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 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Also, for those who have fewer Contemptors, and chose to magnetise?

I didn’t. And so have loads and loads of spare guns going. Though a friend has dibs on the Conversion Beamers.

I do you good price.

how many Autocannons could you in theory provide?

I’ve used three. So….four, I think? Pretty sure they came in the Age of Darkness kit.

Cats from my starter box. Tried to keep them as plastic as possible, but couldn't resist faction shoulder pads. Apart from that there's a just one cheeky combi-grenade launcher.

20ish more Cataphractii and their ride almost done, and I heard today that the world's premier Cataphractii sculptor is starting work on Grave Wardens

And this Spartan will rock those cheeky laser destroyers, as Death Guard ignores the penalties of using Ordnance.

Grenadiers.. Grenadiers everywhere.

Not Online!!! wrote:
Grenadiers.. Grenadiers everywhere.

Militia is a fool's errand! I'm backing The Damned for $200 (so far) and it's not even close to 1000 pts for an allied detachment

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
Grenadiers.. Grenadiers everywhere.

Militia is a fool's errand! I'm backing The Damned for $200 (so far) and it's not even close to 1000 pts for an allied detachment

? i got about 2500 +- ready, a lot of it already built, recycled an old project.

3 things that really help, Discipline masters, believe me you are going to need them.
Artillery, field ordnance and of course brutes.

Not Online!!! wrote:
? i got about 2500 +- ready, a lot of it already built, recycled an old project.

3 things that really help, Discipline masters, believe me you are going to need them.
Artillery, field ordnance and of course brutes.

I agree, but don't want to spend the time and money on all the converting necessary to field enough support units. Just 2 squads of Grenadiers with Rhinos is a huge amount of work (although I'm really enjoying doing them). I will fill out the points with Ogryns (as Line) and maybe a Baneblade.

I only have 2 Discipline Masters so far, and they're allocated to the Ogryns.

Mk II recon unit of five with sniper rifles or whatever the long barrel bolter is called pretty much done

first Rhino is currently printing to see how that turns out

Bought me a Vindicator. Gonna go with Lasers.

Been scouring the webs for Castra Ferrum files.

Physically, did post-processing on another 20 Mk2 tacticals and a LR Proteus.

Also pledged for a modest Militia allied detachment with Wargames Atlantic, I guess

printed a pair of Deimos Rhino, one as a kit and one digitally glued together, the hatches etc printing now. neither print is perfect (support issues I think), but both in ways a bit of weathering will hit or look like actual battle damage so happy with it

I've been having a bad time with individual hatches curling, I think I'll print them merged from now on

Family photo of all the termies I've done in the last week. Doing my best to not cheese out on the weapon loadouts as the local HH group has turned out to be very casual.



A few days break now, then probably printing moar tanks

they look very nice

and scary

I’m making proper progress with my Militia, now that I have acquired the necessary bits. Here are my Discipline Masters (both based on the same Baneblade crew figure), together with my WIP Commander (who is a combination of Scion and Cadian bits).

And here are my 2 Militia Rhinos. Unlike my Marine Rhinos, they are battle-damaged and covered in untidy stowage (as befits vehicles used by 3rd-rate troops).

loving the stowage stuff on those Rhinos

Snord wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
? i got about 2500 +- ready, a lot of it already built, recycled an old project.

3 things that really help, Discipline masters, believe me you are going to need them.
Artillery, field ordnance and of course brutes.

I agree, but don't want to spend the time and money on all the converting necessary to field enough support units. Just 2 squads of Grenadiers with Rhinos is a huge amount of work (although I'm really enjoying doing them). I will fill out the points with Ogryns (as Line) and maybe a Baneblade.

I only have 2 Discipline Masters so far, and they're allocated to the Ogryns.

Snord wrote:And here are my 2 Militia Rhinos. Unlike my Marine Rhinos, they are battle-damaged and covered in untidy stowage (as befits vehicles used by 3rd-rate troops).

Looks very promising

ogryns i honestly think will be an amazing unit, in general, shame about the restrictive power weapons availability on them though.

Still working on more grenadiers.

Converting a 5er Recon Squad by kitbashing lots of plastic kits. Legs and torsos from the Mk.VI Marines, army and Astartes Shotguns from the current BT not-Scouts, pauldrons and heads from the Primaris not-Scouts and all the grenades and pouches I can find a place for. Backpacks are as of yet not built, but I have some ideas.

Ordered 200 more 32mm bases.

I had a fresh bag of 100 when I started printing for Heresy and I'm out.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Ordered 200 more 32mm bases.

I had a fresh bag of 100 when I started printing for Heresy and I'm out.

They go fast.

My last 32mm bases are for Death Guard Inductii. n00bs don't get helmets. Found some nice bare heads that are slicing now.

Been a while since I made any progress on my 1st Legion, but i've got my printer set back up (although I think it'll be temporary) and a new bottle of resin, so all systems are go!

So far I've printed off enough parts for a 10 man support squad with Plasma Repeaters, 2 Apothecaries and some old skool bolters to go with my MkII marines.
Not a bad couple of prints actually. I've been messing around more with doing my own angling and supports, rather then just using the Lychee "magic" button, which is fine for the most part, but I found was resulting in more layer lines then I would have liked. There's something satisfying about cramming as much stuff onto a plate as you can and having it all come out well.



The top right corner is all the misprints, not too bad considering my failure rate with the bottle of translucent green resin I had, which was much higher. Just a few things needing reprinting.


Just need to get them primed and I can start on them with the airbrush.

Bare heads done for the Inductii

I also printed some Rogue Trader styled flamers to use as alchem flamers and wouldn't you know it, same day as I pulled them off the build plate someone uploads bespoke alchem flamer sculpts

 lord_blackfang wrote:

Spoiler:

Bare heads done for the Inductii

I always check out your photos of printed models, as you seem to get a very good quality finish and some nice details. I have to say in this case I'm not a fan of these heads. They look kind of bland, and the facial hair doesn't really work for me. Maybe the photo doesn't do them justice.

It doesn't, but I also intentionally picked the 6-7 blandest sculpts from a set of 25 because these are Inductii, the fresh recruits. The set also has heads with scars, bionic eyes, full heads of hair, etc

have a bunch of Mk6 breachers with primer drying

Q: you print in parts, is this significantly better than combining in say Blender and printing in one go?

have done mine in one go (I think I'll split the bases off in future though for easier supports), combining sees way easier digitally when it comes to "this will fit" but wondering on pro/con?

as in from someone who actually knows what they are doing

leopard wrote:
have a bunch of Mk6 breachers with primer drying

Q: you print in parts, is this significantly better than combining in say Blender and printing in one go?

have done mine in one go (I think I'll split the bases off in future though for easier supports), combining sees way easier digitally when it comes to "this will fit" but wondering on pro/con?

as in from someone who actually knows what they are doing

You gotta find your personal sweet spot. More parts means easier supporting and higher fidelity (and more variety in posing) but man oh man is cleaning a bunch of tiny bits tedious.

This is how I split mine



And I would maybe consider merging the backpack with the torso

To chime in on that, I find assembly in blender/lychee preferable to printing in parts. But it does mean that you are literally assembling your models as a one-and-done so if you aren't 100% sure or how you want the squad to look before you start then it's going to be a pain. Also means more time spent at the computer than at your hobby desk as you'll be building every unit in 3d which is just as time consuming (although less messy) than physically assembling them, and does mean you'll lose that building activity which for a lot of people is an essential part of the hobby. Does mean you don't have to mess about with files, knives and greenstuff with the cleanup and drying time entails, which is a big bonus in my book.

Recently remembered that I have nearly a dozen unbuilt plastic Castra Ferrum dreads left over from my crippling 40k addiction and I do love the good old boxnaut

So I've been tinkering with some HH era weapons and I'll start with a full talon of oops all missiles for the Death Guard, then something outrageously bad like double Flamestorms on an Ironclad