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"Within dark and forgotten places hide the enemies of the Emperor. You have been chosen to enter such areas and cleanse them."
A Deathwing Strike Force work in progress


The Introduction
So here I am starting a new thread but unlike other projects I've done before, this force has always been #1 on my "stuff to do", even back to the days of 3rd edition. To me Terminators are the coolest things to come from the Space Marine forces and I've always had a thing for the Unforgiven. Now from the title you know that I'm building a Deathwing army and until a few weeks ago, I never knew they had a FAQ update. So after finding the FAQ and discovering an amazing thread by a B&C user by the name of lilloser (who's amazing thread is HERE if your at all interested), I unpacked the old Deathwing force I've had half finished for 5 or 6 years and decide to start repairing all of my mistakes.

The idea behind this log is to keep a record of up to date progress on this small 1st Company project. I plan on always attaching every response with an update even if its a small update or an enormous one (more of the latter probably) forcing myself to actually focus and work on this project more then the others before. Its also to stop me from being the hobby butterfly I've slowly turned into.

The Army Shot as of 9/16/11
This photo will be updated as I move along


The List
I will change the colors upon completion to make it easier for everyone to follow my progress. Keep in mind this list may change as I progress and play them. Red= Not built, Yellow= Built, Green= Painting started, White= Complete.

HQ
Grand Master Degore
Librarian Lucen
Interrogater Chaplain Mordred

Elite
Dreadnaught Palomedes
Dreadnaught Noir

Troops
Deathwing Squad Primus
Deathwing Squad Septimus
Deathwing Squad Octus
Deathwing Squad Tertius

Other members
Apothecary Lamorak
Standard Bearer Maris



So with all this inspiration from the amazing amount of threads I have followed and the thread idea itself buzzing inside my cranium, I sat down and began to repair my Terminators. Of the 15 I had originally I only have 13 now :( due in part to my sudden urge to try True-Scale. Many were missing power fist arms and storm bolter arms but thankfully I had an over-abundance of spare bitz so I wouldn't have to gather the cash and make the dreaded bitz order. I also discovered an old Librarian conversion I made before the release of the current Codex: Dark Angels. I had used Captain Lysander and did an alright job on GS'ing a hood and some power cables. However, in order to field the Deathwing force I need a version of Belial (until I can afford to snag a Tyberos figure from FW), so gone was the Librarian conversion and in is my current Belial a.k.a. Degore (I also decided that since the origins of the Dark Angels is of a knightly nature, I've named the important members after the knights of the round table to add some flavor).

Degore




I basically went to town on removing the un-helmeted face right away. In my opinion military forces based in such a harsh unforgiving environment such as the 40k universe would always have helmets on, so I dremelled the hell out of his face! Unable to find a new plastic helmet for him, I found an old pewter Chaos Terminator helmet and removed the horns from it. Now I don't plan on fielding Belial with anything other then twin lightning claws so an old idea came to fruition. I sawed off the claws from the Chaos Raptors Champion and re-glued them onto a nice plastic arm set. I had been wanting to do this for quite a long time and recently a friend of mine 100heathens (who frequents on B&C), beat me to it and developed the idea for his Marines Malevolent Termies. Great minds do think alike I suppose As I type this thread I have actually puttied the head area well and made the claw flush with his arm so I should have those pics up soon. Also the army as a whole will have small candles on their backs and such if I can pull it off in GS'ing later. Also the blank shoulder pads will be fitted with studs as I believe Deathwing Terminator armour is ancient and should be represented as the ancient things they are.

Squad Primus


Squad Septimus


Both squads have a nice amount of conversion work. Mainly replacing lost arms and pulling together a Sergeant as well. Below are my two favorite repair jobs.

Septimus Sergeant



Pointing Fist Termie


The Septimus Sergeant has a nice collection of random bitz. The eagle neck thing from the AOBR Captain, a Chaos power sword, Lysander left arm, and a Termie shield to cover the hand/arm area. The pointing fist guy was just made with a Chaos power fist that comes standard in a Chaos Marine box and I think it fits quite nicely. Then my second favorite (next to Belial) is...

Apothecary Lemorak




The work on him was extensive. I couldn't find anymore storm bolters so I decided to convert a plastic Chaos Terminator Lord Combi-bolter arm. After removing the "knife" from under the muzzle I mangled the barrels so I cut some standard bolter barrels and carefully aligned them (I still think they may be slightly off center). The hardest part of this mini was the Narthecium/Reductor and the Apothecary symbol on his shoulder pad. When trying to remove the symbol from an Apothecary backpack my knife slipped and neatly opened one of my fingers. So after gushing blood for half an hour and finally gluing my finger shut I went back to work. I carefully removed the shoulder pad symbol instead and took my time on removing the Narthecium/Reductor. The hardest part of the N/R was getting it to sit flush with the chainfist and it took a lot of trial and error shaving to get it sit right.

So there you have it, a new project but one that I think definitely deserves to be finished. I've joined a local gaming group, so I HAVE to have an army done and playable A.S.A.P. so I can begin to play and enter tournies and such. No one plays Deathwing in my group, so I decided to be "that guy" haha. Thanks for looking and let me know what you think.
Mr.Malevolent

Question
1- What is the overall paint scheme and do you have any photos to share


Good creativity and dremel work, I was wondering why you didnt stip the paint from your converstions.

On a side note I love the first line of your Signature.

I like where this is going.

Thanks Campbell1004 there is plenty more to come

Thanks 1-i. As of right now I do not have any painted to completion to show where I'm going paint scheme wise. The basic idea will be either a typical Deathwing bone-white with green and red accents or a dirty white achieved with brown washes. Tomorrow I should have at least one of the Termies painted to completion. Also thank you for the kind words, thats what keeps me going.

Minor Update

So all of my local hobby stores were of course out of Greenstuff today and added the general reply of "maybe we'll get some next week". Of course I couldn't just sit there and wait for these guys to finish themselves so I took a chance and grabbed some "Silver Grey" Milliput. First, this stuff is way different then Greenstuff. I mean WAY different. Greenstuff is soft and keeps in a workable form easily letting you fill gaps and rebuild sections of armour in maybe 10-15 minutes depending on your GS-FU. Milliput is in a whole different ball park. Its not easy to work with at all. Unless there is some version I'm not finding, I would not recommend anyone who has consistently worked with GS to try it. Like I said, GS is workable right out of the box, mix it together and its ready. Milliput is strange, its like it begins to harden right after you mix the two parts together. Mix it and try to push it with Vaseline and a sculpting tool and it breaks apart. Above all else it needs a lot of patience to get it to do what you want. Plus it will stick to your fingers pretty badly, so overall its extremely messy. Did it do what I wanted? Yes. Was I happy with it? Eh, yes and no. You will not produce the same level of detail as you could with GS and after it dries it becomes a bit brittle. I washed the areas with some watered down PVA glue to give it some protection. Maybe once I prime it it'll last even longer, hopefully. So here is Belial otherwise known as Degore Milliputted (?)




Like I said it did the job but its got me edgy about it feeling strangely brittle. I'll use it on the other couple of Termies and when I prime tomorrow I'll see how it feels then. Thanks for looking, C&C always welcome.

Mr.Malevolent

Update

Finished my first Deathwing Terminator the other day and man do I love how it came out. I went with a dirty white scheme rather then the same old bone-white. I finished in about 4 or 5 hours, which is not bad on the first "test" mini (usually 8 hours or more trying to get it work). Its such a simple scheme and I think it worked out well. Hope you all like him!




I am very proud of my freehand on the Deathwing badge!

Finally the other two primed and "washed" Termies waiting to be finished.


And there you go. Hope you like it and thanks for looking!

If you had said "Im going to paint my guys white with red rust edging" I probally would have thought that it would never look right.

But then you did it and and all I can this is "wow that looks good" And with green shields and chest eagles, I like it.

Ah, Mr Mal, Good to see you again old friend and what a greeting I got! these termiantors are looking epic, I absolutely love the lightning claw idea using the raptor champs talons! finally a way to get some dynamic poses from these guys and the painting is excellent, nice, dirty looking and battleworn, just how a champion of the emperors first should look, well done dude!

Can't wait to see more (especially belial) if you need any termi bits just ask and i may have some lying around you can have


Nerdfest09

@1-i: Thank you very much. I'm glad you like the scheme. I too think the green chest eagle and green shields offset the redish grime and "rust".

@nerdfest09: Thank you my friend. Really glad you like where I'm going so far. Its yours and everyone elses comments that keeps me going!

Min-Update

So after staring at my "Belial" model and back at the FAQ a few times, I decided I needed to change his armament. I switched out the Lightning Claws for the Thunder Hammer and Storm Shield combo. Game wise, I think it makes more sense to equip him in this way (a 3+ invulnerable save and a good selection of S.8 "stunning if not killed attacks" is nothing to sniff at). Model wise, it kind of makes him a bit static again but I would rather build him to play, then to just look esthetically pleasing. I also experimented a bit and tried adding some candles to his back. I used thin plastic tubing and will add some melted wax with some putty later.




I think now he looks like a more stocky character. Like a huge bus that's about to slam you into oblivion. Thanks for looking!

Update

Finished Apothecary Lemorak! What a pain in the he was. When I primed him, a few certain armour joints would not dry at all and made it almost impossible for me to get the white to work. Also the Devlan Mud wash seemed to just soak right into the white, making the edges and joins super ultra dark. It was an uphill battle for a few days with him but I managed to wrangle it back to a nice state.

Front


Back


Narthecium/Reductor


Shoulder


Hope you guys like him!

Excellent work yet again, one of my favorite parts is the half empty red jar and the bubbles in it.

Nice!

Interesting scheme youve got there, i like the conversion work so consider this subbed

Are you watering down the devlan mud so you have a bit more control over the effect? If not, it might be worth a try if you had troubles with the apothecary?

Dan

Love that shading on the white. Some killer poses also. Nice work.

Looking good man. very nice. Hope you will make it to Da Boyz GT if only to scope it out.

Thank you 1-i. I too love the vials. I'm so glad they worked out like I wanted.
Thanks Asherian Command!
Glad you like my work D.Smith. Yes I did water the Devlan Mud but I think the ultimate problem stems from the primer. I'm using up my older primer before I spend the money to get new stuff. It gave him a fuzzy look here and there. I'm just glad I recovered him.
Thanks schank23. Glad you like the poses, Termies are usually so static.
Hey Galorn good to see you on DakkDakka! I hope I can make it there as well. Is it free to walk around?

Not so update
Nothing bad or life threatening. Just dont have anything Deathwing to update and I feel bad not responding to you guys.
So here is a mini I just finished for the DakkaDakka Waaagh! He's a cyber-squig hound. Hope you like him.








Now after painting this I want to paint some Iron Warriors haha (the hazard stripes were so fun). The name on the back is a Warboss for an up and coming army I want to do. I'll tell you this, there wont be any orks in it
Hope you like him and thanks for looking and the kind words my friends.

Great job bringing those Terminators back to life! Great Squig! I think thats the first squig in the whole Waaagh.

Holy crap that squig rocks. I really like how you did the eye. Nice lighting effect. The banner is a nice additional detail as well. Awesome stuff. 'Da Konvertaz I think has had the most members join so far. Great addition to Waaarg Dakkka.

Surprised I missed this, usually I check out DA blogs frequently. Interesting coloring on the DW, very different from any other that I have seen. Keep up the effort, look forward to seeing you see it through!

Also, I'm very happy to have you in Da Konvertaz, and have someone put such effort into it!

Yay more Dark Angels!! Good start on your DW love the throw back from 3rd ed. with the white. I use to paint my termies that color back in the mid 90's.
Also cool squig love it. Looking forward to see the rest of the DW.