Ferozoica Manufactorum... Zoica Rises! (Sabbat world chaos forces)

[Skrall]

Nearly a year has passed since i began Project Zoica. Lots of miniatures have passed through my hands and into other armies... but zoica has remained. The foul corruption has finaly resurfaced itself. About six weeks ago I began an effort to lose around 100-140lbs. This week i'm on a juicing fast in order to reset my pallet away from crappy foods, and it's working. So far i've lost 16lbs since starting the new regime, but as i'm in day 3 of the current juicing fast it feels like withdrawal. It's pretty nasty feeling the addiction to food, so what i'm doing feels like it might have good long term affects on my diet.

Anywho, the first tank I made has been painted;

http://i.imgur.com/Gl0VQS4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WIpYqNG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/0qxfSQr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KPv8Hyu.jpg

Before i show the group shot, this is my army list for the next few games;




HQ;
Command Tank, leman russ vanquisher, beast hunter shells, extra armour, heavy bolters, Artificer hull,
235pts

Elite;

Troops;
Leman Russ
150pts
Leman Russ
150pts
Leman Russ Executioner heavy bolters
210pts
Thunderer
140pts
Thunder
140pts

Fast Attack;
Vulture gunship, Twin-linked punisher cannon
155pts

Heavy Support;

Lord of War;
Praetor Armoured Assault Launcher, 2x lascannon
320pts

total; 1500pts


Because this army list was put together last night i've had to go scrumping for units. There's a few short term proxies... a paper thunderer and a vulture made of out valkyrie with hades autocannons magnetised on, but it'll do the job until i can buy the missing models.

http://i.imgur.com/cstBJnQ.jpg

This should be a fun list to play, not least of all because screw scoring!

-skrall

[Darren Richardson]

http://i.imgur.com/Gl0VQS4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WIpYqNG.jpg
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http://i.imgur.com/KPv8Hyu.jpg

Wow great work on this tanks Skrall, great work.

Glad you have decided to lose wieght, being overwieght is not good for you, as I found out last year thanks to a Sliding Haitias Hernia, since the secondry symptoms started (which is why I even went to the doctors in the first place, thus finding the hernia) I have slowly lost wieght, at the start of 2013 I wieghed about 120 (about 19 stone)+, now I'm down to around the 95 mark, still some way to go though....

Just be careful of the diet your on, I've heard mixed things about those kinds of diets.

[Skrall]

Wow great work on this tanks Skrall, great work.

Glad you have decided to lose wieght, being overwieght is not good for you, as I found out last year thanks to a Sliding Haitias Hernia, since the secondry symptoms started (which is why I even went to the doctors in the first place, thus finding the hernia) I have slowly lost wieght, at the start of 2013 I wieghed about 120 (about 19 stone)+, now I'm down to around the 95 mark, still some way to go though....

Just be careful of the diet your on, I've heard mixed things about those kinds of diets.

it's working for me, but i only plan to be on it as a kick starter for a real life change. Slow changes have been happening since around about new year, but i'm ramping it up each month.

Anyway, Project Zoica continues today. I've continued to build up the first thunderer, built up the other two tanks with small details that will improve them and found a 4th hull. If i can find a spare turret it shall become a leman russ, otherwise it may well turn into a second thunderer.

http://i.imgur.com/oMC9Zar.jpg

-skrall

[Lord Commissar Wolf]

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440253a&prodId=prod80003a

This should give you MOST of the parts for an old Ryza turret, minus the mounting bracket.

[vigbrand]

Wow!! I read the Gaunt's Ghost story about the War and how finally St. Sabbat helped cleanse the world of Foul Chaos and the Hive ruins once called Zoica! This tank looks absolutely great. Now you need Gaunt and/or St Sabbat with power swords to chop it into little chaos pieces =)!! The Emperor Protects!

[IamtheGodComplex]

I like the Vulture as Vendetta w/ Hades Autocannons. I'd encourage you to convert a vendetta like that, instead of getting the actual vulture model. Maybe add some side thrusters on the fuselage for the whole Vector-Dancer vibe.

[Captain Bubonicus]

I love it! I giggled a little at the thunder hammer, though...

"Drive me closer, so I can WALLOP IT WITH MY HAMMER!"

[SecondJames]

That is a really impressive tank. I can recognize most of the parts, but where did you get the main turret guns and the bay the hull HB is mounted in?

[Skrall]

That is a really impressive tank. I can recognize most of the parts, but where did you get the main turret guns and the bay the hull HB is mounted in?
main turret is FW, the drawn back hull is scratch build around the panel that mounts a heavy bolter on the standard russ.

Thanks for all the kind comments guys! I'm pushing on even on my birthday;

http://i.imgur.com/Tpovzpm.jpg

3 tanks with all the basics done, now i can spend the day painting them up to standard. that, or finish building the last two.

Zoica rises!

-skrall

[Skrall]

So its time for the next two painted models to show up. Not often i say this, but i'm quite proud of them. I love the dull dusty and gritty effects that i've achieved. I've updated the AT70 to bring it into line with the next two, the Executioner and thunderer. Overall i'm happy with the result;

http://i.imgur.com/rL2FJhw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/I4Ojh6l.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/P0AfWRu.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/KRndN70.jpg

[Skrall]

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over all, this could be a pretty interesting tank army.

-skrall

[Darren Richardson]

wow your work on your tanks is beautiful, really love them...

And a happy belated Birthday:)

[Skrall]

wow your work on your tanks is beautiful, really love them...

And a happy belated Birthday:)

thank you sir! and I hope the next few will add to the overall quality.

Time for todays update. All of the tanks are now built, my vulture is on the way from forgeworld and Gaur himself has dispatched 25 members of his 'blood pact' to re-enforce the Zoican armoured forces. So time for some photo's, the army is now in a position for me to whittle away the evening trying to complete three more russes.

http://i.imgur.com/9wOvHQ9.jpg

-skrall

[Skrall]

Time for the event for this evening. To my own surprise i've managed to get four more tanks done today and so i've got most of my army completed. I've dropped the praetor for the short term in favour of a hellhound and avenger fighter.

http://i.imgur.com/ramqhBX.jpg
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I've got some touch ups to do, as well as when i next take photo's remembering to move the hellhounds barrel so its not slanted. Ahhh the joys of not looking close enough when taking pictures. Still, i'm happy with the progress. Next up, asides from said touch ups, is the avenger and if it arrives in time the Vulture.

-skrall

[Darren Richardson]

great looking tanks their Skrall, shame your on the side of the heritics :)

looking forward to more shots latter...

[Skrall]

Right you louzy lot, the zoican forces have come to liberate your world from the cruel tyranny of the Emperor. With them is the famous liberator and world saver Etogaur Nhzerek, who has been attached to to ensure the safety of the....

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!


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I've been painting like a man possesed for an apoc next weekend. In 3 days i have painted approximately 1500-2000pts of chaos armour. You'll be seeing it in a family photo in the next few days. Let us just leave it with the blood pact tank...

-skrall

[Skrall]

So i wasn't kidding when i said i was working on painting all of my tanks. In 5 days i've painted 10 tanks (including the blood pact one) to a complete or near complete standard. With the exception of the last minute turret change on the final image i've got it all to a standard i'm happy with for now ready for saturday. So sit back, get a drink and enjoy a lovely scroll through the image-fest.

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[Skrall]

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Did we enjoy that...? Just one turret left before saturday. Zoica rises!

-skrall

[Skrall]

Zoica returns....

http://i.imgur.com/JiLolAx.gif

-skrall

[interrogator_chaplain]

Oh good gravy... MORE PICS!!!