Mr Potato Head meets Warhammer 40k
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:3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Is it geeky to find this impressive? :p</div>It's still a work in progress but I'm hopelessly impressed with this person is pulling off... check it out yourself and witness the birth of a WAAAAGH potato head :3
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that is wonderful <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
STUPID AWESOME.
--Scythe--
<!--quoteo(post=1693288:date=Nov 12 2008, 03:03 PM:name=Xyth)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Xyth @ Nov 12 2008, 03:03 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1693288"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It's cool mods like this that always make me consider going back to play 40k again. Building and painting is so much fun, but when it comes to actually finding and playing against other people, it becomes an issue.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yeah, i've always found that. You can always go to the "veterans" evenings. IF you live within reasonable distance of a store. IF you don't mind playing the same set of squeaky 14 year olds and hairy 40 year olds which seem to inhabit <i>every</i> damn store. And if you don't mind paying an arm and a leg for a pretty piece of plastic. OR you can get a good set of mates together to play! Then you get to find out what kind of gamer your mates really are! Are they "the one who never has any money and fields the same army every week"*, "the one who has other commitments and shows up maybe once or twice", "the one who has LOTS of money and puts together new and more overpowered units every week to flatten everyone", or perhaps "the one who regularly fields an un-painted/undercoated army and makes no effort to paint them". Yeah, good luck with that.
Urge to play 40k fading....
But yeah... the mek tater. Its cool and stuff.
* this was me
Yeah, i've always found that. You can always go to the "veterans" evenings. IF you live within reasonable distance of a store. IF you don't mind playing the same set of squeaky 14 year olds and hairy 40 year olds which seem to inhabit <i>every</i> damn store. And if you don't mind paying an arm and a leg for a pretty piece of plastic. OR you can get a good set of mates together to play! Then you get to find out what kind of gamer your mates really are! Are they "the one who never has any money and fields the same army every week"*, "the one who has other commitments and shows up maybe once or twice", "the one who has LOTS of money and puts together new and more overpowered units every week to flatten everyone", or perhaps "the one who regularly fields an un-painted/undercoated army and makes no effort to paint them". Yeah, good luck with that.
Urge to play 40k fading....
But yeah... the mek tater. Its cool and stuff.
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Wow, I played with about 5/6 friends and each of us fit your descriptions. For example, I only liked playing so I was the one who never painted my army. Another guy didn't have any money, so he used different colored pieces of paper cut in smaller circles, etc etc.
It seems that ideally, this hobby is performed in pairs: One rulesgeek, one hobbyist.
In one game I fired a biovore floaty explosive sac thing at his devastators in the hopes of causing some chaos, the wind blew and it scattered miles off target, instead landing in the middle of his terminator squad. I though "meh" knowing the weak damage on the sac thingy wouldn't have a chance in heck of hurting them only for him to fail several of the armour rolls spectacularly resulting in half his terminator squad and it's librarian being taken out by the weakest most random attack in my entire army.
The very next round, in the same game he fired a crack missle at my hive tyrant and got a full wounds roll (10 for those who care) downing my tyrant in a single hit... but it had regeneration. I'd have to roll 4+ (50% chance) on over half or something to bring it back from the dead at the end of the turn or it was lost for good. Let's just say his face was a picture when I got all 10 dice to come up successes <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
He didn't win that one.
Being the caring person I was I'd often offer that particular player consolement by drawing pictures of my tyranids eating his marines and sing songs I'd written about how much I kicked his rear :3
www.the-waaagh.com has some great stuff on their forums. Those guys are always coming up with crazy stuff and you have to love da Boyz.
Another one is www.the-warforge.com
Almost makes me want to take up TT. Note how I said <i>almost</i>. TT gaming, especially Warhammer, is probably one of the more expensive hobbies you can have (short of building your own jets or something).
In one game I fired a biovore floaty explosive sac thing at his devastators in the hopes of causing some chaos, the wind blew and it scattered miles off target, instead landing in the middle of his terminator squad. I though "meh" knowing the weak damage on the sac thingy wouldn't have a chance in heck of hurting them only for him to fail several of the armour rolls spectacularly resulting in half his terminator squad and it's librarian being taken out by the weakest most random attack in my entire army.
The very next round, in the same game he fired a crack missle at my hive tyrant and got a full wounds roll (10 for those who care) downing my tyrant in a single hit... but it had regeneration. I'd have to roll 4+ (50% chance) on over half or something to bring it back from the dead at the end of the turn or it was lost for good. Let's just say his face was a picture when I got all 10 dice to come up successes <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
He didn't win that one.
Being the caring person I was I'd often offer that particular player consolement by drawing pictures of my tyranids eating his marines and sing songs I'd written about how much I kicked his rear :3<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Hah. I also played as Eldar and Tyranids. I had no big aliens in my 'nid army though, it was just a wall of gaunts followed by genestealers. Good times. Eldar were fun too, rocking out with the star-cannons and wave-serpents (had to make those yourself, as GW didn't sell a kit back then, infact I don't even know if they do now? It's been years since I've even thought of this stuff).
Painting and modding my army was definitely my favorite aspect of the game though. Playing was fun but I was young and finding people to play against was hard since I couldn't drive.
Makes me want to play again. /sigh
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Second response -- I'm not really sure where he's going with the paint-job. I thought it was a pretty cool-looking thing <i>before</i> he painted it, and he'd actually taken some efforts to make the colors on the armor plating and stuff be reasonably good looking, just for example. Then he made it all black (ok, just primer anyway), and then all metallic (looked reasonably good), and then all metallic with a different shade of metallic (nice rust-metal effect, as he said). He could have stopped there and it would have looked pretty cool, aside from being a little uniform.
And then, after painting it two different shades of "metal", he starts painting it bright red. O.....kay? So now it just looks silly.
Red wunz go faster! </Ork>
My favourite bit is the fact he's got a Stompa with ADIDAS Classics on. That amused me no end.
Second response -- I'm not really sure where he's going with the paint-job. I thought it was a pretty cool-looking thing <i>before</i> he painted it, and he'd actually taken some efforts to make the colors on the armor plating and stuff be reasonably good looking, just for example. Then he made it all black (ok, just primer anyway), and then all metallic (looked reasonably good), and then all metallic with a different shade of metallic (nice rust-metal effect, as he said). He could have stopped there and it would have looked pretty cool, aside from being a little uniform.
And then, after painting it two different shades of "metal", he starts painting it bright red. O.....kay? So now it just looks silly.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
He's not done.
As for why he paints it lots of different colours, I'll give some details.
The black is what's known as an 'undercoat'. You do this either in pure white (for strong colours) or black (for metals or a darker look). Trust me, it makes a huge difference not having one, an undercoat is essential.
The metals are 'drybrushed' on so he's done two coats to give a multi-layered effect. For reference sake, dry brushing is the technique of getting paint on your brush, wiping it all of on a piece of tissue or whatnot then rubbing the brush over the model. little pigments still stuck in the brushes will be left on raised areas. It's useful for doing metals or going for course effects like fur or bark. The only downside to it is it wrecks the brush you use for it which is why you usually just use old wonky ones or buy special 'drybrushing' brushes which are a tad sturdier than the normal ones :3
Not to mention there is actually a rule for Orks that if you paint a vehicle red it's allowed to move farther each turn. Known as the "Red ones go faster" rule.
Details, details.
that made me smile. you get a digital cookie