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Yes I know I've got loads of armies and lots of things to paint but I wanted something new. So basically I swapped my tyranid army for a space marine army, which will become Imperial Fists to duke it out with the Iron Warriors I'm currently painting up.

Just for your infoI was getting fed up with the tyranid army and it has been on the back burner for almost a year. I hardly play with it and I have no love for the monsters from space like I do for the noble space marines, the chaotic orks, the powerful necrons and the good guys gone evil iron warriors. Seemed a shame to keep hold onto it when someone could use it, so instead of purchasing new models it was swapped.

Here is my potential army list for 2,000 points plus any other models I have as well:

HQ

1 x Captain w/ storm shield & lightning claw painted and washed

1 x Command Squad w/ 4 x power weapons painted and washed SOLD THESE REPLACED WITH ASSAULT TERMINATORS!

1 x Librarian w/ terminator armour painted and washed SOLD!

Elites

5 x Assault Terminators w/ thunder hammers & storm shields painted and washed

5 x Assault Terminators w/ thunder hammers & storm shields NEED TO BE REPAINTED

5 x Terminators painted and washed

1 x Dreadnought painted and washed SOLD!

1 x Dreadnought painted and washed

1 x Ironclad Dreadnought painted and washed

1 x Dreadnought painted and washed

1 x Venerable Dreadnought painted and washed

8 x Sternguard painted and washed

Troops

10 x Scouts w/ shotguns, boltguns and heavy bolters painted and washed SOLD!

10 x Marines w/ meltagun & rocket launcher painted and washed

10 x Marines w/ meltagun & rocket launcher painted and washed

10 x Marines w/ meltagun & heavy bolter painted and washed

10 x Marines w/ plasmagun & plasma cannon painted and washed

3 x razorbacks painted and washed two

1 x Rhino painted and washed

Fast Attack

5 x Bikers inc attack bike - 1 x meltagun sgt w/ power fist painted and washed SOLD!

Heavy Support

1 x Land Raider painted and washed

1 x Land Raider painted and washed

1 x Land Raider Terminus Ultra painted and washed

1 x Land Raider Crusader painted and washed

Here's some pics of what I have managed to glue together so far. Apothecary is custom made as I brought a normal combat squad box set and the painted dreadnought I cannot take credit for, though I am aiming for that paint scheme!

Is it just me or is your captain tilting backwards? Nice apothecary though.

He is tilting backwards now that you mention it, the Apothecary isn't bad. I think the servo skulls add a nice touch.

Here's some pics of half the scout unit I've done and also two test terminators. I'm not keen on the yellow its come out patchy but you cannot see it on the pictures. The sepia wash does cover it up a fair bit.

The scouts I realised I had painted the gauntlets same colour as the uniform. So to match the crotch piece I'm going to paint them black.

Let me know what you think about the yellow. I'm going to give white undercoat a try. I did try dheneb stone over black but still leaves patches about the same as two coats of darksun yellow.

Thats a very bright yellow! It'll look better tidyed up.

The yellow is golden yellow. Perhaps it is bright because of the desk lamp behind? Might look grubby because of wash as well.

I'm fed up of putting on loads of coats. I've done two darksun yellow foundation and then two golden yellow and still looks patchy. I'm going to try white undercoat but I suspect I will have problems with that as well as I tried dheneb stone and looked the same as two coats of darksun, except I had given one coat of stone.

Yellow looks cool but damn hard to paint! Too watery!

Well I've been a bit busy lately as the other half has been in hospital so haven't had time to upload pics. Now got quite a few.

A few terminator pics. Not too happy with this as the undercoat was black and they look quite rough.







Home made Techmarine:



One half of scouts:







Formerly Ultramarine Librarian now Imperial Fists. Hopefully will use it now!



A few Dreadnought pics:









I know not IF's but I painted this objective marker for my chaos marines:



A few terminator shots now sporting decals:







Fully completed bike squad:

All the models look good, but the techmarine really stands out for me.

Thanks mate. The Techmarine does have some coolness to it. I'm also liking the Dreadnought and the biker sgt's helmet.

Going to paint the command squad and captain tonight ready for a game tomorrow against dark eldar.

I haven't finished it yet so no group photo yet. Yes, Imperial Fists do tend to be yellow lol. Though, here's some pics of my captain and command squad I finished:

Any comments?

Something you might want to try is my method (not really mine) base coat white, go over with brush and white to cover any spots left behind. Once you have a nice coat over everything then use yellow ink to cover the entire model. If you want you can go over that with your choice of yellow but it is only necessary if you missed a spot basecoating.

Your army looks like its off to a good start. Keep it up.

considering the speed at which you must be painting the quality is very high. My Imperial Fists were golden yellow on white undercoat and blochiness was aproblem for me too. Nowadays I use a basecoat of fiery orange and keep adding white for the highlights, up to pure white (by which time the model looks like a peach!), then a wash with yellow ink and it all comes together.

The latest pics are basecoated white. They might appear blochy because of sepia wash, though the terminators were base coated black and don't loko the best.

Thanks for the compliment Maesltrom. I've used white undercoat for the latest patch, then golden yellow then the sepia wash to get in the armour joints etc.

Right finally a update after not doing anything for a month!

Well the Captain has lost his command squad, though has bene replaced by some assault terminators. Also the librarian has been swapped wiht a chaplain to make a more affective unit.

Here's a few pics.







I'm also in the process of changing my former Ultramarines to Blood Angels, here's the few models I am working on atm - see my Blood Angels project log.

Updated the painted list. I've actually traded some off as I no longer use them, or exchanged for better units. All I have left to paint is transports and two and a half tact squads

Will get pics up soon of the latest stuff, my phone has gone in for repair and with the temp one I don't have any way of uploading the photos :(

Well its taking me ages to paint anything these days with the bambino. Hopefully two nights a week I can get stuff done. Here's what I have done recently, also I'm working on the other half of the tact squad which I hope to finish tonight . I'm glad marine armies are small!

After the tact squad is done I need to get some more golden yellow paint as I've ran out! Got just enough to sort out any mistakes. Should be getting some of that tomorrow though

With the librarian you do realize they are supposed to be painted blue with only the shoulder/knee cap or some icons of the chapter showing? so with your librarian terminator, it would be blue with yellow shoulder pads but your method is fine if thats how you roll

You need solvaset for those transfers

Gutteridge wrote:With the librarian you do realize they are supposed to be painted blue with only the shoulder/knee cap or some icons of the chapter showing? so with your librarian terminator, it would be blue with yellow shoulder pads but your method is fine if thats how you roll

Yeah I know but I prefer it yellow tbh though it doesn't matter as I've traded it off.

You need solvaset for those transfers

Need what?

Yeah what's solvaset?

Micro Sol and Micro Set. Both are made by Microscale Industries.

The yellow is very flat and it needs a highlight or a shade.

For painting Yellow I like to use a black undercoat then a Bubonic Brown coat and then Yellow paint I find it works well for me.

White undercoat is the best just make sure the entire model is white and no plastic showing.

Tek wrote:Yeah what's solvaset?

It softens the transfer so it molds to the shoulder pad and not stick up like in the picks. ^
http://www.houseofhobbies.com/sodeseso.html here is a link

Cool. I also found cutting into it a little bit helps, but if your not gentle the decal will fall apart :(

Cutting the solid ones don't really work that well it works for the ultras upside down omega cause there is open area in the center to remove.

Fair bit going on lately as I wanted to get as much done as possible for a game I had no wednesday just gone. I have recently painted two tact squads and a razorback for each of them Only things left is one more tact squad, one razorback and two land raiders and I'm done. Though I am tempted to up my collection a little bit....

I will get pics up soon. Need to take some . Also unlike my other models which I have use some model stone base I will flock these. Reason is the stone is coming off as the models are stored in battleforce boxes and in time will come off all together. So I need something more durable. Shame, they looked good too.

May I suggest watering your colors down in order to not get such thick layers of paint that ruins details