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Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






Hello, how is everyone? Er... well... I've always been bad at starting posts, so let's just get to the point XD

For a while now, I've been slowly putting together a Deathwing army. Waaay back in 2010, I had used some AoBR termies and borrowed bikes to play in a local 40k league, and I fell in love with the style of play that Deathwing armies afford. The only problem is that until recently, I couldn't afford it.

So over the past while I've been slowly getting minis and assembling them, since I'm cheap and want this to be fairly inexpensive. Because of this, the army has and will have a lot of conversions--I've actually learned a lot about green stuff and conversions over the course of this project.

So, enough background and onto the project itself!



The chapter I'm building is a Dark Angels successor chapter called the Seraphs of Thunder, which I have yet to come up with a satisfactory backstory for, but eventually will. Their paint scheme is red and a corroded bronze for the armor, with other metallics, etc. I've put a lot of work into creating weapons and gear for them that looks good, as I don't plan on buying the individual thunder hammer bits for my terminators... Actually, I guess you could say the army started out as a converted unit of THSS terminators, back when I had a crappy conversion from a storm bolter as the hammer:



Thankfully, I've gotten past that stage of converting, and through the wonders of 3D printing, I designed my own hammer from scratch in sketchup and got myself a set:








This is the some of the stuff I have to work with: some converted AoBR termies, some Dark Vengeance ones, some Space Hulk ones that I got with the game when it came out, six bikers, and then the minis I've painted. I also have something like 20 tactical marines from AoBR I need to assemble and a razorback I need to repaint.




I have a bunch of pictures to share, but I'm not sure what order to go in, so I guess I'll just go in FOC order. Here's my Librarian... he's getting a repaint sometime in the near future since I don't like my work from back when I did it XD




And here is my "Belial," still very much a work in progress. He'll get a name and backstory some time in the future, but first I need to finish working on him. I still need to work a bunch on his cape and give him a shoulder banner thing, as well as a bunch of details.





His sword is probably the coolest thing about him so far--it's going to be painted to look like it's made of lightning, with some OSL to go with it.





It's actually kinda funny... I had a different model lined up to be my Belial back before the codex got updated and he got a model, so I decided to demote that one to a Deathwing Knight and make my own to look similar to the real one:

This guy originally had dual power swords to count as Belial's twin lightning claws, but right now he's getting a Flail and Storm Shield instead. No pictures of those right now, sadly, since I could not get a good shot for some reason.







Although speaking of Storm Shields, one thing that always bothered me about them is that the Space Marines actually held them, with their hands. They have super high-tech armor that interfaces with their nervous system and they can't use a magnetic rail or even a locking mechanism to let them keep their hand free? Bleh. I decided that mine would be going with the "magnetic rail" system, and so I built it out of power fists. Here are the storm shields of normal terminators in the army:






And here is one of the Deathwing Knights ones, showing the rail mechanism:








All the Deathwing Knights have different shields than the rest of the army, and they'll have capes as well, to differentiate them from the normals.



And they will have custom Maces of Absolution that I designed, currently in the mail and scheduled to arrive next week:



It's kinda hard to see from the screenshot, but each flange of the mace has a wing design on either side, trailing the feathers down to the shaft.

This is one of the Knights I've been working on in the past few days, trying my hand at blending for the first time. I think I'm probably going to do that for all the capes, and possibly the shoulder pads as well:








This was originally a sergeant with a cape instead of a deathwish (he kept his helmet on), and now I'm not sure where he'll go. Probably as a normal member of a squad.





I still need to do his cape like the other one, and to think of a name for him. I'm gonna wait to give names to my marines until after they do something cool in a game, and this guy tanked 33 wounds to the face from two units of Orks, then lived until the end of next turn. I'm thinking that he'll probably get a foreign word for "wall" or "immovable" or something like that

This guy is also without a home, since I'm not sure how I want to equip him, or if I want to magnetize him and convert or buy some more weapons for him. In any case, he hasn't seen battle yet, since I've never been much of a fan of Dreads, I just have him from AoBR






And here's a pic of two normal terminators, still works in progress. I had them magnetized, but decided that it was just not worth the effort when I can get more cheap termies to convert, so they will get some green stuff armpits to make them more dynamic.




And of course, no army is complete without bases, so here are some of mine. I'm doing lava bases for some reason, probably because it was a cool idea at the time and it stuck.






As a closing thought, I am continually amazed, if I do say so myself, that almost all of this is converted out of AoBR stuff. I would never have believed it if someone had told me a few years back that I would make conversions like this.

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The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






After seeing some other lava-based models, I ended up deciding that mine were crappy and redid them to be more realistic. Thoughts?









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The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






Whoo! My maces of absolution came in the mail

I'm in the process of attaching them and making some capes for the rest of my Deathwing Knights.








Also, I've started a new conversion project, a techmarine. Right now he's only legs.




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Capes and feet

The second cape is still a work in progress.





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The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






I've been doing some more work on my Belial. Still very much WiP, though.


The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
Made in br
Longtime Dakkanaut




Brazil

Great work here... Nice to see this type of work...

I love conversiors (or armies who give you lots of opportunitys to convert things ^^)

Congrats

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If my post show some BAD spelling issues, please forgive-me, english is not my natural language, and i never received formal education on it...
My take on Demiurgs (enjoy the reading):
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/537654.page
Please, if you think im wrong, correct me (i will try to take it constructively). 
   
Made in us
Flashy Flashgitz





Pacific Northwest

Really cool conversions. I love the work you are putting into each model.

Please don't take offense, none meant, I am not a fan of the color scheme. HOWEVER, the paint job looks wonderful, I am just not a fan of the scheme. Your weathered bronze is great and the blending on the fire cape is great.

Really like the lava bases too. I'm always torn on DA and their ilk. I like the background but never really wanted to collect them, so I'll live vicariously through you who do.

Anyway, very nice project. Keep up the great work!

__________________________________________

Gorgrimm 'Eadsplittas Bad Moons
Aegis Guard Space marines


"For every battle honor, a thousand heroes die alone, unsung, and unremembered"

My External Space Marine Blog



 
   
Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






Thanks for the compliments

And to each his own on the color scheme, but I'm glad you like the pain job quality, at least. No offense taken.

I did some more work on Belial, and I realize now that these are horrible pictures, but I guess they're what I've got. Specifically, I added more bling to his robe and gave him a shoulder pad cover.






Also, I decided to add some more detail to his sword:




Any ideas on what I should hang from his storm bolter?

The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
Made in us
Flashy Flashgitz





Pacific Northwest

Looking really good. Yeah, I definitely did not mean the painting, which is great, and the scheme fits well, just not my cup of tea.

What are you doing for the weapons? They are pretty freaking cool.

As far as hanging from the bolter, Skulls!

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Gorgrimm 'Eadsplittas Bad Moons
Aegis Guard Space marines


"For every battle honor, a thousand heroes die alone, unsung, and unremembered"

My External Space Marine Blog



 
   
Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






The sword is cut out of a top loader card sleeve (and lots and lots of liquid green stuff), and the other weapons are 3D printed.



Glad you like them

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The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






Today I finally got an assault marine torso in the mail, so I got to converting my Techmarine. Still very much a work in progress, as I need to do some more work on the green stuff on his legs, and I need to finish the rest of him.






EDIT: And some more work I did on him:










Clear plastic is annoyingly hard to photograph :/

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The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






So, it's been a bit since I updated, so I have a bit of stuff to post. I have not done much on the army itself--I've mostly focused on my Belial and the Techmarine, since school got busy. I also did some stuff for my Dreadnought:



For the techmarine, I've currently done everything he needs except for the arms, for which I need a left arm (I discovered I don't have the bits for it) and I need to either convert or find some AdMech shoulder pads. Sadly, I somehow managed to lose a servo-arm and a half during the time I set the baggie of parts to the side and the time I recieved the assault marine bits, so I had to make my own for the flamer and plasma cutter arms :(

Oh well, I think they look good. Anyway, frosted-clear plastic continues to be aggravating as hell to photograph. I can't wait to get this guy finished so I can take real pictures of him










I finally have begun to put finishing touches on "Belial." I need to work a bit on the terminator armor around his head, but otherwise I think he's looking good so far.





Thoughts?

Also, I started converting some arms for my Dreadnought, since I had extra AoBR arms and wanted other weapons. I'm making a heavy flamer fist and an assault cannon:








... and here's some pics of another project I've been working on, a custom Ork dakkajet. The green is where I'm using liquid green stuff to fill in the layers from the 3D printer. Not all the parts are in the picture because I'm lazy and my desk only has so much space.







I'm really glad with how it turned out, since 3D printers are not the best for stuff like this, but the deficiencies of the printer actually made it better, since it added more detail that looks awesome on an Ork plane.

For instance, this was all smooth in the 3D model, and I had intended to use card to add plating to it. Now I don't have to

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The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






Small update today. I worked on some bases and started painting Belial.






Sometimes I think I put way too much work into my bases... Then I think, "nah..."


The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






I haven't felt like painting much, so I have no space marines for this update, only some pictures of the scratchbuilt dakkajet I've been working on. (gold is where I sprayed over to see details)

In any case, I'll get some better pictures up sometime tomorrow once I finish the final touches.






In any case, I feel like I'm doing something wrong (or possibly right), having derailed my own thread from space marines to orks within one page

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The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






So, I finally finished my building my techmarine

Now he gets to sit to the side until I figure out how I want to paint him.
















And I also worked a bit on my Belial counts-as, mainly on his cape:






And also my dakkajet, which is coming along nicely. I need to figure out where I want to add the 3rd twin-linked gun, but I like how it's come out so far.









Tonight I tried NMM for the first time. I think it turned out fairly well.

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The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
Made in us
Waaagh! Warbiker






The last week and a half or so have been mostly devoted to final exams and a new Ork project, a Mega-Biker Boss. He's magnetized at the waist so that I can run him as a megaboss or a Cybork biker warboss depending on how I want to play him.








This is what I have of the Warbike. It was much harder than I thought to start off, since Orky tech is really hard for me to do well... But hey, it's looking good so far






The Seraphs of Thunder: a homebrew, almost entirely converted successor Deathwing. And also some Orks. And whatever else I have lying around. 
   
 
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