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Looking good. I use that same chaplain. If you replace the bolt pistol with a c-flamer, he makes for a nice cassius.

 Nevelon wrote:
Looking good. I use that same chaplain. If you replace the bolt pistol with a c-flamer, he makes for a nice cassius.

dang, cool idea ill have to hunt through my bits to see if I can make a good combi and find a decent Icon or perhaps try and make one. Prolly could just go down to the college store and get myself a small greek paddle Omega to flip paint and post up on his back

Finished up the wrecks for my army, two raiders and four rhinos, which will allow for wrecks for half my raiders and half my rhinos which is enough for any normal sized game and decent for any apoc game.


The raider wrecks are paper the rhino wrecks are real with a few added pieces here and there on some truly beatup/broken sides/treads

and also to commemorate the completion of some of my homemade nid terrain (scupley made side project I do while at work), here is a picture I've composed I call: IN THE HARUSPEX'S LAIR.
In the year 199-err M 41... Captain Agemman leads two squads of the Ultramarines second company into an attack on a lone Haruspex that has been attacking armour columns for days. Now brought to bear all at once; more than two score bolters, two razorbacks and a land raider spartan all come seeking vengeance!

got another og raider for real cheap off ebay, alas, sans its drive assembly. Whats a techmarine to do? Build another Spartan!
Made use of a cardboard for the rhino body then used one of my old school rhino side hatches, front plate and a old vindicator back door (assault hatch) to bit it over for a more authentic look. Rhino dozer blade and then a plastic master of ravenwing TLHB. Finally used some sentinel armour pieces to cover up the gap in the hull which look kinda rough in these pics but no as such in person/tank.
I kept the original painting on the side doors the previous owner did and then redid/finsihed off the rest of the beast to match the other raiders.


Finished decaling the ugly duck raider and now heres the quartet ready to roll onto a battlefield near you

Finished up decalling on a squad and another rhino/razor. Additionally finished off the ultra blue bits of a baneblade part of a dual kit to make my "Pride of Hera", and made a faded banner for my normal armour chapy

Trying to keep chugging at this while Im halfway on vacation... speaking of which, now I'm going to go work sound at an event in a water park defending electronics when I should be swimming!

to come next: Techmarine and Collosus! and TERMINATORS! all sorts of weird dangerously poisonous models headed this way!

Squad four arrives. Ill be on a short hiatus while I switch my library/war-room with my bedroom before I basecoat the second half this project. But should be many battles ahead as one of my friends and roomates whos moving in is a longtime player who also does fantasy, and all eras of historicals! Which will give me an inscentive to finish up my egyptians and cataphracts!

Finishing up the first squad of termintaors.
Sadly these guys are without banner pole as I got them for free from a friend but I was finally able to make use of a metal AC arm Ive had for a sec

Posed Here by their Raider Designate, Decals to come soon

Squad 2 is NIB, I got for a yard sale price last year and for a while had thought about selling but this project made me want to crack it open!



little walk down memory lane...

also if anyone needs some BA terminator banners hit me up I guess

Moving through the fast attackers, worked on some second hand speeders I got

Speeder Squadron a la 91'

(sorry for pic quality my d40's charger is packed in a box while I move stuff around in the house)

I mentioned it earlier but ended up giving them sharkfins as they were already missing so many of their aerials, also some of these guys have some seriously horrific glue jobs left by previous owner but nothing a chissel cant help smooth over a little but altogether not too worried as I got this whole squadron at under half the cost of single new speeder. Magnetized me some weapons on them waitin on some bases in the mail and its time to harass my opponents tanks

Awesome love it !

Thanks ghostmaker


small update on termies, finished decals and sent them into battle in an inter-roomate battle day at the house where the mowed down swaths of terminators and traitors!


and finishing up my 1st edition techmarine (with second edition servo-arm-pack as not to lose out on newer special rules/weapons)




wrapping up last two troops sqauds soon then fast attack and armory all almost done, after that It'll just be the extras via 1st and 10th company

Further along the chapter warpath I go

Finished up the final three troop transports, doing them in full blue so theyll be rhinos 4lyfe


also finished up troops squad five, both these are about to be hit with some basing and then decals when I do the vehicles too


as I finish stripping the paint of the final figures of the second company...

I look towards some fluffy exspansions to use up some of my less used minis lying around

so onto the ultramar auxillia defense force!

A few RT stormtroopers and valhallans aka normal gaurdsmen in cold gear are going to get some hats/helmets/berets of ultrablue, which I am halfway through my final second vial, right on schedule


and finally, recognizing that individual chapters do not maintain titans let alone knight titans: Arriving at the request of the Regent of Ultramar...
Paladin of Konor!

This is a heinrich5 paladin kit I got for cheap off the bay in a pair set I split with my pal. Built him a rocket pod using some of the bevy of old school H+K missiles I have now. Going to magentize his void/heraldic sheild so he can woop butt at the behest of mr calgar or mr blackheart himself

finished up a squad of mostly snap marines from 92 with a metal sarge and one metal rine to fill out the squad.
Also finished my basic details on the knight titan going to add a few things: decals/magnetized void shields/banners/Icons/gold chains/etc. and the like for its designation as a machine of destruction for chaos or for the Imperium of mankind.

a few shots with my phone camera, apologies still cant find my d40s battery charger : / going to do a bigger full army update when that happens

Whats for dinner?

Squad Five is!

and the titan next to one of my russ

and on his own


after an afternoon of drilling and pinning I rested and then tackled this little big-guy all day in phases, altogether pretty happy with the little bastard.
The kit is entirely stock designed by user Heinrich_5 of spain's ebay, this is mark II, he just finished off his run of the mark III which was similar but had a more marine-full head and a powerfist instead of a chainsword looking thing, also it only came with one weapon option, a simple massive assault cannon looking thing, this one came with a big-gun, a three barrel energy weapon and a two barrel one. I chose the three barrel energy so it could work wysiwyg as the BOLS knight paladin cannon or some sort of other energy gun, something parred between a blade and russ chasis plasma. I also built him a quad shoulder launcher so that he could have a little more variety as a model, making use of the BOLS Knight Warden missle launcher rules (which using would render him "lumbering" in that turn, and I would limit his use of only one ranged weapon per turn)

tommorow Ill finish up his garnishes and possibly have a cool update on the final shape of the chapter and its extra goodies

finished up the knight and gave him his own showcase thread but heres a pic for this one


with his Smurf and Tech void sheilds

and heres everything thats done so far

41/2 squads left to go and im done with the chapter itself, then onto the 1st,10th and the Auxillia forces
and totally forgot but also have to do two space crusade dreads and then my ebay battle victory piece of this weekend, a white metal thunderhawk gunship 1) cause its the one I wanted, 2) it was half as much as buying a new FW one

Huzzah!

Finishing up the vindis and whirlys today then moving onto this monstrosity. Time do some cleaning and then a trip to the art supplies store is in order! then onto the great bit-drain of 2013! I think I have everything needed except for those sensors that sit overtop of the heavy bolter gunmen on either wingtip but then again there also arent the lascannonson this for the modern data-sheet yet so maybe something more creative is due here.

then into the daunting task of making this melon-fether a base. time to use up all my pennys

Finished up the armoury two whirlis and a linebreaker formation all decalled up, now a total of 15 mars pattern rhino chasis tanks ready for combat!

This is a great army you got going. I've been following for a while. I can't believe you got your hands on all this Rogue Trader stuff. And you are certainly doing justice to them.

We Have Lift-off!

after a little minor reconstruction the Metal-Bird is off the ground

Somehow I have managed to get many pounds of metal off the ground safely


I think in the far far future I see this thing getting an acetone bath and a full reconstruction/3d scan/etc which is why I wanted a metal one didnt expect to find a used one for so dirt cheap but also have to do a lot more work in the future cleaning up this dirty bird

post update:

had extra time today for a little cleanup and to wipe one layer of paint off and give it a light prime dirty bird is cleaning up

Only 3 days before I leave for tour so going to table the smurfs till I return had some time today thought to do my first auxillia defense model

nothing too fancy or complex just gaurdsman with an upside down omega

see y'all on the other side of canada. Time for my day job as a noise marine

an hour before we split and all I want to do is paint and decal, if only wargamming gave me free vacations and bar-tabs

Moving through the gaurdsmen going to piant up another chimera and finish of details on other tanks, maybe another vet squad, sentinels, then back onto the marines


Defenders of the Ultramar! Decals soon

the russ is a tank i previously did I redid its barrels in blue to match the UAD colors im using, the chimera is getting something similar, but not decided on it yet


Sentinels!

One fresh and two new all for less than $60 together, I have weapon options for them but probably going to just go with autocannons and H+K missiles, these guys aint the most useful things in the world but I wasn't going to leave them out of this parade of lead

Finished up the first vets squad of IG and their chimera so decided to induct them into the great club of the Defenders of Ultramar

here they are featured in a scene ive cultivated called:

"Wait for it! Wait for it! NOW!"




Heres the panoramic shots:





Arbites Intelligencer Munch looks out over an incoming flank of genestealers about to overtake his precinct:



pictures for the picture god

chugging along on some 1991 style jump-packed marines, the true stuff of the starship troopers lore

based devastators, probably be done in a few days in addition to the last bits of the Auxillia

oooohrah!

There is some solid old school-goodness in this thread!

Thanks

finishing up the assault marines:

ON THE BOUNCE!

and found in my bucket of random rines and old metal errant power armour mk 8 bad boy so hes going to become a librarian with the help of some of my random 94' bits


Were Going Back! Back to the Future!

after a serious paint strippin finished up my homemade librarian made from the bits bucket

Epistolary in mark VIII




Eventually I want to get some of the old metal librarians but for the moment trying to finish up the company squads

another squadron of veterans from the "First Sons of Calth" 55th Regiment of Ultramar

Going to do their decals and basing when I finish up their Chimera

excited about the new GW sprays i'm going to grab one to start work on my Thunderhawk! not excited about the cost of the centurions only because Im probably going to buy a box, youchers!

The UAD Armour rolls on, pretty much all except for one russ and one chimera that I got in trade was built from bits so theres definetly a few rough spots and I dont have all the replacement parts modeling-wise but going to try and finish em off eventually (dozer blades and camo netting all around)

took a day and tackled an old armorcast resin tank and howitzer from the 90s, to be used as a griffon, used an artillery sighter and a tank riding solder for crew, painted for deployment across the universe!

Second sqaud of the Sons of Calth finished, just two more sentinels to go then im through with this part of the Auxillia

Still to come for the Auxillia vet squads from - McCragge (Valhallans), Iax (Metal Cadians), and the Prandium Legion (Trench Warfare themed contemporary plastic gaurdsmen) as well as Inquisitorial retinue and Stormtrooper Squadron (Beret Troopers from 92) from Talasa Prime depending on finances and motivation I may revisit the other planets of Ultramar, probably with smaller detatchments

Next post will probably be Devastators


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I Lied about finished up devastators and went for sentinels instead sooooo...


Finished up the first planetary IG detatchment for the Auxillia finally
got its own thread too http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/550500.page


If the fest im doing sound for tonight gets out in time Ill try and finally get back to the power armoured budies that have been daunting me

Back on the power armoured path...

Finishing up work on the weapons section of Devs Sqaud 1, paint scheme rogue trader 91 basic like I did the Fast Attacks


and started up two sqauds of RT marines, first one is mostly metal from 87 and few from 88-89
the second is entirely plastic from the kit from 88-89


I'm gonna trade for another set of the plastic rines so I can fiels them as two sqauds of ten, then Ill be fairly close to a small (and i mean that in comparitive scale, as well) 30k Ultramarine Legion army: Centurion, Master of Signals, Apothecary, three mark 6 armour squads, 4 Mars pattern Rhinos/Razors and Raider Proteus, also always serving as 40k veterans