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Author Topic: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.  (Read 4075 times)

Offline Pictors Studio

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2017, 10:37:15 PM »
Lowe's has these project panels, they are 2x2' insulation foam pieces.  I used a saw to cut the grooves in it and then an box cutter to cut out the holes.  I still need to put straws and guitar strings in to make the piles and stuff. 

Did you see the pics of it in action from a few weeks ago? 

Offline AWu

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2017, 11:38:23 PM »
I missed that.

Are those panels made from XPS ?

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #17 on: June 13, 2017, 12:14:30 AM »
Yes they are if I understand what that is.  We call it insulation foam, the pink and blue stuff. 

Here are pics:

http://imgur.com/a/tFDU5

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #18 on: June 13, 2017, 09:05:59 AM »
Extruded not expanded styrene.

Offline AWu

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #19 on: June 13, 2017, 02:29:02 PM »
Thats the problem with translating brand and common names of the hobby product from English speaking world to mine :P
Thats why i prefer chemical names of the compounds.

If I got this right pinkfoam is XPS. Color itself is producer dependant and not an innate quality of the material itself.

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #20 on: June 13, 2017, 06:05:53 PM »
Chemical names would not help, both are Poly(1-phenylethene).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polystyrene


Offline AWu

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #21 on: June 13, 2017, 08:04:24 PM »
But the proces of expansion and extruding is quite distinct.

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #22 on: June 13, 2017, 08:44:38 PM »
But the proces of expansion and extruding is quite distinct.
It is, expanded polystyrene (EPS) and extruded polystyrene (XPS).

Styrofoam is a fun exception, as a trademark it is XPS, but in common North American it is the EPS you make cups out of.

Offline AWu

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #23 on: June 13, 2017, 09:32:23 PM »
EPS is stuff all blocks around were thermally isolated, it was everywhere, but XPS is much more difficult to get and its much more interesting as modeling material.

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #24 on: June 18, 2017, 06:46:16 AM »
Here are the last of the Cultists I have here, the Acolytes:



10 of these guys were already done.  I just finished up the last 7 over the last few days.

This is the stuff from the DW:O boxed set plus one box of Acoylte Hybrids.  I put them together with all the heavy mining tool options so I had them all but because of how many I have I can only use three out of the four of them.  Right now they are set up for pictures with two squads of 8 but I suppose they will have to be fielded as a squad of 10 and a squad of 5 or one squad of 15.

Eventually I suppose I'll get another box to round them out to 20. 



The rest of the pictures are here:

http://imgur.com/a/UsbAS

Hopefully these guys will be going into battle against my brand new Primaris Space Marine force tomorrow.  I have four of those guys done and another 4 nearly finished. 

Offline Ultravanillasmurf

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #25 on: June 18, 2017, 06:37:46 PM »
Very good.

Offline AWu

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #26 on: June 18, 2017, 07:55:59 PM »
Agree.. And noticeably evil (which is a thing a lot of these model seen on the net miss completely under the paint!)

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #27 on: June 24, 2017, 08:20:24 PM »
Here they are in their second action against Ultramarines in 8th edition.














Offline Wachaza

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #28 on: June 24, 2017, 11:51:29 PM »
Nice. Love your terrain. The Primaris boys look proper bulky there.

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Re: The Cult, Genestealer, that is.
« Reply #29 on: June 25, 2017, 01:27:36 PM »
They do look appropriately large don't they.  They look like they could really take the fight to those cultists without much problem.  The Aberrants looked a match for them as did the Acolytes, more or less, but it was great how it worked out in game with the marines pretty much taking on a bunch of GCS guys and smacking them around pretty well. 

 

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