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them golden birds are terrain or future house ruled units?

The tanks are for the bases of my Custodes legio (if they fit) but I’m printing enough for house rules campaigns.

Finally started to paint my dudes

Hot glued thin sheet metal to the bottom of a plastic box tall enough to fit a Warlord and glued 8mm x 3mm magnets to the bottom of the titan bases. Now the box can turn upside down and the titans are safe.

Not to just finish painting them!

Purchased a Reaver melta sprue for £13.50 and the Knight upgrades for £9.50 - special thanks to Alpha Games for making that happen.

As mentioned previously my enthusiasm for the future of the game just isn't there anymore so I've made today a final hurrah, at least until the game picks up again. From now on its going to be Kill Team and a bit of 40K.

Right, gonna get these bits made up and pimp up me'Reaver!

Progress on the warlord:

Found my 6mm infantry for bases and rooftops. They seem pretty perfect for regular humans.

I agree.

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
sad thing is, we wont get any conclusion to this discussion before GW makes some infantry models for this scale, aka epic re release.

on a side note, just noticed that the 76$ terrain kit from FW has been split up in smaller 19$ kits.

The proper size of AT infantry models is only mystery to the people who find dividing by four to be an insurmountable intellectual challenge.

GW technically have released an infantry model. The nose and dorsal guns on the Eavy Bommers are grots. I don’t have a warlord hatch to compare them to, but here ya go, about 5mm tall in their seated position (which lets face it, for grots is probably also about their standing height given the way they’re always squatting and hunched over).

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
GW technically have released an infantry model. The nose and dorsal guns on the Eavy Bommers are grots. I don’t have a warlord hatch to compare them to, but here ya go, about 5mm tall in their seated position (which lets face it, for grots is probably also about their standing height given the way they’re always squatting and hunched over).

Nice one!


Y'know one could slap some small wheels on those to make little ork buggys!

Slaving away finally painting AT terrain properly, which of course means kilometers of agonizing brushwork for someone not exactly fond of drybrushing. Best combination when you want to have a dense and good looking setup for convention demos in a week... Augusta per angusta, I guess.

Keep up the good work Sherrypie. Looking good so far.

That power substation looks awesome, I forget which kit that bit is from.

I think they are the electrified/laser fence bits from the Anphelion Project, or something similar.

Hmm, I thought there was a 40k bit in a terrain piece.

I’ve got some more Custodes vehicles supposedly scaled at 8mm printed and sprayed bright gold to add red, iron, and wash down later. Anyone know if these look scaled right? I want to put a few on bases and use other for objectives or scenarios. The Pallas looks big IMO.

maybe.
found these 40k images on google, dont know what is what but seems to be a size referance you can begin with atleast.

Okay I saw that first image but not the second. The gunship is smaller than the drip ship so I think my Orion might be close.

I will not demo games on a substandard board, damn it! So, here's where we're at after three days of furious brushbuckling (apologies for terrible lighting):





It's all about this quality, two or three layers of grey with brown glazes and lighter edge work everywhere as drybrushing just ain't doing it for me:




















Also a bunch of bunkers, silos and storage units made with Epic in mind as well as finally, some pools! Water features are something I always like seeing on battlefields but that are often absent.




And yeah, Fajita, the fence bit is just 40k plastic. I think it first came out in some 40k starter, Macragge maybe?

cool stuff.
could be realy fun if you play with that destructive enviroment special rule =)

 FrozenDwarf wrote:
cool stuff.
could be realy fun if you play with that destructive enviroment special rule =)

That's the only proper way

When I get some thin plywood for bases, I'm going to create ruined buildings and rubble piles too. Destroying terrain is nice, but it could be nicer if the structures came down in steps: from whole to half demolished to only corners standing to fully leveled and whatnot being visually represented on the battlefield. That would be cool to do, with smoke and fire effects filling the crumbling field.

I keep meaning to get those LED tea lights to build into ruined terrain.

ooooh yea, a little orange blinking led covered by some steelwool or coloured cotton might make a nice fire effect.
and roofs/walls could be hold in place with 1x2mm mags to make a complete building that gets turned into ruin later in the game.

endless possebilitys when you first go down that path.

came across one of moust likely many DIY out there on making a smoke generator, prolly cheaper that way then to buy them little buggers as they are expensive.

Okay now that’s a lot of effort!

I feel like this Rhino is pretty close based on the picture from the FW site with the Rhino and LR next to it.

Looks good!

What ‘scale’ did you use for it?

6mm? 8mm? Something else?

I found a Rhino scaled for Epic, it’s not a 3D scan of an actual model but a very simple model that someone CADed themselves for simple printers. I scaled it to 115% and the marine to 110%. I found some breacher models with shields which are nice because they’ll act as support structures for the overhanging arms.

These are meant as basing material and for scenarios. I could see adding a few Rhinos to the bases of buildings and infantry barricaded on street corners or roofs. The Thunderhawk I’m working on will probably take a few tries, by then there will probably be an AI 8mm Thunderhawk released.

And why are all the images coming out rotated? They’re square images.

Storage units too:

Good scenery pieces, Sherrypie.

Got my little Custodes tanks blocked out, first row has been washed black which takes a ton of shine out. Holy crap I could’ve saved time painting my Titans with that bright spray and toning it down with nuln oil, it took the bright reflective shine out with one pass when thinned with medium. Live and learn, this might be a fast way to knock out my 40k Custodes when I get around to building them.

Tomorrow I’ll prime 7 little Rhinos, next week I’ve got a Thunderhawk and LR set up to print. Don’t ask why I’m spending so much time on basing vehicles instead of painting my titans.