I’m a relative novice to scratch building and I’m wanting to definitely build a few more so any tips or advice is greatly appreciated! Here’s some scratch built terrain with some of my sculpted miniatures.
Thanks for any tips and tricks in advance :)
While I am a writer I don’t currently have the knowledge of either faction enough to feel I could write a convincing story. But I do know it would be rad.
Here’s the pitch: A squad of Storm Troopers, possibly joined by an Inquisitor come across a damaged Imperial Star Destroyer, they get no response and so board to investigate.
They are met by a squadron of Stormtroopers, the Inquisitor notices how poorly the armour seems to fit, along with the strange “serpentine” insignia the seargent wears.
She/He demands to see whoever’s in charge. A storm trooper sees one of the Genestealer stormtroopers remove their helmets, they’re ambushed, theirs loads of shooting and Genestealer cults/pure strain vs Stormtrooper action, finale probably the Inquisitor, beaten and alone vs the Patriarch.
If people are interested I’d definitely give it a go, if anyone would also be down to help me write it, I’d be down for that too
Edit:
This isn’t a match up, I’m aware putting a stormtrooper or even a squad of storm troopers vs Genestealers, they’re getting butchered, that’s why it would be horror-centered, think Death Troopers or the Aliens book adaptation, the horror comes from how screwed and out of depth they are.
It was interesting comparing the different in my terminators to the Captain as they were my second ever unit for this project, while I’m still immensely happy with them it’s cool to see how my skills have improved.
I’ve played a handful of 3rd edition games by now but this by far was the best! The War-Marshals started off great, blowing up a trukk of Boyz and a few Killa Kanz in the first and second round but when the Ork wave hit it hit HARD. Annihilating the centre of my force, the Warboss and his MegaNobz chewed through my terminators, dreadnought and tactical squad with ease until the they met their match against of all things…a Devastator squad, slaying the Warboss and sending the greentide into a rout.
Had to take a sick day and looking through some of my old space marines, I had a dumb idea; now I’m addicted.
Anyone have ideas for a good skirmish game these guys vibes might rock with?
The Iron-Hoofs (name pending?)
Beastmarine Leader: Antlers
The cunning and vile leader of the Warband. Always makes sure to steal the best kills from the other warband members so they don’t get any ideas coming for his spot.
Beastmarine w/ axe: Brute
The loyal bodyguard to Antlers, stoic and quiet type.
Beastmarine w/ Hammer: Ram
Tank of the warband. Has a long running debate with Krahk! Krahk! about which is better for turning heads into red mist, his hammer or Krahk! Krahk!’s bolter.
Beastmarine w/ Bolter: Krahk! Krahk!
The little brother of the group, constantly being bullied and called weak & cowardly by the group, it’s party true. He is crack shot and best tracker of the warband.
Banner Bearer: Ssseth
Considers himself the most civilized of the group, and superior to everyone in the group in every way, if only they could see it. Has aspirations of leadership.
My favourite is by the Rogue Trader era Chaplain, painted in the colours of Spawn, inspired by someone else’s work.
These veterans are designed for 3rd edition, if anyone can help explain to me how 3rd edition vets work would be great.
In their profile it says they can either use boltguns or boltpistols & close combat weapons. Does that mean they can only take pistols & knives or can they trade them out for lightning claws. Chsinswords, etc?
Tell me what you think about the purple helmets for the Devastators. I always liked how the Blood Angels had blue/yellow for their assault marines/devastators, so I went with purple.
What colour should the assault marines have? Green, yellow, maybe? Give me your ideas
I’ve been getting back into comics since recently picking up Absolute Batman, and it brought back a lot old memories where me and my friend at the time would come up with characters together. I’ve not attempted to draw anything in almost 10-12 years so I’m aware I have a lot of catching up to do, but I’ve been enjoying it as a break from my usual sculpting and warhammer painting.
I remember once I even used some of my brothers Warhammer paints to paint an action figure of the 2004 Batman animated series into “The Hound”/ Dogman.
I promise you I do have more original ideas now haha.
Here’s some backstory based on what I can half remember writing back in the day, if you’re interested.
Name: Edward Montgomery-Wolfgang
Location: London (rename)
Age: 30’s
Height: 6’3
Weight:
Origins: Edward was the adopted son of William Montgomery-Wolfgang. Some say, the nuns that originally found him, found him as a babe suckling from a dead wolf mother.
Taken in by the Montgomery-Wolfgang family, he grew up, losing most but not all of his feral tendencies. His dad had a large kennel of rescue dogs, and would often take his son out for rides with the pack on fox & rabbit hunts.
At the age of ten his parents were both killed in a car accident, though the surrounding events made things suspicious. The autopsy claimed Williams chauffeur had been drunk, but Edward knew how hard it had been for the chauffeur to quit.
Still, he was too young to do anything, and now with no close family, he was inducted into the care of the family butler.
The Butler was a scheming man, who had spent years getting close to the family, siphoning out “small” amounts of money from the family, and now as Edwards warden, he had even more access to the family fund.
Edward was sent to a bording school in Scotland in various other wealthy troubled children to be quickly forgotten about. Became a master gymnast. Got some early experience in fencing and boxing.
After finishing school, Edward travelled the world as a penniless vagabond, stealing to eat, even committing robberies and other crimes as to understand the mind of a criminal. He went to Brazil to master Brazillian Jui Jistu, Thailand to learn Muay Tai, Russia, China, Japan, learning to fight in ancient monasteries & prison pit fighting rings.
During this time, his two rules were thus; do not kill, and do not allow harm to come to dogs & innocence.
Eventually he returned home, older, grizzled, changed. His old butler had moved in with his family into the old mansion, the pens were empty, all but for one dog that still stalked outside the lands of the mansion. An old hunting foxhound of his father, Arthur
Edward’s first mission was to kick out the old Butler and investigate his parents mysterious deaths…yet the cause still alludes him.
Powers:
Heightened sense of sight, smell and taste
Seems to have an unnatural ability to command dogs and other similar creatures. Even ones taught to be loyal to his enemies.
Tools:
Claws: retractable diamond claws, incredibly sharp, allows him to scale most surfaces and cut through all but the strongest armour.
The Leash: both effective as a wip and as a way to swing from place to place, can be used to disarm knives and guns.
Cowl of the Hound: The Cowl is more than a simple mask. It’s visors contain the ability to see in the dark, in multiple waves of light invisible to the human eye. The ears are designed to pick up radio signals and increase his already supernatural hearing, it can be a weakness if he’s taken off guard. It can also emit a frequency only dogs and other mammals can hear, calling them to him.
He has a wide variety of dog companions useful in various tasks but his constant side kick is the trusty German Shepherd ex police dog, Duke.
I also threw in an idea for Mane, one of his many rogues, a cross between Kraven the Hunter, Bane & a Yautja.
He has no ulterior motives, he promises.
I made a few recasts :)
Not if it’s just me but I have loads of sculpts that are about 75% complete that I never finished because it didn’t feel good enough, turned out for this one I just resculpted the mouth and suddenly I liked it again. Do you have many sculpts like that or is this just a me thing?
They both became a little bigger than I originally planned but I love them both
New sculpt! Need to finish up some of the Spru design so it casts nice and clearly but really happy with it! I was inspired by an old Heroquest chaos warrior I had on hand and a lot of the awesome stuff I’m seeing coming out of the Turnip28 community.
I recently had a family member call my sculpting a waste of time, and with the internal angsty teenager inside me, it only relit my passion to make more. Fuck those guys. Believe in yourself!