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Here are the pictures from my previous post I promised would be up today. They are from the 3rd company and more will follow when possible.

We are building the entire Ultramarine chapter listed in Codex: Space Marine. We currently have all the models assembled for 3rd and 4th company, a few from 1st second and ninth. We are mixing in the different armor types from forgeworld to match fluff as shown in the picture of second company also in the codex.

And here is the 3rd company without vehicles and they are still issing one assualt squad. Both will be drop podding in so will not have assualt packs. They are not all painted but working on it.

The 3rd company seems a squad short...

So far you have a nice start on your epic endeavor to create an entire chapter...best of luck!

Yes they are missing one assualt squad, I recently moved and my assualt marines took a beating I am working on reparing them today. My friend does have the entire 4th done also and hopefully can post his pictures today. If anyone has any suggestions or anything we are missing please let me know.

Hmmm whilst I like the endeavour your undertaking I'm not a fan of writing names onto base edges; especially if the writing isn't that neat, as it can spoil the model. If your dead set on writing names on, I'd paint the base first, and then use a pen or something as it'll look much, much neater.

L. Wrex

Lycaeus Wrex

Thanks for the reply- The bases are not finished all bases are random colors and some have names on them they will simply be black bases once finished as we do not like making special bases for our models.

games workshop us used to sell an entire chapter. 2000 dollars I think. Crazy. Good luck.

I wish we would only spend 2000 on it in reality the landraiders alone will be 700

9th companies first painted squad will be painted soon.

Your painting really needs work. These minis look fairly slapdash as is. The paint looks really chunky on that sergeant's bolter, and there are tons of details being completely missed, like that wirey webbing between Marine armor joints. No work has been done on the eyes either really; a tiny dot of white in the far corners goes a long way towards making them look like real lenses. Finally, some sort of basing has gotta be done on these boys - plain black bases really detract from a mini. Just some basing sand, primed black and given a 2-3 stage drybrush will make any mini look 3x better.

Srm-
I am a horrible painter but i will try what you said and repost but it may be a while.

kight wrote:Srm-
I am a horrible painter but i will try what you said and repost but it may be a while.

I dont know if your painting for speed, looks, or just to finish the chapter... but I would recommend drybrushing the models blue. I think you would get a much better result, you could also manage the colors significantly better and add lighter colors to the blue for a quick drybrush highlight. It would take about 10-15 minutes a model. If you want to know what it would look like check out my Ultramarines in my image section.

Element206 wrote:

kight wrote:Srm-
I am a horrible painter but i will try what you said and repost but it may be a while.

I dont know if your painting for speed, looks, or just to finish the chapter... but I would recommend drybrushing the models blue. I think you would get a much better result, you could also manage the colors significantly better and add lighter colors to the blue for a quick drybrush highlight. It would take about 10-15 minutes a model. If you want to know what it would look like check out my Ultramarines in my image section.

This chapter is a multi year project so I am in no way rushing it. I have never been able to get drybrushing right and my hands shake to much to get finer details. Your marines are very nice looking I hope I can learn to paint like that one day.

hmm, well what is your problem when it comes to drybrushing? To much paint? Because if so that is fixable. Maybe I can help you if you tell me what types of problems you experience with it. Then again, maybe since you have already began your chapter it might be too late to change the paint style of the marines.

I will drybrush one and post a picture when I have time I am sure you can see the problem better than I could describe it.



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Would thinning my paint beyond the thiness it comes help? Just add more layers?

No new models to post yet, but I am needing the Ultimus to be painted by someone my painting skills are defently not able to give it justice- If anyone is willing to paint it I will gladly pay for the landraider and some for the paintjob PM me if interested. I need it to look as close as possible to what the codex shows.

Here is Chaplain Cassius my most recent paint, I tried to paint him better than previous models but would still like any critism or suggestions on what I can do. With exeption I am not basing them yet. Thanks

Just how many points (roughly) do you think an entire chapter comes out to?

Also, what's the model count or company breakdown?

Just paint thinner and I think the models will look that much more detailed. Other than that, I like the idea of creating the chapter. This would be great for Apocalypse.

I would also suggest to thin the colors with water (ap. 1:1 - 2:1 paint:water) and use more than 1 layer... this will look much better...
yeah, and try some ink (black+blue) for the models recesses...

good luck for your project, but this will be plenty of work!

It'd be awesome to see a full chapter of marines in one spot.

Just a quick work out for a company (expanding on my Black Consuls 2nd Company.) This is as per legal force organisation chart (the whirlwind is there although I don't know where it fits in a chapter.)
Bear in mind that this won't include scouts or termies as they are 10th company and 1st company respectively.

Captain - 160
Command Squad - 248
Chaplain - 130
Tac Squad 1 - 185
Tac Squad 2 - 175
Tac Squad 3 - 185
Tac Squad 4 - 185
Tac Squad 5 - 180
Tac Squad 6 - 200

Designated Transports - 615
6 x Rhinos
3 x Razorbacks

Dreadnaught 1 - 125
Dreadnaught 2 - 115
Dreadnaught 3 - 125

Assault Squad 1 - 255
Assault Squad 2 - 255
Landspeeder Squadron - 270

Devistator Squad 1 - 290
Devistator Squad 2 - 300
Whirlwind - 105

TOTAL - 4103

Fantastic idea. You don't need to plan any other off-work acitivities for a while now.

With thunderhawks vehciles techmarines chaplaines calgars huge honor squads it was around 50000 point give or take 10000 do due to upgrades. I will try painting thinner thanks for that suggestion. As far as kraags input goes I do not need a force organization chart its a apoc army but if I needed once company 2 3 4 are all legal armies with the exeption 5th has one to many dreadnought.

50000 was our almost exact estimation if I recall the vehicles are a large portion of it. Also all of first company will be in termie armor 6th is all bike mounted and 7th is landspeeders as those companies use them extensivly according to fluff and we want a giant apoc fight our entire local store against our chapter when finished.

I like scouts. Get to work on 10th lol!

Haha, my friend is doing the scouts but has no plans to start them soon. I believe they are his last company and probably hardest to do as he has to have scout bikes, scout speeders and scouts. We have decided on roughly 200 scouts which seems a fair number to replace losses companies would see constantly.

Looks like an interesting idea. Can't wait to see more. The first isn't always in termie armor. If they are there will be no vangaurd or sterngaurd.

Bullfrog wrote:Also, what's the model count or company breakdown?

27 predators 8 vindacators- 12 whirlwinds- 13 landraiders including calgars ride-

Calgar and his 27 honor squad-

Chaplain cassius and 27 sternguard models counting as his tyranid vets that he is making his own force from

12 apothecaries spread over the companies- any apothecary that is not in a command squad may be used as a priest from BA codex to count as apothecary.

the roughly 20 Librarians

Not sure on tech marines or servitors although codex lists number I am working do not have codex on me this is from memory so numbers may be off.

1st comapny 97 term inators 47 assualt termies 50 normal termies with random upgrades. Using lysander rules and a assualt squad on top of the 47 as his command squad.
3 venerable dreadnoughts, one will be the chaplain dreadnought from forgeworld, but no special rules are currently being considered for him.

2nd-5th company
captain with command squad
6 tactiacal squads
2 assualt squads
2 devastator squads
2- 2 dreadnoughts
3rd- 3 dreadnoughts-
4th I believe 2 but may be wrong
5th 4 dreadnoughts

6th company
marines bikers/assualt bikes to total 100 marines not models
and captain on bike with command squad on bike
4 dreadnoughts

7th company
captain and command squad
50 land speeders-
3 dreadnoughts

8th
captain with jump pack 5 man vanguard as command squad
20 vanguard
80 assualt marines
0 dreadnoughts :(

9th
captain and command squad
10 squads of devastators
7 dradnoughts

10th
captain with command squad- codex stats this chapter has one
100 scouts
50 biker scouts-
25 scout speeders-


I do not have the codex on hand so some numbers such as librarian count is estimate not exact but I'll try to correct number.