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Post by commandersasha on Jan 16, 2011 1:26:06 GMT
I have quite a few nice bases, and am always on the lookout for new. Most moulded bases are resin, so expect to pin the models onto them.
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 13, 2011 10:07:01 GMT
Having just learnt about the salt bath technique for re-moulding plastic, this sounds like a project that would benefit. Check out architectural suppliers for generic human figures for scale building models, they are usually soft plastic, and could supply lots of cheap figures. www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?autocom=ineo&showarticle=145Haven't tried salt dipping yet, if you have a go, post results! (If you haven't burnt your fingers too badly to type!)
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 13, 2011 1:24:52 GMT
I like him. The current Broodlord is such a wimp! But he has amazing stage presence!
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 12, 2011 19:57:10 GMT
Thanks for the answers, Hellbreaker!
Hi Trygon, yes, 'tis me. I am now full of Skaven Counts-As-Tyranids, determined as ever to bend the rules to my own entertainment! I hope you remember me as (Angry female) marines guy, not angry guy(with female marines). A few discussions got heated, and I was new to web forums at the time, so hadn't got the hang of internet sensitivity!
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 12, 2011 13:14:06 GMT
Sorry, I wasn't sure where to put this! I have a few questions about the board layout, and couldn't find a "thetyranidhive" specific help page. Please direct me to it if there is one, and ignore all the following questions!
1) I've noticed that I am now a"Tyranid Warrior" on the board, with 4 little yellow circle thingys. What does this mean? Does it reflect how long, how many posts, or just that in the eyes of the Admin I have achieved the 4th level of knowledge?! Would I lose a thingy for flaming, advertising etc?
2) What do the first column icons on the menu pages mean? Why are some folders on fire?
3) What do the second column icons mean? Mostly a blank page, but some have smileys, etc.
4) Why do some topics have a blue "New" box?
While I'm talking about the board, I think the "The Tyranid Hive Rules and Guides" could do with an update, particularly the common abbreviations: it looks like it hasn't been done since the new codex, as there is no DoM etc. Thanks for reading!
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 11, 2011 22:09:45 GMT
...unless I had a pair of Golden Daemons under my belt. There's something vaguely unsettling about that phrase...
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 11, 2011 10:50:01 GMT
The playstyle for this chapter would be very similar to my marine army, "The Broken Hearted", who are a collection of Marines from different chapters.
Commander Sasha herself is an ex Arbites who was captured by Dark Eldar, trained and augmented in the gladiatorial pits of Commorragh, but escaped, and after being branded a mutant, went on the run, and has formed a mercenary fleet of other, similarly disaffected marines, guard, and other adeptus.
As such, She herself has a Marine Captain statline, and I use C:SM for my army; a lot of my conversions have mixed parts, however. Guard Aegis cannons for my Thunderfire, Tau flamers and meltas, Guard and non-GW models for my scouts etc.
C:SM is the best codex for a varied list army, and I felt that the other marine codices were too specific. I tried a C:BA list, but Sasha doesn't like being a counts-as character, and when I tried a wolf list, she was furious at the extra body hair...
As the 40K universe approaches the time of ending, I can see more chapters breaking away from the corrupt Imperium, without necessarily turning to Chaos; you can disagree with something your government does, but you don't HAVE to smash up a police van!
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 11, 2011 10:23:06 GMT
Problem is, I can't use firefox or chrome on the parliamentary computers! Please clarify: are British Government computers in the Houses of Parliament actually being used to browse The Hive! This has made my day! Laughing Out Loud! I won't tell, promise! Any chance of an apocalypse battle on the centre table? The mace could confer a 4+ and the dispatch boxes could count as ruins!
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 10, 2011 13:25:37 GMT
... most people understand what you are whriting and wont rack down on you unless you end up with sentences such as: "1 4m teh winz0r" That's not misspelling, it's wholesale rape of the language! For good spellcheck fails, try damnyouautocorrect.com/
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 10, 2011 9:06:54 GMT
Very nice! I like bold colour schemes, and think it a shame when a muted but well painted scheme just fades into the backgroung. Effective camouflage it may be, but it makes for a dull tabletop! I wish I could get my striping as regular while still as natural as every b*****y plate on your carapace! I hate you.
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 10, 2011 8:56:11 GMT
Washes are awesome! I bought the set of GW washes, and they have helped immensely. I am a poor painter, and my best models now look passable at my gaming club! I bought the set of GW washes, and they have helped immensely. My Skaven ratmen are sprayed leather brown, then washed in Devlan mud...That's all it needs for fur to look tabletop quality! My wooden vehicles are also sprayed leather brown, but then alternate planks are washed in black, brown, green or sepia; they end up looking like planks from different trees.
As mentioned, Black is very dark, should only be used to wash already dark colours, otherwise it will look too cartoony. What colours are you using it on?
The physics is: washes are a very diluted version of the same paint, ie pigment suspended in a solution that evaporates, depositing the colour; the solution also has additives that reduce the surface tension, allowing it to flow into every crevice, thus creating a 'graded' effect the deeper it goes.
Use a tired old brush, dunk it and apply quite liberally, with a dabbing tissue to hand; you soon get a feel for it.
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 8, 2011 23:32:13 GMT
I have several WM units in my Marine army; Commander Sasha herself is Sorscha from Khador. The models are excellent, and perfectly in scale. Be aware, of course, that you can't use them in a branch of GW, or in GW tournaments. Other than that, definitely, and I agree, those make for some cold, clinical scientists rather than twisted freaks.
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 8, 2011 13:07:10 GMT
Certainly the scene where the old toys slowly climb up onto the bed to meet the newcomers would have been different: "What is it Woody? What can you see?" #camera from top of bed# *Woody's hat rises over horizon of bed, then his face; his eyes widen* #cut to camera on floor amongst other toys focussed up to Woody# *Woody's body is snatched on to bed, snarling thrashing noises* #cut to camera amongst toys# *A handful of bloody dice fall amongst them, followed by a chewed boot with "Andy" written on the sole#
My son watched "Toy Story 1" every day for a loooonngg time when he was about 3. Anything that sees any of them die a slow painful death would be considered a reasonable recompense for loss of sanity to my wife and me.
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 8, 2011 12:57:34 GMT
From the official GW fluff, Clan Moulder experiment using warpstone, arcane magic and steam powered technology to create their mutations; The pic below shows a boiler grafted onto the Rat Ogres shoulder: My wife&I have gone steampunk this year, and my army reflects this; I saw these wings years ago and fell in love, but couldn't get them to match my Marine army. They're a bit small, but I figure that jump packs are for gliding assistance rather than full flying, so with powerful haunches for leaping, and a small wingset, that would double the movement range even if not giving full flight. Rule of cool is at play here, and Skaven would eat a flying horse long before it arrived on a Clan Moulder operating table!
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Post by commandersasha on Jan 8, 2011 10:24:49 GMT
Sorry, majority toughness means you use your gaunts' T3. This has to be, because you work out the number of wounds BEFORE you distribute them. As quoted above, this is on page 19, in general. P47 says that you use the IC's leadership for the whole group, this is a specific rule for ICs. Specific overrules general, otherwise general applies.
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