2000 pt Successor chapter

[Brother Trajan]

So this is the culmination of my purchases over the past couple of months. I started on the paint scheme with the HQ. Lots of conversion work to be done, hopefully I can chop alot of the old models up and go for the bionic legs. Does anyone know a good method of greenstuffing cogs?

 

Whole army

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2560/4207722544_e1e50abff2_b.jpg

 

Command Squad

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4207730888_692e70241e_b.jpg

 

Scout Squads

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4206969539_850d751525_b.jpg

 

Tac Squads, Rhino and Techmarine

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2494/4206964169_cb02c0cb7d_b.jpg

 

Vanguard Marines

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4206965395_f473ab058b_b.jpg

 

Dreadnoughts

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Terminators

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4207726748_d08422a9bf_b.jpg

 

Techmarine and Rapier Laser

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Devastators

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Vindicator

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2527/4206960173_e30bdece87_b.jpg

[Brother Trajan]

So I started all the big work today.

 

I have here 20 Aobr marines along with 20 of the 2nd edition box marines. I figured why not trade the guns and blend such static models together. After putting the old school bolters on the aobr guys I realized they give them a bit of movement I didn't see beforehand. I shaved off some of the helmet vents (the heads still need to be leveled). Also I have not green stuffed in a while so here goes. Any C&C would be superbly helpful please.

 

So next comes tons more greenstuff work, amputation and bionic limb replacement.

 

 

Da Troopz

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More Troopz

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More Troopz

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Trooper That needs a lot more GS work

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2754/4210361066_aa9d107b93_b.jpg

 

Sergeant Smock

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4209599719_714e6c0ee3_b.jpg

 

Dreadnought

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2804/4209598961_8606a95a0a_b.jpg

 

Sergeant Cape

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4210361782_4cbee88ce2_b.jpg

 

Squads

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[Vulkan454]

Looks good so far but you've got a lot of painting to go yet. My only question is about the title: which chapter are they the successors of? and what scheme are you painting them in?

 

Vulkan

[CosmicCreations]

Your dreadnought reminds me of the Queen from Aliens haha, just that front bit, like the queen's head crest!

 

good so far, like Vulkan what chapter are they exactly?

[Brother Trajan]

Your dreadnought reminds me of the Queen from Aliens haha, just that front bit, like the queen's head crest!

 

good so far, like Vulkan what chapter are they exactly?

 

At first they were going to be an ultramarines successor but because of the fluff (wich is in my opinion, better) I chose the blood angels. The chapter is space based and on a ceaseless quest for knowledge (of arcane technology of course!) That will bring about a cure for the black rage. I originally had the idea of calling them the sons ultra but after changing their progenitors I figured I'd change them to the Nemisis chapter. Although after reading one of the other posts about a crusade army I am thinking of painting one squad differently and dubbing them son's ultra. More to come on the story of the chapter later along with gs, the other dread and vehicles. Thanks!

[Brother Trajan]

Well of course I've found my battery, had a crazy new year, lost my camera. The gods of chaos must be involved, or whiskey. Anyways, Got a bit of work done on the dreadnoughts and termies. Started putting candles on everything, plating and such. I think I've been watching District 9 toooooo much and its working its way into my ideas. Anyways, Soon I'm going to start doing leg chops on the standard marines and replacing arms and legs with bionics. Here are some craptastic cell phone pics of the dreads and of the termy seargent I have done.

 

First dreadnought, I wanted his look to be subdued, candles on the top, chain loincloth and opposable thumb. I still have to fill in the inside of the shoulders and I think that I'll put a ton of guitar string in there.

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Second dread, I think I went a bit nuts with him. I wanted an off balanced look to him so I stuck His eye on the side of his sarcophogis. After looking at it repeatedly I think I'm going to pull the loincloth off and continue with the segmented armour motif. Also i'm looking into finding a tail for him. Sort of going inspired by the tailed titan in the iron warriors book. Any suggestions?

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Terminator captain. I've seen so many awesome heresy termies with huge shoulder pads. I like the look quite a bit and thought I would try to emulate that. I also realized that if I didn't keep the stone badge (crux terminatus?) on his arm (I know the name of it I'm just drawing a blank and am to lazy to grab the book) it would look pre heresy and therefore not really work with the fluff I'm writing.

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Please if you have any ideas or input I definetly need them. Especially with the dread 2. Thanks and take care!

[Capt. Lysander]

Good work! I like the Vanguard marines- somehow makes me feel like they really are charging into the heat of battle! Maybe a little more bling added to their jumppacks though?

[Brother Trajan]

The vanguard are some models that I'm finally getting to. Going to go with the plated armor motif on them and a robe for the techmarine.

 

Battled my friends orks last night in a 1500 point battle.

2 rhinos

motf

3 tac squads

dread

8 assault marines

5 termies

 

There were seriously probably over 140 models arrayed against me. First real large battle against orks and I was seriously slaughtered. Although I will say that my dread payed for himself about 4 times over, killing his warboss and holding up not only a full unit of nobz but 2 units of 40 boys each. My friend had some horrible rolls though. Also, 2 rhino's lasted longer than their own squads. So they spent the rest of the game tank shocking any unit within reach and rammed his looted truck (those things are no joke with the cannons). Made 2 units of boyz run off the board. Nuts. To say my vehicles were more powerful than my troops would be an understatement. Cheers.

[Capt. Lysander]

That's a powerful dread you got there :lol:

[Loken86]

good start here brother had a great laugh with the battle report i look forward to next update

[Brother Trajan]

Just started making molds for my shoulder badges. Its the cog on the power-axe of my techmarine. I just got the mold done. I'm hoping that I can actually do this and have some awesome looking shoulder pads. Also I'm going to finally get around to spraying and basing the tac squads. I think I'm going to sign up for the librarium painting challenge. Otherwise I'd never get this army done. And I want to start a genestealer cult army!!!!! but first things first

[Brother Trajan]

whoot whoot there's the banner!!!

[Brother Trajan]

So I have written a couple paragraphs of the chapter's story . . . please for the love of satan give me some feedback on this brothers.

 

 

"I am the minds that have broken in between your soul."

"I am the storm eclipsing all you know."

"I am a spawn of melted mind, and know!"

"Herghashemesh! Herghashemesh!"

 

. . . .

 

and so it came to be. Upon a single point in time, within a finite piece of space, the Gods

 

glanced down upon a speckled flavour of souls that crossed a plane of time.

 

. . . .

 

 

"Ah delectable."

 

A sip from the glass to wash the flesh down.

 

"You approve my worship?"

 

The vassal asks of his master.

 

"Why, yes mortal. You have not prepared a meal fitting as this before, If I may say so."

 

The supplicant raised her head slightly and looked into the eyes of his prince with a

 

slight grimace.

 

"Herghashemesh. You are the reason of our being. The guiding light of our chanced lives. To

 

bathe in your essence is to give purpose to the world we have so aimlessly been tasked to.

 

For you, on these last days of your prescience; only the finest of souls. Braised in blood

 

and marrow, we have tasked days and nights for this, your last day upon ourselves."

 

Shuffling about, the slaves of this malice hoped it to gaze upon them. Praying to their god

 

of warp and flesh.

 

"You my chosen, have done well. I am pleased, and your souls will find their rightful place

 

in the bosom of our lord. I am the Herald, know you shall see me once more."

 

Suddenly. The splinter of plas-steel.

The play of bolter upon walls, and skulls, and stone, and worse.

 

 

---------------

 

Lokuss Maraine pulled a new clip from his belt while ejecting the spent cartridge from his

 

bolter. The motion was fluid, quick, and completely beneath his train of thought in normal

 

combat. The comms were becoming irregular in these awkward, twisting chambers. It was

 

grating the captain's nerves in a slovenly growing manner. Corridors winding off not only

 

left and right, but up and down as well. Immense dimly lit corkscrews that would allow a

 

reaver to pass through with ease became hurdles themselves, to the mind perhaps.

 

"This is far too easy." Lokuss switched to command channels . . .

 

"Status report. Caphen, have you breached the compound yet? Reichard? How far are you into

 

this wretchid keep?"

 

Caphen's squad held the honour of first push into the citadel and were expected to arrive

 

at the objective first. They had not been heard from for 40 minutes now and resistance was

 

extremely light for a stronghold of this size and worth. Since planetfall Lokuss could only

 

account 83 kills on his personal tally. Pathetic. Reichard on the other hand was in contact

 

until 3.83 minutes from now. Something was working against them on a level they had not

 

concieved so far.

 

"Saius, how far are we from the central compound?"

 

Saius raised his arm to view the auspex on his wrist.

 

"219 meters. There are some interesting readings brother captain."

 

"Patch them through the command channel Saius."

 

Lokuss paused for a second and let a brief sigh.

 

"Cut the sarcasm Saius." Lokuss cut to direct channel to press his point.

 

"Your antics have not gone un-noticed and have earned you three days in sarcophogi. With no

 

sustinance."

 

"Yes Brother Captain."

 

At the ending of the corridor stood 20 mutants, sparsely armed and miss-shapen. Another

 

disorganized waste of life that saddened Lokuss to very pit of his hearts. Powering up his

 

sword's field would only waste the charge within its cell.

 

"Onwards brothers! Waste not a single shell on these sorry beings. Let us relieve them of

 

their sad lives with fist and blade."

 

At once Lokuss broke into a sprint, followed by the rest of his squad. As the chainswords

 

roared to life they began to spit out their former victims, throwing grisly patterns on the

 

floors around them. Lasbolts rained upon the squad vainly as fog would flow up a shore to

 

mountaintips. The mutants were within auto-sense range, each discusting pustule visible,

 

each drop of saliva clearly audible. The stench of their warped bodies assaulting him with

 

each monumental foot-fall. And then, he was upon them, snapping bone and stripping heads

 

from their bodies with fierce speed. In mere seconds there was simply nothing left of the

 

opposition.

 

"89 . . . Damn, one short."

 

"Captain?"

 

Brother Sumas stood closest to the great doors of the compound, pulling large strips of

 

tendon from his chainsword. Brushing the chewed pieces from his chest and arms, all the

 

while, pointing to a small slit within the frame of the vast chamber doors.

 

"Grisheke bring it down."

 

Brother Grisheke thumbed the rune on his power fist as he strode up to the wall and began

 

to methodically pummel the plascrete to crumbs. The assembled squad stood and aimed their

 

pistols at the widening crevace, waiting for a leering face to present itself as the rays

 

of light stabbed out silouhettes from the assembled marines. Lokuss toyed with the

 

activation rune on his sword, thumbing it back and forth, the blood slowly boiled off with

 

each flash of brilliant light.

[Capt. Lysander]

The fluff is nice. Be careful of grammatical errors, capitalization and sentence fluency. Perhaps the words that are not in quotation marks in the beginning be in italics?

 

Other then that, a nice read.

[Brother Trajan]

The fluff is nice. Be careful of grammatical errors, capitalization and sentence fluency. Perhaps the words that are not in quotation marks in the beginning be in italics?

 

Other then that, a nice read.

 

Thanks Lysander! Italics are a much better way to go about that. I was a bit into some beer when writing so it probably wouldn't hurt to go back and read it again . . . . :)

[Asrech]

Well hello, I see someone has a big project going on!

 

The army looks like it could turn out very nice. You have som solid converisons and it's nice to see some old classics in there as well.

How about some more pics of the dreads? So that the conversions become more visable.

 

One thing you can do is on the inside of the melta arm on the dread ( candles+chain loincloth ) you can cut out and put a piece of plasticard there so that it's closed, that way one can't see that it's just hollow plastic.

 

The story is good, some grammatical errors, and if you packed it together a bit more the post wouldn't be so long. But I'd rather have it this way than a huge solid chunk of text :(

 

Cheers!

[Brother Trajan]

Thanks for reading that Alexander. I'm currently writing more/fixing tipsy grammar at the moment. So the librarium challenge has started and I've pledged a lot of work for one month (for me at least). I'll take some pictures of the dreads, and the two squads that will be entering the painting pledge. Today I had some spare time to solidify a paint scheme for the armies. So without further aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ado.

Sons Ultra Scheme (bronzish/gold)

Nemesis Veteran Chapter Scheme (the white is actually silver)

Nemesis Terminator Scheme

The Techmarines will be white or bone.

Q and C please!

[The Damned]

Looks like you've got quite a large force on your hands to paint. Question about the color scheme (I really like the sons ultra by the way) is why do the nemesis marines have one arm that is bone color? I think the silver and red on its own would look pretty good if done right. Just curious.

[Brother Trajan]

Looks like you've got quite a large force on your hands to paint. Question about the color scheme (I really like the sons ultra by the way) is why do the nemesis marines have one arm that is bone color? I think the silver and red on its own would look pretty good if done right. Just curious.

 

 

First off thanks on the sons ultra, the reason for the bone side arm is going to be written into the fluff. Its supposed to be an obvious reference to christianity. The idea was since they are the Emperor's chosen, they sit at the right hand of the Emperor. The chapter is going to be on par with the iron hands in their worship of technology. Mostly I wanted to show the contrast of being walking death machines with having the fact that they are still human in some ways. what better way than the contrast of bone vs steel? the choice for wich arm was simple. if you're on the right side of someone your left hand is the closest.

[whiteraven17708]

a well thought out color scheme i like that

[Capt. Lysander]

I like the Nemesis chapter's colour scheme. I can't help but think the bone arm is a bit off the rest of the armour though.