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I dig em!

Here's some more completed SM's:



Full Assault Squad of Dead SM's!!!!



Trooper 1



Trooper 2



Trooper 3



Trooper 4



Trooper 5



Trooper 6



Trooper 7



Trooper 8



Trooper 9



Trooper 10.

I started to paint some Tactical squad members as well:



Headshot



Close up of the brain/blood/skull mess!!



Another headshot. I tried to pose him like he was just shot - he has dropped his left arm from holding the Bolt Gun hand grip and he is about to slump to the ground!!



This is what happens when you pick an arguement with a Carnifex!!



I'm not sure if this is the other half of the Carnifex attack, but he has been disembowelled, lost an arm and lost part of his skull!!! "It's only a scratch!!"

Looking good, I love what you've done with them, would make for a really gruesome looking battlefield. The only part I don't really like is the hands, the hands with the fingers together look a bit odd. I wonder if they'd look better (or if it's even possible without accidently slicing off fingers) if you carefully used a knife to separate the fingers so the fingers look open.

Other than that, I think they look great. You've achieved some really good death poses.

AllSeeingSkink wrote:
Looking good, I love what you've done with them, would make for a really gruesome looking battlefield. The only part I don't really like is the hands, the hands with the fingers together look a bit odd. I wonder if they'd look better (or if it's even possible without accidently slicing off fingers) if you carefully used a knife to separate the fingers so the fingers look open.

Other than that, I think they look great. You've achieved some really good death poses.

I know what you mean but by cutting in between each finger would weaken the plastic and after handling/painting would almost certainly fall off!!

Here a shot of the last painted wounded SM:



SM just been hit in the chest.

I still have another 2 Tactical squads and 1 Devastator squad that need to be painted. Just to complete this project, I should make some dead Terminators and Command Squad. This will be put to the back burner until I finish all my other outstanding projects!

Regards, Phil

Those are freaking awesome dude. I love how creative the posing is!

Epic faceplant all round goodness, loving how crisp your white is.

These are great! I would love to do this for one of my armies so that I had a living and dead model for each guy.

Probably a bit out there though.

Apologies for the Threadomancy but I finally got around to converting some dead Terminators from Assault on Black Reach that I had not built to go with the Tactical, Heavy Support, Assault and Scouts I've previously made:



I had some fun chopping the back/front off torso's and moving legs and arms. I used a bit of milliput to hide any obvious cuts. The Terminator in the top left hand corner is supposed to be on the way down after being shot and not laying flat.



Here's a plan shot.



This Sergeant has been psychically killed with no signs of wounds. Bending the leather tassles dangling between his legs were a nightmare!



Lascannon shot to the primary heart.



Though it's difficult to see, I added a plastic skull into his mask.



This head shot has just knocked him off his feet.



Face down in the dirt!



and finally, a dead biker.

It'll probably be a while before I get some paint on these boys! Till next time, Phil.

yeah,
This is awesome!

Panic...

I would have expected this work more of a SM hater than an actual Sm player... but you made death for marines an actual artform...

subbed to be there when it moves on further...

Those look amazing. Very nice execution

They're very good. Much more effort than I could muster, but I must admit to being a little dissapointed.

Not with the models mind you, just that it was Space Marines that had Died. Not Space Marines based on "Dead Space". I was looking forward to conversions making the armour look like Isaac Clark's engineer armour and the other variants from the three games.

they look brilliant. great idea

Great idea! Love the work you've done.

Not quite dead Space Marines this time but some dead Chaos Renegade Imperial Guard I've made for scenery/objective markers:



I've used the FW Chaos Renegade kit as a base. This is the "Sgt" of the squad. His back was sawn and filed smooth to ensure he lay completely spread eagle. Like good soldiers, he died clutching his weapons!!



I love this model! Apologies for the slight blurring on this photo. I scooped out some resin and then added some Warhammer Zombie intestines to give the impression he has literally just been cut in half as he was about to use a grenade!



This one involved a lot of cutting of Cadian legs to look like he had just dropped dead "naturally". Milliput was used to smooth the gaps.



Lots of cutting, sanding and milliput was used converting these Cadian legs. If I had my time again, I would try and straighten his right toes rather than leave them with the stock bent toes look. For a change, I used a Catachan right arm that is uncovered to give a more "Chaos" feel.



And finally, this dead cultist/renegade had his legs heavily converted. These were fun to make and I plan on making a few more in the future. Paint will follow in a couple of months when I get the huge back log of Space Marine vehicles out of the way!!

Till next time, Phil.

Had the painting bug over the Christmas hols and decided to paint up as many different projects as I could. Talking of which...



I was hand painting and mixing/blending the flames on a couple of different projects as I tend to batch paint. I remembered these models that I made a couple of years ago and thought I could tick another squad off my "to paint" list!



This terminator died of a head shot. I'm really pleased with how the flames turned out on this one.



Rather than the usual face looking up, I went with a face plant on this one! This was an easy one to convert - all I needed to do was not add the front chest and head piece and a small amount of sanding of the crotch to make him lay completely flat on the floor.



Still WIP on these two - Bolter, Gold Bits and flames are done on the front one. I just need to add some white to the helmet and skulls and a quick sponging of gun metal and he'll be finished. The Sgt has a bit more work before he is finished.



and the final terminator who's just been head shot.



The bike is finished (bar the mud behind the front wheel). The biker needs his helmet painting and some weathering.



and finally, I wanted some dead Mk IV marines after reading so much Horus Heresy material. I had a few Destroyer bits left and made these.

Back to work on Monday, so progress should revert back to snail pace!!

If you wanted to save on bits, you could also do it this way but be warned that some of the clays like feemo tend to melt plastic.

https://youtu.be/Tlnt-Yk6oi4

Very nice. I've liked the idea of casualty markers for a while but Ib wouldn't be prepared to double the work of painting my army for said markers. Hats off though. I might just do based limbs sticking out of the snow for my pups


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Very nice. I've liked the idea of casualty markers for a while but Ib wouldn't be prepared to double the work of painting my army for said markers. Hats off though. I might just do based limbs sticking out of the snow for my pups

 andywalker07 wrote:
Very nice. I've liked the idea of casualty markers for a while but Ib wouldn't be prepared to double the work of painting my army for said markers. Hats off though. I might just do based limbs sticking out of the snow for my pups

Thanks for your comment Andy. I've been collecting SM for nearly 30 years now so I have a lot of spare parts!!!! I do agree about adding to my painting list though, I currently have the following vehicles under coated black and waiting for some paint:

Caestus Assault Ram
Spartan Assault Tank
Sicaran
Dreadnought Drop Pod
Death Guard Contemptor
Iron Warrior Contemptor
Javelin with Missile Launchers
2 Scimaters
MK IV Outrider Squad
Scout Bike Squad
Deimos Whirlwind Scorpius
Thanatar
Las cannon Dark Talon
Heavy Bolter Dark Talon
Leman Russ Solar Auxilia Incinerator
Sky Talon
Deredeo
Sabre Tank Destroyer
Manticore Land Raider
2 Storm Talon
Command Rhino Primaris
Land Raider Excelsior Command Tank
Space Wolf aircraft
Solar Auxilia Medusa
Solar Auxilia Basalisk
Spartan conversion
Hunter/Stalker
2 Deimos Predators

That's without going through the reams of squads that need some paint!!!!

I want to start masking my flame templates on a number of these vehicles in the next few days to start this mammoth list!

Regards, Phil.

love your stuff! such cool ideas

Very cool indeed!

Cheers guys!

Awesome! do you mind if I use the cultist idea I have a lot of Chadian legs to use and that's a genius way to use what seemed unusable bits

 ThirstySpaceMan wrote:
Awesome! do you mind if I use the cultist idea I have a lot of Chadian legs to use and that's a genius way to use what seemed unusable bits

By all means do. They are a good way of using unwanted bits. Have fun!

Outstanding dedication! I am very impressed to see the amount of effort you are prepared to put into the after effects of bad dice rolls!

When I saw the title I was thinking a couple of bodes on a base but to see whole squads modelled? wow.

Apologies for threadomancy, but I’ve finished some more dead Space Marines.





This is the first dead marine from my Devastator squad. I just finished the other 4 and I’ll post these shortly.

Regards, Phil.


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Dead Devastator Squad

Here's the group shot of all the dead Devastator squad I completed today:





Individual shots:









I used milliput to ensure I sculpted grips on the feet of all of the Space Marines.

Dead Heretics

Here's a shot of some 40mm bases I've recently finished:











I had great fun making these from a mixture of Dark Vengeance, FW resin renegades, GW Cadian and Catachan parts and lots of milliput. My plan is (when I decide which model is going to be standing on the base) to dremel out where their feet will be placed to look like they have crushed the dead heretics underfoot!!!!

I also finished making a couple of dead heretics to be strewn on other bases:





I particularly like the entrails on these heretics! Let me know if you want any further shots.

Dead Tyranids

Some road kill I've completed over the past 2 years:



Hope you enjoy!!

Thought I'd share a few bases I've been working on recently:



Overtime, I have made a few moulds of Imperial guard and FW Chaos Renegades and having read a lot of Siege of Vraks, I wanted to see if I could show a battlefield littered with dead bodies. I chose a large flyer base and after making numerous copies of different bodies, legs etc, I created this.....

The lone surviving Cadian is in the top left hand corner looking forlornly at all death he is surrounded by and praising the Emperor for letting him survive! I enjoy little things for example the lone boot on the flag and the Cadian that has been baynotted to death in the foreground.




I'm really looking to House Cawdor for Necromunda as they look perfect for Chaos renegades - more scum to be trampled upon on future bases!





This should be a lot of fun painting up using similar colour scheme to my landspeeder base:







I'll post some more pictures in the near future.

i love this thread... dead bodies all around^^

that base looks breathtakingly awesome...cruel and utter carnage!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
i love this thread... dead bodies all around^^

that base looks breathtakingly awesome...cruel and utter carnage!

Wait until you see my next project...………..



More to follow in the near (Grim Dark) future!!

Regards, Phil.

I see many straight legs there...what bitz did you use for the master mold?