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And Renegades arrived today.

Finished up work, and a quick read in the Smallest Room.

Had quite forgotten how nasty Eldar could be when wielded effectively. A Warlock stand could do nasty things, including taking down a fully shielded Titan with just a modicum of luck. And them allowing you retroactively place orders for Eldar units within 10cm is Beast Mode for a cunning player.

Oh, and remembered I’ll need to source a copy of Space Marine Battles.....

This week I've been finishing more tactical and assault marines to be able to field a full Battle Company:



So now I can do this, weeee ^^



The Rhinos were a failed print, actually; I didn't do the right times and the print is all layer-y... but as I've been separated from my printers for months now, it's not like I can print more right now, so they'll have to do I guess:





This week I've also painted some close support units of the holy orders of kboom and zchort:

So much Epic epicness in this thread! Been lurking here for a bit watching all the armies take shape.

Albertorius, I especially approve of your Epic 40K Orkiness to balance out all these beekeez. (EDIT: Those layer-printed Rhinos were clearly built from local materials while on campaign. Good old STC designs.)

I haven't done much Epic in a couple of years, but here's some pics of the Ork army I did a while ago. I'm not the world's greatest painter, but it looks pretty good on the table. Played a lot of 3rd ed games with it. Many humies were stomped and floaty elf tanks exploded.

(These are flickr photos so they might not work properly--if you can't see them, please let me know.)

Waaagh! Gobsmak (that's him with the black banner there)


As you can see, it all went a bit Mad Max. I started out with limited sprues and barely any wagons, so I had to get creative with kitbashes. The bases are 20mm round boardgame counters.


I put three or four Orks to a base to make the most of my meagre boyz supply.
Please ignore the dodgily painted back banners on the bosses... ahem.


The no. 1 best old-school investment for kitbashing Epic Ork vehicles is an old plastic Mega Gargant. Take it apart and use the bits on EVERYTHING. It's got like a million turrets, for starters.


Jeez, these photos aren't too great... I really should go back and redo them.

Weirdboy Towers in purple on the lower left--both made from Mega Gargant parts on plastic wagons. The clawed fing on the right counts as a Squiggoth.


Big Gunz and Pulsa Rokkitz. (Pulsas were errata'd to a reduced 30cm range in an Epic Magazine from Fanatic, which I recommend as they're too good otherwise.)


Doofwagon (another Squiggoth). Death by sonically amplified rockin' out. Beat dat, Ordinatus!
(I don't think this model has ever actually achieved anything, but it's fun to have.)


Mista Skarbum, wot leads da Soopa Squad of Nobs in wagons. Dead 'ard. Rumour has it he's actually a Blood Axe so kunnin' he changed his clan and became a Bad Moon...


Random wagon boss of going fasta. Vehicles are on plasticard rectangles (I don't think round bases on vehicles looks quite right).


Widjet da big mek who leads da shooty boys. Ugh, the back banners are the weakest part of the army paintjob. I always meant to go back and improve them but never got around to it.


Speedstas with death rays (the catch-all 'volcano cannon' equivalent in Epic 3rd ed). Kitbashed from Micro Machine toys.


Fighta-bommerz wot fight and bomb ya. Classic little tiny 3rd ed planes, but I love them.


Battle Fortresses. More Micro Machine kitbashing. One Fortress for each Orky clan.


The Evil Sunz Fortress is a bit too obviously a toy car in the wrong scale... I should go back and work on it more. The Deathskullz Fortress is just a welding crane they 'borrowed' from a Gargant construction site.


Da big boyz... The cyclops Gargant is a regular one. The one up the back is a Great Gargant. Soopa Squiggoth on da left, counting as a regular Gargant.


Mega Gargant on the left and another bog-standard Garg on the right.


Like I said, not the world's greatest paintjob, but they look OK on the board.

epic work there Zenithfleet...welcome to the waaaagh!

i've infected so many of my local player group with the 6mm bug.

We have a DKOK player rebuilding his force in epic scale, as well as players for-general imperial guard, tau, thousand sons, khorne berserkers, knights, mechanicus



Now i just need to expand it for the rest of the armies. onslaught has such a nice collection of dark eldar minis. now all i need to do is find a player

 aphyon wrote:


Now i just need to expand it for the rest of the armies. onslaught has such a nice collection of dark eldar minis. now all i need to do is find a player

IIRC Onslaught also does some solid not-Tyranids with an old school feel, and not-Genestealer Cults.

They do both, vanguard also has a nice collection of the larger bugs (15mm).....if you just need to have a hierophant

There is an awful lot of Epic awesomeness in this thread.
Very envious of some of the armies that have been showcased here.

@Zenithfleet: I've got a feeling you might have to expand that Ork army, especially with some Aeronautica Imperialis stuff!

 Malika2 wrote:
@Zenithfleet: I've got a feeling you might have to expand that Ork army, especially with some Aeronautica Imperialis stuff!

The new Ork aeronautica stuff is amazing! Re-kindled my interest in damn Greenskins both 28mm & 6-8mm.

There's no such thing as 8mm scale. :p Space Marines are supposed to be 8mm which makes regular humans 6mm I guess. :p

Welcome to the thread Zenithfleet - and what an entrance !

Those Orks look absolutely great. Some really cool conversion work going on there and like you say definitely a Mad Max vibe to the collection.

Albertorius the Battle Company look very nice. Think the Rhinos actually look fine! At least their scale is more realistic compared to the old Tardis pattern rhinos, as mine recently got named in one of the FB groups
Love the Vindicators too, you can tell you are looking at an 'Iron Warriors' force that's for sure.

 Pacific wrote:
Welcome to the thread Zenithfleet - and what an entrance !

Those Orks look absolutely great. Some really cool conversion work going on there and like you say definitely a Mad Max vibe to the collection.

Albertorius the Battle Company look very nice. Think the Rhinos actually look fine! At least their scale is more realistic compared to the old Tardis pattern rhinos, as mine recently got named in one of the FB groups
Love the Vindicators too, you can tell you are looking at an 'Iron Warriors' force that's for sure.

Oh yeah, I have a load of those, I'll hae to use them for something ^^. Thanks for the kind words

I'm testing color schemes for an astartes opfor for my loyalist IWs. So far I'm testing these ones, one finished, one not:

Well, it took a while, but I finished my Sicaran squad:

I'm almost finished with my Epic loyalist Iron Warriors project: Iron Warriors 27th Garrison Detachment, 34th Grand Company, 102nd Grand Battalion, 51st Expedition Fleet.



From the above there's only two Fellblades and two Storm Eagles to do. Infantry wise, I want to finish these:



Hopefully I'll be able to finish it this month.

 Albertorius wrote:
I'm almost finished with my Epic loyalist Iron Warriors project: Iron Warriors 27th Garrison Detachment, 34th Grand Company, 102nd Grand Battalion, 51st Expedition Fleet.



From the above there's only two Fellblades and two Storm Eagles to do. Infantry wise, I want to finish these:



Hopefully I'll be able to finish it this month.

Looking immaculate! This is exactly how I always imagine a marine army looking like. Your infantry to vehicle ratio is exactly where I always imagine it being if we consider how valuable SM infantry is in the lore.

Now all you need is a few titans

Looking immaculate! This is exactly how I always imagine a marine army looking like

Even better since it is in epic scale you can actually afford to build it.

Looks absolutely awesome Albertorius. Epic in every sense of the word!

Thanks guys ^^

I'm sure it will look better when it's actually finished, though xD

As for titans, I'm painting an allied force of Legio Gryphonicus for it, which is actually historically accurate for loyalist IWs.

That's quite a cool idea, think the colours of that Titan Legion should go well with your Iron Warrior army.

I'm going for the Warped Dogs for my World Eaters. Really love that the whole Titan Legion is wiped out in one line of text in the old Horus Heresy background book, while they are assaulting Terra. Despite some efforts and research I haven't been able to find any other background or colour scheme for them, so will probably go for the colour scheme of classic epic Space Marine (one on the cover of the 2nd edition box with the marines) as again the scheme should complement white and blue quite nicely.

So much Epic goodness in this thread! Keep it coming!

Great looking forces, Albertorius and Zenithfleet

And... I finished the Fellblade squadron:



(the actual minis I painted this time, the other was already finished):

Fantastic stuff - they look bad-ass!

Are those 3D prints I take it?

they look very close to the vanguard ones

https://vanguardminiatures.co.uk/shop/novan-elites-super-heavy-tank-company/

The slight differences means they are probably 3d prints.

 Pacific wrote:
Fantastic stuff - they look bad-ass!

Are those 3D prints I take it?

Everything but the dreadnoughts is 3d printed on the IWs.

@Albertorius,

That is a magnificent army! Inspired me to get out my old Epic models...

What sort of stuff do you have TangoTwoBravo? Welcome to the thread!

Thanks Albertorius. I ask as I have a metal kit of the Fellblade - no idea from where it originated, I guess it was probably a pre-3D printing mould that found it's way onto eBay.

I'm prepping a HH opfor for my marines... the idea was a fast paint scheme to try and not spend way too much time with them:



...and also that it would be nice to use all those SM vehicle sprues I have ^^

Very nice, think you can mark that one down as a success. Nice shade of colour for the Alpha Legion (or are they Alpha Legion?!?! Dun dun dun dun * twirls moustache* )

 Pacific wrote:
What sort of stuff do you have TangoTwoBravo? Welcome to the thread!

Thanks Albertorius. I ask as I have a metal kit of the Fellblade - no idea from where it originated, I guess it was probably a pre-3D printing mould that found it's way onto eBay.

Thanks! Cool resource here.

I came to 40K from a WW2 Microarmour gaming community circa 1996. I have a mixture of minis from Space Marine and Epic, mostly Imperial Guard and Dark Angels but some Orks in there. I also have Squats with two Land Trains. I love the scale and kept everything. I'd get back in! Feeling inspired by the thread...

I wonder if a reboot at this scale with HH would work, building on the new FW games?