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I picked up some more Horrors off eBay over the last few days. I grabbed a couple of the plastic models to convert into Heralds since my typical Horror units are the old metal models. Just browsing today I found a ten man squad for $69. All I need to do is rework the bases to match my army and I should be good to go. I am not really feeling the changes to Interceptor and my plans to build the Firestorm Redoubt might change after this fact. I've already built one Punisher gatling cannon out of bits left over from my Maulerfiend, so maybe I'll model up a second one for the Redoubt and just use the whole piece as bunker for Daemons. I guess that brings me to what do with all the Exalted Flamers. I was sitting on six. Four for the Redoubt mounted in pairs and two for units. But now, I might just set aside four of them for Heralds. I could either dump one in each of my new Horror units- who probably won't move around a lot anyway- or just drop these bastards in a s

Daemonic Wall of Martyrs Network

I have been wanting to post some pictures of my Wall of Martyrs I have been working on for some time. When Stronghold Assault came out, I was already thinking a lot about doing some terrain. We have a local place in Norfolk where you can walk in and use the 3-D printer, laser cutter/etcher, CNC machine. The guys at 757 Makerspace are awesome. Rather than investing the money yourself and buying this equipment you can use everything for a monthly fee. My first projects were all for my Eldar: I wasn't super happy with how they turned out. I wanted to use some textured spray paint, but it just ended up looking a little flat to me. Here are some pics after I hit them with paint. The hardest thing for me was actually getting highlights that looked good. In the second picture though, you can see the size of details you are able to make with the laser cutter. Everything was cut from 1/8" birch except for the details which are sliced from 1/16" plastic sheeti