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I am not worried about the hands...These minis are about 10-15% larger only.....

progress report

termies are now 8mm taller and 6mm wider
tacticals and assault are 4mm taller and 4mm wider
scouts stayed same size

now i have to get spears and capes and sheilds done......

Looking good so far man. Keep it up

It looks good, but I would greenstuff the chest on the big guy, to help the abs not stick out as much.

my best suggestion is to look at the emporor's custodees whitch have a verry greek look to them

alot of work left..............

progress report......

here are my 2 sgts from troop squads.....the severed daemon head & choking tau minis as originally planned!

Awesome!

librarian and scout conversions......

why such small pics 'O-o;

Looking good man. Im digging this project alot. Love the tau choking sgt.

gameandwatch wrote:why such small pics 'O-o;

phone camera......I am on the road and livin' in a hotel......

really nice models there! Where did you get the heads from? they look great!

Woohoo! Keep them coming.

love the daemon head guy and theone choking the tau. did something similar with my chaos.

acullen626 wrote:really nice models there! Where did you get the heads from? they look great!

Everything is GW bits.
Chaos knight heads, chaos marauder heads, chaos marauder horsemen heads, high elf spears, ogre gut plates will be shields....xacto knife, dremel, file, green stuff.....

I'm liking what Im seeing, besides the picture size. Get a better camera next time you travel! Anyway, that's all well, but the daemon head mr. sergeant is holding reminds me quite a bit of that yeti thing on Hoth in Star Wars

I thought the exact same thing

Looking good though keep up the good work !

Gretar

lol it reminded me of those like woppas or what ev too lol! I have an idea for the larger hands although, honestly its not necessary: You could get power fists or something, they may be overly large but they could represent extreme gauntlets. You could also try puting like 1 or 2 mm of card in the middle of the hands... although, once again, they are fine the way they are.. i coult NEVER get this into a project (except maybe my Boas)


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Wait what happened to the real red cloth and the spear/bolters?For the most part its only bolters and swords...

After a week, I have finished my 50 man marine spartan army....The conversions are done, the true scaling is done, most of the green stuff has been done. I need to trim up the minis flashing and green stuff trimming though. Then prime. Then paint. Then flock & seal. The only thing left is building the drop pod model. I'll add the new ironclad dread model to the army when that comes out.

Two termies are on dead wolves (homage to 300 again).

The one assualt flamer has flame on tip of flamer, it was a head plume on one of the chaos marauder helmeted heads I used....

The 10 man assualt squad is cool, and I may play test it as a unit of sternguard with jump packs and 7 thunder hammers with storm shields...over a 500 pt unit!

Altogether I have 11 thunderhammers & storm shields, 5 termies with lightning claws, 2 power swords, 1 power fist, and 1 force weapon....nice close combat force....

I'll paint them all bronze with red capes, and there is black (wolf) fur on some capes too. The inside portion of the shoulder pads (raised border remains bronze) will be white and individual greek motifs will be painted. Minis with shields will also have their shoulder motif painted on the shield to match. The left shoulder will have the greek delta symbol painted in red with white background too. Gun encasements are going to be red. Power wepons will be glowing a whitish light blue.

cool. can you show pics of the best ones?

Awesome speed and work, but I think your greenstuffing needs a little work. The original terminator test model you posted had very rough looking greenstuff, despite the rest of the model looking fantastic.

Also, you should probably look into either purchasing some commercial shields such as the ones found here: http://www.crocodilegames.com/secure/list_items.asp?CatID=30&SubID=53&pageHeading=Items%20-%20Miniatures%20-%20Olympus From what I'm able to make out, your shields look very irregular and uneven. Again, this is in comparison to the great work you've done with the rest of the models.

Don't take my comment as an insult to your skills. Mass producing so many well converted and posed truescale marines in such a short time is a feat, and you have pulled it off very well. The true test however, is to make sure that your quality is consistent throughout, or the crappy bits WILL stand out like a sore thumb when all is said and done.

I understand completely. I'll be filing and trimming up the green stuff work I have done. Stay tuned for pics.......

started painting....the shield & banner will have a blue greek style border and a greek motif in the center that match....

Wow! How did you finish so many so Fast!?

It is very inspirational to see someone have an idea, nurture it, and then go for it and see it on to completion

The GS on his thighs is not as noticable now that it's painted, very nice! And his abdomen looks really good with the cloth draped across!!

I couldn't tell how you "biggerized" your marines in the WIP pics. Did you cut their thighs as you'd originally planned, or just add it to the waist / chest? Whatever you did, they look excellent

One constructive criticism- you may need to thin down the white a lot and do several coats to get it all the way there. I know you said you'd just started, but since it's going over a darker color it won't look as nice as the rest unless it's done in several thin coats! (you're probably doing this already )

Excellent start to the painting and can't wait to see all of 'em done up! What a wonderfully themed army

Do you have Photoshop? Have you thought about working on the fotos, making them brown-reddish-miller-style?

The quickness is due to the fact that I am on the road and living in a hotel...

The paint job is the base coat, and I will thin down next few coats....

Unfortunately the pics are from my phones camera and this laptop of mine does not have any art programs...

stay tuned for more

firstly how does living on the road make it faster and second why are you in the road? ignore my young'un curiosity if you want.

I am a contractor with the military and from 3pm to 10pm I am in the hotel with nothing to do but assemble & paint minis.....I am in Santa Maria at the moment....

awesome.