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Good looking stuff here everyone.

And yeah, I wouldn't sweat the objective sizes either. If it looks good and fits diegetically on the table, all the better.

 Sherrypie wrote:
Good looking stuff here everyone.

And yeah, I wouldn't sweat the objective sizes either. If it looks good and fits diegetically on the table, all the better.

I just wanna know either way, they look sorta somewhere between 32mm-40mm. I think it's closer to 32 but if it's 40 for example, could instantly start using poker chips i got that are about 2mm thick as objective bases for ground level. Could do thematic stuff too, might be enough room to do a crashed ship in a nod to the old plastic crashed aquila lander terrain.

This weekend I assembled 8 dreads, these are the first four sort of finished:




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...and done. It's even LI-legal, as far as I understand it ^^



I fully intend to play IWs-IFs if I play LI at all. I aim to give people aneurisms

They look fantastic Albertorius - lovely yellow shading and contrasting colour.

I am doing first plans for a next 'mega battle' Epic project following on from the Crusade-era World Eaters vs Orks I did earlier in the year. Early days yet but going to go really off-piste with this one, and a force that (AFAIK) has never been seen on the tabletop before

Loving those dreads!

I painted my gargant! Wohoo!

I'll see you on the beach!

Crablezworth.. I have no words.. !!! You should be doing special effects/sets for films or something, honestly..

Amazing work guys. I have got my City Crushers set but have yet to start on it. Yours looks very cool Gitdakka have you managed to give the rules a try yet?

Thanks @Pacific! I only gave the rules a readthrough, and the seem easy to pick up and fun. I will mainly play my citycrushers in epic Armageddon , but I might pick up and modify the many scenarios from the city crushers book into epic.

 Pacific wrote:
Crablezworth.. I have no words.. !!! You should be doing special effects/sets for films or something, honestly..

Thanks dude

Got some shot of the auxilia on the board.

Tanks are offloading

"We're gonna need a bigger....oh, err....no-no thats good. As you all were!"

SamusDrake wrote:
"We're gonna need a bigger....oh, err....no-no thats good. As you all were!"

First list for solar auxilia army. Going with the same name as my old guard army, the 317th Sathanas Hoplites. The symbol is from an oats studio short on youtube called firebase. Hoping to find a way to stencil it on the planes or get a transfer made.

That's a beautiful-looking army!

Did a test game with my new ork gargant vs my guard. The orks got pretty slaughtered, but the gargant went berserk and the greenskins still won the game. Smoldering wreckege of warhounds and smoking ashpiles and gore were guardsmen made their stand!

PSA, if you can get your hands on the new civitas ruins box, it actually makes a lot of ruins. I managed to make 12 out of the box. Also had enough parts to build 3 defense lines. I put the shipping crates on 40mm's as objective markers for a scenario with a crashed freighter.

The new civitas ruins box really makes a lot of ruins. Also added some extra bits to help weigh them down. There was enough parts to make 3 little sections of defense line that look pretty sharp, got a couple shots with infantry/tank for scale. Lastly I saved the two wrecked crate parts and put them on 40mm bases. going to use them as special objective markers for a scenario with a crashed freighter.

Nice ruins!

Think those look really nice Crablezworth, and very efficient use of that kit!

So for a break from doing the new Legions stuff I have finished off these Eldar Doomweavers. Felt a little guilty as these were opened from new (and I can tell you now that they did not cost 3.99! ) so spent a bit of time on them trying to do justice. I have followed the classic GW colour scheme for these, which was black and then just little bits of colour to denote the Craftworld.

Some colour tests later and I'm now happy with my IW colours. Took a bit of experimentation to get the right brightness for this scale. The method I settled on I can do fairly quickly too, especially if I dont do marines with plasma glow.

Those look really great Westiebeastie! Think that is a nice scheme for those going forward, and fair play finishing the hazard stripes on the shoulder pads.

I have done a few Night Lords in amongst other Epic bits.

Good work guys!

I played a homebrew scenario today, "battle for orks drift". Some guardsmen tried to hold their outpost vs overwhelming attacking orks. But reinforcents arrived and turned the tide! In the final round the orks managed to rout the imperial shadowswords from the objective with their very last big shoota salvo. It was an even fight but an ork victory.

Russ company I needed for my not-Vostroyan army ^^




And I'm painting more IFs...



...but so far I've only completed these:



Also, these scale comparisons are fun xD

Those are some particularly nice Russes there.

All merit of the sculpts, they are gorgeous ^^

I'm horribly indecisive, so I painted a rainbow of legions...



Still not sure which one I'll go with. Already have an existing Ultramarine force, so maybe them. Dark Angels are nice but black models at this scale, I dunno, feel like I want something more visually distinctive, but maybe as a whole army with a contrasting base colour they'd look cool. The non-metallic Alpha Legion feel a bit different, I think it'd look cool on some of the bigger tanks and aircraft where the purple -> blue -> teal transition would be more obvious (or maybe I wouldn't be able to make the blend look smooth enough...). The Word Bearers came out a bit flat looking, if I were going to go that direction they'd probably need more highlighting to make the red a bit punchier. The Imperial fists I don't really like how they came out, should have gone with a more orange-yellow (the one pictured was Imp Fist Yellow over a Skeleton Horde preshade). Something about White Scars just looks cool at this scale, a bit of weathering on it and I think it'd look nice as a whole army.

Honestly, they all look cool ^^, but if were I to choose, I prefer from the above the Scars, the Sons the Ultras and the Angels, and of those the Scars and the Angels I'd say need a bit more to really pop up.

Yeah, loving everything I see here. Albertorius Russes are incredible, that weathering is a work of art and I love the lil vostroyan tank commander (is that a 3d print?).

I think the rhinos all look good, though something looks "off" with the alpha legion, i think it reads too blue (at least in photos) rather than the teal/turquoise color im more used to. I initially thought they were ultramarines tbh when I first glanced at the photo. Something about the ultramarine rhino seems a bit off as well - it looks very good, I love the richness of the blue, but it also seems a tad dark - put a bit more red on there and I'd have thought it was a crimson fist. I would agree that some edge highlighting on the word bearers would help make it pop a bit more, I think the red is just a tad too dark against the black and thats why its not reading the way you want it to. Love the yellow on the Imp Fist. Men have fought wars and ended nations to discover the secrets to painting a b right lemony yello like that without spending years painting hundreds of super thin coats. I agree, White Scars in this scale look great and I've been really drawn to them as well. The Sons of Horus looks good, i dont think ive seen a bad SoH LI mini yet, it seems like a very good color scheme for the scale thats hard to screw up.

I see what you mean about the dark angels - good on you for making heavy use of white and red to provide something visually interesting, but I agree that the black still kinda reads flat - it looks good, but also feels like its missing dimension. I think, unfortunately, the key to making the black legions look good at this scale is going to end up being to not paint them black - use non-standard amounts of their secondary colors to brighten them up and provide more contrast, use darker greys or dark blues, etc. in place of actual black. If you're using contrast I think basilicum grey could work, might need a double-coating to get it sufficiently dark enough. Unfortunately, I think what you really need to do with the black minis at this scale is a very aggressive edge highlight to create that depth. I'm not sure that you can cheat it with drybrushing or undershading/slapchop techniques. That highlighting/shading unfortunately also extends to needing to do the secondary markings/colors in a similar manner - the white looks fine, but I think the red needs. a brighter orange edge highlight, including on the diagonal stripe across the top Another weird thing is that it looks like the highlighting on the black is actually around the recesses rather than the edges? Like it looks like a reverse highlight/the highlights are in the "negative space" that should be shaded, and the raised edges look darker than the inside corners?

chaos0xomega wrote:
Yeah, loving everything I see here. Albertorius Russes are incredible, that weathering is a work of art and I love the lil vostroyan tank commander (is that a 3d print?).

Thanks! They are all 3d printed, yes: the commanders are spare officers that I had from when I printed the infantry I'm using.

Fantastic work guys! Albertorius, those Russes are just Honestly, those would be well painted at 28mm!

The little Fists are great too, love the old armour mark it suits them really well.

AllSeeingSkink - love that you have properly done the Rhinos, that's a good way of deciding. I like the Whitescars, lovely deep read and really pops with the white. If it's not too onerous I think a tiny bit of weathering would add to it, but the 'factory fresh' works well as well. Lovely deep blue with the UM and the SoH looks nice as well actually, like the contrast with that deep green/teal and the gold looks really nice. So in answer, you need to do all legions

I have painted up some Fire Dragons - these are classic Falcon tanks (I have mounted on bases to appear that they are hovering) and Vanguard Miniatures 'Eloi' range for the Dragons infantry.

Thank you ^^

Last minis of the year, I'd expect: