Hello! Late last year I started working on my first Space Marine army after growing a bit bored with my Militarum Tempestus (People hadn't yet figured out how to counter deep strike, so I felt it might be time to move onto something more fun to face.), and I've always liked the colour scheme of the Minotaurs and the few special models they do have are great (Particularly Asterion Moloc and Hecaton Aiakos) which I can't wait to paint, but I'm forcing myself to work on the small fry first (with a few exceptions) so as to get some colour on the table for once. (I'm a notoriously slow painter...) Of course while I still like the colour scheme and think the models (whilst not completely finished) turned out well, painting so much metal is annoying since you can't use a wet-pallet (or at least it's never worked for me) and so it dries way too fast... Anyway, here are some of the
WIP and (somewhat) finished models I've built/painted so far
My first Tactical Squad, forgot the lenses on the unit leader... Woops. Whilst it's probably a bit contradictory toward the lore I wanted to embrace their Spartan-esque style fully and so I got spartan styled helmets for my tactical marines and separate crests for my Mk4 armoured marines (whom are almost exclusively veterans). I really like the look of Mk3 and 4 armours, so I've used those as the basis for my army with some smaller modifications.
My
WIP Vanguard Veteran squad, one of the first units I started working on (mostly to see if it would work conceptually), put them to the side for now since while I love the look of them Power Lances and Storm Shields are not the most efficient loadout xD
Some more
WIP pictures, this time of my Sniper Scouts. Never liked the scout models, most of it's due to them being old sculpts but the heads are just so bad... Luckily with a bit of work I could fit these helmeted heads on them. Though in some ways I'm thinking they might look too badass for scouts...
Don't have a picture of the whole unit (which is why I put the unpainted one up above), but I do have one of my first 'test' model. Given their roles as infiltrators and snipers, having them in glowing bronze/brass made no sense to me, so I went for a more dark scheme with these guys and though it can't be seen from the picture the camo-cloak is a variety of black and greys (and a tiny bit of brown) to fit with the cityfight basing theme.
My magnetized Captain, a few gun options but I usually go for the Mastercrafted Boltgun and "Thunder Spear"(Thunder Hammer, spartan style) combo in the second image.
My Contemptor Dreadnoughts, the painted one is the boring "Betrayal at Calth" contemptor with literally no poseability, did what I dared without risking breaking it and I guess it works. Good for testing how the colour scheme works on larger models however.
The other one is my Relic Contemptor with some weapon options(And almost every piece above the waist magnetized... Sometimes becomes a problem.), either double fists with Plasma Blastguns or two twin-lascannons, though I've become partial to taking a fist and a double lascannon lately, so I'm gonna have to convert a combi-bolter for his hand. No real picture for Aiakos yet, but I did have him fighting the Emperor's Champion the other day, so that was fun
And finally for the unit I've put the most time and effort into so far, my Terminator Assault Squad which I envision as Asterion Molocs honour guard.
Fully greenstuffed capes and "Thunder Spears" and cool spartan themed shields (Though the quality wasn't quite what I expected. Very thin on the outside, and literally no detail on the back...). Like with everything, still needs some more work (highlighting the non-metals and oxide effect on the brass specifically).
And some more
WIP pictures. The ones I'm most excited to paint right now are probably my "Chapter Command", which I made by using Mk4 Space Marine bits, some third party stuff and Custodes bodies. They turned out a lot taller than expected, but I don't care too much about that, if anything it gives them character
The Chapter Ancient is obvious, next to him is the Chapter Champion (Though I'll be using the Company Champion profile, I like the idea of giving him the Shield Eternal), and on the outside are my two Honour Guards which will most of the time be accompanying Aiakos and a Tech Marine to make him about as survivable as one can get. Very expensive combo, but one hell of a distraction.
Half of my Second Tactical Squad
WIP
Bolter Scouts and sergeant with Stormbolter with underslung shotgun
WIP
Opinions and critique welcome