Great progress!

H.B.M.C. wrote:Good looking stuff... for Primaris Marines.

I know what you mean, I'm not a total convert but I do see how out of proportion classic marines are now and I can't unsee it. It's also future proofing. But thanks, glad you like them.

Nevelon wrote:Great progress!

Thanks!, there's more!

I've finished this squad of 5 now...



Squad pic..



Sargeant Fisty-pants...



Stripes to denote rank, I added a little shield thing to his bolter too. I considered adding another to his fist, perhaps with a 'U' but don't seem to have done so, do you think it would be better?



Added some thin brown as mud to his legs too.



Grenady guy...



'Thmffffff' Pleased with his face.....



When viewed from this angle I wonder if I should raise his bolter arm a bit? It's odd how big the AGL looks too, considering it's supposed to go on a IG trooper. The arm holding it is one of the pointing arms from my easy build Sargeants.



These 3 previously completed guys got the mud added and some scratches too, done by thinning one of the highlight grays quite a bit...



Another group shot, bit small here better to click through..

I hope you like these guys, I'm happy with them but am still improving my highlighting to get a better finish, I'm getting there.

I'm back from holidays now and hope to get on with my Eliminators who are next up, so more on them sometime.

xx

Congrats on finishing the squad. Heads of the quasi-terminator sgt and grenade launcher guy are superb. The scars look great!

Squad looks great.

The bolter arm on the AGL guy is fine. He’s obviously letting hang down while focusing on the AGL.

Viterbi wrote:Congrats on finishing the squad. Heads of the quasi-terminator sgt and grenade launcher guy are superb. The scars look great!

Thanks! The new brushes are definitely a bonus, really help keep the paint in check.

Nevelon wrote:Squad looks great.

The bolter arm on the AGL guy is fine. He’s obviously letting hang down while focusing on the AGL.

Glad you think so, I think from the 'intended viewing angle' he looks OK and only looking at him from unsanctioned viewpoints makes it seem odd. So that will be punishable by mind scrubbing.

Not had much time with one thing and another did manage a bit today, mostly converting arms on a Eliminator, pics soon. I did accidentally buy a Venerable Dread off eBay so that's a thing too. Whoops!

Howdy.

So the Eliminators have begun..



I wanted the Sarge to have this Intercessor arm..



So I shaved down the arm with the cool casio calculator watch and cut down his proper arm to just a shoulder pad that I then scooped out and filed the interior of...



I then GS'd it all together 'seamlessly'. I also added a cross draw pistol holster with purity seal and cut down the 3 stack ammo pack to a more manageable 2.



I had to fill in the back of his cloak too..



I built a little wibble onto his gun arm to help alter the angle to get it all to fit.



I've some bits like this column capital laying around and I think it will make a nice base decoration and will help blend them into my KT OG boxed set ruins that form the basis of my terrain set.



This next guy involved a lot less faffing. I, again, cut down his ammo thing to 2 and also removed the attached, massive medal/purity seal thing. I repositioned the head so he's looking at what he's doing too..



I think it make's his pose a bit more natural..



The last guy had the ammo trim as per the others, a normal seal added to his belt and a knife to his boot so he's all special forces-y....



More bits of KT terrain. Makes them more unique and they will be hiding in it most of the time..



I used GS to change the angle of his head and arms so that he's actually looking down his scope, rather than next to it...

I will spray them as soon as I can. Then I'll undercoat them. I'll get my coat.

The Ven Dread arrived and I've been tinkering with that. I totally failed to notice it doesn't come with a Missile Launcher. Cock. I've checked the parts shops and, shockingly, they are all out. Ebay had one added yesterday, but it's already getting up there in price, I may try to convert one out of the fist arm...

More soon!

xx

You just need a standard Dread Missile box 'arm'? I'm sure I have one!

--Brian

Nice work on the eliminaotrs. Building a few fireteams of them is on my to-do list.

I made a spare ML arm for my deathwatch dread out of a spare arm and a TML launcher from a speeder.

Briancj wrote:You just need a standard Dread Missile box 'arm'? I'm sure I have one!

--Brian

Well if you've definitely a spare, I could take one. I have started a conversion of one before I read this, see what you think of that but worst case I'd probably use it on one of my other Dreads (one has swappable arms). Let me know if you want to go for it in light of this new info (I've moved as well from the last time you sent me something).

Nevelon wrote:Nice work on the eliminaotrs. Building a few fireteams of them is on my to-do list.

I made a spare ML arm for my deathwatch dread out of a spare arm and a TML launcher from a speeder.

Thanks, Elims are a rare bird in Primaris land in that they have good rules AND nice models. Now if I could only take squads of 5....

I started one last night incorporating a Repulsors Frag launcher into the fist arm. A Typhoon would probably have been a better call as I'm not sure the Frag has enough weight and that it may be too recognisable. I'll post some pics and you can all see what you think of the conversion.

Those Eliminator models look great. Your extra work is really worth the added time.

Let's see what the conversion ends up looking like, and if you're happy with it, we'll hold off.

--Brian

JB wrote:Those Eliminator models look great. Your extra work is really worth the added time.

Thanks! I was wondering if I changed them enough! I don't like assembling things 'like your supposed to'. I'm looking forward to seeing them done as I like these guys, I'll do some scale creep pics next to my OG Scout Snipers too.

Briancj wrote:Let's see what the conversion ends up looking like, and if you're happy with it, we'll hold off.

--Brian

Sure I plan to finish it off tonight and we can see if it's cutting the mustard! (is that a solely English expression?). I should get the pics up tomorrow (ish).

Nice conversion work on the Eliminators! They are on my list, when I'll flesh out my marines second half of the year. Even if they'd perform bad, they just look to cool to miss.

 Viterbi wrote:
Nice conversion work on the Eliminators! They are on my list, when I'll flesh out my marines second half of the year. Even if they'd perform bad, they just look to cool to miss.

Thank you. They look good and perform well so you don't hamstring yourself bringing a pretty unit. Not that I mind doing that anyway. I don't use Cents and Aggressors, even though they are very good (esp. for Ultras) but I can't get over their ugliness (IMHO).

I did manage to get building my new Dread and do some pics...



Ta da. I'm not sure if I like the 'balcony' face plate thing. I appreciate the 'sword thru nid head' logo which saves me painting it on. Not sure about the 'church window' legs but the other leg plates have no where to paint stuff on and I plan to...



I wanted to build this into the 'Hellfire' configuration (TWLC+ML) for some nasty fire support but failed to realise that this kit doesn't include the ML (FML)...stupid powerfist..



So hacking off the fist bit gave this as a start point. No I needed a ML of some description, what kit might offer me one of those?



Now I'm not sure but I think the Repulsor set has at least one. I got these sprues from CONQUEST! which saved me about 50% on the new price, though I will need to build/steal/buy a base...



I like the anachronistic vibe off this one but ultimately too weedy I think..



Maybe...



Probably..



I hacked into the arm underside to shorten it a bit and then added the ML (well frag launcher). I then added the cable off the PF arm to the back. I decided to add another, the Imperium loves exposed vital cabling, and broke out my wire wrapped wire I'd suddenly remembered I owned. I cut a small bit and bent it into shape..



I added that on and did little GS end caps...



And it looks like this! I changed the face plate bit and one of his chest plates to a blank one with added Terminator Hons. and thoughts?



Side view. Is it a keeper (the conversion) or does it look too small/obviously a Frag Launcher/crap?

Answers on a post card.

My kid is selfishly getting a bit ill so I may not get much toy time in before a friend comes to stay on Tuesday but I may start on the Elims tonight as they have been undercoated..

xx

It does seem a bit small, but It’s OK. It’s how you use it. (That’s what she said, etc)

Of course, the giant box launcher on the arm of a dread has the same game effect as a little shoulder carried infantry based ML...

Yanno, I kinda like it. The 'real' box launcher is only eight missiles, and you have six, so that's close enough in my book. I think some decoration on the box would seal the deal for me, since he's a vendred.

--B

Nevelon wrote:It does seem a bit small, but It’s OK. It’s how you use it. (That’s what she said, etc)

Of course, the giant box launcher on the arm of a dread has the same game effect as a little shoulder carried infantry based ML...

Yes most 40k weapons are comedic-ly large (oooh eer readers) and the big box (I say) launcher used to have the 'salvo' option to fire D3. There's no reason for it to be so large (that's what she said) anymore really.

Briancj wrote:Yanno, I kinda like it. The 'real' box launcher is only eight missiles, and you have six, so that's close enough in my book. I think some decoration on the box would seal the deal for me, since he's a vendred.

--B

Yes I'm adding some 'seals and there will be stuff painted on. I think I'll stick with it, I think it looks more realistic. Though my BattleTech addled brain keeps seeing it and thinking 'SRM 6'.

Here are some more progress pics:



What do you all think of this alternate head? It's my spare Contemptor one. I like it but think it's maybe too large (innuendo etc), it's nice to see something different. I could chop down the area below it so it sit lower..in between his legs I added a little plate with chains with trophies to guard his robot junk.



OG head for comparison, also not sure of targetty bit added to the contentious ML, I wanted to 'disguise' it a bit..



I wanted it to have a fair few 'seals and used all of them off the sprue and couple more...



A few were added to the front and arm too.

Any input on these changes?

I think it now looks great. And it IS an SRM-6.

--B.

Looking good.
What size base is the repulsor on?
I've got to go to GW to order a base and one or two other bits if you want me to pick one up for you?
Just drop me a text or PM here.
Kisses.

I’ve never been a huge fan of the helmeted dreads. Walking coffin all they way. I do think the first helmet is a little to big for the space.

I don’t think there is too much bling and purity seals you can put on a ven dread. It’s like Dakka that way; never enough.

And you say SRM-6 like it’s a bad thing. But you do need to be careful not to cross the streams too much, or you start pedantically correcting people when they talk about “riflemen” dreads, as a true Rifleman would be TLLC/TLAC, not the 4xAC dreads people normally hang the name on. (and convert them with one on each arm, not doubled up: the correct way)

I’d say “what other mechs could we do” but down that road lies Tau. Filthy Xenos. With mechs and battlesuits. But filthy, heretical, well equipped xenos...

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:Looking good.
What size base is the repulsor on?
I've got to go to GW to order a base and one or two other bits if you want me to pick one up for you?
Just drop me a text or PM here.
Kisses.

Thanks, I've PM'd you.

Nevelon wrote:I’ve never been a huge fan of the helmeted dreads. Walking coffin all they way. I do think the first helmet is a little to big for the space.

I don’t think there is too much bling and purity seals you can put on a ven dread. It’s like Dakka that way; never enough.

And you say SRM-6 like it’s a bad thing. But you do need to be careful not to cross the streams too much, or you start pedantically correcting people when they talk about “riflemen” dreads, as a true Rifleman would be TLLC/TLAC, not the 4xAC dreads people normally hang the name on. (and convert them with one on each arm, not doubled up: the correct way)

I’d say “what other mechs could we do” but down that road lies Tau. Filthy Xenos. With mechs and battlesuits. But filthy, heretical, well equipped xenos...

I know what you mean about the helmet Dread but I wanted it to look different and the coffin fronts can be odd on Vens.

I'd love that configuration of a Dread, proper Rifleman would be cool, I'd quite like one but this will (probably) be my last washing machine dread I think. And yes lets not get too 'Tau' as that way lies exterminatus. Contemptors are pretty much the best balance and they look like they could actually walk.

I've been stuck nursing my sick boy all week so no toy time. Maybe next week. I did put some basecoats on the Elims and am thinking of making my unloved spare Reivers into another squad (or even 2) of them. Means I could try out the fancy mini lascannon.

Stay in all the time? Not interact with people except through a computer? It's like I've been in training for this all my life.

Even so I've not managed loads recently, my kid being home all the time is a pain as I'm often too wreaked by the eve to play with my space mans. Here is some progress on the Elims..



Basecoated..



I did a wash on the green and then reapplied the basecoat..



Added Scorched brown and Rotting flesh areas...



Seen more here...




I shaded the cloak again and touched up the topmost areas (Oooh Err) and added the black fine lines as a final component of the camo...I think I may do a bit of Devlan in the creases later....



Conquest has finally ended but I managed to source the last 2 so I'll give the gantry thing a build soon, hopefully..



I undercoated this guy. I want with the spare Contemptor head in the end, I lowered where it sits in the canopy thing and I think now it's undercoated it doesn't stand out too much.

Hope to do some more soon, hope everyone is well and not too stir crazy already. Thankfully we have a tedious hobby that can swallow a, basically infinite, amount of free time!

xx

RandyMcStab,

The camouflage is great.

Cheers,

CB

Minis are coming along nicely, that is some good looking camouflage.

Nice to see some classic green camo. Don’t see as much of it around as we used to. Great job.

Captain Brown wrote:RandyMcStab,

The camouflage is great.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks! It's the same as I did on my Scouts and Reivers. I do the armour black too for extra sneakiness. I always chuckle when I see Imperial Fist units in bright yellow armour AND a camo cloak....

Viterbi wrote:Minis are coming along nicely, that is some good looking camouflage.

Glad you like it! I love some classic woodland camo, it's supposed to be British Army DPM.

Nevelon wrote:Nice to see some classic green camo. Don’t see as much of it around as we used to. Great job.

I'm bringing it back!

I've managed a bit more...



The armour has been highlighted..and I've blue tacked them together to see how they look assembled. There's a reasonable amount of big bits to go on their bases yet too...



I've washed the creases of the cloak with Devlan and will do another later..

In other news..



I built this thing...



I built it a bit differently, placing the top panels in a more logical location. I rotated the back 'legs' through 90 degrees and reversed the big skull thing. I thought it was a bit too grim derp. I'm not sure if the backwards version works and it's the only bit not glued, thoughts?

Further progress on the snipers......



Starting the green highlighting...



Here they have had the 2nd layer of green and the silvers done, I only need to do the faces, all the detailing and basing (only!)..



But they are getting there..



Need to decide what how to do the calculator watch...was thinking about OSL but nahhhhh....



I'm pleased with how they are coming together..



In a spot of retail therapy, I got this guy off the excellent 'Bits and Kits' along with a few arms and a bunch of bases..this is the planned build for the Sarge of a laser gun squad and I will use the bodies of 2 (of my 5) Reivers to make the gunners. The remaining 3 could even be converted into another bolt rifle squad down the line.

I think once I finish the sniper squad I'll do the Ven Dread anyway and then maybe the terrain...more soon, hope everyone is coping with all the madness.

xx

been plugging away at these..





Nearing completion now. The bases obviously need finishing and I think I'll do some flecks on the armour. I'm also thinking of doing some face paint like I did on my Reivers..not sure though.



I'm also thinking about ditching the column on this guy as I don't think it's helping...



I can replace it with a nice big bush (Ooooh Errr) or something, thoughts?

Have finished these dudes!



Decided to go with a large bush (snigger). I'm now wondering if the foam type foliage would have looked better..added some light camo on his face, didn't want to obscure all the face too much. Or make it look like blackface.



Annoyingly slightly blurry, I added some mud splats with a sponge but kept it light. Also light scratches..



Camo seen better here. Also little terminal has text added...



Reloading guy. I like that his face looks slightly annoyed, like he's having a hard time getting the magazine out..



Ample shell casings suggests he's not using good sniper doctrine and displacing after a shot or two...



I like the little bits of wall they added to these sprues..



Guy actually shooting.



Someone had to be.



Nice camo shot that's a bit glare-y. I'm still considering another brown wash in the creases..



"Is THAT the time! I'm missing Love Island!" Group shot.



Shot with a bit of the terrain they will be using a lot. They are wearing the wrong camo for it. I will respray them...

I'm really pleased with these guys, even if it was a bit of a slog. They can hang out with my similarly attired Reivers whilst the Reivers guard the shelf in 'OPERATION GATHER DUST'. I'm looking forward to building (but not painting) my 2nd (and even a potential 3rd) squad of these guys.

I'll be doing the Ven Dread after these guys so that will start soon. Maybe the terrain after, will see.

Thanks for reading.

Squad came together nicely. Hope they get some table time and purge those Xenos.

As I said before the camo is great.

Cheers,

CB

Yes, I think they look wonderful even though my IG characters hate them. The darker more realistic style is better. Most Marine armor colors just scream out for attention. The Eliminators shouldn’t subscribe to that.

Nevelon wrote:Squad came together nicely. Hope they get some table time and purge those Xenos.

They were proxied in my last game, Scouts blue tacked to 40mm bases, but I've no idea when I'll get to play a game again, stupid apocalypse.

Captain Brown wrote:As I said before the camo is great.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, I think it's my best effort so far.

JB wrote:Yes, I think they look wonderful even though my IG characters hate them. The darker more realistic style is better. Most Marine armor colors just scream out for attention. The Eliminators shouldn’t subscribe to that.

Yes as an IG player too I feel your pain, IG need their characters more than most too. You can't even just hide them behind a Russ as these guys can shoot round corners. Yes I always find it funny when you see the old Scouts too in camo cloaks and white jump suits...

Been able to do a bit on the dread and blue tack out the laser Elim squad, so some pics will follow eventually.

So I've managed some more progress..



This guy has been plugged away at..



Slowly getting there..



Here I've washed and done the first stage of highlights. I'll try to get a bit more in as he's approaching completion (ish).



The next thing I'm lining up is my mini lascannon team...they are roughly blue tacked out in likely poses...



I trimmed off the pouches on the Reiver legs here...



So I can mount his powerpack thingy..



Not sure if I should trim off the other side and put a pistol there, mostly so the legs are less obviously Reiver ones..



In other news MLCS very kindly set up a game of 40k on Table Top Simulator for us, so far we've managed turn 1 but we'll be able to finish that off soon. Once the 'proof of concept' 1k game is done, we might do a BattRep in it (seeing as we're not allowed in the same house). Let me know if that would be interesting..

Hope everyone is coping with all the madness. I'm feeling a bit more inspired so I hope to do a bit more painting.

Hello.

I've not found much time (ironically) to get some painting in but I've been able to push on with the Ven Dread..



All the main base colours are highligted and shaded now..



So I've started adding the details...chapter logo on the right (his) like all my other units....



Dead No. here...



Company No. and generic battle honour on other leg...note travel chess groinal attachment too....once the first pass was done on these I went over and tidied and then messed them up with cracking/scratches...



These too have had another layer...the white has had brown chips and some Argax drips, getting a bit bleached out here...



A bit more obvious on this pic..



First Co. logo has had laurels added...



I've started his basing proper here...the cream panel has been cut so it will lie at an angle and is from the KT box terrain. The brown panel under his foot is from the Galvanic walkway thing I got from CONQUEST! The matrix of stuff it's all sat in is your basic polyfilla kind of stuff..

I've a last pass of scratches and highlighting to do on the hull and, obviously, finishing the base and it's all done.

Not sure what to do next, maybe the terrain walkway thingy, it's all undercoated and ready to go...

Hopefully some finished pics on this guy next...

Impressive. Box dreads are the best dreads.

Hi Randy,

Loving your recent work. I can't agree with Nevelon re the washing machine dreads (Contemptors are best) but I do have lovely vivid memories of getting the first 2nd edition metal 'Blood Angel's Furioso' it its bright red box. It cost £25 quid and for that you could have got loads of actual penny sweets and individual snouts and bla bla zzzzzzzzzz...

Huh? Sorry I must have reminisced myself asleep.

Primaris Snipers came out really well. I'm looking forward to seeing the Reiver bits bashed ones too as they will be even more unique.

Hugs and kisses - let's finish that TTS battle sometime. Mwa x

Nevelon wrote:Impressive. Box dreads are the best dreads.

Mid-life Crisis Suit wrote:Hi Randy,

Loving your recent work. I can't agree with Nevelon re the washing machine dreads (Contemptors are best) but I do have lovely vivid memories of getting the first 2nd edition metal 'Blood Angel's Furioso' it its bright red box. It cost £25 quid and for that you could have got loads of actual penny sweets and individual snouts and bla bla zzzzzzzzzz...

Huh? Sorry I must have reminisced myself asleep.

Primaris Snipers came out really well. I'm looking forward to seeing the Reiver bits bashed ones too as they will be even more unique.

Hugs and kisses - let's finish that TTS battle sometime. Mwa x

Thanks for the comments guys and welcome back MLCS, glad you found your login again. Come round and see us soon (from a distance).

I did finish the robot..



*EXTERMINATE*



*THE XENOS*



The white has a little more nuance that always gets bleached out in these pics..



Converted ML, I like it and think it adds a nice bit of originality, as does the Contemptor head, which I think fits much better now it's painted.



The base. The panels started brown and were then dry brushed silver. Then stippled orange and finally inked with Argax and Reikland. I added chips back on with Mitheral. I think the 'shot-thru-the-head' skull was off a Black Reach(around) Terminator.

I'm happy with him though he will probably be my last 'washing machine of death' type Dread. I do now have 3. He joins the Comtemptor in my 1st Co. contingent and the 2 fancy Dreads are mean to the other two 'standard' ones. Dicks.

I think I will start on that terrain next, it's very civic minded of me. Not sure how it'll turn out really but with enough washes anything will work(?). Hope you like the Hellfire Dread.

xx

Very nice Randy.

If you are going to do some terrain next, join the LoER competition and do a field hospital.

Just a thought.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
Very nice Randy.

If you are going to do some terrain next, join the LoER competition and do a field hospital.

Just a thought.

Cheers,

CB

Sorry for the slack reply. I've not been painting much at the mo. When I have free time in the eves I've a few recurring internet based meet ups and I'm often ready to just go to bed otherwise.

I did manage a tiny bit of terrain though.

I like the idea of joining the competition CB but the models I'm doing aren't scratch builds (and I wasn't planning on painting them super great), I could paint a red cross on the side of this thing....



It's a 3D print a friend chucked in with some printing he did for me a while ago. I sprayed in with the last of the Scorched Brown like spray we got from Halfords to do the KT terrain and then over brushed some Snake Bite analogue over it. I want to keep a similar tone to the other terrain so it sits nicely with it.



I then went over that with Bleached Bone which is the predominant colour of the other terrain. I added some silver to the supposedly bare areas..



I scumbled some orange over that and will ink it till it looks good.



If I can make it look good I will apply the recipe to this thing too...

Here's a bit more on the 3D printed terrain..



I gave it a few goopy washes and another dry brusjing...



Think it's ok..



I wanted it to be similar to the stuff I've already done so as not to be jarring when/if they're all there together..



Pew Pew, help I'm wearing the wrong camo!

I think I'll do the gantry thing next as this was quite quick to do.

Nice work on the terrain. I should do more myself, just hard to get motivated.

I know, it's only the 2nd time I've really spent time doing terrain, the previous being the KT stuff. I never did it before. I have been pleased with the results and it's much nicer to play on.



I've started on the next bit, seen here...

In other news..



I stuck together a basic build on Eliminator squad No. 3. All squads are seen here, 2 with BSR and 1 squad with the Lasers..



These are Reiver bodies obviously and I think these legs go with the 'cradled pistol arms' much better than the stock build..



I'm going to replace the leg pouches with some sniper ammo left over from the OG squad and pistols (for close encounters)...



These are just rough sketches of poses so far, I was thinking of GS'ing their backpacks to give them the same camo wrapping the 'proper' models have. I may add tiny shoulder cloaks too..



The new squad..I may retcon the guy on the right to be resting his shooter on a bit of wall, may improve that pose that I'm not super happy with ATM...

So some gentle progress..hope you are all well etc.

Hello

Sorry for being absent so long, Lockdown wasn't a productive time for me with the kid never going anywhere, but now there's some school, at least for the next 2 weeks, I've been able to play with my toys a bit.

I'll show the terrain progress first..



I added silver and bronze areas..



The leg supports, I left brown and dry brushed silver a bit and filled in some metallic details.



I was aiming for a Victorian Cast Iron kind of look...



I added a very dilute orange/bronzed flesh to simulate rust...

I've finished this feature now but have yet to get any glamour shots yet..

I've also been building the next squad of Eliminators..



Seen here semi built, I've made basic covering for their back packs a la proper Eliminators..more on these guys soon.

Good to see you alive and well. Nice progress!

Glad your back Randy.

I am envious of your GW terrain and the 3D printed stuff.

Cheers,

CB

Nevelon wrote:Good to see you alive and well. Nice progress!

Yes still breathing fortunately. Starting to catch up on my Dakkas.

Captain Brown wrote:Glad your back Randy.

I am envious of your GW terrain and the 3D printed stuff.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, I got the Gantry cheap from Conquest! Pity that's over, there was some really good deals in it.

Here are the final pics from this project:



I added some chipping and drippy washes..I decided the big skull crane thing was too GrimDerp so I just left off the front and turned it around. Looks more spidery now.



Hadn't really used a very dilute colour wash to simulate rust before But I like how it's turned out...



Brothers! I see a new Edition coming!



It's all a bit bleached out here but I think the disparate elements of terrain tie together OK and will look nice on a Battlefield....just need to find the time to actually play a game now. 9th may provide an impetus and the points bump will mean some list jiggery pokery.

More on the Eliminators build soon!

I've been pressing ahead with these Elims..



Seen here, bluetacked together..I've added camo wraps to their back packs (badly) but I'm determined to no get too bogged down on these guys, and whilst building/painting them to a better standard than my mini Marine army, I don't want them to take as long as the completed squad of Elims (I've a 3rd to do as well). Also Table time may be a factor.



All that being said there's still a reasonable amount of conversion work needed here. I added the gun arm on with a basic blob initially. I cut down a spare Reiver arm and jammed that in place to take the binocs hand from the box. I also altered the angle of the head..



I cut down the ammo pouches so they are less excessive ....



I added a swirl of cloak as well as the binocs arm..



I tidied up the cloak bit and added a neat layer to his gun arm, I added an edge of shoulder pad too..



Here he is mostly finished...



This guy was simpler, His trigger arm is off the sprue but I had to cut down a Riever pad and and GS is all together. The support arm is also a Reivers with one of their shoulder pads too...It took a reasonable amount of fuss to get the power pack cables to match up with rifle, I shortened them and GS'd a join..



I added some cork 'rubble' to the end of the wall he's leaning against to blend it into the model more..



This guy was relatively simple too, he had a shoulder bit to add his arm into but the cloak sculpting just ends, so I decided to make a mini cloak/pelisse sort of thing..



This sort of deal..



I added some more crap to his base, including a spare power pack thing off the Elim sprue...

The 2 gunners had the 'tell tale' Reiver leg kits cut off, one side to allow the power pack thing to be mounted, the other a pistol..



Here they are built, I think the GS was tidied a bit after this but once painted the roughness won't show anyway. I'm pretty pleased with the conversions, I think they are effective whilst being as simple as possible.

I'll do the painting coverage soon...hope you like, especially as there's still another squad to do!

Great looking conversions, and I think they are very effective and even though they are simple, they are well executed. Looking forwards to seeing them painted up!

 IGtR= wrote:
Great looking conversions, and I think they are very effective and even though they are simple, they are well executed. Looking forwards to seeing them painted up!

Ask and you shall receive!



Here they are base coated, I was planning on doing a less involved paint job on these guys, as previously mentioned, so was going to cut a few corners. There was a much lower square-footage of camo and that would save a lot of time too..



Ink washes on the camo..



Next I reapplied the base colours and then another wash of Argax in the recesses...

*skip to the end*



Finished!



Quite happy with them even though they took about half the time of squad 1...



I think the conversions are nicely hidden once painted...



Hot camo action..



Laser sniper..



I think he still looks like an Eliminator..



Other guy, he's supposed to be looking back to receive orders from the Sarge doing the 'Guided Aim' thing, I don't think the head is angled enough and that I got it placed better on a blue tacked version. I always find there's a nuance of pose I don't quite recapture when finally building a guy....I am not pulling his head off however...



And the obligatory 'missed mould line'. I added a brown stripe down the offending bit of the wall to make it look like a drip and it hides it a bit...Also just visible on his chest, a skull with radiating halo thing I added to give the appearance of being a proper Eliminator and not a repurposed Reiver. The bit is off the top the their special skull topped purity seal they have. I cut off ll their central skull & crossbones that Reivers get on their chest plates and removed the dangly parchemnt bits from the skull and filed it flatter. I then stuck it in roughly the same location as the sarge has his skull insignia...



Here are both completed squads hanging out and sharing their feelings. The last squad is in the building stage now and whilst I don't necessarily 'need' them for games, it would seem the efficiencies of doing them whilst I remember what goes where is probably worth it. I built a LT ages ago and may do him next, I may rebase him though...

Hope you like these guys. I'm pleased with them and look forward to finishing my little Phobos enclave for now (I've 6 painted Reivers collecting dust as well). Maybe we'll need to do another SCOUT FORCE! battle report eventually?



SCOUT FORCE! Always Infiltrating up your front and Deep Striking in your back field!

SCOUT FORCE! RECON GO RECON THE RECON!

I heard you like Recon?

I am terrified at my new powers over the universe. Looking great, even if it took just half the time - I think that this means you are gaining some super powers also!

Thanks for sharing - they look just as good as I thought they would

Looking good all together.

Eliminators help add a lot of bang to the all scout force. Full 10th company is a lot more viable these days.

IGtR= wrote:I am terrified at my new powers over the universe. Looking great, even if it took just half the time - I think that this means you are gaining some super powers also!

Thanks for sharing - they look just as good as I thought they would

Thanks! Please only use your powers for good. The super power I've gained is a broken graphics card (FML). About half the time I used to play games has been spent painting. I've also been really enjoying it recently.

Nevelon wrote:Looking good all together.

Eliminators help add a lot of bang to the all scout force. Full 10th company is a lot more viable these days.

Yes that's true. The BSR can actually kill characters occasionally and the laser dudes can really hurt big stuff. I'm out of Phobos bodies now but I've even found myself toying with the idea of building a Phobos Captain. As he'll be sitting around directing tanks etc he may as well be sniping at characters, he can deal 4 damage with a WL trait. I'll see what he costs in the new (leaked) points. I think I'm just enjoying painting Camo!

Speaking of which I found myself assembling squad 3...



I've covered the starting off of these guys, planning the poses and cutting off the leg kit so I can swap it...here they are all glued and I've started on the GSing..backpacks are done and arms are begun...



Here I've done the final layer on the arms and the basis of the mini cloaks can be seen on one guy. I've found starting small and adding layers is the easiest way of getting a good finish..



I think this is about 3 layers. I've added the edge of a pad too...



I've built up his base so he isn't sniping on tip toe now. These 2 bodies are pretty unsuited to being snipers really and took a bit of imagination to get working...



This guy had about 3 layers on his mini cloak as well...



I also added a purity seal to cover up a bit of a gap from where I removed the leg kit and replaced it with the ammo packs..



Squad leader was simpler, didn't have to build any large areas..



He gained a custom purity seal, the parchment bits of which where rescued from the sniper eliminator 'skull topped purity seal things' they have stuck on their ammo packs. The top of which is glued to his chest in place of the proper Elim skull badge..



Painting has even begun on these guys. So more soon. My kids ends the little bit of school he's been doing on Tuesday and the long summer begins. I'll have less time to play with myself and may be away a fair bit if I can swing it. So I want to get in the painting when I can and maximize my current enthusiasm.

Hope you like.

A little side note on trying to buy Indomitus.

I don't want most of the models but I'd like the Rulebook and some of the SM stuff. Buying it off a discounter for about £100 I would expect to make most of my money back and keep a few SM units and the rules. I prefer Darksphere games as I find them the best deal and super quick delivery. I have been hovering about their website for days and the had a pre-order pre-order system which was never open as far as I could see. It sold out before either scheme went live. I went to Element games where it costs the same as GW but you don't get the little tokens. So "Sod it" I say, I'll pay in full and buy off GW (for once, and I'd get the little bits!), only to find it sold out already! I try Wayland, whom I tend to avoid as they can be pretty bad but they had boxes and about a £10 discount. Their website was super slow however so I had to wait a few minutes after every click, all the time imagining all those last sets flying off....finally I get a conformation email so I think I've bought it!

I don't think I've seen something sell out before pre-orders are live before and GW itself selling out of something so major day one of pre order is pretty crazy. Still I'm planning on selling 70% of the box so the eBay market should be looking good!


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Now Wayland is 'down for maintenance'!! Looks like that was close! It's still up on Element if you are looking yourself. I'm tempted to buy another to sell!

And they said they made tons of them so this wouldn’t be a problem. I told my FLGS that I wanted two boxes, but havn’t put any money down or anything. Hopefully they have a list that they respect. Never preordered here before. Some places are lured by cash on hand, or don’t track things.

Eliminators are coming along well. I should really paint up a squad of mine. One thing about the full kit is that it gives you so many spare bits. Did you want 3 squads of them in your army? Too bad, you are making them now. Seems a waste not too, and those phobos bodies are not going to do anything else on the table. I’ll probably make a captain myself, but it’s a low priority. I like the one GW makes, just balk a little at the price. But as the 10th company grows, tney do need their leadership...

Yes I remember them saying 'Everyone who wants one can get it'. We'll see. Wayland is out of stock now too. This is all before lunchtime on pre-order day! I hope Wayland don't cock up my order, makes me think about buying another off Element in case!

Yes the extra Elim bits aligned too nicely with the spare Reiver bodies from 'Wake the Dead'. Not to churn out another 2 squads would seem churlish. They are getting a bit more expensive in the new pts but were too cheap before so are still a good pick. I'd like to expand my 10th Co. stuff I've always had a soft spot for it (and 1st Co. obvs), the Captain is really expensive but so convertible it's not a big deal.


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Aaaand Element are no longer selling it! They say GW are no longer distributing it? And it'll only be available on their website (which it isn't).

I always liked 1st and 10th lists thematically. You start with a bunch of scouts skulking about the battlefield, doing recon and making initial contact, shaping the battlefield. Then WHAM, drop pods full of sternguard slam down, and terminators step out of the imatierium and start the wholesale slaughter of the foes of mankind. Just a very satisfying playstyle, that fits the lore and the rules, and played well.

10th company works like that for a lot of mobility lists. Cheep troops you can start on the table (often infiltrated on the good spots) calling in backup once the enemy shows up in force. With 9th ability to pop anything in reserves, I think we might see more of this kind of play, at least at the fluffy theme level.

Bit late to the party, but loving that DPM cam. Hard to pull off well.

Nevelon wrote:I always liked 1st and 10th lists thematically. You start with a bunch of scouts skulking about the battlefield, doing recon and making initial contact, shaping the battlefield. Then WHAM, drop pods full of sternguard slam down, and terminators step out of the imatierium and start the wholesale slaughter of the foes of mankind. Just a very satisfying playstyle, that fits the lore and the rules, and played well.

10th company works like that for a lot of mobility lists. Cheep troops you can start on the table (often infiltrated on the good spots) calling in backup once the enemy shows up in force. With 9th ability to pop anything in reserves, I think we might see more of this kind of play, at least at the fluffy theme level.

Yes it's like what SM are supposed to do and everything. It feels good to play them this way on the table. I look forward to getting all these guys on the field. Missed the super cheap points (bar one game) for the Eliminators but they now seem less bent which is ultimately better. Same as Thunderfires, totally fine with them going up so much.

Gordy2000 wrote:Bit late to the party, but loving that DPM cam. Hard to pull off well.

Thanks! I think I've said it before but I think your camo is some of the best I've seen. I do love DPM, it's just classic.

I've been away and I'm back now but not for much longer, I actually finished the last squad but haven't had the time to do some nice pics. Hopefully tonight.

Here are those finished pics..



I finished these guys in record time, only a week which is pretty fast for me..



Sarge. It was built this way as that's the only way the bits I had left went together, as this was the 3rd squad and I didn't originally plan to make 3 units, I used most of the good stuff by this point..



Still I'm pleased with the unit..



Slung rifle....one of my Scout Sarges had a stowed gun so it's nice to echo past builds even if only I know..



This guys pose always seemed a little forced to me but it's good enough I think..



I can see some of the Reiver chest icon still there, amazing how many bits you missed can be highlighted by pics...



Little camo cape. It works well enough I think, even if it is a bit basic...



Sniper at your feet!



Slightly forced pose due to the Reiver body but I think he's getting away with it..



Eliminator party! All your HQs are invited!



Really happy how these guys worked out..



My full Phobos contingent....these 15 guys have the same wounds and a better save than my 30 Scouts. Scouts going up to 14pts is a bit hard to swallow, I know things that infiltrate generally got a hike but it really feels like a lot for a squishy scout. Is this the beginning of the great squeeze out of Classic marines? I'm considering getting a HQ or 2 to babysit these guys, a Librarian or Captain are both good options. I'd take a Shadowspear Libby and may convert a Cpt from an Eliminator maybe?

Next up will probably be another Inter squad, I want to try a simpler edge highlight on them and hope to improve finish and save time, something I used on the last 2 Elim squads. I'm not happy with the blue guys at the mo and want to experiment a bit. I'm off for 2 weeks in a few days so may not get that much done before or after FYI.

Nice work on the snipers.

I’ve not dug into the points, but scouts have classically been a little underpriced for their utility. While the new phobos stuff has cut into their niche a LOT, I still think some bare-bones basic scout squads work well for grabbing objectives, screening, or with 9th grabbing secondaries and doing actions. While the phobos make have taken some of their jobs (like those eliminators you just painted slam dunking scout snipers) but sometimes you just need to scatter some cheep units around. And while the primaris get more wounds per body, they can only be in one place at a time, doing one thing.

As for a HQ, you need the full lot. All phobos, all the time. Doooo Eeeeeeettttttt. Of the stock ones I think the captain might be the weakest of them as a sculpt, but even he’s pretty good. Lt.s have issues with their gear, but have the sweet re-roll to wounds.

Great work on the snipers. Nice to see them all together as a gang!

The new Elims are looking very good indeed, Randy.

I think more kit bash = more betterer especially for Eliminators as one tends to see the ubiquitous ETB bolt rifle types around a lot for obvious reasons.

Your DPM is getting even better. Funny that I was raving about Gordy's camo to you the other day

There's just something special about green DPM. Maybe it's a Brit thing; makes me feel safe and vulnerable in equal measure...

Looking forward to our next (socially distanced) Blackstone session - hopefully you will get your Phobos out for the lads.

Cheers.

Hiya all. I'm back from my little Cornish holiday. I found my Indongtimus, which the tracking code said 'delivered', left down the side of my house in the rain for 2 weeks. It seems fine though!

Nevelon wrote:Nice work on the snipers.

I’ve not dug into the points, but scouts have classically been a little underpriced for their utility. While the new phobos stuff has cut into their niche a LOT, I still think some bare-bones basic scout squads work well for grabbing objectives, screening, or with 9th grabbing secondaries and doing actions. While the phobos make have taken some of their jobs (like those eliminators you just painted slam dunking scout snipers) but sometimes you just need to scatter some cheep units around. And while the primaris get more wounds per body, they can only be in one place at a time, doing one thing.

As for a HQ, you need the full lot. All phobos, all the time. Doooo Eeeeeeettttttt. Of the stock ones I think the captain might be the weakest of them as a sculpt, but even he’s pretty good. Lt.s have issues with their gear, but have the sweet re-roll to wounds.

Taking your advice/being weak, I ordered a Libby which was also waiting for me! I had a voucher for eBay which is my excuse. It's a pricey model and the eBay cost is basically the same as new. Still got a NoS version for about £14 (thanks to random £5 eBay voucher!).

IGtR= wrote:Great work on the snipers. Nice to see them all together as a gang!

Thank you! Yes I was excited about that too. I'll have to do the Libby and then take pics of them all again......

Mid-life Crisis Suit wrote:The new Elims are looking very good indeed, Randy.

I think more kit bash = more betterer especially for Eliminators as one tends to see the ubiquitous ETB bolt rifle types around a lot for obvious reasons.

Your DPM is getting even better. Funny that I was raving about Gordy's camo to you the other day

There's just something special about green DPM. Maybe it's a Brit thing; makes me feel safe and vulnerable in equal measure...

Looking forward to our next (socially distanced) Blackstone session - hopefully you will get your Phobos out for the lads.

Cheers.

Thank you. Yes I'm the same with DPM, some sort of resonance. Probably a Brit thing yes. We should get Crusade forces together and BattRep some games. Strong arm Mephistoned in too, slack barsteward. I want to see that Contrast paint we got him in action.

I'm pretty wreaked after my holiday and may see the other side of the family soon but hopefully output will resume soon. Back of cigarette packet math would see to indicate I'll be in the region of breaking even selling the stuff I don't want from Inderptimus, which was the objective. I think I'll build my new Libby soon whilst the DPM is still fresh in my mind.

I'm back in Bristol now after several trips away to see family. We (MLCS and Mephistoned) are thinking of doing a bit of a Crusade and we've been writing lists. We've decided to do 60 power and start with 30 power games. 50 and 25 felt too small. Mephi will use his unpainted Blud Angles, MLCS his dirty T'pau as advertised on his blog and I will use the glorious Ultras. I was thinking IG would be better for variety but I only got 2 games in using the last book and want to try for at least 3 with the new one. Also it's a long time since SM were contenders and I'd like to use them at least a bit during this time. I can avoid the mega cheese easily enough and have a 'friendly list' I think.

Captain
Storm Bolter, Power fist

Libby
Phobos Flavour

Inters x 5
AGL, Power fist

Tacks x 5
Plas. Combi Plas

Tacks x 5
Melta, Power Axe, Melta bombs

Dread
MM, Heavy Flamer

Reivers
Knives, Grapples

Eliminators
3 x BSR

Thunderfire

Razorback
Lasers

Razorback
ACs

Should be good. I've taken some new units to try them out and I'm determined to give Reivers a solid go. If they don't get a bone in the new book I will stick my foot through my 'Dex and send Jes Goodwin the bill. I've got nearly all of these guys done and only need to do this guy from scratch..



Phobos Libby, I've never used one, anyone had experiences of them? I think the Obscuration discipline could be interesting.



Also, after a lengthy discussion about how it's hard to find a Techpriest for my IG cheaply (and a nice model), MLCS bought me this as a pressie of the eBays. Very kind, thank you. It's a Datasmith thingy and will do very nicely for the IG. And it's in great nick.

I will make a Combi plas too, I think I've got one laying around, they are too good not to use now. Toying with the idea of a Combi Melta for the other squad too...

Mephistoned's BA are a pile of crap. We did a little intervention last week and made him get them out (and his models) and arranged them into a Crusade force. We will probably end up painting them for him too *sigh*. We got him some Contrast paint and spray as a pointed Birthday present and I (at least) am interested in using it!

I can tell you, from experience, that Contrast Blood Angels Red over the 'warm' contrast spray primer (Wraithbone primer?) is bloody ACES. VERY easy, and looks GREAT. Speed through those Blood Angels in no time flat!

--Brian

Contrast paints are the secret weapon against the grey menace.

Crusade list looks fun. Thoughts on what you are going to spend your starting RP on?

Briancj wrote:I can tell you, from experience, that Contrast Blood Angels Red over the 'warm' contrast spray primer (Wraithbone primer?) is bloody ACES. VERY easy, and looks GREAT. Speed through those Blood Angels in no time flat!

--Brian

Noice, Yes I've got Wraithbone(r) ready to go, I may try to spray them tomorrow..

Nevelon wrote:Contrast paints are the secret weapon against the grey menace.

Crusade list looks fun. Thoughts on what you are going to spend your starting RP on?

Cool, I've never given them a go. I just ordered some paints and treated myself to a Contrast black and Chestnut (Guilliman Flesh!) as I think they'll be useful and a few more colours I'm short of. The black should be useful for the Angles too. I did manage to undercoat my Phobos Libby so work may commence on that soon.....soooooon......

I think I'm just going to be boring and get the Ultra specific bits; Adept of the Codex, as who doesn't like more CP? and Santic Halo because 3++s are nice and I'll get a deny against Mephistoned's Libby Dread. I think I'll save the rest and see how things develop..did you do anything exciting (and clever) with yours?

Lets see

Captain WL trait - Champion of Humanity
Captain - Upgrade to CM
Primaris Lt. - Relic -9” aura
Primaris Lt. - WL trait - Adept of the Codex
Intercessors - Upgrade to vets.

Remember if you want to hand out WL/Relics/Upgrades you need to do it when you add them to the roster, or they level up. And you need to do them with RPs, not at the start of the battle. And while they might not be free, you can have multiple WLs running around.

Nevelon wrote:Lets see

Captain WL trait - Champion of Humanity
Captain - Upgrade to CM
Primaris Lt. - Relic -9” aura
Primaris Lt. - WL trait - Adept of the Codex
Intercessors - Upgrade to vets.

Remember if you want to hand out WL/Relics/Upgrades you need to do it when you add them to the roster, or they level up. And you need to do them with RPs, not at the start of the battle. And while they might not be free, you can have multiple WLs running around.

Ok cool. Yes I'm not taking the CM upgrade in the interests of remaining friends with everyone. I was tempted by CoH for my Captain but I'm happy as is I think. Feels right.

Speaking of preparation for Crusades, I got out these little beauties..



These are Mephistoned's boys....some real old school action in places..I currently spraying them with Gray Seer (though it was Wraithbone..) we'll see how they progress, I'm not doing a big job on them but am attempting to update them a bit, Contrast paint on standby..



I did start these at the beginning of the School Hols, they'll probably be shelved to facilitate Crusade stuff, like painting half someone elses army..



I did start this guy, the only model (of mine) I need to do for it (barring a Sarge upgrade)..

More on this all soon...

I've pressed on with the BA speed painting. Contrast is weird but I think good.



Gray Seer'd. I does feel like something that will really obscure detail. These guys already have a fair amount of paint and I'm not stripping them.



First go with the BA Contrast. Bit uneven. Will probably do 2 coats..



This is 2 coats of red and 2 of black contrast (on the black areas obvs).



Near finished. I added another layer of highlight after this. I tidied up the red with Mephiston and then did a smidge of edge highlighting with Evil Sunz. I'm going to hand over to MLCS who has offered to do transfers (I don't know what I'm doing with them) and hopefully the basing to keep it consistent (he's already done some lovely Sang. Guard).

Moderately pleased with this I tried to just do it better. I've also got a full Tack to do..



These guys. Note some of the 'new' BA models in there after we made him build some a few years back, they got sprayed red and then left. More importantly this guy.....



This is 'Orc Hands'. He's like Mephistoned's totem/mascot. Clearly a masterpiece we decided to include him as is. I'm thinking of doing a similar scheme on him too..



I did a bit of work on these guys, snapped a few off bases and built up the ground behind their heels so they were at a better angle and less likely to snap off again. I also gave the guy a knife back, I even had a 2nd Ed one to replace the broken one.



Having another go I got a nicer finish with a thick coat and then a thin one. I think the models being less gakked up helped too. I left the back at 1 coat so the variation in tone is more visible...



These guys are nearly done and look a bit better. This was about 3 hours work which is pretty fast. It takes me 30 mins to do one Intercessor's edge highlighting (one layer and I do several). I did add a final Troll Slayer bit to these guys as well.



The last half is sprayed and I'll see if I can continue to improve with this recipe, more soon!

Orcs are right; the red ones do go faster.

Great progress on the Bangels. Second batch looks much better. I'll collect them and some transfers next visit. I'll stick a couple of Tau ones on the odd shoulder pad and we can see if Mephistoned notices.


Can't wait to see what you can do with Orc Hands. I love that guy.

Really glad to see this is actually happening and seeing as you are blogging the Blood Angels I'll show my portion over on my thing soon.

Peace out.

Thanks. More Blood Angeling has been happening...



Death Company for one...



I wanted a bit more of a varied group of colours and a bit more Red than usual too..these guys are finished mostly and are being based by MLCS, I've some more pics to post once uploaded etc.........mostly. I've also found myself doing them to a much higher standard for some reason.



He wants this guy as his Priest..



I cut off his base tab and increased the base to a 32mm as all his jump guys are on those..the buried chainsword is off an Sentinel..



This is the kind of magic we are digging through...some classic (and extremely heavy) stuff in there..

I'll do some more pics soon as I'm doing the squad markings on the 15 Tacks and finishing their bases off ATM too, so lots of these guys are actually finished!

Here are the nearly completed DC..



They are done to a better standard than the Tacks etc and I think they deserve it..



They are all armed pretty randomly and I like that, we aren't power gaming our Crusade and Power Level has some room for abuse especially with a unit like DC..



I enjoyed painting them actually, so was happy to put in the extra time (and my friend, the owner, will be pleased)..



They aren't perfect but much better than the Tacks I did earlier for him! They are off to be based now and so should be back next week. Most of his units are getting there now. The Baal Pred has gone off to MLCS to be done and I'm starting on the Sangy Priest. The Libby Dread does need to be built and painted at some point..

More Angels soon!

Nice looking BAngles. Blood for the Blood God, or whatever their motto is.

I'm pretty sure that's it.

Here are yet more Bangles..



There's a Rhino too..



This Tack squad is mostly all contrast ...................................................mostly



They're not too bad for maybe 8ish hours from basecoat..pretty quick for 10 dudes..I added Company and Squad markings for them, which is very odd in Bangles..



The mighty ORK HANDS stands ready to slay the enemies of the Emprah! I kept most of the original 'scheme' and added awesome fire design to his Combi Plas/laspistol/knife.



Other Tack, note kneepad squad markings, they don't work well with MkVI legs however...



These were done by MLCS some time ago when we last did an hobby 'intervention' I've added some static grass so they fit the rest of the army..



These guys were recent speed paints of MLCS, shown here for completion..



I even found time to start painting the dude I need to complete my Crusade force, I'll need to rearm 2 Sarges too..

Once the DC are back we'll only be short, 1 tank, 1 dread and 1 character for his little 60 power force, not bad at all...hope you like!

Be sure to finish them all up right before the new codex drops and you have to re-jigger everything.

Nice work.

Don't jinx it.

I've plugged away a bit more at some characters..



For the Bangles I've started my jump Priest..there was some odd thing where the paint went all blob-by and I resorted to using some washing up liquid in the paint to try and break the surface tension. That didn't work completely so I washed him under the tap with more detergent. Eventually I managed to get paint to actually sit on him. Not sure what that was about as he was undercoated in the same Gray Seer as the rest of his stuff...



I decided to make him redder and then thought maybe not. It was a bit late and it would take a few coats to cover that and it had too many already...



Anyhoo I think it's worked out ok. I did him to a higher standard as he's the HQ for my mate's Crusade but white can be a dick and it's not like I'm getting paid...still I think he'll do and he's off to get his shoulder transfer added and I'll do a finished pic for him later..




My HQ is progressing too. Nearly done here. Think I'll leave his eye plain white for spooky magic. I am thinking of a slight very pale blue wash over that area and perhaps a bit of his sword, I normally don't go in for that sort of thing but am considering it here. I want to do a bit of a design poking out from under his shoulder covering, thinking maybe the classic book logo?

I've got the DC back all based up nicely and I'm thinking of adding a bit of extra detail to the Sangy Guard MLCS started (as I have no life at the mo) as it won't take much to add a lot to those models. So more on them soon.

More painting has been happening..



I've slightly updated MLCS's paint job on these, I've painted in the gems, weapon ornamentation and purity seals...



Helps them pop a bit more...worth it I think and I've a bit of free time atm...



The DC are all based up and finished now too..once the Priest is back (he's having transfers added) there will be only the Pred and Libby dread left to do...pretty good..



This guy is very nearly finished too. I'm going to do the fiddly detailing next. I will add a bit of a glow to his eyes as I can't face trying to paint pupils and not sure the blank white works..I'll add the same to his sword a bit. I'll keep it subtle and not a big OSL thing, partly because I don't know how to do that and partly as I find all that a bit gauche.

I've a Sarge I'm going to rearm and another I think I'll build from scratch as I don't think the existing Sarge will look good with the conversion. I'm adding combis to both of them as I'm running them as 5 mans in Razors and so won't have the punch of a heavy. Also they are only 10pts now so well worth it I think.

Good luck on the glow effect on the librarian. He already looks great, nice to see your camo in action again, just lovely.

Thanks dude. I'm doing the finishing touches to him atm so the final pics will be soon. Hopefully he's the best yet.

I'm also getting on with the Sarges.



Lefty is an old Command squad member I built for the end of the 4th Ed Codex. The 5th Ed one limited the Com Squad to 5 after I'd just finished a squad of 7. This guy became spare till an opening for Sarge opened up as the Battle Company progressed and he ended up being permanently assigned to Squad 2. He got rearmed with a Power Sword awhile ago (a nice 2nd Ed one at that) and now I'm going to replace his (scoped!!) Bolt Pistol with a Combi Plas as his combat squad will tool about in a Razorback in the Crusade. Righty is a new build (duh), I've a few nice bits left over I was thinking of making some more Sternies with, mostly bits from the 'new' Tack box and the Betrayal at Calth box I was donated by Alex ages ago.



Here's the new Plas and Righty has a classic Power Axe for close encounters (A). I really like his MkIV helm but I want the studded pad in case I want to swap him about squads (no unit insignia) and so part of me thinks a MkVI head would be better?



Also facing other way (B)..makes less of a big deal about his fancy Ultra upgrade shoulder pad on the other side however..



MkVI version (C), 4 & 6 are my favourite armours..



Final variant (D). I can't decide. I think I'm leaning towards (A) any thoughts appreciated. Answers on a postcard.

I'll try to get some glamour shots of the new Phobos Libby soon so stay tuned for that.

 RandyMcStab wrote:
Mk4 & 6 are my favourite armours...

This is the correct answer. Except not mark 4. Mark 6 is the best armour.

Either helm works. Beakes are classic, but the Mk. 4 is a close second. Looking the same way the gun in pointed is the way to go.

Fifty wrote:

 RandyMcStab wrote:
Mk4 & 6 are my favourite armours...

This is the correct answer. Except not mark 4. Mark 6 is the best armour.

Yes I am totes down with some space beakies. I got on the 40k train with RTB01 so all SM are beakies in my heart of hearts. 4 is nice too.

Nevelon wrote:Either helm works. Beakes are classic, but the Mk. 4 is a close second. Looking the same way the gun in pointed is the way to go.

So option (B)? Yes maybe, I'm thinking the MkVI helm too, over half my squad leaders are already in MkVI so some variety might be good, I've none in MkIV.

Speaking of beakies I painted this guys gun...


Here he is commanding his combat squad who'll live in a Laserback with the Captain (in my Crusade list)....



The gun is massive (that's what she said), and this is a comparatively compact version, I think most of the disparity is his child's torso and legs. It's hard to unsee once you've spent some time with Primaris..I've decided, looking at these pics, to repaint his sash thing too. I wanted it to be like a Praetorian purple but this is more of a Praetorian pink...



I tarted up his painting slightly too, he was started at the end of 4th Ed Codex sooo whenever that was...1986?



Squad 2 is actually the owner of a Razor too so the numbers will match. I need to get out more.



So I think I'm going with this config, he's the last guy to paint for my Crusade army barring any last minute 'New Codex' alterations. We are roughly waiting on the new book to start playing, giving everyone enough time to paint up their stuff (or have it painted for him).

I've finished my Phobos libby now and will do his glamour shoot once I've vaselined up my lense.

Finished this dude finally..



Shazam. He means business...'This is what you get when you hand in over due library books!'.......folding to peer pressure and did some glowy eyes.



I stole the 3 coloured keys off a pic I googled of a nice Raptors version. I also nicked the idea of a tiny red box on the end of his purity seal/shopping list thing. I think that addition of colour helps the model be less dull looking. Obviously he's supposed to be sneaky but some bling is nice on a character model to help him look more important than the guys he's leading, hence using some gold on him which is absent on my other Phobos units. I also did a bit of the old classic book on fire (bad signal for a librarian to be sending surely?) with an 'U' in the middle of it. Again to have a bit of gaudiness and help him pop a bit more (pop-pop).



I did a bit of a half hearted 'glow' effect on his sword with a few thinned washes of increasingly paler blues. I think they need to be much more thinned and more layers but I'm fine with it. He took long enough without adding tons more time doing an effect you can't see from the 'viewing angle'. I'm not a fan generally of the 'crystal' sword thing either, bit too Eldar for my tastes. I always paint the bits on force (and power) weapons bronze/coppery to be like conductors channeling the coruscating nimbus of energy...



Arse shot. I need some sort of diffuser to get rid of the glare, it's annoying. Still you can see the camo OK. And his signed copy of Harry Potter and the Weekend of 'Experimentation'.



Unintended 'dynamic' camera angle here. Here's a few of the Sarges and the Libby hanging out trying to remember where they parked the Impulsor.

Hope you like him, he's the last Phobos for a while, he's now leading a cohort of 15 which is pretty good. He's reporting for duty for my Crusade force too. I've started on the last Sarge to finish it off, so some pics of him soon and then maybe a army shot for my 60 power force. Now the SM book has a release date our arbitrary start point is approaching and most of the armies are getting close to finished now. Which means we may be forced to actually 'play the game' rather than just sound off opinions loudly on the internet. Bleh.

For a second I thought that you made the camo out of overlapping multicolored Ultra symbols. Which would be a stupid amount of work, but awesome. And Codex adherent.

Looking really good as is. I’m sure he will do you proud leading your crusade.

 RandyMcStab wrote:
Finished this dude finally...

Epic stuff. A brilliant model brought to life by a fantastic paintjob. I hope you are proud of him as I think he's one of your best yet. The edge highlighting is precise and the huge areas of cammo are clear and scaled really well. I was worried you would have been corrupted by the recent foray into codex divergence.

 RandyMcStab wrote:

... to have a bit of gaudiness and help him pop a bit more (pop-pop).

Ha! I was just going to do an hilarious Community reference over on my plog. Glad I didn't as Internet rumours that you and I are the same person pretending to be two people with one friend each are starting to gain traction.


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 Nevelon wrote:
For a second I thought that you made the camo out of overlapping multicolored Ultra symbols...

I actually thought the same until I'd had a closer look. That Libby is just so dedicated to the chapter he generates a constant Ultramarine-themed psychic erm... Obfuscation... Miasma?

Nevelon wrote:For a second I thought that you made the camo out of overlapping multicolored Ultra symbols. Which would be a stupid amount of work, but awesome. And Codex adherent.

Looking really good as is. I’m sure he will do you proud leading your crusade.

Now I have to repaint him. Yes I found myself doing crescents and hooks as random blobby shapes don't look as nice or give nice definate edges. It would have been really simple to add the top capitals and change a crescent into an 'Upsilon'.

Mid-life Crisis Suit wrote:

 RandyMcStab wrote:
Finished this dude finally...

Epic stuff. A brilliant model brought to life by a fantastic paintjob. I hope you are proud of him as I think he's one of your best yet. The edge highlighting is precise and the huge areas of cammo are clear and scaled really well. I was worried you would have been corrupted by the recent foray into codex divergence.

 RandyMcStab wrote:

... to have a bit of gaudiness and help him pop a bit more (pop-pop).

Ha! I was just going to do an hilarious Community reference over on my plog. Glad I didn't as Internet rumours that you and I are the same person pretending to be two people with one friend each are starting to gain traction.


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 Nevelon wrote:
For a second I thought that you made the camo out of overlapping multicolored Ultra symbols...

I actually thought the same until I'd had a closer look. That Libby is just so dedicated to the chapter he generates a constant Ultramarine-themed psychic erm... Obfuscation... Miasma?

You mean we're not the same person? I've never seen us both in a room at the same time. Thanks though, it's high praise. I am pleased with him and do think he's one of my better ones. Now to start on my new chaplain 'Starburns'.

I've nearly finished my Sarge and will do pics probably tomorrow. I also found myself swapping the HB on a Speeder for a MM not sure why. That should be it for CRUSADE prep for me bar a bit of terrain and any post codex alterations, I'll be interested to see if the power levels alter again (for Tacks for instance) now they're getting 2 wounds and other changes.

That is a really nice pattern on the camo. Managed to look like camo without breaking up the model so much that it looks "muddy".

 Fifty wrote:
That is a really nice pattern on the camo. Managed to look like camo without breaking up the model so much that it looks "muddy".

Thanks! Yes I think the definite shapes helps this a lot, blobs of colour splurge into each other and get muddy.



This guy got done...typically I can now see a gold splodge I need to fix



I'm happy with him, he looks the business. And here I can see a huge mold line on the Axe. Still it'll be fine from the normal viewing angle..I made him a purity seal too as he needed a splash of colour and I was out of plastic ones..



Here's the guy he'll be replacing, still he might get busted out on occasion...



This guy got his sash a bit 'de-pinked'.

So that's the last of my stuff done for CRUSADE! The new book will be out in a week and could wreak everything however...



Here's the squad all done..I don't generally go in for 5 mans but taking them up to 6 dudes would cost another 5 power for 1 guy so that's out...the whole 2W thing will help and they will be in a Razor most of the time..



Other unit, they'll be accompanied by the Captain so will be slightly more of a force....



Here they are with their rides...they should be mobile, relatively shooty and punchy (with the Cappy in there too)...hopefully they can take care of business...



As a 'drying time' project I swapped this old Speeders HB for a MM. Not sure that I plan to use it but it could actually be good now, very mobile and able to grab objectives and seriously hurt most targets. I may have to build my other one (after like, 10 years?).



Bit of a dick to get off but we managed it without having to rebuild anything...I think I made this in 5th when HB/HF loadout was cheap as chips and it used to have a lot of fun flambe-ing 'Stealers...good times...but I always wanted to swap it over and make a Rockety one with the HB..



Might be worth it however I'll probably magnetize the rocket launchers....happy with this one though..

Final point for today....



This guy got his shoulder transfer and basing completed and is ready to lead the Bangles in their CRUSADE! I think that's all their infantry completed now so that's good too..

Next I'm starting a bit of terrain MLCS built to use in our games some more on that next. Hope you like the stuff above, the CRUSADE beckons....

In further prep for playing games, I've painted this terrain piece created by MLCS..




He got it very wreaked off the eBays and rebuilt it to look like a repurposed derelict vehicle using plasticard and odds and ends...



So I thought I'd paint it blue. Shocker. I watered down Ultramarine blue to make it look like it was a faded colour....I wanted areas of the grey undercoat to show through..



I did a thinned Regal blue wash to shade it..I also used a thinned Scorched Brown to cover all the metal areas and a less this thin coat to do the mud areas...




I then added rusty areas with more Scorched..



A light drybrush of Boltgun was added to the metal areas...



Then very thin washes of Orange and then Gulliman Flesh (CONTRAST!) were added to the metal areas and all over, drippy bits too...



I did very faint old chapter markings too...



I wanted the hatches on top to look like they've been moved and welded back on as part of it's Mad Max style re-purposing by some Scavvy Gang after it'd been knocked out (in 1st Ed, probably by a Conversion Beamer)....



Here it is done. I added some graffiti too....



Some obscure 80's comic references here...and anti Imperialist symbolism..



General commentary on the state of the game..



Some ballsy artwork and the obligatory 'clean me'. I would have written 'I wish my wife was this dirty' but didn't think I could fit in (that's what she said)....



It says: 'Ork hands was 'ere' which is funny to about 3 people.



I added some areas of static grass to it as well, I'm annoyed as I wanted to add some flowers but can't find my stash of them anywhere, so imagine there's a few tiny ones scattered about..

I hope you like it. It was really fun and was quite quick to do. There is a ruined Chimera that MLCs has made (making?) as well so that might be a thing soon...I've done some painting on SM as well, starting a 3rd Inters squad, mostly as a test for a better blue highlighting system and I've started bluetacking my 6 Inceptors, hopefully to benefit from the new system, so more on them soon....

That poor rhino.

Fight to recapture it. Honour it’s machine spirit. Cleanse the defilers.

No rest, no mercy, no quarter.

Yay it looks great. Thanks for painting it.

I need a break from Kroot so I might put the chimera on a base and sort its turret ready for you next week (if you like).

The graffiti looks really good, I know you have to be good at freehand to make tiny writing look like it was written by tiny hands.

Not that I don't love painting terrain but I should prioritise Mephistoned's Baal and the last bits of Tau.

Ta

Nevelon wrote:That poor rhino.

Fight to recapture it. Honour it’s machine spirit. Cleanse the defilers.

No rest, no mercy, no quarter.

Forward brothers! Reclaim the Rhino could be a good 'Relic' mission variant. Pity it's such an old version otherwise it'd be able to self repair.

Mid-life Crisis Suit wrote:Yay it looks great. Thanks for painting it.

I need a break from Kroot so I might put the chimera on a base and sort its turret ready for you next week (if you like).

The graffiti looks really good, I know you have to be good at freehand to make tiny writing look like it was written by tiny hands.

Not that I don't love painting terrain but I should prioritise Mephistoned's Baal and the last bits of Tau.

Ta

Yes it's fine, I've not a lot going on ATM so chuck it on the pile.

I finally received my Codex; (yay) a week late (boo). But it's an interesting book, so many small changes. Thunderfires got another kicking which was probably too much now. I may swap it out. One of the candidates for replacement and the next thing I was planning to build anyway, is my Inceptors (Jumpydudes). I've had these on sprues for a while now and I've been looking forward to building them for ages. I also want to get some gravis units done as they're really good. Also as I'm behind the 'meta' with painting, when I've finished something, it's usually just been nerfed. Need to try and use some stuff whilst it's still good!



Here are my 'blue ones' from Conquest's reprint of the Dark Imperium sprues..



I decided I hated their fadgey guns so I swapped them from the 'proper (and Gray)' sprues I got all the way back in the 'Wake the Dead' box...I left off all the crap off them too so they look much lighter..both the Sarges got a Gravis pad from the Ultra upgrade sprue too..



Because I'd used the Ass bolters I was required to use the plasmas, this is fine, I think they are good now (especially with 'blast') and not too expensive..I mixed the gray and blue squads to make them more varied...



Here are the Plas dudes built. I'm having them as walking as the flying bases are gash and this is more sensible I feel...I think that may be my last bit of Necromunda bulkhead chopped up there...



I've been painting these guys in the drying times of all the GS on the Jumpydudes, I got a new colour; 'Glacier Blue' from Vallejo which I've thinned and used as a 2nd layer of highlights on the armour, seen on the first 2 here...



I think it gives a nicer edge highlight and will only require 2 layers which will be a lot quicker too...

I should have these guys finished up soon and I can concentrate on the Jumpies...

I'm currently locked down as a friend I spent Sunday with, our kids were playing, tested positive for the plague, I've a test on the way so we'll see what happens with that. I'm feeling coldy atm but OK. I'm stuck here with my son however so that's challenging as I can't even take him for a walk and if I do get bad he'll be a bit stuck (he's 7). Still fingers crossed and all that.

Fun times.

Hope Nurgle passes you by.

Marines are looking nice. Good call on avoiding the flight stands, those things are awful.

Thanks, I'm feeling OK and am waiting on test results. I doubt it's positive as I'm not bad really.



I have finished these guys though...I will probably use this squad in Crusade, I have another identically equipped but I think I prefer this one..



Punchy Sarge. Extra vindicated on his PF now, TH are a bit crapper. I gave him another text purity seal with illuminated letter, like the Phobos Libby..



he got his Sarge bars too..



Trooper and AGL dude. Those grenade launchers cost now but as they can be fired additionally, I'm fine with that. Blast can make them more interesting and 1st turn Doctrine is good too. No idea why grenades are in the Dev Doc where only launchers will be in range, surely Ass Doc would be more of a natural bedfellow. Grenades seem to me to be more of a pointblank assault weapon.



Other troopers. Pleased with the new style of highlighting, seems to be a fair bit faster and I prefer the finish. I changed the stones on the bases from a blue-gray to a more limestone colour, I also prefer this. I did it originally on the Eliminators to match with all the terrain on their bases and the KT terrain I'd recently finished..



This is my 3rd 5 man squad of these now. I've another 5 ready to be built too. I think I'd like to boost one squad up to 8-10 as they'd be great moving forward using Trans (very modern) and double shoot strats...good for putting pressure on and grabbing objectives. I think I'll make a 10 man Ass Inters for the same reasons...

So I've started the Jumpydudes but not by much, it's hard getting to paint when locked down with a 7 year old and once he's in bed I'm about ready to follow suit. Still I'm pleased with the above guys and am looking forward to the next squad, I think I will swap them in Crusade (with the Thunderfire) as they'll be much better anti-elite that I don't have much of (and my friends DG list is super cheese) and a much more mobile. Having a DS threat is good head games on your opponent too.

Hope you like.

Looking good!

I’ll still probably build a TH sarge, but with magnets. Fists I think are the way to go. The hammers are equal with fists these days IMHO. More damage for less AP seems a fair swap, especially when that damage is overkill a lot of the time. And fists are stable at 2. If they had cut the price down to match the fist, I’d mix and match. They didn’t. Paying last year’s price for this years performance; it’s GW balance.

The AGL is not a grenade type, so doesn’t get the dev bonus. Just the Tac one, which is where you want to be anyway. Assault type. It’s a combi weapon without the -1 to hit for shooting both sides for 5 points. I’ll take it. I think grenades were stuck in dev doctrine just to balance them out and the fact that they needed to go someplace. Not that they were useful. They are basically a flavorful afterthought anyway. I occasionally toss them, but mostly they just look cool and clutter up dataslates these days.

Yes classic balance, here is a side grade you pay more for...

I derp'd out there, yes being Assault makes them much better as it will be 2 turns with the improved AP. Seeing as they are 5pts rather than free/1pt I suppose that's OK.

It makes it almost impossible to get the Dev Doc bonus on grenades. Yes I assume they had to go somewhere but Assault would have been cooler. Dev Doc is nasty enough only having Heavy types.

Yay, more Ultramarines!

That wrecked Rhino is aces. It amuses me to see the IG Basilisk cannon bitz inside the top hatch. I wonder what they were originally going to try and covert!

--Brian

 Briancj wrote:
... I wonder what they were originally going to try and covert!

The bit of Bassy was in my bits box. The Rhino was an ebay rescue and I tore off and moved some hatches and filled the cavity with junk (that's what she said) with a mind to creating some kind of 'junker' crawler terrain.

Also - Blue Space Marines look nice.

 Mid-life Crisis Suit wrote:


The bit of Bassy was in my bits box. The Rhino was an ebay rescue and I tore off and moved some hatches and filled the cavity with junk (that's what she said) with a mind to creating some kind of 'junker' crawler terrain.

Also - Blue Space Marines look nice.

Nice work, MLCS!

--Brian

Hello.

I've been remiss about updating this for a bit. I've had 2 weeks of kid of school and this always makes it tougher to fit much painting in. There has been some progress on my Inceptors however...



Early stages...I cut off the cables for the Plasmas as I felt they made them seem too big, I glued the little top bit in and it looks like a little power pack.



Base coated...



Mostly done..I gave the troopers silver rims to look more tough-ish



Thought I'd add some honour markings to his knee..



This guy hadn't had his 2nd layer of highlights on the blue yet..



This is where I'm up to. I'm pleased with how they're looking. I was thinking of adding upwards streaks, mostly on their legs, trying to look like heat damage from an orbital drop. The darkness of my base colour will complicate this but I think I'll try it. I'm a bit worried about trashing all this effort though. I am also considering heat damage on the plasmas too...any thoughts? I've started a quartered red and white knee plate so far will add a 'U' over the top, is it too bright?

Good to see you still painting away. I’d not worry about going too bright. Weathering is always a risk. How lucky do you feel?

A bit?



I finished the knee cap, I think it's fine now, not too jarring/bright. I've done his sarge bars and insignia too.



I've added heat damage to the plasmas, which I think has worked out OK given the limited space...



I've added some light damage with some sponge weathering, I glued a small bit of sponge onto a dead paintbrush which helped get it in the right places..

I think I'm going to try a bit of streaky burn damage on their legs to look like burns sustained from low orbital drops. These guys are nearly done now, yay, I've a Libby Dread to do for the B'Angles which we've just built and these 2 projects would complete my and Mephistoned's CRUSADE armies! Yay.

I'm off to start the basing, will cover the bases in polyfilla to give it a nice texture...

Heat stress on the plasma came out well. It will be interesting to see how well soot streaks from reentry show up on your very dark scheme.

Spoiler: It looks crap.

Here are the finished pics of these bad boys....



I think they came out well..



Sarge. Knee honour marking for most improved attendance.



Heat damage can be seen here and some 're-entry' (anyone seen 'Moonraker'?, worst Bond joke ever) burn damage on shins and backpack mainly. I didn't really pull the trigger on it as I was concerned about obliterating all that painting for something that might not work...



My Sarges get sarge bars, red helmets? please. He gets a white one to signify veterancy and bars to denote rank...



Fancy 'Gravis' shoulder pad. I had to trim the flange a bit to make it work with the backpack as it's 'supposed' to go on the other shoulder. I keep the chapter symbol on the right (models perspective) as the Codex Astartes (Rogue Trader Rulebook) intended. Then you don't have the problem of MK VI guys (with the studded pad) and Terminators oddly having the symbol on the other side as everyone else...I don't know why they changed it with the introduction of those new fangled MK VII marines (Strike Force boxset)....I may be showing my age...



Pew Pew...I much prefer these guys not on the flying bases...they look less like they've crapped themselves..



Added battle damage as these guys are supposed to wade through fire...



I'm now remembering I was going to sponge on a bit of mud colour to these guys, do you think they want it?



More heat damage. I painted the metal plate on his base (old Necromunda panel) in Scorched Brown and then roughly drybrushed orange onto it. They washed with Argax and another DB with the orange. I added a few chips in silver. I like the orange contrast with the blue, helps it pop (pop)...



This is the EtB guy, the others pick on him, which is mean as he has plenty to offer..



He has a purity seal which I failed to notice before the painting was reasonably advanced, I've cut it off the other EtB dude (they're identical), how would it survive sun orbital drops? Stasis field!



He means business...

I'm happy with the conversions and think the painting came out well. I'm still practising with 'thinning my paints' and they new colour I'm using for the last highlight but it feels a much better process and I'm getting better at it. As a reward for doing these guys I let myself build a sprue of Assault Inters, woo. MLCS and I also built this:



Who will get a 'functional' paint job to complete my friends Blood Angle force for the CRUSADE we'll probably not get to play. The above Inceptors finish of my revised force and I'll try and do a family shot of them all soon...I've also started the next 3 Inceptors as it seems to make sense to do them together. I think I'd add another 3 eventually to have a 4 guy plas squad and a 5 bolter, so that might happen at some point, I think 3 lacks the weight to really be a threat...

I hope you like and more soon(ish)......

I especially love your heraldry!

They turned out nice! It’s nice to see the shoulder markings on the correct side. Kids these days getting everything backwards, and the red helmets and everything. Not in MY codex, you young punks.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:I especially love your heraldry!

Thanks, I tend to make up my own, glad you like it.

Nevelon wrote:They turned out nice! It’s nice to see the shoulder markings on the correct side. Kids these days getting everything backwards, and the red helmets and everything. Not in MY codex, you young punks.

*Shakes fist*
*Rails against world you no longer understand*

Yes I much prefer my headcannon to the new fangled way of doing it. The 'Red Helmet Issue' is a particularly annoying, as it came from nowhere and suddenly was cannon, don't know it if it was a 'Eavy Metal painters experiment or something...

I've been ticking along with a few things...




Getting there with these guys...thought I'd just paint them now as I've just finished the first squad and it will all be fresh in my mind. Not sure if I should leave the re-entry burns out or double down on them and try to get them off better (pnar-pnar)...



In other news my converted standard bearer LT has had the basics done...



And his flashier new colleague is being planned out. I wanted to convert him like this as I didn't really like the pose of the original Inderptimus LT...and again, who says Reivers are useless?, I've used a head and arm of theirs in this conversion....



I built these guys as a reward for finishing my Inceptors. I think I'll make the other sprue into Inters with ABRs as I don't want it toooo obvious that the sprue is just repeated. I need to decide how to do that and it would probably mean a new box of Inters as I'll need a bunch more bodies (and ABRs) and I'm thinking both squads should be 10 man. It would give me 2 scary units to charge up the board and capture stuff, both able to be Transhumaned and the shoot/fight twice strats are good options too. They would be as cheap as SM get too really.

I'll finish off the Inceptors and then do my mates Libby Dread which will finish both Crusade Forces which is pretty cool. Not sure what to do after that? Maybe some characters, as the LTs will be ready and I'd like to do my Medic too (as they are amazeballs). I'd also be tempted to do a bit more Medieval Perry twins stuff I've had lying around for ages, that army only need 2 units to be done (with another for completeness) and I may even be able to play that one day now a friend from the old days has resurrected himself.

I can tell you from experience that it’s stupidly easy to convert the assault intercessors into ABR ones. All you need to do is clip the pegs off the torso and glue new arms on (doing something for the empty holsters is easy if you have the parts as well, but a small detail if you don’t). The question is how many spares arms you have from prior projects.

Remember that crusade forces like to grow, so if you are looking for new projects, keep that in mind.

I dig your ruined rhino. It's great!

Nevelon wrote:I can tell you from experience that it’s stupidly easy to convert the assault intercessors into ABR ones. All you need to do is clip the pegs off the torso and glue new arms on (doing something for the empty holsters is easy if you have the parts as well, but a small detail if you don’t). The question is how many spares arms you have from prior projects.

Remember that crusade forces like to grow, so if you are looking for new projects, keep that in mind.

Yes I'm looking forward to building both units really. A rummage in my box (Oooh-Er) shows I can scrape 5 ABRs or so and I've 2 extra dudes I can enlist too. Still I'll probably need another box of Inters as I'll need 10 more guys with 5 more ABRs.

Stevefamine wrote:I dig your ruined rhino. It's great!

Thanks. I didn't build it, MidLifeCrisisSuit (MLCS) did but it was really fun and relatively fast to paint. He's painting a wreaked Chimera (he built at the same time) at the mo. He's matching the scheme to my IG, the swine.

I was interested in making that squad now so I got my bits out (and after that I made some Space Marines)...



I had a spare bolter hugger and this guy who was going to be my 2nd LT. I'm now thinking he can be the Sarge of the ABR squad (as the LT vacancy went to the fancy new Inderptimus one), he's already got the ABR and I put him on a normal size base (ie not a 40mm)...



I swapped the huggers BR for an ABR (the slung one) I've borrowed an Auspex off my unfinished Hellblasters, I think I want them to keep it however...I'm running out of Power Fists now but found this one to go on the demoted LT...



Another instance of Reivers being useful, this is one of their knife arms, I may keep this as it lets me use the Auspex on the HB...any thoughts?



The fun bit, the ABR huggers. I think I'll give them one more Assault body and then the actual Assault Inters can get one more too. I'll have to shelve these guys till I get some more Inters to finish both units...that will be 20 dudes to push up the table/outflank, could be good.

On the boring painting front some more progress has been made on the Inceptors and the Libby Dread is getting undercoated so more on them next...

Don’t forget the AGL.

Looking good, Knife fits and the sage is rocking the ‘Fist.

Thanks! Yes I'll wait till I get some more Inters as I'm not sure I've the bits to make another M79 version, so will have to make do with M203 style ones.




I've started building this guy..spaced his Reiver arm and pinned the nifty UM upgrade power sword, it does look Master-crafted...



I've also cut off the hilt of the sword in his scabbard and attached the now empty scabbard to his hip in roughly the intended place...I also built him up a bit, he seemed a tadge short...



Nev will be pleased to see I even added a spare pistol handle into his once empty holster...



Here are my LTs pretty much built and ready for the painting queue/mountain....

The Inceptors are nearly done now, I'm working on the basing...



I treated myself to a couple of these by Zinge Industries, lots of shell casings..



Classic pollyfilla base texture...



Here, with the base nearly done, I've added a few of the middle sized casings....I think they'll be effective...



I also built this guy, thinking of adding a Reiver skull helm, may see how it looks..

I'll finish the Inceptors and do pics of them next!

A reiver helm could work, but it’s always nice to see the chaplain screaming.

Good detail work on the builds. Coming along nicely!

 Nevelon wrote:
A reiver helm could work, but it’s always nice to see the chaplain screaming.

Good detail work on the builds. Coming along nicely!

Yes I quite like the screaming too especially with that pose. Still I have an inbuilt need to not build my stuff like everyone else.....and it means I get to continue the 'Reivers aren't Useless' meme only I find funny...

Speaking of doing things differently...these guys got finished!



Ta Da. I'm pleased with these guys..



Sarge. This is an EtB guy I swapped the arms on. The EtB models have slightly longer shins than the 'proper' ones...I think the 'hard to build?' ones take into account the length of the feet plate thingies but look a little stumpy, these guys look like their tip toe-ing...



I did some upward streaks in inks and contrasts (brown and black) but it's not very noticeable. I did a bit more damage and mud spatter than the other squad...



Insignia. I made this squad 11 as companies are 'allowed' to exceed 10 squads now, so modern.....



Hard to build guy, note short shins, I can't unsee it now...note spent brass on his base.... I think I diluted their look by having the rusty metal bits ending up basically the same colour, means they get a bit lost...



I also did some slight weathering on the guns...



Made the turbines a bit dirty...



EtB guy, I regret having both versions of this guy (the other is in the other sqaud) both having the 'pointing 2 guns' arms, makes them too similar...



Don't see myself ripping them off however...



See what I mean about the orange rust and brass casings, they look the same...



This is all of them crammed together....nice little drop threat..

I'm happy with the units, I look forward to putting them on the table in maybe mid 2021?

I also started the last unit for CRUSADE that I'm doing, Mephistoned's Libby Dread...



I like it like this, it's like it's a B&W photo, very arty. It's just black contrast used as a quick basecoat, I'll do the red next, again probably just as a quick way of getting good coverage...

Hope you like, more on the dread next.....

Laaarvlay! It's great that your painting style continues to evolve even after all these years. Really nice sharp highlighting and the weathering on the feet etc. is already more effective than that of the plasma batch you did before.

I was putting off commenting on these Inceptorz until I had come up with something sufficiently witty to do with them basically being better and more cost-effective versions of Crisis Battlesuits, but the more I thought about it the more bitter and twisted I became. Eventually I reached acceptance and I'm glad I waited .

Re the Chappy - I think we'll all need to see a preview of each head option.

Well done on starting that Lib Dred - it's relatively fiddly compared to the other BA stuff we have done for Mephistoned.

It's really easy to import a 2D image (e.g. photo) to a card standee token in Tabletop Sim. All we would need to do is photograph every single model in the CRUSADE armies, crop/magic tool them in Photoshop, clearly label them and then...

On second thoughts let's just wait for this mythical 'herd mentality' I keep reading about in the news.

Yes I'm hoping Herd Mentality will save me too.

Thanks! Yes I think I can see the improvements as I continue learning how to 'thin my paints', it's gratifying to see and one of the reasons I wanted to do another company, some of the painting is pretty ropey on the old stuff.

I'm sorry we stole Crisis Suits and made them better, they did look fun to use. I expect XV8s will get 4 wounds in the next book.

Here are the finished shots of my Crusade Force...



I took these at night so the lighting would be either dim or glarey, I went with glare...



Mostly 'Classic' dudes..



Mostly 'big' guys...



Mostly Phobos...



Mostly big stuff...............mostly



We also 'played a game'. MLCS got some nice pics and a BatRep may happen in the next 6 months or so. Here my Captain is hiding in a tree as we rolled the 'Assassinate' mission.

I also discovered the best thing in the UM Codex is the name generator and I named up my roster which follows.....

Erasman Cassamir
Captain, Storm Bolter, Power Fist, Sanctic Halo, Adept of the Codex, Paragon of War

Coriolanus Optimar
Phobos Librarian, Tarentian Cloak, Hallucination, Soul Sight

Squad Theldar
Tacticals x 5, Combi-Plas, Power Sword, Plasma Gun

Stalwart
Razorback, Twin Lascannon

Squad Decimus
Tacticals x 5, Combi-Melta, Power Axe, Melta Gun

Saviour
Razorback, Twin Assault Cannon

Squad Geminus
Intercessors x 5, Power Fist, Grenade Launcher

Squad Caltor
Reivers x 5 (not a typo), Grapples

Squad Tyration
Inceptors x 3, Plasma

Squad Agorian
Eliminators x 3, Bolt Sniper Rifles

Brother Trogdor
Dreadnought, Multi Melta, Heavy Flamer, DCCW (and a bad attitude)

That's 60 power. We gave ourselves a bit more power for LOLs.

I picked 30 from the above to play our first game, good to get the rules down a bit and adjust to playing on the back of a box of matches. we used a 3'x3' mat which is about the recommended size and it was really tiny (that's what she said). Anyway more on that soon. Hopefully some other games too (unfortunately probably some on TTS). The BA book is out now and I've started on the Libby dread, the last outstanding model for Mephistoned's force so some completed pics of all that after Xmas we hope. The DG book will be next and we'll see just how bent that gets (spoiler, pretty bent by the look of things) so we all look forward to playing Dan's Smelly Boys (and his Death Guard).

Merry primary gifting season to everyone, lets hope the new year is lighter on the cataclysm.........

Nice looking crusade force.

Good luck with the battle to come! Courage and Honour!

So bent that the Imperial Guard...Astra Militarum...require about 150 guardsmen at 12" or less to kill a single 10-strong DG squad.

--Brian

PS: Flashlights are absolutely and completely useless in 9th edition.

Nevelon wrote:Nice looking crusade force.

Good luck with the battle to come! Courage and Honour!

Thanks! Yes we fought it but no spoilers.

Briancj wrote:So bent that the Imperial Guard...Astra Militarum...require about 150 guardsmen at 12" or less to kill a single 10-strong DG squad.

--Brian

PS: Flashlights are absolutely and completely useless in 9th edition.

I tracked their kills against normal SM in a small game (several editions ago now) and I got 0 Lasgun kills, against DG they will do a whole lot more nothing. There aren't any weapons that are especially good against them too. The base powers are really strong but it's the buffs/auras/WT/strats that will kick those effects up to 11. Yay.

Hello.

So I'm starting up production again after the holidays, I've started a bit more building of various units and painting on a LT...



I've built these Bladeguard, I'm getting another Inters box and will replace all their backpacks to non Iron Halo ones as that's a Captain thing. I hate MkIII armour too so I binned off those heads and replaced with a basic helmet and 2 interesting bare ones...



These guys too, I probably won't use them much in the interests of keeping my friends, I swapped a head here too, don't like the giant respirator ones and used a Elim head instead...



Remember when these where considered OP? Simpler times, I'm painting these next, I'll probably proxy them as the heavy version as that could be nasty...



Seen here built and basecoated/inked...



This is my current project, my Primaris LT. He's converted from the DI standard bearer...



When I was inking the head for some reason it went super dark and I managed to blot out a bunch of detail trying to rectify it..



I fortunately had a spare (it's off the Repulsor sprue) so I just started again, thinning the ink loads this time...

He's nearly done now, I'll do some more pics soon...I'm awaiting a delivery of some more Inters I got off Amazon (I had a gift card) and I'll use them to build a 10 man Ass Bolter unit and a 10 man Ass Marine unit. They'll be objective grabbers and should be hard to stop and hit like a ton of bricks, The above LT can follow the Assault Bolter guys and give them some great (emotional) support.

More soon.

Nice building and paint.

I hear good things about the Bladeguard vets. They certainly look cool. I need to paint the ones I have, and get the full kit. It looks to be packed full of awesome.

I’m not looking forward to facing eliminators on the table. They do seem like the kind of unit that kills friendships on a 4+. The Boy, however will take what edge he can find to counteract my decades of experience, so I suspect once he gets his lazy teenaged self in gear, they will start to show up in my battle reports on his side of the table.

Always nice to see some Lts. We’ve got years of captains piled up, need to get twice that many junior officers.

 Nevelon wrote:
Nice building and paint.

I hear good things about the Bladeguard vets. They certainly look cool. I need to paint the ones I have, and get the full kit. It looks to be packed full of awesome.

I’m not looking forward to facing eliminators on the table. They do seem like the kind of unit that kills friendships on a 4+. The Boy, however will take what edge he can find to counteract my decades of experience, so I suspect once he gets his lazy teenaged self in gear, they will start to show up in my battle reports on his side of the table.

Always nice to see some Lts. We’ve got years of captains piled up, need to get twice that many junior officers.

Yes I think I've got 4 Captains (not including my RT stuff and lacking a Primaris one) and this is only my 3rd LT. Got the new BG one ready to go however...



My reinforcements arrived, Yay (saying that I've had the Medic for a while, a gift from Alex). These are the only models I've left to build (ZOMG) bar the 2 Repulsors which are low priority as they suck.



Work is proigressing on this dude...nearly there....



Still grappling with trying to get good pics out of my new phone but this is an approximation of what his head is looking like...



I couldn't decide what to do on his shoulder pad, I went with the RT LT insignia (obviously) and a row of stars (STAAAAARSSS) for his personal heraldry because it's easy. Slightly reminiscent of the old LT Commander rank badge too. I still regret not doing that on my Invictus conversion, if there's a chance of using him I may redo his shoulder.



'Skip to the end', typically, you won't get to see it as it's facing away and (after a dry fit check) obscured by his back pack..



Very nearly complete here...more soon!

Good lieutenant! Love the heraldry!

Glad you like him, thanks.

Well he's done now!



Ta Dah!



Creepy milky injured eye.....probably awaiting bionic replacement but he's too busy slaying the enemies of the Emprah to take time out....



I gave him a silver Assault bolter to denote it's MC status.....



I wanted his to look like he's advancing leading troops forward. The rough idea is for him to shepherd the impending Ass bolter unit towards objectives.....



Rank insignia, obscured by backpack bleh...backpack also got a little ornamentation, I think of it as a trainee Iron Halo...



I added half a dread fist to his base as random wreckage...I'm pleased with how he came out, more interesting than the standard bearer he's converted from anyway...

I hope you like him, he's already graced the table in my 3rd game of Crusade and did well (survived)...I've started on the Hellblasters but not much progress yet, more soon..

Lt’s looking good!

I’ve been enjoying mine in crusade. He’s not the hammer that the captain is, but a great force multiplier. RRs to hit are easy to get, but not so much for to wound.

What agendas you picking? Is it just me, or is “Know No Fear” crazy good for leveling up units? And Marksmen Honours just a little too nice as an upgrade? Will be interesting to see what my other armies get access to when they get codexes. Marines get some solid options in theirs.

Thanks!

He was good in his debut game but I can't help thinking 4 Power is a lot. 1 more and I could have another Tack or Inter squad which would have been more impactful.

I banned myself from 'KnF' as I'm trying to play down a bit, most of my games are against T'pau so I'm trying to keep it fair. In the last game I was on the back foot as I did the SM thing of running around in the open getting shot whilst he sat in a big building pounding away (and shooting guns) but I leveled the playing field with an Orbital Barrage (it's the only way to be sure) which he decided to tough out. I killed a bunch of his army and gave myself a chance. In the end the disappearing objective thing favoured him and gave him his first win which was great.

I tend to just use reaper as it is easy and I don't have to think. Most of my force has leveled up now and I did pick the BS2+ for my Plas Tacks, it's pretty good.

Hello,

I've managed a bit here and there of the space mans painting..here's a bit of evidence..



I've been working on these guys, mostly because I own them, rather than because I want to field them, after 5 more Inters, I'll have finished all my pre-Inderptimas models (bar the tanks)...



I've endeavoured to do them nicely but quickly....



Here they are mostly done (mostly etc)...



They're pretty much finished now and after a few tweaks I'll try to get some glamour shots done..

I've also started building my 10 man Ass Bolter unit..





Here a few shots I took whilst building...I'm cutting off their massive holsters and will add them to the Ass Inters when I get round to building them...



I'm also toying with the idea of converting the BG standard into a squad sarge. I don't like the standard as a model and find it expensive in points, I'd strap a shield to his back and think it could work. Any opinions? I've tried selling him on eBay twice so maybe this is the best use.

Hopefully the finished HB will grace the pages soon..till then..



Here's a bit of Aliens; Another Glorious Day in the Corps, this is a Bug Hunt mission and you can see there's massive stack of bugs to the 'north' and a conga line of blips to the 'north west', we'd also lost 3 guys by this point...the card displayed was our last move....

Sounds like a glorious victory... for the aliens!

 Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:
Sounds like a glorious victory... for the aliens!

Yes at least we were keeping it realistic...

Marines are looking good. I think the ancient might be a little too fancy to be a sarge, but would make a good Lt. Your conversion looks like a good start. I assume the sword will replace the skeleton hand? If you grab a SS from the BGV box, you can put that on his back and make for the same wargear as the indominus Lt., but different look.

I keep seeing that Aliens game popping up. Is it a kickstarter thing, or can you just go out and buy it? How does it play? I’m a sucker for the franchise, and it would not take a lot to push me into grabbing a copy.

 Nevelon wrote:
Marines are looking good. I think the ancient might be a little too fancy to be a sarge, but would make a good Lt. Your conversion looks like a good start. I assume the sword will replace the skeleton hand? If you grab a SS from the BGV box, you can put that on his back and make for the same wargear as the indominus Lt., but different look.

I keep seeing that Aliens game popping up. Is it a kickstarter thing, or can you just go out and buy it? How does it play? I’m a sucker for the franchise, and it would not take a lot to push me into grabbing a copy.

I've got the Indom LT as an LT, I did convert him a bit. I don't think there's a 'too fancy' when it comes to BGV. they're already up to 11. Yes the sword would replace the weird hand bit. I have a similar shield I can add to his back, I've the old metal one from the OG 'Masters of the Chapter (Universe)' set or a DW one, they'll probably do as they'll be on his back. I could get a mate to 3D print one but don't think I care enough.

It's good! It came out as a KS but is out to buy IRL. We've only played twice; the first obligatory 'get a lot of rules wrong' go and a second 'I can't roll dice' game where I killed 3 of my Marines in 2 turns by being crap. A proper game will be next I'm sure. It's very faithful to the IP and is relatively straightforward, the endurance deck thing is odd but that's about it. Aliens even move 6 al la Space Hulk.



These guys got finished!



Sarge. I did a bit of heat weathering..



Sarge bars. I did these guys relatively quickly but I think the finish is good...still practicing with the new highlighting...getting better at it..




Troopers. I always see the mold lines when they're finished, sigh.



Aliens style motion tracker. "They're in the goddamn room!"

Glad to have these guys done. I've done a bit of building on the 10 man Ass Bolter squad too, more on that next..

Love that highlighted dark blue, it looks great!

Thanks dude. Yes I much prefer the darker tone, GW have been slowly catching up with me over the years, the current GW paint jobs are a far cry from the 'Fisher Price' looking powder blue UM from 2nd Ed.

My ABR squad has been progressing, here are a few final builds..



The sarge, was going to be an LT but got demoted for attitude 'issues'. He's got a head off the Repulsor sprue and a PF from yesteryear. I had to fill in a biggish space under his armpit to force the angles.



This guy gained an AGL in his final version. Looks like he means business. I chopped off all these converted Ass Inters massive, comedy holsters for the daft Heavy Bolt Pistol that's the same size as an OG marine's bolter..



This guy got a scabbard for his knife stuck over the scar of removing his holster (not really visible in this pic)..




These guys are pretty straight forward conversions using the Ass Inter bodies..I've saved all the holsters for when I make the choppy guys which will be the next project probably as I only need to make 4 new guys to finish that squad.

I'll see if I get anything done over the next few days, more soon (TM)...

Hello. I am still alive.

I've been out of the habit recently but find myself gravitating towards plastic space mans again. I've started working on my ABR unit and they are approaching being done but first I'd thought I'd share my most recent CRUSADE! game against MLCS's dirty T'pau.



This was the first game I've played IRL in ...............er ages? As such it had a festival feel. The mission was the breakthrough type thing where night fighting was a thing and we got points for leaving the table on the opponents side.



My left flank, the Reivers had to deploy as no one was allowed to Outflank or Deep Strike (as it would make leaving the board too easy). The Laserback is carrying the 2x Melta Tack squad. The Dread is hiding behind obscuring terrain.



The centre was held by some Inters and my Eliminators, the Captain is bravely hiding downstairs...to their right was the other Razorback (assault cannon flavour holding my 2x Plasma Tacks) and my new Phobos Librarian (not pictured)..



The Tau right (facing my Reivers etc), a few squads of FW and a Fireblade cravenly cower in some ruins. The centre is held by the Hammerhead and some Kroot. Above them on the gantries are some Marker Drones and a Marksman.



The big Tau attack, his left. So facing my Libby and Assback. The 3 suits have every upgrade and some shield drones, the 3 man Stealth team is just visible behind the wall. The 'Fish is loaded with 9 Breachers as well as 3 Sniper Drones and all of this is led by his triple MP Commander.

He's deployed everything, and I've my Plas Inceptors in reserve. I'll only be able to DS them in my deployment zone but I wanted a threat in reserve as that's one hell of a left hook coming at me.

I'll post up some more on this later, I've only a few pics but it's nice seeing all our efforts in having fully painted forces and terrain, a fair bit of each completed recently for CRUSADE! games. This was my first game using a full 60 PL force so I was getting to field a bunch of stuff for the first time in CRUSADE (and 9th), like my dread and a few units (like the Inceptors and Libby) for the first time ever! Apparently that means they get great luck.

I like the dark colors of your marines with the stark highlights. It looks good and adds a lot of character.

Good to see you alive, well, and smiting the xenos!

ShadowsAndDust wrote:I like the dark colors of your marines with the stark highlights. It looks good and adds a lot of character.

Thanks dude! Yes I think it's much nicer in a darker blue. GW are slowly catching up with me.

Nevelon wrote:Good to see you alive, well, and smiting the xenos!

Yes I'm just about alive and just about smiting Xenos, speaking of which....



The T'au kicked off by pelting the Inters in the centre to little avail, the Reiver stepped through a hail of SMS with little effect too. The big attack ground forward but only managed to drop 6 wounds off the Razorback. Expecting to lose it I moved the transport forward to body block a bit and to blow up nearer to his lines. The Plas Tacks bundled out and held the crate thing, they caused little damage however. The Assback popped a few drones. The Libby advanced into the open so his smite would target the hated Stealth team, one super smite later and two of them lay dead, he also gave -1 to hit to the Suits, not bad for his first deployment ever!

*Fresh paint curse disproved*



The T'pau pushed again, rather foolishly as it transpires, the Commander contemptuously gunned down the Assback, which exploded. My Libby and Tacks took a few wounds but the T'au got the worst of it (pictured). His lone Stealth suit melta'd the Libby who passed his 5+ Invun from the 'Tarentian Cloak' relic.



Not to be denied the Tau did reduce the Tack down to just the Sarge who the Breachers unwisely charged, failed to hurt and lost a few to his Power Sword.



In the centre the dual between the Railhead and the Laserback ended when the transport disgorged the Melta Tacks who proceeded to knock off it's last 5 wounds. It obviously blew up and killed a few of the Kroot, Marker Drones and the Marksman, oops.



The SM counterattack and the heroes pile into the blocking empty 'Fish ably supported by the Dread, who had hurt the Railhead and killed off the last Stealth guy with his flamer. The Inters charged into the Breacher's hoping to rescue the beleaguered Tack Sarge. Seeing the way the wind was blowing I resolved the attack on the 'Fish last, it obviously blew up to. Massive damage was dealt to the SM, the Libby would have died bar his Primaris constitution and regenerating granted by his Relic, the Captain and the Dread were down to 2 wounds and an Inter bought it. Oh and the Tack Sarge I was trying not to lose.



The Tau carried on pushing, trying to breakthrough my lines. The brand new Inceptors had dropped in and let fly at the suits doing a grand total of 1 wound...stupid PL games and shield generators on everything..

*Fresh paint curse confirmed*

The T'au suits causally erased the SM copies...



The remaining SM shot and charged the remaining T'au, the Dread, having a lovely time, punched out the Tau commander, killing his 3rd unit this game (he got marked for greatness and levelled up from this game alone). The Inters killed one and reduced the last Crisis to one wound.

That was about it. The little FW party in the corner killed the Reivers daftly running at them down to 1 guy, the Melta Tacks wiped out the Kroot and left the battle with the Laserback, winning the game for me.

It was a fun game, quite explosive. And a lot of vehicles blew up. It was great to play in person and to use a lot of units for the first time (ever: Primaris Librarian, Inceptors, in 9th: Dread, Assback) and to use my full Crusade Roster (nearly, I left out my Primaris LT). I've been enjoying Crusade, it's given me a chance to use new, freshly painted units and play smaller, interesting missions with leveled up units.

Recommended.

More pics soon on the ABR Inters soon..

Thank you for sharing the photos of your battle RandyMcStab.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
Thank you for sharing the photos of your battle RandyMcStab.

Cheers,

CB

I hope you enjoyed it. I was a fun game, and the first in looong time.

I've been sketching out some character conversions I've had lying around for a while now...



New Chapter Master! Biggus Headus. This was a random gift from Mephistoned, I like to think it's for painting half a CRUSADE! army for him..



Trying out this guy, Captain or possibly an actual Chapter Master (when Calgar is off sick), I'd lengthen the ABR to look like a Heavy Bolt Rifle...



I like the idea of a big sword too, covers up some of that weird belly, I'd call him Maximus Thicc. I think either bald or a full head of hair rather than a mo-hawk and, obviously, a bionic eye...I like the idea of a Grav Captain and don't like the load of the this default one and don't like the model (or price) of the new HBR Grav Captain...



Probably my next project, Chief Medic, I'd have to call him Dr Octopus obviously...



Current version, I'd swap the pistol, he's got a drill and a syringe on those mecha-dendrites, should make him fun at parties...I'm not having him standing on a Brother but may use that bit to make an Objective marker, would be great for the special Medic one in CRUSADE! but that Agenda sucks unfortunately...

I've just finished the first 5 of the Auto Bolt Rifle Intercessors, I'll do the glamour shots and post them up in the next day or so, I'm making myself paint the next 5 but will do them to a lesser standard as I'm not sure when I'll get to run the full 10 man blob..anyway hope you like..

Here are the glamour shots of my Auto Bolt Rifle Intercessors (trips off the tongue, NOT)...



Squad Sarge, I went with heraldry on the tilting plate and like the extra colour afforded by it. The head is off the Repulsor sprue...note shell casing on his base...supposed to make you think they've been firing lots...



Sarge Bars..



I've been practicing with simplifying the edge highlights which I think is giving a nicer finish..



Grenade guy..note blood above eye to make him look more action hero-y...



I did some weathering on these guys to make them seem tougher as they're supposed to be close to the enemy, capturing objectives...



Stabby guy, this guy always make me think of THAT guy from Mad Max II..."Road Warrior!"...



"We come here to kill!"



Bolter huggers making up the numbers...



I really like these running legs from Inderptimus, lots of potential...



Obligatory blurry pic...



Pics..



Squad so far, I've started on the next 5 to take this up to max size which will give me a nice option to push up the field and a nice big blob to chuck buffs on too. The companion unit will be a 10 man Assault Intercessors who are in the blue tacked stage at the mo..I've been tinkering with Dr Octopus so there may be some more build pics soon.

I'm pleased with these guys and like the poses, one reason why I painted them to a higher standard, it's easy to paint almost everything to character level standards with Primaris as there aren't that many of them in an army. Hope you enjoyed the photo-shoot.

Very nice. Those running legs were made for the auto bolt rifle guys. Gives you something other than the scope/mag to help tell them apart from the other types of bolters.

A very dynamic squad, great work!

Nevelon wrote:Very nice. Those running legs were made for the auto bolt rifle guys. Gives you something other than the scope/mag to help tell them apart from the other types of bolters.

Yes they really are, it's handy to mix up both the bolter and chainsword units to make them both more diverse.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:A very dynamic squad, great work!

Thanks, yes I wanted to go for movement. Glad you liked them.

Been tinkering a bit more with these heroes..



Built a nice tactical rock for the Medic to stand on..



Thinking of adding the little chainblade to his wrist al la the old Narthecium thingy..



Nearly built now, all but the backpack is done. I'm not sure about the second arm on top, it's got the little magnifiers on it ATM but don't know if it's just making it all too busy?



Trying a different head out, can't decide if it's better..

There has been some painting too, plugging away at the 5 bolter huggers to finish off the above squad, more on them sooner or later..

The extra arms might be a little much, but if you want Doc Oct, you need 8 arms.

I liked the old yelling head on the gravis guy better. But both work.

Yeah I think I do too, the old heads are a bit smaller, seemingly at least..



Better with bionic eye? (Isn't everything?)...I also added some place holder hair. I have been looking at the new kits and there is a nice pointing arm in the Eradicators box and a couple of HBR arms in the Heavy Inters box that would be great for this guy, I'm now hitting refresh every 10 mins or so on my preferred bitz retailer...



Probable final version of my super medic. He'll just have to make do with 5 arms instead of the required 8.



I've started to work on his Octopus array and began by cutting off the ammo hopper from the Gravis backpack, he won't be needing it anyway..



I drilled out the centre and added a magnet in there, I think it will make it easier to store and I think it could denote him being a standard Medic or upgraded to the Chief version...I'm adding a madnet onto his backpack next..



I wanted this guy to be an objective marker so started the conversion on that too..



I added a bunch more rubble to look like he's trapped in a collapsed building sort of deal..



I've pretty much finished these guys now and will post up some finished pics next/soon...

Great base work!

--Brian

 Briancj wrote:
Great base work!

--Brian

Thanks! bases and faces etc. Sorry for my lack of updates but the Steam summer sale beckoned me into temptation and I accidentally bought Battlebrothers and have been really enjoying it, a mix of a lot of games I've enjoyed. Still, I finished off the 5 other guys for my ABR Inters...



Ta Da!



These guys were done a bit more quickly than the first 'hero' 5 but as I improve with edge highlighting they are looking ok I think..



I like the chunky box mags, it's like a squad all with SAWs...



Pseudo Sargent, for when combat squadded or running them as 2 units of 5...he got another minor injury on his head...



I'm happy with them and even happier to have them off the bench, Yay another unit down....I could easily add 5 into my CRUSADE! roster too..



The whole bunch of them, I'd like to have them running up a flank backed by the ABR Lefty, a Chaplain would make them heinous too as he could give them +1 to wound in shooting (the nearest target)...

I'm going to focus on the Medic next, I think he could get a magnetized head to go with the magnetized mecha-dendrites so he could be used as a normal Medic with helmet and Chief with tentacles and old man head...I'd like to make a start on my Bladeguard with their attendant LT and even the Eradicators might get a seeing too...thanks for looking!

I've been working on my Medic conversion over the last few days.



I decided to magnetize his head as I like both versions..



I managed to sink a magnet into his neck....



That I covered with GS, I (after this pic) built a roll behind his head to help guide the head into the right place...



Both heads sat on magnets, I covered the sides in GS later...



So i can have both versions...



I added a little arm, made from the spare backpack arms, to the mechadendrite hub thing so that when it's sat on the backpack it will be in the right position, I sculpted a bit of cabling to tie them together..



I covered his backpack magnet and added some little flanges...



I GS'd the dendrites into place...



So it all goes together like this, I tidied the arm connection points later...



I also added the syringe and drill bits...



So he can be 'basic' Medic or....



Chief version! Head position not perfect here and I did clean the connections for the drill/syringe...

So he's off to be undercoated now, I'm toying with doing the torso, thighs and upper arms in blue and the extremities and shoulders in white, probably with a red tabard, any thoughts?

Since I had my GS hat on I've been building my Bladeguard, more on that project soon..

Well, traditional Ultramarines is white, with the left-pauldron being blue with a white Upsilon, and the right being the Apothecary symbol in red, on white. Silver details/fittings, no pauldron trim.

However, recent GW schemes have thrown that out, and gone with just a red-on-white right pauldron, and everything else standard Ultramarine, with gold trim.

You're thinking something like this? https://imgur.com/gallery/237ojgU

--B.

That's interesting that it's a HH era thing, I didn't know that. I'm still not sure, the (probably) red tabard will change how it looks too. I don't want to get 45% of the way through to want to change it...

Sorry for the late reply too, I wanted to have something to show and I've got these guys done now...



I've built my Bladeguard, woo...this guy was a simple change, just a head swap and slight arm reposition. I'm not a fan of Mk III type helmets they have, Mk III being the most unlovely of the SM armours to my eyes...this helm is off the Primaris UM upgrade sprue..



This dude also got a different head, an old SM from somewhere with a bionic eye as he's a Vet. I tilted him backwards and gave him a 'tactical rock' to stand on to change his posture, too 'closed' otherwise...



This guy got the LT Flat-top head from Dark Millennium and a re-angled arm....

I wanted a squad of 4 and find the Standard bearer to be weird looking and quite expensive (5 PL compared to a squad of 3 BGVs also at 5 PL) so I decided to convert him into the Sarge..



He's standing slightly too forwards so I tilted him backwards a bit, I swapped out the OTT Mk III helm with halo thing for a more sober Mk X one (with skull!), the Neo Volkite arm is the BG LT's obviously but a BG Sarge can equip one too...I chopped the left arm off the tilting plate (the whole arm is attached by the tilting plates peg into that chest hole there) and got rid of the derpy skele hand. The sword blade I replaced it with is from the Black Reach Captain (so 5 editions ago! I never throw any parts away)....



I filled in the gaps in his funny cape/tabard thing...



I built up another tactical rock out of cork...



I got the stowed chainsword from the new Inderptimus Ass Inters sprue and chopped off the pommel, I also dug out a DW Storm Shield TM and chopped off the hand gripping it...it's about the same size and will be facing away from the viewer, I'm not bothered enough to Bitz order one or blag someone into 3D printing it...




Here he is fully assembled, I think it's better this way. I replaced his massive tilting plate that has the super long purity seals with the standard one off the Inters sprue to help differentiate the model from the stock one..the shield is 'mag clamped' to his backpack at a jaunty angle which helps fill in an odd space (in silhouette) under his sword arm that makes him look too thin to me...

I like how they've turned out I look forward to painting them (well I look forward to them being painted which isn't the same thing really) but will start the Medic first, he's sat there undercoated but I don't find myself painting him...soooon...

Nice work on the BGVs. I found it a really fun bunch of models to work with. Both the Indomitus ones and more so the full kit. I need to paint mine, but sooooo much bling and details.

Yes the spectre of painting these guys is stalling me out of painting altogether. I've the Medic I've still not decided on the painting scheme of and then 4 BGV and a BG LT, it's basically like painting 6 Captains in a row.

Then I'll have to do my Captain too. I'm still looking for a few of the new arms to finish (or start) my build on him. I want the pointing Eradicator arm and a reloading Heavy Bolt Rifle arm, the Bitz site sold out in 30 mins when they last restocked them and the eBay guy selling 1 of the arms I want is asking £3.50 for the arm and £3.10 for postage? There is someone selling both parts for a quid or so each but the postage from America is like £12 each!

I will keep my eyes out. School is about to end here so I'll be going away a bunch so production on here will be slowed/stopped....

Hello old friend.

After 9 months I've found the inspiration to start a bit of all this again. The lack of Primaris Lieutenants being released weekly has led to a decrease in interest in my SM. All the new Codices read like Fan Fiction and SM went from maligned for being OP to a pathetic joke in less than a year and the lethality train seems to have no brakes, the Tau and Eldar books are off the scale. 40k seems to be accelerating Codex Creep to unprecedented levels and all of this has dulled my ardour. MLCS, who is my regular opponent, got his new Tau 'dex and, understandably, would like to take it for a test drive. The chance of 'playing a game' enthused me to write a new list and I decided to make my first all Primaris force and the 1k list included my unfinished Medic. So I now find myself feeling like painting again. SM Codex 2.0 is probably 6 months off so I'd like to paint the old hotness before the new hotness obsoletes it.

I'd finished the conversion on my Medic and undercoated it previously. I got stuck trying to decide the paint scheme but I just went for it and put brush to plastic...



This is the 'Chief Apothecary' version of the model, Doctor Octopus, he has 2 mechadendrites peeking round...but I like the alternate head so much I decided to magnetise it (and the dendrites) so it could be swapped over..



Thusly, now he's the standard Medic..I wanted to do a different scheme to just white and settled on the above...Braincj has pointed out this is actually a legion era scheme which is quite nice..



Ink washed...



Base coats reapplied...



I've also built the base detailing into a objective marker, I tried to make it look like a brother buried in the rubble..there is a (bad) Crusade Agenda where a Medic must get to the injured Marine, so this could be used for that too...

It's been really nice to do a bit again so hopefully the mood will stay with me and I can power through my gray pile just in time to get another when the next 'Indomitus' style box comes out...I haven't been totally idle and painted a Samurai for my Dad for Xmas and did a lot of building on my Medieval army and may cover those too...

Moar on this guy soon.

Nice to see you back and painting. Good luck vs. the T’a;u”!

Thanks! I'll catch up with the last 9 months of your blog soon! Hopefully there's none of those foul Xenos lurking there...

I don't hold up much hope against the T&$%@u and expect to be tabled basically.

I'll do the next load of WiP pics tomorrow I think, he's basically done now and I will do the glamour pics soon...

Xenos? In my blog? Never!

I’ve not actually faced the Tau’s new book, but if they are half as bad as people say they are, prepare for a rough fight.

I'll just call up the Commissars.....I know right (Re the T'au), but he's played against enough new SM books. I dread to think what they'll have to do to make SM worth it again, make all their save Invun? Bolters just doing Mortals? Personally I like the idea that SM can only die when it's relevant to the plot. Plot Armour has always been the SMs greatest strength in the fluff so it seems reasonable. After the last books nothing seems hyperbolic anymore. Wooooo balance.



This guy is finished now but here's the next batch of WiP shots....I've started the highlighting in most areas here..



More highlights and I've started filling in the details, lights and the suchlike...



The objective is also getting done...



With the body mostly done (mostly etc) I turned my attention to his heads, cursing my insistence on doing two...the helmet is pretty much done here..



Starting the bare head...Elf Flesh basecoat, Argax and Reikland shading washes, slightly thinned..I've started reapplying thin layers of Elf here...




Pretty much done...you probably need to click through to really see the detail...I've added final highlights of thinned Bleached Bone. The eyes where painted black and I dabbed white either side to create the pupil. The new Primaris heads have very realistic features and, as such, really fething tiny eyes, they're really difficult to get right and it's in the lap of the gods whether I pull it off or not..I added a super thin sheen of old Red Gore to his lip and went back and forth with argax lines in the dark areas and did a super thin Reikland targeted wash when it started looking over highlighted...

Anyway I've added the glamour shots to the gallery and will annotate them when I get the chance, In the next day or two.

Hope you like.

Doctor Octopus reporting for duty!



This is the 'Chief Apothecary' version of this model. I think the alternate paint scheme has come out well and is more interesting than the default...



I did a little heart monitor type thing on his wrist computer, didn't come out perfect really but I did want to stop painting this guy at some point...



I'm pleased with him and it was a nice project to come back to. Even though it was a full-on paint, as it was a single model, it was easier to get through...



This is the other configuration, your basic Medic. The angle of the head is slightly off here and could be further round. He's supposed to look a bit more standard with hentai tentacles removed and the emphasis on the silver rim, looking over the other shoulder puts the gold rim into view more (for the super boss version)...



Obvs as its magnetic, you can position the head anywhere...



Massive pistol, shoulder pad and bare head are from Ultramarine upgrade sprues..



And a bonus objective, it's supposed to look like a brother buried in rubble with some *minor* injuries....I'm sure he'll be fine....

I hope you like him, I impressed myself a tiny bit and it's enthused me to do more, I've started on the other massive log jam of a project, the 5 Bladeguard (inc. LT), which will be a big one. After them I've 6 Gravis dudes of various flavours, 15 Inters (again various) and 2 characters. Oh and 2 Repulsors (both types) but I'd like them to be good before I invest the time to paint them. So no breath held there then.

I hope you like, it was fun to do and nice to enjoy painting again.

Apoth looks great!

 Stevefamine wrote:
Apoth looks great!

Thanks! Sorry it took 3 months to reply! I'm really pleased with him too, came out better than expected (that's what she said).

I've started a tiny bit more painting....I think the rumblings of a IG Codex is beginning to stir my ardour again (and making me want to paint toys) and there's a big SM log jam on my painting table blocking any lasgun based fun.



I did start on these guys after the Medic and then immediately ran out of steam...



Painting all 5 at once would probably send me loopy so I started on the 3 'normal' ones. The other 2 are a Sarge and LT. Seen here after a few ink washes..



This is much later, about where we are now, a lot has been done but because of the level of detail it's slow progress..





They are getting there, I will need to do all the fiddly heraldry bits soon (can't put it off any longer) not entirely sure what to do on them. Can Primaris get Terminator Honours? It's usually my go to for the first company but technically they can't fit in it? There was rumours of Primarisified TDA so maybe in the future (9th Ed 2.0 Codex is supposed to be a thing too)?..

I think I've got the impetus to finish these guys, these 5 dudes are a big old project (as they're all so fancy) and the only 'real' 1st Co. Primaris unit so far, so I feel like I have to do a good job.

Moar soon!

Good to see you painting.

I’ve got a pair of BGVs stalled out on my bench as well. Need to get back to them. If yours are in the way of the Guard, there are 2 classic ways to fix that. FRFSRF or a bayonet charge.

If they earned their TDA honours as firstborn, then crossed the rubicon to primaris, they still should be able to wear them. IMHO.

It's been nice to do a bit actually, with the donkey work done on these guys previously, it means I can just do the rewarding stuff now.

Yeah BGVs are a big time commitment to do justice to all the crap they're covered in.

I may do a few Crux Terminatus, does make sense.



After much thinking I went with a black background on the storm shields...these will get a bit more treatment before being done.



I've got 4 more of these tilting plates to do, answers on a postcard. I went with a simple one here, I like using red as it lifts the model a bit....



My 1st Co. guys tend to get the laurel wreath with the '1' in it as a badge of honour..

This guy is pretty close but I need to come up with some designs for the next two dudes...hope you like him, he's coming together better than expected!

Hi.

I've been slow with these guys again but here's a little update.



I decided to go with the Crux, here's some WiP shots of that..I always build them up in this way..



I've done a few of them by now..



Here I'm adding in the black lines and tidying up in general..



Typically this is a bit out of focus, my new phone is less good at taking detail shots which is a pain in the bum, especially when it's got 4 lenses. Where's the Space Marine lens? I've added in the gem and used a bit of Argax to shade the gold and given it a highlight..

I've actually finished these 3 now and I'll try to get glamour pics soon, I've made a start on the next 2, I'm getting gold trim fatigue back so progress is lowing again! I've also stocked up on Nuln Oil, Reikland Fleshshade and Argax as I heard the 'New Formula' versions soon available are a fair bit worse and 18ml for the same cost as the 24ml ones, YAY progress.



Here's the Sarge and LT basecoated, these guys are next.

Good progress! Keep marching for Macragge!

Thanks dude. The crippling hot weather here has given me a bit more time to do bit of the old painting, here are the finished pics of the 3 completed dudes:



First dude has the Dark Millennium LT head. I also painted the blue in a different way. I started with the medic but there was no dry brushing like I normally do. Just a lighter base coat then 2-3 layers of highlight. I used Dark Templar Contrast to add shading. It's quicker and gives a more modern finish perhaps. I haven't tried it on a predominantly blue dude (like and Intercessor) but I think I will next. Hopefully not creating such a different look I have to start a 3rd Marine army.



My unofficial 1st Company logo...



I wanted to have a bit of red on his tilting plate to help lift the colours up a bit...



This dude had his standard helmet replaced with one from the UM upgrade sprue, I find Mk III helms (which they BG are basically wearing) to be my least favourite..



Termie Hons...



1st Co logo again..



Last guy so far, rocking an old SM head, on reflection it does look a bit small compared to the new ones...



Showing off he made it to the big leagues..

I'm happy with these guys so far and have been plugging away at the next 2 as well...



Thusly. Summer is creeping up on me which generally means hardly any painting as I'm back to full time dad and away a fair bit, I hope to finish these lads before the shut down, we'll see...I'm chuffed with these guys so far and look forward to seeing the whole squad. I think I'll do the Eradicators next, I want to power through as much of the SM backlog as possible before the IG release and the next load of SM (probably early next year). Be nice to be painting the new hotness whilst it's still hot for once.