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Discussion in 'Personal Paint Logs' started by JTSleep, Jun 9, 2022.

  1. J.Logan
    Terradon

    J.Logan Well-Known Member

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    Yah, there is a reason that for a long time it was one of, if not the most expensive product on Forgeworld. Maybe Titans were more expensive... but I remember Titans being able to be purchased piecemeal - buy the body, then an arm, then the other - whereas the Manta you had to buy in a single huge heaping of £1200 (if my memory serves)
     
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  2. JTSleep
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    JTSleep Well-Known Member

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    In their defence, I think Manta kit includes also full cargo bay with 4 barracudas, bunch of crisis suits, pile of drones and a out 4 units of infantry.
     
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  3. J.Logan
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    J.Logan Well-Known Member

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    So... it's the same size as a smart car, can carry about as much as a smart car, costs about the same as a smart car...

    Why not just buy a smart car, paint it ochre, and put it on the table? :p

    And it's as I type this joke that I realise that I haven't actually seen any smart cars for a good long while... have they gone out of fashion? Or did all the Tau players buy them all? :p
     
  4. JTSleep
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    JTSleep Well-Known Member

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    Warhammer players stopped buying them as putting army in trunk meant you doubled the price of vehicle. :D
     
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    Thats so much money
     
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  6. JTSleep
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    JTSleep Well-Known Member

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    Working on my monthly goals :)

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  7. JTSleep
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    I had some time and wanted to paint something. Then I found out that I left my box with brushes at work. So more preshading it is. This time first half of MESBG orks and those three crisis suit heads I primed yesterday.
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  8. JTSleep
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    I finally scraped that default base from under legs (at least on first 6 of them), so they are on same base level and I found old easy to build Cadian. Here is photo for you.
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    And I didn't quite liked plastic tractor as there were some compromises for injection molding... So I spent 4 hours measuring stuff and 3D modeling to make my own one.
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  9. JTSleep
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    Ghostkeel finished!

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  10. JTSleep
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    This time, I didn't think I'll have any hobby time at home, so I left everything in the office... Well... at least secondary xacto, drills and magnets are at home. No way I'll pay for second Isengard troll :D
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    @Imrahil Buddy, do you happen to know if I should magnetise shield as well? :)
     
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  11. Imrahil
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    Imrahil Thirtheenth Spawning

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    Nice!! There is the option to field him without a shield, but there are two different arms in the kit. So I glued the shield to one of the arms and have the other arm for the instance I don't need a shield... whenever that might be ;)

    Do you also magnetize the heads and body armor?

    Grrr, !mrahil
     
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    Chmmm... I´ll think about nagnetising the shoulder, but initially I wanted to putty most of body gaps.

    Nope, it is tempting, but this will be Isengard only troll. :)
     
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  13. Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl
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    Thanks mate, that is just what I was looking for! Hmm, interesting to see that the new plastic 'normal' Quar are actually around a head taller than a Skink, so must be a little bit bigger than your 3D-printed ones from earlier. They're also a head taller than the Fidwogs, who are definitely around Skink height, and the 'normal' Quar are a head shorter than a human.

    Hmm those little tractors are very much on the small side for a human... perhaps they could work as 1-man 'Grot tank' equivalents, but even then they'd be especially claustrophobic!

    The bigger ones for the Crusaders and Coftyrans, though, would still work nicely as light tanks for a Steampunk/Dieselpunk human force.
     
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  14. JTSleep
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    No problem, but to clarify, Fidwogs are first hard plastic ones I own, rest are all printed. But from official sources, so they should have same height as plastic ones, since I saw people using 3D printed arms from same sets I use to fit on plastic bodies.

    And It is time for some shots :)

    Oficial plastic Fynrydhad:
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    And 3D printed unofficial one:
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    Edit: I had to take new pictures, forgot to paint couple of rivets.
     
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  15. JTSleep
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    QUAR reinforcements are done!

    First is RCO team with their self proppeled howitzer:
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    Then there is Coftyr command with their Standard bearer and Pyk Pyk messenger squirell handler.
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    And last but not least, Standard bearer of opposing Crusaders:
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  16. Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl
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    You know what the only problem is with those models?

    No separate messenger squirrel model to go on the base :beaver:
     
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  17. JTSleep
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    Don't worry, I have 4 or 5 prepared. :D
     
  18. Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl
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    Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl Eleventh Spawning

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  19. JTSleep
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    I am going to look out for them and never let them out of sight... Unlike this guy:
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  20. JTSleep
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    Anyways, these two are next in line:
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    And then I'll do couple more crusaders to keep numbers roughly the same.
     

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