PowerFisted: Traitor White Scars, The Blazing Suns + others (3.1 event update)

Petitioner's City · June 9, 2025

On 6/4/2025 at 1:19 AM, Brofist said:

Taking a break from infantry to work on some armor. Totally off brand for White Scars, but I've always wanted to do this conversion and its the only way it'll ever see paint (someday at that).

This is stunning work Anton, absolutely fantastic!

Brofist · June 15, 2025

Thanks man. I'm still playing with the ERA placement to get that right balance of 'busy', but its almost done:

Just got a few bits left... then its time for the dreaded gap fill before studio shots

Brofist · June 16, 2025

It's hard to imagine almost ten years passing since my original dive into the heresy with an Iron Warriors army. Early on, I was eager to bring to life the visions pouring out of me. My style shifted, skills improved, and tastes changed... life ebbed and flowed. Projects came and went from my shelf.

On the cusp of the 3rd edition, I'm taking stock of my current skills, my project backlog, and thinking about where I want to be in the next decade. This means saying bye to old friends to make room for new adventures.

My focus will be White Scars. My Iron Warriors- the guys that started it all will - will get rolled into the WS. By this, I mean revisiting older projects from this thread originally intended for them... re-concepting where I can in order to breathe life back into old projects. They won't be Iron Warriors anymore, but this way I'll keep their spirit alive and get them into a completed army. There's some opportunity here too, as this brings new dynamics into the space of the White Scars, one of the least played legions. Things like artillery and tanks aren't as 'on brand' for them, so there's room to build new stories for that legion visually. I want to do jet bikes and the lot too, so there will be a balance, but my intent is to re-concept as many of the older IW projects as I can. Not all will make it, but that's ok, and part of growing.

Brofist · June 30, 2025

Finally done modeling, just gotta do scratches and gap fill

Pearson73 · July 6, 2025

Damn that Achilles is a monster! Awesome work. Looking forward to seeing what else comes from the Iron Warriors stockpile.

Brofist · July 29, 2025

Got side tracked with new edition drama, but have still been working on stuff. Not really caring for the edition means I can work on things I've had as ideas for years, but never had an excuse to actually make. Here's my take on a vigilator. Came together surprisingly fast- the best kind of conversion, like the parts wanted to be together from the start

Pearson73 · July 29, 2025

That's a very funky rifle. The Ash Wastes(?) kits work really well to make a cloaked figure in the sinister style of your Scars.

Brofist · July 29, 2025

Thanks dude for following along. Appreciate you! I got a little gap fill and sculpting to do to wrap him up., Will try to incorporate some horse hair or other elements that make him feel a bit more like a white scar.

Brother Kraskor · August 8, 2025

Is he smoking a pipe?! I love it!

Brofist · August 8, 2025

Damn right he is :)

Brofist · August 17, 2025

What's old is new again. Time is a flat circle.

The Corpse Crows are back baby- and now they're more ethnic than ever

Pearson73 · August 18, 2025

Great to see the Crows again. The Cathay model gives a heavily up-armoured feel to the trooper.

Brofist · August 18, 2025

Cheers Pearson73. I'm thinking these guys will be auxillia. I'll run my old crows as militia... I don't want to redo them, and frankly, I love them for what they are. I def wanna come back to them eventually.

Brofist · September 22, 2025

A big thing I'm focusing on before planning for next year's ZM event kicks off is to wrap up or bin as many old projects as possible. Veteran Posters Might Recognize my first vindicators, some of my first vehicles, custom models I smashed together before the first black book was out. Hard to believe they are from a decade ago. As I've dropped my IWs, I'm retrofitting things like them to work with my scars.

I originally planned to do 3 vindicators, because I'm insane, so here's an early WIP of a more contemporary 'big ass vindicator' using bits and skills I've picked up along the way. Most of the parts are from 10+ years ago. Spending all weekend scraping, cutting, and filing made me a little sentimental, but also appreciative of how much easier things are in the hobby.

Gorgoff · September 29, 2025

Mother of all guns, Batman!

That is a massive cannon.

You should build an ammunition truck which drives beside that thing transporting 6 big ass shells.

Pacific81 · September 30, 2025

How badass must this thing be for me to get this message? Really want to see it now! :biggrin:

Brofist · October 1, 2025

23 hours ago, Pacific81 said:

How badass must this thing be for me to get this message? Really want to see it now!

Do I need to switch to another image host? Sorry that imgur is doing that to you.

Pacific81 · October 1, 2025

It looks like its a UK thing - part of the current crackdown on online access.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo.amp

W.A.Rorie · October 1, 2025

@Brofist an easy workaround is setting up your own Galley/ Image hosting on the B&C. A tutorial can be found here.

Spagunk · October 1, 2025

5 hours ago, W.A.Rorie said:

@Brofist an easy workaround is setting up your own Galley/ Image hosting on the B&C. A tutorial can be found here.

FYI, this is a good work around but I would warn that the gallery system we use does mess with images a little bit. For example, it changes color saturation in the transcode of uploading content:

So this can be annoying for uploaders depending on what they are trying to do. It will still solve the issue but I stopped using the gallery for this specific reason.

Brofist · October 4, 2025

Thanks guys- I still have hosting through my blog, guess I'll switch back to that :)

Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf · October 5, 2025

And using a VPN? Maybe it works

Brofist · March 2

We wrapped our second Skullapalooza! If you don’t know, it’s a three-day independent narrative event focusing on ZM every Feb in Seattle WA. If the pictures don't work for some reason, lmk and I'll rehost on my own hosting.

Attendance was hurt by the new edition along with global events keeping many of our international regulars from attending. Still, 17 heresy psychos from around the world showed up to play Zone Mortalis in our downtown bar venue. Players had 1500pts, it was open gaming, with special event models, custom tables, narrative rules, and an apex DMed narrative experience. This year each player represented a small fleet fighting over an archeotech power core tethering a hive city to a world of intense storms. Campaign points were tracked through 21 Blanche tarot cards of various rarities that could also be spent to unlock in-game boons.

This year’s official unofficial sponsor was Tylenol: Extra Strength. Feel better, Tylenol. For what matters most. Tylenol. Our apex mission had players run a gauntlet of stormy planetary conditions, emplacements, and rival players in order to insert their troops into the secret facility containing the power core. This naturally culminated in a giant fight at the end with a few surprises.

Final results were a tied campaign, but a decisive loyalist victory for the power core. The hive world was doomed as the loyalists stripped the core, sinking the city into the storms, but bolstering Terra's final stand against the traitors during the Solar War.

I had a better lighting setup this year so the pictures turned out much more dramatic than last year. We also included little pen lights of various colors in some of the terrain and it added a lot. My nifty 50mm is really showing its limits though and it was tough getting wide shots of the tables and larger games. I might need a new lens for next year. Overall people had fun, even with the new edition, and its thawed some of the ice surrounding 3.0. Still, the hit to heresy is really being felt.