maverike_prime Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 so I hooked up with a gaming group that is presently running a Rogue Trader campaign and is preparing to run a Death Watch game. All goes well until our most recent gaming session where our group is attacked by a bunch of thugs. so the GM draws out the map of where we are so we can see cover options and how far from each thug we are, we put our models where they need to be for the encounter and the GM puts down... a bunch of dice to represent the thugs. Yes, we were proxying the attacking thugs with dice. Later in the same session we got into a ship battle. Our ship? A bottle of Coke. The enemy ships? A beer cap, 2 scraps of paper with numbers on them and a dice. If it's not apparent from the way I'm writing this I utterly despise having to proxy stuff like this. There are so many great models out there that using a guard models to stand in for thugs: that's cool. I can live with that. Using dice to stand in for thugs... okay now I'm not so cool with that. Am I expecting the GM to run out buy a bunch of BFG ships and Guard models just so we have those exact models for the game? No. But with 8 people in the party I think we can put our resources together to cover most possibilities. And if we run into a situation where we get hit by something we just don't have a model for, okay we can still stick a Dreadnought model or a Baelrog model on the board. Just... please NOT dice or scraps of paper. So, I've been bitz box diving to see what I can toss at the group. I asked the guy who's DMing the death watch game what sorts of enemies we can expect to face so I had some idea of what to toss in the box. Well... you ever have one of those days where you're diving through your bitz box looking for stuff and you find other things that might be of use? Yeah that's what I've done lately: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/RPG-stuff.jpg As you can see I've assembled a rather impressive group of models and such to use in the RPG games. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/greyknight-0001-01copy.jpg I built this Grey Knight mostly because the parts had been staring me in the face for the last week. First time I've used the muzzle flash bitz. Have to say I rather like them. Will probably be using them more. I figure we can use it as an NPC marine in the Death Watch campaign. Or who knows maybe the GM will be psycho enough to actually have us meet up with a Grey Knight. God that'd be a trip, Death Watch + a Grey Knight.... I've built a bunch of guardsman but I still need to build more. I want to give the GM a series of 3 distinct groups of models: "Thugs" IE Guardsman that moonlight as bouncers/enforcers/robbers/ect. I'm using a combination of Guardsman and Maurader parts with some other random parts thrown in for good messure. I want to make this group look "smelly". Like they're those big ugly guys that would saunter in, take over one entire side a bar and no one wants to deal with them just because they're so loud, fowl mouthed and obnoxious. Oh and they smell bad, like mad BO problems in this group. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/thug-guard.jpg The second group I'm building is more or less your typical Guard. These guys may be regular army, port security, Planetary guard, whatever. They're here for the job or the glory. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/impguard.jpg And then finally I'm building a group of traitor guard. I have no clue where or when I got the Traitor guard torsos from, but whatever. They came out of my bitz box... which is suddenly making me worried that my Bitz Box may be random creating forge world models...Why don't you make me a Reaver titan or a Thunder hawk!? http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/traitor-guard.jpg Here we have my Devastator Marine for the upcoming Death Watch Campaign. I give you Brother Quintus: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/quintus-model-0.jpg Quintus was part of the Ultramar Defense during the first Tyrannic war and the sole survivor of his respective squad. When his friend Marcus, whom Quintus had known and been a rival of since before they were selected to become Ultramarines, was killed Quintus took Marcus' Heavy bolter as his preferred weapon. I have him magnetized so that as needed I can swap weapons on him. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/quintus-model.jpg You can read his full profile here. Aaaaaaaand what Death Watch would be complete with out the Obligatory Genestealers to kill? http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/genstealers.jpg I swear these things just bred in my bitz box somehow. I've never played Tyranids, and outside of one conversion I've never used Genestealer models before so I truely have no idea where or when I got 32 Genestealer models from. But whatever, more for Quintus to shoot at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subtlebrush Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 YES! I absolutely love those muzzle flashes. I have to get some for my Grey Knights for sure. Really like what you've done here. Cannot wait for more from you. +++Mr.M+++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnefjord Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I love them, they're awesome!! Just one question though, where did you get the ammo belt on the grey knight from?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverike_prime Posted March 25, 2012 Author Share Posted March 25, 2012 I love them, they're awesome!! Just one question though, where did you get the ammo belt on the grey knight from?? I'm not 100% possitive about this, like I said this is all stuff I pulled out of my bitz box, but I think I got it from Dragon Forge Studios Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olis Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 For a bitz box delve I'd say you've done well. By the look of it you'll be an asset to your new group. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sh0sen Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 Wow, the ammo belt makes that Grey Knight look like one seriously mean dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverike_prime Posted April 12, 2012 Author Share Posted April 12, 2012 So I've been bitz box diving and working on some of the things for my upcoming RPG games. Threw together another Grey Knight: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0108.jpg Nothing special beyond the ammo belt and the base. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0109.jpghttp://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0110.jpg Ran across a used Tech marine body. So I tossed it into a vat of simple green, came back to it the next day, did some scrubbing, based it and decided to build a conversion beamer for it. I got as far as you can see in the picture there and... I just kind of lost my train of thought about where I was going with it. The beamer I mean. *shrugs* I donno if I figure out what to do with it, I'll come back to it. I've started painting the first Grey Knight I posted: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0101.jpg Just a basic job so far. Coat of Boltgun metal. some chaos black detailing. Some Scorched brown detail in preparation for gold details later. Did the blade with a layer of Necron abyss. I'm going to try and high light up to a very bright blue or perhaps skull white. Have to see how far my skills take me. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0102.jpg The base. I do so enjoy Dragon Force's bases. He does such amazing work with his bases. Here I put down a layer of dheneb stone, dry brush of Khomando Kommando Khaki, and come back with a wash of devlin mud paying attention to the grooves between bricks. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0104.jpg I do so hate re-base coating in white on a black base. 7 coats of skull white... http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0105.jpg I'm going to try and make the ammo belt look like it's brass casings with enchanted silver bullets. So I'm going to build up the brass with Tin bits and then try to blend blues into the tips. At least that's the plan. Guess we'll see if I'm up to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathnid Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 ZOMG! nice jobs, where did you get that ammo belt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGPO Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 I'll second the question about the ammo belt. It looks awesome! The conversion beamer is very nice too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AridMonk Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 He already linked it - http://dragonforge.com/Painting%20service/...rsion_parts.htm Looking good Maverike, really like your techmarine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatGrinder Posted April 12, 2012 Share Posted April 12, 2012 For the conversion beamer, try slapping a necron gauss nozzle onto it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnightmare Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Nice conversions all Maverike, very characterful :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 That's some good motivation ya got there for your playgroup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverike_prime Posted April 18, 2012 Author Share Posted April 18, 2012 yeah the GM for the Rogue trader game emailed me a few days ago and asked if I felt if I was up to scratching the inside of an Eldar temple for the final big adventure of the campaign. ^_^ ^_^ :devil: :evil: :devil: :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverike_prime Posted April 20, 2012 Author Share Posted April 20, 2012 So, timing has not been kind to my RPG group of late with us being forced to take basically the entire month of April off and the last 2 weeks of March as well. So... bleh. On the plus side it has afforded me time to get painting and building done for the campaigns. And I've been working pretty hard the last couple days. Hopefully some of you have seen my in-depth review of the Storm Raven. Well I've also been working on the models for the campaigns as well. First up: The Guardsman. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0167.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0165.jpg These guys are just base coated and have no highlighting beyond the khakis. For those interested: The Khaki recipe is as 3 layers of watered down Bleached bone 2 coats of Devlen mud. High light with Kommando Khaki. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0164.jpg Then we've got the traitor/herectics. Again, just based coated. Here we have my character for the upcoming Death Watch game, Ultramarines Brother Quintus: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0162.jpg Quintus still has a fair amount of work left to do in the form of highlighting. The Muzzle flash still needs coloring and there's other details I want to pick out as I go. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0161.jpg The Grey Knight. Nuff said really. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0160.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0158.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0157.jpg Broodlord number 1! I wanted to make the broodlord look like it knew how to hide and thus would be located in an area that helped it hide. So I chose to go with a pallet of colors that are somewhat close to each other. Bleached bones, and Khakis with washes for the most part. Considering I totally screwed up and primed the thing black when it was supposed to be white, I think it turned out really well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverike_prime Posted April 22, 2012 Author Share Posted April 22, 2012 So the whether is picking up again so I can not prime right now. So I've built some new equipment for Brother Quintus: Lascannon: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0171.jpg I built the Plasma cannon for him, but I can't find the back pack right now. Oh well, I'll find something before the game. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0175.jpg And since I can never leave well enough alone, and standard issue is insufficient and all that a belt fed Death Watch issued bolter with Scanner array mounted on the back: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0172.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0174.jpg Here is Brother Quintus with all his equipment presently. I still need to build a second heavy bolter with Magazine versus the ammo feed, Missile launcher, and Multi-melta. But that will come in time. We've still got a least 6 weeks till we finish the rogue trader campaign. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0176.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Angelus Sanctus Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Although we understand that the non PA models have been shown to visually aid the content and background of what you are working on; if possible an ease down on the non PA models would be appreciated. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veteran Sergeant Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 You've got some great models there man. I like your Broodlord. I have one that is sitting around waiting for conversion to be the new Patriarch for my Genestealer Cult army at some point. I definitely hate the default "Punch Me" stance that the Come At Me Bro'dlord comes in. I like your stance, looks like he's far more aggressive and lunging. Been working on a threatening crouch, ready to pounce stance for mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RolandTHTG Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Um, kinda hate to point this out, but isn't that the plasma cannon backpack that you used for the techmarine backpack?... Wonderful models and conversions though :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverike_prime Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 Although we understand that the non PA models have been shown to visually aid the content and background of what you are working on; if possible an ease down on the non PA models would be appreciated. ;) Yeah, I did get a little over zealous in my posting of images. Thanks for the brain panning. Um, kinda hate to point this out, but isn't that the plasma cannon backpack that you used for the techmarine backpack?... Wonderful models and conversions though :) Nope. That's a Multi-melta pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maverike_prime Posted May 5, 2012 Author Share Posted May 5, 2012 So managed to get some paint on some of my DW figure. Nothing major just painted the belt-fed bolter and lascannon parts. http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0185.jpg http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a316/maverike_prime/Warhammer/DSCN0186.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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