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Another small update, so i was painting last night on the termi's and i was getting kinda bored so i decided to try something a bit new on one of the black marine squad, and yeah i really liked it.
pics below, im thinking about doing each of the squad in a different scheme, just to break up the monoteny of painting constant nova marines and as a bonus i will get a unit of all different chapters or w/e. should be cool.



just a heads up i did'nt model the heavy bolter guy, i kinda inherited him from a friend who lost the love for the game. but anyway thanks for looking.

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ok another small update.

started another marine, but not sure where i am going to go with it, and did more on the termi's



thanks for looking

ok so i told my lil bro im redoing his marines and he is cool with it so woo. more redoing of the black ones.

so i based all of the unit ready to be redone and i based the ones i already did. and i added a guy.



The new ones together



AND i finised the termi's and the rest of the marine unit woo

shot of everything so far



anyway thanks for looking

Looking great! Love that PS On the termi!

thanks Hazzer

started the last 4 termi's



and i had to have a group shot, can't wait till ive got them all painted



and i started another marine



and i made a lot of head room on the scouts



thanks for looking

Looking so good BigFish!

Thanks hazzer, although considering your one of the only peeps who regulary comments on here i dought this is a very widely held oppinion, but thank you greatly anyway.

so it was my birthday today so apart from the non warhammer stuff i got, i got money, which means i can finally get hammery terminators (YAYER!!!)

but yeah pictures



the faces on the scouts took ages!!!!!!!! and the eyes what a pain, but worth it

anyway thanks for looking

Well happy birthday Big Fish! And your Novamarines are good. Painting quartered armor is no joke. I did a Howling Griffons army a few years ago and nearly went crazy. I will say this, if you are repainting your brothers marines, are you stripping them first?

40kFSU wrote:Well happy birthday Big Fish! And your Novamarines are good. Painting quartered armor is no joke. I did a Howling Griffons army a few years ago and nearly went crazy. I will say this, if you are repainting your brothers marines, are you stripping them first?

Thank you , tbh i have just been going over what he has already done, i really can't be bothered with strippig them when they are only painted black anyway.

more progress and a change of plan,



Remember this guy?



was going to have him as a chaplin but reading the rules for Captain Darnath Lysander and then doing a test game changed my mind (he is amazing, can't beleave i overlooked him!) so yes i have decided this would be a much better use for the model.

more pics



but yeah anyway i half base coated him so far and i am going to leave the shield arm off for painting just so its easyer, but yeah it is looking like its going to be fun to paint

OH I ALMOST FORGOT, i got a box of assault termi's as well so they will being made at some point

thanks for looking

dry fitted my first assault termi very happy so far, going to leave the arms off for painting .



the upside down flying base on the bottom is just to give him a bit more height and i am going to be adding sand over it so it will just look like a bump.

anyway thanks for looking

Firstly, happy birthday man! Loving the more termies, btw I've got some assult gyuy too, what I'd recomend is 3 with lighting claws, then 2 with thunderhammers and stromsheilds, if you have a 10 man squad do 5 of each...

ah but i already had a lighting guy in my bits box so im doing 3, 3. that way i can just mix and match and w/e


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Update, updates coming fast nowadays



ALSO, what do people think of the auto adjusted feature in the daka gallery?

all these images are auto adjusted and all the previous ones are not, which is better? or is it a context thing?

anyway, thanks for looking

I think the auto ajust thing... That works quite well, I'm loving your porgress man btw I'd suggest sending a PM to a moderator to help pormote your plogs... that should help get people onto your blog loving the stuff as allways, btw how about an army group shot?

hmmm, i will think about the pm'ing thing, will try some other stuff and then see what happens, and ok

update.

Everything finished or almost finished (or needs basing)



Everything



slight progress on the termi's and scouts



And the next two things to do after i finish the termi's and scouts



oh and shots of my first two assult termi's



Thanks for looking

Looking good man! Wow! How many termis do you have?

18, including a chaplin and lysander though, i want to make another 10 man unit but i don't know of what type yet?

Get some more assult termies (i'd say about 5) because there's very liitle of em! Also try and get 5 more normal termies so you can get some of the upgrades (ie, chainfists, assult cannon, haeavy flamer and cylone missile launcher)!

I think they need a Land Raider to roll around in. Whats the point of being the top dogs if you dont have a nice ride?

HAZZER wrote:Get some more assult termies (i'd say about 5) because there's very liitle of em! Also try and get 5 more normal termies so you can get some of the upgrades (ie, chainfists, assult cannon, haeavy flamer and cylone missile launcher)!

Im liking the idea with getting another 5 shooty termi's for the options, and yeah another 5 assult ones would be cool. Im going to wait untill i am more familier with 6th edition before i invest in anythign else though... modling wise though i would really like a 10 man unit of assault termi's just so then i have 2 units of 11 with the chaplin and lysander.

40kFSU wrote:I think they need a Land Raider to roll around in. Whats the point of being the top dogs if you dont have a nice ride?

Agreed they need a ride, but since forge world has that big shiney giant landraider out i am contemplating geting one of them instead of 2 lesser raiders, but tbh it totally depends on what rules they give it and how i find playing the new edition when i get round to it.... but that is a mighty raider.

Ok update



so this is my desk



ok so a few things, lysander shield broke whilst i was basing him and i feel it is an warning of a constant series of breakings to come with this model, its always the ones you like the most that break the most.
Also i got further with the power armour chapy but i am not sure weather i should add blood to him or not, when i play him i am going to put him with the unit of the different chapters and only the sargent of that squad has blood on him. so im a bit about him
Oh and i have compleatly finished the 10 man unit of termi's which tbh feels great, love it when you get to the end of a unit and there is just that sense of "yeah i did that" almost like when you do d.i.y or compleate a painting or something. Anyway thanks for looking




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Just read the spartan has a transport cap of 25 oh yes

Looking good Bigfish, suggest you make the white in thin multiple layers as I see the undercoat "peeking " through it all.

looking good man! Loving those termis!

shasolenzabi wrote:Looking good Bigfish, suggest you make the white in thin multiple layers as I see the undercoat "peeking " through it all.

tryed it, thanks for the comment anfd thank you

HAZZER wrote:looking good man! Loving those termis!

thank you hazzer

UPDATE



and with the rest of the guys



The scouts



And then i tryed my hand at some free handing



Anyway thanks for looking

No worries Bigfish, I myself have little patience for white and yellow due to their translucent nature when I do not want it so.
I have seen others do what you do, and work at pulling white or yellow to make it work.

made some more termi's



and just a test with croping and resizing (and i think this one is new as well)




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it is new

thanks for looking

Looking good!!!! Keep it up biggish!

Have you thought about thinning your paints a little?

W.I.Ps


finished one


thanks for looking


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OH, and i do thin them but with all the randomly painted ones they have been painted quite a lot before so they have a bad texture anyway.

and thanks hazzer

UPDATE

Had a bit of a break and now im back and i have an update for you

I BOUGHT A LANDRAIDER (secound hand)



All of the guns fully move apart from the heavy bolters and the storm bolters, but tbh im not too fussed about them. So yeah will be painting this up sometime in the future

thanks for looking

Can't wait to see it painted Bigfish!

And, may I say, you have some great stuff in this P&M Blog of yours

Hi
Loving your work so far cat wait to see more love the new armour addtions!!!! possabily fisrt time back on dakka for months!!! Btw blog has had update….
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