Brother Trajan Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 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 http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4207733762_2cb33e7757_b.jpg Terminators http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4071/4207726748_d08422a9bf_b.jpg Techmarine and Rapier Laser http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2557/4206961417_6fb5412491_b.jpg Devastators http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4206972485_1d896f713d_b.jpg Vindicator http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2527/4206960173_e30bdece87_b.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Trajan Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 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 http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4072/4210365388_0d09f1c3a9_b.jpg More Troopz http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2776/4210364724_3113a444e9_b.jpg More Troopz http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2666/4210362628_6baf77e369_b.jpg 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 http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2665/4209595945_a42f9fb649_b.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulkan454 Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosmicCreations Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Trajan Posted December 24, 2009 Author Share Posted December 24, 2009 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Trajan Posted January 5, 2010 Author Share Posted January 5, 2010 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. http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs216.snc3/22344_1279390555153_1541717263_30721812_5035461_n.jpg 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? http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs216.snc3/22344_1279390995164_1541717263_30721813_2625224_n.jpg 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. http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs216.snc3/22344_1279390275146_1541717263_30721810_1911288_n.jpg Please if you have any ideas or input I definetly need them. Especially with the dread 2. Thanks and take care! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Lysander Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Trajan Posted January 7, 2010 Author Share Posted January 7, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Lysander Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 That's a powerful dread you got there :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loken86 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 good start here brother had a great laugh with the battle report i look forward to next update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Trajan Posted January 9, 2010 Author Share Posted January 9, 2010 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Trajan Posted January 9, 2010 Author Share Posted January 9, 2010 whoot whoot there's the banner!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Trajan Posted January 10, 2010 Author Share Posted January 10, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Lysander Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Trajan Posted January 12, 2010 Author Share Posted January 12, 2010 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 . . . . :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asrech Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Trajan Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Damned Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Trajan Posted January 17, 2010 Author Share Posted January 17, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteraven17708 Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 a well thought out color scheme i like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Lysander Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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