jadebullet posted:

Ugh, I thought I was out. I really did. I have a stack of 1/72 scale aircraft I have been working on.

Why has making scale aircraft caused me to decent into the madness of getting back into 40k and making a Chaos Space Marine army? Not only just a CSM army, but one that is going to result in me trying to make each individual figure unique, hosed up, and terrifying looking rather than just slapping bits together? In any case, my wallet is going to be hurting because I want to run cultists and the Forgeworld renegades just fit the aesthetic I am going for way too well.

In any case, this first guy I have customized and painted up looks loving awesome. I can't wait until my secret weapon bases arrive so I can base him and post pictures.

SRM posted:

Double posting but whatever; I just backed this Kickstarter for Dawn of War-inspired terrain, but they've got some cool looking stuff for Infinity too. I think the stuff looks pretty spiffy.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brush4hire/black-site-x-and-rapid-vanguard-terrain-by-death-r

TheChirurgeon posted:

I am also backing this, cause Dawn of War owned. GW is dumb as hell for not making and selling the buildings from the game.

serious gaylord posted:

Wasn't there a weird legal situation with THQ owning any art asset that wasn't specifically based off of a GW property? Hence why they never really featured Blood Ravens outside of that one model in the codex showcase?

serious gaylord posted:

Wasn't there a weird legal situation with THQ owning any art asset that wasn't specifically based off of a GW property? Hence why they never really featured Blood Ravens outside of that one model in the codex showcase?

TheChirurgeon posted:

I hadn't heard that, though I'd have to imagine that GW retained the rights to everything created for or used by the Dawn of War games. If Relic (or whoever) lost the license, they wouldn't be able to make a game about the Blood Ravens just because they weren't based off a GW property. In addition to the model, they also did an Index Astartes piece on the Blood Ravens that was a few pages long and included a bunch of names/content from the first game back in 2005 (or thereabouts).

Edit: GW also made an Eldar Bonesinger model, which was a new unit introduced in DoW. Man, they used to be waaaay better at this

Milotic posted:

Congratulations on choosing one of the three best armies model wise. Cultists are awesome. They're the IG of CSM. They get the job done whilst your Chaos Lord gets flattened in a challenge with an Avatar. You should consider non GW models as well for cultists if you want uniqueness. Will post some links when I get home tonight. Also don't buy GW obliterators. So fiddly and bad.

serious gaylord posted:

Ah fair enough then, I don't know why that popped into my head. Must have read it somewhere but yeah you're right, its not like they ignored Blood Ravens.

SRM posted:

Threw down with my Blood Axes vs. some Sentinels of Terra tonight. 1850, dawn of war, the maelstrom mission where you can both grab the objective cards. He has some beautifully painted minis but most of his army is primed or bare plastic.

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SRM posted:

Grotsnik gives each guy +2 attacks on the charge instead of just 1.

Zark the Damned posted:

Ork Shaman leaping into action on his Waaagh-energy boar. He has some back story too!

Borzokk was always a bit odd, even by the standards of the other Weirdboys of his tribe. He was never any good at channelling Waaagh energy into destructive powers, the most he'd get is the odd spark or flash of light rather than the powerful energy beams produced by his peers. The sole exception was his Waaagh Konstrukts - producing these came naturally to him, perhaps too naturally.

One night after a particularly unpleasant accident resulting in the Boss' favourite pet squig getting squished under a giant glowing foot, Borzokk was in trouble. The Boss was enraged, bearing down on him with his kustom power klaw. Seeing no escape Borzokk covered his head and waited for the deathblow.

Several seconds passed. Then a few more. Wondering why he wasn't yet dead, Borzokk opened his eyes and was shocked to see a glowing boar in front of him, standing over the prone form of the Boss. After a moment's confusion it dawned on Borzokk what happened - his survival instincts had kicked in and created this new Konstrukt to protect him. Thinking quickly Borzokk studied the patterns of Waaagh energy in the beast and realised how to repeat it. Borzokk grinned - this new power was gonna be fun!

SRM posted:

Also, the ridiculous deathstar I accidentally made was really monstrous. It's 5 MANz, Mad Dok Grotsnik, and Mutoid Mek all tooling around in a Big Squiggoth. The Squiggoth is tough to kill, with T7, 6 wounds, and a 3+, with a 5++ thanks to the KFF on Mutoid Mek. When the cargo get out, Grotsnik gives each guy +2 attacks on the charge instead of just 1. Having each MAN swing with 5 power klaw attacks was brutal, and even severely depleted the squad's capable of some devastation. The 5++ from shooting plus Grotsnik's feel no pain and fearless also make the unit really hardy and tough to kill for most units. I had a lot of fun using them, and I'm still really happy with that assault where my boyz were able to distract Lysander long enough for him to get mashed by my MANz.

Ignite Memories posted:

It's weird seeing Boon's infantry up close and being reminded that he is but a mortal.

TheChirurgeon posted:

I am also backing this, cause Dawn of War owned. GW is dumb as hell for not making and selling the buildings from the game.

Monoliths posted:

This is some good orky justice to behold. I almost caught myself feeling bad for your opponent's crap luck, but dusting off Lysander and his cronies with MANz and trukk boyz makes me smile far too much.

Speaking of, how's Grotsnik giving the +2 attacks? I can only see rampage that'd help, but not in this situation. Gotta know, my own mutoid mek has grotsnik in his deathstar and a megaboss too, and I'm very much looking forward to their surprise all-out assault in an upcoming apocalypse game! 18" movement for a turn should help negate slow & purposeful I reckon.

jadebullet posted:

I love everything about that looted Rhino by the way, SRM.

Boon posted:

Do they look that bad?

Ignite Memories posted:

They look like they were painted with human hands, and not some sort of eldritch paintsinger.

Boon posted:

Haha nice.

Anyone have any thoughts for/against the decision for purple/blue? I like the idea of 'darker' Warp Spiders (dark purple) that has a bright poppy color (blue and green). On the current Warp Spiders it's very hard to tell the gradient in the orange generally (there's 3 shades on each piece) and the grey just falls so flat for me, like the color equivalent of

richyp posted:

Back in my mass painting days I wanted a darkish Eldar scheme that was nice and fast to paint. I did teal and a muted grey with the red accent colour they looked reasonable I brightened up their weapons to compensate for lack of popage.

Boon posted:

Those are real nice. It also gives me an idea that I might be able to easily replicate across the army without much effort.

I usually blend all my colors excepting white/black across at least three shades and just leave it there. I might apply your highlight in the next lighter color across the lighter pieces that face the 'direction' of the light to see how that plays. I might be able to do this on the black as well with a real muted grey.

richyp posted:

Thanks, I recall it being a pretty fast scheme to paint with the highlight for the teal being the intermediate colour of the grey and it worked quite well on white primer and black primer without too much of a contrast shift. Here's the Farseer guy I did on white primer for comparison:



The black also used the same intermediate grey used in the grey base and the teal highlight. Throughout the army I used the gems/weapons to add a brighter colour to the scheme.

EDIT: Forgot I had the rest of them on my blog, here's the scheme on the other units (I miss my SLR )

richyp posted:

Thanks, I recall it being a pretty fast scheme to paint with the highlight for the teal being the intermediate colour of the grey and it worked quite well on white primer and black primer without too much of a contrast shift. Here's the Farseer guy I did on white primer for comparison:



The black also used the same intermediate grey used in the grey base and the teal highlight. Throughout the army I used the gems/weapons to add a brighter colour to the scheme.

EDIT: Forgot I had the rest of them on my blog, here's the scheme on the other units (I miss my SLR )

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jadebullet posted:

Please do, as cultists are a very fluffy choice for my army. Aesthetically I am going very horror themed, with creepy porcilin masks and stuff like that. Not gore horror, but more mental horror, and I am pulling from things like Silent Hill enemy design, Eternal Darkness, The Thing, and other things of that nature. Like I said, the Forgeworld Renegades are nice for at least one squad of cultists, just because I like their sort of hosed up mining world possessed industrial worker theme feel, but I also intend to build a couple of cultist squads of differing themes.

The main fluff behind the army is that they focus on breaking the mind and sanity through fear and psychic manipulation. I had an entire short story idea in my mind about a planetary governor rapidly going insane through seeing disturbing things and everyone around him being very uncanny valley and wrong, all the while he keeps seeing a skull faced Space Marine standing in the background staring at him. By the end, when he is fully at the point of breaking, he enters a room with the Space Marine, falls to his knees and begs for the insanity to stop and pledges himself to the Marine, thus the planet ends up falling to madness and chaos. And I have to say, I really like how my idea of this Dark Apostle/Sorceror ended up translating into model form. I can't wait to show you guys pics.

jadebullet posted:

Thanks man. I am bookmarking all of those. That Angel of Death is particularly awesome, especially the face. Those Obliterators are much nicer looking as well.


BTW, are close combat oriented Chosen viable enough for casual gaming? I know that 7th is still shooting heavy, but I like the idea of kitting out my chosen with sword and board.

jadebullet posted:

Btw. Any rumors on Chaos getting a new codex soon? I ask because I do think have the current codex and if there is one coming relatively soon, I will probably just wait.