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I have decided I'm going to revive this thread but with a slightly different focus. I'm doing a separate P&M blog about my Ork Waaagh! which is that of the mighty arch killa Garaghak. and My Raven Guard will now serve as a suitable enemy for my Orks culminating in a large diorama of the defence of Deliverance from Waaagh! Garaghak.

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I have been a member of Dakka for a while now but have never actually gotten around to posting anything so seeing as it is new project time for the new year i'd try something a little different to my usual vien... So the Raven Guard 10th will eventually be doing the entire company but to start will be doing 1500pts

HQ
Shadow Captain Korvydae, Master of Recruits.
Chaplain: plasma pistol, jump pack.

TROOPs
10 Assault Marines (as Korvydae makes them troops): 2 plasma pistols, sergeant with power fist.
10 Scout Snipers: camo cloaks, missile launcher, Sergeant Telion.
10 Boltgun Scouts: heavy bolter, sergeant with combi melta.
2 Units of 5 Combat Blade Scouts: sergeants with power weapons.

FAST ATTACK
10 Scout Bikers: 3 astartes grenade launchers, sergeant with power fist.
2 Land Speeder Storms: multi-meltas.

The full Apoc force will end up being a tad under 100 models (due to the raven guard gene stock being tainted, by the alpha legion, and having to rely on stocks from terra, they are always under manned and companies rarely have the full complement of 100 marines) and have no idea as to how many points it will eventually be as will purely be a themey fluffy thing.

Just will be fun doing all the variences in skin tone as a raven guard marine ages their skin gets whiter and their hair and eyes go darker so were the regular scouts will have differences in skin tone and hair all the sergeants and full marines will have black hair and bone white skin. will get a few pictures done a posted in the next day or too of my first tester models



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Just a few pictures of my test models for the project






Pictures are a little yellow due to the light in my room and have now lightened Telion and the Biker sergeant's skin to that lovely Raven Guard bone white

a few of the first shopts now most of it is put together for my 1.5k



Everything I've built so far



Command Squad close up



about halfway finished painting Sniper Scouts

Always fun to start a new project! It's certainly an interesting list you've come up with. Is it fluffy or a new, evil genius strategy?

I like your HB and Scout Biker Sergeant. Creative bases! Is that an IG PF? Great OSL job, btw! My only CC would be to fade a bit more to the skin tone, it's a bit abrupt currently.

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

The OSL is also too big, imho
it should be less prominent

ya the osl on the power fist is a little over the top it was ok on the darker skin tone i started with but as it lightened through the layers it needs to be calmed down a bit and ya it's the power fist from the cadian command box. Basically am doing a completely fluffy army its as the 10th were at the raid on Kastorel-Novem one of the few engagements that the entire 10th were present. So basically will meen I'll end up with a tad over 80 scouts the few full marines (including 2 chaplins and a librarian) that are attached to them and their command squad


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But in reply the 1500 pt list is just what is playable, though probably not very competitively, while in keeping with the theme. Will have fun trying to take out tanks when all i have is a couple of powerfists, missile launchers and grenades


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Lastly a couple of pics of my only finished finished marine so far

aaron_brown1987 wrote:But in reply the 1500 pt list is just what is playable, though probably not very competitively, while in keeping with the theme. Will have fun trying to take out tanks when all i have is a couple of powerfists, missile launchers and grenades

You could add some regular landspeeders (piloted by scouts, of course) with multimeltas. That doesn't deviate so far from your fluff...

true enough can give the storms multi meltas too will have to look into convertyness thanks for the idea

aaron_brown1987 wrote:true enough can give the storms multi meltas too will have to look into convertyness thanks for the idea

The first one is free

Add land speeders. assault Marines are piloting them anyway and they are considered new guys.

ya does say that the Raven Guard 10th has assault marines attached to it as are marines waiting to be transferred to line companies as strangley the Raven guard have no reserve companies so will definitely have to look into it a bit more

Anywho I finished painting my Librarian so will be posting pics tomorrow of him and have made it a little further with the sniper scout squad

aaron_brown1987 wrote:Anywho I finished painting my Librarian

Pics or it didn't happen!

Looking forward to it!
Rawson

Nice Raven guard. I'm loving the pics so far.

I'm working on a similar army theme but I have plumped for 3rd company with elements of 1st company.
Infantry only. If you want to pop veheicles drop a couple of melta bombs on the hull.

Here you go peoples the promised Librarian photos









a few subtle conversions along with the added fe raven guard upgrade parts and well a lot of kit bashing

I soooo want the FW RG and SM kits but I really can not justify the cost.

Ahh can't be that bad i have Korvydae to do next and he was only £15 yay for artificer armour and a master crafted thunder hammer

I have a two year old and a one year old. £15 is nappies and milk for less than a week.

If you think your hobby is expensive try parenthood.

Sonophos wrote:I have a two year old and a one year old. £15 is nappies and milk for less than a week.

If you think your hobby is expensive try parenthood.

I think I'll stick with plastic mens!

Not at all what I meant, was actually remarking upon the fact that there isn't much of a difference between the prices of fudgeworld and regular gw now I am sorry if I caused any offence I didn't actually mean to. Anywho back on topic have now built all my scout bikers so on to some serious painting as am gonna try to get a painted 1500 by the end of the month.

No offence at all. It was said with tongue in cheek. I should have made that clear. I'm old and don't use smilies much.


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It takes me two evenings to do one mini! 1500 in under a month to that quality is fantastic.

you should see my grot army did it for a 1000pt thing at Warhammer World which bought, built and painted it in 4 weeks
Army was:

Big Mek: burna, kff

3 Units of 30 Grots with their 3 Runt Herds each
Deff Dread with 2 skorchas

6 Killa Kanz with rokkits
3 Killa Kanz with Grot zookas

ahh will just stick some photos up of it this evening

I am suspecting an amphetamine habit. :-P


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I only get about 2-3 hours of good painting time of an evening on days when the kids settle well and my other half doesn't have better ideas of what we should be doing.

hmm no drugs needed just to be boring, single and suffer from insomnia. So hobies make up for it for the time being probably why i have so many of them hmm might need to finish my Novem Orks to go with these raven guard ok gonna have to add to this thread then

Don't see too many Raven Guard armies being done. Nice work so far. Like the libby.

Anywho thought i'd post a few pics of my recent Space Goblin Project
First of all here is my Big Mek I have dubbed him "spud"



One of my runt herds



A few pics of the Kanz and mt Deff Dread "Mr Stompy"









A group shot of the force



and lastly a few pics of them at Warhammer World playing some games (sorry for the horible blurryness were taken with my phone)







the Imperial Fist player was a tad outnumbered at 1000pts as did have 110 models

Gotta love da fungus.

Hmmm... have just found out all the assault marines are meant to have red rims on their right shoulder pads for the Raven Guard. [adopt sarcastic tone] Yay! will have to go back and do them. ahh well should have the assault marines and all the sniper scouts done by the end of the week end

Squad markings can change from shadow force to shadow force. They do not necessarily conform to the Codex Astartes and it does state that marines should change their unit markings in campaigns where this will confuse and confound the enemy.

God I feel like such a geek right now. :-)

Ya you're right, just with the Raven Guard (which is different to codex) the right shoulder guard trim denotes the type of Space Marine. Green is for tactical squads, red is for assault squads and yellow is for devastators. The left kneepad displays the company number and then ya they do change their squad markings but I'm doing scouts so no squad markings for me (well except the like 15 full marines I actually have in the company) and low visibility version of chapter symbol (which is a good excuse for me not to paint pure white as it always turns out slightly chalky when i do) but then i'm getting most of my info from the Kastorel Novem book and Lexicanum for the theme so definitely up for any sugestions, comments and critism.

I find that Skull white turns out Chalky when you don't get it just right. You practically have to mix each time you load the brush.