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Nice looking terminators! To make the pictures larger, press the option button when you've clicked on a photo in your gallery. In that there is a share link option which pulls up code for the photo, copy and paste it into your post and there you have it!

 

Stoked to see the termies painted!

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Luna707, thank you kindly!

Fiddling around with the Primaris conversions, here's the group:

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Gonna mess with their shoulder pads and such - I cut the first guy's arm up

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to this, since he is a 1st Company Sternguard

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Really really like the new Primaris scupts overall, they're just a little too clean IMHO - I much prefer the more arcane looking heads and shoulder pads, so gonna keep messing with that.

-W

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Good job.

 Bjorn, thank you !

 

Nice looking terminators! To make the pictures larger, press the option button when you've clicked on a photo in your gallery. In that there is a share link option which pulls up code for the photo, copy and paste it into your post and there you have it!

 

Stoked to see the termies painted!

 

Luna, thank you the termis were like a year and a half in the making ...  I'm the slowest 40k-er ever lolol.  I'm looking forward to getting some paint on them too.

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Got some good work in the other day, Termis finally got base coated. Gonna have fun with these guys, I'm happy with how they came out as far as the truescaling goes.

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I think they are appropriately imposing, I'm not sure how much to weather them - should I make them look like they've been fighting non-stop or shiny them up a bit since they are members of the 1st company ?

Then I dug around and found some choice bits, I think I'm settling in on making a chapter master for my true-scale army.

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is the dual power weapons and grey knight storm bolter too over the top ? And I might lose the iron halo, maybe model a rosarius or something... Thoughts always appreciated.

-W

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is the dual power weapons and grey knight storm bolter too over the top ?

These are Space Marines, NOT "Space Pacifists Who Hand Out Flowers While Spreading Messages of Peace and Love". If anything, you should go MORE over-the-top by incorporating a lascannon in the thunder hammer, so the Marine can destroy the enemy ar range AND up close.

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is the dual power weapons and grey knight storm bolter too over the top ?

These are Space Marines, NOT "Space Pacifists Who Hand Out Flowers While Spreading Messages of Peace and Love". If anything, you should go MORE over-the-top by incorporating a lascannon in the thunder hammer, so the Marine can destroy the enemy ar range AND up close.

 

@Bjorn hahahaa, thanks man.  Chapter Master Thunder-Las...

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Gonna get to work on their display next...

Probly sticking with the idea I had before:

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Just need to expand on it a bit... I'm gonna try and make it a little more broken up and labyrinthian as far as the platforms go so that it's not just bigger and bigger circles of Spess Mahreens

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-W

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Coming together really well! Are you shooting for armies on parade? Looking forward to seeing more progress

 

Luna707 thanks man.  I think I'm gonna try, I have this crazy idea in my head of putting a blast door / vehicle bay under the diorama and then building the Baneraider as others have done...  But I don't think I can too all that by the time Armies on Parade happens, especially the pace I work at, lolol...

 

Armies on Parade 2024 ?  Lolol...

 

Congrats on the Armies on Parade win btw, your whole Iron Hands thread is killin it.

 

-W

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I like the chapter master, but I do think the power sword is too big - he's already wielding a thunder hammer one handed, that sword looks big enough to be a two hander as well. I think swapping it for a smaller, less unwieldy looking weapon would make him look more like an extremely skilled duellist style fighter, since it would imply that it's more of an off hand weapon that leave him free to shoot or parry as required. The power sword that comes with the plastic Mk3 marines or one of the death watch power swords spring to mind as being ideal. Just a suggestion :)

 

Otherwise, it's a very cool looking force.

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I like the chapter master, but I do think the power sword is too big - he's already wielding a thunder hammer one handed, that sword looks big enough to be a two hander as well. I think swapping it for a smaller, less unwieldy looking weapon would make him look more like an extremely skilled duellist style fighter, since it would imply that it's more of an off hand weapon that leave him free to shoot or parry as required. The power sword that comes with the plastic Mk3 marines or one of the death watch power swords spring to mind as being ideal. Just a suggestion :smile.:

Otherwise, it's a very cool looking force.

Magos Kasen, thanks for the kind words. Yeah on one hand I do like the big sword it's super old school and not too common of a bit - but it does look rather unwieldly, I agree... Something like this would maybe be more in line?

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Here he is with a mock up power sword, didn't have any left handed ones so had to chop it all up - definitely won't use this for the final model, but it gets the idea across

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and then comin in the race from behind, I kind of really like a chainsword. Iconic, very Spess Mahreens

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I'd probably put a cable on there somewhere and paint the blade up to make it look like it has a power field. Chainsword. Power Chainsword...

-W

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Last update for the evening. Got these guys arranged how I want them, hard to see in the photos but all the industrial grids and squares in their bases line up. gonna start planning how to make it more vertical in the next update.

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Whole thing is 18" wide, so that's good - I didn't want it to be too big. Space is limited in the apartment, lol.

-W

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Tore all the scotch tape off this display and firming it up with a hot glue gun.

Just the top part

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Next cut up the sprues that it all came on as vertical supports

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So that the tallest point balances right

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Gonna fill in the gaps with some kind of plasticard pattern

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This will be the vary bottom layer of the floor. Gonna build lips up around the edges so that the bases of my Space marines aren't so noticable.

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Ordered some more bits from the old eeebays, have another true scale character in the works I think.

Hope to have another update soon.

-W

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I've wanted to convert a chaplain for a while... I mean, what good is any space marine army without a savage, religious maniac helping them to stay... focused. Lol.

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I like the eagle thing on top of his back pack, but had also considered the over the top banner. Input appreciated.

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Getting some work done on the display as well, hoping to have an update on that soon.

-W

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