Echoes of Eisenstein - upscaling madness with the XIV

[Sherrypie]

Testing things for the Revenants, changing the plate on a handful of Primaris bodies I had lying about to older marks. Meaningful work, quaranteed :P

 

[Sherrypie]

Some progress on the Revenant Legion, though much work remains.

 

[space wolf]

Looking good! 

[44er Tabletop]

I like it! 

Incredible how much time and effort you must have spent on it. 

Its really gritty and i like that!

 

Looks impressive all together

[Sherrypie]

Thanks @space wolf and @44er Tabletop, the Revenants are chugging along nicely. Currently trying to learn how to sculpt hair.

 

Meanwhile, some Epic: Armageddon once more.

 

4k NetEA Krieg vs. Marines, the banks of Forte-Kaysino stood firm in the Guard's hands. One of those tragicomic games where my marines just couldn't roll right to save their lives with Thunderhawks dropping down from the sky in flaming ruin with all hands lost, terminators melting under lasguns and the enemy Reaver on its last DC just not dying :D

 

[Sherrypie]

The Immortal Ninth, Revenant Legion of the wastelands. With bead rivets and curly hair done, the crew is pretty much ready for painting.

 

[Monstra Sumus]

Looking suitably barbaric! 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Very nice work, @Sherrypie  

[Sherrypie]

Cheers @Monstra Sumus and @Firedrake Cordova, a barbarism a day keeps the technomuties at bay ;)

[Sherrypie]

With a possible teaser of a new edition of Epic out in the aether, what better time to be painting some small killer robots and tech-priests :)
20 mm bases for reference.

 

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

They're almost cute.  Nice work - I honestly can't imagine painting Epic-scale infantry 

[Sherrypie]

17 minutes ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

They're almost cute.  Nice work - I honestly can't imagine painting Epic-scale infantry 

Ha, it's pretty chill really. You also get something done every day instead of looking at a mid-progress mess for weeks :D

[Sherrypie]

Other news on the Kill Team front, we had a nice evening with a casual three-way match between my wasteland guard, sadist elves and alien chickens.

 

 

After a catastrophic start for the guard against the elven meatgrinder, I managed to halt the chickens on one flank and convince them to take up arms against the elven onslaught in time to stabilise the situation and begin a counteroffensive, which saw the thin line of men ultimately triumph and throw back the xenos pirates. Tea and irradiated medals for the humble rifleman with 1 wound left standing on an objective surrounded by broken Kroot bodies :D

[Sherrypie]

Painting on the Revenants has begun, but gaming has a habit of getting in the way...

 

The Iron Hands attempt a surprise strike on the Death Guard, who are priming a nuclear silo to blow up the whole continent. Though the Tenth bravely trudge through the roiling hellscape of phosphex and chemical clouds, their push is ultimately thrown back by an unyielding wall of terminators. The XIV hold their post doggedly, raise their middle-fingers to the sky and disappear in the mushroom cloud alongside the Iron Hands' hopes of a larger campaign effort.

 

[Smoke Frog]

Fantastic Iron Hands! Love the big dreads sprinkled throughout 

[Sherrypie]

1 hour ago, Smoke Frog said:

Fantastic Iron Hands! Love the big dreads sprinkled throughout 

Kudos to my opponent, his IH look lovely indeed.

 

Big dreads rock! I've only really gotten to play with Contemptors and terminators in HH 2.0, so I fielded a bunch of stuff that hadn't seen the field yet, like Leviathans, the Scorpius, a Siege Breaker and whatnots. Good fun, especially when both of my Levis got absolutely blasted by the dual-grav Moritat hiding in the black-clad ranks, geebus that guy shreds machinery like there's no tomorrow :D

[Sherrypie]

The Revenants are starting to get a few licks of paint on them:

 

 

The scheme as it stands is a bit on the Space Wolf side, but we'll see how that develops as details get added.

[KrautScientist]

Whoa, those are coming along swimmingly! I'll admit I didn't really get what you were going for with these during the conversion stage, but the paintjob does an amazing job of pulling everything together so far! The model in the middle, in particular, looks tough as nails!

[Sherrypie]

On 5/24/2023 at 6:06 PM, KrautScientist said:

Whoa, those are coming along swimmingly! I'll admit I didn't really get what you were going for with these during the conversion stage, but the paintjob does an amazing job of pulling everything together so far! The model in the middle, in particular, looks tough as nails!

 

Thanks Kraut, hope you enjoy the results then :D

 

-- || --

We do not build
We do not liberate
We are but ghosts
Memories of the Old Night

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Kill Team M29, Revenant Legion done! Let loose the angelic cannibals of the IX!

 

 

The commander requires your attention, don't lose your head!

 

 

Fire support requires occasional aiming.

 

 

Phosphex and assorted grenade-shaped treats for everyone!

 

 

Some proper dakka is needed even in the rad-wastes.

 

 

Sons of the Angel, knowingly or not, murderers one and all.

 

 

With bolt and blade, no mutant shall threaten the nascent Imperium ever again.

 

[ZeroWolf]

Those are fantastic 

[batu]

The Revenants are awesome brother! Love the creativity! 

[Sherrypie]

Thanks @ZeroWolf and @batu, it's always nice to have another little project at the finish line :)

[Sherrypie]

 

We started testing out the KT SpecOps campaign rules, combined with the area control shenanigans from Ashes of Faith. One week and a bunch of games later, the desert-trapped shrine city of Everflame has seen its fair share of bloodshed as a local freedom fighter movement (Genecults) rises to defend the forgotten catacombs from roving technonomads (AdMech Hunter Clade) and cannibal angels stalk the streets in murderous raids (Intercessors).

 

 

A frantic threeway clash to cap it off.

 

While over all the locals managed to retain control of most territory along with hearts and minds, the Revenants took home every match proper and drunk enough kerosine in the final match to outscore their opponents combined with no permanent losses incurred during the battles. The first upgrade for my guys was naturally a med bay asset, for the IX rides immortal ;) Good thing too, I'm always left with just 1-2 guys standing in a pile of broken enemies at the end of each game. Poor technonomads had a rougher time at it, constantly recycling damaged warriors into new warframes. Good fun, would chainsaw again.

[ZeroWolf]

Looks like great fun 

[Shovellovin]

Very cool. Can you speak a bit about the SpecOps campaign rules? Are those all contained in Ashes of Faith or are some of them fan made?