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I believe there was ( or still is ) a Objective marker swap blog. Any one one know if its still going?

SL

There is, but it is largely dead. I have no problem if folks want to use this page to do it. I'm sure tony wouldnt mind either.

O.K. guys. As many of you may know I'm not taking on any new trades until I get caught up with my old ones. I do however, have an opportunity for someone to jump to the front of the line if they're interested.

I pulled out an old marine (probably painted 8 or more years ago) in order to practice my OSL technique with my airbrush. He's my old paint scheme for my Mantis Warriors, not fancy but decently painted. I spent an hour or two cleaning him up, repainting the eyes, plasma gun, bionic hand, shoulder pad, etc. so he looked decent, then did my best on the OSL for the plasma gun. The problem is I can't use the figure in my own army any more. My Badab War era army uses all Mk 6 armor and earlier, and my "modern" army has custom helmets and pads... so there's no place for a normal Mk. 7 marine.

So, I thought I'd put him up for trade if anyone was interested. All I need in return is a bolter armed marine in your choice of chapter and as many extra chain swords as you can spare. (any race, any kind... I use them for parts) If you (or anyone reading this) have a lot of extra chain swords, contact me separately and maybe we can work out a side deal.

So, here's the pic...


The general comment (which I agree with) is that the OSL is a little big and bright... so it looks more like a plasma gun going critical than a plasma gun charging up in-between shots. Now... for a Mantis Warrior in MY army... this is a perfect representation of a plasma gun (i.e. one that's going critical). My plasma gunners ALWAYS blow themselves up by the second shot, and this particular plasma gunner has fragged himself more times than I can count or care to remember!

So if you're interested, please PM me, I'll post again here when I've found a taker (if I find a taker). Priority goes to anyone who has contacted previously about a trade, other than that it's open to anyone.

Gits

@dantay_xv
well, i guess it'd have to be a race, size, theme deal. currently i've got orks (AoBR though), guardsmen and marines that i could convert into objective markers with a bit of time (i'm in school in the uk for 2 months then back home where all my 40k stuff is. what sort of markers would you want?

Raith

@shado raith.... I only run SW's so there is a few things I could use as an objective marker.
1. An injured space puppy... always good for a rescue mission. We take cae of our own.
2. Wounded or dead Dark Angel..... always good to annoy the DA and show them who is best. And to prove we take care of folks better grrrr!!!
3. A Thousand Son, dead or alive...... we hate them and would do anything to lay our fangs into them 'orrible traitorous wizardy types.
4. 1 of the Fallen..... always a good way to start a ruck with the DA's finest and maybe learn a few juicy secrets.
5. A big mammoth steak, Leg of pteradon and a big barrel of Bjorn's XXXXXXXX ale. Cos when SW's aren't fighting, they like feasting and drinking, so lets fight feast and drink

What would you like as an objective marker?

Got an early pip pic of WM's plasma marine. Hope you like!



Still needs smoothing out, the torso painting and... Arms! Yeah, I knew I missed something

I may have a go at black plasma, not sure how to go about it though. Maybe black in the recesses worked up to almost white? What do people think?


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Ooh, that pic is quite large!

May do osl on the eyes also...

Like a black lightsaber in Force Unleashed? That would be pretty cool. Are you are doing a homebrew chapter?

Just like that yeah! I knew I got the idea from somewhere!

And yes, the chapter is my own. I have not got round to naming them, but I will have one by the time he is finished!

Go for it! Always the saber I rocked in that game. Feel free to use the marine for trying anything new you wanted to add to you bag of tricks.

@Dantay_xv
I quite like the idea of either a (wounded) member of the Dark Anges, or a Space Puppy. it's all about establishing working relationships .
in return, I'm quite happy to make whatever you want on the same sort of size/budget. As i've said, i've got orks, SM and some guardsmen.
Perhaps a crippled marine pinned under the body of a dead ork? or a marine injured salvaging kit from a downed heavy weapons guardsmen (sometimes you just need a flamer to get the job done) etc. any ideas you have feel free to suggest, and i'll see what i can do.
Raith

I think I'm going to throw my hat in the ring here.

I'm not the greatest painter, but am getting better, but I love to convert things.
Everything I make, usually has to be bigger, and over the top. (to give you an idea, unpictured, my GK paladins are about twice the size of normal marines, and I have a master of a forge on a tricked out bike with a full servo harness popping a wheely off a ramp.)

Ive made everything from
Huge dreads with servo harnesses: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/170991-mechanicus%20techdre.html
Mechanicus Stalker tanks http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/167074-mechanicus%20plasma%20stalker.html?m=2
horse legged admech stormtroopers: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/167073-mechanicus%20stormtroopers%202.html?m=2
to full size knight titans: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/157212-Army%20Progress%201.html

My army(s) are
-admech based IG
-admech based Grey Knights (well, grey knights painted a little admechy since i love the models)
-admech based SpaceMarines

I'm looking for peoples takes on admechy special characters for any of the armies and to replenish my bitz. I'll do my best to make your model be guitar-solo-awesome.

that knight titan is pretty sweet

TheChronoTrigger wrote:that knight titan is pretty sweet

There's more pictures of it if you want to paw around my gallery

I'm also having the mighty need of a giant scale land raider

Thanks so much for the shipping advice. Makes me not as hesitant about the trade.. originally, when I typed in the dimensions of this hypothetical package I was getting estimates that it would cost between $40 and $90... Which understandably shocked me a bit.

I'm also getting a camera from my friend today so I can get some pics up of my orky boy.

NakedBatBoy wrote: I'm also getting a camera from my friend today so I can get some pics up of my orky boy.

Good! I can't wait to see him! it's gonna be AWESOME!

I've got a taker on my OSL experiment (and got tons of good advice on how to do it better next time). Someone I'd traded with in the past, but he wanted to opportunity to try a new painting scheme. Works for me!

Thanks guys, I now return you to your regular horse-trading...

:-)

Shado.Raith wrote: (i'm actually in the UK not Norway)

thank god! i can post it to family and get them to distrubute!!

where abouts are you raith?

Ok, I borrowed my friend's camera. Here's a quick update of my Ork Boy I'm planning to swap with Killamop

My thoughts while making this model were that this Ork Boy-soon-to-be-nob just went head to head with a CSM and as he was charging in, the Marine just grazed the left of his face and blew off his ear with his Bolt Pistol. The shot was cushioned by the Boy's shoulder pad. Once the Boy made it into melee he took revenge and sliced off the horn of the Marine... and eventually hacked into and through the neck of the Marine. Once the head tumbled onto the ground, he decided to take a better look at his former foe, so he stabbed the end of his choppa into it.

Here's a normal angel of the model, to give you a sense of it's dimensions (sorry it's a bit dark)


Here's the view at his face of him glaring up at the Marine's head. You can kind of see the burnt mark into the side of his face, the missing ear, and the bolt pistol's hole in his arm pad.


Back view


And a closeup of the base.. it's a bit hard to see what it is, since it's transparent plastic, but it's bricks, and then either I can fill in the upper part to be like a sidewalk, or - as I was originally thinking before i experimented with creating bricks foe the first time - some sort of grating with clear gooey liquid below it..


Also, ignore the green on the arms, the upper torso was from an old model I took apart.

Suggestions and Critiques would be appreciated.
Anything you want me to change before I prime him, Killamop?

@prototype

down south in kent.

Raith

NakedBatBoy wrote:Ok, I borrowed my friend's camera. Here's a quick update of my Ork Boy I'm planning to swap with Killamop

My thoughts while making this model were that this Ork Boy-soon-to-be-nob just went head to head with a CSM and as he was charging in, the Marine just grazed the left of his face and blew off his ear with his Bolt Pistol. The shot was cushioned by the Boy's shoulder pad. Once the Boy made it into melee he took revenge and sliced off the horn of the Marine... and eventually hacked into and through the neck of the Marine. Once the head tumbled onto the ground, he decided to take a better look at his former foe, so he stabbed the end of his choppa into it.

Here's a normal angel of the model, to give you a sense of it's dimensions (sorry it's a bit dark)


Here's the view at his face of him glaring up at the Marine's head. You can kind of see the burnt mark into the side of his face, the missing ear, and the bolt pistol's hole in his arm pad.


Back view


And a closeup of the base.. it's a bit hard to see what it is, since it's transparent plastic, but it's bricks, and then either I can fill in the upper part to be like a sidewalk, or - as I was originally thinking before i experimented with creating bricks foe the first time - some sort of grating with clear gooey liquid below it..


Also, ignore the green on the arms, the upper torso was from an old model I took apart.

Suggestions and Critiques would be appreciated.
Anything you want me to change before I prime him, Killamop?

Those are cool!The green stuff work is espally good!


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Gitsplitta wrote:O.K. guys. As many of you may know I'm not taking on any new trades until I get caught up with my old ones. I do however, have an opportunity for someone to jump to the front of the line if they're interested.

I pulled out an old marine (probably painted 8 or more years ago) in order to practice my OSL technique with my airbrush. He's my old paint scheme for my Mantis Warriors, not fancy but decently painted. I spent an hour or two cleaning him up, repainting the eyes, plasma gun, bionic hand, shoulder pad, etc. so he looked decent, then did my best on the OSL for the plasma gun. The problem is I can't use the figure in my own army any more. My Badab War era army uses all Mk 6 armor and earlier, and my "modern" army has custom helmets and pads... so there's no place for a normal Mk. 7 marine.

So, I thought I'd put him up for trade if anyone was interested. All I need in return is a bolter armed marine in your choice of chapter and as many extra chain swords as you can spare. (any race, any kind... I use them for parts) If you (or anyone reading this) have a lot of extra chain swords, contact me separately and maybe we can work out a side deal.

So, here's the pic...


The general comment (which I agree with) is that the OSL is a little big and bright... so it looks more like a plasma gun going critical than a plasma gun charging up in-between shots. Now... for a Mantis Warrior in MY army... this is a perfect representation of a plasma gun (i.e. one that's going critical). My plasma gunners ALWAYS blow themselves up by the second shot, and this particular plasma gunner has fragged himself more times than I can count or care to remember!

So if you're interested, please PM me, I'll post again here when I've found a taker (if I find a taker). Priority goes to anyone who has contacted previously about a trade, other than that it's open to anyone.

Gits

Hey nice use of the lighting I saw that on your blog and was thinking of say how good it is!


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Grundz wrote:I think I'm going to throw my hat in the ring here.

I'm not the greatest painter, but am getting better, but I love to convert things.
Everything I make, usually has to be bigger, and over the top. (to give you an idea, unpictured, my GK paladins are about twice the size of normal marines, and I have a master of a forge on a tricked out bike with a full servo harness popping a wheely off a ramp.)

Ive made everything from
Huge dreads with servo harnesses: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/170991-mechanicus%20techdre.html
Mechanicus Stalker tanks http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/167074-mechanicus%20plasma%20stalker.html?m=2
horse legged admech stormtroopers: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/167073-mechanicus%20stormtroopers%202.html?m=2
to full size knight titans: http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/157212-Army%20Progress%201.html

My army(s) are
-admech based IG
-admech based Grey Knights (well, grey knights painted a little admechy since i love the models)
-admech based SpaceMarines

I'm looking for peoples takes on admechy special characters for any of the armies and to replenish my bitz. I'll do my best to make your model be guitar-solo-awesome.

That knight titain is pretty dam cool! The Mechanicus Stalker thing is amasing too!

HAZZER wrote:That knight titain is pretty dam cool! The Mechanicus Stalker thing is amasing too!

here it is painted on a leman russ sized base!

Sweet!

Thanks, I'm trying to figure out some sort of hatchback for the smaller ones to convert them into transports for counts-as rhino's or chimera's but havent had much luck.

What "smaller ones"?

HAZZER wrote:What "smaller ones"?

I have 2 sizes of stalk tank, the larger ones are leman russ sized tanks, have room for turrets and sponsons, and count as lemans, predators, or any other battle tank.

The smaller ones are slightly smaller, don't have room for sponsons, and count as chimera-chasis vehicles or transports, chimera's, hydras' razorbacks, ect.

There is a third varient which I've only test built is that is the smaller one, but has large claws holding onto terrain and shock absorbing reinforced rear legs, these will count as artillery, manticores, basalisks, ect.

All of them have turrets and sponsons that make them accurate for what they represent

HAZZER wrote:Hey nice use of the lighting I saw that on your blog and was thinking of say how good it is!

Thanks HAZZER, I appreciate it! Only my first try but a decent start I think. Should have a second go-round tonight or tomorrow night so we'll see what I've learned.

@shadow.raith, where in Kent? I am too

Update on Naked Bat Boy's boy.
Shoota Boy is almost finished, I need to do some more work to make it look fluid and nice. but Pic's should be taken soon

Shado.Raith wrote:

You don't say?