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I want to share some pictures of my miniatures. I start with my only actually playable army, the Crimson Templars.


Standard Battle-Brother colour scheme


Veteran colour scheme



Now to the actual models.

Tactical squad


Combat squad led by a Veteran Sergeant


Combat squad led by a Brother-Corporal


Rhino and land speeder


Lieutenant


Terminators



Scouts with some retro fashion


My marines are slightly biggerised. I think they work well enough if you assume a marine to be about seven feet tall.

HF Izanagi wrote:
Did you draw the initial pictures? They look fantastic. I like the crosses on the shins and extra details.

Yes I did. I wanted to make Index Astartes style colour scheme illos, but I did not like any of the templates I found on net, so I drew my own from scratch.

Oh right, this was the WIP section of the board. Here are some WIP pictures then.

Assault Marines.

I decided not to use standard assault marine chest pieces that have that strange harness. Presumably the jump packs are bolted on the armour, so no additional harness should be needed.
Also, tactical marines hold their bolters on their chests, so the breastplate is only partly visible. Assault marines are a good opportunity to display cool looking chest pieces. For this reason many of these sport breastplates from the Death Company set.

Captain of the Fourth Company

My current captain is a Lieutenant* fluff-wise, but this chap will be a proper Captain, and thus will have the best and most expensive gear available. He will be a fully kitted commander with all the bells and whistles, while the Lieutenant remains as a cheaper HQ for smaller games. I wanted the artificer armour really to look different from the normal power armour, so I used terminator legs (and lots of green stuff.)

* And yes, I know that Marines do not normally have Lieutenants, but they really should (And they did in RT era.)
Crimson Templars have two Lieutenants for each Company, allowing the Company to be spit into multiple strike forces, and still have an officer in charge.


Then some Imperial Guard

Assortment of various command personnel.

Vox Operator, Commissar, Standard Bearer, Drummer (?), Combat Surgeon (medic) and another Vox Operator.

Random IG


Penal Legion


Inquisitors

There are Coteaz and Ironhand Straken counts-as, respectively.


We'll see if any of these will ever be finished. I love converting, but painting not so much, so I have piles and piles of unfinished projects.

Okay, I'm back. Arrival of the sixth edition made me remember this game existed.


Not miniatures, but I'm still gonna post these here. The results of my overthinking of the Space Marine command structure and my desire to create IA type stuff for Crimson Templars. Pictures that illustrate markings of different ranks and positions in the chapter:


Normal battle-brothers display their squad symbol on their right shoulderpads, and naturally the chapter icon on the left.
Corporals act as second in command for normal squads, and lead the other five man group if the squad is split into combat squads. Corporals are indicated by a white stripe on their red helmets.


Veteran battle-brothers wear white helmets and carry Crux Terminatus on their right shoulder.
Sergeants lead squads of battle-brothers or act as second in command for veteran squads. Sergeants are indicated by a red stripe on their white helmets.
Master sergeants are leaders of veteran squads. They have a black stripe on their white helmets.


Each company has two lieutenants that help the captain to run the company. Lieutenenats have a white stripe on their black helmets, on the captains the stripe is red. Grand master of the Crimson templars has two-colour red and white stripe on his helmet. Marines of a rank of a liutenenat or higher are allowed to wear personal heraldry on their right shoulder.



Armour of the chapter's specialists varies depending on their specialty. They wear a symbol indicating their department on their right shoulder. The colours on their left shoulder showing the chapter badge are inverted.




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Okay, then some actual models.

Sorry about the low quality of the pics. I had the light set up badly.

Assault marines, finally finished:

The hue of the armour might look slightly different from the pics of the earlier models, but they're the same. It's just the bad lighting.

Many people have asked how I paint the red of the armour and I think I never answered that. These were done with various mixes of Khorne Red, Evil Sunz Scarlet and Wazdakka Red. I avoided using pure Evil Sunz anywhere, as it is really bright I want more muted colours. I put some green ink on extreme shadows, but I'm not sure it has much of an visible effect. Extreme highlights are done with Bleached Bone, which is then glazed with red. With these the glaze was mostly Bloodletter glaze, with a drop of Khorne Red to kill the exessively orange tone.


Also, it was asked how the marines were enlarged. Here's some WIP marines that might help to illustrate that.

My older models have not the spacer that widens the torso, but I started to do that for the new models. It makes greenstuffing to waist a bit harder though.


Much maligned Stormtalon:


I actually like the model, it's a tough looking little bird. Its two major flaws, the huge assault cannon mounting and too short tail are rather easy to fix. However, there was a third thing that bugged me about it, and that was a tad harder. The canopy looked too flimsy. One expects Space Marines vehicles to have certain type of sturdy appearance, but the struts of the canopy were narrower than in an IG aircraft and quite delicate looking. I widened them with greenstuff and added some rivets. I hope it looks OK once painted.

Primaris Psyker and a Rogue Trader:


Leman Russ Punisher:


Yeah, I know Punisher is not one of the best tanks, but you gotta love that giant gatling cannon! This has been enlarged a bit. The tracks have been lengthened 1,4cm and the hull... more. I forgot how much exactly.

Okay, more later. I have some Tau Mercenaries... somewhere.

Some more WIPs.

Sternguard:


Tactical Marines:


Lascannon:

I never liked how the lascannon devastator holds the weapon like it was a giant sniper rifle. Looks awkward. This one is made out of missile launcher.

Chaos Marine:

This is why I never get anything finished. Just start all these unrelated things and nothing ever forms a cohesive whole. New allies rules help a bit. Now I at least need to only complete a one squad and a HQ from an army to actually use them. Too bad there's still not an option to field squads composed of four Firewarrios, two Wyches and a Kroot and a Chaos Warrior...

Baiyuan wrote:The rogue trader looks great! What's the base model and do you have better pics of her?

She's Reaper's Sascha Dubois.
http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Sci-Fi/oldest/50001

I unfortunately have no more pictures of her. She still needs some greenstuff here and there. I'll take new pictures once I'm done with that.




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Treadheadz wrote:
So...Did you make the artwork yourself or is it some program thats common available??

I did it myself. I didn't like any of the templates I found on the internet.

I really like the overall idea of different helmet designations, might incorporate that into my own Black Templar Army...That is if I ever stop converting and start painting

I know how it is. I too like converting way more than painting, and thus I have very little actually finished, presentable models.

I decided to partake a local tournament, which meant that I had to actually complete some of my countless unfinished models.

Here are my new Tactical Marines:




And my Stormtalon:




I really like how this turned out. As you can see, there are few little tweaks. The tail has been extended slightly and the Assault Cannons have been moved upwards. Also, the cockpit area has been modified to make it more sturdy looking, more fitting for a Space Marine vehicle.

Here you can see the extended tail well:

 PF347 wrote:
What website did you use to make your marine images

I used a pen and Photoshop...

I use Codex Space Marines. Crimson Templars are a crusading, fleet-based chapter, but are relatively codex compliant; although there are some divergencies Ultramarines would certainly frown upon.

 PF347 wrote:
I thought you would of used black templars and im never sure about what to call a black templar successor chapter

Crimson Templars were born when I wanted an Imperial Fists successor chapter that shared some visual elements with Black Templars, while being mostly a normal codex chapter (or at least followed some sort of discernible organisational pattern unlike the BT) . And as the most well known Imperial Fists successors were Black Templars and Crimson Fists, Crimson Templars made sense. I wonder if someone has made Black Fists? (When I first started to plan these guys it was before 5th ed marine codex, which actually contains one reference to a chapter called Crimson Templars.)

And there really cannot be BT successor chapters as they were not one of the original legions. I've never in the GW fluff seen a reference to successor of a successor. Even if the BT would give the new chapter gene-seed and training cadre*, the resulting chapter would be known as Imperial Fists successor, as that's the original source of the gene-seed.

(* This is not case for my Crimson Templars anyway, they're direct Imperial Fists successor.)

Most of these are not new, but I finally managed to take passable pictures of them.

Vindicator:




Devastators with Missile Launchers:


Same Devastators hiding behind a wall:


Drop Pod:


I need many more of these, but they're really annoying to paint.


And then some Imperial Guard:








Chimera:


Primaris Psyker:


Platoon Command:

Some WIP pics this time.

So apparently I'm supposed to put a cheap Inquisitor in my Devastator squad to buff it. I usually don't go for such power-combos, but this time it is a cheese flavour that I happen to like; Inquisitors are cool.

An Inquisitor with a hellrifle and some warrior acolytes:


A priest and more warriors:


Sternguard:


A size comparison:

Whoo, the Knight is finally finished! It is an amazing kit , but quite time consuming; I got it on the release day and I finished it yesterday.



The weapons and the faceplate are magnetised.




I actually thought about the heraldry quite a bit, and chose to deviate from GW's standard pattern. The house crest is displayed on the left shoulder, on the banner and on the top of the carapace, whilst the shield is reserved for the personal heraldry. It just felt more correct to me this way; the medieval knights had their heraldry on their shields.

 Faust wrote:

could you please tell me where did you find the arms of your scout ?

Bare arms are from the Chaos Marauder Horsemen kit and the puffy sleeves from the Empire General kit (except the one with the shotgun who just has greenstuffed regular Scout arms.)

Inquisitorial warband is finally painted:

Some WIPs:

I really love the new Scion helmets, and I think all my future IG will use them. (Sorry about the blurry picture. One day I will learn how to take good photographs, one day...)



Another enlarged Leman Russ.


Ironclad Dreadnought. I extended the legs couple of millimetres and constructed a new CCW from Centurion bits.


I always hated how Hurricane Bolters looked, so I made my own.

 KrautScientist wrote:

Have you considered sharing your work over at the Ammobunker as well?

Okay, that site was full of amazing stuff. I spent a day browsing the Inquisition section.

Painted my free Eternal. I tried to grimdarkify him a bit.

Deathwatch, hell yeah!

I apologise the poor quality of the pictures.

The Deathwatch veteran kit is the best marine kit GW has ever produced. The models were absolute blast to assemble, and I can't wait to get my hands on another box. GW has upped the scale of the marine legs for this kit, so I could forgo most of my usual true scale shenanigans. I added small spacers on the bottom of the feet and at the waist, and deepened the chest a bit, which allowed fitting standard marine helmets (the ugly pug-face helmets of the DW are the only parts of the kit I don't like.)





I also made some librarians and Inquisitors to go with the veterans. Inquisitors are made using Dreamforge Valkir kit. These I needed to downscale, and they still tower over most GW human models. Look fine next to the huge marines though. The head of the hammer-inquisitor is absolutely lovely Statuesque Miniatures heroic scale head. I need to find more uses for these.