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I want to join the fun! Just got back into 40k and am really excited to get this project going so this is good motivation.
http://imgur.com/a/LMqse starting point. just posted this last night.

I have a prepaint WIP of my armsman, lot of fun but almost 3 hours of work on ONE guy - so much for a whole landing party

Here he is, enjoy.







And yes he is using a Naval Shotcannon, because I am nuts and love scatterguns

 mad_eddy_13 wrote:
I have a prepaint WIP of my armsman, lot of fun but almost 3 hours of work on ONE guy - so much for a whole landing

And yes he is using a Naval Shotcannon, because I am nuts and love scatterguns

Im new to modeling but wanted to ask why you put the green stuff over his visor/goggles?

Idunno... that model may or may not have already had goggles, not as familiar with it as the old/current cadians. It looks about right, I'm eager to see paint on him!

I also like that last space marine, too-big sword is just right

SonOfUltra wrote:

 mad_eddy_13 wrote:
I have a prepaint WIP of my armsman, lot of fun but almost 3 hours of work on ONE guy - so much for a whole landing

And yes he is using a Naval Shotcannon, because I am nuts and love scatterguns

Im new to modeling but wanted to ask why you put the green stuff over his visor/goggles?

I'm basing him off some old GW art and the original goggles didn't match the art so I made some changes - first I cut out the original goggles and then built up the new ones with GS.

Like I said, I'm nuts

Starting picture below. They are basically just primed purple. I'd picked out the chestplates, and the gaffers helmet, but there's still a lot of grey plastic, and a crapton of work to do on them.




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 Eggs wrote:
Starting picture below. They are basically just primed purple. I'd picked out the chestplates, and the gaffers helmet, but there's still a lot of grey plastic, and a crapton of work to do on them.




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PLEASE tell me you are painting soul drinkers!!

Nah. It's my home brew chapter. Similar scheme though.

Cool dude! Ugh, I feel like I've got some competition now...

Ha ha! I wouldn't worry. Takes me ages to paint them. I'll be amazed if I can get them done in a month!

@ SonofUltra: First thing I thought of was maybe Hawk Lords

@angelofvengeance I just read about the soul drinkers and I cant get them out of my head how cool their fluff is. If someone wanted to trade my 2k SM army for a 2K unpainted but assembled SM army I would pick these guys 100%

Looks like fun! Since my poor efforts with the LotR competition I think I'll try my hand at this. Will be painting the Chaplain in this http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/637145.page thread.

I'll try and get some images across later... Can't wait to see everyone's entries, it's certainly looking promising so far!

Welcome aboard, SonofUltra and Captain G!

These WIPs are looking great, that Navy Armsman is really cool!

I might try my hand at this, my entry will probably be my night lord conversion of the primogenitor himself, Fabulous Bile.

 Toastedandy wrote:
I might try my hand at this, my entry will probably be my night lord conversion of the primogenitor himself, Fabulous Bile.

Heresy!

Yay, Fabulous Bill!

Looks like fun. I've only just started back, so no idea how quick I'm going to be. If I wanted to enter, do I have to do that now, or later if I think there's a chance of finishing in time?

@Toastedandy: Sounds good! I look forward to seeing it.

@TP^DC: So long as you provide the relevant starting pic, you can enter at any time between now and the end of the comp, there's no rush. I'll leave you off the list for now if you're not sure, but if you say I'll add you. It's not like there's a penalty for not finishing or anything!

Decided on my own entry, a Wolf Lord converted from the AoBR Captain. That guy is such a nice base for conversions!

Hmm, was going to just load this poor dreadnought down with weapons like they were going out of style... but nothing is really fitting the way I'd like it. Gonna find something to adequately replace the stormbolter (that was already damaged/missing) but I may stop. Maybe I'll just load him down with all of the space marine baggage I can find, that seems like something useful a dreadnought could do.

 GrimDork wrote:
Maybe I'll just load him down with all of the space marine baggage I can find, that seems like something useful a dreadnought could do.

Hah!

"Venerable Brother Agaion, Bringer of The Emperor's Fury, Victor of Heraceles VI, Champion of Ultramar?"

"Aye, what do you require of me, Captain?"

"Hold this."

I've found a Cyclone Missile Launcher does a good job of adding some bulk/firepower to a basic Dread, mount it on the top and it fits quite nicely.

I was gonna snag one of the Deathwind launchers from one of my pods but I didn't see any the last time I looked. I was considering ganking a set of cyclone missiles from a land speeder but it's my favorite landspeeder configuration...

If I don't give him too many outlandish guns he'll still be fairly legal to play, not that I care too much...

Kind of wanted to give him a big-ass sword for his DCCW too.

Relicblade Honor guard:


Mostly made from GK bits. I need to finish my spiritseer and an ancient dwarf hammerer first, but he’ll be the next project I cover over in my blog. If I can keep even vaguely close to my 1/week mini goal, he should be done in time.

Hey there,

Newbie here looking to improve my painting skills. Here's my entry, a 'space marine' captain converted from em4's space ranger kit.

Before conversion: (not my picture - taken from here http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=12401.0):


After conversion and before painting: (sorry about the shocking photos, I'm stuck with a camera-phone for the moment after the proper camera died!)

Pics are a little blurry, but from what I can see it looks good! I like what you've done with the aquila-hilted sword.


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Nice conversion, Nev!

Thanks. Hopefully I'll have a better camera on hand later on in the month.

Alright this is roughly what I'm working with, I'll be doing some modification yet but you can use this as the proof, certainly.

I think I'm gonna use the second position for the missile pod, looks way better IMO, i'll just cut the support part back till it fits. He's got a single barreled meltagun nested in his power fist, I like to think fluffwise it would be retractable. I've got a small spotlight that goes opposite the missile pod, just can't find it right now. The lascannons are gonna get glued in place so they'll be straighter, and I'm gonna cut out the two MM fuel tanks and replace them with what I think is an IG heavy weapon team lascannon power supply. I'm also gonna work in as many of the larger boxes, bike saddlebags, weapon crate+bedroll style bits I can so he can support his brethren in the field. Any suggestions?

Okay, so this is the dude that comes pinned under my toxicrene's foot. Is he going to be solid enough for the contest, you think? Or should I go paint up my spacehulk stuff?

It's got my vote, that is certainly a marine in space, nobody every said he had to be a living marine in space!

I'm also in