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Reynold posted:A wonderful paint job as usual, sir, but I just can't get over how terrible those treads are. I'm mostly a GW model/parts purist (for whatever reason), but I just HATE the treads on that vehicle. the treads seem to make some sort of sense when the army is painted up all snowy like.
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Cataphract posted:the treads seem to make some sort of sense when the army is painted up all snowy like.
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REAL MUSCLE MILK posted:Just sold a bunch of stuff and bought another installment for my AdMech (thank you Hencoe for helping me with that magos). Can't wait to use a Krios Venator/actually get to use the bullshit Triaros. I do hope you double checked the pictures to make sure, just in case I messed that up. Both tanks are rad but fragile past that front arc. REAL MUSCLE MILK posted:edit number whatever: does anyone have any pointers for putting the legs on Thallax? They always look way too close together and it's weird. The legs are marked for each hip, just make sure you do them first, then the torso. VVV yep, there are dots on the joint that match to the hips. Hencoe fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Hencoe posted:I do hope you double checked the pictures to make sure, just in case I messed that up. Both tanks are rad but fragile past that front arc. I spent a lot of time squinting at photos of Myrmidons, don't worry. Do you mean each leg pair goes to a specific hip? That might be the problem I was having.
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SRM posted:I've got a ride for my first Stormtrooper squad now:
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Pierzak posted:Why is the snow on the treads where it gets crushed then, and not anywhere else on the tank? This bugs me. It'd be 10x better without the snow.
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PeterWeller posted:Looks great, but I am super surprised you didn't go with the missiles for full scale WW2 Soviet stylings. Pierzak posted:Why is the snow on the treads where it gets crushed then, and not anywhere else on the tank? This bugs me. It'd be 10x better without the snow. BuffaloChicken posted:The new Stormtroopers and their rides look so much better painted in "gritty, realistic" schemes than in the silly official blue color. Even the treads look better than usual, especially given the snowy theme. Nice work!
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Hencoe posted:VVV yep, there are dots on the joint that match to the hips. Where on the hip joint are the dots? I find them on the legs but didn't see any on the hips.
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Cataphract posted:the treads seem to make some sort of sense when the army is painted up all snowy like. It's still got the problem where the design of the treads and their relationship to the body make it seem more like a toy than a practical vehicle, even by 40k standards. If it was something like  then it'd be a lot better in my book. That said, absolutely can't fault SRM's paint job.
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REAL MUSCLE MILK posted:Where on the hip joint are the dots? I find them on the legs but didn't see any on the hips. I might be mis-remembering if it had specific hips (I got mine when the castellax came out), I'm looking at them and I dont see any real difference, I just did the lower half pretty much all at once and held it how i wanted it to sit on the base. Sorry I cant be of more help.
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Triangle wheels, Rhombus wheels - both look just as silly. Can't we all just get along?!
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Hey guys, I'm not really keeping up on the thread lately, but wanted to drop in and say that if anyone is looking for one of those small plasma balls I used for a vortex marker and BuffaloChicken used for a void shield generator, I have a small stash of them that I'm willing to sell for less than you will find them elsewhere (my project decreased in scope quickly) and you can just drop me a PM if you are interested, yes? Yes!
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Reynold posted:A wonderful paint job as usual, sir, but I just can't get over how terrible those treads are. I'm mostly a GW model/parts purist (for whatever reason), but I just HATE the treads on that vehicle. There are quite a few options to change the tracks. Zinge sells both wheeled conversion kits, and track units more like that Hummer picture. Victoria sells an awesome wheeled APC conversion kit. Blood and Skulls has a 6 wheel conversion kit. I think there are more but can't remember them off hand.
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NTRabbit posted:There are quite a few options to change the tracks. Zinge sells both wheeled conversion kits, and track units more like that Hummer picture. Victoria sells an awesome wheeled APC conversion kit. Blood and Skulls has a 6 wheel conversion kit. I've got the blood and skulls kit, it owns but it cannot be used to make a half track straight out of the box as the wheels are taller
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PantsOptional posted:I'm looking into getting a Stormtalon but I just can't stand the way it looks. Is there anywhere that offers a conversion kit to make it a little more like an actual plane, or does everyone just improvise their own conversions? GIS "Stormtalon conversion." There are plenty of ways of doing it, some people use the rudders from the drop pod kit.   Some people are colorblind, too.  Rulebook Heavily posted:Who even fights in space in 40k? If I had any sort of patience for making terrain I would make a Rok board with multiple vertical corridors. One of the Chicago Games Day events had a pick up and play station with Guardsmen versus Orks in a boarding action, it was one of the most fun things I have experienced related to 40k. Guardsmen versus Orks is the best matchup in the game, made even more fun by the edition of elevators and such. Post 9-11 User fucked around with this message at 10:11 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Combat on one of those Starcraft style orbiting platforms would be pretty cool Srsly though, SRM and BuffaloChicken for Ham of the year 2014 NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 11:15 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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This just showed up in the latest Forge World bulletin:  What? Edit: What we can see of the top half basically looks like what would happen if the Imperium built a Mad Cat. Giant autocannons, entombed corpse-pilot, and all. I am not sure if this is a good thing. Safety Factor fucked around with this message at 11:33 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Not keen on the boob-marine chest, but the arms and missile racks look awesome.
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Safety Factor posted:This just showed up in the latest Forge World bulletin: One of the other dreadnoughts from epic I guess? That's where the Contemptor came from.
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Post 9-11 User posted:GIS "Stormtalon conversion." There are plenty of ways of doing it, some people use the rudders from the drop pod kit. Okay those are some pretty good conversions. The second one almost looks like a dwarf A10, probably should've put the front missile pods there instead I think. Speaking of Taurox, once Zinge comes out with their wheel kit and it turns out to be good I am definitely getting one to turned into a wheeled MRAP.
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So with the rumored Necron codex incoming, maybe, possibly. I have started up a Necron test scheme based on my old Slaanesh marines I did ages ago. and original marines I tested on ages ago.  So keen to start pumping out pink and cream Necron warriors all over the place.
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Definitely going to have to see another angle on that Dreadnought, but the idea of a Mortis+++ which just has ridiculous amounts of firepower is pretty boss. You might be able to swap out the torso anyway, we'll have to see what the overall kit looks like. drat, FW have been killing it these past few years. Bizarre to think what they used to be like.
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Lord Twisted posted:Bizarre to think what they used to be like. Explain? "These past few years" is as long as I've been in this hobby. Did FW used to suck or something?
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Safety Factor posted:This just showed up in the latest Forge World bulletin: Can't wait for the Chaos version where those autocannons are Heavy 2, twin linked, range 36"
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JerryLee posted:Explain? "These past few years" is as long as I've been in this hobby. Did FW used to suck or something? Not bad, just a bit bland with some cool looking vehicles. They were expensive (still are), and were completely unincorporated into normal 40K (no real indicator of how to fit things into FoC, or whether something was suitable for "normal 40k" or not). Releases were also slow as balls. Weren't any monthly updates then! Now its far more mainstream and "accepted" to have FW in your army.
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Safety Factor posted:This just showed up in the latest Forge World bulletin: You've got it all wrong, it's White Glint out of Armored Core: For Answer 
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Post 9-11 User posted:Can't wait for the Chaos version where those autocannons are Heavy 2, twin linked, range 36" I can't wait for the AdMech version with ER PPCs.
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Played some rad games of 40k yesterday with some rad dudes--ANAmal.net and Shadow Daishi. The first game was 2500 pts, me (Iron Warriors, Unbound) vs. ANAmal (Dark Angels) and Daishi (Space Wolves). I basically brought the house with 2 Warpsmiths and 8 Heavy Support Choices (3 Vindicators, Forgefiend, Land Raider, Havocs, Defiler, Obliterators). This game saw the Dark Angels and Space Wolves forces putting aside their differences to assault a fortified Iron Warriors position in the middle of a ruined city. Deployment:     Moving around:  poo poo's about to go down:  Overall, a fun game, but I narrowly lost when Daishi was able to drop a squad in my deployment zone at the end of the game to get line breaker. Those Space Wolves flyers are hard to bring down! The second game was a smaller affair -- 1,250 points with me and ANAmal vs. Daishi this time around. White Panthers and Dark Angels vs. Space Wolves fighting over control of an old air strip in the desert. This one was a bit more lop-sided as we got savaged by SW flyers, especially after they took out all of our Skyfire units. A lucky shot on the LRC in Turn 4 sealed the deal.    E: The whole album, for those interested: http://imgur.com/a/MfPEQ TheChirurgeon fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Dec 29, 2014 |
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Post 9-11 User posted:GIS "Stormtalon conversion." There are plenty of ways of doing it, some people use the rudders from the drop pod kit. Yeah, I had seen those but I had hoped there might be a prefab kit out there. I think I'll likely end up using the drop pod rudder conversion in the end, and move the missiles to under the wings.
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TheChirurgeon posted:Played some rad games of 40k yesterday with some rad dudes--ANAmal.net and Shadow Daishi. Table owns, models own, games owned. Trying to take on two Space Wolfs Jets with a single Flakk missile was probably a bad strat, but even when the things dropped into hover we still couldn't hit poo poo (two turns of our entire army firing at the same jet, and we did exactly one hull point), so whatever. This was my contribution to the first game:  I got more compliments on Dice Crater than I ever have for my painting or tactics, which is probably about right.
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If I take two Triaros (Triarii?), how huge of an rear end in a top hat am I being? Also, has anyone got a response from FW about the Cybertheurgy relic?
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TheChirurgeon posted:
No offense, but this reminds me of the game I played over the weekend. Orks + tyranids vs necrons + blood angels. UGH! We had a cool looking board made of the plastic plants you would usually put in fish bowls with a couple short rock formations. My tyranids and the ork trucks were forced behind the terrain we could get, seeing as nothing blocked line of site. Having first turn I left my genestealers a little out of terrain but still in range of the malenthropes. Of course they seize initiative and manage to kill half my army because you can barely see the toe of a model through the plants. Didn't help that the orks immobilized three trukks and a battlewagon with a deffrolla on the first turn. What I'm saying is that bad dice rolls on the first turn are demoralizing.
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Toxicrene assembly status report: The "correct" way to build the model where all arms and legs correctly fit their socket shapes has the tendril arms droop literally 3" below where the base/table would be. If you don't put them arms/legs into the sockets in the "correct" way the pieces have noticeable detail missing or have obvious holes where it was intended to fit into the socket against the body of the model. I love the look of the model but this is a very terrible design flaw and has made me mad accordingly. I now have to go hunt down some tree bark to make as rocks for the base so the model can rise to the level to actually be fieldable on a table. 
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That dread may or may not have the ballin' Siccarius Accelerator cannons.
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So, I'm working on my AdMech list. HQ Magos Prime + Arch-Magos + Djinn-skein + Myrmidax + phased plasma-fusil + phased plasma-fusil + Abeyant + corposant stave + cortex controller 265 points Magos Dominus 65 points Magos Dominus 65 points Troops Thallax Cohort + 3x Heavy Chainblades + photon thruster + Destructor 200 points Thallax Cohort + 3x Heavy Chainblades + photon thruster + Destructor 200 points Castellax + Enhanced targeting array + power blades 110 points Castellax + Enhanced targeting array + power blades 110 points Castellax + Enhanced targeting array + power blades + multi-melta Castellax + Enhanced targeting array + power blades + multi-melta Castellax + Enhanced targeting array + power blades + multi-melta 330 points Designated Transports Triaros Armored Conveyor + Blessed autosimulacra 140 points Triaros Armored Conveyor + Blessed autosimulacra 140 points Heavy Support Thanatar + Enhanced targeting array 255 points Thanatar + Enhanced targeting array 255 points Krios Venator + Volkite Sentinel (2) Krios Venator + Volkite Sentinel (2) 360 points I'm kind of happy with my list where it is at 2.5k points, but I'm a little worried about the jump to 3k. At 3k is when I'll probably start seeing the 'big' super-heavies, and I'm not too sure how to deal with them. The Krios and the multi-melta squad are my primary AT, but I'm a little worried about armor saturation when I'm dealing with super-heavies and 'basic' armor at the same time. I haven't done the math yet, but I think I'll be able to fit in a Knight and another Krios at 3k, which could help, but I'm still not sure.
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PierreTheMime posted:Toxicrene assembly status report: The "correct" way to build the model where all arms and legs correctly fit their socket shapes has the tendril arms droop literally 3" below where the base/table would be. If you don't put them arms/legs into the sockets in the "correct" way the pieces have noticeable detail missing or have obvious holes where it was intended to fit into the socket against the body of the model. I have built two and haven't had this problem. Granted I don't have the instructions anymore to tell. There are two ways to build the torso; a low way and a tall way. The low way won't work, and is probably were you are having your problems. On the right leg the "hip bone" should just be above the thigh carapace. If the "hip bone" is even with the carapace it's the low way.  EDIT: By the way, the model looks okay without the terminator and should assemble fine.
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Safety Factor posted:This just showed up in the latest Forge World bulletin: The pointy chest does also seem to be hiding yet another gun (heavy bolter?). I really want to see more of the legs cause at the moment it looks a bit... boat-like.
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TheChirurgeon posted:Played some rad games of 40k yesterday with some rad dudes--ANAmal.net and Shadow Daishi. I've got three games with three different folks scheduled between now and the 4th, and I'm pretty excited about it. The only war or ham I've gotten up to over the past few weeks was beating my sister at Monopoly for the first time in 24 years and having ham for dinner on Christmas.
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Safety Factor posted:This just showed up in the latest Forge World bulletin: It looks like a Mad Cat and a Rifleman IIC had a baby. In the Imperium.
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