Shadows of Orphan VII : 13th. Co/Homebrew

[Meticulous]

Text update: Finished assembling and primed models. Nine Catachan Devils (Gray Slayers) and an eighth Storm Claw. The Devils are mostly basecoated; all the metals have a starter drybrush as well. I had a tenth Devil, but I realized that Gray Slayer squads don't get powerfists and so need to do some modeling to make the fist lok deactivated (torn up/dangling cables, whatnot).

So we're coming along. Terribly sorry about having no pics again, but I'm a lazy sod XD.

The Devils' 'pack leader' is officially the coolest miniature I have, by the way.

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Picture update, finally.



Most of the basecoating is done, after that will follow a catachan green highlight (what else?), and then gubbins. At that point, I'll consider them done and have some fun with my fresh Chaos army box.

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Jeez, when'd I get so bad at taking pictures? I have a few more on my photobucket, but they look like sliced ass. The pictures, I mean. Not the models.

The models are nice.

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Thanks for the words, Hallowed.

Three more pics:




Pack leader. That empty circle where the Khorne mark used to be will be painted with a vine-encrusted Ultramarines symbole (the Devils being a Smurfs successor Chapter).

[Marstfu]

Those look awesome, keep it up!

And YAY for Doomrider.

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Helmet highlighting. I'm going to follow this design for the rest of the armor, too. I was going to do urban camo, but my current scheme for it looks like crap, so I'll stick with green.

I might have to joker this month, if only because I wanna do a good job on these and not rush...but we'll see, eh?

[jasevx]

Very subtle but it works, one to watch!

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Oh god! I just found out that Doghouse did the 'Catachan-heads on Space Marines' schtik five years ago!

I mean, it wasn't the -most- original idea I've ever had, but...still ;_;.

@jasevx: Thanks for the compliment! I've tried to keep the subtlety going with the rests of the highlights, but the helms are still the nicest looking.

Lots of work's been done, but no pics until tomorrow afternoon when (hopefully) they'll be all done.

[Meticulous]

So...looks like there's a Wulfen datasheet now.

Ironically, now they match the possible idea I had for using them even more than they did before.

But I wonder what this means for the rest of the army...oh well. Worse comes to worse, they become standard Wolves and I have to paint up a few more hundred points.

...;_;

[jon23516]

So...looks like there's a Wulfen datasheet now.

Ironically, now they match the possible idea I had for using them even more than they did before.

But I wonder what this means for the rest of the army...oh well. Worse comes to worse, they become standard Wolves and I have to paint up a few more hundred points.

...;_;

In my opinion, the focus of APOC is "screw tournaments, play for fun with the models you own" which also implies "use the codexes the models belong to".

Therefore, in my opinion, this means 13th Company, Lost and the Damned, etc. become valid armies. Don't wait for GW to write a Datasheet for you. What does "official" mean? This is about you and me bringing our models together to play a fun game.

Done deal.

"Scratch-built models and Creating your own Datasheets" --Apocalypse book, pages 62-63. This tells me all I need to know.

Enjoy,
Jon

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Well, I meant 'what does this mean for normal games?'

I'm not worried so much about casual games with friends. Mainly it's rules-lawyer jerks in pick-up games I'm concerned about. I don't plan on entering any tournaments with this army, so that's a moot point...

Update: Got my Long Fangs assembled, biker finished, and am working on some fill-out models for my other squads. If I get everything I have painted it'll be at least another 600 points.

[Neknoh]

Looking gooooood, real good.

My main gripe would be that the armour (chainmail loincloth and additional armourplates) of the powerfist wolfie doesn't really fit with the rest of them, I am quite sure you could manage to bring him into the line (lest you have allready but failed to take pics of ) with the rest of the models

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He's only half-done; by finish he'll be more in line. At least, I hope!

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There are other pics, but they're crap. I'll work on better ones tomorrow. Technically they're done. Technically. But one flamer's gone AWOL and glue got over the other flamer guy's knees, so I'll have to shave/paint those up again.

They, like in every other pic, look about five times better in real life.

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Lots of pics incoming. Catachan Devils, full army shot, and Long Fangs.

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There's one Long Fang not pictured, but he's boring. His shoulder pad won't be worth seeing until I trim up the black.

I figured that each 13th Co. unit will have looted armor from a Chaos legion that kinda matches it's role; hence, Iron Warrior armor on my Long Fangs. The Pack leader as some Emperor's Children armor because a) he's the boss and b) it looks nice.

The IW armor is just slapped on brown with a chainmail drybrush. I'm pondering giving the helms a very light black wash to make the lines more noticeable again, but not enough to could the brown. When I try it there'll be pics.

C&C appreciated!

[jon23516]

Perhaps it is "old news" but I do like how you used the Catachan heads for your Devils.

Jon

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Glad you like them! Ah, good old Catachan heads. So useful.

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Does this scheme look sorta wolf-like to anyone else?



I did the mouthpeice on a Long Fang before painting the rest of the head, and noted that it looked awfully similar to a wolf's head somehow. I figure hey, if others notice that then it may be worth keeping. Thoughts?

[joemayhem]

I love the third guy on your first post!