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You're welcome! Now that I see the Chapter Master I like him a lot. Great use of bits!

Nicely kit bashed dude! they look great and look how they should to represent each character (although a skull helm on the chappie would be nice) the master is quite imposing!

any ideas on paint for them? robe colours etc....

real nice

Thanks guys, the Librarian and Masters robes will probably be red and the Chappy is the usual bleached colour.

The chappy is next for painting so he'll be up soon!!!


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Chaplains done to a standard I'm happy with, not as much done on the robes as the vets.



Tell me what ya all think!!

That's a nice looking chaplain! though a pic from closer up would be good. From what I can see great work he looks really clean.

Mortalitas wrote:Bought a box of Dark Angel vets and since I needed some HQ models I kitbashe 'em...

Chaplain -



Librarian -




Master -



Feedback wanted!!

Good start on your HQ units! I used to play DA, and that veterans pack has so many great bits in it!

A bit of feedback: I like the stances that you have given your HQ units. Suitably dynamic and convincing.
Chaplain: Best pose award out of the three contestants. The crozius is great (though I would like to see the stone removed), as is the use of the skull backpack. He does seem to be lacking the iconic marking of his position, the skull mask. While not essential, you'll have to work a bit harder to make him look like a chaplain. I think the second angel on his backpack is a bit redundant with the crozius.
Librarian: Not a big fan atm. He is lacking some of the things that I look for in a librarian: the horned skull icons and the psykic hood. The helmet throws off the feel as well, but just because most librarians are bare headed. How are you with GS? A skull with horns on the shoulder pad and some robes on the side of his torso would go a long way, I think.
Chapter Master: I think a head swap with the Librarian would be great. That way your librarian get a hood (even if it isn't technically a psykic hood) and the wings for your master could go on the outside of a helmet instead of a hood (which looks odd to me). Is that a homebrew combi-melta? Could we get another view? The DA symbol on the top looks a little like an afterthought, it doesn't jive so well with the rest of the weapon. Again, a little GS robes would go a long way!

Keep up the great work! Hope that wasn't too much feedback!
Rawson

Wow, I'm about dazzled about the amount of feedback there is in one post. But I'll do my best to answer some things.

Chaplain - I did have a skull mask to go on him (a trimmed down chaos one) but when I was building him I couldn't find it, I searched everywhere. The fact he is in black armour in a green and red tide makes him stand out alot and is easily distinguished as a Chaplain.

Librarian - As I said above hes still WIP and isn't complete yet. I'll swap his head for a hooded one. Thanks for the ideas on what to put on him!!

Master - I see your point with the wings and hood, he'll be getting a normal helmet with wings. The combi gun is just 2 bolters stuck together with one of the barrels switched with that of a melta gun. I think I'll change the symbole for a scope?

Thanks for the amount of feedback!! The painted master will be posted tommorow as well as the updated chaplain and 2 tactical marines.

Kitbashing is my favorite.

You can say that again!!

Hmelrose wrote:Kitbashing is my favorite.

Very Well:

Kitbashing is my favorite.

Did some more painting and the 2 tac marines are now done, also did more work on the libarian.






Any feedback?

PS. Master is nearly done.

The librarian is looking nice!
Those tactical marines are great. Is that an AOBR marine with a meltagun? I like it!

You caught me out, it is. Didn't have enough marines for the squad so I dug him out of a box.

It's nothing bad! I totally wouldn't have noticed it If I hadn't pointed it out to myself!

The reason I noticed it was because I was looking at his awesome helmet and I was thinking to myself "Where did he get that from".

I actually like the AOBR marines they are some great sculpts, the only downside it if you look really, really closely they are a tiny bit smaller than the average tactical marine.

I think some of the sculpts are good although how static they are is kinda strange. I love the terminators and dread from the box, you can really add your won touch to those!!

Heres some pic of the finished Company Master (or Captain of the company). Dumped the wings because they a pain in the and changed the combi-bolter for a plasma pistol because I wasn't happy with it.



And the updated Chaplain.



And the 2 main HQs for the army together.



Chaplain - Orks incoming sir.
Master - Be quite, I'm thinking
Chaplain - But sir.
Master - Be quite!
Chaplain - *sigh*
Master - I can feel something, a hunch I think. ORKS are coming!! To war!!

The Master looks good painted up and I think that the chaplain looks a little more dynamic without the backpack mount!

Nice update! You've been working hard!

Librarian: I like him a lot better than the other one! Good work on the horned skull (will you also add horns to the shoulder pad?) as well as the psychic hand! I can spot a few mold lines (head, backpack, legs) so don't forget to take care of those!

Chapter Master: Good start, though a little monochrome (though I guess bichrome would be more accurate ). Maybe some metallics to pick out some detail, and a little love on the plasma pistol?

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

Ah, the AOBR kit bash! I've been working on some of those as well, turning them into Space Wolves, grey hunters or blood claws, its a fairly easy conversion and if you're not afraid to cut into a model then you have so many options to convert at a very affordable price point.

Keep up the great work!

Rawson - I kinda cheated ( or used my brain ) and carefulley scraped the horned skull off the Furioso Dread arm plate. I see your point on the Master, I'll some more colours to him. The plasma pistol has a glowing effect on it but you can see it with the angle of the pictue.

Hmelrose - With some converting AoBR models can be really cool, my local GW made a Chaos army out of one.

Finished the Librarian, I'm really happy with him.





Added some more colours to the Commander.




I also managed to find a Landraider that I used for my Grey Knights, it will now be in service to the Dark Angels (Should I paint it Green or Bone?)


Aaand... I got a rhino in bad condition from a friend and I'm adding and repairing heavy armour, It may or may not go to my Blood Angels.


Feedback??

Mortalitas wrote:Finished the Librarian, I'm really happy with him.





Added some more colours to the Commander.




I also managed to find a Landraider that I used for my Grey Knights, it will now be in service to the Dark Angels (Should I paint it Green or Bone?)


Aaand... I got a rhino in bad condition from a friend and I'm adding and repairing heavy armour, It may or may not go to my Blood Angels.


Feedback??

Librarian turned out really well! My last bit of CC: paint some horns on the skull on his shoulderplate and a little bit of text on the scroll. (A micron pen really helps with small text!)
I like the bit of metallics on the Chaptermaster: What will you put for text on the banner?
As for the Land raider: Green or Bone depends on Deathwing or not. You putting terminators or marines in there?

nice!

landraider, I think either green with bone doors/hatches or bone with green doors/hatches

It is probably going to be used for the vets and termies. I was thinking bone with green accents in the recessed armour plates. For the text, I'm going to do that when the army's painted.

Thanks for the comments!!

Mortalitas wrote:

Aaand... I got a rhino in bad condition from a friend and I'm adding and repairing heavy armour, It may or may not go to my Blood Angels.


Feedback??

Love the paint jobs and conversions!

Can we see the Rhino without all the plasticard or if you've glued it already, then it does look nice, needs some icons though!

The rhino is still WIP, I need to get some more plasticard and I may get a box of ravenwing tomorrow.

Its always good doing some research before you convert something, I generally search for images for inspiration.

Mortalitas wrote:The rhino is still WIP, I need to get some more plasticard and I may get a box of ravenwing tomorrow.

Its always good doing some research before you convert something, I generally search for images for inspiration.

Honestly, it looks like you've almost built another Rhino.

I have nearly had too, the model wasn't complete.


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Spent some time to add up how many points I have and its around the 1250 mark, thats including the vets, master, chalpain, tac squads, rhino and land raider.

Librarian is plainly and simply AWESOME!!

Thanks

I got three more tactical marines done








Comments?

Mortalitas wrote:



Comments?

I like your overall scheme: the faded, dusty look. I think you need some bright color somewhere. Eye lenses maybe?

Marines are looking good! What's your count up to now?

I'm not convinced on the pose of the missle launcher marine. He looks like he got shanked in the back and is now falling over. A little more stable looking would suit his armament

Keep up the great work!
Rawson