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Thanks Ygg,

I've played with my camera and posted/ replaced some hopefully better pictures in the pervious post. Better?

Here is a pic of my hacked apart Sternguard PC's hopefully they don't look to out of place..


one of the better shot , or so I think...


All that is left is basing. I'm hoping to get all the Tac marines done this week. Then on to an apoth I been delaying!

Awesomesauce! Pic's are much better SL. Man those guys look good.

Did you see the builds for my heavies? They're up on my blog now (unfortunately as an append so it didn't bump the blog).

Nice job solar lion. My only critique would be that they are missing your awesome checkers. Other then that they look great.

 IceAngel wrote:
Nice job solar lion. My only critique would be that they are missing your awesome checkers. Other then that they look great.

The sternguard box set all has detailed shoulders. Not sure where I'd put them.

PS. Looks like an Ice Angel made the front page .. Most excellent brother!

Did you mean to only paint three backpacks with white side vent things?

Thanks for the front page comment!

I wasn't quit sure. At first I thought I would then I thought PC's are not atypical Sternguard weapons and they would be standard issue so no..

What's your opinion? Easy enough to do.

I think you should do all the vents in white... just looks good to have that contrast.

you could do checkers on the shoulder pads, so that it looks like the decorations, cruxes etc have gone on top of a regular checkered shoulder pad. would look great i reckon, if somewhat difficult to do

I agree with Calas, especially the two with the plasma cannons, and I reckon the studded pad would be pretty cool with checks.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I think you should do all the vents in white... just looks good to have that contrast.

Yeah it is a nice touch.. At least no one recomended checkering the vents! I have to go back and do some of the older figures but it would break up the yellow.

CalasTyphon216 wrote:
you could do checkers on the shoulder pads, so that it looks like the decorations, cruxes etc have gone on top of a regular checkered shoulder pad. would look great i reckon, if somewhat difficult to do

Great suggestion but are you "trying to kill me?" You might be right. I might try it on a shoulder pad from my bits box; Thou after I get my Adepticon Lists, GMS's and Display done.

Sternguard are looking top, love the pose with the book! Where does that hand come from? I had a couple in my bits box but would be good to be able to source more!

Or maybe try checkering some "original" parts of the armour, such as thighs, shins, or arms ? Even the "knuckle-guard" could look good (if hard & tiny too) !!

Love PCs on Sternguards !

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Sternguard are looking top, love the pose with the book! Where does that hand come from? I had a couple in my bits box but would be good to be able to source more!

It a regular tac marine arm severed and repositioned upside down, no wait it's MAGIC.. yeah that's it.

The Book lists the Names of 4 fellow Dakkites that are on the Lamenters Kill or capture List!

Briancj, WM, Mr. M and Yellowbeard!

Buahhhhhhhaaaa!

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Or maybe try checkering some "original" parts of the armour, such as thighs, shins, or arms ? Even the "knuckle-guard" could look good (if hard & tiny too) !!

Love PCs on Sternguards !

Thanks Ygg! Thats the problem with the Sternguard box set mini. the are detailed everywhere!

they look great man. love the book and the plasma's.

 San76 wrote:
they look great man. love the book and the plasma's.

Thanks San's.. your stuff is amazing! You really have the yellow down. Ironicly my sternguard have the same color scheme as yours. who knew!. I 'll have to tap you for suggestions!

haha anytime mate. the lamenters have always looked more like a Fists successor to me...

Some old Scouts I re-did the paint jobs on




Almost done with 5 of the 20 Tactical Marines

So... are they golden or are they yellow?? (note diff in pics)

Nice work on the scouts, did you have plans for the cloaks?

There more golden yellow. The lighting is a bit different on the POV shot. they are more like the first Pic.

The Cloaks are a bit Mottled .. The theme was urban rubble as I suspect they are always in cover . That why they are dusted and match the base, ( gun and silencer for example - like a modern sniper)

Got it... didn't get the urban rubble thing so they looked kind of unfinished. Have you considered ringing the bases in some other color (like black)? It would make them look a bit more finished.

humm .. I did make the inside brown as a mutti purpose cloak.

You should checker the cloak's. Then no one would see em. They could sneak into the Imperial Chess Tourney totally undetected and mess with people's turn clocks. MWUhahahahahahahha!!!

Actually a checkers cloak might be a cool idea thou grey and light grey.

Actually, a single line of checkers along the border lf the cloak would be awesome.

I think I'm going to steal that idea for an ork nob one day... is it possible to steal my own idea??

Some more pic from the Almost completed Tac squad. Missing the Hvy weapon ( I think I went overboard on the contrast in this shot! )







On a side note here is a picture of one of the extra's that will be on our Adepticon display
Lets call him Meril.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
You should checker the cloak's. Then no one would see em. They could sneak into the Imperial Chess Tourney totally undetected and mess with people's turn clocks. MWUhahahahahahahha!!!

Or speaking of chess boards... Traitor Alice mocks the Sister superior of the Red Queens and proceeds up the stairs to do battle with the Imperial Ordinance called the “ Jabberwocky” and suddenly three red dots appear on her breastplate.. " I thought you had 4 snipers in your list.." A slight smile appears on the sisters face..." You didn't think we'd let the mad Hatman live did you?"

Now back to our regular scheduled program...

Those look fantastic SL... very well done!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
You should checker the cloak's. Then no one would see em. They could sneak into the Imperial Chess Tourney totally undetected and mess with people's turn clocks. MWUhahahahahahahha!!!

+1 for that, and kudos for the Tac squad ! Sergeant looks inspiring !!

Thanks Guys. I'm into the next tac squad of 10. What remains is arms, backpacks and basing. Then on to find a suitable Terminator Libby and MY adeptiocon build is ready to be playtested.

Some clean up then on to a Apoth and some Raptors!

SL U seen my space sharks yet?

More progress on the tactical squads . Painted the shoulder trimand chapter badges, started the basing. Next steps .. finish the basing with tuffs and grass. go back thru the checkers and clean a bit more up.







The armless guys will be the ML's ( waiting on parts)

Also our Adepticon reserve player took the Raptors chapter. Here is some WIP shots of the 2 tac squads.