Hehe, he has a teeny tiny head.

Still pretty cool.

chain fist can be made using the Ven Dread's power fist
replace each finger with a chainsword blade
or alternatively any other Dreadnought power fist and any sort of chain blade

Where did you get that huge chainsword from ??

Stinky

I'm really diggin' the poses and paintjobs! Your marines look awesome!

@ swordwind ; yes, as I said. that head's got to go

@CalasTyphon216; Maybe, it's not all that goodlooking though and I want a big-ass chainsaw

@Stinkyfive; it's Bloodreaver; the chainsword carried by the fleshtearer chaptermaster Gabriel Seth. not yet avalible in finecast to my knowledge.

to the rest; thanks for the cnc, I hope you enjoy my work.

Wow that scratch built sarcophagus is great, love it. Is that true-scale as well?

I.. don't think so, it came out a little larger than the original dread since it has added armorplating and it got a bit taller from the repositioning of the legs as you can see on the reference-pic.
How do you define truescale?

I would say it would fit perfectly in a TS army! A happy coincidence you could say

Oh i LOVE the articulated knees as well. Hate the stumpy ones gw dreads have

Oh well, you can call it true-scale then if it makes you happy. I am too lazy to bother with that stuff.
Mmm, while I understand why they didn't make articulated legs on the first plastic dread (didn't have the tech and know-how back then) I am still a bit iffy on why they didn't fix that with the new venerable, ironclad and furioso plastic kits. they did fix the sentinel legs from stiffs to full articulation when they re-made that model sprue. Probably noone thought about it. Anyway it's really simple to fix the legs, just a few cuts and some thin plastic rod if you want/need to replace the 'shin'-pistons.

Loveing up armoured dread. Looks great. I to agree that GW have been a bit lazy again with the new dread kits, there Os no goo reason why they couldn't have made the legs a little more dynamic. But as you say, a few cuts here and there and you can get some good results.

dang man, I love your alphas... must resist urge to start another marine army!!

Thanks Hits'

And you git! yeeeeeesssssss! join usssss, there issss no esssssscape.. Hydra Dominatus!

Its nice to see an army that isn't death guard, Great job man. i am loving the conversions you are doing. keep it up. can't wait to see more from you.

Well this is a new take.
been working with some icon concepts for the plasma-master-blaster squad and been thinking a little about making a tank. I think I could pull off something like that. beside the threads.. I detest and hate making repetitive stuff and yeah.. the baneblade kit threads should suffice.
The boys in bl.. Indigo can need somethin' dead shooty and dead ssneaky.. like 'em sneakygitz...

Thoughts? Ideas? Random Gak?

It Looks Like a malcalador from Forgeworld!
I think you should do something like that, but with a plasma weapon turret

Ive become so impressed by your models and just the legion and its reputation/creed that ive decided to get the alpha legion hydra tattoo'ed into my flesh....already have the salamanders chapter icon but that is just a deception by alpharius

*Insane Giggle*

@Capitansolstice; Well, perhaps..maybe not. I recon you are reffering to the Valdor tank hunter (that thingy with the Malcador chassis and a badass neutron laser). If you look again you'll see that the hull sillouette and sponsondesign mirrors that of the Land Raider in some aspects and that the details both features the indents common on astartes veicles and the general hulltextures of the Leman Russ. I have an idea about marrying the Astartes and Guard vehicle design elements aswell as stealing liberally from forgeworld's remake of the classic Rogue Trader era vehicles to produce something that would fit the 30th millenium. Thinking about the sponsons I would -like- something odd like a heavy Conversion beamer or Graviton cannon but I think I will settle for a Raipier quadlaser since I don't think I have the skill or materials to produce a passible conversion beamer. And well, that centerline cannon (no turrent! bleh!) that I just have drawn a few lines on so far is intended to be some sort of 'Plasma Lance'. I felt just ''huge friggin' laserz-cannon'' was a little boring and well, lazy. Also because I am very fond (obsessed) of plasma weaponry.

If anyone wonders this might be the 'Outdo Myself' -project. Why? because I said I would; because I can and also have a pile of unused 3 and 4mm plasticard that needs to find a new home. Also with my current good results with vehicles and plasticard there is that small thing called ''Illusions of Grandeur'' running around in my head and messing things up. ''-can't be that bad'' you think? I am after all not competing with myself here but rather holding myself to the standards of Daren Parrwood and Will Hayes (wich are lightyears away in skill and experience) so you can see the grand insanity at work here.

yeeeeah.. This will end well.

@Polari: Nice! Show the ink once it's done.

On a completely random note I have also observed that I have been pushed up to 5th place on 'That List' with only the 'Exalt function added' post between me and Gits Mantis warrior thread. Warmill's Lazorz-cut stuff on a solid second and M-J's Dark Eldar cabal thread on first place.
The race is ON!

Congrats on getting 5th!

Great minds think alike! I spent some time a little while ago thinking about a less obvious (more cryptic/sneaky) Aplha symbol, here's wha I decided apon:



Top Right.

Keep up the good work.

I like the Idea, but I think you should use MkII style sponsons because these guys are pre heresy

well i follow you and gits mantis warriors and yea he deserves it too lol but yea once i get it inked this will be one of the first places its posted

@Hits: Argh! just goes to show that all the great ideas are already taken and that everything has already been done

@prototype_X: Cheers!

@polari:

@Capitansolstice: I thought so too, initially I intended to use the swivvle-sponson design used on the 'RT'- Tanks ( FW's Demios pattern Predator and the Land Raider Proteus) but while possible the inherent difficulties of producing circular and movable parts without proper tools meant that it would take forever and probably yield quite poor results. As for the 'Mk II' design (Mk IIb & Armored Protrus Land Raiders) the difficulty lies in the weapon hardpoint; it is simply not designed in any way, shape or form to allow the mounting of a quad weaponsystem as the Rapier laser destroyer. It is simply too narrow. Also; there is no reason to re-invent the weel foe the fifth time, by using the 'Phobos' pattern sponson assembly I don't have to scratch-build the whole thing but can use the stuff straight off the sprue. that's at least a whole workday's worth of time or more saved right there.


Moar doodelz! I'll do a proper concept later on though, this is just a quick scetch to get the general shape down on paper so the proportions and lines are a little off the mark. Enjoy





Have a nice weekend People!

I love your Alpha Legion so MUCH The colors are amazing, and some of the techniques you use are so cool! Plus the models! Don't get me started on how amazing those are! Keep up the great work!

Heh, you make me blush. thanks for the compliments. Flattery will get you far.

Let me just say; You 'aint seen nothin' yet! I have barely gotten started here!

Oh, and one last thing.. you guys just bumped me up another position.. FOURTH! take THAT! the 'Exalt Feature Thread' has been left crying in the dust. Now I have Git's in my sight! Bwahahahahahahah! Aahahahahahahah! （╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

I really will say impressive skills with the Graph Paper!

thanks, I'll do a side, top, front and rear scetch of the whole thing now that I have the rough concept ironed out. I'd like to make it like one of those technical speccs from the Imperial Armour books if I can get my head around some kind of image processing software. I am fairly good with a pen and paper but quite hopeless when it comes to digital images. once that has been done I'll break out the tools and plasticard and the constructing will commence.

Well, I can't wait for the rest then! I'm definitely checking up on this daily!

Haha looking good, just one thing I might suggest, maybe not have the Alpha with the Omega, because that symbolizes the beginning (alpha) and the end(omega) which is basically the description/symbol of Jesus... And I don't think that's suitable for a space marine chapter being so hellbent on death and all :p let alone one that turns to chaos haha

Well The marines usually start and end the war with death so I think it is quite fitting.

Nrljm wrote:Haha looking good, just one thing I might suggest, maybe not have the Alpha with the Omega, because that symbolizes the beginning (alpha) and the end(omega) which is basically the description/symbol of Jesus... And I don't think that's suitable for a space marine chapter being so hellbent on death and all :p let alone one that turns to chaos haha

I don't know; I think they work well combined.
When I see Alpha and Omega it reminds me of the ancient Greek Gods of War, which is fitting and apt I suppose.

Plus, on top of that, they didn't actually turn to Chaos!

If you are going to kill them; make them think you are one of them. So much easier to hide nukes on their ships and stabbing them in the back that way.

I have been painting (promises promises..) but nothing's done yet so.. tomorrow maybe. I have converted this kick-ass librarian that I am very, Very pleased with (halfway through painting on that one).
But I have finished the final drawing for the Tank Project: Side and main weapon profile. the top-down and side /rear are on the scetch stadium so not much to see yet.

Finished pen+paper drawing.


EDIT: Aaaaand I posted a wip photo instead of the finished one. the finished version is this one.

And before someone asks: the drawings are to scale, each 'box' on the graph paper grid is 5x5 mm. so the tank is 10.5cm high, 25.5cm long; Minus the gun.
So what do you all think? a concept worth making a model of?

I think It's worth It, I think I'm semi worried about how flat the top is, but I think it would be really good.

I'm not worried at all!

In case you haven't noticed, aside from being one of the top operatives in one of the top Alpha Legion Cells, he's also... The Man!

Therefore, if anyone can pull it off... He can!

Great idea! Now stop drawing and build that beast!

Love this so much, the conversion work and painting is just phenomenal!

@Capitansolstice: Don't worry, it's not going to be flat. in fact you'll be able to see parts the cannon and some mechanisms through the top hull that cannon will go all they way back to the engineblock. It's a titan-killer after all, can't make a small gun.

@Alpharius: Thanks for the moraleboost, I'll see what I can do with this. I will make it in parts since it's not based on an existing model, you know like a regular model kit. if it turns out nicely I might try to find someone who can cast the thing so I can make a squadron of three.

@:Commander Cain: I will, once I am done with the scetches since I am also making one set in CAD to use as a blueprint for the different layers and so on. got to do this one right from the beginning.

So, I should have been painting today; I didn't. Instead I went through my boxes of bits and sprues and old models and.. yeah stuff. putting things that belonged together in zip-bags. found my squadron of not-yet-built-still-in-bitz astartes jetbikes, those have been added to the 'Alpha Legion Stuff'-box. btw. Also I did not remember I have that many Land Raiders..

so.. yeah.. this saturday I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine, it went something like this:

Him: So. how's those astral claws comming along?
Me: good, been a bit distracted by this tank and dreadnought things but it'll be done in time.
him:... Chris.. you do know that we start this campaign on saturday afternoon right?
Me: .... ....... ...
him: yeah, you have painted what is it? five terminators, three marines, a dreadnought and halfway on a predator. that's not 1k points is it?
Me: ... no..
Him: well, how about the other army then?
me: uuuuh.. whut?
him: your space sharks. I thought you said you had them all primed and ready?
Me: Oh!.. YES!
him: well how about you touch those up to tabletop standard so you can play? we won't let you join with your Templars you know that.
Me: sure.. that's just.. 33 infantry, 3 pods and a dread. I can do that!
Him: well do it, no stalling. and what on earth are you doing to your stormraven?
Me: .. I am giving it a nose-job!

Teh WIP Nosejob! Has the Legion infiltrated the inquisition? will 5 marines in purple mk 8 armor armed with plasmaguns, boardingshields and more knives than your grandma ride in this flying container during post-heresy games? Why I belive they will my good sirs!


So, realising I would need the Tyberios model from FWaaand with no chance in hell to get him here before saturday morning so I had time to speed-paint him I had to build a suitable stand-in until the real deal would arrive, this is the net result of that.
I figured I can use him as a sergeant for a terminator assultsquad later on. just a first layer of paint on this fella so quite the way to go yet.


The librarian, at the same stage as the captain paint-wise. I am very pleased with the pose though.


Teh bloody infantry. characters as above, the 6 snipper-scouts, 2 tactical squads (1 with boltguns and 1 with ccw's) an assultsquad with 5 marines and the dreadnought. the 3 pods are in a box somewhere.



Cheerio!

That is alot of work to do.
Which tournament you going to?
Peace

I really like the Librarian!

nice Carcharodons

Yeah, looking awesome. Where is the Librarian's head from??

Looking good! and I also would like to know where the Libby head came from, it really looks the business on him! I can't wait to see some more paint on those bad boys!

I'm pretty sure that's a current librarian model if I'm not mistaken :/

@spudkins: Not so much a tournament per se but a campaign, we are going to play through the Badab War campaign from the IA9 - IA10 books over the comming months with 1 vs 1 games on the weekday afternoons, team games (specific campaign missions from the book) on friday evenings and saturdays. we have 4 apocalypse games sheduled I think. and we're about 15-16 people so it can be fun.

@Cutthroatcure, CalasTyphon216: thanks guys!

@Imperial Monkey, nerdfest09: the head is from the old old metal codicier librarian that I bought during the early days of the 3d edition, the one with a forceaxe.

@Nrljm: Not quite, the Legs are from a current librarian model, staff and hands from the GK strike squad plastics, plastic MkV chest from tactical squad, left arm from an assultmarine, right arm a meltapistol arm from the BA deathcompany (minus the pistol), old old metal libby head and the skulls, teeth-charms, knifes,books, hourglass and other stuff is from the flagellant/spacewolves/terminator chaoslord/dark eldar raider/ palstic kits etc. oh, and the raven is from the plastic empire general mini-box.


Since you liked it: Center-front shot for yoo!



Cheerio!

Sweet horus!
Good luck!

Ahaha I was only really focusing on the legs :p that I didn't even notice the raven! It needs to be painted a real dark shiny black and be the darkest bit of the model!

Wow wow wow wow!! SO COOL! I really love how this is coming out!! Keep up the great work!

You should put the raven on his wrist, like a familaiar. twould look cool

soo.. raven on wrist = Familiar, raven perching on backpack = random bird perching for kicks?

I acctually tried it out with the raven on the wrist (I am very tricky that way) first but it unbalanced the model dynamics and made it look front-heavy. changed the focuspoints of the model in a disadvantagous way. so on the backpack it lives from now on.

Well, I have another obsession to add to the growing list, I should be more focused on work but my notepad is quite full of little ideas on how to design the 'Land Hunter' tank (the one I have been scetching up) into parts that are (somewhat) easy to assemble into a finished tank. It's quite tricky, got to think on how each hullsection breaks down into pieces the easiest way and where they need supports or larger contact areas to ensure a good bond between the surfaces. Also the sequence of assembly becomes important.. it just struck me: Am I overdoing this? Because right now I am building a model kit and not a scratchbuild/conversion piece. that might be a bit unnessecary with a production run of 1 to max 3 models.. might be easier just to box-build it. Dunno.

Also those damn jetbikes have been haunting me since yesterday.. dug up my 'Collected Visions' bible for some reference material (well, they are still regular SM bikes but they will be jetbikes soon) and I have been doodling down some ideas on how to make an easy-to-build 2-part solution for converting the plastic bikes into jetbikes. Stuff like this makes me wish I had the time/know-how/hardware to make resin casts. replicating the design I eventually settle on ten times will be a pain in the butt.

I want a pet Jokaero.

This is Space Heresy not Edgar Allen Poe Poetry!

Alpha's teaming up with cthulhu

Guys,.. I seriously didn't get those references.. well I got the poe one.. I think.. raven.. but nothin' beond that.. I am perhaps just tired. I will go get some shut-eye.

Mine was H P Lovecraft

yes! but in corelation to what?!

STC_LogisEngine wrote:yes! but in corelation to what?!

I concur

I concur as well...Dr. do you concur?

Yeah whatever, I am sure it will be fine.. juuuust fine.

I just wanted to say something.. *cough* second *cough* second place *cough*. And he leaves Gits and warmill in the dust! *runs off laughing manically around the office*

I was just quoting catch me if you can lol

http://youtu.be/i5j1wWY-qus

Er...second in what? I've been out for a few days...

I believe hes talking about Most Exalted Threads.

I Know I know! it's such a childish thing to be exited about no? Well I don't care! *runs off squealing with delight*

Buisy buisy buisy!

So much work so little time! Btw; purple is a very very trixy colour to work with.. doing a testmodel. I'll post it later this week (not done yet ) for you gius to have at it.

Librarian WIP for my Astral Claws




Primed, basecoated and two washes later.. got to be done by friday.. yay me.

Looking forward to Friday to see them all painted

Nice conversion on the Libby. How difficult was it to do the head swap? O is the head not sculpted as part of it originally?

Daaayuuuum, that is a fine quality model if I may say so myself (and I presume I may).

Heh, I am getting quite good at painting polished steel / silver now. I'll have to change the break-discs on my car tonight so that will eat up my time today. hopefully I'll be able to put some hours on those marines tomorrow.

@Imperial Monkey: it wasn't that hard, the model parts like a normal terminator torso so carving out the bare head was just a matter of time and patience. I detest terminator models without helmets, it's.. stupid. ''oh I am wearing the best personal armor in the galaxy, I am going to remove the bit that protects my most critical and vulnerable area, because that's a good idea!'' sheesh.. one lucky lasgun hit to the head later and it's lights out. And it's a grey knight terminator helmet from the dreadknight pilot that I had left over from a conversion.

STC_LogisEngine wrote:''oh I am wearing the best personal armor in the galaxy, I am going to remove the bit that protects my most critical and vulnerable area, because that's a good idea!'' sheesh.. one lucky lasgun hit to the head later and it's lights out."

Yes, yes and a million times yes! This has always been a pet peeve of mine. Really nice work on the Librarian, cannot wait to see him finished off.

Great stuff as always! Cant wait to see how it all turns out!

I really like that libby!

Mine as well besides scouts no marine should be without a helmet

Ah yes, I deplore the lack of proper updates avalible but the last weekend became a tad more.. hectic than I had anticipated. I was forced to go back to Stockholm two days earlier than planned and since I also needed to change the breaks and a few other things on my car before I jumped on the train the whole packing thing became a bit rushed. This meant that the essentials where packed and not the hobby-things (wich need a bit more care in handling than t-shirts and jackets). So I'll have to wait with working on these projects until I have time to go and pick up my paints and minis. So probably a week or two from now.

Good luck with your travels and all. I guess we'll just have to wait patiently for updates, so hurry

Fantastic stuff STC. I agree completely with your helmetless terminator comment as well. Never made any sense to me, I don't care how awesome your sense are space wolves. Keep your helmet on!

I also 100% agree. I should never know what a Marine's face looks like. These are the elite of mankind... why did you take your helmet off?

Way to set an example for the Scouts there Sarge.

Ah well, I can excuse the scouts, they aren't supposed to be neck-deep in orcs anyway so the helmet probably does get in the way there.
I'll be back at my paintingstation this weekend and finish that terminator Librarian and another Alpha Legion assultmarine.. then there will be some random things too I guess.

I'm most certainly looking forward to it. The synergy of your color scheme for the Alpha Legion is just amazing. I expect good things!

I don't reet like my marines without helmets but depends how your displaying them.
Peace

Heeey.. look at all this dust.. .. Time for a small update eh?

So, I had some time off this sunday so I dug up my travel-hobby-box and got some painting done.
Chosen with Plasma gun, I havn't finished his boarding shield yet but it's comming. Annoyingly enough I had forgotten to throw in my hawk turquoise so I had to make do with mixing regal blue and white for the powercoils on the plasma gun, it works for now but that has to be changed.
Not added any freehand or decals yet but it's comming too.

Pics! what you really want and not my rambling. Lighting was a little iffy because .. well I am a bit short on lights to make a proper setting for taking photos but you'll just have to make do. the deathwatch icon came out a little blurry, have to fix that too.

He's looking really nice. Whats going on with his left shoulder pad looks odd but cool. Being multi layered really makes it stand out with the highlights.

^ yea where is that shoulder pad from?

Looking nice! Loving the way you highlighted that armour.

Rogue Wolves wrote:^ yea where is that shoulder pad from?

I may be incorrect, but it looks like it is the shoulder pad from the SM Command Squad sprue. The ones used on the Champion model.

^thanks for that, going to have to investigate

Yepp, it's a Mk 8 'Errant' Shoulderpad from the command squad box. GW is funny that way, they give you the mk 8 helmet and chest (segeant upgrade) in the tactical squad box and the shoulderpads in the commandbox. Legs and arms are still missing from their range so far.
Mark Bredford mumbled something about 'we'll get to them eventually, maybe next year' last Gamesday about Forge World producing Mk 8-kits. Wich would make me a happy goblin, trying to get semi-complete mk8 suits are a friggin' nightmare.
The few metal ones the produced are OOP since years back so they are a hell to get hold of too.

For those of you who are wondering this is what I am going on about; Jes Goodwin's original concept for the Mk 8 from 1990.

welp, hurry up forgeworld, me wants some mk 8's

Yeah, I've been wanting Mk8 armor ever since I saw the art in the rulebooks. I love how heavy it looks.

LOVE IT. Please push onward !

Hi STC all I can say is wow...

You sir, have already inspired me to paint loyalist Alpha Legionaries! I just hope they come out as amazing as yours do!

Also, I love the highlighting on that new plasma gunner!

Cool blog, man. The Alpha Legion are epic, if you don't mind i'll be using them to influence my 'Nids.

Thanks guys.

You know a few pages back I said that Mark Bredford had 'promised' that Forge World would do Crusade-era Terminators? well...

They're Heeeeere!

im Loving them for my Night Lords

I woke up this morning as sick as a dog, but after checking my email and seeing the newsletter, well Now to find the money...

I know! they are great, perfect for my legion

I was just about to order a contemptor and a couple of mk IV kits but that'll have to wait another week or so because I will have to throw these boys in the mix.

Glad you like them, but they barely qualify as Pre-Heresy style terminators.

I was hoping for something more like this:



I like them well enough, but they just aren't the Pre-Heresy look I was hoping for...

You have to read the flavourtext Alpharius, these where late models produced in limited numbers at the very end of the great crusade. ''-Perhaps the most advanced form of Tactical Dreadnought Armour, the Tartaros pattern shares many systems with the MkIV ‘Maximus’ pattern of power armour, and provides greater mobility for its wearer than the Indomitus pattern with no loss in durability or protection. -FW''. This is the hightech version, the big and bulky design is another mark that more closly resembles the plastic kit Indominus-pattern armour. I would not be suprised if they released that version as an upgrade kit.
After all, they only need to make different shoulderpads, a heavy gorget and a new helmet.. and lots of leather straps

Oh I know, I'm just disappointed that "true" Pre-Heresy Teinators weren't released first.

These are certainly OK though!!

Alpharius what you're referring to is the 'Cataphractii' pattern terminator armour. It is noted for being exceedingly cumbersome and inefficient, but also the most well-protected of the 3

I love your Alpha Legion! All your work is great but the AL are the prize in my eyes!

CalasTyphon216 wrote:Alpharius what you're referring to is the 'Cataphractii' pattern terminator armour. It is noted for being exceedingly cumbersome and inefficient, but also the most well-protected of the 3

Which, of course, will mean nothing rules wise and we'll just be stuck with those ugly ass shoulder pads, torsos, and helmets.

dont get upset but deathwatch pads go on left arm.
peace

^ Not if they're ex-deathwatch.
If he was still in the Deathwatch you'd be right, but also his armour would be black and his left arm silver.

Hehe, I know it's on the wrong arm, it just looks better with the bulky shoulderpad on the side that will take most fire, you'll see what I mean once I finish his boardingshield.
Also, it's kind of stolen equipment too.

Bah. There's only right and wrong when you're painting/modeling canon. Do what looks cool is my only rule of thumb.

Dear Forge World.. You know I like you very much eventhough I don't buy as many of your things as I want to (mostly because of my quite lean studentloans and rampant expenses for keeping a roof over my sorry ass) I still has made an effort to afford at least my long coveted Contemptor, a MkIV armourkit or two and if I slash down on foods a little those nifty new terminators will also find a nice home and a lick of indigo paint.

While I do find your latest endeavour quite worthwhile in price and design.. where the hell am I going to find those extra £80? Forge World o Why do you TEMPT ME SO!

Storm Eagle Gunship, ... you devious, genious bastards. Just take my VISA-card and let's be done with it!

Wow that looks really cool, where did you find that? Cant see it anywhere on their site.

Here I findz, well.. some guy on Warseer did. I just looted it and ran.


http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Home/space_marine_stormeagle.html

Good going, I'm trying to think of how to change the weapon load out to that of the original Stormraven then its going on my to get list.

Ya, thats pretty much amazing. £80 total or £80 + storm raven kit?

Total, s' a complete kit Hits. She's a real beauty.. just wait until I get my hands on her.

I love the look of that ship! FW just needs to do all the models for GW!

It was in the newsletter this morning and seeing my chapter symbol on the side just made me drool even more after seeing this

So this normal raven thing can be used by normal marines? and not just by Blood-beard marines?
Peace

Experimental rules showed on FW open day says it's a Fast Attack option for Codex: Space Marines, Dark Angels, Space Wolves & Black Templars.

BA has to make do with the stormraven. No Stormeagles for them!

you have a link for the rules?

Bottom of page one.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/440299.page

man those termies are so cute.. they..they look like Baby contemptors Me Love

Love your Demonhunters, AC, and AL all looks amazing keep it up !

I love these! They look fabulous! Amazing work mate! Keep it up!

Thanks people, glad you like it.
@ghostmaker: What Daemonhunters?

Soo.. I had this in pieces.. thought I'd put it together and throw a lick of paint on it. Mind you this one's very very much a wip, metal's not done yet and the osl is in it's infant stages.

What do you guys think?

Great pose, strong start.
I'm looking forward to the end product.

Disjointed Entity wrote:Great pose, strong start.
I'm looking forward to the end product.

Exactly this.

Looks great man, clearly Necron and clearly a character, but without being OTT like some character designs; love it and the use of the Nightbringer(?) base.

Any more Alpha Legion progress upcoming?

very nice

It's a WIP and it already looks better than my stuff.

Well what do you know, whenever you think you will get some time to spend on your hobby life comes running throught the door, dumps a cartload of work on your head; then flees through the window.
Guess what.. I have another Alpha Legion project.

I had a load of parts over from my other projects so I thought hey, let's do something silly. I hope you like this one Alpharius.

Now, I am not that sharp with the sculptingtool but I try to not make a complete mess of it.

First wip of the Mk V Marine.





So what do you think? Have at it folks!

Awesome! I love truescale, but If you could make the legs less-terminator-y that would be better.
Can you check out my blog too STC?

The best True-scale conversions I've seen actually just add bits to the normal marine legs to lengthen them. It looks great and its right here on dakka: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/437416.page
Enjoy.

edit: link posted

@ Capitansolstice: heh, it's still wip. I need to greenstuff the rear of the geaves, give him some thicker bootsoles with plasticard and find some source of 1mm-beads to make the studs on the shoulder and geaves.

@ Imperial Monkey: those are quite cool but the problem with torso size do mean that you need to cover the entire midriff with puches and stuff and it looks a bit off to me.

That looks pretty damn good! Nice one.

I do think that Migsula's way is slightly better though, he puts 1mm in the legs. I think it makes the proportions better:

I've found that just widening a normal torso, using terminator legs and putting a spacer in between the legs and torso does an adequite job of getting the scale across. It's what I use, at least.


There's more in my blog, too

Did you check out Lamenter's website?

http://masteroftheforge.com/

He's got some sick alpha legion on there too.

I think there's something to be said for widening the backpacks... especially on loyalist marines, but I've recently just gone down this path myself and the backpack you used there is pretty good. I was just for a second tricked into thinking it was a normal model which is great.

@ Vitruvian XVII: Thank you, and ah.. Migs.. let's not.. compare me with Migs m'kay? He's quite a lot better at the whole greenstuff-dance than I am.

@ Prime12357: I tested that at first but I felt it needed too much GS-work to add the appropriate bulk to the torso. And yes, I have been keeping a weather eye on that blog.

@ Meade: Yes, I am aware of Lamenter's work, great sculpter that guy. And yes, for the regular backpacks they Do need to be widened. These old, old plastic ones are just perfect as they are (after some minor cutting and gluing).

I found that the amount of GS work needed to enlarge the torso was not too large, and not as demanding as I thought it would be. I just stuck a blob in between the two halves of the torso to thicken it a bit, and then stuck some more onto the front of the chest and rounded it into the right shape (more or less). And, as my ever-uplifting father puts it, "you never know how bad you'll do at something until you try it out."

As for the blog, It's updated...

Cheers!

The captain is really awesome @.@ id love to know where you got the parts for him x_x same for your color scheme is very nicely done.

The Captain on page one? Let's see.. helmet, chest and arms are from the Blood Angels Deathcompany box with some detail trimmed off. The right hand and swordgrip and also the legs are from the sanguinary guard box, the sword itself (blade & hilt) is a Biting Blade from a striking scorpion exarch and the shoulderpads come from the space marine command box. The backpack once belonged to a Kharn the betrayer model and has seen some modest trimming to the vents.

@ Prime12357: Hah, I know exactly how bad I am with GS. Thats why I try to keep it to a minimum. Also, and the biggest problem really, is that I am far too impatient to wait for it to harden. When I am on a roll I don't want to stop and it makes me a pile of nervous tics when I can't finish because I have to wait fore something to cure. so then I keep ending up trying to ''work around'' the curing GS and eventually stick my fingers or something else into th still-soft GS.

Wow thanks , thats a lot of diff parts x3

Thats how we roll in the shire.

The trick to good conversions are an ample supply of different parts, Coffee (well, what WE call coffee, italians would probably classify it as 'mug of espresso' the french as 'vile poison' and by americans as 'weapon of mass destruction') and a silly mental disposition.

'weapon of mass destruction'

Pleeeease. Americans run on coffee... you must mean the Brits.

Americans run on black water .

Dead dinos make me happy. What can I say?

My 1969 Nova loves them dearly.

Hah Chem, that swill you drink has nothing to do with coffee; no wonder you drink so much of it. It's more like water that has been stored close to coffebeans but without acctual contact. I am still not sure how you can drink that bland crap.

I got addicted to coffee when I was in Turkey.

So I will allow you to adjust your comments accordingly.

STC_LogisEngine wrote:Hah Chem, that swill you drink has nothing to do with coffee; no wonder you drink so much of it. It's more like water that has been stored close to coffebeans but without acctual contact. I am still not sure how you can drink that bland crap.

we are finding that it helps to drink a lot of it, and mixed with alchohol.

Sooo.. I have been sculpting a little today.. with varying results.
This is what's curing beneath the lamp so far, once it is hard enough to set an exactoknife and a file in it to trim and smooth things I hope it will look a lot better. I need to add some plasticard stuff too, much easier to get sharp corners and so on..
well, here they are the four boys. Mk III 'Iron', Mk IV 'Maximus', Mk V 'Heresy' and Mk VI 'Corvus'.

Looking good so far what did you use to sculpt?


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great quote btw lol

Love it, nice effort!

Thanks guys, I use Gale Force 9's 'Grey Stuff' for sculpting polari.

So, small update.

I managed to almost finish the Mk V ''Shooter''. He's gonna get a scope and a silencer on his boltgun to finish him off.




Mk IV guy is ready for a basecoat and some paint.





Mk VI 'Support' is also ready for the paints, very satisfied how this one turned out.






Groupshot.




Mk III is in the works.






So, what do you guys think so far? I guess it will be more eye-pleasing once they get their Alpha Legion paintjobs done. Have at it!

I think they look pretty awesome without paint. Needless to say, that your paint job will definitely make them look even better. The group shot really sets them off and makes them look so much more menacing than the standard 28mm marines.

I think the MK6 guy is my favorite, he came out awesome. Cant wait to see him with paint

Yeah, that Corvus pattern is amazing. The pose and the attitude of the model speak volumes. Once it all gets painted up it's going to be outright striking.

That sure is amazing, you make true scaling look easy!

thems some purdy SM's, and although i coulndt stomach fiddling with the space hulk models, im glad you did!

Saturday update! wheee! i am productive. also.. drinking beer and playing with plastic and an exactoknife inevidly results in cuts.. just so you know.

Mk 3 is ready for the paints. well, there's some additional detail I can slap on and I need to gap-fill just little on the shoulderpad 'rims' but yeah.. as good as done.
For yeah pleshaaah..





So.. that dreadnought I poked around with a while back.. I have decided that he fit in better here than with the usual marines. here he's just the right size.




The boys and the dread. sooon.. there shall be paint.



That's all folks. Have at it!

STC_LogisEngine wrote:Have at it!

Looks excellent.
All of it. Excellent.

Those guys are very imposing! Execellent thread! Subscribed

The Mk3 is FANTASTIC! You avoided several weaknesses most true scale conversions have, kudos! I'll have another look at this one when I get around to do a ts marine myself.

where is the sheathed bolter from?

These are all way to good. It's funny, pre-primer, I thought the Dread looked goofy. Now it looks totally normal.

What do you do with the rest of the termi parts if I can ask?

Oh wow!
Absolutely love the "art-scale" Marines.
They look perfect.
Cannot wait to see them painted.

Um, hell yes this is awesome! you need to go to sleep under a doona that has 'I am awesome' all over it!

they all look brilliant and that dread.... omg

Ooooooh! Tasty truescale...And a dreadnought too! The one thing I would add (well, perhaps two...) is that the dread's head might look better if it was raised up a little bit so that it is more centered in its collar/hood thing. The other is that you may want to add something to texture the bases in between the pieces of pipe and the panelling.

The mark 3 is my favorite, I think, but the mark 4 is sweeeet

Tanks for the words people.

@ Baiyuan: what weaknesses are that? can be interesting to know so I don't make silly mistakes.

@ Imperial Monkey: You know, I don't remember. they might be from the SM attackbike kit or the scout bikers.

@ whalemusic360: whole parts where added to the bitzbox, some of the arms will be thrown to my terminatorsquads for diversivication, stuff too damaged to be usefull will be used as basing materials. some find a new home in the recyclingbin.

@ prime12357: Heh, the bases are going to get a generous helping of sandand pva-glue, don't worry on that front. I know what you mean with the head but it's not just possible. because then I have to raise the entire sarcophagus and that thing's quite stuck where it is. I can't get it right all the time.



So, I am working on the 5th squadmember right now. will be a mk VI 'corvus' type toting an assultcannon and a lightningclaw. Also I thought I would break out the brush and paints. Wich one would you like me to paint first?

Just checking with the bases, you can never be too sure The dread is fine the way it is, anyways, so no worries there.

Paint? First? Well, that'd have to be the Mk III for me

Paint them in order, thats my vote

Looking stunning. Keep it up mate!

That one bolter slung down in the holster like a giant pistol just looks wicked.

Did a great job converting them up, I can't wait to see the first coat of primer that blends everything together, I'm sure they'll look outright wicked.

Heh, I have started up the Mk III. damn it looks much better with some necron abyss slapped on it.
Pics comming tomorrow.

nice basing! im hoping to achieve a similar effect

DijnsK wrote:nice basing! im hoping to achieve a similar effect

Provided that you grit up the bases

And doesn't everything look better in necron abyss?

prime12357 wrote:

DijnsK wrote:nice basing! im hoping to achieve a similar effect

Provided that you grit up the bases

agreed, some sand and grit should be added

Wished I had more time to paint today, but alas...

oh well. Still in the early stages of highlighting. weathering will come later. no.. that base is nowhere near done, and it will get a helping of snowflock later on.

I think this has been asked before, but where does the holstered bolter come from again?

From the SM attackbike kit I belive, I do not remember definitively though. Or the scout bike kit, it's definitely from a bike kit though.

haha I was about to ask the same thing. Great stuff as always!

STC_LogisEngine wrote:From the SM attackbike kit I belive, I do not remember definitively though. Or the scout bike kit, it's definitely from a bike kit though.

I did a little digging on bitz sites, and it is indeed from the attack bike kit.


Hes looking good so far.

Looking great so far, though I feel it needs some other color to set off the dark tones of the armor and metals. Granted the dark tones of the armor and metals look fantastic, so...

STC_LogisEngine wrote:Tanks for the words people.

Ok, now I demand my tank of gratitude! Where is it?

@ Baiyuan: what weaknesses are that? can be interesting to know so I don't make silly mistakes.

No chance you would do that, but to clarify what I was referring to: Some people tend to just convert the legs and torso and then stick normal/puny arms and shoulder pads on their TS marines. So in general I was referring to balancing the overall physique properly, which you did and most people don't.

@ Imperial Monkey: You know, I don't remember. they might be from the SM attackbike kit or the scout bikers.

Attack bike, great little bit. The scout bike only has a holstered shotgun, which is also great.

You'll get your tank to stare at Baiyuan, just be patient.

Speechless..
too awesome for me. i'm not worthy to lay my eyes upont these beauties.

Oh come now, it's not that good. I'm just winging it here. I don't even know what I am gonna use them for, a friend said that 16 of them (the amount I have parts for) and a dread is almost a whole draigowing if I run them as paladins.. but I dunno.. the GK's make me feel a bit.. dirty.
I could handle a henchmen army without 'em silver-boyz but a draigo-wing? no.. no wai!

I'll probably just pawn them off on someone who wants them. Or put them in a box somewhere for a rainy day. this is more of a hobby project for the converting, painting and gs-skill traing rather than that they should acctually be used for something.

STC_LogisEngine wrote:
I'll probably just pawn them off on someone who wants them. Or put them in a box somewhere for a rainy day. this is more of a hobby project for the converting, painting and gs-skill traing rather than that they should acctually be used for something.

pawn them off you say? i call first dibs

Heh, hold your horses. they 'aint done yet.

Keep them, they are neat! Put up a small squad plus a dread and build them a small scenic collective base and you'll have a wonderful showpiece.

STC_LogisEngine wrote:Oh come now, it's not that good. I'm just winging it here. I don't even know what I am gonna use them for, a friend said that 16 of them (the amount I have parts for) and a dread is almost a whole draigowing if I run them as paladins.. but I dunno.. the GK's make me feel a bit.. dirty.
I could handle a henchmen army without 'em silver-boyz but a draigo-wing? no.. no wai!

I'll probably just pawn them off on someone who wants them. Or put them in a box somewhere for a rainy day. this is more of a hobby project for the converting, painting and gs-skill traing rather than that they should acctually be used for something.

Check out special ops Killzone at http://www.thecodexproject.com/

It's just some modified rules for a 40k skirmish game. Great for using truescale marines with, I've been trying it out it's a lot of fun. I plan on using it, a great opportunity to do some modelling and not be limited to one faction in the game, and truescale marines because there are no vehicles involved, and you don't have to model 60 of them to play.

They are also working on a set of rules in which the marines would act more like in the fluff, hopefully for killzone.

Well, this is annoying. I have an update. But I can't seem to upload the pics to my gallery.. been trying since saturday but it doesn't want to play along. Sooo.. update comming as soon as I can upload the pics to dakka.

Go to nuts n bolts and see if lego can sort you out....

STC_LogisEngine wrote:
Well, this is annoying. I have an update. But I can't seem to upload the pics to my gallery.. been trying since saturday but it doesn't want to play along. Sooo.. update comming as soon as I can upload the pics to dakka.

I have problems with that sometimes, it stops midway through the download but usually if I shrink the picture making it a smaller file it works. Same problem?

I had that too last year, it resolved itself after a few months, very annoying.

Well, I managed to get a single pic uploaded after a lot of shenanigans. Then the server didn't want to humor me anymore, so one pic of a thing I built this weekend. But I'll try toget some more pics of this and of the painting progress on the Legionairres.

This is my second Defiler for my Dark Mechanicum army. It is a defiler.. and a whirlewind launcher.. To simulate the battlecannon, I like large missiles okay!?
also I was a bit too lazy to run with the first idea I had with a large arm-mounted cannon with shelldrums and stuff.

So,yeah.. this will need a Cities of Death board to -ever- get a coversave.. I kind of like it.

Who cares if it never gets a cover save? It looks damn cool An arm mounted cannon would have been worth the work, I think, but the sword and flail combo is awesome. Cannon arm on the next one right?

Wow! Nice work. Do you have any wip pics? It looks like a reorganized Defiler with a Whirlwind rack on its back.

Epicness indeed!
Great conversions and paintjobs, consider me subbed!

I normally hate the standing deflier conversions but this guy is awesome. i love the huge missile rack

Nice keep up the great work like always.

That looks really nice.

Loving your Dreadknight, and Defilier convertions and the rest of your stuff tooo!!

Missile launcher on legs is very important

awesome defiler conversion... that's a great idea to use missiles! It looks very much like a titan... better than a lot of the standing defiler conversions out there.

Thank you guys, I managed to get the other shots uploaded.
Moar defiler-bonanza for you! I am afraid I do not have any wip pics but it's made from a defiler kit, 2 armorpanels from the soulgrinder kit, a dreadknight sword and a whirlewind launcher. Also a few decoratives and so from the chaos vehicle sprue and some andom chaosy bits.

Le Pictures.

A better scale-shot.







Enjoy.

Defilers, only good for kitbashing.

That looks pretty awesome. Though, the sonic screamer thing mounted on the shoulder looks like it might be eating missile due to it's location.

The stance of the thing is really cool, I think that's the most important thing to get out of a walker, a dull stance can just kill a cool modeling job, but a nice stance can make it look spectacular.

It looks like a little Titan...Winning!

I love the kitbash. I really like how you did the head of the defiler.

It's nice to see all of your other projects hiding in the wings as well. At first glance, it looked like your latest creation was in front of some terrain.

Oh, what is that tank I see in the back?

Just something I am clobbering together from scrap parts, thought I could use an assultgun-thingy. Got no big plans for it yet.

However I AM planning to ressurect my mothballed Ordinatus Recovery and Reconstruction project.. got to get that old thing in fighting shape again for my Dark Mechanicum..

For you who have no idea of what I am talking about I built this a few years back::





Then THIS kind of happened:




So now it needs a complete re-build and well, I haven't had the energy to get back to it tho be honest.. soon however.. who knows.

Owww, that hurts to see.

thats one damn cool walker, ouch i remember that tank (wasnt it on the stove or something like that?) see this is the kind of thing they need in the Toy Story movies to make it all dramatic...

I require explanation on the tank.

WTF happened!

Yes, confess! What did you do?

Can we get some more detailed shots of the defiler (which is very cool), especially of the head, it's hard to see?

STC_LogisEngine wrote:

looking at it in this condition, make me feel soooo sad! it was a really good work!

Iirc, he had a party and it somehow ended up sitting over a hot hob.....

More or less it happened that way, som drunkard had for some unexplicable reason leaned against the stove and managed to activate one of the induction coils.. I was out having a smoke on my balcony, looked in, nothing out of the 'ordinary', looked out, put out my cigarrete, looked in: saw a rising cloud of white smoke. Then I momentarily became the fastest man alive.

Anyway.. Yes, you will get more pics of the defiler you damn dirty german ape.
I am acctually going paint it soon so if you can keep your pants on another week or so..

So, yeah.. I am having that issue again with not being able to upload pictures to my dakka gallery for no appearant reason. Very annoying indeed.

I'll keep trying to work around it so eventually it's got to give in. In general I have finally gotten the arm out of my ass and at last finished the stormraven conversion. I have kitted it to be played as a Storm Eagle since it's the only thing avalible in that size-range. Painting is well under way with the interior finished and the hull through basic highlighting, a few touches of light grey and it's ready for weathering.
On the building-front I am assembling (yes, and converting) that new Storm Talon, a quite nice kit in my opinion. Also on the line to be painted after the Eagle is a couple of rhinos, a razorback and a Land Raider. Once that's through I have a deathwatch team (run as sternguard) converted and primed, awaiting the brushes.

I'll get you lot pics once I get this whole upload-thingy sorted out.

Edit: Managed to get one pic up, then it died. I'll get myself a photobucket account later this week and try to copy from there. anyways; wip of the stormeagle interior.

Looking great!

Nice interior!!

Bwahahahaha! Victory! The Mechanicum is triumphant again. Maybe it's the data intergration matrixes that mesh my Forge's manifold datacloud to allow acess to this ''inter-net'' of yours or maybe my MIU-plugs are a bit rusty again.. no matter!



Storm Eagle pilot; I gave that OSL-thingy a twirl. Not bad for a first attempt but I recon I'll get better at it with some practise. Any tips from you who do OSL regularly?



the Storm Eagle itself. Still WIP but a few more hours and the weathering should be done, got a few decals and a bit of freehand on the side hatches too but it's no biggie.





Close-up of the 'noseart'



Pilot where he belongs, ready to smite some orcs and do some loops.




That's all for tonight people, Have at it!

I'd say that is a fantastic first go at OSL!! The last picture shows that it has worked very well. Nice job!

only on page 2 but can already see its gonna be an awesome army

Thanks, I do try to not mess things up.

You are one of the best modellers and painters I have ever had the pleasure of seeing here on dakka. Your work is amazing.

I especially love the mix of Raven Guard and Alpha Legion, have you read Deliverance Lost?

Oh shush you dantay. Yes I have, I follow the Horus Heresy novelseries slavishly and usually burn through the new releses the same day I buy them. (ie: releaseday.) There ARE downsides to being a fast reader I tell you..

So.. yeah.. Weathering takes AGES! i think I got a bit ambitious here but it's slowly getting there.



Pilot and cockpit on the Stormtalon as good as done.



So, Librarian.. I have been using this one to go to town and practise OSL -tricks, ongoing work as you can see but it comes out reasonably well. I am however a bit worried that the reflected colours come out a bit too intense. what do you lot think?
I would dearly appreciate some input on this.





Have at it folks!

Simply awesome. I like the librarian a lot. You did a good job of making the OSL a focal point without going crazy. Excellent job balancing the effect.

I just read through this blog: and I am thoroughly, and completely impressed. Conversion for the charging powerfist sergeant? Inspired- and I might have to do one similarly.

The OSL on the aircraft pilots? Excellent.

First time I've ever subscribed to a thread on dakka- keep up the fabulous...everything!

Im loving the red osl coming from the eyes!

I take it my worries where unfounded then.

Slow progress; Small update.

Storm Talon is seeing a little progress.



A little more done on the libby, parchment and bone can be a bit timeconsuming.




Captain is also seeing a little forward momentum. Again, white is a tricky colour to get right.

Holy Cemola Foam Batman!!! Where did you get that Power Fist/Claw?

I wants it!!!

Great posing though, reminds me a bit of the FW Raven Guard Shadow Captain, and nice use of a Space Wolf arm

Beautiful painting as always

dantay_xv wrote:
Great posing though, reminds me a bit of the FW Raven Guard Shadow Captain, and nice use of a Space Wolf arm

probably because the torso and legs are from that model, its Korvidae btw

Yepp, the 'body' (solid cast, not devided into torso and legs) is from the FW Korvydae model, Lightningclaw is an old metal one from the chaos raptor aspiring champion, only the claw though; the rest of the arm is from the Ultramarine honourguard champion.
the other arm is from the old metal space marine veterans with a handswap to that SW boltpistol. MKVI helmet is also from the SW kit but with all the runes and the topknot hacked off.

Just found this again, and i was not disapointed have you finished the charcaradons or the astral claws? If so can we have some more pictures? Also could you do a tutorial for your OSL?

Young Logan

Love the Storm Eagle conversion and the Storm Talon is coming along nicley. The OSL looks really good. The libby is cool aswell, the raven is a nice touch

I love this army. Subscribed!

Nice work on the white! The army is really coming together. Well done on the rest of the OSL also

Thanks guys, appreciate the CnC (and shameless flattery) and that you like my work.

@ Young_Logan: I'll post a OSL tutorial once I get it down properly myself, still experementing with it here you know. Just done the two cockpits and the libby so far. Also, concerning the Carcharodons / Astral Claws, those two projects has been scrapped.

I have decided to get some order on my armies (so I can accutally finish them this decade) and have after some deep thought rationalized all things Power Armor into four projects as follows, Imperial: Black Templars (my oldest army that I usually play but has lots unpainted) & Raven Guard, my initial ravenguard project acctually morphed into my Alpha legion Project, but now it has come full circle and all the models not assigned to the Templars and the Legion will find a home in the Raven Guard's 5th Company.
Chaos: Alpha Legion & Nightlords; nightlords for a very simple reason, I have quite a few things left over, spare bitz and also a small discontinued word bearers force that I can't meld into the Legion project, just too obviously 'chaosy' and so on. Those parts will be melded into as many Night Lords as I can manage. The Night Lords whas my first love among the chaos legions way back in the day, It's time to do them some justice I belive.

However, without a chaos codex worth the name and a Templar army that I can play with I intend to finish 1750pts for the ravenguard asap, ofc the Legion continues to get a painted model on and then but since I don't have a codex I am willing touse I am a bit restricted in what I can paint, also to be honest, it does dampen the enthusiasm to paint just a little.

This also means I have forced myself into agreeing (again with myself) not to buy any more models until what I have now are painted (or a new chaos codex is released).
Such a desicion does also mean that I will have to suspend spending my FW- bonanza budget.. wich has been added to sice that Contemptor model was released, little by little. So I decided that once I had finished my Ravens and my Legion I would give myself a treat.

An all-Forge World, Heresy-Era, Alpha legion army. Just resin, no plastic. And only mark IV 'Maximus' armor, none of the earlier or later marks since I wish to remain faithful to the HH-series fluff on the Legion. now, realisticly I would guess that is a project that won't take flight for another year but that just means I have more time to stash away a little cash each month to make it an even bigger project.

So, there's a little of how I plan to do it. I am corrently painting the last on the Storm Eagle, adding the transfers to the Storm Talon and have the basics done of my captain and commandsquad, I'll show you once It's finished.

*Sigh* Sometimes, you're really happy with your friends.. sometimes; quite less so.

I know, Lack of updates and all that but I have been forced to re-think my painting schedule a bit. See, with 6th around the corner some of my friends came up with the brilliant idea to take the entire weekend after the release-weekend (giving us a week to study the rules) and dedicate it to bbq and playing a 40k mini-tournament. To this end they have managed to rent the local university's student-pub so we can use the kitchen and have a bar avalible. This is not the problem, quite the opposite. However that I won't be able to play my ravenguard because all the marine-slots have been filled by those who only have a marine army. So in the name of solidarity I have to break out my not-quite-painted-at-all Eldar and speedpaint th hell out of them.

I had intended to bring the following armylist so this is what I'll paint. FAST!
It's not quite optimised but I'll be faceing fifteen shades of marines, necrons, orc speedfreaks and a green tide, dark eldar venomspam, tyranid tervigon/mawlock maxout and genestealer hordes and promably a fully meched IG. So I think I have to go as mechanised as possible.


Hq: Farseer w. runes of warding, spiritstones, Guide, Doom, Eldritch storm. -155pts

E: Striking Scorpions (x10) Exarch, chainsabres, stalker, stealth. -202pts

E: Fire dragons (x10) Exarch, firepike, crack shot. -180pts
Wave serpent transport, shuriken cannon, spirit stones, twl. Bright Lance -155pts

T: Dire Avengers (x10) Exarch, twin shuriken catapults, bladestorm. -152pts
Wave serpent, shuriken cannon, spirit stones, twl. Shuriken Cannon -120pts

T: Dire Avengers (x10) Exarch, bladestorm. -147pts
Wave serpent, shuriken cannon, spirit stones, twl. Eldar Missile Launcher -140pts

T: Rangers (x5) -95pts

FA: Warp spiders (x6) Exarch, twin deathspinners. -149pts

HS: War walkers (x2) 2x scatter lasers -120pts

HS: Fire prism, shuriken cannon, spirit stones, -135pts

~1750pts


What do you think? will it do the trick?

hells yeah

OSL looks sweet! Keep it up!

STC_LogisEngine wrote:

Hq: Farseer w. runes of warding, spiritstones, Guide, Doom, Eldritch storm. -155pts

E: Striking Scorpions (x10) Exarch, chainsabres, stalker, stealth. -202pts

E: Fire dragons (x10) Exarch, firepike, crack shot. -180pts
Wave serpent transport, shuriken cannon, spirit stones, twl. Bright Lance -155pts

T: Dire Avengers (x10) Exarch, twin shuriken catapults, bladestorm. -152pts
Wave serpent, shuriken cannon, spirit stones, twl. Shuriken Cannon -120pts

T: Dire Avengers (x10) Exarch, bladestorm. -147pts
Wave serpent, shuriken cannon, spirit stones, twl. Eldar Missile Launcher -140pts

T: Rangers (x5) -95pts

FA: Warp spiders (x6) Exarch, twin deathspinners. -149pts

HS: War walkers (x2) 2x scatter lasers -120pts

HS: Fire prism, shuriken cannon, spirit stones, -135pts

~1750pts


What do you think? will it do the trick?

Well, seeing how you paint your stuff, I can't wait to have a look at some Eldar - they'll most definitely rock!

As for the list, if you are able, I would split the Fire Dragons into two team into Serpents. Gives you more flexibility and you can tackle two armored/MC targets at once.

Good luck with 6th!

Thought about splitting the dragons but that would mean ditching the rangers to be able to afford a falcon (since I only have 3 serpent models) and I do feel that I need 3 troops, also, I am quite keen to try out the new rule for snipers. i.e. that 6's to hit are allocated by the shooter.. especially since 6's to hit with eldar longrifles are AP 1.

Second problem that presents is only 5 fusion guns per unit, I want to be reliably be able to turn those 6W 'nid MS's into steaming piles of ash, also.. 10 Guided meltashots can do wonders with terminators, sternguard and those oh so pesky nob squads.
Would that I had the Warp Hunter model, that 36'' large blast D-cannon munches through heavy infantry and tanks like a ripperswarm in a muffinshop!

Ze Warp Hunter.. I got to buy one of those one day..

Yeah that's a nice kit - my Crimson Fists fought against one not so long ago.

Maybe you could cut the fat off of some units, like the Exarch skills, reduce the avengers size to 7-8... don't know the cost of everything, but that could get you the falcon you need.

Man, I can't wait to get my hands on the 6th rulebook! Allies will be awesome! Think you will use some for your Alpha Legion? A couple of guards unit could be a great addition for the XXth...

A couple of Guard regiments with some -very- subvert Alpha Legion markings! feth man, you could do it. DO IT.

Ha ha ha, yes, I know.. finally I can add those Droptroops and valkyrias I wanted. commandsquad, 2x Plasmavets with carapace and a valkyria (or vendetta) squadron.. Dun-duuun-duuun! Dun-du-du-duuuun-dun! Dun-du-du-duuuun-dun! Dun-du-du-duuuu! Ahem..

Ah well, guess I can tease you with some of those Eldar WIP's eh?

Wave Serpent 1, acctually 'finished'. well, some minor touch-up and it needs a coat of matt varnish for protection and maybe, in the future, light weathering. But for the purpouse of this army I call it 'good enough'.


Fire prism, this one I had in 'almost finished'-mode for over a year. no the final touches are there and it only needs a few decals and then it's over and done.


Wave Serpent 2, progressing. Man that strappling-thing is faaast.


War Walker is comming along too, needs a little more touch-ups and a few more parts highlighted but yeah, almost done.


First Ranger wip shot, I am quite pleased with the colours here. Something of a testmodel, I first thought I'd go lazypants and just paint camouflage all over it buuut no.. we run them like this I think.


Dire Avenger squad 1, Loooots and lots of work left on these ones.. *goan*




There we go, lots of painting, not that much yapping. Have at it folks!

Feth you're fast
They look great

Thanks, and to be fair I have been at these for about a week and also the fireprism was more or less done. That Alaitoc-inspired blue 'cammo' virtually paints itself, it takes me almost as long to paint a layer as it takes me to mix up the colour.
Not that this is working well, I did some painting on the Storm Talon and Storm Eagle too yesterday, highlighting and weathering. Need to finish eldar; want to finish Raven Guard first.. mostly because the RG are soooo much simpler to paint than the eldar.

A random thought I had too; I realised that while I do have a fair amount of viewers I have an abyssmal post/view ratio. I must be bad at encouraging commentary or something.

although its not your amazing alpha's, these eldar are looking great! the camo is very well done and the colors are nice and clean

Lots of lurkers it would seem.

*Back to lurking*

Those Eldar look great man, brilliant inspiration for the few I have lying around. Sadly, I doubt I could paint them anywhere near as good as you have there.

The paint scheme for the Eldar is quite nice. I must bow to your efficiency at painting miniatures - your techniques look simple and you are able to maintain quite a nice pace AND produce nice looking minis!

Keep up the good work!

Yeah, the big issue is the constant distractions of new ideas.. when I paint I can keep a nice pace but once the distractions turn up.. -NOTHING- happens.. well besides fun conversions.. but yeah.. progress grinds to a screeching halt.

The Eldar are looking nice, I really like the different tones on the Ranger.

Love what you've done with the Wave Serpent, simply beautiful.

D

gtg now, but both Subscribed and Exalted, this is a truly awesome painting thread. I need to look properly at that Awesome eldar and the mottling, the raven guard and everything else here as its just sooooo awesome :-). One thing, with the OSL I have the same 'problem' as you. Try using thinner/darker colours over a wider area with just a very small brighter Highlight near the focal point. Awesome work, GIVE ME MORE!

I really do like the paint job you've given those eldar vehicles

Exalted!

Nu tror ni att jag har uppdaterat den här tråden. Men det har jag inte. Jag är nämligen på kontoret, själv, och jobbar med en bostadsritning.

Dessutom förstår 95% av er inte vad jag skriver, men det är i sin ordning.

Får inte jag ha roligt så ska ni ta mig fan inte heller få ha det!

Helvete!

I don't know what's going on...

Det är inte mitt fel att ni inte förstår hjältarnas och gudarnas språk. Eller att jag är sjukt uttråkad och inte vill göra det jag ska göra på mitt jobb för att alla har tagit semester.

Google translate kan vara er vän här om ni blir olidligt nyfikna. Men det har ni inte mycket för.

STC_LogisEngine wrote:Now you think I have updated this thread. But I have not. Because I am in the office, yourself, and work with a housing plan.

In addition, understand 95% of you are not what I write, but it is in order.

Do not I have fun, you should damn well do not get to have it!

STC_LogisEngine wrote:It's not my fault that you do not understand the language of heroes and gods. Or that I'm crazy bored and do not want to do what I do at my job for all has taken vacation.

Google translate can be your friend here if you become unbearably curious. But did you not take much.

Of course, google translate was never issued with grammatical awareness so yeah, some of it becomes pure nonsense. like 'yourself' here it should say 'by myself'. Or the entire 3d sentence. ''If I can't have any fun then you sure as hell won't either''

Damn you Google.. Damn You.

Yes...I've always loved that camo from the 5th ed. BRB (I'm assuming that was the army that you got the inspiration from...

Well. Not quite, based it on the alaitoc pattern in the 3d ed eldar codex but with black and bronze instead of bone and silver. I kept the helmets black because I hate (and suck at) painting yellow. Also, no updates because I have been lurking around in Barcelona but I'll fly home tomorrow evening so expect an update of sorts on tuesday evening. :-D

Disaster! No updates today I am afraid. I am currently spiking a 39.3*C fever so I am not leaving my bed. Stay patient though.

STC_LogisEngine wrote:Disaster! No updates today I am afraid. I am currently spiking a 39.3*C fever so I am not leaving my bed. Stay patient though.

And you stay a patient... haha

Really nice things =)

Krya på dig

Update time!

Storm Talon Gunship [slightly converted] is ready for ze battlefield.
I need to try to print out that background image on and A2 paper, A3 was just a little too small. Also I -could- use a better camera than the one in my damn phone, but no. to much money for something I only use for my blogupdates. Aaaanyhooow..

Feast your eyes!







So, what do you think?

Very nice indeed that's the best Storm Talon I've seen yet, it actually makes my consider picking one up at some point.

Wow. Those lenses! That is beautifully painted! I still think it's a horrible model, but you've done a brilliant paintjob (as ever)!

Exchanging the chinturrent does make the model more acceptable, I realised when I was painting it I should have extended the tailboom with about an inch or so and cut down the mountingblocks for the missilepods to fit them closer to the hull.
But it was a litlle too late for that at that point. with that config it might even have looked better if the front wings where not added and the 'T' altitude-rudder was cut in two and placed on each side of the tailboom for a ''+'' rear lineup rather than the standard ''T''.

Something to explore in the future perhaps.

it looks great! clean and nicely scratched... however you just added to me wanting to buy one for my IG, thank god for allies

STC_LogisEngine wrote:Exchanging the chinturrent does make the model more acceptable, I realised when I was painting it I should have extended the tailboom with about an inch or so and cut down the mountingblocks for the missilepods to fit them closer to the hull.
But it was a litlle too late for that at that point. with that config it might even have looked better if the front wings where not added and the 'T' altitude-rudder was cut in two and placed on each side of the tailboom for a ''+'' rear lineup rather than the standard ''T''.

Something to explore in the future perhaps.

Yeah I was thinking about doing that when I get my storm talon.(of course i need to find a good cheap one XD)
Anyway Nice job the StormTalon, let me guess an alpha Legionarie dressing up as a Ravenguard?

I like it...although it needs some kind of landing means...maybe even a clamp of some kind on the top.

But oh it has. If you look at the pic taken of the underside you'll see that the skids are mounted on the insides of the missilepods, with those huge pods for those small missiles there should be plenty of room for retractable landingskids, especially now that the skids remain on the outside.

STC_LogisEngine wrote:Exchanging the chinturrent does make the model more acceptable, I realised when I was painting it I should have extended the tailboom with about an inch or so and cut down the mountingblocks for the missilepods to fit them closer to the hull.
But it was a litlle too late for that at that point. with that config it might even have looked better if the front wings where not added and the 'T' altitude-rudder was cut in two and placed on each side of the tailboom for a ''+'' rear lineup rather than the standard ''T''.

Something to explore in the future perhaps.

I agree, I think the chin-turret does help a lot (and looks much better than the original), but I'm afraid I can't find even yours a nice looking model! *no offence; it's GW's sculpting, not your painting!*

I think those changes sound good, particularly extending the tailboom and modifying the missiles (both of which sound like brilliant ideas). But I am struggling to imagine the change to "+" as you suggest, but the changes sound like they have great potential. Should you ever do another one, I look forward to it!

Any idea what we can look forward to seeing next?

My apologies. I had not noticed that!

Looking pretty good! I'd suggest painting the missile heads a different colour though to make them stand out a little more.

Hmm. I went and painted a little more. I think I have decided that this is the way I will paint my RG; flare effect. Not with grey-lining.. all those rounded surfaces are just too tempting to do it this way.
This took me about an hour and is a 5-stage layering from chaos black/german grey to a 50/50 german grey / adeptus battlegrey with just a drop of black in it. The model will 'pop' a bit more once all the other details and the base has been adressed..... I hope.







So what do you guys think? Thumbs up, Thumbs down?

Well from pictures it's hard to tell, as it could also just be a strong light on the model, but I think I see what you're going for and if you exaggerate it a little bit it'll look really neat.

Then I have gotten it just right, that pic is taken beneath a quite weak lightsource and the pitch black sections are the ones only painted with straight black. The rest is a blend of black and grey applied with a very strong overhead lightsource for guidance.
It looks a bit more defined when viewed directly but i think that the other details will help in this matter once I get some paint on them. I'll finish this one tonight so we'll see how it turns out later today. Yes I promise an update today.


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So, painted and done, test model 1 is. Talk like Yoda, I do.

I am quite happy with how it turned out, weathering was a bit basic but I'll try to get it rolling better on the next model.
So without further blabbering: pics! So what do you guys think? You Like?

Le wild thought: Maybe I should add more free-hand detail like scripture and things?

i like it
dun think freehand is needed though, the ravens have never really been big with all that sort of thing

OMG that black is to die for man!!! Love the blood effects too, and the whole god damn model in general!

Nice Raven Guard dude! but I think personally the blood distracts from how nicely you've painted the mini! I think it may look better with just the weathering? but that's just my tastes, other than that I really like him, black's a bitch to get right but once you work out a recipe you like then stick to it! and yours is excellent!

Thanks guys I am glad you liked it, the other ones will be sporting a bit less bloodsplatter, I mainly wanted to try out my new gore-formula and it held up pretty well. Blood splatter with chainweapons can be a bit trixy because of the rotating chain wich ''should'' give quite odd vectors once the viscera starts flying.
However the assultsquad I got waiting in line on the shelf will be drenched good and proper in the stuff.

Gonna play them in another mini-tournament this weekend to get yet again to grips with the 6th ed. Most of the army will only be primed sadly but it's just among friends so it'll have to slide. 4 of 8 players are bringing different flavours of Orcs.. so this will be interesting. (Classic speed freaks, a green tide, battlewagon bonanza and a ''little bit of every unit in the codex'') However I am dreading to face off Marcus' necron phalanx.. god damn warrior spam.. he even has these 5x5 model movement trays so his necrons can advance ''in an orderly fashion'' ie square block formations.

''I find your lack of CnC posts disturbing.. ''

The black on the raven guard is really cool, though it could use some detailing, I think. Your suggestion of scripture sounds good to me.

Good luck with 6th edition! I haven't gotten the chance to play any games, so I'll be looking forward to hearing your thoughts

So, 6th ed is GREAT! perfect and lovely. played 6 games at 1750pts last weekend and it went fairly well. (4 win, 1 loss 1 draw) Flyers are mean when the opponent doesn't have any AA left on the table.

Anyway.. looks like the chaos codex is around the corner *holds thumbs* so I will shelve the RG, Eldar and whatevers and get back to painting the Legion again. ( Inspiration YAY!)
So I doodled a little while trying to get all the data from my itemlists into an exel-file here at the office. What do you think?

Concept-scetch (quick) for the Legion's company banner.

Wow that banner looks cool. Love it. You're very good with a pen!

i love it! your =A= legion is exactly how i imagion them, and if i ever start them , your sceme is the sceme i'll paint them in!

Honestly the eye of horus in the middle of the banner looks somewhat too Eldar-like

I must admit I have been terribly bard at lurking on this thread almost from the start, so I thought I'd rear my head just to throw some general praise at the contents of this blog, your alpha legion are absolutely stunning and have almost pushed me over the edge about 4 times to make me buy some and shamelessly copy your ideas.

As for more helpful comments go: I really like the banner, think it encompasses the more mysterious and occult side of them well, Calas does have a point with the eye though perhaps, I think keep the concept but maybe tweak it ever so slightly to loose the eldar rune look....No idea how, I'm just here to be overly picky over something I couldn't do half as well

But do keep it up. Like I say all your stuff is superb inspiration.

Very nice Ravenguard! Love the downward chainsword too! I quite like the way he looks, without additional freehand scripture stuff.

My only thing would probably be the battle-damage. The concept is great to break up the black, but it looks a bit flat to me at the moment and not really "chipping into" the thick armor plating.

Either way, another fantastic chapter space marine. Your Alphas are beautiful with their green-to-dark-blue... makes for a difficult bar when you're going for a standard black... But again, it looks great painted at your standard!

-Remi

Thanks guys, always nice to hear that people enjoy one's work.

I think you might be right about the eye, I should probably leaf through my Collected Visions-bible and revisit the fruits of mr. Adrian Smith. I should go for something more the Eye of Terra meets the freemasons' -esque,. probably. My pencilwork always takes me to the slender, organic and eldritch forms without the presence of a ruler so the eldar/fey aesthetics comes naturally when I doodle [and yes, it's a quick 5-min scetch. no I am not bragging.], wings and spirals always wiggle their way in somehow. But I digress, a more square and blocky design is probably more favourable in this case, perhaps a couple of roman lightningbolts? We'll see.

J-Paint, J-Paint.. Fifth time is the charm eh? I have been modelling and priming a squad for the Legion, thought I'd finish the custom bases tomorrow since my order of plastic rod, card, tube and I-beams arrived today and I'm going to try to remember to pick up some aluminum mesh on the way home too. thought I'd try to finish one or two over the weekend now that [thumbs crossed, held and kissed] the new Codex might be peeking over the horizon. I think you will enjoy the sergeant, convincingly modelling him half-crounched, like bracing for a chargeing enemy, with his sword half-drawn from the scabbard on his hip was a.. testing experience for my patience. Frakkin' fiddly styff I tells you.

And you sneaky lurkers, Yes You! You there, talking to you indeed. I know you are out there in droves. 61k views and just below 600 posts? A third of them mine? I have been intruiged by this fenomenon for quite a while, I see the same tendencies in M-J's Dark Eldar blog, you know, his cabal of the drowned gardens? The baby blue and brownish ones? He's got it to.. that Post/View ratio of 100+. Think he does ''worse'' than me though,he's up around a P/V of 120+ish.. Funny thing that. I have formed a thesis about this (yeah i know, but some days are just sooo boring) concerning comparative skill and comfortlevels but I'd just probably sound like an ass if I wrote it down here so I'll just shut up.

For the flag I think by making the eye a bit blockier and more angular it would fix it perfectly.

As for the next legion installments i fear I may well succumb, It turned out I lied before, the very last time I got tempted I got as far as buying several seadragoncloaks from a bitz site with the express intention of the alpha legion. Looking forwards to the new guys immensely, even if it indirectly means my valhallans get put on the back-burner temporarily.

Heh, oh well. Just don't give everyone a cloak. With the Legion you need to underplay it, 1/3 or 1/4 has a cloak. The same with their armour, try to keep it mostly within the Mk IV 'Maximus'- Mk V 'Heresy' - Mk VI 'Corvus' patterns and shave off the overtly imperial or chaotic iconography if you are doing post-crusade stuff. If you want Crusade-era it's Mk IV for every penny, even if it's appalingly expensive. My Forge World fund for my Great Crusade army is around £440, I'll need about £650 though since I plan to buy the army in one fell swoop. That damn Spartan assult tank made things expensive.

Stops lurking and comments:

Really inspirational blog (I tried to copy that laserbeam/conversionbeamer thingy of your magos) so keep it up even if "we" don't comment.

As for the flag, I like it this way, confuse the enemy into thinking he's being attack by eldar.

that flat looks good lets see the end result

Both the storm talon and the marine look fantastic. I especially like the lenses on the storm talon and the blood spatter on the marine. The campaign marker on the leg is also a nice touch, too.

I think a little bit of scripture on him would be finish it off nicely, perhaps along with some insignia on his right kneepad or personalization of his chainsword?

So, that update I promised was detained by our old friend Beer and BBQ-Party all weekend. But now it's here.
Getting that sword, scabbard, hand and hilt to line up somewhat properly was an effin' nightmare. So you better damn well like it!

Sergeant, Firesupport (Havoc) Squad.









Enjoy.

Your Alpha Legion and Raven Guard look awesome! The marine pulling the sword out of the scabbard is epic. Can't wait to see more!

Subbed for sure!

Lucarikx

Since you asked nicely, I shall make a point of saying that your Alpha Legion guys (and indeed, the rest of your guys, it's just I love the Alpha Legion) are fantastic. You are an inspiration. That highlighting... Guhhh.. So nice!