So what 'looks like' an army?

I'm going to be getting into the Overlords for purely painting purposes, but that doesn't mean I don't keep a mind to 'what actually looks like an army in the off chance in a million years I run into someone to play with', so after the spearhead, Brokk (the bling on that man), and most likely Drekki's Privateers since they seem to still be pretty available, what are some common sights in armies?

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u/Uratoh — 1 day ago

[H] Orks, Custodes, Imperial Fists [W] 11e Marines, Tyranids, Nurgle, Kharadron Overlords [Loc] VA

Continuation of my older post now that I've accepted breaking up the armies and gotten rid of some of em! With the exception of the Imperial Fists, everything else comes with the sprues and surplus bitz that I could turn up, which SHOULD be everything, but I can't 100% guarantee any random bitz will be around, though I can give it a look if people ask. What we have here is pretty much 'what once was,' so here we go...

Orks:

Kill Rig
3x Deffkoptas (missing one base/rotor)
Deff Dread
Warboss in Mega Armor
Beastboss on Squigosaur
Boomdakka Snazzwagon
10x Kommandoz
10x Beast Snagga Boyz
10x Boyz (monopose type)
5x Burna Boyz
Broken pieces of a finecast weirdboy. May he rest in...pieces. (All pieces are accounted for)

Imperial Fists:

Vindicator
Tor Garadon
Techmarine in Gravis Armor (converted from Iron Father Feirros, was part of a planned 'all gravis' ascetic, would have been fielded as a normal techpriest)
Ironclad Dreadnought
Five marines in various models of gravis armor for test painting, several lack heads
One Centurion with twin linked lascannons

Adeptus Custodes (Original purchased items):

5x Custodian Wardens
5x Custodian Guard
Sagittarium Custodians upgrade kit
Sisters of Silence Prosecutor Squad
Contemptor-Achillus Dreadnought (resin, mostly magnetized weapons)
3x Vertus Praetors
3x Allarus Custodians
Trajann Valores

Unless I noted otherwise, I *THINK* these things are complete, between the sprues, partially assembled and painted models, and loose bits. If you want bases, just let me know how many you'd like and I'll scrounge them up and include em, especially on the Ork side.

Wants wise, I mostly want paypal or unassembled stuff, if I could easily strip/etc models I would have done it myself on some things (especially the imperial fists), I'm looking for the new marine stuff from the 11th ed box set, especially the land speeder and the jump pack models, most Tyranids, most Nurgle stuff (favoring Death Guard/daemons), and I'm looking to get in to Kharadon Overlords, so anything from that. I'm also looking for Ravenwing biker banners (like from the dark angels upgrade sprue), as well as Charnabal Sabres and the curved Chainswords from the Horus Heresy melee weapon set.

Edit: oops, forgot the pics!
https://imgur.com/a/vaGrfWG

u/Uratoh — 1 day ago

Looking to paint for fun, alternate color schemes? More things in Drekki's style?

I've always loved the Overlords' ascetic and since I've settled in to 'I can just paint things for fun' I'm thinking of getting their Spearhead for a good assortment to paint, as well as possibly Brokk, just because I absolutely love his helmet with the top hat and moustache mounted guns XD. But as I've already got an army I'm doing in burgundy and silver/gold, I'm looking for other color schemes to consider. I kind of like the look of Drekki's getup, are there more official/unofficial minis that use his scheme?

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u/Uratoh — 4 days ago

Black (or similarly dark) Ravenwing/Dark Angels transfers?

Custom chapter, not a successor of the dark angels, but the wing and sword combination works for the theme I'm going for. Problem is it'd be going over either a white and red, or steel metallic, so the white and red normal dark angels symbology just doesn't work at all, so are there any places to get black/etc versions? I'd take any 'sword and wing/wings' setup really that I can get in bulk.

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u/Uratoh — 11 days ago
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Custom chapter, debating exact markings/etc going forward

So I developed an obsession with the Polish Hussars (I blame Sabaton), and set out to make my own chapter based on them, calling them the Brothers Hussar. I decided to go with White Scars successors, aiming for a mixed force of jump packs and bikes primarily, and I got a couple models done/effectively done already:

https://imgur.com/a/wugA2jB

So I was starting up a bunch of basic intercessors because they're what I have around to paint at the moment, and realized I haven't gotten much of the chapter's markings down besides the basics, IE the basic armor being a royal burgundy, with torso and shoulder pads steel, to represent the breastplate and shoulder pads the hussars wore. I'm not actually sure what helmet coloration or even squad markings I'm going to be putting on things, and I should probably figure out a chapter symbol.

Also if anyone happens to know a good source for the hussar feather backpacks I'm open to it, the not-khan is using Puppetswar, which would be great but it was a freak occurance I got them without international shipping, which is insane @_@.As a unique character he can get away with having unique banners if I need to swap to a different source. I'm also thinking I should look into getting a bunch of ravenwing bike banners for Outriders since they're similar, but I'm not sure if I should actually invest in bikes at the moment since we have the new kit incoming.

u/Uratoh — 13 days ago

[H] Jank Lot Orks Custodes GSC Imp Fists Necrons [W] Paypal/Space Marines Ravenwing Banners/Nurgle/Tyranids [Loc] Virginia

https://imgur.com/a/Qk4VPrU

So that title is a bit of a mouthful, I've basically been 'trying out' painting a fair number of armies, I paint for fun, low chance of ever playing, so I've gotten things that just couldn't grab my interest. The aftermath of this is a bunch of small clusters of armies that couldn't grab me that take up a very large amount of space that I'd really like to free up above all else, so I'm just looking to get rid of it as a lot, it'd take something pretty compelling to get me to break sections off. With the exception of the Imperial Fists, everything else comes with the sprues and surplus bitz that I could turn up, which SHOULD be everything, but I can't 100% guarantee any random bitz will be around, though I can give it a look if people ask. What we have here is pretty much 'what once was,' so here we go...

Genestealer Cults:
Old combat patrol
(Goliath Rockgrinder, 5x Aberrants, 5x Neophyte Hybrids, 10x Neophyte Hybrids [the other 10 are unaccounted for], Magus)
Atlan Jackal
Achillies Ridgerunner
Abominant

Imperial Fists:
Vindicator
Tor Garadon
Techmarine in Gravis Armor (converted from Iron Father Feirros, was part of a planned 'all gravis' ascetic, would have been fielded as a normal techpriest)
Ironclad Dreadnought
Five marines in various models of gravis armor for test painting, I cannot find the backpack for the gravis captain, several lack heads
One Centurion with twin linked lascannons

Necrons:
Cryptek
5x Lychguard

Orks:
Kill Rig
3x Deffkoptas (missing one base)
Deff Dread
Warboss in Mega Armor
Beastboss on Squigosaur
Boomdakka Snazzwagon
10x Kommandoz
10x Beast Snagga Boyz
10x Boyz (monopose type)
5x Burna Boyz
Burna/Loota Boyz sealed box
Broken pieces of a finecast weirdboy. May he rest in...pieces.

Adeptus Custodes (Original purchased items):
5x Custodian Wardens
5x Custodian Guard
Sagittarium Custodians upgrade kit
Sisters of Silence Prosecutor Squad
Contemptor-Achillus Dreadnought (resin, mostly magnetized weapons)
3x Vertus Praetors
3x Allarus Custodians
Trajann Valores (missing head)

There's also a couple mostly Eldar Shroud Runners on sprues.

Unless I noted otherwise, I *THINK* these things are complete, between the sprues, partially assembled and painted models, and loose bits. If you want bases, just let me know how many you'd like and I'll scrounge them up and include em, especially on the Ork side.

Wants: Most any Nurgle daemon/death guard stuff, similar for tyranids, both going for their 'modern' ascetic rather than older takes, I'm also working on a custom space marine chapter, which needs the ravenwing bike banners in large quantities, as well as the horus heresy chainsword/sabres and power sword/sabres from the horus heresy melee upgrade kit, or any of the white scars sabres, modelwise they're primaris with a focus on assault, outriders, etc so that general category. Also obviously paypal is an option, though I'd have to think on exactly how much I want for it...I know I've messed a bunch of it up, but I also know how much it used to cost >_<

Deliverywise if a meet up is possible it would save us both a lot of hassle due to how big this is, I can ship it but it's not going to be cheap.

u/Uratoh — 2 months ago

How to request a specific day off in advance?

I use it so rarely I forgot where exactly I request a specific day off, I got a family birthday notification so I need to put that in.

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u/Uratoh — 3 months ago

Multi order picking going live at my store next month, anything to be aware of?

So I read the little blurb on it, signed off, I figure I'll come here to ask if any pickers have this in place already and if so if there's any weird quirks of the system that would be helpful to be aware of before it goes live here.

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u/Uratoh — 3 months ago

Whoever entered this into the system knew exactly what they were doing.

I facepalm briefly every time this comes up. It's probably actually a system error...but still. the brand is 'Richard'.

u/Uratoh — 3 months ago