Legions Imperialis & Epic hobby chat!

[dice4thedicegod]

Also… adding little guys to the Titan bases I’d done previously :)

[Noserenda]

Superglue is best for temp bases, pva will sometimes rip up the wood ive found, plus it takes ages to dry :D 

You definitely dont need to paint models off their bases though, ive got hundreds of epic orks all done on their bases who are a lot smaller and paint intensive than modern space marines :D 

[LameBeard]

11 hours ago, LameBeard said:

I’m going to try double-sided sticky tape on coffee stirrers. I’ll let you know how I get on.

Well it’s working so far. Better than blue-tac I’d say. Can’t believe how many “stirrers’-worth” it’s going to be even for one formation …

[Captain Idaho]

I was having a drink with my friend and he drunkenly used super glue on the underside of the bases of Resin 3D printed ones to a pencil... causing problems lol

[Pacific81]

In the absence of drop pods for the time being, marines should be a able to deploy via pencil/coffee stirrer and/or whippy sticks

[apologist]

 

If you’re after plain bases suitable for Epic: Legions, Warlord Games do a variety of sizes – above are the 25mm ones. Similar bevel and profile than GW’s, and also handily recessed, so you can partially hide the integrated round bases of most third party models :)

[Sky Potato]

I’ve mixed and matching painting on the sprue and on coffee stirrers. On sprue seems to me to be more comfortable in the long run.

[dice4thedicegod]

Another custom dreadnought pose.  3 specials so far… trying to come up with a few more!

[Interrogator Stobz]

Just played 1st game of LI, 1000 points each.

My boy won with 30 points left on the table in 4 rounds.

Cool game, need to learn more about Terrain etc but the basics are easy.

[Matcap86]

Has anyone found some suitable scaled 3rd party decals/transfers? I'd like to add some more smaller markings to my SA forces but the LI sheets for them have mostly bigger sized numbers or regiment logos. 

[LameBeard]

23 minutes ago, Matcap86 said:

Has anyone found some suitable scaled 3rd party decals/transfers? I'd like to add some more smaller markings to my SA forces but the LI sheets for them have mostly bigger sized numbers or regiment logos. 

Where will you add the markings? I was going to add a little warhounds decal to make my Malcadors “Legion Malcadors” but I can’t find any room between all the trim and rivets!

[Matcap86]

Just now, LameBeard said:

Where will you add the markings? I was going to add a little warhounds decal to make my Malcadors “Legion Malcadors” but I can’t find any room between all the trim and rivets!

 

That's why I want smaller decals! The malcadors are going to be tricky either way though. 

[DuskRaider]

You can check the FW transfer sheets, they have some pretty small ones on there. I’m not sure if they’re quite small enough and I don’t think they ever produced any Solar Auxilia sheets either, unless you’re painting the Malcadors up as Legion tanks, then you may have better luck. 

[LameBeard]

25 minutes ago, DuskRaider said:

You can check the FW transfer sheets, they have some pretty small ones on there. I’m not sure if they’re quite small enough and I don’t think they ever produced any Solar Auxilia sheets either, unless you’re painting the Malcadors up as Legion tanks, then you may have better luck. 

My little Warhound head *is* from a Forgeworld sheet. I’m talking power armour knee-pad or Cataphractii shoulder-icon size. Could do an epic rhino door about right but too big for the Malcador.

[Raziel-TX]

Legion decal sheets have some really nice and small options (though not many). 
 

The banner has a decal from the FW legion decal sheet. The small DA symbol on the Knight Captain’s cloak is from the Kratos’ decal sheet. 

[LameBeard]

Now that one on the cloak is super-tiny!

[Matcap86]

14 hours ago, DuskRaider said:

You can check the FW transfer sheets, they have some pretty small ones on there. I’m not sure if they’re quite small enough and I don’t think they ever produced any Solar Auxilia sheets either, unless you’re painting the Malcadors up as Legion tanks, then you may have better luck. 

 

They did actually. It was great! I hope they rerelease it (or something similar) with plastic SA coming for 30k: 

 

I've been using some kneepad transfer from my SoH transfer sheet but those ones are way bigger than the LI ones. Really looking for teensy tiny ones. 

[DuskRaider]

Yeah I don’t think they come any smaller unless you have someone custom make some transfers then. 

[Pacific81]

Honestly for shoulder pad insignia the best results I have seen have been just a tiny free-hand of the logo. I've tried this for my Night Lords, with just a tiny blob for the skull and a couple of red lines for the wings. It won't stand up to scrutiny through a macro lense but via the human eyeball (and definitely on the tabletop) I think it's fine.

Then you have those FW Heresy decal sheets, which are designed for shoulder pads at 28mm but also work really well for Epic vehicles.

[dice4thedicegod]

Almost finished the kool aid dreadnought!   Still trying to think of more poses.  Trying to come up with another tank related one for a lascannon dreadnought.

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

LI_Ash_Scorpions_Ogryns:

 

https://ibb.co/album/TYTCHm

[TCC]

On the painting bench.

 

[DuskRaider]

4 hours ago, Pacific81 said:

Honestly for shoulder pad insignia the best results I have seen have been just a tiny free-hand of the logo. I've tried this for my Night Lords, with just a tiny blob for the skull and a couple of red lines for the wings. It won't stand up to scrutiny through a macro lense but via the human eyeball (and definitely on the tabletop) I think it's fine.

Then you have those FW Heresy decal sheets, which are designed for shoulder pads at 28mm but also work really well for Epic vehicles.

Yeah I’m good with that, lol. I’ve got so many damn Astartes infantry at this point that even the thought of attempting the Death Guard icon on their pauldron gives me the shakes. 

[Raziel-TX]

Grass came in. Definitely “pops” but that’s what I was going for to stand out the Marines from the base. 

[Pacific81]

I love it - absolutely makes the armour colour come alive.