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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby mattjgilbert » Wed May 26, 2010 11:12 am

I think epidemius is great.

Why did the titan need taking apart? To put the turbo-laser magnets in place?
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby killmaimburn » Wed May 26, 2010 11:19 am

Thank you.

Yes, fortunately that arm was only held in place by 15 carpet nails and came apart with a healthy crack... the pictures are after I repainted some of the minor damage that caused.. then Kings one needed its magnet raising to fit in line and MR6 had to get the right triangle of balsa to mount both the existing arm and the new arm (was a bit of a fiddle)..
Usefull since from what I hear nige's lot say you shouldn't take turbo lasers.. because they are so good.. so I can swap them in when they are allowed and replace it with super duper bolter when not. XD

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Epididemus,(wolf body counting tentacle babayaga)
Great unclean one,I think I bought him an upgrade(plague lord nurglitch)
3x7 plaguebearers (plague monk rats) with an instrument of chaos in each
2x5  nurgling bases (mostly from small rats
Demon prince with MON,Iron hide, Flight,breath
Demon prince with MON,Iron hide, Flight,breath
Demon prince with MON,Iron hide, Flight,breath
1500
EDIT ooohhh actually thats around 1420. I dropped 1 nurgling and added a 5 man bolt of change squad. ish
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby ruffian4 » Wed May 26, 2010 11:59 am

Really like those plague monks, I have monkrat envy now.

Baba yaga looks cool, maybe tons more tentacles (in a tentacle mood, don't you know)?
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby killmaimburn » Fri May 28, 2010 8:17 am

Took the nurgle out for a spin last night.
Played against.
HQ- Company command squad with 3 melta in chimera
Troops - 4 vet squads maxed out in chimera , 1 squad plas,1 squad melta,1 squad flamer+ something (with heavy flamers and heavy flamers...list had been tailored to previous opponent)
Heavy- 3 seperate leman russ , one demolisher , 2 regular.. all with lascannons at the front, 2 with heavy bolters one with plasma..
I think I must have missed something off because typing it out now it seems a bit light.. (I'll ask him and post any updates)

Basically- bloody mech guard again,is there anyone out there not playing guard ? :roll: :mrgreen:
Played Night fight from battle missions(its not just a clever name night fight is in effect all the time).. worked a bit in my favour as most of my shooting was point blank flamer template.. saved me from 2 shots in the game.(really really weird deployment for that one, was quite fun).

Things I learnt
1) When you have the perfect assualt planned with epi and squad ,it sucks to roll a double one for S+P and be trapped facing a full plasma and flamer vet squad.They lived, but next turn they charged with 3 men instead of 8.
2) Orders suck if your not going fast or an MC (yeah he killed 3/4 MCs, but his face trying to find an order that helped against basic t5 infantry XD)
3) Deployment dice suck.. (I got plaguebearers and nurglings, rather than DPs, GUOs and epi).
4) The tally doesn't make much sense against mech 1500- I maxxed out my tally when there was 2 of his infantry left on the table to fight. (I think I'd swap power weapons for melta bombs if someone asked :D)
5) Nurglings as 3x3 though helping balance the deployment groups are so weak they are killed by basic vets before they can strike.. 4+5 instead.
6) everybody hates epi.. and he needs a bigger sheild so 6,6,9 from now, fluff be damned
7) Even though my DPs arrived piecemeal having 17t6 MC wounds over the course of the game is a good firemagnet for anyone who doesn't just autocannon spam.(I'm still sat waiting for heavy bolters to go back down to a third of their current points cost before I can make "critical fire" (old name -torrenting list))
8) Breath of chaos sucks.. spent loads on it.. and it only killed 2 guard the whole game.(didn't glance a tank until turn 7 when it was just for jokes finishing off a chimera I'd immobilised.In fact I think the tzeentch cursed my list..no shooty weapon of mine rolled a succesffully all game.(e.g. all BOC missed..really need to find something nurgly to replace them with)
9) No one should ever listen to me, the one time I offered a tip of "shoot that close knit horde with your battle cannon to maximise hits *before* hitting them with your vets"..it boomerang banana'd 9"s straight onto his vets and killed 5 of them...he said I did that deliberatly :D

I cleared off his troop choices, he killed off my fire (demon princes, although the great unclean one only turned up turn 5 managed to kill a leman russ) i had 2 guys on centre obective, and a full 6 on one on a far flank.. went till turn 7 where he'd cleared the centre and was trying to tank shock onto the far flank..but my remaining DP 1 wound (who he'd had to ignore to get across the board) hit him in the arse and immobilised him.. making the game mine by 1 objective to 0.
Scary close.. turn 2 and 3 I was such a gonna.It was only savey McSaveypants who managed to prevent me being battered.
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby mattjgilbert » Fri May 28, 2010 9:01 am

I've not tried epidemius yet - I need more nurlge models to make him worth taking I think.

Sounds like you pulled of the win with very little to spare!
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby killmaimburn » Fri May 28, 2010 12:27 pm

It was sooo close, silly close.
And as I thought his list was light (I only spotted it when typing its not something I was keeping secret throughout the game or anything).. turns out he was down a stormtrooper unit.
Because that would have finished off the DP...I'm saying he won, but he's saying it was a general's blunder and I still won... so I guess we'll call it a draw so we don't have a fight (like when mrs doyle tries to pay for her friends tea in father ted).
So yeah my list kind of sucks.. oh well at least I've nearly finished painting it.
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby killmaimburn » Mon May 31, 2010 1:42 pm

I've got as far as I'm going to get.
I've stuck a bunch of watered down tin bitz over the swords to make them a bit rusty (/poisoned) I've given a very watered down load of the v old scorched brown paint as awash over all the furr, and then gone over some of that again with a red ink..I've used the thraka green on a bunch of the cloaks..I've used one of the darker browns,forget which, to pic out the detail on the tails (which I'd done in foundation pink for some reason). i've covered baba yaga's tentacles in camo green..an I'm spent. I tried adding a few bits and pieces of tenctacle but that didn't work, I tried getting nurglitch to look less like he had gaping giant gaps of undercoat (the beast has been washed in 3 different colours and has been inked around his mouth at least twice and you still from these pics can still just see well...gaps..)I'm not doing anything fancy with the bases..although I did managed to carve up a skelly bob and have half a rib cage and a smashed up skull by nurglitchs feet.

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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby mattjgilbert » Mon May 31, 2010 8:30 pm

Even doing something simple on the bases will bring them all together as a whole army. Brown sides and green flock on top. Job done.
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby ruffian4 » Mon May 31, 2010 10:19 pm

Seconded!
Keep going, Toby, just imagine yourself as George the animal Steel and you'll get there!
(crappy wrestling jibe!!!)
Or maybe Bastion Booger???
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby timewizard » Mon May 31, 2010 11:40 pm

ruffian4 wrote:Seconded!
Keep going, Toby, just imagine yourself as George the animal Steel and you'll get there!
(crappy wrestling jibe!!!)
Or maybe Bastion Booger???

Thirded!
And we all know that The Animal was a teacher and held a bachelors and masters degree, yes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Steele :mrgreen:
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby killmaimburn » Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:50 am

Best of whats left, Left to right pictured.

1,Citadel fine detail brush(mangled its done its time its about 14 years old and 2nd hand)
2,Rotmarder lexus p200 5/0 (mangled,but even when new wouldn't hold paint, it either pours off it onto something or doesn't have any on the brush)
3,Royal 5/0" softgrip SG250- newest, but crapest 'nib'was heading for the bin (or drybrushing only) already due to beingoff in every direction.. then I drunk painted something with frsh glue on..so bin.
4,Generic cheap brush from a stationers..I haven't ha dthe guts to try it yet. (its like cardboard unil it gets wet then its all over the place)
5,0 Beatties Sablene (chopped down after mangling..most of the painting over the last 3 pages was done with this or.. 1,s big brother "the detail brush" now in bin as it evaporated..(literally all is bristles vanished)
6, Citadel basecoat brush (mangled)

And you expect me to just have some flock somewhere? :lol: (actually when I was new to it and just accepting anything offered to me the guy who gave me the brettonians offered me a large tupperware of brown and one of green flock..I said I didn't need it so he poured it into the bin...yeah I know.. doh!!)


Thanks for the comments guys :) , I'm only really finding the epi frustrating(same with my blue scribes.I can't materialise my (ridiculously grand) visions of them..I really ought to chop off my ear :sad5 :wink: ) ..I'm not disgustedly stomping away with my ball from the rest..I'm just moving onto higher priorities, I've faced 138 chimera chassis in 4 months...there isn't room for variety or anything really.
If anyone is insulted to their core by the models not being based fully, they are welcome to send me flock, I shall in exchange give a think layer of pva to the bases, pour whatever is in the bag on the glue and shake off the excees... and then realise it was my dutch connection and that my bases really ought to be burnt (in a bong)
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby mattjgilbert » Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:12 am

Looks like my old brush collection!
The 3rd from the right looks OK though :)

Impressive if you've been working with that lot sir.
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby killmaimburn » Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:06 am

Brush situation fixed by great tip by LATD
http://www.theworks.co.uk/product.asp?cid=3&pid=5781
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and also the detail set.
Cost £6 for a full spectrum.
So then went ape.. bought some brown and green acrylic paint (couldn't find a purple). and a tub (half litre) of gresso mostly for ljundhammer I must admit I don't think I'll use it.
But yeah all in that was like £13-14 8)
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby lostandthedamned » Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:16 am

Good Going.
Another tip with the gesso that you might want to try is if you're building scenary with Polystyrene. A gesso coat works really well instead of having to PVA it before spraying because it shrinks into all the nooks and crannys. I also use a mix of Gesso, PVA Paint and Sand to basecoat for buildings. Unlike just using pva to put the sand on, the gesso shrinks and holds it hard onto the surface. Then I can drybrush without the sand coming off.
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Re: Someone elses project log (now with added GT!!)

Postby mattjgilbert » Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:35 am

Nice tips latd. Is gesso water-based (easy to thin/clean up etc.)?

Can't remember if the works in Worthing is still open. Will have to look at those brushes if it is.

And some gesso.
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