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I love the idea and the pics throughout the thread really show off some great painting skill. Sadly I won't be able to contribute this time (due to massive painting projects already in que), but I'm subscribed and hope I'll get on the wagon next time!

BishopGore, your marine is nearing completion. Pics soon
Also, The marine for me looks ace so far. Are you going to do a power weapon effect on the axe?

Battle Brother Lucifer wrote:BishopGore, your marine is nearing completion. Pics soon
Also, The marine for me looks ace so far. Are you going to do a power weapon effect on the axe?

Awesome news, cheers
I have tried several times to do power weapon effects and never quite managed it. Does anyone have a link to a tutorial that might help me?

Errr, thanks Hazzer... not quite sure if you're being sarcastic, but I'll assume not! I did indeed create a homebrew purely for this thread, but that tends to be the way my mind functions, I do some research based on something I've seen or a piece in my collection, then I just let my mind wander and when it gets back I write a load of fluff.

Here he is BG, tell me if you like him and/or want anything changed.




(still very WIP, but basic colors and start of heraldry down)

Looks very cool Very dark and broody, kind of a mixture of grey knight and death watch. Look forward to seeing more.

I've been sick, so I hope to finish the guy this weekend if I'm feeling better. Fingers crossed.

@Bishop Get better




and I started painting that fig for you given my slow inconsistant pace it should be done by May, 2013. Maybe sooner, yeah probally sooner.

May 2013? That's when I turn 29. Getting it sometime before I turn 30 would be pretty awesome

I am willing to paint somthing for someone, i have Chaos space marines, kroot, Dark Angels, some space marines and some other random things laying around. PM me if interested.

I worry I might be spamming this topic with all the photos I take, but hopefully people like them. I'll keep the wordiness down so you can skip past it all quickly if you want to see other stuff!

For Battle Brother Lucifer:

The head is not yet firmly attached, haven't decided exactly where I want it. I like the eyes looking out the corner, but it doesn't really suit the angle the bolter is at, so maybe he was aiming, but is now checking behind him, like he suddenly heard something. Not sure.







The axe is a bit of a problem. I followed a tutorial I found on making less cartoony power blades - using watered down blue and watered down white and mixing them, but I'm not sure it went well. Thoughts?





For 1-i:

it has begun...

4 standard marines up for trade.
PM if you want one.

Lenny, I hand delivered Ramos's marine today (after using it as an objective for a game in a tourny ). Saved $3 shipping but spent $20 on gas.....

Also, if you'd like a marine to get a fluff background for a greater tie-in to a story related to the Great Marine Swap, let me know. Send name and picture.

OK, graven, a bit more progress on this dude:




The wheeled guy got dumped back into 'da surjary' due to me being unable to get the marine pad to fit where I wanted, he'll eventually re-surface back with some other servo-grots. During the process of scrapping him I came up with a couple of other ideas, but this is the main alternative so far:



There's a faint possibility a third variation may appear, if neither of those is really grabbing you yet

an00bis - much happier with most of yours now I'v put some colour on the wapons, however I have managed to lose his head I forgot it was only lightly blu-tacced in place and it fell off whilst I was playing with the weapons. Onto the floor and straight into the Carpet Level Workroom Black Hole...

WM - the 2 vets are complaining to me that their armour is a loose fit and needs securing, whilst the scout is making a fuss over his non-existent colour scheme.


Hmm, probably not the best update ever.

monkeytroll, your creations just get weirder, wackier and better - keep'em up!

monkeytroll wrote:OK, graven, a bit more progress on this dude:




The wheeled guy got dumped back into 'da surjary' due to me being unable to get the marine pad to fit where I wanted, he'll eventually re-surface back with some other servo-grots. During the process of scrapping him I came up with a couple of other ideas, but this is the main alternative so far:



There's a faint possibility a third variation may appear, if neither of those is really grabbing you yet

an00bis - much happier with most of yours now I'v put some colour on the wapons, however I have managed to lose his head I forgot it was only lightly blu-tacced in place and it fell off whilst I was playing with the weapons. Onto the floor and straight into the Carpet Level Workroom Black Hole...

WM - the 2 vets are complaining to me that their armour is a loose fit and needs securing, whilst the scout is making a fuss over his non-existent colour scheme.


Hmm, probably not the best update ever.

now thats how to kitbash!!!

I love it! Da Leejun will crush, smash and bash its way across da world (etc.)!

Hey Bishop

Base coat mostly slapped on (elegantly) so either I had productive time or its early 2012, hard to keep track of time every now and then.
This is following my army paint scheme so if its not what you want/need just let me know and Ill strip it off and start over but I think it is what you were looking for.
BTW, I like the black parts.

Really like the scheme 1-i, every captain should have his own colours and I do enjoy painting bubonic brown.

Also good work at speeding up time, it's good to get those pesky years out of the way!

@WM: Ok took forever but I mailed out your marine today. I hope it makes it in one piece. Its packaged very well so I think it will. Sorry for the wait.

Looking forward to it! Quite a few of mine have broken, its just part of the monster of shipping one model.

I painted up some marines to take a break from Orks. I call them the Blood Guard. I'm looking to swap for some Orks. Thanks guys!!

BG, could have sworn I posted.
The axe looks great

Well I got another unpainted mini up for trades.


Willing to paint it whatever color you want but feel free to ask me to paint it like one of mine http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-21162-6307_Space%20Marines%2C.html

I will have another one finish and up for grabs soon and right now I have two unfinished but if someone wants something particular Ill see what I can do, getting short on standard CC bits but if the 'blanks' are left unclaimed then it could be interesting.

As with bishop Im looking for close combat minded marines to fill in a vangaurd spot, weapons dont matter and any paint scheme will work.

1-i, i can do you a close combat dude.
any CC weapon, or power?

Well Bishop has shown signs of a powerfist, I got a twin LC guy, and one dude with big sword, so any CC, chainsword or power weapon or even baseball bat would work.


You interested in the one shown or one of the two blanks?

the one shown is cool.
i'll get working on it when i get home.

anyone wanna trade?

ive got 5 unassembaled tac marines

So how does this thread work exactly? i've read a few pages and it seems we are swapping painted mini's to share some love around the world? sounds like a fun plan! I may have some to put up but only to a good caring home! :-)

nerdfest09 wrote:So how does this thread work exactly? i've read a few pages and it seems we are swapping painted mini's to share some love around the world? sounds like a fun plan! I may have some to put up but only to a good caring home! :-)

whalemusic360 wrote:Instructions
Simply post your interest to swap, along with some recent work you have done, along with what army (armies) you are normally paint. If someone is interested, they'll contact you either on the thread or by PM. Conversely, if you see someone's work on the thread that you like, you may contact them the same way. There are no rules for what can be traded, from simple bolter tactical marine up to a Land Raider, and everything in between. It can even be something besides marines, such as our several ork participants have shown, or even objective markers! Once you find a partner (or ten) find out exactly what they are looking for. Some people make deathwatch teams, so ask that a shoulder pad be left off, while others ask that the base be blank so it can fit in with their army. When you complete a trade on both ends, shoot me a pm to let me know and I will add the name behind your own.

Wow, I'm unhappy with myself for not posting on here earlier!

I'd be very happy to either trade a sergeant for a sergeant (modelled "to order")

or even a tactical or two for a tactical or two! (I've only got a couple I'd consider worthy of the swap, and I'm still working on them)

Here's a picture of a few models from my chapter (They are also unfinished, but I couldn't get a decent picture of my tacticals to save my life)

Let me know if you want to swap!




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*also, I will be basing any marine I swap, I just haven't gotten around to it on my own


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** ALSO! This is a DYI chapter called the Azure Butchers.