Dakka (Unofficial) Painting Challenge Round 13: March 2016: Space Marines!

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**kb_lock**

Another successful case for our clients at Goodman and Hutz

**Buttery Commissar**

Paradigm wrote:
Buttery Commissar wrote:
Ah never mind then. Forget that proof.
I was going for a rainbow of tiny squads or a long strip of 20 single tiny marines. Popping them all on 5 bases wouldn't really work for that idea.

You know what? It's not like you're going to get a massive advantage by doing a load of small minis, and as kb said, they'd technically fit on 5 bases anyway! The rules are in place to stop people getting ahead by entering a whole load of models and to keep things focused, not to stamp on creativity. Go for it!

I owe you one!
What I wanted to do originally was make a tiny version of that old poster with the legions on it.

It'd probably fit on a credit card.

**xSoulgrinderx**

Paradigm wrote:
@BC: Can I ask that you only enter 5 bases (one base=1 'mini' is my general rule for small scale stuff)

@Moolet: Looking fantastic! These weathered BA you're doing are very close to being the kick up the backside I need to revisit my own (again... this time will be the 3rd redux! )

@xSoulgrinderx: I don't mean to be an arse about it, but I'm hesitant to allow that simply as the theme is Space Marines, and as far as I can tell, that's in no way related. I'm open to more than just actual astartes (as you can see from the various other games' naval military units, ie Marines in Space, that have been entered), but unless there's something I'm missing, your entry just doesn't seem related enough to be permitted... Hope that's not a problem, feel free to enter something else.

Oh.... in which case I submit my Iron hands legion Fellglaive. I had a spoiler up with the first set of Assassin pics. proof is the black primer. Its been that way for a year now. Never received the paint it deserves If it counts the Fellglaive and Stormlord were done in the same day.

Spoiler:

**Paradigm**

That's a) much more suitable and b) awesome! Hope you don't mind the switch!

**Farseer Anath'lan**

Well, I'm done. He'll be hitting the field tonight.

Spoiler:

Looking good, everyone.

**xSoulgrinderx**

Farseer Anath'lan wrote:
Well, I'm done. He'll be hitting the field tonight.

Spoiler:

Looking good, everyone.

SWEET! Someone else did the running pose and its not just me! I think it looks awesome. Ill get a pic of mine up tonight. Its not done yet. but its posed nicely

**albinoork**

Hi all.

Karl Sten of the NCB Memorial Marines is complete! He is a counts-as version of Vulkan He'stan.

Spoiler:

Thanks and take care

**Januine**

Lovely stuff there albinoork.

**methebest**

Buttery Commissar wrote:
Ah never mind then. Forget that proof.
I was going for a rainbow of tiny squads or a long strip of 20 single tiny marines. Popping them all on 5 bases wouldn't really work for that idea.

You could always use the rectangular epic bases you'd only need 4 bases that way.

**angelofvengeance**

Here's my entry plus a bit of stuff I've done on him tonight...

Suffer not the Alien, the Mutant, the Heretic.

**albinoork**

Januine wrote:
Lovely stuff there albinoork.

Thank you!

**Buttery Commissar**

methebest wrote:
Buttery Commissar wrote:
Ah never mind then. Forget that proof.
I was going for a rainbow of tiny squads or a long strip of 20 single tiny marines. Popping them all on 5 bases wouldn't really work for that idea.

You could always use the rectangular epic bases you'd only need 4 bases that way.

I don't want to base them.

**Januine**

Waheey progress - Brother Goriel gets his armour on

**SlaveToDorkness**

aaaand I'm back to hating you a tiny bit, Jan.

That looks great already!

I'll get some paint time in today...maybe enough to get a WIP shot.

**Tim 121RVC**

Well, as promised I'm going to enter this challenge and start my first fully painted mini ever!
Base figure, one of these guys:

**KINGPIN54**

Well my wip, first time trying black and icons, my black dragon

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Yea icons bad , buf have bad brushes.

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Btw jan , dat termy colour looks good!

**Ustrello**

Five of these 30 marines will be my entry. Mostly likely they will be regular dudes

**Nordicus**

Ustrello wrote:
Five of these 30 marines will be my entry. Mostly likely they will be regular dudes

Glad to see I'm not the only one painting bulk here

Looking forward to seeing them with some paint on!

**SlaveToDorkness**

Ustrello wrote:
Five of these 30 marines will be my entry. Mostly likely they will be regular dudes

Madness!

**Nevelon**

After a bad experience painting a whole unit of chaos warriors at once (they came out fine, I didn’t) the most I’ll ever batch paint is 5.

The do look nice ranked up though.

**Kustomer D**

Hey, it´s the 11th of March and I´m done!

The 2 Landspeeders were real fun to "kustomize" and paint.
They might not be the highest of the highest affordable, but I wanted to do something "unusual" compared to my usual work.

Due to the 5-pics-only rule, I´m working on a threat, where you can check out some of the details I couldn´t include in here.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/682694.page (Hope it works like this?!)

Comments welcome!

Good luck to everybody

K D

**TP^DC Deputy Manager**

Ok, so as Kustomer D finishes

, I finally stop lurking in the shadows and submit my proof:

That's Barachiel's termie squad from Dark Vengeance which happened to board The Bringer of Sorrow to fight the Genestealer menace on that Space Hulk (see GW Space Hulk DA supplement if you are completely lost

). And along with them is the Space Hulk Broodlord. I'll enter up to 5 of them.

And spurred on by everyone's supportive comments here is my progress on the Broodlord today (which I have been terrified to paint especially after Januine's and Paradigm's excellent jobs):

**SlaveToDorkness**

Now that is Wicked, TP^DC!

Kustomer, I totally laughed out loud, awesome job!

**NidLifeCrisis**

Got a load of work done on Monsieur Gideon:

For reasons I'll never fully fathom, I decided to leave the shield until last, and now I'm dreading it. I think a week's procrastination is in order (Stompa scratchbuild, here I come)!

**angelofvengeance**

Gideon's lookin good

**Ustrello**

Alright here is my final entry, just 5 plain jane legion tactical marine.

**teban**

Wel.. since everyone is posting progress... here is mine

**TP^DC Deputy Manager**

No Way!!!! The league thread made front page - wicked!

**cman64**

Will be Charnel Guard, one squad of 8 with a librarian, only a basecoat atm (Entry)

**Falienia**

So I just joined the forums yesterday and I havent painted since I was 13. but heck, I might join in for this :S
Gonna post up my proff picture when I get home from work