IMPERIAL GUARDSMEN
i should proly have pictures before making the thread but i don't have a camera on hand atm
anyway i doubt you COMPUTER NERDS can grasp such a delicate and integral part of NERD HISTORY as TABLE-TOP WARGAMING truly is (i don't know how to play i just like the figures LOL)
EDIT: ok here are some awful pictures because the camera i borrowed sucked pig dick and the blitz was shitty
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I played Warhammer fantasy for a few years
and by played I mean I just painted the figures
Quote from: cipherI played Warhammer fantasy for a few years
and by played I mean I just painted the figures
i got some chaos knights once
out of a box of 12 i only painted 6 because i spent like 2-3 days on each or w/e
now i'm trying to paint the guardsmen in batches because IG armies are fucking huge
i started out with 1 guardsman as a test, then 3 using the color scheme i want, and now 5 at once
i just drybrush fucking everything and then pick out a few details and it looks alright (though i'm not 'eavy metal material) it's better than some of the shit i saw on display in the stores i've been to BUT THEN AGAIN who would willingly part with their most exquisite works even for a short time
you need a minimum of 25 troops if you go with a single HQ squad and 2 veteran squads, for normal platoons and conscripts you need like 20-50 per platoon in addition to command structure
i'm aiming to make a functional army of sorts with 1 HQ squad, 1 storm trooper squad, 1 infantry platoon (minimum 25 models), 1 veteran squad represented with steel legionnaires and 2 sentinel squads (1 scout squad and 1 armored) then expand with some more stuff once that is done
in total that's about 50 infantry models and 6 sentinels for a still fairly bare boned army, i chose to skip tanks for now since i can practise painting vehicles with the sentinels without screwing up a far more expensive kit, i've finished one already though and it turned out satisfactory
Quote from: Tron Sawyeranyway i doubt you COMPUTER NERDS can grasp such a delicate and integral part of NERD HISTORY as TABLE-TOP WARGAMING truly is
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you dare fuck a 4 star tabletop general???
dude why aren't you a 4-star starcraft general yet WTF
that would be detrimental to my hygiene
i played Risk once LOL
what the hell is 40k even about
storywise, big human empire with eternal god-emperor vegetable fighting on all fronts against aliens, traitors, and other religions, who also fight amongst themselves
on the tabletop, you just pick a cool army, spend 5000 dollars, and roll some dice to see if your cool army can kill the other guys' less cool armies (because they aren't yours so they have to be lame)
back home, it means dedicating a desk/room/floor to tons of junk like paints, glues, brushes, tools, spare kits, basing, sprays for undercoating, some bright lamps and hopefully a fan or something to ventilate your room (big open window is a huge advantage here) so your brain doesn't melt and come gushing out your nostrils
it's a bit like making shitty flash for newgrounds but more expensive and nobody else will see your atrocious artistic skills
i posted pics
bad ones but w/e
better pics of the sentinel and steel legion guys
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looking at them now they resemble conscripts from red alert 2 with faces like duke nukems
bitchin'
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heh battle of the bulge
i think these are pretty cool! never played these games though :(
all the figures are grey before you paint them (or silver if they're metal).
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heh battle of the bulge
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Quote from: ropesnakewhat do these look like before you paint them?
i rememeber some people used to play this table top game that was basically a giant hill and plains with mountains and a volcano. the game board was gigantic and took up like 2 full tables in this tiny store.
Quote from: cipherall the figures are grey before you paint them (or silver if they're metal).
yeah you buy them in pieces usually, clean them up and assemble them
the plastic ones come on big sprues and you have to carefully remove them with a clipper or a knife, then remove residue around the edges from the molding process, while the metal ones usually just have like these little knobs or whatever which you need to clip off
i also like working with 'green stuff', which is a sort of putty you can use to model additional details and shit, i have a whole ton of it and i want to practise using it so i can make something cool, some really good people can sculpt really cool stuff with it
i wont be able to paint more for a while because of work but im going to get more black undercoat, purity seal (preferably matte) and a few other minor things like new clippers
im trying to figure out how to base them, too, the easiest would be some kind of desert bullshit but idk
i also want to make a cool KOMBAT KOMMODORE to lead my GRAND ARMY and give him a better paint job (most of these guys so far have mostly been painted assembly line style)
i fucking hated glueing the metal ones I remember. Nothing held together and half the time they didn't even fit and needed to be filed down or something
metal is a pain, generally you can get away with just super glue on the smaller miniatures but on larger models you had to drill holes in them and stick little wires and shit in to make it hold
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the uguu marines
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yeah i dont like bolter bitches or SMurfs much though
this cadian sentinel is way more kawaii
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I remember collecting Tyranids as opposed to everyone else because they looked cooler.
To be honest classic Warhammer with skeletons and the other stuff were probably more interesting.
I wish that had been more popular.
tyranids are pretty cool too though i'm more of a tanks and walkers guy but tau are too sleek so IG it is
i also had some chaos warriors for WFB, but i never got around to making a full army or anything
they're nice though because chaos allows you to do a lot of conversions
chaos and those egyptian skeleton things are neat
i have lizardmen
tomb kings you mean sin, i made a few of them in my warhammer phase and i made some necrons too cause skeleton robots are awesome
holy fucking dog dick i compared some prices and shit and IG sentinels in stores cost almost twice as much as they did a couple years ago
wayland games has reasonable prices but i haven't received my shipment yet
here is update 4 u
i got my wayland sentinels and an aegis defence line kit, which will hopefully let me make some cool conversions when combined with my bitsbox
i also assembled a bunch of foot soldiers, figured out how i want to base my stuff and got some extra paints, as well as a commissar
i also intend to get a display case from ikea but they were all sold out when i was there today but will be getting more on tuesday/thursday so i need to check back in then
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looks like a baby kitfox from mechwarrior
the kitfox sucks but mechwarrior? not a bad idea i should model something after the mad dog/vulture
also sentinel no 2 is mostly done i just need to assemble the legs, it's very different from the first
wow the sentinel actually looks really cool
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needs more dakka
no dakka is about as many large and noisy guns as possible crammed together, these things are more defensive than offensive
i started working a little on no. 3 but haven't found a solution i'm happy with yet
i put further models on pause, spray-painted most of the ones i have finished atm and im gonna paint those first
btw resin is a shitty material
the old metal figs were kinda hard to put together and removing mold lines required some effort, but resin has a much higher chance of miscasting and bubbles showing up and shit
which means not only do you have to clean up the model, but you also have to remodel the parts that are ruined in the casting process
plain old plastic has less fine details but usually doesn't suffer as much from miscasts and other bullshit
so i painted some of my troops and shit etc but then i realized the old metal lascannon sucked nuts so i used one of the spare sentinel ones to make another
its a little sloppy but w/e its UNIQUE
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i finished the 2 armored sentinels
the camera decided to use indoor settings when i had it set to automatically choose so uhhh i'll take some better pictures after i'm done recharging it
for now i have these, they're all blue but it looks kind of cool anyway
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They look very cool. The scenery and natural light did add a few interesting elements to them, but it took a bit away some of the details that couldn't be shown. Never had much experience with putting models together then painting them, but it looks like you spent some time doing it.
yeah i've been doing this on/off for years
it goes in cycles
i started out with orks, then chaos marines, and now imperial guard
my ork army is by far the largest but it needs some updating
i should find my old warboss, strip off the paint and remake him
in no time you'll have a full army
yes then all i need is someone to pit it against but apparently the only active 40k things in norway are in like trondheim and oslo so they're both pretty much out of reach unless i move there (fuck oslo it SUX trondheim has a nice church at least)
the thing keeping me from playing 40k is the fact that the closest store selling these figures is an hour away
no commissar?
Quote from: lionsef on September 28, 2011 01:44 AM
the thing keeping me from playing 40k is the fact that the closest store selling these figures is an hour away
forgetting fanfare?
Quote from: lionsef on September 28, 2011 01:44 AM
the thing keeping me from playing 40k is the fact that the closest store selling these figures is an hour away
You can order online and have them delivered to your house.
Quote from: systech on September 28, 2011 02:00 AM
no commissar?
I have Yarrick and a Lord Commissar, but I haven't painted them yet. I'm not too fond of them though, they're not really good for generic commissar models. I'll get some proper ones when I have more infantry.
cadian lieutenant
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He looks like as if he's giving out a war cry, while wielding that sword up in the air
no he's just british they all look that way
he's cursing about your mother's dandelions growing in his undergarments or some other nonsense WHA-HA-TEVER OKAY
That fiend!
im cleaning up some old metal miniatures
i have to fix up some stormtroopers (file down a few edges) then undercoat them and paint another batch of troops
not entirely sure how to finish off the last armored sentinel
Quote from: Sinitron on September 30, 2011 12:43 AM
cadian lieutenant
that sword is pretty cool
blade gleams like cut diamonds
i ordered some OOP metal figures to use as commissars and officers
including, probably to ashington's great delight, a mordian officer GASP except i'll use him as a commissar
These all look really great
Love the color schemes and the sentinels
tyvm..
i got my officers and commissars today and might get more spraycoat later this week or next week
i got a second battletank
when i have them both painted i will probably show some pics
i haven't done much partially because the weather has been so shitty and i don't want to spraypaint inside or in the garage
green gorillas
hurry it up plz.................
i need to buy the models first
terminators are expensive and i don't have a job atm so i'm not really in a hurry to order anything from wayland
i do have the green paints though