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Art Uncle Beb's Paintstravaganza And Compliment Fishing Thread (Warning: Image Heavy)

It's not a professional light box by any stretch - it's two folded up essay prompts from college and my desk lamp

I mostly did it to show that I actually put time into weathering the model as opposed to the usual basecoat -> wash -> highlight that I normally do

http://imgur.com/DqAEHkI

though here's an earlier picture with it next to a 'clean' chimera of mine
 
Ahhhh. Lightbox was a good plan then. Even that simple a construction helps show off your work.
 
yea. it's not hard to make something presentable to even the most picky miniature sites - like the work in progress general on 4chan's /tg/ or the warseer forums before they imploded (thank god, they were shit).

you can also use some aluminum foil stretched over cardboard to make a sorta-mirror to reflect more light onto the front of the model when held off camera, but there's so much light in my room I usually don't have to go to such lengths
 
For a brief moment I had hoped that you had named the Salamander after your 1st SORT character's Universal Carrier. How sad I was when it was not the case.
 
nah. would've been neat but I already got an established naming convention for 'headquarters' vehicles - they're gonna be named after famous tanks IRL. though desert oasis was a pretty good name. I plan on building more tanks, so fitting in new names isn't a big deal

So, since we brought it up, here's the origin of the name Thunderbolt:

Thunderbolt was the name of every sherman that the brilliant armor officer Creighton Abrams rode in world war II. Over the course of the war he managed to wear out six shermans, the seventh one that survived being an M4A3E8 with a 76mm gun and the E8's distinctive HVSS system. This sherman was, of course, named Thunderbolt VII.

I guess Abe Abram's tradition lived on long into M41.
 
I realize that I have fallen behind in my 40k. Is this a guard codex thing or is it from imperial armor?
 
little of A, little of B. the thunderer is a troops choice for Armored Battlegroup army lists (included in Imperial Armor Vol. I) and a heavy support choice for a 'standard' Imperial Guard army. units in the IA books can usually be taken as part of a codex army or will usually have a list packed into the book with it
 
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