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Its in the DoW books about them posing as ultramarines anyway! Good work tho, ithey look brilliant and the rules are perfect too

Fantastic work! Keep those pics coming.

Lol, those DoW books where so rubbish it's actually quite amusing The correct fluff is the Relic stuff according to GW. Anyways like I said it's in IA5

Absolutely awesome models man, some of the best true-scale marines I've seen in a while

Wow, I am truly stunned how the desert camo effect came out! The Vallejo liquid latex mask stuff sounds like a great tool for weathering/chipping effects.. Might give it a try sometime!

Great stuff as usual, Migs!

migsula wrote:Does anyone know which Imperial Armor might have this fluff?? I think the one with traitor guard? which number was that?

IA5 indeed, I think I sent you the fluff about a year ago? This was only about Arkos the Faithless IIRC..?
It should be somewhere in your PM inbox..

Cheers

The fluff behind the Alpha Legion posing as Ultramarines originally comes from their Index Astartes article. If my memeory serves me correctly, The Faithless (Arko's warband in IA5) disguised their heraldry to pass through the Imperial lines to reach Cardinal Xaphan.

Phew...

Anyway more on topic, outstanding work on the new Alpharius and his acolytes! A quick question (probably been asked before though), what colours / techniques do you use for the chipping and battle damage on your Legionnaires?

Sweet,

What a great start for your project! The legionnaire is the star of this update, like the two before him this guy is just awesome. The pose is great and that hanging shotgun is very nice pice of detail. And the muties are on the spot too, the big guy just stands out a bit more, but I think it's the way you wan't it

The weathering is top notch as usual. But the legionnaire's chipping camo IMO looks more painted than chipped on some parts like on the chest plate. But on some parts like the back of the legs and on the U shoulder pad the chipping looks super realistic. I am not saying it's bad, but caught my eye. Thou I am confident that you'll master this technique as well and we'll see some superb results.

Can't wait to get some painting done as well during the easter.

-cheers

Thanks for all the comments and answers to fluff location.

I'm really hoping for Plastic Storm troopers before too long (like in the spearhead book), as basis for conversion for most of my veteran squads. I will add more specialist legion operators in the mix of course. I'm buying another Empire wizard kit for example. The core retinue already has two!! I want to make that 4 and show how each look utterly different! It is such a great plastic kit.

And a new plastic Guard regiment would be equally welcome. I want to do a converted, but bulk regiment for the later stages of the campaign.

Next month are my "Rambo twins" you saw WIPs earlier. and a veteran squad. And what started as an ork trukk, now looks suspiciously like fodder for a TWIST Hydra, "Blackhawk down Somali Technical" style.

Wold that trukk be the thing I spotted in your Cresent Guard thread by any chance. (It was in the back of one of the pics) Looking forward to it!

That is the one

I've been working on the map tiles as of late. Quite a bit of fun!!! Will also have bearings on the actual terrain - this makes it fun actually. Adds much more narrative.

so my Necromunda PIP stuff will be expanded into an AM refinery and factor outskirts kind of theme, with the addition of paint and three large Oil dumps, some pipings and smaller gear. I will then have two, full, high quality terrain sets, with my FW building receiving desert touch ups when the airbrush arrives And Hammer is making a swamp themed kit! And Northen is at least painting the huge Marine castle.

Looking forward to it! I like the sound of this, on FW new board for IA8 they have some oil they heat was sending my camera funny. I only managed to get some pics at the end of the day (Open Day) when everyone had gone. Ahh I just want to it now!....

Juts got back from a hobby break and glad to see this is still going strong and looking super awesome .

Welcome back Slann!



I'm "stalling" a little, with no place to glue ATM. :lol:

I've been working on the map tiles, but now really have an urge to paint more. m you s t f i n d a w a y t o g l you e...

Weirdly, I now have three new ideas to use the empire Wizard kit. 8) I guess I just have to give in to the temptation. One is going to be a Mechanicus master, with a fighting mech built from a sentinel kit, one will be a new psyker and one a sniper.

I also need to find a moment to write a little about John Blanche and how inspirational his work truly is (despite all the matters of taste you might have, if you understand its point and truly analyze it).

and to tackle once more the dilemma to use metal minis (so far this project has been 100% plastic) as the human metals (the heads in particular) in the IG and DH range are way too nice to totally ignore!


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and I have to add, I bought the BA Codex which really is an inspirational book and a vast leap over the previous incarnation - and looks to me to be the Codex to beat now. Horrible AV13 spam with HeroHammer lords to abuse, or plenty of gorgeous and very powerful and flavorful combinations to build.

Same can be said of the Sanguinary Guard which will go into my bitz box, mostly for the dead masks!

Gah, I love the details in your bases! So much style on such a tiny platform. Particularly the lad conjuring the water jet with his left hand, how was that effect acheived?

He's actually dropping a bomb down the sewer The splash is achieved with "Vallejo Water effects" a medium that is semi-sticky and dries clear. Before that I applied GW water to create the base for the splash.

I missed him completely! What page is he on Migs?

in the middle of this pic, clicky:

How did you shape the water effect?

You never fail to please migs, it's particularly nice to create and view unique minis on top of your paintjobs. After going through my current project I can appreciate the amount of work it takes to pull this kind of project off, respect!

Ohh yep, I got him.
Great work there Migs, as on the rest of the boys in blue!

Wow, those are some fantastic looking models. They look and feel like they have been fighting without a days rest since the Heresy.

Is your Alpha legion traitor or just renegade? I couldn't really get it from the posts.

steempunk wrote:Is your Alpha legion traitor or just renegade? I couldn't really get it from the posts.

By the look of them the alpha legion marines are traitors that the heretics and traitors of whatever world they are on come to....possibly building up a rebellion, kinda like with how the fallen DA work!?! It seems like this to me anyway

The figures are brilliant tho, really nicely done but incredibly unique! Astounding work!!

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steempunk wrote:Is your Alpha legion traitor or just renegade? I couldn't really get it from the posts.

By the look of them the alpha legion marines are traitors that the heretics and traitors of whatever world they are on come to....possibly building up a rebellion, kinda like with how the fallen DA work!?! It seems like this to me anyway

The figures are brilliant tho, really nicely done but incredibly unique! Astounding work!!

What?

I don't get that at all from the models?

To me, the Alpha Legion have been loyal and still are, 10,000+ years later.

Now, their idea of Loyalty and how best to serve the Imperium of Man may differ than that of the current Powers That Be...

Indeed, according to the Books, the Alpha Legion have been shown visions of the failure of mankind unless it can be "cleansed" almost by the Chaotic powers that be. So they see themselves as loyal but the rest of the Imperium don't.

Or something like that...

Yes, what Alpharius said!

You might want to check out this discussion we've been having over at the Anargo Sector Project. Whilst a lot of it deals with how the Legion would operate in that part of the Imperium, there is also some more general stuff which might interest you and maybe give you an idea or two...

Those models look great.
Really nice modeling and painting!

Wondrous as always... I like the mutant w/ flamer, looks so creepy...

And nice bomb-dropping guy, he's awesome!!!

Cheers guys.

I did some more work on the final FW terrain piece, and have been collecting some more "oil refinery" materials.

For this months (15th of April to 15th of May) goals I have the Sly Twins and some armor and some map tiles And the Air Brush arrived And I should get some gaming with the legion at last

+ plenty of terrain work ahead through out the tale of four finnish gamers!

Will there be Terrain in this thread or have you got a seperate?
I've seen some of yours before and loved it, so I'm looking out for more you do

I'll include it here. As it's themed for the Rhisienne planet, and the map tiles I am making, so it is very much a part of this project