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***Please forgive my english, not my native language***

Hi, i'm going to start a marines army, with all mounted on bikes, attack bikes and maybe land speeders. So after some time thinking for a color scheme, i post here what it's camed out:










C&C are welcomed!

And i need some ideas about how base them...i have wondered a a dark, lavic surface to make colour contrast, or a wasteland, good for bikes, but maybe a bit too light and not enough contrasting in colors...

Now i have just finished to assemble the one that will be the Company Champion on bike, and i think he would be a rather...cool character ^^

The color scheme looks nice.

Looks great.

Are you considering using Khan? Your paint scheme is very similar to White Scars.

Or are you making a white Ravenwing?

I think i would play them mainly with the SM codex, so yes, Khan is the way!
I think Ravenwing makes a good bikes army, but IMHO in this kind of list the codex SM is a bit superior.

On and NOT, i'm not using the new SM codex to put inside an outflanking redemeer filled with stormshielded terminator, just bikes

But i'm using the Ravenwing bits because i find them much more enjoiable to see than plain bikes!


Now i have just to find a nice way to base the bikes! Oh well and paint 30+ bikes

The bone and gold work really nice together! I'm looking out for your speeders, I bet your scheme will look really nice on them.

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beautiful...
have you considered a road base? i think the gray would stand out and make the model color choice really show.

Here a couple of WIP of the Champion!

Lovely work, your marines make my marines look like they where painted by a 5-year old

Also, what about using a desert theme for the bases?

The probblme with a light bases is that on the table will probably makes all looks like undefined spots of yellow-ish brown and white.

I think a dark Base will do the job better, with an hard contrast that makes each bike resalting more.
IMHO marines are not people that cares mimetiziong or atleats not mine!

Beautifully done, the white and golden theme is very clean and crisp. So to contrast to the models, I would suggest a dark urban rubble theme for the bases, small pieces of razor wire and rubble and so on.

These are looking great.

As mentioned earlier the gold and white look really good.

I also agree with MeanGreenStompa... go for a dark and gritty basing to offset the light paintjob.

Your bone color comes out very smooth with very rich golds and reds. Great work and great color scheme. Keep it up and post more when you can.

Here the finished Champion, unlikily not very good photoes, but better than nothing XD

Now i'm working at two normal bikers with meltas, then i will go for the first assault bike and the Apothecary!

Excelent models mate, I really like the scheme. Cant wait to see the army finished.

OK, here i'm againg with new WIPs, Stendard Bearer and Apothecary!
The arm of the SB is magnetized, to allow a better transport when the stendard will be finished.





Here the WIP of the stendard, scrolls needs to be completed!
I know that it may not fits exactly the traditional Space Marine's icoography, but if GW can justify that the Deathwing's Stendard is "a naked angel dead under a mountain that is hit by a thunder" i'm quite sure that with my moderate fantasy i can easily justify "a winged girl with a sword"...



As usual, C&C are welcomed!

That there is a great paint scheme. Kudos to you.

This should be in the blog section.

Reminds me a lot of a Warmachine Menoth Army. Looks very good though. Very smooth on the white.

Ok, here i'm again with the Apothecary and BSB finished. C&C welcomed as usual!

I'm sorry for the pics, not very good this time!

http://img142.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=apo1v.jpg
http://img15.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=bsb1k.jpg

Now because i want to keep the other two members of the command squad for later, i will wait for a friend that has some normal bike to sell me, to start doing some flat troop bikers, obviusly still with the winged front and "tail".


***i'm posting here, but if is a problem for the mods, move it freely to the blog section as someone has stated***

Very nice work mang. Good jub!

Love the scheme and painting ...

Is the bone colour Iyenden/Bleached bone/skull white added for highlights?

The colour is:

-White basecoat
-Bubonic brown
-Flesh wash
-Bubonic Brown (if you are in hurry you can skip this, but the next step would take a couple more layer of colour)
-Bleached bone+ Skull white 50/50
-Higlights of skull white, just a few of them.

Like the colour scheme, I think a dark urban base as has been suggested is the way to go for them. I look forward to seeing more of them.

Yes, as can be seen in the end i have gone for an urban basing and i'm satisfied of it ^^

nice work