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I am amazed how well the Mk III helmets work!

And I am looking forward to seeing your Rohan come together -
forth Eorlingas!

For extra grimdarkiness, tell people the Sarge's head is still inside...

They look sweet. The Captain's helmet does look quite good. Could be my imagination, but the armor looks particularly smooth this time around. Excellent effect.

Metallic armour on marines often looks very flat, but yours have fantastic depth.

That little black shield with the (Sakura dragon?) design on it is really nice. Fun little detail, and yes, eye catching.

Back to Tolkien though, If you actually plan on reading it my advice would be to just grab a box set of three paperbacks. The thing is an unwieldy tome in one volume and reading it for any length of time will test your wrist strength.

Also, One smaller book at a time is easier to get through mentally. You get nice milestones and feel like you're making progress when you close the first book and move onto the next one. With one big volume you hit The Coucil of Elrond, get seven pages in, look at the four inches of solid paper on the right side of the book, sigh deeply, consider the choices you've made in your life, and then go watch the movies.

Also, that's a really nice metallic green scheme, especially with the complimentary left pauldron colour. You've a good Eye for a combination.

Not!Alpha Legion marines looking absolutely beautiful as a unit mate, great colour choice and execution. Love the little touch with the bullet-riddled helmet on the back too - stories always help to sell minis for me.

Everything looks better on snow bases too

Great stuff, keep it up!

It must be the season for home renovations! You seem to have been more hobby productive than me. The use of the Indomitus Captains open helmet was a great idea and fits well with the Mk3 Helmets. They work really well on the intercessors with their fancy pads they could be stepping straight outta 30k

osjclatchford wrote:NIce AI's.

It always amazes me how a simple pad/headswap to mk3's changes the entire look of an intercessor. (throw in a mk3 backpack and you can really sell the look)

is that contrast over metallics I see? not really hot on contrast and have mixed feelings about it (comes of being in this game for too many years) but this is one of the things were i think it has real application potential.

Thanks osjclatchford! Headswaps can be really effective with marines, although it took me some while to get those MK3 helmets, the bitz box was empty
Yeah, it's Contrast Akhelian Green over Leadbelcher. It's really cool stuff for metallic surfaces. Mine is a little blotchy, because I only slosh on one coat, but with some Contrast Medium and more patience it could be a lot cleaner.

Tyranid Horde wrote:Your assault intercessors look brilliant! The gold and blue/green combo works really nicely with the added trim of the MKIII helms and I like the little nod to a fallen marine with the Sgt.

Just join in on the Tolkien discussion, I've just finished the audio book version of the Two Towers (unabridged) having never read it before. Wonderful storytelling and world building.

Best of luck with the decorating!

Thanks Tyranide Horde! Happy you like the little nod that originated from my laziness to file stuff off

Decorating is in full swing, everything is prepared for the furniture delivery on Friday.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:The Mk III helmets look great on the assault intercessors, and the sgt looks cool with the Captain helmet as well.

Best of luck with the decorating, I always find it a dull and long slog.

Thanks ListenToMeWarriors! I actually initiated that we redecorate now, it was more planned towards spring, but it gave a great opportunity to sort through some stuff and erverything is already much better organized.

Yorkright wrote: Great looking unit Viterbi, the mk3 helms make them look a bit more brutal than the regular helms. Sarge turned out really good too, nice job on the eyes!

Thanks Yorkright! Eyes are my big bane, but with his dark skin color I couldn't get away with just some dark shade so I had to buckle up and was very glad, that I hit both pupils so he's not cross-eyed

Theophony wrote:Models are looking great , plus the extra bludgeoning weapon on his belt (former sgt's helmet) is very fitting.

Thanks Theo! "You may take our bolter, our pistols and our swords, but you will never take our extra bludgeoning helmets!!!"

Slinky wrote:I am amazed how well the Mk III helmets work!

And I am looking forward to seeing your Rohan come together -
forth Eorlingas!

Thanks Slinky! Rohan will be on the menu for the next weeks, always interspersing with my marines and sisters. Had my favorite characters delivered yesterday, the new Eowyn and Merry are here. And I'm already pondering how to build them, I don't want to buy a second set for all options (although I'm afraid I will, same when I get to Eomer ).

youwashock wrote:For extra grimdarkiness, tell people the Sarge's head is still inside...

They look sweet. The Captain's helmet does look quite good. Could be my imagination, but the armor looks particularly smooth this time around. Excellent effect.

Thanks youwashock! Looking at the size of the bullet holes, there wouldn't be a lot of head left The light on my desk is always very helpful with my armour, it still has its blotches

Fifty wrote:Metallic armour on marines often looks very flat, but yours have fantastic depth.

Thanks Fifty!

theCrowe wrote:That little black shield with the (Sakura dragon?) design on it is really nice. Fun little detail, and yes, eye catching.

Back to Tolkien though, If you actually plan on reading it my advice would be to just grab a box set of three paperbacks. The thing is an unwieldy tome in one volume and reading it for any length of time will test your wrist strength.

Also, One smaller book at a time is easier to get through mentally. You get nice milestones and feel like you're making progress when you close the first book and move onto the next one. With one big volume you hit The Coucil of Elrond, get seven pages in, look at the four inches of solid paper on the right side of the book, sigh deeply, consider the choices you've made in your life, and then go watch the movies.

Also, that's a really nice metallic green scheme, especially with the complimentary left pauldron colour. You've a good Eye for a combination.

Thanks theCrowe! It's actually a Hydra symbol, because my chapter are a loyal Alpha Legion successor (I just love their decal sheet, it's amazing).

I had planned on getting a hardcover edition which is also separated in three books, but while reorganizing we found my wife's slightly battered paperbacks so I will read them after I'm through with the Hobbit.

tzurk wrote:Not!Alpha Legion marines looking absolutely beautiful as a unit mate, great colour choice and execution. Love the little touch with the bullet-riddled helmet on the back too - stories always help to sell minis for me.

Everything looks better on snow bases too

Great stuff, keep it up!

Thanks tzurk! And yeah, everything is better with snow bases. Just to bad that my playmats are dark rocky desert and green grass Someday a snow map will be bought.

gobert wrote:It must be the season for home renovations! You seem to have been more hobby productive than me. The use of the Indomitus Captains open helmet was a great idea and fits well with the Mk3 Helmets. They work really well on the intercessors with their fancy pads they could be stepping straight outta 30k

Thanks gobert! We had planned to do the ground floor (combined living, dining and cooking area) this year anyway and without being able to get out much, it was very easy to plan it sooner and click the order button

Some more hobbying this weekend, but more of a building nature. Finally did my rhino for the painting competition, hopefully it is warm enough in the next day to get it primed.



Used the Conquest sprue (just the first magazine) and spruced it up with the Sororitas Upgrade frame. It will be the rhino for my church fanatics like priests, missionaries, arco-flagellants, death cult assassins and so on. Just a nice murder box





Additionally I really want to "finish" my space marines and built my ETB Reivers and the last 5 Incursor/Infiltrator bodies. Have some bits to get on squad of Incursors and Infiltrators out of this.



And started on the horsies, black contrast looks awful, already two coats, hope to save it with some highlights. White is a bit better, but the brushed on Grey Seer was to thick. I did the Duncan "Two thin coats" method, but apparently not thin enough. I think most horses will end up brown in the end. Am happy with the Militarum Green on under the saddle, will use this for all the capes, very fitting color.

Sweet upgrades, though papa will curse you for the purification!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Sweet upgrades, though papa will curse you for the purification!

Thanks Graven! Me and my Sororitas are in turn not happy about that green, but it was the cheapest way to get the rhino sprue

Black Templar is such an odd colour, a single coat will never give you true black and multiples just lose the contrast effect. The only real use I have for is is over a metal base for bolter/ranged weapon casings.

Nice additions to make the Rhino a deliverer of righteous fury, hope that the previous owners did not leave any nasty surprises in the interior...at least all the incense should cover any terrible smells.

Really wishing I'd started marines sooner, those conquest rhinos were so cheap and very easily could have picked up a few. Excited to see how it turns out, the sisters bits are great additions.

Shame about the black templar, I've seen more and more people get results they're not happy with and it's starting to feel like that paint has very limited uses like ListenToMeWarriors said.

After a bit of paint nobody will ever know your pious Ecclesiarchy friends are riding in Nurgle's town car. Bummer about the Black Templar.

It's a lovely green box, i'm sure there will not be any lingering chaos. That never happens.

I don't need any more miniatures from any more games to start and paint and not be able to play. Otherwise, I probably would buy a bunch of Rohirrim. Or, perhaps, a bunch of Dúnedain.
The Dúnedain are the coolest.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

Cool work on the marines.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Black Templar is such an odd colour, a single coat will never give you true black and multiples just lose the contrast effect. The only real use I have for is is over a metal base for bolter/ranged weapon casings.

Nice additions to make the Rhino a deliverer of righteous fury, hope that the previous owners did not leave any nasty surprises in the interior...at least all the incense should cover any terrible smells.

I had only used it going over metallic for black space marine armour (works well) and the cloak of a chaos model for Mordheim which worked well too. But yeah, with the horses it is clearly a miss.

I would love to see one Nurgling wreak havoc and 10 sisters frantically trying to get it out of the rhino

Tyranid Horde wrote:Really wishing I'd started marines sooner, those conquest rhinos were so cheap and very easily could have picked up a few. Excited to see how it turns out, the sisters bits are great additions.

Shame about the black templar, I've seen more and more people get results they're not happy with and it's starting to feel like that paint has very limited uses like ListenToMeWarriors said.

Luckily for me Germany is a year or so behind UK Conquest so I knew what was coming and was able to secure single issues with a news vendor. Got the Apothecary that way and one rhino.

youwashock wrote:After a bit of paint nobody will ever know your pious Ecclesiarchy friends are riding in Nurgle's town car. Bummer about the Black Templar.

Hopefully tomorrow it stops raining, temperature is already warm enough. Than it will be silver all around and no more nurgle green can be seen!

amazingturtles wrote:It's a lovely green box, i'm sure there will not be any lingering chaos. That never happens.

The sisters of perpetual annoyance have the strongest incense there is. They will holy smoke all the chaos out of it!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:I don't need any more miniatures from any more games to start and paint and not be able to play. Otherwise, I probably would buy a bunch of Rohirrim. Or, perhaps, a bunch of Dúnedain.
The Dúnedain are the coolest.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

Cool work on the marines.

I haven't had a good look at the armies yet, but a Dunedain force would be cool too. But I believe there are only a handful of models plus 50 variants of Aragorn

As I said, I'm in building mode. And after getting the info that Santa Claus was finally able to get the Primaris Chaplain on bike produced, I'm working on my small space marine speed force. Gonna get the Outriders sprues out soon and wanted to add a Captain on bike. But with a spin, because I'm using a draco...thing from AoS. Unfortunately this posed a few problems with torso and legs, marines are not flexible. Waiting for the green stuff to dry and hopefully file it smooth. And it's infuriating seeing what Syro_ or theCrowe can do with that stuff and I'm happy if I can fill some gaps
Need to work a lot more on the base to get it more Sci-Fi, creature already got some 40k nubbins and now looking to get two stormbolter halves on both its hind legs to cover the lightning symbols and be WYSIWYG.
Still have to work out the had and what to give him for a weapon. Torn between master-crafted boltgun or bolter/flamer combi. Gonna work on him some more this evening and can hopefully prime him soon, atm it looks very busy with all these colors

And because of bad weather I omitted a walk during my lunch break and am now finished. Found the head per chance and find it rather fitting. Combi-Flamer is from the Sororitas set. Left the symbols on, because Order and Chapter are very chummy (as seen with the Hydra on the sisters rhino).
Need to cover the leaves with some texture paint, but other than that it should now look more like 40k than AoS. Already excited to paint it/him.

I'm enjoying the madness of this

Wow, that is as an awesome build mate!

The Mr T head fits perfectly in there and you did a good job fitting the bolters and extra gubbins on the back. It's kind of fun to see all the different colours there; it shows that you've cast the net wide for the kitbash. I'm also a big fan of back banners in general - feels very 2/3e 40k to me and just seems right.

Excited to see some paint on him!

A great mish-mash of parts! One way to see it all come together is a black & white photo, which I have seen on other threads help tie a bunch of bitz together

Thanks for sharing

He's great! Just the right kind of strangeness i like. I want one of them beasts for myself now!

Awesome mini, Viterbi. AoS models make for great 40K conversions.

"There are no Dog/Wolf/Lion/Dragon/Terror Beast on (Insert Chapter Homeworld Here)"

Looks great. I was thinking of scrounging some AOS bits for Special characters for my Scythes of the Emperor. Probably not that big thing, but there's enough items that may carry over.

Snazzy kitbash!

Impressive mount, my dude. I remember seeing marines on cold ones and Carnosaurs, but this way cooler.

Kewl kitbash Viterbi, if you put 3 together you could run them as thunderwolves..just a thought. :-)

That model looks a lot better than an official thunderwolf. I look forward to seeing it all painted up.

That metallic sea green is really really nice. I have to start checking out those contrast paints!

(...urge to revisit my alpha legion rising...)

inmygravenimage wrote:I'm enjoying the madness of this

Thanks Graven! It's exactly the thing I would have wanted to see as a kid on my tv screen

tzurk wrote:Wow, that is as an awesome build mate!

The Mr T head fits perfectly in there and you did a good job fitting the bolters and extra gubbins on the back. It's kind of fun to see all the different colours there; it shows that you've cast the net wide for the kitbash. I'm also a big fan of back banners in general - feels very 2/3e 40k to me and just seems right.

Excited to see some paint on him!

Thanks tzurk! And yeah, there's a lot of kits involved here

IGtR= wrote:A great mish-mash of parts! One way to see it all come together is a black & white photo, which I have seen on other threads help tie a bunch of bitz together

Thanks for sharing

Thanks IGtR=! That's a good idea with the B&W photo, luckily I got the bugger primed the next day, so wasn't necessary this time.

amazingturtles wrote:He's great! Just the right kind of strangeness i like. I want one of them beasts for myself now!

Thanks amazingturtles! Dracolines should be not to expensive on ebay, seeing that Stormcast aren't that beloved. Go get one, I would love to see you convert one with a marine or other miniature!

youwashock wrote:Awesome mini, Viterbi. AoS models make for great 40K conversions.

Thanks youwashock! They have some great mount options in AoS.

Theophony wrote:"There are no Dog/Wolf/Lion/Dragon/Terror Beast on (Insert Chapter Homeworld Here)"

Looks great. I was thinking of scrounging some AOS bits for Special characters for my Scythes of the Emperor. Probably not that big thing, but there's enough items that may carry over.

Thanks Theo! Excited to see, what you will use with your marines!

aku-chan wrote:Snazzy kitbash!

Thanks aku-chan!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:Impressive mount, my dude. I remember seeing marines on cold ones and Carnosaurs, but this way cooler.

Thanks Don Qui Hotep! Seeing the new elf cavalry for AoS I would love to have a bike squad made up of them

Yorkright wrote: Kewl kitbash Viterbi, if you put 3 together you could run them as thunderwolves..just a thought. :-)

Thanks Yorkright! No wolves, only Hydras or Dragons allowed with my boys

JoshInJapan wrote:That model looks a lot better than an official thunderwolf. I look forward to seeing it all painted up.

Thanks JoshInJapan!

darkkt wrote:That metallic sea green is really really nice. I have to start checking out those contrast paints!

(...urge to revisit my alpha legion rising...)

Thanks darkkt! Give in to the urge And if you do, the more blue armour is funnily enough Akhelian Green and my other go-to is Terradon Turquoise. Both work marvelous over Leadbelcher.

Started painting the beast yesterday evening and am already very happy. Only sad thing are the cracks at the paws. Thought I had pressed them in enough before priming, but apparently not. Ah well...
Skin is done, both eyes are yellow and basecoated everything Grey Seer that will get some contrast paints (hopefully today. Some Sigmar symbols are still on the Dracoline, but I think it doesn't matter that much, enough 40k all around.

And he is done. Took longer than expected, always found some new detail, but made a big push last evening. Very happy with the kitbash and the paintjob, he looks like he jumped from a 90's tv screen. Just miffed about the green stuff work between legs and torso, that really is not my forte. And looking at the big pictures, I missed his service stud (or could paint it as a big mole ).
And just had a small look around the P&M section, lots of catching up to do over the next days.

love him. I wasn't sure about the hip bolters but, actually, works really well. My favourite detail is the termie honours hanging from the reins, though.