scottshoemaker

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!

The bitz alone make these great kits!

Plastic Grot crew! 

About a month ago I poured a lot of resin to restock my 40k exploded vehicle markers. Then the new edition of 40k came out, and it no longer has exploded vehicle markers. FML.

 

Time to Kickstart again and start over from scratch, I reckon.

Doh!

Beastmen dark mechanicum

They were using it as a mask.  

1. Base coat the model, seal

2. apply toothpaste were chipping is to occur

3. paint topcoat, let paint dry

4. wipe off toothpaste

NEEDZ MOAR DAKKA!

+1

I read about it on a modeler forum and was hoping someone had some insight.

I'm going to test it anyways...

Yup.  I'll try to make a better combat showing this time.

I just noticed something: "Eavy Metal is a brand new feature..."

That's a bold statement for something about 25 years old.

 

Orks gladly fight alongside Ogryns and they loot tanks. Freebootaz and Blood Axes go to war for the highest bidder. There are even rare chaos worshipping Orks, at least before the retcon.

Freebootaz just have better fashion sense.

I have about 20 freeboota pirate slugga boys and a battle wagon shaped like a ship. If you want looted vehicles just take allies. You could proxy grots for guardsmen and ard boyz for Marines to meet the minimums.

Ork kulture doesn't believe in proxies and allies.

Me. 1500 pts?

Old school Freebootaz could buy stuff from other books, mostly vehicles.  Not looted, but bought straight up.  Applied to some wargear, too.  They were mercenaries as well, so they could potentially be a formation with a large allies matrix.

I was hoping I'd be Elite, I'd like to do Soviet Blood Axe Dreadbash/walker/Tankers.

Has anyone seen what slot the 'naughts occupy?

I'm glad I invested in the Kromlech MegaNobz though...

I found that bits ordering the Trukk chassis only runs around $4 and gives a good stating point for kit bashes. 1/24 scale is fine, but the detail looks off to me.

I really hope they have some kind of medium tank.

Since they are on 40mm bases I'll model flash gots up as gun teams, like IG heavy weapon teams. Grots maybe...

I still think the overall effort is disappointing.  Look at the Wraithknight and Imperial Knight for comparison.  

It's not like 15 minutes of google-fu doesn't turn up beauties like this to draw from:

*Updated*

It just occurred to me, I would expect to see various shifts in things like the allies matrix via Dataslates.  Let's say Dataslate: Blood Axes allows Allies of Convenience of Astra Militarum, or a Dataslate: Traitor Guard that allows AoC CSM.

Win for fluffy and tourny players, and cash for GW...

Them are some nice lookin figs :)

This is a complicated game.  It's social.  Part of being social is talking to the other person.  That's interaction.  Decide the kind of game you both want to play before you start playing.  If you want a purely homogenous experience pick up a controller.

I think it's all perspective.  What bugs me is the dollars to satisfaction ratio that seems to keep coming up.  I'd suggest shopping around to price out our hobby as compared to others (golf, photography, hunting, cars) and understand how much mileage we get from our models.  Also understand that GW is trying to differentiate themselves from the Infinities and Bolt Actions out there.

Las Vegas begs to differ. People love chance, and will play games of chance much more than games of pure skill. Caesars and Ballys don't have chess rooms for a reason. I've lost many a bridge and poker hand on the deal, but still enjoyed playing.

 

There are certain games I just love, and I've never met anyone who didn't enjoy playing them, such as Munchkin, Talisman, Arkham Horror, Illuminati. These are games that tell a story through randomness, and often one or more persons just totally gets the shaft. Still an absolute blast.

 

I've played 40k since 1988. It has always been a Munchkin or Talisman type game, but with a cool hobbyist component. It was never intended to be a game of pure skill, and it still isn't intended to be. People getting worked up over potentially losing turn one need to accept that it's a game. Wacky stuff can happen. Laugh, drink a beer, and you've got time for a second game which will be different.

 

People strangely try to impose a competitive and predictable dynamic on a structure never designed for such a thing. Go play chess. Go compete in a sport.

+1

New Ork City!

That's why Mek's inside are a better choice. I don't plan on getting out. A naked big Mek inside attached to

IMO warning: I like the unit, but I think the model is a half baked effort. The legs are fine, as are the arms and the head but the body design is lazy. I'll be lootin up a knight, but I may be looking seeing what I can come up with, like a big walking tank, more like a diesel punk mecha.