Black Fists Space Marines

[Chapter Master Ignis Domus]

Key

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Force Organization Chart. Its kind of really really big, (only 180 kb though) and I'm not exactly sure of how to put it in smaller thumbnail form.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j276/shortsonfire79/UnitOrganization-2.png

 

Two things: The captain of the first company seems to be missing. And I see the Crimson Fists decided to become their second company.

[Shortsonfire79]

Hmm...I'm confused about both of your things <_<

The captain of the 1st company is the chapter master, as was stated in my fluff.. (Not sure of where that went..thought it was in post #1, but I don't think its there anymore...)

And the captain of the second company is my old chapter master. Also in my fluff...somewhere.

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/Shortsonfire82/IMG_2940.jpg

 

:lol: Isn't it confusing? ;)

 

Edit: Found it :) I changed the color of the small section that says the chapter master is the captain. This fluff is outdated, so the badge description is old. Sorry

 

The Black Fists are a chapter that descends directly from the honored Imperial Fists. Sister chapters with the Black Templars and the Crimson Fists, the Black Fists combine both paint schemes of the chapters. The chapter badge comes directly from the Imperial Fists, with crossing triangles in the background represent both the Black Templars and Crimson Fists intertwined in brotherhood.

 

Founded in the year M37 from a surplus of tactical units, the Black Fists spent five decades training members to be specialized with devastator weaponry and in the form of rapid assault. Although the newly formed chapter had little to no experience in battle, Chapter Master Andre Cortola was soon to remedy that by bringing the Black Fists to battle with the dark treachery of Chaos.

 

After several incidents, the brothers who performed at a greater level of weaponry skill and tactics, were soon seen as the chapter’s elite. Chapter Master Andre Cortola soon made a point of forming proper companies after seeing initial performance of the marines. Following the strict Codex Astartes, Cortola soon had ten companies at full strength under his command.

Although the chapter closely followed the Codex Astartes, Cortola had put in an extra squad in his elite First Company. By doing so, he had ten extra marines to bolster the attack of the core force. The First would always move as one, soon to be known throughout the chapter and the home systems as Cortola’s Hammer was swift to bring destruction to the enemies of the Holy Emperor.

 

The chapter itself is a master of siege tactics. No match for the Imperial Fists themselves, the Black Fists have been known to hold citadels under siege for years, eventually flushing out the enemy from within. The commanders of the Black Fists are well versed in tactical planning, rehearsing every movement before it happens.

 

The Black Fists embrace the Codex Astartes readily, and receive training of all aspects of combat as written by Roboute Guilleman.

 

Once recruits are selected, their criminal record is examined, and they undergo a battery of tests: musculature, psychological profile, psychic level, eye reflexes, intelligence, the ability to shoot, pain resistance, and dexterity. If they manage to pass that, they face extreme heat, cold, empty space, and any other condition they may face on any warzone. The severity of testing increases along the way. If the initiate passes, he becomes a cadet and the symbol of the Black Fists is marked on his left shoulder. Then begins the indoctrination, training and the actual surgery that will make them Marines. After the initiation ceremony, the cadet's family is informed that their child has become a Space Marine to ensue a matter of pride in the families.

 

The 1st company always marches together as one, with the Captain of the Company always being the Chapter Master as well. As with the Crimson Fists, it is considered a bad omen to march to battle with less than a full veteran company.

 

The Black Fists have always had close ties with the Imperium and the Inquisition. They have contributed many warriors to the kill-teams of the Ordo Xenos, being renowned Ork fighters. Many of these kill-team warriors have made their way back into the chapter, and even into the veteran company.

 

Chapter master Cortola is a veteran of over three hundred battles, most of which are against the foul Orks. He has battled against Orks so often that he knows how the greenskins think. He can predict their movements and where they’ll have emplacements. This wealth of knowledge has been well used during several large wars, such as the Waaagh Hargrutz and the Gragnutz uprising.

 

Taking one thousand fresh recruits, Cortola made way on the Battlebarge Knights Glory to find a new homeworld close to Terra. Eventually landing on Abregado, a lush planet with a large indigenous human population. They did not have the technology yet to venture into space, but they had been visited by many ambassadors of the Imperium, and they knew well of the Space Marines.

 

The chapter moved as a whole to the planet of Abregado to construct a fortress monastery, and by doing so, duly populated the planet. The first few years after constructing their monastery went to recruiting from the entire planet’s population, recruiting around three-hundred neophytes to become scouts, though only two-hundred and fifty survived the initial tests administered by the chapter.

 

The first company, or Cortola’s Hammer, travels around the universe as one force together, lead by Cortola himself. They travel in one of the chapter’s strike cruisers Victory’s Grasp which always seems to get them to the planets surface in one piece, not once being attacked in the Warp and always getting them through planetary defenses. The company always descends to the planets surface via drop pod or teleportation. After an initial drop point is secured, Thunderhawks will bring down Land Raiders, Rhinos and Razorbacks for the company to move to the next warzone in.

 

The company has scored several hundred victories, from small incursions in-system, to aiding in the Third War for Armageddon.

[Chapter Master Ignis Domus]

Sorry, I remember now. Petra Kantor just reminds me of another rather well known CM.

[Shortsonfire79]

No problem. Originally, she was my Chapter Master, since this chapter and Pedro Kantor are both successors from the Imperial Fists.

This guy is who you are referring to, yes? Pedro Kantor, Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists (near extinct but still freaking awesome chapter (who I may be starting after this one :) ))

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1870231_99060101395_SMPedroKantorMain_445x319.jpg

[FallenLion]

Thanks Mick :P

No problem Metal Apostle. I think the Prometheus is a pretty wicked sick piece of tank.

FallenLion: Thanks for checking it all out. What are you talking about with the black and white? I don't have anything white in my army :)

The whips are still a Wip (Ha ha)

The cannoness is gone.

I wasn't thrilled with the Star of David, even though I didn't realize it until someone mentioned it.

And get working on the sons of Dorn!

 

the minis on page 6 - look black and white xD maybe its cuz I tired xD

the minis from your cover squad look amazin! you have to message me [here or pm] on how you did it e.g. what scenery etc

currently I am compiling a HUGE list of minis that i want for christmas along with 40k omnibuses [sMs e.g ultra, blood angel etc etc GK and Guant's ghosts]

 

keep up the great work I am moving on to the sons of dorn after finishing BT squad - IF

[Shortsonfire79]

the minis on page 6 - look black and white xD maybe its cuz I tired xD

the minis from your cover squad look amazin! you have to message me [here or pm] on how you did it e.g. what scenery etc

currently I am compiling a HUGE list of minis that i want for christmas along with 40k omnibuses [sMs e.g ultra, blood angel etc etc GK and Guant's ghosts]

 

keep up the great work I am moving on to the sons of dorn after finishing BT squad - IF

Yes, you were definitely tired. Go back to page 6, they're colored (and finished even) ^_^ The only thing that had changed were the white helmets.

What are you talking about by "cover squad"? Do you think you could post that picture here, so I can see and tell you what you're talking about :P

Goodluck with that list, and share it with me too. ;)

 

I've been wishing to work on some minis for some time now...but with that Predator in the way, I couldn't find time. But seeing as I'm not going to be able to finish it in time anyways... Thursday: Harry Potter from 4pm-3am. Friday: Running and cooking for the UC Berkeley/ Stanford (American) football game. Saturday: UC Berkeley/Stanford game. Sunday: Not enough time to finish the tank then destroy it.

 

So...I worked on my second DW marine. There will eventually be a squad of 5 (maybe 10) counting as more sternguard, which is why my chapter has 110 veterans in the 1st Company.

I had SO much trouble with this mini...I don't know why. The legs were glued to the torso and backpack weeks ago, and I had to work with it. But I was just having trouble getting the arms to stay! I'm so out of practice...soon, I hope I will get that all fixed.

AND I'm running out of 30mm bases! Only 2 more! Gaaahhhh.

 

Well, here he is. All the DW marines will have the same shoulderpads, helmets, gun, and armor. I figure that they'll have the same special gear from being in the DW, and the whole chapter has the same helmet anyways.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1345.jpg

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1346.jpg

 

And my shirt for tomorrow. ;) Since I wore it last year, I'm going to put 'still' in there, in red. :)

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs158.snc1/5894_123460914387_731214387_3098873_2565186_n.jpg

[Captain Mick]

Nice marine, well done :) .

[Shortsonfire79]

Haha thanks. I have enough bitz, I just don't have the ideas for poses... :(

So...I went to see Harry Potter 7, pt1. Midnight premier ^_^ And I do believe it is the best one so far. In the first 5 minutes, I could already tell it would be good. There were some mistakes (of course) but I think it had a very good screenplay.

 

So its not 4:30AM my time, and I finished 2 more Deathwatch marines. :D

Sergeant with a Meltabomb and broken left arm.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1378.jpg

The runner...

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1377.jpg

Three of a kind.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1376.jpg

[Captain Mick]

Looka good, well donw ^_^ .

[Dark Apostle Thirst]

Before you paint the marine with the auspex, lower his arm. Common mistake when posing minis, if the weapon is at rest you lower it. It's only raised when you are lowering it.

 

I'm kinda sad for you, though, because you already had to work for the current pose.

[Chapter Master Ignis Domus]

The meltabomb Sarge looks great. The slightly raised foot really gives it a great pose.

[Shortsonfire79]

Before you paint the marine with the auspex, lower his arm. Common mistake when posing minis, if the weapon is at rest you lower it. It's only raised when you are lowering it.

 

Took me a minute to figure out what you meant by lower his arm, I thought you meant move it down a bit. I think I'll leave it as is though, imagine that he just took a shot, and is pausing to look at his auspex to see another target, then will look up again to shoot. No need to put your arm down. :D

 

I'm kinda sad for you, though, because you already had to work for the current pose.

I added another marine to the Lascannon Sternguard Squad.

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/Shortsonfire82/IMG_3000.jpg

 

Haha, I haven't put together a 'stock' marine since March! :) And I'm used to using plastic glue, not super, but since this was resin, I forgot I had to wait for the glue to dry a bit before I could move to the next arm. :P

 

And thanks Ignus Domus. The raised foot actually isn't supposed to be like that, but maybe I'll do that. ;)

[Shortsonfire79]

Thanks Ash. I really had to force those together....pain in the butt.

 

But I did finish the other 2. Just stock, boring marines.

But now, I get to work on something I've been wanting to work on for a month or so now. My scout sniper squad....without sniper bitz. I'm not sure if its too big or not, having never seen a GW sniper rifle...but I kinda like the look of it, though the stock seems a bit boring. What do you all think?

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1380.jpg

I made it with the Scout shotgun stock. I'll be making a Sergeant Telion too, probably....hopefully. Motivation my friends. :(

[Captain Mick]

Looks good just a little bit to long i think. Probally wont see it when painted ;) , keep up the good work :tu: .

[Chapter Master Ignis Domus]

I agree, he's a tad long. It's an awesome conversion otherwise.

[Shortsonfire79]

Thanks guys. Mick and Ignus, I've shortened them a bit, read below. :P

 

interesting sniper rifle! good idea, maybe a little long on the barrel perhaps....

Good stuff Shorts.....who the hell is Cho Chang?......or shouldnt I ask?

Yes, the ways of the internet say to shorten the barrel, so I did by 4mm. :P Though, I have run into a problem (see below). Cho Chang is (I think) the only Asian (girl) in Harry Potter. And seeing as I'm Chinese, and not 'cool' enough to have a robe, my friends made me that shirt. Stating that I'm hotter than she is (and the actress who plays her isn't exactly a...looker..in my book) IMDB that!

 

Nice rifle shorts, would look excellent with the mini lying prone, but no-one seems to do that with normal mini's, just guard...

 

I like the Deathwatch marines as well so far, if you have another set of running legs, you could always do my favourite pose which i always try to work into a marine army somewhere along the way.

Head down, shoulder barging througha door or enemy squad, i always imagined marines as being almost like tanks on legs so they'd be able to crush enemies out of their way with their own bulk and the bulk of the power armour.

 

I'll see if i have a pic of one of mine to show you what i mean if you want

I haven't thought out poses for the scouts yet, but I may do that, and a couple of kneeling and such too. I think that it's 'just guard' because they could actually be in the bush for a few days, stalking their target. I imagine SM Scouts to just appear (walk) to their spot, be there for a moment, kill, and leave. No time for sitting around on the job

For the Deathwatch, I have already finished the other 2. Just standard lame-os. But for my other Vanguard Squad, I think I will use the post you're talking about.

Like this, but a bit more turned, so that the shoulder is pointed in the direction that he's running?

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/DefaultFW/xlarge/rgcom10.jpg

 

Shorten the sniper barrel

I have done so, like most others have requested. Except that the extra plasticard that I added (13mm of it) is quite long on the barrel now. Do you suggest that I shorten it to maybe 6mm?

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1381.jpg

 

Looks kinda silly. So I have halted progress here until I get the answer I'm in need of.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1384.jpg

 

 

And....does this count as an octopus? (8 arms...ha ha...)

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1382.jpg

Also working on a Telion weapon too.

[Captain Mick]

Looks promising, well done ^_^ .

[FallenLion]

Never too late! Not for comments and followers! :blink: Thanks though Captain Mick.

 

Finished up 2 more marines this morning....you can see what I started with months ago :)

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/Shortsonfire82/IMG_2752.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j276/shortsonfire79/IMG_0745.jpg

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j276/shortsonfire79/IMG_0747.jpg

 

I meant these minis they look black and white xD

my eyesight is terrible fyi xD [my contact lenses need changing soon an my glasses are -4:50 and -4:75, if that means anything to you]

 

have to say that following this thread makes me envious, seriously some great painting here along with conversions

the cover squads that i mean are these ones

 

Wow thanks S Bloodhowl! Do you mean super glue or plastic glue? Both seem like it would work well. But that is a great idea! Thanks!

 

Sergeant: I was planning on just remaking him, but I found a pointy arm!

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/Shortsonfire82/IMG_2977.jpg

 

And the squad coherency

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss63/Shortsonfire82/IMG_2978.jpg

 

Love the idea, what scenery is that

 

keep up the great work

[MagicMan]

The sniper rifle looks great! It was a tad long before though.

 

 

 

Id advise painting the scout before attaching the rifles, i didn't, and its a huge pain painting the face, and the chest. And quite a few other bits if im honest.

[Shortsonfire79]

I meant these minis they look black and white

my eyesight is terrible fyi [my contact lenses need changing soon an my glasses are -4:50 and -4:75, if that means anything to you]

 

have to say that following this thread makes me envious, seriously some great painting here along with conversions

the cover squads that i mean are these one

 

Love the idea, what scenery is that

 

keep up the great work

 

Haha, no worries. And don't worry, I do think my dad is -13, -14 or something like that. They don't make scuba goggles with that bad of corrective lens, so we're sunk!! (yeah, scuba diving pun, never thought you'd see it, huh.. )

And thanks, the painting here may be on par with most others, but there are definitely tons out there that are super great! You must agree.

The scenery for the cover squad comes from any Cities of Death building from the Games Workshop terrain line.

Thanks for coming back. :P

 

 

The sniper rifle looks great! It was a tad long before though.

 

Id advise painting the scout before attaching the rifles, i didn't, and its a huge pain painting the face, and the chest. And quite a few other bits if im honest.

Thanks on the snipers. Probably my first small plasticard work yet.

I'll see what I can do about the guns/arms. I don't normally glue on bolters on my marines, but for scouts, the guns come modeled on. So I may just leave the right arms off for painting, thanks for the tip/reminder. :)

 

yeah like Korvidae, just bring the right hand shoulder round, lean him a bit more forward and have the marine looking over the edge of his shoulder guard in a "you'se gonna die!" type pose as he is charging.

 

So i can imagine scouts, whilst not needing as much time as guard to get set up, would still be using the same old practiced sniper techniques as we use today.

 

- Sachiel

Got it, I will do a couple like that then. Maybe even more than a couple :) And you're probably right with the scout thing. At least they haven't modeled running snipers yet

 

I would greenstuff a butt for the rifles. The kickback without a butt would mess up even a scout.

 

The bases for the bolts are superb, and I cannot wait to see more.

 

Could you email me some templates? I am thinking of doing some work on my angels of darkness (black blood angels ) , and the templates would be very usefull.

 

Nick.

You do have a good point, I'll figure something out. But the way that the arms are modeled right now, the butt would be in the elbow...not exactly correct either.. but I'll try and figure something out. I thought something was missing, but I thought it was more along the stock. :P

The bases haven't been touched since, but I will hope to be getting to those soon.

I can email you any you want that I have. Just drop me a PM with your email address and the ones you want and I'll see what I can do for you. :)

The Chain is a nice touch.

Aw, I'm glad someone saw that.

On the Scouts the Shorter Rifle looks good, As you seem to be going for a Barret style Sniper rifle instead of a needler a bit of length is a good thing though maybe shortening the body part to scale would be a good idea.

 

My Tuppence on Marine scouts, I imagine a lot of them do fairly quick deployments but those with Sniper Rifles and Cloaks I can imagine sneaking around with Target designators and such for a few days beforehand in many cases.

Thanks on the rifles. Not sure of what a Needler or Berret are, but I shall shorten the body a bit. Thanks for the advice. :)

I assume Tuppence is something you don't like? Or just think about? So then would you suggest giving the sergeant (who will be Telion) and auspex or something?

 

Well, I know its late my time (12..not really late) but I know that this is the prime time for me to post on here. I know that you folk on the other side of the world will be getting up around now, and surfing the boards, thus possibly giving me more views when I wake up.

Sadly, I don't have much to post today. I just wanted to reply to all the lovely comments. Just the bitz I will be using for my Telion model. Check out the bolter, let me know what you think. In my opinion, when people make silenced bolters, the silencers are always way too long, so I tried to keep my gun to look exactly like the GW model. Though I didn't have plasticard rod with a diameter big enough to be a good silencer, I took the scanner piece off of a SM Plasma Cannon instead.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1388.jpg

The head I chose has the same kind of scanner pieces that the real Telion has, except on the opposite side of his face, so I think thats good since hes not the real McCoy. If you are wondering why there are two right arms and a couple of Space Marine bitz, wait until I start modeling to find out. It seems like after finishing those Deathwatch, the mojo bug has bitten me hard.

[GooseDaMoose]

Awesome looking army! I just have a few issues. First of all Cho Chang is a total hottie. Well she's cute anyway. :wacko:

Secondly, I would think that a sniper rifle of that calibre would need some serious stock for the recoil no?

 

I just realised someone already mentioned it but I still wanna say it! :lol:

[Shortsonfire79]

Well, if Cho Chang is a hottie, does that make me super hot! :D Hahahahahaha. I think they could have chosen a prettier Asian for the role...though there aren't many. And yes, stock for recoils are in order. :)

 

So...I worked on Telion a bit. Notably the kneepads. And I must say, these were a pain in the butt! The hardest part was getting them to look the same. I'd do one, then do the other, and fix the other one, and so on. I was at it for eons!

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1390.jpg

And I'm working on a pose for him now. What do you think? This is my inspiration, because I think the painting is awesomely done. Like he's using his Voice of Influence. Painted by Tutzdes

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/223/8/9/Torias_Telion_by_tutzdes.jpg

 

And here are my two poses. One holding the super bolter. And the other holding an auspex (thanks to Noserenda's idea) and his super bolter will be strapped to his back.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1391.jpg

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1392.jpg

 

And Thraka arrived in the mail today, So I now have another dreadnought. TROGDREAD. He needs shoulder-pad like things, that will be worked on later. Traka's torso is now sitting in Simple Green.

http://i379.photobucket.com/albums/oo234/shortsonfire80/IMG_1389.jpg

[Warsmith Aznable]

So I now have another dreadnought. TROGDREAD.

 

He needs a scroll on those shoulder plates that read, "BURNINATOR" and peasant with his head on fire for his scenic base! :cuss

[Shortsonfire79]

So I now have another dreadnought. TROGDREAD.

 

He needs a scroll on those shoulder plates that read, "BURNINATOR" and peasant with his head on fire for his scenic base! :cuss

 

YOU! Are a genius!! I shall be doing exactly that!

[Captain Mick]

Great job on those well done :) .