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Dang, BA. I’ve been gone from this board for over a year, but the first thing I looked up on my return was how my favorite scratch building madman was doing.Lo and behold, you never fail to disappoint! Still floored by this project after the Warlord and I’m glad to see that you’ve seemed to kick whatever was afflicting you!

BA, I hate you in the absolute best way! Your'e a continued inspiration to pretty much everyone on this site and whomever sees pictures of the amazing stuff you put together. Man... so fantastic. I ran out of both superlatives and expletives a long time ago.

I loved your first “test” marine as that’s what he turned out to be and am looking forward to your progress on this army ! Well done!

I hate Smurfs! I absolutely hate them. And so I hate it when I see some like these and then I like them! I especially love the Stormraven... man, that's a sexy paint job. Beutiful work, Prot!

I could punch you in the face for having models that glorious! Well done all around! Fantastic!

Wow... amazing conversions! Great stuff!

Your Ferris Manus is absolutely amazing... all of them are, but he takes the cake in my opinion.

Tyranids reproduce by way of a Norn-queen, not a specific type of reproductive ship... the Norn-queen just happens to be at the center of that ship in a massive birthing chamber where they asexually reproduce the entire host of tyranid organisms. The likelihood is that, on Beta Anphelion IV, there was a captive norn-queen, since the facility was designed to discover ways to counter the ridiculous speed of tyranid adaptation. The presence of a growing tyranid force there, up to Heirophant bio-titans offers no question that such a norn-queen, once captive and now free, exists/existed. Without the norn-queen, in fact without synapse creatures of some intellect like tyranid warriors, smaller tyranid lifeforms such as ripper swarms, gargoyles, termagants, hormagaunts and the like revert to their feral tendencies and are simply extremely dangerous wild animals acting with whatever instincts are natural to them. They cannot reproduce, however. As to feeding, it was even written into the rules and the ripper swarms exist ONLY to eat, so tyranids can and will eat, they are just usually kept on task by synapse creatures. The references are numerous, to include every 'Nid codex that exists. Deployed tryanid forces that are expendable (the minor creatures, for the most part) throw themselves into disgestive pools once there is nothing left for them to do and the ships of the fleet then suck up the biomass to be fed to the norn-queens to expand the swarm. Larger creatures such as biotitans, tyrants, etc, usually just hop on board. This is evident in the existence of known tyranids that keep reappearing on various planets - Old One Eye, the Red Terror, etc. All of this is to say that if you had an infestation of 'Nids, the planet could very well be doomed. Water isn't a barrier... they adapt to it and deploy water creatures as well. So unless it was a minor infestation, nothing short of exterminatus usually gets rid of them.

Chapter Master Aniketos of the Sanguinary Phalanx Executor (Captain) Tornaeus, 3rd Co of the Sanguinary Phalanx

Amazing stuff with only one criticism and ONLY because the rest of your work is stunning; I think your freehand text could use some work. Looking at your Stormeagle, the Land Raiders and the dreads, I think that the writing needs to be more crisp. Those Blood Angels are great, but the green blood drop looks a little sloppy. You've got amazing colors and schemes and detail work, but then I look and I see a wavy Legion number or writing and it takes away from an otherwise sensational job. It's so much better than I could do, but I think your best work currently is the stuff without that writing. All of the other freehand is great and I love your stuff.

Here's my current work in progress... although not updated on B&C for quite some time as it goes through some rewrites. This is the second chapter of mine as you've already include the Sanguinary Phalanx. http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/230896-ia-five-suns/ The Five Suns http://imageshack.us/a/img19/4206/fivesunsassaultmarine.jpg

Not sure why he didn't post these, but Winterdyne did these for me a while back. You've already seen his Blood Angels, but this is a successor Dante analog and Sanguinary Guard from my Sanguinary Phalanx chapter. http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/commissions/sanguinaryphalanx/honour_guardall_1024.jpg http://www.winterdyne.co.uk/maz/images/commissions/sanguinaryphalanx/all_1024.jpg

I posted my IA a little earlier and you said all you needed was a pic. That guy was a Sanguinary Phalanx marine. See Post #481. Linky