Leonidus Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Greetings brothers! I just recently decided to return to the 40k universe after a 6-7 year hiatus (lets just say that my Sus-an Membrane kicked in and I was in a state of suspended animation ;) ) Since leaving the hobby I sold/gave away everything be it paint, miniatures, vast array of bitz, codexes, huge collection of white dwarf back issues etc etc :( so this will literally be an army from scratch! I hope this thread will be a place for any W.I.P or developments in this new project and will hopefully show an interesting look at the progression that I go through as a hobbyist as I try and learn to paint/model/game again! One thing I have noticed is the massive price increase that GW have gone through! I understand inflation but £22.50 for a tactical squad! I can remember when the multipart plastic kits were released and they were a tenner!!! I have for this reason taken the eBay approach and I am now eagerly waiting my new recruits. I did also find cheap alternatives to the GW modelling tools and am all set to start constructing as soon as the packages start turning up. One thing remains to be decided though... WHICH CHAPTER TO PAINT!!! This has always been my downfall. I constantly switched from one to another for years, repainting and converting armies over and over again. This time round I will be taking a more direct approach... hopefully :P I know that I will be not painting dark angels,blood angels,wolves,salamanders or black templar as I want a more codex astartes structured army. Ultramarines or fists I was thinking or maybe a chapter all of my own. Anyways enough of me rambling on, I will post photos as soon as I start building my new marines hopefully in the next few days or so. Anyone think of anything cool for chapter concepts etc let me know!!! Thanks in Advance! Over and out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rindaris Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Easy solution. Play Deathwatch. Then you can have ALL the chapters you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidus Posted October 12, 2010 Author Share Posted October 12, 2010 Hahaha! Fair point! :P I was thinking something more vanilla though. So far I'm leaning towards Crimson Fists or Ultramarines Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarKHaZZ13 Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Easy solution. Play Deathwatch. Then you can have ALL the chapters you want. I do both. deathwatch are too good to be mere space marines...they have more *zing* if you know what I mean. They need to be kept in their own league. as for your chapter conumdrum, I have the exact same issue. I like too many chapters. So in the saem vain as 'Do them all - deathwatch' you could do a 'Do them all - Crusade" there are avrious instances where multiple chapters are brought together in joint action, or you could make one up obviously. then you can have, say, 3 chapters, under the command of one main force commander. if you decide you want to go for the unified idea, out of Crimson firsts and Ultras, I'd probably go for CF's....they have a far more interesting history in my opinion. I liek their dogmatic character. or you could go for a reletivly unknown/minor chapter or make your own using the SM painter. good luck. with what ever you choose brother. DH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAR Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 While the current dex has a ton of special characters for the UM, the Crimson Fist is one of those tragic chapters that have fought back from death to constantly survive....and I am biased Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidus Posted October 14, 2010 Author Share Posted October 14, 2010 minor update: All bitz and sprues ordered to make the first 2 tactical squads now. Just waiting on the postman! After watching GirlPainting's video's on youtube I'm starting to edge towards an imperial fists army. I like the idea of priming in white and then washing in a darker colour as a way to get the base shading and then blending up from that. Her weathering techniques are pretty damn impressive as well! Hopefully next update I will have some actual images!!! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WingsOfTheFalcon Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Kudos to you, it's a brave man/woman who takes on that much yellow! Look forward to seeing how you get on. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarKHaZZ13 Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 minor update: All bitz and sprues ordered to make the first 2 tactical squads now. Just waiting on the postman! After watching GirlPainting's video's on youtube I'm starting to edge towards an imperial fists army. I like the idea of priming in white and then washing in a darker colour as a way to get the base shading and then blending up from that. Her weathering techniques are pretty damn impressive as well! Hopefully next update I will have some actual images!!! :) try this technique on a tester model for IF's 1. Spray White (make sure you get all of it) 2. glaze yellow (glaze is made up of a 1:1:N mix of Gryphonne sepia, golden yellow, and water - N = as much to get the required effect) 3. Dry 4. repeat. its should give you a nice quick basic yellow which then just needs highlighting and abit of lining in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidus Posted October 14, 2010 Author Share Posted October 14, 2010 When it comes to painting them as IFs I was thinking of going for the 5th company colours: Avoiding the bright red 3rd company that everyone seams to go for these days. What would be the markings for sergeants? Red helmet? DarKHaZZ13: I'm really liking GirlPaintings dark and dirty IFs. They appeal to me more than the bright cartoony marines that GW seam to push. IFs are siege masters so I've always pictured them as being really weathered with loads of battle damage etc... Talking of which does anyone know where I might obtain a cheaper alternative to GW's hand drill? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozris Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 When it comes to painting them as IFs I was thinking of going for the 5th company colours: Avoiding the bright red 3rd company that everyone seams to go for these days. What would be the markings for sergeants? Red helmet? DarKHaZZ13: I'm really liking GirlPaintings dark and dirty IFs. They appeal to me more than the bright cartoony marines that GW seam to push. IFs are siege masters so I've always pictured them as being really weathered with loads of battle damage etc... Talking of which does anyone know where I might obtain a cheaper alternative to GW's hand drill? Thanks! Definitely go for 5th Co. IFs! I've started to paint up my first IFs of said company and am really digging the colours. As for your question concerning helmets: If you want to do them "old school", sergeants will be marked with a red skull on the helmet, vet. Sergeants with an additional red stripe, veterans with only the red stripe. When it comes to battle damage, I'd go with painting the damage directly on the armour rather than really damaging the armour with a drill, hobby knife whatever. Hope this helps -_- ozris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidus Posted October 14, 2010 Author Share Posted October 14, 2010 SM Painter is frickin sweet! Rough mockup of sergeant: Not sure if I'm feeling the red... Had to switch the eyes to green and the helmet kind of looks out of place. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khrangar Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 What if you did the helmets for the sergeants the same colour as the company? Alternatively, you could either do the helmets white, or just give the sergeants bare heads. Khrangar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slyen Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Maybe try going for blue eyes? I think it will help out if you chose to use the red helemets, and I've seen it look good with regualr yellow ones too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidus Posted November 9, 2010 Author Share Posted November 9, 2010 I've been massively busy with work and what not so this is the first update in a while! (SORRY!) Parts all arrived on time (Thank you eBay!) and I have assembled my first tactical squad and started on my kit bashed captain. My gf got involved as well and made a few marines of her own (though some of them looked rather chaotic! HERETIC! :) ) I picked up a cheap box of the 3 AOBR marines for a fiver the other day to use as test minis as well and the paint I ordered from Maelstrom Games finally turned up today (my first day off in a week) so I'm gonna try out some different approaches to painting yellow and see what I like the most! Ill post some picks up of the test minis as soon as they're done and some WIP picks of the tac squad and cpt as well (lighting permitting!) Over and out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidus Posted November 9, 2010 Author Share Posted November 9, 2010 I've been massively busy with work and what not so this is the first update in a while! (SORRY!) Parts all arrived on time (Thank you eBay!) and I have assembled my first tactical squad and started on my kit bashed captain. My gf got involved as well and made a few marines of her own (though some of them looked rather chaotic! HERETIC! :) ) I picked up a cheap box of the 3 AOBR marines for a fiver the other day to use as test minis as well and the paint I ordered from Maelstrom Games finally turned up today (my first day off in a week) so I'm gonna try out some different approaches to painting yellow and see what I like the most! Ill post some picks up of the test minis as soon as they're done and some WIP picks of the tac squad and cpt as well (lighting permitting!) Over and out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rider-75 Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 the black/yellow of the 5th is a very striking IF colour combo. for the sergeants, try darkening the red a little - it'll sit better with the black and not clash so gaudily with the yellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother varen Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 You have a link to this youtube girlpaintings video? Would like to see it. Look forward to seeing your test minis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapter Master Ignis Domus Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 If you haven't started to paint, I would do Crimson Fists, because you can somewhat easily get the entire chapter. There are only 218 of them left according to Rynn's World. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAR Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Glad to see you stayed with Dorn....my only question is why you did not chose to paint the chest eagle red Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidus Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 Hey guys! Sorry for the lack of updates. Work and other commitments have got in the way of me getting any time to paint or even build a single marine!!! I have been busy though accumulating bitz in preparation a pretty decent sized starting force. So far I have parts for a chaplain with jump pack, 10 man assault squad, 2 tactical squads, 5 man scout squad, a rhino and a killer sternguard squad (Thank you forgeworld!) Ill take a photo of all the boxes and sprues and forgeworld goodness this weekend along with any assembled marines that manifest themselves! So stay tuned folks and expect the next update on Sunday at the latest!!!! (I promise) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrox Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Good man - look forward to the pics Crimson Fist's are a great Chapter - Pedro Kantor is one of my favourite sculpts to come out of GW for a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidus Posted January 30, 2011 Author Share Posted January 30, 2011 Evenin all! I finally got some marines built! I present to you my first 2 Sternguard (Edit: The guy on the left is no longer a member of this squad) http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs272.snc6/180055_499284093159_665108159_6233202_4549735_n.jpg and the bottom half of my sternguard sergeant: http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs788.ash1/167877_499284498159_665108159_6233206_2582272_n.jpg They are still very WIP as you can tell. Their bolters and packs have been left off for painting. Still to build: -The rest of the Sternguard Unit -2 x tactical squads -Jump pack chaplain -10 man assault squad -Rhino -5 man scout squad Still to paint: EVERYTHING :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidus Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Update: Sternguard Sergeant complete(ish): http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs280.snc6/180832_499351398159_665108159_6234315_3265969_n.jpg Another view: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1373.snc4/164556_499351693159_665108159_6234320_5066903_n.jpg and another: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs795.ash1/168576_499351893159_665108159_6234327_7459015_n.jpg And my WIP Assault squad veteran sergeant: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs253.snc6/180130_499352093159_665108159_6234337_2303977_n.jpg and another view: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1376.snc4/164831_499352333159_665108159_6234339_4970256_n.jpg Note: Currently in process of finding the assault serg a new powerfist arm as I stole his original one for the stern guard serg :S I'll attempt to update daily from now. (when i find time to model!) Over and out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonidus Posted February 3, 2011 Author Share Posted February 3, 2011 Nice to see people are commenting :D lol Anyways here are some more pics of the 99% completed MK VI Sternguard Unit 3 new marines: http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs077.snc6/168770_500971683159_665108159_6257217_6561704_n.jpg and another 3: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs060.snc6/169040_500971818159_665108159_6257219_3019533_n.jpg here you can see my home made combi-melta. And a group shot: http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs048.snc6/167834_500972053159_665108159_6257227_6728675_n.jpg As previously stated these are only 99% completed. I still need to find an appropriate right arm for my respirator guy and add all the purity seals and embelishment to them... OOOh and paint them of course :lol: Some C&C would be highly appreciated. Thank you! :D Over and out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pork Chop Express Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Hey Leoniidus, Good job with your progress considering your work schedule. I can certainly identify with accumulating bits and bits with the intent of building an army one day. Work and family definitely have a way of putting hobbies on he back burner. Regarding some C&C, I prefer your scratch built combi-bolter with the drum mag over the commander's combi-melta with the drum mag. I attempted a similiar conversion myself and found that the drum mag just hangs a bit too low to the point of looking awkward. If you notice, the magazine begins well well below the marine's fist, as opposed to your scratch built one whose magazine and weapon seem more proportinal. All in all though, it seems we share similiar tastes in bits and chapters :) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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