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Warhammer 40k - Building an Army [56k beware]

Posted: 2013-04-05 07:19pm
by Jub
I've recently decided to get back into tabletop war-gaming and what better place to start than with the models that I've acquired either through purchases or after various roommates who played moved on. Of course that means sifting through mangled models and piles of bits, but then again that's half the fun.

Here's the army as it looks now:

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An overview of what I'm working with.

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My Daemon Prince.

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Soon to be Plague Zombies.

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Fallen terminators.

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The ragged troops.

Re: Warhammer 40k - Building an Army [56k beware]

Posted: 2013-04-06 01:23pm
by madd0ct0r
yah this forum ignores resize code.

I should probably post my epic stuff...

Re: Warhammer 40k - Building an Army [56k beware]

Posted: 2013-04-06 03:41pm
by Jub
I could resize them, upload them, and fix this... but that seems like work.

Re: Warhammer 40k - Building an Army [56k beware]

Posted: 2013-04-07 04:15am
by Jub
Resized the earlier images and now I'll show you what today's work accomplished.

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The starting boxes of bits.

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After the days work.

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One pile of sprues.

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Another pile.

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With more clipping all sprues are laid bare and only organization remains before building can commence.

Re: Warhammer 40k - Building an Army [56k beware]

Posted: 2013-04-07 07:57am
by Brother-Captain Gaius
Good lord that is an unholy mess of bitz. Not that I should talk; two disorganized bins of 40k bitz plus some loose stuff lying around, on top of a totally incomprehensible mess of Flames of War bitz is starting to take its toll on my modelling.

Re: Warhammer 40k - Building an Army [56k beware]

Posted: 2013-04-07 08:00am
by Jub
This is what you get when roomies move away and leave 40k stuff behind. You might not end up with a ton of models, though I have enough for a rather large force, but you do get a ton of useful bits to kit things out with. The other nice thing is that with a few purchases and some time fixing things - damn weak gant ankles - I will also get a Nid army up and running.

Re: Warhammer 40k - Building an Army [56k beware]

Posted: 2013-05-19 01:04am
by Jub
So, after a long break I started working again and this is the fruit of some of my labors.

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I dub it the Chimino. The bastard offspring of a Rhino chassis and a Chimera upper hull.

Now I just need to figure out the rear end...

Re: Warhammer 40k - Building an Army [56k beware]

Posted: 2013-05-19 06:39am
by Brother-Captain Gaius
Heh. That sort of thing is much easier to get away with for Orks; not so much for the other armies.

That's what I did - one of the first Leman Russes I put together for my Guard way back when was (and in many respects, still is) a total piece of shit. Poorly assembled, silly, nonsensical and unnecessary conversions, and a bad paint job. So I glued on a few Orky bits and a gretchin tank kommanda, painted the whole thing red, and now it's ... still ugly. Beautifully, beautifully ugly.

Re: Warhammer 40k - Building an Army [56k beware]

Posted: 2013-05-19 07:10am
by Jub
It isn't as bad with a Nurgle themed chaos army. The whole theme is that papa plague swept over a chaos detachment that was in shambles and brought them forward to victory. Thus fallen warriors from other gods, scavenged equipment, and other oddities are par for the course.