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Made in gb
Boosting Ultramarine Biker





Plymouth, England

Damn that Captain looks extremely awesome. If you are doing anymore photos of him could I ask for a clearer pic of his non U shoulder pad? Unless I missed one earlier in the thread though I did just check but maybe I missed it.
   
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Steady Space Marine Vet Sergeant





United Kingdom

He looks great, Nev!

What site did you use to make the custom cards for the doctrines etc.? I got the Data cards for SM, and was pissed when I realised that the SM specific Warlord traits weren't included. So I think I'll make my own

   
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

Hopefully the captain with be done today, so I’ll grab some finished pics from all angles.

Zambro, The program is Magic Set Editor, and check your PM's

Somehow The Wife managed not to schedule something for me this weekend. I’d head up to the FLGS, but it’s closed today, as the owner is getting married. Lawn doesn’t need mowing, chores are done, should be a lazy day at home.

I did the clean up and first glue pass on assembling the grav cannons. One more glue pass and they will be ready to prime. Next I want to get the multimeltas done. If I can knock them out, hopefully I can prime them soon. Scattered t-stroms this weekend, but early next week looks to be clear. I started to sort bits to make 5 sternguard. I think I might actually want to make 2 more with c-meltas. Unfortunately, I'm short one. Building just one more would put me at 4 SG w/ c-meltas, which should be OK. So I might just grab another basic bolter for the 5th guy. Once I get them built, they would put me at two full 10 man squads.

I will not collect the whole first company.
I will not collect the whole first company.
I will not collect the whole first company.

Sorry, I needed to get that out. I sometimes feel the same way about the 10th as well. As the units start to pile up, you get the itch to just go crazy and get the whole company. And frankly, I’ve got about half the 1st and 10th at this point.

   
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

Lookin good, that's a bigass chainsword

 
   
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

Technically the bigass chainsword is an evicsoratetor, but on this guy I’m calling it the Teeth of Terra relic. I’m a whole lot or whirring, mulching death regardless of what it’s called.





Some more angle shots, including a right hand side. I think I’ve mostly reserved the shoulder pads with braid for captains. Some may have found their way on sergeants.

Did a bit of glueing this morning.


Found out that one of the MM support arms was not the right one. Need to check up with the guy I traded bits with to see if he used the proper one already when building his devs. If so, there might be a little chopping involved. But the other three heavy weapon guys are good to go. And frankly a 3rd MM wasn’t something I really needed (but wasn’t going to turn away) Prime box is getting to the point where on a good day it’s time for the rattle can. Especially if that demon wants to make an appearance in the monthly challenge.

   
Made in gb
Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





UK

Very nice indeed, Nev!

 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Madison, WI

Wonderful job on that marine Nev.

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

Gitsplitta's Unified Painting Theory
 
   
Made in us
The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

Thanks again for the kind words guys.

For being a totally free day that I planned on painting, I failed to pick up the brush even once today. I did, however, spend a lot of time with the glue and knife. 4 more sternguard join the pile of things to prime:

3 bolters, one c-melta. Weapon arms are just tacked on for now, to assist painting. Drilled out the gun barrels. Not 100% happy, but they will do.

   
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

Looks solid, I likes me some sternguard (even though I'm eyeing selling my marine stockpile). Gotta love the elite of the elite.

 
   
Made in us
The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

And now for the newbs of the elite, some scouts:



Been meaning to finish cleaning up the LSS scouts. Big push on to clear the workbench in prep for winter. Over a dozen marines in the prime box, so going well!

   
Made in gb
Steady Space Marine Vet Sergeant





United Kingdom

You really are stockpiling for winter! How much more are you looking to put in the to-prime box before the snow hits? I count 5 scouts, 4 sternguard, 3 devs and a LS. That should keep you occupied for a chunk of winter.

Why didn't you load up the LSS with those scouts? It's a paint to paint and assemble the LSS with the scouts in, but it looks cool after.

   
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

 Zambro wrote:
You really are stockpiling for winter! How much more are you looking to put in the to-prime box before the snow hits? I count 5 scouts, 4 sternguard, 3 devs and a LS. That should keep you occupied for a chunk of winter.

Why didn't you load up the LSS with those scouts? It's a paint to paint and assemble the LSS with the scouts in, but it looks cool after.


I cut an army to size for the MM dev, so there are 4 of them now as well.

I didn’t like the thought of the LSS still having all the guys on board after they disembarked. It’s not an issue with rhinos, as they are just rolling boxes. But the thought of looking at the guys hanging off the speeder while they were seizing an objective on the table seemed wrong. Plus, with a little conversion work, I get 4 free scouts!

This should basically be it for stockpiling stuff. Mostly because I’m running out of things to build. But the devs and sternguard were spurred on by trading bits with a friend, the LS was a long standing thing on the to-do list, and the scouts have been waiting patiently. I have a handful of marines left on the sprue, should be 7? I’d have to count after this latest building frenzy. I’ve also got a squad of Eldar guardians w/platform that could be built, not that I need them, and one more (old) bike. I might build and paint the guardians as dire avengers, and set up the platform for magnets. But I remember how much I hate cleaning mold lines off Eldar, so there is no rush on that. Might do up some more heavy weapons to swap on the tanks though. Just remembered I still have 5 sniper scouts. I have in my mind that I want to try to trade those for regular scouts, but I suspect that will never happen.

I’ve actually been picking up the pace on my painting, so want to be sure I’m well stocked. Plus the chill is in the morning air here, and the leaves are just beginning to turn. It’s a Stark reminder that winter is coming.


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Note for end of year data: I picked up a $5 can of primer at the hardware store. I was worried that mine would run out, especially with this large batch. Turns out I was fine.

Lovely day out. Went for a walk, did some shopping, broke out the rattle can.

In addition to the stuff in the last few posts, I had tried to clean more of the old, bad primer off of the fire dragons, with some (but not total) success. So they got taken out for a new coat. I also noted that I had hand primed some swooping hawks a few decades ago, but never did their wings. So they got a shot. Quite a nice pile of stuff ready for the paintbench.

/content squirrel



Automatically Appended Next Post:
I know it’s a little early for a Q3 review, but I like to do a hobby review at the start of September. Back to school marks a shift in my hobby time, and the seasonal change means I need to think ahead.

So lets look back:
Here is the Q1 update: (7 foot, 1 bike, 1 vehicle, 1 bit)
Spoiler:

4 Deathwatch
Farseer on bike
Spiritseer w/staff
Dwarf
HG w/relic blade
Banner of Macragge
Crimson Hunter


And Q2: (5 foot, 1 bike, 1 vehicle, 3 bits)
Spoiler:

Venerable Dreadnought
Spare amrs (TLLC, MM)
Extra tank hatch
Jet Autarch
4x VV
Nurgle Champ.


And done in Q3: (5 foot, 1 “bike”, 2 vehicles, 2 bits)
Razorback (plus spare gun options)
5 Eldar Rangers
Vyper
Wraithlord
Spare dread arm (AsC)
Foot Captain

I was debating weather or not I should count the vyper as a bike (2 model) or a vehicle (4 model), and how to count the wraithlord. I think I’m going to call the vyper a vehicle, but the WL a bike equivalent. This should bring my total up to 17 foot, 3 bikes, 4 vehicles, and 6 assorted spare bits. So that’s 39 model equivalent under my system, not counting the spare bits. As my goal is 52, I need 13 more. Seeing that this quarter is not over yet, I’m slightly ahead of the game.

While I was able to field a fully painted 1k Eldar list, my goal for the year was to get that in new paint. That list used a few legacy units. How to calculate points for what I have painted is very fuzzy. Minimum WYSWYG is currently 580 points. Maximum (within reason) is 910. This includes doing things like counting the seer with the staff as Eldrad. A more reasonable “how I’d probably play it” total comes in at 710. So slightly behind if I use the reasonable numbers, but looking good.

I’ll post an inventory of primed stuff later; The Wife just got home.


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OK, let’s see if I can auto-append a 4th post onto this.



That’s the Eldar half.

Wave Serpent,
4 swooping hawks (I have 2 painted from way back)
5 fire dragons (one more is being experimented on at the paintbench)
5 Dire Avengers
9 Windriders
1 Jet Warlock/farseer

38 model equivalents, 552 min points, 842 max(ish) points, 672 practical points.



The marine/other half.

TML LS
5x counts-as LotD
5x Sternguard
5x Scouts
4x Devs
Chaplain
3x Captains (2xRT, Cato)
Assault marine sarge
Vanguard Vet.

Ammo Dump
Asst. Hatches, spotlights, smoke launchers.

Demon (Kyoso no Oni)

That’s 29 model equivalent, plus the bits, ammo dump and demon.

So 67ish things primed, less the 13 I need to finish this year, leaves me 54 for next year. And as it happens, a little bit for 2017 I guess I can lighten up at the workbench, and get back to painting. Next up is the demon, as I’d like her to square off against the good captain I just finished for this month’s challenge. I still need to work out a scheme for the dragons, I think I might be close to one. Not sure if I’ll strip the one on the bench and paint him up from scratch. We’ll see how sloppy he ends up. After that, I think the two jump pack marines might get some work. But my schedule is flexible and open to input.

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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York



OK, he’s a (very) rough draft, and going to get striped. But I think that color combo might work. Although orange might work better for the helmet or undersuit. Gun will be my normal black/silver drybrush. I just lightly hit with with some black to get the tone down for the test pic. Thoughts on colors? Obviously the paintjob blows, as this was just a rough coat to see how it looked.

Also paint progress: put the first layer of red down on the Oni.

Yay! Didn’t auto-append!

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Boosting Ultramarine Biker





Plymouth, England

Wow that's a lot of stuff to batch spray. Should keep you going for quite a while.
Also cheers for showing us more photos of the foot Captain, I was really interested in seeing the other shoulder pad you used on him.
   
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

 Adamski Alders wrote:
Wow that's a lot of stuff to batch spray. Should keep you going for quite a while.
Also cheers for showing us more photos of the foot Captain, I was really interested in seeing the other shoulder pad you used on him.


Most of it was stuff I did before. Only the stuff pictured out on the grass got hit with the rattle can yesterday. Although, oddly, it looks like I missed one of the fire dragons. He was in the box, but when I was lining stuff up for the group shots on the table, I notice he didn’t have any fresh primer on him. He’ll have to go back out later. Probably after I strip the test subject; the can get a fresh coat together.

I should also sift through the old lead Eldar for stuff that could see use on the modern table. I know there is at least one guy there who I could use. Not that I need more stuff on the to-do list, but I figure having a wide variety of stuff to work on should increase the odds of me actually finding something I want to do.

   
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Arch Magos w/ 4 Meg of RAM





Republic of Ireland

Colour scheme should be cool. Like the idea or black burnt armour for a FD. Yellow might do with a deeper tone mind. I wouldnt drybrush on an eldar though....it can look a touch rough/scappy against the usually sleek and smooth eldar style of armour. Thats just me though. Love the fire Dragons. really wish I hadnt lost all mine

   
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

Fire dragon looks workable. I'd have to do an orange helmet, but I know Eldars like to be brightly colored sometimes so that is probably appropriate

Lot of stuff primed up, nice work getting ready for winter!

I had my LSS magnetized. I mean, I guess it still is. The scouts never got bases or paint or anything, but they slotted on with magnets and could theoretically go onto a base that had magnets in the right place. The gunner could come out and there was a second mount for the HB/MM. I like scouts enough to maybe finish them even though all of my GW stuff is in stasis/limbo.

Every time I see your guys lined up, I get a slight twinge to paint some space marines, but just a slight one

 
   
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

Orange helm sounds like a plan, I have a few shades to pick from, and it’s not painting yellow! It will also allow me to use helmet color to differentiate my aspect warriors/guardians.

Orange = Fire Dragons
Yellow = Swooping Hawks
White = Dire Avengers
Red = Guardians

I like the FD sculpts, but wish I had picked them up in metal back in the day. Finecast is such a pain to work with. I like the new hawks better then the old ones I have, but am content with the fact that I did get those in metal. Although I did do some helmet work on one of them back in the day I need to decide if I’m going to keep, or try to repair/headswap. I should get some pics of them one of these days.

I thought about magnetizing the scouts so they could pop out of the LSS and onto bases for play, but decided that it was going to be too much work. And paint what makes you happy Grim. Marines are fun and easy, but there is a lot of stuff out there.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Forgot a few things in the last post.

First, got a game in last night. 1,500 points vs. BA. Crusade w/3 objectives. He won, but if we had gone an extra turn I probably could have swung it around. Fun game. I think the only new paint I had on the table was the AsC on the dread. Dreads overall were plagued by bad rolls. All three unloaded on his spartan hoping for rends, only got one (which didn’t even glance) When the final dread of the 3 in the squad finally reached it for CC, I got 5 hits, but didn’t roll higher then a 3 on any of the pen dice. I think this is the last time I’m going to field a squad of three. Very unwieldy.




This is the scheme I went with for the hawks back in the day. Dark blue armor over sky blue undersuit, yellow helm. Done in my blackwash everything phase, a step that will be omitted with any new ones. Red ribbons, for a spot of color to tie them in with the rest of the army. I did the same with my rangers.


Assorted Eldar lead. Lots of stuff, almost all unusable. I could probably muster a harlequin squad, but that would force me to go unbound (or invest more in them) 3 wraithguard (I have a 4th still NiB) not enough for a squad. I don’t recall what project cost that banshee her legs. She might end up on a jetbike some day. Spare metal weapons, from the old weapon platform and WL kits. Newer plastics are much better with magnets, so not much use. Sole banshee, old model with a laspistol. Most of her sisters went into making some WHFB witch elves that went bad. Spider exarch, he’s got 3 warriors painted to back him up. Shame the min squad is 5. Then the old RT guys. The chap with the big honkn’ melta gun is going to get a Fire Dragon paint scheme and join them. The captain with the sword could join the DAs as an exarch. Not a lot of use for the other guys though. They might get paint just for fun. The ML guy might join some death jesters as counts-as dark reapers. Otherwise I think the lot of these guys might be going into a box somewhere to sleep.

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Road-Raging Blood Angel Biker






Canada

the captain is looking good
but whats the story behind the yellow heads?
why not gold? with a goldish yellow base coat?

 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut






Madison, WI

Love the pic of your marines. Size difference between the rhinos is pretty amazing. Glad you had a good game. Dice rolls can't be accounted for.

Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

Gitsplitta's Unified Painting Theory
 
   
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

LordRahl wrote:the captain is looking good
but whats the story behind the yellow heads?
why not gold? with a goldish yellow base coat?


To be honest, I haven’t the foggiest idea. Those two hawks were painted late second edition, maybe early 3rd. ~20 years and half a lifetime ago. I literally don’t know what I was thinking. I looked at the old codexes, to see if I was copying a specific shrine, but none match. Might have got the idea from an old WD? Not sure if you can tell from the pic, but the facemask part of the helmets are in gold. As I don't have a story behind them, I’ll make one now:

Shrine of the Shrouded Sun: The subdued colors of their armor offset by their bright helms, this shrine embodies the ray of light breaking though the darkness. When the Host is embroiled in the storm of war, they pierce the clouds, bringing hope unexpected from above. They prefer to fight obscured by weather, before striking down unheralded on shimmering wings to support a vital part of the battlefield.

Gitsplitta wrote:Love the pic of your marines. Size difference between the rhinos is pretty amazing. Glad you had a good game. Dice rolls can't be accounted for.


On the bright side, the turn after the dread whiffed in CC, I think I made all my armor saves. Dice: our fickle little friends. The old rhinos are actually very close to the modern ones from a footprint POV, but are about a centimeter shorter and less chunky. The angle of the pic there isn’t doing them any favors either.

   
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

Took this pic the other day, forgot to post it here:


WIP on the Oni. I think I might go with a blue/white flame.

Hope everyone is enjoying International Talk Like a Pirate day. One of the holy days of the Pastafarians. Cooking up some spaghetti sauce and meatballs as I type this, for dinner in the FSM’s image. Ramen.

I guess it’s late enough to start drinking rum. Although it was pointed out that drinking rum before 10AM doesn’t make you an alcholic, it makes you a pirate! Although I do need to stay sober enough to paint. We are having friends over for dinner, and us guys are going to paint while the women folk chat. He mostly does (incredible) model car work, but wants to branch out into figures. So I have to put my teaching hat on.

Stay safe, drink rum, and watch out for the sharks.

--Nev

(arrrr...)

   
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Steady Space Marine Vet Sergeant





United Kingdom

Painting night sounds like fun! A few people at my LGS are trying to organise a group painting session in the store. It could be fun, but a bit of a hassle to bring paint down etc.
I think I missed it(?) but where is that model from?

And, what's a Pirate's favourite letter in the alphabet?

   
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

 Zambro wrote:
Painting night sounds like fun! A few people at my LGS are trying to organise a group painting session in the store. It could be fun, but a bit of a hassle to bring paint down etc.
I think I missed it(?) but where is that model from?

And, what's a Pirate's favourite letter in the alphabet?


I used to (about 3 FLGS ago) bring my paints to the store to work. It was a nice way to be social, get work done, and teach people. That was also when I was single and living in a cheep apartment. I tossed the paints I was using into a CCG box (1,000 count IIRC, long and thin) along with my project and brushes. It wasn’t too cumbersome. Of course, I learned the hard way that some paints don’t freeze well.



So this happened. A lonely sister of sigmar, Her blisterpack sister long ago painted, her game system dead, long suffering on the back of the paintbench. But I needed an face to work on, and her’s stood out. I did her eyes as well, but before the wash, so they got kinda lost. I guess I’m going to have to finish her up now; should probably figure out a paint scheme.

Seeing that I painted her to help someone learn, I’ll repost my face technique here:
Basecoat: Here I use a talleran flesh. It’s on the dark side. I sometimes use elf or bronzed flesh
Eyeballs: Fill in the orb of the eye in white. If you are like me, there is going to be some slop outside the socket. That’s OK
Cornea? (the color): Pretty much a vertical slash of color down the eye. The hard part is consistency in both size and direction.
Clean up: Use the base color to trim back all the slop. They bulging crazy eye should look reasonable at this point.
(I often stop here)
Wash: Adding a wash brings out a lot of details of the face. It’s a good step to do. I put a little too much on here and lost the work I did on the eyes. But if I had done the eyes later, the smooth transitions of the wash and depth of the sockets would be marred. I hate painting faces
Highlight: Another optional step, but gives good results. You want to hit the places light would catch. Nose being the main point, but eyebrows, chin/jawline, and ears also got hit here. I just went back with the basecoat color here for simple post-wash highlights.

The demon is Kyoso no Oni, From the Clan Wars game. AEG’s L5R miniatures game, part of the showdowlands faction. I’ve got buckets of stuff from that system, some of it even painted! And by painte I mean a handful of samurai and archers got some color slapped on them. Never really took off, but lots of cool minis.

   
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Near Golden Daemon Caliber






Illinois

Game looks like it was nice. Solid scenery and painted armies on both sides? Good stuff.

Sucks that they make dreadnoughts look so cool but then only moderately useful.

 
   
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

I’ll put up with moderately useful for looking cool. My big problem was diminishing returns of squadroning. One is fine, two would probably still be OK. Three was too many.

I know it’s not Friday, but I was digging through some old files and found the old web page I made for my army. My note at the bottom of the page said it was last updated 5/15/00. I wonder if I still have those 3rd ed stat cards I made kicking around somewhere...


   
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Is 'Eavy Metal Calling?





UK

That face is great, looking forward to seeing the finished thing. Always cool to see something different!

 
   
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Madison, WI

Aarrrrgh! My EYES!



Anvildude: "Honestly, it's kinda refreshing to see an Ork vehicle that doesn't look like a rainbow threw up on it."

Gitsplitta's Unified Painting Theory
 
   
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Aarrrrgh! My EYES!




What’s that? You want to see some of the close up squad pics? OK, but only a few of them.







To be honest I have no idea what camera I was using back then. And I know my photography skills were lacking quite a bit. I know I worked the pictures over in photoshop, but I think that was just to put them on a black background, and not to color correct. Which they desperately need. Compare a more modern pic of Captain Fabian:


And if you think your eyes hurt, you should see the neon green on black webpage I pulled the pics from. At least I didn’t use flash tags.

   
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Plymouth, England

Damn those are some old minis, sorry "retro/classic". Are they meant to look purple though?
   
 
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