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Hi there folks! I'm DarKHaZZl3 and this is my WiP post.

I've been active for a fair amount of time on the 'Bolter and Chainsword' (Me wip topic can be found Here ),
I also have a hobby blog on blogspot which can be found here.

However, in an attempt to gather a greater, more diverse amount of feedback I have decided to extend my postings to Dakka.

The post will primarily feature my long time 40k project; 'The armies of the Imperium.'
Basically I aim to build and paint an army to represent the forces of the Imperium.
My armies are as follows;
The Space Marines - Salamanders
The Sisters of Battle - L'Ordre des Angels
The Grey Knights -
The Death Watch -
The Adeptus Mechanicum -
The Imperial Guard - (Insert Planet) PDF
And various forces other factions based on imperial worlds (Inquisition, assainorium, Arbites and so on)

In addition, due to Dakka's diverse posting abilities I will be occasionally be throwing out some of my other stuff.
Expect terrain, Dwarfs, BFG, Necromunda and other stuffs.

Enjoy the ride!






Automatically Appended Next Post:
I thought I'd start with the nuns with guns.

I want a gaming force up and running. So I'm going to focus on painting my sisters.

So here is my current colour scheme idea;



It's quite simple. Bone armour plates, Purple robes, gold details.

I have a slight issue. I want to tie in my 'Armies of the Imperium' on a visual as well as on a background level.
The background I can work on later, however... I am wondering how I should do it visually?
Currently I'm leaning towards having The colour green in the scheme somewhere (My Space Marines are Salamanders, My Grey Knights are Grey and Green...)

So I came up with this scheme.. call it a 'campaign scheme' for now;



What do you guys reckon?
Any comments and ideas would be helpful.

I pose I should throw in some pics of something interesting.

Well, so far I've pretty much base coated most of the army in Denheb Stone, ready to be painted (I find it easier to paint bone starting from here as opposed to white or black).
So here is most of (but not all of) the task ahead of me...



Also I have desinged my Order iconography for use on some banners/tank hatches and such;



Trying use the visuals of the Ecclesiarichy, but more emphasis on the Angelic side.
Comments, criticism, suggestions and such welcome.

First things first: Welcome to DakkaDakka!

Now on to the awesome-sauce that's your post.

I love that idea. IMHO it requires an enormous effort and will I hope you can achieve because pulling off 6 armies and other random stuff all connected, wow, lots of planing. And I really appreciate with you starting with Space Nuns, always glad to see them

Paint scheme: Love it. The Purple really pops against the armor color and pops in a good way. It's a beautiful contrast and the green lenses are a very nice touch. Golden details are always nice with purple, very Emperor's Children. I would probably add gold to the knee symbol as well to the seal under the helmet.

I don't know if you like, but if you want a sort of "symbolic" feel to the army, connecting to your other armies, I would sugesting painting just one of the shoulder-pads. The right one for example. same thing as wearing a band, they are just saying "Yeah, we are with you guys" and I reminds me of the Deathwatch. They have the shoulder-pad with the Deathwatch symbol and the other with their chapter saying "Yeah, we are DW, but no way we forget our chapter!".

The symbol looks very good, it's certainly not common to see a symbol with the classic "heart shape" but it really looks good. I wonder about the middle "I". Is it the I of the inquisition or the symbol the Nuns have in the pics? Overall looks great but wow, must be tough to free-hand that!

Well, that's my 0,02 thrones! Hope to see more of ya, good luck!

P.S: Oh, and you probably want to move this for the blog section since this looks like a massive project that will be done over a long period of time

@ TheDraconicLord
Aye. It is a lot of effort. Especially considering I have systematically scrapped my armies and started from scratch...
After lurking around for years, I just decided I wanted to put a bit more effort into my models ya'know?

Thanks for the feedback. Based on your suggestions I did a 'one of both' version in the B&C's Painter to see what it would look like;



How do you think that looks?

Oh, and how do I go about getting the thread moved?



In the mean time I thought I'd post up a very quick painted version of the shoulder pads.
I felt having a quick mock up of the two shoulder pad colour schemes would be somewhat more helpful, just to have a actual realistic image in front of me.

I thought I'd share it here with you, so you can add some feedback if you please:

Front view:



Top Down:



C&C welcome and appreciated.

Thanks for reading!

-DH-

 DarKHaZZl3 wrote:
@ TheDraconicLord

Oh yeah, that looks better. Having one shoulder pad green can be a unit/campaign/army group marking. So for this campaign it could be interpreted as being an addition to their standard armour colour scheme. I like it.

 goblinzz wrote:

 DarKHaZZl3 wrote:
@ TheDraconicLord

Oh yeah, that looks better. Having one shoulder pad green can be a unit/campaign/army group marking. So for this campaign it could be interpreted as being an addition to their standard armour colour scheme. I like it.

Yeah, I also think she looks much better And that test mini proves it.

About moving this thread, this is from Yakface's sticky in the P&M Blog section:

Do you have an old thread in the Modeling & Painting forum that seems more like a blog thread than you originally thought it would and now you feel it should actually be in this P&M Blog forum? Use the moderator alert button (yellow triangle) on the first post, or send a PM to any moderator with a link to the thread and we'll get it moved (if we agree that its appropriate).

I'll have to paint one up to see what it actually looks like on a miniature.
But I'm definitely up for giving it a go!

I like the color scheme, looks really nice.

I'm not sure if your familiar with older fluff but, crusade badges were painted on the vehicles and armor so forces could tell who is who. I did that with my marine crusade army. They are all Dorns chapters and the crusade badge looks good on them. The badge and basing bring them all together.

So... About my lack if updates...

Yeah, sorry guys, my room is being decorated. This means that painting is off limits until it is finished (probably around Friday).
However, modelling is still all good. I've been fairly busy planning and organising and other such stuff. I'll post a proper update soon.

Peace out. -DH-

Woo hoo! I'm back. Sorry about the delay... I've been busy. Couple that with the B&C going down, updating stuff just slipped my mind.

So prepare for mass update. I'm copying this straight from my B&C WiP post, so I apologise if you've already seen it.
enjoy!

Insert reason for delay. Insert Apology.
Done.

No, but seriously, if there is anyone out there following my updates I do apologise.
Hopefully now update should be semi frequent (so long as they don't involve painting )
Enough pleasantries! TO BOARD!

I do believe we are back to the research/theory phase (Booo!)
This pretty much focuses on the part that are to be added to the road pieces of the board. The blank squares take care of themselves.
So, to make this easier to follow we'll have a 'Theory' and 'Practise' section for each detail.

First off...

Curbs.
Theory:

After having a walk around the area I live; risking looking like a mentally deranged person, I set about measuring the curb slabs.
I found they were roughly 3ft long.
This is roughly half the height of an average human male (I am 6ft 2/3).
So, the height of the 'staple' figure of Warhammer 40k, the space marine, is roughly 3cm.
Half of the space marines height is roughly 1.5 cm.
The curb for my roads would be 1.5 cm each.

A square tile is 24 inches long, or roughly 60.96 cm. To make it easier round it down to 60cm.
60 divided by 1.5 = 40. This is the number of slabs per side of the road.
To fully fit out a road this number needs to be multiplied by two, which brings us to 80 curb slabs per straight road square.
As I have two of these pieces, the total curb slabs I'd need thus far would be 160.

There is also the issue of the curved road square.
The way to do this is ignore the curve for now and concentrate on the straight sections of this square.
There are two long, and two short straights.
2 long = 14 1/2 inch = 36.88 (rounded to 36) x 2 = 72/1.5 = 48
2 short = 9 1/2 inch = 24.13 (rounded to 24) x 2 = 48/1.5 = 32
This brings us to a total of 80 slabs for the square, and 240 for the board.

Practise.
The first hurdle is what material to use?
I opted for tea stirrers/lolly pop sticks.



Seriously. Cheap and easy to get hold of!
You can realistically get 8 slabs out of a stirrer; 240/8 = 30 stirrers. McDonalds, you had it coming .



So lets test this yeah?




Nice!
A point I should bring up, when placing the slabs there will, inevitably, be a little bit of a gap; so 2 slabs side by side will probably take more space than the 3 cm total than they should. This is why I rounded down initially. However, it may turn out that a couple of slabs might have to be cut down/not use the full 40 per side.

Anyway, ONWARD!

Cut out the slabs...



And glue them down



Make sure to keep them straight as you go along...



And Voila!



Straight road done. Do this for all your straight roads... I know it is tedious as hell, but hey! I think it looks pretty good, and is pretty cheap to do.

That brings me on to the curved curb slabs.
This is far more difficult. in theory it should maintain similarity with the 1.5 curbs.
However in practise it wasn't that simple.

The first thing to do is, on a piece of plasticard, draw out the larger curve section, using the same method you did for the actual curve in the road (A spray paint lid, remember ).



It should look something like that.
Now, file it/cut it down to the correct width and cut it into pieces (about four).
Use these pieces to trace/cast another set for the inner curve (You'll only need three).

It should look something like this:

Outer curve




Inner curve (I apologise about the blurriness).



And that is it! Curbs done!


That'll do for updates about the board for now... it is a lot of text, and not overly exciting to look at.
But what is that white stuff you ask? Tough! You'll have to wait for the next update... well, a couple of updates. Next one shall be board features: theory and practise again.


But before I sign off I thought I'd post some models for your enjoyment.

In my last update I posted my sister list and the models that make up that list.
Currently they are in the paint stripper bath... due to a bad batch of white spray some of the details were a bit...blurred?
That and the mold lines were terrible... As much as I want a gaming force up and running, my new hobby ethos simply wont allow that kind of sloppiness.

In the meantime, I have been working on my Aegis Defence line.
I wanted to make it more fitting with the army's aesthetic without going over the top.
There isn't much you can add to the walls, so I just stuck on a couple of Adeptus ministorum icons and other sister iconography;

Enjoy the reems of pictures with very few words...












And now for some more words.

The Aegis defence lines Quad auto cannon is... well. Rubbish.
I really think it is very lack lustre in appearance. However, the kit itself is extremely versatile.
If you've ever seen the sprue you'll understand. The base is the same size as a turret base, essentially making it able to swap around with other turrets from other tanks.
You can see where this is going right?



Yeah boi! Sisters AA gun!





All I've done here is magnetise the ADL's auto cannons to the Sisters of Battle's repressor turret weapon mount.
I've then glues the ADL's weapon mount to the back to make it look a bit more substantial (And AA gun firing solid slug weapons would need some form of stabilisation after all).
All I need to do now is glue on a SOB head and the arms and she'll be ready to paint.


That enough for one update? Yeah. I'll stop here.
I have plenty more stuff to post, as I have actually done way more than I'm posting.
I'll let you all digest this lot for now.

Comments, and criticism more than welcome.

Peace out.


-DH-

No new comments? Thats cool. EAT UPDATES!

Hi there guys! I said I'd try and update more regularly and I will! So here is one! YEAH!

Again more words than pictures, but there's still some images to gorge your eyes on.
As for the words... slightly less enthusiasm and excitement there... I'm having a bad day

Anyway, on with the show.

First things first, some Sisters stuff.

In my fervent need to play some 40k, I set about writing up a some lists.
I've already posted my 1,500pts list, but I have also written a 400pts list (40k in 40 mins anyone?).

I'm not going to bore you with it, as you've already seen all the models in it.
Well...
All except one.



Now, I am honestly not one to bash GW. As far as things go I'm fairly pro workshop;
but...
OH MY GOD!!!
I have never hated putting something together so much in all my god damn life!
I am glad I only have to build one of these (which is why it is still NOT finished. Arms to be added and legs attached to the torso :/).


Sisters section done!

Back to the gaming board.

A while back I mentioned I was waiting on some bitz so I could moved forward.
Well, a week or two ago they arrived. I did all the stuff last week, so here it all is broken down into sections.

Drains.

Real streets have drains right? So mine will too.
After having a mooch around I decided to try a couple of drain types out.
Simply put, for an imperial world, the brass etch drain from the GW urban basing kit is by far the best looking option.
Insert prototype.



So theory time (boo!).

I went out for a walk to figure this out.
On my road drains are roughly 20 curb slabs apart.
In my previous theory post I've stated a slab is approx 3ft long.
So;
3 x 20 = 60 / 2 = 30 cm

A board side is 2 ft / 61 cm = 40 slabs of curb.

So we end up with two drains a side.
Two drains, two board half's. The logical step is to stick them in the middle of each half.

This leaves the drain on the other side.
When I was walking around, I saw that drains tended to alternate on each side of the road.
In which case the next logical step is to stick a single drain on the opposite side of the rod, in the middle of the board; the middle of the two drains.

Here's the result;





Drains done!

Next step. Lamp posts.

Same reasoning as the drains.
If you walk down a urban road, you're are fairly likely to find yourself basking in the light provided by a lmap post.

Again, only one option jumped out at me for this;



Cities of death lamp post? YES!

Theory time...

Lampposts turned out to be between 55 - 70 curb slabs apart.

3 x 50 = 150 / 2 = 75cm
3 x 75 = 225 / 2 = 112.5

Quite a large distance. Certainly there can only be one per side of the road, and due to the modular nature of the board having varying positioning of features is not possible.
Modularity won out in the end so I decided to have 1 on either side of the road (again, like drains they tend to alternate), and equal distance away from the board edge, and quite far away from each other.

In the end I went for having the lampposts 10cm from the board edge; 50cm apart.
This means that each lamp post will always be 60cm apart from the next lamppost on their side of the road.



Now, I couldn't exactly attach them to board; it wasn't based or painted, and painting them would be a nightmare.
More importantly they were bound to get damaged during storage.
Enter the magnets!



I've put one in each lamppost, and one in their corresponding position on the board; 10 cm in, both sides of the road, on both board half's.
This means that I can detach them at will (painting, storage, to remove obstruction in game...) and it will help to retain the boards modular nature.
The board pieces will be able to placed anywhere, and maintain the lampposts distance.

Boom.

NEXT!

Another feature of your local streets and roads is...

Manholes.

T - H - E - O - R - Y

Very simple this time. there is one every 60 slabs / 2ft (roughly).
So that is 1 per board piece.
The only way to keep the manholes 2 ft away from each other is to put it directly in the middle of the road.

As for what to use there were a few candidates;
A space marine top circular hatch thing...,
The top of a Tau Shield Drone,
An Ork Hatch.

In the end, I went with the most imperial one, The Space Marine ting... pictured here.



I'd post what it looks like, but it is boring as hell.


Anyways folk, that will do for one night.

Some updates will be thrown at you soon. Basing is up probably next on the agenda.
Those big blank squares wont look like urban wasteland on their own.

Comments and Criticism welcome.

Until next time!

-DH-

Hello, Hello!

I thought I'd throw you guys an update. Something different to distract me from things I need to do!

I have decided to strip down my Escher gang, and start again. Blah blah, new hobby ethos, blah blah.

If you want a nostalgic blast from the past my gang kind of got started around 2011 - Read 'post 2. The rebellion of a promiscuous Princess' on 'The Underhive Hero here

Here is the highlights;

Quote
I have a desperate urge to write some
back story to these ladies (and occasionally gentlemen/lady boys), hence
the title. I'm thinking of having the leader of the gang be the
daughter of some affluent imperial noble from some hive world. This lady
will have a certain taste for the Underhive and its many, *ahem,*
services. She's one of the only noticeably intelligent people in the
gang; this coupled with her access to funding via daddy makes her the
perfect candidate to fit somewhere in a gang hierarchy; seemingly at the
top, but being manipulated by some other agent. I haven't got round to
building this individual yet though so, one to ponder over when I get
round to building her and start writing the back story methinks.


As a general rule I'm going to keep the core story similar.

The leader of my Gang is going to be 'the promiscuous Princess.'
She is not and actual Princess, just a run away noble from an upper hive merchant family. She is strangely attracted to a life of crime and other 'activities' which go on in and around the Underhive.
She is also not the leader of the gang, as in the organisation, just this particular part of it.

The gang itself will be multifaceted. You have the people the 'princess' has recruited; these will be normal Underhive folk; I say normal, I mean normal for lowlife scum.
However, there will be members whom pre-date the 'Princesses' arrival. These original gang members have a greater involvement in the gang.
This section will be part of a secret organisation within the gang; a lodge, or, cult. These cultists are dedicated to subverting the gangs efforts to acquire certain objects, materials, persons and artefacts which the cult needs to carry out their plans.

Essentially, the Original members are Slaaneshi cultists whom seek to bring a warp entity into reality upon their world, so that they may seize control of the system.
The 'Princesses' gang members are unwittingly supporting the cultists endeavours.


Enter my bounty hunter, Dengar Roth. Dengar was just your average bounty hunter.
He's had some nasty run ins in the past and as a result, constantly hides his face.
Some say that this is just sensible practise, other say he hides horrific wounds. No one really knows.
Dengar finds himself put into a situation he is not overly comfortable with; He is recruited by an Inquisitor and his Acolyte whom have suspicions that there is cult activity within the hive. They do not tell Dengar this; instead they concentrate on the 'Princess.'
They know full well who she is and intend to use Dengar to get to her. In doing so they hope to gain more information about the organisation.

If everything goes to plan it would be a fairly simple operation... but in the Underhive, nothing ever goes to plan.


Anyway, enough back story outline gibberish...
I stripped the paint off the gang (Good old fairy power spray!), and got to work basing, rebuilding and throwing in a few new additions.

Check them out!

Dengar Roth and The Princess



The Gang members;













The whole gang.



As for painting, I'm going to avoid the traditional Slaaneshi colours.
I have the over whelming urge to paint them in an 80's theme... gaudy fluorescent colours...
We'll see how it goes.

Anyways, there we go, something different eh?

C&C welcome

-DH-

So no new comments?
But it is update time? No comments? Don't care!
Forward for the big E!

So, yeah... guess what happened (*cough*hobby*cough*ethos*cough*).

I stripped my sisters and started form the ground up. So that post before that said 1,500 points built?
Invalid.




Instead of waiting around with this project though, I've steamed ahead.
I want my Sisters up and running as soon as possible, while maintaining a decent standard.

So,
Step one; Mould lines, Barrels... in process, almost done.

Step two; Basses!
I want my sisters to be kind of in theme with my urban board... but at the same time I want them to stand out.
The theme I've gone for is 'ruined chapel/ adeptus ministorum building.' To represnt this I've used plasticard to make marble like slabs and smashed them up a bit; added cracks, chipping, bullet ricochet marks...
Enough talk. WiP pictures!


2.5 x 2.5 squares form the marble slabs.


Cut them up, and scuff them up a bit...


Boom!


*Shudders*

Only one is fully done, but they're almost their.... just the wear and tear to be finished and that is my whole army (except for Celestine's) basses.

Speaking of Celestine...
I'm using Celestine as my Primary HQ, but she will actually represent Cannoness Superior of L'Ordre des Angels.
While I want the model to recognisably St. Celestine, I want it to be different enough to obviously not be her. Most of this will be down to the paint job, but I felt a few subtle conversions wouldn't go a miss.
Enjoy!



Simple enough really.
Remove the dove, stick on the Cannoness Melta Pistol.
Remove the Ardent blade (too flimsy looking if you ask me), and stick on the Cannoness power sword (With a little bit of vambrace still attached).
I need to fill in the gap left by the joint. I might make it look like bionics to help explain her miraculous survivability.

On a similar, but apparently far more complicated topic; I seem to have run into a bit of a problem, and his name is Uriah Jacobs.
While I own him, I hate the model.
As such I want to create my own High Priest, whom is head of the Adeptus Ministorum on my Orders home world.
All I have so far is this;





Not much, I know. Any suggestions on bitz to use? Primarily after what body/legs/arms I could use.
Advice and suggestion greatly appreciated as I'm stumped.


While trying to upload the pictures my phone bugged out.... so I actually have finished building my Seraphim squad - The Angels wings.
But they can wait until another day.

Comments and criticism more than welcome!

+++++++++++

Before I sign off I'd like to share some other stuff with you guys. Completely unrelated to the above.

I shall explain.

My Girlfriend has long expressed an interest in the hobby.
I think it is mainly fuelled by her artistic side, though she seems keen to model and play the games too.
This is an expensive hobby to get into, and an expensive one to mess up.
So I thought I'd lend a helping hand.

We built her first Space Marine together a few months back;



She said that if she collected space marines she'd want to do either Dark Angles, or Black Dragons (cool choices yeah?).
Unfortunately, as cool as the marine is, she wants to collect Tyranids (what is it with ladies and these chitinous monstrosities?).
So, instead of painting power armour I thought it would be better if she learnt to paint on softer edged models;



TEAM ORKZEZ.

While I will be painting;



TEAM MON-KEIGH

Yes! Blood Bowl! (yet another distraction from what I am actually meant to be doing!).

I've had the box set a long time now, and recently, me and my friends have been playing a lot of board games.
It occurred to me that, if I can get these models finished, then it will be just like another board game; once the lists are written at any rate.

Don't expect an update about these guys soon. But eventually, they will turn up again.

Touchdown!

-DH-

ps: Colour updates to be returning next post.

Posting updates so fast you don't even know what is happening!
Speed is actually kind of the theme for this one.
Yes. I did a fast attack unit (I imagine that would be more shocking to you guys if you knew my generally accepted hatred for fast attack units).

Anyways, here is the promised update.

Introducing....
The Angel and her Wings.



St Celestine/ High Cannoness 'Abdiel Nathaniel, The Angel of Faith and Fire.'



Cannoness/ Acting Seraphim Superior: ;Émilia Barakiel Leader of Seraphim squad Jehoel.'



Flamer Sister front



Back



Right foot candle Sister front



Back



Left foot candle Sister



Jumping backwards down stairs



Standing on steps



Our old friend, custom flamer



Not really a lot to say.

The names are pretty much names of Angels I've chopped and changed.
Abdiel is the Angel of faith, Nathaniel is the Angel of Fire.
Barakiel is the Angel of good fortune and an Archangel in the order of Seraphim.
And Jehoel is The Angel of Presence and Chief Angel of the Seraphim.

If you'd like to see the full list of Angel name, I'm sure there is one on Wikipedia, or you can google it.
I got this when I did - http://whisperingworlds.com/angel/angelnames_a.php


As for the models...

I Used the same method as in the previous posts to create the marble and used cork to create elevation.
The candles are just modelling putty. I decided that as it was a religious-esq building a few candles here and there wouldn't go a miss.
I'll probably model more candles on various different basses, but these ones are specifically to hid the pin that is keeping the Sisters airborne.
The sister standing on a step has just had her foot bent into shape.
That is pretty much it

1 Squad down.
3 Squads of battle sisters, 1 squad of retributors, 1 squad of dominions, Celestine's base and Uriah Jacobs to go.
That will cover both my 400 point and 1500 point lists.

Forward!

C&C welcome and appreciated!

-DH-

Im always partial to the way washes look on any kind of surface. I think your army(ies) is/are looking great so far.

IrishWristwatch
Post 10/08/2013 01:10:14 PM Subject: DarKHaZZl3's 'Armies of the Imperium' (and other stuff). A WiP hobby blog!
Im always partial to the way washes look on any kind of surface. I think your army(ies) is/are looking great so far.

Thanks. I'm not one to shy away from washes... I am trying to do more blending/layering work instead mind.
Thanks for commenting though. I appreciate it!

This one is a quick gaming board update, as well as a sisters update, with a little added something else at the end.
Curious? Read on.
Not curious? Give it a chance! You might like it.


So....
Gaming Board.

A bit of a quick one.
I did some tests for a suitable basing material (Sorry there are no pictures for the majority of this, just words).

I picked three types of basing sand for consideration.

The old style coarse Games Workshop sand,
The new style fine Games Workshop sand,
and 'Calcium Sand,' from a local pet shop (Used for sand based animal habitats; Lizards and such).

Test1: Basic glue and sanding.

Coarse looks good for a bit of ruble, but is way too rocky for general purpouse in a urban environment.
Fine is a bit too fine, but has great flat coverage.
Calcium is a nice medium.

After doing this test I concluded that the Calcium sand was the best general basing material, however I was was not satisfied with the coverage.
As with all basing sand it tended to rub off a bit too easily. I know another coat of glue would do the trick, but I wanted to give it something more....robust.

Test2: Pollyfiller and sanding.

Basically mixing pollyfiller up and adding sand.
This works surprisingly well.
The Calcium sand looks great as urban wasteland, where as the fine sand make for a great tarmac effect. Coarse sand didn't go down too well.

I decided that was how I was gonna do things... then add a bit of glue and sand to fill any gaps.
So here is my wasteland board tile:



All of them look pretty much similar.
Gonna spray them Humbrol Tank Grey Spray and then work from there (I managed to get a load cheap when Model Zone went into administration).
I've sprayed one so far. Two to go!

I've actually put the tarmac on the roads too... didn't get any pictures mind. I'll post them next time.

Moving on!

L'Ordre Des Angels - Sisters!

I've refurbished and based another squad (almost). This time I went with retributors.
I need to do the backpacks, and the heavy bolters, but the important/ time consuming parts are done!

Bolter Sisters.



Heavy Bolter Sisters.



Sister Superior and Sister with Simulacrum Imperialis.



Squad Shot.



Completed sisters so far (on one of my sprayed wasteland pieces).



That is some bad picture quality (good enough to spy some tarmac in the background mind ;])

2/6 Squad completed; 3 x 10 Battle Sisters and some Dominions (for my 400 point list) to go (Oh and Celestine's base and a counts as Jacobs).


Sisters update.
Done.


Oh yeah, the little added something.

This will require some foregrounding.
A while back I was discussing the hobby with a friend.
This friend is whom originally got me into the hobby (and probably why I've ended up doing Salamanders).

We were talking about how a substantial portion of our friends were into strategy games and board games. Which brought us on to 40k.
A couple of these friends have expressed interest in the hobby before, just not the financial backing, time or resolve to build an army.
We thought it would be great if we could get these folk to play.
But how to go about doing this, without lending them one of my armies (as currently I have no playable armies XD), or throwing proxies around?

One of the pulls of 40k is making your own list, and playing games with nicely painted armies on awesome battlefields (like pretty much all table top war games). So this is what needs to be done.
Then it hit us.
A House army.

I find myself in a unique position: I have way more Space Marines than I have use for.
So the basic idea is, in adittion to my armies, I will also be building a basic set of Space Marines for any, none hobbyists to get stuck in with.
They will be built, and painted, and ready to rock; just like a board game.

If they don't like the game, then fair enough. If they decide they do, then they can keep using the house army. If they decide they want to use 'X unit' instead of 'my Y unit,' then they can go out and buy that for themselves/ donate one to the house army. Thus getting folk started in a more exciting way.

Anyway, enough writing.
I did a test model for it....well, I started one at any rate.



I've decided to wait until the new codex lands before continuing with either Space Marine project.

But what do you guys think?
Yay house army, or neigh?
What do you think about the test marine?



Any comments/criticism on this warmly welcomed, as with anything you see on my WiP, which again, I'd love to hear from you guys about.

Anyway, enough chatter. Thanks for reading guys.

Peace!

-DH-

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Hey guys, I'm back!

Sorry about the lack of updates. I went on holiday to Burnham-On-Sea... never mind eh?

Anyway. Updates!

We'll start this off with HQ's.

In a previous post I was complaining about the Uriah Jacobus model.
well, I finally came up with a solution/ a couple of possibilities;



or



Simple conversion really. A bit of plasticard tubing, a sisters banner and my custom shotgun on a redemptionist body.
I'm not sure about which head I prefer; The original redemptionist skull with priestly hat, or the manic, on-fire flagellent head.
Opinions on this would be most welcome (I'll try and get a better picture of the faces).


On to the other HQ conundrum... Celestine.

My main issues with Celestine were;
A) Her weapons - not a fan of the 'flaming sword' concept. Would much prefer two weapons/ remove the stupid dove thing.
B) Her cherubs - I wanted her to fly, but look similar in design to my seraphim.
C) Her base - I wanted her to remain somewhat airborne and have a fairly decorative, yet not too ostentatious, base.

I think I got it.... what do you reckon?









Stuck with the conversion I showcased previously, but finally got round to adding a base (the weird thing shes pinned to is the candle stick murder weapon from cluedo, but painted gold).
I intend, like many of my sisters models, to add candles and all that jazz to the basses; that stick will certainly be getting one to hide the pin.
The two models on the base are just some old redemptionist models I happened to have lying around.

HQ's - Done.

Now, back to basics; the rank and file.

Nothing much to say really. Worked on the remaining Battle sister squads:

Melta Squad;



Cut down 5 sister dominion squad for 400pts



Flamer squad;



Flexible/Home objective squad;



All the individual models are in my gallery or alternatively check them out at The Underhive Hero.

The keen eyed of you may have noticed the Sister Superior in both squads is identical.
I am currently awaiting delivery of the out of production Cannoness with combi- flamer to be one of my superiors.
She is the last infantry model that needs to be completed for my 1,500points list to be completed.

Last stage here is adding back packs/ heavy weapons, and then I move on to refurbishing my tank pool.

Who knows when that will happen!

Cheer for reading guys. Comments and stuff welcome!

-DH-

Sooooo. A lack of updates huh?

Sorry guys. I've been pretty despondent recently.
Firstly, I thought I misplaced all my heavy bolter back packs only to remember a week later that heavy bolter retributers use exactly the same back packs as normal sisters. D'oh!

Secondly, New Codex update. Just as I finally finish getting everything together again!

Anyway.

I have managed to get my hands on a copy of the new Sisters book. I have yet to read it though.
So for the time being, here is what was to be my final Sister superior



Found her on ebay. Didn't come with an icon.
I might replace the sword with something more flashy at a later date, but it will do for now.


Moving on.

I managed to sort some board out. I've finished the pavement on the two straight road pieces.
I wrote up a little step by step if you want to steal/borrow/use the concept for your own stuff.

You will need;

[*]PO210 00/H0 Self Adhesive Paving - found here: http://www.metcalfemodels.com/00-self-adhesive-paving - I suggest about 4 packs; two per road. They are well worth it to be honest as the can be used for basing too. I used them on my Necromunda gang[/*]
[*]PVA glue - While the tiles are self adhesive, the adhesive quality is poor. Glue them down.[/*]
[*]Tea Stirrers (See previous post about making the curb)[/*]
[*]A LOT OF TIME![/*]

Seriously. It takes about an four hours to do one board.

First off take a look at the slabs.



You'll be using the long slab, and the short slab. Put the squares and curves to one side.

Step two.

Using the lines you should already have on you board as a guide, put a row for long tiles out.
This should be about 5 long slabs.

Attach a curb piece (cut as before) as you go.



Step three

Unless you want a uniform running row of tiles, you need to mix it up a bit.
Using 4 long slabs, and two short slabs make another row.



Step Four
REPEAT!
Until you get halfway.



Step Five

Flip the board round and do the same on the other side.
This allows that half of the pavement to dry.

Step Six & Seven

Flip. Repeat.

DONE.





I love the way they look. Sure it takes a fair whack of time, but it is quite addictive and therapeutic.

A couple of tips;

[*]Make sure to straighten each row as you go,[/*]
[*]Have a cloth or sponge to soak up excess glue is necessary,[/*]
[*]Save detailing (damage, weathering) until after it is dry,[/*]
[*]Have a jewellers saw handy just in case you manage to go over.[/*]

This week I'll attempt to do some of the curved road piece in between bouts with the new Sisters list.
Harumph.

All feedback welcome.
Ciao