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I've finally completed the 1st squad for my Genesis Chapter project. I've decided to use the AoBR miniatures as a building block to build up a small Genesis Chapter army.

All comments appreciated and if you'd like to know how I painted them you can find out on my blog. http://pitoftheoni.blogspot.com/

Nice so far, although I have a couple recommendations.

Firstly, drill out those guns. Makes a huge difference.

Also, in HTPCM they're painting something red (a blood angel) and they start buy undercoating him with a mix of red and white (I think...) so that he looks very bright, and then going over it with red. It produces a beautiful effect, if I were you I'd do that and then use some ink to get your shading effect.

But heck, your stuff looks great, so I don't know why I'm recommending this stuff anyway. Keep up the good work!

I love them, really nice.

The only suggestion i have it to add symbols or writing somewhere on them. but great anyway ^^

They look great!

I agree, drill out gun barrels.

Your whole army to this standard will be spectacular on field. Keep it going.

Do black on purity seals.

Red or green in Sgt eye targeter.

Please share your paint scheme. Can I assume foundation red, and devlan mud wash?

captain.gordino wrote:Also, in HTPCM they're painting something red (a blood angel) and they start buy undercoating him with a mix of red and white (I think...) so that he looks very bright, and then going over it with red. It produces a beautiful effect, if I were you I'd do that and then use some ink to get your shading effect.

captain.gordino - Thank you for the tip, but my intentions were/are to make them dark as I don't much like the brighter reds and I wanted a definite contradistinction from the Blood Angels.

Old Man Ultramarine wrote:Do black on purity seals.

Red or green in Sgt eye targeter.

Please share your paint scheme. Can I assume foundation red, and devlan mud wash?

Old Man Ultramarine - You can hit up my blog for a run down on how I painted them. http://pitoftheoni.blogspot.com/


Thanks everyone. I definitely plan on doing writing and chapter symbols, specifically on the sergeants arm shield and of course purity seals, but I'm waiting on two things. To find the the perfect micron pen and chapter decals. I have a hunch GW will be releasing Genesis Chapter decals, but only time will tell.

Very cool, some chapter symbols would be nice (Although I can't talk ;P), try adding a bit of boltgun metal to the little camera feeds above there heads aswell but all in all very well done.
It's all very clean painting, even the base looks good,
Great job

Lookin' good! Definitely drill out your barrels though!

GW actually already has released Genesis Chapter Shoulderpads for tactical squads and you could make a mould to get the symbols to stick to the Terminators.

Finished the Dreadnought...

Details are posted on my blog as well as two alternate pictures. Pit of the Oni - Gotta plug the blog.

Looks great. Just drill out the guns! hehe
Great work.

absolutely incredible. Its the first red space marines that I like the colour of (blood angels are too gawdy imho)

keep it going. I'll check out your blog. I hear its the best 40k blog on das interweb (gotta plug the blog)

ps. where did you get the ork skull on your dreadnought base? I've seen it before but don't know where its from!

s.j.mccartney wrote:absolutely incredible. Its the first red space marines that I like the colour of (blood angels are too gawdy imho)

keep it going. I'll check out your blog. I hear its the best 40k blog on das interweb (gotta plug the blog)

ps. where did you get the ork skull on your dreadnought base? I've seen it before but don't know where its from!

Thank you. Genesis Marines are actually supposed to be a very bright red, almost just like Blood Angels, but I too dislike bright red on SM's and it's for that reason I chose the scheme I did.

If I recall correctly that skull is on the SM Scout's with sniper rifles sprue.

Your reds are nice and deep, but you could use a little more highlighting - maybe a light touch of blood red on the edges?

The whites are beautifully clean and bright.

The Dread looks fantastic - the metal is very nicely done, though he could use a white sarcophagus to tie back to the white helmets on the Termies.

Also, the Termies can use some metallic contrasts, like the Dread.

Update 1/14/2009

Teaser pic...

looking good.

Great models + Great photo = Tease

what are your plans for characters~?

Looking great, but drill those barrels out, really stands out now, as the models are painted well, but no attention to detail with their guns.

VERY nice. the red is great, not in your face and the white makes you focus on the models face really well. the lack of drilling holes in the guns really stand out and there are a couple of mold lines here and there.

Who knew there was such thing as a red smurf marine.

Wasn't there a red smurf? There was a black one (very rare in the US).

Wow those look great! I'm a big fan of red non blood angel marines myself, my crimson hawks would fight beside those guys in a heartbeat. Keep up the good work and post more pics

...and the whole thing - if you didn't already see it on my blog.

I did... and it looks good there and here!

Very nice done indeed, especially the white and shading/highlighting on the white.

those are beautiful man!

Arent genesis painted in a warm red tone?

I sure thought they were. But i cant deny they sure look good.

Show us more soon.

Paul Atreides wrote:Arent genesis painted in a warm red tone?

Yes, but I wanted to tone it down.

For instance, Ultramarines can be painted too bright for my tastes. (i.e. using Ultramarines Blue as the base colour) I like the darker blue Ultramarines and I wanted to translate that into a darker red for the Genesis Chapter.

Another teaser of what's coming...

I like your paint style! Very nice and clean. I also like to keep a dark palette. The red being toned down is great because it lets you focus on other details on the model. I appreciate that scheme because most people put an incredible mix of eye burning colors on their minis that I usually cant stand looking at for more than a couple seconds. Way to think out of the box friend!

keep em coming!

I'm loving the Gold bolter casing on that sneak peak.