The Great Marine Swap

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**Sageheart**

I love the white on that marine, wanna do a trade?
what would you be looking for?

at whalemustic, Brother Donegal
It means fort of the stranger in Gallic i think. I forgot if i sent you one of my blue Sons of Talidha or one of my Sons of Luther marines.

**whalemusic360**

@ Sage - You sent a yellow Son of Lucifer

@ Chrono - No need to name them if they dont have one. I think they are going to be an Inquisitor's personal body guard. If you'd like to use the bases for your UM's, you are welcome to em. I think I have enough bases to cover it. If not, I'll just order more!

Though if you want to give the models names, that would be useful.

**Sageheart**

I thought I had, just had to make sure

**TheChronoTrigger**

I have no problem naming them

@ sageheart, whatcha got?

**Sageheart**

I have a meltagun ready to get painted, a bunch of models already painted, but i try to paint a model for the trade. i have some bolters, and parts to make some close combat dudes if i can find some legs.

**BishopGore**

1-i wrote:@bish
no thanks on the jumppack, its a ground and pound squad and busy is good by me. Also Ive liked your helmets so your pick on what one..

But still my quesion to you was, do you want me to paint that BT Captain?

Ok, no jump pack, lots of cool CC.

Yes, please do paint the captain. My main reason for getting involved in the GMS is to have other people paint models for me that I can include in my army and have a story about. I am looking forward to getting my own company of Death Watch painted by a few different people (one will be from Gits, even if I have to wait until after all the other stuff he has done, I'll be in the queue!), which will be a major talking point of my army.

So, yes please, painted would be awesome.

**monkeytroll**

Ok, coupla pics for WM

Scout sergeant from the Crusaders Penitent. This is going to give me the chance to try something different with the armour. As this is supposed to be a 'quick-build' force it's normally just a black basecoat followed by a dry-brush of copper. This time I'll work up from tin bitz and use some washes.

Test poses for a couple of veteran BloodFists. One with the book may become a sergeant, haven't decided on whether he's holding a firearm or a blade yet. Other guy seems to have dropped the scroll he was looking after, that kind of behaviour is probably what got him seconded to wherever he's going to

Final product will be without the blu-tac or the mould lines, and you'll probably get both these guys.

Oh, and by unbased do you mean glued to an empty base, or sent with a seperate plain base?

**whalemusic360**

Freaking awesome Monkey! It will be a big help! I always like getting the BT bits on guys, they aren't an army I play, so dont really see the bits that often.

As for basing. If you wanted to (or already did) attach them thats ok. If you dont, it'll mean they will likely get some cooler stuff underfoot. Either way is fine though.

I have some photos uploading, so assuming someone bumps the thread, they'll be up in about 20 minutes.

**monkeytroll**

Yeah, that auto-append can be a real pain sometimes

**whalemusic360**

Thank you my simian friend

So Porkuslime asked me to do a Hawk Lord for him, using some of the FW Raven Guard pieces, which he sent. As the very first marine, and a large part of the reason this thread even exists was because of the Blood Drinker I did for him, thought it appropriate to post it here. Holy cow has my painting gotten better.

VS.

My other offering for the night is a Proof of Concept for my GMS Display board. I'm going to put magnets of the bottom of all the bases, and have 25, 40, and 60 mm spots on the board with hidden magnets underneath to hold the models in place. I tried it with a 60mm base that came with a carnifex and a 25mm empty spot. The glue buggers were pre-existing, not from my placement of magnets.

And with some models on it

It is strong enough that if I put a metal model (Porkuslimes actually

) I can turn it at over 90 degrees and it is secure. Plastics stay on upside down. I'm going to do all my bases like this from now on I think. Gunna have to talk to Bloodquest

**medabee**

Here Is a model I did for, The Night Stalker.

In exchange I Got this alpha legion guy painted. Liking the GMS.

**whalemusic360**

Hope ya stick around, always fun to watch new people grow and improve.

**schank23**

@WH I'm gonna mail your marine out on monday. Long over due but its done. Same as last pic just some minor detail change.

**whalemusic360**

I'm assuming I'm WH, in which case, WOOHOO!

**schank23**

LOL! WH I'm so stupid. Yea I meant WM.

**inmygravenimage**

Apologies for rubbish photo, it's too early. A Solar Lion for Solar_Lion:

Patroclus, Chapter Master of the Solar Lions

I'm thinking Ultrasmurf successor, aka the Lions of Caliban, battlecry "Glory to the Father!" Fluff is not my strong point though.

What colour scheme would you like? I'm thinking orange worked up from a red base with yellow highlights. Also, you want him on this scenic base, on a standard 30mm, or with a pin in foot so you can swap between the two? I'll put some more/better pics up in my blog later.

**whalemusic360**

I think a DA successor would work better for anything lion related, from a fluff standpoint.

**inmygravenimage**

Oh yeah, Caliban is DA, right? DA successor they are then. My fluff-fu is weak, as previously mentioned.

**whalemusic360**

Indeed it is, Smurfs are Ultramar. Plus the DA Primarch is Lion el Johnson, so, yeah.

**The Night Stalker**

I need standard marines at the moment, and if somebody could get me a marine with one of those GK halberd weapons I would be most greratful. I still have the chaos/wolf guy, night lords marine and brezerkers avalible.

**Solar_lion**

inmygravenimage wrote:Apologies for rubbish photo, it's too early. A Solar Lion for Solar_Lion:

Patroclus, Chapter Master of the Solar Lions

I'm thinking Ultrasmurf successor, aka the Lions of Caliban, battlecry "Glory to the Father!" Fluff is not my strong point though.

What colour scheme would you like? I'm thinking orange worked up from a red base with yellow highlights. Also, you want him on this scenic base, on a standard 30mm, or with a pin in foot so you can swap between the two? I'll put some more/better pics up in my blog later.

Sweet.. I'm doing a CC termie for you.. The first Lamenter Termie I've ever done in those colors. Now with Airbrush technology!!

My main 2 colors for the SL are Red and white. You can see the swap I did for WM in my gallery. But since he is a commanding figure I'd say .. your choice.. I've only ever used the Vanilla codex for the SL. Never gave it much thought other than not using the BA one. I'll have to pick up the DA.

Most excellent my friend! Thanks

**whalemusic360**

The DA book is pretty bad, but will let you take Deathwing (all terminators) and Ravenwing (all bikes) which are fun.

**inmygravenimage**

And it'll let you take CC termies with Cyclones - brutal! Glad you like it SL. I'll do him your scheme - base thoughts? Scenic, usable, or interchangeable?

**Solar_lion**

Useable. I plan to field him.

As for size. You suggested we do what ever we feel. So I will be honored with whatever you do..

excellent.

Thanks my friend.

**zxwarrior**

Once i get my camera to work ill put up one of my shadow wolves for trade.

**Lorna**

I will soon have 9 spare marines.
I am willing to do any colour scheme, but I am also not exactly the best painter.

Just contact me with what you want done and I'll get back to you.

Lorna

**BishopGore**

Finally got something worth updating...

I saw someone say that they take high quality photos of their minis as they paint to see the flaws, already in these pics I am seeing more than I could with my naked eye. Dang it.

He's getting there BBLucifer!

**zxwarrior**

I like the paint job for the guy above me

**BishopGore**

zxwarrior wrote:I like the paint job for the guy above me

Cheers, zx

He's a techmarine for a vanilla homebrew SM chapter called the Defenders of Obscuras. The paint scheme is based on the native american Pawnee tribal flag, as they would wear wolf furs when they went to war, and I intend to use Space Wolf items to make them.

I created the chapter for this marine swap, here is some background I wrote for BBLucifer:

My homebrew chapter has a very similar colour scheme to the Brazen Claws, but I fancy attempting to paint some quartered marines in the future, so long as I don't have to do a whole army of them!

So the Defenders of Obscuras are born. They are an Ultramarines successor chapter with a penchant for wearing animal skins of their home planet when they go to war. Their planet is far on the galactic rim in the segmentum obscuras, and was terraformed before the Dark Age of Technology with an Earth like flora and fauna, but the continents suffer from extreme stresses (much like Fenris) once per year when a planet in a decaying orbit comes too close to their homeworld. The world is not as unstable as Fenris with islands appearing and disappearing, but earthquakes and tsunamis are a daily occurence, and so major cities have never appeared. The natives are held at black powder level of civilisation by the Marines of the world, to keep them from becoming lax or weak. Great advances in technology are crushed by the seemingly godlike armoured beings who the populace fear as much as they revere. In the basements of the fortress monastery are great foundries where technically adept humans are brought. There they are treated well and nurtured to produce new and interesting designs, away from the eyes of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Many squads of Tactical marines are led by Techmarines rather than sergeants.

I realise this is a bit more Iron Hands esque than Ultramarines, but these guys don't go in for replacing body parts, they actually want to innovate, which is a dangerous practice in the 41st millenium. I plan to flesh these ideas out and maybe make these into a second vanilla marine army to run alongside my mantis warriors (I like the idea of groups of marines working together, so I don't see why I can't mix and match my squads in an army list!)

**HAZZER**

There ultramarine sucssers!!!wow and they were desighened specilly for this form!!! double wow!