Doghouse Posted June 27, 2009 Author Share Posted June 27, 2009 Update Now that the model is getting near the completion point I've gone back over a few areas and begun adding more details. I've got rid of the tiny pistol and added a proper sized version complete with first editon style holster as seen on the original RTB01 marines. I've also begun to add a grenade as a nod to my old Night Lords captain and a pouch. I've still got a lot of cleaning up to do paintwise but have begun the heraldry. The shoulder pad is quartered as in the old school style. Incidently the Heresy came about originally because when they made the original Epic Space Marine and Adeptus Titanicus it was easier to have the same models for both sides. I've also begun the rogue trader era captain marking on his left fore arm and base coated the base in snakebite leather. http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/Doghouse12/Picture075-3.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/Doghouse12/Picture076-3.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/Doghouse12/Picture077-1.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/Doghouse12/Picture078-2.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubernator Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 Quick Q: why doesn't the shotgun have any grip area like on a standard bolter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted June 27, 2009 Author Share Posted June 27, 2009 Idon't really know, I kept meaning to add one but never got around to it I guess. I may still add one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubernator Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 I recommend you do, it'll add something back to the wepaon :) The rest of the model is awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannicide Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 I prefer the shotgun without the grip, personally. With it I'm afraid the weapon will start to look like a bolter with a drum round clip. I say keep it as is, and continue painting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrible_Trygon Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Very nice painting House. Though the shotgun still looks a tad plain. Perhaps you could add a thunder bolt symbol to the weapon, a common symbol displayed by the Legions when they still used Thunder Armour. Also might I suggest painting the cell of the plasma pistol copper/bronze? Not only would it compliment the bionic arm but it also has a nice copper wire coil look, making it appear very archeotech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted June 28, 2009 Author Share Posted June 28, 2009 Cheers guys! :D Terrible-Trygon: I'll probably leave the shotgun bare mainly because weapons of the time were probably not reverved as much as they are by 41st millenia standards. I like the plasma coils idea, I'd ideally like to represent them in turned off mode so failing the copper idea a very dark colour might be in order so they are not glowing. Update Here's the third character that I'm working on that will be a proxy for an Inquisitor Lord mainly so that I can include a Landraider in the force but also to cement the Adeptus Mechanicus presence. I'm trying to give this guy an unsettling alomst alien feel by giving him lots of movement in the robes he wears. I can see it being a bit like the cloak that Spawn wears in some respects and the gothic nature of the Adeptus Mechanicus off sets the more scientific and enlighted aspects of the time. To re-enforce this he will be painted in darker more muted colours. Please note the Army Captain is included for scale purposes only. ;) http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/Doghouse12/Picture080-1.jpg http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b141/Doghouse12/Picture079-2.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendrik Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 good work doghouse, like usual are you going to give the mechanicus visible feet? if so i suggest you take a look at the wolf guard with a bionic leg, has this nice old feeling to it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 Thanks mate. I did think about that actually but what I'll probably do is leave the feet off and add one of those legs to a member of his retinue. Quick Update I've got a little bit more done on the Magus and he's now starting to take shape. I've also started the wardroid and land raider which I might be able to post pictures of later this evening with any luck. http://i41.tinypic.com/smg5xt.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiplash Posted July 2, 2009 Share Posted July 2, 2009 Thanks mate. I did think about that actually but what I'll probably do is leave the feet off and add one of those legs to a member of his retinue. Quick Update I've got a little bit more done on the Magus and he's now starting to take shape. I've also started the wardroid and land raider which I might be able to post pictures of later this evening with any luck. http://i41.tinypic.com/smg5xt.jpg he could easily be an admech preist, thats what i thought at first, why not? great sculpting though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted July 2, 2009 Author Share Posted July 2, 2009 Cheers mate! ;) Yeah he'll be an Adeptus Mechanicus envoy attached to the army. He's there so I can include this next beast as his transport. Update This is a conversion that I first made years ago, chopped up and now I've rebuilt it in it's orignal glory. I've got to strip the model when I get some more Fairy Power Spray tomorrow and then I'll begin reconditioning the model. I'll be streching the links on the track to make it look like it has a single set of tracks and then I'll either repaint her as an Imperial Army landraider or a Space Wolves one. Which ever way I go decides what I'll have to build for the tank commander sticking out of the hatch. It's not really supposed to be truescale, just a honking great lascannon shooting behemoth of death and destruction. http://i42.tinypic.com/34j8uv9.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/ok0tgy.jpg http://i42.tinypic.com/35n3bj7.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/15s7l2o.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sons of Horus Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 nice raider <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
son of sanguinus Posted July 3, 2009 Share Posted July 3, 2009 nice job on th pre heresy but on the mechanicus preist maybe add little machine arms poking out the robes like the magos in gunheads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted July 4, 2009 Author Share Posted July 4, 2009 Cheers guys! ^_^ son of sanguinus: I'll be adding snake like arms that come from the back which will have the weapons that he carries. Update! Please note This is about as far as I can go with the Land Raider before it becomes a proper Imperial Army tank and is no-longer power armour related. If anyone wants to watch it progess further pm me and I'll send a link to the full wip army project as this thread is only about the power armoured and adeptus mechanicus aspects of my army. :P I've been hard at work on this monster and it's starting to take shape nicely now. I've extended the track links and have begun to base coat the tank. Once that's out of the way I'll start the details, weathering and add the tank commander that I'm building seperately. The paint stripping didn't go exactly as planned as some of the twenty year old basecoat and four layers of paint refused to shift in places. I've been gaming with this tank for over two decades now and hopefully she'll serve me well in her new incarnation. I've decide that I'm going to add a banner to the rear of the tank to comemorate it's twenty first birthday this august. The model was first released way back in august 1988 in boxes of two, hard to believe that the Mk I is that old. http://i42.tinypic.com/2z8vw47.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/6i7l7r.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/sz8z2v.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted July 5, 2009 Author Share Posted July 5, 2009 The Rule of Cool I'm after some ideas here for my army now. I've just started to prepare ten space marines that I'm sculpting to add to this force using the Grey Knight power armoured allied squad rules. This is purely because I think that it is too cool an opportunity to pass up. Using two Valkyries I intend to drop them along side Enoch and his command squad directly into the heart of the enemy acting as the force spear tip. The Straken rules should greatly increase their combat ability giving them counter attack and furious charge as long as they are within twelve inches of Enoch. Now I have two options here; 1 Adeptus Custodes I can make them as Adeptus Custodes assigned to the army on a secret mission. The downside of this is that the custodes don't leave the Emperor's side but I can get away with this by having them form an investigation team maybe there to locate a webway portal or artifact to aid the Emperor in his great work. Pros: Easy to explain away the nemesis weapons and stormbolter as I can combine them into one staff weapon. Cons: Difficult to sculpt (although far from impossible) as their armour is more orante than regular marines. 2: Legion Astartes The second option is to go with regular astartes from another legion, perhaps representing one of the more elite first company squads hence the stormbolters and advanced power weapons. Not sure which Legion they'd be from but they would have to be ideally from a loyalist army. Pros: Easy to sculpt and will be quicker to make as a unit of ten. Cons: Hard to explain why they are there and their unusual weapon configurations. I don't have the codex to hand right now but I won't be using any psyker powers with any of the forces units. So which route should I take Astartes or Custodes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiplash Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 Why not have them as Grey knights or Xeno hunters (cheesy i know but its an option) actually were they even in existence pre heresy? oh i dunno... Custodes do look ausome although personally im not a fan of gold armour, unless of course they weren't gold pre heresy, or if they were in disguise? so as not to have been seen leaving the Emperors side? seems fairly plausable Astartes, well seeing as these guys are pretty heavily kitted out then they could either be a company in close proximity of a Forge World (explanation for heavy kit) e.g. iron hands that would enable some sick models, or a Space Marine Detachment that live on/defend a Forge World, dunno if there are any chapters that do this or if this is fluffy or not i love the Land Raider, its fits in perfectly scale-wise, is it just the links that have been widened or has the whole chassis been made bigger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doghouse Posted July 5, 2009 Author Share Posted July 5, 2009 Yeah grey knights and xeno hunters weren't around back then so they're not an option. ^_^ That custodes in disguise idea isn't a bad one actually. In Legion the alpha legion the alpha legion first appeared wearing hooded gear with mail armour and in Blood Games the Custodes did go under cover so that is an option I never concidered thanks for that idea mate. For the astartes I was thinking of doing some Ultramarine Recon marines, the ones with the big backpacks. The raider is basically two sets of tracks side by side and I just lengthened the track links. Dead easy conversion really but make it look a lot scarier! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiplash Posted July 5, 2009 Share Posted July 5, 2009 The raider is basically two sets of tracks side by side and I just lengthened the track links. Dead easy conversion really but make it look a lot scarier! it makes it look huge!! might have to do one myself, if i ever do a truescale squad anyway, i suppose it would be useful for terminator transporation too though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brother Hastatus Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 I'd vote Custodes, simply because they're super cool anyway, and with your sculpting skills they would be amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terminatorinhell Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Custodes, because you're Doghouse, you can do anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlight Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 maybe some more space wolves that share Enoch's opinion about the new direction the legion is taking. they would all be terran veterans like Enoch, and carry power weapons, and some awesome looking combi bolters (maybe standard bolter with underslung combi bolter attachment. (perhaps these marines are from Enoch's great company, veterans and loyal to Enoch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Kenaz Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 As always I am in awe of your work! The attention to detail, like the old school back-pack for the wolf is great! It brings back found memories fo the 1st SM plastic box set. Great job as always, you are an inspiration to us all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RADU LYKAN Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 maybe thousand sons? or dark angels? be interesting fluff wise (depending on the timeline) if enoch shares his legions animosity towards the others? thousand sons would explain any psychic stuff just incase you do decide to use the grey knights full potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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