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Hello people, I'm new to this forum, I have a 15mm 40k project underway, starting with Blood angels, then Tyranids, Death Guard, Imperial guard, and Tau.
Disclaimer - these are for my own collection only and will not be sold or traded, I am not endorsing this as an alternative to 28mm 40K, as the work required is extream, its just a personal challange for my modeling skills, and I thought this project may be of interest to some here.
I have a blog that has a lost of posts on this project already, so I will just add a update here, Click the link for more WIP and finishe pictures.
http://gunnerswargamming.blogspot.com.au/search/label/15mm%20Space%20Marines
1st squad 2nd company of the Blood Angels finished






3rd Tactical squad 2nd company of the Blood Angels finished






WIP bolter armed Death Company squad






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Here is a size comparison pic.

Wow that's pretty out there! But love it still, there made from green stuuf right?

-ironhandstraken

Hi Ironhandstraken - they are conversions of 15mm power armour, too space marines using green stuff, there are heaps of WIP pics on my blog.

Haha! These are awesome

And it means a 2000pt battle on a 6x4 table actually makes slightly more sense. Would love to see more. I would think that the old school Rhinos would actually be "truescale" for these 15mm models...

Really cool idea. How long does each marine take to complete? What size force are you going for? Also will you be doing and vehicles? Looking forward to seeing what you produce!

Checking out the blog now.

Thanks guys,
Size of force - I was considering doing a full company, plus some death company and terminators, but I think the force will be as follows
2 X Tac squad in Rhinos
1 X Dev squad in Rhino
1 X vet assault squad in a Rhino
1 X Assault squad in Rhino
1 X DC Squad in Rhino
1 X DC Squad in JP
1 X Assault squad in JP
1 X Sang guard in JP
1 X Assault Terminator squad 4 with TH and SS 1 with LC
1 X Tac erminator squad
2 or 3 Baal Preds
I will do some land raiders and Dreds (not sure how many)
Characters will be
Dante in JP
Tycho
Lemartes in JP
Mephiston
a Librarian in Terminator armour
I will make a master of the vehicles and cast up what I need, so this will take me some time.

lol really nice idea seems like an awefull lot of work though

Hi Dijnsk, yes a lot of work, I am doing a jump pack squad at the moment, and its getting tedious.

Awesome! I can just imagine how hard it is to sculpt these guys, when 28mm is hard enough! Great job! I'll stay tuned!

Oh wow i thought they were on 10 cent piece bases but they're 5 cents AUD bases right?
They are so tiny, that's crazy. Great work!

Hi two Spartan - yes 5c Aus, I have a big bag of them, and base all my 15mm figs on them.

Hi guys, my bolter armed death company squad almost finished, just need to make 2 more figures for this squad, I'm pretty happy with this squad, my next figures will be Lemartes and the 2 missing DC figs for this squad, let me know what you think.

Hi guys, haven't done much hobby related stuff this week, the only thing to show is some very WIP shots of my Lemartes, still a lot of work to do on this little guy, he will be the first major Blood angels character. He looks like he has ear phones on, but that will become a halo, I think the jets look about the right size, are they to long? there will be a lot of work done on the back pack yet.

More cool stuff! If anything the jets maybe look too skinny. But at 15mm no one will be able to tell. Good work!

Another great unit! Shell casings are a nice touch on the base

This is really interesting project, good luck with it.

As a general note, I think some sharpening on the edges and corners of the GS work would add some sharpness/crispiness to the models (I know it's not that easy/fast to do)

Otherwise loving them, especially that chaplain is looking mighty cool.

Keep it up

thanks guys, I am hoping my sculpting gets crisper the more I practic, though I may need to change putties, to Brown stuff.

Hi guys, not much hobby stuff going on due to real life, but I have some work done on Lemartes, nearly finished this character, just some work on the crozius to do, let me know what you think.

Awesome thread! These guys are neat!

Hi guys, here is my 15mm Lemartes finished, I'm pretty happy with how her turned out, what do you think? Click here for more images.

Hi guys, whats next for the 15mm Blood Angels? I am working on a veteran assault squad in jump packs, but there is so much work required in them that I need a break, and I want to do something a little easier, I bought some of Mad robots jump troopers a while ago and have yet found a use for them, they are really nice figures but are on the large side, and I think they will make perfect scout troops for the Blood Angels, and with little conversion, I will need to get rid of the jump pack, add shoulder armour and a couple of other little details, here is a comparison pic with Khurasan 15mm fig, the weapon looks like a shot gun, so I will have 5 with shot guns, 4 snipers, and 1 squad leader.
Click to go to my blog

The purity seals on the Lemartes look really good. Nice detail there.
How long does each marine take?

Also what is that Transport on the header on your blog?? Is that for 15mm 'Alien' games? Very cool

Hi Zwan1one, each marine takes some work, because I have to cut away a fair bit of the original fig, then I have to wait for each layer of green stuff to dry before adding more, not sure how long it takes all up. The yello vehicle is a converted Matchbox sno plow for Aliens setting, check my blog, I have some really nice Xenos and colonial marines.

Hi guys, some WIP pics of my scouts, these are 2 of the shotgun scouts, still working on the snipers, anything I need to do to make them more like scouts? what do you think? should I source some bare heads for head swaps? or are the helmets OK?

Hi guys, this is what the sniper scouts will look like and I am also working on a Veteran assault squad with jump packs.

Are you going to extend the barrel on the sniper? The studded shoulder pad on the assault marine looks cool. I image a fairly difficult detail to get right.
When do think you'll start the next army?

Hi guys, have been kept busy with real life for the past 2 weeks, so no real progress with the 15mm Blood Angels, however I have picked up some Eureka 25mm NSL power armour suits for conversion to 15mm Blood Angel terminators, these will undergo heavy conversion, I will cut off the shoulder armour attached to the body and the face visor, square off the top of the torso, add vents to the rear of the torso, add shoulder armor, add eagle to the chest, add helmets, add a storm bolter, and rounded knee armour, add other detail and doodads, I have 10 of these to convert, there will be 3 with Hammer and shield, 2 with lightening claws, 3 with storm bolters, 1 with a chain gun or heavy flamer, and a squad leader with storm bolter and power sword, might also add a chain fist or 2 in there.

Hi guys, just a quick update to show the difference in shape to the Torso, with a little work, I think they are going to turn out to be very acceptable 15mm Terminators, (these are still very much WIP) what do you thinks?

Look promising

Good looking shapes.