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I think the Marine is an excellent model, the colouring and detail is truly brilliant. Did you use one of those powerful magnifying glasses for the eyes?

Ha ha Thanks guys. I have no Idea how I did the eyes. I painted like 20 heads a year ago, and that one is my favorite. Trust me the rest go downhill from this one.

I did buy one of those Magnifying Lense Lamps just reciently, but I haven't used it for eyes yet

Here is Mr. February as wolf Guard or a lone wolf:

Hey styro, have you considered a little bit of edge highlighting on the black? I'm thinking just the upper edges of the lightening claws, skull and pad edge. Might make the black pop as nicely as the red does.

The lighting claws are not finished. I just blacked out the red. I haven't done any highlighting on the black for them

Ah, sorry Styro... didn't mean to jump the gun.

I'm really excited I got back my squad of marines from More Dakka! I took some pictures, but my home computer is in the shop getting fixed. as soon as I get it back I will post them and you guys can tell what you think.

In the meantime I have picked the next model for Mr. March. The red is done and the rest is blacked out




Opps I forgot to finish blacking out the combi-melta!

I also need to pick a head for him. He is a Wolf Guard, Should I give him a helmet or use a SW head?

Looking good so far Styro, as per usual! Tough call, what heads/helmets do you have available?

Jesus Hector Christ, how the feth did you paint those eyes?

Years of patience and self-denial.

That guy looks good! The skin and hair/fur look excellent.

@Chemical Cutthroat
Thanks, I like how the fur turned out and the hair too. I hope I can reproduce them lol

@Gitsplitta
Well I have chaos marines helmets, but I dont think it will suit it.
I have SM helmets (one of them is a beakie)
I have blood angles and Dark Angles helmets
and I have the painted SW heads I did a year ago:



Anyone reconize No. 6

That looks like every character model ever from all the latest Call of Duty games.

Mustache, AWAY! *flies away*

Soap is #20... Price is #8... Demitri is #12... just because of the bionic eye.

The skin does look good. So what, did you just paint up a bunch of heads for some other project then left em' for a bit?

Pretty much. I bought a squad of SW pack to add to my Chaos. I created a Rhino that was a converted SW rhino and it was repainted and scratched up in the interior by wolf claws. I planned on having a 10 man squad called Huron's Wolves. The rest of the 64 heads in the box would be used as bloody trophies all over the Rhino as incouragement or punshment for failure.

But now my entire army is SW so I get to use those heads

I like 5 & 13... or a marine helmet. But that's just my 2 cents.

So my comupter is still in the shop, but I did manage to upload them to photobucket. I used their editing program so it is not the best, but it got the job done.

So here they are, More Dakka's Commission of my Red Corsairs.

He painted a 10 man vanilla Marines with one Meltagun Marine

Warning This is very Pic heavy

First 5





Next 5





Full Squad


Let me know what you guys think?

Very nice work. Get those bases done and you'll really have something. How do they look when your marines are set beside them? Close enough match?

Holy crap that is some neon green. Good for the eye-lenses, I dunno about the seals.

They look good. Simple and clean.

But Hey-zeus e Cripsin that is some NEON.

I think I like it... I'll have to get some sunglasses and check again.

@Gitsplitta
Side by side they are darker then my new stuff, but pretty close to my Old Chaos ones. I'll take some pics of them together. My only nitpick is the helmets should be black. It's no big deal, it kinda seperates them as a unit. On the other hand it makes it difficult to swap guys... So My question for everyone is to re-paint or not re-paint? Should I re-do the helmets?

@Chemical Cutthroat
Thanks for the comments. I think the green could use a wash to darken it.

In general what to people thing of "green" seals on the red. So far I have been leaving them black or red because I dont know what to do with them. They dont have to be Purity seals, more like loyalty seals.


So just when I finished highlighting the black on Mr. March, my attention left the model and I started something else.

...I started creating a mould for the Red Corsairs symbol I created for the top hatch of my Black Rhino.



I hope to pour the Rubber tonight before I lose interest. I'll remember to take pictures too

That's awesome!!

It just is.


I'd leave the heads as they are... nice to have some unit distinction.

Being an expert on Green Purity Seals and the conflict that comes from them... (no really)


They look awesome and you should totally do it. You just should make them darker. The problem you're going to have is that your Marines are Red, so if you have that green and red you risk Christmas Territory. And 40K only has room for one God Emperor amiright?

An option I've seen for Red has been a purplish tone, or even a rich yellow. I for one, like yellow purity seals, they look neat on certain models.

So I got alot done on Saturday. Although, none of it was for Mr. March. I managed to get some casting done.

So on Thursday, I created the mould and I promised you all pics



As soon as I got home on Friday I poured the rubber, 6 hours later this popped out:



I spent all day Saturday casting (well most of the day, the evening was spent at a pub and having some green beer for St Pattys Day)
I did about 6 casts and only 3 of them turned out. Due to bubbles and bad mixes. The three that did come out needed to be cut out and trimed. The came out a little thicker then the orginal so they needed to be sanded down
and i got 3 of these:



Next to the orginal:



It was very time consuming but I feel it was still faster then cutting them out of plasticard

Oh, that's nice Styro. Have been debating something like that for my MW's but I keep talking myself out of it.

wow cool job

So back to Mr. March I took pictures of him with the highlighted black






Let me know what you think

You know Styro... I look at that and I think to myself... "It needs more "pop"." But then I look at your finished figures and they pop just fine.

My only comment then is that the red is showing through in places on the jets of your back pack, clip of the bolter and tip of the muzzle of the combi-melta.

Thanks Gits, the jets are to be painted gold, I barely seen that on the bolter part, Macro photo, you love em, you hate em.

I think I might add a touch of grey for a final highlight to give it more pop. Im just not a fan of the grey black. I prefer the superman hair black

Nice work dude, they're coming along really good! I prefer 'Bruce Wayne Black' for hair over superman black :-)

Yes, I have come to loathe macro-photogrophy. Primarily because there are some things that are just so minuscule that there's no way I'm going to waste my time fixing them... then I have to fix them because TFG (in most cases... it's ME) sees it on the close-up photo.

@ Nerdfest Ha ha! These Bruce Waynes:



Huh... you might be right I'll try Bruce Wayne hair for next time.

@Gitsplitta No worries most of the time I don't see them. Just, Please don't look for mould lines! I horrible when it comes to that. i think I see one on the melta part!

I had a great game on Sunday against Dark Eldar Elite. I have never played Dark Eldar before and DE Elite was very helpful. While playing he gave detailed information on each unit and even told me which was a greater threat. He is very forgiving and stern. He is a new player himself. So when I made mistakes he would tell me about it and let it go. On the otherhand when I would let his mistakes go, he wouldn't allow it. (trying to learn from his mistakes) Which made me feel crappy about it.

Anyway, He won first turn, and decided to go second. It was Capture and control and spearhead. He kinda told me he was putting everything in reserve. Since I knew ahead of time I deployed differently. I put one unit of Long Fangs on top of my bunker Objective and the other two Long Fangs I put in their Las/Plas Razorbacks (which I never do). I knew I had 2 free turns of movement. I placed 2 Rhinos and 1 Heavy Bolter Razorback as close to the edge of my deployment for max distence. In both of them were 8 Grey Hunters with Melta and a Wolf Guard with Combi-Melta and a Power Fist. The HB razorback was amy power ball of 5 Wolf Guard all with Power Weapons and Huron Blackheart (Wolf Lord, Power Weapon and Power Fist and Runic armour). I also deployed another 2 Grey hunter Rhinos. One of these Rhinos had a Rune Priest. these two I camped by my objective.

First and Second Turn, Very straight forward. I moved my Long Fangs razors towards terrain and deployed them in cover. The two Rhinos and HB Razorback went all out to get in range of his Objective
Unfortunetly I dont know much about Dark Eldar to really complete a detailed BatRep. I can give you the jist of it. He brought in a transport and a unit of witches. The transport hid behind a bunker and the witches behind his objective. He shot at my Long Fangs and I lost the sargent.

Turn Three, I got my three units in 3" range of the objective, I lined up a Las/plas Razor to shoot the Witches (but I forgot about it in the shooting phase) My long fangs returned fire on the transport and wreaked it. Some Dark Eldar guys came out all of them had Power Weapons. I shot some Frag Grenades at them, 9 hits but only Killed only one or 2
He deployed a cool black jet thing with lots of guns and missiles. a monsterious creature thing, a little skimmer thing that had 5 guys in it and I think 10 regular guys walked on the table and another transport. He wreaked Hurons razorback. They Disembarked out the rear in cover. He then wreaked the Rhino Next to it. He also wiped out a squad of long fangs.

Turn Four, I exploded the jet thing, wounded the monsteriuos creature thing, shot Krak Grenades this time at the power weapon guys killing 2 more. i move my ramianing Grey Hunter Rhino thats near his objective towards the transport. I disembark and shoot everything at it. my meltas were 1/2" out of range, and the bolters only got a cant shoot result. Im not sure what else i got.
He brought in another jet(placed in in the crater of the first one...taboo), some wing things. I think at this point he gave up thinking of capturing my objective. He was going to skim accross for the contest. His main concern was getting these damn Grey Hunters off his objective. His jet thing shot eveything at my long fangs leaving one ML to remain (passed leadership at the end of shooting). He weapon's destroyed one of my Las/Plas Razors(yay Bumper car). My rhino-less Grey Hunters get shot at and assaulted by the monster. But I kill it in the assault 5 marines remain in this squad. A squad disembark out of the transport lead by Lelith(bad a$$). They multi-assault my Grey hunters and Huron's Unit of Wolf Guard. Lelith had like 11 attacks, and her squad had alot of attacks too. I lost all the grey hunters in that squad and left behind a Wolf Guard. Huron's unit brushed off all attacks. I return by killing only four guys. I lost the assault. The lone Wolf Guard passed the Ld save, but Huron Fails. I also lose the initiative test. and had to take 3 wounds. I lose 2 of them.

Turn 5. Not looking good for me on his side, I need re-enforcements! I move my Rune priest Rhino 12" and disembark the Rune Priest. I use living lighting on the witches sitting on his objective and with the help of pistol fire from the 5 Grey hunters I cause them to retreat off the table.
Soo the funniest part of the game. my Lone ML Long Fang decides to shoot at the black jet in the crater. DE Elite says to me if you wreak this i will jump over the table! ... I roll a 6 on the damage chart .... and he runs around the table and playfully checks me into the wall. We laugh then remember that it was a glancing hit so it was only immobilized.
My full squad of Long fangs sitting safe on my objective split fire 3 shots into the jet to finish the job. The other two shots go on the advancing power weapon unit and kill 2 of them.
My assault phase didn't go too well. I lost it again. Lelith over killed my remaining Wolf guard(in the Grey Hunter unit) with 10 attacks. Huron gets a wound and I lose a power weapon Wolf guard.
Last ditch effort He skims across the table to my objective but is 10" short. His power weapon unit also moves toward my objective. If he rolls a 6 for running then he contests... thankfully he rolls a 1. His assault phase Lelith is not Base to base with Huron so all her attack are agains the remaining 2 Wolf Guard who of course DIE. He has 2 reamining guys with regular weapons and Huron only needs 2+ saves and I roll a 1!...I'm just glad he has 1 would left.
End of fifth turn. I hold strong to my objective, and Huron and an empty rhino contest his. If the game ends now I win. If it continues, Huron dies... rhino explodes ....and the reinforcements dont make it. For the Tie.

I ask DE Elite so do you want someone else to roll the die for next turn... his reply was "I take fate into my own hands" ..... He rolls a 2 ...Game Over... for the win.. really good game.

Edit: I changed "DEE" to "DE Elite"

You did not ask me ....

Sounds like quite the game Styro!