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Just posting to celabrate view no. 5000!

Here is a picture of the leader of the fedilis (Latin for loyal) a group of marines collectively called the fidelitas
They serve the chaplaincy and are all pshycic nuls. Their job is to deploy on secret missions for the chaplaincy without the chapter master's approval. Few are aware they exist but those who do are well aware of their ability to fight the servants of the dark gods including beasts from the warp.

Just wondering what you on dakka thought of him and what I could change before I make a full squad.
The body is from the dark angel upgrade kit, I have 4 more
The crossbolter is a bolter filed and fitted with bits from the empire handgunners
the backpack is from old chaos sm

Sorry about my '5000 views' post, 'twas a shameless bump. I blame my evil twin Thaddeus
A bit of a painting tutorial as well as an update. Here's how to paint easy urban scouts..
Paint the model black then paint the base Charadon Granite

Now the red:

Details

The finished product

Looking Nice!

Good plan. Primarch models?

Just read the rules, totally unfair in my opinion. thet're well to good for their cost. abbadon costs 275 points and he isnt as good as any of those models! and he is the best of the best. I get that they're primachs but so is Abbadon. Its just too many special rules and equipment.

Abbadon isn't a primarch...
But I see that they are overpowered, then again they are not official rules so it depends if my opponent lets me use them, I could always negotiate points

Chainsaws on their guns like that? I dunno...

o isnt he?????????? they look kool tho

Nah, Abbadon was Horus's lieutenant, not a primark in his own right. He simply took over.

Read the Horus Heresy series.

nah
whats with the cross bow????

I tell you tis true! I read it myself in Heresy no. 1!

For the escalation league I painted these to replace the vets for my first game. Apparently armoured fists can only be used once you have a platoon, harumph! (I know it's in the codex but it's a pain for ig players)
A command squad (they get the chimera) and another guard squad.

In the league I am now on a 308pt army so can include the vets. I played two games.
First we ended up on a 1ft by 3ft board lengthways doing a kill point mission. The opposition force was a tau force of 12 fire warriors, a broadside and a battlesuit. He took out my tank first turn and from then on I couldn't do much but alternate between fleeing and getting rapid fired.
The high point for me was when my junior officer destroyed his battlesuit with the butt of his lasgun!

Next game I played the Tau player's brother. He had brought 12 space marines with no heavy or special weapons, or krak grenades...
It ended up with me parking my chimera on the objective and letting the guard out last turn. Poor boy got deppressed because he hadn't won any games so far. Cheered up after chocolate though

I painted this squad as something to do even though I can't use it in the league yet:

Before paint (well sorta )


With paint:





The plasma guy, an ambitios piece but I am pleased with the result:



The vox caster who looks as though he is picking his nose! :


The binoculars:

Some sm squads wip ie. my weekend project:

Sorry no updates in a long time, Prodigy net went bust so had to set up with BT, hopefully if theyy go bust the government will too so it'll be the least of my worries. I Ramble.

Some pics of the drop pod I got in October:

More sm:

And my crowning glory, the piesta resistance a commisar that I spent more than five minutes painting!

The breastplate had an Asurmen blue wash to make it look expensive and stand out


This is my favourite commisar of all the different models simply because it give of that whole "I'm not messing around" vibe, combined with the riding crop/ close combat weapon


I think that the hand and crop came out well, especially the hand, he probably looks best from the rear (don't read anything into that)



For the Emporor!

Quick league update (which I forgot about when it was due a fortnight ago).
I played 3 games, 2 wins and a draw.

Played my friend's tau and won due to the fact he only had one troops choice in a 4 objective game. Needless to say he took a drubbing.

This time six objectives vs space marines. Same boy I upset last time but he took a dreadnaught. I just survived with enough men to clinch the battle with one objective.

Last game was 250 pts against a new starter in the league with csm. We rolled Kill points and I was utterly wiped out in 3 turns by his 10 man squad in a Rhino.

Now I have 539pts so can use my whole currently painted army at once. I also popped along to a little introductory day and managed to squeeze in a 3 vs 3 battle with 500pts of The Adamantium brotherhood.

cool keep it up and start on primarchs or at least thats wot I'd do and as such its a rubbish idea oh well cool models

waaagh!orksrocks: I might start work on a biggerized marine in preparation for the primarch, I will name this marine Chuck for reasons explained later on...

League update:
I played two games. The first was 500pts agains chaos sm in which my entire army but one guardsman was wiped out (this was a kill points game.
I placed said guardsman in cover where he weathered two turns of my opponents ENTIRE army shooting at him. On the 6th turn he failed a last man standing test and ran out of cover he took 1 passed hit from a rhino twin linked bolter. He went to ground. I closed my eyes and rolled...It was a 6!!!!!!!
This obviously was an event that caused much mirth for me and my opponent until 'chuck'-as he is now called- was brutally cut down by a meltagun later that turn.

The other game was 539pts against tau. We played sieze and control and I was victorios despite killing nothing.

ah chuck I remember him james really hates him doesnt he

I hope to begin biggerizing once I get a sculpting tool
No league updates but check out some other stuff I've been doing here http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/233903.page if you want an explanation for the lack of new models.

Just the start of another platoon, gotta get the new guard dex but for the moment I am strapped for cash (no laughing!!!)




And the infantry squad:

A small update:
At the weekend I went to local GW to pick up some ig advisors I reserved but was told by captain mouse that they didn't have any, despite me being told they had an order coming in. Anyways I asked what they had on at half term and they said mini games day and I said yay and so I went elsewhere and got some vallejo game colour reds and black and the metallic medium. For their Golden Daemonette I painted up this dude:






and I am submitting a bolter armed scout squad for the squad category. Arbite guy is in for scrap demon.

not so fond on the beak of the helm

do you mean the beak itself or the fact that I coloured it bone?
I went for a complete 'birdy' look on this jump pack guy so I thought a beak would look good.