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some of you may remember an earlier thread of mine about a WiP devastator company that I was adding to my existing forces.  For those who don't, you can catch up here.

 

 

...for the lazy or time contrained, said dev company was part of an apocalypse force,

specifically this one (FYI they're the mob of marines that's front and center):

 

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/IMG_5161_zpsy6nrtmol.jpg

 

 

 

so with a little prompting from people's comments  I finally decided to go for the big one and assemble a full chapter.

At the time I was going with a successor scheme that I could play with whichever chapter tactics seemed most advantageous.

 

 

Then I saw some of the leaks for the Angels of Death supplement and decided to finally commit to the chapter that first grabbed me when I entered this hobby, and has continued to do so in a way that none of the other chapters really have.  That chapter being the Salamanders.

 

Since a lot of my collection is a bit of a mix of various second hand forces painted in varied schemes, I'm starting this with getting the already painted stuff re-painted before going on to the bare plastics/metals.  As a result, I won't necessarily be doing things by units, at least to start with.  So let's kick this off with the WIP sternguard, formally of the Crimson Fists.

 

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/IMG_5448_zps2wnjjzec.jpg

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very ambitious, look forward to seeing what you're going to come up with.

 

By the way, are you planning on doing the Salamanders Companies, (7 tacts, 3 dev, 2 assault) or traditional (6, 2, and 2)?

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very ambitious, look forward to seeing what you're going to come up with.

 

By the way, are you planning on doing the Salamanders Companies, (7 tacts, 3 dev, 2 assault) or traditional (6, 2, and 2)?

 

I've got an apoc list I'm tuning to account for the increased company size. If you figure six companies with 120 each makes for 720 battle brothers, rounded out by 80 scouts for 800 bodies + command + armoury. I'm counting pilots (i.e. flyers and speeder crew) toward that body count, so it won't be the full number of infantry.  

 

Also some of the tacticals are being commuted to assault duty; so I'll have a couple extra assault squads more than their chapter organization would normally dictate.  That's partly due to current collection, and partly because said apoc list includes a couple skyhammer annihilation forces, because even if Fist tactics might be better for it, dropping dev's in the enemy back line is pretty powerful regardless.

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well that's it for today....

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/IMG_5452_zps1yyxn2au.jpg

 

 

close up of what I'd consider the better looking models in the group (at this point).

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/IMG_5454_zpsllvw2k5v.jpg

 

 

...and in case anybody was wondering where I'm going with first company, here's a hint:

 

 

 

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/IMG_5451_zpsifiitejk.jpg

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The first of many speeders; still some work to do on this one.  As always, comments and criticisms are welcome. 

 

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/IMG_5463_zpsac2cpmoe.jpg

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/IMG_5464_zpsalfgzuas.jpg

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  • 2 weeks later...

A quick heads up to those following along, I probably won't be getting much done this week due to the rest of my schedule;

but tentatively speaking I think the next three to six weeks are going to be finish assembling motor-pool, broken up by more painting on the infantry and speeders. 

As is, I think I've still got about 8 rhinos to put together, plus a couple other tanks.  Once that's done it'll be time to break out the spray paint and tape. 

 

In other news I got one of the renegade boxes and about 3k's worth of guard now (plus a few assassins :ph34r.: ​), so I MIGHT get some work done on auxiliaries before the rhino herd gets fully ready for base coat.  

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normally I like to post after long periods of silence with something flashy and impressive.... but I don't have my camera right now, which probably makes it a little anti-climatic to say I just primed 40 rhino chassis and I'm posting a horrendouly overdue update while I take a break before priming the last 20 tanks, 8 of which are landraiders.  Thankfully I found a green that's close enough to what I'm going for.

 

I'll have a camera again next week, at which point I'll be taking pictures of that and the little bit of painting I've done on the speeders since last update.

 

 

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sprayed the underside of most of the tanks today, so those are now fully base coated. so for those wondering the current state of the armoury, here it is (or the tank portion of it anyway):

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/tanks_zpsc9dymwan.jpg

 

 

breakdown is as follows:

-5 hunter/stalkers

-7 vindicators

-8 predators

-3 whirlwinds

-7 razorbacks

-24 rhinos

 

-3 redeemers 

-3 phobos landraiders

-2 crusaders

-2 undesignated landraiders (due to lack of weapons)

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HOLY SWEET BEARDED BABY EMPEROR!!!!! That's a lot of rhinos you do the XVIII proud I always love seeing a solid salamanders army and that's definitely what you've got here. How many points are you looking at so far?
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picture's a little washed out but here's a bit of a color comparison.  the rhino in the middle is the straight primer color.  I think the blue-leaning green I've got on the other tanks is a little more accurate than what I've done on the speeder, which frankly looks more like John Deere to me, if they made landspeeders instead of tractors.  

 

@Pyroclast91: counting the stuff I haven't put together yet, it's roughly 35K after upgrades for all the marines; I'd have to do the math to know what the base cost is.

 

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/color%20comp_zpsddv6epaj.jpg

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Please do me a huge favor...

 

Once you've got enough painted. Read the third war for armageddon fluff. And take a picture of your best guess of the entire salamanders commitment to the war.

 

As much as I would love to see an entire chapter. Just that specific force would be nice to see. Bring me all the warm and fuzzies from my 3rd edition hay day, reading the armageddon codex over and over, building and painting my templars listening to acdc's back in black.

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  • 3 months later...

finally got moved into a new place... AND got a camera so I can post pictures again. Also I got these guys going a few hours ago.

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/IMG_5499_zpsjbpqdzad.jpg

 

 

I think that brings the count up to 70 for tacticals with green on them. At this rate I'm guessing it'll take about 4-5 hours per squad, ...so about 150 - 200 hours of painting to do the infantry portion of the battle companies (i.e. 375 marines before independent characters).  embellishment might put it longer than that. 

 

anything that the fluff suggests is being operated by a regular battle brother, rather than a tech-marine, will be counted toward the company strength; so flyers and tanks don't count, but bikes, speeders, and centurions do; which means total power armoured infantry count is.....

 

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...calculating....

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...loading....

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....initiating drum roll protocol....

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....rolling drums......

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...error

+heresy detected+

+quarantining heretical files+

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...+purging heretical files+

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...resuming original program....

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... calculating

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... done

 

 

...about 590 marines plus independent characters.  That's including command squads and veterans in power armour.

which means about 300 hours, which honestly doesn't sound that bad to me, considering.  I bring this up to give people some perspective on how fast or slow (depending on perspective) this stuff can actually be, especially when you "assembly-line" it.

 

 

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more complete update on the 2nd company, etc.'s progress.  I've still got four more squads to get going, including the command squad; and the heavy weapons composition isn't final, as I'm being a little ad hoc in my painting order;  I'll be taking more 'legible' pictures as things get further along.

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/IMG_5504_zpszzbiz6xj.jpg

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These guys are still in progress, but I figured I'd see what feedback people had to offer.  Here's one of the devastator squads; probably going to keep it as 2nd company.  Pic's are a little washed out but it's close enough.

 


 


 

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I'm going to be taking some time off from the painting side of things to finish assembly (or RE-assembly) on the in progress infantry. This should be a change of pace, but it'll also let me start actually finishing units as some of you may have noticed the absence of bolters in recent posts. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a also going to be a prelude to some "trimming" of extras; said extras being the result of both buying bulk lots and changing plans (e.g. sallies don't have as many assault marines as other chapters, etc.).  Just to give people an idea of what I'm talking about:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/IMG_5510_zpssx0kupi6.jpg

 

 

Everything behind that ear phone cord is going to be going.  Yes, that's 60 assault marines... ...because I WAS going for an assault company.  So 160 marines that are pictured, plus 20 bikers and 40 snap fits that are not pictured, and possibly a few other things will hopefully be getting traded to various persons for those items I'm still short on (short of what I'm going for anyway :smile.: ). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For some added perspective, both with regards to the above and my progress in general, here's the rest of the power armoured infantry; or at least the part that's had some assembly done.  The battle companies' are mirrored so squads aren't in the same spot in both of them, but it's still three dev squads in the back, two assault squads in the middle, and seven tactical squads in front. 

 

 

 

 

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/IMG_5511_zpsoqxbv5gi.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

Fortunately, the bulk of what I've got to repaint is either black or blue (i.e. ultra marines or crimson fist colors), which makes things much easier. Also, what's on the table accounts for 2nd and 3rd companies, plus 8 of 12 squads from 4th company and about a 3rd of 6th company (i.e. the heavy weapons for 7 dev squads). 

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so with the whole itemizing what I've got for marines, and therefore what I want to unload versus what I still need to get; I've gotten no painting done;

 

That said, I have a warhound now, and it got to cut it's teeth a couple months ago faceing off against Magnus, who nearly destroyed it single handedly.

​Along with the acquisition of said titan came many extra marines, some of use to the chapter, others... not so much;

 

and on that note... purging of models has begun; Listing is here:

http://www.bartertown.com/trading/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=291866

 

Any and all inquiries and/or offers are to be made there and NOT on this thread;

That having been said, if there's a trade forum / thread on B&C where I should actually be posting this, please let me know, because I didn't see one.

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  • 3 months later...

back after some time off with a little work in progress.

 

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/20170520_141813_zpsovckhtjt.jpg

 

 

with a little color comparison

 

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/20170520_204422_zpshduhchxs.jpg

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...Aaaaannnnd we're back! A lot of nothing has happened, but so too has a little bit of something. Namely, trimming mold lines on infantry, but also a little bit of painting. The biggest thing being that I finally decided that gw's paints are, in fact, worth the price, at least when it comes to getting the right green on the sallies.

 

On that note, weather permitting, I'm going to be spraying over all the tanks and drop pods with some angel green (army painter), since the hunter green (rustoleum) I was using isn't a dark enough base for the way I'm planning to paint the hulls.

 

Speaking of things with hulls...

 

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/20180331_205212_zpskfsleksp.jpg

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/20180331_205119_zpsem3etymz.jpg

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh464/unpronouncable/20180331_205006_zps6dqceivd.jpg

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