A whole Battle Company (that is 6 Command squad marines, 60 Tacticals, 20 Assault and 20 Devastator marines = 106 figs.) of Ultramarines. I plan to add several vehicles, terminators, scouts, bikers, veterans etc. to the army too, but my main effort is to have a whole company in my hands in about 10 months (I work slow...).

Here's the first marine I've built. I'm not happy about the painting, so I haven't finished the details yet. I'm painting a second test marine with a different style first.

This is gonna be a pretty boring army to watch being built since it will be blue marine after blue marine (106 of them), but I can post pics of the squads as I finish them (about one squad per month) if there is any interest.

Yes, this is a bit different from my previous projects (Hrud and Blood Pact) but I wanted to have a marine army. And with the upcoming Apocalypso, I wanted to have a BIG marine army.

Grey Death & scarab:  Yes, this is a big effort for me. Biggest project so far that I've attempted. The conversions might not be complex, but there will be a lot of them (every marine is/will be biggerised).

Boss Salvage: Yes, I kind of have to do some Nid hunters too now that I chose to do the Ultras. Perhaps one of the companys tactical squads could be nid hunters?

FodaBett: The colour scheme of the first marine is simply (Vallejo version) Ultramarine blue mixed with black and/or white. This scheme is too slow way to paint the marines, so I'm looking for a faster way for myself too. 

I've just given them the UM blue basecoat. My deadline for them is the end of the month, so I have a week to paint them. I am a slow painter though, so I don't know yet if I will make it.

Pictures as soon as I get something done.

It makes building a hundred marines a bit more complex job, though. That's why I only do ten marines per month and this thing will take 10-12 months to finish (at least).

To push me actually to finish this effort I've taken an "army challenge" along with Migsula, Scarab and some other guys (and one gal). Scarab will tell you more about this challenge once we reach the first deadline (the end of this month).

I need to pick up the pace a bit so that I won't miss the next months deadline!

Anyway, here's a pair of  WIPpics to show the progress. Pics of the full squad will follow in few days.

This pic shows the sergeant of the first squad.

This pic shows the size difference to a "normal" marine (a very old fig I found in my bits box).

But I'm going for codex astartes heraldy. Yellow (gold) is the second company color. My guys are from fourth company. And their color is... you guessed it, green!

The second company is done to the death, you see the yellow rimmed ultramarines everywhere. That's why I chose another company for my ultras.

So I'm sticking to the green shoulder rims. Thanks for the effort to try to change my mind though. What you suggested would work in another circumstances.

Note about the pics: the colors displayed are too bright and strong. They are IRL more muted. So my guys are not as rainbow-looking as you would guess when judging just the pics. I don't know how to adjust the pictures colors to be closer to what they really are...

But at least the pictures are far more sharper than what they were with my old camera. You can actually tell what's going on in the pics even if the colors are still a bit too bright.

IMO if you just add height to waist or some such, the body propotions go to hell. I'm not saying I managed to do perfect propotions, but I tried to add little bit everywhere.

I also tried to get the marines out of their wide stance hunch that GW has given them. That adds a little bit to their height too.

Now I see that the NMM thing is going also a bit in their armours, nice touch!

The models that I'm working right now are Land Speeder and first four marines of the second squad (one of them a Honor Guard).

Also, one of the Dakkaites has asked me to do a tutorial on how I biggerize my marines. I'll take WIP pics as I built the fifth marine in case others are interested in that too.