waaaghpower wrote:
I'm considering a nurgle chaos army painted and modelled up like Santa and his merry elves.

Merry nurglemass! Ho Ho Ho . The sleigh slides smoothly across the battlefield on a trail of slime from the two beasts. Bringing the gifts of rot, plauge, and diesese to all the good little boys and girls in the old world.

I made a Blood Bowl team out of Space Marines once. They had the same rules as a regular human team. they all had no shoulderpads (can't remember the logic behind it). It was pretty lame.

kinda related. Kinda not.

I found it immensely humorous in 5th edition when anything touched a tank and it could no longer shoot, which was ridiculous by the way, i had the stupid idea that the marines inside would get incredibly angry and flap the guns frantically in an attempt to hurt the assaulting unit.

I also had the humorous concept of building a bush with loads of assault marines tangled up in it having failed their dangerous terrain tests.

That Candyland is awesome, I would love to have that!
And she will probably enjoy it too..

Timeline of the average kid:
01-12: Enjoying childish stuff.
13-18: Puberty kicks in, we have to act cool and dislike childish things.
19 and up: Candyland rocks, so does Disney!

It's the average though.
You will always have kids who never stop enjoying things and you always have people who refuse to get a sense of humour.

Local fella brought out his Helldrake for the first time, and called it "Cuddles", for some unknown reason.

Maybe Raege was involved. I dunno.

Anyway, we all took it and ran with it, eventually suggesting that Cuddles carry a blanket in one talon, and a little purse with a dog in the other.

Another guy is doing his Riptides with a Gundam paint scheme. Probably been done before.

We made the Gay Necron Monolith night club after a failed experiment dry brushing midnight blue over a black base.It turned light fuschia, so we decided what the heck and put in a disco ball instead of the crystal.Then we added an old He-man action figure posing on the top,then we added some glitter and called it a day.

I just love it when some random model Denies the Witch. It's like how? A firm telling off?



Anyway, We painted a small Squadron of Imperial Guard bright pink, Then gave the Commisar a handbag to replace his Powersword.

Love it.

 CommisarGlitch wrote:
I just love it when some random model Denies the Witch. It's like how? A firm telling off?



Anyway, We painted a small Squadron of Imperial Guard bright pink, Then gave the Commisar a handbag to replace his Powersword.

The ammount of heresy in this post is disturbing to say the least

My eldar are painted skull white and warlock purple. It looked really good on the dawn of war paint editor.

I now have about 14kish of eldar that people look at and say 'pink!?'

I get a lot of double takes when I play in public...

Currently thinking seriously about building "land battleships" for my boyz. They'll have special rules for fun scenarios, but the rest of the time work as Battlewagons with a krew of Tankbustas or Lootas for dakka and of course, a MegaBoss as Arch-Admiral. They probably won't be any harder to make than standard battlewagons either (a ship hull is waaay easier than making good wheels), just maybe needing a few more materials.

 Dakkamite wrote:
Currently thinking seriously about building "land battleships" for my boyz..

Land Battleships????

Nothing wrong with the awesome that is a land battleship, but why stop there? I say land subs are where it's at man!

My sister when we were alot yonger decided one of my tau drones would look great fluro blue with pink pokea-dots over it's head.

Not 40k, but one of my empire generals is riding Celestia from MLP.

mine was when I was painting my brand new necron army up the night before a tourney, silver base, and carroburg crimson wash and caliban green trim,I let the paint dry and go to sleep, wake up the next morning to see about fifty bright pink and dark green warriors, i get so many different responses its not funny...

I have Dr Who Daleks for my Necrons. I use them as warriors or immortals or sometimes I only bring 2 to use as Cryteks w/ abyssal staves.

My friend is building his space wolves w/ a thunder cats theme. They are riding cats instead of wolves. His HQ will bs a Liono and a Panthro. His Land Raider is a Thunder tank. I told him he needs a Cheetara but he won't listen as Space Marines don't have women.

Why not just ask her if she wants a crazy Candy Land terrian before hand so the time isn't wasted and everyone isn't upset?

 Mythra wrote:
I have Dr Who Daleks for my Necrons. I use them as warriors or immortals or sometimes I only bring 2 to use as Cryteks w/ abyssal staves.

My friend is building his space wolves w/ a thunder cats theme. They are riding cats instead of wolves. His HQ will bs a Liono and a Panthro. His Land Raider is a Thunder tank. I told him he needs a Cheetara but he won't listen as Space Marines don't have women.

Why not just ask her if she wants a crazy Candy Land terrian before hand so the time isn't wasted and everyone isn't upset?

Pure freakin' genius . Please post pictures if he isn't a dakkadakka member And force some sense into him, damn it, that army NEEDS a Cheetara!

Kangodo wrote:
That Candyland is awesome, I would love to have that!
And she will probably enjoy it too..

Timeline of the average kid:
01-12: Enjoying childish stuff.
13-18: Puberty kicks in, we have to act cool and dislike childish things.
19 and up: Candyland rocks, so does Disney!

It's the average though.
You will always have kids who never stop enjoying things and you always have people who refuse to get a sense of humour.

This seems like a great timeline for females.

For males it looks more like:
01-Death; Enjoying childish stuff.

 Farseer Faenyin wrote:

Kangodo wrote:
That Candyland is awesome, I would love to have that!
And she will probably enjoy it too..

Timeline of the average kid:
01-12: Enjoying childish stuff.
13-18: Puberty kicks in, we have to act cool and dislike childish things.
19 and up: Candyland rocks, so does Disney!

It's the average though.
You will always have kids who never stop enjoying things and you always have people who refuse to get a sense of humour.

This seems like a great timeline for females.

For males it looks more like:
01-Death; Enjoying childish stuff.

Not entirely; many kids are scared by loud sounds of gunfire and explosions. That and I don't know any kid who can pound shot after shot of capin Mo' and still be coherent enough to move 1-inch figures.

I give you Loki, the Lab of Change. The first in an Army based off of my fiance and my dogs

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/497186-.html?m=2

I'm thinking that a candy land table for Slaneesh would actually be pretty fluffy. Watch the "Meet the Pyro" video for Team Fortress 2 and it makes sense. The Slaneesh deamons are so drugged out of their minds they think the world is a giant land filled with laughter and candy. While a deamonette thinks she is picking the petals off a flower, she's really tearing the ears off a grot. Gives a pretty funny spin to the grim darkness of the dark and grim.

Well this has gotten a few chuckles. Missile launcher team made with some left over parts.