Re: [Epic] Favorite Detachments

From: Thane Morgan <thane_at_...>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 20:42:00 -0700

Andy Skinner wrote:
>
> Miller, Chris wrote:
> >
> > Ok, in effort to have more than one thread going at a time on
> > the list, I have two items:
> >
> > 1) Has anyone tried just porting a unit over directly from SM/TL to
> > E40K? I know the army list changes make some of this impossible, but
> > there should be some things that are possible - Ork units, maybe some IG
> > units, The LR company - I ask because many of us have these predefined
> > units ready made for the old version, yet in the new one I tend to use
> > such different setups that it's hard to use the old groups. The LR co.
> > is easy, but how bout an ork horde based on the old 4 nobz + 15 boyz
> > setup, with some tanks or squiggoths or something added in...
>
> I have a little different question. Do you paint your minis with
> detachments in mind? I have not settled down to a set group of
> detachments yet, and do not paint minis with any sense of grouping. (It
> would have been easier to do this in 2nd edition.) Since I don't know
> how they'll be grouped, I don't want to paint them with any particular
> scheme. I do need to start doing something to give them some
> individuality--they're all the general color scheme of the army right
> now.
>
> andy
>
> --
> Andy Skinner
> askinner_at_...

I try to paint a unit at once, with a common color scheme. I don't try
to hard to keep an army standard colors. I like to easily see the
different units, without looking for shoulder pads.

Thane
Received on Thu Feb 26 1998 - 03:42:00 UTC