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Hello and welcome to my foray into the world of 40k painting, modeling, and gaming.



First up is a picture of my whole force minus one model. What isn’t pictured is the flamethrower carrying marine for the squad on the left. He was built after the picture was taken because I had forgot him.



This guy was assembled out of spare bits I acquired when I bought the Space Marine Battleforce before I decided to go with Chaos Marines. This is going to be the paint scheme for the Fallen Angels and the mud is fine model railroad ballast with a paintjob. Overall I'm happy with it, but there are a couple things I should have done better with it.



During a period of fighting on a death world, a Planetary Defense Chimera was knocked out by a hit to the turret and the subsequent ammo fire ruined the hull mounted machine gun. It was abandoned by the withdrawing PDF and left to the elements. A day later, a storm swung by and dropped acid rain in the area, stripping paint off armor and vehicles along with any unprotected creatures. Almost a week later, and after most of the fighting had moved on to another area, a group of weary Chaos Marines happen across the area and began inspecting the knocked out vehicles. They pulled the useless turret off the tank, added a cupola, and infused the vehicle with a Daemon. They have been using it since.



That is all I have for now. Comments are welcome as are any tips.

Slowly working on this guy for now while the primer for the Rhino is drying. This guy is one of two flamer units in my army. I attempted to make a decaying flesh look for the head before I layered on the black, and I think I achieved the look I was going for.

The modelling is great! The work on the chimera is astonishing!
The painting is aestethic and works well with your description, but you should make it less flat.
One way to get in the right direction is to make the mud look a little like this:
http://i.imgur.com/uRpGJCN.jpg

It is mine, and i might sound very ego-centered, but you could try to make your mud look similar and see what you think about it the result.

deddog wrote:
The modelling is great! The work on the chimera is astonishing!
The painting is aestethic and works well with your description, but you should make it less flat.
One way to get in the right direction is to make the mud look a little like this:
http://i.imgur.com/uRpGJCN.jpg

It is mine, and i might sound very ego-centered, but you could try to make your mud look similar and see what you think about it the result.

Thanks. I do see what you mean about the mud being flat and I'll be looking in to fixing it after I finish up the Rhino.

I plopped this guy on the Chaos Lord's base and decided he's probably a better fit because it looks like he's climbing up a small hill while letting loose with his flamethrower.



As for the Rhino? I thought about doing a green coloring, but came to the conclusion of using a stolen recovered Rhino from the Ultramarines With the old markings removed(and the tank weathered). The top is not currently glued to the hull so I can paint the interior.

Interesting start. Your CSM without a gun looks like he's playing air guitar lol. I like the jump pack guy. I'd just suggest a bit more detail on the straps.

 Red_Starrise wrote:
Interesting start. Your CSM without a gun looks like he's playing air guitar lol. I like the jump pack guy. I'd just suggest a bit more detail on the straps.

Now I can't stop picturing him playing the air guitar. Here's a picture of him with a coat of black over the metal. I still need to make the metal bits rusty somehow.


I saw a blog on true scale marines and decided to try making one. Well this is the result. His left leg gave me a bit of trouble, but with some green stuff and some sanding it should look okay with a coat of paint. He'll be the Havoc's Aspiring Champion whenever I get around to making them. He's a bit of a grenade nut.


I was working on the Rhino the other day, but now I think it needs to be dunked in some Simple Green and re-done. I'm not happy at all with the way it has so far turned out. Here's what it currently looks like.

Mr. Air Guitar marine is done.


The Rhino was fixed by painting over it with with a thin coat of the same colors.


The marine standing next to it is pretty close to being done, but I'm not sure how to shade his robe.


And then there's this guy. Whether or not he'll be used is a different matter. I was thinking of using him with the bike rules, but wasn't too sure on it.




Edit: Ended up fixing the Chimera to more match the Rhino.

This guy here is still a work in progress, but I think he might be the last one I'll be painting in black. I don't particularly like painting black and don't look forward to getting out my brushes.



I was skimming around the internet looking at various paint schemes and came across the Pre-Heresy World Eaters scheme. While it might not 'fit' with the black, I decided to try it out on a random guy I had primed. Only thing is he turned out to be one for the next squad to be painted and I think I did it wrong. But I like how he turned out.



Then there's this Ork Nob I partially painted up to try something other than a Space Marine. Still a long way to go on him.


Not sure if Heresy or what.

Looking good. The horse rider could count as a Lord on a demonic steed

Awesome stuff.

Limbo wrote:Looking good. The horse rider could count as a Lord on a demonic steed

I'll think about the demonic steed if I ever manage to play a game. At the moment I just like painting and building the models to my liking.

I tried my hand at building a structure the units could move in and I think I like it (Needs paint though).



I picked up the Ork Bommer kit and built it up as a Burna-Bommer. Two of the missiles were attached with wire and the bombs are falling as if the pilot is shooting at a target and hoping to drop his bombs on them. I'll be adding some kind of a smoke effect to the rockets to hide the wire. All of the guns were added on mostly because I think an Ork flying a ground attack aircraft would want as much forward firing dakka as possible, even going so far as to have the gunner swivel the turret forward for the strafing run. But I know it probably doesn't work like that on the table top.





Then there's this guy who was built from a few kits. His shoulder pad is the Tzeentch one from the chaos squad box and there's a Melta Bomb on his back.

I've got a painting update for today.

The squad is mostly done except for some touch ups here and there. For the Aspiring Champion I chose to not do black, then tried to make it look like he's been hacking and slashing through his foes for quite some time. In the end I think the splatter is a bit too big, but lesson learned!




I have also been slowly working on a Heavy Bolter marine. The HB that the CSM get is pretty silly to me with the small belt hanging down, so I went with a loyalist one.

Have another painting update, but it isn't much. Just another marine for the 2nd squad. I still need to finish basing him, but I think he looks okay.


For those interested in the Cavalry guy.



Remember the Icon of Despair guy? I clipped the icon off, swapped his helmet and gave him a chain staff... or glaive (not sure on the name), which needs a bit more work to look acceptable imo.



This mech was found in a box while I was looking through my old toys in an attempt to find things I could use for bases or terrain. After some searching I found out it's a Raidar X model produced around 1995 or so and based off the Battletech Rifleman. I placed him on a 50mm wide base to see how big he was compared to a marine, but I don't know if I'll use him for anything other than a shelf display. His arms, the radar thingy, and his upper torso all swivel 360 degrees. The plastic he's molded out of feels really, really, soft.