Sorry for the lack of photos today. The only real progress I made on the BA tac. squad was the first layer of blazing orange highlighting which, while creating a delightful extra level of color on the armor plates, does not show up in photos well. Such fine detailing on even just 5 models is enough to give me a neck ache so I am going to do the final body highlight maybe Friday morning. That orange is much brighter (more yellow) so will show up in pictures pretty well. Also, when the two are blended with a was the armor almost looks like it is on fire :-) Once the bodies are all done then the arms and a shoulder pad get taken care of. And then finally gluing!
I wasn't done hobbying though so I put together 5 more of my Mantic Orc Slaves. I am being really careful this time around because the Mantic models can be a bitch to line up if they are not put together well. I went in on their Kickstarter back in June so I have a mess of Abyssal Dwarves to put together. I loved how my Abyssal Dwarf Berserkers turned out so that kind of motivated me. Also, for the first time in a long time I put some effort into basing them. This is extra important for Kings of War because their ally rules are really permissive. You need a solid unifying theme, like same bases, to make your army look like a cohesive unit. Storyline-wise the ADs come from a wasteland so I went with a simple desert theme; just some sand and browns. Ah what the hell, here you go.
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| 5 Berserkers |
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| Typical berserker |
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| Unit Champion |
Also, on a side note, here's a post from today about how I feel about the new Chaos dex. Don't mind the nerd rage lol
This seems to be a fairly common opinion so I am definitely in the minority but I totally disagree with this guy. I am glad they melded some clearly warped/ daemonic looking stuff into their dex. They've been phasing daemons out of the chaos dex for years now and if this guy had his way the dex would be pre-heresy marines+spikes+ok to ally with daemons (snore) There are already enough variants on the standard marine dex. See; Templars (marines+scout allies) DA (marines+all bike or termy) Wolves (marines+CSM) BA (marines+MyLittlePony) There doesn't also need to be CSM (marines+auto cannon heavy weapon troops+big transports)
If you read the fluff behind the drakes they are the CSM fighter jet (that was posted) + 10,000 years in the warp. Even mentions that it has a shriveled little pilot inside of it. Likewise with the fiends, mechanical constructs that effectively come to life. I would have thought that you addition of the Warpsmith would soften the blow but I guess not.
In short, total fan of the change in direction as far as their aesthetic and can't wait to see some big monsters on the table!
Here is the original article that spurred the comment; http://sepulchreofheroes.blogspot.com/2012/09/no-matter-how-good-csm-is-gw-still-made.html
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