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Hi all !

I'm a french painter and player. I do play W40K but also some WHB, Mordheim and BFG.
A friend of mine told me about Dakka and I thought that posting on an english-speaking board could be a good occasion to practice my english.

EDIT : Now that my topic has been moved to P&M blogs, I'll post WIPs and so on. Feel free to comment, criticize, give advice. Say when you like. Say when you don't. Comments help me to get better and keep up the motivation.

Let's start with my main army, wich is an Ultramarine force. I gather troops from both the First and the Fifth Companies. Lately, I finished a 2000 points army list of First Company by basing all the old models on 40mm resin bases and doing all the hand painted banners and marking stuff.


So here it is :







If you like it, I have much more to show like vehicles (including V1 and V2 versions of dreadnoughts and Land raider for exemple), special characters and so on.
Hope my english isn't to bad.

Those are some really nice Ultramarines!
I like all the freehand text and symbols they're very nicely done and your English is not bad at all.

Gotta love the old school terminators!

Absolutely mint!!! It's great when someone turns old models into masterpieces that are as good as the newer versions!

You've got a beautiful force of Ultras here! Have you considered running them as Deathwing or Loganwing forces? Wish I could paint blue as well as you do...

Thank you guys !

Indeed I love old school models. In fact most of all I love to mix several generations of miniatures and to "link" them by the painting.
In this army, you have old fashioned V2 plastic terminators, but also metalic ones. And the other half are from black reach and the current plastic kit.

As you guessed it thechosen1 I play this army with the Dark Angel Codex. It is not really competitive, but I think that it looks so good on the table.

Here are some closest views for those who want to see the details better :




(on this one, note the 25mm bases before I moved the terminators to resin bases)

Those AOBR terminators look terrific. At first I thought they were converted, because you must have done some thing to make them look so great. You did do something, you painted them incredibly well.
Awesome job man!

They look very nice they get two thumbs up from me

Welcome to Dakka, Minus. Great models you got there, I love them.

Really nice paint job Minus

Great paint job, it makes Ultramarines look quite good!

And yeah, your English is absolutely fine. I see one or two spelling mistakes in there though ;D

Keep gamin'...

Lovely work there,they look a lot better than mine did.

Really NICE Ultramarines! Keep up the good work!

I'm glad you like them.

I played this army (painted) for the first time yesterday. I took some pictures during the game. I played with one of my friend who plays a Chaos army and does a nice paint job on his miniatures.
Not all the CSM are painted because he played some new units for the first time.

I swear to god I've seen that pic before, or maybe it's just deja vu as everyone plays SM and everyone paints them pretty much the same as these guys. Blue and white.

All are very nice!

Apparently Canadians don't like Ultramarines. ^^
(french people generally consider them as the newbies army...)

I paint my marines in blue since the beginning of the 3rd version. And back in these days, Ultramarines didn't appear on every box and 'dex cover. ;-)


But maybe you're an heretic. Let's see if you prefer a true-scale pre-heresy Emperor's Children.
A friend of mine made the "true-scaling" work, I assembled it with my own bitz and painted it :



I need to add little free-hands on the shoulder pads to consider him as finished.

The highlighting is subtle and provides great affect on that Pre Heresy Marine, not sure about the pose though, looks like he's seething with rage and battlelust but not acting on it.

Something.more dynamic would suit. Awesome collection of models, keep up the good work.

Love the Ultramarines! Very nice blue.

Jonesyboy12 wrote:I swear to god I've seen that pic before, or maybe it's just deja vu as everyone plays SM and everyone paints them pretty much the same as these guys. Blue and white.

How constructive and friendly!

While there is a stigma against Ultramarines as being a "newbie's army" it mostly has to do with the fact they're on the boxart of most Marine stuff. Most Ultramarines armies I've seen haven't been from newbies at all, but from experienced painters like the OP. OP, your work is absolutely stunning. You did a great job subtly modernizing the older figures with bigger bases and added height, and you made the AoBR Terminators look exciting and cool. Great painting all around!

Brother SRM wrote:

Jonesyboy12 wrote:I swear to god I've seen that pic before, or maybe it's just deja vu as everyone plays SM and everyone paints them pretty much the same as these guys. Blue and white.

How constructive and friendly!

While there is a stigma against Ultramarines as being a "newbie's army" it mostly has to do with the fact they're on the boxart of most Marine stuff. Most Ultramarines armies I've seen haven't been from newbies at all, but from experienced painters like the OP. OP, your work is absolutely stunning. You did a great job subtly modernizing the older figures with bigger bases and added height, and you made the AoBR Terminators look exciting and cool. Great painting all around!

LOL Sorry guys. I do dislike SM very much. Mainly because 3 out of 5 people seem to play them, I dont see much risk ever being taken with painting SM. Everyone just goes either, black, red, or blue and white. I also don't like them because they are overpowered and pretty much the Americans of the 40k universe. And although I like Americans I dislike thier politics and world policing and thier humongous military budget which gets used in all the wrong ways eg IRAQ WAR! And I just find them to be ridiculous and boring.

That being said! Your models are actually very nicely painted. They are really easy to look at. Like they just look really nice and the clarity of the picture and set up of the shot is worthy! So I do like the paintjob, just bored of that colour scheme.

And on a final note to say that Canadians dont like SM is ridiculous as there are 33/34/35 i dunno million of us. ITS JONESYBOY12 that doesn't like SM

Hope you can accept my apology for lack of insightfulness and etiquette on my original post. Thank you.

I love the paint jobs, i did imp fists, my self but i wish i could paint as good as you when i painted my sm's.

Bienvenue sur Dakka Dakka!

Nice models you have here!
While I generally despise ultramarines, your army looks really great, the old platic termies (from the space hulk 2nd ed?) blend perfectly with the rest of your army.

I also like your true scale marine, by "own bits" you mean you've sculpted the legs and torso? If so, congratulations man!

Minus wrote:
I paint my marines in blue since the beginning of the 3rd version. And back in these days, Ultramarines didn't appear on every box and 'dex cover. ;-)

No need to apologize, the guys a troll. The "ultramarine hate" is about as funny as the never ending "Matt Ward" faux-rage: it isn't.


Your army look awsome. I especially like the weathered metallics onthe weapons, it is a nice look.

Wow, love the emperors children "true-scale".

I like your Ultramarines. I think the True Scale model is a bit out of proportion, but I'm not the best judge on true scale (or proportions, I'm a terrible artist) so take my opinion with some salt. Awesome painting though!

Brother SRM wrote:How constructive and friendly!

^^
No problem, I'm old enough (and have been collecting Ultramarines for so long) to not be upset by such a comment.

Brother SRM wrote:OP, your work is absolutely stunning. You did a great job subtly modernizing the older figures with bigger bases and added height, and you made the AoBR Terminators look exciting and cool. Great painting all around!

Thanks a lot. This is really appreciated.
If you like them, keep an eye on this topic, I have loads more to show.

Jonesyboy12 wrote:I also don't like them because they are overpowered and pretty much the Americans of the 40k universe.

This made me laugh. I sent you a PM concerning your hate about blue minis.

Hyenajoe wrote:Bienvenue sur Dakka Dakka!

But alors, you are french ? Haha.

Hyenajoe wrote:I also like your true scale marine, by "own bits" you mean you've sculpted the legs and torso? If so, congratulations man!

Well, no. A friend of mine made the torso and the legs (and to be perfectly honest, he did the base too). I only picked up the plastic bitz I needed (arms, weapons, head and so on), glued this all together and painted it. I consider myself a correct painter, but I'm really bad as soon as I have to modify a miniature (green stuff and so are not my friends).


And of course thanks to all for the nice comments.

Ultramarines are not my only 40k army. I also play some orks. This army is painted quite rapidly, using dipping technics for exemple, in order to be able to play with them painted without having to wait for years.
Except on vehicles, that are painted "normally".

Here are three old version (metal) Killa Kans. I love them.

youz betta show me sum moar orkses, or i stomp you flat!!

Seriously, I really want to see more of them, as i am a ork player myself. The kans look very nice!

Want some more orkses ?
Hmm... I can show you these Lootas. As I said, the troops are dipped in order to paint this army rapidly.