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neil101

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First post : always being an admirer of the talents in this forum particularly the scenery builders.. I thought now was a good time to start my own Necromunda adventure with a veriatus gang based within the sumbottom of the palatine Hive. A little bit of scenery for setting the mood inspired by John blanche's take on the Hive along with some inspiration form the modeler weirding way and Russian constructivist architecture of the paper architects.

The Knottmenne of the chainwhale

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Welcome to the tribe @neil101 - I have seen plenty of your work on other sites like the Ammobunker, and it is always stunning (the Yggdrasil Ark being one of my favourite terrain setups ever.)

Great first post - the ruins are awesome, and there are some really nice models lurking in it (do I spy a Kharadron Overlord Squat conversion? nice!)

I am going to shut up before I go all fanboy. :D

Edit - now I see you have been a member longer than I have, saying 'welcome' seems a bit daft.
 
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Thanks for the warm welcome..

@ spafe cheers, hopefully i will be able to contribute something this dedicated community.

@Kiblams cheers , trying to motivate myself to paint the other members..

@sump dweller Cheers ! although i have been a member for ages i have always been a lurker on these forums and never posted a blog myself , least i don't think i have ;-) and i have rarely commented so welcome is fitting and appreciated . yep a runtie and a stunty to go along with beastman and ogryn who most likely are grumpy ;-P i imagine they themselves as superior to most other denizens of the hivebottom including sapiens and mutants ! I have a desire to knock up some more hive characters and scenery so hopefully this will just be the start of my hive adventure.
 
@Azzabat all this talk of painting members is getting me excited. ;-P

@Wanderer cheers mate, I kinda want to order a reel of jewelry chain so i can really expand the setting , chainwebs etc..

@axh00 cheers yeah, I too have never built a necromunda board the nearest thing i did was the yggdrassilium but that was in a space hulk and had a slightly more gothic look to it. I have seen one attempt to create the crushed hive type look by weirding way ..i think he also did some really oblique angles for the curse of the alabaster game. I am hoping the re release of munda will see me attempt to build some small oblique pieces that could combine to create a small board, probably based around zone mortalis..

@paul s thanks , they are resin, form the forgeworld mechanicum boards.

@sumpdweller & Tyr13 so that would be runty stunty, grumpy, thumpy and onety. lofty, gilly, catty and hairy and scaly will have to find another gang ;-)

I really like the fact beastmen in 40k were most likey the product of genetic experiments from the dark age of technology.. I Think a group of mutants or even a noble house who has had their DNA encoded with parts of an stc aeon ago during the war with the stone men iron men ? ai , could make for a cool background .. maybe a rival hunted by the van saar and the mechanicum ?
 
Navigators, Longshanks, Pelagers, Felinids, Neanders. I think they might even be mentioned in the BRB for 8th ed?

I gave up on 40K years ago, so I haven't been keeping up with the background. I have neverheard of anything there apart from the Navigators (and I didn't know that they were a separate species that bread true - I thought they were mutations that could come from anywhere.)
 
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Nope you get navigator houses that are a seperate vairiant... although only some of their members are powerful enough to actually be navigators.

There are also afriel strain, and a few others than were in a WD article a while back about using subs as your regiment base.
 
Cheers all !

@RobStrachan Thanks for the warm welcome mate, Its good to come out of the shadows ;-) I always felt a little intimidated by the collective gamer knowledge tbh.. I don't do too well with rules.. i wasn't sure if it was the right place for me. But i have so much love for Necromunda, albeit from a Confrontation point of view, and the overhauled site along with munda being put back in the spotlight, it just felt about time . feeling pretty inspired at present , so much talent on these boards.
@commissarshriken thanks, not sure if the basing idea was mine or JB's .. i think it might have been his actually.
@D6damage Cheers
@sump dweller & @spafe I am still waiting on a mini with the eyestalks mutation ! ( good for seeing around corners )


After posting up some Hive scale pics in the lore section , i kinda enthused myself , so i had a go at building a hive.. i had some left over bfg bits and piece of extruded polystyrene i had already shaped as part of another project , so i just cracked open the bits box and had looksee.. apologies for the poor pics, i will take some more in the daylight.. b&w for now.. cheers oh the scale is 19/20cm high and about the same wide. I made the thing at a scale of 1cm :1km , i have also knocked up a small battleship conversion at 4cm, but no pics of that yet. ideas for painting wouldbe most welcome as well as any crits. the tiny balls are the smallest thing i could find and are from a nail dressing kit , they scale at around 1/2 mm which should be around 50 meters irl . the burge khalifa scales at around 1cm ( just under) at this scale. :) Cheers

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