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Definitely onside ring the pads, but as these are push fit marines, I might just order them.


WIP squad, the white and yellow is interesting....but will have to wait for an apothecary.

Ah, the peril of push fits. lovely yellow tones there.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Ah, the peril of push fits. lovely yellow tones there.

Thanks Squire, the perils of push fit indeed. Actually the push fit just turned into a sort of blessing.

You see the first assault marine I was working on took a lot longer than he needed to just to get him to this stage.

Taking upmost care to try and keep the yellow yellow and the black on it’s parts. I started the Sgt and then had an epiphany. Take the unglued arms off you night moron Theo .

Now I can easily reach all the areas of the shield, eagle and back pack without too much risk of getting the black on the yellow.

Sometimes .

Off to work. Only half a clinic today in honor of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. day. I actually would prefer it to be a full holiday, I still will be there all 8 hours, but I feel the man and his accomplishments deserve to be honored as much as Any other non-religious holiday we celebrate.

More good progress on the Scythes Theo, the push fits do have the fact their arms can come off for painting going for them, and if you chop the nibs off, the arms can be glued onto other marines for some added variability! Wish I'd done that with mine but oh well!

Definitely a day deserving of a full day off.

I think Marines look great in the two colour schemes like the Scythes and Howling Griffons. Yours are shaping up to be exceptional.

Loving your new Marines, Theo.

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. Really enjoying this project immensely.so much so that I have started printing some big things for it...the Caestus assault ram is first up. I accidentally made two of one section....so I might have to make two of them . Found a few other files for later as well.

Almost finished this assault Sgt.

Just some touch ups to do. Wouldn’t normally bother as I don’t see them till I take a close up picture, but before logos and transfers happen I want to get him done.

Started on the Lt of the Guard (seriously I have to look up wether it’s sword,shield or blade every time , I’m getting old)

I was going to do the red helmet like ultramarines, since we are a first/second founding chapter of theirs, but that tradition might not carry over.

Very nice! I do like that colour combo

I'd keep the red, really strong. Like it a lot.

Thanks Gents.

If I keep the Red Helmet, What color lenses should he get? I'm leaning black, but I know Green is probably the more logical choice.

Also, White Helmet Stripe? I have not given the other sword/shield/blade guard guys white helmets...yet. Not sure If I should go all Codex on them a Big G is back and will probably make some changes to the codex based on how things have gone in the past 10k years.

Damn son. You are knifing into that Indomitus! And here all my boys sit still on the sprue! I really need to go back and see what else you've been upto over my long hiatus but this is some impressive stuff!

Definitely black eyes. I'd be tempted by black stripe too rather than introduce another colour, but that's me

I would test out green for the lenses, but it could be too busy with the other colors.

So doing research and reading The Lt should keep his helmet color (Black) but have a red and white stripe on the ridge of the helmet . No painting has been done. Long work hours and family time, but that doesn’t mean there can’t be some progress .

Started printing my Ceastus assault Ram and not paying enough attention at multiple stops.

So accidentally printed two “tops” , then accidentally printed two fronts , then last night as I started the “bottom” I distinctly remember walking away thinking “man this spool has gone a long way” and continued walking without checking how much was left . Well it ran out probably 4 hours into the 8+ hours it ran

My face is hurting for some reason , maybe I need to stop facepalming myself with stupidity.

So far the prints are nice even at 0.2, though I have the gun set for 0.04 when I print them.

I really like the print as the designer cut matching holes in the parts which are the diameter of the filament . It’s a great feature, even the door hinges use small bits of filament. So no matter where you are in the world if your printing in filament, you have the right pins.

Off to download new files.

Regarding your Assault Intercessors, you were smarter than I was when I did mine. You actually left the arms unglued. I was silly and glued mine together before I even primed them, so I should be facepalming harder than you right there! You've chosen a much less common color scheme than I have on your Marines, and it's turning out really well!

You mentioned trying to decide on a Necron scheme; maybe you've already decided by now in which case ignore me here, but something I've been thinking would look cool on Necrons would be to paint the main bodies of the guys black, and paint the weapons/blades to have a red glow. Give them kind of a Sith look. I almost started Crons just to test that scheme out because in my head it would look really badass and sinister, just like Necrons should look! Just kind of a random thought.

Thanks Zergsmasher, it wasn’t smarts, just laziness that kept me from gluing everything together, most of the bodies are glued. I was batch assembling since I had 4sprues of the Intercessors (2 from Indomitus and 1 each from the elite editions I picked up), so I cut the parts apart for the core body and head and then later went back and did the arms, leaving them unglued because that bottle had run out . I ha another partial bottle next to it, but still.....lazy.

I like the idea you had with the crons, but as I want a brighter scheme overall black is right out. I want them to look like they were planning on having a bright future as the “good guys” before they figured out the C’tan screwed them. I’ve got time on that end though as I will push through Marines for a while before tackling them.

On the marine front, finally printing the correct parts , guess smashing my face so often did the trick.

They will need some gap filling, but right now they are loosely stacked together with small pins aligning them. I got the green as a test color, while it’s made the same as the grey, I think it just isn’t perfectly the same, either that or GW just has us trained with the grey plastic, but their underworlds stuff looks just the same as the grey.

The smoothed walls just look better in grey and to me the details, while still good in green, are just better in the grey. It might just be the sheen though.

I’ve printed all these at 30% infill instead of my usual 5-10%. Not only are they much sturdier, they are a better quality as the extra supports means things stay where they are supposed to be. Time though is the victim here. The green top part took 9 hours each, the front green sections were 21 hours each and the back bottom grey sections are taking just under 16 hours,the second one should be done when I get home tonight.

The main guns I am doing at 0.04 detail thickness instead of the 0.2 that the rest I see done in. They will take 6-8hours if memory is correct, then I need 3 more wings each at 5 hours 4 connectors for the wings and the intake vents and engine parts. It will be a busy weekend.

That looks very impressive, and highly informative as always.

First squad of assault Intercessors is almost done.

My Scythes will have golden shoulder trims and these bone Aquilas.


So real life hit today/yesterday. Wife’s Grandmother fell at the nursing home and broke her Femur. Surgery is necessary, but when she was taken to the hospital they tested her before surgery and found she was Covid positive. Surgery is pushed to last one of the day because of her positive status and the need for extra precautions. On top of it is my wife’s mother’s birthday, but she is around grandma all the time, even though she was tested and negative so far, she could not be around anyone’s because of quarantine. I realize it’s nothing unique to the times, but unless you experience it firsthand it just sounds surreal.


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Anyway, new GW reveals today, all look pretty good, but I am really thinking the new kill team set is a must for me. Full rules, plus rules to use all the models from Indomitus, and it’s Marines vs. Necrons. The kill teams add to both those armies for me, but the expected price seems high especially for all the junk terrain in the box, still, I like the models .

Projects looking good.

Feel you on the grandparent having covid related issues, we definitely had some of that going on too.

I'm hoping the KT box is less than $140 but I'm not optimistic. I definitely want it. Are you sure it has full rules? I'd welcome that, but I don't think I've seen a confirmation of it. The graphic of the book *does* appear to be thick though, so maybe.

 GrimDork wrote:
Projects looking good.

Feel you on the grandparent having covid related issues, we definitely had some of that going on too.

I'm hoping the KT box is less than $140 but I'm not optimistic. I definitely want it. Are you sure it has full rules? I'd welcome that, but I don't think I've seen a confirmation of it. The graphic of the book *does* appear to be thick though, so maybe.

The Warhammer community article says everything you need to start playing kill team, and says the stats for all units in the Indomitus box are included. Plus it’s the new Starter Set, so I just presume it is all in there. If not, I’ll wait for the models separately, as I don’t need the terrain.

I suspect we'll have harder facts before you can get them, hope at least.

Harder facts....like two complete Ceastus Assault Rams

The second one needs cleaning before more assembly can happen. Both have some gaps, but really not worse than FW kits, and all are due to my print bed not being perfectly flat.

Plus the door still operate.

The two tone color scheme will be resolved by paint in the future.

Currently printing an extension for the stormraven, similar to the one Chapterhouse used to make.

I found some .stl files for the thunder hawk, storm bird and a few others, but seriously those may take as long to print as a Titan.

I keep looking at massive things to print... and then decide lots of smaller things is better to spend my time on

That looks awesome.

Frankly, GW (and especially FW?) must be bricking it with the future being home 3d printing.

So I opened facebook and saw my former brother in law painted up the dice tower I printed for him for Christmas. I think he did a Fantastic Job on it.


I think FW and GW really need to figure out how to monetize their designs in 3d file format. Save on shipping and labor. Find Designers that are out their and pay them by commission to develop things. THey are missing out big time.

I really enjoy the Caestus design, what a big brute of a blunt object Have enjoyed watching yours come together - congrats on twins!

EDIT: Also digging your Scythes, big fan of the chapter and happy to see them cross the Rubicon (as rare as Primaris Scythes seem to be).

Well, that's going to haunt my dreams.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Well, that's going to haunt my dreams.

You can print your own.....But it might not fit a resin printer. Also the design comes with optional spiders crawling on it for even better effect.

Thanks Boss Salvage , I liked their chapter way back when, and now they are seeing even more love with books and such. Unfortunately they have been forever disgraced by officially being a branch of the Ultramarines . I guess Everyone wants to be an Ultramarine, but I will settle for being a Scythe of the Emperor .

Wow those are some great looking prints Theo! I may try dabbling with 3D printing myself soon so it is nice to see what stuff can be pulled off, they are gonna look great all painted up!

 Commander Cain wrote:
Wow those are some great looking prints Theo! I may try dabbling with 3D printing myself soon so it is nice to see what stuff can be pulled off, they are gonna look great all painted up!

While I’m a huge advocate of FDM printing, especially for larger things like this, for smaller more detailed items resin is the way to go.

What would happen if you cross Puff the Magic Dragon (the Gunship from Vietnam) and the grimdark future of 40K? You’d get the stormraven, a flying brick that was way to small to carry men, ammo, and dreadnoughts let alone have the aerodynamics to fly. So when Chapterhouse made the extension for the stormraven I was like , we can finally do this. Then GW . I bought 3 stormravens as a bundle way back when, I assembled one, two more are in parts...well one more is in a bits box somewhere, and parts of the third are going on a trip to be converted into the mythical Puff the Magic School Bus of the Scythes.