|
Crossposting my tank commander:Decorus posted:Tank Commander (and command tank) completed. I had a lot of fun working with this one. Vehicles are very relaxing to paint when you don't go for a difficult camo scheme. This guy took me YEARS to get done, since I kept putting off the turret construction after the first modified Russ was a real pain. In the end, it wasn't nearly as hard to do as I remembered. In my quest to clear my backlog I'm now done with IG tanks, though I still have a pair of Sentinels I need to finish. Also some heavy weapon squads and stromtroopers, but I can definitely see the end approaching.  I did some counting, and realized that I've painted about 10 vehicles and 120 infantry of various factions in the last three years. A reduction in social gatherings means one has a lot more time to paint, I guess.
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 20:23
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 3, 2024 21:18 |
|
|
Hell yes. Is the rest of your army desert themed? Can I hope for Tallarns here? Edit: Where did you get the suspension for the Russ on the right? I really like that.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 20:27
|
|
|
those tanks loving rule great job
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 20:32
|
|
|
The Demilich posted:I thought the silent king literally built in mind control protocols during biotransference that allow him 100% control over other necrons though The way the story goes is that the Silent King deliberately broke those command protocols before his self-imposed exile but recent lore has shown him to have an uncanny ability to "persuade" recalcitrant nobles after granting them an audience so it's a bit up in the air, it seemingly requires direct personal intervention for the Silent King to do it though since Imotekh has been talking poo poo since the 9th edition codex reintroduced the Silent King.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 20:44
|
|
|
Al-Saqr posted:those tanks loving rule great job Thank you Cessna posted:Hell yes. My main IG army is a desert themed mech inf force, but sadly no Tallarn. Here's an old picture, some unpainted models in it. I really ought to take a new one.  The "suspension" is just the wheels of the track assembly glued to the outside of the models side. I sawed off a bit of the outer hull piece to alter the track shape a bit. This was years ago, I always meant to add some kind of visible suspension bars or bogeys, but there was always something new to paint instead. Here's a better picture, maybe I'll finally have the drive to finish it. 
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 20:59
|
|
|
Feels like you'd only need a couple of plasticard rods to give the illusion f suspension bars.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 21:11
|
|
|
Man, turns out there's some poo poo I didn't even know about Szarekh and Imotekh specifically. I don't have a codex infront of me, but apparently Szarekh returned from his exile way back on loving 744.M41? He doesn't even reveal himself right away and worked to influence the Dynasties from within the shadows with the help of various Triarch Preatorians and other Necron agents. Imotekh's rise to power doesn't happen until 781.M41 much after TSKs return. So did Imotekh come to control the Sautekh because of or dispite the efforts of TSK. There aren't any faux-dates included in any of this fluff. Interesting stuff to think about.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 21:12
|
|
|
Cooked Auto posted:Feels like you'd only need a couple of plasticard rods to give the illusion f suspension bars. Yeah, that's what I'll probably go with. I just have to figure out some tiny embellishment so they're not just literal pieces of plastic tube glued to the side.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 21:29
|
|
|
Feels like that's something you're not really going to pay too much attention too. But for embellishment, that may or may not be too much, would be to glue a bigger and smaller tube together so they look like pistons. Or figure out a way to build a simple Sherman style bogey. Which you could almost just simulate with putting a tube on top of a pair of lower roadwheel and then a piece between them. Especially if you want to emulate a later iteration of it where the bogies aren't that pronounced.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 21:44
|
|
|
Over from painting thread, a 3rd army 10th edition ready.ro5s posted:I'd forgotten how long it takes to paint Death Guard.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 22:25
|
|
|
Decorus posted:The "suspension" is just the wheels of the track assembly glued to the outside of the models side. I sawed off a bit of the outer hull piece to alter the track shape a bit. This was years ago, I always meant to add some kind of visible suspension bars or bogeys, but there was always something new to paint instead. That's outstanding. I may have to sacrifice a Russ to see if I can do something like that.
|
|
#
?
Nov 22, 2023 22:36
|
|
|
I may or may not have fallen rear end-backwards back into 40K for 10th edition, in large part because I started binging Poorhammer videos. The last time I played was in like... 6th. And I gotta say, the rules are much simpler and more straight-forward, and most of my mistakes so far have come from misremembering old rules that aren't part of the game any more.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 01:54
|
|
|
StashAugustine posted:I wanted to paint my Kreig kill team like the steel legion but the appeal of making them 1914 French with le pantalon rouge was too strong Got pics? I'd love to see those. Improbable Lobster posted:I want to see how they end up for you! I've accidentally hyped myself up on the idea of a regiment from a low tech "medieval" world driving tanks around Do it! It will take you forever, but it will be tons of fun. The cities of sigmar stuff seems perfect for it. Conversions have always been my favourite part of the hobby. I made money as a teenager doing greenstuff conversions for people. Honestly, when I think about it, that was my first taste of making money off my artistic skills, which is now 100% of my income. Lostconfused posted:Vitrian Dragoons got some cool art once, also has that feudal sci-fi thing going. Woah! I used these guys to make my 6mm vostoyans, I had no idea they were 40k.  Please forgive the less than great picture.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 02:33
|
|
|
Lostconfused posted:It's a question of what movie do you like more, Saving Private Ryan or 1917? by virtue of representing the "bad" World War, Krieg are more Warhammer
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 03:02
|
|
|
Aside from Bullgryns, what does Astra Militarum have for melee? I feel like the one wound armies have been left behind, now that the gap between MEQs is a ton of wounds too. A commissar with a powe sword doesn't look like they'd slow down even mediocre marines. Still gonna run em, they're cool.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 03:50
|
|
|
Rough Riders, And Sentinels can upgrade their chainsaws to what I'm sure is great effect
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 03:57
|
|
|
Jack B Nimble posted:Aside from Bullgryns, what does Astra Militarum have for melee? I feel like the one wound armies have been left behind, now that the gap between MEQs is a ton of wounds too. A commissar with a powe sword doesn't look like they'd slow down even mediocre marines. Still gonna run em, they're cool. A commissar is only 30pts is the answer I guess. They are paying for utility. You could squeeze a fair bit of fight out of catachans with fix bayonets and a preacher. E: preacher and straken would be mean as long as they didn't all die horribly on their way to the biffo JBP fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Nov 23, 2023 |
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 03:58
|
|
|
Jack B Nimble posted:Aside from Bullgryns, what does Astra Militarum have for melee? I feel like the one wound armies have been left behind, now that the gap between MEQs is a ton of wounds too. A commissar with a powe sword doesn't look like they'd slow down even mediocre marines. Still gonna run em, they're cool. 
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 04:07
|
|
|
Jack B Nimble posted:Aside from Bullgryns, what does Astra Militarum have for melee? I feel like the one wound armies have been left behind, now that the gap between MEQs is a ton of wounds too. A commissar with a powe sword doesn't look like they'd slow down even mediocre marines. Still gonna run em, they're cool. I legit miss Crusaders in my guard army. A handful of Crusaders with a Priest attached was a neat counter-charge unit and regularly messed with my opponent's plans. I also thought they looked really cool in the midst of my army. Sentinels make for great speed bumps.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 04:31
|
|
|
The real answer is Knight Lancer.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 04:37
|
|
|
Edgar Allen Ho posted:No judgement but liking the cadian aesthetic confuses me. It's like some gridiron football players put their pads on over their jerseys and then finished off the look with Starship Troopers helmets. They're so silly that's intentionally what was going on in starship troopers fwiw AnEdgelord posted:Because Steel Legion looks a lot worse than Krieg and have an outsized focus on armor as opposed to the emphasis on infantry combined arms Krieg have. it still doesn't help that the krieg banner is a teuton cross Jack B Nimble posted:Aside from Bullgryns, what does Astra Militarum have for melee? I feel like the one wound armies have been left behind, now that the gap between MEQs is a ton of wounds too. A commissar with a powe sword doesn't look like they'd slow down even mediocre marines. Still gonna run em, they're cool. rough riders, sentinels kinda, an eversor assassin, a knight ally, tank shock guard do just fine overall, but they've never been especially good at melee.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 04:38
|
|
|
Guards are a shooting army, maybe they can have a unit that's really good at shooting in engagement range, but it doesn't seem like their style to charge unless it's too break or finish off a very weak opponent.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 04:47
|
|
|
Cease to Hope posted:it still doesn't help that the krieg banner is a teuton cross Yes, but Steel Legion is a single SS lightning bolt. Again, somehow the team that is explicitly more nazi sneaks by.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 04:48
|
|
|
Proposal: The Rangda were just our galaxy's native Tyranid brood. Rangdan cerebrovores are just genestealer cult infestation. The reason why nobody knows this is the Emperor was so mad that one of his sons got genestealer-implanted that he wiped out all historical records of what the Rangda were, so nobody can compare notes. "But the Pharos!" Ciaphas Cain fights frozen ancient Tyranids that are hostile to an invading hive fleet, and nobody knows why Ymgarl genestealers predate the first hive fleet infestation of the galaxy; it's entirely within plausibility that our galaxy had non-invasive Tyranids the nascent Imperium wiped out. Supporting evidence: The Rangda used bio-titans and bio-machinery, and the only adjective we have to describe the Rangda themselves is that they were "vulpine," which is a stretch but kiiiiinda describes a termagant's face. Also the measures the Imperium is described as having had to use in order to eliminate the Rangdan influence from the human population of the galaxy are very similar to what they'd have had to use to wipe out genestealer infestation. Further supporting evidence: It would be very funny if the Emperor wiping out the evidence of the Rangda out of embarrassment lead to the galaxy being ignorant of the Tyranid threat ten thousand years later.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 04:49
|
|
|
Virtual Russian posted:Yes, but Steel Legion is a single SS lightning bolt. Again, somehow the team that is explicitly more nazi sneaks by. As mentioned in that guards regiment youtube video it's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Union_of_Fascists which is even more on the nose for a UK company.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 04:54
|
|
|
I don't want to alarm anyone but the imperium are fascists. E: but I'll cop that they might want to return to these icons for a refresh given the company is now Mattel instead of an underground, esoteric battle ttrpg. JBP fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Nov 23, 2023 |
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 04:55
|
|
|
  Finished up (minus the base, astrogranite has to dry) Marneus Calgar with Victrix Honour Guard
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 05:11
|
|
|
GreenBuckanneer posted:
These own nice one
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 05:12
|
|
|
Virtual Russian posted:Yes, but Steel Legion is a single SS lightning bolt. Again, somehow the team that is explicitly more nazi sneaks by. I mean the post I was replying to said that the Steel Legion was gone and for good reason. I agreed with that part lol
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 05:15
|
|
|
The new transfer sheet has a whole heap of steel legion icons. Imo it's fat enough to just be a cool lightning bolt JBP fucked around with this message at 05:26 on Nov 23, 2023 |
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 05:22
|
|
|
Big improvement over the old one: (It's the 1930s British Union of Fascists.) E: Just want to clarify that I don't think Steel Legion players are fascists! I'm happy that the chubby lightning bolt doesn't have the connotations of their old decal 
moths fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Nov 23, 2023 |
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 05:36
|
|
|
Virtual Russian posted:Got pics? I'd love to see those. Posted in the spec games thread but I'll show off anyway 
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 05:55
|
|
|
GreenBuckanneer posted:
Is it controversial if i say i love calgars look, personality and lore more than roboute guilliman? Lol i love that old angry rear end in a top hat and the double fists is so rad Amazing paint job!
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 06:08
|
|
|
I don't think fascist aesthetics makes playing an army a moral bad, for fucks sake I'm in the 40k thread and I'm currently painting up a Black Templars army which is like fascism squared, but it just always rubs me the wrong way how there's so much hand wringing over Krieg while poo poo like Steel Legion and even the Black Templars don't raise an eyebrow.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 06:20
|
|
|
AnEdgelord posted:I don't think fascist aesthetics makes playing an army a moral bad, for fucks sake I'm in the 40k thread and I'm currently painting up a Black Templars army which is like fascism squared, but it just always rubs me the wrong way how there's so much hand wringing over Krieg while poo poo like Steel Legion and even the Black Templars don't raise an eyebrow. Black Templars are so weird to explain in that context. "Yes, they're super purity-obsessed templar knights who serve the Imperium's fascist government; no, that's not a Nazi symbol, in fact the Maltese cross was one of the symbols used by pre-Nazi Germany that the Nazis discontinued using in favor of their own symbols; yes it look like the sort of symbol that would be a Nazi symbol...." Like at what point does the hair-splitting become a problem in and of itself?
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 06:26
|
|
|
I would actually dig a new tallarn desert raiders using modern middle east militant aesthetics mixed in with bedouin/ottoman aesthetics but lol that would bequite the spicy meatball for games workshop
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 06:28
|
|
|
it certainly doesn't help that the Black Templars' chapter colors are literally the colors of an SS uniform (black with red accents and a black cross on a white background)
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 06:29
|
|
|
Steel Legion is infinitely cooler than Krieg. Sorry nerds.Al-Saqr posted:Is it controversial if i say i love calgars look, personality and lore more than roboute guilliman? Lol i love that old angry rear end in a top hat and the double fists is so rad No, Calgar is way cooler than Guilliman and has done way cooler poo poo. A dude who gets his arms ripped off and then decides he's going to steal chaos powerfists to replace them with so he has EVEN BIGGER FISTS to punch people with is loving awesome.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 06:45
|
|
|
They sure got the best looking heavy weapons squads anyway
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 07:06
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 3, 2024 21:18 |
|
|
S.J. posted:No, Calgar is way cooler than Guilliman and has done way cooler poo poo. A dude who gets his arms ripped off and then decides he's going to steal chaos powerfists to replace them with so he has EVEN BIGGER FISTS to punch people with is loving awesome. he used to just be a guy with two regular power fists and an impressive squat. then he had the bolter fists and inherited them from guilliman. dunno when it got changed to that.
|
|
#
?
Nov 23, 2023 07:07
|
|