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The only thing I'm getting for Christmas model-wise is what I buy for myself. One of the things I got was the Mantic sci-fi crazy box, and inside it was one of the Jotun Heavy Hailstorm Cannons. They're often pointed as a cheap alternative for Thunderfire cannons, and for good reason; they have a bundle deal that gets you 3 of them for $40, which can fill out your heavy support quite nicely! However, I wanted to compare sizes with the official TFC and the Hailstorm to see how close they were, so I busted out what I had of an old metal TFC. And they're surprisingly close.     The Hailstorm is slightly shorter width-wise than the TFC by maybe a millimeter or two on either side. It's longer than the TFC on the back end, with the height profile difference being negligible. It also goes together fairly easily--it's made of restic, so all one needs to do is give it a scrub with water and soap and you can start gluing it together pretty quickly. Only 12 pieces in total, and the dwarf gunner is a separate piece so if you don't want a scrunt manning your gun then you can safely leave him out. The downside of course, is that it's restic, so scraping off all the mold lines is a pain in the rear end. That aside, it's a good stand-in for a TFC, and if you wanted you could even modify it to be a Rapier Weapons Platform with some cutting and kitbashing--although the PDC Gaming platforms would be closer to the real size for those. Slimnoid fucked around with this message at 22:52 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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Does anyone have a dreadnought RIGHT powerfist arm they would be willing to part with? It could be from any kit really, normal, ironclad, furioso (bloodfist/talon), space wolves (wolffist?) I could give you money or trade some bits.
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Dec 24, 2014 22:59
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LordAba posted:If only they kept the 2+ armor save option. Plus they didn't give us any new relics in the Shield of Baal campaign. I want an item for a tyrant guard that gives +1 S/T to the hive tyrant that joins! I must admit, the one thing I was hoping to get from the Leviathan formations was something to buff Walkrants / Tyrant Guard. I have 6 Guards all painted up, but they rarely see the field outside of Apoc (Living Fortress is awesome). It makes me wonder, what would it take for them to be a viable alternative to Wings? The most obvious thing to me is they missed the chance to let Tyrant Guard take the same pod as their charge. The cost for them already builds up pretty quick before you look at adding the 2nd pod currently needed. Plus it would at least help to alleviate the mobility issues they have compared to Wings. Beyond that, I think 4+ FNP would be fluffy and appropriate for them ("incredible resistance to injury and only dimly aware of pain", anyone?). It certainly makes Guards more effective used as ablative wounds. Or hell, just make them T7 and let majority unit toughness do the rest. xtothez fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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Dec 24, 2014 23:12
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PierreTheMime posted:One day walking units of any kind will be good again. ftfy Seriously, when was the last time an army on foot that didn't move 12" was anything but complete dogshit? I guess 4th edition if you count Chaos Daemons, but they did Deep Strike shenanigans anyways so it practically doesn't count. Before that... 2nd edition, I guess? Ugh.
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Dec 24, 2014 23:20
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When was that weird footdar list? 3rd?
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Dec 24, 2014 23:31
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xtothez posted:I must admit, the one thing I was hoping to get from the Leviathan formations was something to buff Walkrants / Tyrant Guard. I have 6 Guards all painted up, but they rarely see the field outside of Apoc (Living Fortress is awesome). It makes me wonder, what would it take for them to be a viable alternative to Wings? Should let us use living fortress in non-apoc, its just so cool.
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Dec 24, 2014 23:47
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Jesus gently caress, merry Christmas to me. My coworker just brought in 'some old figs' he had in his basement and it's all RT era SM, CSM and Eldar. I've never even seen an RT era Chaos Terminator or Harlequin Jetbike before, this poo poo is nuts.
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Dec 25, 2014 00:03
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ZachAttack posted:Does anyone have a dreadnought RIGHT powerfist arm they would be willing to part with? It could be from any kit really, normal, ironclad, furioso (bloodfist/talon), space wolves (wolffist?) I could give you money or trade some bits. I'll take a look but won't be able to get back to you for a few days. No promises.
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BlackIronHeart posted:Jesus gently caress, merry Christmas to me. My coworker just brought in 'some old figs' he had in his basement and it's all RT era SM, CSM and Eldar. I've never even seen an RT era Chaos Terminator or Harlequin Jetbike before, this poo poo is nuts. Pics so we can hate you properly.
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BlackIronHeart posted:Jesus gently caress, merry Christmas to me. My coworker just brought in 'some old figs' he had in his basement and it's all RT era SM, CSM and Eldar. I've never even seen an RT era Chaos Terminator or Harlequin Jetbike before, this poo poo is nuts. I may be interested in some of the SM stuff if you're looking to offload em. My Sallies have been doing me proud and deserve some reinforcements 
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Dec 25, 2014 00:26
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AbusePuppy posted:ftfy 4th still had the stupid rules that made transports death traps. Penetrating hit? Had to get out. Explodes? Auto-pin. Ordnance explosion? Everyone in the transport is dead too.
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Dec 25, 2014 00:27
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BlackIronHeart posted:Jesus gently caress, merry Christmas to me. My coworker just brought in 'some old figs' he had in his basement and it's all RT era SM, CSM and Eldar. I've never even seen an RT era Chaos Terminator or Harlequin Jetbike before, this poo poo is nuts. Jealously pics please. Rogue Trader era Harlequin Jetbikes are amazing, did you get the Maximum Overdrive face?
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PierreTheMime posted:Merry Christmas! May the Hive Mind devour us, every one! And a hobby new year.
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Okay, excuse the lovely office lighting and cell phone pics.   He also brought in 12 recent edition pewter GK Termis and a handful of pewter 40k Inquisitors + retinue. Not one bit of plastic in the batch besides the bases and some backpacks.
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BlackIronHeart posted:Okay, excuse the lovely office lighting and cell phone pics. From the top ! Banshee Dreadnought with Missile Launcher and 2x Flamers Harlequin -Shuriken pistol and Power Sword, Warlock - WitchBlade, Fire Dragon Exarch - Firepike, GhostWarrior -Shuriken Catapult, 2x Power Fist, Harlequin - Shuriken pistol and Harlequins' kiss, Harlequin - S.pistol and Power Sword Harlequin- Shuriken pist/power sword, Striking Scorpion, Harlequin- Power Fist/shuriken pistol, Harlequin- shuriken pistol/hand-webber, Harlequin-shuriken pistol/power sword, Harlequin-powersword/neuro-disruptor Harlequin-Warlock- Force-Sword, Shuriken pistol, Mini-Grenade launcher, Scorpion, Space-Elf with Lascannon, Harlequin Avatar-Force sword/shuriken pistol, Banshee, Harlequin- Power Sword, shuriken pistol. Harlequin Jetbike- Shrieker Cannon and power sword, and the last one is from the Eldar Heros blister, with chainsword and shurkien pistol. I have all of these from the first time round :/ (edit) the last one in the 2nd pic, and the 4th along, top row are Deamon Hunter Inquisitors (ordo malleus ?) they came in a blister of 3, so who knows what happened to the other one ! (edit again) Hollismason - it's one of 3 Deamon Hunter Inquistors, that ones got a Deamon Weapon and either a bolt-pistol or psycannon, I think Renfield fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Dec 25, 2014 |
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BlackIronHeart posted:Okay, excuse the lovely office lighting and cell phone pics. Middle Picture far right, what model is that guys arms up raised. Dude that is loving awesome. The Harlequin Jetbike especially. You got the crazy face those things are amazing looking. ALso, I've come to the conclusion that Orks don't do anything really well at all. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Dec 25, 2014 |
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Thanks for identifying the Eldar and the Daemon Hunters, Renfield! That's super helpful. I'm gonna be stripping all of these models and gradually re-painting them as breaks between doing mobs of Boyz and squads of Salamanders.
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Dec 25, 2014 01:48
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And again Fantasy are getting some more awesome models
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Greyish Orange posted:And again Fantasy are getting some more awesome models That would make an excellent Slaaneshi daemon prince if anything. 
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Greyish Orange posted:And again Fantasy are getting some more awesome models Helllooooo, Daemon Prince!
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Greyish Orange posted:And again Fantasy are getting some more awesome models fantasy is so much cooler than 40k atm
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Fantasy has all the cool models now, at least 40k seems to have hit peak stupid with the space wolf dog sled.
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Hollismason posted:Jealously pics please. I love that face, I have two I picked up at aGamesday in 01. Havenrr done anything with them since I want to be able to recast them first and that's a skill I keep putting off.
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LordAba posted:4th still had the stupid rules that made transports death traps. Penetrating hit? Had to get out. Explodes? Auto-pin. Ordnance explosion? Everyone in the transport is dead too. Yeah, but that was the era of Clown Cars, Dakkafexes, Tau VP Denial, and Bike Chaplain from Hell. Transports, with a handful of rare exceptions, were quite awful but being on foot with no ability to Run (because that wasn't a thing back then, except for Fleet units) was just as bad.
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Soulfucker posted:Also, merry Christmas, 40k thread! I'm still waiting for them to send me my replacement Spawn of Cryptus. Might have to bother them again in the new year to get it.
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I got my Spawn of Cryptus in the mail the other day, so expect pictures in a week or so when I get around to painting it.
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BlackIronHeart posted:Okay, excuse the lovely office lighting and cell phone pics. I'm jealous of your gifts from the Ghost of Warhams Past. I won't have time for a game with my dad over Christmas, but I've got three games lined up in the next week or two. I'm excited!
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Exinos posted:Fantasy has all the cool models now, at least 40k seems to have hit peak stupid with the space wolf dog sled. Actually, it owns.
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panascope posted:Actually, it owns. You seem to be confused. 30k models own. Fantasy models own. Space wolves are terrible. Happy to help.
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Oh, and the new blood angel kits are pretty cool looking even if unnecessary.
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Exinos posted:You seem to be confused. 30k models own. Fantasy models own. Space wolves are terrible. It's a sled pulled by robot dogs
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panascope posted:It's a sled pulled by robot dogs They're not robot dogs is the thing. If they WERE, or like thunderwolves, then gently caress yeah that'd be so silly it's awesome. But they're not. So it's relegated to stupid.
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I dunno, it reminds me of that Frank Frazetta rendering of the barbarian on a sled being pulled by polar bears (see http://frankfrazetta.org/). Its pretty over the top, but its not the worst thing GW has done in recent years.
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It would have been way more badass if that Space Wolf sled was pulled by polar bears.
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AndyElusive posted:It would have been way more badass if that Space Wolf sled was pulled by polar bears. Friend of mine has an armored polar bear, Ursus Bearbjorn is the best
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AndyElusive posted:It would have been way more badass if that Space Wolf sled was pulled by polar bears.
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SRM posted:I just wish GW made plastic bears so I could make my Valhallan bear cavalry counts-as Ogryn after all these years. You probably know this, but I'm certain someone (I think Scibor?) makes notmarine bear cavalry.
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Hencoe posted:Friend of mine has an armored polar bear, Ursus Bearbjorn is the best His name is Bear Bearbear?
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One of the few benefits of working on Christmas Eve is a lot of downtime so I've cataloged the haul my coworker gave me. Any appraisal 'hams out there want to venture what a fair price would be for this? I'd like to return the favor to him. I've done my best to nail done the vintage of each model. Thanks again to Renfield for the Harlequin help. Top Pic (T to B and L to R) Banshee Dreadnought with Missile Launcher and 2x Flamers - 1987 HarlequinTrouper - Shuriken pistol and Power Sword - 1989 Warlock - WitchBlade - 1991 Fire Dragon Exarch - Firepike - 1991 GhostWarrior Assassin Class Battle Drone - Shuriken Catapult, 2x Power Fist, - 1987 Harlequin Trouper/Warlock- Shuriken pistol and Harlequins' kiss - 1989 Harlequin Trouper - S.pistol and Power Sword - 1989 Harlequin Trouper - Shuriken pist/power sword - 1989 Striking Scorpion - 1991 Harlequin Trouper - Power Fist/shuriken pistol - 1989 Harlequin Trouper - shuriken pistol/hand-webber - 1989 Harlequin Trouper - shuriken pistol/power sword - 1989 Harlequin Solitaire - powersword/neuro-disruptor - 1989 Harlequin-Warlock - Force-Sword, Shuriken pistol, Mini-Grenade launcher - 1989 Striking Scorpion - 1991 Belgae Strongwill - 1987 Harlequin Avatar - Force sword/shuriken pistol - 1989 Howling Banshee - 1991 Harlequin Trouper - Power Sword, shuriken pistol - 1989 Harlequin Jetbike - Shrieker Cannon and power sword - 1989 Yaevin Pureheart - 1987 Middle Pic (T to B and L to R) Slaanesh Chaos Space Marine - 1991 Slaanesh Chaos Space Marine - 1991 Inquisitor - 1989 Ordo Malleus Inquisitor - 1989 Khorne Chaos Space Marine - 1991 Traitor Captain Terminator - 1991 Traitor Terminator - 1991 Chaos Renegade with Melta Gun - 1991 Chaos Renegade with Grenade Launcher - 1991 Ordo Malleus Inquisitor - 1989 Bottom Pic (T to B and L to R) Blood Dragon Vampires - ???? Warrior Priest of Ulric - 2000+ Terminator - 1989 Terminator with A. Cannon - 1989 Inquisitor Terminator - 1989 Terminator Captain - 1989 Inquisitor - 1989 Ordo Malleus Terminator - 1989 Librarian Terminator - 1989 Cyclone Terminator - 1991 CC Terminator - 1991 Inquisitor - 1989 Space Marine - 1993 Terminator - 1989 Terminator with Heavy Flamer - 1989 Terminator - 1989 Terminator - 1989 Grey Knight Terminator - 1989 Not Pictured War Walker/Wraithlord with dual Scatter Lasers, missing pilot - 1991? Brother Captain Stern - 2003/2004 11 Grey Knight Terminators - 2003/2004 2 Grey Knights in Power armor, missing halberds - 2003/2004 Inquisitor Lord Coteaz - 2003/2004 Inquisitor Acolyte- 2003/2004 Daemonhost - 2003/2004 Daemonhost - 2003/2004 Cherub Familiar 1 - 2003/2004 Servo Skull - 2003/2004 Gun Servitor with Multi_Melta - 2003/2004
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MasterSlowPoke posted:His name is Bear Bearbear? 
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Did someone say bears?    Merry Christmas everyone!
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