mrtn's dirty rotters (Plague Marines)

[mrtn]

love your painting

Thank you.

I finished the latest batch! I'm happy with the flamer, I like the weird horn and the square cod piece.





High Five!

[mrtn]

Tough crowd....

Some conversion work, I'm happy with the head bearer:

[Vomikron Noxis]

Looking great so far! I'm loving the head bearer, are those Skaven parts? (The high five brought a smile to my face btw ). What's next for the army then?

[VenomBlood]

You make good promotion to stormvermin box.
mrtn, just wanted to ask: did you use forgeworld bitz before?
I always wanted a Death Guard warband, but unfortunately I have only a few old plague marines (several havocs and a pover fist guy). Now, when I've found your very well inspirational blog I reworked the whole idea. FW kit seems to be a good alternative to current GW's range. But I never used Forge's models.
What do you think about them?
//forgive me my spelling, English is not my native language

[mrtn]

Looking great so far! I'm loving the head bearer, are those Skaven parts? (The high five brought a smile to my face btw ). What's next for the army then?

Thank you. Yes, it's a skaven arm, from the stormvermin set. The other hand is from a chaos warrior, as is the sword.

You make good promotion to stormvermin box.
mrtn, just wanted to ask: did you use forgeworld bitz before?
I always wanted a Death Guard warband, but unfortunately I have only a few old plague marines (several havocs and a pover fist guy). Now, when I've found your very well inspirational blog I reworked the whole idea. FW kit seems to be a good alternative to current GW's range. But I never used Forge's models.
What do you think about them?
//forgive me my spelling, English is not my native language

No, I've never bought anything from FW, they're not really in my price range ATM. I was lucky to buy all this army in one go, so I'll stay with what I have before buying more (unless I find a bargain).
Don't worry about your spelling it's good enough.

Today I took a relatively bold decision and took a painted and converted rhino and ripped it to shreds. The painting was good enough for table top, but the conversions were totally over the top, with a big skull in front, skeletal arms sticking out to the sides and a zombie graveyard in a corner. My army just isn't like that. Fortunately it's been glued with super glue, so a lot of stuff could be cut or ripped off.

Here's a picture of the carnage:

[Cap'n Facebeard]

Yeah those skeletal arms look a little OTT. I can imagine it looked like something I would've modelled when I was fifteen.

Nice use of the plastic arm on the head bearer, good to see a Chaos Marine whose bare unmutated arm could actually fit inside his armour. The high five pic is funny, and sure shows off how much cooler your painting style has become.

@Venomblood: your written English is top notch, better than most natives.

[MOMUS]

I love the use of old bits such as the 2nd ed flamer dude, there must be an elephant graveyard somewhere of those guys all lined up bolters pointing left

[mrtn]

Yeah those skeletal arms look a little OTT. I can imagine it looked like something I would've modelled when I was fifteen.

Nice use of the plastic arm on the head bearer, good to see a Chaos Marine whose bare unmutated arm could actually fit inside his armour. The high five pic is funny, and sure shows off how much cooler your painting style has become.

Thank you.

I love the use of old bits such as the 2nd ed flamer dude, there must be an elephant graveyard somewhere of those guys all lined up bolters pointing left

Thanks, I usually like those old models, they're often preferable to the first generation multi-pose models. I have some in most of my armies.

Here's a "Before":



And here's a couple of "After", or at least "After converting, before painting":

[VenomBlood]

While I'm not a big fan of tanks , the "After" version seems much more brutal.
Very intriguing usage of bitz, as always.

[Earthbeard]

Coming along nicely.

The hi5 made me chuckle.

[bert n ernie]

Didn't know this log existed. Subbed for now, and I'll have a look through later.
What other logs do you have?

[DarkMark]

Here's a nice vid that might give you a few ideas on painting your DG:

http://www.youtube.com/user/awesomep.../1/DpyoxsJ1UoQ

[mrtn]

While I'm not a big fan of tanks , the "After" version seems much more brutal.
Very intriguing usage of bitz, as always.

Thanks mate.

Coming along nicely.

The hi5 made me chuckle.

Thank you.

Didn't know this log existed. Subbed for now, and I'll have a look through later.
What other logs do you have?

Thanks. Take a look in my sig, I list my painting logs there.

Here's a nice vid that might give you a few ideas on painting your DG:

http://www.youtube.com/user/awesomep.../1/DpyoxsJ1UoQ

Thanks, I'll check it out later.

Finished rhinos!

This one I didn't convert myself, I only fixed a few things later, so if something's looking good or bad, it's probably not my work...









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[mrtn]

This one I mostly made myself, with a notable exception of the mutated door.







And an armyshot. I just noticed that I only started painting these a month ago, so fairly quick work if I say so myself.



I tried to add orange weathering to the bottom of the rhinos to tie them in with the infantry.

[TheConverter15]

Nice army! You have managed to make to different editions of models to match perfectly!

[Solun Decius]

Wow, that's an excellent army shot.
I've been following this for a short while now, and like the style of the finished units, mixed editions, different weapons and some conversions here and there.
After finishing those cool rhinos and putting up the army shot I'm compelled to just state how nice this army looks. I'm looking forward to more updates.

[Satan]

I'd say all that work in a month is extremely good work! And they look great too! Brings back fond memories of classic colour schemes from 2nd ed actually. Very good choice of contrast colours.

[mrtn]

Nice army! You have managed to make to different editions of models to match perfectly!

Thank you.

Wow, that's an excellent army shot.
I've been following this for a short while now, and like the style of the finished units, mixed editions, different weapons and some conversions here and there.
After finishing those cool rhinos and putting up the army shot I'm compelled to just state how nice this army looks. I'm looking forward to more updates.

Thanks mate.

I'd say all that work in a month is extremely good work! And they look great too! Brings back fond memories of classic colour schemes from 2nd ed actually. Very good choice of contrast colours.

Thank you. I started painting the first batch, and then let them sit with just the beige undercoat before I got the idea for the orange, that made the army click in my mind.

I've been constructing obliterators, there was one unbuilt and one with the start of some conversion in the army, so I've finished those. I also felt the need for a third one, so I converted the terminator you got with White Dwarf at the release of 5th ed.

Comparison:



Other angles:

[VenomBlood]

Ace conversion
but I think it lacks one small detail: a small skull icon on the knee pad

[mrtn]

Ace conversion
but I think it lacks one small detail: a small skull icon on the knee pad

Thank you. I don't think the skull is that important...

Here's the latest batch of plague marines: