History of the Bloodbane chapter
Alium Destrus is one of the Primarchs who was expunged from all Imperial records along with his legion. During the Horus heresy he and his loyal warriors fought heroically against their treacherous brethren. After the heresy Alium had his Tech-adepts and bio-magi worked night and day trying to find a way to return the Emperor to his pre-heresy glory.

After many decades they found a way to do this, they discovered that a huge psycic outcry could cause the rejuvenation of the God-Emperor and even boost his phycic abilities such that he could maintain the Astronomican single handedly. Such a huge outcry would require billions of people to create, so Alium explained his plan to the Ecclesiarchy. But the recently appointed lords of Terra did not want the Emperor back, they wished to rule in his stead so they declared Alium and his chapter heretical.

The Bloodbane chapter found itself beset on all sides by zealous new second founding chapters, eager to prove themselves in the fires of battle. Unable to defeat such an outnumbering foe the Bloodbanes fled to the group of stars known as the wings of Sanguinis. The chapter was duly expunged from imperial records and the wings of Sanguinis were classified as dangerous and inhabited by the hyper-violent Bharghesi making them an ‘avoid at all costs’ area for starship captains.

Since then the Bloodbane chapter has carved out a small empire for themselves, but they still strive tirelessly towards restoring the Emperor as leader of mankind.

Alium Destrus
Alium Destrus grew up on the planet Cirsus Minoris. Cirsus Minoris was a hunting world. As a boy Alium defended the most hunted creature, the Tree bear, he considered them noble creatures and he would often violently confront hunters to protect them. Once he had been picked up by the great crusade and his true identity shown to him he decided to model his fighting style on the bear. He made himself a pair of mighty claws, and he customised his armour so he could run and jump but still be armoured. He even became known as The Bear of Cirsus.

Alium was one of the most devout Primarchs. However he was not zealous, in battle against Heretics and Traitors he would go into a fearless and painless state which ends only once all enemies are banished from his sight. He also was not afraid of genetic deviancy, if a member of his chapter sported such a deviancy he would talk to them, inspect their character and if he saw nothing unbecoming of the Emperor’s finest he would leave them be.

(some of the rules here have been borrowed from another site, I can't remember who but to them I say Thankyou!)

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Warp Energy: The Primarchs were infused with latent psychic abilities. Much of their physical prowess was owed to these powers, especially their toughness. Each Primarch has a psychic ward providing him an invulnerable save taken in addition to any normal armour or invulnerable saves, This ward cannot be negated by any weapon.

Chaos Bane: Primarchs were anathema to Chaos entities, and their merest touch would cause daemons of the warp to cower in fear. A Primarch will always wound daemonic entities on a 3+ or better.

Super-human: The Primarchs were to marines as marines are to ordinary humans. They could withstand blows that would decapitate a lesser being, and horrific injuries could not stop them. A Primarch can never be instant-killed, no matter what the circumstance. He is simply too tough.

Vitality: The pure psychic energy channelled through the Primarchs enables them to recover lost strength and heal faster than even a Space Marine. At the start of his own turn an injured Primarch regains one wound on a roll of a 6.

Leader of Men: Any friendly unit with LOS to at least one Primarch can re-roll failed Morale Checks (cumulative with items such as Imperial Guard standards). Space Marines from a Primarch’s Legion can re-roll whether they have LOS or not, and may rally using ‘And they shall know no fear’ even if the enemy is within 6”.

Claws of The Bear: Alium Destrus has a pair of these, each one counts as 3 power swords and a power fist and are master crafted.

Divine fury: When fighting any chaos unit in close combat Alium Destrus is fearless so cannot fail any leadership test or morale check nor can any unit he is in.

Heroes of the chapter
Chapter Master Yenkil Davaes

Master Yenkil Davaes takes the role of chapter master in the place of Alium Destrus. This is because Alium Destrus has ordered himself placed in a stasis field until he is needed once more. Yenkil has been chapter master for 352 years but was master of the first company for 75 years before that and began his space marine training over 1000 years ago. He is a very tactical leader, and takes to the field of battle in a dreadnaught-like set of power armour. In there he has a massive tactical computer that, when combined with his own knowledge of battle, means he can optimise each of his warrior’s performance.

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Type: Walker
Weapons: The right arm has a twin-linked heavy bolter and the left arm has a power sword that counts as rending and as a heavy close combat weapon.
Upgrades: Extra-armour, Venerable
Special rules: Rites of battle

Furiassus, Grand master of sanctity

Furiassus is quite possibly the most devout man alive, he is completely faithful in his task and inspires others to be the same. He also has an interesting philosophy, he believes that what you believe is up to you, that you may practise your faith as long as it does not affect others. This may seem a philosophy that would stop him from waging war, however he believes that worship of anything other than the Emperor is foul and affects him by plighting his view with vile heresy. Therefore he goes to battle in the suit of purification. This is a holy suit of terminator armour he crafted himself. It’s weapons are designed to immolate and therefore cleanse the enemies of the Emperor, dual heavy flamers and firestorm projectors surrounding him with an inferno through which little can pass. Furiassus embodies the pinnacle of devotion and is the Bloodbane chapters greatest warrior.

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Equipment/weapons: Infernal fists (these
count as two master crafted power fists with
two inbuilt master crafted heavy flamers),
Firestorm projectors, Iron halo and digital
lasers.
Firestorm projectors: Any model that comes
within 6” of Furiassus takes a strength 5 hit
and takes another each turn they remain
there (even if in close combat).

Special rules: Fearless, Feel no pain, And
they shall know no fear, Flame proof:
Furiassus cannot be harmed by any flame
type weapons, Preferred enemy: Chaos.

interesting. i think the background is a good start, it needs to be expanded on a bit though. why havent they been crushed by other chapters and the imperial guard. when their primarch suggested that they kill billions of people what did the other first founding chapters have to say about it?

the primarch is fine. theyre meant to be hard as nails and he is. why would he put himself in stasis though? primarchs are virtually immortal so there isnt really any reason that he would put himself in stasis unnecessarily. also why do his claws count as 3 powerswords and a powerfist? it dont really make much sense. it has no impact on the game. a better idea would be to use them as a pair of master crafted lightning claws & a pair of master crafted powerfists, then you would be able to use then as either.

i like the idea of a dreadnought chapter master but there are a couple of things that need fixing. there is no such thing as a heavy close combat weapon. a powersword is already a close combat weapon. he also shouldnt have a rending powersword. make him S6 basic and then give him a rending drednought CC weapon instread. it makes things a lot simpler from a rules perspective.

i dont like your last character. you say he is the most devout man alive (which is very unlikely) and that he is completely faithful in his task, but then give no description of what he does. what is his purpose in the chapter? the firestorm projectors dont make sense. they mean that he cant be close to any of his own models or they will start taking S5 hits. why does he have FNP? you give no reason for him to have it. and again why is he immune to fire? there is no reason. it seems that you have just made up a character without any thought to why he is the way he is. lack of sufficient background is what make these own projects terrible. you have to stop focusing on how bad-ass you want your characters to be in game and concentrate more on their background.

Thankyou, many good points.

May I make it clear that to restore the Emporor a huge phychic outcry was needed and that billions were needed to produce it, I never said that they needed to die, although I can see how you inferred that (The black fleets and whatnot) Also please bear in mind I wrote this using a 4th ed. rulebook and so may need to revise some rules and profiles (and there used to be a heavy close combat weapon, there used to be!)

You've set yourself a pretty big task here. I hope the models match their awesome fluffness.

You think that's a big task, I want them to be at least 100 companies! (It's a long long term thing) 50 of them space marine and 50 initiates ranging from hopeful ig to guys that just need to put armour on!

Where is the modelling? Perhaps this can better be located at the rules and/or fluff section instead?

i will put models up soon, I'm just not very good at time management

Right, some more piccies.
These are of one of the prospective marine companies
The chimera turret is from a baneblade sponson with a piece of sprue inside to make sure it pivots
They will eventually number 100 and each squad will have a chimera conversion but without the turret
The guardsmen have had aquilas removed so they don't look as bulky as cadians

I like what you've done with the Chimera, the turret looks great!
I have to say, that, while I'm not a fan of the lasguns coming out of the chimera from a cosmetic point of view, personally, I do like to keep them on there so they can be used during transport, however crap they can tend to be - I'm wondering why you chose to cover them up? Is it fluff reasons? Or aesthetic ones?

fluff reasons mostly, but also aesthetic, this is the command chimera so would need some room inside for maps etc. but also this company is supposed to operate for long periods of time unaided so need spare parts.

Here is the list for this company:

82nd company...2500pts

Doctrines
Veterans
Mechanised
Special weapon squads
Techpriest enginseers
(I decided to just have four, I considered xenos fighters but it doesn't fit their background)

HQ

Command platoon...741pts

Heroic senior officer...70pts
Master vox...25pts
Commisar with close combat weapon and bolt pistol...41pts
Chimera whith hull bolter, multilaser and improved comms...105pts

Special weapon squad...190pts
3 meltaguns...45pts
Meltabombs...30pts
Vox caster...5pts
Chimera with hull heavy bolter

Special weapon squad...190pts
3 meltaguns...45pts
Meltabombs...30pts
Vox caster...5pts
Chimera with hull heavy bolter...75pts

Sentinel squadron...150pts
3 cadian pattern sentinels...150pts

Elites

Hardened veterans...265pts
Veteran sergeant with surveyor...15pts
4 veterans...40pts
Vox caster...5pts
Chimera with hull heavy bolter and improved comms...95pts

Hardened veterans...265pts
Veteran sergeant with surveyor...15pts
4 veterans...40pts
Vox caster...5pts
Chimera with hull heavy bolter and improved comms...95pts

Enginseer...160pts
4 tech servitors...40pts
Chimera with hull heavy bolter...75pts

Troops

Infantry platoon...554pts

Command squad...145pts
Junior officer...40pts
Vox caster...5pts
Salamander with improved comms...120pts

Squad...140pts
10 guardsmen...60pts
Vox caster...5pts
Chimera with hull mounted heavy bolter...75pts

Squad...150pts
10 guardsmen with frag grenades...70pts
Vox caster...5pts
Chimera with hull mounted heavy bolter...75pts

Remnants...149pts
5 guardsmen...25pts
Veteran sergeant with surveyor...14pts
plasma gun...10pts
Vox caster...5pts
Chimera with hull mounted heavy bolter and improved comms...95pts

Infantry platoon...554pts

Command squad...145pts
Junior officer...40pts
Vox caster...5pts
Salamander with improved comms...120pts

Squad...140pts
10 guardsmen...60pts
Vox caster...5pts
Chimera with hull mounted heavy bolter...75pts

Squad...150pts
10 guardsmen with frag grenades...70pts
Vox caster...5pts
Chimera with hull mounted heavy bolter...75pts

Remnants...149pts
5 guardsmen...25pts
Veteran sergeant with surveyor...14pts
plasma gun...10pts
Vox caster...5pts
Chimera with hull mounted heavy bolter and improved comms...95pts


This comes to, by my calculations, 2469pts. Leaving me a few points spare for heavy stubbers etc.

My tactics idea is basically start with sentinels and remnants on the board, and maybe veterans depending on the enemy. Next turn bring in the infantry platoons, Then third turn everything else, although I will alter it depending on the situation.

well I like the fluff. Use them as grey knights to ally with your IG.

But your vet's should have 3 meltas or 3 plasma.

Your IG squads have no Spec. or heavy thats kinda the IG doctrine to take those.

May be take auto cannons in all of them.

I think Voxes are point less but hey they may work.

heres an Idea take surveyor in every squad if you want and then the Transport and or the unit may shot at them.

How do you keep the Tanks off the board btw ?

the points level is very large is this for mega games ?

I don't want to take heavy weapons as I like keeping my guard moving (15pts for 6 shots over 2 turns? No thank you!)

If I have points left I might gear up the veterans

I think surveyors are cheap enough to go in every squad, thankyou for the idea.

Yes tanks held in reserve is the plan, until their unit arrives, I think that's legal, better read through the rulebook again though...

EDIT: yep, it is legal as long as they hold the unit they are transporting

It is a high points level but I can cut it down quite quickly by dropping some small units like the vets or remnants.

Right, probably no more work until after christmas but I will be posting piccies of some more work I have done so far.

Right, my scouts so far. Some more to glue together yet.
I am planning on using Azreal as my scout company leader after filing of the da markings.
No particular reason except that I won him in a painting competition (bragbragbrag ) and don't know what to do with him.
He also sizes well alongside them.

Sorry about the truly abyssimal pics but my camera is gone so I used a friends. It is really bad.

Right, what I have done so far of my christmas presents:

The rest:

I recommend a tripod. Looks neat though, although you've got to be out of your mind ordering those FW bits. Lookin' forward to seeing more, hopefully under the warm glow of a few angle-poise lamps.

FW is pretty bad but I didn't order them, they were a present and I could hardly say no!
The only thing I like about forge world is the lack of mould lines.
However from now on the only FW thing I'm getting is two salamanders.

Also, why doesn't FW scale up to gw properly, they work together in the same building!

my theory: GW uses it as a test. If lots of people will buy overpriced warped resin models, then if they convert to plastic they should be able to sell easily.

That, is a distinct posibility

Hey, interesting models, Liking a lot of the poses. WOuld be grest with some better pics.
But please, please make the effort to actually make sure they´re the right way up when you put them on here.... Keep up the good work.

I don´t want to sit here having to tilt my head to see the pics properly.

(Also, great chimera, like the reds on it a lot!

Right, Here is one group called the bronze warriors that make up part of the second company. The rest of the second company comprises of the silver guard and the gold guard and the champions of the fifty space marine companies.

Not finished yet, still need backpacks painted and some guns fully painted.

ARMY LIST...398pts
(old codex)

Traits
Faithful unto death
Trust your battle brothers

Veteran Squad...203pts
4 veteran space marines with true grit and counter attack
Sergeant with terminator honours,bolter and lightning claw
Razorback

Tactical squad...90pts
5 space with true grit and counter attack

Tactical squad...90pts
5 space with true grit and counter attack
frag grenades
krak grenades



I count the chainsword/bolters as true grit, I made this army before gears of war was even released, I suppose great minds really do think alike
And just for you xanthos, the pics are right side up

This is one of the imperial guard companies, The Garsis tech troopers. I will be using pig iron heads to make the rank and file troopers but this is all I have for now...

The devastator company so far has no list written and the only squad completed is a missile launcher one although I have ssembled
The Captain
The techmarine
The Techmarine's servitors
2 Heavy bolters
1 Plasma cannon
1 Multimelta
2 Lascannons

come on, 400 views since my last post and no comments? Bah Humbug!

so many heavy weapons [drool] nice idea.

Thankyou, I like to make people drool!

haha...

...

gross...

Holy Sh...... Those LOOK AWESOME!!!!


What bitz did you use to make the commander?

Could you take an above shot of the guy with the hood? It kinda looks off... no offense

For the commander mostly spare bitz:
head from sm commander box (the half bionic one)
shield from the assault marine sprue on the left chainsword arm
Servo skull from the devastator box set (I will make it count as digital weapons)
The right arm is a bolter holding arm with a powersword hand on
The torso is from the assault marine box set again

The guy with the hood is from a period I went through when I thought putting phycic hoods on everything was cool, I even have a gaurdsman with one!
It was made from a shoulder pad.

My hellhammer, not finished but I like the blues and the jacks in the lights

WOW that looks awesome, nice painting as well! so much firepower [drool]

you drool a lot, thanks for the compliment but you really need to get your saliva glands looked at

For the dude with a hood yopu could like add a laser sight or somethin, or just glue a spare rocket to it.

That hell hammer looks good.

I'm hungry.

it is looking good so far, what section of the army are you focusing on most, the IG or SM?

Well at the mo I am painting a separate group of sm I hope to post pics soon

Right, squad 1 of 2 for my combat patrol
They also have a librarian and captain attached (old dex)
I saw this metal then primary colour idea on lemmingspawn's iron warriors thread and knew I just had to paint some of my own

i like the scheme

Here's the other squad, I reversed the scheme so I could tell the squads apart. Now just the characters left...

Nice!!

really nices you mean !

and what charactors?

There is a librarian and a captain yet

Here's the librarian, I painted faces on his force weapon (the chainsword) and I am quite happy with the way the power axe came out

Right, here's the captain, now my first ever complete army is done!!!
yays for me!!!

Here's the entire army and the list:
(old codex)
The Adamantium brotherhood...491pts

Traits
+blessed be the warriors
+take the fight to them
-eye to eye

Captain Gavius...96pts
Master with master crafted
close combat weapon and
storm bolter

Librarian Mobus...235pts
Epistolary with master crafted
power weapon and force weapon.
Wearing adamantine mantle,
artificer armour and jump pack
with terminator honours

Squad decamator...80pts
5 space marines with close
combat weapon and bolt pistol
frag grenades

Squad Jessian...80pts
5 space marines with close
combat weapon and bolt pistol
frag grenades

Looks great! How did you do the shading on your red?

It was just scab red base coat
then everywhere but the deepest recesses was painted red gore
finally then blood red highlights

love It

god job man, keep it up!

What is to come: (ie my workbench)

My boxes of bitz and kitz:

Here's my storage solution, it really is awful...

Is that a Black Templar chicken I see on the second picture from the bottom???

I dont see the chicken.

I have no creature other than turtle in pie form!

Lol that is messy.

But the storage solution isnt terrible .

Also you might want to turn the hellhammer box the right way up so that when you take it out you dont have a destroyed tank on the floor.

However if you did this you could stick it on a piece of plastercard and it would make some really great terain .

I bought the Assault on black reach box set and have so far assemble the captain, terminators (plus a termie off of the front of white dwarf) and the dreadnought.
The captain is to be captain of the teleport company. Thats why he's got the symbol on his backpack

All looking good and i like the captian very much

Alium Destrus

A bit over powered even if he is a Primarch

Then again as a Primarch he could be under poered

My local club is running a 40k escalation league so I jumped at the opportunity to have an incentive to do my guard
The starting limit is 250pts so I will have the two vet squads and an armoured fist squad
No HQ restrictions thankfully

Close combat vets:

@jamunition
Having read Horus rising I think that he is reasonable for a primarch, though some of my other characters aren't quite so reasonable...

Models are looking good, cant wait to see more. Keep us posted on the league.

Septic wrote:My local club is running a 40k escalation league so I jumped at the opportunity to have an incentive to do my guard
The starting limit is 250pts so I will have the two vet squads and an armoured fist squad
No HQ restrictions thankfully

Close combat vets:

How did you make those guard? I like.

Most of the imperial guard are hand swaps from the ig cadian box (although it took 2 boxes for all the chainswords)
The guy on the far right's left arm has a forgeworld cadian upgrade laspistol and some of the heads are fw

Vet squad 2 with shotguns, this completes my 250pt starter for the escalation league so no more models 'til next Thursday
Maybe some group pics though

Right, here are some group pics:

Sweet.

Wow i love the shotguns!

How did you make them?

jamunition wrote:Wow i love the shotguns!

How did you make them?

I wish I was good enough to make them!
They are the forgeworld shotgun guys which strangely come as a torso not separate arms

loving the work so far

need to make shotguns for my orks lol, was thinking about the classic sawn off double barrels

jamunition: thanks
stretch: thanks, will keep you up to date on the league
golden eyed scout: thankyou
JD21290: Thankyou

Septic wrote: so no more models 'til next Thursday

I tell a lie
Here is a completed squad of bronze guard (with backpacks):

Right, the charging squad with krak and frag grenades

The Veteran ie command squad with atttendant razorback:

The razorback:

nice

Bloooooody helll!!! was my first thought when i saw the marines and i mean it! :0

Chainsword bayonets! Great Idea!

Looking good! Great painting skills!

Right, here's a scout snipe squad I am happy with the way they came out
I couldn't get to the gaming club today because I was snowed in! still gave me an excuse to finish the scouts off

Just a bunch of really old guys I picked out and photographed, the are meant to be ig troopers doing domestic jobs such as butchery and woodcutting

Well, as my previos two posts haven't been very popular let,s hope this one is.
A scout close combat squad and to make a change some of the scouts are black, seriosly why are all the 'EAVY METAL cadians and marines white? It makes no sense!

some times it does make sense, as with some chapters, like ultramarines, who are based in a cold world, with only one world in their system not being temprate. Also look at the dark angel scouts in the large rule book. the sargent is black.

Just posting to celabrate view no. 5000!

Here is a picture of the leader of the fedilis (Latin for loyal) a group of marines collectively called the fidelitas
They serve the chaplaincy and are all pshycic nuls. Their job is to deploy on secret missions for the chaplaincy without the chapter master's approval. Few are aware they exist but those who do are well aware of their ability to fight the servants of the dark gods including beasts from the warp.

Just wondering what you on dakka thought of him and what I could change before I make a full squad.
The body is from the dark angel upgrade kit, I have 4 more
The crossbolter is a bolter filed and fitted with bits from the empire handgunners
the backpack is from old chaos sm

Sorry about my '5000 views' post, 'twas a shameless bump. I blame my evil twin Thaddeus
A bit of a painting tutorial as well as an update. Here's how to paint easy urban scouts..
Paint the model black then paint the base Charadon Granite

Now the red:

Details

The finished product

Looking Nice!

Good plan. Primarch models?

Just read the rules, totally unfair in my opinion. thet're well to good for their cost. abbadon costs 275 points and he isnt as good as any of those models! and he is the best of the best. I get that they're primachs but so is Abbadon. Its just too many special rules and equipment.

Abbadon isn't a primarch...
But I see that they are overpowered, then again they are not official rules so it depends if my opponent lets me use them, I could always negotiate points

Chainsaws on their guns like that? I dunno...

o isnt he?????????? they look kool tho

Nah, Abbadon was Horus's lieutenant, not a primark in his own right. He simply took over.

Read the Horus Heresy series.

nah
whats with the cross bow????

I tell you tis true! I read it myself in Heresy no. 1!

For the escalation league I painted these to replace the vets for my first game. Apparently armoured fists can only be used once you have a platoon, harumph! (I know it's in the codex but it's a pain for ig players)
A command squad (they get the chimera) and another guard squad.

In the league I am now on a 308pt army so can include the vets. I played two games.
First we ended up on a 1ft by 3ft board lengthways doing a kill point mission. The opposition force was a tau force of 12 fire warriors, a broadside and a battlesuit. He took out my tank first turn and from then on I couldn't do much but alternate between fleeing and getting rapid fired.
The high point for me was when my junior officer destroyed his battlesuit with the butt of his lasgun!

Next game I played the Tau player's brother. He had brought 12 space marines with no heavy or special weapons, or krak grenades...
It ended up with me parking my chimera on the objective and letting the guard out last turn. Poor boy got deppressed because he hadn't won any games so far. Cheered up after chocolate though

I painted this squad as something to do even though I can't use it in the league yet:

Before paint (well sorta )


With paint:





The plasma guy, an ambitios piece but I am pleased with the result:



The vox caster who looks as though he is picking his nose! :


The binoculars:

Some sm squads wip ie. my weekend project:

Sorry no updates in a long time, Prodigy net went bust so had to set up with BT, hopefully if theyy go bust the government will too so it'll be the least of my worries. I Ramble.

Some pics of the drop pod I got in October:

More sm:

And my crowning glory, the piesta resistance a commisar that I spent more than five minutes painting!

The breastplate had an Asurmen blue wash to make it look expensive and stand out


This is my favourite commisar of all the different models simply because it give of that whole "I'm not messing around" vibe, combined with the riding crop/ close combat weapon


I think that the hand and crop came out well, especially the hand, he probably looks best from the rear (don't read anything into that)



For the Emporor!

Quick league update (which I forgot about when it was due a fortnight ago).
I played 3 games, 2 wins and a draw.

Played my friend's tau and won due to the fact he only had one troops choice in a 4 objective game. Needless to say he took a drubbing.

This time six objectives vs space marines. Same boy I upset last time but he took a dreadnaught. I just survived with enough men to clinch the battle with one objective.

Last game was 250 pts against a new starter in the league with csm. We rolled Kill points and I was utterly wiped out in 3 turns by his 10 man squad in a Rhino.

Now I have 539pts so can use my whole currently painted army at once. I also popped along to a little introductory day and managed to squeeze in a 3 vs 3 battle with 500pts of The Adamantium brotherhood.

cool keep it up and start on primarchs or at least thats wot I'd do and as such its a rubbish idea oh well cool models

waaagh!orksrocks: I might start work on a biggerized marine in preparation for the primarch, I will name this marine Chuck for reasons explained later on...

League update:
I played two games. The first was 500pts agains chaos sm in which my entire army but one guardsman was wiped out (this was a kill points game.
I placed said guardsman in cover where he weathered two turns of my opponents ENTIRE army shooting at him. On the 6th turn he failed a last man standing test and ran out of cover he took 1 passed hit from a rhino twin linked bolter. He went to ground. I closed my eyes and rolled...It was a 6!!!!!!!
This obviously was an event that caused much mirth for me and my opponent until 'chuck'-as he is now called- was brutally cut down by a meltagun later that turn.

The other game was 539pts against tau. We played sieze and control and I was victorios despite killing nothing.

ah chuck I remember him james really hates him doesnt he

I hope to begin biggerizing once I get a sculpting tool
No league updates but check out some other stuff I've been doing here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/233903.page if you want an explanation for the lack of new models.

Just the start of another platoon, gotta get the new guard dex but for the moment I am strapped for cash (no laughing!!!)




And the infantry squad:

A small update:
At the weekend I went to local GW to pick up some ig advisors I reserved but was told by captain mouse that they didn't have any, despite me being told they had an order coming in. Anyways I asked what they had on at half term and they said mini games day and I said yay and so I went elsewhere and got some vallejo game colour reds and black and the metallic medium. For their Golden Daemonette I painted up this dude:






and I am submitting a bolter armed scout squad for the squad category. Arbite guy is in for scrap demon.

not so fond on the beak of the helm

do you mean the beak itself or the fact that I coloured it bone?
I went for a complete 'birdy' look on this jump pack guy so I thought a beak would look good.

the fact you coloured it bone

oh, ok
I thought the model needed contrast but yes he does look like a bird
Depending on the feedback at the gw I might repaint it, just not red, some sort of contrasting colour

sure maybe blue or yellow

Right, league update, two games played
game 1, 490pts against sm my, opponent was lacking 100pts and didn't realise until the third turn when he brought on a dreadnaught which I shot with a plasmagun before it even moved, in the end I had 3 objectives and he had just 3 termies left on the board.

Game 2, 560 pts against csm and I just avoided tabling, I managed to take 2 wounds off of my opponent's demon prince


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My weekend project and first ever table, the pleasing thing to me is that this table used no specialist modeling parts, however I am stuck on whether to call it urban or lunar.




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Now my truescale 'Chuck's' torso


I have been thinking of names for a land raider terminus and I thought
Exuro per meus obtutus sounded good, it means 'burnt by my gaze' in pig latin

Chuck should be bigger no change that tougher much tougher I have played (and beaten) Chuck noriss all 4s 2+ 2++ and 2+ cover and feel no pain with what was left after fighting orks a bolter took 2 wounds off and the heavy bolters did the rest

Waaah!orksrocks: Pardon?
My command squad minus officer, and I've just gotta say I love the new command squad boxed sets, all those bitz [drool]

cool drybrushing. what colours is it.

Red is scab red, red gore then blood red, then retouch black area clack and codex grey then fortress grey


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Now the officer, layering is now my favourite technique (That I can do) This is the company commander so I lavished a bit of extra time on him:





I have just noticed that he appears to have no lips, This I don't think is noticable in person but if I get any comments at the club I will fix it with a baal red wash.

Onto a tech priest. I have begun to use badab black as a wash as opposed to black ink to shade my metals. Once painted it's amazing how chunky and mutated servitors look.




And servitors

cewl have you seen x-men Originsns wolverine right at the end your company commander is weapon 11 I think it was (for those who havnt seen it he was a chatterbox always talking and then at the end his mouth got sewn up)

hmm, actually I could write a bit of fluff about his mouth getting melted shut by a melta or something, thanks for the idea waaah!orksrocks

lol if he was hit by a melta shot to the face there is no way he could survive.

Melta core explosion? He was just far away enough to survive?

maybe a near miss?

mhmmmm possibly but a bit unlikely

Your layering on the Commissar is neato

djphranq wrote:Your layering on the Commissar is neato

QFT

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Thanks
Just painted up a five man squad of tac marines and a drop pod. I hate the drop pod

The problem with the drop pod is that there are two ways to play it (the making that is), you can either glue it all together first and then not be able to do any real interior detail, or you can paint it separately then glue it together. I took option two and then spent the best part of a year putting it together, I got the damned thing last October!!!
AND my camera's batteries packed in before I could get an inside shot!

cool. did you make the kneeling guy?

oh, no that's the standard tactical kneeling legs

Interesting idea on the Primarch but that made me laugh. A primarch in this game isn't possible to represent. He would be something around WS15 BS15 ST10 T7 I9 W10 A10 LD10 SV2+ invuln 2+ eternal warrior...

He's off the charts. He would be an untouchable. Right now your primarch is a pretty SM Chapter Master. Primarchs could kill a chapter master by telling them to kill themselves. Most marines couldn't even look at their primarch for too long just because they would begin to weep.

I like the rest though XD. Especially the alternating color schemes on the marines, it makes them look a bit more individual and idk more likable.

strange.

Chicken you can get the kneeling legs from the devastator or the command squad boxes.

Now I know where I have seen those marines before.. ULTRAMAN! hahaha sorry man they just realy remind me of him.

ahhhhh. i just make my own!

Inside pick of the drop pod

Have you got a recipe for your red? it looks amazing!

Red is scab red, red gore then blood red drybrushed, then take a little codex grey and on your pallette rub it into your reds, then drybrush on lightly

I have finished my hellhammer! In the ,albeit distant, future I aspire to having some vostroyans in blue to acompany the hellhammer






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I also did some photo editing enjoy

Now, because I love to tease, a taste of things to come:

why are there no sponsons on the hellhammer but not extra armor either?

I only had one kit and there is not the option to have extra armour in the basic Baneblade kit, but I didn't want sponsons either.

why not get baneblade accessories? Its a bit steep at 15 pounds but anything you dont use makes good basing!

Good idea, but at the time after buying a £60 box I was skint.

lol i got a stormlord and then got the chaos accessories and the baneblade accessories to customise it!

my parents were kinda PO'ed

My dread painted using vallejo reds and gw for everything else. I mixed some brown and gloss varnish for oil on the metals

hmm, I take it dreadnoughts are dull, oh well onto the guard
new guard codex has gotten rid of remnants so I have painted the three and am in the process of painting another plasma gunner to get my remnants up to full strength





On another note the local club painting guru told me to glaze my layered commander with bestial brown,
and I couldn't be more pleased with the result! I think the glaze ties all the colours and that is after just four layers
I decided not to apply any more layers as it would darken the model too much, but I have added glazing to my repertoire of easy but effective techniques

painting is good, the lowlight and highlighting on the commander's cloak is nicely done, dunno if anyone else noticed this however, those weapons look oversized, like, for the model itself, they just look too big and clunky

@Edward089 Thanks for the compliment on the layering
The weapons are from regular guard, but the body is the baneblade/hellhammer tank commander, a more realistically scaled model than some others of gw.
The arms are out scaled (if the "if your hand is bigger than your face" thing were true then he would need chemo)
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Sentinel #1

Plasmagunner

Hmm from the front the plasma gunner looks like he's trying to hide behind his plasma gun and his eyes look scared, and mismatched, just but it looks cool (funny)now he just needs a third eye and some extra limbs like th rest of them do(/funny)

I am about to go on holiday for 2 weeks so I shall post up my unfinished work, I won't be doing any painting on my holiday but I will be visiting warhammer world to gawp at the citadel miniatures hall.
First the scouts that I salvaged from the land speeder storm kit, with some clever use of terrain, nobody is any the wiser. and a scout with a pig iron productions head




Next the vostroyan commander I have been, and will continue to work on.

why is one of the scouts falling over?

I likle the sentinel. It looks quite steamlined

Just got back, abit early actually, despite woeful traffic.
@deadly chicken: It's the only pose that the legs allow, apart from russian dancing, however I have no crossed arms to put on so I went for ducked down sprinting.
@infilTRAITOR: Thanks, that's what I intended and I am glad it worked, I fiddled about with the position of the autocannon a bit to emphasise the direction of movement.

whole project is lookin' great so far!

Vox objective marker for the lavaguard. One of an eventual three, if anyone has ideas for what to put on my other bases as objectives please post.

hmmmm...... **steals ideas and runs off**

haha jk. but I am getting some good ideas here. so thx!

@ShadowAngel159: Bring my ideas back ya hooligan! They came outta my thinker so they're mine. Actually I got the idea for objectives from bell of lost souls, but the guy on there used mordian casualties so his force is much cooler, although I could use the space marine casualties for my marines, hmm....

Anyways I have spent much of the past four days retouching the silver and red marines, tidying up overspill and washing the shoulders, but I also finished another squad, bringing them up to 750 pts. I used some dark angels bits on this squad, I also intend to get black templars bits, but with chapterhouse studios putting out so much great stuff, new space wolves coming out, the space hulk termies being so beautiful, my desparation for headphones that fit me becoming profound and having just found a place that sells chromed flying goggles, I don't know where my money should go!

Well, on to the models I suppose

Right, finished moving most of my gear around and have a new workspace, now with natural light
Here are some piccies


I bought some prepainted an pre assembled marines, which I now have to strip. That's on top of all the others and the one I found under a wardrobe.
Here's all of them:

I bought a kit of Space wolves on holiday, but left it with my relatives , it arrived in the post yesterday so I have assembled 5 and now have several squads ready for painting:




Also more progress on the vostroyan commander:

He's freezing somebody get him another jacket. but seriously looking good.

Watching with intrest

@Tauzor: glad somebody is
Completed my firt Vostroyan, proper 'ard work 'ere boys :
"He saw what you did and he is not amused..."

Just finished basic painting of 4 bolter armed scouts, just touching up now, and lenses.

Scouts finished, sorry about the bad, uncropped pics but it's late now and I'm too tired :

5 To 8, Late thats the crack of dawn but anyway looking good but where's the one you don't sneak up on? Has he snuck off for a late night with the vostroyan?

Do you mean the guy I gave a sneak peek of?
I tried wet blending on him and failed, so I lost interest for a while, now that I've fineshed the vostroyand and the scouts however I may pick him up again.

Septic wrote:

I mean the one on the far right.

any way please will you unleash the vostroyan on me at the next warlords (on the tabletop anyway.)

oh, only did the bolter guys, more scouts soon, just going to do some work on other projects first.
As for the vostroyan, I can always substitute him for my other commander.

sneak peek guy, really just posting this for advice on how to 'fix' it paint wise.
The brown and grey are my biggest worries, but also what colour to paint the guard officer.



Here you can see my failed, feeble attempt at nmm

A not so finished cherub, just looking for feedback on the layering on the robes.

Now my entry for golden demon next year, I shall be entering it in young bloods as I doubt my entry would even be accepted in any other category , and this will be my last year of being able to enter youngbloods. He will be a spacewolf, I will follow the 'eavy metal masterclass to try to get him just right. He also has a display base.
Feedback about the model much appreciated BEFORE I prime him, also any tips on what I could do to notch him up a level as far as paint methods are concerned.

Model based on last year's gamesday model.

I cut off the topknot and repositioned it to show direction




I put tank tracks in the polyfilla I used on the base to add a little bit of story, hunt the chaos rhino spacewolf, HUNT!

Also some resin basing stuff in there, including the wolf's dicarded helm.


Used this in the deepest recesses for pooled water, and an ink wash on the rest.

Harumph, three posts, two asking desperately for c&c and NO replies.

looks good but I don't llike the topknot.

OK, any reason?
After thinking about it now, I'm torn between wolves and white scars.
All depends on comments and whether there are any white scars masterclasses.
The topknot comes with the wolf and I used it to convey direction, but if it's just me thinking what I've done is better than it is (I know I'm not innocent of that) then I'll lop it off

I like the topknot personally, it would go better with wolves IMO. The base is looking pretty sweet, once you finish some of the details it will come together more. I lost track of this thread a while ago and am glad to have found it again. Keep up the good work!

I think that the topknot would look better raised a bit more.

eagerly awaiting more,

DC

@stretch: thanks, gonna paint the details once I know if it's gonna be wolves or scars, nice to see you found me again.
@deadly chicken: by raised do you mean at the back of the head, or greenstuffed higher, or something else entirely?

Remember they'll be a lot of Space Wolfs at the Golden Demon doing White Scars might well make it stand out far more!

Greenstuffed higher,

thanks,

DC

@Llamahead: Godd point, hadn't considered that, there certainly are a lot wolves as I look back, and with the new codex...
@deadly chicken: I see, my greenfu is feeble. I just did some gap filling on the model and even that looks awful. :(

Got this for my birthday:


And an Xbox 360, so don't expect speedy updates until the red faction liberates mars

Sorry about being quiet of late, sadly I have been swamped by homework and after a four(ish) break from painting I picked up a brush and failed...completely. I am going to work myself up from basic painting to the standard I was working at over half term, I hope...
So expect in this order:
Scout cc squad
Finished cherub
Scout company captain
Then, after much deliberation Vostroyan standard bearer

Better pics of red and silvers thanks to the light box:

Scouts are here!:

I sitill hate the guy whos falling over

nice paint though

DC

Looks like he's about to tackle someone lol





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Congrats!

@Deadlychicken: Fine, you spot me th £12 for the box set to make up that one model

A (still) not so finished cherub, he need snow, which I do not have and will not for some considerable time.
I have sketched out a 500pt list for the legion's cherub/ serfs/ failed aspirants comprising of 2 squads of penal legion (plague monks with new heads), 1 squad vets (redemtionists from necromunda + the redeemer and Malakev) primaris phsyker (Astropath model) and phsyker battle squad (ringwraiths).




Two pieces in and already side tracked, a new record!
Crashed Aquila for my lunar table.



Fusion core set to blow!

An attempt at freehand.


Basic rust

awesome model!!!!!!

and awesome painting!!!!!!

DC

Them minis are brillant

@Deadly chicken: Thankyou, it is this model that inspired me to plan the army I detailed last post.
@Tyranid horde: Thankyou

I can't wait to see the rest of the army!!!

hurry up.

DC

@DC: I'm trying!

Oh I neglected to mention, yesterday my vostroyan officer earned me first place in the 14 and under category in a painting competition at the local GW, and a harry the hammer t-shirt.

lol....

congrats at the comp!!!

DC

Master of the recruits, Captain of the first scoout company Viclonus:

LOOKING GREAT!!!!!

DC

An adeptus arbite I finished recently:

not really digging the top knot on your wolf, but its a cool model
whats the cut off for young bloods any?

and tripping scout ftw


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recruit masters sword is pretty cool too btw

@krusty: Thanks
The guy is going to be a white scar seeing as the most recent white dwarf had a masterclass for vor'sarr khan, dunnoif that changes your opinion at all
I think young bloods is 14 and under

I like the arbite but the weapon is a bit strange....

I thought the carried shotguns?

awesome!!

DC

He is the mechanic, he carries a modified scanner that can also send out microwaves to fry targets, ie. meltagun!

Some more Necro stuff, wip.
Two private security men.




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Here are two sterngaurd, my prototype all plastic version and a techmarine based fella destined to accompany a squad of the metal ones.

I really like the sternguard.

its a really cool model.

DC

Wow You get better every time I check this. Soon I will have to learn how to beat you just so I can claim that I can do something well in this game. But still, lookin good.

Just read the whole thread and your painting has come on leaps and bounds, really nice work. Keep at it, it looks like you really enjoy it.

@DC: Thanks!
@Waaagh!orksrocks: Thanks, beat me at what, you already do in games!
@fudal78: Glad I'm picking up new people, sometimes it seems as though only two or three people are watching the thread!

I have painted up a couple of industrial storage containers made of cans, but I appear to have lost the camera cable, so they'll have to wait until I find it, also progressing on the vostroyan standard bearer.

Aha! Is this the old 'Coke cans upsidedown and painted to be fuel containers' trick?

Yes, with some card embellishment

Septic wrote:You think that's a big task, I want them to be at least 100 companies! (It's a long long term thing) 50 of them space marine and 50 initiates ranging from hopeful ig to guys that just need to put armour on!

good luck with that mate

I knew you're game

@Disjointed Entity: Then let's play!
@r3n3g8b0y: I'm not really too keen on any of the non imperial races look and fluff wise, so with this as my sole goal it isn't an insurmountable task.

Found the cable, it was in the camera bag, ()
So here are my industrial can-tainers (ba-dum-tsh)

Looking nice!
So we're on for a game of Wii Bowling right?

@Disjointed entity: No, never ever will I own a wii, the thought makes me shudder, It's just a PS2 with eye toy and some fancy controllers . Maybe Something else?

Anyway, console bashing aside, I have completed one of the private security dudes, and have progressed on a Vostroyan standard bearer and finished a 5 man squad of sm, pics of them later. Sorry that only the first pic is light enough, that one had the flash and looked really bad on the camera, so I turned flash off and now the other pictures are too dark.






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@Septic
Damn you boy!
Where abouts you from, could always organise a game at a date in the future!

I'm from North Norfolk (or so my radio tells me)
and you?

I'm from Coastal old Kent myself!

Nice stuff....



DC

@Disjointed Entity: I didn't realise parts of Kent varied much in age
@deadly chicken: Thanks.

Some nazgul turned chapter surfs, in this case a counts as PBS
The glowing hand one is using phsychic powers and the one with the red cloak is the handler.

I seem to think a "Gotcha'!" is in order!

@Disjointed Entity: Indeed, I am got

More chapter serfs, counts as penal legion this time, skaven plague monks with new heads and numerous healed wounds.
I made two styles, one with and one without necks, then mixed them up. This is my first proper piece of GS sculpting, so please be kind

Pre greenstuff

Layer one


Layer two









Also my warrior priest of the Emperor:





PS. Please rate

Me like very much always loved the pose of the warrior priest. The Penal legionaires look quite menacing, maybe I'll steal that one from ya

Can I just say that in the pic it looks like his face is melting like that guy at the end of indiana jones and the raiders of the lost ark. Sigmar looks bril in person though.

he's melting in dismay of the hersy that's going on in the world (or he's just wearing a weird after-shave)

@Rose_Mountainz: Steal away, and maybe he's wearing diesel

some random stuff I've knocked out over the last week or so:

PMC trooper, sort've like the humans in the matrix 3, whatever the proper name is.





A local police chief.






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The incredibly irritating to build penitent engine:







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More can-tainers (I never tire of that pun)





Some of the crashed aquila shuttle:

Sorry for such a long break, but I was busy making my first foray into gs sculpting. I also have a venerable dread built but not primered, the penitent engine built and primered and plenty of unpainted marines to do. Anyways, on to the sculpt:
To prove I sculpted it (but for the head)