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Just saw this guy and was awestruck, so obviously not mine



http://carpealea.blogspot.com/2011/04/grey-knights-more-considered-approach.html

And people say stoners are lazy.

Apart from the incredible paintjob I like the idea

I imagine this guy screaming "LEGALIZE IT!" would have a lot more impact than the average stoner doing the same...

Excellent paint skills, but sadly wasted on something as stupid as a marijuana leaf. Why do stoners insist on advertising that they smoke pot? Just a pet peeve of mine.

I love the head on him though. 99% awesome.

Aerethan wrote:Excellent paint skills, but sadly wasted on something as stupid as a marijuana leaf. Why do stoners insist on advertising that they smoke pot? Just a pet peeve of mine.

I love the head on him though. 99% awesome.

he made a Rasta Knight, one giant part of their life is pot, and that is his heraldry it seems

Just fell off my chair laughing
What a brilliant idea.

That is freakin sweet!

Wow Bob Marley in terminator armour!!!! Love the paint job - purely awesome!!!!

Spaced Marine!

fething awesome.

Buffalo Soulja, Dreadlocked Emprah...?!

Epic win right there! Fantastic job

I love this model!!!

LOL!
Is there a full army of these?
That would be awesome!

BIG UP! Burn dem Haters! Hot Fire! seriously though, unreal. Imma pack one to cheers ya!

Hells yeah, reminds me of the Rasta Ork army I once played.

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Aerethan wrote:Excellent paint skills, but sadly wasted on something as stupid as a marijuana leaf. Why do stoners insist on advertising that they smoke pot? Just a pet peeve of mine.

I love the head on him though. 99% awesome.

I know what you mean, ive been smoking it all my life and i hate that too, i guess they think it makes them look cool.

Having said that, this is a rasta knight so i think the leaf motif is quite appropriate, and a very nice paintjob it is too.

Aerethan wrote:Excellent paint skills, but sadly wasted on something as stupid as a marijuana leaf.

It is a refreshing change from the tired parade of models depicting females that for some reason went into battle with no shirt...

just needs a SoB to light one up...

Really nice.

CT GAMER wrote:

Aerethan wrote:Excellent paint skills, but sadly wasted on something as stupid as a marijuana leaf.

It is a refreshing change from the tired parade of models depicting females that for some reason went into battle with no shirt...

Why you gotta bring my DE Sorceress into this? Besides, being naked is what she does best!

I will agree that naked chicks in science fiction makes no sense.

*Golf clap*

"Im gonna put on an iron shirt
and chase satan out of earth"

Hey, actually, Haile Selassie would make a good IG theme atleast, if one could get enough rasta heads to convert it.

Haha, I'm guessing he would be a radical Inquisitor then? Very imaginative!

Guess they can claim that its medicinal... do marines even take medicine? oh well

Aerethan wrote:Excellent paint skills, but sadly wasted on something as stupid as a marijuana leaf. Why do stoners insist on advertising that they smoke pot? Just a pet peeve of mine.

I love the head on him though. 99% awesome.

I'm not sure but that might not be a stoner joke. The Rastafarian movement has some vaguely militant aspects. The dreadlocks are supposed to be an imitation of a lion's mane, for instance, and the story of the Salassie's life seems like it could work well with the Emprah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement#Haile_Selassie

The salassie guy was kind of a synthesis of major civil rights leaders in america; he advocated peace and understanding, but didn't euphemize the African struggle for that peace at all, and said plainly that they will fight for it. Rastafarianism adopts different approaches, all of them profess to have a goal of peace, but it's not pacifist rhetoric, entirely. I think rastafari believe in self defense. Which isn't uncommon for christian sects, obviously, and based on other christian sects, professing peace can happen right along overtly bellicose behavior. The idea of taking the rastafari movement and putting it in the context of the holy warriors of the empire fits pretty well.

Also, kids in the US and Europe think reggae is cool and pot is cool, and whatever, to the point that they may even adopt a spiritual attitude about it, but generally no one takes what kids do very serious. Genuine Rastafari treat marijuana as somewhat sacramental--in the way that you might think of wine in the context of church. There are icons on the shoulders of 'imperial' troops that include cups, and those cups exist solely as a result of the biblical connection between wine and the blood of christ. So I see that leaf as being an appropriate and interesting take on the idea of a holy symbol. Certainly, leaves have been used in other contexts, and the iron crosses you see everywhere in the 40k literature are at least *as* out of place, considering that the emperor was never crucified in the fiction of that universe, so it's a symbol without a history. Easily as strange as if you put a star of david on some space marines or put the star of mecca on a tallarn imperial guard regiment. I'm not saying it wouldn't look cool--just that those symbols all have roots in history, and in the context 40k, it's the crozius, iron halo, and imperial eagle that represent the emperor--everything else is borrowing symbols out of context, anyway.

That said, the knit cap is a little silly. But I like the dreadlock idea, and the leaf is done well, and makes sense.

I would buy that this was done in earnest, not as a 'pretty marines' or 'angry marines' style spoof.

I can just imagine him singing on the battle field:
"Don't worry, about a thing"
"But sir, we're being eaten by rippers!"
"Three little birds..."

Love it!

Sweet paint job this would make a great army

DR3ADN0UGHT wrote:I can just imagine him singing on the battle field:
"Don't worry, about a thing"
"But sir, we're being eaten by rippers!"
"Three little birds..."

Sigged

And I remember seeing this years ago and just chuckling for days

This Marine is pure awsomeness. Go Bob Marley