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 amazingturtles wrote:

facelyss wrote:
The space marine pets are absolutely classic! Quick question, where did you get that pirate monkey? I'd love to use him with my Freebooterz.

Thank you! the monkey is a neat little figure, he comes from the empire handgunners set, if i remember right. he would definitely work great for freebooterz!

I have at last rectified the lack of turtles in this thread:



The turtle/tortoise is quite big. i am thinking of somehow making it into a counts as dreadnought, if i can find the right bits.

haha...oh yeah, that could be great as a double-lascannon dread or something

amazingturtles,

Well with that Marine shot, looks like you have some work to do.

Cheers,

CB

That is the truth. So much painting, so little skill

But in the meantime, this!



Space marines have boids now.

Been a few months, but here is new thing! i just got a few of the easy build plague marines and did some light kitbashing.



Death guard can have pets too!

More easy build with easy kitbashing! And... bonus otter! I think. I think it's an otter.



I actually quite like how this head turned out.

Blight haulers basically are pets! demon pets!



Right?

In the meantime, a simple head swap



MORE BEARDS

paint progress, plus frog.



I want to try to paint his eyes... but doom lies that way

It's been a few months, but behold! my newest army!



Well, ok. they're cheap toy turtles i bought. but! they are also pets. I am still trying to work out the how, as they're a bit big, but they might work well as friends for primaris marines.

I love this! Pets

Going back to read all 6x pages

Thank you! i hope you enjoyed it, i'm amazed that i've kept going with sometimes

here is... a mess of an idea. the painting is horrible on the marine, he is going to be cleaned, but i think the owl looks good! what primaris captain needs a sword when he can have an owl.



more turtles to come.

Sweet owl! Nice to see you're still going with this project.

This is really a most excellent thread

On edit: OK, I kind of thought the pets thing would start at around Page 3 or 4 ... I didn't realise you've been doing pets virtually the whole thread!

I think your war otters are my favourite ... but ... I think they need bandoliers. Not guns ... just a bandolier each. Just one strap across the chest and over one shoulder. Should be dead easy ... some aluminium foil or maybe a Pringles foil (or even a lead-based wine bottle seal?) with the bandolier pouches greenstuffed? Go on

brushcommando wrote:Sweet owl! Nice to see you're still going with this project.

thanks! yeah, it's a slow haphazard thing, but so long as i keep finding new little pets to use, i'm keeping it going!

War Drone wrote:This is really a most excellent thread

On edit: OK, I kind of thought the pets thing would start at around Page 3 or 4 ... I didn't realise you've been doing pets virtually the whole thread!

I think your war otters are my favourite ... but ... I think they need bandoliers. Not guns ... just a bandolier each. Just one strap across the chest and over one shoulder. Should be dead easy ... some aluminium foil or maybe a Pringles foil (or even a lead-based wine bottle seal?) with the bandolier pouches greenstuffed? Go on

I really love the war otters too! and that bandolier idea sounds great, i'll give it a try.

So, speaking of that, how would bandoliers look on a turtle? Or perhaps a backpack of some kind? Those turtles i got are... big. Bigger than i thought. Note size here:



Pack turtles as aobjective markers is one thing i am thinking right now.

that'd be cool for an objective marker

 alabamaheretic wrote:
that'd be cool for an objective marker

I hope so! right now i'm thinking of giving one a rocket.

In the meantime! An otter with a bandolier! kind of! it's a first attempt!



hooray!

Nice! You need to make a house rule where if the character is killed in melee, his loyal otter pops the pins on his grenades and leaps upon his master's killer. Resolve as a frag grenade attack...

Those are absolutely adorable! I love the idea and think the bandolier works great, maybe other things to attach could be spare magazines?

One need a combat knife

Now that's a War Otter!

Fantastic job

brushcommando wrote:Nice! You need to make a house rule where if the character is killed in melee, his loyal otter pops the pins on his grenades and leaps upon his master's killer. Resolve as a frag grenade attack...

Ha! i like that idea.

Pneumo wrote:Those are absolutely adorable! I love the idea and think the bandolier works great, maybe other things to attach could be spare magazines?

I'd like to try that, and i know i've got some of those somewhere. does the cadian guardsmen kit come with some of those?

alabamaheretic wrote:One need a combat knife

The biggest problem is how tiny these otters are compared to most of the knives i have! They are seriously little.

War Drone wrote:Now that's a War Otter!

Fantastic job

Thank you!

Ok, i am still working on the turtles and otters, so this is a sad, non pet update. But here are some plague marines. I think the color scheme is working out pretty well!



They need pets too, i know.

A pack turtle/objective!



That is all for now.

That's pretty awesome looking. Having watched Breaking Bad, I can't quite help the feeling that something is about to go horribly wrong, but still -- pretty awesome. Any Ideas for nurgle pets besides the drone-thingys?

You had me at "War Otter of War".

Briancj wrote:You had me at "War Otter of War".

Thank you! i had me there too.

brushcommando wrote:That's pretty awesome looking. Having watched Breaking Bad, I can't quite help the feeling that something is about to go horribly wrong, but still -- pretty awesome. Any Ideas for nurgle pets besides the drone-thingys?

i've got a few ideas, but i haven't had much time to work on them. here's one though, a strange little waspy thing

I finally did some more work on something i started a while ago!



Finishing things! is... still not something i do. because he is not finished.

I am... still not finishing things, but here is something a bit different.

But still there are pets.



Feeling discouraged, can't paint well, don't really like the games that much right now. Bleh.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

Looks great Turtles

Do you sculpt all your pets yourself?

I was bored the other day and found these critters and immediately thought of this thread ...

http://www.mantisminiatures.pl/EN/14,0,Animals.html

They have Meerkats

 War Drone wrote:
Looks great Turtles

Do you sculpt all your pets yourself?

I was bored the other day and found these critters and immediately thought of this thread ...

http://www.mantisminiatures.pl/EN/14,0,Animals.html

They have Meerkats

Sadly i don't have the skill for sculpting my own pets yet. maybe some day... most of these come from various sources, I am always on the lookout for more! And speaking of which, thank you! Both for the kind words and the link, i don't even know where to start! meerkats are a good idea, though...

In the meanwhile, i prefer putting something of content up when I post, so I found a lazy little beastman conversion i did a long, long time ago and painted it up a little bit



He looks like he's singing, i think.