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The easiest way to get arms suitable for 2-handed weapons is to grab a Grey Knights set, between halberds and hammers they have plenty. It's expensive for just one part, but you can easily do something cool with the rest oft he squad; they make great Librarians, or Honour Guard with a few alterations to some of the details.His shoulder pads could also be acquired from GK ones by the looks of it.

The torso with the tassles is best found in the old, multi-pose Space Marine Commander box, there may be one or two in the Sternguard as well.

 Paradigm wrote:
The easiest way to get arms suitable for 2-handed weapons is to grab a Grey Knights set, between halberds and hammers they have plenty. It's expensive for just one part, but you can easily do something cool with the rest oft he squad; they make great Librarians, or Honour Guard with a few alterations to some of the details.His shoulder pads could also be acquired from GK ones by the looks of it.

The torso with the tassles is best found in the old, multi-pose Space Marine Commander box, there may be one or two in the Sternguard as well.

Thanks for the help.

I found a hammer that I think will work:

For the shoulders I'm thinking of using the ones this Sternguard has(the one with the melta gun):



I already used the backpack and torso from the Space Marine Commander box on my bike commander. So I'd like to use something else.

Here's my third and final Blood Ravens Captain. I'm hoping to get him painted sometime next week:

I'm definitely gonna keep following this since I'm playing through the campaign of Dawn of War 2 again (didn't get to finish the first time; game crashed and I lost my save file somehow ). Painting looks nice, and the models' poses are great! Looking forward to more!

WIP pics of some bikes and Captain:

Man, I've got to say, the color control and overall quality of these paintjobs is inspiring. Well done, and subbed.

Very nice. For some reason the riders in the background of the bike pic made me chuckle.

EDC

Love your third captain! Excellent choice and use of bits brother.

If you'd ever be down to swap marines let me know

You e got a real nice finish on all these models. Very nice stuff.

Thanks guys! This is the first army I've done where I have finished all my HQ's before a single squad of troops. After this Captain I'll get back to working on all of my bikes. I have about 30ish so I'll probably do 3 at a time to keep my sanity.

Looks great man! Blood Ravens are one of my dream projects that I'll probably never get to, so I'm happy to see someone else give them some love. And if they turn out as good as yours have? Even better!

Few more WIP pics of my Captain:

Finished layering up the red armor


Plasma Pistol


Power Sword. All I do is put a blue glaze over the silver


Close up of his helmet

He's looking awesome. Nice classic pose, smooth work on the armour.

Here's a few more WIP pics of some of my bikes. I hope to have these 3 finished by tonight. I have a friend printing me some Blood Ravens transfers.

great work on the bikes! Love your reds man, they look fantasitc and just like the BRs in the games

Here's my first unit of bikes finished:








Just waiting on the Blood Ravens transfers

Nice clean work.

If you put together more, I’d recommend swapping around some of the heads/torsos/backpacks, or taking a hand off the controls to shoot someone with a bolt pistol. Because while well done, they are very clone like. You could also put some kit on the back of the bikes to differentiate them a little.

Going back a little farther in this thread, I’d second picking up a GK box for parts. Not only do you get the hammer you need, but psychic hoods for making your own librarians. Which I suspect you will want a few of for your Ravens. I know I got three out of that box myself.

Very neat, clean lines, looks fantastic!

 Nevelon wrote:
Nice clean work.

If you put together more, I’d recommend swapping around some of the heads/torsos/backpacks, or taking a hand off the controls to shoot someone with a bolt pistol. Because while well done, they are very clone like. You could also put some kit on the back of the bikes to differentiate them a little.

Going back a little farther in this thread, I’d second picking up a GK box for parts. Not only do you get the hammer you need, but psychic hoods for making your own librarians. Which I suspect you will want a few of for your Ravens. I know I got three out of that box myself.

I have a dozen more boxes of bikes I have yet to open. I'm very picky with how my models are posed and what gear they're using. My Biker Sergeants will have a chainsword in one arm, Bikers with special weapons will be holding/aiming them, and regular Bikers will be "clones" like you said.

Bought the last can of Khorne Red Spray at GW today. So basecoating the red on my Marines will go a lot quicker. Had all three of my Captains out of their case so I figured I might as well take a picture of them next to each other.




I found a possible alternative to the Grey Knights Thunder Hammer for my Chapter Master:

Death Company Thunder Hammer

Looking good. Everything looks really smooth.

What's the recipe for the cream helmets?

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Looking good. Everything looks really smooth.

What's the recipe for the cream helmets?

EDC

I don't really do anything special. Multiple thin coats of GW's Rakarth Flesh, Agrax Earthshade over it, then layer back up with Rakarth, then do the edges with Pallid Wych Flesh.

You have plans for a terminator captain? That way you’d have all the options (JP, bike, PA, TDA)

Nice to see the three of them lined up, sharp looking crew.

 Nevelon wrote:
You have plans for a terminator captain? That way you’d have all the options (JP, bike, PA, TDA)

Nice to see the three of them lined up, sharp looking crew.

Yes actually. I'll probably be buying that new getting started box that comes with the Terminator Captain

 ae2016 wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
You have plans for a terminator captain? That way you’d have all the options (JP, bike, PA, TDA)

Nice to see the three of them lined up, sharp looking crew.

Yes actually. I'll probably be buying that new getting started box that comes with the Terminator Captain

You can never have to many captains!

On the thunderhammer: Are you looking to buy the box, or just order the bit separate? I think they are both nice looking hammers, personally I think the GK one is a bit more impressive. But if picking up boxes, which would you get more use out of? Wings and blood drops are not our of place in your chapter, so the death company box could be a goldmine of bits for you. The GK box, on the other hand, is basically 5 build your own librarians, which is quite nice.

 Nevelon wrote:

 ae2016 wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
You have plans for a terminator captain? That way you’d have all the options (JP, bike, PA, TDA)

Nice to see the three of them lined up, sharp looking crew.

Yes actually. I'll probably be buying that new getting started box that comes with the Terminator Captain

You can never have to many captains!

On the thunderhammer: Are you looking to buy the box, or just order the bit separate? I think they are both nice looking hammers, personally I think the GK one is a bit more impressive. But if picking up boxes, which would you get more use out of? Wings and blood drops are not our of place in your chapter, so the death company box could be a goldmine of bits for you. The GK box, on the other hand, is basically 5 build your own librarians, which is quite nice.

I'll be ordering the bits separately from this seller http://stores.ebay.com/blackdaggergames/. I've been buying from him for a while and his prices are great and he ships your orders quickly

Also, I'm sort of redoing my Bike Captain. I ordered a bit from one of the Ravenwing boxes. I'll be using the one in the middle in this picture.

Your captains look fantastic! Huge fan of your jump captain, well done sir.

Tried to do some scratches on the armor. It's really hard to see with my camera/lighting

hey man, just saying your cadians look absolutely awesome, mine are rubbish in comparison, can you tell me how you painted them?
much love for this thread. awesome stuff
check my p&m blog if you want.

STG wrote:
hey man, just saying your cadians look absolutely awesome, mine are rubbish in comparison, can you tell me how you painted them?
much love for this thread. awesome stuff
check my p&m blog if you want.