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Why yes it is, but since it three times as good as the plastic Phobos pattern kit it's acctual worth is £123. Or if you are less enthusiastic; only two times as good hence £82.
Remember the regular fits-together-worse-than-any-FW-resin-tank-I-ever-built plastic raider is £41.

so I only buy one and nothing else that month, problem solved.. or maybe just one complementary 5-man marine kit..

Awesome job!!! I really enjoy the model looks And the tutorial was pretty comprehensive...

Consider me hooked and subscribed!!!

Keep up the good work

STC_LogisEngine wrote:but rather at the 'Truescale' as an occurance separated from the player/hobbyist base.

Now I have to disagree on this point (as well as a number of other points about portions and what not, but there I'll just let my models do the talking)

I am aware of at least half a dozen marine armies where the player carefully improved the plastic marine kit to be in scale and totally viable to do and play with it.

I did one such army myself:



A friend is almost done making his:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/247470.page

And Warseer for example has plenty of other examples.

To me to have an Imperial Guardsman and a Space Marine standing next to each other, same height and volume is fundamentally against the Imagery, Art and Fluff. Yes, I am aware it's GWs fault it is like that, but scaling our marines is far from separated from the player and or hobbyist base.

migs

Yes, like i said. I think we are speaking of different things, scale manipulation was not the thing I was ranting about. When I said 'Truescale' I meant the occurence of terminator kits being smacked up with some greenstuff and some regular SM helmets.. but like I said, it's a personal taste. I really don't like it. I can still appreciate the skill and dedication of the modeller and the work put into the model but I still don't like the finished product.
Can we agree to disagree perhaps?


on a different topic.. just found this. How I love the internets. "-C'mon, speed up a little. I DARE YOU."

Seen a car stikker some time back with "My other car is an Omega class Destoryer with full payload."

I f my spelling is bad Im sorry

HOLY GOD-EMPEROR'S SH*TBIN!!! These models kick serious behind! Kudos, man! Subscribed!
Anyways, I do have a few things to point out.
1: The Adepta Sororitas did not exist until the end of the age of apostasy, millenia later. So yeah, slight continuity problem with Octavius. Otherwise, beast.
2: I think that, with how individualized these minis are, they could use some personal backstory. Since it seems you hate true-scaling's guts, you may not have read it, but check out Apologist's thread here on dakka. Pretty sweet models, even sweeter fluff.
3: Also on the true-scaling debate, I distinctly remember you raging against head-to-body size. Take a closer look at most of the art(pull out that damn Imperial Armour and I'll kill you myself) in the codexes, book covers, and even fan-art. The heads are actually quite scaled against the torso.
Anyhoo, if you join the GMS, TELL ME. I will paint the most gorgeous Space Wolf ever seen, with custom greenstuffage and forgeworld bitz, and convince my parents to let me participate, or fething die trying.
Cheers,
Plats

Nice work! i want to see an entire company of these marvels in the near future!
These are great works, and the Alpha Legion is my favorite hersey, prehersey, and after hersey chapter.
Hell I named a company after the them, The Alpha Squadron nice job continue the good work!

@Asherian Command: Heh, thanks. we'll see.. I have about 50 marines partially assembled/in bits so far but I will start accuring FW kits since I have more or less drained the local gaming community of all the Mk IV / MK IV plasticbits that it's willing to trade.
So I think it's a bit realistic that there will be around 100 marines before I am done with this project.

@platypuscorps: About the adepta sororitas; I am very well aware when the daughters of the emperor was founded and entered the timeline, this is as previously mentioned an army intended for use in both Pre- & Post Heresy game and campaign settings all the way to the 41st Millenium. I had first intended an Eldar as base decoration but well.. one of my friends has this huge SoB army and.. yeah.. I needed a good taunt since the last time he fielded Celestine and I kind of killed her.. a couple of times. And ground his army into the tabletop flock. Right.
GMS? I am afraid I quite don't follow what you mean here. Clarification needed. Speaking of quieries for clarification; "..(pull out that damn Imperial Armour and I'll kill you myself).." you might get on with that one too hmm? I'd like to see you try though, could be amusing.
I am writing a little background that I might post in the future for the company, we'll see.

And can we Please stop bringing up the truescale thingy? I am sorry I wrote about it, there, let's just agree to disagree. there is no 'truth' to it, just personal opinions. Debate Closed.

Sorry for having brought that up. :( It's my fault and I apologize for it.

Very curious what background you have written. Keep us inspired with your stuff man!

GMS = Great Marine Swap. A thread started by whalemusic360. Basically you make up a marine (ork, nid) to the best of your ability and trade it with someone else who does the same for you.

STC_LogisEngine wrote:@Asherian Command: Heh, thanks. we'll see.. I have about 50 marines partially assembled/in bits so far but I will start accuring FW kits since I have more or less drained the local gaming community of all the Mk IV / MK IV plasticbits that it's willing to trade.
So I think it's a bit realistic that there will be around 100 marines before I am done with this project.

@platypuscorps: About the adepta sororitas; I am very well aware when the daughters of the emperor was founded and entered the timeline, this is as previously mentioned an army intended for use in both Pre- & Post Heresy game and campaign settings all the way to the 41st Millenium. I had first intended an Eldar as base decoration but well.. one of my friends has this huge SoB army and.. yeah.. I needed a good taunt since the last time he fielded Celestine and I kind of killed her.. a couple of times. And ground his army into the tabletop flock. Right.
GMS? I am afraid I quite don't follow what you mean here. Clarification needed. Speaking of quieries for clarification; "..(pull out that damn Imperial Armour and I'll kill you myself).." you might get on with that one too hmm? I'd like to see you try though, could be amusing.
I am writing a little background that I might post in the future for the company, we'll see.

And can we Please stop bringing up the truescale thingy? I am sorry I wrote about it, there, let's just agree to disagree. there is no 'truth' to it, just personal opinions. Debate Closed.

they a loyalist part of the legion or no?

Nobody really knows if the Alpha's are really loyal or not. Or even if they split into factions at the onset of the Heresy.

Their actions can seem very contradictory and it gives them a menacing air of mystery

All we know is that they do not fit into the Imperiums view of a loyal warrior and they hate Ultramarines and their progeny

Legion gives you a good insight and also the face of treachery in the HH book age of darkness.

Also, 'The Long Game at Carcharias' story (set in M.41) is great inspiration and covers the extinction of the Brazen Claws chapter.

A Little fluff for you!.


++Lencorian II, Segmentum Pacificus++


With a creaking goan the monorail supportpillars buckled and bent, the damaged magna-steel unable to support it's own weight anymore and slowly, almost glacially it toppled into the deep snow. throwing up great clouds of white sprinkled with the red earth beneath.
Captain Octavius brushed a splatter of frozen blood from his left pauldron and adjusted the boldpistol in the orc-hide holster on his hip, the engagement had lasted exactly 53.4 minutes from that the first drop pod had entered the atmosphere to the achivement of all mission objectives, a good day's work all things concidered; a grin blossomed unseen beneath the blank features of his Mk IV helmet. Beneath the craggy outcrop he stood on was a field utter desolation, gunmetal imperial vehicles lay in smoldering ruin in the snowy field and their previous occupants lay scattered around in similar states of bodily dissarray; curtesy of the 6th's guns.

On what had once been a left flank where now a vast track of promethium-scorched earth, the aegis defencelines charred black and crumbled in places where craters betrayed cooked-of munitionstacks; what little remained of the thousand or so frateris militia defenders where bones and heat-bent pieces of lasrifles. Octavius shook his head at the folly of men, especially the ones that 'got religion'; it made them very predisposed to ignore sound tactical doctrine for example. It had been a child's play to bait the Sororitas garrison to sally forth from their gates and attack in the open field. Idiots. He grunted to himself as Apothecary Vanus transmitted his report; jade green letters scrolled across his retinal display. Eight brothers needed the attention of the apothecarion for restorative surgery, Brother Calphon of assult squad zeta had taken a melta-blast at close range and would need augumentic surgery to replace his left leg and arm, Specialist Darius of his own retinue had narrowly dodged a barrage of missiles from an Exorcist tank and the blastwave had broken over 30 bones. it would need some work to set properly and a couple of days rest. the rest was minor details. No fatalities though. He had only comitted 60 operatives to this assult, well enough to sort out the defences of the Inquisitorial base.
A pair of Ophidian class gunships roared overhead towards the ruined imperial outposts in close formation, at their heel followed a much larger Stormbird gracefully. The Ophidians where all angular armorplates and heavy thrusters and where as much assultboats as gunships but they where fast, very fast and highly manuverable. Octavian had once seen two of his pilots run circles around a wing of thunderbolt fighters and gun them down in short order, something that large should not be that agile; but they where. By compairison the Stormbird was huge but it posessed a grace completely lacking in it's smaller cousins, it had been hand-built by master artificiers in the Luna forges and it's hull was all curves and sweeping lines; aerodynamic like a waterdrop in free-fall. This particular one was painted in a shifting lead-grey camouflage and not the Legion's Indigo; the numericals '01' painted in white on it's nose beneath the tandem cockpit together with a rearing white horse. Ah, Messier's bird.

Calum Messier, Son of Alpharius, Captain of the Pale Steed (formerly the Theta) and master of the Formalhaut Void-dock stalked down the stormbird's assultramp into the drifting smoke of burning tanks, his heavy black cloak whipping around his artificier-crafted Mk IV plate in the freezing wind; his signature combimelta slung across his back. He rarely translated dirtside, simply because there was little reason for him to do so. His battlefield was the void, the intricate dance of starships and the frenzied chaos of boardingactions. To him landwars seemed pitifull in scale.
Octavius would be around soon Messier guessed, the captain was a curious soul and he would want to be there as the objective was loaded for transport. Recovery landers where sweeping in to collect drop pods and armor, in the distance Messier could see the bulk of operative Ceanus in his Contemptor pattern dreadnought armor walking towards the closest lander; obviously in a heated discussion with sergeant Daleth of tactical squad Beta walking at his side over some trivia. Those two never changed in that way.
Specialist Samekh mag-locked his chainaxe to the belt of his warplate as he walked up to the voidmaster and crossed his hands across his chest in the sign of the Aquila, a salute the voidmaster returned but with his clenched fist ringing of his chest in the pre-unification salute. "- the objective has been secured and is being brought up as we speak, it is ready for loading." Messier nodded once. "-good, I'll have us all of this speck of dust in 30 minutes. No reason to drag our feet longer than we have to. The imperial taskforce will effect materium translation in roughly 28 hours to my best estimate." Samekh shifted his stance slightly. "-Logars spawn are on shedule for once I take it? none of their usual.. distractions?" Messier shook his head. "- on the marks, without temples and devotional statues for them to defile they are making good progress. The Steed's empyric sensoria are as of now tracking seventeen emergent warprifts in the wordbearers' operational area on the western hemisphere." Samekh nodded and shrugged his cameloline shroud from his pauldrons. "-I'll see to the objective." He turned away and walked towards the ruined gates of the complex's curtainwalls.

The world fell away and was replaced by the midnight satin of the void. The two captains stood by the forward observation screen on the Stormbird as the distant shape of the Pale Steed came into view. Messier Loved his ship, he had commanded it since the legion's commission on Terra and it was his pride an joy. A Repulsive class grand cruiser of sorts, but she differed from the standard pattern on a number of important points; she was longer in the hull by a full fourth and where her sister ships sported a ribbed hull structure her's was smooth except for the inevideble gunturrents, and it was a great deal thicker. Equal to the armored prows of later cruiser designs. And she was fast; she handled like a Sprint trader or a light cruiser with soaped-up engines. Her keel had been laid in the Saturnite shipyards in early M.29 and by contemporary standards she was a relic-ship, a ferocious one at that. In mid- M.36 he had hunted down and slain three daemonships of cruiser displacement in a battle stretching a period of four days close to the gates of varl in the galactic core, without them being able to do more than scratch at his voidshields. It had been a singular test of his skill and patience as a void-hunter.

The Pale Steed drifted silently towards the interstellar void past Lencorian VIII, a ringed gas giant in the system's outer reaches. She was running cold for three days now, listening at the squawking voxtraffic of the imperial warships in orbit around Lencorian II as it died. The Word Bearers where day's gone into the Empyrian and by now the planet they left was a seething Warpspace/realspace overlap, the Imperials had tried to fight it of course but they where too late. All they did was waste men and materials, and curse the sons of logar of course. How very nice of them to join the fight and take the dubious fame that came from murdering a world, a nessecary evil to cover the tracks properly of course. Azure lightning rippled across the Steed's gracefull ethervanes and in her heart the warpenine and gellerfield generators where powering up. With a white-hot flash the Steed ripped a gaping hole in the fabric of space and time and slipped silently into the immaterium; behind her Lencorian II died as the warships in orbit delivered the Imperiums final sanction with a spread of Cyclonic torpedoes.

wow these are amazing wish i could do a good army like this

Looking really nice i shall follow this. The painting is amazing and really clean and crisp. Two quick questions 1) will you dirty them up or are they staying clean and 2) how easy was it to convert the raptor captain, as i want a squad but i don't like the bold guys head

Thanks

Young Logan

I should really post some update pics..

@young_logan: 1) no, they'll stay clean.. I might do some 'frosting' on them since they are in cold-weather but no. probably not. 2) it's not a raptor, it's based on Sgt. Cronus (ultramarine tank commander) with some plastic additions and a raptor backpack.

Loving it, MUST HAVE MORE!

Really like that archmagos, brilliant conversion!

Small update!

I have had litteraly zero time to paint this last couple of months, shedule has been craaaazy.. but, snagged some time this morning and got some paint applied roughly where it's supposed to go.

Finally done! well.. he needs two transfers added but I am all out on decal softener so.. it will have to wait.



Lighting is not the best here away from my regular workstation so not all detail comes out all that well.. but, close enough.

Qick wip of the assultsquad sergeant, I am very satisfied with the positioning of this one. it's nice when the pose 'works'.




That's all for now, I'll try to squeece in some more painting-time into my days.

Ohhh, this is cool. I love all of your Alpha Legion! That sharp green highlighting creates an awesome effect. All of yourconversions and kit-bashes are great too!

Oh now this is a thing of beauty. I'm loving the transition from blue to green on these boys.

glad to see an update this is one beautifly painted army i love the look you get on the armor

Really loving the colors here nice dark black to green is intense

I really like the green blue transition you are achieving, its simple the best version of the Alpha legion ever.

I look forward to more

Subscribed. Hope your schedule clears up so you can make some massive updates.

Those look absolutely amazing!

Amazing job alpha legion was already one of my favorite legions and was mulling over the idea of starting my own and now after seeing this (just read all 5 pages) i am definitely gonna have to start workin on my 3rd army...maybe even use some of the new marines im about to purchase to start them instead of boosting my salamanders numbers hmmm.......

Thank you for the kind words as always. Wow I should really try to post an update, Painting has been at a stand-still lately as the few hours I had to spare has gone into modeling, re-modeling and making custom bases.
It's quite amazing what a little dismembering & reassembling of an SM's legs does for the model. Fantasticly tedious work after the 20th model or so though. Even dared to make a left-handed one with a boltgun.. that was a bit tricky. I know, such heresy.
I even managed to effect some height differentials. Hight? am I mad? people of the 41st Millenium are of equal uniform lenght across their entire genus or species (unless they are old and contain a hint of lead), Everyone knows this!
What's next in this cavalcade of chaotic anarchy? APPROPRIATELY SCALED HANDS AND WEAPONS?! ..where does it end? *sob*

on another note I have been sinning at the workbench,. yes, I know I should concentrate my efforts on the Legion and not pour my time into the never-will-be-finished-because-I-rebuild-it-all-the-time Dark Mechanicus project.. but I have progress..
my deamonengine/defiler/mini-brass scorpion is almost done! well, minus the tail-ish thingy. *gasp* that reminds me.. a few years back I did a Brass Scorpion for a friend when Apocalypse was new and hot off the shelves, where -are- those pictures.. most likely in my stationary computer that is asleep in a
moving-box in my Father's garage.. (because my current 22 m2 worth of living did not come with a storage unit, oh yay me..) I have to go over and dig those out this weekend..

Eeehrm.. let me get back to you with all this..

Here's another prod for you focus on this effort and post an update!

Inspired here.

One question: Where are those axes from?

well this is frustrating.. why can't my phone interface properly with my laptop? a slight non-issue perhaps if you don't take into mind that said phone is holding a cashe of update pics.. wich I can't get into my laptop to upload here..
I'll run to my phone-store and see if they can find me some software to jam into the computor so that the connection sub-routines work properly.

And I who had finished some big bad ..thingies for my Dark Mechanicum army..

Hmm.. the axes.. ah the chainaxes are from the venerable plastic Khorne Berzerker sprues. (oh I remember when those where new and dead shiny.. Plastic AND Multi-part? SWEET! )

Exalted!

[Mod Edit - Pictures with expletives in them - a definite No-No.]