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Karak Norn Clansman wrote:Some really nice work. You're bringing a corner of the setting to life in tabletop.

gobert wrote:Fantastic work on the terrain, the rampart stuff is cool, but the building that splits in 2 is genius!

I appreciate the feed back guys. I've been mostly goofing off, but I did finish magnetizing that Rampart terrain.
Will need to add some floors to some of it before painting. Was also able to build a shelf for my paints with my plastic sheets.
It will hold about 200 or so bottles. It's not fancy, but it is right next to my painting desk, so it is very convenient.
So, I'm running out of excuses for getting my marines painted....

Hell Blasters are done. I almost have a playable army!
Sorry, but I'm genetically incapable of taking proper pictures of miniatures.
They're either washed out, too dark or out of focus. But they are finally done.
Up next may be the Honored of the Chapter or the Spearhead Force box sets.
My terrain needs painting, but I want to experiment with making my own washes and speed paints before starting though.
I need something quick, but I don't want to have to pay out a bunch of money for speed paints.

Lookin' good, mate. Great squad all together.

Good luck with your washes/speed paint experiments - can't wait to see that terrain painted up!

 tzurk wrote:
Lookin' good, mate. Great squad all together.

Good luck with your washes/speed paint experiments - can't wait to see that terrain painted up!

Thank you. It's looking like I'll be customizing my mono posed eradicators next.

The Eradicators have been modded. I turned three regular melta guns into two heavy meltas and one multi melta.
Originally I was going to do a more elaborate backpack mod on the multi melta, but ended up simplifying it. I think it still works.
This will be my "Mark I Pluto Pattern Multi-Melta".

Before painting these, I may be modding and old Space Marine bike into a Primaris sized Chaplin bike.

Great work on those MMs

Those are some amazing conversions.

Thirded. Those look great and should be even better after painting. Nice job!

Nevelon wrote:Great work on those MMs

Not Online!!! wrote:Those are some amazing conversions.

youwashock wrote:Thirded. Those look great and should be even better after painting. Nice job!

I appreciate the feed back.

The bike Chaplin and bike came together pretty quickly. I added a half inch(13mm) spacer between the engine block and the front fender to match the Primaris version.
Then just built a box around it. I think it's serviceable. I have 3 or 4 of the old bikes unassembled, so i can make more if needed.
The first born bikes where from an unopened box still wrapped in cellophane. It was the older version with metal riders too. God knows how long it had been sitting there.

Eradicators done. Next up may be Attack Bikes and 3D printed Not Heavy Intercessors.
Also just ordered a Gladiator Impulsor, new Sternguard and the new Scout Marines.
Need to see the new Scout next to the old plastic ones to see if I can convert then in a convincing way.
I have not ruled out a partial cheesecloth Gillie suit over the old scouts. I would also add a few spacers to them to give height as one way to do it.
The cheesecloth would hide any awkwardness if the spacer are not enough, but will see in a while as shipping will take 3 to 4 weeks.

Looking good. Nice heat stress on those barrels.

TG,

Good work on the Bikes mate. Must do some myself.

youwashock wrote:Looking good. Nice heat stress on those barrels.

Colonel Jacka wrote:TG,

Good work on the Bikes mate. Must do some myself.

Thanks guys. OK, I have my Not Heavy Intercessors assembled. They are a bit chunkier than GW's version.
I did a simple frag cannon conversion into a heavy bolter, but otherwise it was pretty straight forward group.
My first bike is also done and I'll be finishing the rest off with the chaplain bike.

Assault bike done and Chaplin bike halfway finished.

Those marines are, indeed, quite chunky. I like the little shield you added to the HB. It gives a real sense of size and power to the weapon, like the dude firing it needs a little extra protection when he shoot it.

 JoshInJapan wrote:
Those marines are, indeed, quite chunky. I like the little shield you added to the HB. It gives a real sense of size and power to the weapon, like the dude firing it needs a little extra protection when he shoot it.

Thanks Josh.
OK, here is my bike chaplain. I was kind of worried about it as I was building it.
It didn't seem quit right, but after getting paint on it, it seems OK.
So I'm done with the murder bikes and moving on to the Heavy Intercessors and scouts.

Cool looking Chaplain. Whenever I see a Marine bike, I can't help but hear the first few chords of "I Am The Law" by Anthrax.

 youwashock wrote:
Cool looking Chaplain. Whenever I see a Marine bike, I can't help but hear the first few chords of "I Am The Law" by Anthrax.

That was a fun movie.

Was putting together the new scouts last night and found out there is almost enough extra parts for two extra figures.
They just lack the two legs. I happen to have "heroic sculpting armatures" from Reaper miniatures that are a perfect size for Primaris Marines.
I chopped the top half off and added Green Stuff for pants. I also use the other armatures for a close combat version of the scout with a bolter and hunting blade.
I'll just leave him bare chested like a Catachan.

More work on the bonus marines. My Green Stuff sucks, so I'm thinking I will paint their pants black to hide my work more.
I also never really like the blue and white scouts scheme either.
The camo cloak came out OK and it hides the legs too. I just wish I had thought of it earlier.
Well, I did get fourteen scouts out of a box meant for ten. I'm not sure if I want to do the body suit plugs out of Green Stuff or just paint them on.
I guess just do it with putty and if it doesn't work I can scrap them off.

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
More work on the bonus marines. My Green Stuff sucks, so I'm thinking I will paint their pants black to hide my work more.
I also never really like the blue and white scouts scheme either.
The camo cloak came out OK and it hides the legs too. I just wish I had thought of it earlier.
Well, I did get fourteen scouts out of a box meant for ten. I'm not sure if I want to do the body suit plugs out of Green Stuff or just paint them on.
I guess just do it with putty and if it doesn't work I can scrap them off.

The pants look pretty good to me. Are you going to leave them shirtless, like the commandos in Predator?

 JoshInJapan wrote:


The pants look pretty good to me. Are you going to leave them shirtless, like the commandos in Predator?

Yeah, I'm leave them shirtless. I considered a poncho, but that seems like a bit of a waste for the armature.
I'm not sure how to make them stand out as space marines though, other than a big I love Ultramarines tattoo.
Although, I do plan on doing a big tribal tattoo on one of them.

 Tommygun1918 wrote:

I'm not sure how to make them stand out as space marines though, other than a big I love Ultramarines tattoo.
Although, I do plan on doing a big tribal tattoo on one of them.

Well, they are carrying SM equipment. You wrote earlier that scouts shouldn't be as colorful as regular marines (I'm paraphrasing), so I wouldn't worry too much. I'm sure they'll look fine in context.

These are looking great!

In addition to the one guy with the tribal Ultra tattoo, maybe give them a short mohawk? The original plastic space marine scouts from Space Hulk Crusade boxed set had something like a short mohawk.

Your greenstuff work is proper- rock on!

JoshInJapan wrote:
Well, they are carrying SM equipment. You wrote earlier that scouts shouldn't be as colorful as regular marines (I'm paraphrasing), so I wouldn't worry too much. I'm sure they'll look fine in context.

Thanks, I'll see what i can do.

Meer_Cat wrote:These are looking great!

In addition to the one guy with the tribal Ultra tattoo, maybe give them a short mohawk? The original plastic space marine scouts from Space Hulk Crusade boxed set had something like a short mohawk.

Your greenstuff work is proper- rock on!

Thank you, I guess I should have posted a better picture, but one does have a Mohawk.



Well, I did an experiment with making my own crackle paint. Pick up a jar of ($12/237 ml) Golden Crackle Paste and a ($5/20 ml ) brown alcohol based ink.
I mixed up a heaping teaspoon of the paste and added 6 drops of ink to it. It was applied about 2 to 3 mm thick and It dried to the color of light terracotta, but the cracking was underwhelming. It's not what I wanted, so I think I'll try AK-Interactive crackle ($12/100 ml) next. It's still a lot cheaper than GW.
This stuff is OK for general ground cover and I may use it on terrain, just not on minis.

I also looked into making some speed paints, but unless you use a lot of speed paint it's not worth it.

Well, I got a few thing off my check list:
First up, My version of Mikael Fabian, Captain of 3rd Co.
Second, lieutenant Outis Nemo, hero of Serifos.
Lastly, the Not heavy Intercessors.
Maybe the scout are up next?

3rd company is the best company. Nice to see your take on the good captain. How much of the 3rd you planning on collection? Full company? Join the madness!

 Nevelon wrote:
3rd company is the best company. Nice to see your take on the good captain. How much of the 3rd you planning on collection? Full company? Join the madness!

I'm not sure how far I'll go. I have about 150 to 250 minis painted up of the old Ultra minis.
Definitely don't want to go that far. Maybe a playable 2000 point army with a few extra fun minis.


Well, this week I managed to get my scouts primed in black and assembled that five man sternguard box.
There was enough extra bits to convert a ten man box of Intercessors box into Sterguard as well.
I found some old 2nd or 3rd ED metal veteran shoulder pads to go with them too.

Playing catch up. Love that biker chaplain, amazing conversion, fits right in with the outriders aesthetic. The stretching of the boxes of nu marines is mighty impress too, those sternguard are great

 gobert wrote:
Playing catch up. Love that biker chaplain, amazing conversion, fits right in with the outriders aesthetic. The stretching of the boxes of nu marines is mighty impress too, those sternguard are great

Thanks, the bike was a fun quick project.

I just finished three random minis. Jump Captain, Tyranid Vet and Standard Bearer.
I goofed on the Tyranid Vet and Standard Bearer by not giving them white helmets, but I'm probably not going back to fix them.
They'll be fine and since Tyranid Vets are in Legends now, I'll probably use him as a Lieutenant/Captain with shield.
Still need to figure out how I want to paint those Scouts. I'm leaning towards tan cloth with blue armor.

Nice, that Tyranid wars vet is super coll