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Hi all,

Cutthroatcure wrote:Looking good!

Odd One Out wrote:Excellent! Absolutely excellent!

Thatguy91 wrote:This thread is full of win! Kudos to you sir! +1

Thanks

Johnny-Crass wrote:Any plans for Zerg or the aliens?

Nothing in the near future. I have other things to do first A Defiler for the Sons of Pus and Stic-krons.

inmygravenimage wrote:To infinity indeed! Really great step-by-step.

Thanks.
I began taking notes while working on the Sons of Pus. If I ever go back to add units or such I'll know what steps were taken Also, it also helps to find parts that were missed.


I finished the test models!

Overall I'm satisfied with the results. The only thing I'm questioning are the shoulder pads. I may re-paint the shoulder pads and reverse the black and blue.

I did paint the wings but didn't take any photos You can see the results in the assembled photos.

I prefer the look of the gray base. I feel it matches the scouts and has a fun "cartoonie" look.


Next up - Assault Marines


Thanks and take care

Very nice work, sir. Very nice work.

They are looking awesome I must say! I like how the colors are coming out on them.

Excelent!

Haha I really like what you've done here so far...40ks all a very serious business and its great to see some well executed funny stuff like this...to infinity and beyond!

This is nothing less than incredible!!! The Rex dread is awesome!!! Very much envy your patience and skills!!

Great job

They are looking so cool, The Grey base defiantly does look best. I am looking forward to the Assault Marines.

This is by far one of the best armies that I have ever come across and this is one of the best P&M blogs out there. More power to you, that dread is sick and the rest of your conversions are perfectly balanced between silly and believable. Simply astounding.

And the grey test model came out best, by the way.

The grey definitely has more depth/ +1.

Oh man... so much win in this thread. Seriously, those army men might possibly be the greatest things I've ever seen

i definatly like that you didnt paint his helmet all purple, that would have looked really bad.. the accents being purple look great on the other hand

Hi all,

Rogue Wolves wrote:i definatly like that you didnt paint his helmet all purple, that would have looked really bad.. the accents being purple look great on the other hand

Thanks. I was thinking the same thing to much purple is not a good thing.

Dabedman wrote:This is by far one of the best armies that I have ever come across and this is one of the best P&M blogs out there. More power to you, that dread is sick and the rest of your conversions are perfectly balanced between silly and believable. Simply astounding.

And the grey test model came out best, by the way.

Thanks. Just what I going for.
Looks like gray base was the preferred version.


Okay, the more I looked at the shoulder pads the more I became less than thrilled with the results. I reversed the colors. The iconography and trim are now blue and the base color is black. To me it just seems to work better.

I tried a paynes grey/cyan wash on the plasma gunner and a cyan wash on the missile launcher. The missile launcher came out a tad more blue and I will most likely use it in the future.

Thanks and take care

Looking sweet

Agree the reversed scheme on the pads looks better.

With the whole scheme in place I keep thinking it would make a nice chaos scheme

holy thats buzzlightyear as a spacemarine!!

I'm up in the air on the switch, I think both have merits, the one nice thing about the swap is it brings out the shoulder pads trim color a great deal better than before.

I was looking at my sons shoes the other day, and noticed that Buzz is grey rather than white on them Grey is defiantly the way to go

Hi all,

monkeytroll wrote:Looking sweet
Agree the reversed scheme on the pads looks better.
With the whole scheme in place I keep thinking it would make a nice chaos scheme

Thanks!
I'm preferring the switch as well.
Hey! We're not a bunch of Warp Darkmatter / Agent Z around here

Rogue Wolves wrote:holy thats buzzlightyear as a spacemarine!!

Whew! Good thing that is the whole ing point

dalsiandon wrote:I'm up in the air on the switch, I think both have merits, the one nice thing about the swap is it brings out the shoulder pads trim color a great deal better than before.

I want the trim to stand out more and that is why I tried the reverse scheme.

M0rdain wrote:I was looking at my sons shoes the other day, and noticed that Buzz is grey rather than white on them Grey is defiantly the way to go

If the sneaker fits, wear it!
To me, the gray looks much better. It will require more time, but it will be worth it.

On to Assault marines. I have a squad of five containing an inferno pistol dude and vet sarge with a fist. Also, a Sanguinary Priest with a jump pack and lightning claw (Utility Belt Buzz) will be joining them. They will eventually be flying around inside a Stormraven (Hamm).

The back packs are already done. I will attach the backpacks once they are painted.

Nothing very different from the tactical squad except i used bolt pistols and gave them chainswords. The swords really don't fit Space Ranger theme, but I don't want there to any confusion on what models they are representing.

For Utility Belt Buzz I used an Space Wolves head and just filed down the hair so it looks like Buzz's hood.

Thanks and take care,

cant waite to see utility buzz painted up, nice idea for the hood

This is seriously amazing! I can't wait for them to be painted, especially the wings. These marines are a work of art

What a great idea this is
Love the army men and Rex. The test model paint job looks pretty neat.
This is going to be one amazing army when its all done.

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What a bloody riot.

You definitely have your work cut out for you, but you seem to be enjoying it, and that's all that matters.

Query : Did you ever think about leaving off the shoulderpads? Buzz himself has those gangly looking arms jutting out of the massive center torso, it would have looked odd but certainly fitting for the character.

These are brilliant minis!
I'm interested in finding out how you will do the bases for them.

Hi all,

Rogue Wolves wrote:cant waite to see utility buzz painted up, nice idea for the hood

Commander Jimbob wrote:This is seriously amazing! I can't wait for them to be painted, especially the wings. These marines are a work of art

Thank you!

Johnny-Crass wrote:You've got a subscriber in me
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And you're miles and miles
From your nice warm bed
Just remember what your old pal said
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I see what you did there. Well played

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:What a bloody riot.
You definitely have your work cut out for you, but you seem to be enjoying it, and that's all that matters.
Query : Did you ever think about leaving off the shoulderpads? Buzz himself has those gangly looking arms jutting out of the massive center torso, it would have looked odd but certainly fitting for the character.

It is fun. The conversions are fairly minor and there is enough variation in painting to keep from getting to cumbersome.

Answer: I chose to use Toy Story as a basis for inspiration not to make an exact duplicate. I thought about keeping the shoulder pads, but it looked awful and I wasn't going to make a whole army like that. At the end I want people to see a Space Marine army based on Toy Story and not just a Toy Story army. I hope that answers your question.

Mr.Awesome1 wrote:These are brilliant minis!
I'm interested in finding out how you will do the bases for them.

Thanks! I am using clear bases. I have a few pictures of Andy's room that I will be using in a display base. I haven't used clear bases before so if it doesn't work out game play wise or if the bases becomed scuffed than I will do something else. What that something else is I don't know


On to new stuff. I built the Stormraven. It was the first one I built and it went together fairly well. I will say ther will be no rush to make a second

No conversions or anything special ... this time

Thanks and take care

Hi all,

I had some time to start painting Hamm!

I missed photos of the first three steps

Step 1 - Gray Primer
Step 2 - Master Series Paint Entraill Pink
Step 3 - 1/2 msp Entrail pink, 1/2 vgc Squid Pink

I think it will take awhile to paint Hamm and its times like this I wish I had an airbrush

Thanks and take care

Good stormraven, that is certainly a new look for that vehicle.

I'm going to take a flying leap with this one and guess that any assault marines you make are going to have wings so they can "fly" just like buzz light year?

Edit sorry just looked back and saw you had already done that. Doh

Too infinity and bejoooonnnnddddd...... As i fall in to a chasm of despair.

Brilliantly deranged. My only quibble: shouldn't the cupola be black? Otherwise, that's not evil dr porkchop...

holy pink batman, thats.. pink

this force just gets cooler as you go.

So how much of a pain was it to build that machine? You said you're in no hurry to build another.

Hi all,

inmygravenimage wrote:Brilliantly deranged. My only quibble: shouldn't the cupola be black? Otherwise, that's not evil dr porkchop...

As my son would say, "Not finished yet. Still working."

Rogue Wolves wrote:holy pink batman, thats.. pink

You ain't seen nothing yet.

dalsiandon wrote:this force just gets cooler as you go.
So how much of a pain was it to build that machine? You said you're in no hurry to build another.

Thanks! This wasn't as difficult as a first generation land raider crusader, but it was a wee bit trickier than a Valkyrie. The main body was difficult to line up properly.


Okay, so I've had some time to look at it. And I did not liking what I saw. It is too red, much to red.

I went back to my reference picture and started over. I had some "rose" colors from a previous project a few years ago and fortunately the paints were still good (way to go, Vallejo).

I reapplied a coat of MSP Entrail Pink and built up from there.

I think this looks much better and is a closer match to Hamm.

Next up - Highlighting black!

Thanks and take care