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2018/02/20 20:16:31
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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This message was edited 5 times. Last update was at 2018/02/20 21:13:24
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2018/02/20 21:22:09
Subject: Re:Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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2018/02/20 22:35:53
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Wicked Warp Spider
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Man, a lot of those Rouge Trader/2nd ed era Eldar models are timeless. I have quite a collection myself and vastly preffer 2nd ed aspects than 4th/current ed ones (except for DAs, those are a lot nicer in plastic).
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2018/02/20 22:39:59
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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Yep, the original Jes Goodwin Eldar hold up really well (with the exception being most of the Guardians, they're "meh"). There was an intermediate re-sculpt which were notoriously bad.
They were almost immediately abandoned in favor of a further newer sculpt, which basically mirrored the original sculpts. The main offenders from the poor resculpt were some awful Fire Dragons, horrid Striking Scorpions, and questionable Dark Reapers (I have two in my army above). The resculpted Banshees and Hawks were fine.
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2018/02/20 22:45:55
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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Love that old school Eldar goodness. Also a big fan of the Scion heads on the Aggressors. Nice look.
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2018/02/08 23:27:40
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Wicked Warp Spider
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Elbows wrote:Yep, the original Jes Goodwin Eldar hold up really well (with the exception being most of the Guardians, they're "meh"). There was an intermediate re-sculpt which were notoriously bad.
They were almost immediately abandoned in favor of a further newer sculpt, which basically mirrored the original sculpts. The main offenders from the poor resculpt were some awful Fire Dragons, horrid Striking Scorpions, and questionable Dark Reapers (I have two in my army above). The resculpted Banshees and Hawks were fine.
I quit not long before those horrid resculpts but I saw them a couple of times, they are awfull. From what I gather currently available Hawks are the only ones from this horrid batch. Scorpions were simply comical, Dragons awkward and Reapers simply nothing more exciting than old version. Banshees from that batch have too cartoony look for my taste. Modern Banshees, Reapers and Dragons are nice, but those are exactly those aspects I don't need more of right now. Harlequins are my favourite 4th ed era sculpts, IMHO they're better than modern plastics. Sadly I own only Troupe Master and Shadow Seer in metal.
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2018/02/20 23:34:48
Subject: Re:Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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[DCM]
Boom! Leman Russ Commander
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"He fears his fate too much, or his desserts are small, who will not put it to a single touch; to win- or lose- it all."
Montrose Toast
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2018/02/21 09:13:28
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Grim Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain
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Yderis Eldar sounds like an Asuryani movie star! :-D
Loving all this stuff. Painting is superb, and the conversions are great.
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Stormonu wrote:For me, the joy is in putting some good-looking models on the board and playing out a fantasy battle - not arguing over the poorly-made rules of some 3rd party who neither has any power over my play nor will be visiting me (and my opponent) to ensure we are "playing by the rules" |
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2018/02/21 14:45:20
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Omnipotent Lord of Change
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Great work throughout, and indeed a pleasure to see nicely paint OG Citadel metal Also this ^ conversion is shockingly simple and I am so stealing it - thanks - Salvage
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2018/02/21 14:45:35
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2018/02/21 14:47:41
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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Thanks. I use him as a Daemon Prince - though he's a bit on the small side. He would also work obviously as spawn - the plaguebearer heads slot right onto the Undead bat/ghoul things - I don't remember what they are. And you get a box of three for cheap --- and the other guy is my daemon prince with wings (from the same box).
Seemed too good/easy to pass up though I don't think he'd muster as a prince for tournament games.
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2018/02/21 14:51:25
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Omnipotent Lord of Change
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He actually matches the bloodletter army I'm working on really well - pale, muscles, brutality - could end up being a trio of heralds or something for me? Or allied spawn
Could you share how you did his skin? I'm not in love with my test 'letters so far, might need to go grimier like these lads.
- Salvage
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2018/02/21 15:01:19
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Wow, a very impressive collection with some very impressive painting.
How did you do the weatehring on your renegade marines?
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iGuy91 wrote:You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
Elbows wrote:You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote:Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming? |
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2018/02/21 15:10:35
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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Boss, I didn't do anything to the skin other than prime white...do all the blood effects (I just mixed various reds with washes, etc.) and dipped him. Army Painter Strong Tone. Since he's the daemon prince of Nurgle for me, I left the dip shiny and didn't mat-finish him.
CREEEEEEEEED,
The weathering on the marines is literally nothing more than sponging dark brown onto the minis haphazardly. When dipped I do tend to leave more dip on the guys so they appear even more grimey -- my Eldar are all dipped as well, but I clean far more dip off of them.
If you can't tell I paint quickly and I use any trick I can to simply get tabletop (or above) standard done, and I keep moving. Coloured primers, sponge effects, dip, grass tufts, etc. I've no painting competition aspirations, but I do not play with unpainted miniatures so I want to plow through stuff as quick as possible.
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2018/02/21 15:13:27
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Elbows wrote:
CREEEEEEEEED,
The weathering on the marines is literally nothing more than sponging dark brown onto the minis haphazardly. When dipped I do tend to leave more dip on the guys so they appear even more grimey -- my Eldar are all dipped as well, but I clean far more dip off of them.
If you can't tell I paint quickly and I use any trick I can to simply get tabletop (or above) standard done, and I keep moving. Coloured primers, sponge effects, dip, grass tufts, etc. I've no painting competition aspirations, but I do not play with unpainted miniatures so I want to plow through stuff as quick as possible.
Could've fooled me, they look above tabletop in my eyes, but maybe I've just seen too much meh over the years. Thanks for the instruction.
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iGuy91 wrote:You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
Elbows wrote:You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote:Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming? |
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2018/02/21 15:17:41
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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I should clarify, my version of "Tabletop" simply means that I'm not embarrassed to put them on the table, regardless of where I am. I suppose that definition would change immensely depending on the person.
I have buddies who are fantastic painters, could do professional commission stuff, etc...so as long as I don't feel bad putting my stuff on the table along with theirs, I'm happy!
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2018/02/21 16:36:32
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Omnipotent Lord of Change
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Elbows wrote:Boss, I didn't do anything to the skin other than prime white...do all the blood effects (I just mixed various reds with washes, etc.) and dipped him. Army Painter Strong Tone. Since he's the daemon prince of Nurgle for me, I left the dip shiny and didn't mat-finish him.
Really? Wow, I never thought to just go with white + washes, kept doing different layers of grays + washes + more drybrushing. My dipping days are behind me but I make liberal use of AP washes, so I'll see if I can't recreate. Thanks!
- Salvage
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2018/02/21 16:48:04
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Fixture of Dakka
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Elbows,
You did it as you promised on my log. Great classic Eldar.
Cheers,
CB
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2018/02/21 17:34:15
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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Captain, I like to think that combined...our armies would weigh a decent amount (though to be fair metal Eldar never weighed that much...kinda slight models).
I'm sitting on Baharroth, a squad of Swooping Hawks and their Exarch, another squad of Scorpions (or enough to flesh out the other two squads) etc. Not a ton of metal left, but eventually I'll be doing those up as well. The Eldar army will never be "finished". Whenever I stumble upon abused metals I'll scoop them up and recruit them.
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2018/02/26 17:02:53
Subject: Re:Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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I got around to replacing my original Plague Marine squad with a new one - done in my preferred colour scheme.
I'm closing in on being "done" with my Chaos force. A dread, maybe another tank or two, some bikers and one more box of plaguebearers, a few characters...and that should be about it. I believe my basic infantry are more or less done now.
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2018/02/26 17:29:38
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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As though an army is ever 'done'. Very nice Plague Marines.
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iGuy91 wrote:You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
Elbows wrote:You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote:Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming? |
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2018/02/26 17:53:20
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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My Eldar are the eternal army...the Chaos are more likely to be done, outside of the occasional "build a tank!" or "build a character!" kind of thing. Basically I have enough models to run most of the things in the codex.
I did consider a Renegades and Heretics side force of Vostroyans to "assist" the Chaos of course. So that would all end up as the same force eventually! That's unlikely anytime soon.
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2018/03/01 15:19:27
Subject: Re:Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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Malavyn Saal, Dark Apothecary of the Wandering Sons (uses Fabius Bile's rules)
Malavyn Saal comes from the same blood caste of Khyrum Saal, the Chapter Master. Malavyn is the wayward apothecary who led the secretive lodge which swore a pact with Nurgle when the Wandering Sons fleet was adrift in a warp storm. He leads the Nurgle worshiping portion of the Renegade chapter and is at odds with Khyrum Saal, so much that they never speak directly to each other. The uneasy truce is questionable at best.
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2018/03/12 02:01:07
Subject: Re:Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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Zoriskos, Leviathan Dreadnought of the Wandering Sons.
And some "glamour shots" I did this evening.
https://myminiaturemischief.blogspot.com/2018/03/40k-glamour-shots-part-1.html
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2018/03/12 11:06:05
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar
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Chaos is looking quite nice.
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2018/03/13 15:24:21
Subject: Re:Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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Thanks, Nevelon.
As my Chaos army draws to a likely close...it's time to return to the proper force on my tables; the Eldar.
Eo'Thel Starborn, Autarch of the Yderis Craftworld.
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2018/04/06 21:16:38
Subject: Re:Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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Some added firepower. While I found a much neater turret option I want...I already had this resin hunk sitting around. Hellforged Scorpius stand-in for the Rhino-Russes.
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2018/04/06 22:45:36
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I've wanted proper 40K MLRSs for so long. Where's the rocket system come from?
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iGuy91 wrote:You love the T-Rex. Its both a hero and a Villain in the first two movies. It is the "king" of dinosaurs. Its the best. You love your T-rex.
Then comes along the frakking Spinosaurus who kills the T-rex, and the movie says "LOVE THIS NOW! HE IS BETTER" But...in your heart, you love the T-rex, who shouldn't have lost to no stupid Spinosaurus. So you hate the movie. And refuse to love the Spinosaurus because it is a hamfisted attempt at taking what you loved, making it TREX +++ and trying to sell you it.
Elbows wrote:You know what's better than a psychic phase? A psychic phase which asks customers to buy more miniatures...
the_scotsman wrote:Dae think the company behind such names as deathwatch death guard deathskullz death marks death korps deathleaper death jester might be bad at naming? |
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1018/04/07 00:20:29
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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It's from Maxmini --- sadly they shipped it incomplete, but I found a way around it. The one I really want is the new Kromlech Scorpio turret. (of course I'll use both for kicks if I get the Kromlech one as well...)
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2018/07/05 21:50:19
Subject: Re:Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Powerful Phoenix Lord
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Been a while...haven't been in a position to do much hobbying lately. I've done a few things which I haven't photographed yet, but here is a fella I completed this morning.
My favourite old metal commissar - purchased, stripped and repainted as a gift for a buddy's IG army. Great figure. Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh, and a squad of bikers...
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2018/07/07 16:52:57
Subject: Elbows' Eldar and Evil Enemies Extravaganza: Evolution Edition
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Regular Dakkanaut
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Nice stuff..
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