Yeah I know, it looks strange does it not? Must weather it and stuff. Too clean!
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Yeah I know, it looks strange does it not? Must weather it and stuff. Too clean!
Ok, seriously.. What does people do about the jetpacks mold lines? On the inside of the engines for example? Yo make that smooth and flawless requires a lot of work! Is it worth it?
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Ok here are some pictures of backpacks. Yeah. There are four of them. And in different colors. I have a hard time to choose a color for my chapter! I want a battleworn look, like they have been on a planet for a while and quickly gotten dirty and such. Also they should look Imperial, but a bit like old times, and perhaps not so goody two shoes.
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Also what to do about that jump pack? Liquid GS? And finally I have made a test-torso to try out the colors a bit more on a half marine.
What do you think about the colors? Wich one would you have chosen?
Cheers-Kaos
I chose this scheme. Painted with a really bad brush.
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Hi Kaos,
If you're interested in American Space Marines, you might find some inspiration from The Stars of Dorn - they're my Team America inspired army. Here's a link to their background section and a link to their showcase gallery.
http://www.pcrc.org.uk/antona_austra...tars-dorn.html
http://www.pcrc.org.uk/lucifer216/sh...starsdorn.html
Hey Lucifer! Thanks for the pictures and story. I decided to turn away from Blue and reds as I saw that so many armies use these colors. But yours really look like something I had plans for! But with more blood and splatter on hehe.
Cheers - Kaos
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Looks good my friend. Gritty and grimy as we like them. Liquid GS/putty for the jump pack :-(
Tested liquid gs, we will see what we end up with! Might get away with making flames.
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very nice! do you have any vehicles etc yet?
Noop, just five assault marines! I'm not sure what vehicles I want yet. Rhinos I guess. Land raider. Yeah, would be nice.
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Ok, first ten marines cleaned out from Dark Angels icons. Drilled holes in the barrels of the weapons and added battle damage to the armor. They look alright now for being from the start box!
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So far so good :-)
There, that is the beginning of my army of marines. I was going to spray them. But felt it sure helps if you actually have a can of spray to use. Oh well.
It does not look spectacular I guess but this is a form of deconversion. Cutting away all the dark angel logos everywhere took some time, altough I did not manage to "save" those two characters. They will just remain Dark Angelish survivors, taking command as highest ranked marines for a while until I buy new characters.
What else? Well, really, i must ask. What the hell is wrong with all the bling bling?! Wings and stuff and please, could that dude not find a larger helmet? It is like a parade watching Dark Angels fight nowadays I guess. "Do I look good in this cape? Is my helm ok? Am I posing right?".. Yuck. Marines in my mind should be clean and mean really.
Anyway.. Lots of bullet holes, scratches and such on these. Made just some simple basing too. No that is plannes. You see, I want to make a cool looking terrain later for my marines and future Eldar, with trenches and ruined cityscapes and suck and when i come to that point I can slap on some more stuff on the bases for that extra feeling. Also, I refuse to put them on rocks as I do not want a marine standing in trench, on a rock he took with him.
I also hired a Blood Angel Deathnought, for extra love. So this army is what..around 900-1000 points i can imagine? Must check it out.
Pics!
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Atleast now I can play games and thus I think I will start some serious work on the great Papa Nurgle! Take it in turns as we say.
Thanks for watching, cheers!
Kaos
I'm glad you went with that colour scheme. I think it looks the most weathered.
Thanks! Although I have a idea of having several different chapters struggling along together. Kind of like a campaign gone bad and survivors of different chapters have come together to keep on struggling until the last marine dies. This will work together with the style of my battlefield I'm planning. A bit like cowboys and Indians, WWI, space rangers, where Eldar are the Indians then hehe.
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Go for it! Some people, and you might be one of them, don't know you well enough, struggle with painting an entire force in the same colours. I know I do. I've been thinking of going the same route for my Empire army. Have each unit come from a different province. Probably will keep me more motivated.Quote:
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I certainly am! Or atleast, it is fun to try many things. There are lots of different colors I want to try. And I think I can make it work if I use lots of the same kind of symbols on all of the marines. Like a campaign-symbol and markings here and there ontop of their different chapter symbols.Quote:
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Ok do I changed the colours again. Had a vision listening to Hocicos song "shape of things to come" and I suddenly felt black is right. What do you think? I present to you, the first finished Viper Marine! I will have the eye there on every model. And on characters more elaborate snake/viper designs. Still some sloppy things left on it, but it works. And I'm getting used to the new colours from gw. Missing lots of good ones. For example, what is like the old red ink?
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I love it, but for me, black is the happiest colour.
The eye on the shoulder pauldron looks amazing.
Nice work, the DEATH on the gun is impressive.