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DA's Forever wrote:Errrrrr.. Space Marines with out shoulder-pads annoy me. But thats personal taste, love the paont scheme though!

Same, vehicles look awesome and the lightsaber (lego?) made me lol, but they could use some shoulder pads.

Rogan wrote:Not a big fan of airbrush work (perhaps because I don't own one ^^), but these guys look really good. Even without drilled-out barrels.
The only thing I could really criticize are the speeders - while certainly looking good, especially the front part looks a little flat and could use some darklining.
Their heavy flamers, however, do look awesome. Wish I owned a new speeder... Why, can't have everything.

Your Land Raider, too, is awesome. The lenses are admirable - and the red stripes are top notch.
Is there more to come? And could we have some close-ups of the terminators?

Agree with the above! (although I'm more open to airbrushes). Can we get shots of the terminators, Vader, and the pod as well? Pretty please?

Very nice work - different and it works!

Shoulder Padless marines do look somewhat strange, but the paint scheme and rust are awesome!

@wtwlf123


thank Mark!

Really cool i like them all a lot

Nice iea, the tank weathering is really really good!

Brilliantly Awesome.

This is a great batch. I play the Star Wars Miniatures game and have tons of stormtroopers, now i have an idea for the future. Nice work.

stunning

Great work. The bases are fantastic. Your airbrush skills continue to impress as this army looks magnificent. Do you have a photo of the terminators of vader? Would love to see them. Fantastic paint job!

Amazing as usual![i]

As others have said, the weathering and general look of the vehicles is amazing. As a compromise on the pad / no pad issue: how about a single shouilderpad in orange, a la desert troopers?

I may be one of the few dissenters here but i'm not a fan of the stormtrooper look to be honest. The paint job is top notch though, especially the vehicles.

no worries you either like em or ya dont...the client built them all and pent countless hours converting...i imagine he is happy

love the army! I'm jealous of your airbrush skills. The vehicles are definitely the highlight for me. Great job man.

Wow! I gotta say that this is one of the coolest looking SM forces I have ever seen. I really like unique armies and I would say that this one fits that bill. The painting is Amazing. The blast marks are especially well done.

grayspark wrote:So are the Terminators just Terminators? Or do they have an awesome conversion as well.

They could be painted black and count as Dark Troopers.

ther is a vader,emperor,and black guard too. you will have to meet up with the guy at adepticon to see them up close

only thing i can see is no imperial symbols.

past that great job!

Brillant! Nothing wrong with them!

I love the Lego Lightsaber, hahaha.

A well executed paint job; the lens on the Raider is amazing.

Can you post some close ups of the Termies and Vader?

Thanks guys! A great job by Next Level Painting!

It was an interesting conversion based off of some groundwork done by Paulson Games' previous post from 2009. His pictures seem to be link broken but I gleened the idea of using the Star Wars Miniatures heads from the Dark Troopers on SM bodies, using the Empire Battle Wizard as the Emperor, and the Dark Angel Veteran body for Darth Vader. I did toy with the thought of using Galactic Empire decals on the vehicles but after seeing how awesome the vehicles were the possibility of unclean edges of the decals didnt seem worth it. I did have chessex make several dice with the Galactic Empire Symbol on them to keep the theme present.

I really liked the idea of a clone force but there were a lot of mash-up conflicts between the Star Wars and 40k universes. Fortunately Vader did experiment with Force-Sensitive Stormtroopers so this did lend itself to be the basis for power/force weapons on SM Sergeants. The Imperial Shadow Guard and their Lance-Sabers seemed to fit quite well with Terminators. Although I am thinking of having the second batch of 5 termies painted in the more tradional red robes/armor.

I am not sure I am too satisfied with the lego lightsabers. They are all magnetized so they can be swapped/stored easily. I looked at the neon toothpicks but couldnt find a good red to go with. I also tried different thickness of acrylic rods but they are very expensive to have colored red. Any ideas are greatly welcome.

I covered the windows of the rhinos simply because I didnt like the "batman" eye cover feeling it had and styrene was a simple way to do it.

I will have some WYSIWYG conflicts that may have simple fixes. I didnt model the SS on the termies, I may just have small shields that I put on the base to represent it but not take too much away from the fig. Also, since the SM's with ML's and Meltas can be swapped out for all Meltas to turn from a SM Vulkan list to a BA list; I may need to attach scabbards on their waist to represent the chainsword with the heavy bolter representing the bolt pistol for assault squads. I have magnetized the standard SM backpack to count as jump packs when used as BA assault squads, otherwise the standard tactical troops will remain without packs.

Here is a closer pic of Darth Sidious and Darth Vader. I had to mess with the brightness/contrast for the Shadow Guard pic as the detail that was done with black is quickly lost with lighting for pictures. And the last three are my BA priests, Commander Thire, Captain Rex, and Commander Cody. Yes Rex didnt have a lightsaber, but some concessions had to be made to fit the constraints of 40k.

The tanks look amazing! I too dislike the lack of shoulder pads.

Great work!! Keep it up

Weathering is amazing, how do you do it?

I demand an AT-AT!

@winnertakesall
Thanks, just practice and of cource an airbrush

The shoulders look a bit strange to me. Not necessarily because they don't have the typical SM shoulder pad. My memory may be off but don't the Stormtrooper shoulders have a raised strip down the middle from top to bottom?

Love the look though. Nice work.

just one thing...the lightsaber IS massive and in starwars fluff cant only jedi and sith use lightsabers???