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Being a marine player with tons of spare bits, I frequently create dead marine objective markers, and i thought i would post an example of one of the more interesting ones... a half underwater marine.

comments, critique, complements are all very welcome.

Neat, how did you make it?

haha that's pretty bad ass, love the wolves can't wait for the new codex.

Nice , it would look a bit better if the water was glossy. Try a thick layer of PVA glue or varnish.

that makes me wanna make some ! ! ! ! !

Oh the poor wasted beekie head

thats preety nifty

He almost looks as though he is melting. I have a question though, why is there no blood in the water/ bullet holes in the torso? I think the addition of some blood/ battle-damage would add to the effect of dead marine in the water.

Edit- on second though it is just a bad angle on the first image that looks like he is melting, after looking over the pics some more it does not seem that is the case. A bit of advice though, the yellow looks a bit streaky, perhaps you ought to thin it out and use more coats of it, or start with the foundation yellow base and blend your way up to the final color.

I made this model by taking half of a chest-piece aquilla, the front half of a space marine head, an arm, and half a shoulder pad. I shaved them all downt o just-about line up with the base, but to sit at an angle "into" the base.

insted of using normal superglue to put him down, I laid a thick layer of PVA glue. then set the parts in so that the PVA glue ran up the sides just a little bit.

once the PVA glue dried i put down a second layer in some spots that needed to be raised ever so slightly more.

then i painted the marine, first the exposed bits that were actually there, then the sunken parts that i had to freehand onto the flat surface. the most fun part of this was doing the other half of the Imperial Eagle on the chest.

I quickly realised that painting the sides of the base would add a good amount of depth to the water, and make it appear more realistic.

I used a very thin glaze of blue over the whole section that was underwater, then stippled some white in places I figured the water would be splashing up against. a 2nd and third coats of glaze were then applied, and another stippling of white to bring out the movement in the water.

the whole thing took maybe 20 mins to do, 5 mins to build the model, (let it dry overnight) then 15 mins to paint.

Vodski, good advice, ill need to buy more varnish though, mine dried up /sadface

Elnicko5, also good advice, ill drill a couple small holes in his armor and paint trails of blood leading out of them next. i may or may not fix the uneven paint on his shoulders, i think it adds to the long dead effect.

the melting look is due to the refraction of light into the water, from the side each sections appears to have about the right amount of light refraction, but when you look at the "wrong angle" it looks a little bit off. in the first picture, if you look to the extreme edges on the left and right it just looks like the positions are all wrong, but in the second and fourth pictures the same sections appear spot on.