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Hello dakka,
Been lurking a while now, mostly because I am looking for inspiration painting-, modeling- and terrain-wise. Decided to join in finally in order to be able to q&a to posts, although I fear I will not have much to contribute about my creative work, not having a decent camera. Well, looks like I will lurk in my dark shadowy corner most of the time.
Gaming-wise I started collecting and painting 40k in the last days of rogue trader, mostly marines, with the odd ork, eldar and guard, started playing my marine army with 2nd ed, although not very often. Me and my pals didn't bother about 3rd or 4th ed, instead had some decdent games of necromunda, me fielding a bunch of future warriors count-as-delaques. I loved the game but despised the miniatures.
Most of my gaming time and painting efforts went into D&D and my fantasy miniatures, though, Mainly Norse, Barbarians and everything we needed in our campaigns. Hero Quest and Claymore Saga were tried out, declared not worthy and without mercy plundered for the miniatures.
Time forward, other pals have convinced me to try out 5th ed. What shall I say: I am one of those few people that actually like 2nd AND 5th. Completely different games. Comes 6th ed, and I like it even more, it is like a merger between these two games...
Army-wise I still field my old space marine army from those glorious 2nd ed days, consisting of a massive tank fleet composed of the old rhino and it's variants, and about 13 squads of no-nonsense-no-skulls-marines including them legendary plastic beakies, 2nd ed starters and star quest marines, space hulk termies and star quest dreadnoughts. I loved that sci-fi-spacesoldier look from rogue trader days. It was what inspired me to field marines in the first. What good is it to have space soldiers without space suits? So I still use a paint scheme with that middle stripe on the helmet, utilise checkerboard patterns on the pauldrons and scratch off all this grimdark skull-and-devotional-insignia-shenanigans. My troopers are SPACE MARINES, not church knaves!
- And they know how to maintain their equipment, yessir! To neglect your tools is to not have them when you need them, and those millenia-old tanks aren't keeping running and running by themselves! (beetles being no vehicle nowadays, but THE ENEMY!) - That is for you Heavy Metal style rust n' dents painters. A vehicle in the field has to look like it is torn and worn and has too hastily repaired damages, not like something that slept in the haybarn neglected for years! No rust streaks at every rivet, no missing paint chips all over the plates, nonono! Besides, tank steel is the best of the best. It won't rust so easily. And ceramite won't rust at all. Because, you know, CERAMICS! But enough rants of an old man who feels someone MIGHT eventually step onto that lawn in front of his door which is totally not his lawn but that of his house warden.
Well, I am not totally against grimdark. My favorite "modern-fashioned" marines were included in the latest starter box, so I gave in after a long struggle and started a detachement of Dark Angels. Will they prepare for deployment before my WAAAGH! is ready to rumble? Or will ill winds blow in favour of the plaguemarines lurking in the shades?
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I'd love to see your old school Marine army.
