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cool stuff is the hat on the necron his disguise as a techmarine so no one will notice

LOL, he was meant to be my first converted necron, and he was on my desk all primed, and when i worked out the list for my battle next weekend irealised i would need something to proxy a tech marine, and decided that my top hatted necron would be a cool stand in. So painted him up in the chapter colours haha. I may keep him as a tech marine, as he makes me smile

Some more progress has been made with the painting ready for the battle, i thought i had finished off 3 of my Terminators (bar finishing the basing) But looking at the below shot of my Terminator Sargent i have decided that his Storm Bolter needs a bit something more. They are not GD standard (And i never thought they would be) But i am pleased with how they look from 12 inches. So Good Table top by my standard



C&C welcome

Well i managed to get them all painted and the limbs painted, and i even glued them in place. The bases have all ahd a base of colour but nothign more than that yet, i did nto want to rush it. I was more interested in getting the arms in place. (The eagle eyed of you will notice that one of them is missing a backpack, i mis counted when preppin, so he has not got one yet. That is something for my To do list.

I took the advice from Rawson and amended the positioning of my HF Terminator, although i raised his PF rather than lowering it, he is cheering as the Xenos Burn . He does look better now.

I took this photo last night, so it was under artificial light. Hopefully ill be able to get some proper photos taken tomorrow (in daylight, as my light box has not been built yet ) before the battle and i will upload them in due course.

me like! Im so SUB!

Well i am finally getting round to uploading some photos from the Battle Last weekend. It ended in a Draw, as we had to clear the table for dinner before i went out to work that evening. We decided that the next battle will start earlyer in the day

Its not going to be much of a report, but i will try to give brief descriptions of the photos.

I had to make up an army list based on what i had, pre trade (Which was another reason for the battle) with a few proxys.

my Army consisted of.

Chapter Master plasma pistol, melta bombs, power sword
Honour Guard x4

Captin Power Sword & Bolter, melta bombs (odd confireration from AoBR)
Command Squad
Apothacary
Standard Bearer Standard, power fist, storm bolter
Champion
Veteran
Veteran

Tactical Squad x 10 rocket launcher and flamer

Tactical Squad x 10 rocket launcher and flamer

Dreadnought Extra Armour Multi Melta / Close combat weapon with storm bolter (Standard from AoBR)

Terminator Squad x 6 Heavy Flamer

Thunder Fire Cannon
Techmarine Gunner

Whirlwind Storm Bolter


Total 1498

The second tactical squad was proxyed with some of my Necron warriors, and the Honour Guard was Proxyed with Flayed ones (The Chapter Champion was my Necron Lord), oh and my awesome Pimped Necron Tech Marine with his "Thunderfire Cannon".
Now that the Trade has taken place i have an aditional 10 tactical Marines, 10 new assult Marines and 3 Rhinos. I plan on upgrading one of the rhinos to a RB for my command squad. but i will scratch build all the differnt turrent weapons and magnatize them.

Its been atleast 1 1/2 - 2 years since i ahve played a game, infact i think it was not long after 5th eddition came out that we palyed an apocolypse game. So i am not the most skilled player, and the majority of my hobby is the colecting and modeling/painting. But it was great to see my Marines on the table, and good fun to have a game. We plan on a rematch in the new year

Here Is a ranged shot of both armys Deployed before the first turn.


Here we have a closer shot of My army, Top to bottom we have.
Chapter master with honour Guard, Backed up By Tactical Squad Beta.
Then you have the Tunderfire Cannon with Techmarine on top of the Building
Whirlwind
Captain and Command Squad
Tactical Squad Alpha
Terminator Squad
And finally the Dreadnought.


Close up of my new Terminator with his Heavy Flamer (Still needs the Base finishing off)


Erk from this angle i can see a gap in his shoulder :(



Front view of the command squad.


Very simmilar shots of the Tactical Squad but with different focusing.



My Dreadnought prooves his worth and pops a can


My Chapter Master and Honour guard, take a couple of casualties, but then desimate and route a unit of Boyz, followed by moving in to take out the Truck they came in on.



Not paying attention and letting this looted wagon full of nobs get so close was bad news for my Whirlwind. It was complete destroyed and left a nice big crater in the ground.


The comand squad prepares for battle. (this counts as a chainsword as i did nto want to cut off the metal power fist )


And the battle in full swing.



So it was good fun.

Next posts will be me building up my new units, i will save painting them untill i get my can of red Army painter spray paint, that i will hopefully get for Christmas.









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Ok Since the battle i have started on building up my lovely new Marines Thank you Monty.

I started off with Sergeant from the Tactical Squad Beta, he was going to be modeled after my Friend Monty who the previous battle was against, and who the trade took place with. Monty has a Great Beard and huge long Dreads, so it was easy enough to style this on the model.

I started off with the beard i had a basic triangular shape flattened out of green suff, i then cut a small wedge out of one side to leave space for the mouth, i then pressed it onto the model and scultped the dead with my main tool, then did finer detail with my scapel blade. I tride to push the beard up the side of the face, but i decided to not give him a mustache as i did not want to obscure the mouth. (i have since thought that i may now add on a mustache as the rest is cured it may be easyer. I then rolled out lots of thin sasauges for the dreads and placed them on individually, so that i could choose where they went ont he model, i made sure to keep clear of most of the back so that the back pack would still fit on normally. i then used the scaple blade to add some texture to the dreads.

Here be Montymus the Mighty and Feared Sergeant of the Striking Skulls Tacktical Squad Beta


With Montymus basically built i decided to turn my attention to the Assult Squad, i have been wanting for ages to do an assult squad so i had a couple of ideas. A while back i bought some scenery that was bricks of dental plaster, and i had a load of them left over. I decided to rough them up a bit, and have all the assult squad mounted on one. To show them leaping over rouble to get to the enemy. I had decided in my head that i would like Power fists to be a theme in the army, so when i can i will have them used. (if i can afford it lol) So the Sergeant has a power fist and bolt pistol.


I then made a Marine with a plasma pistol, but the photo has not come through to my PC from my phone yet, so he will come later. So next is Knifeblock, named because ther eis a knife in the block he is leaping over lol. His pose is quite leaning forward, but with the head looking up i think it looks likehe is leaping forward rather than falling over. I have tried to align the heads better on these models, having them looking along the guns. I was not so strict with this on my Tactical Squad Aplha, that and they were AOBR marines so there was not so much variety.



C&C welcome, i will continue to build them all as i am loveing it. So far it tends to be one a night (i get a couple of hours each evening once my wife and son have gone to bed, so i stick something on my PC to watch and slip on my headphones and scrape away mold lines



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All the models so far only have the legs and body glued together (and to pinned to the base) the arms and head and back back are seperate for painting, they were just bluetacked for the pictures. Apart from Montymus whos head is attached because i greenstuffed him.

the planned colour scheme for the Assult squad will be as below, the arm holding the close combat weapon will be Purple, rather than it being the right only.



I meant to have my veterans in the comand squad have a bone coloured helmet, but i ended up glueing them in place before painting, and i was not happy enough in my skill to paint them while glued. I will ahve to rethink my "veteran" scheme.


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Bah the web page failed after i wrote the last post, i just hate that. I think it went somethign like this.

I finnaly worked out why the photos were not coming through to my work PC from my mobile, they had double extentions, or as my phone calls it a full stop in the date. So i renamed the file and it came through fine.



I have enjoyed using the blocks on the base, i ahve a varity to use, even though so far i have only used 2 diferent types, i have a few models left yet to play around with.
The photos are mainly for me to have a reference for rebuilding the models once they are all painted up as the arms and heads will all be seperate. ... take 2 (i think i will copy all the text first)

Well i had a busy weekend what with working Friday and Saturday nights on the Pub Door, so i only managed to get one model made over those 2 nights, and one more on Sunday night.

I decided to use a beaky helmet for the first one, he will be the first in my army The second was my second plasma pistol wielder. I then made up the 5 more bases for the rest of the Assult squad, as i could do this easily while watching QI XL on the Iplayer on my PC Ill get a photo of them tonight, i had got into bed before i realised i had not photographed them.



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Mmm i think that actually in the artifuical light, they look better without the white background. What do you think?

Well i remembered to take a photo of the bases



Unfortunatly my son was not well over the weekend, on Sunday and Monday night, so i had to be quiter than normal in the spare room. So no clipping of sprues or shaving of dental plaster bricks. So i decided i could do some nice quite glueing of sand So all 11 bases now have sand glued on them and have dried nicely. I have not taken a new photo as ther eis not that much difference to make it worth it. I managed to get part way though making the next Assult marine, but got tired so he is part finished on my desk. Once done i will upload a further photo.

I am also thinking about going back to Montymus and possibly adding some more to him, maybe some grenades or packs. Just to make him more special. Also i need to decided how to cope with the grave stone for the base. I think it would be best to paint it seperatly and then glue it on at the end.

The bricks are left overs from some scenery, its in the background of this photo of one of my necrons. Ignore the naff paint job on the model.



Untill next time.

Awesome runes on those bases. Great use of extra parts! That Scenery is awesome too. You made it from molds?

It was a kit i bought on ebay, cant remember where from. I may have a link on my work computer. They were bought for Necron scenery, but i think they are cool as basing for my marines as well

This is the kit but i got it from eBay

Cool terain kit! I like how it looks with your marines!

Started working on the special weapons Marines of Tactical squad Beta.

Introducing Flammer Joe




I decided i wanted a Multi melta as my second, not worked out this guys name yet. I bashed together a Multi melta, but sticking 2 meltas side by side and adding some cableing out of the back. A bit of GS on the top to blend them together an a dagger at the front under the barels as a bayonet. and a good old Purity seal









Since taking the photo i realised i had not drilled out the barrel in the pistol , so that has been recitifed.

C&C as always

hey, Your bayonet is crooked

Its so he can poke people round corners

Flamer Joe looks sweet! Well made custom multimelta too.

As my son is a little to young still to help me with designing anything, currently he jus tstabs the page with a pencil I i asked my neices to design a colour scheme for a couple of Marines that i would use for objective markers. I had previosuly printed out some Blank templates of a Marine, so they just went wild Ill use the Objective markers as an excuse to paint differnet colours and to try out a little more adventorous modeling (that is once i find a couple of pairs of legs as when i checked through my bits i i ahve no spare legs :( I have enough to finish my Tactical squad but then i am out. :s mm i will have to think about this ...

Ellie the Marine


Optimus Prime the Marine

hmmm the little ones into the hobby! good!

Lol. Optimus Prime should look good.

NakedBatBoy wrote:lol. Optimus Prime should look good.

Hopefully Just need to find him some legs first. As i am getting some red army painter spray for christmas, my main army will get a coat of this rather than chaos black, especially my rhinos and RB. But the two objective markers i can do in the black so i will be able to paint them pre christmas

I tried out a bit of GS ing to make some flexible armour joints at the shoulder, so that i could reposition the arms. They flex came out ok, (right better than left) not sure if i will redo the left or not, i am in two minds. The arm looks odd at some angles, but i know i am not perfect so i am sure he will look cool in the long run, especially at table top distance

The pose is off but it does look ok

Well the in laws have gone home now so i have my spare room back Not that i did not enjoy having them, dont get me wrong, i get on very well with my wifes parents. I just could not get my fix of little plastic men lol.

Well so far i have manged to coble together 2 more Tactical Marines, i am trying to do a little bit of conversion on each one, nothing major yet as i am not that confident in my surgical skills lol.

So untill i can think of better names, (or they have prooved them selves in battle and earned a name ...

May i present Side feed,


& Darth


Darths head is not glued in place so that i will be able to paint it seperatly. This is a new thing for me as so far i have only painted marines with heads attached. But i think due to the betal and flesh i would be better do ing it seperatly. I have a nice block of foam to hand and have drilled a hole in the bottom to faciliate this The plan is similar for my Assult marines as well, as i plan on Painting thier heads Purple.

Well it was time to build my last tacitical marine for the Beta Squad. I decided that i would puch myself a bit more and try some major surgery that i had not tried before, and being inspired by Gitsplitta i made him a beaky

I wanted a marine wielding two pistols with arms out stretched, but i could only find one arm outstretched. I managed to find the other arm but it was bent, so i cut my first marine arm in half and stratend it out and pinned it in place. I then cut both hands off at the wrist and roatated the guns horizontally so they were being held Gangsta style. The Helmet did not want to fit into the torso due to the colar at the front so iput a small ring of plastic in the torso to bost up the level of the head. This also had the side effect of making him look more upright. When driling out the pistols, i went wonkey on the second one and it did not look right :( so i decided to trim it off and add my own barel. Its wider than normal, but i like the effect, it makes it look like a beefier pistol.

He still needs a little bit of GS to fill the odd gap, and i am considering gluing a bolter to him somewhere and creating a GS strap but i am not sure if that would crowd him to much, s there is already multiple purity seals and blades on him. So far verypleased with my surgery no major complications.





As always C&C welcome

M0rdain wrote:

This^...is Awesome!

badass!

Thanks for the comments on my Neo Gangsta, i do think he looks cool Im glad you like him too.

I have been thinking about this next bit for ages, but i wanted to finish building my Marines first. A while back when i added a new hose to my shower it came with a braket to attatch to the wall. I looked at it and was inspired to use it as the bas of some form of Artillery style cannon. I decided i would create myself an interesting objective (especially after reading more of Gitsplitta's stuff. So my gangsta marine will ahve to wait for his bit of GS (i am sure i will use some on this objective so he will get it done then)

I searched about for somethign to use as a barrel, but had not found anything of the right size. Then while out for a walk with the family and friends, i came across some discarded canisters from an air pistol, and of course my first thought was how can i use this in 40k I decided they would make great fuel tanks, and decided to turn my cannon into some sort of Greater Flame Storm Cannon

So last night i boxed off part of the bracket, and glued in an old Highlighter pen. I then glued on the canisters, and fiddeled around a bit. It still needs some more work i need to think about details. I am thinking the bracket will needs some rivets. so i will have to read up on the best way to do that. i know that rsjake has been rivieting recently so i may poke him for advice. Apart form that i will have a dig through my box, and find some more interesting bits to stick to it Oh yes, and i need to find some form of cable or tubing to connect the canisters with, i am thinking i ahve some old wire somewhere or i may employ a bendy drinking straw









As always C&C welcome

Ah yes...that will do nicely! Burn baby, Burn!

I would put several small wires together to make it look very beefy. Bendy straws to me just never look right...they always look like bendy straws. But maybe that's just me.

I like very much where this is going, and look forward to seeing it progress!

As for rivets, On this scale I would use a hole punch on a sheet of styrene, or cut styrene rod in very small lengths. I think that would look best. but for real inspiration for rivets on this scale, I would ask Viktor von Domm, or Dseingass. They really know thier stuff!

RSJake wrote:Ah yes...that will do nicely! Burn baby, Burn!

I would put several small wires together to make it look very beefy. Bendy straws to me just never look right...they always look like bendy straws. But maybe that's just me.

I like very much where this is going, and look forward to seeing it progress!

As for rivets, On this scale I would use a hole punch on a sheet of styrene, or cut styrene rod in very small lengths. I think that would look best. but for real inspiration for rivets on this scale, I would ask Viktor von Domm, or Desteingass. They really know thier stuff!

Definately ask these two guys

I had an epifany at work, to chop up treasury tags, to create rivits. So tonight i started to glue on some rivits. More to come tomorrow night. (thats if i can be bothered once i get in from work at 1am )




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I found the best way to put them on was using a tooth pick i had cut the point off, with a very small amount of bluetack on, this way it would pick up the rivits but not be too sticky that i could not pull it away before the super glue had fully cured. It still failed from time to time and i ended up with rivits stuck to my finger tips that i had to pry off quickly lol. But haveing super glue constantly on your fingers is part of the hobby, right?

When seeing the above uploaded photo i realised that i had not taken a photo of the tubing i had added, i took your advice rsjake and did not use a bendy straw i did find an old power cable that i butchered. I had to pin it into the canisters as i could not drill into them, and as i did not have a large enough drill bit to hand, i pined the other in into the body of the flamer as well. Both ends will be receiving some GS work, once i have done the rivits. The Gansta marine will get his joints filled in at that point as well.



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sweet!

Awesome! I love custom stuffz! Very nice gangsta marine as well.