Bolt Action Cult of Hastur (Tell me, have you seen the Yellow Sign?)

[Sinewgrab]

Naah, I used to have a Nurgle Army - I am much more prone to Slaanesh in these days. All about the tentacles.

Besides, that yellow tank is my Panzer IV Auf A stand-in.  It was a 1/72 tiger at one time...but it gets double duty as I have a German army I use that is all Bob Murch's Pulp Germans - mostly Zeppelin Troopers I buy as Fallshirmjaegers or Engineers.

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And, if you look close, you can see I made some haystacks.



When I get the materials, I am certainly making more.

And the last additions to my Cult (until I get my Italian tank destroyers)

Some Sorceresses - they are some Warmachine models, but damned if I remember what.  I may go find the other bad guy girls I had (Satyxes?) and paint them in yellow and gold too, just for crazies sake.



And my Blessed - those who lead our Cult due to their being touched of the Gods.  Formerly known as Mind Flayers.



And my command tank - an L6/40.  I threw a Cultist reading from the King in Yellow up top.




I apologize for the photo quality - my other camera gave up the ghost, and now I am trying to learn how to use my phone's camera.  It takes good quality photos, but it reacts differently to light than the old camera did.

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So, I usually use a Partisan list when I build this army - and they get bombs.  Warlord suggest using a 20mm token for them. Well, pshaw to that!

I may have a 20mm base under them, but we made some bombs!  I figured that ww2 scratchbuilt bombs may very well be a collection of explosives stacked together in some non-descript display...with a radio antenna to make it go boom!  I added a dab of yellow to all of them just so I could find the damned things on the playing field.






Bring me the boom!

[wolivant]

Brilliant... obviously the work of a madman ;o)

Wolt

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You won't insult me with that comment, sir! 

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And some houses I painted for our Normandy and Market Garden Campaigns.  I like the Sarissa houses, but I had to change how I approach building painting due to the detail not being as deep.  These are not the best pieces, but I think they will do.  They actually belong to a friend, and were painted on commission.

[warrenpeace]

Sinewgrab, you display a disturbingly insane level of creativity. It would have never occurred to me to use Pulp cultists as a sort of partizan army for wierd WW2. Truly amazing, fantastic, and drool worthy work you have done.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

Very good. I wish I had seen this thread earlier.

I bet your opponent is surprised when the L6/40 is revealed to have magical Super Heavy armour?

Nice tokens, you could​ also go all mystical symbol (media subject to your own imagination) for that "Have you seen the yellow sign" experience.

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Warren - thanks!  It was an inspired moment, I think.

UVS - Actually, I did a game recently where my opponent and I each could "proxy" a model we use regularly as one that was not like the model shown, except that it had to be vaguely the same class (no GI as Sherman for example) and we didn't have to reveal it until it was interacted with.  Since the L6-40 is a Recce vehicle in BA, it tends to be out front getting shot at, screaming backwards out of the fight, etc - well, I took it as a Tiger II, whereas my opponent took a Tetrarch as a Cromwell.  That was hilarious, especially explaining it to people who happened by.  The first time we fired at each other, and then realized what was going to likely happen...

And I had the audacity to ask if I could still recce...

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And hey, why not show off my new tank destroyer!

I am very pleased with how the camo came out...

[Dr. The Viking]

What a fun and innovative army you have built.  I am not familiar with bolt action but I think that it looks like great fun.

I recall a guy in my group many years ago that asked everybody to help him paint his orks. The way it worked was that everybody joined him on the Sunday at the club and then he ordered pizza for anyone painting 5 orks or something.  It worked like a charm. And while it probably wouldn't work with pizza for grown men I think the idea of helping the slow painters in a social thing is cool. 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

I recall a guy in my group many years ago that asked everybody to help him paint his orks. The way it worked was that everybody joined him on the Sunday at the club and then he ordered pizza for anyone painting 5 orks or something.  It worked like a charm. And while it probably wouldn't work with pizza for grown men I think the idea of helping the slow painters in a social thing is cool. 

What a nice idea, the only problem is I would starve, I do not think after thirty years I have five painted Orks  ^___^.