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Christ... they are all infantry Dragons... O_o

Bring on Perturabo!!!

Yep they are certainly mean and some of their wargear makes them even sicker!!

Yeah I saw the warmasters stuff from the gamesday images I came across... Methinks I'll be picking the book up when its available to order... as well as every Primarch

depending on how much lols

Damn! I can't wait for the book to be released, will be blowing some uni money on that. Same goes for Fulgrim...

Your Death Guard looks excellent, as per usual! Hopefully one day we may be able to play a game or two with some Heresy-era Marines.

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Yeah I saw the warmasters stuff from the gamesday images I came across... Methinks I'll be picking the book up when its available to order... as well as every Primarch

depending on how much lols

The Primarchs are £50 each! They had 1000 Angron models at games day and they sold out around 11:30!

Eiríkr wrote:Damn! I can't wait for the book to be released, will be blowing some uni money on that. Same goes for Fulgrim...

Your Death Guard looks excellent, as per usual! Hopefully one day we may be able to play a game or two with some Heresy-era Marines.

Certainly would love to play some time too!

 Reaper Man 2020 wrote:

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Yeah I saw the warmasters stuff from the gamesday images I came across... Methinks I'll be picking the book up when its available to order... as well as every Primarch

depending on how much lols

The Primarchs are £50 each! They had 1000 Angron models at games day and they sold out around 11:30!

FRACKMESIDEWAYS... ok, whats that... 12ish primarchs? looks like I'ma be even more skint than usual... in the words of bobby singer...

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:

 Reaper Man 2020 wrote:

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:Yeah I saw the warmasters stuff from the gamesday images I came across... Methinks I'll be picking the book up when its available to order... as well as every Primarch

depending on how much lols

The Primarchs are £50 each! They had 1000 Angron models at games day and they sold out around 11:30!

FRACKMESIDEWAYS... ok, whats that... 12ish primarchs? looks like I'ma be even more skint than usual... in the words of bobby singer...

Actually there were 20 but two were killed by the emperor & their legions rolled into the ultramarines I think. That would be £1000 if they made all 20, ouch!

Your marines look great

I bought some of the Maximus armour marines myself but when I'd finished building them I noticed that they were all holding their guns in a weird position.

Is there certain arms that are meant to go together to get them positioned like yours?

 Thamor wrote:
Your marines look great

I bought some of the Maximus armour marines myself but when I'd finished building them I noticed that they were all holding their guns in a weird position.

Is there certain arms that are meant to go together to get them positioned like yours?

Hi Thamor,

Thanks for dropping in. I didn't pick any special arms just the first ones I cut off, I can't remember if i did on this model but some times a little bit of green stuff is helpful where the arms join the torso to get a better position. I'll let you know what happens with the next 9 from this squad.

In fairness Reaper, they've taken that much from me before... probably more tbh lols...

Small update, maybe more later today.

So I got 5 assault marines from ebay, not posed how I would like them exactly but still cheaper than buying from Forge World direct!



I have also built the Cataphractii I got at Games Day;



I can't decide with the captain whether to have his helmet on or not, I'm leaning towards having the helmet on, what do you guys think?

Helmet off?



Or on?



I'm about to undercoat hem and then start the painting of these two units plus the contemptor and the rest of the tac squad. Still annoyed I need to visit Forge World again because in the new Legion army list you need a unit of ten with boarding shields! Grrr!

I would say helmet on. While the face is nice, tactically I don't understand why there are so many marines running around without protection on their heads. That's how lasguns kill you. Don't waste his geneseed on dying from a puny guardsman.

I'm always a fan of helmeted marines so that is how I'm leaning so far. Anyone really like the head instead?

i like the head sculpt but i think it maybe slightly too small for the body ? i would go with the helmet and paint it a contrasting colour

the bare head looks better, as it actually shows the sense of scale between the suit and its wearer. which makes a bloody nice change!

Personally, I like the bare head, even though it makes no sense . I like the cinematic look of it. And this thread is exactly what I have been looking for. I wanted to start a pre-heresy death guard and iron warriors force, and this is what I imagine the death guard would look like. Well done. Oh also, any cool stuff for death guard in the IA book?

And I need to know how you did this white. What I usually do is mechanicum grey (whatever that color is), then administratum grey, then skull white. It looks like you are doing something similar?

GO HELMET ON! THIS IS WAR WEAR A DAMN HELMET! seriously i feel the helmet is more fierce anyways.

I prefer the helmet on as well.

Lots of interesting points of view here, I have also been discussing it with some friends on Facebook. One of my friends who has won multiple Golden Demons has advised the head as it provides more character to the model and makes more of a story rather than the anonymity of the helmet. I think I'm going to go with the head, it will also allow me to go to town on painting his face. Thanks for all the input. hopefully a painting update tomorrow. (I keep doing a double space hoping that a full stop will appear, too much ipad!) Under coated most of the assault marines and the Cataphractii as well as the unit of the Tartaros Pattern Terminators. Unfortunately the can of black ran out so a slight set back. Still should get round it tomorrow!

Might be the angle, but the autocannon dude looks like he's falling over. Excited to see them painted.

Hey reaper man new idea, model the helmet broken showing the face? You know half the face, half the helmet, add some gizmos and such. sounds like it would go well.

whalemusic360 wrote:Might be the angle, but the autocannon dude looks like he's falling over. Excited to see them painted.

Yep he is leaning over a bit too much, I was trying for him stepping up over that rock but it might need him being repositioned.

cormadepanda wrote:Hey reaper man new idea, model the helmet broken showing the face? You know half the face, half the helmet, add some gizmos and such. sounds like it would go well.

That sounds awesome but like a lot of work!!!

Ok so some more progress today got the base coat of grey on a lot of the models;

First the Cataphractii;



Next the Tartaros Termies;



Assault squad;



Tac Squad 1;



Tac Squad 2



I'll be starting on the white soon, also I forgot to undercoat the first contemptor, Damn! I'll get him done soon too.

This is going to be good.

so are you going to go through with the halfhelmet/head idea?

You!

Work faster. I want to see more Death Guard.

MeatShield wrote:This is going to be good.

Should be!

cormadepanda wrote:so are you going to go through with the halfhelmet/head idea?

I think I'm going to chicken out of that one for this army but it is an idea that I might do for next year's Golden Demon entry.

Eiríkr wrote:You!

Work faster. I want to see more Death Guard.

I know, I know, I've been doing Space Wolves on my misc painting blog!

He said more death guard, and i agree, space wolves are over done more white! . Well perhaps i will do the helmet idea before you reaper.. muhahhaha!

How dasterdly of you cormadepanda!

My Death guard test model is on the front page! As well as my Necron blog! I have done another five legs and torsos as well as chroming some more guns!

i am excited to see your results. Don't question my dastardliness.

More Dastardly than Dick Dastardly!