Hello everyone! Well time to start a new blog. As the title suggests this will be a pre heresy Death Guard army. Basically no expense spared, everything is Forge World! The idea came about when I was doing a model for the pre heresy SM Conclave run by Smurfwedge. I converted a marine and painted him up as a pre heresy Death Guard.

Here is the final result and some of the wip pics to show you how he was done;













WIP pics;































So that was the model that started it all!

Currently I have the following models for the army;

1 Land Raider Proteus
1 Mk 1c Demios Pattern Rhino
1 Relic Contemptor Dreadnought
Tyberos the Red Wake
10 MK4 Maximus Armour marines
5 MK3 Iron Armour
5 MK2 Crusade Armour
5 Mk2 Assault Marines
5 Mk5 Assault Marines
10 MK6 marines
Character conversion set
Space marine boarding Armour set
10 Phobos pattern bolters
Early Mk space marine heavy weapons
Small brass etch eagles

I have started building and painting the Land raider;



















I've not got any further yet with the Land Raider.

I have trimmed up a squad of 10 marines and have made a start on the bases;





I took a squad of mk6 marines from my Emperor's Wings project;









So clearly plenty to be getting on with! Quite a lot of building to do and loads of painting, I always like white models but they are a lot of trouble to paint well! The progress on this army might be a bit slower than on others as I want to do it well considering how much just the models cost!

Any C&C so far is welcome and suggestions to go along with the theme. I'll update when I can, I can't wait to show you the Forge World jump packs! They are things of beauty!

I really like the conversion of the helmet in the 2nd one, and I also really like all the old school armor used. The pre-heresy theme is being presented really well.
The painting looks crisp, and good, however the weathering/blood spatter effect is a little OTT to me, but that's just a personal opinion, the actual technical execution seems quite good..

Thanks that model has gone for the charity auction, I don't think I will be using quite that level of weathering and blood. I had just been playing Space Marine on the Xbox and got a bit carried away! I liked that he looked as if he had been slogging through blood and bullets.


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Another quick suggestion, all my pics are in the Gallery just click on the photo so you can zoom in. If you like a photo of a finished model or unit, please vote for it. I spend a lot of time on Dakka and like to see what people think of my models!

Not sure about the wonky schnozzle on the test fig but the painting is great!

Look forward to more!

neat

Perkustin wrote:Not sure about the wonky schnozzle on the test fig but the painting is great!

Look forward to more!

Thanks Perkustin for stopping by and posting. I wasn't pleased with the nose either but once painted up it improved the look. Never fear I have left the sculpting to Forge World this time, probably won't be any need for my amateur sculpting skills!

Capitansolstice wrote:neat

Glad to see you have come over to have a look Captainsolstice. Thanks for the compliment.

you gonna be doing the primarch?
Id like to see the death shroud too maybe use typhus sickle thing
anyhow brilliant army looking forward to more

nurglerulesslaneshdrools wrote:you gonna be doing the primarch?
Id like to see the death shroud too maybe use typhus sickle thing
anyhow brilliant army looking forward to more

I'm very tempted, not sure if my sculpting skills are up to it. I could give it a go... I would like the model that Scribor did, not sure if he is selling it under a different name yet as he was told to stop by GW. He seems to be getting round a lot of that trouble by calling them Sci-fi knights etc. The other thing is that there are no rules for Primarchs but I suppose I would just play him as one of the Heroes from which ever codex I use to play these models.

There is an idea! Which codex should I use? The Death Guard are supposed to be relentless, hardy and durable, any ideas?

I think I would use codex marines and coulnt-as veterans for them. I cant believe that you have so much forge world stuff

Capitansolstice wrote:I think I would use codex marines and coulnt-as veterans for them. I cant believe that you have so much forge world stuff

I'll have a look at it, I didn't know you could have a whole army of veterans. I'm lucky I suppose that I got people to agree to donate Christmas money towards the latest purchases, it really softened the financial blow. Also I got something cool for Christmas not socks or a scarf! Oh hang on a min I still got two scarfs! Damn!

use marines and give them immunity to poison chapter rule thing say 2+ becomes 3+ to show they can handle poison ( then face dark eldar )

Wow this is really exciting. Very cool minis bud. I spent a few days working on a Mortarion and Deathguard set and so am particularly interested to watch this army evolve!

You can them out here if you want -

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/414679.page

Love the paint job! Look forward to more updates.

Jarra

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:

Capitansolstice wrote:I think I would use codex marines and coulnt-as veterans for them. I cant believe that you have so much forge world stuff

I'll have a look at it, I didn't know you could have a whole army of veterans. I'm lucky I suppose that I got people to agree to donate Christmas money towards the latest purchases, it really softened the financial blow. Also I got something cool for Christmas not socks or a scarf! Oh hang on a min I still got two scarfs! Damn!

Actually you cant but... Or maybe have relentless USR?

nurglerulesslaneshdrools wrote:use marines and give them immunity to poison chapter rule thing say 2+ becomes 3+ to show they can handle poison ( then face dark eldar )

I take it you are saying I should just make some house rules up. Personally I prefer to play them as an official codex so I can do tournaments and just say, ok they are blood angels, he counts as Dante etc. but still make it all look really Death Guard.

asJarra wrote:Wow this is really exciting. Very cool minis bud. I spent a few days working on a Mortarion and Death Guard set and so am particularly interested to watch this army evolve!

You can them out here if you want -

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/414679.page

Love the paint job! Look forward to more updates.

Jarra

Thanks Jarra! I watched your mephiston video set and had a look at Mortarion. Great Mortarion model, he is epic! Scythe might be just a tad too big for me. I really like the Terminator guards, they are cool, I'm still considering what to do for terminators for my own project. I noticed when I watched your videos that you make casts of a lot of your stuff, does that mean you can reproduce another Mortarion? I would be interested if the price was right. Great work otherwise and Cruise control is delightfully sick!

Capitansolstice wrote:

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:

Capitansolstice wrote:I think I would use codex marines and coulnt-as veterans for them. I cant believe that you have so much forge world stuff

I'll have a look at it, I didn't know you could have a whole army of veterans. I'm lucky I suppose that I got people to agree to donate Christmas money towards the latest purchases, it really softened the financial blow. Also I got something cool for Christmas not socks or a scarf! Oh hang on a min I still got two scarfs! Damn!

Actually you cant but... Or maybe have relentless USR?

Again I think you are talking house rules but I would like to take them to tournaments so they should really be legal.

No new pictures as yet but I have under coated the torsos of the Mk4 squad and hoping to get some paint on today so there should be an update later.

I think they might just have to be marines with a special character.

I'll have a think on what to use them as.

Well not a lot done today, did some work on some other projects so a rather lame update I'm afraid:(



That is the 2nd Tactical squad. Still got to fill in some chaos black where the spray didn't quite get into all the corners, done five, five to go!

Looking good so I'm going to sub.

MeatShield wrote:Looking good so I'm going to sub.

Thanks MeatShield more readers are always welcome!

Hey reaper just noticed you have a new blog! Cpnsider me subbed!The blood effect is really effective man and there is a lot of forge world stuff too!Like it!

That model is absolutely gorgeous! MUST... HAVE... MOOORE!!

The test model is great, looking forward to seeing more!!


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The test model is great, looking forward to seeing more!!

To return the kind remarks;

I finished reading The Flight of the Eisenstein last week. Were it not for my beloved Emperor's Children, the Death Guard would have been my chosen force!

Really looking forward to seeing this thread grow. You have an absolute gak-ton of FW models to go through!

HAZZER wrote:Hey reaper just noticed you have a new blog! Cpnsider me subbed!The blood effect is really effective man and there is a lot of forge world stuff too!Like it!

Thanks Hazzer, hope you enjoy this one and I look forward to your enthusiasm and comments.

Thatguy91 wrote:That model is absolutely gorgeous! MUST... HAVE... MOOORE!!

More coming, they will probably not be as quick on the production line though.

Tortured-Robot wrote:The test model is great, looking forward to seeing more!!


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The test model is great, looking forward to seeing more!!

Thanks, the test model is up for auction on ebay soon with the rest of the pre heresy legions conclave marines. See smurfwedge's thread for more info:

Pre heresy legion conclave

Eiríkr wrote:To return the kind remarks;

I finished reading The Flight of the Eisenstein last week. Were it not for my beloved Emperor's Children, the Death Guard would have been my chosen force!

Really looking forward to seeing this thread grow. You have an absolute gak-ton of FW models to go through!

Yes that amount of Forge World is a bit intimidating and I really don't want to mess them up considering the cost! We'll have to keep an eye on each others progress! Currently reading Deliverance Lost, Corax is quite cool and I'm getting a yearning for Raven Guard too now! Thanks for popping over to say hello.

Woah, almost forgot to put the pic of the first bits of paint going on!

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:

Hi reaper just noticed a time line error! I thought you may want to know that that mark of plasma postle is mark 6 I belive. I'm liking your guys btw keep it up!

Thanks Hazzer, I had realised, this model was for my other project but stolen for this one. Somewhere I have the sprue that the power axe came from with an earlier MK of pistol.

Ok, a bit more paint on the first marine!





I must say that working on this model I'm not that impressed with the quality. Surprising I know but it has lots of little bits/bobbles/imperfections that I didn't notice when preping it. The back packs were the worst, really badly miss moulded to the point where I am considering talking to Forge world about them. Any way the wife has just got in so there probably won't be any further updates today.


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Well turned out I had a bit more time!

next layers of grey and white mix are on;

Looking sweet!

Likng the layer on that guy! Loving it keep up the gret work!

Capitansolstice wrote:Looking sweet!

Thanks!

HAZZER wrote:Likng the layer on that guy! Loving it keep up the gret work!

Yep I always work up from black now, I tried working down from white with some Tau and it was excruciating!

Well I've been working some more on the white but after uploading the pictures it doesn't seem like much has changed!







I've got to decide on what to do with the shoulder pads now, obviously Death Guard symbol on one side but what for the other? A typical tactical marking? Index Astartes wasn't written buy this time so I could put whatever I liked on there! not too much detail to see on the only bit of pre heresy artwork I have for the Death Guard.



Ant ideas?

Somehow I've managed to miss this blog, well that wont be happing again.

Everything seems to be coming along great, really looking forward to watching the project progress.

GiraffeX wrote:Somehow I've managed to miss this blog, well that wont be happing again.

Everything seems to be coming along great, really looking forward to watching the project progress.

Thanks Giraffex, glad to have you on board!


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Ok decision time! I need to decide am I weathering these bad boys? I think I should as I have started weathering the land raider but that isn't irreversible. What do you guys think? Pristine or battered?


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So I have had a go at some battle damage and to be honest I don't like how it has come out. Here's a pic so you lot can judge but I think I will probably paint over it!

GiraffeX wrote:Somehow I've managed to miss this blog, well that wont be happing again.

I missed it as well and am quite distraught at the fact! I'm liking the direction this is heading. The layered paintwork is brilliant.

We may have to form a South Coast Pre-Heresy club or something

Studded shoulder pad? that layering looks like the one for karosan (White scares dude) in the evey metal toutorail! The level of painting done there is exerlant!

infilTRAITOR wrote:

GiraffeX wrote:Somehow I've managed to miss this blog, well that wont be happing again.

I missed it as well and am quite distraught at the fact! I'm liking the direction this is heading. The layered paintwork is brilliant.

We may have to form a South Coast Pre-Heresy club or something

That would be a cool idea! Welcome and thanks for subbing!

HAZZER wrote:Studded shoulder pad? that layering looks like the one for karosan (White scares dude) in the evey metal toutorail! The level of painting done there is exerlant!

What do you mean by studded shoulder pad? They are both normal on this mk of armour.

I have decided to paint over that weathering and keep them clean for now, possibly weather them later.

Loving the white here reaper, very..well, white, looking forward to seeing more from you, keep it coming =]

Like the the MK V style armour! Btw my blog had an update too!

Amazing work mate. loving the mass of forgeworld stuff.
Peace

Really nice work so far! I'll be interested to see how this progresses. You must have a heck of a lot of patience to work up from black. I think you should go easy on the weathering, but that's just my personal taste!

On a side note, (and forgive my ignorance) but are those FW bodies true scale, or close to true scale?

J-paint wrote:Loving the white here reaper, very..well, white, looking forward to seeing more from you, keep it coming =]

Thanks J-paint, there will be plenty more white!

HAZZER wrote:Like the the MK V style armour! Btw my blog had an update too!

It's cool isn't it! Should be doing some more on these tonight, I've been a bit distracted with the Necrons.

spudkins wrote:Amazing work mate. loving the mass of forgeworld stuff.
Peace

Thanks spudkins, I love Forge World stuff sooo much I can't believe the Necrons have been distracting me so much but the chrome paint is very cool!

Skarwael wrote:Really nice work so far! I'll be interested to see how this progresses. You must have a heck of a lot of patience to work up from black. I think you should go easy on the weathering, but that's just my personal taste!

On a side note, (and forgive my ignorance) but are those FW bodies true scale, or close to true scale?

I have decided that the weathering didn't really do it for me either so I am going to tone it down a little. FW models are normal scale maybe a tadge bigger but not true scale.

Cool, Btw I like you new stig pic but the wave keep's going into the eye!

I know the blingee pictures thing is a little crude, I could put more effort in but it just isn't in me at the moment.


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So toned down the battle damage and put it on the whole model now, here are some WIP pics;

Yeah i think the toned down battle damage is much better, i think your right, before it was a little much, but looks perfect now Your marine has asked me to ask you for a head though, he was most insistent.

Body flying in space! Liking the layering reaper! Its looking very effective!

J-paint wrote:Yeah i think the toned down battle damage is much better, i think your right, before it was a little much, but looks perfect now Your marine has asked me to ask you for a head though, he was most insistent.

Thanks J-paint. I've done the first couple of layers on the head and the arms and the backpack.

HAZZER wrote:Body flying in space! Liking the layering reaper! Its looking very effective!

Thanks Hazzer, the planets shot is quite fun! Lol!

Ooohhh! Look new termies that will have to be purchased for this project!

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/TARTAROS_PATTERN_TERMINATOR_ARMOUR.html

They are really nice!

You had to bring them up didn't you reaper. =p Ever since i saw them an hour ago i've been trying to forget how awesome they are, and i don't even collect space marines!

Just ordered them! OOOhhhh! I am so excited they look so sweeeeet!

I'm not sure if I like them or not, so I expect them painted up ASAP!

Looking forward to seeing some Termies appear, Reaper! I have been ooh'ing and aah'ing over them too for my Emperor's Children. However, I'm going to await the forthcoming Chaos codex in the summer before spending heavily on FW troops.

In the mean time, some MK.V Assault troops shall be bought! Have you any assault troops lined up or already done, Reaper?

Anywho; great job on the update! I'm going to start painting and building my Marines seperately in pieces now too. Purple really pops out any untouched part of the model, no matter how well hidden it is!

Looking forward to seeing the termies painted. I thought about them but was a bit unsure so put them on my maybe later list lol.

whalemusic360 wrote:I'm not sure if I like them or not, so I expect them painted up ASAP!

I will try but all effort is going into the Necrons ready for the tournament.

Eiríkr wrote:Looking forward to seeing some Termies appear, Reaper! I have been ooh'ing and aah'ing over them too for my Emperor's Children. However, I'm going to await the forthcoming Chaos codex in the summer before spending heavily on FW troops.

In the mean time, some MK.V Assault troops shall be bought! Have you any assault troops lined up or already done, Reaper?

Anywho; great job on the update! I'm going to start painting and building my Marines seperately in pieces now too. Purple really pops out any untouched part of the model, no matter how well hidden it is!

I have got 5 MKV assault marines but not built them yet, I also have 5 MKII assault marines to build.

GiraffeX wrote:Looking forward to seeing the termies painted. I thought about them but was a bit unsure so put them on my maybe later list lol.

I'm sure once I have painted them up everyone will think they are really cool and want to buy some!

Here is a pic of the Terminators for easier reference;



They have also announced this rather cool predator with a conversion beamer and a plasma turret option.





Hmm.... might have to get one of these or the standard Deimos pred.

So long time since I have updated this blog, been working on the Necrons and my Demon entry for this year (that crawls on slowly!). So my marine has a head and two arms! Thought I would upload a pic before I get on to the shoulder pads and the base.



Clearly still a WIP but you get the idea, I also have to paint the bolter of course! C&C is welcome, I'm not sure about leaving so much of the helmet off white/grey but it seems to work in the flesh/resin.

Like that marine alot.

I really like that marine looks excellent, I love the way you do your white.

cormadepanda wrote:Like that marine alot.

Thanks! he is coming along slowly.

GiraffeX wrote:I really like that marine looks excellent, I love the way you do your white.

It does take a while to work up from black to white but I think it is worth it. The photo doesn't show the true extent to which he is white the earlier shots of the body are a better representation of the true colour. Thanks GiraffeX!

So did a little more this evening, got some shoulder pads done! They are a nightmare to glue on they just don't fit well.

So pics,

Here he is as far as I got this evening and the best photo;





Here are some shots of the mid work up with grey on the shoulder pads but the images came out a little odd;





So I'm making progress, just hope it goes quicker with the rest of them!!

Yeeeeeees! He looks brilliant, perfect Death Guard! I love the lens too.

Thanks Eirikr! Nearly finished him, did a little more work on the bolter but no pics today

I have added another blog to cover misc and random projects, link is in my sig, go check out my first DE model a Slith.

Looking good man! Btw you are doing GD too? Perhaphs could you please PM me some tips for young bloods?

Ok managed a little more I on my first marine tonight. Tried the chapter symbol and the squad marking and started the bolter, let me know what you all think!

Bolter First;



Roughing out the chapter symbol;



Then fill in and tidy up;



Squad marking;



Let me know what you think!!

WOW! Thats so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The white is so clean and crisp, too and the free hand is good also. Soz to be a painm, but could you give me some more tips on painting the white and freehand please? I've been looking all over the web but there are very few good tuts...

Excellent crisp white, nice color choice on the lense. Good free hand. Just finish a squad.

Really, really great painting. Love the way the white looks clean, yet stained; the sort of white you'd expect from a horror story. Awesome work. One thing, I think you should tone done the greens, as the dead, white look worked really well and it just clashes abit. Great work though!

Bloody beautiful!

NOW DO A SQUAD

Pure Epic

HAZZER wrote: WOW! Thats so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The white is so clean and crisp, too and the free hand is good also. Soz to be a painm, but could you give me some more tips on painting the white and freehand please? I've been looking all over the web but there are very few good tuts...

Thanks Hazzer, I will put your tutorial up later but surely the wip pics help. Black undercoat up to codex grey up to skull white.

cormadepanda wrote:Excellent crisp white, nice color choice on the lense. Good free hand. Just finish a squad.

I know, I know, white is not a colour to rush though!

Urien_Rakarth wrote:Really, really great painting. Love the way the white looks clean, yet stained; the sort of white you'd expect from a horror story. Awesome work. One thing, I think you should tone done the greens, as the dead, white look worked really well and it just clashes abit. Great work though!

I might tone down the green on the gun, that should keep him looking crisp!

Eiríkr wrote:Bloody beautiful!

NOW DO A SQUAD

Thanks Eirkr, I'll get going on the squad now!

Boss Gutrippa wrote:Pure Epic

Cheers Boss Gutrippa!

He made the front page of the gallery by the way and he isn't even finished!

Thanks man! Is that all it is? And a lot of blending!!!!!!!!!

So just secured this chap off Ebay for an amazing £35 including delivery! Awesome!



Looking forward to getting some paint on him!

Very good price. Are you going to change the pose?
Peace

The FW pre-heresy armor sets look so nice with your paint scheme.

Good luck with the Contemptor, I have mine built and primed but can't bring my self to break the painting stalemate.

spudkins wrote:Very good price. Are you going to change the pose?
Peace

I would really like to change the pose but before I undercoated it I tried to pull it apart but whoever built it used some good glue & I was worried about snapping parts so I guess I'm stuck with the pose.

OverwatchCNC wrote:The FW pre-heresy armor sets look so nice with your paint scheme.

Good luck with the Contemptor, I have mine built and primed but can't bring my self to break the painting stalemate.

Thanks Overwatch I too need to get off my backside and do some painting, I want this to be a tournament army more fluffy than competitive and aimed at best painted rather than winning tournaments. Also just got myself a RT landraider from ebay, I'll paint it up and see how it looks before I commit to putting it in the force, they do look a little dated espescially next to the prometheus!

Awesome work mate. Cant wait to see more progress.. understandably going to take a while with such a demanding scheme but will be well worth it!

Thanks, they are on a bit of a hold at the moment as I'm working on Golden Demon entries. I really just want to play with the army now though!

Some very good news for me to share with you all, my wife and I are expecting a little girl in December! Might be the death of my hobby though.

Grats, regardless of hobby morbidity. Hopefully not on that last part though.

Thanks Whale music!

excellent work man keep them going

Love all the death guard IMO they are the coolest looking pre heresy army

Wow these, are really wicked, I love the Death Guard.

Can't wait to see more.

D

cormadepanda wrote:excellent work man keep them going

Thanks cormadepanda, slowing down at the moment should pick up again after Golden Demon.

baseballclu wrote:Love all the death guard IMO they are the coolest looking pre heresy army

I agree, decided I was going to do a preheresy army and they were by far the best colour scheme!

evildrcheese wrote:Wow these, are really wicked, I love the Death Guard.

Can't wait to see more.

D

Thanks evilcheese I will post as soon as I do some more.

A very cool link to some pre release hardware available at games day this year from Forge World! Hmmmmm come to papa.

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Events/UK_Games_Day_2012.html#fellblade

I can see me getting some goodies for this project if they haven't sold out.

Yeah some really nice if rather expensive stuff there. I really like the Fellblade the most.

This is looking fantastic, and you now have background rules you can use if you want to spend £70. Congratulations about the girl as well.

I wish you the best sir

Young Logan

GiraffeX wrote:Yeah some really nice if rather expensive stuff there. I really like the Fellblade the most.

It is a very cool tank, I don't have the spare cash at the moment though

Young_Logan wrote:This is looking fantastic, and you now have background rules you can use if you want to spend £70. Congratulations about the girl as well.

I wish you the best sir

Young Logan

I will be getting the book eventually but I'm not sure I will get it at games day. It looks beautiful but £70 is quite expensive!
I'm getting quite excited about my daughter arriving, I'm getting close to finishing the nursery and the mural I'm doing on one of the walls. It is a fairy forest which I'm hoping is enchanting rather than creepy. I'll probably post a pic once it is finished.

Thanks Young Logan.

The coolest Dad would paint a vague, ominous shadow of a Lictor stalking the fairy forest.

I guess you're just not cool enough...

Mmm I think the wife might have something to say about that! On a positive note I have finally finished the first Death Guard marine, pics tomorrow! I entered him in the open competition at Golden Demon on the off chance he might make the cut but it was too much of a long shot and he didn't make it. Still a really cool start to the squad!


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Got the new Horus Heresy book from Forge World! The primarch stats are quite cool! Didn't like the Angron model so passed on him. I did get some of the new Cataphractii Terminators with special weapons!

Is the Angron model to scale and playable?

He is big but not huge, he comes on a large base with three other marines on it being knocked out the way and you can detach him on a terminator sized base from the big one. I'll try and upload a pic.

 Reaper Man 2020 wrote:

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Got the new Horus Heresy book from Forge World! The primarch stats are quite cool! Didn't like the Angron model so passed on him. I did get some of the new Cataphractii Terminators with special weapons!

WHAT. Jealous!

May I poke you a little about the Emperor's Children? Do they run with any special rules specific to the Legion? Any motion towards Fabius Bile's experiments upon the higher ranking officers of the Legion? Eidolon, as an example, received his noise-marinesque//sonic attack before Istvaan III.

So here is the finished model though I have already noticed something that also needs doing now I am looking at the photos!







Erikr,

As a treat here is the stat line for Fulgrim WS 8 BS 6 S 6 T 6 W 6 I 8 A 5 Ld 10 Sv 2+/3+ 380 pts

There are additional rules for him, such as war gear etc and there are rules for legions as a whole which are quite cool & of course you get to use all the new funky pre-heresy tanks etc.

Mortarion the Reaper WS 7 BS 5 S 6 T 7 W 7 I 5 A 5 Ld 10 Sv 2+/4+ 425 pts

Angron WS 9 BS 5 S 7 T 6 W 5 I 7 A 6 Ld 10 Sv 3+/4+ 400 pts

Horus The Warmaster WS 8 BS 5 S 7 T 6 W 6 I 6 A 5 Ld 10 Sv 2+/3+ 500 pts

These are the four Primarchs covered in this book plus a few more units for each army and a shed load of back ground.

Christ... they are all infantry Dragons... O_o

Bring on Perturabo!!!

Yep they are certainly mean and some of their wargear makes them even sicker!!

Yeah I saw the warmasters stuff from the gamesday images I came across... Methinks I'll be picking the book up when its available to order... as well as every Primarch

depending on how much lols

Damn! I can't wait for the book to be released, will be blowing some uni money on that. Same goes for Fulgrim...

Your Death Guard looks excellent, as per usual! Hopefully one day we may be able to play a game or two with some Heresy-era Marines.

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Yeah I saw the warmasters stuff from the gamesday images I came across... Methinks I'll be picking the book up when its available to order... as well as every Primarch

depending on how much lols

The Primarchs are £50 each! They had 1000 Angron models at games day and they sold out around 11:30!

Eiríkr wrote:Damn! I can't wait for the book to be released, will be blowing some uni money on that. Same goes for Fulgrim...

Your Death Guard looks excellent, as per usual! Hopefully one day we may be able to play a game or two with some Heresy-era Marines.

Certainly would love to play some time too!

 Reaper Man 2020 wrote:

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Yeah I saw the warmasters stuff from the gamesday images I came across... Methinks I'll be picking the book up when its available to order... as well as every Primarch

depending on how much lols

The Primarchs are £50 each! They had 1000 Angron models at games day and they sold out around 11:30!

FRACKMESIDEWAYS... ok, whats that... 12ish primarchs? looks like I'ma be even more skint than usual... in the words of bobby singer...

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:

 Reaper Man 2020 wrote:

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Yeah I saw the warmasters stuff from the gamesday images I came across... Methinks I'll be picking the book up when its available to order... as well as every Primarch

depending on how much lols

The Primarchs are £50 each! They had 1000 Angron models at games day and they sold out around 11:30!

FRACKMESIDEWAYS... ok, whats that... 12ish primarchs? looks like I'ma be even more skint than usual... in the words of bobby singer...

Actually there were 20 but two were killed by the emperor & their legions rolled into the ultramarines I think. That would be £1000 if they made all 20, ouch!

Your marines look great

I bought some of the Maximus armour marines myself but when I'd finished building them I noticed that they were all holding their guns in a weird position.

Is there certain arms that are meant to go together to get them positioned like yours?

 Thamor wrote:
Your marines look great

I bought some of the Maximus armour marines myself but when I'd finished building them I noticed that they were all holding their guns in a weird position.

Is there certain arms that are meant to go together to get them positioned like yours?

Hi Thamor,

Thanks for dropping in. I didn't pick any special arms just the first ones I cut off, I can't remember if i did on this model but some times a little bit of green stuff is helpful where the arms join the torso to get a better position. I'll let you know what happens with the next 9 from this squad.

In fairness Reaper, they've taken that much from me before... probably more tbh lols...

Small update, maybe more later today.

So I got 5 assault marines from ebay, not posed how I would like them exactly but still cheaper than buying from Forge World direct!



I have also built the Cataphractii I got at Games Day;



I can't decide with the captain whether to have his helmet on or not, I'm leaning towards having the helmet on, what do you guys think?

Helmet off?



Or on?



I'm about to undercoat hem and then start the painting of these two units plus the contemptor and the rest of the tac squad. Still annoyed I need to visit Forge World again because in the new Legion army list you need a unit of ten with boarding shields! Grrr!

I would say helmet on. While the face is nice, tactically I don't understand why there are so many marines running around without protection on their heads. That's how lasguns kill you. Don't waste his geneseed on dying from a puny guardsman.

I'm always a fan of helmeted marines so that is how I'm leaning so far. Anyone really like the head instead?

i like the head sculpt but i think it maybe slightly too small for the body ? i would go with the helmet and paint it a contrasting colour

the bare head looks better, as it actually shows the sense of scale between the suit and its wearer. which makes a bloody nice change!

Personally, I like the bare head, even though it makes no sense . I like the cinematic look of it. And this thread is exactly what I have been looking for. I wanted to start a pre-heresy death guard and iron warriors force, and this is what I imagine the death guard would look like. Well done. Oh also, any cool stuff for death guard in the IA book?

And I need to know how you did this white. What I usually do is mechanicum grey (whatever that color is), then administratum grey, then skull white. It looks like you are doing something similar?

GO HELMET ON! THIS IS WAR WEAR A DAMN HELMET! seriously i feel the helmet is more fierce anyways.

I prefer the helmet on as well.

Lots of interesting points of view here, I have also been discussing it with some friends on Facebook. One of my friends who has won multiple Golden Demons has advised the head as it provides more character to the model and makes more of a story rather than the anonymity of the helmet. I think I'm going to go with the head, it will also allow me to go to town on painting his face. Thanks for all the input. hopefully a painting update tomorrow. (I keep doing a double space hoping that a full stop will appear, too much ipad!) Under coated most of the assault marines and the Cataphractii as well as the unit of the Tartaros Pattern Terminators. Unfortunately the can of black ran out so a slight set back. Still should get round it tomorrow!

Might be the angle, but the autocannon dude looks like he's falling over. Excited to see them painted.

Hey reaper man new idea, model the helmet broken showing the face? You know half the face, half the helmet, add some gizmos and such. sounds like it would go well.

whalemusic360 wrote:Might be the angle, but the autocannon dude looks like he's falling over. Excited to see them painted.

Yep he is leaning over a bit too much, I was trying for him stepping up over that rock but it might need him being repositioned.

cormadepanda wrote:Hey reaper man new idea, model the helmet broken showing the face? You know half the face, half the helmet, add some gizmos and such. sounds like it would go well.

That sounds awesome but like a lot of work!!!

Ok so some more progress today got the base coat of grey on a lot of the models;

First the Cataphractii;



Next the Tartaros Termies;



Assault squad;



Tac Squad 1;



Tac Squad 2



I'll be starting on the white soon, also I forgot to undercoat the first contemptor, Damn! I'll get him done soon too.

This is going to be good.

so are you going to go through with the halfhelmet/head idea?

You!

Work faster. I want to see more Death Guard.

MeatShield wrote:This is going to be good.

Should be!

cormadepanda wrote:so are you going to go through with the halfhelmet/head idea?

I think I'm going to chicken out of that one for this army but it is an idea that I might do for next year's Golden Demon entry.

Eiríkr wrote:You!

Work faster. I want to see more Death Guard.

I know, I know, I've been doing Space Wolves on my misc painting blog!

He said more death guard, and i agree, space wolves are over done more white! . Well perhaps i will do the helmet idea before you reaper.. muhahhaha!

How dasterdly of you cormadepanda!

My Death guard test model is on the front page! As well as my Necron blog! I have done another five legs and torsos as well as chroming some more guns!

i am excited to see your results. Don't question my dastardliness.

More Dastardly than Dick Dastardly!

 Reaper Man 2020 wrote:
More Dastardly than Dick Dastardly!

perhaps.. but now i need a full plate helmet.. Why you do this to me.