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A brief update....

I decided to use Ravenwing bikes to build a vanilla SM bike army. Regular SM just do it better.

Adding x2 Command squads, x2 tech marines, x2 attack bikes.

Should be 2 weeks or so when pictures available.

Wow what a bad ass army, your painting skills are awesome i love the terminator librarian and chaplain very well done

THERE MULTI MELTAS!!!
i thought they were heavy flamers!!!
lololololololol is so stupid!!

Ahhhh Threadomancy, digging up months old threads and adding exactly nothing to them.

The OP has requested re-opening as he will be posting a major update.

Coming to end of my Eldar army (13,000+ points) and want to get my SM army going. It has been sitting on back burner for a couple of years. I went back and forth on what chapter to build. My first army was Ultramarines back in 1998. After some feedback and discussion with friends, it's time to begin...

My plan for adding to existing Dark Angels.

-3 10 man Sternguard w/ 24 combi meltas and 6 combi flamers. Magnetized arms for possible switchouts, unknown options at this time.

-9 bikes for command squads with all the goodies (may give them new scout bikes to look different, painted as RW).

-2 Captains on bike and Techmarine on bike. Have itch to do a bike army via SM codex.

-6 10 man tactical squads w/ flamer and ML (will also have option for plasma gun, melta gun, lascannon, plasma cannon, heavy bolter, multi melta) So each tactical will be 16 man squads fully loaded. Options hurt!

-3 10 man devastator squads with 4 ML (will have option to switchout to x4 lascannons, x4 plasma cannons, x4 heavy bolters in each squad).

-3 10 man assault squads 1 with x2 PP's and x2 with x2 flamers (magnetizing jump packs for options).

-Ravenwing will get finished to 6 attack squads.

-Deathwing will get more TH/SS arms.

-Deathwing will get 3 more Land Raiders with options to be all normal variants

-2 Land Raiders will get green paint to reflect general issue. I will arm them as Godhammers with option to be Terminus, the 5 LC Apoc killer.

-6 rhinos will be setup to be 3 predators, annihilator or destructor, or 3 whirlwinds.

-Haven't figured how many rhinos or drop pods will be built. Probably 12 of each.

-Dreads...I have 2 Deathwing made from Black Reach. May build 2-3 more just to have.

-RW will get 7 more land speeders w/ options to make all variants.

(I already own all discussed, except 11 drop pods and 6 rhinos)

Thought is to robe up, from vet box, sternguard and sgts in battle company. Thought about doing whole army in robes, but that would be way over the top. Need grunts to fight like they mean it and not look like they just got out of bed.

Thought is to run Mk 6 "Corvus" armor. That being beakie head, greaved legs, and torso with hoses on chest, studded shoulder on left, as pictured in current SM codex page 20.


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I plan on playing this as vanilla green marines til DA codex overhaul is more practical to use.

Always have option to play as DW/RW at any time.

Very nice plan, quite similar to mine. It's good to see another brother in arms(or robes, as the case may be). Looking forward to more pics.

Good grief thats almost as ambitious as the 50K points guy! Some beautiful stuff here....Your paint monkey is very good you must feed him well!

Llamahead wrote:Good grief thats almost as ambitious as the 50K points guy! Some beautiful stuff here....Your paint monkey is very good you must feed him well!

He's a good man. Painted 22,000+ pts for me in last 2 years. He recently went back to work fulltime.

I'm a completist, sadly.

If you're a completionist, your mate must be pleased you didn't decide to go pre-heresy then. That really would be a heck of a lot of paint time.

Nice armies btw have check out some of your other stuff too.

Pre heresy legion = 100,000 marines? About $300,000 for just tactical marines. More for vehicles, characters, wargear, etc. I'd say maybe close to 1 million dollars for an entire legion?

ph34r wrote:Pre heresy legion = 100,000 marines? About $300,000 for just tactical marines. More for vehicles, characters, wargear, etc. I'd say maybe close to 1 million dollars for an entire legion?

I guess if everyone on dakka put all their spacemarines together then we might actully have an legion lol.

I am currently doing my deathwing only to 1750 points, planning on doing ravenwing 1750 points.

I am painting them myself but my 1750 points character heavy space wolf and sanguinary guard army are being painted by a golden demon finalist (3rd) for FREE. Its good to have friends.

I am currently in love with GK and have 5000 points.

1750 of purifers
1750 of paladins
3x dreadknight
1x the 5 Lascannon termis
1x dreamforge "GK titan"
6x complete forgeworld rhino upgrades
1x forgeworld dread

they are also being painted.

Then i am getting someone else to paint my other on going armies. I think I spent about $2500 in the last 6 months.

I stumbled on this ancient post and am wondering where this model was sourced from... Anyone know? The original poster seems to have gone dormant.