Angrygriffin's metal nostalgia marine force

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**angrygriffin**

This guy is a bit newer than most of what I plan to include but it's hard to pass up a metal Space Marine:

This guy is not nearly as tippy as I had expected!

**youwashock**

There's an impressive hunk of metal. Nice find!

**angrygriffin**

This guy was a bit of a shock after painting up some of the older sculpts - so much detail... I'm leaving him for now until I figure out what I'm going to write on the scrolls. Going to re-do the lenses as well as I'm not as happy with this attempt.

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**youwashock**

Looks like you could just get some red back on the rim of the eye socket and be good to go. Hard to see the rest of the lens from this angle. Other than that, he looks vivid and awesome.

**Dysartes**

angrygriffin wrote:
Found a metal scout with missile launcher - took me a while to find him in the catalogues as he came way after the rest of the Scout sculpts.

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I think this guy is the only one of the metal vanilla Scouts - as opposed to Wolf Scouts - I don't own at the minute. And he seems to have vanished off eBay entirely, which is annoying.

Well, I guess there's Namaan, too, but I'm less bothered about him.

**gobert**

Lovely work on the Vet, captured the vibrancy of the era

**angrygriffin**

Cheers! Spent a couple of nights on this Scout, another couple and he'll be done. Plenty to clean up and a few more coats to go on a couple of pieces but I'm happy so far. Pleased with the blend on his right shoulder across three shades of blue.

**angrygriffin**

I'm calling the scout done for now.

**Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll**

That's absolutely gorgeous skin tones and the eyes are so tiny but so clean! Great work.

**angrygriffin**

Thank you! I’m going to have a crack at the rest of this scout squad to try and keep up the face practice, it’s something I have been avoiding for some time and need to keep working on.

**youwashock**

Great Scout! How many painted models does this make for the project?

**angrygriffin**

Cheers.

Six now, I think. The initial goal was to do twenty and build out from there - I am hoping to get the other four Scouts done this month which will be the first squad done, and I have modeled the left arms of the Devastators to my satisfaction now so I can finish that squad off through May which should bump up the numbers a bit.

**gobert**

Cool work on the scout, the skin practice seems to be working! I love the dusty boots too, is it just pigments or something else?

**angrygriffin**

gobert wrote:
Cool work on the scout, the skin practice seems to be working! I love the dusty boots too, is it just pigments or something else?

Cheers! Yeah, that's pigment on the boots - I'm a little while away from getting the bases done but in the meantime I want to play around with which pigment colour I want to use on the bases and minis. It's going to be in the orangey/red/yellowish range, I think, but the good thing about pigment is that until I set it I can easily take it off the mini with no trouble and apply another colour to see how I like that one better.

**angrygriffin**

Found Sergeant Naaman and the last few Scouts I was missing - so now I have all of them bar the Fenrisian guys from 2nd. Ed onwards in metal, I think.

Also found the OG Marine. I made a list so I can keep track better.

https://angrygriffin.net/metal-nostalgia-force-list-of-miniatures/

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Finished one of the Scouts. Tried a new varnish, not as matte as I'd like.

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**angrygriffin**

Another Scout done. Aiming to have the remaining two members of the squad done within a week to make it an entire squad this month.

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**brushcommando**

Great work on those scouts! Seriously some of my favorite metal models. So much character compared to their plastic counterparts.

**Dysartes**

Nice work on the Scouts - I really should get the squad I'm working on wrapped up soon.

**angrygriffin**

Thanks guys!

One more down, just the Sergeant to go...

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**angrygriffin**

Alright, I have had altogether too many goes at the eyes here and I'm calling this one done for now. Happiest with the blend on the hazard stripes.

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**youwashock**

Hazard stripes look amazing. Always a cool choice.

**brushcommando**

Beautiful paintjobs on the scouts all around. Your pride in your hazard-striping is well-earned.

**krijthebold**

Yes, those are basically the perfect hazard stripes. Very cool.

**angrygriffin**

Thanks fellas! Keen to do some more chainswords like that...

Picked up a partial old gem:

Needs some parts, but I think it should clean up nicely!

**angrygriffin**

Playing around with some oil paints for the first time, on a metal Techmarine:

Remarkably easy blending them! That's about ten minutes of work with two blues and a white. Not sold on the lightning effect but I got a bit carried away!

**youwashock**

Nice axe!

Can't wait to see the refurbished Raider.

**brushcommando**

I, too, am quite excited to see the original land raider restoration. An excellent model. Especially in the old Ultramarines colors.

**angrygriffin**

The Land Raider was plastic cemented together and has been a bit difficult to clean up so far so that's gone on the backburner until I get some more infantry done.

Last month was a write-off for painting, but I'm hoping to get a whole squad done this month! WIP on the sergeant's power maul:

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**angrygriffin**

Alright, that guy is done:

Anyone know of another non-Chaos Space Marine miniature with a power maul/mace?

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**gobert**

That power mail is properly cool! Great glowing effect. The lenses came out sweet too.