Randy's Ultramarines & Macragge PDF (IG) First 3 Converted Bladeguard Completed!

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**Nevelon**

Nice killbots. Do you have a handler for them? They are counts-as Ogryn, right? My recollection of the old fluff was that they often had commissars attached to them, to keep them motivated and pointed in the right direction. And robots needed an engenseer to field. Now I’m not up on what it currently takes to field them, or what is decent, but it seems they could use a human guy tagging along. What flavor could vary from a mechanics POV.

Priest to give them hatred, other CC buffs.
Commisar to make them fearless. So you need to cut through all those tough wounds to make them go away.
Psycher for buffs

But whatever you use, there should be a guy with a dataslate and a big wrench tagging along, keeping an eye on the big guys.

Although I’m sure if left unattended, they wouldn't malfunction and just start killing all the weak fleshy bits nearby. That sort of thing hardly ever happens...

**evildrcheese**

Very nice work on the robots. Very cool indeed.

EDC

**RandyMcStab**

Handler you say?

Say hello to my little friend. Round here we call it the Ogryn Bomb. CHARGE!!!!!!11!! He's slated for after the current armour I'm doing. Any of the the IG support characters would be great in this unit (as you say) and I've at least one of each so, points allowing, I can add who I fancy. There used to be a rule which prevented Priests from affecting Ogs with their stuff but that's gone (powercreep). I do like the idea of an attendant engineer and the rules for a Priest would work well (fearless, hatred, possible hymn buffs and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, I'll come in again). Please don't encourage me to make more stuff. As to Robot Rampages, at least 60% of the time they never go on a killing rampage.

evildrcheese wrote:
Very nice work on the robots. Very cool indeed.

EDC

Thank you very much!

**Alex Kolodotschko**

Does vallejo black really come out that glossy?
Mind blown.

JB

Randy,

Your primarch is coming back. Are you ready?

**RandyMcStab**

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:Does vallejo black really come out that glossy?
Mind blown.

Yes it's nuts, don't know if it's some glitch or dodgy batch? Here's a pic of the tank you gave me, I missed lots of tiny bits when spray undercoating so have filled in the gaps with the Vallejo...

It now looks like Knight Rider's Kit or something.

JB wrote:Randy,

Your primarch is coming back. Are you ready?

How can you be ready for that, it was pretty shocking. They do say don't meet your heroes though don't they. Especially when they look a bit like Joffry. Fortunately there appears to be a Helmeted version.

Bit of progress on this too..basecoated..

And now washed...might squeeze a bit in today..

**RandyMcStab**

Hello subscriber. Things have been tricky again so painting has been a bit out the window. Got to move so that really throws the Bloodletter amongst the grots. Still here's a tiny update..

More on the Hydra (Ramshackle counts as).

Track units getting mucky, my Stirland Mud has pretty much dried out, bleh. You can see inside the largest road wheel the string of letters etc that was inside what I assume to be a drinks lid, next time scrub these out Curtis. I only really noticed them at this stage and didn't fancy chipping chunks of resin out.....

Platform, nearly done with chipping and muddy bits..

Business end.

This is pretty much finished now, will post up the 'done' shots soon.

xxx

**Alex Kolodotschko**

Nice. I think I may have forgotten how to paint by now, it's been too long.
Looks like you've still got it.

**RandyMcStab**

Thanks! Yeah it was odd trying to make myself do it again. Still finding it strange but do have some impetus to do it. I think the impending 8th might be having an effect too. The surprising amount of similarity to AoS is a bit of a worry but I still remain cautiously optimistic.

Finished!

Pew Pew!

Did a small amount of detailing but couldn't be bothered to go nuts as I doubt this will be a major use unit.

Mucky bits with increasingly annoying letters inside the big road wheel...

Quite happy with it. Note added crewman with controller and spare ammo hopper.

I've continued on a bit too with my next project, finishing off the new Russ. More on that soon.

**STG**

Ramshackle games make some cool stuff. done it justice there!

**Warboss_Waaazag**

Nice weathering.

**RandyMcStab**

STG wrote:Ramshackle games make some cool stuff. done it justice there!

Thanks! Yes I like their stuff too, often very reasonably priced and he tends to chuck in handfuls of free stuff, the whole AA gun there was a freebie due to another order being late, I only bought the track unit.

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Nice weathering.

Glad you liked it, more to come on the Russ.

**Nevelon**

Nice work. Good to see you still at it.

**Alex Kolodotschko**

Looks good in the altogether.
What was the solution for the HB/HF and pintle stubber or bolter?
Are you just going to put a guy on the front Governor Jesse the Body Venturaing a la Predator?

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I've got a bunch of Valkerie door gunners if you think that could work?

**RandyMcStab**

Nevelon wrote:Nice work. Good to see you still at it.

Thanks, yes just about.

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:Looks good in the altogether.
What was the solution for the HB/HF and pintle stubber or bolter?
Are you just going to put a guy on the front Governor Jesse the Body Venturaing a la Predator?

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I've got a bunch of Valkerie door gunners if you think that could work?

Yes I did bluetack a few iterations of this sort of stuff but I couldn't make it look ok, the gun looked too big on the pintle and I tried a bipod as well but the HB looked wrong. So we'll just have to pretend.

Here's some more stuff, this time LRBT flavour.

Painted a blue stripe on the side, needed a lie down after this one.

Wrote some things on it. This tank is supposed to be the bodyguard tank required when picking a Tank Commander as a HQ choice, hence the HQ seen here. SCIENCE. It now occurs to me that the new Age of Emprah version of the Codex will now almost certainly no longer require this.

Chipping applied with a sponge, looks nicer and it quicker than dry/wet brushing it on.

Hull is going on too, not just painting the turret.

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I was going to write more but the 'A' key just failed on my desktop?! Bleh. Writing this on my phone. Will sort it out soon.

**RandyMcStab**

Has new keyboard, yay.

Other side of hull. Called it 'Duchess' as the tank it's supposed to catch bullets for is called 'Duke'. It's also Archer's codename and I love him.

Slightly pointless out of focus pic to show chipping..damage to hull is where I pulled off some crap the previous (not very careful) owner had stuck on. The thick paint applied around it left a depression right where I write the regiments name. I left it as is and made it look like battle damage instead of fixing it as easier and more interesting.

Well that's caught me up. More soon.

**Zambro**

Look amazing. Almost like it belongs in a zone of danger...

**RandyMcStab**

But how would you phrase that....

**Nevelon**

RandyMcStab wrote:
But how would you phrase that....

We doing phrasing?

**RandyMcStab**

Said Ripley to the android Bishop.

**RandyMcStab**

Bit more of tankness in unnecessary detail:

Applied dry(ish) brushed browns in two tones..

Then two layers of inks as well...

Same process on the hull..

Both sides shockingly..the detailing/weathering looks a bit more obvious in the next round of shots BTW.

So that's it pretty much done I've a final round of glamour shots to post up next and will stick that up soon. I've started painting my Yarrick (not code/euphemism honest) and am struggling with it a bit for various reasons..bleh, will start the coverage of that next once I've shown off the final tank pics...

Thanks for looking, leave a comment or you are letting Chaos win.

**STG**

Duchess is a pretty cool name for a tank.
my tanks are called 'Rust bucket' and 'Old Boiler'.

**RandyMcStab**

LOL, I've one called 'Old Reliable', he's a Fav. My Shadowsword is called 'Victory' after Nelson's ship.

**RandyMcStab**

Finally done!

Brrrmmmmm

Looks at least 50% better than when I was given it, t(h)anks again Alex.

All painted and that..

See..

It's still actually called 'Duchess'..

Happy with the little blighter. Hope you like it. I've been doing a bit of painting on Yarrick so that will follow next.

xxx

**Alex Kolodotschko**

RandyMcStab wrote:

Looks at least 50% better than when I was given it, t(h)anks again Alex.

REALLY???? Someone will be getting coal in their stocking this year. Hrumph, bah humbug.

**evildrcheese**

Nice rescue job on the Russian. It's looking wicked.

EDC

**RandyMcStab**

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:
REALLY???? Someone will be getting coal in their stocking this year. Hrumph, bah humbug.

I meant that genuinely and not sarcastically, I am very happy with it and restoring stuff is fun. Obviously being from the North I do love coal however....

evildrcheese wrote:Nice rescue job on the Russian. It's looking wicked.

EDC

Thanks! Now that I've finished all my vehicles (as much as that happens) I've finally got the 'recipe' down on these last 2, now I just need to go back and apply it to the previous 18...

I will start uploading some Yarrick pics soon, I'm stuck in with my little boy who is proper feverish so I'm not going anywhere today.

**RandyMcStab**

Hello, here is some preliminary Yarrick..

First I sundered this cork with nought but a mighty blow from my hand..

Then added Yarrick...

Seen here. I did a tiny conversion as well, the astute viewer will have noticed his scabbard missing. I have moved this round the back and GS in the gaps. This makes him look a lot slimmer as, lets face it, none of us are 18 anymore. The handle of said sword can be seen behind his pincer cable. I obviously cut off his basing tab and pinned both feet.

Undercoated in super shiny Vallejo black, yay, bondage Yarrick. That's it for now.

xxx

**RandyMcStab**

More of old crab hand...

Laying down the first coat of base colours...this will be the scheme..I thought a lot about the claw and what colour to paint it. I toyed with the idea of doing it in dark green to tie into that colour I've used for all the weapon casings etc and it's a bit orky and then a sort of blue/white urban camo a lot of ork vehicles used to favour. I decided against it all and will leave it black, the old Yarrick had a lovely glowing red one and I like how the black will conversely draw less attention. As great as this Brian Nelson sculpt is the pincer is a bit daft (how does he even hold it up? That's what she said) so leaving it in the background is probably best.

The super shiny black was pissing me off too, I washed it with Nuln Oil which I thought would matte black it nicely just looked oddly patchy..

In another attempt to make it look good I washed the black cloth with a thinned Vallejo black, this somehow was just as shiny as the solid paint, I did a pass at highlighting it seen here. A general light black wash was applied to the other areas too.

More soon, it does start looking better I promise. What do people think of the drip feed of 8th ed? Still managing to be cautiously optimistic here, lots of things I'm looking forward to dying off. Still early days yet but I look forward to getting locked in a room to absorb the new IG and SM Codices/pamphlets.

**STG**

Im optimistic about the whole thing to do with 8th. I never play 40k but this does seem like they have made it a community thing which is pretty cool. I'll never be a regular but i'd consider popping down to my local gw to try it