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After about 10 years away from the hobby I recently got sucked back in. I had made a couple squads of Dark Angels over a decade but never got very serious about either modelling or playing. Now I am working on 2-3000 points of models and doing a custom chapter. I really like the idea of converting/kitbashing, but I tend to work on 10 things at a time so here is some of what I am working on:

Pedro based on the AOBR Captain
I think I need to fill in the gaps on the Dorn's Arrow and maybe the power fist, otherwise I am happy with it for my first model.


Vulkan based on a Techmarine
I need to figure out a good hose material. I was trying to use steel wire but it is a bit stiff. I am sorta hesitant to use something soft and have the paint crack if it gets pushed. Does this happen? Gonna try and add a techy looking cape and maybe a hood, will be first attempt at putty.


Various deadnoughts (I really like dreadnoughts).
I got a bit magnet happy and all the arms and most of the flamers, search lights, extra armor etc are magnetized.









Drop Pod #1
This is the only thing I have really painted. I'm using the drop pods to try and solidify a paint scheme. I mixed a bit of old boltgun metal into the black and grey paint I am using. I really like a metallic sparkle but it is a pain to make it even. Needs a little more detail, touchups, a final black wash and some highlights, I think. I am not sure about highlighting, never really done it before and I want it to be subtle.


Any suggestions, comments, criticism, questioning of my sanity welcome.

ho oh! I like the color scheme. though when it goes on the marines its gonna have to have some other color to make them stand out.

are all these guys going to be like Iron Hands? With the electronic bits robotic arm guns?

I like them! Take care of the mold lines on the captain. Only thing that troubles me is that the storm bolter looks wat to damn heavy.

funksobeefy wrote:ho oh! I like the color scheme. though when it goes on the marines its gonna have to have some other color to make them stand out.

Thanks! Yea I am trying to figure out a way to provide contrast without some bold color. I want a gritty urban kind of theme. I can't highlight (unsteady hands) so I am looking at edging in brass and/or a pearl finish. In particular on the shoulder pads.

funksobeefy wrote:are all these guys going to be like Iron Hands? With the electronic bits robotic arm guns?

Gonna do that for the characters at least. If my styrene/sculpting skills develop I will try doing it for the others. At least getting some wire and doing head to weapon jacks.

Munch Munch! wrote:I like them! Take care of the mold lines on the captain.

Thanks. I think I pretty well got original the mold lines. That glaring line on the cape (bottom left) is from where I scraped off the purity seals. The primer really blew it up. I need to sand it out, maybe putty.

Munch Munch! wrote: Only thing that troubles me is that the storm bolter looks wat to damn heavy.

Yea I am going for heroic/attention grabbing. I really don't like the actual Pedro model with it's fairly normal sized storm bolter but with 2x the rate of fire. It's supposed to be a Primarch's weapon and I figured oversized was the way to go. With it built into a robotic arm I figured he could manage the bulk.

Thanks for the comments! I should get some more pics up tonight.

Ah I get it. You want something that looks big and heavy so it gives the feel of something a primarch could carry without crushing it in the palm of his fist.


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Oh btw, are you going to make the scythe look less biological?

Doing primarchs is difficult. I had to do quite a lot of conversion on a Chaos Terminator Lord to get the sheer size of a primarch across.

The only thing I can think of saying about your brilliant models is:

SHADING SHADING SHADING.

I personally HATE having to do shading lines (cause i'm terrible at it) but have to admit it does make so much of a difference. especially with dark colour schemes

Oh, and just be careful not to make them too Dark Angely in colour...