The Crusade begins! FOR THE EMPEROR! FOR CORAX! (page 8)

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Thanks to the monthly painting competition hosted by Paradigm I am doing stuff again, yay!
(If you want to enter the competition, go here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/665629.page )

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More gusrdsmen pics.

**Matthew**

Nice. What did you use to convert them?

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It's on the other thread.

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It's alive!

Almost.

**evildrcheese**

Us that a troll face I see on the shoulder? Lol.

EDC

**Matthew**

Nice job, man! I wish I worked that quick.

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EDC, yes it is, and Matthew, you work a lot faster than me.

**Matthew**

ahahahahahhahaha no.

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Well, in an uncharacteristic dash of hard work on my painting, I have managed to finish my knight before the week comes. Yay!

(Click on the pics/view image to see in high quality.)

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Better pic. (Still need to click on the pic to not see it sideways.)

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Oh look, new toys...

**KaptinBadrukk**

CREEEEEEEEED wrote:
Oh look, new toys...

CREEEEEEED!!!!! My Good Man!!!!! Glad to have you back!!!!

I see you're taking an interest in Maelstrom's Edge. That sounds cool.

How you been?

**angelofvengeance**

Look forward to seeing how you get on with MEdge

**Matthew**

Brotherman! Nice! I uh... I have no idea how the MEdge kit looks. Feth!

**evildrcheese**

Ooo shiny!

EDC

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Well, Badrukk, it's been a while, but I'm still good. AoV, since it's my GCSE year, my parents have agreed to get the models pro painted while I do mountaibs if schoolwork, so I won't be painting up the models, but, I will be using the scenery kit inside the box, so you can check that out.

**KaptinBadrukk**

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Well, Badrukk, it's been a while, but I'm still good. AoV, since it's my GCSE year, my parents have agreed to get the models pro painted while I do mountaibs if schoolwork, so I won't be painting up the models, but, I will be using the scenery kit inside the box, so you can check that out.

Once again, glad you're back.

Looking forward to stuff from that kit!

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I'm just a teensy bit *sarcasm* dissapointed with how this came out.

Safe to say the main force won't look like this guy, but the other shadow walker probably will for continuity.

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I hope I did the colour scheme justice. Either way, I'm much happier about this than I am the shadow walker.

**Sgt. Oddball**

Nice going! Are you painting up both forces or just Karists?

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Eventually I'll get round to both. I've taken a very long hiatus from anything wargaming, but I'm back and better than ever (maybe). I decided to restart with Solar Lord Macharius, because it doesn't get more Guard than him (also I wanted to get at least one limited rerun model). I've been having problems getting the superglue to bind his cloak to his back properly. I think I've fixed it for good now, but each time I have to reapply glue it gets harder to fix a break. I'm really worried about messing up the process of superglueing him to his base, so if you have any alternative ways, that'd be greatly appreciated. (The photos were taken with a phone, so they aren't the best.)

**Matthew**

Welcome back Creed! I really wanted to order one of the Valhallans, but they were sold out :(

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Thanks. They probably sell for way too much on ebay if you wanna do that.

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So I impulse bought a start collecting box of space marines, I had a dreadnought lying around from a friend and I saw a cool marines army, so marines it was.

Then I took a look through the internet to find a chapter that looked cool/had interesting fluff. So the Raptors are 2nd founding (Raven Guard successors) who have olive drab armour and use stealth, hit and run tactics and try to complete objectives at minimal cost, as opposed to running at the enemy in bright coloured armour while yelling about how glorious the Emps is. Forge world produce some rhino doors for the chapter, which I will probably never buy because if you use them for one rhino, you have to use them fro all rhinos. Forge world also gave the chapter master some cool rules and their chapter tactics are the same as the Raven Guard, pules if any unit stays still during the movement phase all bolters, boolt pistols and combi-bolters become heavy 1 rending.

Tbh, I've quite enjoyed the switch from Guard and Tau, and I don't think I'll add to them for a long time. Not only do I like painting the models, I feel like I have more direction with the SM. I can create a company (over time of course) and I know that that entails, 6 tactical squads, 2 devastators, 2 assault, etc, etc, whereas I never knew what I was doing next with the Tau and Guard.

I finished the tactical squad, 4th squad 4th company, and that dreadnought I got from a friend (it's the one from black reach). I can't work out how to take images uploaded to the gallery and embed them in my post, probably because the tutorial is almost a decade old, so I'll do the usual attach all images at the end to maintain some quality. If you want, there are decent quality (all taken on an iPad, so...) versions in my gallery.
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All the raptor chapter symbols were done by hand, leading to them all looking slightly different. The dreadnought was sprayed black before it got sprayed caliban green and then basecoated again with castellan green, in addition to space wolf bitz that had been glued on being removed, so the model has lost some here and there.