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So I was working in the shop the other day when Don Felder and Sammy Hagar come in and are like "Hey, what are you doing painting those marines blue."
"Oh" I said "I thought blue was pretty cool, you know?"
"But that's not METAL!" He yells back, and they wail on their axes, a tune so heavy the paint comes out of the jars and makes a swirl of color in the air, before enveloping hte marines before me and settling. What was revealed after that ten minute guitar solo was a true heavy metal marine army, all it needs is a Lok Nar to fight.


PICS:

(Note that there is no true reflection save for a bit of true light bouncing off the model, all the reflection and dirt between the legs etc. is painted.)

Chaplain


Tac Squads:




Dev Squad:


Assault Marines:




To make it short and sweet, quoting what I wrote on my site:
"This is a 2000 point marine army fully finished and ready to go. The chapter is called the Sons of Traagyn, bearing the name of their home world, a place lost in a warp storm for many many years. The planet is much like our Venus, with purple acid rain storms and lime green seas of acid. The soil is 75% iron and rusts with what little oxygen is in the air. Due to the conditions of the planet, the Chapter had to fabricate new armor out of indiginous ore as ceramite just did not last. The armor still shows oxydation and tarnishes under the harsh conditions, but it does last. Out of pride for their homeworld they do not clean their armor save for the internals which they keep 100% functional.

The army has been painted using different aging and rust techniques and is really one of a kind when it comes to painted Marines. Each squad has different markings, and the Chapter symbol is a wing, representing the winged angel that is their homeworld that saved their chapter from doom in a warp storm millenia ago. Their bases have been painted as the rusty earth of their home planet, and the base rims are a very dark metallic color.

It contains the following:
(Note: Tac squads are 1 more than legal so you can switch options around)

Chaplain with jump pack, master crafted pistol and Rosarius

Tac Squad with 11 men including two flamers and a powerfist sarge.
Tac Squad with 11 men including Lascannon and Plasma gun and a powerfist sarge.
Tac Squad with 11 men including Lascannon and Plasma gun and a powerfist sarge.

Devastator squad with Sarge, 4 missle launchers and two bolter marines.

Assault squad with Powerfist sarge and two plasma pistols.
Assault squad with Powerfist sarge and two plasma pistols.
Assault squad with Powerfist sarge and two plasma pistols.

This equals out to around 2000 points and is a very solid list for fun or competitive play.

Tactics: assault squads and Chaplain head for objective with twin flamer unit. Two tac squads and Dev squad hang back and hold your own objective. Feel free to drop the Lascannon in each squad to make the army more assault oriented. Also twin flamers may not make it into the new codex, so there is an extra just in case. Flamers are great in 5th edition where more hits are better than single hits with AP2 or 3 because of all the cover."

If anyone has any questions on colors feel free to ask.

Thanks for looking!

Cool stuff. I would have done the bases differently to add some contrast.

Well Done

Inspiration can come from the strangest places

HFN

HuzzFivvNivv wrote:
Inspiration can come from the strangest places

Haha, yes it can

But I also have to do a second thank you to the people in this thread:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/216212.page

Who helped me figure out why the heck they would be dirty in the first place.

As I was looking at the pics I was thinking their name would be the Copper Heads. You ever see copper that has been exposed to the weather for a long period of time? yah thats what I get from them. good job.

Astounding paint job. I do agree about the bases, though. I know why you did them that way, and it makes absolute sense, but maybe with a grey ash waste they may "pop" more. Perhaps they are to hostile environments what Iron Warriors are to siege warfare.

very cool paint job. i wish i was at home instead of work to paint.

Fantastic work man.
I love the chaplain.

Please give a quick summary of how you paint your metal and weather it, as I'm having to do a lot of rust on my Orks and my Bro's VCs at the moment. Always want to improve and you weathering is beautiful.

Very nice. That sniper lascannon is genious

Dreadnote: Sniper Lascannon? I think youre giving me credit for something I dont deserve. Its just a Lascannon right out of the Dev box, unless Im missing something?

Apone: I started with 50/50 Reaper Ancient Bronze and Scorched brown for a basecoat, then washed it with 50/50 enchanted blue and snot green with a little white. Then I did it again with a little darker. The browns and rusts you see like on the legs are painted on with thin layers of a Reaper orange color, dont have it handy but I can find it. Its really all in the color combinations.

Dammit, those look good.

Although...aigh! Aigh! I just realized you didn't drill any barrels!

Still. They look fabulous.

Hey, here they are
I wrote some fluff on that thread a few days ago, which seemed to devolve into a minor spat between fluff nazis and artistic rebels. Look what the latter has achieved!
Very, very nice models. Extra kudos for a limited pallette; it's something I'm a big fan of. Also, props for making the colours work. I struggle with painting marines due to the clinical highlights needed (I prefer more relief on my models, like nids and kroot, flowing robes, etc). If you could give us a detailed run down of the process, I'd love to try it out.

They look great, and stick a weathered finger to all the tame purists out there. All the best for the future.

Hey Anti-Mag, I know what you mean about more flowing and organic models. I can only do so many hard edges before I go nuts

Thanks for the compliments and the inspiration!

Hey, I saw a scope on that thing :p

Ohhhh. Isnt that supposed to go there?

Hehe, now that you mention it that may not be what goes there hahaha.

Interesting paint but I think they should be called the patina (check spelling there hehe) marines from the planet penny!!!

I agree that a change of the bases is needed to make the models stand out a little more.

Haha I love the name change Fishboy

Hey, GMMStudios, would you mind giving a brief tutorial on how you managed the effect? I'm thinking some WHFB Chaos Warriors would look pretty darn cool done up in verdigris like that.

They all look Great I love that look keep it up.

Love the blue parts, gives it a real corroding metal feel to it.

GMMStudios,

I second the request for a tutorial. As detailed as you like, I can follow it.

those seem to be more appropriate to chaos armies.. nurgle or ironwarriors come to mind

Yes, well, that was discussed in the fluff thread for this army that GMMStudios linked to above.

i love that paintjob so much