My vote goes to the defiler. Always loved them in DoW back in the day, and I'm one of the seemingly few people that actually kind of likes the weird crab monstrosities, haha
@@---we1okFor me it's the weird mix of crab legs, mech body, tank canon and the head of a guy. It doesn't work as a cohesive style. If it was a big scary crab mech or a chonky upgrade to a helbrute, or a cannon on legs, individually it would be great. The problem is it tries to be all three and at least imo fails at all three
Maybe their bases should be a martian red desert, considering in your custom lore they have close relations with the dark mechanicum, maybe they're on a mission to steal stcs from Mars itself. Just an idea. Plus, the colours might go really well together
Same Dave! I found my old Chaos army in Word Bearer trim at my parent's place when cleaning out the garage. I decided to revise the Chaos army but this time, I went Emperor's Children instead of the Word Bearers. And as a challenge, I decided to use the Sisters of Battle as a base with various Chaos Marine backpacks, weapons and some basic conversions. Bought the old and cheap Combat Patrol with the Rhino along with another Sister Squad with the bits from the old Chaos Combat Patrol. Currently finished the Dark Apostle, Havocs and the 10 man Legionnaires. The Hellbrute has been a challenge and it was a blast to make. Once I've done this simple Combat Patrol, I'll start with the advanced conversions after having some experience and hard lessons learnt. Thanks for inspiring me to revisit my childhood and getting back in the game itself.
base suggestion: the warband has sabotaged the local geothermal power generator causing volcanic eruption and dust to damage and disorient the enemy so that they may attack during the worst of it and take the enemy off guard. this can give some good oranges of hot or cooling magma all over city rubble and basically pompeii happens during the attack.
Maybe a nice urban basing scheme would work? For my Inquisitorial Stormtroopers, I use .4mm cork board, torn and glued at odd angles, then slather on a layer of Pro Acryl Concrete Texture, and once that dries I add a layer of Agrellan Earth. I fill the gaps with Stirland Battlemire and UV resin tinted with neon green paint for disgusting, Nurgle-y slime, and then slap a few chunks of torn up cork and chopped sprue bits for rubble and debris. Paint the whole thing in your favorite grey and add some white or yellow road markings, but then the finishing touch is posters; I found a PDF of imperial propaganda posters and print them out at about 50% scale, and they look great as detritus littering the streets of some forgotten underhive.
I really love the reason for this series. As someone who only discovered WH40K as an adult, I missed out on the slow collection and nostalgia. These types of videos allow a little vicarious nostalgia with the genuine love and memory behind them
These type of videos are honestly some of my favourites, no matter who makes them. Something just feels right about seeing someone recreate their (or someone else's) dream army from when they were a child. It just makes sense, and even my own inner child is screaming for cool stuff like that every time I see it happening! Hoping to see some more army videos like this, especially if it has a progress on multiple units. Have a great vacation you all!
Hey! Just wanna say I absolutely adore Tabletoptime! You got me BIG into warhammer... and other gamse! Tabletop wargaming in general. Many of your videos have been the backdrop of kitbashing and painting sessions, and have sparked many ideas. Currently, I can't support you like I wish I could and what I think you guys deserve, but when I can I will!
Im gonna be honest, i was scared for a moment when i wasnt seeing yalls videos in my notifications. But, im overjoyed to see you guys still working! Im loving the army so far, keep churning out those Task force Katos!
I got some vindicator kits from a friend. As an IG main I LOVE the trophy racks from the CSM sprue! One of my regimental banners has a spear tip with a firewarrior head impaled on it. It's what every good emperor fearing regiment needs!
I'm currently making a chaos army purely out of old scale models, so your old army would be my dream army funnily enough. My cutoff point is Dark Vengance, vehichle wise i'll get a defiler and a predator and rhino
You could paint the bases in random pattern with warm tones, sort of make em look like warp portals that the little spikey dudes are coming out of. I feel like doing something wild like that would both contrast the models and give you a new way to base, since you already did rubble style bases.
Not sure about what to do next. But, considering you didn't want the more desert look, perhaps go with a more "simple" type of basing. The basic thing could be that classic granny grating/plastic canvas or some of the other mesh options for a deck plating basing scheme. A basic black layer, drybrush a gunmetal, black and brown washes, bring back up with more gunmetal and a bit of a shinier...then add in some of the rusty pigments for an old, weathered flooring. Adding in things like some of the smaller straws or parts of zip ties to break up the grating parts along with additional pieces such as barrels or debris could work great for a look like they're scavenging for things on an old hulk. While not 40K, it's part of the basing scheme that I'd used with my Imperials for Star Wars: Legion where each squad had their own basing thing for different ship sections on an Imperial ship...only issue that I'd had was one where I screwed it up near the end, but it looked good until then. Take the black base, sand the top as smooth as I could get it, painted it a metallic black, then a few thin layers of high gloss polyeurethane (Got the version from the craft isle at Walmart, so a relatively basic thing and thicker than what's normally used with more hardware side stuff) with a light sand between some of the layers...had a wonderful representation of the Death Star 2 hangar floor from RotJ where you got reflections of the Stormtroopers off of it. The fuckup was using a bit to much superglue to attach the minis to the base and it fogged bad, couldn't get rid of it and an attempt to just add another gloss layer did remove that, but made the surface look wonky.
You seem so excited about this project ! Can’t wait to see it unfold ! It’s nice these episodes that develop over time and different episodes ! I wish I had kept my old armies ! I had the original Pretoria guard and the space wolves
I like the advice you mention about painting a vehicle, charater and squad to make sure you like a paint scheme. I'm a vehicle nut and I've come up with awesome paint schemes on several vehicles, only to have them look completely underwhelming when applied to trooper models...
I had the same idea to use Horus heresy predator in a 40k death guard army, it just creates an obvious difference and makes sense lore wise too. Yours looks awesome mate, it will be smashing when painted, I'm sure.
My first CSM were also Alpha Legion, painted the same dark blue as yours! Just less blood :P Love a salvage project, very cool to watch you glow your old army up. Some day I'll get more paint on my own CSM 2.0 ...
I love this type of video. I wouldn't mind if they were just one unit each with more details how you do the conversion... for example how you did the markings in on the pages of the tomb. I don't know how non-Alpha-Legion players care for these videos, but I love them despite my models looking completely different. ...and as a non-native speaker I love being able to learn a bit of your Aussie pronunciation on the way (I still sound like a caricature though).
Thank you Dave for bringing your Alpha Legion back! I love to see it and it even inspired me to build my very own Alpha Legion army, in a similar way like you did! I would love to see how you would make Mutilators cool, since to me they always looked bad...
For the bases, I think a famer's field, but especially something like wheat or hay would be interesting. The alpha legion could be sabotaging the food supply of a planet before an attack.
Just another continuation of a big part of the reason i even started this crazy hobby! LETS FREAKING GO GUYS! Have a merry Christmas TableTop Crew, looking forward to what the new year will bring you all and us all as we ride aling with you!
I would go for city ruins for the base. You could even link it thematically with your traitor guard. The guard fight in the wastes whilst the marines take the city itself
I'd love to see what kinds of conversions Dave does for a couple of obliterators. I've never been that happy with the present day obliterator sculpt, I think a TTT-quality conversion would be great.
When it comes to the basing, my immediate thought went to taking inspiration from the Legion book's cover. The reddish, warm hues would also tie into the lore of being close to the Dark Mechanicum.. however, you said you wouldn't want a desert, so Martian wasteland in that regard is kind of out😅 Absolutely love seeing these Alpha Legion videos. I would love to see what you do with the Defiler honestly
this is a most excellent project this is exactly what you need to do to rescue your channel keep doing additions to your army, then play a 500 point game with Jen , lets see her sisters vs your chaos then you can both do videos on how the battle went, what performed, what your next additions will be then follow with your next conversion and painting set lead into another game you could even use the campaign rules and have even more reasons to do sick conversions as your teams evolve please give people a reason to come back and watch instead of just randomly hoping you catch the current thing wave
I'd dig a sort of burnt orange, dead world base. So plenty of dead, orange tufts, maybe some contrasting grey or marble masonry, and plenty of orange dust from the scorched earth.
The aspiring sorcerer is probably my favourite of the ones in this video it's a really cool pose. I do love the homage to your old models with the canon too. Excited to see more parts as you work through the rest in the new year. Have a great holiday.
I absolutely love this project! Really digging the use of Heresy age equipment since that would make a lot of sense. Please convert a defiler soon! Love the channel! -John
Your Alpha Legion has mostly cold and dark tones... if you don't want to go the desert route you could go the industrial route, with a lot of copper (verdigree as a hint to the colors of the legionnaires themselves) and hazard stripes. I know industrial it's more a Iron Warriors sort of thing but I still think that the colors would fit. In alternative you could make it look like they are invading a Tau command base, with the ochre yellow-orangish tones most Taus are depicted using and really geometric and clean gribbles to contrast the curved and jagged lines of the marines themselves.
By the Gods, we would've been friends back in the day! I had nearly the exact same CSM army back in the day. Defiler, Terminator Lord with Terminators, CSM with the sergeant with powerfist and all! Even have the old metal Obliterators as well! But my pride and joy, was a converted Slaanesh Daemon Prince made using the Deciever model as a base with Chaos possesed bits to daemon-ify it up! Great to see a refresh happening too!
Oh that sounds awesome! I miss the days of my terminators slow marching and my enemy praying they could kill enough of them before they hit combat otherwise they were rolling the entire battleline
From the bottom of my heart, it hurts me to see you guys activelyu struggling as a warhammer channel while others are able to do so well, y'all are very creative and deserve to stay in the space, and I know there's a lot of... difficulty going on in the states, as a US resident it's... rough. Though, I say you should not give up hope, for you guys are among some of the most awesome in the tabletop scene, you guys inspire me to try more wacky designs and projects and although my skill has a painter and hobbist isnt the best, i am learning more and more, and you guys started that path.
I think a big design choice on the models in your old army that is lacking on these models is the blood. I know the army is not the bloody, crazy kind of chaos, but i think its a good design choice to make it really scream chaos. Maybe something for the bases? I dont know, its your atmy and you should design it however you feel like suits it!!
Not sure what colors to use, but some sort of urban rubble sounds great as bases. Looking forward to seeing the next installment of this series. Would love to see both building and painting as the series continue. MErry Chtistmas and a Heppy New Year to you and all the others in the team.
Instead of a regular base like a destroyed city or a desert you should do a swirling fog around the ankles, maybe with cotton? My idea is that they are appearing from the shadows in dark fog like manifesting form the thunder storm itself.
Amazing idea with recreating the old army, loving how they're coming together Dave! For the bases I'd suggest some contrasting colors, and if you don't want desert, how about lush jungle, with muddy ground so that you can pigment then up to their knees! Thinking like the first planet in SpaceMarine 2.
Hell yes, Dave! I absolutely love seeing you guys building your armies. Tale of Three TableTopTimers? Hmmm maybe you could take this re-imagined Alpha Legion dream army and take it to Ark40k next year?
I love the C&C mammoth tank inspired turret rockets. I really like the havoc launcher, they are super versatile, i like using them as missile pods for my Imperial guard forces when I can get them. you can mount one either side of a taurox turret(and it looks 100x better than the Taurox missile setup.) Or you can use the weapons arm of a goliath truck along with the havoc launcher's mounting to mount them to the side of a tank turret.- what's better than 1x HK missile on your tank? 6HK MISSILES!
Nice video as always! When you ask us about bases and you wanted aome warm but no dessert look, I can only think about the reddish brown rocky landscape where Goku and company fight against Vegeta in the first arc of DBZ
Great work. You did an amazing job on the painting. I think you should go with red desert bases, but I am often wrong about what looks good. Thanks for sharing!!
Do urban bases, that way you can still use some brown and warm red rust pigments for the contrast, should be easy with some cork and some old resin supports.
I'm doing something similar on the back burner with my Night Lords. Probably about the same age as Dave's CSM here, and painted in the traditional midnight clad colours (and not painted well!). They're being redone with a theme that leans heavily on Nighthaunt bits from AoS. I've got the conversion plans for Legionnaires, Raptors, a Demon Prince and Warp Talons figured out, now I'm trying to get my head round how to suitably convert a Lord Discordant. Videos like this are wonderfully inspiring - my vote would also go to the Defiler.
basing idea; rubble city bases but on a planet that compleatly dryed up and deserty . that way you can get bases that are city and rubble but paint them in desert colours and years od sand storm have just turned everything sandy
Love this, my childhood blood angels 2nd edition army is lost to the warp (thanks mum) so I’ve been slowly buying one of every firstborn kit to create a “nostalgia” army. Merry Christmas, happy holidays and happy new year!
My childhood chaos army is still my main army to this day, 15k points of Emperors Children and counting. Can't wait for the new releases next year! Definetly do the defiler! We don't see enough of them now because the kit is getting a bit old.
10:12 Damn, Dave has been at it since the middle ages 😂 If you want warm tones for the bases and not make it a desert, how about lava? Some Mustafar vibes with industial bits might suit well.
As a absolute Base enthusiast, I would use a nuclear-dessert city theme. Old industry covered in gray/sandy dust, with one or two bits, like a mutated plant or a glowing cristal or something like that in neon colours as a kontrast.
with the terrain what about an autumnal tree situation. you have lots of warm coloured leaves and dark browns for fertile soul and trunks could be cool
I am team defiler I was also playing chaos when it came out and it was peak hype at the time. I'd love to see a modern take on it and I believe Dave has already made a defiler/dune crawler combo "off camera" that looked great and I'd love to see something like that "on camera".
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Alpha Legion: "WE'RE ALL ALPHARIUS!"
Aspiring Sorcerer: "I'm not."
He thinks he's Magnus
My vote goes to the defiler. Always loved them in DoW back in the day, and I'm one of the seemingly few people that actually kind of likes the weird crab monstrosities, haha
I see waaaaay too much anti-Defiler propaganda these days. In my opinion, the classic cannot be defeated!
@@horusxgergorio I do not understand who could dislike Giant Enemy Crab?!
@@---we1okFor me it's the weird mix of crab legs, mech body, tank canon and the head of a guy. It doesn't work as a cohesive style. If it was a big scary crab mech or a chonky upgrade to a helbrute, or a cannon on legs, individually it would be great. The problem is it tries to be all three and at least imo fails at all three
- Select group of Defilers
- Attack Ground Command
- Sip tea and enjoy the Ork ping pong show
As a fellow Aussie warhammer player your videos mean so much to me in this crazy world we live in, i hope you have a bloody great Christmas
Thankyou! Merry Christmas hope you get some time for hobby!
@TabletopTime trying my best but the prices are absolutely killing me
For bases - maybe bash and print a demon boneyard? You could paint it in warm tones, maybe make it warp-like as well
Maybe their bases should be a martian red desert, considering in your custom lore they have close relations with the dark mechanicum, maybe they're on a mission to steal stcs from Mars itself. Just an idea. Plus, the colours might go really well together
Same Dave! I found my old Chaos army in Word Bearer trim at my parent's place when cleaning out the garage. I decided to revise the Chaos army but this time, I went Emperor's Children instead of the Word Bearers. And as a challenge, I decided to use the Sisters of Battle as a base with various Chaos Marine backpacks, weapons and some basic conversions. Bought the old and cheap Combat Patrol with the Rhino along with another Sister Squad with the bits from the old Chaos Combat Patrol. Currently finished the Dark Apostle, Havocs and the 10 man Legionnaires. The Hellbrute has been a challenge and it was a blast to make.
Once I've done this simple Combat Patrol, I'll start with the advanced conversions after having some experience and hard lessons learnt. Thanks for inspiring me to revisit my childhood and getting back in the game itself.
YESSS! One of US!
That's dope
base suggestion: the warband has sabotaged the local geothermal power generator causing volcanic eruption and dust to damage and disorient the enemy so that they may attack during the worst of it and take the enemy off guard. this can give some good oranges of hot or cooling magma all over city rubble and basically pompeii happens during the attack.
Maybe a nice urban basing scheme would work? For my Inquisitorial Stormtroopers, I use .4mm cork board, torn and glued at odd angles, then slather on a layer of Pro Acryl Concrete Texture, and once that dries I add a layer of Agrellan Earth. I fill the gaps with Stirland Battlemire and UV resin tinted with neon green paint for disgusting, Nurgle-y slime, and then slap a few chunks of torn up cork and chopped sprue bits for rubble and debris. Paint the whole thing in your favorite grey and add some white or yellow road markings, but then the finishing touch is posters; I found a PDF of imperial propaganda posters and print them out at about 50% scale, and they look great as detritus littering the streets of some forgotten underhive.
The defiler has got to be one of my favorite chaos machines. It is insane and intimidating in the best possible ways.
i really do enjoy just watching paint go on models a lot. something about seeing someones colour choices and techniques.
This is an awesome video premise - I’d love to see your army glow up!
I really love the reason for this series. As someone who only discovered WH40K as an adult, I missed out on the slow collection and nostalgia. These types of videos allow a little vicarious nostalgia with the genuine love and memory behind them
These type of videos are honestly some of my favourites, no matter who makes them. Something just feels right about seeing someone recreate their (or someone else's) dream army from when they were a child. It just makes sense, and even my own inner child is screaming for cool stuff like that every time I see it happening! Hoping to see some more army videos like this, especially if it has a progress on multiple units.
Have a great vacation you all!
Hey! Just wanna say I absolutely adore Tabletoptime! You got me BIG into warhammer... and other gamse! Tabletop wargaming in general. Many of your videos have been the backdrop of kitbashing and painting sessions, and have sparked many ideas. Currently, I can't support you like I wish I could and what I think you guys deserve, but when I can I will!
Watching and commenting is amazing support! Thankyou for viewing and your kind words - glad to have been there with many of your hobby successes!
Cant wait to see more conversions, it's a lost art as such so showing how much fun and how much more you can get from minis is great!
For basing: Put them on some kind of off white marble to represent them infiltrating the upper spires of some Imperial hive city.
Im gonna be honest, i was scared for a moment when i wasnt seeing yalls videos in my notifications. But, im overjoyed to see you guys still working! Im loving the army so far, keep churning out those Task force Katos!
Havoc launchers give me big metal Whirlwind vibes and I'm here for it.
Love a army refresh
I got some vindicator kits from a friend. As an IG main I LOVE the trophy racks from the CSM sprue! One of my regimental banners has a spear tip with a firewarrior head impaled on it. It's what every good emperor fearing regiment needs!
I'm currently making a chaos army purely out of old scale models, so your old army would be my dream army funnily enough. My cutoff point is Dark Vengance, vehichle wise i'll get a defiler and a predator and rhino
You could paint the bases in random pattern with warm tones, sort of make em look like warp portals that the little spikey dudes are coming out of. I feel like doing something wild like that would both contrast the models and give you a new way to base, since you already did rubble style bases.
Not sure about what to do next.
But, considering you didn't want the more desert look, perhaps go with a more "simple" type of basing.
The basic thing could be that classic granny grating/plastic canvas or some of the other mesh options for a deck plating basing scheme. A basic black layer, drybrush a gunmetal, black and brown washes, bring back up with more gunmetal and a bit of a shinier...then add in some of the rusty pigments for an old, weathered flooring.
Adding in things like some of the smaller straws or parts of zip ties to break up the grating parts along with additional pieces such as barrels or debris could work great for a look like they're scavenging for things on an old hulk.
While not 40K, it's part of the basing scheme that I'd used with my Imperials for Star Wars: Legion where each squad had their own basing thing for different ship sections on an Imperial ship...only issue that I'd had was one where I screwed it up near the end, but it looked good until then. Take the black base, sand the top as smooth as I could get it, painted it a metallic black, then a few thin layers of high gloss polyeurethane (Got the version from the craft isle at Walmart, so a relatively basic thing and thicker than what's normally used with more hardware side stuff) with a light sand between some of the layers...had a wonderful representation of the Death Star 2 hangar floor from RotJ where you got reflections of the Stormtroopers off of it. The fuckup was using a bit to much superglue to attach the minis to the base and it fogged bad, couldn't get rid of it and an attempt to just add another gloss layer did remove that, but made the surface look wonky.
You seem so excited about this project ! Can’t wait to see it unfold ! It’s nice these episodes that develop over time and different episodes ! I wish I had kept my old armies ! I had the original Pretoria guard and the space wolves
Gang, a shotgun mic on the end of a boom pointed down at the talent from above is a perfect audio setup for static presentation.
I love videos like this! Seeing young Dave's artistry is so special!
I like the advice you mention about painting a vehicle, charater and squad to make sure you like a paint scheme. I'm a vehicle nut and I've come up with awesome paint schemes on several vehicles, only to have them look completely underwhelming when applied to trooper models...
I had the same idea to use Horus heresy predator in a 40k death guard army, it just creates an obvious difference and makes sense lore wise too. Yours looks awesome mate, it will be smashing when painted, I'm sure.
My first CSM were also Alpha Legion, painted the same dark blue as yours! Just less blood :P
Love a salvage project, very cool to watch you glow your old army up. Some day I'll get more paint on my own CSM 2.0 ...
I love this type of video. I wouldn't mind if they were just one unit each with more details how you do the conversion... for example how you did the markings in on the pages of the tomb.
I don't know how non-Alpha-Legion players care for these videos, but I love them despite my models looking completely different.
...and as a non-native speaker I love being able to learn a bit of your Aussie pronunciation on the way (I still sound like a caricature though).
I actually liked the subtle enhancements you made to the Predator, and I'd love to see the Defiler.
Thank you Dave for bringing your Alpha Legion back! I love to see it and it even inspired me to build my very own Alpha Legion army, in a similar way like you did! I would love to see how you would make Mutilators cool, since to me they always looked bad...
For the bases, I think a famer's field, but especially something like wheat or hay would be interesting. The alpha legion could be sabotaging the food supply of a planet before an attack.
Just another continuation of a big part of the reason i even started this crazy hobby! LETS FREAKING GO GUYS!
Have a merry Christmas TableTop Crew, looking forward to what the new year will bring you all and us all as we ride aling with you!
I feel like having them standing over some type of molten red hot crackly lava bases would look epic.
I love the metallic effect on the armor of those models
As a fellow old school chaos marine player I look forward to seeing what you do with the defiler, a favourite model of mine.
I can't wait to see the rest of this series! The defiler is especially exciting.
Really love the look of this army, can’t wait to see more
When I think of a warm toned base I think of trench debris. So the warm toned woods and the grimey brown dirt, I think would work.
I would go for city ruins for the base. You could even link it thematically with your traitor guard. The guard fight in the wastes whilst the marines take the city itself
I'd love to see what kinds of conversions Dave does for a couple of obliterators. I've never been that happy with the present day obliterator sculpt, I think a TTT-quality conversion would be great.
When it comes to the basing, my immediate thought went to taking inspiration from the Legion book's cover. The reddish, warm hues would also tie into the lore of being close to the Dark Mechanicum.. however, you said you wouldn't want a desert, so Martian wasteland in that regard is kind of out😅
Absolutely love seeing these Alpha Legion videos. I would love to see what you do with the Defiler honestly
For bases you could do the same as your traitors as they could have been deployed to help or reinforce some of the traitors
Yes to both. Excellent Alpha Legion is excellent. More. More. More!
this is a most excellent project
this is exactly what you need to do to rescue your channel
keep doing additions to your army, then play a 500 point game with Jen , lets see her sisters vs your chaos
then you can both do videos on how the battle went, what performed, what your next additions will be
then follow with your next conversion and painting set
lead into another game
you could even use the campaign rules and have even more reasons to do sick conversions as your teams evolve
please
give people a reason to come back and watch instead of just randomly hoping you catch the current thing wave
I'd dig a sort of burnt orange, dead world base. So plenty of dead, orange tufts, maybe some contrasting grey or marble masonry, and plenty of orange dust from the scorched earth.
The aspiring sorcerer is probably my favourite of the ones in this video it's a really cool pose. I do love the homage to your old models with the canon too.
Excited to see more parts as you work through the rest in the new year. Have a great holiday.
I absolutely love this project! Really digging the use of Heresy age equipment since that would make a lot of sense. Please convert a defiler soon!
Love the channel!
-John
Autumn forest basing. If you want those warm colours but not a desert/ruins.
That original csm with heavy bolter looks good. I like the ammo belt hanging down.
Your Alpha Legion has mostly cold and dark tones... if you don't want to go the desert route you could go the industrial route, with a lot of copper (verdigree as a hint to the colors of the legionnaires themselves) and hazard stripes.
I know industrial it's more a Iron Warriors sort of thing but I still think that the colors would fit.
In alternative you could make it look like they are invading a Tau command base, with the ochre yellow-orangish tones most Taus are depicted using and really geometric and clean gribbles to contrast the curved and jagged lines of the marines themselves.
Always love your chaos army Dave!
By the Gods, we would've been friends back in the day! I had nearly the exact same CSM army back in the day. Defiler, Terminator Lord with Terminators, CSM with the sergeant with powerfist and all! Even have the old metal Obliterators as well! But my pride and joy, was a converted Slaanesh Daemon Prince made using the Deciever model as a base with Chaos possesed bits to daemon-ify it up! Great to see a refresh happening too!
Oh that sounds awesome! I miss the days of my terminators slow marching and my enemy praying they could kill enough of them before they hit combat otherwise they were rolling the entire battleline
From the bottom of my heart, it hurts me to see you guys activelyu struggling as a warhammer channel while others are able to do so well, y'all are very creative and deserve to stay in the space, and I know there's a lot of... difficulty going on in the states, as a US resident it's... rough.
Though, I say you should not give up hope, for you guys are among some of the most awesome in the tabletop scene, you guys inspire me to try more wacky designs and projects and although my skill has a painter and hobbist isnt the best, i am learning more and more, and you guys started that path.
I think a big design choice on the models in your old army that is lacking on these models is the blood. I know the army is not the bloody, crazy kind of chaos, but i think its a good design choice to make it really scream chaos. Maybe something for the bases? I dont know, its your atmy and you should design it however you feel like suits it!!
I am excited to see your refresh!
what an absolute glow up, such a clean and well executed idea and scheme.
if you go for the sabotage scheme you could try city or industrial bases. like they are on a mission to sabotage something inside a special facility
Love you updating the childhood army!
Awesome paints scheme man. Subtle and muted, yet intimidating and menacing. I love it. I can't wait to see the following videos. Merry Christmas 🎄 ❤
You could do marble ruins to a city scape. That way you could still dust it with warm pigment colors.
Not sure what colors to use, but some sort of urban rubble sounds great as bases. Looking forward to seeing the next installment of this series. Would love to see both building and painting as the series continue. MErry Chtistmas and a Heppy New Year to you and all the others in the team.
Instead of a regular base like a destroyed city or a desert you should do a swirling fog around the ankles, maybe with cotton? My idea is that they are appearing from the shadows in dark fog like manifesting form the thunder storm itself.
Amazing idea with recreating the old army, loving how they're coming together Dave! For the bases I'd suggest some contrasting colors, and if you don't want desert, how about lush jungle, with muddy ground so that you can pigment then up to their knees! Thinking like the first planet in SpaceMarine 2.
Hell yes, Dave! I absolutely love seeing you guys building your armies. Tale of Three TableTopTimers? Hmmm maybe you could take this re-imagined Alpha Legion dream army and take it to Ark40k next year?
I love the C&C mammoth tank inspired turret rockets.
I really like the havoc launcher, they are super versatile, i like using them as missile pods for my Imperial guard forces when I can get them. you can mount one either side of a taurox turret(and it looks 100x better than the Taurox missile setup.) Or you can use the weapons arm of a goliath truck along with the havoc launcher's mounting to mount them to the side of a tank turret.- what's better than 1x HK missile on your tank? 6HK MISSILES!
I think Defiler. It's the big project and a great incentive to get it done.
Obliterators, they're such a cool concept and need more love.
Nice video as always! When you ask us about bases and you wanted aome warm but no dessert look, I can only think about the reddish brown rocky landscape where Goku and company fight against Vegeta in the first arc of DBZ
Commenting to boost engagement! Love your guys’ videos and I really hope you guys keep painting and building!
Great work. You did an amazing job on the painting. I think you should go with red desert bases, but I am often wrong about what looks good. Thanks for sharing!!
For the bases, maybe do an interior scene? Either inside a building or spaceship, that they've infiltrated
These look sick. I’m excited to see that crab in the new scheme.
Love it so much, i love to see how creative ou can get and awesome conversion ideas so ill be loving that!
Do urban bases, that way you can still use some brown and warm red rust pigments for the contrast, should be easy with some cork and some old resin supports.
I absolutely love the old sorcerer minis they look so sick. A wicked video idea and I can't wait to see what you do next!
i was waiting for this. i always love you guys custom army content.
They look pretty awesome. Just keep them coming. Seasons greetings for all the TT team 👍🏻🎄
Your old army looks like something I would paint today.
MY wife told me, I will have some models under the tree, so I can butcher them in a few :D
I'm doing something similar on the back burner with my Night Lords. Probably about the same age as Dave's CSM here, and painted in the traditional midnight clad colours (and not painted well!). They're being redone with a theme that leans heavily on Nighthaunt bits from AoS. I've got the conversion plans for Legionnaires, Raptors, a Demon Prince and Warp Talons figured out, now I'm trying to get my head round how to suitably convert a Lord Discordant. Videos like this are wonderfully inspiring - my vote would also go to the Defiler.
Defiler! Would love to see how you approach this (and the rest of your army, keep this going!)
basing idea; rubble city bases but on a planet that compleatly dryed up and deserty .
that way you can get bases that are city and rubble but paint them in desert colours and years od sand storm have just turned everything sandy
Love this, my childhood blood angels 2nd edition army is lost to the warp (thanks mum) so I’ve been slowly buying one of every firstborn kit to create a “nostalgia” army. Merry Christmas, happy holidays and happy new year!
OMG! I love the Havok Launchers! I want! Defiler please!
I always loved the OG demon prince model, though the new ones are great too
My childhood chaos army is still my main army to this day, 15k points of Emperors Children and counting. Can't wait for the new releases next year!
Definetly do the defiler! We don't see enough of them now because the kit is getting a bit old.
These videos are why i come here. Looks absolutely beauty mate.
Absolutely loved this video. More in this vein please!!!
10:12 Damn, Dave has been at it since the middle ages 😂 If you want warm tones for the bases and not make it a desert, how about lava? Some Mustafar vibes with industial bits might suit well.
As a absolute Base enthusiast, I would use a nuclear-dessert city theme. Old industry covered in gray/sandy dust, with one or two bits, like a mutated plant or a glowing cristal or something like that in neon colours as a kontrast.
Could go highly rusty metal bases, oranges yellows rich browns.
And the Void war bases aren't too expensive and give good detail
with the terrain what about an autumnal tree situation. you have lots of warm coloured leaves and dark browns for fertile soul and trunks could be cool
Merry Christmas to you all as well at Tabletop Time. 😁
Maybe rusty metal floors could work well for the bases. Like they are infiltrating a factorum or some other hive city location.
I am team defiler I was also playing chaos when it came out and it was peak hype at the time. I'd love to see a modern take on it and I believe Dave has already made a defiler/dune crawler combo "off camera" that looked great and I'd love to see something like that "on camera".
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. May next year be filled with a lot of success.
Merry Christmas Dave and to all at Table Top Games
I love this type of Vid I can't wait to see the paintjob and all the conversions❤👍. Happy Holidays Tabletop Time!
In my opinion, conversions videos are the best !