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the work looks excellent so far! Really like the how the skin turned out and the bases are nicely detailed.

Very nice looking... i love heresy era marines... looks great.

Hey guys,

shoulderpads are just normal pads with very short pieces of plasticard tube glued on.

I'm aware that the colour scheme isnt "codex" for Raven Guard, but I like it and as far as i see, during the age of the heresy and before, the chapters would have had looser rules regarding their uniforms, especially between the different grand companies of a legion.

Picture of the back of the flamer will come, i promise! :-)

Finished my Chaplian on Wednesday, but only just got to round to taking pictures of him.

I've used the bleached bone cross on a black background as his personal heraldry, which is repeated on his inferno pistol hand and the freehand on his cloak. My idea with this is that if i ever make a Corax model, he'll have the same (but more detailed) heraldry. I have this idea that when the Chaplains were introduced after the council of Nikea, they were to enforce the emperors (and by default the primarchs) will. When my chaplains take their oath, they sacrifice their own background and heraldry and adopt the primarchs, as a symbol of the enforcing of his will.

The skulls on his backpack have been washed with red, brown and black in places because i wanted to get the look that they had been scorched/burned by the chaplains pistol, prior to being affixed to his backpack. The cloak is trimmed in green to further tie him into the 4th grand company, although he still also retains the green kneepad as well.













Wow... in the photos it looks like i've painted a jamaican flag on his cloak! In real life you cant see the black bands either side of the bone cross, thats just the overspill from the wash that the camera randomly decided to pick up.

think the chaplin is the nicest thing i have seen you paint dude.

These are really good, can we see an army shot so far? I also really like flames btw

Thanks mate, i'm really pleased with him, especially the skull helm and the white shoulderpad.

I did try adding a black celtic-band style design ontop of the bone cross on his cloak, but i gave up as it was too hard.... next time gadget!!!

Hey Guys, got the next batch of models made up.

7 Tactical Marines, Sergeant, Missile Launcher
1 Honour Guard, Meltagun
Apothecary
Drop Pod, Locator Beacon

So, that should be Tac squad 2 finished, my apoth (sanguinary priest) is going to be deployed with the the missile launcher combat squads so that will be most of my backline sorted, the drop pod is for the honour guard, which is going to have 2 meltas and probably be accompanied by my librarian (who will come in a later month).

Heres some pics of the guys.













The honour guard has a ravenwing helmet, death company torso and the FW raven guard backpack and studded shoulderpad. The drop pod is going to be done last as i want to magnetise the ramps so they all shut. Havent used magnets before (or bought them yet), so i'm hoping it wont be too hard.

Good God Sir! Man this is great work! keep it up!

Cant believe i missed this, loving the chaplain, nice to see that head got used.........eventually.

Well, after many hours work (helped by easter holidays) and much cursing my own stupidity of trying to paint 9 models at once, i've managed to finish the infantry. Still need to do the drop pod, but need to stop procrastinating and order some magnets so the doors will stay shut when i want them too before i can paint it.

Ok, first up, the remaining 7 members of tac squad 2.









The start of my honour guard squad.






Apothecary





Group shot of this batch



Group shot of completed tac squad 2.



And now i think i need a rest!

Well, a storming start to the month has ended up with a frantic finish, but at last the drop pod is done!

After faffing about for the better part of the month i never actually got round to ordering the magnets to magnetise the doors, so i ended up just glueing the doors shut and painting it like that. Saves me having to do the inside and will make it easier to use in games as well as it has a smaller footprint.

Hate how my camera makes the washes show on the black. Was a bit of a pain doing the white and trying to get it looking even, but not as annoying as doing fine highlights on the black... not looking forward to painting the next 2 pods!







Group shot of this months stuff.



Group shot of army so far.



Now i need to decide what to do next, could do my terminator squad, try and finish my honour guard (although im lacking the apothecary bits to do it), maybe a dread, a devastator squad... i love indecision...

5 heresy-era termys, sgt has plumed bit to tie him into other sgts/officers.















These pics were taken before i finished basing them!

Hopefully start them over the weekend

VERY VERY nice! I love the subtle ornamentation alot of these pre heresy projects go a bit bling but i like how yours look 'older' without going too far.

Fluff-Nazi alert! I am not sure how it works when the geneseed is brand new but the Raven Guard of the 41st millenium have 'raven' black hair, pale skin and black whiteless eyes.

Brilliant work for my favourite legion. To my mind Raven Guard are the greatest example of how a 1000 man unit could turn a world war. My favourite is the chaplain. I'm also impressed with you managing to source so many older helms but where are the Beakies? Also for a Raven Guard army you seem to be lacking jump pack troops. Will you be following the idea that there were very few jump packers during the heresy or not?

Thanks guys.

Perkustin - i tried to keep everything looking simple, no fuss for these guys! well, apart from the roman-esque helmets. As for the albino thing, this is meant to be early in the crusade, in the 4th grand company most of the marines are from terra, with only the vanguard vets having been integrated so far from deliverance.

Llamahead - i love the raven guard, their hit and run tactics, the massacre at istvaan, Corax's dabbling with cloning. The beakies are going to be the vanguard vets, who are also going to the only ones with jump-packs due to them being difficult to come by, same as in real-life as im waiting for forgeworld to release some mark III ones.

Try Chapterhouse, they do really nice heresy/ pre-heresy jump packs.

Solar_lion used them for his lamenters at adepticon and they looked really sweet, plus they suit the scale of SM's

Yeah that makes sense, i am a bit sketchy on how the terran draft fit into things. :(.

Yeah but what i like is how you do incorparate the roman headdress without going over the top...

Yeah i'm tempted by chapterhouse, but if FW do some i'd rather use them in case i take these guys to a GT one day.

Perkustin - As the emperor led his wars of conquest he lead the marine chapters from terra. As he came across each of his sons he made them primarch of a chapter and drafted the best of the native warriors to join the terran marines. Although they were trained and received their implants relatively quickly, the fluff for my 4th company is that relatively few were assigned to them to start with, and they used their natural skills in lightning warfare to form the vanguard vet squad in my army.

Made any progress on painting the Terminators, I'm looking forward to seeing how they come out!

Great concept and execution! good dirty battle worn feel to the marines without being ove are the top, looking forward to seeing how you finish off the termies, looking good so far!

I have a metal running apothecary (Ithink its the BA apothecary)a bareheaded apothecary and the metal on waving a chainsword if you are interested.

If you're truly doing a heresy era army Beakies shouldn't be included as they came later

Reaper Man - ask and you shall receive.

Mini update. Finished the termy segt, painted the helmets and shoulder pads of the others. Tried a bit of a lighting effect on the thunderhammer, looks ok i think for a first attempt.







A sneak peak of things to come, 3 more honour guard and a landspeeder tornado.





Got to finish the termies and get the drop pod done in the next 2 weeks... should be do-able.

dantay - thanks for the offer but i sucked it up and bought some bits off ebay.

Brother Julian - My understanding is that Mk6 was distributed in very limited quantities during the heresy, mainly to rebel legions. I'm only planning on having 5 in the whole force and i do intend to introduce some post heresy elements at a later date, Corax's clones for example.

Flamers are nice are they Forgeworld or ex RT? The Land Speeder is wrong in my opinion the Missile Launcher should be above the Flamer to prevent the missiles cooking of destroying the vehicle. Also I'd recommend switching the nozzle so it's upright. just use a bit of sprue to cover the joint. the Terminators are wonderful and I like the subtlety of the lighting effect. Sorry if I seem a bit forceful about the Land Speeder but I don't want to see it killing itself of with its first Flamer shot! It also would make more sense for the crewman to aim what needs to be aimed.

Flamers are forgeworld and a bit of a sod to work with, the top grip is quite tight to get the right hand in, the kneeling one snapped his fingers off doing it.

I actually put the missile launcher underneath because i didnt want the backwash from the missiles melting the gunner. Plus its from a drop pod and had the perfect gap to glue it to where the assault cannon was. Might move the igniter nozzle underneath. Still got a bit of work to do to it before it gets painted.

Ahh cool.....It's your model at the end of the day and the point about backwash is a good one. The Igniter swop is an easy job did one for my Commissar chop the end of and twist it around use a bit of sprue to bodge the joint together and jobs a good one.

I think i will do it, will make it look a lot better.

The other reason i put the missile launcher on the bottom is that it was too tall for the gunner to see over otherwise. Oh, and the winger skulls would be upside down... there's method in the madness!

Finished two more of them today, the two guys with lightning claws. Tried to do the light sourcing again, it looks ok but it's never gonna be white dwarf standard.





Group shot.



Hopefully do some more work on the other two tomorrow night. I'm really getting fed up of doing the edge highlighting on these guys, and i havent even started the second drop pod yet which requires even more!

Those terminators are looking great. I'm sadly more often finding theres a madness to the method. The old Land Speeder still looks a great model I've always had a soft spot for it!

Terminators are now finished... woot woot...





Group shot.



Feels really nice to have another unit finished, only my 3rd so far!

Gonna do the drop pod next and then finish making the honour guard squad and a librarian i think.