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I was first introduced to Warhammer back when I was about 10 years old, although it was a passing glance. My friend and I used to play PC games at a local shop and he once said "Oh, look Warhammer 40k, My brother played this it's crazy you have to assemble and paint them. . . " Toys you need to paint? My interest was lost entirely. What good was that to me right now? I believe I then replied "lets go play more Nox" or something to that effect. That was my first and last encounter with miniatures until maybe a year or so ago (I'm now 21) at my local game shop. There was a Warmachine display and it brought me back to when I was 10 and it sparked an interest in Warhammer. I then fell in love with the whole 40k Universe.

So I got myself an AoBR set and assembled (should have thought that through) then disassembled, yes I used glue so I had to tear off arms. Thankfully with no damage to the details. I then went about looking at different books and pics online to choose a chapter. I had wanted to do something simple so I didn't go beyond my skills, as I have no history with painting or art of any kind really. After reading some stuff from the Insignium Astartes about different markings and such I really wanted to make my own chapter, but I had sort of settled on a black and white 50/50 design before I came across the Omega Marines.

I looked further into their history and I couldn't find much. Essentially all I found were sources saying they were a codex styled successor to the ultramarines and that Roubote Gulliman was their Primarch, and one or two saying that their primarch was unknown. However they contributed Troops apparently with a lot of dreads to the 3rd war for armageddon, and were founded in M40. This was alright but it wasn't what I was really looking for being that I felt it was a bit soon to have a successor chapter of an essentially brand new chapter and I didn't really want a strict codex chapter. All the while I was still painting my marines in a black and white scheme. . . So I've been working on my fluff/excuse for taking the Omega paint scheme and not their entire heritage, while still not being a successor chapter.

Let me know what you guys think. So I painted my marines opposite of the codex Omegas, I call them the Progenitors of Omega and I figure they will represent the, I don't really want to say, "rejects" of Omega but more of the testing/gene pool. These were the guys that the omegas are comprised of but because they didn't follow Gulliman to the tee, as I assume the Omegas do, that they weren't fully admitted to the chapter but they still consider themselves to represent Omega Marine Ideals.
(this Idea I stole from a forum post I found randomly talking about a play strategy called omega marines where you try to use as many marines as you can because te sheer amount of models will overwhelm most armies cause they just can't take out that many marines. So I decided to incorporate that into my plan)

With that, I figure that since they aren't really a supported chapter this would fit in well, because they would have to rely on their men because they weren't being regularly being given tanks and other heavy armor. I wanted these marines to feel like they were true brothers because it's all they have to rely on, aside from their bolters. Lack of armor mentioned I did want them to have dreads and I think the sense of brotherhood covers that. If one of their brothers was injured they'd do all they could to bring him back to the fight. So if they spent their resources (what little they could scrounge up) on getting him a dread built, it made sense to me. I haven't decided if I want them to be a fleet based chapter, that would add to the brotherhood element because they don't have specific recruiting worlds, just hope to pick up trustworthy and viable stock when they can, however that might not work with the lack of resources. Maybe it could be like some last gift from the empire as like a "Go Free, but you are on your own" thing. So let me know what you think. I'm going to go right now and take and try to post some pics of my marines.

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Here are some of my marines


Here is some of my tactical squad


My company leader



Squad leader


Tactical marine


Rocket launcher


I did one terminator


And my dread

Welcome to the forums. I must say im impressed by those minis sir.

those are amazingly painted for your first miniatures! welcome to the forums!

Nice minis!
and Welcome!

Thanks all. I've been working on them for about 15 hours with about 20-30 mins spent painting the AoBR orks. Every day I look at them and find something else I missed or I'll be reading something on the forums and learn how to do what I couldn't before so I keep going back, haha. I want to get into doing some green stuff but so far all I've done is fix my friends glasses. thinking bout making some purity seals i was also contemplating making the terminator shoulder pad chapter icons raised.

Welcome, and those are much better than any of my first minis...

Welcome to dakka, and much better then mine lol.

Wow! Those minis look awseome. I can only now paint like that, after my older brother gave me tutelage in how to wash minis well, highlight, OSL, drybrush, stipple etc. over the last 4 months.

Those CM are closer to my bro's standards than my own.

And welcome to dakka dakka, I'm new here to.

Welcome to dakka dakka. I'm new to the site as well.

Impresseive. They look great for first time minis. It took me a while to be able to paint LotR stuff up to similar standards

Welcome to dakka- nice scheme on the minis.

Welcome to Dakka!

Hello and welcome.

Welcome to dakka.
BTW nice minis.

Thanks for all your comments guys. If you want to follow the progress you can check out my other thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/293164.page

Those are super excellent for first-minis. My own were pretty horrible (I think I still got pictures around here somewhere). Welcome to Double D (that means Dakka Dakka you perv)!

FoxPhoenix: If they are the Blood Angels I just looked at, they weren't that bad. Just need a coat of wash and some highlights. I've also been reading all the how to paint minis books for the last few months and trying to look at as many articles. So I came "prepared" haha

That definitely helps... I STILL don't own any of the citadel painting books... self-teaching takes a lot longer. Still, reading about it doesn't make you an expert, so you must have some natural talent!

Your minis are awesome. Welcome to the madness!

FoxPhoenix: ::shrug:: maybe. or it could be the books. we may never know haha.

loranafaeriequeen: Thank you. and I don't know if you mean 40k or the website but I love both!. . . does that make me odd?

Welcome to DakkaDakka and happy hobbying.