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Great painting

I've fethed up myself for this kind of projects! I once did a Space Marine army in 14 days, it was orange brown + ghostly grey, with edge HLs and super neat BLining and had painted insignia. The brown alone took 6-8 ayers for a smooth finish. Now I am a bitchin punk who can't pait a tactical squad with an easier scheme in 14 days, because TWAR robots are so much fun and Jade Vessel has been a revelation...or is that revolution.

ANYWAY - Nearly done with the pictured wip lot - just the bases left. The Apothecary and Captain came out real nice, while the whole lot is a clear improvement to older marines, yet fit right in. Main changes are colder gold and better wear and tear as learned from TWAR project.

This group has after all become is a big lift to the project. I wasn't toatally happy with the old marines and was worried how the changed things would fit in. And it was such a boring thing to paint after Jade Vessel stuff, but then the sense of achievement is ten fold. The new dex and the new models + finally getting to do tanks should result into much more Crescent Guard.

Pics tomorrow.

Migsula thats amazing work!! I really love those miniatures they are so nicely painted and modelled.. Keep going migsula!!!

Can't wait to see the new models. You've got a way with marines.

In soviet russia, crescent guard you!

no they honestly look fantastic though

I absolutely positively need scouts like that! Those look exactly like scouts should.

Not like small marines, but like big humans!

Catachan arms on cadian bodies looks great, and the GS work gives them that little extra. These scouts someone might actually take seriously!

Migs, could you make something ugly soon, to boost the morale of the rest of us, who are only mortal?

Jk, good work on this army, nicely done.

sphynx wrote:In soviet russia, crescent guard you!

that's not making whole lotta sense, care to elaborate?

thanks lads, only the base rims to paint now. Then pics.

migsula wrote:

sphynx wrote:In soviet russia, crescent guard you!

that's not making whole lotta sense, care to elaborate?

It's a play off a simpsons quote ^_^.

"In Soviet Russia, Car Drive You!"

and the simpson's quote was a play off of yakov smirnoff's work... http://www.yakov.com/

Ok, comments welcome.

Very nice. I really like your take on these guys. The white looks great with all of the weathering.

The light on the apothacary looks like it could use a bit of work. The flat yellow isn't really coming across well in the photos like it does for your TWAR. It might just be the style of the light isn't lending itself to the method.

The leaders face seems a bit flat in contrast to what I've seen you do with skin tones in the past. I do however love the scar.

The sword looks magnificent. Very nice take on the power weapon you've got here. It's nice to see techniques from your other projects bleed over into other ones ^_^.

Very nice work on these guys.
The palette works very well and i love the blue cloth. The green on the helmet-eyes is also a good choice. I like that alot better than the red.


I agree with grey_death on the sword as well. Keeping it rather "simple" looking, but still, well special. Good job.
Very nice.

Thanks guys.

The blade is a relic sword - I've always liked the DA fluff of making their special swords of a black meteor and wanted something like this here. It also stands out from power weapons and force swords elsewhere in the army.

The face is flatter and slightly paler than the previous marines have. I want to be more austere with this army. I contrasted this with very dark "eyeliner" which works well. The scarred side has a yellow bionic eye that lends a slight glow to the skin around it.

Agreed on the yellow light, tricky when the base color in the scheme is as light as you can go, so I have less options to make it really click than with TWAR, where I think it works quite well.

And here's the list I am building towards! Mostly units I have with some tweaks for fifth (like heavy flamers instead of assault cannons for tornados) and building that Iron Clad dread, which is a concept I really love.

As I understand it, the Drop pod assault lets you drop with half your pods on turn one, so I can really be quite tactical with this setup, mostly dropping with the three dreads in a very refused setup and with their own "cover" of course!

Then beginning turn two come the infantry to take objects, engage the enemy, and speeders to fry and contest. Tactical squads split when playing the 4 object game and scouts lurk when playing objects/annoy the hell out of the enemy.

I think it's quite nicely themed, yet has potential to go all the way when I learn to use it properly. What do you guys think?



Crescent Guard DROPPOD ASSAULT

Space Marine Captain 100pts
relic blade 30pts, combi-flamer 10pts, artificier armour 15pts
155pts
Command Squad 115pts
Champion 15pts, meltagun 10pts, meltagun 10pts, Apothecary
150pts
Drop Pod 35pts
total: 340pts

Dreadnought 105pts
assault cannon 10pts
115pts
Drop Pod 35pts
total: 150pts

Dreadnought 105pts
assault cannon 10pts
115pts
Drop Pod 35pts
total: 150pts

Iron-Clad Dreadnought 135pts
two heavy flamers 15pts
150pts
Drop Pod 35pts
total: 185pts

10 Tactical Marines, plasma gun, ML, power fist 205pts
Drop Pod 35pts
total: 240pts

10 Tactical Marines, flamer, heavy bolter, power fist 195pts
Drop Pod 35pts
total: 230pts

5 Scouts 75pts
Heavy Bolter with Hellfire shells 10pts
total: 85pts

Land Speeder Tornado 50pts
Heavy flamer 10pts
total: 60pts

Land Speeder Tornado 50pts
Heavy flamer 10pts
total: 60pts


1500pts
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Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete.
A true man may flinch away its embrace,
if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul
with the armour of contempt.

-Gideon Ravenor, The Spheres of Longing

Very nice work Migs. As I´ve stated before, these crescent guard guys look great.

And what´s better, they look like marines should look, big, mean and in control.

Not sure if that´s the biggerizing, the paint or a combo, but they really do look great.

Are you still using vallejo for your bases?

As far as the list goes, it does look like it´ll be fun to play, but I´m not much of a beardie, so I´ve no idea as for how it would be for a tournament.

Thanks my friend! I try hard to match how the Marines are portrayed in the art work, so it's probably a combination of things. I really need to take some comparison shots to normal marines.

Yes, still using Vallejo for bases and just diluted layers on white, no drybrushing.

Really quite stunning.

I like the captain the most.

Stay Safe.

~sA

edit - back to Dakkka

The blog returns to dakka - as I returnt o these marines. It's really cool to see just how much more active the Dakka Blgs have become.

The real upside with friends being that they can talk some sense to you - I realised that Alpharius in the success of his design destroyed things that don't deserve to be treated so. I had another look at this army, and actually, while the biggerising design and overall impact of Alpharius is the first time I've managed to render GW imagery into a miniature in a way I am totally pleased with, this army is ok and I still enjoy the aesthetic and have missed most of 5th ed and the really fun new dex.

Another great thing about friends is gaming and after good games on Sunday, I want to tweak this force a little and find a new, active way of playing the list. This is a list I came up with. All I need to build are the assault termies. Everything else is finished. The assault terminators really click in 5th with their 3+ inv saves against shooting and cc. and:

Shrike gives all infantry fleet! Making this a very flexible and mobile force. It is far from super optimised, yet I feel it can take most opposition, and it's only small weapon etc. tweaks later that will enhance it nicely. I also want to add armor now that the Jackasl are gone. And I want Land Raiders, so I can show Gurk and Hammer How it's done Because friends are also great for trashtalking. You should've seen Hammer have a go at Gurk this sunday

Here's the "new list".


Shrike 195pts

Terminator Librarian, sb, null zone, the avenger, 130pts

Terminator Squad, 1 chainfist, AC 235pts

Terminator Assault Squad, THs 200pts

dreadnought, ac, 105pts

10 Tactical marines, flamer, missile launcher, power fist 205pts

10 Tactical marines, meltagun, missile launcher, power fist 210pts

5 scouts, HB 85pts

assault squad, flamer, thunderH 140pts

tornado ac 90pts

landspeeder 50pts


-105pts available of 1750pts


ps.

I found an old comparison pic of the captain. The mutant is slightly taller than vanilla GW marine. So while these guys aren't Legion beefed, they are biggerised it seems :lol:

Now, if I remember correctly, Migs, you didn't have any vehicles for the Crescent Guard, right? I'm interested to see how you biggerize some Terminators. Do you plan on biggerizing the Dreadnoughts and Landspeeders, too?

I don't know what to say, my jaw is on the floor. Those are flat out amazing.

This is why I love this hobby so much who needs gaming when you can paint like that.

Awsome work, i love all your stuff really. And i have three of those heads from forge world if you need em later, PM me

Thanks for the comments lads!

I do have done some dreads and speeders (both non biggerised) and termies too (slightly biggerised and Librarian properly so as I was disappointed with the first tries).

I do want to add some vehicles! But intend to keep them standard size as this project needs to be a nice gaming side track, while I go to adventures with the Legion, or just have fun with the TWAR

this is the original termies:




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fire4effekt wrote:Awsome work, i love all your stuff really. And i have three of those heads from forge world if you need em later, PM me

Thanks for the offer mate! I've since managed to get some of the plastic equivalents.

Mig, you make nice things. Your models are so beautiful they actually make my day better by existing.

your work never ceases to amazing me Mig.

the white is so realistic and the true-scaling so subtle.

i absolutely love your captain sword and need the recipe!

loving the cresent marines,

DC

great stuff,

loving the white armour, really comes alive with the "battle worn" look ?? if thats what its called....

the bigger marines are so cool looks much more realistic, (as in what i see in my mind when reading fluff/books etc...) like the bolters and arms are more in proportion init ?

Damn !! Again your skill is fantastic, these models are so pleasing to look at .

And again, I fend myself hating you because you have created things that are oustanding, and I can not

I really look forward to seeing some more !

P.S Those scouts are just amazingly cool

Thanks guys - you've really given me a lot of motivation to get going with these guys again. It is so nice to add a little stuff to something you have, rather than always start from the beginning Some how having ongoing projects like this, eases pressure from Legion.