"The Desu Brigade: Invading your home!" Topic

Ok here is the latest update I have for the Desu Brigade. I shall make a list of what I have done sometime in the week end to map how I got started and such. Anyway, enjoy this update.

Its that time agian! Update Time for The Desu Brigade!

First of all lets start with Ginji Amano. He got primed (along Ban Mido) and I have painted his skin colour in which is of course, Bleached Bone.

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Ban Mido was also primed and his skin colour is agian Bleached Bone.

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The commander for the second group has his hair done and got the human uniform, since he is a human after all, which is Regal Blue. I used a very watered down Regal Blue which I will second coat with slightly less watered down Regal Blue.

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The hair of the second Bunny Girl was completed so I started on her uniform which, like all Bunny Guys/Girls, will be Komando Khaki.

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The Second deamon girls also had her hair done and I then moved on to her uniform which was Blood Red like all Deamon Girls/Guys.

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The First Demon Girl is considered complete and I am working on her Vox Communicator. The first stage is making one part of it Boltgun Metal.

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I don't know if you can see this or not, but the third human girl has gotten the first plate of her armour coloured. Its Boltgun metal as with all the Humans.

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Here you can see three heads. At the very top is my dragon girl's head. The second most top is the Elf Guy and his ears. The last is a Cat girl, but I will make pony tails for her as well to change it around.

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And thats its for this update. Comments regarding what I should do next, what type of Guy/Girl should I try to create next will be welcome and appreciated.

How much are you doing this because you like the project, and how much because you think it might go "against the grain" with the 40K crowd?

I admire your originality… although the figures themselves don't do much for me, I must admit.

Actually I don't plan to go against the 40K grain. I started the Desu Brigade because I wanted to play 40K and yet put my tastes into it. I built them because frankly I collected Lizardmen in the end of 5th edition and quit in the middle of 6th because the painting had gotten boring. Now with me being done with school (for the time being) and working 9 to 5, I wanted another hobby beside the usual.

So I picked my Lizardmen agian and went to some sites. I knew 40K existed but never got into it. Something just clicked and I decided to do it my way instead of painting by the rules.

The resulting anger came from within the community and I never honestly thought it could produce something like this.

Why not googlie eyes?

What's the armor save on a noggin like that?

Good job. Not my 'cup of tea' but to each his/her own. I also commend you on your creative inspiration.

BRACE FOR IMPACT! Desu~

Funny… but, will other 40K players want to play against them?

sorry but this is a bit too over the top

"Comments regarding what I should do next, what type of Guy/Girl should I try to create next will be welcome and appreciated."

None, you are too ambitious and I'm afraid you're missing the point. Creating a new head from scratch is not easy and shouldn't be taken lightly. That's a heavy convertion.

You should start with small and easy convertions, like adding a moustache to a mini, a new plate of armor, etc.. Keep doing it that way until you have enough practice and do not jump so quickly onto these big projects. (Advice I learnt from Adrian Bay, one of the best miniature scratch-builders in the world and best person).

If you do not want that degree of expertise and feel so proud of your actual job to show it then be ready for criticism. As for now, the convertions are horrible.

I think these are great!
It's nice to see someone bucking convention and creating something which so completely appeals to their creative idiom.
I like the whole 40k fluff and feel but have no problem with someone, to paraphrase Fleetwood Mac, 'going their own way' with it.
More power to your sculpting tools! :)

My reaction to this is like my reaction to South Park. Maybe clever and maybe funny, but the execution leaves much to be desired. (Sorry I cant't get past South Park's 5-year-old style animation.) Rob.
Look up the Simpson's Marines or Pink Panther Marines for a clever well executed spoof.

Katchemash, have you ever considered getting into Napoleonics?

LOL, Chogokin!

@ Palafox: Thats your opinion. I don't really think they are bad in fact I think I am getting better and better as I go along. Of course, they are not going to be used to start a line or be published, but to me, they are a beautiful peice of work which I admire and like.

@ Duck Crusader: No google eyes because I don't like google eyes. Plus since this based on actually Keychains from my trip to Japan, I don't want to deviate to much.

@ ostgrenadier: Don't know. They should because it follows all the rules and that all the parts (even the green stuff) comes from GW.

If I still played 40K, I'd play against these. 40K players like to take their world as seriously as historical players, but there are so many fantasy elements that they are willing to accept I can't see why the would suddenly become so entrenched in 'reality'.
This army is unique, it's personal, it's got more work in it that most of the others you see out there.

Not quite as amazingly weird and ed up the second time around. Might have to come up with a new joke to keep em laughing Kat.

Maybe a badly sculpted line of Naps as previously mentioned. Lets face it the old men that do that would kittens of rage upon seeing your visual rapine of wellingtons british or french imperial guard.

The other bonus is many of em would have no knowledge of your previous 'efforts'

Still not bad comedy but as I said earlier keep it fresh.

Still don't see any of them over a glass of milk…

great conversions, would find it fun to play against…
about the sculpting critics, I think it's good work for the aim (anime version of WH40k) and the more you develop yer project the better they'll come out. I would't have gone that way myself (Had problems playing anime video games when there was hudge head/ smallbody characters) but I enjoy the fell and some japanese traditional characters also came with bodies and head diferent from "normal" anatomy.
most of all doing your own figs is much funnier then just converting existing ones so that they look as the original manufacturer could have done. It also give oportunities to get what you want them to do (like the jumping and firing one) .
about Scurvellian Scurvellious complain, quite sure that a bozz or two would have convinced him to play against this army if within bounduaries… could have given a stranger feel of 2 radical opposites wiews in conversions both outof range from original GW (at least actual comercial core).

Oh man, google eyes would be awesome… :)

Plus since this based on actually Keychains from my trip to Japan …

So it IS based on something. I asked on an earlier topic what "Desu Brigade" referred to but I think the question got lost in all the hate.

Can you link to somewhere I can see the original source material? I'd like to know what your reference is before commenting on your results.

And I admire your spirit in conceiving and carrying out a project like this. I personally would never attempt an army where every model has a converted head and many have converted poses.

'Plus since this based on actually Keychains from my trip to Japan, I don't want to deviate to much.'

Ahhh. I thought you were going for a BESM look. Ok, in that case, why not the standard bubble gum anime eye? The completed models I saw looked as if you'd used drawn or magazine eyes for them.

@ Duck Crusader: The Eyes are standard anime eyes as drawn by me. picture

Is the template I use to cut the eyes and paste on the models.

@ donrice: The Desu Brigade came from using Desu the japanese word for "is" and Brigade. Translated its called the "Is Brigade". However this is not the real name. In the fluff, I have those who found them call them the Desu Brigade because that what they hear on the static sort of like "bzzzt….Desu…..bzzt..Ha…Desu". So they are called the Desu Brigade.

In the fluff terms, they are sort of the overseer of the Universe. They came from another dimension when Tentaclerabbi (not rabbi as in Jewish, but rabbi as in Hammurabbi) fled the dimention and popped up in the 40K one. There Tentaclerabbi fell into a deep slumber. The followers of the Anime Universe Emperor ordered the expansion into the other universes so one of the invasion force landed into the 40K universe. When they entered the they found a planet in sub-space, not really in the 40K world, but not really out of it either. Landing there, they observed Human growth. Finally went the found a soul who they could convert, they landed on Earth and took the 40K Emperor away and preformed tests and experiments on him until he lost what made him unqiue and he became Kitami-san's (the leader of this particular invasion force) puppet.

The Usual 40K story goes but with Kitami-san controlling the movements and expansion of the Imperium. The Horus Hersy had happened because Kitami-san had gotten tired of the puppet. When he didn't die, she held move sway over the Imperium because of the religion the puppet had cause. Happyliy she ordered the invasion to begin with the Orks, Necrons, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Tau and one by one they came into her control. Of course, he has the Imperium constantly at war to cower the Imperium as it controls a large portion of the Controlled area.

Of course, this war woke up Tentaclerabbi who defeated and absorbed the 4 Chaos Gods, and projected avatars at the Chaos Marines thus aquireing his own Army. Kitami-san sensed him and he sensed the invasion force and currently both are headed for showdowns although fights already errupted which resulted in various planets being destroyed along with Tentaclerabbi's followers.

The Tyranids while not conquered are afraid of the Desu Brigade and Kitami-san who has a virus that will go directly to each and every Norn queen that there is and destory it if they are ever attacked regardless if it is infected through Ripper or a Hive Tyrant. They are allowed passage between the various subsections of space that the Tyranids control and in return the Imperium is left open provided it is not an area of operations for her invasion force or where her invasion forces bases.

There are various groups within the invasion force that were used to set a basis for the Space Marines. The Sakura Marines and the Saber Marines are two of the most deadilest forces in her invasion force.

That basically is the story and the background (a condenced version of it. There is a longer one with more story, but this one should suffice.)

The models are based on Keychains which you can see here. Of course the heads aren't the same but the idea you can see.

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I forgot to add that the first ten are known as the Kawaii (Cute) group.

You know what they remind me of? These guys:

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While your style is… interesting to say the least, I think that you could refine your basic technique a little. Like, for example, making each "strand" of hair out of a single cylinder of putty?

A better way of executing your "Desu Brigade", IMHO, would be to stock up on dozens of those chibi keychains and gasaphon figures from any conceivable anime that catches your fancy, then behead the lot and attach the heads to your cadian guys. Primer and paint. Then all the sculpting you have to do would be figuring out how to execute gravity defying boobs.

Cheers

Thanks for that explanation.

… they are sort of the overseer of the Universe. They came from another dimension when …[snip]

Okay, you've made up a story background for the army that fits in the 40K universe. Lots of players do that. Yours is bigger in scope than typical, but I don't see that as a problem, though I suspect you might get some aggression from players who feel loyalty to the official background.

But it's all just a game, right?

The models are based on Keychains which you can see here.

Thanks, that was what I was after. I guess I could ask if the keychains tie to some specific anime story but really the photos of the keychains are enough, since they are your reference.

Why did you choose to do the hair in this particular sculpting style, that looks like multiple tentacles? That seems to be a big thing people object to. Seeing as the keychains have (for anime models) properly scaled human hair, the more traditional sculpting portrayal would be a solid curved mass with parallel lines pressed into it. Did you try that and decide you didn't like it?

Also, how come you went for flattened round disks for the heads instead of 3D heads like the keychains have? Again, the flat heads seem to be something people particularly don't like.

ZandrisIV:
… stock up on dozens of those chibi keychains … then behead the lot and attach the heads to your cadian guys …

I think this is how I would have approached the same project.

@ ZandrisIV: I like doing the hair the current way. Its more interesting on what comes out. Also I would never behead the key chains.

ZandrisIV:
… stock up on dozens of those chibi keychains … then behead the lot and attach the heads to your cadian guys …

No true anime fan would ever deface product, if they did the rest of us would gut them.

Ash; I see, I think the problem is one of contrast. Either that or they're just not coming through well in the pictures. Perhaps, just as a suggestion, you might try painting the eyes directly onto the green stuff. There are a variety of fine point marking pens you can use to draw an outline first.

Another suggestion, if you've ever seen Dominion Tank Police, is that the Renault FT-17 in 1/35 scale makes an excellent Anime tank with a little conversion, and works well with 28mm figs. For when you're ready for a little armor support.

Its a joke guys. Not serious.

@ Scurvellian: How can it be a joke when I already spent money and have already bought 2 more boxes of Cadians to complete my Brigade. To you it maybe a joke, but not to me. I plan to do a 1000 point of them.

@donrice: The hair I do it that way because it comes out a different style each time. True I could make the hair fatter or thinner, but I quite like the resulting hair that comes out. The same could be said of the face.

@ Duck Crusader: I promise to try and get the eyes better for the next batch, but for these the eyes have already been printed out. As for the armour, I was thinking of doing a tank like thing as you suggested or making a mecha musume sort of figure.

Scurvy; Wether it's a joke or not isn't important. As long as Ash says he's really doing this I'm willing to discuss it, if only for the sake of throwing ideas around to see what sticks. It's mental exercise.

By the by, if you posted your backstory I know why they hate you. You went through a herd of Fanboy sacred cows with an evicerator on that one.

Nothing wrong with the eyes you've got if you like them, just offering a suggestion to help them stand out more if you'd like. I find the eyes are generally the most distinctive part of an Anime character's face, so when I do one I like them to be distinctive. Not that big a bubblegum fan, but the general concept carries over.

@ Duck Crusader: I know, and I thank you for suggestions. I know alot more people have commented on them (both negative and positive) and I have taken advice from people who are decent enough to talk to without angry fanboy rage coming up the wazoo.

Update time for [B]The Desu Brigade![/B]

First up, we have new members to the Desu Brigade, the Itoshii Mure. The first is an Elf Guy. How do we distingush between my Elf girl and Elf Guy? The guy has the earing on his ear.

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Second up we have the first Dragon Girl. The things on top of her head are those balls found in Chun-li from Street Fighter with ribbons. I think she looks totally Itoshii.

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Ban Mido has his hair painted Black as coloured in the Manga.

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Ginji Amano has his hair painted Bad Moon Yellow as in the Manga.

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The Second Bunny girl in the Kawaii Mure has gotten her boots and pockets coloured Snakebite Leather.

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The second Demon girl has the same colour, Snakebite Leather, as the elf for her boots and pockets.

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The Deamon Vox Girl has gotten the top part painted a Bass colour. You can't see it clearly in the pic, but its quite nice and shiny.

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Thats it for this Update. Comments regarding what I should do next, what type of Guy/Girl should I try to create next will be welcome and appreciated.

Also I am trying to find swords to make my first Diorama, a battle between Tentaclerabbi's Greater Demon and Saber/Sakura from the Desu Marines. I was looking at the Dark Angels. Anyone know if the swords in the HQ of the DA are one piece or seperate? And Master of Ravenwing on the Jetbike, is he one piece or multi-peiced?

Generally, the swords come with hand attached but separate. There are a few models that are one piece tho. The Master is a multi-part model.

Well, its time to update The Desu Brigade!

First things first, the completed models! Yes the Elf Girl, the Second Human Girl and the Second Cat girl have all been primed, painted, based and glossy coted. Yay! Here is the group picture so far.

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The second Bunny Girl for the Itoshii Mure has gotten her eyes, her coat painted Catachen Green and the little strap on the coat Snakebite Leather. The boots and the pockets have been painted Snakebite Leather as well.

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The third Demon girl for the Kawaii Mure has also gotten her eyes, her coat painted Catachen Green and the little strap on the coat Snakebite Leather. The Boots/Pockets have been painted Snakebite Leather.

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The Third Human in the Kawaii Mure has gotten her eyes and her lower armour underneath the gun Blotgun Metal, the middle armour underneath the gun Shining Gold and the top of the armour Beaten Brass.

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The Vox Communicator Demon Girl for the Kawaii Mure has gotten her Vox Com painted Burnished Gold on the handles and sides and the top of the antenna painted Beaten Brass.

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The Elf guy for the Itoshii Mure is primed and the skin painted Bleached Bone.

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The Dragon Girl for the Itoshii Mure is primed and the Skin is painted Bleached Bone.

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The Third Demon Girl for the Itoshii Mure is primed and the skin is painted Bleached Bone.

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Ban Mido has gotten his eyes, his boots and the pockets painted Snakebite Leather.

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Ginji Amano has also gotten his eyes, his boots and the pocked painted Snakebite Leather.

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The Commander of the Itoshii Mure has gotten his eyes and I tried painting his mouth but I guess it doesn't look that good. It might go away. Otherwise his coat has gotten Catachen Green and the little strap painted Snakebite Leather.

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These are the three more members of the Itoshii Mure. The Third Cat Girl, a Demon Guy and a Bunny Guy.

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Here is the last head for the Itoshii Mure and I shall be done with my second 10. He is the Bunny Guy.

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And I bought some sheet Styrene to start the Air boards for the Eurkea Seven Rough Riders.

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Thats it for this update.

'And I bought some sheet Styrene to start the Air boards for the Eurkea Seven Rough Riders.'

Now, I'm really interested in how that one turns out. That's one of my favorite recent Anime.

@Duck Crusader: Yeah its one of my favorite Manga series and I only have seen bits and peices of the Anime. Once the Manga has been done, I shall watch it.

So I have never worked with Sheet Styene before. When I bought it the train store guy told me I could use an exacto knife and cut the select peices by using the knife to cut the peice and then breaking it over a straight edge. Anyone have anythign else to add? Can't I just cut it with an exacto knife or do I really need to break it? Any advice on using it?

More specifically, with sheet styrene the usual method is to score it, then snap along the score line. It snaps clean so this works great.

You can of course cut it all the way through but with thicker styrene, it usually takes multiple passes and if the knife slips you can end up with a ragged cut. Also it will dull your knife blade faster.

With the the scoring method, you ideally use a new/ very sharp blade so you can score with light pressure.

General safety tip with edged tools: Dull blades / more pressure => harder to control => more chance of a painful accident. :)

Styrene is a great modelling material to work with; you can sand or file it, and the glues are solvents so the bonds are chemical welds, quite strong.

Oh to do curves with styrene, think of it as a series of straight cuts. Do a square cut, then a straight cut across the corner, then a straight cut across those two corners, etc. When there's only a small amount of corner poking out, sand or file it into the curve you want.

@donrice: Thanks for the info, I shall use it.

Well, its time to Update The Desu Brigade!

The first update is the Demon Vox Com Girl for the Kawaii Mure. The speaker's back was painted Mythril Sliver.

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The Third Human girl for the Kawaii Mure has gotten the top half of the armour painted Beaten Brass as well as the back. The little clip on the top and the armour jetting out from the back have been covered with Chaos Black.

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The commander of the Itoshii Mure had gotten his lower mouth painted Blood Red to make it appear as if he has a tongue. I don't know I think it looks good to me. Also his belt buckle was painted Boltgun metal.

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With Ginji Amano, I painted his jacket with Catachen Green.

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For Ban Mido, I painted his glasses Chaos Black and the frames Boltgun metal. His lens will stay black as thats in the Manga.

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The Demon Vox Com Girl for the Itoshii Mure has gotten her hair painted with the new foundation colour Darksun. Its pretty cool and better with coverage than Bad Moon Yellow, though I would like it to be lighter and brighter.

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The Dragon Girl for the Itoshii Mure has gotten her hair painted Blood Red. I think I will make each Dragon Girl's hair different to make th appearance that they are different dragons. For her, her hair is red because she's a red dragon.

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I finished the Elf Guy from the Itoshii Mure's hair to be Ice Blue. I think it look good because he's a guy.

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Thats it for this update. Comments/Questions and Queries welcome.

Well its time to update The Desu Brigade!

Ok, having gone to GW and picking up a Space Marine Combat Squad for the bolters and picking up a Space Marine Commander for the swords and other stuff, I finally don't need anything else. Hopefully.

Anyway, the first one today is the Bunny Guy from the Itoshii Mure. I painted his skin with a mixture of the foundation paint Darksun and Skull white. I quite liked his colour result. Then I painted inside his ears Ice Blue. Then his Hair was painted Chaos Black. I think I need more hair colours since the ones I have are currently getting the same.

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The Commander for the Itoshii Mure is getting his armour painted. His first layer was shining gold and the second would be a bronze or maybe a mythril silver colour. I haven't really decided yet.

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The Cat Guy from the Itoshii Mure had gotten his skin painted with a mixture of Beastal Brown and Skull white. Then his hair was coloured with Firey Orange and the clothes (which I did because I forgot to do the hair) was painted with vomit brown.

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The Elf Guy has gotten his uniform painted in the normal Elf colours of Scaly Green. His boots and pockets are also painted with snakebite leather.

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The Dragon Girl for the Itoshii Mure has gotten he pom-pom thingys on her head painted with Regal Blue and then Ice Blue was used for the ribbons and a strip of Skull White was also added.

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The Demon Guy for the Itoshii Mure has gotten his hair painted beastal brown and the uniform painted the regular Demon colour of Blood Red.

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The Demon Vox Com Girl for the Itoshii Mure has gotten her uniform painted Blood Red which is the regular uniform colour and the boots and pockets painted Snakebite Leather.

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Ginji Amano for the Itoshii Mure has gotten his belt buckle painted Boltgun Metal and the first layer of armour is painted Chaos Black.

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The Demon Girl for the Kawaii Mure has gotten her armour coloured in normal demon colour of Tin Blitz and the back was painted with Boltgun metal.

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Ban Mido for the Itoshii Mure has gotten his coat coloured as Catchen Green and his belt as Snakebite Leather.

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The Human Girl for the Kawaii Mure, has gotten her sholder pads painted Boltgun metal and the the gun has gotten its small parts painted Chaos Black.

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The Bunny girl for the Kawaii Kure has gotten her armour painted Dwarven Bronze.

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The Vox Deamon Girl from the Kawaii Mure is finished and I have finished painting the rock where the Vox is. I just have to wait for the Goblin Green to be dried and base it and I am done her.

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As you can see my full concentration is on the Desu Brigade and thus almost everything else is put away.

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Thats it for this update. Comments/Questions and Quires welcome.

Oh also I shall be fighting my first 40K game sometime in September or October. So the please stay tuned as I will post pictures on the net.

Ash, the only thing I see that's really screwing up your execution is those eyes. I really think you're selling yourself short with the cutouts. I know I've said this before, but it's killing me. Seriously, any hobby store(Not necessarily game store) carries those markers I was talking about. I know you'll love it if you try it, and you've already proved you can draw them just fine.

On a game note, all infantry armies that aren't composed of hordes of cheap troops have a hard row to hoe in 40k. You probably want to think about that tank or mecha before you play.

Well, its that time agian! Update for The Desu Brigade and this time its large!

First of all a bit of sad news. My Ginji Amano cannot be with his friend, Ban Mido because apparently Army Builder somehow allowed me to take a Grenade Launcher and a Flamer Thrower which isn't possible in the same unit. So I have to remove him and place him in another group. Sorry Ginji T_T. Thankfully I have fixed the error and now I am building a Missle Launcher thanks to the heavy weapon box I have.

Anyway, the first is big news. I worked on the commander of my 1000 point force. I wanted him to be more different and active going around so I first built this base. It represents a Tentaclerabbi Marine impaled with heads of other Tentaclerabbi Marines laying around the base. The second stick thingy is used as a banner pole for the commander.

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Then Presenting the commander himself. He's got a Space Marine Commander's Sword Arm and the commander's storm bolter. I also gave him a jumping pose and this seriously is the most detailed head I have done so far.
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Then I started on the third group, the Uruwashii Mure, and I have the commander done. I took her chain sword, cause she has one, and cut/sanded down the chains. I don't like the chain sword so I took a peice of Plasti Card and cut a sort of sword like shape and glued it on there. The green stuff is like an organic metal on the sword to help fix it. The storm bolter was created by taking two bolters, sanding them down and gluing them.

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Here are the future heads of the Desu Brigade. All of them will be used. The top one on the right side is a cat girl for the Missle Laucher for the Itoshii Mure. The rest are being done for the Uruwashii Mure.

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Ban Mido here is getting his armour painted. The bottom layer was Dwarf Bronze and the top is Shining Gold. The belt buckle is Boltgun metal.

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The third Bunny Girl for the Kawaii Mure, has gotten her armour painted. The top part is Brazen Brass and the shoulder pads are Burnished Gold. The dark parts on the gun is Tin Blitz and the rest is boltgun metal.

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The second Deamon girl for the Itoshii mure has gotten her jacket painted Catchen Green and the belts Snakebite leather.

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The Second Deamon girl for the Kawaii Mure has gotten her top armour painted Tin Blitz and the shoulder pads Mythril Sliver. The dark parts on the gun are Tin Blitz and the rest is Blotgun metal.

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The Cat guy for the Itoshii Mure has gotten his ribbons painted. The knots are Regal Blue, the strands are Snot Green and the lines are Scorpion Green.

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The Deamon Vox girl has gotten her coat painted Catachen Green, the straps Snakebite leather and finally the belt buckle Boltgun metal.

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This is the newist member of the Itoshii Mure, a Bunny Guy. His skin is painted using a mixture of Bad Moon Yellow and Foundation Dark sun. I also finished his uniform, Komando Khaki and the boots and pockets Snakebite leather.

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The Commander for the Itoshii Mure has gotten his top armour layer painted Chainmail and the back sections painted burnished gold.

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The first Bunny Girl for the Itoshii Mure has gotten his skin painted with a mixture of Foundation Darksun and Skull White. His hair was painted using Chaos Black. His uniform was painted Komando Khaki, his boots and pockets were painted Snakebite Leather. His coat was painted Catachen Green and the straps Snakebite leather.

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The Elf guy from the Itoshii Mure has gotten his coat painted with catchen green and the straps snakebite leather.

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Ginji Amano's bottom armour was painted brazen brass, middle armour was painted Shining Gold and the top is Burnished Gold. The back is painted with Chaos black. It awaits metal paint to be applied to it.

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That's it for this update. Comments/Questions/Queries welcome.

Its time to update The Desu Brigade!

First of all my commander for the Itoshii Mure is completed with the exception of the base. I got everything for him painted and he is ready to have his base painted and flocked.

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Next is the Commander for the Uruwashii Mure. She's got the regular human Regal Blue Clothes, Snakebite leather for Boots and Pockets and Catachen Green for her jacket.

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Next is the Mortar Cat Girl for the Uruwashii Mure. She's got the regular Cat Vomit Brown Clothes, Snakebite leather for Boots and pockets and Catchen Green for her jacket.

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Next is Ginji Amano for the Uruwashii Mure. He's finished and the base is being paintied. The Rock is being painted Fortress Gray and the lighting will be painted Yellow.

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Next is the Human Vox Girl for the Uruwashii Mure. She's got the regular human Regal Blue clothes, Snakebite Leather for Boots and Catachen Green for her jacket.

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Next is the Vox Demon girl for the Itoshii Mure. She's got most of her armour done as well as other things the reqiure painting. The Only thing left is the shoulders and fixing up and the Vox and base itself.

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Next is the Demon Girl for the Itoshii Mure. She's also got most of the painting done with the exception of the Base and the gun. Her shoulder pads been done in Chaos Black and will be painted Mythril Sliver.

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Here is the Human Missile Girl. She's a new addition. Her hairs been painted Ultramarines Blue, and Regal Blue for her clothes, Snakebite leather for her boots and pockets and Catachen Green for her jacket.

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This is the Bunny Guy for the Itoshii Mure. He's also got most of the paintingdone with the exception of the Gun and Base. His Shoulder pads will probably be Shining Gold.

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This is the Cat Guy for the Itoshii Mure. Most of the work is done for him with the exception of the top layer of armour, gun and base. Probably those claps on his back and shoulders will be red.

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This is the Elf Guy for the Itoshii Mure. Like the other's he's mostly complete with the exception of the shoulders which will be Shining Gold, gun and base.

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This is the second Bunny Guy. His hair is white cause it seemed and is good looking. He's got His parts of his armour, clothes, boots and pockets and jacket painted. All thats felt is the shoulder pads, gun and base.

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This is the Dragon Girl for the Itoshii Mure. I quite like her because this is the first figure I given this much detail to. I make her dress Ultramarine Blue and then tried to paint a flower detail on her dress. The only things left are the base. She's a fire dragon so her hairs red as are parts of the flower painting.

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This is Ban Mido for the Itoshii Mure. His body is finished and the onyl things left is the weapon and the base. I am doing the barrels as Brazen Brass.

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This is the commander of the Desu Brigade. Her uniform is yellow, with snakebite leather for her boots and pockets and her parts of the arm are painted with Mythril Sliver.

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And this is a sneak peak of the Rough Riders Eurkea Seven board.

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So my first game was agianst the Death Guard.

The game was great frankly. Pity no one else wanted to play. I really wanted to get another game in. Anyway, we set up. I learnt that I should pay attention to my list. I had melta bombs and a master crafted weapons and I forgot to use them. D'OH!

Anyway, most of the turns were me shootiing (Unsuccessfully the majority of the time). I did manage to whittle one of the Death Guard units down to one man.

What I learnt is

a) Learn and use what your veteren sergents and commanders have
b) Templates are good. While the mortars didn't work perfectly I feel I had rolled better it would work.
c) Rockets are good and I should use them more.
d) I should use flamers cause I didn't use them
e) I should have a lascannon or a autocannon in there somewhere
f) Have a Balisk or Russ. They give of world of hurt. Especially to marines.

Also, if people are interested in the reaction that my Desu Brigade got, well suprisingly they weren't that bad. Well, I guess the staffers already knew about them. The other people were like "Woah, what's going on there?" Or one guy saying that was cool. Or on saying "What cool helmets" and I had to correct him saying they weren't helmets. The opponent mostly pointed out that they were the Anime heads.

Otherwise, I had a ton of fun.

Told ya to get a tank…..

Don't worry about the lack of updates. I am still currently doing this project, but am going to unveil something big on friday. 5 Cookies to anyone who can guess it! So wait until then please!

So I finally bought my Legion of H Sisters of Battle.

I got:

1 x Blister of Sisters with Special Weapons (Blister)
1 x Sister with Heavy Flamer (Blister)
1 x Sister with Multi Melta (Blister)
1 x Seraphim Superior (Blister)
1 x Repentia Mistress (Blister)
1 x Sisters Repentia (Blister)
2 x Battle Sisters (Blister)
1 x Sisters Imagifier (Blister)
1 x Sisters of Battle Seraphim (Box)
1 x Arco Flagellants (Box)
2 x Sister of Battle Squad (Box)

That gives me 26 Sisters of battle, 1 SoB Flamer, 1 SoB Storm Bolter, 1 SoB Heavy Flamer, 1 SoB Multi Melta, 4 Repentia, 6 Seraphim, 1 Imagifier and 6 Arco Flagellants.

I know my list was different, but I couldn't resist the SoB Models and the artwork.

So I have a question, is a pure Sisters (or semi pure, I want the Arco Flagellants) really workable?

They can be devastating in close combat, particularly against lightly armored opponents. One tactic which has struck me is the flamer heavy squad, mounted in a vehicle which has a heavy flamer. This scoots up next to a target and deploys, then blankets in in promethium. If they use their faith points in conjunction they have a chance to achieve 1+ AP!

Ok, I promised you guys I would show a secret on Friday and now, its Sunday. Yeah, I am late, but here it is. Showing for the first time, the Desu Brigade's first warmachine, Omega Z-Bal:

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This is just his body and I haven't sanded him or built up his bulk in armour. Also I have to ask you guys how do I build his hands. I was thinking of using Plasticard to cover the hand holes and using Paper clips which I cut, glue it on with super glue and then green stuff it. But I am looking for any other suggestions which would be helpful. Also what do you guys think?

Before you think about building hands, can I make a suggestion that you insert joints at the knees and elbows? Right now the 'war machine' looks like an animated statue out of a Sunday morning cartoon…

For the hands, at this scale, grabbing some Gundam manipulators would probably be a good move. If you insist on building them, use plasticard for the palm, and then drill along the edges to insert wire 'fingerbones'. Sculpt fingers with green stuff. If you plan on just making the hands fists, then just use a chunk of plasticard and carve it into shape, shouldn't be difficult.

Cheers