Doghouse Posted June 12, 2008 Author Share Posted June 12, 2008 Thanks guys! :P Pulse: Yeah they're getting there, a bit slower than I hoped though. It's difficult finding the time to get anything done at the moment and I'm having to work in rapid bursts. I have promised Digits from the Ammobunker that I'd take on his undead guard with the CSK(od) at Warhammer World in the not too distant future so they are getting the most attention at the moment. Paladin7221: I'm glad you liked it mate, I was pretty tired when I wrote it was a little worried that it'd wouldn't be any good. I think it makes it a bit more interesting to see the characters in action rather than me just giving a description. I'm no Dan Abnett but it is fun working in all the background material and the models themselves into the stories. Marshall Costello: I'm guessing that you mean the discolouration on the tracks? I painted them black them gave them a couple of drybrushes of boltgun metal before going over it with watered down chaos black them when it was thoroughly dry watered down scorched brown. I then drybrushed with snakebite leather then again with a snakebite leather/skull white mix. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1597379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolven Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Wow that was a great bit of fluff. Bravo. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1597417 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshall Costello Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 That was exactly what I was looking for, thank you, sir. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1597499 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted June 14, 2008 Author Share Posted June 14, 2008 LoneWolven : Thanks mate! Marshall Costello: You're welcome! :blink: Update time! Just a quick one. Here is the first of my Sternguard squad (probably the first ever Sternguard macragge marine conversion) Brother-Sergeant Tarven. The model was made from the standard BfM like his brothers, the ammo clip from a leftover stormbolter, the devastator sergeant head, a dark angels studded pad and some blades from a chainsword. I've still got some bits to add yet though. The idea is that rather than have a shaven head like the others Tarven hasn't had time to clean up before being plunged back into battle so he's got hair and will have facial stubble as well. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/Doghouse12/Picture180.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/Doghouse12/Picture181.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1599665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the jimster Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 well i have never really commented your work but wow u can paint and certainly convert well i have been reading the post about the new starter set with all the marine goodness (snap fit termies and dred woo) and i can see now how easy it will be to convert the snap fit models wen i get it lol kepp up the good work and i shall be trackin' the mantis warriors now lol jim Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1599677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolven Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 I really like subtle conversions like this one. Gives the model character without being too over the top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1599686 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted June 15, 2008 Author Share Posted June 15, 2008 Cheers guys! :P I think the key to this army is going to be subtlety. The poses are fairly limited but it's amazing what you can achieve with a head swop or the addition of extra equipment. What I hope to achieve is an army that looks uniform but on closer inspection all the little cool conversions become apparent. Hopefully more soon. :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1599789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vassakov Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Good god (Emperor :P ) Doghouse, does your talent know no limits? Whilst everyone else is salivating over the pictures, you've gone and made one, in plastic, from spare bits!!! Madness!!! This is Doghouse! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1600091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skizzo Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 My first thought on this was not so generous... but the more i look at your army the more i like me... Great work man! Cant w8 to see your dread. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1600096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulse Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Damn fine work on the sterny, looks pretty nice. Will no doubt get better as you do more to him. :( Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1600329 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frost Knight Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Awsome stuff doghouse! But was the captains groin-plate green when he got it? :woot: Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1600341 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted June 15, 2008 Author Share Posted June 15, 2008 Thanks guys! :P The Sternguard I know have a bit fo a dillema. I want to do something different for the Sternguard but move away from what was set down in the Warrior Coven/Brood books as I'm not really a fan of the direction he took them. I'm not really comfortable with saying "this is the way the first company is" and so this is the rough draft of how I feel the Tranquility campaign colours can be updated. It's basically a simple reversal of the colour scheme but I feel it looks ok so far. What do you think, should they be in the camo scheme posted a few pages back or this new reversed colour scheme? It'd be yellow with green markings. I've seen a couple of chapters like the Imperial Fists do this in the past. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1600586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
the jimster Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 well the scheme looks great alot better than the camo tho i think the green on the chest is too vivid maybe a darker shade just a thought though that is may opinion it is your army at the end of the day :P jim Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1600588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannicide Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Tarven, looks nice mate and I love the short story that goes with him. As far as the scheme goes I'd darken the green markings slightly, everything looks better on models, though. You could easily make it work. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1600591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted June 16, 2008 Author Share Posted June 16, 2008 Thanks guys! :D How about this then? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1601259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferrus Manus Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Very nice models Doghouse keep it up! Scheme looks fine, look forward to seeing the Veteran painted. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1601273 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted June 16, 2008 Author Share Posted June 16, 2008 Thanks mate! :D Forgot to mention I'm thinking of adding more campaign specific honours than the regular guys to customise them a little. Basicaly the idea is that anyone sporting the wrist blades fought in the purging of Valgard Primus, the wrist blades were adapted as a secondary close combat that allowed the Astartes to use their bolters whilst fighting the Hrud in the tunnels of the main industrial complex. Anyone with skulls fought the Varidian Campaign supressing a human rebellion that was aided by the Ork Blood Axe Clan, those that fought during the scouring of the Tarsis colonies wear a modifed Mk III style armour that was added to protect them from the leathal scything attacks of the previously unencountered xeno terror the Ghouls of Tarsis Secundus. The tactical squad markings will vary between members of the same squad as well, each bearing the markings that were worn during a particulary successful past engagement and so on along with litanies of faith or vengeance. It should in the end create a force of individuals out of the otherwise rather uniform BfM Marines, each with their own individual histories. You can look at a squad of marines and tell who fought in what engagement and alongside whatever brothers share the same honours. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1601274 Share on other sites More sharing options...
spawnovchaos Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 The yellow and green could definitely work, just subdue the yellow and make it a little on the pale side (i.e. highlights with bleached bones or pale yellows etc) so that the two colors arn't competing for your eyes attention by the way, these look great! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1601395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted June 18, 2008 Author Share Posted June 18, 2008 Thanks mate! :cry: I'm thinking of going for a Vomit Brown basecoat and building it up from there to yellow. Quick Update time I've seriously had hardly anytime to get anything done recently (lousey real world!!!) but have started a second Sternguard. I've used the Deathwatch pad to make him a bit more gothic looking, added the bigger magazine to the bolter and added a gorget to the neck. I'll also be adding a bolter strap and few other bits. I've also removed the Dark Angels icon from the rope on Tarven's studded pad and added a teminator honour instead. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/Doghouse12/Picture182.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/Doghouse12/Picture183.jpg Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1603421 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NemFX Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 So, I decided, the bolter guy is gonna be a veteran of Valgard Primus, any other details you could PM me to make him as accurate to your force as i can ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1603533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_shrike Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 I really like the way you used that DA shoulder pad and swapped the icon for a veteran one. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1603548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bannus Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Looking good - as always. For your Sternguard: Why not paint them up as Tranquility Campaign snipers? They have specialized bolters and in power armor - just like the Tranquility sniper unit. You could even use them as a sniper unit that "counts as" Sternguard. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1603551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NemFX Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 P.S. Don't forget the Imperialis! The skull with wings was the symbol of all the good guys at the Heresy, and given how cursed the Lamenters and the Mantis Warriors are, they might want to go over the top with showing what side they are on. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1607054 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted June 22, 2008 Author Share Posted June 22, 2008 Cheers guys! :lol: Bannus: That's not a bad idea given the new rules. Nemfx: The Lamenters were one of the cursed founding but the Mantis Warriors are regular marines. Given that they were granted the Emperor's Forgiveness on completion of a penitent crusade it's extremely unlikely that they turned to chaos and so would most probably kept their Imperial insignia. The most plausible explaination is that they were convinced by Huron that the Adeptus Mechanicus were the bad guys trying to suppress the Astartes autonomy. :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1607105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midas Posted June 22, 2008 Share Posted June 22, 2008 I think you should make the snipers too, even if just to see how they turn out. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/135072-mantis-warriors/page/7/#findComment-1607125 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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