My DIY Chapter; a thread on "Classic" true-scaling

[PrimeMinisterSinister]

Keep it up, brother. It's looking great!

[the damned artificer]

I've used it myself a couple of times on a similar project where I tried to straighten up some marines, and takes very little effort And from the new pic I can see it worked out well

[Guilliman]

Well I just played around with some paints and washes and think I got the result I wanted. My original models were painted with bleached bone, thus much warmer. But I think this is more what I was going for when I painted them five years ago. Luckily this will save me tons of time as opposed to the layering technique I used before.

[Flying Toaster]

Awesome truescaling! Though one little thing that bothers me is using the bolter one handed like that (being a very weighty gun and all), I think a bolt pistol looks more appropriate if someone is running but thats just me.

[Guilliman]

Awesome truescaling! Though one little thing that bothers me is using the bolter one handed like that (being a very weighty gun and all), I think a bolt pistol looks more appropriate if someone is running but thats just me.

Well my answer to that would be that all space marines are hardcore!

But seriously, my hope with this army is to get some great poses from the conversions and perhaps create some strong characters with this. I like the idea that some marines excel at some skills more than others. Like, for example, firing a bolter with one hand whilst walking. I'll see what more I come up with in the future.

I've got the first finished marine for you. You'll soon learn that I'm a very slow painter but I learned some lessons painting this guy and will probably get some routine going and speed up the process. I've still got the heraldry save for the chapter symbol to figure out, like squad markings and numbers. Not sure yet if I'll go with something personal, the standard codex astartes or a mix of them both.





Next up will be the beaky marine on page one in dark armour.

[Brother Alexos]

WOW. That is a really solid, consistent Bleached Bone. I hope you don't go insane trying to paint an army of these.

[Guilliman]

WOW. That is a really solid, consistent Bleached Bone. I hope you don't go insane trying to paint an army of these.

Actually it's Dheneb Stone+skull white but I'm glad you like it.

I might actually go insane, that's why my first aim is one squad. Then I'm thinking about finishing Tigrit and make him an honour guard squad with the iron armour models from FW.

[Brother Alexos]

Then I'm thinking about finishing Tigrit and make him an honour guard squad with the iron armour models from FW.

DO IT!! I think a chapter like this would be nice, but you'll have to be careful when Truescaling him.

[Meraklis]

Great work, fantastic tutorial!

Keep it going!

[Hushrong]

Very cool True-Scale marines! I may have to give that tutorial a try.

Looking forward to some more diverse poses!

[SewerRat42]

These are great! Really well painted, convereted, and I love the dynamism of your models and colour scheme!

Cheers for the tut.

Ludovic

[Chaseyboy1er]

that is an awesome looking paint scheme. Would you mind sharing it at all. I know you said it was dheneb stone and white, but what wash, and was it just one, and all that jazz. but great stuff.

[ancient god]

Looking great! The scheme is convincing, ties in with what schemes we're used to and, as it's easy to paint, great stuff overall!

[Guilliman]

Second marine finished (save for the squad markings). This one wears an older suit of power armour, hence the darker colour scheme. Next up is the squad sergeant.

[Brother Alexos]

Nice, it looks like he just stepped out of a building, and is raising his bolter to track another target, a target that is almost nothing to him, hence his nonchalance.

[Ridicule]

Looks really good. I love the way you pose your marines

[Intrepid Adventurer]

This is simply the best true-scaling tutorial I was able to find. I'll be restarting my Angels Sanguine using your techniques!

Question: other sculptors often add greenstuff to the torso and also add bigger shoulderpads. Is this something you've purposely chosen not to do?

I love your paint scheme, btw. Neat and effective!

[Guilliman]

Question: other sculptors often add greenstuff to the torso and also add bigger shoulderpads. Is this something you've purposely chosen not to do?

Well the usual problem with marines is the hero scale. If you were to scale a normal model up it would be almost as wide as it is tall. Straightening them up like this better the proportions a bit. So if I would add bigger shoulder pads this would simply mess up the proportions again.

Also, as I'm converting so many models, I want to have to do as little work on them as possible.

Thanks for all the comments so far!

[stormbird1]

Great work. I was wondering if you could show how you true scaled the terminator model.

[Exabyte]

Excellent tutorial, and great painting too