Fred - 2017 Painting Diary

Started by fred., 22 December 2016, 05:52:54 PM

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Played a game of epic on Friday - 30k Heresy era, so lots of Space Marines

Left flank were my allies the Red Ketchup marines attack the evil white marines


My flank where the Yellow Mustard marines attack the green meenies



Today I based up some more stuff for jungle terrain - various plastic fish tank stuff - probably about £5 worth in total!
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DFlynSqrl

Those ketchup and mustard marines are quite the combo.  Meanest force of Condimental Marines ever known!

Techno

Good stuff, Forbes !

Cheers - Phil

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d_Guy

So the evil white marines are actually the white mayonnaise marines?  :)

Great looking battlefield, Fred!  You have recently turned me on to using aquarium/terrarium products. Cheap and effective!
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Terry37

Great looking game! I am a big fan of sci-fi and have a couple fo armies in my HOTT sets.

Terry
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fred.

Thanks guys - the table isn't mine, this was round at a mates

Quote from: d_Guy on 13 March 2017, 12:48:12 PM
So the evil white marines are actually the white mayonnaise marines?  :)

You have recently turned me on to using aquarium/terrarium products. Cheap and effective!

And the Green Gerkins - which means we have Condimental Marine Civil War. Which probably makes as much sense as the GW Hersey stuff any way.

The aquarium stuff is good - takes a bit of searching to find stuff with smallish leaves. But most of it is really cheap, especially if you are willing to wait a couple of weeks for delivery.
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Quote from: d_Guy on 13 March 2017, 12:48:12 PM

Fred!  You have recently turned me on

Now that's what we Call pulling out of context   :P :P :P :d

Nice looking Battle!

DFlynSqrl

When does the Mint Chutney horde begin their WAAAAAGHHH!?

fred.

Good question. Based on Friday night's performance they will be having an extensive rest and refitting exercise, as they lost a huge amount of vehicles and a fair number of marines. The worst of it being their Thunderhawk gunship with terminators onboard, doing a very ineffective pop-up attack against 3 mustard Cerberus, who in returned melted it, and most of the passengers.
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13 March 2017, 08:59:46 PM #205 Last Edit: 13 March 2017, 09:03:02 PM by d_Guy
Quote from: petercooman on 13 March 2017, 06:01:49 PM
Now that's what we Call pulling out of context   :P :P :P :d
;D

Yes, context is critical! Nelson's famous message, flow from the first floor window of a Cheapside bawdy house would take on an entirely different meaning.

As would the term "flag hoist" itself, I suppose.
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Shell Holes

Received a couple of packs of the new Shell Holes - I really like the look of them, as they are nice and small and give the look of broken ground following shell fire, rather than the huge ones that some other manufacturers produce that look the the results of a mine explosion. Not sure whether to base them or just leave them loose.



They will also work well with 6mm stuff too
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Techno

 8)

Part of me thinks base them....The other part says 'leave 'em be'. :-\

Cheers - Phil

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Epic Game


Played another instalment of the Condimental Marine Civil wars on Friday. The former allies of Mustard and Ketchup were now in conflict. I'd had a delivery of new toys on Thursday, so there are a few rather shiney models on the table. But most of them are now an attractive shade of yellow!!

A couple of early game shots with the Ketchup marines swarming forward.





A fun event was the Ketchup Land Raiders advancing, then popping smoke to give themselves cover. The Mustard Cerberus heavy tank destroyers then advanced and shot at them into the smoke, needing 6s to hit. From 12 dice my ally rolled 6, 6s. This rather wrecked the Land Raider formation!!


A bit later, probably the high point of the Ketchup attack




Although the Mustard marines had taken quite heavy casualties early on, they were now tipping the scales back in their favour, with their heavy infantry counter attacking on both flanks. I'd teleported in a couple of units, and initially thought they were doing badly, but they ended up distracting the Ketchup forces and forcing them to move back to counter them. So they seemed to have more value than initially thought.

Action shot of the 3 not-Typhons cresting a rise
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