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Update

Now I'm working on the Rhino factory (and variants)

This means 8x Rhino, 1x razorback, 10x Predator, 6x Vindicator, and 5x Whirlwind... 30 in all (for this phase)

I'm working a production line building 5 at a time.

Sorry, same as with the LR, build now... paint later.

I'ts worth the wait

That's a nice amount of stuff. Our group is a bunch of crazed whackos, so we have similar sized armies. Friend of mine has 7 Companies of Marines, I've got 30K of Chaos and 30K of Guard (my 'smallest' full army is 8K of Necrons). Another friend has 30K of Eldar.

What structure is the Guard force going to have?

BYE

Can any of you guys post pics of these crazy sized armies? I'd like to blow my mind.

Holy Mother of God and all her whacky nephews!!

You sir, deserve respect!

Good luck with all the painting and assembling. My hat's off to you.

And please, keep the pics coming.

Courage and honour in your grand endeavors, Brother!

More Rhino Factory pics

Marine Minis


This is how I store them... in DVD racks, using DVD cases as shelves

This is my Ultramarine Force at the moment

Marine Force Boxes

This is my Imperial Guard Force at the moment

IG Force Boxes

This is where I'm up to in building IG

IG Minis




And the Leman Russ factory

H.B.M.C.

I would love to see any pics of your IG Force

Mik

and what do you do for a living?

Holy Emperor!

It does look an awful lot of stuff when you see it layed out like that!

Im a Security Officer in a full time perm site, however, I've recently earned a BA degree in Criminology and I am starting up a Security/Risk management Consulting firm - maybe another year away before fully operational.

As I've said before... no kids at home, brilliant wife, a bit of money keeps popping up now and again... we don't smoke, infrequent social drinkers, don't do pubs and clubs... we do have a huge DVD collection though - that keeps us busy, when I'm not doing this of course.

To answer the next question... I find the time coz I'm on a 4 days on, 4 days off roster - and my wife works 5/6 days a week.

This is hands-down my favourite Dakka thread of all time. I'm not even joking! I'm amazed!

Wow. That's a lot of boxes. That's a lot of Cadians.

I have about the same amount of Guard stuff, but more than 2/3rds of my infantry are metal (Cadians, Tallarns & Mordians - plus all the Heavy Weapon Platoons and Kasrkin).

BYE

At this point... Imperial Guard Force is 6x Baneblades, 9x Basilisk, 14x LR, 3x LR Demolishers, 3x Hellhounds, 10x Sentinels, 100x Kasrkin, almost 500x Cadians, over 60x heavy wpn teams, 12x command squads, 4x Company command squads, 5x Commissars.

Still to come 6x LR, 3x Hellhounds, 3x LR Demolishers, 15x Commissars, 17x Chimera, and 12x Plastic Valkyries. And one day - 3x Warhounds

And, yes... Thunderhawks too (when they are released in plastic)

Tell you what I don't envy you for - having to put all the tracks on the Russes and Chimeras.

I've done it for 31 Russ Hulls and 24 Chimera Hulls. Not fun.

BYE

H.B.M.C. wrote:Tell you what I don't envy you for - having to put all the tracks on the Russes and Chimeras.

I've done it for 31 Russ Hulls and 24 Chimera Hulls. Not fun.

BYE

Sounds to me HBMC is a little jealous that Castellan is getting attention for having a huge army while he's not

Now now... we will have none of that!

This forum is show and tell.. not shout and spit.

Nobody is perfect

I'm jealous of those that can paint without thinking

I'm envious of those that have FW Valkyries and Titans

I'm greedy as well, coz one day I will have it too

And I've got a big head at the moment coz you all are praising my efforts and wishing me well in my project

Attention is powerfull... The centre of attention is even more!

Behave on MY post

Lord Castellan Mik wrote:I'm envious of those that have FW Valkyries and Titans

Don't be. Soon the plastic Valkyrie will be with us and it will be 100% less annoying to put together.

BYE

Sorry I'm a bit out of the loop, but has the plastic Valkyrie been confirmed? If so, GW is coming with a very "crude" strategy of pushing for blatantly bigger battles so people are swept up in the propoganda and buy tons of minis.

But back OT, how "in depth" are you planning on painting these armies? I'd be amazed if you decide to go all out with highlights etc but I'd be disappointed if you went for a basic 4 colour no wash paint quality.

Can you also give us a more detailed run down on your pricing? How much did you get one of those Baneblades for? I can't quite make out the sticker in your pics.

And man, your FLGS must LOVE you!

(HMBC's pushin 4k posts now!)

And cheaper, and easier to build yeah, and can get more of them for the same money, and not as 'fragile' (ya know... good in a cabinet - cautious with constant manhandling) - from what I've read, and did I say cheaper?

Sorry to play town Marshal... don't forget the GW creed - fun, fun, fun... then kill em! (in a game... of course)

A$120 each

According to BOLS... Plastic Valkyries and others around May 2009 + new IG Codex... obviously we will see

I'm still working on the paint job... not the colours, but my ability.

Buy and build I can do

Fluff and research I can do

Convert and dioramas I can do

Painting intricate tiny tiny tiny details - ahhhhh

Again, I've been really out of the hobby for a while (and too lazy to find out for myself), but how much are they normally? Was the discount consistent throughout all your purchases or was it only for a few?

And finally, what was the store like when you bought all this stuff! If it had been the one I used to go to, the manager there would've been poppin corks for sure!

I shuffle and balance the costs and the frieght and the discounts from 4 different GW stores, 2 different States, 1 local stockist, and lately Scrapdragon mail order.

I have had aconstant run of 20 - 25% discount on almost all of the purchases (except for GW direct sales only - but they were 40 - 50% mega bundle deals anyway)

GW Baneblade is A$160

I can understand why you'd buy from different sources, but why 4 different GW stores? It's unheard of for an individual GW store to have a "sale" or differently priced minis isn't it?

GW Manager specials...

In one store I ordered the Direct only IG Company - I got 3x 10% vouchers and about A$50 worth of glues and undercoat spray.

In one store I bought the Marine Battle Company (RRP but a mega savings bundle non the less) and he sold me a Terminus LR for A$5.

In another store I was offered 1 free old Landspeeder if I bought 2 new ones - so I bought 8 and got 2 Typhoons an 2 Tempests for FREE

See... Look around and check for deals... its that easy

Sir... I salute you...

that said, could you spot me a LR or 2... or 3?