Vaaish Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 well here are the first 250 or so points done. not the final squad formations but there are still a couple of bits to go for the actual squads. http://www.digitalequinox.com/wip/40k/marines/group01.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuronBH Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Looks good. Great, clean alternate scheme. I love the way the bone and bronze play off each other. Keep up the good work. -jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mortarion Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Looks good. The colour scheme works really well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carnage Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 Painting is great, but I despise the maccrage models. If you're low on models, use them, but otherwise... This is just me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wokkers Posted January 6, 2008 Share Posted January 6, 2008 loving that color scheme. I have also been enjoying all the fluff you have been posting. kudos to you. keep up the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted January 6, 2008 Author Share Posted January 6, 2008 Thanks. The have bee a good bit of fun to put together. @carnage: I got the maccragge set to learn to paint on and so these are my first models. I have normal marines for the other 30 or so I still have to put together and I'm planning on spreading these guys in amongst the normal marines to mask the maccragge models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted March 7, 2010 Author Share Posted March 7, 2010 It's been a long time since I've updated this thread, as evidenced by the broken links at the top from my server failure/switch a few months back, but I finally have something new to post in here. After probably 5 months of work on and off I present to you Venerable Brother Iret-ka, my chapter's first dreadnought. He was converted out of one of the AOBR dreads I have and eventually will have a second one converted as well as finishing up a seismic hammer arm to allow them to be used as Ironclad dreads as well. I hope you guys like him, I'd rate this as my most complex conversion project and probably one of my best paint jobs. The progress shots of the conversion are in my WIP thread. http://www.digitalequinox.com/wip/40k/marines/dreadnought01tlac.jpg http://www.digitalequinox.com/wip/40k/marines/dreadnought01cc.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_Loken Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 Wow that is stunning. It looks pre-heresy but with the modern design ethos. I'll be off to check the WIP pics now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted March 7, 2010 Author Share Posted March 7, 2010 Thanks, I was kind of going for a mesh of preheresy and modern. The wip shots start around page 6 if you are looking for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iacton Qruze Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 I'm really loving this dread. The only thing I think you could do, would be to replace the current fist with one of the new ven. dread ones that looks more like a hand. Really nice job, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted March 7, 2010 Author Share Posted March 7, 2010 Had one of those new venerable arms been available I would have used it on there for sure. At this stage, it's a little too hard to adjust with how the AoBR arms are constructed. Hopefully I'll be able to get a couple for the next few dreads that I work up. Stealth Edit: Full army shot And one more for tonight... here is the full shot of my army minus some highlights the camera seemed to kill. http://www.digitalequinox.com/wip/40k/marines/army01.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelfire Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 Wow Vaaish; I haven't seen you post in a long time. I really love that dread and the conversion work you've done. Have no idea where to find your WIP thread though. Got a link for us? -Angelfire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Cambrius Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 This simply puts Brother Nehkbet to shame...these are amazing Vaaish! Cambrius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted March 8, 2010 Author Share Posted March 8, 2010 Thanks, Guys! I think I may go back over the greens in the army and rehighlight them with a slightly lighter green mix so that the highlights are actually visible in photos. Here's the link to my WIP thread, there is a lot of Epic stuff in there, but the dread starts on page 6 I think. http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...howtopic=119123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GI Joker Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Those look awesome. Double points for using the old Land Speeders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeller Posted March 11, 2010 Share Posted March 11, 2010 Stunningly unique dreadnought. For some reason I'm reminded of battletech. Gladiator or Titan-ish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sempronius Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 I eyegasmed when I saw that Dread! Some people are just too good at converting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiningstorm101 Posted March 14, 2010 Share Posted March 14, 2010 i love your dreadnaught, im pretty certain its the best ive ever seen! i saw the WIP of it and it must have been a pain to complete as you used so much plasticard. well macde and well painted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted March 21, 2010 Author Share Posted March 21, 2010 hehe... I'm horrible at responding to my own thread, but thanks! It really wasn't that hard to work with the plasticard. I find greenstuff much less forgiving. Last week when I pulled out all of my marines to take a shot including the dreadnought and was disgusted by the horrible quality on some part of the models. Thankfully I hadn't tried to do many techniques beyond what I was capable of so I don't have to repaint all of my infantry. What this did mean was that this last week was spent touching up all my older models. The first thing was to go back in with black and sharpen contrast, mainly on the wrists, bumplate, and feet. After doing that I went back and rehighlighted the helmets and weapons on all of my marines since the highlights never show up in any of my photos. The last bit was to hit a few areas of the helmets with black to clean up odd bits and touchup the white highlights on the feet, knees, and helmets where needed. While I feel I could probably use a bit of touchup on the metals and definitely the eyes since some of the eyes hark back to the days when I didn't leave a black edge around the lenses, I didn't want to spend that much time right now and I'm still not happy with the effect I'm getting with the combination of blue I've been using for the eyes. Anyway, now that I've written a book, here's the updated marines: http://www.digitalequinox.com/wip/40k/marines/tacticalupdate.jpg And the lone lascannon gunner that doesn't get used much these days: http://www.digitalequinox.com/wip/40k/marines/lascannon.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Priest Haelaeif Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 Great choice of colours, and well executed. I like your miniatures a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talhydras Posted March 21, 2010 Share Posted March 21, 2010 That is one nice color scheme! May I ask what the chapter name means? I could imagine that it's russian, just written in the Roman alphabet, not Cyrillic, but does it mean something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted March 21, 2010 Author Share Posted March 21, 2010 hehe... you are quite far off if you think it's russian. The chapter name is in Middle egyptian transliterated to latin characters. It means Avenger of the Immortal Emperor (technically the the literal translation is Avenger of the eternal king) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talhydras Posted March 22, 2010 Share Posted March 22, 2010 I just guessed because of the "je"s and the "w"s ;) I never thought that it'd be egyptian, but I like the name and - as I said - I still like the colour scheme very much. Is there more to come soon? B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted March 22, 2010 Author Share Posted March 22, 2010 I thought I'd go completely authentic with my egyptian based chapter :P It's not likely anything else will get done for awhile with the other projects on the table, but I do have a second dread to convert and three rhinos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaaish Posted March 29, 2010 Author Share Posted March 29, 2010 Not really an update per se, but I did finish taking the updated photos of the tactical squads today. The front view makes it a little easier to seen more of what changed. http://www.digitalequinox.com/wip/40k/marines/tacticalsfront.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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