Commanders, listen up! The enemy is approaching and we need to get the army ready.
Your orders are to grab a Warhammer 40K model and begin building ASAP .
In case you’re still reading, the lapse of time starts today and ends august 14 2005 (sunday) at 23:59hrs.
I don’t care if you use resin, plastic, PE or the sink. Just get going.
And remember: HAVE FUN. That’s an order.
Yes! It’s official! This gives me the perfect reason to finally finish my models. And about robbing the bank, not necessary. Ebay has some good deals. And some retailers still have pretty good discounts. You could even find paper model plans of GW vehicles and use them as templates for styrene sheet parts.
I’m off to fire up the furnaces in the depths of my forgeworld and whip the servant masses into production mode. All hail the Machine God and pray the machine spirits protect you.
The eBay discount price you wind up paying is usually about the same as the discounter price. Even that, at 20% off or so, They are still crazy expensive for the size of the vehicle you get. These things are 28mm so even smaller than 1/48th scale, but cost more than a 1/35th scale model! And you open the box and there are twenty pieces.
Excellent, please go ahead. And you too Larry.
I have to warn you I’m far from being a good modeler, but I’ll give it my best.
Also, the badge is not final. You may post another and we can vote for the best one.
Now to take some pictures of the sprues before I begin. Where is my [censored] camera?
Im already in a GW GB so theres really no reason for me not to be in this one too. Is it vehicles only or figures too?
I`ll be building a vehicle not sure which one tho. I have a few lying around to be built and lord knows how many figures still to be built or painted.
Should be fun[:D]
My model for the build is kinda complicated to explain , but here goes.
Deep breath… Welll I wanna do a Dark Eldar Ravager made out of a Ravager (surprise surprise) and a viper with a couple of Viper gun decks and some remodelling of the tail area of the Ravager. Models involved are an Existing Ravager Ive already built an unbuilt Viper and a spare viper gundeck. The Ravager will be cut up and remodelled using the viper bits to produce something like this
but with extra armour and guns. The above model is still WIP btw and together with my proposed Ravager will be part of a DE pirate army Im planning.
Now to the nitty gritty is this allowed? Im asking because a sizable part of this project ie the ravager bit has been built but will need to be cut up.
The important part is that you derive satisfaction from making a bunch of pieces into a model vehicle (or whatever). All other considerations are secondary. Enjoy, don’t worry! [:)]
I’d like to join this, but I’m a fairly slow modeller and really don’t like rushing my models… it’d take me at least a week to do something like a tank, Dreadnought, Landspeeder etc. properly!
Could I do a small vehicle like a bike or jetbike, or even a figure such as a Terminator or Eldar Aspect
Warrior? I’d probably be able to finish that in a couple of days.
That Ravager conversion looks really interesting BTW!
EDIT: Sorry, didn’t see that the GB lasted from here until August! That’s more than long enough even for me
I’m working on a Space Marines (Black Templars) Landspeeder hover vehicle at the minute, about two-thirds done. Once that’s done my next project will probably be a Dark Angels Land Raider tank. This is the one I’ll use for the GB, though
I will post some pictures of the Landspeeder and my other recent 40K projects (Deathwing Terminator, Eldar Guardians, Tau Battlesuit) once they’re done.
I might even have finished my scratchbuilt Baneblade super-heavy tank by August (it’s about 75% done already, only needs small details, tracks, and painting)
I’ve been kicking around a few ideas of my own, something along the lines of SMs dismounting from a Rhino going into the assault or somesuch. Guess Im going to need more SMs. I also really, really want to drop the bucksheesh on a baneblade from ForgeWorld, but think the wife would have my heiney if I did such a thing.
Sounds like there’s a lot to do in that model/conversion. So welcome aboard, pirate [;)]
You too Drawde, I’ll include you with the Land Raider, but figures are ok if you change your mind.
This is turning out better than I expected [:D]
Last night I cut the pieces from the sprues(no cleaning yet), those were huge joint points, and dry -fitted some pieces. I think it’ll be cool to copy Wolfp’s idea and add some troops dismounting. I may even open one of the side doors.
Oh, and thanks for boosting my morale Larry!
I dont mind merging the 2 builds.Ive almost finished the Space marines I was doing for it, I got kinda sidetracked and the going was slow but theyre almost ready.
For anyone who want to know what comes in the immolator box here is a photo: http://img22.exs.cx/img22/9315/s36000095bw.jpg
So, I went to the local warhammer shop to pick some infantry to go with the immolator.
The inquisition may get for this: I bought the Chaos Space Marines. They seemed the coolest of the ones in stock (including sisters of battle). So, I’m doing a Chaos controled Immolator. You can call it a captured/looted immolator. I’m sorry if it’s to much “heresy” for hardcore Warhammer 40K fans.
SteelSnail when I first did a GW model I had an Eldar Falcon and some Imperial guardsmen , I didnt know any better and whats more I didnt really care lol. You build what you like mate its more fun that way.[:D]
