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Uroboros posted:I've taken to listening to audiobooks while I paint to maximize my time, and to feel I'm not wasting my life painting dolls. Also, at work I've been able to paint a lot depending on my posting. Yeah, listening to a podcast episode or two whenever I paint has been standard practice for me. Uroboros posted:I have the following to paint after the honor guard: Let's see. Here's a rough list of things: 26x Blood Raven Marines in various states of assembly, painting or stripping 1x Captain 1x Razorback in need of a repaint 1x Leman Russ Hull 1x Chimera 42x IG Troopers of various types that needs to be assembled and painted And then I was thinking of getting either the SM or IG start packs for an extra boost in units and I keep eyeing various other things on an auction site to try to get for cheap. Really should've kept myself to just collecting old codexes.
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Uroboros posted:Nice Ultras but holy gently caress that Ghostkeel, how? There is a project log in the scale model thread. It is seriously impressive work. It had OSL at one point!
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BuffaloChicken posted:So, goons, I'm a bad unbound baby now. Sorry. No need to apologise, you're using unbound the correct way  Besides which you already have GK Squats and would only need a couple of throw-away squads to make it non-unbound for the rest  As far as dude on a Terradon goes, maybe a Tzeentch wizard on flying disc? Could either be a Daemonic Herald or a TS Sorceror. The herald might work better for some kind of half naked savage jungle shaman. Your idea with your namesake gives me the idea to round up a bunch of Bomb Squigs and use them as spore mines too
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Theres nothing wrong with unbound if you are FORGING A NARRATIVE with an equally cool and chill ham whos into that sort of thing.
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x-post from the 30k threadLord Twisted posted:Almost finished my first Salamanders squad, converted from Betrayal At Calth.
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TTerrible posted:There is a project log in the scale model thread. It is seriously impressive work. It had OSL at one point! Thank you very much and as for the OSL It did indeed. It was my first ever attempt and although I thought I did okay for a first go I decided to cover it over.   Also if anyone is wondering what's under the helmet. 
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That Ghostkeel is rad as gently caress I love the digital camo
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Jan 9, 2016 19:48
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Talking of Counts-as / Unbound / Narrative Forging I finally got around to finishing off my first set of 'Waaagh Demons' for use if/when I decide to take a Maelific Daemonology Weirdboy, or possibly as Daemonkin Allies: 3 units of 10 Bloodletters and a Khorne Herald. I need to decide how to represent some of the other Daemons, I'm not sure how 'fantasy army in space' I want it to be. Ideas so far: Bloodthirster: Wyvern / convert an actual BT with a big Savage Orc face Fleshhounds: Boars / Boarboys / Large squigs / Couple of regular squigs per base Bloodcrushers: Giant squigs (mangler sized), possibly with riders / swole rear end Savage Orcs converted from Minotaurs or something Chariot: Boar chariot with Savage Orc riders
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Starting a game today. Will update this post on round ends. 1500 Gaurd vs Tau. Regular CAD. Cloak and shadows, vangaurd strike, myst obj. Deployment pics. All those Tau on the rim are deep striking or in fish. https://goo.gl/photos/CxkA6CDavMiCft289 *edit* End of round 1 https://goo.gl/photos/etxtNaSRdgmwh75BA Gaurd took first turn Lost 50% of the PF squad. FW Striker fish took a glance. PF passed leadership. Gaurd hellhound took 2 hp from the riptide nova charged ion thing and a missile from his drone. One gaurdsman ate a SMS missile. End of round 2 https://goo.gl/photos/Unevq1QQ7ny8MmJ16 Tau lost the PF unit, an hp on the breecher fish, and the piranah had cover removed so died. Monat deepstrike did an hp/crew stunned on a vanquisher in gaurd backfield. Gaurd lost a hellhound on the front line. End of round 3 https://goo.gl/photos/XsnHiDXBoyZtrHsG7 Tau lost etheral and all but one breecher, plus their fish. Gaurd lost one full 30 man unit w/commisar, vanquisher, and two auto cannon bases. Monat is still alive and kickin in the backfield. End of round 4 https://goo.gl/photos/Y8QzPx5HJ8ymTNwXA Tau strike team reduced to 3 dudes, got in their fish and headed back to their deployment to secure obj 2. Loan breecher climbed up to the roof of the ruins and put a wound on the weapon team. Suit team melta'ed two guys in the gaurd command reducing it to one man.. Then assauled them to get a vp. Game is tied at 8 vp so far. End round 5 https://goo.gl/photos/D7oFKxC31ZNDTQAg7 Tau lost all suits but the commander. Commander dropped the gaurd warlord tank. The riptide killed the warlord unit but left the warlord alive. Tau secured objs to gain more vp. Gaurd vp 9 Tau 10 Game is going to round 6... End of round 6, final round. Gaurd 11, Tau 15. https://goo.gl/photos/WxcZRMTaD3S96wcLA Gaurd tried to take my warlord down and only generated 2 wounds. Tau managed to secure the enemy warlords death. The weapons team finally took out the loan breecher with a lucky overwatch shot. Kilazar fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Jan 10, 2016 |
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Went into Dark Sphere to exchange a gift for a friend and walked out with a Knight and the Mechanicus battleforce. 
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The mechanicus is a good deal with good sculpts. The mecha pope is the last hand sculpted GW figure.
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Thundercloud posted:The mechanicus is a good deal with good sculpts. The mecha pope is the last hand sculpted GW figure. Looks loving great and isn't a nightmare to transport.
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Jan 9, 2016 22:18
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Seriously, that tech-priest loving rules. I'm half-tempted to pick it up at some point just to paint. It's too bad GW's giving up on hand-sculpting because they had some really talented people in their studio. I genuinely think they've lost something with this big switch to 3D modelling.
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Zark the Damned posted:No need to apologise, you're using unbound the correct way Zark the Damned posted:Talking of Counts-as / Unbound / Narrative Forging I finally got around to finishing off my first set of 'Waaagh Demons' for use if/when I decide to take a Maelific Daemonology Weirdboy, or possibly as Daemonkin Allies: Here's today's counts-as update from me. I've posted my Catachan snipers using Eldar rules before - here they are again for reference. Catachan fluffwise have fantastic snipers, but the IG Codex has no rules for them. Hence the counts-as allies. Robert Muldoon (Illic Nightspear):  Deathworld Sniper Unit 1 (Eldar Rangers)  Deathworld Sniper Unit 2 (Eldar Rangers)  Deathworld Assault Team (Striking Scorpions - they have glowy displacement vest power generators on their backs for a 3+ save, and poisoned throwing knives for Mandiblasters)  Just got the new Eldar Craftworlds book for Christmas, and that made a HUGE difference in the list - with the changes to Eldar Pathfinders, a ton of free points opened up. So I made one more Assault Team member (on left with glaive) and three more Snipers. The one on far right is an homage to SRM's Valhallan's. I asked SRM what to put on the chainsword, so he sent me some words translated into Russian (apparently this says "motherfucker").  I also need to finish their Power Loader (War Walker). But first, my Taurox! BuffaloChicken fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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Jan 9, 2016 22:55
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BuffaloChicken posted:Yes! I remember these guys! I say go all-out fantasy Warp-Orks. I also 100% cast my vote for Wyvern as Bloodthirster, as opposed to a Bloodthirster with Ork face. Do you have pictures of your Warp-Orks (Worpks?) next to your normal Orks? The more glowy and crazy the Warp-Orks look in comparison, the better. The only comparison pic I have at the moment is this:  Not a great shot but it kinda shows the contrast in brightness. I'll try get some more taken soon. Someone who has the new BT, what base size is it? GW site says 'Large Oval' but they've like 5 different oval sizes now... I'm loving the 'Eldar' specialist squads, you any plans to make more specialised units or has your Bionicle army satisfied the rest of the Eldar units? Reminds me, I still haven't brought Shankfist to the field, I need to track down the latest Assassins rules. 
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Jan 9, 2016 23:41
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Thundercloud posted:The mechanicus is a good deal with good sculpts. The mecha pope is the last hand sculpted GW figure. I'm also a little annoyed I bought a bunch of Tau a month before the bundle came out, and I've yet to build them. This knight is fun to build though.
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Hang on a second, I just noticed that the new Skitarii bundle comes with a tech-priest, but aren't those technically part of the mechanicus codex? Meaning that the models provided in the box are from two separate codexes and can't make a legal detachment together?  Yeah, sure, there's a formation included to let you run them without anything else, but gently caress formations. It's also probably some sort of confirmation that the two books will be rolled together down the line like they should have been from the start.
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Safety Factor posted:Hang on a second, I just noticed that the new Skitarii bundle comes with a tech-priest, but aren't those technically part of the mechanicus codex? Meaning that the models provided in the box are from two separate codexes and can't make a legal detachment together? A well established rumor says that they are releasing a unified admech codex this year along with new robots and an admech flier.
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Man I hope that rumour comes true. I know the rumour sites are generally full of poo poo, but a flyer would be amazing for the Ad Mech and I'm a bit of a sucker for Imperial Robots. Though I should really get these Harlequins painted up before I go running back to my Ad Mech (or my Taghmata, or my Alpha Legion, or oh god I've got so much to paint).
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So, two things: 1. gently caress the Fire Raptor model. This thing is goddamn garbage and a pain in the rear end to assemble. 2. I'd be pretty satisfied if they just put out a campaign supplement with Chaos this year that had a new formation detachment for the existing list. I could live with that. Hey, I know! Maybe they could make this one CSMs/Daemons vs. Grey Knights and SoB and service 4 armies that desperately need it at once. Hahahahaha just kidding that will never happen e: Meant to say Fire Raptor TheChirurgeon fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jan 10, 2016 |
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Painted this full Skitarii Maniple back in the spring, but finally started painting some Cult Mechanicus and thought I'd share. Hope u like my nice robot mans.       
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SteelMentor posted:Man I hope that rumour comes true. I know the rumour sites are generally full of poo poo, but a flyer would be amazing for the Ad Mech and I'm a bit of a sucker for Imperial Robots. Though I should really get these Harlequins painted up before I go running back to my Ad Mech (or my Taghmata, or my Alpha Legion, or oh god I've got so much to paint). I don't know that you should be hoping for that. Not this year at least. Because it would mean that GW think that the precedent set by the Knights book is acceptable. And it really loving isn't.
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Safety Factor posted:Seriously, that tech-priest loving rules. I'm half-tempted to pick it up at some point just to paint. It's too bad GW's giving up on hand-sculpting because they had some really talented people in their studio. I genuinely think they've lost something with this big switch to 3D modelling. A lot of the hand-sculpting guys are doing 3d modeling for them now; the skillsets aren't identical but Jes Goodwin is still making models for GW after that techpriest. Awesome stuff as always, Buffchix, can't wait for that guy to kill my Catachan cultist. Looking forward to the powerloader and Taurox too! I'm in Prague right now; would anyone happen to know of any game/hamstores around? I'd just like to stop in and see what the scene's like.
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Dr. Red Ranger posted:Yes. Yes I am. How would you like to do this? So, I'll post a full inventory with pictures tomorrow, but it looks like I have the following: 2x Metal Biovores and spore mines 2x metal Lictors 3x 2 metal Gargoyle blister packs An unopened box of 10 Gaunts All of this is unassembled. Then we have approx. the following number of assembled models: 3x Warriors plastic 20x plastic Gaunts 10x plastic gene stealers 1x metal carnifex And finally an old Armorcast Malefactor.
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SRM posted:A lot of the hand-sculpting guys are doing 3d modeling for them now; the skillsets aren't identical but Jes Goodwin is still making models for GW after that techpriest. Actually there's no more hand sculpting any more at all, as Thundercloud said the Dominus is the very last one that was sculpted then scanned. Everything is done in CAD, I forget the name of the program they use but they'll tell you if you ask. I spoke with Jes a couple of events ago, he had the original Dominus model there and explained how it was scanned then bemoaned the lack of not only hand sculpting now but also that the model designers (like him) aren't credited in the books any more. I've noticed the model designer credits are gone from the Forge World catalog as well.
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Gapey Joe Stalin posted:I don't know that you should be hoping for that. Not this year at least. Because it would mean that GW think that the precedent set by the Knights book is acceptable. And it really loving isn't. Yeah, there is no reason they couldn't have been a single book from the get go. I can't wait to break it to my friend that his girlfriend bought him a book that's going to be obsolete soon!
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krushgroove posted:Actually there's no more hand sculpting any more at all, as Thundercloud said the Dominus is the very last one that was sculpted then scanned. Everything is done in CAD, I forget the name of the program they use but they'll tell you if you ask. I spoke with Jes a couple of events ago, he had the original Dominus model there and explained how it was scanned then bemoaned the lack of not only hand sculpting now but also that the model designers (like him) aren't credited in the books any more. I've noticed the model designer credits are gone from the Forge World catalog as well. GW seems pretty keen on stripping creator credits and such from everything now. The newest revision of WD has stripped away any mentions of writers and editorial staff comments it seems based on a comment made by a friend who still reads it occasionally. They've gone so far as to omit author names in the Black Library newsletters as well for their book releases as far as I've noticed. It's kind of absurd.
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http://imgur.com/a/71M2B Pictures of the Tyranid box set my parents bought me for Christmas back in 2000. Surprisingly the only thing missing is the Alien Queen looking hive tyrant. Looks like we have: 8 metal garygoyles 2 metal Biovores w/ 15 spore mines 2 metal Lictors 2 metal zoanthropes 12 plastic assembled genestealers 3 ripper bases 8 plastic painted assembled hormagaunts 8 plastic assembled termagaunts Unopened gaunt bod with 8 horms 8 terms and ripper base 3 painted assembled warriors 1 metal assembled painted carnifex 1 partially painted armor cast maleceptor Sprues with 7 unused horms and 7 terms along with various bioweapons Email me at: uroboros1985@hotmail.com if interested.
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SRM posted:A lot of the hand-sculpting guys are doing 3d modeling for them now; the skillsets aren't identical but Jes Goodwin is still making models for GW after that techpriest. You should take the opportunity to pick up some Prague Marines.
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SRM posted:I'm in Prague right now; would anyone happen to know of any game/hamstores around? I'd just like to stop in and see what the scene's like. http://www.fantasy.cz/
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Uroboros posted:So, I'll post a full inventory with pictures tomorrow, but it looks like I have the following: Id be all over this, especially the biovores, gargoyles and lictors, if the first guy doesn't snag everything Edit: Saw your second post, sending email
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SRM posted:A lot of the hand-sculpting guys are doing 3d modeling for them now; the skillsets aren't identical but Jes Goodwin is still making models for GW after that techpriest.
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Safety Factor posted:I definitely wasn't implying that the sculptors have left, I just feel that the models have lost something with the advent of CAD-exclusive modelling. It's worked for things like space marines so far because they have tons of established parts to tinker with and modify. The actual new things lack the same flow, character, and attention to detail the older sculpts had. I mean, look at the stormcast or the new naked Sometimes a pretty dubious benefit when they can't see over their own pauldrons. Yeah, there's a real issue with GW's modellers, somehow, they seem to be way too detail-focussed and never to really take an overall view of what they're doing. Every little detail is perfect and looks nice, but the overall view is messy, lacking in flow, and so overloaded with fiddly poo poo that you can't actually see what's going on.
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Yeah, the move to CAD has been great for some stuff (vehicles and mechanical looking models especially) but I feel like things lose a lot of soul. The overdetailed stuff is hit or miss; some stuff like the Dark Vengeance Chaos dudes and the Admech look amazing. Awesome, thanks! Ignite Memories posted:You should take the opportunity to pick up some Prague Marines.
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thespaceinvader posted:Sometimes a pretty dubious benefit when they can't see over their own pauldrons.  I get that FW have more time per release, but still, it just goes to show what you can do with CAD.
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Work in progress Possessed and Maulerfiend. The Possesed have grown on me as I've painted them up. Still not sure about having to pay a landraider tax to get them into battle (foot slogging them isn't great, and they can't shoot, so having them pile out a Rhino is a free turn of shooting). But when they're painted I'll no doubt want to field them more often, since painted models are way more satisfying to field.   I bought the Maulerfiend already glued onto the base, I sometimes wish I'd pried it off before trying to do some of it. I'm still learning lots, and I also need to find a way of taking photos better.
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Zbrush is very much like hand sculpting if you get a haptic pen thing for it. I've no idea what GW use though.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:CSM aren't getting an update any time soon. Space Wolves are getting the next half upgraded codex for some reason, and there's going to be a full AdMech codex at some point. Where is this coming from?
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Zark the Damned posted:The only comparison pic I have at the moment is this: Here's my power loader War Walker, affectionately referred to in every single game as the "Get Away From Her You Bitch" after the line in Aliens. It fits in the 500pt allied list with my Deathworld assault squad and snipers from earlier.  It used to play as a Venerable Dreadnought in my Squat list, but was replaced by the cutie below who was more in keeping with the theme. Luckily the points reductions in the new Eldar Codex allowed the power loader to fit into that allied list with the snipers, after some weapon swaps which needed to be re-painted.  And here's my converted Taurox. My grenadier meltavets used to ride a Chimera, but by swapping it for this Taurox I save 10pts and can add a third meltagun to the squad.  The pictures are a little washed out (apparently my phone lens was fogged and I didn't notice). Also noticed a few tiny final things needed (highlight Taurox gunner's bandana, paint silver on the Taurox door hinges, and a bit of blacklining on the power loader gun), but overall I'm happy with them.
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