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Hello fellow Battle-brother!

Welcome to dakka, and holy feth that is a big army. now you're making my 2500+ of dark angels just look downright tiny!
Nonetheless, it's nice to see a fellow Unforgiven here, now let's kill us some fall-I mean, let's kill heretics! Heretics which have absolutely no relation to us in any way.

Good luck to you, and I can't wait to see the finished product.
For the Lion! For Caliban! For the Emperor!

Thats alot of green marines I need to take out.

I need more dreadknights

Thanks zachariel!!

If your ever in Washington state and want a game let me know Tuiman haha


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I also have more pictures I can post tomorrow. This chapter will be on display at the GW battle bunker in Seattle. I also finished my Titan on Wednesday so I will post up some images from that also.

tyson256031 wrote:
Being new here I wanted to say Hello first off!

I was talking to some members at my local store and we though it would be cool to see a full chapter of Dark Angels sitting in display cases and to use for massive Apoc games. With this i said "Challenge accepted" And went and bought 1000 marines with over 30 tanks to go with it out side of the 10 rhinos per company. On top of this i bought a 8,000 point imperial guard army to support them when need be (or maybe i'm just a sucker for the guard models )

Ladies and gentlemen, this is how to start an army.

I played dark angels before but only had 2k or so in points. lol this was more so an excuse to build the chapter

Impressive. I like the storm eagles, could we get a closer look at them?

These aren't everything i have, Just everything i had with me at the time haha and i got tired of pulling models out so I stopped.

They continue to grow and get done but man painting this many green marines is a daunting task lol


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Moronic Nonsense wrote:
Impressive. I like the storm eagles, could we get a closer look at them?

Deffinitly! when i get back to GW this week ill take some better pics with my DSLR instead of the iphone5.

Agreed. But dark green is a lot easier and more forgiving than painting the bone white terminators, and it looks like you did a great job on the 1st company

True, They were a pain but turned out good IMO.

That titan is astounding! it's exactly how I imagine a dark angels warhound to look.

I've noticed you paint your plasma guns the same as I do, good taste

also the wrecked wave serpent and fire prism are nice touches. the DA in me congratulates you, and the Eldar in me is plotting vengeance.

I'd love to play a little DA vs DA sometime or a unforgiven tag-team in an apoc match perhaps, sadly I live on the opposite coast and as such probably won't be able to hit you up for a match for awhile, although it does give me some time to acquire some more guys and maybe a superheavy or two.

Welp, now off to look at forgeworld and try to raise some plastic-crack money with an astartes-pattern carwash.

"Suffer not the unclean vehicle to live"

"Only in death do low prices end"

I have a million of these things. last guy I told it too is doing a pretty good impression of the emperor right now!
Thank you, I'll be here all week, try the roasted heretics, and remember to thank the Sororitas cook!

You sir, are my hero. I almost could hear jaw hitting their desks after your first post of that horde.
I only have one question. How much did you put into that, plus the IG. I got a small betting pool going around my shop. Most of the bets are hovering between 5 and 10 grand.
Good hunting.

Blacksheep8Delta wrote:
You sir, are my hero. I almost could hear jaw hitting their desks after your first post of that horde.
I only have one question. How much did you put into that, plus the IG. I got a small betting pool going around my shop. Most of the bets are hovering between 5 and 10 grand.
Good hunting.

I can tell you for certain they are well under the mark. The tactical squads alone will be over $7000

We figured he had to had to get some of them in bulk, either from auctions or second hand. I mean... Otherwise your looking upward of 30 grand. O.o;; Not to mention the 6000 pts of IG. Makes me some what cringe thinking of that credit swipe, but at the same time, thats one of those moments in a wargammers life that the sky parts, the birds sing, and everything is good, cause you got it all now. Like when I fill a book shelf.

Hey guys sorry for the delay on posting. I can say it was 80% all bought through GW and it wasn't cheap

I'll commend you again, this is an awesome project you are working on, and you are doing a great job.

I'm working on something similar (a lot smaller, only 1-3 companies) so maybe you could help me out.

Next March is the Big Game (giant apoc game in Memphis) and I'd like to play in it, but models must be painted. I've got 6 Land Raiders, 70 DW Terminators, 5 Dreadnoughts, 36 RW bikes, and a couple of characters to paint before then. How do you go about painting that much in a relatively quick amount of time?

oh laawdy.

that's some conviction right there!

gee dubya wrote:
oh laawdy.

that's some conviction right there!

No kidding.

I can't wait to see these all painted up, make sure to post it in P&M Showcase when you do, more people deserve to see this amazing project.

All I can say is... good luck

But seriously, welcome to Dakka

Moronic Nonsense wrote:
I'll commend you again, this is an awesome project you are working on, and you are doing a great job.

I'm working on something similar (a lot smaller, only 1-3 companies) so maybe you could help me out.

Next March is the Big Game (giant apoc game in Memphis) and I'd like to play in it, but models must be painted. I've got 6 Land Raiders, 70 DW Terminators, 5 Dreadnoughts, 36 RW bikes, and a couple of characters to paint before then. How do you go about painting that much in a relatively quick amount of time?

Hey Sorry for the late responses!!! Was in a car accident so I haven't been able to paint or build much lately :(

To make terminators simple, I primed them with the skull white color of primer, Then you paint the green and silver with warp stone glow and the base main silver (forget name off the top of my head). When these colors are painted directly to the white primer, I then took my spray gun and sprayed the entire 100 termies with the serphia shade. This starts the beige process and gives the green and silver a good wearing down look.

After they were all sprayed i went back and dry brushed with the bone color to lighten it up some. Then red eyes and dry brushed the silver with necron compound. Small details were picked out as i saw fit and thats about it.

For tanks, I use my spray gun to base coat then hand line each one, followed by details as seen fit as well.

Bikes are something im about to start working on. I will be dry brushing everything with a medium grey shade, Followed by the metal edges and any other metal colored pieces. Then i will spray everything with a light shade of nulin oil. Next I will be going back and picking out the white details, gold for the front wings, red for the front guns, and dry brushing the metal with necron compound again. Other details as seen fit as well...

Hope this helps and please feel free to ask any questions


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 Zachariel wrote:

gee dubya wrote:
oh laawdy.

that's some conviction right there!

No kidding.

I can't wait to see these all painted up, make sure to post it in P&M Showcase when you do, more people deserve to see this amazing project.

Hi, I cant wait to see them all done also
Not sure what the P&M showcase is but i will learn before im done im sure!! lol


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 Zachariel wrote:

gee dubya wrote:
oh laawdy.

that's some conviction right there!

No kidding.

I can't wait to see these all painted up, make sure to post it in P&M Showcase when you do, more people deserve to see this amazing project.

Hi, I cant wait to see them all done also
Not sure what the P&M showcase is but i will learn before im done im sure!! lol


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I also picked up 5k of grey knights this last week to start working on. Getting tired of painted green marines already LOL

Between the IG and GK it gives me a good variety to work on.

You have more free money than my brain can comprehend. This is utterly insane and amazing!

Sorry to hear about the car crash, hope all is ok!

Hm, 1000 marines is even beyond what I would do. It is one hell of a goal to be sure and good luck.

Here I thought my 80,000 points of painted models was too much

Sorry to hear about the crash, hope everything is ok.

Thanks for the tips on painting! I really want to make some progress on my army, and that will help me out a lot.
I might use Army Painter quickshade instead of spraying the wash, I've used it before for some other marines and they turned out great. What is your opinion on dipping in order to finish a huge project?

Can you post some close-ups of some of the terminators?

These pics look awesome so far! Hope all is well and can't wait to see more pictures/batreps/awesomeness.

Moronic Nonsense wrote:
Sorry to hear about the crash, hope everything is ok.

Thanks for the tips on painting! I really want to make some progress on my army, and that will help me out a lot.
I might use Army Painter quickshade instead of spraying the wash, I've used it before for some other marines and they turned out great. What is your opinion on dipping in order to finish a huge project?

Can you post some close-ups of some of the terminators?

Hi! I never dip models, I find it defeats the porous of paying for highly detailed models Just take your time and they will get done while looking great!! After all we are in the hobby becuase its fun for us.

I will try to get some termy pics next time im at the shop, they are all on display at the seattle battle bunker.


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Thank you all for the condolences! We are doing good and hope to get back to painting this month and knock out the 2nd company!


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For Grey Knights ill be running the following list:

HQ:
Lord Dragio
Inquisitor Coteaz
Crowe

Elites:
Vindicare assassin

Troops:
10 Palidins
2-10man termie squads
2-10 man Purifier squads

Fast Attack:
2 stormraven gun ships
2-10 man interceptor squads

Heavy Support:
2 dread knights

never played with GK before so this should be fun. I got a group of guys that play together all the time. We are planning a massive 30k person game in trench warfare style table with the new walls that GW just released this weekend.

You sir are my hero. Welcome to dakka and i can honestly say this is one of the most impressive ways ive ever seen someone do an introduction post.
I was like

But serious props to you mate, wondering how many points you have. ive always wanted to do something like this, i cant wait to hear more about it and see pictures.

Good Luck !!


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Oh yeah and Warhound looks brilliant, very nicely painted

Thank you^^

Its around 90k when all done i believe after adding it all together. Ill have to post some IG pics they are all painted and good to go.

Green marines have been put on hold until this month but are starting to come back together. Painting up 12 dreadnoughts tonight to get then all completed. Bikes are being started tomorrow and should be done by the first of the year!

Painted up more dreadnoughts than I thought id ever be able to do in one night lol

Now to start the 2ND company tonight

Started painting troops for the 3rd company last night, ill get some pics up asap of the sample model that all the troops will look like.

The Grey Knights, are starting to be built tonight and will be done painting them on monday is my goal. I think i can knock out 5k of GK in 3 days from start to finish and make them look table top quality haha

Are you going to continue to post pictures here or have you started a P&M blog?