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Time for an update!

Here's Hector and his buddies! These just came in yesterday, and I was so excited that I cleaned them up, scrubbed them, and assembled them all in one night! The models are fantastic. Can't wait!


And here's an update on my Deathwatch Captain as he's coming along.:

Hektor Rex looks beautiful, and he's not even painted yet!

i love the Rex mini, but painting him makes your head hurt, there is quite alot of fine detail on him. Cant wait to see you paint him up.

Oh trust me, I'm going to be contemplating selling all my minis when I get done rex!

Heres a bit of an update on the Captain.

The dude:


His weapons:


His base:


And a fun close up of the shading on the gold:

Update time! The captain has been completed (I think - I'm sure I missed something in there!)

I love the idea of the army keep working on it, its AWSOME!

Nice to have so many options.

Get started on Rex yet?

Been a while! But I've got some pics of the beginning of my Vindicator:

Here is the completed red. Started with a mix of black and Red Gore, it was highlighted up to pure Red Gore.


And here the black is completed! Base coated with a mix between Codex Grey and Black. Only the recesses were left at the primer color. The final highlights were still a mix, but closer to pure Codex Grey.


And finally! I've done the silver. Simply Boltgun Metal with a black wash. I may highlight or shade more depending on how it looks after it dries fully.

Here's the tank, all but done:



I still want to do a lot of touch up, and I'm contemplating some battle damage... but it'll probably be a while before I can get around to it. Full pics here.

Looking very crisp. How's Hector coming along?

Awesome.Can't wait to see more.

Thanks guys! As to Hector.... I'm scared to pick him up! I wana make sure I can get the colors perfect, but I've used three test mini's so far, and I can't manage to match the bone armour on the Forge World one.

Terminator Time!

After much searching and sniping on Ebay, I managed to get a hold of a shooty Terminator box, a full set of TH/SSs, and two pairs of lightning claws. Here's the results!

The interchangeability was a bit differnt this time. Because chapter specific termy pads are so hard to get a hold of (I have some coming from Forge World), it was very hard to get enough to just tack them onto every arm. So for this project, the shoulder pads are also interchangeable!

We start by seting a large (thin) magnet into the arm and the body of the termy. This serves to hold the arm to the body.



We then drill a hole into the shoulder itself, and set a magnet in the shoulder pad. The large thin magnet in the arm matches polarities with the shoulder pad magnet, and the magnetic field is large enough to pull them together even if they don't touch. So it'll hold the pad on as well. Problem solved!



Now some pics of the squad! First up a nice shot of the shooty squad!



Then poof! They become assault termies O.o



I'm still waiting on the forge world order to come in so I can finish up shoulder pads, and I also ordered 5 of those awesome Inquisition termy pads, so no honors pads on these guys! Here though are a few pics to demonstrate how the pads fit in (with the plastic bits that I have)





Not pictured, but also magnetized as options:
Heavy Flamer
Cyclone Missile Launcher
2 Pairs of Lightning Claws
Chainfist
Powerfist

Comments and Crit welcome!

where do you get your plasticard?

Depends. The tubes/I beams/Corners all come from the local train shop. My diamond sheets came directly from Plastruct's website.

Ello' Pherion. Fancy seeing you here...

Nice marines too.

Heya Trygon!

Now I've tacked together the army for a game tomorrow, so I took an army shot. Enjoy!

WOW, I can't belive i missed thread before.
This stuff is great, it has a lot of character. I love it.
Keep up the good work

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Awesome work. I love deathwatch, quality. Although, if i were to do a deathwatch army i would do an all-sternguard army (led by kantor), that would be most representative of the chapter imho!

Anyway, keep up the great work!

Thanks everyone :-P

@Vitruvivian - I do eventually plan on using a Counts-as-Kantor character to lead the army. But I'm going to have to manual convert squads of Sterngaurd (so they have Chapter Shoulder pads and Inquisition Shoulder Pads).

The quickest way to really get the army going was this. Once I get all this painted up and finished, then I'll start working on ideas on how to make sternguard :-P

Sounds cool!

I actually meant use normal tac squads as sternguard to represent the special ammunition, but that's just me!!

Here's the all the termy bits laired out ready to prime up!







Hopefully can get them working in the next few days.

The army is looking good, do you have an army list?

I cant wait to see these guys all painted up and ready to kill!

^agreed

ARGH!! my 1st double post

I like your space crusade gene stealer idea