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Well I'm now up to just under 13,000pts of Ultramarines. I've completed the entire 1st company formation as well. So I treated myself to a Stormraven.

The Stormraven is the perfect apocalypse centre piece for my Ultramarines. I also think it looks better in blue with it's Thunderhawk roots made more obvious. I think this is because we're used to seeing a lot of Ultramarine Thunderhawks in illustrations, not to mention the Thunderhawk GW/WD use in their Apoc battles is the Ultramarine one from Forgeworld.

I painted huge icons on mine to break up the large areas of colour. I think another reason why many don't like the stormraven is because the large empty areas of flat colour shown on the GW Blood Angel one. You only have to look at the grey knight one and it looks awesome in silver and large areas of heraldic stripes on the nose.

Imagine a Blood angels one with twin yellow stripes cutting it in half like a Ford GT40, I think that would make the model look so much better.

Anyway, enough of my babbling about how to make a raven look semi decent. Here are the pics.

Looks pretty cool. I like the weathering.

Thing.

Of.

Beauty.

Fantastic work!

Absolutely perfect.

The weathering is superb. Great work.

wicked work there,i love the big skull lightning flash symbol,its freehanded as well i think.

That looks really good. Just seeing it all painting up like that makes me hope all the newer marine codexes get a stormraven. Heck the thing looks better in blue if you ask me.

I like it. Alot. Maybe, just maybe someday, if I'm good, I can get one.

That is fething brilliant. Lovely freehand. Are you using brushes or sponges to get the randomly-shaped weathering?

Giant symbols work really well. Seeing how well it works, I'll do similar on mine.

For mine I'm doing it like the old classic 90s Epic Blood Angels Thunderhawks. The black also helps break it up.

Curis wrote:That is fething brilliant. Lovely freehand. Are you using brushes or sponges to get the randomly-shaped weathering?

Giant symbols work really well. Seeing how well it works, I'll do similar on mine.

For mine I'm doing it like the old classic 90s Epic Blood Angels Thunderhawks. The black also helps break it up,

How did you attain the green canopy glass look?

Ahh, this is just a Photoshop mockup.

I'll be painting the canopy interior in Necrotech green and Thraka Wash, and then replacing the canopy piece with green acetate. Maybe even cannnibalise some old Blacktron lego kits.

I really love how you've done it.

You painted 13000 points worth of marines up to this standard?

Inf**kincredible.

Not keen on the actual model at all, having said that the paint job is excellent.

Any chance of a pic of the entire company?

That's one heck of a flying toaster!

I like it.

very cool. the paint job is crisp yet believable (even for a prissy son of rowboat!) and i especially like the lightning skull on the side. great job!

Looks really good love the lightning skull

You make Ultarmarines look good. I would love to see 13k of these guys. The Techmarine really pops against the blue. I hate when people complain about large, undetailed areas. It's a chance to actually paint as far as I'm concerned. Great job.

Cheers guys!

Ooh. Is nice.

So can any space marine chapter use the stormraven in apocalypse games but in a lower points game is restricted to BA and GK....

Kudos on the paint job fella

CT GAMER wrote:

Curis wrote:That is fething brilliant. Lovely freehand. Are you using brushes or sponges to get the randomly-shaped weathering?

Giant symbols work really well. Seeing how well it works, I'll do similar on mine.

For mine I'm doing it like the old classic 90s Epic Blood Angels Thunderhawks. The black also helps break it up,

How did you attain the green canopy glass look?

Look at model car paints. You can buy transparent spray paints in all sorts of colors, its meant to simulate window tint.

It looks absolutely stunning!

And I bet Stormraven will be included in the next Space Marine codex.

Beautiful.

One question:

How much for one in SW colours?

Really nice and clean work. Amazing job.

I still prefer it in Red and even better as a Yellow Lamenters Raven, but your paint work is incredible! The insignias and Ultramarine logos are great and this is some of the best weathering I have seen! I love the detail and caution panels around the engines, excellent work!

You have actually made the Stormraven look nice, Good job

Im still not a fan of the model itself, but you made it look mighty purdy Great job with the skullified lightning!

Awesome job man, I too would like to see pictures of your squads.