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I've made some progress on my "counts as" Centurions - Devastator Terminators. I just don't like Centurions. I know, I know, old hat. So if GW can shoe horn in some bizarre model, I'm going to shoehorn into my chapter, something that would make a little more sense to me.

Since we have Tactical Termies and Assault Termies; the natural progression to me would be to kit out Tactical Dreadnought armor with heavy weapons to make some Devastator Terminators, which is just what the Aegis Guard techmarines decided to do.

So still very early stages, I am toyingwith giving them a height boost somehow, but I still want them to be terminators, so maybe I won't.

*****THESE WON'T BE AT ANY TOURNAMENTS, SO I DON'T CARE IF THEY AREN'T THE SAME SIZE AS CENTURIONS****


I picked up some sort of Tau bit that I liked to go with some assault cannons, then the other part I cut to make the grav amps. The SGT gets a special one to account for his other kit. I have vehicle missile launchers that I will use for them too.














So they are coming along, I just can't pass on the amount of firepower that they can pump out.

Just had to pop in and say that I love what you've done here. I've always loved custom chapters, and yours is one of the better ones. (sorry for the necro). Has anything new happened with your chapter?

Jeez sorry for the late response.

Thanks for the kind words! I am still doing stuff with this.

So, here's the deal, got a new job (whole lot less stress and better benefits) about a year ago and I have been busy adjusting to that and also had a lot going on that put me plum out of 40k for a bit. I actually just started painting again last month.

So here's a half-hearted update, a shiny new Imperial Knight. He's a Free Blade that is affiliated with the chapter, not much back story so far. At his feet are a couple of Tac squads. I've sent a lot of models into the Awesome Orange lately too.

I grabbed P3 paint's Cygnus Yellow and have been amazed by it. I can skip about five layers of previous yellow building with it, so I am hopefully going to get a lot more of the chapter finished this year.



Anyway thanks for digging up the necro thread, it was just hibernating

Glad to see you posting again! Sweet knight, and I can't wait to see more of your Marines.

I like your take on Dev Cents.

EDC

Nice to see another yellow marine army! We actually started at similar times, but I've never noticed your blog before.

I like the bone and blue finish. My only slight reservation is that your white looks too pristine on some models.

I love your Vindicator. At some stage I need to use weathering powders too.

My god, I just realised what a teacher I am. I just deliberately sandwiched the one potential criticism between two compliments.

Thanks everyone.

No worries Fifty, I wonder if the white that you mention is on the half finished models.

I should hopefully have some more updates soon.

Well, what a hiatus. Had to break from the hobby for a while, but started back at it a few weeks ago. SO here's some updates, mostly WIP stuff. I'm almost done with some things.

Also, check it out. I've tried a million ways to paint yellow and I recently figured out a very easy way:

1) White basecoat
2) P3 Cygnus Yellow
3) wash light brown
4) layer P3 Cygnus yellow




So update time:

Here is the Thunderfire progess and techmarine/MotF:














And here is my Vanguard WIP, they'll have jump packs:









Broke out my old bits and some parts and put together a second sternguard squad. There's a nice mix of gear to give them some character. I found a couple of my old rogue trader era heads.







Got more work done on the Dev Termies, I mean Centurians. The Sarge's head is off while I paint it.








Also another round of the first assault team. I might add an eviscerator or two.








And lastly, for the scouts, a new scout team WIP, here's some of them and Veteran Sgt. Crixus.











So there's some updates, I really didn't believe how long I left it since an update. Yeesh, just changing jobs, plus some other things in RL took a toll on the hobby.

Maybe be a long time since you updated, but it's an epic update!

Everything looks great, loving the techmarine and thunder fire cannon.

EDC

Superb update - while there was a hiatus, it's all good. Myself and others are still following your plog.

Great update! Some lovely new.models as well

Thanks everyone, it's good to be back. I'm hoping to keep going and keep updates rolling.

Sounds like a good hobby resolution for the new year, hope to see plenty of updates in 2017

EDC

Great to see you are live and kicking, yellow is very nice, and some nice models put together. Welcome home.

Hey thanks guys,

Thanks Cam, yeah I'm so bad with time, I really lose track.

Been trying to get the painting going, so here's something new. I have almost no marines sans helmets, but the sculpts are really nice so I'm trying them out for my 2nd Assault Squad.







I have gotten further in painting them, but haven't had a chance to get good pics. My first assault squad had too mush paint on them in places. I'd tried to fix it, but just said screw it and they are back in the drink. Now that my yellow painting time is down to 1/5th the time it used to be, I really am not balking on starting anything over.


On a side note. There's just something ridiculously awesome to me about the eviscerator. I really like them. I know they are giant chainswords, but there's just something that makes me smile when I see my marine with it. Probably not so good in game, but don't know yet.

Anyway, hoping to keep up the updates.

Thanks for looking!

Alrighty,

I am really trying to keep the updates steady. I'd like to finish the army before I get so old I can't paint anymore. I think I might try to force "a thing a week" and try to get one unit done per week. Hey, it's doable.

So, now that I have found the great P3 paint yellow shortcut, I really have no qualms about starting over on a unit that doesn't work. My first assault squad just didn't work. The closer I came to being done with them, the more I realized I couldn't finish them. There was just too much paint on them covering up details. Not to mention horrific mold lines on some (always find them when I'm base coating, d'oh!).

They are from the group that I was painting when I still used the whole, Averland Sunset (or equivalent) to half Averland Sunset and Yriel Yellow (or whatever), build up to five layers. And it sucked to do. Now, white prime, P3 Cygnus yellow, then wash, then highlight to done.

So anyone, they went back into the Drink (Totally Awesome or what's it called form the dollar store and some water). The paint strips well after a few days.


These are really impromptu pictures, need better lighting.

I took the liberty of using some of the new bits from the Assault Squad box as well as some stuff I had lying around to redo some of the poses.

SO, here's the first Assault squad build (I might convert or get one or two eviscerators, love them):






Mysterious? sergeant. Lol, very bad lighting.







Some more of the boys







Heresy! Using a Chaos Berzerker chainsword!




And then more work on Assault Squad Number 2, again, sorry, baaaad lighting.














Well, I'll get the lighting fixed for the faces soon, next batch of pics will be better and hopefully I should have a new update.

Thanks!

Nice progress on Assault Squads, you're right the eviscerator is just an awesome weapon, why wouldn't you want a giant chainsword!

EDC

They look a little to much like imperial fists to me. maybe a secondary color to differentiate?

I've been re-tooling the first assault squad since they got re-made. I'm attempting some scratch built eviscerators for them. So they'll be kitted out with 2 eviscerators, 2 flamers, and a sergeant with a powerfist. I know that in game terms, they are overly expensive and will die fast, but I like the thought of the damage they might do in real life (I mean not in real life but in the 40k universe)

So here's a build I'm working on. I'm thinking that these are special weapons that are unique and made just for the assault troopers to carry so they will be individual. I need to get some liquid greenstuff on the cracks and the seam. I might put some card along the center instead and see if I can get it to bulk out and not just look like to chainswords back to back.






That's all for now.