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 Elnibbus wrote:
Skull objective marker is suitably GrimDark.

And its nice because it could double as a fantasy objective also.

But I was thinking, does the skull pile need more skulls or would it take away from it?

I'd err on the side of less is more.

 Elnibbus wrote:
I'd err on the side of less is more.

Thats about what I figured, thanks for the advice!

Been kinda slow around here with the holidays rolling around, that and my work space has been fairly cold so I've been setting up some heaters so nothing goes wrong with my paints. Otherwise here's another marker. I took a terminator banner drilled out the base and inserted a vampire counts skeleton spear shaft to make it a flag pole.

Finished two objective markers and a WIP on a thrid

The first one is just a fuel drum



The second is a sword surrounded by a pile of eye glowing skulls. What sort of foul magic does it hold? and is it worth your soul to capture and wield?



The WIP is a death guard space marine torn asunder by a massive blast still clutching a grenade.

Fuel For The Fuel God!

Nice work dude

 Elnibbus wrote:
Fuel For The Fuel God!

Nice work dude

I'm just here for the gasoline. But thanks man, it annoys me though that I went through and mold lined everything and there are still some mold lines or they weren't taken all the way off by the exacto knife

Good stuff! I like the glowy skulls!

 Paradigm wrote:
Good stuff! I like the glowy skulls!

Thanks man! It is actually a skill I have honed with my VC and the hundreds of core troops that have glowing eyes haha

In other news I am writing a small biography if you will about my knight house and DKoK regiment, I am not the best writer but would anyone want to see it?

Hey all, this is my first time writing fluff so bear with me if it seems dry. I tried to write it in the sense of a categorization article to give a sense of my knight house and DKoK regiment. As always criticism is welcome.

Iophus prime

Planet type: Knight feudal world

Segmentum Tempestus

Sector: Uthuna

Sub sector: Iophus

Iophus prime sits as the capital planet of the Iophus sub sector and the planet of the Imperial knight house, House Vasa. Iophus is a hospitable planet with great fjords and roaring seas, making it a perfect planet for fishing to feed the hungry sector. Its spanning forests make for perfect fuel and building materials, though legends say large predators roam the deep forests and prey on the unwary. Iophus prime’s biggest contribution to the imperium though is its knight house, House Vasa.

Moons of Iophus prime

Polia- Polia is home to a medium capacity forge which excels in the production of ammunition void ships and armored vehicles. It mass produces sword class frigates and dauntless class light cruisers for the Imperial navy based out of Bakka. The moon is also home to the dockyards for House Vasa’s massive transport ships and small armada. The forge world trades trained tech priests, and ammunition for the food stuffs and building materials produced by Iophus prime.

Eshoth- A moon made almost purely of adamantium, it is the site of hundreds of mines and tunnels to get at the valuable ore to feed Polia and her ship yards. House Vasa holds lordship over the moon and trades the material to Polia for new knight suits, and vehicles for their liaison imperial guard regiment.

House Vasa

House Vasa is an ancient house tracing their lineage all the way back to Terra; it is led by a hot tempered gregarious man by the name of Baron Gustavus. House Vasa while ancient is a relatively small house with only a small amount of knight suits to its name, but the house makes up for it with a large percentage of ancient revered suits like the lancer and acheron. House Vasa makes up for the lack of suits with raw talent and unrelenting martial prowess. The knights hone their skills in hand to hand duels between their fellow nobles where anything short of maiming or death is allowed. These duels, while seen as un-noble like, allow for a greater martial skill that a house as small as Vasa need to survive in the imperium. The nobles also test their skills by riding deep into the great forests of Iophus prime and seek out the great monsters that live within, a kill of a great beast brings great honor to a knight and possible deployment to warzones to fight for the pride of the house.

Due to the lineage and the skill of the house’s pilots the Munitorum has seen fit to assign a regiment from the death/war world of Krieg to the house to help in their exploits. This regiment is the 78th death korps of krieg regiment, a mechanized assault regiment. The 78th takes the house color of burgundy for their armor along with their blue grey trench coats. The 78th has a high number of veterans which take to the battle in chimeras armed with melta guns and carapace armor, knowing they will be protected by their comrades with their autocannons leman russ battle tanks, and their knightly allies.

Wow it's looking really good. Keep up the good work.

Nice objective markers. I like your fluff too, good way to the your Krieg and Knights together.

RBeijers wrote:Wow it's looking really good. Keep up the good work.

Thanks man!

40kFSU wrote:Nice objective markers. I like your fluff too, good way to the your Krieg and Knights together.

Thanks! It was my first time writing any so I had no idea if it would be good, I was hoping it would help explain why my krieg have the house colors of my knight house.

Gustavus Adolphus of House Vasa? That's a nice Swedish empire reference (as a historian I approve). Can't wait to see more!

Great work! I love the ADL you made, it looks sweet.

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Nice job, lots of mold lines still visible though

swampyturtle wrote:Gustavus Adolphus of House Vasa? That's a nice Swedish empire reference (as a historian I approve). Can't wait to see more!

I was wondering when someone would pick up on that . Honestly I wonder how different Europe would be if gustavus hadn't bit the bullet, quite literally, so early on.

sir william the bold wrote:Great work! I love the ADL you made, it looks sweet.

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Thank you very much!

Jehan-reznor wrote:Nice job, lots of mold lines still visible though

Thanks! and yeah that was me being super tired and doing a terrible job mold lining. I thought I got them all but noticed some of them half way through painting and it was too late at that point to go back.

 Ustrello wrote:

swampyturtle wrote:Gustavus Adolphus of House Vasa? That's a nice Swedish empire reference (as a historian I approve). Can't wait to see more!

I was wondering when someone would pick up on that . Honestly I wonder how different Europe would be if gustavus hadn't bit the bullet, quite literally, so early on.

Having done a major research paper on him, i can tell you that his story fascinated me too. The Battle of Lützen on November 6th 1632 was a great loss for the Protestants in Europe. With Gustavus dead, literally everything changed again. A swedish metal band called Sabaton did a CD on him and his descendants from the 30 years war to the Great Northern War of 1700-1721. Its worth the listen.

Keep up the hard work, Im enjoying this P&M a lot.

 swampyturtle wrote:

 Ustrello wrote:

swampyturtle wrote:Gustavus Adolphus of House Vasa? That's a nice Swedish empire reference (as a historian I approve). Can't wait to see more!

I was wondering when someone would pick up on that . Honestly I wonder how different Europe would be if gustavus hadn't bit the bullet, quite literally, so early on.

Having done a major research paper on him, i can tell you that his story fascinated me too. The Battle of Lützen on November 6th 1632 was a great loss for the Protestants in Europe. With Gustavus dead, literally everything changed again. A swedish metal band called Sabaton did a CD on him and his descendants from the 30 years war to the Great Northern War of 1700-1721. Its worth the listen.

Keep up the hard work, Im enjoying this P&M a lot.

Yeah he has been a historical figure that has always interested me. You might want to check out the ring of fire series, you'd really like it. It is also probably fitting that baron gustavus uses the lancer and dies in close combat or charges a lot

A bit blurry but a picture from my game today. But I got to play nids for the first time and man the wyvern is the best investment to fight against them

A somewhat busy sunday, finally got my mantic battlezone terrain and one of my MERCS armies, kemvar, so I spent the day building them. I really like the mantic terrain, but one thing I have a grip with is that the connectors don't want to go all the way in sometimes so it makes for an annoying build. Otherwise the terrain looks good and it is nice to not have terrain covered in skulls and other grimdark stuff

You know, I've never read a history lesson in a PM thread. That terrain looks pretty cool, I feel you on the skulls. I was considering one of those realm of battle boards but fissures full of skulls doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Keep up the good work.

 40kFSU wrote:
You know, I've never read a history lesson in a PM thread. That terrain looks pretty cool, I feel you on the skulls. I was considering one of those realm of battle boards but fissures full of skulls doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Keep up the good work.

Yeah that was unexpected, Gustavus is an important historical figure but not very well known outside of a few fields. Yeah the giant pits of skulls turned me off of the realms of battle boards, plus the price tag . The imperial city sector is nicer but is a hellpit for cocked dice. So that is why I went with the frontline gaming mats and the mantic terrain, it saved me like 140 dollars and I get terrain as compared to just the realms for 300.

A test scheme for my mercs USCR faction, made it about 6-8 months ago. But I am fairly happy with it and I thought I'd share since I will be painting more of these soon.

As some of you may know I play warhammer fantasy with VC, and my group is doing a competition on who can paint the most units by the end of the month. Well I don't plan on winning that because I have hundreds of zombies to paint up, but I figured I would at least get one of my filler units done a zombie araknarok





Also what is everyones opinion on the color of the spiky bits growing out of the spider carapace?

Looks cool! The tones are nice and work well together. What will you be using it as?

 Paradigm wrote:
Looks cool! The tones are nice and work well together. What will you be using it as?

Thanks! I was afraid the fangs would be too much, but when I looked at them again this morning I really liked them. But this will be used as a zombie filler model, about 35 zombies worth, because I run around 120-150 base zombies in my lists so I wanted to mix it up besides the terrible gw sculpts.

So I finished my zombie arachnarok and another objective marker. As usual c and c is welcome.

Zombie arachnarok







And another objective marker, these have been surprisingly fun and I look forward to finishing the last three.

Okay last of the objective markers. Sorry for nothing super exciting lately guys and gals, but my cerastus archeron is on its way and that is going to be one of my most planned out models yet. Otherwise what should I build next the platoon DKoK squad or another infantry squad?

Some seriously cool stuff here, you've given me ideas for some objective markers of my own.