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Both minis look good. This is what I've come to realize and like about dipping (especially with Tudor), you can do your own highlighting, washing, glazing, whatever... the dip is still happy to come along at the end and do it's thing. It's wash/higlight blend thing. It's great

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
I think what you really want to paint next are some armored werewolves.

I think you want to buy some of those armored werewolves that Mierce is making, don't you?

I sat down and started painting my Deadzone stuff again. We need to do that still...

Good. post some pictures of your stuff once in a while.

And I don't know what Mierce werewolves you're looking at, but the Kickstarter ones don't look to be wearing armor. Now, whenever I get my Wrath of Kings ones, those'll have armor. So, I think I'm covered in that department. I suppose I could always get a kilt wearing, rifle wielding Infinity werewolf though... nah. I'll just wait for them to update the basic Dog Soldier.

You know, I'm surprised at how few replies I get in here. Maybe I need to post more SPEHSS MEHREEEEENZ! Maybe I'll post some this weekend. Maybe.

For now though, I got a few figures dullcoated and finished up. How 'bout some mo' Morats?

I got my Hacker all done. I really like this figure. I also like how my new desert scheme looks. I'll definitely be using these colors on my Morats from now on. Yaogats, when I get some are going to look badass done up like that.


Less cool, but here's the second of the three Vanguard Infantry figures, sporting the older desert colors.


And all of my Morats together, so you can see just how much their uniforms don't match up!


And just for the hell of it, all of my Combined Army (so far) together.


Oh, I also ordered myself a birthday present on Monday. Of course like, a day later they come out with the news of that encryption exploit, so that makes me feel better. Anyway, I did indeed get a TAG. I couldn't help it and wound up getting the Anaconda. I can't field the thing legally even, but I'll have one.

Speaking of fielding things, I ran the numbers and it turns out I can actually run a fully ITS legal Qapu Khalqi force at a bit under 250 points. It probably isn't the best, and it doesn't get a whole lot of orders, but hey, I can do it.

Yep, today is my birthday. I turned 29. Bleh! And I spent the day at work. Best part of the day was going out to dinner and having cake with family. Since it's my birthday, I figured I would do something I haven't done in a while. 40k. I've had an unpainted War Walker sitting around and decided I'd start painting it up. My initial plan was to do the vehicles in urban camo, but I think I've decided to throw away that idea and just go with the craftworld colors. It seems my Eldar will be forced to wear bright, "shoot me here" colors.

I don't have much Eldar, but I can show you what I've actually painted along with my WIP War Walker.



So, there you see my Hojo Clan Eldar. They were meant to be clan Takeda, but the chart of family crests I'd used at the time was mislabeled and it turned out that the crest I used actually belonged to Hojo, not Takeda. The colors were meant to be evocative of Takeda Shingen's colors. I think Hojo actually tended to use blue. Oh well.

The Dire Avenger's Exarch is probably my favorite of them (after the dual wielding guy). I reversed his colors so he could stand out a bit better. I also think that of the bunch, he turned out the best.

Looks cool!

In regards to your previous post...

Queue cheesy recruitment video music...

Hikes thumb at himself, "I'm doing my part! Are you?"

*Ahem...

I should think you would get more hits than me for sure, you paint better and update more regularly. I post on a lot of other hobby blogs, like this one!, and that's where a lot of my traffic comes from. If you are actively seeking more hits you might consider dumping a batch of your minis into a painting and modeling showcase thread and linking to the blog for more like them etc.

Also do you participate in the cb sub forum community showcasing thread?

OK I'll go back my corner and quietly await more goodness!


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Also happy birthday

Just a bit older than me, feel like I'm getting old how about you?

Yeah, Hojo was blue.

You should have asked me or Keiko, we would've set you straight. At the very least you should have played enough Sengoku Basara/ Musou games to know the difference!

Regardless, they look good (even with the wrong crest, BLASPHEMER) and put to rest the thought in my head that you didn't have any Eldar. Not sure why I was thinking that either...

Maybe I'll paint some Tyranids in response then!

If you want further blasphemy, to counteract my red Hojo, I made some blue Takeda. To be fair though, I've seen pictures of both clan crests in those colors. I don't know why you didn't think I had Eldar though. You were there when I bought the Dire Avengers.

You're a year younger than me Grimdork? Here I was thinking you were older. Yeah, I do feel old. I especially felt old a few years ago when I was doing substitute Teaching. Nothing does a better job of making you feel old than being around teens.

I snapped some more pics of the rest of the Dire Avengers. I'll probably take your advice and post them all in the Showcase section once I've resized them all.

Interesting to hear how I come across on the internet. My niece and nephew are a year or two away from highschool, it's crazy! I'm practically a crusty old grognard already...

Yeah hit up the showcase thread hard and link back here, you could make a couple of threads for different stuff. Like a big showcase for all of your Infinity minis, and then your eldar etc.

Just gotta get off my duff and rescale the images, then I'll do it.

Until then, I finally started painting one of my Afterlife figures from Anvil Industries! Yay!



This is the Sergeant for the Unity Council Marines. I wasn't going to go with these colors originally. I was planning to do a District 9 MNU style uniform with tan fatigues and white armor, but that wasn't looking so good, so I decided to fall back to the usual Cadian green/tan combo. That scheme looks good on everything! The hardest part here was doing the rank insignia on his shoulder. That's a tiny little area to paint on. In fact, free hand in general is difficult, especially when you're trying to freehand text that's partially obscured, like on his chest plate.

In other news, my Warwalker is nearing completion. Really, I just need to work on touching up the base.

Barzam, nothing says your boned like squads of troopers with a few cannon and chainblade toting mecha supporting them!
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That looks pretty Border Break- ish.

Would I be correct in that assumption?

My plamo radar doesn't work that good these days, unless it's an SD kit.

You would be wrong. It's from Assault Suits Leynos. You know, Target Earth.

Lordy, I remember Cybernator back in the day... that game was a blast back on the SNES.

Same series right?

I like the trooper. The little ACOG and what looks like a supressor is a nice touch. Colors are clean and you're right, its a solid scheme. Would've like to seen the District9 colors though. Maybe some other day on some other model.

D'oh.

The Leynos huh? I forgot they'd made a kit of it. I guess the chainsaw should have been a clue.

Like I said, I'm out of the plamo loop unless it's an SD kit.

Didn't they make a Valken as well, or were going to?

 highlord tamburlaine wrote:
D'oh.

The Leynos huh? I forgot they'd made a kit of it. I guess the chainsaw should have been a clue.

Like I said, I'm out of the plamo loop unless it's an SD kit.

Didn't they make a Valken as well, or were going to?

I had to order the arm mounted close combat weapon from Kotobukiya thru Hobby Search

Plum is the manufacturer, and I have on my wish list the valken and Valken booster kits so that will be 5 "not -Knights" in all. The chain blade shows the camo type that the mechs will get. Barzam knows of my projects!

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:Lordy, I remember Cybernator back in the day... that game was a blast back on the SNES.

Same series right?

I like the trooper. The little ACOG and what looks like a supressor is a nice touch. Colors are clean and you're right, its a solid scheme. Would've like to seen the District9 colors though. Maybe some other day on some other model.

Cybernator wasn't the same game, but same universe. Believe it or not, but Cybernator/Valken is actually a prequel to Leynos/Target Earth.

Check out Dwartist's rendition of these guys. His is pretty much in MNU colors.

shasolenzabi wrote:Barzam, nothing says your boned like squads of troopers with a few cannon and chainblade toting mecha supporting them!
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I wonder what mine is saying?

Yeah, its what I meant when I said same series. Not the same game.

I heard they're hard to get ahold of... mebbe check out some emulators.

I have a couple assembled Mecha, but I'm terrified of painting them. I may glue them into a solid pose and give it a shot... I've always wanted to paint up a weathered Gouf Custom...


EDIT - Oh man! Cybernator is available on the Wii's Virtual Console! I know what I'm doing when I get home!

There was also a sequel to Leynos that came out on the Saturn, but I believe it was only available in Japan.

I do know that there were multiple suits that you can use.

Plus, if you're into the assault suit games, you ought to do yourself a favor and check out Front Mission: Gun Hazard for the Super Nintendo/ Super Famicom.

You can probably score up a copy on Ebay at a reasonable price, or go the emulator route (where it's probably been translated anyway).

Same type of game play, except made by Square with Amano Yoshitaka art. Cool game.

Paid 300 yen for it years ago, brand spanking new as some shop I was at was clearing out stock of old Famicom games. Oh how I wish I had picked up all the other games I had seen in shrink wrap on those shelves!

Yeah, I've gathered up as many of the Front Mission games as I can find.

Along with a metric ton of Armored Core games. And let us not forget the XBOX360 bastard child that I loved dearly... Chromehounds.

One of my personal favorites, which nobody understands or appreciates, is a game called Phantom Crash for the original XBOX, which was a blast to play.

They had a sequel that ended up coming out for the PS2 of all things... named S.L.A.I. And it was... not as good, but still cool.

I actually beat Gunhazard. had no clue what was going on, but it was fun. I beat the original Front Mission as well. Again, with no clue what was going on. I did play S.L.A.I. as well. I didn't like it at all though.

Hmm. I wonder what I've been working on?



This thing is way smaller than I was expecting. All of the pictures made these look like they're really big. Honestly, it's not much bigger than a Warjack. The base is only a 40mm one, too.
I had a hell of a time getting those legs to glue in the right position. Everything else, aside from the operator arms went together just fine. The operator's right arm didn't want to stay on.

My plan for it tomorrow is to get it all primed. Once that's taken care of, when I have the chance, I'm going to spray paint the whole thing grey. Then I start hand painting the rest of the kit. The grey will remain in the joints, mostly. I'm thinking it's main colors will be dark green for the main color, a bit of a light olive drab, and tan and a hint of red here and there. Mostly I'll be trying to emulate the studio colors since I think they look pretty good on it.. Then I get the pleasure of trying to apply the dip using a paint brush. That should be fun. Of course, I'm also assuming I don't somehow screw up the paint job. Man I hope this one goes smoothly.

I really wish I could ditch the sword though. I have a fear that it's just going to wind up getting bent and/or broken off. I would much prefer to give it some kind of rifle in it's left hand, but I don't have any that would look right. I absolutely don't have anything that'll look like the official Spitfire it's supposed to have. I'm afraid that if I ever do use it in a game, I'll wind up forgetting it even has a ranged weapon.

I didn't really like SLAI either, I thought Phantom Crash with all of its weirdness was a lot better, and the music was EXCELLENT.

So an Anaconda! Its a cool looking TAG, though part of me thinks I like the Operator more sometimes. I was a little miffed he wasn't in a shooting position, and instead was in that big knife-killy position.

I wouldn't worry too much about the sword breaking, as long as you transport it carefully. I was worried about the one on my Marut, but that thing is really sturdy. I've had more trouble with the Dragoe. To the point where I'm going to make a Zinge order because that ammo belt is just a nightmare.

Looks good, can't wait to see you paint it

I have a feeling that most or all tags are a bit underwhelming. He's probably... a little bigger than a fantasy gw/mantic ogre? Ehh no he looks a fair bit bigger than that, but my plague s1 could probably menace him, huh? I don't care, I still want a pair of gekkos and maybe a Iguana

Yeah I get the impression that my models are all asking me to finish them as well.

 GrimDork wrote:
Looks good, can't wait to see you paint it

I have a feeling that most or all tags are a bit underwhelming. He's probably... a little bigger than a fantasy gw/mantic ogre? Ehh no he looks a fair bit bigger than that, but my plague s1 could probably menace him, huh? I don't care, I still want a pair of gekkos and maybe a Iguana

I guess they might be overwhelming when compared to the 28mm Heroic type 'big models'. But on an Infinity table were its mostly truescale infantry they look rather intimidating. But they're also fast and agile as well. Whereas a Dreadnaught is a lumbering walker that trundles along, TAGs are fast! When you have a TO Cutter darting through terrain towards a juicy target, that is an entirely different kind of menace eh'?

Oh yeah I didn't mean to undermine their presence or menace, just figured they would be smaller than people coming from 40k like me might expect. Or Barzam, with his giant robots.

Haha! Not at all. But yeah, the scale of menace is very different I guess.

Also a distinct lack of skulls means you have to find menace from other things.

I still think those TAGs are small.

But I've been preoccupied with painting Mierce stuff lately, so everything is small in relation to that.

Doesn't help up painting mostly giant Fomorians and reptiles...

It still surprises me that we haven't seen more Shirow inspired landmate style robots other than in Infinity really.




On the tabletop that is.

I actually came across another Shirow inspired one. It's made by a company called Victory Force miniatures.
http://www.victoryforce.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=VFM&Product_Code=335010&Category_Code=Aurora
It's pretty ugly though. On the plus side, that company does make some nice looking riot cops. Definitely tempting....

Anyway though, my Anaconda has been painted! Huzzah!



Overall, I'm happy with how it's turned out. The one thing I'm not sure about is the reactive armor plates on the thighs. From a distance, they look okay, but up close? Not so much. Should I leave them be, or just make them dull grey?

action scene!



Those two bodies and three of the flames, I've been looking high and low for those damn things! They've been missing for months now and I just rediscovered them yesterday underneath a box I'd been using for spray painting. I'm glad to have them back, they provide some nice scenery details.

Sweet! Isn't dipped yet right? That will probably help the plates but the already look good I'm the second picture. Nice work!

I think the plates look good. Once he gets dipped I don't think they'll stand out as much. Nice clean flatwork, he's looking good!