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Great looking storm eagle!

The vindicator is coming along nicely

beautiful love seeing your machines!

Do you buy your models from forgeworld? Or do you troll Ebay?

The Vindicators and Rhinos I got off eBay already assembled. The Storm Eagle off eBay not assembled. The thing about FW and eBay is you gotta be careful not to end up with some recast. These were lucky finds because they are authentic and already, well built. Thing is, if you find authentic already built and unpainted minis, you are gonna pay more than if you got them from FW. For example, I think a Rhino works out to about $50, I paid about $60 a piece. If I recall correctly. I got the Storm Eagle at market price, I think the guy was fed up with it.
All the other stuff is from FW. Probably overall safer and cheaper that way. Astonishingly.

Also let me throw this out there, I'm looking for a FW Minotaurs transfer sheet. If anyone has one and is willing to sell, let me know.

And the first Vindicator is finished!

Looks good man. Nice job as always.

Good job

Lovely tank. About how far through your project do you think you are at this point?

First, thanks to Guildenstern and LancsHotpot for the compliments.

Six, Ustrello, thank you too as always.

Nevelon, I have all the pieces I need to finish up. I still have maybe 30 marines and a couple tanks. Then I need to build the bases and throw on the weathering powder. I decided not to do battle damage. So I figure about half way. Unless they release more plastic heresy guys before I am done. Then all bets are off!

So the Locutarus Squad is all put together. They are pretty simple, Blood Angels and BaC kit bashes. I think it will do the trick. One of the things I like about the Legions is their armor isn't all covered with what-nots and do-dads. Simple and clean.

So I turned my shooty terminators into really shooty terminators. I went for the white on top instead of the usual gold. I was trying to reserve the white for vehicles only, but the gold didn't look right. Think it worked out well.

Sometimes I forget the sheer amount of dakka you can pile into units in 30k.

Nice looking terminators.

Very nice! I've seen those used in bat reps before and they are sick rule wise.

I always wondered why in 40k you couldn't load up units like this. It would make sense to give your tanks blockbuster weapons, why not your mini walking tanks. Awesome look by the way.

 Theophony wrote:
I always wondered why in 40k you couldn't load up units like this. It would make sense to give your tanks blockbuster weapons, why not your mini walking tanks. Awesome look by the way.

I imagine the reason is resources - the chapters are not what their legions once were.

Loving the look of the new minis, and I agree; the white works well

Those termies are looking awesome fella - really top banana

Nice ternimators

Termies look great, they'll bring some real pain.

EDC

I'll be honest, I despise ultras as they are GW's poster boys.
However, 30k shows them in a different light and makes them stand out through tactics and units.

Painting is solid though and I'll have to keep an eye on this blog.



For those saying about the shooty and hard hitting units, you do pay for them in 30k lol.
Those termies are on par with the tyrant siege terminators for points but stand out alot more because of the colours.

Although, I'm just jealous of cyclone termies as I don't get them :p

Thanks guys. I'm glad everyone seems to like them. On a side note, I'm beginning to seriously doubt the genius of this Gulliman person. Not only did he cut the legions into ridiculously small forces, but also basically disarmed them. Why do away with these guys and support squads and all that again? Oh well. Just a little nerd rage I guess.

In the meantime, transition from shooty marines to choppy marines. Locutarus Storm Squad is all done. I think they worked out pretty well. I couldn't find any examples or art of these guys to follow so I just went with the most elaborate power weapons I could find. Blood angels of course.

And Jackal, I agree. In 10,000 years Ultras went from hard nose Roman Legion marines to dork marines.

All good stuff, shooty and choppy guys are looking great!

That Assualt Squad looks great.

Models look great. Particularly like the finish on those assault guys shoulders. Care to share your recipe?

Damn those are looking good fsu!

The gold shoulder pads are especially good, the Termies look devastating as well. Any army shots due as you have quite the UM collection already.

Good looking figures, nicely finished. Loving the weathered gold effect

 40kFSU wrote:


And Jackal, I agree. In 10,000 years Ultras went from hard nose Roman Legion marines to dork marines.

SMURFs

How did you do the gold shoulder pads? they look epic!

Another slew of kind comments! Thanks guys, I'm grateful so many of you are enjoying the thread. As for the gold, it's Iron Breaker followed by a liberal wash of Badab Black, Agrax Earthshade, and finally Seraphim Sephia. Not sure how I came across the color, it just kinda happened.

As advertised, the second Diemos Vindicator.

The Sang Guard hits look great with the B@C bits.

EDC