Legions Imperialis & Epic hobby chat!

[malika666]

3 hours ago, DuskRaider said:

I’m close to finishing the remaining Infantry for my Death Guard and I’m not sure if I should move on to the plethora of tanks I have or the plethora of terrain I have (including the AT Realm of Battle board). What do you folks think, tanks or buildings and board?

Terrain!

[Interrogator Stobz]

Terrain!

[DuskRaider]

Terrain it is. I’ll have to wait for it to cool down a little this week before I even attempt to prime outside. It’s been in the mid-to-high 90s for the past couple weeks so I haven’t attempted it. 

[Interrogator Stobz]

Finished up my Boy's brick, only his planes and Support to go.

Makes for fun pics

Almost 3000 points in an armoured brick

[apologist]

I've got a gaming day coming up for the Corsair Gambit soon, so wanted to take along a Titan from the forgeworld we're fighting over. Here's current progress, using a set of Battle Bling armour upgrades.

 

 

 

Excuse the gaps – armour plates are just balanced in place for the shot. I'll glue 'em on after painting.

 

Edited July 23 by apologist

[Interrogator Stobz]

Those are pretty cool!

[DuskRaider]

I’ve got the Chaos armor from BB, still need to make use of that. Looks awesome so far!

[apologist]

48 minutes ago, DuskRaider said:

I’ve got the Chaos armor from BB, still need to make use of that. Looks awesome so far!

Which set did you go for? I got sent the Traitor ones too – lovely details.

 

[DuskRaider]

54 minutes ago, apologist said:

Which set did you go for? I got sent the Traitor ones too – lovely details.

 

I ended up getting both, I wasn’t sure which one I wanted and figured I might as well snag the two of them and go from there. I’m planning on eventually doing a corrupted Mortis Maniple as deviation from my usual routine. I’m thinking of picking up their other armor kits, though I do wish the generic spiked one was available at the time of getting the others. 

Edited July 23 by DuskRaider

[Sherrypie]

I just multiplied my yearly total of painted minis :D

 

WIP, all painted to tabletop condition within three days. I wanted to have a LI / EA compatible force for demonstration games at Ropecon last weekend (ended up running some 20 hours of demos, great time). Very tight schedule, had to cut corners a lot. No flags, decals, proper damage, good NMM and so forth yet and the field guns are missing their whole crews. Still pretty happy with the general outlook.

 

 

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[LameBeard]

@Sherrypie painted an army in 3 days. I painted these deredos in 3 months! 

[Sherrypie]

1 hour ago, LameBeard said:

@Sherrypie painted an army in 3 days. I painted these deredos in 3 months!

 

That'd still be more than my saldo before this batch in the same timeframe :D

[Ruskinses]

 

Finally managed to scrape together 2000 points of Auxilia to have a proper game. World eaters murdered my guys though :D

 

 

 

[DuskRaider]

Originally I was just going to post these in my AT thread, but I figured I’d throw them here as well. 
 

I recently completed the remainder of my Death Guard infantry (3 X Infantry, 2 X Support + some Terminators my buddy gave me). I wanted to get all of it together and get some pictures of the progress I’ve made thus far, both to show the strength of the XIVth as it stands and also to give me the motivation to persevere through the terrain and tanks. 
 

 

So here’s the recently completed. I was lucky enough to find some extra 25mm bases on eBay and that allowed me to base my previously completed Assault Marines as well as give me enough for the extra Terminators. I enjoyed these for the most part, as tedious as it is doing such large batches of tiny models. I hate the Deredeos, though. The assembly was not fun on those. 
 

 

Here the XIVth stands in all its might (sans the Armored Company). This is… a lot. I don’t know if I’ll ever use some of it since it may not fit my style or the Legion per say, although Assault Marines jumping out of Thunderhawks does sound fun…

 

 

… and there we have the entire force in all its glory. I imagine this would be around the right size to represent the Legion, Legio and House during the Beta Garmon campaign (perhaps a little light on Astartes and Titans). This is a culmination of something like 6 years of collecting and painting. 
 

Perhaps it’s time for me to start a thread in the LI forum as well…

 

Let me know what you think!

[Sherrypie]

Quite a force, @DuskRaider. It needs a worthy table to fight over, so persevere you must and get that terrain ready for proper war.

[DuskRaider]

8 minutes ago, Sherrypie said:

Quite a force, @DuskRaider. It needs a worthy table to fight over, so persevere you must and get that terrain ready for proper war.

Ugh… yeah, I’m going to start on that today or tomorrow. I’ve still got a bunch of terrain I haven’t even built, including two boxes of the ruined Civitas. I better get a move on, lol

[Interrogator Stobz]

2 hours ago, DuskRaider said:

Originally I was just going to post these in my AT thread, but I figured I’d throw them here as well. 
 

I recently completed the remainder of my Death Guard infantry (3 X Infantry, 2 X Support + some Terminators my buddy gave me). I wanted to get all of it together and get some pictures of the progress I’ve made thus far, both to show the strength of the XIVth as it stands and also to give me the motivation to persevere through the terrain and tanks. 
 

 

So here’s the recently completed. I was lucky enough to find some extra 25mm bases on eBay and that allowed me to base my previously completed Assault Marines as well as give me enough for the extra Terminators. I enjoyed these for the most part, as tedious as it is doing such large batches of tiny models. I hate the Deredeos, though. The assembly was not fun on those. 
 

 

Here the XIVth stands in all its might (sans the Armored Company). This is… a lot. I don’t know if I’ll ever use some of it since it may not fit my style or the Legion per say, although Assault Marines jumping out of Thunderhawks does sound fun…

 

 

… and there we have the entire force in all its glory. I imagine this would be around the right size to represent the Legion, Legio and House during the Beta Garmon campaign (perhaps a little light on Astartes and Titans). This is a culmination of something like 6 years of collecting and painting. 
 

Perhaps it’s time for me to start a thread in the LI forum as well…

 

Let me know what you think!

No point starting a thread, what are you going to add to that epic force?

[DuskRaider]

You joke but I have something like 18 Spartans, a bunch of Predators in various stages of paint, 20 or so Rhinos, more Sicarans… a whole other Thunderhawk… it just doesn’t end lol. 
 

The worst part is I’m considering more fliers as well. I kinda like the idea of an entire Jump Infantry HALO Diver Formation leaping out of Thunderhawks and Storm Eagles. I may see if my buddy can print me out Drop Pods as well, I’m not paying for an entire Formation’s worth of GW ‘Pods. 

[Interrogator Stobz]

I have, once I'm done with my lad's 3k Solar Army, a 3k predominantly Drop Pod and Aerial Assault Dark Angels force to paint.

I know exactly what you mean. It never ends.

Will defo start a thread for the DA.

[DuskRaider]

So I’m slapping together the rest of my terrain and I’ve realized something… the Civitas buildings don’t fit perfectly over the foundations on the Realm of Battle board. Granted, many of the buildings I’ve put together weren’t built for this purpose (I don’t know why), but even ones that SHOULD fit… uh… don’t. I don’t know if the molds shrank when they made the tiles or what, but they’re slightly off, resulting in the remaining structures I build having to be slightly smaller than the foundation that they’re supposed to sit on. It’s not a huge deal but still pretty annoying. 
 

I suppose it’s better this way, I need to focus on making more smaller structures for the purposes of infantry than I do these large, tall monoliths like I was previously. 

[Crablezworth]

Sunday preview has book 3, cards and 3 boxes 

 

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/28/sunday-preview-devastation-comes-to-tallarn/?fbclid=IwY2xjawETXDNleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXsLTgTG5LWBZdFoCatVfrftkFQR3WSqSiaZRy38ey8ojFZMyZPtcMXA3g_aem_ofZAKAMvTobJhLetwl7TMw 

[DuskRaider]

The Battle Honors, Veteran Detachments and Formations of Legend have my interest, but the lack of Astartes options (particularly Super Heavies) and the seeming focus on Aux have me disappointed. The Sicarans are cool and all but I want a damn FelBlade. 

[Sherrypie]

*puts on sunglasses*
I need your books, your Russes and your Shadowsword. Give them to me, naoh.

 

Meanwhile, gaming of the slapstick kind.

 

Epic: Armageddon, 3k. The Machine Church met the Tzeentchian hordes of the Lost and the Damned in a battle of thoroughly fumbled command networks and misfortunes, as both sides bled and stumbled forwards hopelessly. Even kicking airman Jones into the empty fuel tank instead failed to get the birds flying. No breakthrough was achieved nor any formations properly destroyed, though the price in blood and oil rose high for everyone on the burning sands. Neither side achieved any real objectives nor was there any meaningful difference between the casualty tiebreakers, ending in a true, futile draw.

 

 

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[DuskRaider]

I swung by my LGS today to just grab some glue and primer and ended up walking out with another Thunderhawk and Xiphon box set… sigh… 

[DuskRaider]

After about 2 hours, 4 cans of Grey Seer, a can of Mechanicum Grey and a can of Leadbelcher, all of the terrain and the board tiles are primed. Phew…

 

My plan is to paint everything up in neutral colors and shades as I see Imperial architecture, while at times white ornate, to be brutalist and function over form. There will be pops of color here and there, such as the windows which I’m currently working on… so many windows. 
 

 

I'm torn on if I should wash all of the buildings in oil paint or just a wash. I love how oil paint looks on stuff like this, but it is such a hassle to work with and ventilation is a must. On the other hand, I have two… cans, basically… of Vallejo Black and Sepia ink on the way which, when diluted with water, can go a long way and would cut down the time spent on this, but the end result isn’t as nice. 
 

I do have to say, I’m loving this Civitas Ruins kit. I know a lot of people complain about the price, but as somebody who’s been collecting and building the terrain for 6 years now, these really come in handy. I’ve been able to go back to some of the first buildings I assembled (poorly) and take care of spots where the tiles weren’t quite right and were causing gaps either in the corners or between the tiles. I’m so pleased with the results that I’ve ordered another box to do some more “fixes” and also to build more damaged / destroyed buildings to really give the sense that this is a war zone, which was always my biggest complaint prior to this kit being released. 
 

While I was at it, I decided to get some better pics of the Governor’s Palace and added some LI models for scale. I may go back and redo the small structures that the statues are supposed to connect to, as for some dumb reason I added a foundation piece with the piping right where the side statues are supposed to attach. 
 

 

Unfortunately, this building won’t fit anywhere on my Titanicus RoB board, but it still works on a normal table and makes a great centerpiece with which to battle over. It’s hard to tell in the pictures, but there’s enough space behind the top building to add smaller buildings if one so chooses, or it can be moved back to give one a large plaza-type area with which to fight (or garrison an entire demi-company lol).