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It's been quite some time I didn't post anything here.
...but RL hasn't been of the kindest sort.

As I've always found that painting soothes the mind....
so found me some energy and time to finish 2 demi squads, which I started many, many moons ago:

My SEALs have got some tacticals:



Sorry for the quality of the pic, here a better one:



And some heavy support for the Space Sharks:

Wow a trip down memory lane! lol these are very cool!

Simply awesome. Love the boonie headgear.

Plains of War wrote:Wow a trip down memory lane! lol these are very cool!

Thanks Plains of War! There are going to be a lot more old Rogue Trader Marines to be painted! At least one Assault bike squad and then my 2nd Company consisting only of them will be done.

Stormwall wrote:Simply awesome. Love the boonie headgear.

Thanks Stormwall! Really digging those boonie hats. Have already put together another 20 of them and also already undercoated and the first colour - Space Sharks desert grey - applied.
So quite some to follow.


So here what I did today:

It's taken quite some time, but here's the start to my second Chikka squad!

3 Years ago I presented my first female Space Shark squad. And I really got some inspiring answers!

The one that I always kept in mind was from cormadepanda, he told me how to shorten the arms! Promisse kept cormadepanda!



First I used the arms from FW, as they are a tad slimmer than the GW ones, Then cut off a piece from upper part of the arm, about 2mm.
And also shaved it a bit rounder to better fit the shoulder pads. Then I cut off a part of the forearm, about 2mm. Cormadepanda, you shure were right! Looks ace.

To round up the better impression of the arms I used the rimless Mark IV shoulder pads. I cut off about 2.5mm to 3mm along the lower part of them.

Here you can see the Chikka with a head from Statuesque Miniatures, heroic size. Awesome sculpts! Awesome quality!!
(Oh, and seems I forgot to put on the glasses when cleaning the beakie head! )

Long time no see...just dusting off the thread.

RL and health...the usual things.

Finaly managed to finish off the new SEAL squad for my Space Sharks.

I already showed the Master Chief and the special weapon gunner:



The Master Chief has a fab head from MaxMini, guess it's from the Junker head sprue. You can't see it, but he's got a goatee! A great freebee!

I built them so that I can exchange weoapons and arms as needed! Magnets in the special weapons gunner wrist as well as in the Master Chiefs wrist. And also a completely excangaeable left arm on the Master Chief:
Please open only if you're not offended by a certain sign with a finger....




This SEAL squad is configured, with the help of quite some magnets, to be used in a lot of battle roles. I can even use them as LotD, or - and that will be their main use - in Kill Team games:




Yup... a female SEAL. Wanted to have some of them giving signs to the other squaddies.


A sniper, just for fun, in game the weapon will be used as normal bolter.


Put a magnet into the right hand and the shoulder pad and at the same place on the heavy weapons.
Thus i can change the weapon configuration, as with the Master Chief and special weapon gunner.

Now painting those is a complete different thing...eyes are a bit off (see...health). Lets see if that takes another year...