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40kFSU wrote:Dude, well done. He looks like the boss of war.

I know right? The rules for him fit perfectly too, I can't wait to field him for real sometime soon. maybe even this weekend

angelofvengeance wrote:Lovely job there Ustrello Looking good!

Thanks! I usually try and save HQs and independent characters for later but he was just sitting there and staring at me so I had to finish him

Master Azalle wrote:Great Work! Love the stuble effect!

It was actually the gw stubble tutorial, but instead of dawnstone I used corvus black instead. I tried abbadon black on another model a while ago with disastrous results

Nex looks great, love the kill marks and the face in particular!

 Paradigm wrote:
Nex looks great, love the kill marks and the face in particular!

Thanks para! I was really happy with the face myself.


Well another update and another 5 tactical marines almost finished. All that is left is to finish up the line highlights (stage 1 and 2), get the decals down, weathering and the bolters. So I should have them done by tomorrow mid morning depending on how late work keeps me tonight. Next up after them is 3 more regular marines, the sargent, the vexilla guy and the apothecary.

As the title states I got the second batch of tactical marines done bringing my total to 10 for the army and 1/3rd of the way done with the tacticals. The pictures aren't the best (I really need to buy a camera instead of my phone) but they will done since they are just line guys and nothing special. Next up on the docket is painting 3 regular dudes, the vexilla and the sgt, after that I will paint the squads apothecary and then re start the process for the 2nd squad. Once those are all complete I will paint up the Alvarex Maun model I got sitting on my desk and move onto probably the contemptor and after that the deythan or dark furies.

It is always a nice feeling to get a squad of core infantry painted and out of the way, so well done. I think they look great, I especially appreciate the chore of highlighting all that Black power armour.

What is the symbol on the left shoulder pad? Whatever it is it looks cool.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
It is always a nice feeling to get a squad of core infantry painted and out of the way, so well done. I think they look great, I especially appreciate the chore of highlighting all that Black power armour.

What is the symbol on the left shoulder pad? Whatever it is it looks cool.

Yeah it is nice seeing them all together nice and painted (I am setting all the models out right now in preparation for tomorrows games). But the shoulder pad transfer is actually the tactical line unit icon for the raven guard. If you look at Nex he has the special unit marking on his shoulder pad.

Well I got some more work in tonight and built the rhino for my mor deythan, I decided to add a real dozer blade to it instead of that flimsy looking one that FW has in their kit. With that all of the models for my july game have been built.

Well its been a slow weekend here for hobbying. I really didn't get much done yesterday as I was at my local GW (almost got first place losing by one vote with my ironstrider) all day testing out my legion some more. It fared pretty well against a adeptus mechanicus list that was using a formation and got some lucky sniper shots against my fire raptor. I honestly think besides anti armor I got the list down pretty well, so to remedy that I will be making a support squad with meltas. I also ordered the new forgeworld underslung las cannons for another heavy weapons squad and a leviathan siege dreadnought with a claw, melta cannon, and storm cannon. I know the leviathan is pretty point intensive but it is a really cool model and I have always wanted one since they came out with it.

I also started work on sprucing up the fire raptor base with a space marine casualty. But I am at an impasse as to what paint him as, world eaters would work as it is a white model and will offer some contrast but a deathguard marine would be less of a stark of a white color. But do any of you have another suggestion for another traitor legion?

Well I hope everyone had a good Easter and a nice weekend. I actually got all of my homework done before sunday night so I actually got some painting in instead of rushing to write papers . So I started on the last 5 guys for the legion tactical squad. I am going by the fluff in the books so the Sgt. would have a white face plate and since he is a veteran he gets a white stripe going down the center of his helmet (I was thinking of red but I will be doing that with the apothecaries so I didn't want any confusion). I plan on getting these guys done before the end of the month so I can say I actually got an entire squad done in only two weeks instead of taking a month or more .

I am still debating on what traitor legion to use for any dead marines I got on my bases and I am adding the Sons of horus to the mix but I feel they might be a bit too dark of a color scheme for the base but on the other hand they will add some color to it. So tell me what you all think might work best!

The models look great! Nice work on the pale skin for the helmetless marines

 Master Azalle wrote:
The models look great! Nice work on the pale skin for the helmetless marines

At one point I was so scared to paint skin that I never had a single guy without a helmet. I got a bits box full of space marine heads . But now that I actually know how to paint skin and faces I find it enjoyable as it help breaks up the army a bit

How about using a dead Iron Warrior for the base of the raptor. You could do a gritty metal for the armor color, not as stark as a world eater, but also not super shiny silver either.

 Theophony wrote:
How about using a dead Iron Warrior for the base of the raptor. You could do a gritty metal for the armor color, not as stark as a world eater, but also not super shiny silver either.

That is not that bad of an idea, maybe a lead belcher base with ironbreaker highlights and lots of rust etc.

The Hazard stripes could really draw attention as well.

 Theophony wrote:
The Hazard stripes could really draw attention as well.

Good point, looks like the guy will be painted up as a iron warrior then. It'll also fit the corax base as the guy he is killing is a mk2/mk3 marine.

Alright I got some work in on my tactical marines last night (I didn't break out the light box for these guys so please don't mind the sub par pictures). I finished up the extra CCW, the transfers, line highlights and the lightning claws on the Sgt. Up next I gotta finish the base, weather the legs and paint the rims of the bases. I figure I will do a collage for these 5 then do one for the entire 15 man squad to show them all together in their glory . Up next will be the units apothecary and I will start all over again on the next tactical squad.

I like the idea of a Sons of Horus or Alpha Leggionaire on the base. The thing is with Raven Guard the "Allies In the Age of Darkness" has loyal legions as the least likely to ally with the RG, namely Salamanders and Space Wolves. Then follow Night Lords, World Eaters, Death Guard, Word Bearers and AL as distrusted Allies. Everybody else is treated as "fellow warriors".



Good work on the Tactical Squad, I especially like the sgts helmet and claw.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
I like the idea of a Sons of Horus or Alpha Leggionaire on the base. The thing is with Raven Guard the "Allies In the Age of Darkness" has loyal legions as the least likely to ally with the RG, namely Salamanders and Space Wolves. Then follow Night Lords, World Eaters, Death Guard, Word Bearers and AL as distrusted Allies. Everybody else is treated as "fellow warriors".



Good work on the Tactical Squad, I especially like the sgts helmet and claw.

The alpha legion makes sense because they are the hated legion for the RG, but that metallic scheme would be a lot to pull off since I don't own an airbrush , so I am leaning towards the SoH, DG, or IW the first two my buddies play so it would be a fun little jab towards them thats for sure. I may just roll a D3 for it just because I am at an impasse

Well I did it guys and gals I finished a full 15 man squad in a little under two weeks time. I will be getting a more stylized collage picture up tomorrow and then do a little photoshoot of all 15 of them in all of their glory .

Looking awesome! And I'm all for using your enemy's scheme on your bases!

Great progress. Keep it up.

Really digging your raven guard, not something I usually say about the Men in Black as they always seem to come out flat.

Paradigm wrote:Looking awesome! And I'm all for using your enemy's scheme on your bases!

It is always a fun little thing to do, but it is hilarious when the person you are doing it to starts using your armies color scheme in return on their bases, much like what happened with my dark mechanicus

Theophony wrote:Great progress. Keep it up.

Really digging your raven guard, not something I usually say about the Men in Black as they always seem to come out flat.

Thanks man! I think I was a bit masochistic painting a black scheme army but thankfully I had a lot of practice and I am half way decent at it

Just PM me if you want an easy AL scheme, I have never even looked at an airbrush as they are cheating (well more that I am set in my ways and scared of new things).

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Just PM me if you want an easy AL scheme, I have never even looked at an airbrush as they are cheating (well more that I am set in my ways and scared of new things).

Just did thanks!


Alright well I did it, I finished 15 legion tactical marines in less than two weeks and that is including a day or two here and there I took off as a break! I am really happy to have finished these guys and its nice to see one large unit all done. Up next (painting as I am typing) is the apothecary for this squad and then re starting the process with the next legion tactical squad.

Well trying to keep with my new found speed (and the thought of finishing one squad and their attachments in two weeks) has led me to almost finish the apothecary. All that is left is weathering, some blood effects, the base and matting down the transfers. Which I should have all done by tonight.

One a secondary note, what do you all think of the brown I use for the base rims? I really can't leave them black as it just feels weird to me but I have gotten a few comments that the brown takes away from the model. So if you do think it needs to change what color would you suggest? Maybe a neutral grey like adepetus mechanicus standard?

All looking good!

I see no issue with the brown bases; I'm preferential to a black base rim myself, but I don't think the brown would detract. Against the white background, it might throw the focus off a bit as you've got black on white and then brown in the middle, but once they hit the tabletop it should all blend in nicely.

 Paradigm wrote:
All looking good!

I see no issue with the brown bases; I'm preferential to a black base rim myself, but I don't think the brown would detract. Against the white background, it might throw the focus off a bit as you've got black on white and then brown in the middle, but once they hit the tabletop it should all blend in nicely.

Yeah that was my line of thought, that it was the light box taking away from the models because they do look good on the table top

Brown looks fine to me too, especially given the models themselves are mainly black. The Apothecary looks as good as done to me.

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
Brown looks fine to me too, especially given the models themselves are mainly black. The Apothecary looks as good as done to me.

Yeah that is a good point. Since I was on the fence about the rim color at first I think I am susceptible to people thinking it is wrong

Speaking of apothecaries though, I finished mine up last night and got some pictures today. Overall I am sorta happy with him, I am not the biggest fan of the sculpt so I think that plays into it and I didn't go into it with a solid plan and kinda just painted this guy on the fly.

Either way he is done now so next I will be working on..well bad news is that I only got two tactical marines primed and it will be nasty for the next few days so no priming for a bit. So the plan is to get those two done at least and then work on maybe some of the special units in the mean time. So what does everyone want to see done first, the mor deythan or the dark furies? I leave it up to you folks.

He looks great!

I vote MDs first, if only because I have some not-MDs from Anvil that I need inspiration for!

 Paradigm wrote:
He looks great!

I vote MDs first, if only because I have some not-MDs from Anvil that I need inspiration for!

Oh were those the cloak scout guys they have? I feel like those are a pretty decent fit for counts as mor deythan.

Also I am inclined to do MD today after my game today. I was playing a 40k ultra player and he had a ten man terminator squad with chapter master and I was able to get the fatal strike off with 7 combi flamers and ended up killing the entire unit through rends (had around 15) and wounds (around 30)

They're the original version of those models, sadly sans cloaks (though I may greenstuff some on, nice and tatty due to my appalling sculpting skills the army's rugged theme )... Always tempting to grab the newer versions, though.