XBA: Space Marine Heroes FINISHED

[Helias_Tancred]

I love that bashed up predator, Xenith!

[Xenith]

Bjorn, it's actually just an old metal predator destructor turret, from before the plastic combi kit was released.

[Code 187]

Just read this end to end. Amazing evolution over the years Xenith. Some really great ideas that give me food for thought with blinging up my very old collection of models.

Love the little nods to 2nd ed though. Takes me back

[Xenith]

Just read this end to end. Amazing evolution over the years Xenith. Some really great ideas that give me food for thought with blinging up my very old collection of models.

Love the little nods to 2nd ed though. Takes me back

 

Hey, Code, thank you very much - I'm glad you can take some ideas from what I've done, and flattered you took the time to read the whole thing!

[Xenith]

So I thought I'd add my entries into the Great Baalite Bake Off to my Plog for completeness:

Mephiston

6th Company Captain <Raxiatel>

[Xenith]

As an aside, I showed my GF my Thunder Hammer Biker Captain, and she exclaimed "Oh, like 'Little Rabbit Foo Foo'?".

I was very confused, then she showed me the following image, from a kids book when she was younger. Warning: Safe for work, but some things, once seen, cannot be unseen.

For reference:

So now Hammer Bikers are forever tainted for me. In the story, the Rabbit does go on a spree of bopping things on the head with the hammer, which is pretty much what my Captain will do. Maybe he needs a new name.

Edited March 6, 2017 by Xenith

[Charlo]

[Damon Nightman]

Capt. Foo Foo! Can you freehand a rabbit?

[LutherMax]

[Xenith]

Haha, yes, it's weird. It's a good job I used the death mask head instead of those wing/ears the dark angel ravenwing commander comes with...

[Charlo]

Haha, yes, it's weird. It's a good job I used the death mask head instead of those wing/ears the dark angel ravenwing commander comes with...

 

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[Xenith]

And the addition of my Death Company Chaplain.

[BloodTzar]

Ooooh that melta pistol is cute....very nice model...

[LutherMax]

Nice! Looking forward to seeing this painted... I do like the automated melta gun!

[Xenith]

Next up on the painting bench is 5x assault marines: 2x melta, TWINFERNO; and 5x DC: Power axe and Power Bat.

[Charlo]

Power Bat is from the Ravenwing yeah?

 

Thinking of how cool an entire squad of those would look... HOME RUN.

[Xenith]

Power Bat is from the Ravenwing yeah?

 

Thinking of how cool an entire squad of those would look... HOME RUN.

 

Haha, yes, I've been wanting a guy with a power baseball bat since I learned about the Angry Marines...

[Paikis]

You just need to model a Power Sack-of-Doorknobs now!

[Panzer]

 

Power Bat is from the Ravenwing yeah?

 

Thinking of how cool an entire squad of those would look... HOME RUN.

 

Haha, yes, I've been wanting a guy with a power baseball bat since I learned about the Angry Marines...

 

I'm seriously tempted to paint my Deathcompany as Angry Marines whenever I think about it.....but I kinda what it to be a serious army....but Angry Marines are cool as heck....such pain! :D

[Jolemai]

Always wanted to do one swinging an Eldar Ranger for the obvious pun but never got around to it...

[Xenith]

Boooooo.

[Xenith]

It's been a while since an update, so here goes:

5DC in progress, assault marines sprayed and ready

I have also learned that I really prefer painting one model at a time as opposed to production lining them.

The first and last guys here were highlighted in different ways, one with Skavenblight dinge and codex grey (baseball bat guy), the other (bottom) dark reaper and fenrisian grey, a more blue-black scheme. I umm-ed and aah-ed for a while but I think I prefer the white grey. The blue-black is neat, but just doesn't look at brutal as the stark grey highlights.

I'm also experimenting with a new way of painting white chest eagles:

Previous: codex grey base -> nuln oil wash -> ceramite white highlight

New way: celestra grey base -> wash of 50:50 lahmian to drakenhof nightshade -> hghlight with ulthuan grey.

The blue-white will work well on black and gold armoured models, but I don't think it will as well on red ones.

[Dante2285]

I Paint my white the same way you do.  I go one step farther and highlight over the Ulthuan Grey with Scar White.  I've been liking the effect.

[Grazcruzk]

I really like the yellow eyes and hazard stripes against black/red. Awesome work!

[Xenith]

Hey thanks!

 

The yellow eyes is something I did with a couple of Mk4 heresy marines a few months ago and really liked the look - I think this might be the route I take from now on, at least with the DC.