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When are you going to post some new pics, I can't wait for some more. If you would, how do you paint the bone/off-white colour of your Novamarines, I'm designing a chapter and they are styled like the Novamarines but with a different secondary colour, I could use a hand and if you helped it would be appreciated.

Time for another update, and I think this one will either make people laugh out loud, or throw up violently, you'll find out why soon enough!

But before the ridiculous, here's some more Novamarine stuff I've been working on:

firstly, I've almost finished the normal Dreadnought, I've basically added some gold trim, and started work on the wax on the purity seals, all that's left now is to weather the blue areas and to do a couple of fine details like the liturgies on the seals and the lens on the searchlight, here's a photo:



I also dug out an old captain from a long dead army made from one of the Masters of the Chapter models, I decided to kitbash him slightly with some other stuff to make a new character for the Novamarines, I only game him a Power Sword and a Bolt Pistol so that if for whatever reason I need a really cheap character, and for some unknown reason don't want to use a chaplain or librarian, I can use this guy, he's not painted yet (well he is, but in the wrong colour scheme!), but here's a photo anyway:



Right, onto the Ridiculousness I mentioned earlier...

Before the Imperial Armour Badab War books were released, when the Novamarines fluff consisted of a drawing, a picture of a scout bike and about 4 lines of information, I had to go with any little thing written about them and use that to develop the army.

One of those little bits of information was another Chapter called the 'Invaders'. In their background it said that they had lost their homeworld in an Eldar attack which was in retaliation for the destruction of a small Eldar Craftworld at the hands of the Invaders, and that because of this, while they rebuilt, what was left of the Invaders where attached to the Novamarines.

That little bit of background led me to make a small army of these guys for fun games (1000 - 1500 pts). But I neither wanted or needed another army from the Space Marine codex, I thought about their background for a bit and decided a few things, based on their name, I would imagine the Invaders use White Scars geneseed (think about the names of their other successors, the marauders, the Rampagers, the Destroyers, The...Storm Lords... well, you get where I'm going here). And that they successfully attacked and destroyed an Eldar craftworld, but didn't stop and consider the consequences, which implies to me that they are absent minded, violent and headstrong and basically, well, nuts. So I decided to use the Blood Angels codex for this one, I know people are moaning, but really, It's not to be beardy (I mean, it's led by Seth and he's about as un-beardy as it gets!), in fact it's mainly so I can use some of the cool stuff the Blood Angels get

The colour scheme for the Invaders is a bright green with yellow/gold trim, taking this into consideration and combined with the fact that I had just seen Grey Death's Sons of Medusa, I decided to go to extremes with this army and make them a hideous florescent green which I think somehow works...

Anyway, if you've just read all that, then congratulations, your prize is to look at these pictures (If you didn't read all that, you can still look at the pictures, but for the record, you're lazy!):

Here's my take on Seth:



You can see here how ridiculous he really is, what with his stupid Chainswrd, excess blood and green armor!

Here he is with a squad of Assault Marines:



Heres a Baal Predator with nothing but a Flamestorm Cannon which has proven to be utterly useless during games, but it's fun nonetheless and still features in every game I play with the Invaders:



And, for comparison, here it is alongside the Novamarines predator (and if you where wondering how I got the Baal predator sponsons for the Novamarines Predator, there's your answer!):



Right, if you've looked at all those photos and your eyes still work, congratulations (no prize this time, not even the chance to look at a green tank), next time, I'll post some constructive photos of Novamarines, In the mean time I ask the eternal question... What do people think?

They look great, I think the blood splatter has been a little over done on the teeth of the chainsword (remember that its spinning at a high rpm). Other than that though like I said they look fine.

Most important thing is that they offer you a distraction from Blue and cream schemes

Loving this thread!

Your Novas are going from good to great with every one you finish. Minotaurs look fantastic, can you post up the bronze recipe? (soz if I missed it but was bedazzled by the shiny pics! )

Love the Lamenters objective (as a BA player you can feel free to condemn as many Lamenters as you wish! )

The Invaders are pretty good too but not quite on par with the rest. Soz.

What sand do you use for your bases? Looks really good.

Cheers, and keep up the good work!

Cvife, you probably didn't notice what I asked earlier so I'll ask again just in case, how did you do the bone/off-white on your Novas, I'm making a legion of my own that uses a bone/off-white and I'm stuck

crimsonfist832 wrote:Cvife, you probably didn't notice what I asked earlier so I'll ask again just in case, how did you do the bone/off-white on your Novas, I'm making a legion of my own that uses a bone/off-white and I'm stuck

no problem, it's really simple, basically I start with a Deneb stone base coat, then I give it a wash of gryphonne sepia, then I give it a couple of coats of bleached bone making sure the gryphonne sepia is still visible in the recesses, then I highlight with a 1:1 mix of bleached bone and skull white, and finally, I wash the recesses with thinned Badab Black, hope that helps!

Thanks for the colour scheme Cvife, if it made your Novas amazing then it will make mine the same, thanks a lot

It's been a while, well, a week or so, but here's an update.

I've almost finished the siege dreadnought, I tried to keep him as faithful to the artwork of Ancient Herulian from Badab war 1 as I could, but there are a couple of differences, E.G his chest eagle is supposed to be gold (might still change that) and i gave him a searchlight to keep him WYSIWYG.

Here's a picture from the book (I'm sorry if I shouldn't post this, if it's a problem, let me know and I'll get rid of it nice and quick!):



and here's what I've done on the model:



Here's a picture of him with the Ironclad (Just because I like that model!):



I've also been doing finishing touches to the Tactical Squad, I.E. Chapter Icons and stuff:



More to come...


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I also re-did the sergeant's helmet, I think it looks much better now:



I've been working on more objectives based on some dead marines I got off a friend, here they are with the original:



and finally, a group version of the seige dread, the tactical squad and the jump pack chaplain:



I have a bit of time at the moment so the next update should be sooner rather than later!

What do you think?

Very nice army. The painting is good, the forgeworld stuff is good, overall good looking. I like the dread with the shield a lot, I think it might look even better if you gave it a sword. Perhaps consider converting with the dreadknight bit when it comes out? Just a thought.

Very nice!

I do think you should repaint the rims black on the siege dread and the 1st obj marker though.

Well, It's been ages since I last posted on this thread, but it's been a really busy time for me recently.

So, what have I been up to?

Firstly, I decided to re-do Captain Mordaci Blaylock, based on the Forgeworld Huron model, I not as pleased with this one as I am with the other one, But he does look more impressive on the battlefield!



Next up, I recently took this army to a tournament, and after reading the rules for chaplain Cassius, I felt he was too good not to take (and he was an asset), so I made an adequate stand in for him:



Also, here's a Razorback:



And here's a couple of full army shots along with my new current project, Chaos Renegades:




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The Ironclad emerges from his drop pod and engages a Warhound Titan:



A tank's eye's view of the Novamarines:



And that will probably be my last post on this thread for a while (it will return!)

As mentioned earlier, I recently took this army to a two day tournament, in which it failed in every possible way. I came away with 1 win, 2 draws and 3 losses, I came 23rd out of 30 which was very disappointing, however, worse still, I did very poorly in the painting competition, with my army only gaining 2 votes, and those where from my two team mates!

So, that result has led to me giving this army a rest for a while.

My next project will be the expansion of my chaos army with the addition of around 1500 pts of renegade guard, I will start a new thread on that one next week.

Oh well, what do people think of this new stuff?

Love the Huron conversion, oozes menace The Cassius counts-as is sweet as well. Somehow any model based on the EC always seems to look totaslly badass!

Wow, gutting on the painting. Were you playing against blind people? Cos you're army is beautiful dude! How anyone cant see that is beyond me.

Will the DKK be part of the renegades or a separate force??

And finally, please start a renegade thread/ link to it!

Your Novamarines are stunning! Running low on troops compared to dreads and tanks tho lol.

wow bummer about the tournament result! i like the whole army, excited to see future stuff.

Cvife wrote:


and here's what I've done on the model:

The eagle is meant to be gold. And you are missing some purity seals!


Nitpicking aside, GREAT WORK!

amazing work, great stuff all around.

Really nice work! Especially like the invaders, the blood splatter looks great! Over all, dynamic poses and great painting!