GW Games players - what are you painting?

Shiminay

Place was kinda quiet, so I thought I'd ask...

I'm painting some Eldar Guardians and a couple of Warlocks to match. After that is a Falcom Grav Tank.

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Dav
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So Bob Hoskins was about to roll a spliff when in walks Dana with her 3 foot Bong
[honey i] violated [the kids]
When the Beefy King arrives, I shall be paying homage with Puunack The Receiver in a haze of green curry.

DeVore

Tyranids, tyranids and more tyranids...

If you are in mayo at the start of August we might get a game in in the castle!

DeV.

Shiminay

Hey - that's not a bad idea - I've actually not played a proper game with the latest rules, so I'd be on for that - I'll almost definitly be in Mayo one of those weekends - you sould come over to Castlebar one of the nights - a bit of a drive from where you're staying, but we'll have a bit of a session

Remind me about it closer to time!

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Dav
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So Bob Hoskins was about to roll a spliff when in walks Dana with her 3 foot Bong
[honey i] violated [the kids]
When the Beefy King arrives, I shall be paying homage with Puunack The Receiver in a haze of green curry.

Rev Hellfire

If memory serves right nog should be painting his supension bridge.

FunkyChicken

im paintin nothin cuz i suck so i just spray all my chaos stuff black

Mixie

I decided I'd buy a load of that stuff... warhammer 40,000 (sound right?), painted like 2 marines, assembled everything else, punched out cards, etc., etc., and lost all motivation... probably had something to do with spraypainting the windows of the house red & the bollockin i got afterwards...

1) windowsil is not a good place to stack em to spray base coat
2) check wind direction

also glued one to a table top during assembly...

Not v.good with my hands

Shiminay

/me slaps Mixie around the side of the head

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Dav
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So Bob Hoskins was about to roll a spliff when in walks Dana with her 3 foot Bong
[honey i] violated [the kids]
When the Beefy King arrives, I shall be paying homage with Puunack The Receiver in a haze of green curry.

Elias

Mixie, I'm not saying thats dumbest thing I've ever heard someone do but its pretty stupid

nesf

I'm painting loads of guardians, damn that altioc mottled scheme!, a falcon, some jetbikes, and trying to find somewhere i can get more paints!

Anynews i've been away for ages, dissadvantage of living in a house with a very dodgy internet connection.

This board has gotten so quite....

orangerooster

im paintin orcs and my new unit of guardians any1 ere lookin forward to the brettonian army list next month in wd?

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Lemming

*Howls at the moon*

that should answer yoru question as to what I am painting

Space Wolves .. and LOTS of epic stuff. Eldar and Space Wolf

Lemming

Shortly moving up to Inquisitor. Got the book today. LOTS of indepth details and stuff.

Models are a mite-bit expensive though, but then again, there are less of them to buy ( a LOT less)

orangerooster

i love that game its so flexible and fun anyting can happen pity the models are that exspensive ah well

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Lemming

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by orangerooster_2000:
... pity the models are that exspensive ah well
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Yeah, they are expensive, but you don't need to go out and spend a few hundred on an army (its been done!) or something cause you only need a couple of miniatures.

Shiminay

But you could very easily spend £100 on 4 Inquisitor models by the time you've done conversion work and so on.

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Dav
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So Bob Hoskins was about to roll a spliff when in walks Dana with her 3 foot Bong
[honey i] violated [the kids]
When the Beefy King arrives, I shall be paying homage with Puunack The Receiver in a haze of green curry.

nesf

With a bit of luck you could russle up around 1500 pts of eldar for that. Possibly anyway.

Inquisitor looks cool, but painting models that size is very different to painting the usual stuff. You can't get away with alot of the short cuts

Shiminay

But that's half the fun, innit?

I'd love to give one of them a go - Brother Artemius or Esinhorn appeal to me most (Covenant looks good too).

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Dav
@B^)
So Bob Hoskins was about to roll a spliff when in walks Dana with her 3 foot Bong
[honey i] violated [the kids]
When the Beefy King arrives, I shall be paying homage with Puunack The Receiver in a haze of green curry.

Lemming

I wanna do artemis and covenant.

Although I intend to do a conversion of artemis into a space wolf death-guard character

nesf

Aye, I'd like to get my paws on some of the stuff, but it's not stocked in cork, and being an unemployed student, I only got enough to work on collecting more eldar Orcs are next, just got the armies book, and they got some really cool units.

Lemming

Actually .. I just had a cool idea flicking through my Inquisitor book ...

Either use a combo (not to mention a lot of 'green stuff') Covenant/Slick Devlan or RogueTrader guy/Slick Devlan to make Kal Jerico

Penos

ooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkskssssss
The power of Waaaaaaagh!!!!!

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Shiminay

Great idea Lemming - I'm sure someone's done it at this stage though, but still a great project. Keep an eye on the Forgeworld site - they've got some Inquisitor stuff already and they have a 40K scale Kal Jericho already...

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Dav

So Bob Hoskins was about to roll a spliff when in walks Dana with her 3 foot Bong
[honey i] violated [the kids]
When the Beefy King arrives, I shall be paying homage with Puunack The Receiver in a haze of green curry.

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nesf

Anyone played Warmaster?

Lemming

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kharn:
Keep an eye on the Forgeworld site - they've got some Inquisitor stuff already and they have a 40K scale Kal Jericho already...
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What I'm really waiting for is the Gaunts Ghosts W40k squad being released (yup .. that's right folks!! Gaunt, Milo, Corbec and Co. are being made into an Imperial Guard squad thingy!)

.ak

I don't play GW, I just use them for models. I generally like to do big diarama's with them, or just build up an impressive army. I tend to customize them allot because I hate the over characteristic blades and ****... Now, back on topic...

Some guy gave me 70 quids worth of orcs... So I'm painting those.... And lots upon lots of custom Dark Angels.

-Dark-NotRelatedToGW-Angel-

Lemming

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Dark-Angel:

Some guy gave me 70 quids worth of orcs
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Wow .... that's a lot of smelly green beasties!!

Shiminay

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Lemming:
What I'm really waiting for is the Gaunts Ghosts W40k squad being released (yup .. that's right folks!! Gaunt, Milo, Corbec and Co. are being made into an Imperial Guard squad thingy!)</font>

YOU LITTLE BEAUTY!!!

I love the Ghosts (read all the books).

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Dav
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So Bob Hoskins was about to roll a spliff when in walks Dana with her 3 foot Bong
[honey i] violated [the kids]
When the Beefy King arrives, I shall be paying homage with Puunack The Receiver in a haze of green curry.

Lemming

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kharn:
YOU LITTLE BEAUTY!!!

I love the Ghosts (read all the books).


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Ermm .. shoud I be getting worried now? :P lol.

But on a serious note, have u read "Honour Guard" yet, and if so what's it like ?

Better than Necropolis (and lets face it .. that was Dan Abnett writing at his finest!)

Draco

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Lemming:
But on a serious note, have u read "Honour Guard" yet, and if so what's it like ? </font>

I read it yesterday. It's of the same pulp sci-fi standard as the rest of them.

I've just started on a Steel Legion Imperial guard army. This is my first attempt at an army and I'm not doing too badly - most of the paint is ending up on the right parts of the models...

Kairo

I been painting Ultramarines for quite a while...yes I know EVERYONE goes Ultramarines..but I like the colour scheme. I tried to do Black templars but came to the conclusion that White Wont Go on ****ING BLACK!!!.. *ahem*...and I also have a few orcs and eldars..

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Wyrd

I's painting black templars at the mo' very boring for the basic models though i must say that the best armies to paint are the eldar i have also been doing inquisitor models but the problem with that game is not the models themselves it is the cost. it is hidious to find all the scenery to make it look cool as the models deserve and costly too.

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Shiminay

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Lemming:
Ermm .. shoud I be getting worried now? :P lol.

But on a serious note, have u read "Honour Guard" yet, and if so what's it like ?

Better than Necropolis (and lets face it .. that was Dan Abnett writing at his finest!)</font>

Haven't got it yet - shall do soon (finishing a Prachett Discworld book ATM).

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All the best!
Dav
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So Bob Hoskins was about to roll a spliff when in walks Dana with her 3 foot Bong
[honey i] violated [the kids]
When the Beefy King arrives, I shall be paying homage with Puunack The Receiver in a haze of green curry.

Lemming

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Wyrd:
I must say that the best armies to paint are the eldar
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Definitely!! I love painting Alaitoc, and I had a very interesting time painting my Avatar (ref. W40k 2nd Ed. paint job). What surprised me was not only was it one of the most complex models I ever painted (both in detail terms, and in techniques needed to get that metal skin on fire look) but it was one of my fastest and best(IMHO of course ).


That said, I enjoyed painting a squad of metal catachans a while back, simply frmo the point of view of making their uniforms tiger-strip camo, and adding little details to them.

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Wyrd:

i have also been doing inquisitor models but the problem with that game is not the models themselves it is the cost. it is hidious to find all the scenery to make it look cool as the models deserve and costly too.
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What was it like painting Inquisitor models ? Which ones have u attempted and how'd they go ? I'd be interested to know from the point of view that they're a completely different style of painting to what we all know and love (or loath!! depending .. hehe)

Actually, I quite like the idea of the larger scall scenery. A lot of average day items fit the bill beautifully and don't have to be downscaled or anything for W40k. I have made a LOT of scenery in my time. Those that have visited Gaelcon over the last 4 years might remember the rather large w40k assault terrain - aka. hamburger hill - used for a participation battle scenario.

I have to say, had I to make that for Inquisitor, it would have been a bit easier from the scale point of view although storage and transport would be a pain in the ass

Lemming

Just bought the Inquisitor "Covenant" model today. Damn these models are big!!

You need less highlights since the models pick up a lot of light themselves anyway. Just any highlights you do have need a lot more layers to make them look natural.

I'm debating on whether or not to keep my model as an Ordo Malleus character (with his shoulder mounted Psy-Cannon, etc) or convert him into an Ordo Xenos with a shoulder mounted Shuriken Catapult or something. Any thoughts and ideas boys n'girls ??

Pugsley

dont usually post here but here goes
im currently painting my alaitoc (as lemming said ) and im nearly finished my 2000point chaos army
My eldar army are still small (only 3jet bikes a falcon and a viper,along with 25guardians and 10dire avengers)
But am getting a sh!te load of models of a m8 in england...about £350 worth of models for 135 (hes a nice guy).
Mainly 4 my bros space marines but im getting a big enuf eldar army as well....
particulaly the avatar...they 0wn up close....
managed 2 WIPE OUT a full ork command squad up close on his own and still have 2wounds left.
BTW,what armies do ya'll collect ??
i have about
eldar:1500
Chaos:2000'ish (about 2300 by now)
Tyranid:1500
Orks (bro's):2000
Space marines (bro's):5000 (yes i do mean 5000 its absolutely HUGE ,half mine half his )
and a handful of necrons

Pugsley

And also,ure all lucky......the closest place 4 me to buy it is 80miles away
Ive had 2 use mail order.
And the shuriken cannon conversion sounds like a good idea
And if u could b bothered reading it here most of our space marine army of the top of me head
...........
75 or so marines
25terminators
5bikes
2land raiders
5assault marines
2librarians
full command squad
3land speeders
1 dread naught
marneas calgar (excuse spelling)
Tigerius
3commanders (dont ask y )
10veterin marines
15scouts
4rhinos
1razor back
1predator annihilator
10devestators
and a million or so conversions (sarcasm incase ure getting freaked out )

d4r3n

bit off the topic but i have some excellent models (sprayed, not painted) that i want to sell. anyone interested in a ****load of imperial guard (praetorians, hw squad, 2 command squads, 3 squads with special weapon and hw, and some more)? ive also got 2 griffins and a hydra flak tank resin kit. anyone interested?

po0k

I'm trying to paint an Eldar Avatar and a Falcon Fire Prism..need some heaies..

Can't find any red undercoat anywhere though...

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Pugsley

with an avatar ure putting on a red under coat ?!?!?!
no way,u give them a white undercoat,
then use red ink and layer it up untill it looks a good blood colour,
then do ne additional high lighting and shading,
then finish of with the deteal.
Same with khorne bloodletters ,
leaves a real god shiny blood effect

Pugsley

as for the fire prism.
Its the same as the falcon grav tank cept fer the gun (obviously)
For a good looking gun.
Under coat it white,
the use ultramarine blue,
then build up a lightning effect starting with lightning blot blue,
then working through about 5diffrent shades of blue getting lighter and finish it with a thin line of skull white.
looks class but very hard to get right,took me ages 2 do on my chaos space marine squads but looks class and well worth the effort

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R4z0R

ph33r this conversion i made

Pugsley

yeah,its good looking and all...but i think i saw that exact model in white dwarf

orangerooster

id tend to agree with pugsley there.

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Pugsley

thx rooster

nesf

Conversions built up from existing models aren't that impressive imo. Any fool can make joins and such, most conversion work is just adding touches anyway, the only large conversion I ever did was on a nurgle dreadnought, I rescultped the entire model to make it look like it was melting (v easy actually, you can afford to be messy), but as with other conversions, all it takes is one kid to get their hands on it.....

Pugsley

there is an utterly 1337 blood thirster conversion in the belfast GW.
It has skull shoulder pads and a jugernaught head...
u have 2 see it 4 ureself,its 2 class 2 describe.

orangerooster

As strachbuilts go my friend pretty much made a hhhhhhuuuuuuuuugggggggeeeeeeeee!warlord titan i helped a little the thing when made with ial vdr cost nearly 2000 points its weapons owned and we had to make up rules for it we,ll use it someday.Smaller projects still own though if done right a little greenstuff and an existing model which is already cool will make a winner like my vertongetorix dread in a previous battle a lucky grot blasta killed him the guys in g.w suggested i make a cool dread and i did and they heped.

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Lemming

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Pugsley:
there is an utterly 1337 blood thirster conversion in the belfast GW.
It has skull shoulder pads and a jugernaught head...
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*Droools*

Lemming

Anyone got "Codex CityFight" yet? And if so, what do ye make of it?

Shiminay

I started reading the battle report using it's rules in the latest White Dwarf - was too tired to read past the Army selection bit, so I'll know more this evening

It's a bit like brinignign Warhammer Siege to 40K, ya?

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Dav
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So Bob Hoskins was about to roll a spliff when in walks Dana with her 3 foot Bong
[honey i] violated [the kids]
When the Beefy King arrives, I shall be paying homage with Puunack The Receiver in a haze of green curry.

nesf

Kind of like Mordeim was bringing Necromunda to Warhammer Fantasy Battles??

All I can say is, hmmm, I sniff another expensive set of models to collect... and another £30 book to buy


But on the other hand it would fill the gap left by the new edition of 40k, where the skirmish game has become a joke