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Fluff: A system hidden for centuries to the Imperium was the last known location for a splinter of Hive Fleet Cerberus before vanishing, never to be seen from again. Hailing from this world is a chapter erased from the records of history, completely unknown to the commanders of the besieged worlds as they dropped from above to wreck havoc on the Imperium's enemies. Mistaken for the Lost and the Damned the Inquisition trailed them until they came across their homeworld, a world named Esoterra that had been consumed by warp storms less than a decade earlier. The volcanic world inhabited by the chapter made for an intimidating invasion prospect, having used xeno tech to bury themselves within the planet and use the xenos themselves as laborers the chapter made it their home. Though the chapter was only 150 marines at the time the molten rock covering most of the planet was daunting enough.

Rumors flew around the Inquisition as to the origins of these marines, were they the descendants of one of the legions who had been struck from history? Chaos marines from the warp storm? Renegades? No one knew. After much probing the Inquisition obtained a sample of the chapters gene seed and were surprised to learn that they successors to the legacy of the Dark Angels. They also knew they had spent considerable time in the warp, but found the astartes free of all taint and corruption. Once notified, Grand Master Azrael sent the remainder of the available forces, including the entire Deathwing and Ravenwing, to the system to investigate the chapter, fearing that the Fallen had notified outside forces of their past. Upon arriving they were greeted with open arms from the new found chapter and after investigations and thorough screenings by the Dark Angels Interrogator-Chaplain the young chapter was deemed pure and equal sons of the Lion. It was also deemed that the secret was safe for now.

What remained hidden from the Dark Angels and the Inquisition alike was the true origin of the chapter and the initiation rituals involved in the chapter. Not only did they know first hand the events at Caliban but had been visited with visions of the Lion and the Emperor alike bringing them here under Balthial, a Fallen Angel under a different name executed three millenia ago in the Rock. Balthial came to the kingdoms of Slaanesh after being cast from Caliban, himself being caught in melee with the Assault Marines during the invasion and bombardment of Caliban, and was bred to kill the emperor that turned on him. He was intercepted in this by Azrael and was tortured and executed for his past. His soul was immediately intercepted by the Emperor before he could be devoured by chaos. It is uncertain how exactly he returned to the mortal realm but when he did he did so with the same timing as the other marines in the chapter who had been overwhelmed by visions of the Primarch El' Jonson and visions of the Emperor. After beating back a splinter of Hive Fleet Cerberus and subjugating the Demiurg who had crashed into the mountains of Esoterra they dug into the mountains and carved out a base. Shortly thereafter the marines fell into a coma lasting weeks. Exactly what happened during this time is also a mystery but the souls of the marines were purified and mutations fell off, stunted and rotting. To this day, in the ceremony that elevates the Sons, scouts, to Brother the Son falls into a coma and their souls are believed to be given to the Lion and the Emperor in the warp as a sort of purgatory before returning several days later.

However, memories of the Chapter Master were also given to them and is an addition mark of dishonor among them. During the time in the care of Slaanesh the marine was given a deep kiss, which haunts the memories of the chapter. At a trigger, especially when fighting Slaaneshi forces, all the marines lose control and go into a rage, seeking to destroy the object or being that caused the memory. However, the change is not permanent and can be overcome once the stimulus has been removed. Many a strip club was destroyed by a passing unit and thus the chapter puts much effort into staying away from populated areas and guard USO camps.

The traits of the Dark Angels are well pronounced in the chapter, rarely communicating outside the chapter, leaving out key information, and when speaking being impeccably brief.


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Ok so that was a long background for an intro. Anyway, I'm building the 3rd Brotherhood (that is, company) and enough of the Deathwing and Ravenwing for a 2k pt game with a small portion of the 3rd coming in.

List to build as is:
Guardian of Reapers Nathaneal (Belial)
Guardian of Hunters Mika'el (Sammael)
Deathwing Reapers (Lightning Claws, Heavy Flamer, and Chainfist) (x2)
Ravenwing Hunters
Ravenwing Hunter Support (x2)
Tactical with Rhino
Land Raider Crusader (x2)

3rd Brotherhood units
6 Tacticals w/Rhino
2 Assault Squads
2 Devastator Squads w/Razorback
2 Sniper Squads w/Razorback
2 Predators, Dreadnoughts, Vindicators, Whirlwinds

So here's the scheme I've got, I know I talked about changing the robe colors a little while ago, but I think I'm just going keep going with the tan and maybe modify the Deathwing colors to differentiate them a bit. Yes, I named them. No I'm not going to give a monologue about each individual when they get turned into a pile of slag on the board. Anyway, this is the first scheme, no shadows or highlighting yet. I'm curious as to what dakka thinks would make for good basing given the colors. I've got the stuff for grassland/dirt as is.



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This is also going to be somewhat of a long project as my income is not very high atm. Currently aiming at one a month.

Finished:


Quasi-finished (finished until parts come in or just tired of atm):




WIP:

Try to tidy up your reds with moar water and moar layers, will take moar time but you`ll get a moar pride out of it.

Edit: moar!

K, will do with the next guys. I'd thinned it a bit more than usual, but I guess it wasn't enough for them.

Touch ups today, will try to get the next mini squad done by this evening.

Larger pictures will be great. It's hard to see much at the moment. The robes look very smooth. Good work there.

Thanks, will fix the size of the pics with the next update.

I have always thought that the Robed marines were awesome looking. I like that you are naming them all as well. Paint job looks clean and it is a good choice of colors.

Thumbs up on the fluff as well. Well written, and interesting.

You might want to consider using the Dakka gallery. For those of us who post from work, we can't see your pics due to filters.

I'll try to remember to check back here when I get home.

Connor McKane wrote:I have always thought that the Robed marines were awesome looking. I like that you are naming them all as well. Paint job looks clean and it is a good choice of colors.

Thumbs up on the fluff as well. Well written, and interesting.

Thank you! ^_^

wolfshadow wrote:You might want to consider using the Dakka gallery. For those of us who post from work, we can't see your pics due to filters.

I'll try to remember to check back here when I get home.

For finished work definitely! I don't want to use up the space with wip pics though... or I could just delete them afterwards. How do I post from the gallery to here?

Painting challenge has started elsewhere so I've got a Hunter Support speeder drying from the first layer of light black. Joseph and co are chilling in the corner for the moment.

Question: Do you base the flying bases or just leave them clear? Not sure what I'm going to go with for basing, any ideas to go with the color scheme?

I upload all of my images here, even my WIP stuff. Dakka seems to be quite proud of the fact that they are rapidly becoming or already are the number 1 image host for wargaming images.

I've figured it out methinks. Anyway, today was the first day of the painting challenge for other places so heres what I got workin on today



Need to give baldy some warpaint or something, its the first thing I see of the speeder when I walk into the room and I'm certain it screams 'shoot me'. Haven't gotten the MM on yet, was looking for a way to magnetize it and the heavy bolter but after finding my super glue has dried itself and is no longer usable I'm outta luck. Same with the heavy flamer and assault cannon. :/

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Ever so slightly closer. Lots of work left, but its been almost two weeks since the last update so I figured I'd put it up. Work and class starting has really cut down on my time, but I'm still alive

Looking better.

Might want to hit the red areas with a couple of light very thinned down coats of red to smooth it out as the black undercoat is showing through.

The Black and red is very striking though. Lvoe the Red missile tips.

wolfshadow wrote:Looking better.

Might want to hit the red areas with a couple of light very thinned down coats of red to smooth it out as the black undercoat is showing through.

The Black and red is very striking though. Lvoe the Red missile tips.

Aye, much appreciated will do when I get the opportunity! Thanks.

My muse has decided its time to do bases! Here's a Dreadnought base, hence the feet (had a rather rough ride I guess)



This is the farthest I've ever gone with bases so critique is welcome!

Looks like a good start. Better than my basing efforts for certain. :-)

Thanks! The Dread came out better than the speeder base did :/

I''m roughly done with the speeder, whatdya think?


I decided to scrap the highlighting because it just looked bad to me and the wing looked better with just the red than the red, black, and lighter gray. Need to think of a name for this particular vehicle... hmm.

Got a couple more projects up and running. The first I got via trade with Wulfe Luer and need to hunt down another three bikes for them, but this is what I'm doing with them for now.



Didn't really plan on doing Gideon this month but he was annoying me being gray and not very Dark Angels looking so I tried to fix it.



Both are still very much WIP.

The speeder looks much better!

Thank you.

Hmm, looks very smitey. Like the nice long seals there.

Thanks Wulfe! I need to give Gideon more seals and he will eventually have a cannoness's cape or some such thing. He tends to pick them up and put em down hard as my most frequent opponent loves his cannonesses. He's my lucky model that just doesn't seem to die.

Finished roughly. C/C?

Try adding colour to the sensors and things to break up the black, otherwise a smooth finish!

Sorry, but the white seems to bright to me. I really like the three lil' angel dudes up top though.

Grab a black micropen from an art store to do blacklining and writing on the purity seals. Super easy and cheap. (My micropen cost me about $3)

Thanks guys! I have no idea why I didn't get the new replies pop up, sorry for the delay!

@Eagleark Thanks! Perhaps getting some color into the wires would break it up? I may be attempting to highlight it with some Adeptus Battlegray to help out in that aspect. I've been hesitant to do so because when I tried it on the speeder...well it didn't go so well.

@bunnygurl. Thanks! I think I'm going to try and get some shading in on the white so its darker in the recesses, though it'll still be mostly that nice bright white. Any tutorials on blending would be helpful though, might try to on a test model before applying to Gideon though.

@Wolfshadow: Micropen, will do! Will pick up a brown one as well or would black still be better for Deathwing? I've always wondered how people did the writing. Thanks for the assistance!

Sounds cool. Looks cool. So are they loyalists?

Thanks Sort-of. The majority of the chapter is loyalist, the leadership is full of renegades, but no one knows about that, shh!

Alright, been awhile since the last update, I've been distracted with side projects but I've been working on some stuff. Namely a unit of Deathwing Reapers.



Still trying to hunt down another Thunder Hammer (4 actually, but at least one to finish the guy on the end) and get it magnetized but its mostly magnetized. Tier 1 at best so I'm not entirely pleased with it, but as far as getting my army on the board without being a gray blob its a step in the right direction.

Im sorry but that mould line on the hammer is glaring at me...

Cool