So its now too late for them to do anything about it - so I present to thee

[Defenestratus]

Tonight we deploy for a weekend of 30,000 pts of apocapalooza!

My buddies are in the car and on their way down from Savannah and will arrive sometime around 7ish. There's nothing they can do now about preparing for the surprise I am about to give them.

Last time we played, my superheavies consisted of a Phantom titan, a armorcast "scorpion" (actually called a tempest), a puny Revenant titan, and a vampire super heavy flier. Pathetic, I know.

I underwent an effort to bolster my offensive capabilities over the course of the past year and a half of so - and have done so secretly so that they couldn't plan for it like they do every game. You see, the guy I play against, Triumphus here on the BoLS forums, has an 6000pt Imperator Titan, two warlord titans, and a reaver titan in addition to a considerable CSM daemon force. His colleague in crime, Mountaincycle667 has a huge daemon and CSM list including the FW lord of change greater daemon.

Before you go thinking "what an *******, why didn't you tell him about this stuff?" Well its all part of the fun of our Apoc games - where we drop a bunch of new toys on each other that we've kept under the rug. For this game, Triumphus has added the two warlords after selling his warhound titans on Ebay.

Anyways,

The following is what I've added to my Eldar superheavy force:
5 Lynx w/Puslars
2 Scorpions
2 Cobras
1 Phantom titan

So here's the WIP I guess you guys want to see - the titan has been done for about a year. Its arms are completely magnetized so he can be transported easily and be swapped out for other guns.

Can't get a FW model without some good ole BAD PARTS.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xX1zCJ-9R-w/T-nOPyOAh-I/AAAAAAAAWW0/EAWxF85bGrk/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20120626_105840.jpg
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-VLZ8aCDPotU/T-nPomieHxI/AAAAAAAAWXs/BY3feBManZo/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120626_110448.jpg

Base is a wooden platter that I put upside down and put slate on
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-s4k34MeT5UM/T-r7L6HxN5I/AAAAAAAAWZs/kfo6KRJChkc/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20120627_082232.jpg

[Defenestratus]

Base with slate:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z-CNtGFiD-A/T_V-O6UmiJI/AAAAAAAAWz0/joL_jEdiqYQ/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120705_074348.jpg

Can't have a titan without a football (as Eldargal put it when I showed it to her). Yes .. yes I took a heatgun to a land raider:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Q5c80KWnsXQ/T_YpfWJW7sI/AAAAAAAAW1Y/-6vNF3-_ilU/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20120705_195517.jpg

[ElectricPaladin]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xX1zCJ-9R-w/T-nOPyOAh-I/AAAAAAAAWW0/EAWxF85bGrk/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20120626_105840.jpg

Don't feel bad, bro. It happens to every man at least once.

[ElectricPaladin]

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Q5c80KWnsXQ/T_YpfWJW7sI/AAAAAAAAW1Y/-6vNF3-_ilU/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20120705_195517.jpg

Sweet mother of lizards, you have way more disposable income than I do. If I had a spare landraider I'd love it and cherish it and breed it with my existing land raider to make baby land raiders.

Don't tell me it doesn't work that way. I have dreams, damnit!

[Defenestratus]

There is over three feet (closer to 42") of 7/32" brass rod holding the thing together. These are actually the only paperclip pins in the whole model. The foot is like 8 pieces by itself. Everything is glued with devcon 2 part epoxy.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J8UtriZlz2g/T_nbIkwBN_I/AAAAAAAAW70/KRXgj9YgZsM/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120708_150954.jpg

Woo hoo! Feet are together.. now to plan how to pose this bad boy... (ok thats a lie, I knew exactly how to pose it)
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-uKZg_yR0eZU/T_n3zTYS0GI/AAAAAAAAW8M/Ib_MQuQyvEY/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20120708_171231.jpg

Some of the brass rod involved. Anyone putting these things together, you MUST use 2 part epoxy and rods. Otherwise you're just going to end up breaking it over and over again.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wd6DbWrQr4Q/T_t9dNYzyyI/AAAAAAAAW9Y/AFFe6Cn9EKk/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120709_205453.jpg

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More WIPs

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-s3sUhvxJ8GM/T_wkcF_TWkI/AAAAAAAAW-I/QWXG9Mt7Mm0/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120710_084722.jpg

An important aspect of pinning is dual-axis ... its especially important for the hip pieces that take a lot of torque loads from the whole upper body.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S1JgvdXOcWI/T_xtdaQZlJI/AAAAAAAAW-o/KvYC636k6B4/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120710_135900.jpg

Yes - ... yes he's using the land raider as a football.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-PJ4ukzXxEZ0/T_yRaTA7rcI/AAAAAAAAW_Q/EF3VXbhyKzA/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20120710_163213.jpg

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Lower body assembled and BOLTED to the base through the slate and wood.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pCj1wfMTf1Q/T_2G6cledUI/AAAAAAAAXAc/olZBKfGfFNE/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120711_095940.jpg

Torso and wings on.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-hpdBNMRw88w/T_-KEO_JvjI/AAAAAAAAXBc/wKZ-3kiy61w/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120712_223747.jpg

Cultist-eye view:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1rCYRcNCIL8/T_-KQi2RFQI/AAAAAAAAXB0/BAkiN-NMR-g/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120712_223845.jpg

[Defenestratus]

Had to start thinking about how I was going to mount the guns.

In the gun/forearm recess I drilled holes for a single pin that goes through the whole forearm and then keeps the gun attached to the arm with beefy magnets. Works really well.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7EelU0HhfMs/UBSedGG9pYI/AAAAAAAAYQk/ppuOPOeDjb4/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120728_222230.jpg

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-GH4XYP4d12w/UBSesvI1ZrI/AAAAAAAAYQs/tfw_Jqdxttc/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120728_222238.jpg

You can see the magnets on the end of the arms. They're actually recessed into the elbow pieces and the pins from the forearm actually connect to a solid rod that goes through the torso and through both arms. One solid "shoulderblade" rod holds it all together. After talking to the FW designer of the model, he says that the elbows are the most common source of failure. Not on mine.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-07_6lU_2V1k/UBVFfYvqXgI/AAAAAAAAYSo/4g6aiax8OuU/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120729_101504.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-R1bje1rj4eo/UBSe4nMEWNI/AAAAAAAAYQ8/JYGHnL2ERzk/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120728_222420.jpg

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Sense of scale:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-NuPpNGTB91M/UCAYkUNDe2I/AAAAAAAAZDo/Wa-LGBVr3FY/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120806_151822.jpg

Painting began... most of it was airbrushed. I'm not a great painter but I put a lot of time into this guy.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7wIYv9FPzUM/UCjqO0D8ZAI/AAAAAAAAZPQ/XzL8G26PbPU/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120813_075047.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_PidUqDTk6E/UDbfHbrWQZI/AAAAAAAAZrE/MkPWec5i1JQ/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20120823_215520.jpg


At this point, this happened to me, and I had to basically stop:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-JUGLDE7oMdI/UEX5gB92qrI/AAAAAAAAaLc/FDbcjrJnpMU/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120904_085134.jpg

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When fuzzyball took less attention, I got back to it.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-RIk4Q-D2Mvc/UJV7rAuwN_I/AAAAAAAAcuI/sbpcbfj5GnU/w582-h776-no/IMG_20121103_161536.jpg

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ymJPAGcHl84/UJV7osDwakI/AAAAAAAAct8/M8pQ5lrGJ18/w582-h776-no/IMG_20121103_161528.jpg

Completed. Yes the Land raider is painted in Triumphus' Chaos war band colors :P

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-XoAxfoXl15I/UKOl2UGzJaI/AAAAAAAAdIc/aFvMeDovdYo/w582-h776-no/IMG_20121114_090708.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-X1pmW_W0JnM/UKOmCyVN-OI/AAAAAAAAdIo/dYCNjEh0Ykg/w582-h776-no/IMG_20121114_090720.jpg

[Defenestratus]

Time for the Lynx! They're painted like the rest of my armored Eldar corsair scheme. ALL airbrush on these guys .. basically taught myself how to do it on these models.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Iqu3AiFUTmU/UOsDrmUi3YI/AAAAAAAAf4w/Euh_uqaDPuM/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20130107_121828.jpg

Bases for the Lynx. The top of the rod has a ring magnet on the top that keeps the model on the peg.
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-EJuOsJMpdZY/UQcmnZs9aWI/AAAAAAAAgNc/nryyfdvUHRE/w1035-h776-no/13+-+1

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At this point I ordered a cobra because, well I had wanted one for a while and why not. We can't take it with us right?

Imagine my outrage when it arrived broken and without its main cannon piece!
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-A1vi2GheWYE/UOIL-C0EAFI/AAAAAAAAe3Q/d39FeykLqsc/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20121231_170313.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7FRdAD4jN-k/UOIL7jdeWRI/AAAAAAAAe-U/RhwcanaEe_A/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20121231_170305.jpg
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6hDjjyFReso/UOMl3I4TotI/AAAAAAAAe8A/kj5F702ihcQ/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20130101_130620.jpg

So I sent FW the above pictures and said that they'd be shipping out "A replacement" ... imagine my utter glee when it was an entire COMPLETE Cobra!!! WOOT!

[Defenestratus]

So all I needed to do is fix the relatively minor issues with the bad cobra and I'd have TWO cobras for the price of one! Thats great!

First attempt was not so great:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-akGLmJ8qKrw/UPr24OLL6mI/AAAAAAAAfyo/gMkxcAq3r0s/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20130119_144020.jpg

(Yes that's resin dust and my pajamas!)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sEIf1A0yICs/UP1mmLHrnaI/AAAAAAAAf_M/p0CGy9EQ16E/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20130121_110127.jpg

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After several attempts, I finally FINALLY got one that was serviceable. (Mind you by this point I had spent so much on casting materials, I could have just BOUGHT the second Cobra!)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1nXMdvXVmtg/UQ6GpQuVo3I/AAAAAAAAgcg/d1H6s_ndwdI/w582-h776-no/IMG_20130203_104627.jpg

Painted:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-6RbrMlbfbBg/URrbFJBlF5I/AAAAAAAAg_o/dKz_FUSjcpM/w582-h776-no/IMG_20130212_191108.jpg

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The whole superheavy family now:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LG2ZUDcCBw4/UUPpOjQbLXI/AAAAAAAAhdo/Vzbat3rSpTk/w1035-h776-no/IMG_20130315_233810.jpg

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The wife was NOT pleased when she got home:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-RAMm3cYX74o/UUPbjmwRvMI/AAAAAAAAheY/pOdQPLqofYQ/w1157-h776-no/PANO_20130315_223923.jpg

THE END.

[Tyrendian]

way too much disposable income... and waaay too much awesome :-)
I'm the only one among my bunch with a Titan (Revenant, what you called "puny" I believe...), and tomorrow I'm gonna try it out for the first time *yay*. Should be interesting - one side has a Titan and an old codex, the other side has no Titan but a brand spankin' new Space Commies 'dex :)

[Wolfshade]

Awesome, love the colour scheme.

[Denzark]

The wife was NOT pleased when she got home:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-RAMm3cYX74o/UUPbjmwRvMI/AAAAAAAAheY/pOdQPLqofYQ/w1157-h776-no/PANO_20130315_223923.jpg

THE END.


Why is there 3 open bottles of wine on the side? Get them down you Zulu Warrior, you're triple parked!

[ElectricPaladin]

Mind you by this point I had spent so much on casting materials, I could have just BOUGHT the second Cobra!

No. I get it. It's the principal of the thing.

[GrauGeist]

After several attempts, I finally FINALLY got one that was serviceable. (Mind you by this point I had spent so much on casting materials, I could have just BOUGHT the second Cobra!)

I suspect the real loss for isn't the cost of the kit, but the time wasted on failed attempts. Yes, some stuff is cheapr, but what's your time worth? I look at that, too.

[Cherub]

First off you have an amazing looking force. I would love to play against that with my guard, too bad you live about as far away on the continent as you can get from me lol. (west coast of canada for me)

I understand the need to suprise regular apoc opponents lol We do the same thing. Good luck on crushing your opponents and bringing tears to their eyes.

[Brakkart]

That is a really nice looking Titan and an equally impressive army to go with it. Here's hoping it fights as well as it looks! Ohh and that is the cutest puppy ever, I can certainly see why it would distract you.

[White Tiger88]

Thats one big titan........ Not to mention massive Eldar force, it would seem Slaanesh needs to invest in some Chaotic Possession of Super Heavies to take you on...... ;)

[sangrail777]

Really nice, your color scheme is awesome!

[Phototoxin]

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pCj1wfMTf1Q/T_2G6cledUI/AAAAAAAAXAc/olZBKfGfFNE/w582-h776-no/IMG_20120711_095940.jpg

DAT ***

Loving it.

[Defenestratus]

Thanks guys. The game is going better than I thought. Both cobras died in the first turn. 5+ invulnerable saves are pathetic when your opponents have 37 strength d shots a turn. The other team had a surprise of their own... all four forgeworld greater demons who are going to win them the game. Both phantoms are about to get charged ...one by ang'grath and one by the tzeench one.

did take out a warlord and a reaver in one turn.

[Wrath of Azkaellon]

Well don't give up yet! Wonderful looking force by the way. :)

[Defenestratus]

FYI, today's Wargame gallery pic of the day came from our game this past weekend.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PH4ow0Z-5SQ/UZmwhy6PbsI/AAAAAAAAXvw/CM5DQiioi5Q/s1600/DP-420-thaddeus-p.jpg

Here's a zoom out on that photo:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ycEbh-kV7vg/UZegE3BK6hI/AAAAAAAAkJ4/YNoxsJJU90s/s912/IMG_20130518_113427.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-65L5OondNog/UZegRPMhMEI/AAAAAAAAkKc/6eLEpuBgdKc/s912/IMG_20130518_113634.jpg

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NYeQX4s5SGM/UZekzhydbgI/AAAAAAAAkMo/Q3TKcEroW2g/s912/IMG_20130518_115550.jpg

[Dragonlv8]

That is crazy. I don't even know what to say. Damn.