Marines (T_T)

[NeckFace]

in typical fashion, as soon as i get close to finishing an army, i pick up another one.

my best mate's marines have been sitting in my room for almost a year now, gathering dust, and while he doesn't want to get back into gaming he still holds a flirting interest with the hobby and will occassionally rock a game.

as such, he wants me to paint his army.  his own chapter, as yet unnamed, but we're looking through a greek classics and mythology dictionary we have kicking around here.  his idea is that this will be a fairly conventional codex chapter, but stuck out on the eastern fringes of the galaxy and having been fecked up a little by nids.  each company is essentially a working battle company, there's no strict heirachical command structure, instead the marines working together in councils

its all a little rough and loose, but the general idea is to make these guys pretty spartan - not a lot of decoration and fairly weathered armour.  gives me a chance to try a few things out and i'm trying to actually take my time with these guys.  its also kinda fun because my friend's army has a lot of 2nd ed marines, models i drooled over as a high school kid, but never ended up getting.

so i give you the proposed colour scheme: introducing the a devastator sergeant on the left and a tactical marine on the right.

the tact marine is an old Grey Hunter model, so there's a few space wolf models in the mix.  the iconography isn't too obvious, and i'll just remove anything that's blatantly SW as i come to them (like goofy topknots).

the rest of the tactical squad is primed and in various stages of base coating.

and i've actually bothered to drill out the gun barrels.

[juiced]

i love this. a very gritty realism to these guys

[NeckFace]

yep, no fruity robe-dresses, no angel wings, no gaymo golden nipples. 

just marines being marines   hooah

[Vaul]

So which name did you go with?  Spartans of the emperor or The emperor's 300?

[NeckFace]

"The Sons of Humus"

[Vent]

yep, no fruity robe-dresses, no angel wings, no gaymo golden nipples. 

just marines being marines   hooah

*hides his Sanguinary Guard...*

Looking really nice. A very Military / Utilitarian color scheme and style.

[Lazarus]

They look good have you got a bigger pic for a closer look?

[NeckFace]

not as yet, but i can do when i can be bothered - will try to remember to get it up soon.

as for the name, 'The Argonauts' has been decided upon.  now trying to figure out how to do the emblem

[Vaul]

Your chapter master will be called jason?

[NeckFace]

of course

i'm wondering if i'll convince pete to make it the first chapter master, when they first were founded.

this is the crest for the old greek city state, so could be a decent starting point as an emblem design. there's no way i'm going to paint this thing over 50 times

[Sectiplave]

Dude, if you have the whole army at that level, firstly I'll be very jealous, and secondly it will look the freakin' business.

You seem to have the natural looking colours down pat, no wonder you were only a single vote off best painted.

I'll have to score some tips on the process you go through for this quality of paint job

[NeckFace]

next time we rock a game bring around you base colours and we'll work on shit

could even do tomorrow afternoon if you're stuck for something to do

[Sectiplave]

next time we rock a game bring around you base colours and we'll work on shit

could even do tomorrow afternoon if you're stuck for something to do

For sure bro, I don't finish work till 8pm these days though. Should hit a game this Saturday if you are free?

[NeckFace]

i might be having one with greg, so i'll let you know if that falls through

i thought you had mondays off?  not any more?

[Sectiplave]

i might be having one with greg, so i'll let you know if that falls through

i thought you had mondays off?  not any more?

Nah it's Fridays and Saturdays that I have off.

Yeah let me know, otherwise can do the following one if you gots time.

[NeckFace]

cool, will do it bruddus

hey laz, this large enough? 

[Lazarus]

from what i can see looking good nice aging / battle damage

[NeckFace]

finished the first tactical squad, finally.

[NeckFace]

decided the white was still too 'ultramarine-y' so i gave it another wash of gryphon sepia to tarnish it

next up, jump pack chaplain, dread and devastator squad

[Hunter_Flood]

The wash definitely makes them look a lot better. great work.

[Vent]

These are brilliant. I'd really like to get my hands on them and have a decent go over! ^_^

[NeckFace]

sounds kinky




 




chap is done

[Sectiplave]

Nice, that chaplan looks rad.

Full tac. squad looking good too. These troops look like they have been weathering some tough fighting.

[Lazarus]

power fist dude looks rad

[NeckFace]

cheers guys

[kittenslayer]

That chaplain looks like he needs to loosen up abit and smoke a J!

[Solarian]

Like this scheme

[NeckFace]

cheers man

i should have more up soon, been slow as heck and taking a break from painting but i've finished a 5 man devastator squad.  dreadnought's mostly done too, and i'm cranking back into it with a Vanguard squad.

[NeckFace]

its been a while.  ended up not having access to a camera for ages

devs



dread.

and currently WIP


twelve assault marines with a smattering of CC weapons so guys can be interchanged in and out as a regular squad or vanguard.  front lightning claw guy is done

[Sectiplave]

Looking great man! That assault squad looks like it is shaping up to be great.

 how about I give you a box of beer and you paint my 1850 points of Salamanders