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I like the way you used the Vulkan model with out it being obviously Vulkan except for the polearm! Can't wait to see more!

Never the fan of Spacemarines, however I respect the amount of work and skill shown, well done you must be pleased on how these have turned out.

Awesome looking army!! ...... for spacemarines

Cool there mate, Im going to be getting some ultras as a commision soon.

No techmarine ?

How are there so many power weapons in the 2nd tactical squad?

I am completely in awe.

You have inspired lowly smurf players such as myself to create such a beautifull army.

Jaw officialy dropped.

Just finished two guys, which will eventually be a squad of 10. These will be my vanguard veterans with jump packs. Not much conversions, here

Am using the new Blood Angels Honor Guard (??) models. I think they are great and look much more "Heroic" than the GW vanguard vet models. + they are plastic which is nicer and cheaper than the GW vanguard vet models. Just had to shave off most of the blood angels iconography, some of the generic ones are okay. In any case, i think these models are very fitting of the "Angels of Death" nickname space marines get. I hope you all like them as much as I like painting them...will probably take me a while to finish the 10, so will post again when done with the squad.

BTW - The way I do my power weapons are as seen in the sword here (so usually no confusion in the game with models carrying hand weapons). The Relic Blad the sgt is carrying is "turned off" - I just didn't know how to give it a "power weapon" type look as the blade area is quite small.

Thanks btw for all the positive comments.


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BTW - weapons layout on the vanguard is Sgt with Relic blade and storm shield, power weapon and pistol on veteran (X3 - although 1 also with storm shield) and Thunder Hammer storm shield. The other 5 guys have not decided, but will likely be more standard as all power weapons is too expensive in a squad.

Shield on sgt is from Spacewolves

I like the Ultra symbols on their left shoulder pads - nice outlining!

Wow vert nice i like the s guard in ultramarine sheme.

cheers jelle

these are great ultramarines, great work with the sang guard conversions as well!

They do look lighter than the average Ultramarine, more like the classic ones with the yellow trim. But either way they look amazing! Good work.

Nice job with sangunius squad. Love what you did with the blue!

I like everything except the big candles on the one Chaplain's backpack

Awesome paint job I like the predator! Are you going to do a land raider? Keep up the good work.
oops LOL skipped a page very nice land raider!

Your army looks fantastic, great work sir.

I liked how you made otherwise common army with uncommon artwork, great paint job man! keep it up.

Cryonicleech wrote:Absolutely gorgeous.

Sicarius and friends are my favorites, by far.

Kudos to you sir!

Yeah! Go Sicarius!


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Apart from the ing awesome paintjob on them, what an awesome way to use some of the sanguinius lot . As I was already thinking about getting a squad of those beauties, I am now definate. I hope you don't mind but I think I night copy that design. Well Done !

Newest Update Shrike model...converted from Sanguanary guard and terminator lightning claws...overall very simple...

although besides this model, which i finished a few weeks ago, i have put together a second stearn guard squad and started painting - hopefull will have the squad done in a few weeks...also still have to finish the vanguard squad from before

Thanks to you i now respect the ultras, Not a easy task my friend but you did it!

I have to know, where did you get the helmet for the Kantor equiv?

All and All this army looks amazing. Glad to see more people painting up Gulliman's finest!

@ Titanbravo - the helmet i used for Kantor is the Chaos Champion helmet from Chaos space marine sprue. Cut off the horns and added the wings from the dark angels sprue (I think it can all be ordered from battle wagon bits - that is where i got the DA wings)

It has been about two months since i posted; it isn't that i haven't been painting, but i am working on many different squads and assembling so just haven't really finished anything until last night; I finished the 5 man squad of Vanguard Veterans.

Overall, very happy with the way they came out and although they are not the best in terms of playability - although i have had hit&miss success with them - the Sanguinary Guard models converted up to Vanguard are probably my favorite looking models in my army...

So, here is the squad - Sgt with Relic Blade & Storm Shield, Thunder Hammer Storm Shield, 2x power weapon BP, 1 chain sword and Storm Shield... I am working on a five man stearnguard using the FW resin MK II armor and will post when done...

Pics

Very nice...looking forward to slaughtering them some time soon.

How did you make the cheap chap (like where did you get the helmet, backpack, scrolls and what not)?

The Converted Chaplain (the one I am assuming you are referring to) is as follows:

Standard marine legs & body - CSM head and backback (2 heads come in the CSM box set)

Candles are from the Cauldron of Blood (back when bitz ordering was okay); Banner is from sisters of battle banner bearer - chopped off...front is green stuff and plastic card.


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Oh, and crozius is from GreyKnight terminators

Cool thank you

beautiful work, love it! I think they look better in blue than in gold!

Your work is phenominal. Keep it up, and don't let anyone give you crap about the Ultramarines.

Hey All - I have not been completing much lately as the wife is pregnant - and i am restarting my Grey Knight army now that the new codex has come out. I know some people ask "how" i paint the army - therefore, i wanted to give a step-by-step of how i paint them, as well as timing and any tips i can give along the way...

Below are the first couple of steps for me painting my terminators - i am doing 8 at once (I don't normally do this many models at one time) - so it should be a bit slow...

I hope that this helps - for other great ideas please see Exocorps (faces) posts as well as Smurfmaster (UM Symbol on shoulders)

Colors I have used so far: Black; Ultramarines Blue; Scorched Brown; Codex Grey (you will see in Tips that these are the base colors so far)

I tend to put all the base colors on first - that way i can kind of see how the model will look in terms of colors...the order in which i do things can be changed based on preference
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Tips/ Methods:

You will notice that i "black line" the models where there are joints, or recesses. There are multiple methods of doing this, including using a wash/ink, or one that i would like to do but just can't is to use an ink pen from Michaels and go back over the model literally filling all the spaces. The method i use is the slowest

For White: Not seen yet, but I paint white no my models in two ways
1) Codex Grey, Fortress Grey (or mix down with white), 50:50 Fortress Grey White, White - this is how my terminator head and elite heads are done if you look at previous pictures
2) Shadow Grey, Space Wolves Grey, White - this gives the white a bluish tint - this is used on eagles, and wings of my vanguard vets

For gold: Bronze; Devlin mud wash, Gold (but keep recesses or 'dark' areas with wash, 50:50 gold with mithril silver for highlights

Blue: Ultramiarines Blue - Highlighted with 66:33 UM Blue white, 33:66 UM Blue:white

Leather (not on this model): 50:50 Scorched Brown: Black, Scorched Brown (leave recesses dark), highlight with Bestial Brown

Base - Scorched Brown, bestial Brown, Snakebite Leather.



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I will be working on these for the next few weeks and will try and update every day or so...again, hope it helps

Beautiful paint jobs, and awesome conversions, thanks for the tutorial as well, will have to try those techniques next time I paint.