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Oh wow, Empire banners look cool on there!

 Sherrypie wrote:
Heh, I see some familiar claws in there...

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Heh yeah "borrowed" your idea

Some basing happened, painting might follow next week. Got to try some splash effects on that pool the Warhound steps in.

Houses Hawkshroud, Vyronii and Raven progressing.

After buying a bunch of cardboard dashboards I accidentally threw them away in a bag I thought was trash. I decided to Xerox one and try laminating it with magnetic tape behind it and little magnetic pins.

I thought it was too good to be true whilst building the Warhound kit that there would be enough weapon piping to complete each pair.

I guess my Vulcan Mega Bolters will just have to be pipeless as the kit is purposely short of one of the shorter pairs. Has any one here actually bothered with them if they're magnetised?

Not me. Too fiddly for my taste even if there was enough pipings. I doubt I would notice them mid game anyway and I know my limits as modelers(indeed I have yet to build warlord or reaver without any issues....)

 Eiríkr wrote:
I thought it was too good to be true whilst building the Warhound kit that there would be enough weapon piping to complete each pair.

I guess my Vulcan Mega Bolters will just have to be pipeless as the kit is purposely short of one of the shorter pairs. Has any one here actually bothered with them if they're magnetised?

I magnetized all of the guns and skipped their cables entirely.

Still... at least there's a spare head.

Actually two spare heads, but there are only two of the B20 component, the "bottom" of the head. Some plasticard is sufficient to circumvent this.

I still need to add something to improve the look.

 Eiríkr wrote:
I thought it was too good to be true whilst building the Warhound kit that there would be enough weapon piping to complete each pair.

I guess my Vulcan Mega Bolters will just have to be pipeless as the kit is purposely short of one of the shorter pairs. Has any one here actually bothered with them if they're magnetised?

I've magnetised the weapons and left the cables on, as it limits the freedom of movement. The laser and plasma guns both draw on the reactor, I imagine the bolter has motors which drive it and therefore need power. That just leaves the flamer, which doesn't need them, but if I can make the spare plasma cables work with them then I will.

Every combo on the models is possible so it doesn't restrict them in terms of which-weapon-goes-where.

Once constructed, the cables are barely visible, so I wouldn't say they are required.


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Mendi Warrior wrote:
Actually two spare heads, but there are only two of the B20 component, the "bottom" of the head. Some plasticard is sufficient to circumvent this.

I still need to add something to improve the look.

Could make the basis of a scenic base, if the head is buried/squashed chin-deep in the ground? No need for a chin-piece then.

Patriarch wrote:

Could make the basis of a scenic base, if the head is buried/squashed chin-deep in the ground? No need for a chin-piece then.

Most definitely. There is no need to add anything if you go that road. Otherwise, it is a rather straightforward manipulation.

With regards to the cables so far I have left them completely out. I was thinking of maybe trying to magnetize them, more for the challenge than anything else, definitely not a must in my opinion (yeah, I'm a bit crazy sometimes )

@sherrypie - I love the bases. The factories made from BFG carrier bays are inspired.

So my new box of Knights arrived, but my idea for converting a traitor Knight Porphyrion kind of fell flat. Mostly due to me not wanting to risk messing up changing the legs.

http://imgur.com/imGKIzL

As such, it's now a Knight that wandered into the wrong alley and ran afoul some Dark Mechanicum that needed a platform for their DAoT weapons. Now to paint the thing, I guess.

 Flinty wrote:
@sherrypie - I love the bases. The factories made from BFG carrier bays are inspired.

Wow, I didn’t notice that at first - that’s really neat.

Being 2 days sickleave does have good side effect of getting stuff ahead. Despite 40k megabattle diverting some focus. Now titans are ready for freehands(gulp), transfers, weathering and basing. 6 out of 15 knights needing last touches before same stage. Next will be 4 warhounds split between legions whenever they come(swear last time i order anything crucial from that store).

Poor Mortis "bit" outnumbered

Looks awesome! Can you post up those orks in the background for size comparison? I thought about making a homebrew Ork force with 40k models.

Fajita Fan wrote:

 Flinty wrote:
@sherrypie - I love the bases. The factories made from BFG carrier bays are inspired.

Wow, I didn’t notice that at first - that’s really neat.

Thanks fellas

I had some lying around and thought they'd make fine little sweatshops, very similar to some brickwall magazines we have here by the railways. Very nice pieces, I've used them previously with BFG space stations and moon bases.

So I might rescale and reprint my building facade template so the windows are smaller. If a Reaver is 25m tall or about 75’ the he should come up to about the 8th window, not the 5th or 6th.

*reposting because of a forum error*

Okay so after I took those pics I actually cut his waist apart and I’m reposing it downward so it’s got more of a windup pose and then tacked on a sentinel chainsaw to count as a chainfist in the style of a Terminator. I originally mocked up his legs as being wider splayed like he was truly in a knockout stance but the leg armor wouldn’t align if you pitch his ankle joints too far.

Thoughts? I’m also considering a Mechanicus heavy flamer as a “plasma cutter fist” to count as a chainfist. I always thought big chainsaws grafted to powerfists looked wonky.

Fajita Fan wrote:
Looks awesome! Can you post up those orks in the background for size comparison? I thought about making a homebrew Ork force with 40k models.

Quick shot of deff dread. Will later put gorkanaut one as well

Hmmm, so too small for a counts as Reaver unless I redo the legs. What do you think?

Fajita Fan wrote:
Hmmm, so too small for a counts as Reaver unless I redo the legs. What do you think?

Yeah would be frankly more appropriate as warhound tbh. I presume you were planning to use killa kan for those? You could beef up legs though. But would need to be quite a bit probably. Orks tend to be beefier than imperial titans so that could look bit small as reaver.

btw: Seems gorkanaut is bit less than inch shorter than warlord titan so again wee bit too small I think. Though at least has bulk so better than deff dread as reaver.

edit: found this on another forum for fluff describtion of size.

Mega Gargant 36m tall....
Great Gargant 26m tall...
Slasha Gargant 20m tall..
MekBoy Gargant 16m tall..

Reaver seems to be 25m. Warlord 33, warhound 15. So great gargant would be reaver equilavent in size(though more equilavent to warlord in terms of usage and strength) and slasha gargants would be between reaver and warhound. Maybe dreadnought could work as those? I'll look at evening how killa kan compares with warhound. Gorkanaut could work as great gargant equilavent.

Bulked up I could see mekboy=warhound, slasha=reaver, great gargant=warlord count as if you aren't inventing own rules for them while at it.

Killa Kans as Warhounds, Meganobs as Knights with their heads closed off so there’s no skin showing.

The deff dread body could still work but the legs need to be built up, I can probably build something in TinkerCAD to 3D print.


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Gonna try to have 4 more Reavers built by Sunday, legs are done but I have to do the torsos and magnetize the arms and guns.

I somehow managed to buy 3 extra Reavers off Amazon and forgot them until the return window expired. I have plenty of knights so I figure I’ll get another pair of Warhounds for a THIRD LEGIO. Yikes I’m such a fanboy. I’ve got a ton of green stuff and Chaos bits so I’ll made a 1500 point Khorne list.

1495pts

Reaver
Powerfist/Gatling
Missile

Reaver
Laser/Gatling
Megabolter

Reaver
Laser/Gatling
Missile

Warhound
Plasma/Turbolaser

Warhound
Plasma/Megabolter

3 Knights
Dual chainswords (all melee)

Fajita Fan wrote:
Killa Kans as Warhounds, Meganobs as Knights with their heads closed off so there’s no skin showing.

The deff dread body could still work but the legs need to be built up, I can probably build something in TinkerCAD to 3D print.

Here you go

That’s very doable, thanks!

First work on basing done. Nothing too fancy

I finished all my Warhounds, so I can now field a complete Axiom or Venator maniple.

You people are fast...

I went ahead with the traditional Terminator style chainfist and added some sprue as a guard with some bits to fill out the bulk. Not bad but I wish I had a bigger chainsaw bit to work with.

My traitor legio on the left (3 Warlords, 2 Reavers) and my loyalists on the right (Warlord, 4 Reavers, 2 Warhounds) with 4 Knights laid out on my painting table.

Still to assemble: a bunch of Reaver weapons and 8 Knights.