I've recently succumbed to the dark side and after 7 years of resistance, begun playing Space Marines. But not just any Astartes would do. Pretty Marines, bane of all things ugly, immediately stood out to me and I had to run with them.

I quickly concocted myself a list of them I'd like to use, with my own twist. I decided on a company of Pretty Marines all encased in Tactical Dreadnought Armor.

I bring to you, Glamourwing. A Deathwing army clad in roses and perfect hair, flawless lavender armor, and power fists and lightning claws a'plenty to bring a beautiful monsoon death to the trecherous (and ugly!) enemies of mankind.




Ignore the chip on the front guys base, forgot to touch it up before getting the first pictures.

I'll update more later this week when I finish up the first squad of lightning claw Termi's. And hopefully with some better pictures. Need to set up a little neutral area to take them in.

I like it!

Reminds me of hello kitty marines

replace the storm bolters with hair dryers

I dont hate them.

-- at the very least they are painted well!

Woah, those guys are pretty

Haha, the possiblities are endless. Replace CC weapons with pillows!

They kind of look like bars of soap

Random observation, the thing above the front guy's head looks like the nvidia logo. you should replace the swords with flowers, or candy cane, I also like the idea of converting the storm bolters into hairdryers.

anyways... I love them, bet you cant wait for them to mince into battle

my Bloodwing force (of the Blood Angel's successor chapter, the Sons of Sanguinius) are quite jealous of your flawless hair! we prefer our emo black goth armor, though.

Thanks for the comments!

I'm thinking a large rose might be workable for the Librarian's force weapon, or Chaplain's Crozius if nothing else. Still trying to figure out exactly what I want to do for my second HQ. Have to get my Apothecary and Belial equivilant all made up first though. Especially the Belial, he's needed to actually play the army after all. And the Prince of Glamourwing has to be the most beautiful of them all, so it'll be a bit on him.

Oh, and the Nvidia thing was supposed to be a rose. I touched the greenstuff accidentally and didn't notice until it had cured that I had mashed it down. It still looks ok from playing distance, so I left it. Might pop it off and re-do it when I'm done with a few more squads though.


Warboss, they'd be happy to give your Bloodwing force some style advice. They know that nothing is worse than first dropping down onto a planet and your hair won't do that flippy thing you want, or flow in the wind just right. It's debilitating.

As a Angry Marine player you are my nemesis sir. I would love to get a photo of our two forces facing each other. Are you going to Adapticon this year.

Here are my Angry Marines. 2250 points and growing.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/323271.page

Now the only thing missing from the online zaniness of the great Angry Marines is that special whirlwind with the launchers, and extra side mounted launchers loaded with assault marine to fire them at the enemy!

Oh to see two Internet armies like the Angry Marines and the Pretty Marines go toe to toe would be awesome indeed!

Awww, they're Disney Princess'!!!

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

What a bunch of starfags

Dude you should bring that to a tournament.

Here is a story from the internet.

The records of this dire moment in Imperial history were (until I came upon them) known only to the two Space Marine Chapters that took part in the skirmish. However, only by putting the two records together is the truth found.

The Pretty Marines tell of a conflict fraught with glory against the odds, and of dire betrayal: "Before the sortie against our enemy our glorious Chapter Master graced us with a speech, before the resplendent lines of Brother-Marines sparking under the twin suns he told of beautiful victory, of the fates of our enemies. As one we cheered, then awaited his inevitable dance number. From the skies fell a drop pod, smashing into our forward lines and engulfing the area with thick dust. It took us only a moment to clear the air with our blow-dryers, but it was a moment too late as we saw the Chapter Master fallen..."

The Angry Marines tell the other side of the story, though in far less words due to a lacking in vocabulary beyond many four letter cusses. Hastily inserted into the annals of their Chapter, glory is simply a picture with the words "OWNED" across it, and the image of the Pretty Marines' Chapter Master unconscious on the ground, a crude mustache drawn on his face with paint, and what appears to be a set of testicles on his forehead.

So began the greatest feud in Imperial history.

Hahaha, finally some appropriately angry responses! Unfortunately most of my local gaming group doesn't know of the pretty/angry marines. Makes them slightly less fun, albeight very slightly.

I don't believe I'll be making Adepticon, unfortunately. I'd love to, but I think I'd be out of luck on a room and entry by the time I could get that money saved up... Unless by some fluke some of my local gaming buddies who are more into the tournement scene then me are going, and I can split costs with them. They've offered before for other events.

FAAABUUULLLLOUUUSSSSS!!!!

(Needs more sparkles and sequins, though)

Sounds like the emperor's children pre-heresy. You could totally play them as such.

Idea: if you have biker models, make them ride ponies and/or unicorns instead of bikes. They look so much adorable that way.

Make sure to varnish them with gloss varnish, though. And use glitter glue for the gluing the bases (some parts of the glitter will still peek out even under the sand). You can also use the glitter glue to write cursive letters on the vehicles.

perty

* looking for a date with some hottie Astartes*



Opposites attract?

not too bad in the paint job, the subject matter though... lol

That's so wrong, yet so cool looking. Nice job! They look like they're just daring an enemy to make a comment.

i wouldnt insult even a dandy of a space marine wearing termie armour, they look good, like halfway to a slanesh halloween party, i think painting in the eyes when you touch up will make a big difference as well.

I could see my 12yo daughter putting these down on the gaming table to take on someone at a tournament - preferably a dark and spiky army like Chaos or DE. The reactions would be priceless.

Hippies!! Yaaaay!

Immensely entertaining thread- thank you!

I Freeking LOVE this!!!

*Rubs eyes*....*blinks*...*rubs eyes again*

Wow. They are very pretty indeed.

L. Wrex

I like me. Not a scheme Id do, but very well done non the less.


Also digging the angry marines as well.

Couldn't get as much done this week as I'd have liked, thanks to the Festival of Gluttony and work, but have a I have a small update and a bit of a picture dump.


The first lightning claw squad.



The grey sergeant up front obviously isn't done yet. I was priming the rest of the squad and realized I hadn't finished off the sculpting of his chapter insignia, so he got set behind. I'll paint him this weekend when work will keep me from really doing much of anything.

Got a few pictures of each of the squads so far too. The squad and sergeant names are still in development.

Yellow Squad



Red Squad



Blue Squad



And a picture of the full force as of today.



19 Termi's down, 18 to go for the full 2,000 points.

The Ghoma wrote:FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

+1

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:* looking for a date with some hottie Astartes*



Opposites attract?

Their hearts belong to the Emperor alone.




Thanks to Jaekyu for all of the awesome Pretty Marines pictures

A combination of laziness and work have kept me from doing too much this week so far. I've managed to finish the sergeant for my first Lightning Claw squad.


Though I now see a spot on his head I need to touch up.


Other than that I've finished building the next basic squad so they're ready for Greenstuffing. They should be ready by next Tuesday (My gaming day every week.) After that there will just be one more basic squad and my "Command Squad" of a Lightning Claw squad with a Standard bearer. I'd love to fit an Apothecary too, but I just can't find the points as is. Though I'm considering adding a Venerable Dread in place of one of the squads to buy me some points for that Apothecary and a few Chainfists.

Well they are very... pretty. Definately unique. Make sure to take pictures of your opponents face for me please =]

where is the grimdark?!?!?! at least put dead bunnies on the bases, at least that stays on theme kinda....lol...your pianting skills are great, though...
EDIT spelling, improper english

jordanis wrote:where is the grimdark?!?!?! at least put dead bunnies on the bases, at least that stays on theme kinda....lol...your pianting skills are great, tho...

Pretty Marines kill the grimdark with daisy guns and butterfly grenades.

Pretty Marines for the win ZOMGBBQHAPPYFUNTIMEINMYCELLAR (I've got some popsicles, mmmm). But yes, I like them. And names? Justin, Joey, Lance, and Chris. After all, who deserves more to be remembered in the Pretty Marines than N Sync, the poster boys of the boy band?
I have spoken my peace and my piece. -Kaesar II

Thank you, thank you. I'm just taking a quick bagel and internet break from painting the next sqaud right now. It's just the last of the basic squads, but I'll add it into the pictures by tomorrow.

Have to have the full army done by Christmas, so I have a few weeks to get objective markers, a display board, and some names all sorted out before Bolter Beach in January. With it only being two more squads of termi's, two characters, and a Dread, it theoretically shouldn't be a big issue.

And my faith in humanity is yet again diminshed

Smitty0305 wrote:And my faith in humanity is yet again diminshed

C'mon! have a sense of humor bout this! between this and the angry marines this is lighthearted stuff. Why so serious?

shasolenzabi wrote:

Smitty0305 wrote:And my faith in humanity is yet again diminshed

C'mon! have a sense of humor bout this! between this and the angry marines this is lighthearted stuff. Why so serious?

You definitely need to find some angry marines to pose these against.

monkeytroll wrote:You definitely need to find some angry marines to pose these against.

Hey that's not a bad idea. How about we each paint up a squad and send them to each other. What do you say?

These are hilarious, definitely. Only suggestion I'd have is to pass give 'em a good wash on the armor and the faces, although I'm not sure what color would work best with that lavender. It'd really bring out their depth though and shouldn't harm the details.

Second the wash comment - some shading would make a big difference, I think. Your freehand is good, though, and kudos on getting a good, even colour on the armour. Just a quick wash and they'll be ready to eradicate ugliness!

hahaha...

I am tempted to stealth paint up a set and hide some of my husband's... "I repainted some of your troops for you!! don't you love them?"

"ALWAYS PRETTY, ALL THE TIME! OH BABY!"

I think they need a pink Land Raider Redeemer with hair-spray sponsons.

Ink. wrote:hahaha...

I am tempted to stealth paint up a set and hide some of my husband's... "I repainted some of your troops for you!! don't you love them?"

That would be terrible. And cruel. And amazing. Please put the results on youtube and post them here.

i would....

Looks good. I am glad I am not the only one doing pretty marines but mine are chaos (there Yaoi fanboys) sadly i dont have picks yet and my painting skills suck.

It's nice to see someone has a sense of humor about all this grimdark nonsense. Nice models!

Spiff wrote:FAAABUUULLLLOUUUSSSSS!!!!

(Needs more sparkles and sequins, though)

You should model one to look like Fabio from his glory days, and banners should have lines from Right Said Fred's "I'm too sexy."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39YUXIKrOFk

Just imagine a whole HORDE of these guys coming at you!

Fantastic army scheme. Especially cause of how many folks it will irriate.

The Dreadnote wrote:Second the wash comment - some shading would make a big difference, I think. Your freehand is good, though, and kudos on getting a good, even colour on the armour. Just a quick wash and they'll be ready to eradicate ugliness!

Agree with this too. Try some Leviathan Purple on the armour

in any case, they are simply fabulous!
And that drawing was really fun.

Did you create a stamp for your rose purity seals? err... emblems?

Rose purity seals would look great too.

Thanks for all of the input!

Lonecoon wrote:Did you create a stamp for your rose purity seals? err... emblems?

Rose purity seals would look great too.

I tried making a press-mold for the emblems, but in the end just wound up sculpting all the hearts, roses, hair, and other things individually. It was more effective for me to do it that way.



I do agree that I could use some shading. I've just been very wary of darkening them up too much. My initial test mini's turned out way too muted, so I wound up running with them the way they are now. I do have a spare unit of termi's I might see what I can do with. If I can get them shaded and highlighted a bit better, I may go back and work on the others again.

The next unit is already done though, just letting the glue on the bases dry before adding the finishing touches to the bases and I'll throw them up here as well. Then the Dreadnought is next.


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Well, the last normal squad is finished. Though upon looking at the pictures I see some things I think I'm going back and changing/fixing that I didn't really notice before.




And a really bad picture of the full painted army so far.




From here I just have my fancy-pants lightning claw squad with a Banner and Apothecary, the Librarian, the Dreadnought, and the Prince of the Glamourwing left. And roughly a week to do them in. Gogogo!

The one army no one makes right here, I've actually seen Angry Marine armies; but never pretty marines.

This and angry marines prove that the virus of 4chan can leak out and taint reality :-(

Decent work, though- solid painting. Just kind of seems like alot of time, effort, and money for a lame joke in a genre that already reaches self parody. Whatever floats your boat and all that.

Sinphonite wrote:Thanks for all of the input!

Lonecoon wrote:Did you create a stamp for your rose purity seals? err... emblems?

Rose purity seals would look great too.

I tried making a press-mold for the emblems, but in the end just wound up sculpting all the hearts, roses, hair, and other things individually. It was more effective for me to do it that way.

Try the baking or cake decorating section of your local hobby store. I don't know if they have anything that small, but if you're there anyway, It's worth looking.

Very nice, I love alternate color schemes and your freehand is very nice. I agree that they could use a wash to pull out the depth and I think a blue wash would work nicely for the lavender to add shadow without dulling it down. I couldn't quite tell, but are your highlights pure white?

Keep up the good work.

wow, well done. I don't know what to make of this. I'm sure I would laugh my ass off if I saw them in a battle at a GW though.

The highlights are a mix of Apple Barrel "Petunia Purple" and white. It's very light, but not pure white.

I have the Dreadnought all done up now. Just working on the base. I'll get pictures of it up tonight, have a Christmas party to attend first.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:replace the storm bolters with hair dryers

Best darned quote I've read all week.

Are they scented too? Please tell me they're lavender scented, that would be ... er. . . . .well . . . . weird. But good.

Hahaha, actually, I keep oil burners around all the time. I was contemplating putting a drop of rose or gardenia oil in the patches of static grass on the bases. Might just have to do that.

Epic win!

Small enough a force to be worth doing, just for the sake of doing it.

Would love to see a couple of Land Raiders in that Scheme for a 2500 Point force. :-)

Sinphonite wrote:Hahaha, actually, I keep oil burners around all the time. I was contemplating putting a drop of rose or gardenia oil in the patches of static grass on the bases. Might just have to do that.

Totally classic, You absolutely should have perfume around all the time. No Gamer Stink on this army.

Have you thought of the Sanguinor as your HQ. He sure does look perdy.

Here's the army's latest addition and lascannon pincushion, Venerable Brother Azalea.





He needs a spray of dullcote still to cut some of that shine, but that's gonna have to wait until I get home from work tomorrow.

The Sanguinor is a pretty fancy model, unfortunately not a Terminator though.

I wonder how a pretty marine would feel about being horribly disfigured and forced to live in a box? Still, I guess they'd be okay if they could still inflict beautiful death on the enemy. Again, nice sculpting!

Pretty- Me likes it.

I bow down and take my hat off for you my friend. A Pretty Marine army that is actually competitive is something to be immensly proud of, and I like your freehand stuff a lot!

serious question: everyone has different color las-beams for their lascannons, are pretty marines ones neon pink?

The Dreadnote wrote:I wonder how a pretty marine would feel about being horribly disfigured and forced to live in a box? Still, I guess they'd be okay if they could still inflict beautiful death on the enemy. Again, nice sculpting!

Thank you much.

Yes, poor brother Azalea suffered a horrendous calamity during a raid on a nurgle-infested manufactorum.
During his final heroic moments before being interred into his new armored shell, he was struck while delivering the final blow to a particularly ugly Plaguebearer. The blood and pus of the foul nurgle-spawn splashed his face, poor Azalea was left with a series of pimples and blemishes that would never fade. He was carried back to the Elegant Spirit and, while the chapter apothecaries tried everything they could to restore his beauty, they found that encasing him in a Dreadnought was the only solution.

Sinphonite wrote:He was carried back to the Elegant Spirit and, while the chapter apothecaries tried everything they could to restore his beauty, they found that encasing him in a Dreadnought was the only solution.

The Power of the Elegant Spirit is a powerful special rule!

Frankly, I think the front of the dreadnought-but-ugliness should have a portait of azaleas former beauty painted on it.

If you're actually going to play 'em; use Wolf Wing rules. Leave the Codex: DA under the uneven table-leg where it is of better service.

Curse the Pretty Marines and there Heresy!

They completely destroy the feel of space marines.

But,Good job!

Warlord Gazghkull Thraka wrote:They completely destroy the feel of space marines.

Sinphonite wrote:Yes, poor brother Azalea suffered a horrendous calamity during a raid on a nurgle-infested manufactorum.
During his final heroic moments before being interred into his new armored shell, he was struck while delivering the final blow to a particularly ugly Plaguebearer. The blood and pus of the foul nurgle-spawn splashed his face, poor Azalea was left with a series of pimples and blemishes that would never fade. He was carried back to the Elegant Spirit and, while the chapter apothecaries tried everything they could to restore his beauty, they found that encasing him in a Dreadnought was the only solution.

That is hillarious

Brothererekose wrote:If you're actually going to play 'em; use Wolf Wing rules. Leave the Codex: DA under the uneven table-leg where it is of better service.

I had concidered it briefly, since I am taking them to a Tourney and all. Granted, I'm not expecting any great things out of them, but they'll be more fun to bring than my Dark Eldar.

My biggest problem with playing them as SW it that they're already built to Deathwing specifications. Lots of Powerfists since Power Weapons aren't available as basic weapons. I just feel that all I'd really gain from playing them is Counter-attack, and 2-shot CML's. While that's nice, the option to make use of Deathwing Assault if the situation deems it appropriate seems like a slightly larger boon to me than Counter-attack with a bunch of I1 power fists.

Perhaps there's something I'm missing though.

Instead of washing them completely and darkening them, I'd test a thin mixture of purple or blue wash (maybe 1:1 with water) painted directing into the crevices of the armour. It should give enough definition to stop them looking so flat.

Pretty Marines?!!

I heart you so much. Their just something awesome about themed armies. Great work, I love the dreadnought especially. He just needs some speakers and a karaoke machine.

I love this gak. It is the coolest thing by far about 40k--that people can make stuff like this.

Really cool. lets see some more pics

I still think we should exchange a squad as Pretty Marines are part of the Angry Marine lore. I could send you a box of Terminators to paint up and you could send me a equivalent squad. What say you?

+1 for the ccw pillows. That would rock so hard.

Here's a WIP pics of the HQ's, Librarian Oleander and Prince Lilac.



Prince Lilac's lightning claws with rose knuckles-





Veritechc, the trading squads sounds interesting. I don't really have the funds to pick up a unit to send right now though, with Christmas and all.

Hmmm, based on the way they are doing the new BA codex, perhaps that would be an interesting redo of the Pretty Marines? Eventually you'd be able to use once you could afford it, sculpted six-pack abs and all those other heads that have hair as well. Also a chapter concerned with it's appearance, so that would fit in at least their models would with your ability to rose the symbols compared to the older ones. You could do it, based on what I have seen already.


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Oh yeah, I am wondering what a Chaplain will look like?

I was torn between a Chaplain and Librarian, but a Librarian won out in the end. I might eventually do a Chaplain too.

Here's a picture of the full army on it's WIP display board.

The forceflower is, in a word, amazing.

I think it needs thorns and a more natural looking stem...but it still looks good now lol

Sinphonite wrote:Here's a WIP pics of the HQ's, Librarian Oleander and Prince Lilac.



Prince Lilac's lightning claws with rose knuckles-





Veritechc, the trading squads sounds interesting. I don't really have the funds to pick up a unit to send right now though, with Christmas and all.

First off, I love the two new models. You have the hair down perfect!

Second, PM me. I'll send you some termies first, on me and I'll make up some Angry Marines for you. What squad would you like me to create?

Alright, finally finishing them off! Needing the army ready by Saturday morning for Bolter Beach II, I finally managed to stop procrastinating and get them done. The last squad is still waiting until tomorrow morning for their basing, but it's all set past that. Thanks to some help from my awesome girlfriend, finishing up most of my board while I painted.

The full force on it's board:


Brother Librarian Oleander:


Brother Lilac, Prince of the Glamourwing and his command squad:


Every member of the force also has his own floral name, each themed to the color of their respective squad.

And now, with the new FAQ, you can use Deathwing rules again!

I love you

zeronyne wrote:And now, with the new FAQ, you can use Deathwing rules again!

Yeah, unfortunately they came too late for me to throw some Thunderhammer and Storm Shields in to take some lascannon hits for the squad. The Cyclone and Apothecary change will be interesting though.

Gods of the aether... well, they're still straighter than the eldar.

I am completely in love with it. Wonderful job.

Kill it with fire!




Seriously though, I love them. And hate them. And love hating them.

Great job!


edit: sorry for the profanity. Got caught up in the Angry Marine mindset.

Wow they all look really cool. Reminds me of Hercules apprentice at the start of the Cell Games from DBZ. You know the one . . .

They worked out exactly as expected at Bolter Beach, exactly zero victories! Had a great time though, and the army took best painted. Though I personally thought one of the Tau or one of the Ork armies should have had that, one took players choice and the other best sportsmanship, so all is good.

And it motivated me enough to sell off my Dark Eldar to help expand them and turn them into a workable force, so expect more stuff to pop up in the future. Likely some fancy Thunderhammer and Stormshield action, a Chaplain, and maybe even another dread and Land Raiders. But first I'm moving my Daemon army from the back-burner to the forefront. I'll decide which to bring to the next Bolter Beach when it gets closer to time.

They might even make the jump to another codex, expanding into a second Pretty Marine army for me.

Your pretty marines have inspired me to get back to painting the Misfits (which i'll be starting a blog on) The Misfits are quite friendly with the angry marines thereby laugh at every opportunity at the pretty marines.

Very funny army, love the roses and the names you've given them.