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Praise Huron!

PHOTO DUMP!

Moonpie was over yesterday and we played some Peggle 2 and some Titan Fall. We did a little display board painting. He also dropped off some of his Executioners. Not all of them so I can't take a full army shot but here are some of his units. I have no idea what the make up of the units are meant to be but you'll get the idea.

First up is his HQ selection



Next up is some Tactical Squads



Assault Squad


Devastators



Lastly, a unit of Emperor's Fools Sternguard.

Looking mighty good! Love the fools.

Awesome looking marines.

Sernguard looks fantastic. Best in class!

Hey, thanks, guys. The Sternguard were kind of a lot of fun to paint. They have so much cool stuff on them, but man is it a lot of junk to deal with. Until I get in a mood to deal with the Space Wolf paint scheme again, I am going to stick with them. Unfortunately, my hobby budget is pretty low end right now. I'm going to try to sell off some old crap I haven't done anything with in years. If you know anyone who wants a mess of metal minotaurs or a ridiculously large Menoth army, then I would love to sell it and pick up a battleforce or something. Say what you will about the new paints. but I dig these particular combos. And on the subject of that, does anyone else have big problems with Reiklander flesh wash or whatever its called. I have 1 bottle of Ogryn Flesh and I am hoarding it. I can get the new stuff to work in small areas, but if it pools or I haven't shaken it for a straight minute, it is balls and leaves this chalky garbage in the crevices.

Its the new wash formulations. In addition to some not matching color (Agrax Earthshade in particular), their behavior is trash. Tide marks, insanely fast settling, white residue, improper finish...

New GW paints are massively hit and miss for me. Mostly miss. The washes kill me though
Stretch the old stuff for as long as you can- Then jump to another company for washes! Secret Weapons washes and Army Painter are pretty good for em. The latter has spot on replacements for Badab black and Devlan (apparently, I havent actually tried it)

Wow. Those all look fierce. The executioners look great, but like others here, I'm most stunned by the Fools.

One would think it difficult to make a pink and yellow color scheme look badass, but these guys look great.

@night: Hey, thanks a lot! I don't know why it works, but I really like it. I always loved quartered schemes and tried it with my favorite 2 colors, and it somehow works. I think it has absolutely zero to do with color theory.

My girlfriend was talking about my colorblindness to someone at work. "So, he can't see colors?" "No, he can see yellow and pink." "What are his favorite colors?" *pause she gives in conversation to let you prepare to feel really stupid* "Yellow and pink."


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Edit for news: I decided to make the High Executioner captain model that was originally to be an Executioner into a Fool. His shoulder pad with the assault symbol on it makes me want to make him into a ridiculous assault squad sgt or a vanguard sgt. Then I would use the vanguard kit to make a rad looking lord with a cool weapon combo. I am thinking either power fist/lightning claw or something that would represent a relic weapon.

 IceAngel wrote:
PHOTO DUMP!

Moonpie was over yesterday and we played some Peggle 2 and some Titan Fall. We did a little display board painting. He also dropped off some of his Executioners. Not all of them so I can't take a full army shot but here are some of his units. I have no idea what the make up of the units are meant to be but you'll get the idea.

First up is his HQ selection



Next up is some Tactical Squads



Assault Squad


Devastators



Lastly, a unit of Emperor's Fools Sternguard.

Reposting so it shows up on my Blog View. Don't hold your breath on me getting a nice, new camera. If I bought one, then I couldn't buy minis to take pictures of. On that topic, anyone looking for a huge Menoth army or a slightly smaller Cygnar army or a ton of metal Minotaurs?


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Also, on painting news-Painted the "High Executioner" captain model as a regular Assault squad Sgt, if a flashy one. What's so bad about a $25 squad sergeant?

I'm going to use the Iron Halo jump pack to make a Captain armed with a power fist and lightning claw. Vanguard legs and chest seem to make it work.

Whats in the Cygnar army?

From memory, because it's on the other side of the room, I have Epic Haley, Stryker, Caine, big black dude, Ironclad, Lancer, long rifles, scouty guys I forget the name of, stormblades primed like garbage, mad old professor painted like a black dude, Big lightning jack(Thunderhead) not painted I think, Jack with the long range gun, chick journeyman warcaster, double shooter light warjack, full squad of pistol mages, unpainted officer, and can't remember what else. They are painted in a desert style. I converted a lot of them to be smoking-I thought it was clever. They are all metal models, because I stopped playing Warmachine after they started making plastic models. The plan was to work with Ice to get it all sold off after Adepticon.

If you sell it at Adepticon let me know

Here is another of Moonpies works. Thoughts?

I love it! He looks completely disgusted.


I think it's the colors he's forced to wear...

I like him. The head suits the model really well.

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Here is another of Moonpies works. Thoughts?

Repost to put on blog view.

@Snrub - Thanks. I thought it worked pretty well too. I was going to save it for a Space Wolf, but...I didn't. I was also going to use to original head but it had a bubble at the end of its nose I didn't want to bother fixing.

@Git - Just what I was going for.

This is the first model I have ever painted the head and backpack separate of the body. It made things both easier and not easier.

I am doing the same thing for another jump pack officer and I painted the wrong half of the jumpack pink. I haven't painted since, because I feel so incredibly stupid about it. I am going to just try to reprime it.

Such a serious face.. where is it from?

Sternguard vets i think.

Snrub's right.

PHOTO VOMIT
disclaimer - I know nothing about warmachine. I took these pictures after sorting everything that Moonpie had brought over by weapons. Something that you may not get in the pictures is that nearly every model has a cigarette or cigar or some form of smoking paraphernalia.

I like the orange mek-thingie.

Thunderhead jack is awsome in combat tho the people I played said i gcant use it ... So I got out my Khador and brought out the Bombard jack

http://crystalbrush.coolminiornot.com/cbartwork/index/id/670

That's my entry in the Crystal Brush. Pretty good pictures of it actually. Looks better than in person. They spelled my name wrong, which sucks.

Adepticon was fun. This was the first year I got some serious compliments about the camo scheme. People really were digging the look of the Stormraven, even if I think it is actually pretty sloppy. I think I will celebrate by never painting that scheme again.

Got some Omega. That makes me happy. Cherry crepes FTW!

Good hanging out with da boyz!

Nice to be home, though. Looking forward to a bed that doesn't emerge from a couch...

Amazing models. The photos really show just how amazing they were.

Great to see you at Adepticon

Good seeing you there too, Solar! Appreciate that you like it. The plan is to pump more out once I free up some capital.

Thank you for this plog moonpie. 10/10 in the LOL department. Pink never looked so good. Might have to borrow your highlight technique

Art is theft, Xysis. I just highlight till it doesn't go any brighter.

Pure text post so why bother begins: Painted another Escher. Painted a jump pack capt. for fools. Ice said he'd take a picture. Still no hobby money. Have to fix my last bad tooth and pay back Ice. Standby for further awesomeness..

The history and traditions of the Emperor's Fools:

The Emperor's Fools are a third founding chapter. They descend from the Excoriators and from them the Imperial Fists.

Sons of Dorn and Sons of the Emperor before him, the Fools are a plagued and guilt-ridden band. Within the Excoriators there was a subset that was constantly plagued with visions. In their dreams and during their waking hours, they would constantly relive the Crippling of the Emperor. Even in mid-battle they would see the broken Sanguinius beautiful, broken, and bloody on the floor. Beside him was the corpse of the devil Horus the Betrayer. They would lose their breath and become slack jawed idiots at the sight of the great Emperor gasping for breath and mortally wounded. Astartes, immune to fear, were not immune to grief. They would blubber and fail, useless in a fight-reliving the failure of their great primarch.

These poor souls were quarantined. Put aside. What was to be done with these men, broken by a grief that was not their doing. A century passed and the broken men accumulated. Not only from the Excoriators, but occasionally from the others of Dorn's get.

Under the harsh atmosphere of Venus in the boiling temperatures they were left to burn in a facility that would best be described as a prison or mayhap an asylum.

What were the Lords of Terra to do with these hermits, recluses, and madmen? Nothing was the answer. Much needed to be done at the time and they were a difficult situation that was best ignored until it dealt with itself...

At that time came upon the burned soil of Venus an Epistolary of the Librarius of the Imperial Fists known as Syvarran. Catatonic and drooling, one would not think that there would be much of a future to this once bloody-handed psyker. In this, one would be right, but only for a time. Years did Syvarran lay in his own filth and relive over and over again the death of the man he swore his life to protect, useless in his grief and misery, until he was starved to skin and bone.

It was on a propitious day as seen by the stars on Mother Terra that he raised himself from his soiled bedroll. The servitors who doted on the poor recluses counted him as another loss for he decided to take The Walk.

An Astartes is a being endowed with greater endurance and survivability than any normal man, but even that has its limits. There is near no breathable air and insurmountable heat on the nearest planet to Terra. At times, a Space Marine would gain enough wherewithal to walk out onto the face of Venus towards suffocation and burning death. This was part of the reason that these Rejects were put on this particular place. It was a place where a problem could solve itself.

So it was that Syvarran went out for his Walk. Thought never to return. He left the refuge with only a shawl to cover his body of skin and bones, leaning on a cane and rambling about loss and suffering, tears streaming down his eyes. Surely even this great warrior, who had stood at the gates of the Imperial Palace at the Siege of Terra had seen his last days..

It was 3 days and 3 Venusian nights that he lived in the unendurable hell of pressure and heat and suffocation. 3 days and nights on the lumbering planet that saw it walk around Sol for 3 full rotations and more. If the smog and smoke and particulates in the Terran air would have allowed them to see, then maybe a single Lord of Terra would have looked upon the brightest light in the night sky and thought about his grief and sacrifice. But no light would show and no thought was given. It was an unnoticed loss like the skin that flakes off our species at any given hour turned to dust.

But dust he was not. Before his coming, for 3 Terran days and 3 Terran nights all of those who were in that brutal gulag screamed and wailed, crying themselves bloody and wilted. All but 999 poor sons of Dorn died over that time. On the morning of the third day their weeping turned to laughter. Desiccated and emaciated, the corpse men began to dance and caper. The servitors, had they any thoughts of their own, would have been confused. Instead they obeyed, ignoring the revelry in their ignorance the same as they ignored the tears and wails.

Then it was that the psyker returned. He was black as pitch and bent over, but he was alive...and smiling. All the men remaining went with him, smiling and chuckling.

Then was it that the Lords of Terra could no longer ignore the man, for he appeared on their very doorstep, with his 999 behind him. On the trip to their nearest neighbor they had sucked down sustenance between guffaws and now aided by their legendary physiology were returned to their vigor.

"I am Sol, who was Syvarran. I am the Lightbringer and the Jester King. The Emperor wishes me and my fellows dance and caper for his amusement. He so dearly needs some cheerful fellows to bring a smile to his face."

It was with those words that the first of The Emperor's Fools first donned the motley. Like anything long forgotten and brought back to remembrance, they dismissed quickly the Fool and his Fellows, giving him all that he needed to get him gone. Armor, ships, weapons and all the accoutrement of an Adeptus Astartes chapter were given and received with the commission that they should kill and die in His name.

They hoped that this would be the final end, but still to this very day, thousands of years later, the jesters still jest, laughing not to cry, and bring Death to the Emperor's foes.

Not one to nitpick a good piece of fiction... but doesn't the definition of "doting" pretty much preclude the possibility of the dotee lying in their own filth for any length of time??