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Daemons are on page 2 (and onward!)
I edited all the photos that were hosted on my old domain out of this thread, since I no longer own it and if you attempt to load content from there you will be spammed by password requests. I will try to shoot my Flesh Eaters again and get some of them here, but for now I am almost solely concentrated on my daemon army.


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So I have over 2000 points of marines collected over the years. They are unpainted.
I decided about six months back, that come hell or high water, I was going to have a painted army. In the last 10 years I have not played a single game, but damnit I want to. And I want to have a painted army to do it with.

I knew it would be Flesh Eaters. I really liked how Chaplin Desmodus had portrayed them and wanted to keep going with those sort of ideas. I had painted up a FE librarian about four years back for a B&C competition, so I know how they will look (less blue).



I also started on an old rhino chassis I had lying around to test my vehicle scheme, since I know I want at least two razorbacks in the list and have a total of five rhino chasis to play with in any case.

So I started to inventory all my SM bits.


There are a lot of bodies; about 50 in that shot. I have 10 more tacticals to do as well.
Everything that isn't a BR marine will be an assault marine. That means I need more jump packs, about thirty more.

Anyway, the idea is that I will work on assembly and cleaning in stages. Last night I laid everything out, counted up how many arms/legs/heads/torsos I had and paired them up. All that took way too long, so my goal is to do about three marines from bare plastic (or stripped) to painted per week. It's a pretty light goal, but I want pretty clean paint jobs, and I also don't really like the standard poses for marines, so I have a lot of chopped up power armor that needs to be GSed back together.

Anyway, I really wanted to make this post to self motivate. I have been sort of painting SMs for nearly a decade and I still dont have an army to field, hopefully I can finish these guys out.


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Oh, I forgot about the second project I am working on.
I am trying to start a second (!!) army, Chaos Deamons. So far I have started to sculpt a Bloodthirster. I am going pretty slowly but before working on him I did some random raven headed figure, so that gave me some practice at working on small detailed sculpting.
I will snap some photos of both sculpts. I think I must have erased the pics I had.

Here's the first "practice" sculpt. I am not using this for anything, he is too muscle bound to be a LoC; also his pose is static and pretty uninteresting :/



Here's the BT I am working on. I am not sure what to think yet, he needs a lot more work, the abdomen specifically. I want to get that too look convincingly exaggerated. On the other hand I might end up covering it with fur anyway, so it's hard to tell.


I sort of envision him as having some shoulder/arm plates, fur on his thighs and crotch and carrying two cleaver type weapons. I want the face to be like something out of Pan's Labyrinth.

Did some GS on the marines. I decided I want to have jump pack straps on all the assault marines, even if I didn't have enough torsos with them, so I started on that.
Also began work on detailing stuff I trimmed off to de-Korneify the 'zerkers. Some base work too. There are 10 marines with pretty nice reposed assault legs, but I didn't bother to snap a pic of them. Also tested out a new primer, so that should be happening as soon as I get the GS and cleaning work done.

Here's five of the marines I work on today plus my sarge with powerfist which has been sitting around for quite a long time.








No work on the BT since last time.

I like the size of the force you've got going there. The first few modded marines look good as well.

Question- what color scheme are you going for? Any army list ideas rattling around yet either?

Looking forward to seeing more,

Blood

Yeah, I am going with the scheme Chap Des used on his. Take a look at www.flesheaters.net
The armor is pretty much all black with the greaves and weapon casings being deep red. Vet Sgts. get red helmets, chapter and company marking on the soulder pads. I am thinking about ordering decals from Griffin Games, but I am not sure about that yet.

It is here:

http://www.griffongames.com/

in case anyone is looking for them.

They do a nice custom decal service, actually...

Oh, they are based out of MA. That's awesome.

Hey, so I totally slacked on updates. Here's how the Bloodthirster is going.
He needs to be smoothed out more and have his head finished off. The weapons sort of look like paddles now, but that will change...

Proof that I have been painting (albeit slowly) my Flesh Eaters:

Off to a great start. I'm curious what kind of putty/epoxy your using for that bloodthrister sculp, and also if you were building the body up slowly limb by limb or if you just did the whole guy at once?

Thanks!

It's Sculpy III that I used to build up his bulk and some details. I am going over it with GS now, because it's easier to smooth and holds some details better. You can also let GS cure then mess with it. Sculpy needs to be baked, so that limits what I can do; it's also brittle.

I did his torso first, then worked up the arms and left the legs really undefined. I plan to sculpt the base and legs in one go, which is why his support leg is a thick stub looking thing.
His head is removable for painting and sculpting reasons, but I am giving him dreads for sure.

I should probably have thought about how he will get wings earlier, but I guess I botched that.

So far BT is looking good make sure you get the wings looking good. and add a skull belt to him.

Hey!

I finished up the black armor bits on the Tacticals, started on the red:

Ooo Im liking the blood boots/chins and the rest of the armor black...

Cant wait to see some more!

Thanks for the comment.
I think i am going to do less subtle highlighting on the black, because it will probably look better in an army and it doesn't pop enough unless you are inspecting them.

The red boots look sweet, wat about adding a black wash over the top to darken it a bit.

Like what I seen hear can't wait to see the BT finished!

the red and black is awesome! so bold yet simple! love it!

More work, half done with this tactical squad. Just need to finish up the red on the other four then go back and do the chest emblems, pruity seals and tactical markings on them!

That's BRILLIANT!

That scheme for the marines just... works!

See, this is why I love P&Ms.

~sA

smiling Assassin wrote:That's BRILLIANT!

That scheme for the marines just... works!

See, this is why I love P&Ms.

~sA

Ahaha-Wow.


I want to go pick up some foundation paints and washes to clean up the black, which is sort of bugging me. Then I can rest easy and let em spread the dakka.

More updates on the tactical squad!

Wait...


Is that Frylock?

Ahaah-Yeah.
That does look like Frylock, I almost want to leave it like that. The fingers were done in a poor attempt at SE-NMM. I am going to change all of that back up to normal metalics since I decided to go that way for the rest of the army.

graypaint wrote:Ahaah-Yeah.
That does look like Frylock, I almost want to leave it like that.

You should! Just give the face a goatee and you're all set!

Pretty much. I might just clean the fist and go with a move vampire/ghoul face since Flesh Eaters are as close to full fledged vampires without having fallen to Chaos as you can get.

Some more work on the daemons:

http://www.archivetwo.com/wh40k/Demon2.jpg
http://www.archivetwo.com/wh40k/Demon3.jpg

How could you have not played in 10 years?

Xav wrote:How could you have not played in 10 years?

I was busy with other things and didn't have time for wargames and miniatures.

I know, tragic.

whos the guy on the far left?