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First 2 Ravenguard all done. I should be finished with the rest of the squad shortly. I used BA hand flamer and meltas instead of the regular weapons. I figured the bike masters would have figured out something better than carrying the bigger versions. Still havent worked out the bases yet.

The smaller one-hand version of these weapons look more fitting for them too (given that one of their hands is required to navigate the bike).

I think you might want to add some kind of highlights to the black armour. As of now, I am not sure how the features will be distinguishable at a couple of feet away.

Anyway, nice jobs on the weathering.

Yeah, my Iphone keeps dimming the pics. I need to find a better method. Here is a pic using the regular light, the colors are way better in person. I agree the ones above are washed out.

Yeah, this looks way better. I love the blue eyes. Very cool with black armours.

@leohart- Thanks man, Im glad you like them. Incidentally, I was talking to one of the black shirts at the GW today. He said the Storm Talon was vanilla marines only. This made me want to vomit, have you heard the same? Your Storm Talon is great, if what I heard is true it would be a damn shame.

Finished the rest of the squad faster than I thought. I just used the regular light and no white backdrop. My camera didn't dim so I think they look better. Also the first 3 members of the command squad. I have a set of Grey Knights. Im going to use their weapons to arm them. Hoping it will be sweet.

I also mix the Grey Knight small swords (falchions) as normal weapons for my guys. I think it is not too ridiculous and looks better than some of the other power swords.

The black shirt is correct. Stormtalon is only for vanilla. But with ally rule, I can bring it in my ally fast attack slot. :-)

The newer pix is indeed better with better lighting.

Really liking how the bike unit is coming together and your running tac squad, very nice

Yes the Stormtalon is just for standard marines but you could use the model and play it as a landspeeder tempest just the assault cannon won't be twin linked. I also saw on dakka some one converted it to the weapons of a land speeder and just played with the Stormtalon model.
On the subject of the bikes, they look great one comment might be to paint around the edges of the transfers in the colour underneath to make it less obviously a transfer.

..... But in the new edition you can have allies....

@leohart- Yeah, figure the BA and GK have a flier, SW fight with both feet on the ground as Russ intended, Storm Talon for everyone else, maybe some cool thing for Ravenwing?

@Reaper Man- Good idea on the transfers, Ill give it a shot. Frankly Im surprised they look as good as they do. I spray dull coat and when I tried that on IG a while back it made the transfers filmy.

@Bigfish- Thanks man.

Here are the first 3 command squad guys. Dude with the shield is the champion. That blue dude is about as far as my conversion skills go. I don't like him as a captain, maybe a Librarian.

Librarian usually need more scrolls, keys and librarian horned skulls. But hey, if shaolin monks can fight with staff, why not a captain.

Supposingly staff gives better stats in game now as well :-).

I like the command squad. Time for for an apo I guess.

liking the command squad a lot, very nice use of the bits there

Thanks gents. I got the AOBR "Librarian" finished. I think he worked out ok. Could probably use some more scroll bits but Im not sure where to put them. Also a shot of the army so far. Im really digging these guys. Maybe with 6th coming out I will finally learn how to play and use these guys.

Sweet. Everything looks awesome. Just in time for 6th edition

@leohart- Thanks, your Angels are looking ready for action too.

Vindicator is all done. Tried to weather the front and dozer blade more to indicate the tank takes most of the beating to the front as it plows through the bad guys.

Lovely weathering. I think I saw some guy with a dozerblade full of dead bodies got stuck through. You should add some unfortunate xenos filth at the bottom of your dozerblade .

@leohart- I saw that one too. Brilliantly nauseating!

And the command squad is all finished. I am running out of stuff to do here. I dont want to paint up a huge army and have no room for the new models, whenever that happens. Besides, really feeling the Chaos bug. I have only done one small Chaos army. Im thinking something in the Khorne department may be in order.

Looking sweet. If you need things to do, how about basing these guys

Yeah, its about to that point. Im looking at Secret Weapon Miniatures. They have cool stuff.

40kFSU wrote:Yeah, its about to that point. Im looking at Secret Weapon Miniatures. They have cool stuff.

They rock, I used quite a few of their bases on my BA!

Dot or, better yet, drill those barrels (Bolt pistol being the most obvious...) - that and bases will bring these up to the next level easy!

Lots of cool models on this page.... its hard to pick my favourites! Well, the Librarian looks very nice, and the bikes....

but I do agree with the others, drill your barrels. It improves the look of the guns a lot!

@MrMerlin- Thanks, glad you like them.

@Arakasi- I think I will actually drill the barrels this time. I figure I have time till the codex gets here.

@eldartau1987- I cant decide if the bases they have match what I want, still looking...

In the meantime, first Deathwing squad. A shooty squad.

Whew, looking pretty grim right now. Blah.

Looking sweet to me.

Hahaha so says the master of bone color marines! Thanks as always sir.

I wouldn't consider myself master of anything in this hobby :-) still lots to learn. I do like the bone armour on your models, they come out smooth. The red on weapons are nice as well.

Thanks man, so I was getting cold feet about these Deathwing. They look pretty awful about 60% done. So I finished one terminator to see if its worth the time or time for simple green. I think it is ok and will look better when based with his buddies. Also a jump pack Chaplain is on deck.

I feel that the termie looks good!

@eldartau1987- Thanks, here's one more for you.

On to the bases. No denying the resin bases are really nice. But they dont capture the look Im going for. All the city bases are rubble. I want the image of these guys fighting into a city, not walking around in a bunch of rubble. So I am toying with making my own using those I already had. The blob of sand and glue needs work. I think using the weathering powders to represent dirt and soot may work out. Just experimenting at the moment.