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Post by mottdon on Dec 28, 2015 15:33:23 GMT
Christmas was a success! The kids reactions to their first Christmas were way better than we expected! Dorothy Molly Georgie Merril I'm very proud of these kids and just how far they've come and the obstacles they have beaten!
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Post by dannytee on Dec 28, 2015 22:29:43 GMT
I like the hobbits and I'm glad to hear the kids had a good Christmas. A few weeks ago I was wrapping up a present for my 3 month old and I said to my wife, "Wait a minute, why are we even wrapping this if it is just going to be you or I who opens it". She insisted that I wrap it up anyway and just like you said Christmas was more enjoyable for the kido then I would have expected.
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Post by mottdon on Dec 28, 2015 22:41:42 GMT
Lol, isn't that awesome?!? Even kids like to tear wrapping paper!
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Post by grandmasterwang on Jan 7, 2016 5:25:34 GMT
Amazing Empire army. The Luminark is superb and it's interesting seeing the demigryphs next to the Thunderwolves which look ace. Do you know how many points that is in total? Ridiculous army
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Post by mottdon on Jan 7, 2016 15:53:53 GMT
The Empire was my first army. I bought a 6th edition starter box years ago (when it was current) but never put it together or did anything with it because I was starting to go back to college. I was in Architecture where everyday was making models or plans in my studio classes. After I graduated, that all stopped. I felt a real itch to make something after having worked that way for 5 years. I had just gotten married and was moving all of my stuff from storage at my parents house when I found the starter box in a closet, unopened. I dove into it! Picking up with the Empire, I pushed and collected as much as I possibly could. I also discovered a LGS not even a mile from my house, so that even fueled my passion even further! We were at the very beginning of 8th edition now (I think the O&G book had just come out) and it wasn't very long after that the Empire book came out as well.
That's a little of my history. But to answer your question, it's probably somewhere around 10,000 points, depending on how you kit out characters and units. It really could be much more than that, but it is limited by the 25% minimum core. I only have so many of those guys.
Currently (fully kitted): 17 Knights of the White Wolf - 480 12 Knights Panther - 294 40 Swordsmen - 310 40 Halberdiers - 270 40 Militia - 270 30 Spearmen - 210 36 Handgunners (usually taken in 3 groups of 12) - 414 10 Archers - 100 Total: 2348
That makes 25% of nearly a 9400 pt force. I could add in filler pieces or call other units like my Reiksguard, a core unit to round out some of those numbers, but that's the base number of actual models I have. I'm working on other armies at the moment so I'm not really motivated to add more.
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Post by mottdon on Mar 30, 2017 13:58:19 GMT
My Empire ready for transport. Plus a few HE and an Aracknarok.
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Post by mottdon on Jul 21, 2017 14:31:56 GMT
Well she came in yesterday! Not as well packaged as I would've hoped (they had just stuffed wadded up notebook paper around it!), but I should be able to fix most of it. He left army was off and floating in the box and the scythe was snapped in two. There are a couple of broken spikes as well. The broken scythe is my biggest concern. I also need to put it on a better, appropriate sized base.
Elspeth is on there quite solidly, so I'm not going to try and remove her so that I can magnetize her and get double use from the Carmine as a mount for the Sisters of Twilight as well.
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Post by mottdon on Jul 21, 2017 18:12:39 GMT
I took a pic of the broken scythe. Unfortunately, the place where it broke is too small to pin at that point. Hopefully I can get something to hold though.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 21:48:26 GMT
have you considered filing away the old one (keep the hand) and replacing it with some brass rod? You can keep the scythe blade too. Some greenstuff work for the detail and boom, you're done.
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Post by mottdon on Jul 24, 2017 14:12:14 GMT
Well, I managed to Superglue it back together and I've been letting it set up for around 24 hours. We'll see how it does when I start painting on her. Hopefully nothing else will need to happen. If it doesn't hold, I'll go to using Green Stuff and superglue.
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Post by mottdon on Jul 25, 2017 16:07:38 GMT
I got my Gore Gruntaz in and assembled. I put them on a few Demigryph bases. I thought that those looked like the right size to use. I'll paint these guys up and start play-testing them. I'll probably post them and how they do in the Orc and Goblin thread Kevin started where their rules are explained.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2017 16:11:12 GMT
Awesome! They do indeed look perfect on a 50x75.
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Post by mottdon on Jul 25, 2017 18:00:23 GMT
I still have some Green Stuff work to do on them. Hopefully I'll get that done tonight.
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Post by dannytee on Jul 29, 2017 23:59:21 GMT
Not as well packaged as I would've hoped (they had just stuffed wadded up notebook paper around it!), but I should be able to fix most of it. He left army was off and floating in the box and the scythe was snapped in two. There are a couple of broken spikes as well. The broken scythe is my biggest concern. I also need to put it on a better, appropriate sized base.
That is too bad. A while back I won an ebay lot of 20 mixed monstrous infantry and all were metal (all sorts of different stuff including trolls, dragon ogres, kroxigor, rat ogres, etc). They were placed in a cardboard box with nothing else at all. There wasn't a single mini that was intact! However everything that fell apart did so at glued joints so no permanent damage. Anyway, I can relate and feel for you!
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Post by dannytee on Jul 30, 2017 0:00:48 GMT
I got my Gore Gruntaz in and assembled. I put them on a few Demigryph bases. I thought that those looked like the right size to use. Yes, they look like the perfect base size to me.
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