Well, it's been three productive days, and I finally have all the regular IG squads I need for the army painted.
Just finished the last Command Squad and the HW teams:
So I have a full Epic 40k foot company (because you are limited to 10 regular units per detachment, and you must also add a Command Squad per each 3 units, so for IG the limit is actually 9), plus three squads to reinforce armor detachments:
Now I only need to finish the two ogryn squads and all the infantry will be done.
very nice, and yes I've not done it yet but the plasma support guys here, and flamers for the Auxilia are going to get some nice, very visible markings added
I have added a blue glow to the Plasma Guns, but I still think a quick rim paint will be fairest all round. Especially if I include Plasma in my general Infantry as an upgrade.
Some lovely work guys!
Albertorius, as per usual those are fantastic - I don't think I've seen Vostroyans (is it?) at Epic scale before, they work really well with the snow bases.
MDG - those look great and I am impressed by your output! Are you planning on painting up the Solars from the set as well?
Something a bit different now: this is first baby steps for a mega-participation game I am planning (probably still at least 12-18 months away as my output is quite slow). For a bit of fun, £10 to the charity of the person's choice for anyone that can guess what they are meant to be or at least what race/faction. I will give some clues: They are 'Great Crusade/30k'-era, almost *nothing* has been written about them (I have spent many hours trying to find anything I can, and it is still going to require a fair bit of hole-filling in terms of sorting out the miniatures and workable army).
I’ve been using Army Painter “Speed Paint”. And whilst I have a surprisingly gentle touch for a big sod, I’ve not noticed anything rubbing off.
Also? I have a backflow Incense Burner which has a Stag’s Head. I know kind of want a Warmaster Titan, with Stag Antlers coming out it’s bonce. To really capture that Calibanite Field.
Guess my friend with the 3d Printer is about to be bribed/threatened/cajoled into helping that happen!
its weird, not all contrasts do it, but some seem to be a really heavy pigment in a really thin layer, fine with a brush of even just plain medium or matt varnish over, even just a wash helps
annoying, I use Garaghak's Sewer for the SA tracks, goes on nice, its a nice colour.
paint order is:
- hull
- hull colour markings
- exhausts
- tracks
- metallic
by the time the metalic is done the tracks will need touching up, and the hull will in places
I love those old Stormtroopers and that's a great job on them. From memory, although they weren't very strong or tough they had a good movement rate and I believe could act independently (which was useful for Orks and objective grabbing). Are you doing a collection of Orks then Albertorius or is that just a one-off?
have found contrast is perfect for the infantry, though my marines don't use it the SA have and its excellent, also really good on the highly detailed SA tanks. I've got an alternative baneblade is more "meah" on as there are flat panels and some fighters where it looked rubbish
but for the actual small stuff is amazing and the silver drybrush works wonderfully
I love those old Stormtroopers and that's a great job on them. From memory, although they weren't very strong or tough they had a good movement rate and I believe could act independently (which was useful for Orks and objective grabbing). Are you doing a collection of Orks then Albertorius or is that just a one-off?
In Epic 40k they're orks with Assault (+1 Assault value but FP range is reduced to 15cm) and Jump Packs (extra movement, can jump over terrain), which makes them pretty fearsome at assaults for the points, but they are limited to a single choice (1-4 bases) per regular ork warband (except for Blood Axes).
I'm basically finishing painting the plastic stuff I have, most of the other infantry is already painted, save for one bse of boyz, a couple of warbosses and a bunch of gretchins but I have a number of printed units I need to finish too.
I mean they look really good and could be used nicely as simple scatter terrain, I'm thinking of buying some of the ones like the container fast food place etc to include on other terrain items myself
I don't care about their size, I take modelled objective markers of any size over unpainted tokens any day. Both players measure to/from the edge anyway, its the same for both players so who cares if they are 25, 32 or 40mm.
To go with it I just finished my first IW Infantry base. I am doing the opposite of speed painting for this new army, as I already have my IH to play with I am in no rush. Wanted to see if I could challenge myself to some plasma glow in 8mm. After some experiments this is what I came up with.
And I settled on a bases with an abandoned settlement overblown by martian dust for basing. To tie in with the Martian dust/rust weathering on my vehicles and offer a warm complementary colour.
Same, cool modelled objectives over cardboard chits any day.
Nice plasma boys, westiebestie. You might want to try a smidge of white ink in the middle for a couple of them, if you want to have some variation in the glow.
That looks excellent - what colours did you use for the plasma Westie? Really nice colour contrast with the metal.
Agreed on the objective tokens, they look amazing!
Apparently they are available from this shop if you want printed versions:
https://www.megasonicpunch.com/scifi
I think I want to revisit the Contemptors. Only briefly, but I think their left knee pad could do with being made grey. It matches the spot colours I’ve used elsewhere in the force, and breaks up the monotony of the predominantly black scheme in a way I don’t think picking out further metallics would.v
Have done a quick black on one of them, and these are going to take me not time at all. Will consider spot colour placement once I’ve got the gunmetal details painted back in.
Turrets are sitting on wee pillars of Blu-Tak for easier handling.
Due to experiments relating to a potential YouTube channel, very little achieved yesterday. But progress was still made. Basically sprayed the topside of four Kratos.
Today though I blitz my Predators and Sicarans on a “I’ve stuck to the streak but I’m not where I wanted to be” catch up session. So it’s Supernatural on the box, and out with the paints. Will be relining my wet palette though, as this is gonna take a lot of black and I don’t want it drying out.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, when I get this all done by 6pm tomorrow and I’ve no more left to paint (other than the Warhounds, which honestly I think I’m gonna sell on)? If it’s Epic Releases next week I’m totally gonna claim it was my project completion which brought that about. And there’s no way you can disprove such a claim, therefore yes?
Two starter sets, two boxes of Kratos and a box of Infantry.
Everything there is fieldable in a single army, barring two of the Contemptors.
I think I want a second Demi-Company. But, I’ll have a read of the Garrison first. Certainly I want waaaaay more Infantry.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also need to start thinking about transporting them to games. After all, now I have a painted force, it’s time to smash someone’s face in.
Yep I feel the same way. My painting speed is glacial for larger scale things, at least with Epic I would say it is more like moss growing on a rock
MDG - for transport I would consider something like a cheap KR Multicase, one designed for 28mm scale. One space snugly fits an epic stand or a vehicle, I think I could fit about 10k of points (in old money), minus the knights/titans, so it's pretty efficient.
Just glued down the turrets on my Kratos. Whilst they have a fairly snug socket fitting, they’re still too easily knocked off. And given the main gun is the bit you swap out? I figured sod it.
Though rules wise, got to admit I can see myself stick with the Kratos Cannon for now. This may change if I feel I need reliable building wrecking equipment, so they’re not being glued.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Sourced and ordered two boxes of Rhinos.
My Lovely Boys won’t be walking into battle. Not if they don’t want to. No siree!
Lovely work Albertorius- I think just the right level of Weathering.
Some awesome planes above there as well!
Am hopefully getting some Night Lords finished this weekend, then got a prescription of Prozac arriving so I can get through reading the rest of the rulebook.
I've got a game coming up this week, so tried to get most of my marine infantry contingent completed. I thought the plastic command officers you get are a bit clean-cut for Night Lords, so I subbed in a few Vanguard miniatures officers. Why is the one carrying an Ork head around while fighting other marines? That's an open question!
Lots of stuff which categorically is not my fault, because it’s cases long since closed that have been passed to me because they’ve gone and asploded, and I’ve never previously been involved in.
And as I’m meant to be winding down my caseload as I’m off Mentoring for four or so months as of next Monday? I really don’t have much else to do.
Might take a half day and distract Mr Brain with Hobby. Got 10 Rhinos to build, then a dalliance with the spray box for them.
Could also do me spare turrets for the Predators and Sicarans, but I’m just not as convinced by them rules wise.
I still haven't even decided which Legion to go with (not like I have had much time to paint anyway). But since I didn't like my original attempt at Imperial Fists and Alpha Legion, gave them another try. Either my phone or my monitor really struggles with the purple, the purple on the AL isn't as dark as this in real life (the rest of the colours look pretty much correct though). The 2 IF tanks used slightly different shading methods, up close I think the one on the left is nicer, but from a distance the extra contrast on the one on the right makes it a bit more distinctive on the battlefield.
Not sure I'll go with them, Alpha Legion I'm kind of liking but it's (relatively) more time consuming to paint this scheme than other legions. Might just stick with Ultramarines, then do an allied White Scars detachment, and then one of the Traitors Legions.
Very nice Gitdakka, I see you have used the Troublemaker Games mini stomper things there, they look good. I'm sorry that they ended up being used as an aperitif!
Beautiful colours on the Hierophant there Albertorius, it really pops. Love the Dreadnought being about to be eaten, very cool.
In addition to the Hierophant proxy, I've been painting some more bugs (swarmlords, canifexes, a load of Lictors and a zoanthrope), plus some bits and bobs of Orks and Space Marines that I needed for Refight 4: The Sulphur River, that I'm gonna host this weeke3nd to teach some new players:
(all of the orks and marines save for the Weirdboyz towers are old plastics, and they still look great IMHO)
I hosted two games of Epic 40k last weekend to teach the game for two new players. The first game was the Refight 1: Gogard's Last Stand, which we played on this board (4x4):
Gogard's player rolled a 1 for the shields, and it kind of went downhill for the Gargant from there ^^. Korpse Grinda deployed in the middle of the lower wooded area and tried to advance from there towards the objectives...
...but the Marine player advanced decisively and managed to pincer the Gargant and pour fire on it while the big war engine tried (quite ineffectually) to remove the devastators from the middle ruins
Unabated, Korpse Grinda tried first to assault the ruins and then to move on towards the objective, but the dice were not with them this weekend and it ended up being fired upon by all sides, and eventually imploded amidst raging fires.
The second game was Refight 4: The Sulphur River, which had a bunch of new rules to learn.
The first turn the marines dashed wildly towards both bridges (later on, the Marines player told us that he thought he was going to get victory points for every turn his forces had control over them, instead of victory conditions being checked at the end of the game)
The two ork hordes advanced steadily (the footsloggers as fast as their (little or big) legs let them, while the speek freaks paced themselves a bit
Second turn went very badly for the Marine detachment on the upper bridge, as their assault elements were utterly shot to bits by the overwhelming numbers of the orks when they tried to assault them (the kunning ork warboss had managed to move a stompa very near the mouth of the bridge, so it was able to limit the marines advance heavily from there), while the orks advancing towards the southern were pummeled mercilessly by the Whirlwinds (MVP of the game, right there)
The momentum of both armies was stalled by their respective losses, and each of them tried to capitalize on their original advances... the footslogger orks advanced towards the bridge trying to assault the battered marines, which retreated... but then the Whilrwinds took the chance to rain all the missiles on the charging orks, massacring an astounding amount of them.
Meanwhile, on the southern bridge the marines firstheld their ground and finally assaulted the bridge to throw off the shellshocked remains of the ork warband
At the end of the battle, the marines strongly held the southern bridge but didn't manage to hold back the Warboss on the Stompa from holding the northern one, so the game ended in a tie
Happy new year, everybody. I've been super busy with no time for proper hobbying (except for buying new stuff, I think my pile of unassembled Legions Solar Aux is mysteriously growing every week...), but I did once again organise more Titanicus goodness at the club. This year started with a bang, as our annual-ish AT mega-battle expanded into a two-day narrative event. I wrote custom missions so that we could first play three rounds of 1v1 games on Saturday where the winning side could dictate environmental conditions for the following round as well as earn some neat bonii for Sunday's all-in brawl.
-- War for the Angel's Grave 3.-4.2.2024 --
An ancient repository of knowledge, a forbidden and sealed esoteric weapon best forgotten or a relic of the broken dream now irrepairably lost? No-one knew precisely what the arcology known as the Angel's Grave held within its confines, but when Warmaster Horus decreed it to be taken, neither did his lackeys question the wisdom of such orders. Under the capricious auspices of the dark gods, god-machines marched into their dropships and hurtled through the blazing voids of the war-stricken galaxy with murder in their hearts...
The traitors slam down on the unsuspecting planet in the dark of night and spread out. From the barely habited outskirts, legios Krytos, Omina and Mortis plunge deep into the planet's infrastructure as the surprised loyalists scramble to face the threat. Legios Solaria, Astorum and Magna jump to hold the line and manage to stem the initial tide despite Krytos wreaking havoc on their communication towers. As the loyalist line refuses to crumble, their reserves in space enter the system and carve a bloody swathe through the traitors' fleet. As burning ships, scrap and satellites fall down on the planet in a rain of fire, the loyalist legios sally forth in a counter-attack to drive the traitors back. This seems to work, securing the defenders a decisive advantage in planetside artillery assets, until for the sudden and totally unforeseen betrayal by the Screaming Skulls! Who'd have thought those guys weren't on our side, absolutely shameful. With this stab in the back, both sides are forced to accept that this conflict will go on for a while and stock up on supplies from the available storages and techno-magi. With reserves from legio Favilla stepping onto the field to plug the hole left by Magna's treachery, the loyalists once more secure the continuing support of the Mechanicum and converge on the final showdown.
Four traitor commanders square against three loyalists with some 30 titans and 20 knights stalking the field. Ultramarines and Death Guard models are there to represent area control over various important objectives on the table as well as the critical supply depots no side can wage war without.
Astorum's supreme loyalist command leaves the supply depot lightly guarded, focusing their knightly allies on the right flank.
Traitors, acutely aware of their tenuous grasp on the planet, guard theirs keenly with the newly arrived Tiger Eyes' deployment.
As the fight begins, deafening roar of war-horns fills the centre as Favilla pushes forwards. Fallen knights are vaporised before their volcano cannons, swatted aside like gnats as more worthy foes approach from Krytos' lines.
On all flanks, forces advance into the fire.
In the middle, Excidium Ultimum and Deus Victrix hear the siren song of the Thunderdome. Two god-machines enter, who will leave?
Fighting intensifies on the flanks, as Mortis reaches one of the habitats in force and knights swarm towards Omina's positions.
Sensing an opportunity, one of Omina's Warhounds sneaks to threaten the loyalist supplies as Krytos' devastating volleys savage the Astorum Warmaster guarding them.
Despite losing its fist to Deus Victrix' fire, Excidium Ultimum saws the upstart God-Breaker in half and casts its broken form down in ruin, almost decapitating Ibn Faruq below with its mass. Glory is fleeting, however, as unabated firepower from most of the Tiger Eyes' battleline causes the injured Warmaster to crash down from its throne all the same.
On the left flank, Solaria's brazen charge cuts deep into the lighter Mortis engines as a column of Ultramarines follows in their wake to wipe out the Death Guard attempting to seize the habitat. Yet with their supplies under threat, it is all nearly futile.
Fighting to salvage the situation, Delictor Profectuum ploughs through Krytos' fire and the wrecked corpses of their comrades towards the supply depot with all systems burning. Perhaps they could have made it, if not for the relentless shelling of Quake munitions raining on them, causing the ground under their buckling legs to undulate like tortured jelly with each booming shot. Valiantly, if desperately, later reserve Cerastoi rush to try and relieve the Ultramarines at any price.
The traitors are similarly pressed, now, with Mortis crumbling before Solaria's advance. Favilla's heavy guns blow out one of Fureans' Warlords nearby and seal the deal as the remaining traitorous knights are slaughtered to the last.
Triumphantly, Krytos' sole remaining Warlord Braccus Rex sidesteps the futile knight charge and guns down the immobilised Delictor Profectuum, trumpeting its ownership of the loyalists' supply depot.
With fires burning all over the broken and mangled countryside, it is eventually clear to the loyalist side that their tactical situation is untenable. While the traitors are trapped and caught stranded in the bigger picture, unable to hold the planet and will soon all be hunted down, on this day they have by the barest of margins bought enough time for their techno-magi to complete their dark purpose at the Angel's Grave itself. For the Warmaster, they cry in the all-consuming ritual flames!
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A very slight Traitor victory after six rounds, 225 to 168 points (with one good turn able to swing 50+ points)! Loyalists killed more and took ground more aggressively, but with their supply lines left basically undefended by the supreme command's strategic blunder, they were unable to capitalise on this advantage, scoring no control points for the whole game after the first round. Not that the traitors had much more luck on that front, with loyalists having more men and machines on most strategic zones after the first third of the game, but that early lead let them coast pretty far. That element certainly brought a good dynamic to the match, with everyone involved until the end and multiple possible game-changing maneuvers hanging at singular dice rolls. If Delictor Profectuum hadn't been slowed down by Quake shell and immobilised ½" too far from the supplies, for example, it could have gone very much the other way. Still loving all of that.
Fantastic battle shots. Love the combined arms and those ultras mingling with titans give a good sense of scale. Reminds me of the early Titanicus White Dwarf photos
That looks incredible Sherrypie! What a battle. It must have been a joy to take part in.
As Zedmeister says, very much like early Epic, with the Titans and then infantry scuttling between their feet as they smash each other to bits - just awesome.
Cheers zed and Paz. Classic White Dwarf imagery is living rent-free in my brains, it'll only get more like that over the years when I eventually learn to get more and more oomph out of my photography
(first time outing new equipment this game, some questionable fumbling with the settings can be observed)
Bit of work in progress, heavy support detachment & transports for the XIV
Rhino transports, rear hatch recognition markings as a visual reminder of who rides in them, base colours, shade and initial layering done, still needs highlighting adding though would be happy enough to deploy as they are
two thirds of the infantry, the remaining stick of them needs the brass trim and dark grey weapons casings doing
close up, print lines showing on the lovely little Mk III armour suited bods. the bone colour is washed sepia, nothing yet highlighted though, and to be honest not much is going to be done, perhaps some of the more obvious bits of armour may get the base bone added back, touch up here and there and a slightly lighter green to the shoulder pads and a bit of lighter steel colouring on the weapons.
Brass is VMC "Brass" and a lot lighter than the usual Balthasar Gold, wash & bronze trim I use for larger models, however pleased with how it turned out
we just used straight up index era 8th ed 40K rules. halved ranges.
My concealed wraithguard were very annoying to the guard player needing +1 to hit.
I also had to dedicate most of my first turn firepower into deleting the reaver titan. that thing hurts, but nothing finishing up with a bunch of pulsars cant deal with.
Game this weekend vs my friends sisters of battles. In the end it was down to one failed activation by a formation of repentias and the gargant forcing a win with one blast marker short of being broken.
I'm going for the old school style when Hierodules fell somewhere between Warhounds and Reavers, rather than the modern Hierodules which are tiny little fellas. I do plan on using some modern Hierodules as "Assault Spawns".
The goal was to have something that would fit on an 80mm base (same as Warhound) and looks like it could stomp a Warhound and threaten a Reaver... maybe I made it too small though. It doesn't quite fit on the 80mm base but also is maybe not bulky enough next to the Warhound?
Amazing! I would say that is definitely threatening to a Warhound, and that for sure a Reaver wouldn't be able to ignore that thing trying to chew on it's leg!
Those photoshops look cool! Makes me wish someone would port 40k aircraft into a flight simulator like DCS or IL2, haha.
I found the standard modern Hierophant model too spindly and was going for something more akin to the old Epic 40k model, so beefed up all the limbs and modified the torso so the head wasn't scraping on the ground like the modern Hierophant (what's the point in being huge if your head/guns end up close to the ground? ). I'm tempted to go 10% larger on the biotitan (the biggest my printer can handle without breaking it into smaller pieces) and swap to a 100mm base. This is back when Hierodules were 325pts (compared to Warhounds at 200pts and Reavers at 390pts) so it should feel like it can take on those Imperial Titans.
I do need to figure out a way of modelling "Razor Claws", as that was half the fun of the Hierodules back in the day, taking on enemy Titans in close combat.
Those look amazing Crablezworth! Reminds me that I must start watching that show..
I've finished off some Kratos tanks - have 'accessorised' them with helmet spikes and corpses scattered liberally. These extra bits courtesy of Vanguard Miniatures.
Pacific wrote: Those look amazing Crablezworth! Reminds me that I must start watching that show..
I've finished off some Kratos tanks - have 'accessorised' them with helmet spikes and corpses scattered liberally. These extra bits courtesy of Vanguard Miniatures.
I started working on a bunch of tank commanders for Vanguard Miniatures a while back. Sadly enough they got rejected because they wouldn't fit through the canopy.
Ironically enough no one ever asked that same question when it comes to regular Space Marines.
@Malika I feel like some dozer blade or similar options for tanks that don't have them could be cool for various tanks in the same way they are at 28mm. The kratos are one of the few until recently that come with dozer blades.
@Malika I feel like some dozer blade or similar options for tanks that don't have them could be cool for various tanks in the same way they are at 28mm. The kratos are one of the few until recently that come with dozer blades.
Just been down to pick up me Spartans and Cards. Also added a third box of Legion Support
Once I can get my hands on another Infantry set, I should be able to field fairly three fairly chunky Detachments (Demi Company, Garrison and Armoured Company).
In two minds on the Spartans though, armament wise. Between the Quad Lascannons and Laser Destroyers are 7” of range, and an extra pip of AP.
High AP is nice of course. But not if I rarely find myself in range to make use of it.
Hmmm.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Knackers. Decision made for me on one.
Be very very careful when clipping the Lascannon arrays off your sprue, folks. I knackered one of the barrels good and proper.
Second build I started the clipping at the business end of the barrel, which worked much better.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oooh! Nifty!
Each Spartan sprue has a two pintel Multi-Meltas. Which solves one scarcity problem for Rhinos.
Quick and rough paintjob on the Hierodule because I'm too lazy to take the time to make him look good...
Sneaky Alpha Legion for scale! (not sure why I chose this model to show scale given that it's also 3D printed and about 5-10% bigger than GW's models ).
But yeah, flesh is just a wash of agrax over white primer, the carapace is just 2 or 3 layers of contrast/speed paint over white. But the result isn’t terrible for a couple of hours work I guess.
I think my problem with it is that the blue came out a bit too blue, need to be greyed down as I think it's makes it look smaller than it is.
Think thats a great colour combination Skink, the blue looks beautiful (if you're allowed to say that about such a beast!)
I've finished off some Terminators for my Night Lords. Went with the Vanguard Miniatures Renegade heavy armour guys, as firstly I've not been able to get hold of the official ones, but also thought these suited the character of the NL a bit better as a bit less 'clean cut' looking. I removed some of the spikey bits to tone them down a little bit.
My Death Guard gave the Iron Warriors a thorough trouncing, trampling them into the dust of the city crumbling around them. As is a time-honoured tradition in Epic, things are getting wild when the skies start raining Thunderhawks full of terminators
I have already said on another forum, but there is a strong possibility that the Quran was mistanslated from ancient Arabic, and what actually awaits us in heaven is the table of SherryPie's above
Somewhat smaller in scope, here are some air support that I am using as 'counts as' Xiphon Interceptors. These are Renegade Interceptor minis from Vanguard Miniatures - I thought the style of these fitted better with the Night Lords than the official mini, as being a bit more Edge-Lord
Love it, will it have the ability to have external bomb payloads? Even just being able to alternate missile/bomb loads would be awesome. If possible some subtle or smallish turrets, possibly underslung, that look like their traverse could be rear, or just some rear facing weaponry.
Reason being, they'd be great count as solar aux bombers/fighters for LI.
Well, it is very early in the morning here in the UK, but I already know that is the coolest thing I will see on the internet today
I've got the Grimdark Terrain engine & train which isn't bad, but I think I prefer that one - just the scale of the thing, you can imagine it as some sort of Chris Foss airbrushed painting, giant sci-fi train pulling millions of tons of ore across the desert wastes.
I have finished off a Thunderhawk Gunship and some Assault troopers as passengers. Really liked the kit it went together nicely, so I've kept as standard and the only thing I'm changing is the base (going for a larger one as the one it came with is a bit weedy for such a mighty craft).
Got a 2k event next month and still got a fair few things to paint (drop pod formation is next up). The 30% allies and formation unit limits I have found fairly restrictive (especially as both titans and Solars have to fit into that 30%), miss the simple Epic Space Marine days of 5 detachment cards and a special card per company, made things a lot more simple
I’m sat sitting here, with a mole at the counter. But I daren’t risk a break for the border to release this filthy hostage, as I’m awaiting Royal Mail’s delivery of my LI terrain.
Once it’s here? I’ll get sprue pics for everyone. But tonight’s hobby will be finishing off my 28mm Sicaran Venator. Then…then I’ll crack on with my backlog of Epic Scale Goodies. Which also involves a quick spelunk into the Magic Box O’Stuff, which contains some left over buildings from an aborted Titanicus collection.
Automatically Appended Next Post: It’s arrived! And there’s a lot of Sprues. Like…lots and lots and lots.
You get two of these.
Eight of these.
And eight of these.
Each sprue can make two smallish buildings. So provided you’re not fussed for height, that’s an awful lot of board coverage for cities. So whilst I’ll likely be in the market for another next month? I’m not feeling terribly short changed by the £85 I spent here.
@Mad Doc, the steeple tops I found with my collection got/get in the way of roof space for placing infantry bases, so I removed most of them and used them in conjunction with new civitas ruins sprues when building my ruins. Just a thought, but it's the one thing I'd do differently with LI in mind that has change since mostly building with titanicus games in mind where height was more of a priority. What I'm finding is the more roof space my structures have, the less reliant the games are on needing a lot of sideboard for the bases that don't fit.
On that? I think I’d just make some building footprint templates for the side board. Then, when I’m garrisoning (or my oppponent), we can put the bulk of the occupying unit or units there, with maybe one base from each up top as a visual reminder.
Or…..just make diddy flags to put atop the building, and refer to the footprint template for who’s in occupation.
Of course, playing Dark Angels and having that lovely Phosphex for free, my opponent shouldn’t expect it to be long before Assault Marines forcibly evict his troops. On fire. Through the nearest window.
And in case of multiple units of the same foot print? Numbered flags and numbered footprint templates.
For building Garrisons, I was just using dice (little dice next to the building, then corresponding dice next to the unit that you have placed on the side of the board) however I found I kept accidentally using them. I got these instead from Mighty Minis, which are down as 'victory point tokens' but I think they're great for keeping track of garrison units
I made this to help track what detachment is in what structure, but from the games played and increase in transport usage by both sides, amount of sideboard usage is really high, so I've been trying to use the structures with the most roof space. The problem we've encountered is when small detachments/remnant detachments like regroup and occupy a structure, if its just a few bases it can be difficult to see/remember to activate on both sides. I also like the visual aspect if all or most models are able to fit on the roof, helps visually ford wide shots to see who is where in terms of structure control.
I’ve…I’ve massively over complicated things, haven’t I? And utterly needlessly.
Speaking of which, you can keep your wipe-clean, laminated reusable card note taking things. For I have the means and ability to print bathroom tiles instead. Now that’s wipe clean!
Finished writing an after action report for a big multiplayer mash-up in our Kriegsspielmageddon campaign with over 30 000 points of Epic: Armageddon forces at it, some 80+ pages of narrative goodness in PDF form.
Six players, two months of play, scheming, intrigue and very 40k madness up the wazoo with lots of burning tanks littering the fields as thousands of soldiers and civilians stomp the tortured grounds of Taranus Aegis.
The report contains some crude language, parody of current events and depictions of atrocities one would expect from the grim darkness of the far future.
Pretty sure I got mine cheaper, and the second one at discount.
I do need some acrylic risers though, to maximise space for Epic scale. I did get one, but ended up using to better display my vintage Ghostbusters figures.
Here are some pictures of our latest campaign game. This time, the orks surprise attacked an imperial logistics harbour. I custom built the ork vessels mostly out of paper and did some water effects with more paper, cotton and mod podge.
The game was tight, and in the end the orks managed to destroy the AA batteries, landing platforms further up the beach and they prevented the escape of the noble guard commander.
Incredible stuff guys! Just reminding me why this is my favourite thread on this forum
Sherrypie - going to be downloading that PDF and setting that up on the tablet for some serious reading, that looks absolutely incredible.
I have finally hit 1.5k points - now have just under a month to do the remaining 500 (which is mostly some marines and drop pods, as well as Sicaran tanks). Am starting to burn out a little (and not just my eyesight) painting tiny lightning bolts on things..
Pacific wrote: Incredible stuff guys! Just reminding me why this is my favourite thread on this forum
Sherrypie - going to be downloading that PDF and setting that up on the tablet for some serious reading, that looks absolutely incredible.
I have finally hit 1.5k points - now have just under a month to do the remaining 500 (which is mostly some marines and drop pods, as well as Sicaran tanks). Am starting to burn out a little (and not just my eyesight) painting tiny lightning bolts on things..
Cheers, do tell what you thought about that whole kerfuffle when you're done! Always keen to hear if I managed to convey the situation out at least somewhat coherently.
And keep up the good work, it's only a zillion more lightning bolts to go
Bit miffed I could only afford two of the 12 Rapiers I’ve painted, but I guess the next step is to grab the models from the cabinet, and line them up to see what’s in what, and that I’ve not listed models I don’t have.
Thought I'd show off some of my Solar Auxilia (plus Navy) I've painted so far.
The Russes were probably my favourite to paint but quite fond of the Aethons too. I have lots more to paint in terms of infantry and tanks but I'm getting there. Hoping to have what I have so far done by mid-May for Titandeath campaign.
The first 60 or so tanks of Selen II's 4th Home Army are getting their gear in order to head towards the painting dock... radio aerials get attached after basecoats.
Yes, I will be converting pretty much every one of the upcoming hundreds of vehicles to be at least somewhat unique. Business as usual
Skinflint Games wrote: Love how the Navy is pristine while the grunts are battered to hell - "Auxilia do the dying, Navy just does the flying"
Also, I would struggle to paint lenses like that on 28mm, how you've accomplished it at Epic scale is beyond me!
Love the reference! A bit unintentional on my part as the Navy were painted in July last year for the Dakka Painting Challenge and had no time to do weathering! Reckon I'll keep it that way now.
Thanks Pacific as well! White schemes at small scale seem to work really well.
Loving the additions Sherrypie! I considered adding some bits to my tanks but ultimately left it. Might be worth going back in and adding to them though. Especially love the sand bags.
Sat down to take some photos of my Adeptus Titanicus Legio Atarus the other evening. They look fine from the tabletop but up close they're not amazing. I painted these to "battle ready" last year and then went through the arduous process of touching them up after assembly. The later titans I do will be better (I hope) as I don't have the same time constraints.
I'm sure I am not speaking out of turn here Tyranid Horde by saying those are a hell of a lot better than just 'Battle Ready'! They look really good, like the eye glow effect and the little infantry about to be squished on the bases.
I have finished off the last of my Night Lord infantry, these ones are coming in by Drop Pod. I know there aren't any Dreadclaw rules yet, so I guess they will just be standard Drop Pods for now. I tried to copy some atmospheric entry burn effects, although it is underneath so you can't really see it
The marines are mostly as standard, I snuck a few Vanguard infantry onto the Command stand to give them more of a veteran look.
Wowsers, two posts in a row! Have finished off some Sicarians, accessorised them with some helmet poles and corpses (in colours of their accompanying Guard penal regiment )
The extra bits are mostly from Vanguard Miniatures, although I have snuck in an old RTB-01 part of anyone is eagle-eyed enough to spot it!
Will try and get a finished army shot sorted soon.
That is an impressive looking army there Doc! Some collection, how many points are you up to with those now and what next stuff is planned?
So.. I have finally finished my 2k Night Lords army! An event coming up in a few weeks and unusually for me got it done in time (and not still painting late into the evening the night before!)
I will post some accompanying background for them but basically they had been recruiting from a 'prison world' for recruits and auxiliaries (hence the orange jumpsuit guys) - these get used as cannon fodder by the Legion. I'm planning on painting up some 'loyalist' Death Guard for a friend of mine, so will have an interesting narrative spin on things.
Right. Half way through assembling the Legion Fast Attack, and it’s a really nice kit to work with.
Importantly, right now I’ve nearly got a proper Sky Hunter Phalanx of useful size.
One unit of Outriders will be joining the Demi-Company to give them some rapid responders.
The Landspeeders however are oddly frustrating. Their basic equipment of Plasma Cannon (Light AT) and Heavy Bolter (Light, Point Defence) have the same range, and three shots between them. But, I can upgrade 1 in 2 to Multi-Melta and Heavy Flamer, giving some punch against Armour and dug-in infantry.
I tend to favour specialisation in my head, so I’m not sure how a mixed unit of Landspeeders will perform, but the kit forces me to build one of each load out from each sprue. So whilst I can absolutely field an all Plasma/Bolter squadron, I’ll end up with orphaned models I can’t use.
But man these models are pretty!
Automatically Appended Next Post: ‘Ere we go!
One Sky-Hunter Detachment (2 full squadrons of Jetbikes, a full squadron of Big Speeders, a full squadron of Diddy Speeders, and a full squadron of Outriders) and a squadron of Outriders for my ever-growing Demi-Company.
Plus some spare speeders which I’m sure will find a home somewhere in a list.
That's a nice collection there Doc. I am looking forward to getting that kit, they are lovely looking little minis.
I am just starting on a next project, which is a Great Crusade-era (hence the MK3) Death Guard force I'm doing for a friend. This will hopefully tie into the Rangdan Genocide project which is the next 'mega battle' we have planned for a few years down the road. My brief is a clean white and bottle green, so need to get a good recipe for it that doesn't take ages (I am experimenting with contrast/speed paints). I'm using square bases as we're likely to use Epic Space Marine/NetEpic rules, and I like the idea of massed ranks of DG infantry lined up and marching forward guns blazing.
Outriders now done, Jetbikes to be done and dusted tomorrow. Speeders of both varieties are undercoated, awaiting Grim Black. Might go for that tomorrow lunchtime, as it allows a non-delaying drying period. Which is nice.
Got Friday off work, so depending how pissed I get tomorrow night (payday is always pub night!), there’s every chance I’ll break my own record and have all my Legion Fast Attack bought, assembled and painted within a week.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Once I’m done, I think I’ll do a lovely group shot, Detachment by Detachment. Give folks a better visual reference to what an army might look like.
And today? Scimitar Jetbikes polished off, Speeders and Sicarans ready for tomorrow.
This is what happens when at the start of the day you’re on 150% of target at work, are already a full week ahead of quarterly target, and frankly couldn’t be arsed to do a great deal.
Super chuffed with how the bases turned out. Just MSG base colour, then a stipple/dry brush in patches of Celestra Grey and that bone colour GW does which isn’t called Screaming Skull but is Screaming Skull, and an Agrax Wash. For me, it gives the feel of dusty wreckage.
This thread is amazing. Here’s a couple of titans I’ve done, and some action shots from a recent epic game (hopefully it’s ok to post old school rather than LI).
Gordy2000 wrote: This thread is amazing. Here’s a couple of titans I’ve done, and some action shots from a recent epic game (hopefully it’s ok to post old school rather than LI).
Very nice, Gordy. Good to see you're still producing such nice models
4k of EpicAU's Heresy legion lists, Epic: Armageddon. The Death Guard gives the Iron Fourth a solid whooping, though Perturabo's disciples give a grand exit by driving down the XIV command elements with their final titan-assisted charge.
I've shared these a long time ago (in my old hobby plog on here as well) but I've been on a mission to rescue a whole bunch of old photos from the warseer days and port them all over to my actual 6mm fantasy & Sci-fi hobby blog. Mostly as a nice 'keepsake' for myself to look back on. But also I've just started the mammoth task of bringing this force to modern standards- new paint jobs, butchering new plastic tanks, and a few thousand new infantry!
But before I start most of the work (and whilst I wait impatiently for a big delivery from the USofA), I've been reposting my hobby photos of my old Epic 40k Space Skaven force. Photos and paintjobs are from around 2012ish-2015.
A remembrance of what once was, before they become what they should have always been!
I'm very much excited to see this get a total overhaul this year and back on the table- hopefully this time with a full blown themed city table. I might even finish the titan conversions that have been started and never finished numerous times over the years!
Vermin Warlock
Giant mutants armed with Flamers with Giant mutant rats
Vermin troops armed with chemical weapons
Giant Mutant Rats
Imperium slaves entrenching vermin defences
Artillery emplacement, minor rat mutants far right
Unconfirmed sightings of Vermin bio-titans reported moving in the Stein sector
The vermin marching to war (scratch built doomwheel, toy converted into doomhammer
My Legions Imperialis Dark Angels are fully painted. Again. Because there’s always New Toys coming down the pipeline, which will swell my ranks yet further.
Probably gonna do a thread later in the week, demonstrating just what a Detachment can look like, from bare bones to as maxed out as I can manage using currently commercially available models.
Very cool Doc - think you've made a good job of making the scheme pop, the DA are definitely difficult to paint in 30k I have found.
RexHavoc - those are amazing. Is that from the Microworld range?
I have thought of bringing some Space Skaven/Hrud as part of our Great Crusade Epic campaigns. Going with a different gribbly alien from that era now, but may bring in some of the new Mantic Epic warpath Veer-myn when those are released, will have to see how the scale matches up
Pacific wrote: Very cool Doc - think you've made a good job of making the scheme pop, the DA are definitely difficult to paint in 30k I have found.
RexHavoc - those are amazing. Is that from the Microworld range?
I have thought of bringing some Space Skaven/Hrud as part of our Great Crusade Epic campaigns. Going with a different gribbly alien from that era now, but may bring in some of the new Mantic Epic warpath Veer-myn when those are released, will have to see how the scale matches up
Thanks! These are all pre-microworld stuff!
The 6mm rats (like the warlock and troops) are base models of Irregular with a little sculpting from myself. The larger mutants (like the flame thrower rats) are 10mm scale stuff from Pendraken. Some of the giant rats are from GW actually.
I just ordered a TON of microworld rats as part of 'operation modernise', I'd been putting off ordering them for far too long! I'm looking forward to getting to them! (if only for the fact that its going to artificially inflate my total painting model count for the year by spraying the whole lot brown and basing them in a hurry! )
I won't ask how much a table of those will cost, although think there are definitely worse things the money could be spent on!
I have finished off some infantry for Crusade-era Death Guard, a Battle Company of Assault, Devastator and Tactical marines. Gone for a clean/white and bottle green look, to set them apart from the stained, later representations.
Minis are KMFP MKII design, the bases are also prints. The Baneblade is the standard GW mini, with a cupola marine added. This is a reference to the late 00's pre-heresy days when people first started modelling the era, and the Marine Baneblade started to appear (think there was some Collected Visions artwork on it too)
Not a fan of the LI tiles, they're so flat and featureless they might as well be mdf. And if they come as warped as my Zone Mortalis tiles did it's gonna come off worse as LI doesn't have walls that click in place on top to hold them straight. I would really, really rather get a nice neoprene mat and use the difference on more plastic buildings. One epic trick I saw was to buy a featureless asphalt mat, and put your buildings on bases with sidewalk included. Then no matter how you place the buildings, the space between then magically looks like roads.
(well.. Rangdan, but I think Jeremy Paxman would have accepted it, so so shall I!)
