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Was able to get a little painting time in today and was able to start work on my Ultramarines Captain, He's outfitted such that he can be a generic captain or a stand-in for Sicarius.
Not sure how the NMM is going to work out for his backpack and shoulder pads, but we'll see...

Well, I ran out of glaze medium which has ground my painting to a halt until I can re-supply. Didn't realize how dependent I was on that stuff for my painting. Oh well... in the meantime I have continued my stockpiling and assembling frenzy in a desperate attempt to get as much as possible primed before priming weather goes away. First up we have the lmt. edition Heroes of the Adeptus Astartes Box.



This was a nice box, because it gave me the Chapter Masters of all the chapters I am currently working on, plus some generic heroes. the only thing I regret is that it did not come with the banners to fix to their backpacks. (Not really a problem, as I have decided to cut them down to reduce break-ability.) I managed to get a couple of them put together, but was hesitant to start on Logan Grimnar, as he looks to be a little more involved...



Also, I managed to put together some of the pieces from the battleforce box. I had forgotten what a pain it was to put landspeeders together. ugh.



A shot of the Ruins.



And the Bike squad...



Lastly I have some shots of the first anagonist army I intend to paint, old style Tau Empire. I managed to get a hold of the old army box which contained the codex, a limited ethereal and several actual boxes of units inside. Pretty cool, and it came with an extra devilfish, which was sweet.



Some shots of the contents. I really like the old style illustrations they used to put on the unit boxes. There was some really evocative artwork out there that I find much more enticing (if less practical) than the pictures on the current boxes.

Battlesuits



Ethereal



And that's about if for right now, I've got some good weather today, so I hope to get a good amount of priming in if possible.
Cheers.

If you think the plastic Landspeeders are bad just wait until you find an old metal one. Not only is it heavy and needs pinned to stay together, but the beast is attached to the flying stand by a thin plastic nub

I can imagine. That and the metal dreadnought seem like real nightmares. I had the great eagle model for the Lord of the Rings range and that stupid plastic nub snapped off the very first time I test-fitted it to the base.

Old plastic Land speeders are a bit of a bear to assemble. I just put one together not that ago. Assembling my old metal speeder (and dread) are memories lost in time, but not so traumatic to leave scars.

Surprised to didn’t grab some special weapons for the bikes.

Eventually I will, but those are the older style of bikers and I don't have as many spare parts for them. The current bikes mix well enough with the old and will be easier to convert with my modern bits. I plan to eventually have the full squad of ten bikers (or eight plus the attack bike) to form the second assault squad of the 2nd company.

It's a shame you sold all of your original stuff, but I did the same a few years ago.

So many warm memories seeing all the 2nd ed stuff. Just seeing the boxes takes me back to a time when going to GW was magical.

Great thread. If you want some original Ultra Marine and BA transfers, PM me your address, and I'll send them over to you. No cost to yourself. I'll never use them, so it'll be great for these to have a new life on some great looking figures. Just found an original BA banner still on the backing.

Bash

Great blog.

Looking forward to seeing more.

D

The metal Dreadnought is not too bad, having said that I did Superglue it to my hand when I was 13yrs old. It's not exactly light, and I had to try and apply superglue remover with my left hand...........ahhhh the memories.

I do like the feel of the metal one though, more substantial when moving it around the board

Had a productive hobby day yesterday and was able to prime and assemble a bunch of models. Got my 2nd Ed Terminator Squad assembled, as well as my Tau Crisis Commander, Devilfish, and a Squad of Fire-Warriors.









It's been a while since I put any Tau together, and I was pleasantly reminded of what a joy they are. The devilfish is in my opinion, a very elegant model, that takes all of fifteen minutes to properly assemble, and fire warriors are also a very good kit considering thier age ( as long as you don't look to closely at their thigh armor)...

In other news, my glaze medium should be arriving soon, so I should be able resume painting fairly shortly.

Cheers.

Soooo... Haven't been able to paint much as work has been a little crazy lately, but I got a package from across the pond this last week and managed to knock out the Sergeant of my Blood Angels Teminator Squad.
Banner Courtesy of Bash

You're very welcome matey, It looks brilliant! Just how I remember 2nd edition to be!

Okay, so I apologize for the randomness of this blog, but my work on the blood angels terminators has been sidetracked by the arrival of my first Betrayal at Calth box. At first I wasn't sure how the heresy era marines were going to look in the retro style, so I knocked out a test model.





Compared to a modern tac marine...



Must say I am pleased with the result. All of the Calth minis are beautiful, crisp detail, minimal flash...etc.
Anyway, this box is probably going to absorb my attention for the immediate future. I got 5 boxes (Self Control? I don't believe that's a thing right? yeah... somebody made that up...) which I plan to paint as mostly Ultramarines, with maybe one box being different so I can actually play the game ( I'm thinking Salamanders for the other...)
Thoughts and comments appreciated as always.
cheers.

BaC marine looks great. Can't wait to paint my own up.

5 boxes you say? Now that's impressive , looking forward to seeing them all painted up!

EDC

I will be very impressed to see 150 marines painted up! Looking forward to this.

Got A little bit of work done on my Calth Squad Sgt. Having a little difficulty with the hazard stripes on his powerfist. Also, apologize for the darkness of the photos. I need to fiddle with my lightbox a little it seems.

Looks great matey. The BaC guys look right at home with the retro look. 5 boxes! Wow. They'll look impressive once they're finished.

First of all, I want to thank everyone for the positive comments -- they really help me stay motivated. I was able to finish the BaC sergeant today, and am pretty pleased with how he turned out.







Also, I began work on my test model for the cataphracti Teminators. Having a little difficulty there. At first I had him painted up with a lot more yellow/fake gold effect. It was overpowering the blue, so I toned it down some to this point.





Not sure if I want to keep the yellow at all. I've thought about replacing the gold areas in the GW photos with plain silver or simply going all blue, with a red bolter, hazard stripes on the fist and just a white stripe for the helmet in a sort of nod to the RT days. Feedback on this idea is especially welcome. Cheers.

The sergeant looks really good.

The terminator is progressing nicely, the hazard stripes on both help break up the blue.

Keep.it up.

EDC

Wow, that Sarge looks great! Good stuff!

Thanks guys. I'm still mulling over what direction to take on my Terminators but in the meantime, I have the rest of the first combat squad nearly finished.



Had some fun freehanding stuff onto the kneepads and I liked how the check pattern turned out so, I decided to give my rhino the same treatment. It needed something to give it a retrro-feel anyway.



Not terribly neat, but it gets the job done. Also want to give a shout out to you lamenters players out there. I can only imagine the pain your left shoulder pauldrons must cause you...
Well that's it for today . Cheers.

Nice work once again! The pattern on the Rhino definitely works!

Liking the combat squad. The check pattern on both the knee and rhino looks cool. Very effective.

EDC

Okay, so just a minor update today. Just knocked out the test model for my salamanders space marines (I'm going to use these guys in place of word bearers so I can actually play the BaC board game.)
I initially went with yellow eye lenses like the salamanders in codex: Armageddon, but decided I didn't like how they looked and opted for red instead. Nothing particularly retro about the scheme, but it doesn't look too out of place next to the ultras.





That's all I managed today. I hope to finish the Ultramarine combat squad soon, and then move on to one of salamanders.
cheers.

Very nice. Did you freehand the flames on the shoulder? They look great.

EDC

Woah, that flame is indeed very nicely executed. So is the rest of the model !

Thanks guys. Back in the day I actually had painted a whole battle company of Salamanders (which, sadly, I rage-sold after one of the GW price hikes convinced me I was done with 40k forever -- we see how well that worked out...) so I got a lot of practice perfecting the flame symbol. It was actually kind of nostalgic painting this guy up.

Okay, so I've finished the first combat squad of Ultras from BaC except for flock and gravel. I decided to renege on the green bases. I know this is retro-heresy, but for some reason I love the green bases on the blood angels, but can't bring myself to feel right about it on the ultramarines.... Also I apologize for the blurriness of the pic, didn't realize until after i had uploaded...



Also just for fun I thought I would do an army shot in shameless imitation of LDP.



That's it for today. I'm not sure what's next for me. I'm thinking about painting up a trio of contemptors for the Dakka monthly challenge, or it might be a combat squad of Salamanders.
cheers.

This is one of the best blogs I've seen so far.

Lovely to see a retro style of painting on a modern miniature, I have been wondering how to incorporate retro with a recently created chapter and this might be the way to do it.

What do you do to get an older looking paint scheme like that, exactly, that has the 2nd Edition feel?

@Stormwall
First of all thanks for the kind words. As for your question, I draw inspiration from tracking down old codices and rulebooks from that era. What looks "retro" varies from chapter to chapter, but as a general rules of thumb I would go with these:
Goblin Green Bases (which I cheat on)
Brighter colors in general
Yellow for the barrels of heat-based weaponry (melta and flame) Plasma coils do not glow, but tend to be straight metal.
Retro models rarely incorporate Gold paint. Instead they tend to use a very basic NMM effect. I imitate this by painting a layer of Averland sunset and then glazing this with (whatever the current vermin brown equivalent is -- skrag brown maybe?) and then highlighting the very edges with white.
Hazard stripes on weapons (CC usually, bolters is mostly an Iron warriors thing) Checkerboard patters, army badges on Greaves.

Well that's all I can think of at the moment. If you like, I could probably throw a tutorial up for how I do my ultras.
Hope that helps. cheers.