Some ways back, Necron Bob (who no longer has Necrons nor, at this point anything 40k) sent me a message asking if I wanted an old 40k tank that needed some TLC.
Sure, why not?
After some scheduling issues, keeping us from meeting up, he was in town last weekend and stopped by the FLGS whilst we were all gaming. He didn't have just 'a tank' rather he had his old Black Consuls army in its entirety! Holy crap, really? 'Keep it, trade it, sell it, do whatever you want with it its yours.' Damn, that was a surprise!
I haven't seen this army in many years, not since before Bob moved out of state. Prior to that time I fought against it quite regularly. Bob was ever the good opponent, fun to play against and yet always making for a hard fought game (skills that serve him well in his current preference for winning WHFB tournies with alarming frequency).
All of the green Predator's missing parts were included too! |
I ordered a bunch of combat shield arms off of ebay to change the assault marines w/o jump packs into a Tyrant's Legion Retaliator Squad. |
The first bunch of (literally) rearmed marines. |
The 1st repainted Astral Claw! |
Additionally, there was a considerable pile o' bitz. In separating out the 40k and WHFB bitz to be dumped into their respective bitz boxes, I found an old Inquisitor in terminator armor with psycannon and null rod, along with enough Necron Scarab swarms to make 3-4 bases of the little buggers for my GF's small but apparently growing Necron force.
Turns out to be a better haul than I thought! Thanks Bob, I loom forward to (irregularly) crushing them with impunity! :)
ReplyDelete'Loom' you say? The Tyrant's Legion snickers with amusement at your so-called...uh, threat.
ReplyDeleteBah! They'll recoil in abject terror from the Emperor's light!!!
ReplyDeleteThat or they'll just "weave" in and around you while telling you a "yarn" about how they'll take you down in a different blog "thread"
ReplyDeletelol, Kushial wins!
ReplyDeleteWow Kushial, how long have you been holding on to that one? LOL
ReplyDeleteFrom about 5 minutes after I read the Loom typo when I got in from work this evening. It wasn't held for long at all, maybe just a stitch in time is all.
ReplyDeleteAh, I tip my proverbial hat to laser-like wit sir!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see you found a use for them. 10 years and two moves have taken their toll on the poor Black Consules. They will look great as Astral Claws!
ReplyDeleteI hope so. It'll take time to hide all of that black and yellow though!
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