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UPDATE:
Complete Ultramarines 2nd Company, Auxilia Defense Detatchment, Mechanicum and Inquisitorial Support



Mechanicus Forces of Konor!


Rogue Trader Style meets 6th Edition Models...



Action Shot: AERIAL SUPPORT!



Action Shot: WAIT FOR IT! WAIT FOR IT! NOW!



Action Shot: IN THE HARUPEX'S LAIR!




The finished stuff




just the armoury

Still to go for the 2nd company: 1 More Devastator Squad, One more Tactical Sqaud, 3 Dreadnaughts
Other companies' units: 4 Scout Sqauds, 2 Terminator Sqauds, 1 Vangaurd Veteran Sqaud

ORIGINAL POST:
Winter time has set in and while I await the arrival of the finishing pieces for my chaos and nid armies, ive set to the task of re-doing my large abundance of generic space marines. last year I happened upon a craigslist deal for a butload of old space marine armor most of them at about 10-15 a pop and was able to entirely deck-out my chaos force with a trio of vindicators and a smattering of rhinos and landraiders. left over were my lesser loved predators, razorbacks (for obvious reasons).
so this winter i finally organized together the makings of a good chunk of a battle company and am preparing to paint them what i know is the relatively bland chapter of the smurfs, but itll warm my little elementary (primary) school inner self that always wanted to own more than a handful of space marines and squad of rattling snipers.
previously ive always piece bought everything so stuff throughout any one of my army varies greatly but this time im starting fresh and just redoing prettymuch the entirety of en existing group. so with the first snow of the season finally on the ground I begin my first attempt at converting/painting/theming an army altogether at the same time

heres the smurfs all lined up

4 tac squads, 3 Scout, 1 assault, 1 vets, 1 terms, chapy, Sicarius



the armor column

have three more og rhinos/razors on the way in addition to what will be the third og predator (which has a rhino chasis ill swap for the razor/rhino i have with the predator chasis!) at which point ill do away with the the new pattern rhinos in the back row, ill still need to find two more and some more loose rines (out of a bucket i have) to try and make a battle company for apocalypse battles. when i got all these tanks the person who sold them to me had the whole set for a pair of razors 2 TLLC, 2 LCTLP, and 2 HB turrets all in metal, enough for a full companys razor loadout. back when these came out me and my friends oggled these puppys in the back of the codex dreaming of the day when we would be big enough to mow lawns and buy them

anyways im typing too much, got to get back to painting
hoping my all landraiders come tommorow

cheers, especially to all those with snow outside

I will be keeping an eye on this.

I have the same dream, even have a fair amount of figures just can't find the time to paint anything. I plan on doing the full chapter eventually.

Mighty impressive, that is alot of deimos predators if i may say so myself.
SUBSRIBED

I love the old style Razorbacks, I think I'll be watching this one.

This brings back memories of my 3rd edition space marine codex, i used to look through it thinking of what i could buy if i got more pocket money!

wonderful discovery this afternoon in an old box. 1/2 a used bottle of the blue and another bottle un-used both now re hydrogenated and goign on smoothly over an adolf gaurd light prime



old sarges hold the paint objective un-aware of the three screamer killers sneaking up on them

update: Finished basing all of the infantry except scouts and also via ebay arrival i've finally filled out the first part of armour column and am almost ready to roll some blue on them


3 rhinos/razors, 1 Whirlwind (sometimes rhino or razorback), 3 predators
took a little adjusting to get all of the models set up with the right front hatches but all a great amount of armor at 10-20 bucks a pop


i consider myself to be what I call a 3%'er meaning I love the old metal gw models that are about 3% lead (washes hands)

just won on ebay two OOP raiders, one more just came up immediately after on a 2nd chance auction. Mr. Land would be proud.

these smurfs will need em when they have to tackle a brood of battle slugs slowly detailing on the horizon



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also an edit fore the title, the codex came out in 93

moving right along


a layer of white over future red bits and some of the hatches to make em a lil brighter


reds and blacks on the metal bits. just finished re-hyrdo'n a bottle of boltgun metal. was able to also save a little golden yellow but i think i have an extra one of those from more recently anyways. also grabbed up some of my favorite "mud" colors today from a local stores old that never moved stock


currently debating the future role of these guys, one's a medic (tab is broken off but hes from 89 and his name was "brother ryan" the other is a reprint from 91 of an "assault" marine, love that hand-flamer (i think i still have a cardboard template somewhere) kind of thinking of just using them as sarges as I dont have enough more of them (2 or 3 at most) to make a full ten man veteran sqaud (and not that ide personally really be super stoked to field one), that said maybe i should hold off and see if i can hunt down an old apothecary backpack and upgrade ryan from his humble medic status

Awesome, I had the same dream.

thanks for apreciation yall so far

takin a day off from painting to do some assemblage and some decisions. the old rogue traders are going to become CO sqaud members

assembled a mostly mark 6 command squad


medic ryan becomes apothecary ryan


and my previous champ is getting sicarius' extra helmet head


Three old school landraiders to arrive within the week

Pretty neat, although Mr. Apothecary Ryans stance really throws me off.

Looking forward to seeing some finished stuff. Good luck.

Im not the world's greatest painter and theres still a good deal of touching up to do, but after a good amount of slaneesh' time perception slowing combat drugs, and a massive helping of spore mine fumes, i was able to put most of the finishing touches on the parts of my armour column that I have ready to go so far.
All pieces dated gw 93 the youngest, I'm told the center predator helped take a few competitions at The Games Workshop under the command of an air-force colonel who's name ill try and remember later. Anyways im getting sidetracked, KBLAAAMMMMM!!!!!







still a few touchups to go and Im waiting on some decals in the mail. The paint schemes are either A) Classic as is seen on the Razors/Rhinos or B) Classic 2nd/3rd as is seen on the Predators whos paint scheme isnt in the 2nd edition codex (they also only show the previous model predator with the rounded sponsors/turret) but is seen in the Ultramarine's whole chapter picture, within the 3rd edition codex they begin to use the solid blue scheme. Nitpicking but just wanted to sort of clarify the army/project theme

And I couldnt help myself but shoot some action pics. Here the column tackles two Tyranid Monstrosities from the same era





all helped out by the purchase of NOS space wolves grey at my local gamer store, so much thanks to them and as always for taking my junkie of an ex-roomate's magic cards in store credit. 4 more rhinos in the mail as well as the OG landraiders, hopefully one vial of sealed true blue will be able to cover all that armour if not i was able to nab a few of a supposed matching color...

while I wait for the mail time to tackle the troops!


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 bunnygurl wrote:
Pretty neat, although Mr. Apothecary Ryans stance really throws me off.

Looking forward to seeing some finished stuff. Good luck.

also forgot to say, yeah ryans stance is a litte wierd sadly though he's one single piece of white metal and ide rather not chop him up : (


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this just came in the mail a second ago



gonna do some priming before we have a show at out house tonight

Land Raider is coming along, trying not to get lazy so im gonna keep updating to maintain my momentum


Tactical Squad 5 will be entirely snap marines + one metal sarge and two metal marines all circa 1992 these were gifted to me by a friend


and got this guy a while back, rogue trader SM captain circa 1989-90. I have Sicarius around for use in some games but this guy is going to be og captain



debating on how much to splurge on og backpacks and bolters, im not as interested in having this army be pre-heresey as much as it is pre-tyrannic war, thoughts?

other two raiders arrived today

one has most all of its components


the other was missing a lot of the driveshaft/motor bits so it became... a raider spartan

luckily had an extra stripped rhino chasis around to turn this bad boy into a true carrier of little dudes

glue setting then a quick prime then load up the synths to play a show outa-town, gonna drive past the gw hq outpost on the way.
Tommorow will be day of classic 40k armour painting

Finally have all my raiders assembled and ready to prime as well as a few old pattern wrecks


I'm calling them "The Sisters of No Mercy"


This one is in the worst condition due to heat damage did some reguling and restretching. On a board it looks fine now, but at first, before I did some perspective part adjustments it was a little rough but then again I also bought it for cheaper than the price of any new marine tank. Also had to make a temporary las sponsor while I hunt for a replacement bit, or perhaps just consider the easiest way to craft a better copy myself


The most mintiest of the Raiders, primed this one already while I waited for the other two


A little cleaning and brushing off to do but here is the Spartan, I'm ways and away not the greatest modeler/converter ever but this was still pretty fun to work on. Used a combination of the white dwarf articles/ and a paper one I had gotten to use as a wreck as well the og seigeworld article from a bit ago that has this picture in it:

I was never a big fan of the rhino style top hatch especially given the height of the vehicle versus a rhino a vehicle in which I always assumed someone could get out of the top hatch easily. So instead I focused on putting some Rhino doors on the bottom to give it that pile-out assualt vehicle feel but with the old stylings


this whole thing also left me with most of a scrap rhino chasis I made into two wrecks. Funny story this chasis is from what was supposed to be an awesome predator I got from this guy in poland for cheap. Unfortunately at some point in its transfer it was busted open and checked by customs so it arrived to me as a damaged pile of bits on a solid mars chasis : (
either way...

Itll be cool to have these wrecks since I have something like 12 Mars Pattern tanks now, I want to add that I personally disdain a lack of tank wrecks on the battelfield really takes away visually/narratively (sorry ranting)

on that note some wrecks made from a paperhammer spartan I got a bit ago one for either of the raiders one more specifcally for the spartan


and finally I've decided Im going to make my newly organized aquired gaurd members to put together an Ultramar Auxilia Defense gaurd army, though they wont have any Ultra Icons/Decals/Blue (Except for maybe my Vostroyans and Stormtrooper Berets). Planning to have them a mostle Grey and Black colour scheme, so of course what would an army like this be without: The Pride of Hera! Still as of yet rolling around the universe, soon to be ripped apart by a carnifex brood in the Battle of Macragge


now off to the paint store to make nice with my hookup there who my roommate threatened to kill last week, sigh

Trucking along, base coat and some color on all troops, gonna roll out the raiders tommorow probably. All helped by the arrival of a few more mars pattern tank chasis and hopefully finally by all the decals I ordered

Squad rolls out taking cover in an abandoned warehouse


1 down 10 to go

All of this is awesome. I like it a lot. I love stuff like this way more than those master painted models with no character. Keep up the good work

Armourcast? Check.
Bright, Primary Colors? Check.
Red Period Weaponry? Check.

SECOND EDITION, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!? WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME!?

Wait, what are you doing!? No!




But seriously, these are great. Sooooo much character and fun.

Yeah, great thread, awesome project, really love the Spartan in particular, well done!

I don't care what kind of resin awesomeness comes out of Forgeworld or what the GW mini designers will come up with next. Nothing will ever beat a well executed and well painted classic space marine army. And this is it. I love everything going on here. The Razorbacks were my favorite, much better than the current ones in my opinion, but the those Land Raiders. Those Land Raiders are fantastic. Your dream is good sir, please continue.

Been moving my little station into a new part the house so been slow on updating but not on paintin. Thanks for the comments yall, been inspiring me to keep trucking and see how far back in time I can reach. Got a few more termies and some RT combat squads to help make a lot of the an old school 1st company. Also had a lucky break and got a whole butload of old codexes and some random rines for just under 20, turns out the random rines were 6 goodies from the 87-89 range including an old techmarine and communications specialist to helpout my medic turned apothecary for whom i found a metal apoth backpack. So slowly but surely turning out a RT command squad. Almost done on some of the armour with a few goodies to come.

heres the find in addition to the RT HQ guys I have so far:

Two "Captains", One com specialist, Brother Deadmole, Brother Sheer, Brother Angst, and an "Assault" marine"


Going to do a convo on this guy to turn him from a "communications officer" into a "master of signals"


ye old techmarine, im debating getting/making him a servo arm backpack from/styled like 2nd/3rd edition braidpacks...


A little hard to see as primed but, another tiny bit of convo work, I've crucified a traitor tank commander onto this old metal termie chaplain's banner pole, going to make him a "traitor" sign to wear around his neck, the poor bastard...


4 squads done, 2 more to go then 1 assualt and two devs, the paint rolls on!

gonna finish up those raiders in the next few days

Just finished the old-school Land Raiders. Also cool to read up on forgeworld rules for the proteus and spartan but not sure If I want all of those wacky rules to apply to these guys.

Either way quick look at the sloppy journey of Arkhan's children, just like they told us how to in 1989, no fancy spray guns: Blue, Red, Black, Grey, Silver, Touch ups and then SW Grey dry brushing.






On the Field


Close up of nice Proteus


Close up of the Spartan

Bottom hatch shot



I would like to thank my joakero painting team




The Ultramarines 2nd Company and Armoury Vehicles so far:


With that Im off to run sound and lights for a dance party and enjoy the contrast of hundreds of sweaty bodies with the privacy of my armour filled attic : (

thanks to an awesome craigslist score I was able to secure a ton of older tanks and bikes for the armory for cheap as all heck+a few hours of repair/stripping/brushing etc.

I was able to nab two vindis, one whirlwind and extra chasis (for a launcher and hatch set I have), two 1/2 rhinos (now 3), a predator (that Im using for chaos and therefore exchanging further the allegance of an old mars pattern vindi) in addition to three old bikes three attack bikes (only two salvagable) and three modern land speeders, that Ive done a slight "Sharkfin" conversion on, in honor of the earlier model speeders and also in honor of the damaged and missing aerials that these models had.
Havent gotten to yet but also got two and a half snap-tacitcal squads, two metal termie squads one og RT one og DA, two tech-marines and a squad of old metal long-fangs, and also sgt Naaman and a metal DA dread.
All of this was 100 bucks the guy even said hed take less based on the condition but I didn't have change.
The infantry guys are being cleaned (or given away to my friends who play SW and DA) and theyll be making appearances as the last two tactical sqauds, painted like the second compendium with light blue right shoulders and company color arms, to get some earlier armour colour schemes in there.

In between that and starting up my life size ripper project I should be in full force once Im done with classes in a week. hopefully I can finish up the chapter before a tour in august

Intimidated by the massive amoutn of vehicles to do so Im finishing up the HQ sqaud first, changed a lot of models out from my og lineup to make it prettymuch entirely RT

Pretty straight forward stuff here, lotta first edition duders here one from second and also subb-ed a 2nd edition apothecary backpack on the og Medic. Gave the old "Communications Officer" a small antennae for his sometimes maybe use as master of signals. Current edition banner and arm and pistol subbed onto a plastic RT sarge. Plastic RT arm added to a metal maximus rine, then gave him one of the extra Ultra-Roman Style plumage that comes with metal sicarius to make myself a Champion. Shoulder studs all around!

Good stuff keep it up!

command squad now with light basing and decals, painted the banner to honor the fallen of the Attoc war which is briefly mentioned in the 91 RT comp through a designate campaign badge in the colour schemes section

now to do the troops...

enjoying the calm of future warfare, after my band got us tossed out of a hotel in Raleigh and I had to drive home at 6am. Finished up some decals on two of the raiders



in the background first tactical squad undergoing basing and decals now.

back to all 5x5


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the First Squad of the 2nd company and their Razorback rally behind Captain Agemman!



one more tac to legality, then their razor, a termie squad and two attack bikes to go till these guys hit the field!

Finished up the 2nd Sqaud as well as Razors for the HQ and the two Squads giving me small legal army of about 1400, will work out better once I sub two attack bikes for one of the raiders (theyre sitting behind the finished models) to do a 1250 army, either way happy to be finishing up part of this force. 6100 to go!

Some more developments in the chapter.

Finished the bikes I got in that grab-box deal, elected to finish a la the 91 codex's precription. Light Blue shoulder pads, company color on arm, hrey packs white bolters, but a fairly normal bike paint scheme blue and grey on some third edition bikes. sorry for slightly blurry pic.



Touched up an older Chaplain I got from my roomate, lil bit of repainting some fresh satining, hi-lightn, and basing and hes almost ready to go, working on his banner.


the lot so far of the based and decal-ed models:

Good golly, you have even more vintage figs than I do! The old-school LRs look awesome!!