Oooh! Very nice! I am most envious!

Agreed, especially nfw!

He did a great job on the nfw's! I am glad to have gotten them. I need to get more pics of them, there are 5 in total.

I've been lurking for a while, but I think I might get involved!
Of course I'll probably only be swapping AoBR marines until I find other stuff

Update on Brother Anton.




That's the blue all done and the armour all sheened.

Call me a noob and hate me and anything else..

Are we swapping temporarily or trading? or something else >:/

BoA.Raccoon wrote:Call me a noob and hate me and anything else..

Are we swapping temporarily or trading? or something else >:/

It is a permanent exchange. One person sends a marine from their own chapter and the other does the same. So you wind up with a small group of marines from all sorts of chapters!
Because it is a one for one trade, you aren't at a loss really ever, and it gives you experience in painting on modeling, especially as you physically see others' marines.

Just ship off a PM to someone who you'd be wanting to trade with, and if they agree, you can start talking about what kinda things you want!

Happy Modeling!
-RA

Alright thanks, I got confused

I've got a Space Marine biker who's unpainted. If need be, I'll paint him in my trail-error Space Marine Chapter I'm starting. Fully built and black primed. Metal parts have a disgusting Boltgun metal coat (it's 3 years old.. I like to think I've gotten better at painting, you know what I mean?)


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Sorry:

I'll trade it for meltaguns, plasmaguns, plasma pistols, combi-meltas, combi-plasmas and/or Space Marine heads (older the better)

Sorry 2 : >.< I have 2 test models painted in a ultramarine-esque theme, fully based, and a lot of other models I'm planning on using as test models for my new scheme. Here are the two finished ones:

That's not quite the idea BoA. You trade painted marines with someone else so you have examples of each other's work. Some folks just keep them to show off, others like myself, build special units out of them. Your call. Not that you can't trade a painted marine for bits (I've done it), but typically it's a 1:1 exchange.

Ahh okay.. Well, I'll trade the lot for a Chaplain Preferably the one with assault pack :/ Oterwise I suppose I can try my hand at a conversion

First off, I'd like to remind everyone I'm still trading. However, my budged has gone down the drain so I'm trying to do one or two trades every 2 weeks or somewhere around that. PM me if you want an Icelandic Salamander!

Second, I have painted a salamander for Gitsplitta already, but we made an "undercover" trade at the same time. The pictures I took are quite bad, so I'll do my best at getting some better ones up here and in my thread. Link here

And third I saw this:

WarOne wrote:Don't forget...if you have a marine that wants a backstory and play a part in an epic struggle for survival, check out the Great Marine Swap Fiction Thread where I will chronicle the exploits of your marines within the annals of this work!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/362002.page#2902217

P.S. That means I am running out of marines!

You are welcome to use all the marines I've posted here so far! If the ones that got them would either send me some better pics or upload them themselfs, I'd be thankful though!

Well,I would gladly participate in this mess!
I'm building a deathwatch unit to act as sternguard veterans in my army,so that's what I would be looking for,and I can make a deathwatch marines in exchange.Otherwise I can "offer" either a raven guard marine or one of my custom paint scheme marines,I'll shortly upload pictures of it,
One last thing,I would prefer to trade with someone in europe for the first try,to avoid huge shipping charges.
Yours, Bob

I'd love some deathwatch marines, and I'm moving to brussels in 2 weeks, so it'd be fine for shipping, as you're in germany!

However ( :( ) I don't have any sternguard veterans, but I have this unit (unpainted, I could paint my shoulders if you want?) I'd be willing to trade for a squad of Deathwatch marines that you could use as count-as sternguard

I hope you'd be willing to accept D:

Also, I started taking off some of the Dark Angels iconology, let me know if you want me to keep it as it is or take them all the way off

Hey BM... hmmmm, perhaps a different form of address is in order.

Hey Bob, you might post a pic of your work to whet people's appetites. Pics are always good.

I'll sure will,just trying to make out how to take (!),upload and post proper pics...
I'm just sooo skilled with a computer...
Sadly the lightning is rather terrible right now,I'll take pictures tomorrow ,maybe sunlight might help my terrible painting skill out...
I've contacted BR by PM by now,even if he can't tell belgium from Germany...
Cheers,
Bob

P.S. Found this picture of my test marine for my custom chapter,the sky wardens,although since then I got more used to these colours,so the what you'll get in the trade should be a bit less terrible than this one...

Thanks for the Kudos WM360!

Woops The flag's are similar

WARNING!

Pic heavy

So,to keep this alive,Racoon and I are trading,I'll send him a raven guard marine and he'll send me a dark angel (?)
I'll post pics when I get his,
Bob

An Arm of Corax with a Dark Angel body *

Lamenter for Graven WIP - proven I still live

Not the best picture - taken with camera phone.

Looking great Solar! Nice to have you back!

This looks like an awesome concept! I would love to participate.

I mostly paint mustard yellow Imperial Fists/ Bumble Bee lookin' Marines but feel I could do just about any chapter except for perhaps marines with a lot of white.

Here are some pics of some basic paint jobs. If I did this I would of course finish the base (unless someone prefers an unfinished base) and I would put a bit more effort than I did in these. I have plenty of Marines and a lot of the old metal scouts laying around.






I would be willing to swap with anyone for any type of marine paint scheme. I have no requests and would simply love to see the styles of the other painters here as I have been greatly impressed with just about everything I've seen.

Solar, that looks incredible! As for Carl, is it just me or does the Scout with the Heavy Bolter look like Arnold?

Ooh, goodygoodygoody I really like those IF scouts, too. Just as an update, I'm doing a =I= for WarOne. Cos, y'know, I'm making such rapid progress on my other GMS projects

Here is a couple of others I'm doing. Since I know everyone live for the pictures. First - Hopefully a better pic of Gavens Termie. Unfortunitly Terminators are not prone to much unique embellishments ( I sure someone will now prove me wrong) , so I'm trying to do a more creative base.

Second is an Mentor Space Marine ( for which I'll attempt to be " creative " ) in its build. Currently working on the base pose. PS this is just base color with base highlights. so very much early stage work.

Graven: What color is the chest Eagle on your Mentors? What primary color for the eye lenses?

So what's the occasion for the Mentor? Starting a new chapter or are you looking to put him into your command squad?

no .. I'll finish the Lamentors.

Graven went out of his way to do several figures for me ( see pages back) that were very creative. I felt I need to do something that was more creative (a attempt at) in return. A regular marine gives me more options than a terminator.


Thus this is why this blog ( thanks WM ) helps me push myself to try new stuff. ( kitbashing, terrain, Basing, posing ect ) I have been inspired and in awe of how creative you guys ( and Gals ) are.

Humbly

SL

That it does. Terminators are neat but they're pretty static. A talented builder can convert them... but I suspect it isn't easy. Regular marines are quite easy to convert however... like orks. Might be a contributing factor in their popularity, even among senior hobbyists.

So, looking through I realised I never posted WIP stuff for the GMS Marine for Graven.

Terrible man I am.

I'll get an updated shot tonight (cheers for the guitar wire, helped it out a bunch!)




Let's see...if Njals' getting Brother Anton...

Brother Mikael. That suits it.

Looks good. Never seen that helmet before... what's it from?

Its a khorne bezerker head with the rabbit ears clipped off.

It's a clipped down Khorne Berzerker helmet- I've removed the fins and shaved it down a bit.

Nice barbute effect... I like.

Temis require more cutting up, but body position, arm position, and head tilt can go a really long way. Looking at the SH termis for a feel of movement is a good way to measure yourself up. Using the AoBR Termis (and metals) makes it rough, because you remove the head and body position options.





If you ever want more practice, I would love a Lamenter at some point (terminator armor not required)!

Just so everyone is aware and it can be tallied up; I am sending a Marine to Gits on the morrow.

It is going to be a Thunder Baron before the chapter turned "evil". No real name as of yet, and no real fluff either, only things I have is that they are known for Insanity (ref, lexicanum Thunder Barons page http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Thunder_Barons ) and I have a sweet spot for Marines acting as real ship-to-ship engagement dudes.

Ho hum!

WM - NP.Give me some options. Assaualt, Tac, Dev, termie, special. I'm not known as creative in my house. ( I'm mostly hurt people - Name that movie!)

Thanks for the Terminator examples. I'm not the best at GS so minor alterations are good. Full saw jobs are risky as I hate ruining a figure. It's not the cost, its the principle!

SL

Been working on OSL on my grey knights
no details (yet), but an idea of how I paint/convert

One of the Aliens, not sure which one.

If you want to reposition the arms, cutting them right below the shoulder, but above the hose, is the best spot. You can also change the angle of the point where the arm connects to the torso. Both pretty low on the risk factor, but high on the dynamism it gives them.

I could really go for a Biker Marine, Plasma Cannon Devi, or maybe a Devi Sgt with the big backpack thing. Or just a bolter marine. I really need to get cracking on my display board, my ultimate goal for GMS marines.

I'm feeling very spoiled my chest eagles are golden brown (not using any metals) and red eyes.
@grundzt: that's some ambitious osl!
@WM: your biker now has a base, and it's primed; this time next week I aim to have all my outstanding gms done, promise!

WM, remember how I offered you and Ice another swap, since you two got my first two swapped models?
Well, I also happen to have a plasma cannon devi... Would you be interested?

Hells yeah! I've been hoping to get a full plama Devi sqaud. I've got 2 now, and sent Cain a third (though havent heard anything in a while).

whalemusic360 wrote:
I could really go for a Biker Marine, Plasma Cannon Devi, or maybe a Devi Sgt with the big backpack thing. Or just a bolter marine. I really need to get cracking on my display board, my ultimate goal for GMS marines.

I actaully got a whole mess of biker Marines off ebay awhile back and I haven't touched em as I'm not too partial. I could do one if you want.

That would be great! I am very slow as a warning, but am happy to do a model in return! Same for you SL and BBL, just lemme know what you'd like.

inmygravenimage wrote:@grundzt: that's some ambitious osl!

Thank you!
Its actually my first attempt and they look alot better since I did many of the details after that picture. It has been super rainy here the last week or so so I havent had a chance to do another squad
The OSL is much stronger when you look at the marines from behind where the light is not coming from and I still have to paint the bases to reflect it (2nd squad I am pre-painting the bases which saves alot of time!) Once I do this and get the power weapons to reflect off the marines i'll take more pictures.

That OSL is awesome

Ok I'll add a dev. sarge to my list as soon as I finish Gravens

PS. Not on a bike

Well, I'm thinking that my trade with Glomniscient is not going to go through, so I'm open for a trade

I'm sending my Marine to Bob Marley tomorrow.

Hey, Here are some pics of models for trades all in various stages of WIP, got to run so will make this quick:


Here they are in order of trades,
Sternguard for Warriors of Mayham, I still need to serg him up a bit!, then CC on foot for 1-I (Need to work on the glow A LOT MORE, if it keeps messing up I'll just redo the model), Sternguard for Mohaniker, Techmarine Guy (missing arm) for Polyd8, and lastly a tactical marine for Perkustin.

Here is another pic of them:

and my attempt at glow, failed pretty bad XD:

Also my parents are selling their house and during an open house two marine swaps models were stolen, a model by Iceangel, and one by Hemmingway. I luckily have pictures. It does say that those models must have been pretty boss for some very rich people to snag them

Wow! That sucks!

Sageheart wrote:Also my parents are selling their house and during an open house two marine swaps models were stolen, a model by Iceangel, and one by Hemmingway. I luckily have pictures. It does say that those models must have been pretty boss for some very rich people to snag them

How dare they steal Utaan! Let me activate my lojack system that is in all of my models and I will contact the proper authorities. They will pay!

yup that's the beauty without the crystals on the base!

I'm trying to get it back.. it was some 11 year old kid that the parents weren't watching apparently. But hey I should have hid my models.


In the end Utaan ended up in a worse captivity then any of us...in the hands of chaos, since it can't be any worse than any 11 year old child.

I hope you get him back, i was about to "fire zee missiles!" I realized that I didn't have a completed picture of him with the crystals and writings. Can you send me one when you see him again. Thanks!

I will, I may have some shoddy ones on my friend's camera, but we'll see.

Such a work of art

So here's what B.R. will get,minus basing because He didn't answer my question about it yet...

So,how is mine going Boa.?
Bob

Awesome Raven Guard! Aww man, I feel bad now Yours is almost done but like I said in my message I just sent, I can't find the brown ink so I can put any finishing details; therefore I couldn't send it. I think my cat must have gotten hold of it and swept it away somewhere..

And here he is,based and ready to go!

How is mine doing boa?
I am now ready to paint something else for another trade...
Bob

Awesome! I looked around again for my brown ink, I guess I'll use diluted black.. I'll send it when I can D: Family problems

here's what I am working on for Whalemusic360. This is one of my first attempts to use greenstuff and to modify a model.

I call it "Don't Text and Drive"

The very responsible marine has pulled over before fiddling with his cell phone doohikky. (what's that thing calles? i want to say aspex or somthing)

Lots of very overdue stuff!

For endtransmission:
Capt. Skaldeyes (counts-as Straken)


For Solar_Lion
The Iron Lion


And Chapter Master Patroclus Calabeck


For our esteemed founder, Brother Lacrimosa:


And, as a teaser, this guy for WarOne, for all his outstanding work with the fiction thread - =I= Heth Fenrix


More pics over on my blog,

Later,
graven

Beautiful work graven... that Iron Lion is really, really well done!

Overdue update so that Njal knows I'm not dead!





More WIP for Brother Anton.

Awesome highlighting!

Ssgt Carl wrote: (what's that thing calles? i want to say aspex or somthing)

Yeah Auspex.
Nice work on the biker!

Completed first squad! (minus a few details)
All variations of color are 100% OSL, I had like 5 lights on these guys

-applause- the osl is beautiful on that piece! I am amazed

It's been a while - but I'm almost done!

Still need to highlight the metal (Mithril Silver edge highlights). Base will need grass - but I am leaving Gitsplitta's bare for him (that's right isn't it?). Should probably shade/highlight the decals... Small details you may not be able to see - blood under the Power Klaws and coming from the Space Marine's mouth corner. Added white lightning effects to the Power Klaws and Power Sword (very subtle). Bases shaded and highlighted. Space Marine eyes and teeth done. Think that's about it...

Yellow banner has room left for Gitsplitta to apply his own transfers/decals.

See my blog for the Twin Stormboy Nob and the "issue" with the above picture...

That's just... awesome. Holy mother of Jeebus.

Just incredible Arakasi!

Great progress on all the stuff guys, nice to see this thread has been kept alive. Arakasi such an awesome model, great to see it painted, Graven beautiful work my friend as always, Gits is right the Iron Lion is astonishingly good, not such a fan of the full banner for bikers but other than that is also a great model. And to everyone else fantastic job. Hopefully I will be back into the hobby shortly and be able to contribute a bit more.

Woah that orc is amazing!

I'll have some robed marines and tac marines to do conversions (with GK bits) in a few days to do a trade if anyone is interested in an OSL glowstick-wielding model

I still need virtually every GK character, slightly admeched up.

Amazing and inspiring stuff.

@Sageheart, your fig is done

Nice work 1-i...

really nice model! I'll be trying to finish yours up tonight or tomorrow!

Whale and Ice, your models have been put on hold for tomorrow, because...

I'm going to be playing a game will all the GMS marines I've gotten!!!!
My friend and I are going to his house where his dad has a large table set up for a train set, with mountains, houses, etc and using my Orks and SM.
Part of the SM I will be using will be all the GMS marines I have received.
I will linky to a bat rep, (which will most likely be lots of pics, as neither of us have played before...) when we are done

Then, painting will begin for you two.

Couple of updates...

First, a marine made by Disjointed Entity for me as part of our swap:


Next, and Mantis Warrior vanguard marine made for me by inmygravenimage. I finally got around to doing the writing on the purity seals and getting him properly based:


Have some of my own work to show soon... needs just a bit more work.



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My GMS project for vent... now complete save for the mon on his right shoulder pad (which isn't visible here so I posted the pic). I'll do a full picture spread on my MW web site when he's complete.

Git, I'm at a loss for words, especially on the last one..

I have ton agree with Boa,the last one is great,The wings are really dragonfly/insect like.
Bob

Yeah, great stuff mate. Wish I'd picked up
Micron pens sooner, thanks for the tip!

Thanks gents! Full spread on my blog.

Graven, they're useful for all kinds of stuff... invaluable as a matter of fact.

Ok, here is the scheme for my Marines:


I'm after bolter-armed marines to be sternguard veterans.
any chapter is fine (except, of course, renegade/traitor)

Graven's parcel arrived this morning with Capt. Skaldeyes. He's even cooler in person and will make an excellent Straken counts as

Oh, I probably should mention this:
I can only send one non-AoBR model at the moment, as that's all I have the bits for!
I could convert the AoBR models, though.

Glad you like him endtransmission It comes back to how great this whole exercise is how it pushes us to try new things.

Just a quick update - started on the bolter casing and the yellow robes for Njal's trade. I'm making progress, as gradual as it is! No photos as I've been rather lazy last night.

Graven - I shall get yours undercoated tonight before I start my Dark Elf long haul!

Late shifts suck as they mean I have less light to work with by the time I get home.

inmygravenimage wrote:Glad you like him endtransmission It comes back to how great this whole exercise is how it pushes us to try new things.

He is currently guarding my desk, keeping Dr Who and the Lego figures in line

I play black templars and have a crappy few homebrew guys, (Knights of Mccragge) if any one is intrested in doing a swap with me will post a pic or two to show you my not so awesome work. you guys really inspire me to do better, hell the person that has inspired me the most has been git splitta. *thumbs up* Well lemme know if any one is intrested and consider this subscribed.

You should try repainting one... THEN offer it up for trade. Trade marines are great for practice and "stretching you legs" artistically. (and thanks!)

Acually, I'm now after 4 bolter marines and 1 combi-melta marine to be sternguard vets.

well i actually just stripped one with nail polish remover not the best i dea but it worked i actually got a jump marine repainted if any one wants to swap.

May I please see a pic of you marines?

@matt will put a pic up as soon as i have access to a camera deal?

sure!

OK, couple of shots just to show something is happenng

Tranquility vet about to be nommed by a gaunt for Thing 2:



Eyes, honours, a few details and some tidying to do. Then the 'nid. Oh, and the backpack - I forgot to check how Gits did his guys before starting this and only realised after I'd done the yellow that the backpack should be the same So that'll be a slighlty different shade then


And one of the BloodFists for WM:



Lots still to do on this one, want to try something new on the power axe too.


graven - I keep chickening out of doing the chipping on Tek-Masta 'Stumpy', but as I'm thinking of doing some on the Mantis Warrior so that'll probably get me to knuckle under...

will have pictures later tonight of the assualt marine i have up for trade im excited.

I have yet to post up the batrep, but the game was a success for the GMS marines!

Few highlights (related to the GMS marines)
-Techmarine from BishopGore distracted my opponent Orcrist611, and he shot at him with an entire mob of shoota boyz. Needless to say, the techmarine died, but his sacrifice saved the entire GMS tac squad, which later took out a deff dread in CC. (thanks for the Powerfist Sgt., Whale!)
-As I just said, GMS tac marine squad took out a deff dread
-the GMS honor guard killed a large chunk of a slugga boyz squad of 30, before being finished off after 2 or 3 turns of CC
-Before his death, the techmarine put a wound on the KFF mech with his only bolter shot
-the ml in the GMS squad took out 4 boyz
-the plasma gunner from Gits DIDN'T 'get hot' while shooting, but wasted two boyz
-Every tac marine from another user survived (I removed the two I painted as casualties first)
-The Mantis Warrior (bits from Gits, but I painted/modeled) was promoted to Sgt. and led my other tac squad.

I ended up winning due to many mistakes on both our parts, but you'll read about that when I write it up.

In further news, Ice and Whale, both your guys are so close to being done, I should have already finished them by now
Pics up very soon my friends.

That would make you way further along then I. I have 2 more days of school, ever, so that has been taking my time, hope you guys understand.

My limited model time has been on some stuff for an event I'm going to on the 24th. After that, back to modeling and painting for fun

Beautiful work on the Tranquility Vet monkeytroll. Thing 2 is going to LOVE the fact that his gaunt is eating one of my best troopers! Great job on the yellow and the camo pattern. They aren't as hard as they look once you get used to it... just a bit tedious.

Love the Blood Fist too... nice work.

Forgot to mention that looks great Monkey Is he a libby, or just a guy that likes to read mid battle?

whalemusic360 wrote:Forgot to mention that looks great Monkey Is he a libby, or just a guy that likes to read mid battle?

Don't ever enter battle with out your handy field guide! Or he is lost and is consulting his map. Don't let the sisters of battle find out.

he's a little blurry but here is, an assualt marine from the Knights of Mcragge

Thanks Gits, I found it the other way, wasn't too tedious but was a real pain, had to re-do a couple, and those angles don't show the wobbly lines I almost went for using a pen, but decided to give it a try with the brush.

WM - Nah, not a libby, the BloodFists like to carry a bit of light reading around with them to pass the time:




PC is dead and laptop only has Paint, so couldn't do anything fancy

^

Hahah, That's fantastic MonkeyTroll!

*sighs* i have had that conversation before...lol

monkeytroll wrote:Thanks Gits, I found it the other way, wasn't too tedious but was a real pain, had to re-do a couple, and those angles don't show the wobbly lines I almost went for using a pen, but decided to give it a try with the brush.

WM - Nah, not a libby, the BloodFists like to carry a bit of light reading around with them to pass the time:




PC is dead and laptop only has Paint, so couldn't do anything fancy

Bailey says that that is awesome monkey and i agree

Sgt With a Power Fist. Enjoy!

Ahh, that looks better than the guy in the other pic!
as I said, still thinking...

awesome matt! thank you for the compliment.

oh im looking for another jump pack if any one has one they are willing to part with, trying to have my vanguard with jump packs.

should have a picture of a regular tact marine up here in a few days. so be on the look out. any tips crititism (oh hell cant spell that word) critiques, or compliments are welcome. looking forward to all the input you all have to say.

A lovely WIP picture of my marine for bbl. He still needs a name and some touch ups then he is good to go.

That looks awesome, Ice! I really dig the quartered helmet.

Looking good angel, i did start your blog today and consider it subed. This thread has inspired me to start my own thread and i hope to see some of you on it. And thanks to git i was inspired to start a badab war army also i chose the executioners. havent started any thing yet but i do need feed back on any thing and every thing. hopefully you all can give me ideas for my home brew chapter also.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/381675.page

Ice that is an awesome mini, hope mine is half as good as that one.

Moltar wrote:That looks awesome, Ice! I really dig the quartered helmet.

Thanks Moltar, I am also a huge fan of the quartered helmet look. It's surprising I don't have an entire unit with that look.

alabamaheretic wrote:Looking good angel, i did start your blog today and consider it subed. This thread has inspired me to start my own thread and i hope to see some of you on it. And thanks to git i was inspired to start a badab war army also i chose the executioners. havent started any thing yet but i do need feed back on any thing and every thing. hopefully you all can give me ideas for my home brew chapter also.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/381675.page

Cool! I will definently check it out and give you my two cents.

1-i wrote:Ice that is an awesome mini, hope mine is half as good as that one.

I'm sure yours will be way cooler. You already have a better paint scheme!

thanks Ice, oh love your story blog thats friggen awesome fun read. i would love to have an Ice angel in my Knights if your up for a swap. i know im an ok painter but i try my damndest.

Just a quick update for the people im swapping with! but unfortunately i left my camera from my vacation and wont be getting back for another or so hopefully so i cant show it

Darksabre: i have good progress on your marine, working on details and ive almost got the armor done, so i'd say it's around 70% complete

niallkissick: Im back so anytime you want to finish the swap send me a pm!

Graven: I have started to paint the armor, i haven't received all the parts yet for the apothecary but i got everything i need besides the arm and shoulder so i though i would start at least! will get pics up as soon as i can

Alright, the nearly completed Brother Zifu. After taking this picture I noticed how terrible my highlighted pink lines were on the flamer. Other then that little fix though, he is good to go. I hope you enjoy!

Njal! I saw in your thread and indeed, further along than me - everything is backburned for a Dark Elf trek but I am at the yellow stages on yours.

And Ice - very curious combination there. One that makes sense too.

Looks awesome ice
Ice and Whale, your marines will both be finished today, and pics up sometime soon


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Ice, here are some shots of your guy



(man, just noticed I forgot to do the hand on the inside of the shield! I'll fix that right up
Whale, my camera died, so pics first thing tomorrow

Wow - that's some *heavy* weathering in the shield! Love it.

Very nice! I love the pose with him looking through the shield. Nice weathering too. He looks like he has been through a serious battle.

Have you given him a name?

Don't forget to PM me about any Marines you'd like to include in the Great Marine Swap Faction Story!

Got some WIP shots of Graven Apothecary, he is coming along well!
He is Apothecary Shen!
From the Salamanders and he has rules from forge world site and is a usable character for the HQ of the Space marines, i might have to make my own for he is a kick character that i really like since he is a cheaper HQ and yet is very flexible and still packs a punch!
Ill provide a link to his page if anyone wants now, but will also include when i finish it and put up pics of those!
See more Progress before the end on my P n M blog, remember im always open to Swaps, just PM me, and to my other people who im swapping with, expect progress! soon.

Here are the WIP shots! tell me what you think of the Vial work on the backpack, first attempt at it and am pretty happy if it looks like liquid

That marine is looking awesome Njal! It almost makes me feel like starting to paint up some marines so I can swap with SM people like you!

Oh I am a happy camper now! Digging the vials big time. The Dante I'm going to cut up for you is nearly done stripping (dettol bath #2), so hopefully he'll be getting some primer on tomorrow.

Looks awesome Njal!

thanks for the compliments guys, I try to give all my crusader-ish guys heavy weathering

here you are whale




sorry for lack of drilled barrel.

Paint looks really sharp BBL. Is that a metal cannon, I thought the plastic ones came with barrel cut out already?

Njal, that green came out very nice, and the plasma pistol looks like it was always there.

Yes sir. He is quite an old dev. Metal arms + cannon
I can attempt to find something to drill the barrel, if you want. And I need to go over the squad marking with a second color and put writing on the seal...

You can attempt a drill out if you'd like. On the up side, it would already be metal colored

I've got your bits together, but I'm afraid thats as far as I've gotten. I have an event on Sunday I've been frantically putting stuff together for, but will be getting it together next week. He's going to be my 1st attempt at airbrushed black work, so should be interesting at the least.

Take the mold line off the end of the barrel, then paint the center of the barrel black... that's better than nothing.

I agree with Git on that one. Metal can be a pain, the illusion of a drilled barrel is easy enough to pull off.

Njal, I really like your mint ice cream apothecary. Nice job on the lighting effects on the back pack light. I think he turned out great.

the Apocathery looks awesome, i dunno about metal guns so good luck but i do like the idea of painting them though never thought about that.


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Heres the heavy bolter guy i did for njal for the swap he even has some battle damage. im really proud of how that turned out. this was taken right after i clear coated him.




Still working on a name

Hey Njal, hope you had a nice break! Hit me up with PM with ur shipping details and i'll get your angels encarmine dude off to you!

Just thought I'd say, I'm open for trades!

alabamaheretic, I'll swap with you at a later time, I would like to start this Swap by posting to someone in Aus, to get used to the 'Post a Model' thing

Matt ok no problem

Here is a completed mini-diorama/objective marker. The "Thunder Baron" aka chaos Mantis Warrior atop his fresh kill, made by Gathering Storm (base is my work). I really like the figure DE made for me, so I wanted to see it based appropriately and in a way that it would see the gaming table regularly.

Looks cool everybody.

And behold, the Thunder Barron is defeated by way of trying to consume a Big Mac. Such is the path that Chaos leads one down.

Lol. Great great weathering on the hatch btw gits!

First attempt. Got lots of good advice from MajorTom and grey_death after the fact... so the next one should be much better. I may still fiddle with it a bit... the brown around the edges is just wash which doesn't look quite right. I'll try mixing some powders with acrylic medium (like I did for the scorch marks on my Iron Clad) and work on the edges... that should finish it up.

And Brother Sergeant Fabrizio, of the Carcharodons joins the fray.

btemple0: Nice work mate!

Finished my marine for Disjointed Entity, Brother Atsuchi. Really happy with how it turned out. New green. Another experiment... trying to make the sheet cork look like a paved road (in this case a blown up paved road).

Very cool git, my only suggestion would be to wash out the white stipes a little. a bit to bright. ti would also show some dimension in the road.

SL

I intended to do that, just forgot. Thanks for the reminder.

Hi All,

Just wanted to state my enthusiasm for getting involved in this thread and my willingness to trade.

I currently paint/play Eldar and Tyranids, but am willing to paint antyhing

My latest work can be seen on the carapace of the nids below:



I'm always on the lookout for ways to improve my skills, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to really push myself.

Please let me know if you'de like to do a trade.

Thanks!

Hey Guys!

I know several GMSers have been creating GMS detachments, and I wanted to see if anyone was looking at anything specific, and willing to trade for a Vanguard Vet (not actually using the GW models, what are we made of, money?)

PM if you're intersted. Also, alabamaheretic, hopefully you got my PM, if not... sad day D:

PM sent.

As my blood angels are en route back home, I am up for paining up a few more test minis for my carcharodons, so long as they are marines that I can kitbash o get rid of excess bits.

On your way back as well? And if so, back for a while, or short term?

I plan on bieng in college in fall of 2012.

So back for good. Some of the schools I am applying to really do not have big gaming stores, so my carcharodons will be primarily for display or for use as NPC's in Deathwatch.

Further to my previous post, I'm happy to paint anything and would be willing to trade for Any Nid, Eldar or either Blood Angel or Lamenter space marin model.

Let me know if you're interested.

I'm ready for another trade after finishing off Njals Angels Encarmine Marine. PM if interested!

Wow really great stuff guys been gone a week or more an awesome stuff popped up.

Man how has it taken me so long to catch onto this thread???
Great idea! Love that everyone has embraced it too.

If i can find spare body parts and get photos of my work up i'll be up for eldar or chaos trades?

@Njal and btemple0

I've started on your marines, I've been on a blue painting kick, so I decided to bust out and try to recreate some of my ultramarines, pics forthcoming (hopefully, I keep forgetting to take pictures).

@Njal - your guy is built, finally:

Now there's just the small matter of paint!

Looks awesome Graven, cant wait to see how it turns out!

Got some pics to Post, got Alabamaheretics Nova marine Vanguard marine with a Jump Pack and normal backpack (unmagnetized since i dont have magnets right now)
And just some progress shots overall for other peoples swap marines!
Heres the Nova Marine, im pretty happy for my first attempt at one! thought the hair is the weak point to me, oh welll



Heres Graven WIP Apothecary, At 80%, wait to see finished pics, im almost done

Heres the WIP Librarian im making for Alfndrate!

Great work Njal! Wow... that first one is somethin' else!

That librarian is making me cry... in a good way

Njal! holy @!#% thats friggin sweet man. the one i did you looks like ass compared to that one. weak hair or not he looks like he does it like a boss

My WIP marine for 1-i.

Shiny Ice very shiny! where did you get that thunderhammer at or is that a terminator arm?

Well Im filled with tingles and not the spiders crawling all over me kind, but the good happy feeling kind.

Njal, My blood angels had an interesting run in with the school's trash collectors (university cleaning staff threw out my pistol case with your GMS model in it) so I've got to start from scratch.

hi so a friend of mine introduced me to this fourm.


i think that this whole great marine swap is pretty awesome i am not too skilled of a painter but bad either.

if someone would want to trade i would love to.

US only please

@ Alfndrate - That's so sad!

@ marmaduke - Post up some pictures of your previous models and I'm sure you can find someone who's interested in a trade.

These are some of my previous models

marmaduke your pics died so i cant see what you did :(

sorry aparently they were sideways...these are not as good but they are pictures



this guy i will not trade <3 him tooo much



this guy i might though

for more look at my gallery

right on good lookin models Marmaduke Ill think about trading you a chaos guy for a chaos guy if your intrested.

cool sounds like fun



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cant wait

His base hasn't been completed per our swap agreement, but outside that he is complete. Here is my swap for 1-i

Brother Sar-Tzu the Fellhammer



@1-i - I am very happy with how he turned out. I will probably try to make a duplicate of this guy to keep around for my own use. I hope you enjoy him. Let me know if you want anything adjusted before I ship him to you.

Iceangel is he a captain or something? he seems bad ass all painted up. If your intrested i'd like to do a trade with you when you get the time.

Hes a Vangaurd badass and he looks great.
Thank god for a thunderhammer, now my Vangaurds have it all.

so alabamaheretic could i see some of your work?

Hey Ice, he turned out great!

Marmaduke, i got a few pics up of my regular space marines in my gallery and if you search through this thread (i think the last few pages) there is pics of some of my guys on here.

cool i will look at your gallery


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looks great if you have anything in paticular you think i should look at kust post or pm.

otherwise look great though you might consider taking picture some where besides your porch post, hard to get details.

also will get guy i would send you in professional quality pic and post.... i know a guy

Looks fantastic Iceangel!

I can offer a space marine painted as a Blood Angels or Dark Angels successor to anyone up for a swap.

Thanks everybody!

alabamaheretic: to answer your question he is more of a trainer, not a captain or sergeant.

As for a trade, I will be looking to do some more trades in a few months. I need to finish up some of my other projects before I take on some more. I will of course keep you all posted. 1-i, I am expected a completed picture once you base him. An Ice Angel with a green base should look a bit interesting.

ah all right, well i still say he looks like a captain with that thunder hammer and combi melta

@Sageheart, just received you mini today. Good work, it certainly lightens up the squad.

thanks

I love the model you sent me, I'm going to try to get a group shot of all the models I've gotten for my little army.

Hello all! I got a Swap marine to show you all, that is Bob's marine, i put in about 3 or 4 hours tonight and finished him up!
Im pretty happy with how it turned out and i was worried at first at how he was going to turn out But i re-did the face and im pretty happy!




If any one wants different angle i can post it!

So thanks for looking and im still open for swap from anyone, and if anyone wants to a big challenging one the sky's the limit for me, so just let me know and we can work out a trade

Love that Marine - the green is amazing.

Cool job on that marine! (pssst! drill out the gun barrel...)

That is one of the best painted faces Ive seen.

I like it,and you just reminded me I didn't post a finished pic of yours,so here it is :rl=http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/262994-.html][/url]
I've already sent it to you
Cheers
Bob

Hey Iceangel, got your fig.

Since that completes the amount of trades I was planning on doing Ill have to post up a group shot soon.

Heck yeah you do! I am assuming he survived the trip.

BTW, once this gets too 100 pages we should all post pictures of our swaps. Have a nice gallery on page 100. Thoughts?

I'd like to get in on this, though I'm limited to UK only. Here's some of my Scouts.



Crappy picture but that's the best I can manage without a proper camera.

looking for someone willing to swap.

i play chaos space marines and would be glad to swap for any choas or even space marine chapter,
will swap for any well painted model

here is some of my work






anyone interested?






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willing to ship to almost anywhere if it looks awesome

I *finally* finished my trades for Gitsplitta and InMyGravenImage this weekend, thanks to having the Reading festival on TV

Now I just need to find some nicely packed boxes to post them in!

I can offer:

Furioso Dreadnought
6 Chaos Chosen marines
Finecast Nurgle Daemon Prince

PM me if you want to trade! Check my gallery to see how I paint, but I'll paint them up in any chapter requested.

Im looking for Black Templars, robed marines and any forge world dreadnoughts

making i giant gallery would be pretty cool

should totally do it

would love to participate if anyone would be willing to swap with me

Those aresweet entrans! Woof!!

Don't forget if you want a marine featued in the The Great Marine Swap Fiction thread, look here and PM me with the marine in question-

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/362002.page

Well this entire Marine Swap experience has for the most part been fun and well worth it. Sadly two marines inbound have been lost in the warp but oh well life will keep moving.
So with the ones I have recieved I say thank you and with luck your figs will not die horribly in the uncontrollable hands of my youngones.



left to right, Iceangel, Sageheart, -Cypher-, Bishopgore

Be patient njal and btemple0... I haven't had much painting time recently :(

Psst, hey Ice

Cool! I like him! I'm not sure I mentioned it but don't worry about basing him.

Yeah you mentioned that, I didnt plan to glue him to a base so you can work you magic.

on page 100 we should totally take pics of all our swaps.

Tagging all of the swapped models with "gms" in the gallery would be good too so we can see all of the photos together

We can also make a showcase thread for us to show off our collective swaps. I'll put one up and link the first post when we get there.

damn then i must make some more awesome guys...even if im not up to 90% of yalls level of painting.

Updates for those involved with my swaps:

I am almost done with the vanguard veteran for alfndrate.

The dreadnought I am planning on sending with my marine to Whalemusic 360 should be shipping with his smaller counterpart here soon, I just need to upload the pictures to dakka, if the internet here will cooperate.

Update for Iceangle



Just a few finishing touches and weapons till its away in the mail.

Cool! I like the farside background too, lol.

and now its dun.

Nice lookin' marine 1-i...

So, I recently bought a large lot of SM's, and have some stuff I dont really want, and Ive decided to offer it up to my gms friends before the swap shop!

Anybody interested in an attack bike, 5 oop metal termies (have 1cfist arm, 1 assc arm, and 1 cyclone ml) 5 oop plastic termies (one has assc), and possibly some devs/ 3 land speeders?

[edit] it would still be a marine swap, as I'd paint them up in a chapter of your choosing

I'd love to get an attack bike for the bike squad! I got your model put together and basecoated, but for the life of me can't find it anywhere! Bummer too, I used some cool bits. I will dig about more this weekend once my super secret ork project is done. Otherwise, I'm starting fresh, and maybe bigger!

I think I have a couple of Vanguard models I can do for the swap.

Whale, shoot me a pm and we can discuss a swap, as the bike is the one thing I truly cant use
Also, looking forward to seein' him!
What chapter were you planning on having him be from?

I've added more marines and stories to the Fiction Swap.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/362002.page

If anyone wants a marine featured, toss me a PM and I'll set up a story just for it/him/her.

1-i's swap after a bit of work to his base. Thanks 1-i.

I'd be down to swap a marine, what do you need me to do?

Well as this is a rather large community project that I am loosely in charge of, let me invite you all to join......






Gitsplitta, inmygravenimage and I are looking for 30 cyber-grots and 3 cyber squig hounds to join our mob for the waaaaaghdakka! In short... build a cybered-up grot or squig hound, take a pic and upload it to waaaaagh dakka to join our mob! It'll be your personal little representative in the waaaagh.



What is the waaaaaaagh? How can you join in the fun?? Check this out!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/399074.page

And yes, I stole that last part.

Whale, since I had a Ravenwing sprue, I decided to go full on DA successor, and added a bunch of cool bits
Wip shots up soon

Cool deal. Did we ever decide on what weapons the dread is going to rock?

Nobody pimps da Waaaaagh like da konvertas!!

Careful! - or Da Durty Duzzen will be sent in to send you back to your own thread!

Plasma cannon and ccw
Want h bolter or mm bike?

This is my thread, silly.

Lets go with the mm.

Sounds good

BIG GUNZ! (Okay, I'm done )

Wanted to mention that tonight... the bits selection for Yggs and GS marines began. I always like selecting bits... its... fun! Now I have to prep and clean them up... not so fun.

Hey, great to hear that !

1-i, that marine looks great ! The green OSL specifically, that hue is really original !

OK.. life is getting better.. actually painted this weekend. Finishing the base for a Lamenter Termie as well worked on the Mentor figure for graven.

Built and base coated WM Dev. Marine Sarge. Looking at my first attempt for givin him some " battle looking" paint job. ( suggested for all my models by my mentor - gits )

If I get a good night in tonight (yeah it's raining) I post pics.

SL

Ooh... I got pathetically excited when I saw the above! Reminds me though that I need to get back to various folks' gms-s too!

Here are some very WIP shots of the attack bike I'm making for Whale (the mm is off and will be painted before attached)





Please ignore the blob of white on the bag, the bike fell into my pallet.
like I said, very very wip, but I just want to show you the bike

Any1 with marines I will more than happily take for the sawp fiction thread!

Updates:

For Whalemusic360.

Ancient Adrastus



And for Alfndrate

Vanguard Veteran Catotigernos

That is all I can say. It makes me want an entire army of that paint scheme. What chapter does he hail from?

Carcharodons, or as some would say the Space Sharks.

You would post an awesome scheme of an army I was thinking of starting (or at least buying Tyberos)

I do own Tyberos, which is why the one I painted for Whalemusic360 had two power swords.

Tyberos, because just having lightning claws is not enough, I have to chainfist you at the same time.

Thanks btemple, I'm not at home atm, but I should have something posted for you in the next few days

Beautiful work btemple0.... very impressive.



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Hey guys, been a long while since I've posted as I'm still behind in my trades... however I have a proposal if anyone is interested.


My 2nd/3rd sternguard was an early experiment when I was still sorting out how I was going to build them. He looks really good, but over the time since his creation, my sternguard has moved to an exclusively Mk 6 armor squad, and as you can see, this gent is Mk 7. So I'm looking to trade him for something I need. He is a veteran of many battles, and now sports a combi-plasma pod on his gun.



What I need is a librarian. Plain old libby with a force weapon and bolt pistol. Since I plan on running him with my main army, I'd like him to be something of like quality and with either a beakie (or earlier) helmet or bare headed. It's not that important if the rest of the marine is Mk 6... but the modern helmet is such a give-a-way that I'd like that specific. Other than that, you can build him however you'd like so long as he's WYSIWYG.

The benefit for you is that you won't have to wait 6 months or more for me to get around to your trade... the negative is it isn't custom made for you... but it was custom made. And... maybe all that battle experience will come with him.

Please PM me if you're interested.

Many thanks,
Gits

battle tested????

As I recall he died every battle didn't he? lol, still a gorgeous marine Git. I hope he finds a nice new home with caring owners.

His gene seed survived!

And I think he's only blown himself up with his plasma gun twice...

I'll take you up on your sternguard/libby swap if you want me
That thing looks awesome (not to mention getting to own one of Gitsplitta's famous tranquility patterns)

@Gits - Thanks for the positive feedback, and I am sure I will get my pattern down as I go along.

As for the plasma gun blowing him up, never happened, his gun was fortunate enough to have one of those directtional vents installed, he just played dead to avoid getting shot at more.

Hey btemple0, Do you think you could use this bad boy as a villain in one of your games?

Here is my latest trade to graven. Lamenter Terminator supporting a Mentor sarge. Still need to mail out

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Very nice work SL! Love the diorama behind them too!

Whalemusic's devestator Sarge.




slightly different angle


dramatic lighting lamenter..or as I like to say.. " As soon as the dev sarge finished his song , he drew his chainsword and disemboweled Simon.. it was always planned to be apart of the act!"

SL

PS. Thanks git for helping with the pics

Very nice again... dramatic even without the lighting.

Very cool. Looking forward to having him lead the somehow long surviving plama cannon squad! What kind of breast plate was that originally?

Can't remember. Almost all of my kits are broken down into bits. I added the small peice in the front to make it look slightly different.

All my Lamenters basic troops will have older, more gothic looking armor.

PS. I think I saved your addy. but PM me anyway and I'll get this guy mailed tomorrow!

SL

Oh! I'm truly impressed, and count myself a lucky chap! Gracias amigo!

NP..hope you enjoy as much as the ones I got from you. Tough to top.

I think it's my best white yet, I went with a cleaner white look Thanks to Iffy's work and inspiration. I can't seem to get the multi white you do. My attempt look like all the seams were leaking oil.

Will be in the mail asap!

SL

Don't forget too if you want a fiction story about your marine, I have a thread located in the Fiction Forums for such a story!

No pics this time, but the wip is farther along
Should be done with your bike soon Whale, and your plasma cannon dev has been done since forever. Pretty sure I posted pics of him a while back

I'm waiting on some Badab Black, but am stuck until I can get some. Dread is hacked up, but not yet together.

Im nearly out of badab black, so Im saving it for your bike
Would you prefer silver or gold trim on the bike?

Ordered paint last night, should be here in a few days.

Dealers choice on the trim, though I suspect silver would look more natural.

Mantis Warrior Tranquility Sniper for Gathering Storm (Brother Zane).

Whale, went with Silver. The bike is 90% done, but I stabbed my finger bad while cutting models off sprue, so temporary hold on the project, Ill let you know when Its done and will post pics

Your dread is modeled (used it for a test bed for liquid green stuff) and the chappy is done, other than the backpack (which I forgot to prime). I'd like to use the dread as a test for some airbrush color tests as well if that's ok with you.

Btemple0 I need to know where your marine should go... send me a PM good sir

Sure. What sort of tests?

Just some color gradients, and maybe another round of osl.

Whale your Bike* is finished!!!! *only bike, multi-melta needs to be painted

Here it is, let me know if so see anything you don't like that I can fix
I am going to say now, I am NOT going to drill the barrels or the boosters. My last attempt at drilling the barrels looked awful, and imho ruined it. And Id be crushed if I ruined the bike, as its the only one I've ever had (aka, no spare parts) and Id feel bad sending it to you like that.Well, here it is








Oh, and I painted you up a little surprise on the bottom

@ musical whale. I assume the driver is going to have something in his hand? Or is he rocking the Heritio I knew thee well pose?

This thread is awesome! I have enough csm bitz, along with bitz to make a beastmarine (ask if you're interested), and I am trying to make a squad of classic marines: any chapter, but if it's chaos, can it be pre-heresy? So, do you want to have a beastmarine (credit goes to horrain on b&c for the tutorial I use to make these).

I kinda invisioned him tossing a nade behind him
If you want I can scrounge and put one in his hand

Got a couple of really stunning GMS marines as of late, so I thought I'd show them off.

First, a librarian from Njal the Weatherman. Njal really pushed himself on this model, creatively, build-wise and with his painting. Will be proud to field him with my Mantis Warriors. I love the servo skulls flying around. I'll be adding the text on the scrolls and such myself.



Secondly, a Red Scorpion Sergeant made by endtransmission. Stunning figure and his effects with this guys hair I'm going to so steal.... (unfortunately you can't really see it in the pic).



I'm really lucky to have these two fine pieces of work, and look forward to fielding them quite soon!

Those look great! Love the servo skulls flying all over the place.

Those are just freakin awesom

Very very cool!

So, I actually decided that I am making a squad of flesh eater space marines for the classic space marines (preferably rt, but will take anything that looks classic enough).
Here is my gallery: http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-user.jsp?u=31269
I can also make loyalist space marines, now, so if you want those, that would be good, too!

I have long wanted to join this but I've never posted here. I finally have some Space Marines to spare and some spare time. If anyone wants to swap with me shoot me a pm!

Recent work, check my blog!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/380047.page

Although I will show you this.


I mostly paint Ultramarines. They are Spartan themed.
I can paint other chapters, my favourite being Imperial Fists.
I also paint Evil Sunz Orks.
And I'm quite good at creating objective markers.

Actually got some Weeping Angels - long overdue - done at last.
For Njal:

For Gitsplitta:

@ FlyingPoo... I love the spartan look! Always have, maybe I should try and get some of my orks to be dressed as spartans...

@inmygravenimage - Awesome statue look. How did you pull that off? Looks like it could be semi simple?

Finally done with Whale's bike! Here are some shots showing the mm as well as the nade in the bikers hand. Enjoy





(sorry, flash went off on the middle pic)

Whoops, I spy with my little eye some mold lines... time to go clean those up

Very nice work BBL! Wow... that turned out great! (psst.... need to get rid of that mold line on the back of the MM sight)

@BBL: cheers mate. Lovin your work also if I wasn't so chronically useless I'd suggest a swap?! I have actually an angel already built and ready to go (though you may need to wait until June 2014... ) IIRC it's a sergeant with pf and combi-bolter off the promo fw boarding marine.

The statue paint job is prime grey, heavy sepia wash, then white drybrush WITHOUT cleaning the sepia from the brush; then alternate drybrush white and sepia washes, progressively thinned about 3 extra layers of each, and a final white highlight.

Looks great BBL. Your dread and chappy will be in the mail this afternoon. No pics because Im worthless and havent got my camera fixed yet.

No worries Whale, Ill post pics when I get them. After I clean up the mold lines and highlight the mm, I'll ship them and the plasma cannon guy

@Graven, I would love to swap, and that Sergeant sounds awesome

Anything specific you'd want back? (equipment wise, etc)

Pm me

Thanks for the step by step graven.

Holy awesome batman!
Whale, I just got your package, and let me tell all of you, they models are awesome

Tomorrow Im going to take a pic of his stuff, as well as my stuff to him (and add a little fluff suprise )

Whale, I need to ask your permission, but would you mind if I paint the 'softpoints' on the chappy silver? Leaving them black is my biggest painting pet peeve, but other than that both models are stunning!

Lol, no go head. I was going to, as I know you like to, but forgot. Glad you like em, I thought they came out good. My painting has come a ways from the last model you got.

I still think its a ton better than my beginning models

sorry, one day late

Here we go, multi-melta properly highlighted

mold line removed


plasma cannon guy for whale




Chappy from Whale




Dread from Whale




And I wanted to write up some fluff with the biker tossing the nade at something but couldnt think of anything, so I just took this picture with the bike and an ork of mine

Look good to me! I like the idea of the attack bike missing one ork, and chucking the grenade behind him. Hope the Dread is far enough away from an AoBR one to make people wonder.

It sure looks it

Mind if I paint the wires going into the sarcophagus? (the smooth wires, banded ones stay silver on all my stuff)

Also, I love the pipe draining the slime

Yup, your models now, you can do whatever you want to em!

Progress on Gathering Storm's "vanguard" chaplain. Got the body roughed out... will add the special mantis wings, pads once I figure out how to get a proper skull pad... suppose I could find a skull & cut the face off and attach. Don't trust my GSfu... I'm still very amateur in my skills. Hoping it'll look properly nice when done. Since I need to make my own chappy, this is a good dry run too.

Gits...does the pad have to be a whole skull or would a fancy pad with a skull on it do? The Blood Angel sprues have some such pads...

Pad with a skull would work fine. I'll have to see if I can snag some of those, thanks DSS!

Like the one on the Chappy I sent bbl for instance?

Hi,

inmygravenimage and Gitsplitta, you both seem quite productive, would either of you like a swap with me? Check out my gallery. I have a Marine (bolt pistol and chainsword) ready for painting and would like to try a swap. Provisionally I'd like to do a Lamenter but I'm open to anything unusual that hasn't received a codex release.

Would love to Howard, but I'm already several swaps behind & I can't in good conscience take on another one until I fulfill my existing obligations. Later perhaps?