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Hi all! I am a first time Dakka poster. A friend of mine suggested that I post my current project log here as you guys have a reputation for being a good responsive community, and I am always looking for feedback, ideas, and criticism!

I am currently working on making a table top legal "counts as" Angry Marine army based on Codex: Blood Angels. I wanted something fun and challenging that will keep my interest and earn me many internets, so Angry Marines seemed to be the way to go! I plan on filling up a force org, and also making some Apoc units. Ultimately, I want to acquire, and convert a FW Reaver titan. (Much to the horror of some, I'm sure. Tee Hee ) I will explain what counts as what as I go, but the troops of the army will be all Death Company marines, & DC dreads

Anyway, the project is already well under way, so my first few posts will be playing catchup as I get photos uploaded. I apologize ahead of time for some of the crappy quality on some of my earlier models.

The squad I started with is a 10 man DC unit, mostly made up of spare bitz and cannibalized Flesh Tearers I gave up on long ago:





^ My first "test" Marine, armed with a plasma pistol. Simple part swapping and a green stuff emblem on the chest.





^Brother Kratos! The swords are ork choppas, and the chains are made by reaper. I GSed him to have a goatee.





^Angry Marine with a GS cigar and a lead pipe from the ork biker kit.





^ My "sgt". He is just for show, on the table he's just a DC marine with a power fist.





^ Angry Marine with a Thunder Wrench (Hammer), and an Armorcast gun flash.



^ AM with a sledge hammer, counts as a standard P/CCW DC marine. Before you ask, yes, it is hammer time. It is ALWAYS hammer time.



^ AM with a power bat. I know this model is old and a bit goofy looking, but he served me well as a Salamander (back when they had initiative 3!) and then as a Flesh Tearer. He earned his place with his years of faithful service!



^ AM with hand flamers. My one friend said this guy is the most boring model in my army. If the most boring guy in my army is dual wielding flame throwers, I must be doing something right!



^ AM bug exterminator. Make a wish!



^ And of course, the famous guardsman CCW.

I'll get more up shortly. In the future, I plan on making one more 10 man squad of foot marines, and one 5 man squad of foot marines. So any ideas or requests anyone has will be much appreciated!

I like it! Reminds me of the really old school space marine art where they had litanies and graffiti written on their armor. The guardsman looks like he's about to be suplexed by a pro wrestler.

Can you legally have someone dual wielding flamers?

Definitely Refreshing to see a sense of humor in space marines.

Angry marines ftw, now I feel the need to make a squad xD

Cave_Dweller wrote:I like it! Reminds me of the really old school space marine art where they had litanies and graffiti written on their armor. The guardsman looks like he's about to be suplexed by a pro wrestler.

Can you legally have someone dual wielding flamers?

Definitely Refreshing to see a sense of humor in space marines.

Thanks! I can't take credit for them though; they are a meme from 4chan. You can check out 1d4chan wiki to get the skinny. As far as the flamers go, you can only have one, I just modeled him with two to increase the overall RAEG.

Sasa0mg wrote:Angry marines ftw, now I feel the need to make a squad xD

LOL, I hope you like painting yellow, cuz I sure don't

Painting yellow will just add to the anger

Looking insane! Subscribed, and waiting for more

Very nice indeed. I think the gratified profanity is quite amusing, however I think some will find it not to be their taste.

I love this! Make the reaver have a troll face.

@Sasa0mg My god....you're right!

@prototype_X Thanks!

@Phyrexia Thanks! I think the "some" you a referring to are known as "heretics" in the professional community

@killykavekommando lol, a reaver is still a LONG way off, but I do have some ideas, and more are always appreciated!

Anyway, this post is about my other troop choices, the Belligerent Engines. Both are counts as Death Company dreads.






^ Some WIP pics. On the right is my old FT dread, on the left is the new Furioso dread.





^Brother Ignus, armed with two DCCW, melta gun, storm bolter, and rocket fist (magna grapple).







^Brother Caede, armed with twin Industrial Heresy Renderers (blood talons), a heavy flamer, melta gun, and magna grapple.

That's it for my standard Belligerent Engines, the rest of my troop slots will be filled with DC squads (which means I have a Astaroth "counts as" in the works as well ) Although I do have a contemptor in the works, and plans to make a Black Engine based around a flying librarian dread. /sigh so much to do.

ALWAYS ANGRY!

Vyler wrote:

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Absolutely amazing! This made my day.

Goresaw wrote: ALWAYS ANGRY!

ALL THE TIME!!!!

Moltar wrote:Absolutely amazing! This made my day.

Glad you enjoyed him!

The first problem I ran into, from a force flavor/organization standpoint, was how to make the rest of my non-death company units as FETHING FURIOUS as my "standard" marines. The answer is sanguinary priests, lots of them. FNP and Furious Charge for all! Here's where the magic happens:








I made this guy with the intention of him being the first part of my FANCY ERS squad (honor guard), but I could just as easily run him with my Black Brothers (Sanguinary Guard). In the end, I will need 4 more, 2 terminator and 2 jump pack. Ideas? Requests?

And I present the high librarian of the Angry Marines, the man himself: Moarfistin, The Extremely Cross!

Armed with unshakable faith in the Emprah, a healthy diet rich in fiber, and the terrifying "Fisting Stick", this proctologist turned post-human psychopath travels the stars making sure that the enemies of the Imperium meet the most horrifying end possible.

I created Moarfistin out of my bitz box to be my "counts as" Mephiston, Lord of Death. Since then, 4chan has added him as an official part of Angry Marines canon. He's officially part of an unofficial chapter of space dudes in a made up universe! Go me! To read more about him (nsfw), check out the 1d4chan wiki.

I'm not sure how dakka feels about "the bird", so I am going to censor it out of my pics going forward, unless a mod tells me differently. I tried to get an official policy from a mod on warseer, and never got a straight answer. Seriously, what is this world coming to?

Man oh man... did this make me laugh. Subbed sir. Keep up the hilarious work!

Vyler wrote:

That could be the single greatest conversion I've seen on Dakka. Bravo sir.

So much win!! Libby is fantastic!

Hahaha fist power weapon!No comment!Dont want to say what im thinking

This made my week.

I am done with P&M as nothing will be as great as this.

Wow that dread mod looks nice, the copter bits look ace!

I really like the customizing you have going on for stuff, I'm pretty mod-shy when it comes to my grey knights, I'm definitely going to have to change that with the angry marines you've inspired me to do myself!

Even if there is only 5 thus far xD

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:Man oh man... did this make me laugh. Subbed sir. Keep up the hilarious work!

Yes sir!

Lint wrote:That could be the single greatest conversion I've seen on Dakka. Bravo sir.

LOL, well if that's all it takes....

Moltar wrote:So much win!! Libby is fantastic!

Thanks much!

Pie_vendor wrote:Hahaha fist power weapon!No comment!Dont want to say what im thinking

That is a sanctified medical instrument of the Emprah! Keep your thoughts pure!

sparkywtf wrote:This made my week.

I am done with P&M as nothing will be as great as this.

Sounds like a challenge! Thanks!

Sasa0mg wrote:Wow that dread mod looks nice, the copter bits look ace!

I really like the customizing you have going on for stuff, I'm pretty mod-shy when it comes to my grey knights, I'm definitely going to have to change that with the angry marines you've inspired me to do myself!

Even if there is only 5 thus far xD

Thanks! My goal when starting this project was to make sure that every model was it's own conversion project...it can be rough, but I'm still going!

Here is my first Black Brother (counts as Sanguinary Guard). An elite Angry Marine that is so upset that he catches on fire.





And....done!








I wanted to go more badass then silly with these guys, I'm pretty happy with the results. This was a lot of work though.....4 more to go :(

Hard work paid off dude, he looks excellent! I love the way you painted the 'heat' and flames a really good job and very individual!

This is... a lot of fire.

It looks good, did you sculpt all that or is there a kit somewhere that you can get for that stuff? I love the fire from the axe, that looks perfect.

Awesome looking fire effect dude. This army is absolutely hilarious. I love the "go cry" and "walk it off" on the Priest. Legend.

This thread had me laughing out loud form top to bottom! I love your conversions and the grafitti is hilarious!

I very seldom exalt a thread, but this one really deserves it!

NOW GET SOME F*CKING UPDATES READY! I'M WAITING! RAEG!

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:This is... a lot of fire.

It looks good, did you sculpt all that or is there a kit somewhere that you can get for that stuff? I love the fire from the axe, that looks perfect.

I'm pretty sure most of it comes from here.

I was just about to commend you on the use of the muzzle flashes and then you blow me away with the Black Brother. That guy is awesome

Sasa0mg wrote:I'm definitely going to have to change that with the angry marines you've inspired me to do myself!

Even if there is only 5 thus far xD

Btw, you'll have to let me know when you have some pics!

nerdfest09 wrote:Hard work paid off dude, he looks excellent! I love the way you painted the 'heat' and flames a really good job and very individual!

I appreciate the compliments!

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:This is... a lot of fire.

It looks good, did you sculpt all that or is there a kit somewhere that you can get for that stuff? I love the fire from the axe, that looks perfect.

Thanks! Legion of the Damned got nothing on him! I'll explain everything after the quotes below.

Da Boss wrote:Awesome looking fire effect dude. This army is absolutely hilarious. I love the "go cry" and "walk it off" on the Priest. Legend.

Thanks much!

MrMerlin wrote:This thread had me laughing out loud form top to bottom! I love your conversions and the grafitti is hilarious!

I very seldom exalt a thread, but this one really deserves it!

NOW GET SOME F*CKING UPDATES READY! I'M WAITING! RAEG!

I'LL POST NEW S**T WHEN I DAMNED WELL FEEL LIKE IT!! SO F**KING KEEP YOUR PANTS ON!!

Lint wrote:I'm pretty sure most of it comes from here.

I was just about to commend you on the use of the muzzle flashes and then you blow me away with the Black Brother. That guy is awesome

Thanks! You are mostly right with the flashes, but there was a little more too it because I didn't like their jet plumes, explained below...

Thanks for all the compliments, everyone! I feed on your approval! And then crap out more converted minis!

As far as the "hows" of the Black Brother's fire effects, the axe was made using a regular sanguinary guard axe, and the flaming bit of this thing's arm:



Little bit of chopping, and a little bit of GS, and they became one. The jump pack fire was made using (as Lint pointed out) armorcast muzzle flashes, small and heavy respectively. I didn't like the armorcast jet plumes, so I decided to do some experimenting with gorilla glue. This was my first test result:



Since the experiment was a success, I bought the heavy flashes and combined the two ideas. I basically put a a small pile of hobby refuse at the end of the heavy flash and poured on some glue. (I did this all on an old mtg card with the thought of cutting it out afterwards, but I was able to just peel it off) I also put down some some seperate "beads" of glue. Once everything expanded and dried, I glued the beads to the main pile and gave it another pouring over...and so on and so forth. I then painted elmer's glue over the finished product to help fill in and bubbles. It was very time consuming, but the end effect was worth it I think.

I'm going to try and get some step by step picture tutorials up when I do the rest of the squad.

This is great stuff I love it when something different comes along. Your conversions are 10/10.

I will stand tall and protect your right to write whatever you want on your marines, but I have to ask if you really need them? If you have to censor your pics then maybe you have gone a bit over the top. But hey; thats just my 2c. Ignore at will

Or maybe you could rename your army to 'Rude Marines'?

Good job on building your own style. Keep it up

edit: forgot to say: the hacksaw is my favorite!

I feel that if we can have models with nipples and genetalia, we can have a Marine with the F-bomb. I'm just throwing that out there. Certainly, the foul language is a necessity for the Angry Marines... there is no other way.

Awesome stuff! subscribed

I recognize those frowny-faces and they fit perfectly into the design. Also am a big fan of Brother Kratos!

Is it... the castle crasher's dudes that inspired the faces?