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UPDATE! with actual pics later on tonight... AWAH?!?! ahha...

sorry everyone i havent updated in a while because there was no reason TO update, i had not painted or done anything. well im proud to tell you all that a majority of my army just needs detail and helmets done and they are complete! tanks need some work tho. I made 2 doomsday machines with a "dick dasterdly" 50's villian kind of theme; one large energy weapon and 1 weather control machine. also! fun game 2 days ago i managed my first phase out of a cron force! :p and today Myself and @megamarines are entering a doubles tournement! Word Bearers and Ultramarines side by side :p


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Also: I've made havocs, the plastic DP, and making some special chosen for a killteam campaign!

I'm really excited to see these guys!

Guh, that tournament was ridiculous. We should have won Best General, but were cheated by 5 points out of 95. Pretty dirty, but we did get some awesome moments out of it all.

Excuse the quality, pictures done with a phone.

Example being my Land Raider Crusader driving over the wreckage of a Word Bearer Rhino.


Also, here are pics of IronfrontAlex playing those Necrons the other day.




And here is me wrecking some Dark Angels the day before that.

AHHH you beat me to the punch Matt!


yeah we were totally cheated! i was also cheated for winning most heroic act! it was between my 1 wound DP killing a wolf lord, then getting shot at hella by a rune priest, then getting assaulted by it and killing it, then flying over and killing a ven dred. apparently 1 sniper rolling twice on 6's and blew up a Basilisk... MEH

I'm still waiting for some good quality pics my friend!

should have pics up tonight after 10 PM pasific time, i painted 3 CSM/PM's! I decided i was going to organize my squads! from the initial consept on my take on WB one Squad of 10 and 1 of each special/heavy weapon will have a certain difference to set them apart
There are the squads:

-Black shoulder pads these will also be my PM's
-Lower legs red everything else black, these will be chosen and also have gold shoulder trim


I have 2-3 more squads left after that how should i color them? based off the pic i posted in the first post ideas for differentiating paint jobs to organize squads?


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Ok so i kind of fibbed... i wasn't able to get the camera but i was able to fully paint 7 models! these are the CSM with black soulder pads who will also represent my Word Bearer's warbands genetic expirements. I like word bearers, i love the fluff but I ant my own twist and this one is that my Word Bearers are part of the larger force that resides in the maelstrom but works very close with a dark mechanicus cult and create deamon engines, genetic expirements, and all sorts of sci-fi bruhaha!

But i will only have normal CSM and roided out marines, my DP's are also roided out (T6) :p




buuut These are almost ALMOST fully painted, mainly because i do not have the resources with me to paint the eyes, i somehow lost all my green but my micron pen and I need brighter colors for highlight.

So I Haven't gotten photos of the ones i said i would have, thats my bad! no camera really blows, but i have pics!


These are the sons of Lorgar, in normal games they are CSM chosen, in this Kill teams Campaign they are my notmal CSM.


Thanks @Megamarines!!

Any luck on getting ahold of a camera?

no intrest in the pain jobs?

Hey everyone guess what?.... I GOT A DIGITAL CAMERA!!!

I have a Canon SD1400 14.1 Megapixel point and shoot, and its not to bad at mini taking! so i will not consistently have pictures, bump if you'd like!!!

more to come! i actually have uite a bit painted now! and here's a peek!

Those terminators from the last post look nice, good job on those. Drilled-out gun and flamer barrels would make them look much cooler, though.

What size should i use?

Totally depends on the type of gun. 2mm drill bit works for heavy bolter barrels and bigger stuff; I'd try a 1mm bit on everything smaller than that, should look appropiate on most 40k weapons.

Hmmm anything else?

It's great to see some pics! Everything is coming along nicely. I really like the objective markers! Is that a mageknight treasure chest by chance?

hhaha YES IT IS!!!! more pics in a sec BTW!


i thought you would like the objectives :p

megamarines wrote:

if it were painted red, i'd be quite confident in saying that's a deep strike mishap!

hhaha YES IT IS!!!! more pics in a sec BTW!


i thought you would like the objectives :p

MORE!


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Apparently im still not having proper lighting effects, the eyes are all painted green.

Where and when do you usually play at? I would like to see your army in person.

warboss wrote:

megamarines wrote:

if it were painted red, i'd be quite confident in saying that's a deep strike mishap!

bwahaha true dat!

Red_Lives wrote:Where and when do you usually play at? I would like to see your army in person.

I play at the Alamo GW which is still kind of far for me, i haven't tried black diamond but i almost always either go to alamo or the stoneridge mall GW; thought i prefer Alamo.


ALSO! i found a friggin' sweet tutorial on making an MK2 Land raider! i have an assembled normal land raider but it's soaking in Simple green; though unpainted i have found that simple green deteriorates the old GW glue with ease so i plan on soaking it, drying it then ripping off the hull pieces and sanding them down. After that i will make the plasticard sponsons!!!

p.s if anyone has a mk1 land raider or knows anyone who has one let me know! i want one soooo bad! i would prefer a trade if anything.

schoool starts next week, nervous bleah!

p.s spread the word of this thread! it's not nearly as popular as i would like it to be :p

More Pics!!! anyone know how i can get the image of my blog in the front page to change to a better one? oh well!

UPDATE!!!!

I don't know what it is, but when I see your word bearers I feel that there's something missing, or something that's off. It's hard to put my finger on since I kinda like your shade of red and silver. What was the reason for the gold trim? Seems kinda out of place to me.
I think I'm missing something to break thing up, I've seen some green in on your models, but maybe it's not bright enough? Might be caused by bad lighting? I'm comparing your models to these when I say this http://img210.imageshack.us/i/wordbearers1.jpg/

The eyes are obscured because of lighting, the last one that power fist champ it looks as though i haven't even painted his eyes yet i have! My eyes are snot green with an orkhide basecoat, may need another layer of snot to make even brighter tho.... suggestions? P.s the Gold trim? I wasn't origionally going to do that then i looked at the HH collected visions artbook and noticed that some WB squads in the art that had the post hersey Scheme had gold trim, i only assumed that they were champions or chosen so why not! melta and plasma use different shoulders, champs use both, and my havocs will also use both.

Maybe you could paint tubes and hair green too? Also, your skin tone kinda melts into the armor, perhaps you should paint it alittle brighter? Maybe even white like skulls to tie in to them being almost the opposit to chaplains.

If you like the gold trim then stick with it, but I'm not a big fan of it, melts toghther to much with the red. Also, have you thought of putting robes on some choosen marines? Would look cool

I have some chosen in robes! but not many! p.s some of those killteam chosen will be srtriped after my campaign and reworked back into the normal CSM troops, the robed will stay as chosen as well as the special weapons.

The skin is supposed to be pale but i may lighten them a bit, im confused though when you say green tubes? like on the backpacks? i was thinking blue and green but idk which one yet, also if you noticed i have absolutley no hair in this army, i hate the topknots and make it a point to snip them off all helmets.

Yeah, tubes on the backpacks and heavy weapons, also giving power weapons a green glow would be cool.

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Example being my Land Raider Crusader driving over the wreckage of a Word Bearer Rhino.

You dawg! I heard you like transports so we put transport on your transport so you can transport your troops while you transport your troops!


But yeah anyway.. Nice stuff man!