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Post by Peter Cooman on Feb 29, 2012 17:00:41 GMT -5
Hey there everyone. It's been a while since i posted something new, and it has everything to do with a box i was given by my friend at work. It's the old 3rd edition epic starter set! I already owned some marines and orks, and putting them togheter i made two armies of about 1250 points. I've already begun painting my marines, setting them up as marauders, a succesor chapter of the white scars. the box the stuff a 28mm mini in the marauder colour scheme from gw site marine armour detachment my converted hq with hero (techmarine) on bikes. Very fiddly to convert this scale the raiders their cargo of termies and whirlwind support
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Post by BG. Foster on Feb 29, 2012 17:47:57 GMT -5
some people have all the luck. I wish someone would give me a GW box set, preferably battle fleet gothic
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Post by Peter Cooman on Feb 29, 2012 19:08:08 GMT -5
Ha, that i'd like 2 We are a lucky bunch us gamers, give us a heap of plastic and we are fine.
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Post by emptyhat on Feb 29, 2012 19:46:39 GMT -5
That takes me back; I remember getting my Epic starter for either a Birthday or Christmas. I really must sort through the poor old battered stuff at some point it suffered the love of a teenager who used it thoroughly and cared for it less than well.
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 1, 2012 6:42:14 GMT -5
I always take care of everything i get.
Problem with my earlier stuffis that my conversion skills then busted up a lot of stuff, And the use of worse (read cheaper) materials made some things irreversibly unusable.
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Post by Pyrotechnics on Mar 6, 2012 4:11:41 GMT -5
...Those termies look adorable! How could anyone be afraid of those cute little fatties. N'awww. xD
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 6, 2012 4:52:29 GMT -5
i'll post a pic of my finished grotz mob tonight. you'll soon see the cute little fatties ar quite big
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 6, 2012 16:20:34 GMT -5
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 10, 2012 15:26:09 GMT -5
Triple post but as nobody seems to care for the small 40k stuff i can only keep arousing interest So i painted up some stompa's to trample over those grotz.....urm...i mean...those terminators. They ar all painted the same except for one, who will be used as a warboss' stompa. He's the one with the checkers on the shoulder.
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Mar 10, 2012 15:33:51 GMT -5
I actually quite enjoy seeing the Epic scale stuff. I collected some back in the day, but could never get members of any of my gaming clubs interested in playing the system... Those Stompas look boos!
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 10, 2012 15:44:50 GMT -5
They aren't angry I just gave them their dayly grot sandwich...... ermmm....euhhh....marine bike soup. Darn it i did it again
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Post by Cosmic on Mar 10, 2012 15:52:51 GMT -5
I wonder if they would care to stomped on for a change........BY MY FOOT!!!
Looking really nice, it takes some skill to paint that small!
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 10, 2012 16:02:11 GMT -5
Keep that foot back!!! Or i will set your mom loose on your titan again It's actually not that hard. They benefit from washes and drybrushing a lot more then normal 40k models though!! The stompas are actually not that smaller than a guardsmen, i guess they are about 25 mm. Detail is smaller that's for sure. The grots are the size of a guard frag grenade and the terminators are about the size of a canteen.
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 14, 2012 19:01:27 GMT -5
Ok double post, but it's an update so i guess it's ok. Made some ruined buildings for my guys and painted them tonight: big one can be separated the guys really like it And more to be painted tomorrow
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Post by DadCRO on Mar 14, 2012 20:17:13 GMT -5
Nice! Termies look weird...
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 15, 2012 14:43:05 GMT -5
I find the termies look okay, if you take into account they were sculpted at the time of the older terminators. Right now we all tkae multipose for granted, but there was a time you had one pose metal sculpts, and that was all you had. Compare the termies to this guy, you'll be amazed how good they look resized in 6 mm
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Post by Machine Gun Kelly on Mar 15, 2012 15:28:04 GMT -5
Nice work. Perhaps it is time to paint up some more Epic. It has been a while and I have had this urge to make a thunderbolt fighter ace squad for my army.
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 15, 2012 15:30:00 GMT -5
What army do you play? Space marines or IG or a mix? I demand an army pic NAO
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Post by Machine Gun Kelly on Mar 15, 2012 15:33:41 GMT -5
Imperial guard was my army of choice in 40K epic.
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 15, 2012 16:00:50 GMT -5
Cool, i'm currently looking into a guard mechanised detachment to accompany the marines. I have already obtained some trough trades ( chimera's , hellhounds, demolishers and basilisks) and am looking to get some stuff from forgeworld in the form of their shadowswords and hydra's. I also traded some thunderbolts and marauders thanks to emptyhat and foster I also bought about 10 stands worth of bikes and 6 speeders on ebay. It's for my main unit, a speedy 15-16 stand bike force with land speeder support. Now the reasoning after this is that i will not use imperial titans. My space marine force is a white scar succesor chapter, and is thus by default a fast moving force. i cannot imagine titans keeping up with that. So i want some shadowswords for the big guns . I also just love the forgeworld shadowswords. Sadly, as i can't get my guard or my dwarfs sold, the funds are lacking. www.forgeworld.co.uk/Epic-40000/Epic_40,000_Imperial_Guard/EPIC-SHADOWSWORD-TITAN-HUNTERS.html
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 15, 2012 19:04:08 GMT -5
Double post again, but as it's an update it's ok Just finished my next ruins, will make some more to bring my ruined city in a nice square. Still contemplating if i will make a road to go between the tiles but not sure yet. the new ruins and all of them together while being used as an outpost by the marauders
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Post by Pyrotechnics on Mar 18, 2012 4:05:54 GMT -5
That terrain is awesome, I like how you can connect it all or have it all seperate. I can't imagine painting anything that small though, I can barely paint regular scale with any skill. XD
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Post by Cosmic on Mar 18, 2012 5:13:18 GMT -5
Looking really nice Peter, road through the middle would look really good.
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Post by Peter Cooman on Mar 18, 2012 7:18:17 GMT -5
Hey all, i've finished the city yesterday. Instead of a road i made two modules involving larger buildings, and a reason why the city is in ruins. I made a big crater in the main building ( town hall if you like), and put some rusty metal in it (the projectile). I assume it comes from a large projectile with a small blast radius but a big enough shockwave to level the city. I'm gonna call it deathstrike city. @ Cosmic: Thank!!! I'm thinking of painting the road between the buildings, where the wirhlwinds are in the last picture of the occupied city. @ Pyrotechnics: It's actually not so hard though. they benefit from a simple paintjob in striking colours. Last pic is of my new recruits fresh from ebay, marine bikes,speeders and guard bikes.
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Post by emptyhat on Mar 18, 2012 10:00:55 GMT -5
The ruin with the crater is pretty cool.
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