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2017/12/10 22:24:45
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/12/10 22:31:38
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2017/12/11 00:40:33
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Steady Space Marine Vet Sergeant
Hanging out on the Great Plains
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Nice job, they have a very gritty feel to them also I like the use of various sets to build the squad. Keep it up.
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Eastern Frontier Exploratores
224th Astra Legion (main army)
628th Praetorian Guard Cohort (wife's army)
827th Auxilia Cohort (ad mech fun)
825th Foderati Cohort (in the beginning army)
1212th Foederati Cohort - Jokaero (cause I like apes with guns) |
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2017/12/11 08:08:32
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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thesilverback wrote:Nice job, they have a very gritty feel to them also I like the use of various sets to build the squad. Keep it up.
Thanks man! Yeah didn't want a stock Cadian army. Got lots more models ready to paint but it's always raining where I live in the winter! Can't prime 'em!
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2017/12/11 12:26:31
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Khorne Chosen Marine Riding a Juggernaut
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Looks good. FYI Skull Takers is a World Eaters legion in the lore. It's Lord Zhufor's legion. .
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2017/12/11 14:24:52
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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chimeara wrote:Looks good. FYI Skull Takers is a World Eaters legion in the lore. It's Lord Zhufor's legion. .
It's also a verry old Guard regiment! (2nd/3rd edition) It's a fairly ubiquitous nickname for a trophy taking army of any race to be honest it will make more sense once I get the tanks in there.
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Kanak_Skull_Takers
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2017/12/11 15:43:40
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Really characterful, love how every one is an individual. Ace painting and modelling, well done!
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2017/12/11 16:03:12
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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Cosmic wrote:Really characterful, love how every one is an individual. Ace painting and modelling, well done!
Thanks man! Yeah I didn't just want an army of copy-paste Cadians so I shopped about for bits to give them a more unique look. Still got 40 troops to go hahaha. Glories of brigade detachments!
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2017/12/11 16:12:03
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Sure Shot Scarecrow Sniper
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Cool stuff! Always good to see an army with character
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2017/12/11 17:38:54
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Norn Queen
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Superb!
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Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be
By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
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2017/12/11 17:59:33
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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Thanks man!
Cheers my dude!
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/12/11 18:01:01
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2017/12/11 19:40:26
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Esteemed Veteran Space Marine
UK
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Love these models, they are really nice subtle conversions with a good thematic paintjob.
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2017/12/11 20:43:57
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Khorne Chosen Marine Riding a Juggernaut
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That's awesome! I really like the super gritty look to yours.
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2017/12/11 22:15:04
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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chimeara wrote:
That's awesome! I really like the super gritty look to yours.
Thanks man! I'll have some more progress pictures coming soon.
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2017/12/12 04:39:27
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Damsel of the Lady
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They look great! i like the many and varied hats in particular.
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realism is a lie
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2017/12/12 09:12:50
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/12/12 19:53:48
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2017/12/13 21:57:16
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Regular Dakkanaut
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This army is so cool I just want MORE!
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BLAH BLAH....blah. |
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2017/12/13 22:13:07
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Kinebrach-Knobbling Xeno Interrogator
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Fantastic work, really enjoying these. Great to see such a characterful and individual Guard army. Must be taking you ages!
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2017/12/14 04:13:14
Subject: Re:{Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
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These are rad, I love the skull on the Heavy Bolter
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2017/12/31 13:19:52
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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Apollinaire wrote:Fantastic work, really enjoying these. Great to see such a characterful and individual Guard army. Must be taking you ages!
It is! Got some progress to show now though! Only 70 more models in this batch!
The Command group & Their Ogryn Bodyguard!
Ganger Guardsmen squads:
Tribal Squad:
Grenadiers & Commissariat:
Russes:
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This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2017/12/31 13:21:12
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2017/12/31 16:24:19
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot
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Some really characterful conversions here
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Relapse wrote:
Baron, don't forget to talk about the SEALs and Marines you habitually beat up on 2 and 3 at a time, as you PM'd me about.
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2017/12/31 18:56:48
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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Thanks man! Got a lot more to do, only done two and half of the guardsmen squads ahaha.
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2017/12/31 19:58:02
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Drop Trooper with Demo Charge
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Your army is looking grea! I like how you distinguish your officers from your rank and file troopers.
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2017/12/31 20:48:21
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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Tallarn Commander wrote:Your army is looking grea! I like how you distinguish your officers from your rank and file troopers.
Thanks man! The idea is that you can tell which officers came from the ranks and which were nobles back on their home planet! - Thieves, gangers and tribals lead by noble hive families. Will make even more contrast once I add the Beltainian Fusiliers (Like Armageddon Stormtroops - converted tempestus to form my elite guard).
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2017/12/31 22:39:03
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Ship's Officer
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Decent paint job, great overall vibe and subtle conversions throughout, I particularly like the skill over the heavy bolter; you really should clean the mold lines and perhaps drill the gun barrels on anything larger than a lasgun, flat metallic looks off, and visible mold lines really detracts from your capability.
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2017/12/31 23:41:24
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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Big Mac wrote:Decent paint job, great overall vibe and subtle conversions throughout, I particularly like the skill over the heavy bolter; you really should clean the mold lines and perhaps drill the gun barrels on anything larger than a lasgun, flat metallic looks off, and visible mold lines really detracts from your capability.
Just going for tabletop standard to be honest, I want to play! As for the mouldlines in normal lighting they're pretty invisible, the flash on my camera brings it out more.
When you've got over 100 models to do for one army it's hard to make them all perfect! My next project will be more in detail as I will have something to play with in the meantime, in all honesty I am waiting for GW to finally do updated guardsmen of other regiments, then I'll put more effort into making them look pretty. (Waiting patiently for plastic Steel Legion).
But thanks for the crits. Could you elaborate on "Flat metallic looks off"?
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2017/12/31 23:49:02
Subject: Re:{Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Ship's Officer
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I totally understand, I’m still in the process of redoing my IG, only Cadians left. Flat metallic= if you look at your flamers/grenade launchers from the front, it’s solid metallics, you should either drill a divot and paint it black or paint a inner black circle representing the barrel, the smaller lasgun aren’t noticeable, but the bigger ones are.
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2017/12/31 23:52:35
Subject: Re:{Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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Big Mac wrote:I totally understand, I’m still in the process of redoing my IG, only Cadians left. Flat metallic= if you look at your flamers/grenade launchers from the front, it’s solid metallics, you should either drill a divot and paint it black or paint a inner black circle representing the barrel, the smaller lasgun aren’t noticeable, but the bigger ones are.
I love the guard, used to have a vostroyan army years ago, just getting back into it now and I want to be able to play ASAP but playing with grey models is not my jam.
Ohhhh, yeah I plan to drill them, I just haven't bothered yet, got so much to paint I'd rather just get all that's primed done now then worry about details like that ahaha.
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2018/01/01 00:35:53
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Esteemed Veteran Space Marine
Sheppey, England
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That army's glorious - that's a crazy amount of variety right there. You could look at any given model and come up with a back story for them.
If you don't mind my asking, where'd you get the tank commander figure from?
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2018/01/01 11:06:56
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Fresh-Faced New User
Cornwall, UK
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Necroagogo wrote:That army's glorious - that's a crazy amount of variety right there. You could look at any given model and come up with a back story for them.
If you don't mind my asking, where'd you get the tank commander figure from?
Thanks man! Yeah I don't enjoy having the same few guardsmen heads repeated so i shopped around for parts.
It's the default out of the box tank commander body with a statuesque miniatures female veteran head. I saw the new black library covers and the one with the baneblade commander inspired me to have a female tank commander for my armoured division.
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2018/01/01 23:28:27
Subject: {Astra Militarum} 12th Beltainian Armoured Regiment "The Skull Takers"
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Esteemed Veteran Space Marine
Sheppey, England
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Brill - thanks for that! great mileage out of a simple head swap.
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