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Ahoy there, everyone!

I thought it was finally time to swallow my pride and start posting my creations here on Dakka Dakka. Partially because I think it'll get me more feedback than my little blog.
Fair warning, I know my painting skills are "tabletop" at best, and that's often a stretch.

Let's start at the beginning, shall we?
I started as many 40k players do, with the two-player starter set. I fell in love with the Space Marines. Sure, I didn't really care for all the fluff behind them, but they looked cool! I read through the codex, played a few games (and lost every time), and then started buying anything that went with my "make sure it's cool" mantra, without giving much through to force organization or strategy. Bigger guns are better, right? No, wait, that's the orky way.
I wound up with a few troops, a couple generic HQs, some speeders, rhinos, one single bike, and way too many terminators and dreadnoughts. Plus a bunch of other stuff from other armies that I'm currently trying to get rid of...
Fast forward to earlier this year. I decided that GW's had enough of my money and I need to decide what the feth I want to do with my army before I buy anything else. I later decided that GW had not had enough of my money, but that's a different story.

Okay. I like big guns. And I have a load of terminators and dreadnoughts. Why not make a Dark Angel army? I certainly had enough for it... or so I thought. A couple boxes of termies later, and I have a full 1500 of terminators planed out to go onto the battlefield. Yes, 1500 of nothing but terminators. No vehicles, no grunt troops. Just heavy armor, baby!

Okay, now all that said, the one thing a Deathwing army needs is Belial. Otherwise, you're kinda stuck. I got to work with my termie bits and my DA bits and whipped up this guy:



Pretty standard stuff, and I'm rather pleased at how the power sword turned out.
Side note: I have this thing about using the names of demons, as Belial definitely is. Doesn't help that every time I said 'Belial' as I was working on him, something bad happened. Like arms breaking off and falling into pots of paint. So, I'm renaming my main HQs to have more angelic names. I'm making him "Seriphius", master of the seraphim. It's working for me so far.

Okay, now he looks okay, right? But he looks like he could be any old Deathwing Seraphim sergeant. I want something EPIC for my epic hero!
SO! When I was bored one day, I pulled out my book of graph paper (as I didn't have my sketchbooks around) and whipped up this:


There we go! This looks more like a Dark Angel bad-arse! Robes, angel wings and lightning claws... Plus, using that nifty little technique of using Dreadnought leg plates for shoulder pads. It'd be awesome!

Well, there aren't exactly any official robed termie legs, so I was stuck making my own... So I busted out my big roll of green stuff and got to work!


I now have a LOT more respect for the people out there that can take green stuff and make it look like... you know... Stuff. I knew what I wanted and I had most of the tools, I just lacked the experience. This is my first time using GS for anything other than sticking stuff together. Still, he doesn't look THAT far from the concept. Plus, he's perfectly GW-legal! AS I moved on and pondered "v3", I kept a few things in mind:
- The robes turned out WAY too dark. Seems I forgot how I did it on my previous robed marines.
- He's not that much taller than a normal marine. Just bigger and bulkier. I want my not-Belial to be towering.
- Those shoulders are okay, but they... they're just Dread legplates and it's pretty easy to tell they're dread legplates.
- No room for wings. This will be tough.

SO! I scoured the internets and made some orders to some compies in Europe and came up with some bits that I thought would be useful...


The shoulders are from MaxMini and the robed legs are from Micro Art Sutdios. After seeing a review, I knew the legs were longer than standard termie legs, so they were perfect for what I wanted. I wanted a towering BAMF that people would either run screaming from... or concentrate all their fire upon.

Here's a comparison shot of the sizes:


So far, this was the beginnings of my not-Deathwing army. More units to follow shortly.

C&C welcome!!

This thread looks interesting. I'm liking your Deathwing Terminators so far. I can't wait to see more.
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Yay more DA!! Good start love the conversion bits cant wait to see more.

Okay. I admit it. I have project ADD. I find the next cool thing and I just HAVE to do it.

I let my Deathwing army sit there, mostly unassembled and only a few figures painted. I did a lot of things not related to my army. I did a few RPG characters for Black Crusade and Deathwatch. I made a Stormraven in Dark Angel colors (remember when the Summer of Fliers was all the rage?), and I even made tyranids that looked like My Little Ponies! But after all that, i realized that if I'd spent as much time on my Deathwing, I'd be done already.

I'm about to start another project. I'm running a Deathwatch RPG game at my local shop and I'm going to be making figures for everyone. I finally said "No More". I HAD to finish my army. I gave myself a deadline. March 3rd (note, that's tomorrow as of this writing). If it wasn't done then, it wasn't getting done ever. I've shelve it perhaps permanently.

It's amazing what I can get done when I have a deadline. Most of the work was done in two weeks. Speed painting indeed.



It's not nearly Golden Demon quality, but it's certainly tabletop quality. I'm still working on them. I've added grass around the rocks on all the bases and now it's just a matter of making the base black again and put some squad markings on the bases.
I want to take these guys into battle and if I win, I want to modify them to reflect their mighty deeds.

I may revisit them when I get time. Highlight some gun barrels with silver, paint the red bodies on some of the guns... But for now, I have my 1500 points of Deathwing terminators.

More pics to follow as I finish them up.

What's that one model in that unit that's so much darker than the others? Can we get a close up? On him and/or the banner?

I like your paint scheme. A lot of bone colored armors wind up looking a little flat, but you've got some grit to yours, which gives the models character.

Jimsolo wrote:What's that one model in that unit that's so much darker than the others?

That would be my Chaplain in Terminator Armor. I didn't want to be like everyone else and use the standard GW model, so I bashed my own. My second serious attempt at using green stuff.

Jimsolo wrote:Can we get a close up? On him and/or the banner?

Most definitely! Once they're all done, I'm going to start taking pictures squad-by-squad and focusing on the major units. The standard bearer is one that I'm rather proud of, so you'll definitely be seeing more of him.

Jimsolo wrote:I like your paint scheme. A lot of bone colored armors wind up looking a little flat, but you've got some grit to yours, which gives the models character.

Thanks! I was afraid I'd gotten them too dark. There's one unit that looks a lot lighter because I used the Sepia wash instead of the Devlan Mud. I want these guys to be a bit grimdark and I'm always looking for ways to add character.

Well, after four bloody months, I'm finally getting off my duff and getting back into 40k!
Right now, I just have pics of my Chaplain, but I'll be taking pics of the rest of the force over the next few days, as well as giving details on my new project! ... I hope.

The Chaplain, I wanted to do something that bucks the trends a bit. Yes, I know GW has an official Chaplain in terminator armor, but it seems like EVERYONE uses that model. I don't want to do that. I just gotta be me and all that.



The Chaplain started off as just another terminator. The head is a skull helmet from ChapterHouse Studios, and the Shoulders are from MaxMini


All other parts are GW, aside from the half-tabard and the large purity seal around his weapon. If it wasn't obvious, those are just green stuff.

The weapon (forget the official name) is an Assault Terminator Thunder Hammer with the head cut off and replaced with one of the icons from the Dark Angels sprue. All other bits are either terminator standard (storm bolter), or come from various Marine sprues (seals, Iron Halo)

Head: http://chapterhousestudios.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=85_112&product_id=195
Shoulders: http://www.maxmini.eu/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=22_27&products_id=88

Okay! Since last time, I've had problems with my camera and ended up moving most all my painting stuff around my hobby room... But I have pics!

The wonderful thing about Deathwing armies (at least in 5th ed), Belial can turn one of the Terminator squads into a command squad, complete with standard bearer and apothecary.


This took a bit of custom work, but it was fun as all heck.
1x Lightning Claw - Sargent
1x Power fist / Storm Bolter - Apothecary
1x Power fist / Storm Bolter - Standard Bearer
1x Lightning Claw & Cyclone Missile Launcher
1x Lightning Claw

The standard was taken from a command squad and glued on to what's normally the storm bolter arm. I took the bolter and put it on the power fist. if it's good enough for the Grey Knights, it's good enough for my termies, right?

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-k_rPASAr2u4/UDBi8vwyQHI/AAAAAAAAEpU/Hz1BFWThgEQ/s640/IMG_2887.JPG
The banner was my first real attempt at free-hand. I wanted to go back to some of the art I've seen of Deathwing from back in the days of Space Hulk. I like how it turned out, but I can still see the darn pencil lines... Tabletop quality, though.

Cyclone Missile Launchers... I'd use more of them in my army if they weren't so bloody hard to get in plastic. Seriously, only one per box and only in one of the two types of terminators?


The Apothecary was another one with a lot of customization. The pictures look almost too light here, but he looks good on the tabletop...


The Narthecium (back bit?) is a random piece I found in my bits box and I believe it's from a vehicle... But not sure which.
The Reductor was made from half a radar dish (rhino sprue), a melta bomb, and part of a missile from a Tac squad sprue. The vials around the waist are smoke launcher tubes.

And because I was trying to maximize my purchases, I ended up using both the lightning claws and the hammers/shields, so I started running out of proper Terminator shoulder pads... So I ended up using Ravenwing pads as stand-ins for the Crux Terminadus. Hope no one minds...

you should try a dry brushing the armour with a bleached bone to bring out some hilights