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TheRavenWolf wrote:

Roleplayer wrote:3rd Company Second Tactical Sgt, Lord of the Hunt, Former Commander of the Vanguard, Brother-sgt Ezieal.

Awesome paint job. Is it me or is a tactical seargent lower than lord of the hunt or commander of the vanguard.

Well, Commander of the Vanguard isn't Captain of the 1st Company, so I figured he went back to taking tactical squads. Maybe to 'keep training new recruits' Telion style, or something!


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I seem to have forgotten to post this guy up...

well, here is.



Brother-Captain Octavian of the 3rd Blood Ravens Company, Master of the Fleet, divine servant of the Emperor of mankind.

"Brothers, what we do in life, echoes, in eternity."
Octavian's past is an unusual one in the Blood Ravens ranks. His family hail from the distant planet of Ultramar. They were once proud nobles of the house of Ikanthar, on the Ultramarines home world. But upon finding out their family as a predisposition towards psychic development they were shunned and run out of the Ultramar Empire. Disgraced they fled North and settled on a baron rocky world of Cragulthar on the borders of Tau Space.

It was there they lived for 5 generations as farmers and cobblers. But never did they forget their roots, their family name or colours. Onwards down through the generations they passed their family great sword, 'Lion's Pride'.

It was to this world came the Blood Ravens, and as a young buy found Octavian, skilled already in the ways of swordsmanship, learned and wise as a noble but unbound by the arrogance or greed such lives naturally bestow. And also with the hidden seed of psychic power lurking within.

And so he was inducted to the Blood Ravens, and there he has served to this day, for over 230 years. Proudly does he bear the colours of his disgraced house and the crest of Ultramar upon his helmet. And one day, when he is Master of the Chapter, when his toll of deeds sits longer than Marneus Calgar himself he will return to his forgotten homeland, see his family honour restored and those who disgraced them, cast out to the winds.

Wow, amazing work. How many points is your army so far?

Next project,

Blood Ravens Chapter Master.

Just had a look through the whole thread, I've sure missed alot. Really cool stuff, all I can say is keep up the good work and can't wait to see more.

couple things fluff wise space marines care little for the deeds they do. They do them for the honour of doing them not the eternal glory of it. To harbor such resentment and such is to walk the path of chaos. B: the chaptor master doenst really live up atm conversion wise to some fo your other models. Just saying compared to your other works he is rather well plan.

STOP STEALING MY ULTRAMARINES!

on the topic these are, dare i say it, pimpin.

Empchild wrote:the chaptor master doenst really live up atm conversion wise to some fo your other models. Just saying compared to your other works he is rather well plan.

I quite like it actually and I'm sure it'll look amazing painted.

I love the way that the Calgar model looks with a helmet on in general, so I can't wait to see what a Roleplayer paintjob'll do for it

Wow , very nice models ad conversion You better keep going ...

NMM is flawless. Like the fluff.

Empchild wrote:couple things fluff wise space marines care little for the deeds they do. They do them for the honour of doing them not the eternal glory of it. To harbor such resentment and such is to walk the path of chaos.

That's the idea. He habours resement, which means he walks the line of damnation!

Roleplayer wrote:

Empchild wrote:couple things fluff wise space marines care little for the deeds they do. They do them for the honour of doing them not the eternal glory of it. To harbor such resentment and such is to walk the path of chaos.

That's the idea. He habours resement, which means he walks the line of damnation!

Dun Dun Dun! Btw Excellent paint jobs!

Amazing, simply amazing, the style of your painting is perfect, skilled and clean. I hope my first full army will turn out even a fraction of how good yours is.

And in response to Calgar being a little plain,

Well, the Calgar model is already pretty heavily detailed, I don't think he needs that much to make him stand out any further.

I did consider wings, but it seemed over the top. One of the things I love about the Calgar model is he looks 'battle ready' walking into the enemy bolters firing, and I didn't want to lose that dynamic with too much random crap and a i thought a back banner would be silly, since he has a personal guard carrying his banner around for him. Granted, I didn't change that much from the usual model, but I will be using Calgar rules for him, so its important people can easily see he is Calgar, just convered to be a Blood Raven not an Ultramarine.

I felt the Dark Angel helmet wings that I use on a lot of my models on his terminator shoulder pads, would be enough to tie him into my army, also.

I'll glady take suggestions tho, if people think I should change something.

For the Calgar model, having a raven mural on his cape and having a lot of ravens in his armor + maybe some ravens flying on the base (wire them to him or maybe the base and have them circling him?) would be my only suggestions on how to improve it really.

Another member of the Blood Ravens Honour Guard.

Amazing painting.

Never knew that model had 3 name plates!!! Thats awesome. In "Blood games"(Tales of Heresy),one of the oldest, most battle hardened of the Custodes had a name that didn't even fit on his breastplate!

Jawdropping skills you got there
love the army to every single shoulderpad and kneecap

Cheers

LFF666

Very nice

May i suggest you throw a wash of Gryphonne Sepia over the gold however , it will add more depth to the golden areas

Sgt Talos, the Lightning Death and half the 8th Assault Squad of the 3rd battle company of Blood Ravens. (Also my Blood Raven captain shrike)

Poses aren't final, and I intend to add some purity seals/drill gun barrells/clean up the greenstuff once it is dry.





Also finished up my terminator squad, I'll post pics of them tomorrow.

love it

Really amazing work. Keep it up.

Would loce to see some with the old turbine style jump packs.

Man, thanks for sharing such a beautiful work in progress. I can tell just from this thread alone that your painting skills have improved. The highlighting and crispness of the details have gotten progressively better. Overall, an absolutely fantastic looking army.

I appreciate your time posting your work in these Blogs.

Great Looking Army

Looking awesome as always RP.

Sarigar wrote:Man, thanks for sharing such a beautiful work in progress. I can tell just from this thread alone that your painting skills have improved. The highlighting and crispness of the details have gotten progressively better. Overall, an absolutely fantastic looking army.

I appreciate your time posting your work in these Blogs.

I really appreciate your and everyones replies if it wasn't for people replying to my blog and showing an interest in my work, I wouldn't be painting this army at the rate I am, I migh have only painted half as much as I have. Thanks everyone!


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Miss Dee wrote:Would loce to see some with the old turbine style jump packs.

I had considered, but the Blood Ravens are a very new chapter (post 38M) so I couldn't see any real reason for them to be using some as archaic as the pre-heresy jump packs.

Maybe one for a special character sometime.

I got a my big order of marines tonight, and spent a few hours doing up some conversion, here are some of my favourite, i'll post them all when i finish the squads.

Some assault terminators.





And I want my Scout sgt to have a Powerfist, and his unit scout unit is designed for fast assaults out of a landspeeder storm, so i figured, I'd make him a chaplain, leading young scouts into battle. Maybe a squad of scouts who are being trained as future chaplains.

The second terminator has an expresion of 'oh you'r gonna get it now' Love it

I like the conversions , but i dont think the head fits on the Scout/chaplins body ..

gretar wrote:The second terminator has an expresion of 'oh you'r gonna get it now' Love it

I like the conversions , but i dont think the head fits on the Scout/chaplins body ..

Keep in mind, it's a helmet, with stuff on the face, so it would be bigger than his 'head'