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Slimnoid posted:No, those are pretty fine to rank up. What I meant was... Yeah, this was the first time I had to paint rank and row numbers on the bottom of the bases so that I could get them to rank every time. These were the first multi-part kits for Chaos and were definitely a 6e release, I want to say around 2002-2003. Before that, the Chaos warriors were single piece figures with a bit of a paunch. I might still have one in a box somewhere that I got with a painting set circa 1997.
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I love those Chaos Warriors. Never owned any, so I don't know about the ranking issues, but I had the same problems with my old school 5th ed Clanrats with the separate tails that always got in the way. Still love those little fuckers, though.
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Ball-and-socket Chaos Warriors were released for Storm of Chaos in 6th, when Archaon tried to invade the Empire. I remember it really well since it was the last major fantasy event I played in. I couldn't afford to get the rulebooks for 7th 
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FrostyPox posted:I love those Chaos Warriors. Never owned any, so I don't know about the ranking issues, but I had the same problems with my old school 5th ed Clanrats with the separate tails that always got in the way. Still love those little fuckers, though. They definitely got the more baroque elements of chaos down with those guys, but they were so awful to rank up that I ended up just using them for bitz on other models. spectralent posted:Ball-and-socket Chaos Warriors were released for Storm of Chaos in 6th, when Archaon tried to invade the Empire. I remember it really well since it was the last major fantasy event I played in. I couldn't afford to get the rulebooks for 7th I stand corrected!
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Some day I will have amassed enough 5th Edition WHFB minis to play games with just period appropriate figures.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:Some day I will have amassed enough 5th Edition WHFB minis to play games with just period appropriate figures. I've actually been sniping some 5e books lately because even though I know it's awful I still kind of like good old herohammer. I figure I have a complete set of Warhammer Magic sitting in a closet, I might as well use it. It's not like there's an official edition of Warhammer I should be playing anyway and if I want to play a serious fantasy game I've got Kings of War. I'm unlikely to get any of the minis though just because of what a hassle it is. Fortunately there are enough cheap alternatives on the market that I can proxy stuff fairly well.
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Slimnoid posted:No, those are pretty fine to rank up. What I meant was... Oh dearie me I think I need to have a bit of a lie down, just looking at those handsome fellas gives me the vapours.
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CSM termies, just add guns. Meanwhile, this idiot is blitzing thru 3rd edition rulebook n armies for some reason. Man did they not know how to draw an elf... or a human back then (talking about unit cards).
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Nov 12, 2015 06:36
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Len posted:Is there a website that shows 40k models through the years? Like it would be cool to see the squads side by side from Rogue Trader on up to now. Stuff of Legends kinda does that. It can be a bit of a pain to navigate and find specific minis sometimes but they have plenty of pics to browse through. There's also the Collecting Citadel Miniatures Wiki though that seems more focussed on rare and weird limited edition and unreleased figures.
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Zark the Damned posted:Stuff of Legends kinda does that. It can be a bit of a pain to navigate and find specific minis sometimes but they have plenty of pics to browse through.  That's a pretty kickin' model. Definitely the way to go if you're making notBFG ships. I like the rounded, steampunk-y look. The rest aren't as pretty...   I'm gonna be an ORK ship one day!
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I really liked those Chaos Warriors and I even bougt a box of them, but I used them for my Bloodbowl team and bitz for my CSM army. I had no idea they had ranking issues until I read a WD where a guy was collecting a Chaos army and bitched about that a lot.
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JcDent posted:
I think they were from GW's earlier spaceship game pre-BFG. It was old when I got into GW so was probably released around 1990. Edit - eh, you're saying these aren't originals. Damned similar though!
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Ugleb posted:I think they were from GW's earlier spaceship game pre-BFG. It was old when I got into GW so was probably released around 1990. Space Fleet. Released in 1991. To roll to hit you had to throw your dice into the box lid which had a square grid printed on the inside. Any dice that landed in the middle square were a hit. Any that landed in the middle and rolled a 6 were criticals.
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JcDent posted:
i'm the servitor that had to paint angry eyebrows on a giant spaceship
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Nov 12, 2015 15:45
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Not quite - they released Advanced rules in White Dwarf, and all the goofy looking ships are from those updates. It was human (Imp and Chaos) and Eldar at first, with Tyranids being added later. I played Eldar, and as I'd painted one side of my 6x4 Black and put the grid-lines on it, I was basically unbeatable as I never had to slow down near the enemy and drop the holo-field save. Space Fleet was one of 4 stand-alone games, with Ultra Marines, Kerrunch (Blood Bowl for beginners) and Mighty Warriors. They where all cheap and sold in high-street shops as well !
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Nov 12, 2015 17:02
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 On EBay for 20 bucks.
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Nov 12, 2015 17:11
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Is it listed as pro painted? I mean, I might buy an assembled drop pod for twenty if all it needs is stripping.
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Nov 12, 2015 17:23
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Helen Highwater posted:Space Fleet. Released in 1991. To roll to hit you had to throw your dice into the box lid which had a square grid printed on the inside. Any dice that landed in the middle square were a hit. Any that landed in the middle and rolled a 6 were criticals. Not gonna lie that sounds like a pretty quick combat system I would try.
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Nov 12, 2015 17:26
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Also from eBay.   Best to just leave it on eBay.
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PantsOptional posted:Is it listed as pro painted? I mean, I might buy an assembled drop pod for twenty if all it needs is stripping. There's a reason I didn't drop a link and its because I am going to buy it for my Skitarii army. Easier to buy it for cheaper than GW price AND already assembled? Please.
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I do not know what it is. Yet it calls to me with its welcoming smile.
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AndyElusive posted:Also from eBay. Holy poo poo, it's Killface
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Holy poo poo, it's Killface
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Zark the Damned posted:Stuff of Legends kinda does that. It can be a bit of a pain to navigate and find specific minis sometimes but they have plenty of pics to browse through. A couple of years ago I got really stuck in to online old miniature resources while trying to identify the models from a large collection a friend gave me that includes models from the 1970s through 80s, plus the oldest models in my own collection. I had the two above wikis bookmarked specifically for Citadel. But just in case anyone's interested, here are a couple more "researching old minis" links: Lost Minis Wiki is by far the most useful. It includes a selection of some of the rarest/oldest Citadel, but the bulk of the site focuses on a huge range of minis from dozens of old and sometimes very obscure makers. Of particular use on that site is the base markings guide, which I found to be a critical point for narrowing down the manufacturer of an old miniature. The Citadel section also has a useful list of catalogs, including a breakdown of the Armory's Buyer's Guide from 1983: I have an original copy of this guide, and it's a fantastic resource. Most of the minis are hand-illustrated instead of photographed! Finally, D&D Lead collects scans of catalogs and other listings of old minis, mostly focusing on stuff that people used for tabletop D&D games. The Catalogs and Downloads page is especially useful because you can download PDFs of a bunch of old printed minis catalogs, including the complete line of Ral Partha catalogs back to 1978, which was the first year Ral Partha made fantasy minis. There is one Citadel resource there, the Citadel Compendium {PDF}, a catalog from 1983 that includes quite a lot of absolutely classic GW rules stuff: fantasy and science fiction rules that vaguely resemble what eventually came out in Warhammer Fantasy Battles (1983) and Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader (1987). Beginning on page 22 are drawings of some of Citadel's oldest miniatures, too. Page 40 has Runequest minis! The drawings must have taken ages to do, it's amazing to think that this was somehow cheaper than printing photographs of their models... although there are photos of some models, beginning on page 41. Look, just... if you don't care about any of the rest of the stuff I'm linking, just download that PDF and take a browse. It's amazing. 
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oh wow that was back when Warhammer had loot drop tables and letters for stats way before my time
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Leperflesh posted:The drawings must have taken ages to do, it's amazing to think that this was somehow cheaper than printing photographs of their models... although there are photos of some models, beginning on page 41. A lot of the drawings of minis were simply the concept sketches that the sculptors would do as references before they started actually sculpting. Another reason is that cheap printing techniques in the 1980s required very high contrast for images and line drawing were guaranteed to have that, while photographs (especially analogue ones on film) were not. Finally, there were a lot of artists kicking around GW who could knock out those kind of illustrations in very short order and who were producing those sketches for various roleplay supplements anyhow.
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https://instagram.com/p/-Ozl_6CzL_/ Bad drybrush, bad primer or both?
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Not a viking posted:https://instagram.com/p/-Ozl_6CzL_/
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He's just been sprayed down with a fire extinguisher by his squad as part of an ongoing joke about how often his plasma pistol overheats. That's why he's making the "Really?" gesture.
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Not a viking posted:https://instagram.com/p/-Ozl_6CzL_/ Rehosted for posterity 
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If it was all a single color, that would be a interesting looking statue.
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Leperflesh posted:Rehosted for posterity Looks like Skull White base spray in freezing temperature. Enjoy your fuzzy models!
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Gluing poo poo to a GI Joe tank != "Conversion" Some of the highlights: sponsons with nails sticking out of a large flat surface for gun barrels, plastic bottle cap and random tube sticking out of front, and a literal d6 just glued to the back of the turret 
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Hahaha 35 goddamn dollars
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secretly a baby posted:Hahaha 35 goddamn dollars Could probably get more if the tank hadn't been hosed up. Love the hull mortar.
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Karl Rove posted:Gluing poo poo to a GI Joe tank != "Conversion" I'm the missile just lying on the turret roof.
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If you do it right that's a legit way of getting a super heavy tank without paying GW's ridiculous prices. I once converted a 1/48 scale T-72 into a tank about the size of a Baneblade with an IG vehicle accessory sprue and a few other IG parts. That was probably $30 tops (not including paint). I liked it, but TBH my effort was worthy of this thread.
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:If you do it right that's a legit way of getting a super heavy tank without paying GW's ridiculous prices. I once converted a 1/48 scale T-72 into a tank about the size of a Baneblade with an IG vehicle accessory sprue and a few other IG parts. That was probably $30 tops (not including paint). I liked it, but TBH my effort was worthy of this thread. I've had stupid ideas like that (I wanted a T-72 in 40K, but there's no other way). You don't have pictures?
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No sorry. It's still at my parents place though, so I'll take some the next time I go back. But that could be a while, I live across an ocean now.
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