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 theCrowe wrote:
Love the old metal scouts. I’ve still got about ten of them. Fantastic and full of character. Have you got the one with the Geordi La Forge visor?

I have managed to find all from that era but Shotgun #2 and regular Scout #5 - still looking for those two. I initially saw Cyclops in this guy but now that you mention Geordi La Forge I can't un-see that...

Found one of the three oldest dreads!



This guy is Fury. Now to find Chuck and Eddy!

Even in pieces, he serves. Awesome addition to the collection.

I was well pleased to find him! I think I have a lead on Chuck the Contemptor but so far no luck with Eddy the Deredeo.

Not sure they’re going to be able to proxy as their newer selves given the loadout and size differences!

I find this thread fascinating... You're picking up my entire army. You may have guessed from the few pics I've posted I have an oldhammer 40K army... It's great to see other people have the love I do for the older stuff. Nicely done

 Capt. wrote:
I find this thread fascinating... You're picking up my entire army. You may have guessed from the few pics I've posted I have an oldhammer 40K army... It's great to see other people have the love I do for the older stuff. Nicely done

Hah that's cool. I figured I wouldn't have been the first to tread this path.

Picked up the Heresy suit - love the hand-on-hip pose of this guy:

I am slowly getting there painting miniatures rather than just collecting them... the Devastator Sergeant is not quite done yet but he's getting close.


Aiming to have him and his squad done by the end of Jan. Colours used.

Very nice, proper old school vibes!
Are they going to be all the same chapter or are you doing a variety?

Cheers! At this point I plan to focus on Ultramarines for the metal guys… though I can see some other chapters making it into the mix if a model seems a particularly good fit.

It helps that I have a ton of Ultramarines transfers and that the HH novel Know No Fear was fairly inspiring!

It’s great to see some paint on the old Sgt, he looks cool already. Looking forward to seeing the whole squad!

Love the Mk V armor. Way overdue for a plastic kit, I think. The eyes on the sarge are absolutely popping.

Cheers guys - and the eyes were white ink under a coat of fluoro green. I was aiming for something which was bright and colourful rather than my usual attempts at making the lens look realistic. Still on the fence which I prefer.

Calling him done for now, though the longer I look at him the more I see I want to tweak. Just going to try to get the rest of the squad done.

Didn't get the lot of the squad done by the end of Jan due to work commitments, slowly getting there though.

Found a rogue trader bike though - I can't get past the bolters-for-brakes look, it's fantastic...



More pics.

Tried something different and got this guy done in 2 days of free time - he's a heavy bolter guy from Rogue Trader:



Paint scheme at the bottom here.

How are the soaking terminators doing? I’m painting up a squad of old metal termies right now for the dakka painting challenge (Which if you should absolutely be entering this month with anything in this collection!) and it reminded me about your nostalgia marine force.

Love the RT beaky with “Heavy bolter” super nice and clean.

 theCrowe wrote:
How are the soaking terminators doing? I’m painting up a squad of old metal termies right now for the dakka painting challenge (Which if you should absolutely be entering this month with anything in this collection!) and it reminded me about your nostalgia marine force.

Love the RT beaky with “Heavy bolter” super nice and clean.

Cheers! Thanks for the heads up there, I had missed the painting thread.

The terminators are largely stripped now but only the old captain is undercoated - I have all but three of the RTB09 box assembled loosely (just so I don't get the arms mixed up) and am trying to get a squad of each loadout otherwise, but have kind of stalled on that until I get more painted... I don't need to replace my plastic pile of shame with a metal one, I need to get more stuff painted! Having said that, I am keeping an eye out for the old Librarian Terminator...

You have to respect a guy that hip-shoots a heavy bolter. Looks great!

Cheers!

I picked up a metal Deredeo today, which gives me the trifecta of RT dreads - Fury, Chuck and Eddy. No pics yet, I'm keen to assemble all three and gets pics side by side and I have to finish uploading Kickstarter files tonight.

Finished up another special weapons guy - this was my first time using glow in the dark pigment for the plasma glow, pretty happy with the results:



Paints used and before pic here.

I have had this guy almost finished for a while but was off-put by trying out gloss varnish and really not liking the finish - I still haven't applied enough matte coats to overcome it but I'm calling him done for now so I can move on.



Paints used.

A work in progress on a Librarian's axe:



Paints used.

Red hot! Keep the oldies comin'!

The axe is looking good so far, angrygriffin.

Cheers. I had been doing a lot of glowing blue stuff for the Raven Guard I was painting before these guys and wanted something to contrast with their armour... may not make a lot of sense lore-wise but if it looks cool I reckon it'll be fine!

I'm liking this thread- I like seeing my marines pained up differently by skilled painters

Ooh, that’s a tasty axe! It’ll go very nicely with the armour

Cheers guys. Picked up another old beaky - still fiddling with the left arms for the Devastator squads so I may well end up finishing the RT beaky squad first.



More pics.

Gotta love classic pewter miniatures and the original old school beaker Marines had the most character!

Found a metal scout with missile launcher - took me a while to find him in the catalogues as he came way after the rest of the Scout sculpts.



More pics.