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@Brotherpayne: I'm kind of flip flopping between cane and stave. It seems too long to be a cane. Cane sounds better. Anyway, the daemon engines are in a bunch of pieces. I'll get pics when I get to them, which may be a while.
Next stage completed on the pimp. Decided to give him a bit of a swagger pose. I have to get him mounted on the base before attaching the cane, because I want the base of the cane to rest on the ground.
Once the pose is finalized and the base is complete I can start sculpting the coat. It's going to be long sleeve, so ignore the details of the extended arm for now, as they'll be covered.
Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
Selym: "Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.
H.B.M.C: You can't lobotomise someone twice.
Who is this? What's it called?
I'm surprised, I'll be brutally honest and say I'm not usually fan of dubstep but I liked this Also nice work on the pimp suit, it's coming along well
Who is this? What's it called?
I'm surprised, I'll be brutally honest and say I'm not usually fan of dubstep but I liked this Also nice work on the pimp suit, it's coming along well
To snark or not to snark? Not to snark. It's called "Midnight" by Bar9. The pimp suit is coming along so painfully slow. The reason for this is that every tiny little step forward has to be allowed to set up and cure for hours so that I don't break it with the next step. Heavy sculpting is SO annoying but so worth it.
Who is this? What's it called?
I'm surprised, I'll be brutally honest and say I'm not usually fan of dubstep but I liked this Also nice work on the pimp suit, it's coming along well
To snark or not to snark? Not to snark. It's called "Midnight" by Bar9. The pimp suit is coming along so painfully slow. The reason for this is that every tiny little step forward has to be allowed to set up and cure for hours so that I don't break it with the next step. Heavy sculpting is SO annoying but so worth it.
More baby steps on the pimp suit, but I've just about got it to the point where I can attach it to the base and then it will move a whole lot faster. I also started on a Broadside that ended up doing the Captain Morgan pose and being awesome. Trying right now to decide on a melee weapon for the suit's free hand (I made some modifications). I'm thinking a Broadside would look cool with a big punching spike like you see in the Ogre Kingdoms line, but I also have these big nasty flails from Warmachine that would look sweet. Anyways, this one is also just about ready to attach to the base, even if it's just disembodied legs right now, and I've been working on several major mods to the suit and the usual LED nonsense.
I was going back and forth with a couple posters on the Dakka Fiction forum and I realized that I really need to collect up all the random bits of fluff I've written in this thread for the various characters and wargear and the Cadre in general, and it needs to go in the first page or maybe even its own thread somewhere.
Psienesis wrote: Well, if you check out Sister Sydney's homebrew/expansion rules, you'll find all kinds of units the Sisters could have, that fit with the theme of the Sisters (as a tabletop army) perfectly well, and are damn-near-perfectly balanced.
No, those are just regular, if slightly happy, missile pods. The ecstasy all comes from the various Eldar pirates that tag along with the fleet. They supply all the best party drugs to the Tau Dubstep Cadre, the TGG Rynnish 41st and the Crimson Fists who run the show. Lemme tell ya, it takes some serious narcotics to get a Fist stoned out of his mind. The Eldar haemonculi took it as a sort of personal challenge, and developed a synthetic hierophant tranquilizer that would placate even the most hardened Noise Marine. They tried to translate it from the eldar name, but the Gothic tongue was simply insufficient to carry all the nuanced profanity, and so it was renamed to simply "happy juice," and regularly mixed into the frosting on Lord Akira's chocolate cake. That dude loves cake.
Also, small progress update. The pimp suit now has all its limbs attached and the armature for the coat is mostly built. Once the current GS cures, I have to go in and add a few bits of wire running cross-ways to give the coat its last bit of structure before I can go in and start filling it out with GS. Sooooooooo many baby steps for a sculpting process like this. As the suit evolved, I considered a number of different accessories, accoutrements, and various naked females as escorts. This might be the silliest that I have ever gotten with any one individual model. The pilot's name is now Fio'vre Who'dat. I have a lot of family in NOLA. Don't judge. Also, who dat?
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh hey, did I mention that his pimp cane housed a color changing LED?
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Correct. Despite countless millennia of evolution, technological advances and civilization, we're still monkeys throwing feces at things we don't like.-Zed.
Imperial Flyers don't actually "fly" they just go fast enough that they fall in an arc that keeps them parallel to the ground. -Clockwork Zion
No, those are just regular, if slightly happy, missile pods. The ecstasy all comes from the various Eldar pirates that tag along with the fleet. They supply all the best party drugs to the Tau Dubstep Cadre, the TGG Rynnish 41st and the Crimson Fists who run the show. Lemme tell ya, it takes some serious narcotics to get a Fist stoned out of his mind. The Eldar haemonculi took it as a sort of personal challenge, and developed a synthetic hierophant tranquilizer that would placate even the most hardened Noise Marine. They tried to translate it from the eldar name, but the Gothic tongue was simply insufficient to carry all the nuanced profanity, and so it was renamed to simply "happy juice," and regularly mixed into the frosting on Lord Akira's chocolate cake. That dude loves cake.
Does this mean you're doing Eldar too?!!!
Also nice pimp cane (/stave)
It's everything I hoped it would be, and so much more.
And it's not even finished.
Oh, and I'm just gonna drop a name, Shas'O'Bl'Ing. Could go somewhere
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Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
Selym: "Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.
H.B.M.C: You can't lobotomise someone twice.
liquidjoshi wrote: It's everything I hoped it would be, and so much more.
And it's not even finished.
Oh, and I'm just gonna drop a name, Shas'O'Bl'Ing. Could go somewhere
I'm thinking mobster possed Cadre Fireblade kitted out w suit, rings, chain, the lot
EDIT: plus henchmen FWs?
Most definitely good sir
Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
Selym: "Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.
H.B.M.C: You can't lobotomise someone twice.
@Brother Payne: Maybe eventually. For now, the Eldar only occupy a place in the army's fluff, same as the mindshackled Cyrpteks and de-limited Mechanicum magi. Also, I guess firing the baneblade's gun repeatedly could cause motion sickness.
@liquidjoshi: Thanks, and i haven't even attached the naked chicks yet.
@Ferret: Rad is pretty much what I'm going for here
Oh, as to the mob boss Fireblade, I don't think I'm going to build that one. I really don't want to add too many more fire warriors, and the Fireblade just doesn't seem worth it to me. I'm going to fill out the Diplomats and the Pimps, and then any other troops choices will either be Farsight crisis teams, water caste counts-as Kroot, of Rynnish PDF.
bossfearless wrote: @Brother Payne: Maybe eventually. For now, the Eldar only occupy a place in the army's fluff, same as the mindshackled Cyrpteks and de-limited Mechanicum magi. Also, I guess firing the baneblade's gun repeatedly could cause motion sickness.
@liquidjoshi: Thanks, and i haven't even attached the naked chicks yet.
@Ferret: Rad is pretty much what I'm going for here
Oh, as to the mob boss Fireblade, I don't think I'm going to build that one. I really don't want to add too many more fire warriors, and the Fireblade just doesn't seem worth it to me. I'm going to fill out the Diplomats and the Pimps, and then any other troops choices will either be Farsight crisis teams, water caste counts-as Kroot, of Rynnish PDF.
From your comment on motion sickness I'm guessing you missed the bear bottle...
Regarding the mob boss Fireblade, if your want to go with diplomats and such why not an "enforcer" or something along those lines. I'm sure the Tau negotiators need a little "help" from time to time
Note to the reader: my username is not arrogance. No, my name is taken from the most excellent of commanders: Lord Castellan Creed, of the Imperial Guar- I mean Astra Militarum - who has a special rule known only as "Tactical Genius"... Although nowhere near as awesome as before, it now allows some cool stuff for the Guar- Astra Militarum - player. FEAR ME AND MY TWO WARLORD TRAITS.
Expounding on the exact role of the pimp suit in the cadre, it's important to think about where these tau are in the galaxy. They're carving a path along the galactic south, heading towards Holy Terra and a confrontation with the Emprah himself.
They will not be resupplied by the Tau Empire, not now, not ever.
In joining the crusade of Magos Fortinbras, the Cadre committed itself to the longest military deployment ever undertaken by any Tau besides perhaps Farsight himself. The humans measure their campaigns in decades and centuries, a concept utterly foreign to the Tau way of fighting. Fio'El Upgrayedd, with two D's for his double dose of pimping plasma, is the chief matchmaker of the Dubstep Cadre. It falls to him and his team to oversee reproductive operations and keep the Cadre at fighting strength despite battlefield casualties and eventual old age. It is a position of honor, though one that has never been necessary until now.
Upgrayedd matches potential mates based on their mutual genetic suitability, and also based upon the physical preferences of either partner. This process is not the most polite, nor the most private and intimacy certainly suffers, but partners are not bound to one another in any long term fashion, free to pursue their own desired mate should they choose. As a matter of necessity, the majority of the offspring conceived in this matter are engineered to be female, giving the Dubstep Cadre its reputation for excessive numbers of female troopers.
While it is generally seen as an unproductive way to spend one's non-combat hours, fighting for so long alongside so many alien species has led to a surprising amount of cross-species involvement. Occasionally, Imperial personnel of their prudish religious caste are known to refer to these unions as the wretched spawn of loathsome abomination. But nobody likes them, and they are left to rant and rave in solitude on the lower decks of the Recompense, tasked with cleaning the kroot latrines. Due to the myriad complications that can be involved in cross-species fornication, Fio'El Upgrayedd provides a number of functions ranging from education to the treatment of exotic venerial diseases (because you really don't want Khaine's Burning Brand spreading through the ranks), as well as the provision of adapters designed to allow various species to interface their bits with one another.
Having begun his career as a battlesuit technician and later a test pilot, Fio'El Upgrayedd is no stranger to the operation of a Crisis suit, and was well within his rights to request a place in Darkblade's command cluster. The decision to include him in combat protocols has yielded unexpected fruit, as his keen eye for a warrior's attributes has led to the identification of ideal mated pairs based on intra-unit chemistry.
When all is said and done, Upgrayedd fills a vital role within the Cadre, but he has clearly let his position go to his head and now takes far too much pleasure in his role as the Cadre Pimp.
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I may have put too much thought into this. Also, I like writing. Novel is almost halfway done, I think. It's the longest I've ever written on any one project, and that has me rather excited to see it finished. Aside from the benefits, the great pay, all the vacation, everything like that, the one thing I love most about my job is the amount of free time I have. Most of the guys out here, they lament it. They whine about how boring it is and how there's nothing to do, but I never see them doing anything with this enormous resource we've been given. Think about it. Time is the one thing there's never enough of, that you can never get back once it's been wasted. To have a job that gives you seemingly endless amounts of free time is a blessing that very few people seem to be able to recognize.
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Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
Selym: "Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.
H.B.M.C: You can't lobotomise someone twice.
Brother Payne wrote: I had not previously appreciated how much of a brothel your cadre is...
Also what's your job? I must've messed that a while back
I'm a security contractor in Saudi Arabia. We're sort of like mercenaries, but deployed as a defensive force. My company is involved with the Saudi national guard, training them to use newer and more modern equipment. Of course, Saudi is as safe as you're gonna get in this region, so my security squad ends up being little more than high-end rental cops. We patrol our residential compound and generally just sit at desks monitoring cameras and tracking personnel. Not glorious in the slightest. The boredom of it is palpable. It's like Groundhog Day out here, every single day exactly the same, and that drives some people crazy. But if you're the creative type, you can use it to your advantage. For me, it's a mix every day of writing, building, sculpting and pumping iron.
That's the weird thing for me. I was a total civilian when I got the job last year. They wouldn't have even looked at me if I didn't have a friend on the inside begging the boss on my behalf. Took him to Thailand a few months back, all expenses paid to say 'thank you.'
We're not part of the military, because the Saudis have declared that there are no American military personnel in the Kingdom. And when those yahoos 'declare' something, everyone has to give in to it or else face the wrath of a Saudi tantrum on a geopolitical scale. You would not believe how bad their tantrums get, it's just insane.
I switched careers from "broke and just out of college doing crap jobs with no future" to "get paid $70k a year tax free to play video games all day". Best career switch ever.
I switched careers from "broke and just out of college doing crap jobs with no future" to "get paid $70k a year tax free to play video games all day". Best career switch ever.
IMPOSSIBLE IS RELATIVE 
