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Greetings good sirs and madams. I have never collected an Astartes force and thought now would be a good time to start. Mainly because i have a suspicion that the battleforce is overdue for a price hike (Pesky GW). (EDITED as of 09/06/11 HA! beat you GW!) So on impulse i bought a battleforce and an extra razorback. I also made an order from forgeworld (more on that later).

There is however a twist in this tale, i love the idea of wolf scouts and grey hunters, i think they well represent the kind of marines i would want to collect. So this is a spacewolves army, though the rune priest who will lead is hard to explain i definitely wont be including any Thunderwolves (Or thunderhorses, thunderbikes, thunderbuggies, thundermechs or thundergolfcarts.), Fenrisan wolves or special characters as i think they are too space wolvsey to get away with.

EDIT: Finally i would like to namecheck the blog that pushed me over the edge for space marines (And no it doesn't involve gitsplitta lol)

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/331718.page

So that is the preamble over, now, time to introduce THE DIATRIBORS

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++ Re. [REDACTED] information forwarded to Inquisior Quiran Uolis.

You don't understand, the events that transpired on [REDACTED] cost them. A price dearer than the 650 battle brothers, a price we or they are yet to comprehend. Empathy for the Diatribors, Pity for the Diatribors, Mercy please for the Diatribors.

I implore you Quiran, stay your master's hand!
[Author censored by order of Inquisitor lord Militant [REDACTED]]


*Arm painted red to honour those who fell on [REDACTED]

The Diatribors
(Chapter under review due to their recent deployment in [REDACTED])
Founding Chapter: Unknown, Originally believed to be of Dornian stock their Betcher's gland and Hibernation faculties are fully functional casting doubts on this provenance. Coincidently around the time of their founding many chapter's had submitted gene seed for 'Hybridisation' as far as records embellish this was halted following anomalies arising while sequencing Space Wolf zygotes.
Founding Date: 9th founding.
Home world: Prydus Main
Fleet Presence: 1 Battle Barge; The Nemean. A complement of 15 thunder hawks 5 transporters aboard.
Chapter master: Benhamen Herakles. (Presided over by Honoured brother Sarpengedes)
Strength: 343 battle brothers 140% capacity Scout company. Approximately 10 Tactical dreadnought suits available.
Codex: Exceptable deviation, deviations approved and vetted by peer review. Deviations specified (see below.)
Battle tactics/specialisation: Line-breakers, Mobile fire power, Urban warfare, Siege warfare.
Further Notes: Low count of Predator Battle engines and no currently operational Land Raider Assault engines, Low count of Tactical dreadnought suits. Chapter is Currently in sub optimal operator status awaiting review. Remaining battle brothers have survived in excess of average peak expectancies. All but a handful having completed more than 150 missions. 11 dreadnoughts available for battle, most recently being joined by the ex-chapter Master Pavel Sarpengedes who was mortally wounded during the action on [REDACTED].
Battle cry: 'Victory is our Vindication!!'

Deviations from Codex:

Experienced warriors: most of the battle brothers, or 'Toxototes' as they are colloquially known, are overdue on receiving their terminator honours. This is in part due to the desperate rearguard action of [REDACTED]. Though they are low in number they more than make up for it in experience.

The Agoge: Again due to the desperately high casualties received on the killing fields of [REDACTED] the Diatribors have a high amount of scout Neophytes. The less experienced of these will be sent on reconnaissance missions or accompany Imperial regiments on escort or patrol. Only when Neophytes are truly on the cusp of entering the fold are they permitted to accompany the full Marines into battle. Here the scouts must work to their fullest potential using their stealth tactics and cunning to the full before leave them behind for good.

Mobile Fire power: The chapter has always assigned their heavy weaponry only to dedicated devastator squads. In part this is due to their use by imperial commanders as line breakers; a tactical squad is better remaining mobile when crossing no-man's land or scaling fortress walls.

Modelling rules on project.
*Slightly taller than a regular marine, my test model is about half a foot (scale wise) taller than a regularly assmebled marine.
*No chainswords/axes. Don't like 'em, Knives or nothing for these guys. I have press moulded the scout Machete accesory and each marine will get one.
*Heresy and Maximus armour, have ordered a pack of each from forgeworld, will be mixing them in.
*Repressor dozers on all rhino's/razorbacks, I reckon it is within my skill level to attempt scratch building these.
*More equipment on each space marine, i know it's not like marines to carry lots of spare ammo but these guys have ended up in some of the harshest warzones ever seen by the imperium. Have ordered the elysian accesory pack as i thought it looked a good fit, plus i think the diatribors wouldn't leave home without some demo charges.
*MVIII Errant gorgets on everyone, went well on the test model, just used a litte strip of the thinnest plasticard i had and some tweezers.
*Elysian Respirator heads on the scouts, Hey it looked good on the GW blog lol.

So that's a good little intro, unfortunately i am without a camera atm but if i find a way to get pictures in the next couple days i will do so.
Please leave some comments. Even if they are 'No pics LOLWUT!!?!'

hello perkustin,

reading and seeing your other stuff i expect to see some good minis in the coming time.
sorry to hear you won´t implement

thundergolfcarts

... that would be epic^^
as for your colorscheme, tho i faer it is far from uniuque it is a really nice one!^^ and if you can pull off the white as you did some of your colors on your DE i think this will look stunning.
your Battle cry:

'Victory is our Vindication!!'

must be some cruel joke as i understand your glimpse of fluff you´ve shown, they are not currently known for their ability to be victorious^^ and now they are even not really that good looked upon by the higher authorities it seems... or did i get something wrong here?


from waht i gather how you want the minis to look like i think you are onto something cool looking, what with all the armor upgrading and extras, and i am all for fully kitted SM! so go for some pouches and stuff to the marines! also like your take on how you have more than average scouts in your army! this is very fluffy and i think could give a whole new egde into gaming...
tho i do like chainswords^^ i will look forward to see sm with machetes as i think this could create a cool look yet again^^

cheers mate and i will following this close !

vik

Fluff sounds interesting. Consider me subscribed to this one as well.

Interesting ideas. Look forward to seeing some of your words come to life in model form.

Cheers guys for the interest. Will try and reward you with pics in the next week or so. Just fished my dads old camera out his workshop, it snarled angrily then died... D'oh, that was my backup plan.

@ Vik the Diatribors have an illustrious history of great victories over the enemies of the emperor, it is just the recent battle on the blood choked fields of [DELETED] that has seen them near broken.

by the way, tried to google the name and i got no results...

what does the name Diatribors mean?

Diatribe is basically angry shouting They need a bit more canary yellow in ther heraldry somewhere

thanks for the vocab help flinty^^

I look forward to seeing your progression with these guys .
I picked up the space wolf boxset a few weeks ago , and the heads are just fantastic. Mmmm... ( wonders what the forgeworld item was ? )

Verging on threadomancy, Thank goodness this is P&M where 'sabbaticals' are common, nay, expected.

So had a sudden fit of hobby magic and painted a test model for my diatribors. Now, I mentioned earlier how i am impulsive paint scheme chooser, well........







I am quite pleased with him and i think i am starting to improve my painting.

I notice a fixture of Dakka is donating one's Yellow marine painting recipe. I will happily oblige:

-Grey undercoat
-basecoat machiarius Orange
-Wash 50:50 Delven mud and Griffin Sepia (two coats may be neccesary depending how 'sandy' you want the colour)
-'90% highlight' 50:50 macharius orange and Iyanden yellow (watering down is recommended)
-'80% highlight' Iyanden yellow (You'll probably want to water down the foundation paint here as well..)
-Edges/lighting 50:50 Iyanden yellow and Skull white

This will give you a nice mucky yellow, overall a similar look to Iyanden yellow itself.

Here is another test model, i hope it displays how i intend to subtely convert each and every guy.




Flukely i have managed to Nail the posing on this guy, i think it has alot to do with the slight tilt of the head... I have titled this photo 'It ends Here!' Btw, it's what i think when i look at this guy.

Will probably post soon with the detail work on the testor and some more background odds and ends.

Finally a question, what colour bolter casing? Red? Green?! I am quite fond of the iron hands' white bolters personally.

Wow what a beauty . Nice colours , thanks for the yellow tip. The posing is fantastic on both . a white bolter casing may clash with your shoulder pad. maybe white and green? good to see you back Perky.

cool yellow marine you have there...the scheme looks very nice...reminds me due to the light of the pic a bit of my own earthangels...for boltercasing... i would have said red...but you already did one arm in red so i iopt too for the white casings...some colors have to have some space in between so to better pop...

very good work...one minor thing for me... the secon(grey) marine ...i can´t really figure out how the bolterstrap would work in this position...he looks(only about the strap) as if he pulls off the brastrap...the other arm and the cocked head looks ace together by the way...

cheers, vik

I wanted something that looked like he was either getting his bolter from its hip-clip or putting it there, it was an experiment in posing, i'll admit it is not entirely successful.

I decided during work that the bolter casing will be yellow also, with dark silver, almost black mechanisms, as i realised recently that very few real guns have any bear metal.

Will try and finish him in the next few hours....

Drill the gun barrels!

nice yellow

Like the poses, like the yellow, like the scheme, I like!

the bolterscheme will be interesting, you are right...seldom seen a chrome gun....too much bling even for a marine^^

about the strapissue... painting can set so many things into the right perspective^^

Like the yellow (although it seems an overly laborious process)

Love the poses

Hate the chest mounted pouches.

i particularly like kitted up marines...lots of belts and pouches!!!

@Matrim, knew i was gonna get some grief about that, remembered after id assembled him, might try it with the next lad though. Thanks.

@Nerdfest, thanks very much! I think yellow kinda suits my style of painting.

@Slavetodarkness, Most my painting is, i dont think anything looks good unless it hits the three stage highlight....

Chest pouch:
It was either a pouch or a buckler, as imo a marine needs something in that position, i forwent a buckler as i think Gothic-future-knight marines have been overdone. Tbh i love gothic-future-knights but everyone else has done them so well that i thought a more contempary theme would be more unique.


Righto....

Here goes another experiment in space marine posing. IMO this is the holy grail for space marine modellers; the ADS (Aiming Down sight, What happens when you hold left trigger ) . Many a Militaria fetishist (of which there are many on dakka) have moaned about marines aiming from the hip so here's my attempt


Since this picture i have tilted the hand to be cupping the corner where the foregrip meets the magazine, as this seems to be the army way of gripping smg's or other short barrel weapons.





Obviously it is impossible to tilt the head as much as i would want but it gives just enough of the impression he has is eyes down the iron sighting. Another problem with trying to repostion the SM arms into an ADS stance is avoiding the 'tilting bolter', alot of people try this pose but always have the bolter rocking a 'gansta lean', it looks cool but also kinda stupid...

However successful you deem it to be i have definitely learned alot about posing space marines, Hint: It involves breaking the arm down into it's, helpfully distinct, elements. Then drilling each end of each piece and fudging with bluetack/pinning/greenstuff.

Ha ha , it truly is the the holy grail of posing , with giant shoulder pads barrel chest and helmet. Like his shoulder pad. are your guys gonna have an admek influence ?

You know what's cool? I have a piece of fluff to answer that question! I was gonna introduce the idea of the apprentices attached to each squad and this fluff when i had finished one but now is as good a time as any i suppose .

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++Emperor Protects++
Subject: Further Auditing of our losses

++I am the last one my lord, when the Aegean died my brothers to were consumed in the plasma fires. Praise the emperor I was aboard the Hoplon 20,000 light years away with our full complement of Weapon-smith class factory vessels.

Brother Corinth was a respected Techmarine and had many allies on the red planet, I am afraid to report my relations are not so cordial. I need not list the names of the other eight we lost that day but rest assured they are holding a service on Mars as we speak.

Of course you know full well that grim fate the Nemean's sister vessel endured, you were there, you Allowed Corinth and his techmarines aboard as Lord Sarpengedes lay dying in your arms. The plasma reactor was too far gone for salvation but you were right to send my brothers aboard, you were right to try.

Fear not however, though we are wearied from the journey Corinth's apprentices and I are already hard at work restoring the battle engines and war suits of our glorious chapter. Corinth taught me well and many of the apprentices are already displaying the skills of a full techmarine. Soon we will be able to take pride in our Artifice once again.

You contacted me regarding the loss of our Terminator suits and with some joy I proffer a solution. On route to your command post are brother Ezra and Tomas, they will join your tactical squads and help with the search. Indeed they have not seen any military action for around 5 years and relish the chance to fight after years studying in Fabricator Deschamp's Monastery.

Your Humble servant and proud claimant of Chief Techmarine,
Brother and Honorary Magos 1st class, Clinton Persepolis.++

Lol was just looking at ADS man and realised that he has luvely bionic occules on one eye but decides to aim with the other.... Whoops.

BTW i think i may attempt a leftie next. Thanks to Brother Argo's amazing (and unfortunately 6 months dead ( Seriously though seek it out!) Iron Hands thread i know the key....

On the rhino accesory sprue there are a pair of arms for the pintle storm bolter, simply snip off the lefty!

Man, i'm seriously keen on this thread, looking really good, you're righto about the pose being the holy grail! it looks fantastic, and i'm the first to admit i've got some gangsta lean marines in my lot! i've even got a tilted, leaned and not lining up with the bolter grip guy! but he doesn't stand out too much lol :-)

Ha ha great fluffy start matey , you really do have your Mojo back!, i actually just noticed the shoulder pad on Bjs' Rhino which is sat at my right elbow as i type. I think i need to research techmarines now

Great work so far! The Abnett-esque fluff is great as are the custom poses. I know how much work goes into that sort of thing.

I agree with SlaveToDorkness and Matrim: not a fan of the chest pouches, and drill your barrels.

I look foreward to seeing more. Subscribed!

Cheers,
Rawson

I was thinking of a Mgs3 style cqc grip with knife for another guy. Also i am currently considering ways of having my powerfist 'wolf guard' troops actually properly aiming their Combi meltas, should be intersting.

Also a variation on this pose would be nice (right), but i would have to de-squat which will be incredibly tricky. (Including handle Foregrip)

NICE!!!!!

i really like your aiming marine! more of those... a melta aimer would be truly unique... i think i never ever saw one of those done that way!

vik

I havent really been in a dark eldar mood the last couple of months but even my space marines have lain silently in their boxes. Well i Needed some hobby motivation and luckily it arrived today in the form of a mark 4 dreadnought from forgeworld! I have spent the last couple hours assembling it, pinning near everything, (yes i even pinned the smoked launcher!). As my first forgeworld kit i would have to say it was fairly easy to assemble. The one difficulty was the breaching drill elbow joint, i had to thread a pin all the way through to ensure it wouldn't break if i exhaled sharply. As if to test i dropped it 20mins ago, In one piece. I may buy a drop pod for this guy, Bummed if i'm gonna pay 60 buck for a FW dreadnought one though! A quick tip would be to Criss cross all the 'rubbed joints' on the kit with a hobby knife it gives the superglue a heck of alot more purchase.





The base has a banner of chaos on it with a broken flagpole, nothing ott just thought i would add some texture to the flat base. I havent glued the rock drill chuck teeth yet, look it up on forgeworld if you don't no what i looks like.

On the subject of forgeworld i give you my second kit:
THE STEAMDOZER!



Yes.... It is terryfying... It is definitely on the back burner for the next few months.
EDIT am just waiting for the PVA to dry on the base then i will attempt to prime it.

cool dread...

and to the secon kit...

OMG he did it^^ have fun^^

Was just thinking that all the tabs of resin from the pieces would make great tank traps and siege walls.