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I've gott'n more time recently to work on my wargaming, and i noticed something. My custom chapter doesn't have any unique characters in its roster. And i didn't want to adopt one from an older chapter. SO here's is a quick description of how i want him to look and my progress so far. Sorry no pics yet... still in conceptualizing/bit harvesting stage.

Description:
Venerable Sternguard Assult marine with Bolter on the back side of his hand *like the new BA and GK* with power swords popping out from the same location *kind of like a zealot from StarCraft*

Bits:
I bought a box of Gray Knights at a realy good price, small adjustment to description is instead of bolters they have storm bolters. And i picked up some nice tiny magnets to be able to switch out jump pack for normal pack. Problem... The storm bolters are only left armed, and being a novice i thought i'd ask for any assistance in forms of advice on how best to make the storm bolter be on the right arm? Like would it be best to just carve it off the forarm or best to sever at like the elbow?

I don't have much time in between Wife, Classes, and Hospital Externship for trial and errors, so any advice/insite to this project will help greatly


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Was giving it more thought and i think the best corse of action will be to cut at the elbow joint and sand/flatten the side of the storm bolter and attach the ammo clip to the far right side.

Any tips on painting script with a brush, i mostly do the every so slightly squigle lines with Micron pens on light surfaces, but my main army color is a dark purple.

Just picked up new micro shears and Green Stuff, so its surgery time. Sorry for the crappy res. my phone is the only camera that i own. I have the better part of this morn/afternoon off so i'll try to get as much progress and photo's up.

Looking forward to seeing said progress.

GF9 clippers, right? They've certainly served me well.

i've managed to get left and right arm looking okay in comparison to each other... on either side are the shortened power swords that im going to attach like a zealot blade under the barrels of the storm bolters. Im almost wondering if i should use cardstock... would be thinner and possibly make a better fit then cut up power swords seem a tad thick and doesn't seem to fit very well. i could i guess splint it some at the base with the new green stuff i bought but, leery of doing that with the fact i've never worked with green stuff before.


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So i've made some progress... i used the green stuff to help fill in and smooth out some edit spots. As well as install a magnet in his back, the jump back, and normal pack... Still hung up on the blade idea... But from what i read on the internet i may have like 8 or 9 hours of drying of the green stuff before i can paint over, so that should give me time to think or hear of an idea/direction.

Looks good so far (if a bit blurry). I think it would start to look really busy if you tried to add power blades onto the arms as well. What kind of helmet are you going to go for?

I have a Gray Knight helm picked out. I like the knight'ish look with a tad bit of tech. Sounds a bit childish but i was kind'a hard set for the power blades...hmmm

Just got done with my last class, so i'll have some time to do this... oh yes. I've been looking at it and i think i can still pull it off with out making it look too busy. I'll have to add a tad of green stuff to the bottom to make the blade's have a bit more to hold on to as a foundation as well as making it an even base. I'm going to borrow a camera so that i may take better pictures. Again im realy sorry about the ones above, all i own is my samsung phone.

BTW he has been named... "The Red Dune" once i get better pictures up i'll maybe throw a tad bit of story up if anyone is interested.

Sounds good bro, i like it so far! cant wait to see some more pics!

Here are some better pictures.








Brother and i have been discussing rules for him.

Still need to set aside time and install the blades. Once i do that I'll get more pics like above to display. I'm also thinking of doing a ripped flag hanging off his left hip with ragged end. Chapter flag, nothing too detailed just the basic chapter color + stripes. He just seems too plain with out something there, i think the flag/cloth hanging off his left hip will spice it up some with out getting in the way of the jump pack or normal pack.

Any and all input is appreciated.

i've finished the blades and the banner. I think it turned out pritty well, can't wait to finish painting him.







I played a few missions with my brother DoW2 in the SM story arch, and i saw something realy cool with one of the armor sets. Red helm with Black Laural Wreath. So i think im going to paint his helm that way.

as for this eyes and blades im thinking of doing a stepping grade of dark to light blue to realy pop vs the "Liche Purple" main scheme of the armor and the red helm.


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I am stumped though on how im to make his jump pack look a bit unique other then posting a ton of prayer/purity seals on it. Any ideas?

Looks like you and I both have a common problem taking pictures of our mini’s… but it’s looking real good !!!!

Yeah you can see a huge difference when i take photo's with my cellphone and when i bribed my dad to come over and take pics with his Nikon.

The conversion is looking great so far.

If I could make a suggestion, if you're going to take photos with your cellphone (I've been there, so I feel your pain), set the model on a white sheet of paper. Also try to eliminate any depth of field, that can cause the camera to focus where you don't want it to. In your latest photos the background out the window is the clearest part of the photo, which is part of the reason why the miniature is so out of focus.

@Grass4hopper: thanx for the tip, the white paper kinda helped. I also moved one of my paints in the photo to help see the blade was disapearing at that angle.

ATM I've put chaos black in all the spots im going to dry brush bolt gun silver *stormbolters will be golden for its common for what i understand for master crafted type weapons to be such*. I've also based the flailing banner codex gray and that too will be dry brushed with some bolt gun silver to give the look of the thread having a bit of silver in it, then painting two bold red strips.

I think im going to continue painting seeing as im in kind'a a painting mood. And after giving it some thought i think im going to do his eyes and blades in greens, i think that will pop better vs the red helm and deep purple armor. Still at a lose to spiff out the jump pack, Wife stated to "Paint Flames or put Wings on it." The flames idea seems a bit cliche, but i like the idea about wings... any one know of what models *fairly inexpensive* that have small wings that would look cool attaching to the side of a jump pack?

Your icon is from Pearl Jam's Do the Evolution.
I can tell this because I'm a man.
I'm advanced.
I'm the first mammal to wear pants.

@Doomthumbs : yeah good eye there.

I have him almost all finished painting and im going to barrow the camera again to better show it off.

What i have left is the red stripes on the hip banner, shoulder pads, and figuring out how to personalize his Jump Pack.

And while at work i came up with a unique Chaos Lord idea i may start after i finish this guy.

Cool idea but can't really tell much from the pics :(

Looking forward to better ones!

Alright Guys and Gals, just got done with photo shoot.















As you can see the jump pack is still primer white, still mulling over what shoulder pads to do as well, i have a plain one and one with a plaque + prayer seal picked out atm. Thinking of doing a prayer seal on the side of his right stormbolter to cover up that giant void spot with the slight uneven GS i used to patch it. And maybe a prayer seal at an angle on his right leg as well. And yes i see the red spot on his chest, i had slipped with the brush and you can't hardly see it first hand but in the photo's it comes up fairly bold, i will have to surgicaly hit it with some silver.

Great progress, I'm always a fan of green bladed weapons.

Job well done!

I don't like the color combination though. Don't misunderstand, its very well painted, but the color combination is to cartoony for my personal taste. If it works for you its fine though!

@Gretar : yeah i get the color scheme comments alot, i have prussian heritage and my chapters symbol is my family crest. And instead of giving every solder a deep red or deep blue color scheme *BA / Ultramarine* look, i went with more of a crisp royal purple look. I needed a secondary color to break up the purple so i picked yellow for its position on the color wheel. My family crest/chapter emblem colors are Silver and Red.

I normaly get heckled about my possibility of being a Laker's fan

I recently got a decent deal on a Land Raider Crusader and in the bits there is a five seal Prayer Seal that i'm thinking of putting on the side of his jump pack. And instead of the prayer seal on the right storm bolter i found a small crux terminatus medal that would fit perfect.

I also had the idea of getting a hold of some Swooping Hawk wings to clip and stick on as well. But don't want to buy a pack of Eldar Swooping Hawks for one pair of wings. And was at the local store recently and no one plays Eldar that i could talk to at the recent tournament *more then half BA , a few Chaos and Chaos Demon armies, and a single tau player*.

So if anyone is willing to do a trade i have SM bits and a few sprews of dark eldar basic troop choice i found that i found mixed in with some of my old tyranid box.

Been along time but getting back in, and picking up where i left off. Will be doing another set of posts explaining the rebuild of my SM Chapter. I'm making myself a checklist and schedule to keep myself focused. I recently bought a house and got the okay from the wife to turn the 3rd unused bedroom into my game room. So i alas will have a dedicated spot to paint, build, and game. With the release of 6'th edition I've set up a rule set for Red Dune. The decorating jump pack problem got sorted by just using the jump pack that comes with the SM Chaplain w/ Jump Pack fine cast that got released.

Addler "Red Dune" Bronisław
Captain of the Peace Keeper's 2'nd Company

WS / BS / S / T / W / I / A / LD / Sv 250 pts.
6 / 5 / 4 / 4 / 3 / 5 / 4 / 10 / 3+

And They Shall Know No Fear, Combat Tactics, Independent Character, Feel No Pain, Furious Charge, Deep Strike

Inspiring Presence:
Friendly models within 12'' get +1 attack while Red Dune is alive. Does not stack with company banner.

Hatred for Daemons:
Red Dune can not be fielded as or with allies that have any models with the Daemon description tag.

War Gear

Krak, Frag, Melta, Iron Halo

Hate and Fury
Master Crafted cuff mounted Storm Bolters.
24'' Str: 4 AP: 4 Assult 4

Javier's Might
Twin cuff mounted Power Blades. +1 attack in profile. Model's wounded with the Daemon description tag must re-roll any passing armor saves.

Boreale's Wings
Artifact jump pack, fine tuned for increased handling. May roll an extra set of deep strike scatter die. Controlling player chooses one of two results. Red Dune may choose not to have. Boreale's Wings equipped and instead be assigned to a transport.

Dune Runners
Red Dune maybe accompanied by a Command Squad. If Boreale's Wings are equipped, the command squad has Jump Packs.

There was an idea of making a rule similar to the doom of malan'tai. Every friendly unit affected by "Inspiring Presence" that is killed or removed from the table, Red Dune gains +1 attack (Max 10 attacks) till the beginning of controller of Red Dune's next turn.

I know that's quite a bit, and hope that the point value represents this. I used a few pre-existing SM captains and force commander's as templates. So tell me what you guys think and I hope to be posting more pics of Red Dune soon and starting my SM Rebuild forum.