Warhammer 40k

[Halb]

Sway said:

Epic 40k? Had a partial rerelease (no tiny tanks, but lots of titans!) as Adeptus Titanicus, set in the 30k era.
Sounds like Rhinos, Predators (rhino with big fk off lasers), maybe Basilisks and Baneblades...
If you've got any of that stuff still lying around - let me know!

If Epic 40k is like Red ALert wit models, yeah! Adeptus Titanicus, I thought it ws that but wasn't sure. Never had titans as models myself, but the tanks, Baneblades! Yup, they had cool names. Most of my predators and rhinos will be plastic. They're tucked away somewhere in the midst of hoarded junk somewhere. YOu collect them?

[Sway]

Halb said:

Sway said:

Epic 40k? Had a partial rerelease (no tiny tanks, but lots of titans!) as Adeptus Titanicus, set in the 30k era.
Sounds like Rhinos, Predators (rhino with big fk off lasers), maybe Basilisks and Baneblades...
If you've got any of that stuff still lying around - let me know!

If Epic 40k is like Red ALert wit models, yeah! Adeptus Titanicus, I thought it ws that but wasn't sure. Never had titans as models myself, but the tanks, Baneblades! Yup, they had cool names. Most of my predators and rhinos will be plastic. They're tucked away somewhere in the midst of hoarded junk somewhere. YOu collect them?

Hell yes! Mainly now for cool bases for Titanicus titans - but prepping a 30k Legion epic scale army to use with AT titans using the old rules (and indeed the new 40k Apocalypse large scale battle rules).

[Wayoftheflower]

Sway said:

Halb said:

Never collected 40k (I had some GW stuff yonks ago, and used to buy White Dwarf/GM etc), but I did play the game with tanks and titans...(and mighty empires and bloodbowl) and in fact, had a boxed version of plastic tanks, mostly rhinos and...dammit can't recall the other vehicles, though I did purchase metal based one offs, for the heavy tanks...one maybe had a defence laser as it's main weapon? My nerd memory is (unusually for me) failing me on this particular recollection.
But after viewing some of the pictures here, I would just like to share my appreciation for those who have the talent and patience to carry out those paint jobs. Most excellent.

Epic 40k? Had a partial rerelease (no tiny tanks, but lots of titans!) as Adeptus Titanicus, set in the 30k era.

Sounds like Rhinos, Predators (rhino with big fk off lasers), maybe Basilisks and Baneblades...

If you've got any of that stuff still lying around - let me know!

I really liked Epic scale 40k years ago, still have a big box of stuff in the shed hoping one day to either have time to play again or sell my "investment"

I had decent Ork, Eldar, Marine and Tyranid armies.

[Halb]

I recall the orc titan had the gut-buster gun, the most powerful gun.
Glave! ANother name I recall. ANd Elf tanks hovered and had a pulse ability that caused more damage as they hit.

[Wayoftheflower]

Halb said:

I recall the orc titan had the gut-buster gun, the most powerful gun.
Glave! ANother name I recall. ANd Elf tanks hovered and had a pulse ability that caused more damage as they hit.

There were some cool Titan super weapons. Imperator had the Plasma annihilator, Ordinatus Mars? Had the sonic cannon which was ridiculous.

The fast Eldar Revenant titans had lethal little pulse lasers.

Even though they were convoluted and clunky I did love the flavour of the Titan Legions rules.

[youngsyr]

Wayoftheflower said:

Halb said:

I recall the orc titan had the gut-buster gun, the most powerful gun.
Glave! ANother name I recall. ANd Elf tanks hovered and had a pulse ability that caused more damage as they hit.

There were some cool Titan super weapons. Imperator had the Plasma annihilator, Ordinatus Mars? Had the sonic cannon which was ridiculous.

The fast Eldar Revenant titans had lethal little pulse lasers.

Even though they were convoluted and clunky I did love the flavour of the Titan Legions rules.

Nowadays you can get those titans and weapons in 40k scale!

[Wayoftheflower]

Back in the day (way way back) Forgeworld were doing Shadowswords and Warhounds for the very well heeled W40k player. I imagine 3D printing makes all that thing much much cheaper these days.

[Sway]

Wayoftheflower said:

Back in the day (way way back) Forgeworld were doing Shadowswords and Warhounds for the very well heeled W40k player. I imagine 3D printing makes all that thing much much cheaper these days.

Shadowswords/Baneblades became plastic - genuinely a challenge to see if they could.

Forgeworld still produce the full suite of titans in 28mm scale, in resin. Not cheap at all £400ish for warhound, £1k for warlord. You'd need a pretty big 3d printer to print the components for a warlord!

[Halb]

Shadowsword! I think that was my big tank, because it had the most powerful laser weapon!
Only ever got to cover it in white undercoat...from what I recall.

I do actually remember making my own 'defence tower'...from whatever product was available at the time, and it had spider branches going off. I had four ( I think defence lasers on the top turret) and different big weapons on the satellite branches. I basically wanted all the super heavy weapons on one thing, my mate was, 'you can't do that.' But it was a good game to try and attack it.

edit,
I know this isn't warhammer, but after watching this vid, just wanted to share
Analog Toys Published on 3 Sep 2019
Top 10 Best Playsets for Action Figures
https://youtu.be/Oybqh6P_nNY
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Edited by Halb on Sunday 8th September 11:56

[Havoc856-S]

Update after a while of silence!

Night Lords 10th Company are nearing completion! Another 40 marines and 10 Cataphractii are required!

Night Lords (Repaint) by Simon Cox, on Flickr

Current WIP - Night Lords Thunderhawk Gunship "Blackened".

Night Lords Thunderhawk Gunship "Blackened" by Simon Cox, on Flickr

Blackened was/is a Thunderhawk Gunship that has long been in the service of 1st Claw, 10th Company. Its getting closer to completion as each day rolls on! They're pretty weak in game for their points (even in 30K where this will be used its 935pts) - but it'll be running with Void-crafted Hulls (an upgrade to give it AV12 all round), a Ramjet Diffraction Grid (reducing weapons strength from the rear by 1), Flare shield (reducing weapon strength from the front by 1), Chaff Launchers (4++ against missiles), 6x Hellstrike missiles, 4x twin linked heavy bolters, Armoured Cockpit (ignores shaken results on a 4+) and.... Turbolaser destructor

It has a transport capability of 30 and it'll transport ten Atramentar terminators (20), Konrad Curze(2), Ruven (2) (Librarian in Cataphractii armour) and Vandred Anrathi, Captain of 10th Company (Praetor in Tartaros Terminator armour) (2) into combat!

Onto the big daddy...

Nuncio Mortis by Simon Cox, on Flickr

Nuncio Mortis is pretty much tabletop standard now, with me moving onto little detail work - that'll take the rest of the year to do!

It also got used in a seriously tight apocalypse scale game that i cover in my blog!

https://www.legiotraitoris.co.uk/2019/08/horus-her...

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Post completion of 10th Company - it's finishing my current backlog of Dark Mechanicum!

[Celtic Dragon]

Question for those that mod their mini’s. I keep seeing pics of models that have had their poses altered, mainly on Instagram ( a great place for inspiration). How do they achieve this? Whilst I suspect that they are taking saws to them and physically altering the minis at their joints.

I’m starting to find a lot of the basic mini poses, kind of boring and I’m wanting to introduce some variations.

[Sway]

Pretty much exactly that. Often, snipping off a locating 'tab' gives you much more freedom.

If you want to go more radical, then a little blob of greenstuff or fine milliput gives the ability to create an effective blend at the joint (and covers a multitude of sins at the cut!).

Or, there's the kitbashing route. If you're after a specific marine pose (for example) then you can pretty much mix and match heads/limbs/torsos at will with a little greenstuff sculpting. Weapons are also really interchangeable with often a nice hard straight edge to snip against for a straight cut.

All the above solely for 'multipart' kits - the more recent monopose minis (the ones with the locating pins, or two pieces making an entire head/torso/legs type minis) are a whole different ballgame for posing.

Edited by Sway on Wednesday 11th September 22:11

[Celtic Dragon]

Cheers for the confirmation, looks like I’ll be getting a cheap box first before taking a saw to the more expensive ones.

[Rick_1138]

Havoc856-S said:

Update after a while of silence!

Night Lords 10th Company are nearing completion! Another 40 marines and 10 Cataphractii are required!

Night Lords (Repaint) by Simon Cox, on Flickr

that's a fair few night lords!

lovely stuff btw. always nice to see full forces painted up.

[dr_gn]

Went to Warhammer World today - didn’t know it existed until I typed Warhammer into the satnav. Very nearly got very expensive. My son was totally transfixed by the whole thing. Must admit I was really impressed too, but how many amazingly painted figures can you see before they all start to blend into one?

[Celtic Dragon]

Spend the day finishing this off, and I use that word losely!! I've got so fed up with this this one lying around that I got hacked off with it. These are just quick shots, but its no where near as good as the Heldrake (I started this before the Heldrake), and I think I commited every modelling sin possible on it. When working on it today, I kept finding mould lines I'd missed during clean up, painting errors, gaps, you name it, I found it! Combine that with a 1/2 set up studio, and the frustration mounts.

Still it served as a learning tool, and for that its served its purpose perfectly.


Its not based yet and will look better once based, but I can't work out how I want to base it, unlike the Forgefiend sat in the box where I know exactly!

[Zad]

You may not think its that good, but it gives me the creeps! In a good way. The armour plates look very chitinous and the bones seem very bone-y. That weird thin, shiny chitin from dead insects too. I think overall, the model itself has certain limits as to what you can do with it, and even with the ultimate paint job it won't be as "wow" as your previous one. But then that was exceptional anyway. The mind boggles as to how the original modeller actually designed it, even with a good CAD system and talent, it looks like a lot of hard work to design something so complex, yet hangs together like a real thing.

Basing - how about a general theme of bones and un-digestable animal bits? Shells (both molluscs and carapaces), scales, bone shards etc. Talking of bases, is there some unwritten rule that all bases have to have a hard smooth chamfer at the bottom? Looking at my meagre efforts, it strikes me that even a painted chamfer always "breaks the 4th wall" and takes it out of context, and this seems true of almost all "proper" (i.e. built by a good artist) models.

dr_gn:

I know what you mean about everything looking the same after a time, it is rather dispiriting. I guess that is all part of the marketing necessary to get people to buy huge armies of minis that all do very similar jobs no matter what you call them. Being a more traditional modeller I prefer to make 1-offs or more interesting designs (my Orks are very much not a matched set, more just random practise pieces). Interesting items can be a bit more difficult to search out on the GW site, the site structure and search system isn't very helpful. Stuff on my wish list includes:

Mollog's Mob
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/WH-Underworld...

Steampunk tank
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Empire-Steam-...

Definitely not a set of Space Marines:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Blood-Bowl-Gr...

There are so many other small (in both senses) model manufacturers out there who are producing more interesting models (and cheaper) than GW, I wish I had the confidence to jump in and buy something. I could look around Goblin Gaming's site for hours and not get anywhere.

A new Youtube channel that may be of interest to some of you is Darren Latham Miniature Painting
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSz0WzAuhwjezFyEI...

He only started uploading a month or so ago. Darren is actually a miniature designer at GW, but this is his private stuff so isn't afraid to use a wet palette or W&N series 7 brushes. His videos usually start with me thinking it looks a bit meh, and ending with me thinking I could never make anything look that good. Ignore the fact that his early videos are in portrait format, he really does know his stuff and presents it well.

[Celtic Dragon]

Zad said:

You may not think its that good, but it gives me the creeps! In a good way. The armour plates look very chitinous and the bones seem very bone-y. That weird thin, shiny chitin from dead insects too. I think overall, the model itself has certain limits as to what you can do with it, and even with the ultimate paint job it won't be as "wow" as your previous one. But then that was exceptional anyway. The mind boggles as to how the original modeller actually designed it, even with a good CAD system and talent, it looks like a lot of hard work to design something so complex, yet hangs together like a real thing.

Basing - how about a general theme of bones and un-digestable animal bits? Shells (both molluscs and carapaces), scales, bone shards etc. Talking of bases, is there some unwritten rule that all bases have to have a hard smooth chamfer at the bottom? Looking at my meagre efforts, it strikes me that even a painted chamfer always "breaks the 4th wall" and takes it out of context, and this seems true of almost all "proper" (i.e. built by a good artist) models.

Thank you, that’s very kind of you! Being honest with myself, the photos aren’t the best so I will be redoing them once I’ve fixed the major errors. Also I lost interest in painting it about 1/2 way through, which didn’t happen with the Heldrake. With the drake, I knew exactly how I wanted to do the model and what I wanted from it, not so with the Trygon which I don’t think helped.

The next big model will be a Forgefiend, and like the Heldrake I know how I want to do it. Maybe I should stick to space smurfs of various colours and stuff that interests me

[youngsyr]

I think it looks awesome too - not easy to get an organic look on models, but you've nailed it.

[Civpilot]

dr_gn said:

Went to Warhammer World today - didn’t know it existed until I typed Warhammer into the satnav. Very nearly got very expensive. My son was totally transfixed by the whole thing. Must admit I was really impressed too, but how many amazingly painted figures can you see before they all start to blend into one?

Did you pay to go into the museum and see the BIG diorama? I so wish the lighting in that room was better because there is so much to see. 5000 mini's and took a team of 6 people just 6 months to paint and put together...

https://funnyjunk.com/channel/warhammer40k/Warhamm...