I will be including things I have already posted in other threads here, just so everything stays together. Not everything I have already posted will end up here right away, but it will as soon as I get around to it.
Anyway, so in order to avoid confusion, I am going to separate this post into two sections, the first part will consist of things/factions/etc unaligned with my main force, the second part will consist of troops/characters/etc that are aligned with the Galactic Dominion.
Unaligned
Okay, So first off here we have Felix Nocturne and his Group of Mercenaries, consisting of currently just 3 members, Nocturne himself, with the OT Chainsword, and his right hand man and heavy sniper, Marcus Aurum, and also a Rogue Space Ninja whom I have yet to name:
And so you can all see Marcus' ridiciulously oversized sniper rifle:
And then coming up next we have My Mafioso-esque hitman, still unamed, with his signature 11 barrel shotgun, The Decimator:
And right after this we have what is probably my favorite faction that I have yet made, my brand new faction of Space Banditos. Yes, Banditos, but in space. It is a small faction of about 20 troops, divided into 5 types of troops:
First up we have the Red Bandannas, these are the brunt of the gang, and come equipped with stolen ultra-heavy blasters, and of course alcohol for various hilarious effects:
And if we look closer here, we can see Pablo being chased down by his wife, who has been trying, to no avail for years now, to curb his rampant alchoholism:
And over in this corner we have the hapless Billy Crown. Poor Billy drew the short straw and was sent to pick up some more beer for his buddies' bachelor party. Unfortunately for Billy, the Space Banditos have just recently raided the entire area of all manner of alcoholic beverages. Not one to let his buddies down however, brave, foolish Billy opted to try and steal some back from the Banditos, a rather unwise plan as we can see from the results:
But don't fret folks, this won't be the last we'll be seeing of Billy Crown. His life of torture and hard luck is only just beginning, as we can see from this next set of photos here, Billy has had a run-in with the Banditos' Gunslingers, easily identifiable by their backwards black bandanas, a sign of superior rank over the cannon fodder red bandanas. These Gunslingers each wield dual high-tech laser repeaters, just as powerful as the much more cumbersome ultra-heavy blaster the red bandanas use, but far lighter and with a much better rate of fire. Anyway, it seems the Gunslingers have caught poor Billy trying to steal a bottle of beer; again:
Ah well, at least he went down in a glorious blaze of gunfire this time, more than I can say for his near future:
And a closer look at the Gunslingers:
And then next up we have some of the toughest fighters in the Bandito crew, the Brawlers. These guys like to fight up close and personal with their massive bowie knives and broken bottles, and are identifiable by their black bandannas turn forwards and their battle ready spiked pauldrons (I actually ended up having only one of the pauldrons, I have ordered two more, but they haven't gotten here yet. Eventually all the brawlers will have them) It seems that once again, Billy Crown has been caught attempting to steal a beer. The brawlers have responded by stabbing him in the face with that same beer bottle. Poor Billy:
Oh, the horror:
And, it seems that poor Billy hasn't given up yet, as he seems to have (again) been caught by the Banditos, only this time, he has had a run in with the explosives troops, identifiable by their black bandannas turned forwards, and their rocket launchers. It seems that they have the most decisive answer for Billy's theft as of yet:
Well, at least the Banditos are having fun:
This is probably one of my most favorite images I have ever taken:
Enjoying the show:
And- oh? What's this? It seems that Billy has found the White Bandannas, the medics of the Banditos. They certainly seem quite a bit nicer than the rest of the Banditos, here they've simply given Billy the beer he has so desired. Has Billy's torturous quest come to an end so soon?:
But alas for poor Billy, it seems it was a setup all along. The White Bandannas laugh it up and drink to poor Billy being shot down by the Banditos second in command, the Officer and second toughest Bandito in the whole crew; Garbanzo Nova:
Oh the humanity! (figanity?):
And a good look at the face of Garbanzo Nova:
Again, this is one of those images I just love:
And then it seems that, so soon after his latest run in with the band, poor Billy has finally met the Banditos fearless leader, the dreaded El Drago! Billy just can't catch a break, one moment he's had his torso blown clear out from under him, and the next he's decapitated by an expertly thrown laser machete, and gunned to pieces by a scoped Machine pistol:
He even had the beer in his hand this time. So close, yet so far.
And a better look at the Bandito leader himself:
And of course, what's a faction without the group shot? It seems that once again, poor Billy has got himself into a bit of a tight spot:
And it seems also, that Pablo's wife has finally caught up to him, could this spell the end of his drinking days?:
And the overview, expect to see these guys in the upcoming forum campaign I am currently working on:
And up next we have again, Billy Crown, who seems to have run afoul of a wandering swordsman. It just doesn't seem to be his day:
Demonstrating the Rising Slash technique:
And a Windcutter type of slash. I wasn't overly happy with how this came out, but I learned from it, and made a much better one that will be coming up further down in this post. A good part of all these pics was to test out what I could do in terms of attacks/gore/supernatural techniques with the parts I currently have on hand:
And yes, that is an actual metal katana blade that the swordsman is wielding. As part of the mythos of my Galactic Dominion, there are 13 such Blades, made of the mythical material known only as Truesteel. The blade in the pictures is the Yoru no Kaze, or the Night Wind. (Though the 13 Truesteel weapons are refferred to as Blades, not all of them are actually swords.):
And the final shot of the swordsman:
And that's all she wrote for the Unaligned! Next up are those who are allied with (or are assumed to be) my main faction:
Aligned
First off here let me explain the governmental system here. It's basically a feudal society on a Galactic scale (no I wasn't going for ideal here). There are essentially five classes, Royalty, which consists only of the King and his immediate family, Nobility, which consists of those born into families that were assigned governance of planetary regions by the First of the Galaxy Kings, the Military, Artisans, and everyone else. Nobility is split into three sub-classes, High Nobles, or those Nobles given their right to nobility by the Galaxy King himself, consisting of Archdukes (only five), Dukes, and Marquesses; Regular Nobles are those Nobles given their nobility from High Nobles, who assigned out fiefdoms of their own land in order to better govern the vast amount of planets they have under their control. Regular Nobles consist of Counts, Viscounts, and Barons. And the bottom of the rung for the Nobility are Sub-Nobles, consisting of Magistrates, appointed by a Noble to govern a planet, and Governors(technically governors are sub-sub nobles, but this technicality is overlooked), appointed by a Magistrate to rule a region of their planet.
Anyway, enough on Background here, as I'm sure you just want to see the pictures, So here we have once again Billy Crown (will he ever learn?) who seems to have run afoul of the First Archduke, Archduke Fenrir Securis:
Summoning something, what could it be?
Oh my, it's the largest OT Chainsword I've ever seen. This can't possibly end well for Billy:
And it seems it didn't:
Anyway, so I have a lot of history written up for this archduke, but I won't bore you with it today. Long story short he is the commander of the Deathseekers, some of the strongest warriors in the entire Galaxy:
Okay, and up next it seems our friend Billy has run into Viktoria Von Murder, daughter of the Dominion's head scientist, Viktor Von Murder. Viktoria is a brilliant, if not entirely insane inventor who builds weapons of war and the like for the Dominion; it doesn't look like things will go Billy's way at all today, will they?:
It seems she wants to show off her line of Slaughterbots! On the far left there, with all the missiles is the MX-5400 Phalanx, an experimental cyber augmented soldier (read-Slaughterbot) built to do two things- Hold a position, and lay down overwhelming firepower without taking up too much space on the battlefield. It does both of these things very well. Next, to the far left, holding the OTCs with the lightsaber handles is the Mark V Slaughterbot, soon to be replaced by the much more deadly Slaughterbot Mark VI, seen in the middle:
Better look at the Mark V and Mark VI:
The Phalanx is an experimental unit, so for the foreseeable future there will only be one, but should it perform well it may be picked up for mass production (to an extent):
Uh oh, looks like Billy's lost his cool. He doesn't seem sure if she wants to simply show off her Slaughterbots, or test them on someone:
Why, it seems like it's Billy's lucky day! Viktoria Von Murder was indeed merely showing them off! She already did all the testing on Billy's friends and family, what a relief!
Oh, but whats this? She DOES want to test something? Well, what could it be? A Flamethrower? Oh, this might not be Billy's lucky day after all:
Run Billy Run!:
Hurry!:
It seems it may just be Billy's lucky day after all, Viktoria's just rolled a critical failure!:
What's that she says? Something else she still might want to test?
Her hydraulic leg augmentations?
RUN FASTER BILLY!:
FASTER!:
Oh dear. It seems we may not be seeing Billy again for a while:
Right, so anyway, up next is a small unit I put together of my main army. I have many times this amount of troops and such, but I am still working on army building, and I still have no large baseplates, so I just put together this very small strike team just to show off some of my troop types. The X-57 Slepnir Assault Hoverbikes are on the far left, directly next to them are several regular troopers, wielding standard heavy laser assault rifles. On the far right are a few heavy troopers wielding heavy laser/plasma shotguns. In the front commanding the unit is a Templar (still haven't made the templar's standard weapon yet, on my to-do list), flanked by a commando (guy with the serious glare off his helmet) and a Dragoon:
Dragoon will eventually have a custom Laser Spear, vs the normal pike it is currently holding:
Another overview:
Second Frontview:
Okay, and following this we have some of the highest ranking military officers, 3 of the 12 Divine Generals of the Dominion. (I actually have all 12 bodies/armor made already, but have not settled on heads/weapons for the other 9). From the Left to the Right is First Division General Marjory Darq, 2nd Division General To be named later, and the Fourth Division General, also to be named later. Each of the Divine Generals heads up one of the 12 divisions of the Dominion's military. All of the generals are considered the Hands of the Galaxy King, and serve to carry out his will militarily. As such, all are extremely powerful, and have gotten to their position through merit, rather than birth. While maintaining the position of a Divine General, or higher, one is granted the same societal status of a Noble:
And then here we have the 4 Grand Marshals, who rank even above the Divine Generals. Each Grand Marshal commands the entirety of the military troops in his quadrant of the galaxy. And yes, that is a BFenix head.
Show off the jetpack:
And yes, the Marshal in the center was also an experiment on how much Dakka I could stick onto a minifig. He is armed with a minigun, two laser guided precision missiles, two precision plasma missiles, arm-mounted rail cannons, arm mounted laser blades for CC, arm mounted infinite laser repeaters, and the most powerful weapon in his arsenal, the molecular phase cannon on his chest:
and one more view (yes, one of the marshals is purposely displayed not facing the camera in all of these pictures.):
Oh? and what is this? It's Marchioness Sieglinde Reglay, and a fig we've never seen before? A showdown, perhaps?
And of course, look who's dropped in!:
And it looks like he's okay! Billy must be on some kind of crit streak to survive a fall that bad:
Uh Oh, looks like this wasn't just any showdown, but a supernaturally powered showdown! How will (or won't) Billy get out of this one?:
This took forever to set up, so I have a lot of pictures of it!:
This is the better windcutter technique I was referring to earlier:
You're going to have to run faster than that Billy!:
Love this angle:
And Billy leaps for his life, as the duelists Clash ever closer!:
Pressing the Attack:
And they close with a thunderous clap of power! But where is billy?:
Oh, there he is:
WHOOOSSSHHH
And the combatants land on opposite sides, holding their strokes for no other reason than to look ridiculously cool, this can only mean one thing, someone's about to be mincemeat, or have been mincemeat, but only just now realize it. Also, where did Billy get to? Methinks there was a forgetful photographer here:
There's Billy!:
Just what kind of Figs are these?:
Hmmmm, nothing happening yet, both of em are still kicking.
(brown text is sieglinde, indigo is the guy): Saaaayy, shouldn't you be uh, dead?
Shouldn't you?
What? No way, you should be-unless...No way? You don't think...
Why's everyone looking at me?
Well, I'll be damned
Huh.
Well, I guess it's a draw then.
Yeah, you thinking what I'm thinking?
Tiebreaker drinking match?
Oh yeah!
......................
What?
The Hell is that?
What? Thi- oh, oh this is uh, this is-
Tequila.
Riiight, whatever- first one to pass out loses.
Right.
And just who might the winner of our contest be?
Why, It's our old friend Pablo! It looks like he managed to escape his wife after all! Looks like someone gets a happy end today!:
And next, is the info on this mysterious purple Knight. Basically, I realized that with the way I am building my army and factions and whatnot, I may not get around to building any significant number of Space Pirates anytime soon. So I needed (read-wanted) a sigfig who would be more involved in things happening in my dominion. This, combined with a challenge from a friend to make a faction inspired by the color purple, led me to make my new sigfig (Pirate Lord Mercat is still around, he just won't be my sig fig anymore, because it may be a long time before I end up doing anything with him) Knight Lord Mercat Cruor:
Shown here wielding his lance, one of the 13 truesteel blades, Sanguis, the Blood Lance. Mercat will be the hero of the faction I am working on next, ( don't worry I am always working on my main army, so that has not been put on the backburner or anything) the Amaranthine Order. I have ordered parts and such already, but it may be a few weeks before I have everything together. I'll post backstory and such for them once they are finished. As it stands Mercat himself still needs a bit of work- the fig is done, but I am waiting on parts to make his greatsword (another one of the 13 truesteel swords) he'll carry sheathed on his back, and perhaps a shotgun as well.
And without anything obscuring the view:
And Finally, a group picture of the Heroes I have finished thus far for my upcoming forum campaign- look forward to it! We have from left to right, Fiora Securis- Berserker, Arturia Celestine- Star Knight (yes she does have ties to the Amaranthine Order), and Guy Rosenthal, Duelist. Still have to make sniper/explosives hero and Medic/Engineer/Techmage hero.:
And that's it for now, hope you enjoyed what I have! Upcoming projects for anyone interested is of course, finishing my main army, my AC, a jackal battlemech, more Dragoons, more Slaughterbots, the Amaranthine Order, a giant UFO shaped like a sombrero for the space Banditos, and anything else I might interest myself in making.
I'll be constantly updating and adding things to this topic, so be sure to check it every once in a while.
lol j/k
