First painted army project....Needs a chapter name

[Durtymk2]

Hi everyone, I have been lurking the forum on this site for a while now and cant really get enough of all the great painting and modeling on here. Well some friends of mine started playing 40k and talked me into it, my last time I had any form of miniatures was about 12 years ago (man time really flies). So I started building a DIY chapter of space marines and decided I would try to make a progress thread for my army hoping it keeps me motivated like many others on here say. Anyways here are some pictures of what I have been working on. I am not a photographer and these are taken with my cell phone but at least it will give you guys some idea of what it looks like. I don't have a name or chapter symbol yet but I am working on that. I know this is nowhere near the level of most of the stuff on here but C&C is very welcomed. Thanks for looking. Oh ya, I know I have missed some mold lines and the barrels are not drilled out yet....they will be.

 

 

 

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Here are the sergeants I have so far.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l92/McPwn4g3/40k/IMG00254-20100801-1752.jpg

This is the first tac squad.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l92/McPwn4g3/40k/IMG00252-20100801-1551.jpg

Dev squad minus the sergeant

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Flamer

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l92/McPwn4g3/40k/IMG00257-20100801-1754.jpg

Playing with some ideas for my command squad...a very wip

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A dreadnought I just started working on.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l92/McPwn4g3/40k/IMG00266-20100801-1826.jpg

And not sure if I'll ever use this guy but a chaplian in termie armor I am playing around with.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l92/McPwn4g3/40k/IMG00249-20100801-1549.jpg

[Mjelnir]

They look really nice. But how did you do the bone colour on the shoulder pads ?

[tiny sam]

First, I think it's a realy good start (youre better than I was on my first minis.)

 

for the chapter name, your playing a lot with blood angels and/or dark angels themes with a lot of wings. I would definitivly suggest using Angelic nomenclature

 

maybe something like Grey Angels

[Mac the knife]

well done for them being your first minis. I agree with the angelic nomenclature from the bits you're using maybe Calx Angelus (Stone Angels)?

[Replica]

love the colors, very unique and it works really well, congrats!

[Skirax]

Iron Angels?

 

Very nice models, very attractive colour scheme!

[risK]

I'd focus more on the simplistic pragmatic colorscheme than the rarely incorporation of wings. That leads me to Forge, Smiths, etc. (especially in combination with the hazard stripes) or military reference (with their strict colored structure).

Brassbound Brethren, or a bit more angelic like Angelic Smiths. Maybe Stalwart, Unbending, Iron, Hephaistian (Hephaistos was the greec god of the forge) Army. Or any mix out of it?

[jumai]

I like the grey colour scheme and used-looking surfaces. In the time-honoured tradition of taking 40k-fluff inspiration from cheesy metal lyrics, I suggest naming them Angels Of Stone.

(The song in question: Rhapsody Of Fire - "gargoyles, angels of darkness." Rhapsody's brand of epic is admittedly over the top, but then, so are space marines').

 

 

I find it a bit peculiar that at least appears as if you paint your marines before gluing on the heads, but after gluing the backpacks. This seems sorta bass ackwards to me; I find the backpacks interfere with the rest of the model much more than the heads do, and that as a discreet/whole object they benefit less than heads from better cohesion you can achieve on parts painted "in context." I also find the backpacks are much easier to stick-tac in place usefully, hold seperately, generally handle while painting. Any particular reason for this strategy?

[Durtymk2]

Thanks for all the comments so far guys. I am loving the names some of you have thrown out there, its very hard to pick one. It is starting to hinder my progress not having one, soon as I think of a name I can make a chapter icon and some banners. And I suppose if I do go with some kind of angel name it would give me a reason to get the DA upgrade pack I was wanting. I really dig the structured military idea and having most of the army uniform, do you think it would be possible to keep the military feel and still incorporate some of the winged and other type bits

 

Mjelnir: The shoulder pad is base coated in codex grey, then covered in bleached bone followed by a wash of badab black and devlan mud with a light dry brush of bleached bone on the top.

 

 

jumai: The reason I paint the helmets unglued is because I leave them attached to the sprue when I paint them, makes it easier for me almost like a production line. I can get 5 helmets done for a squad in about 15 minutes that way and I don't have to worry about getting blue on my model. And it makes it a lot easier for me to get the eyes painted when they are not on the model yet for some reason. The backpacks are mostly grey with just the bottom being black so that's not a problem gluing before getting them painted.

[jumai]

And I suppose if I do go with some kind of angel name it would give me a reason to get the DA upgrade pack I was wanting. I really dig the structured military idea and having most of the army uniform, do you think it would be possible to keep the military feel and still incorporate some of the winged and other type bits

Definitely, and it sounds like Dark Angels parts would be ideal. They're the loyalists that best exemplify the warrior-monk mentality of the marines, hold the view of their chapter as a sacred militant order very strongly, and generally fill 40k's slot for "inspired by la morte d'arthur" (ie king arthur's knights of the round table during their grail-questing era). Where the Black Templars' (and Word Bearers') knight-crusader theme represents an army of the faithful who have mundane goals for religeous reasons, Dark Angels as knights-of-the-monastary represent a militant faith with religeous goals that require mundane methods. If you want your chapter to exhibit both military precision and fanciful symbology, envision them as crusade knights who devote themselves to war because war is what their faith requires of them. But substitute a crusader's concrete understanding of his role and worldly accomodation for the realism with a faith inseperable from its esteem for tradition, a sense of duty that eclipses mere impossibility, and the zealous conviction that whatever questions or opposes you is evil by definition.

 

What you're going for sounds like "Give thanks, servants of the Emperor, for His will reveals itself in us. Fear not, for to fear His hand is blasphemy. Tarry not, for to obstruct His instrument is heresy. Resist not, for to oppose His might is oblivion."

 

The discipline and structure is all religeous, the military perfection becomes mandatory when failure in pursuit of the Way is unthinkable.

 

jumai: The reason I paint the helmets unglued is because I leave them attached to the sprue when I paint them, makes it easier for me almost like a production line. I can get 5 helmets done for a squad in about 15 minutes that way and I don't have to worry about getting blue on my model. And it makes it a lot easier for me to get the eyes painted when they are not on the model yet for some reason. The backpacks are mostly grey with just the bottom being black so that's not a problem gluing before getting them painted.

Ah, a very fair answer. I suppose you still do the final highlighting on each helm once you know the angle it will sit at, though?

[Innus Bade 9]

Nice paint scheme. I'd go with the name Terran Wings? Where did you get those thunder hammers from?

[empchildrenbob]

you should call them THE BONE BRETHEREN

[WNxKilljoy]

Onyx Legion? Stone coloured marines. fitting name

[Durtymk2]

I have not had much time at all but I scrounged up enough free time to make my Apothecary for the army. He is a bit sloppy and still needs some cleaning up.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l92/McPwn4g3/40k/IMG00318-20100901-1831.jpg

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[Mike the Zealous]

I like the different colorations of the helmets, and the large amount of customization youve put into every marine, even the rank and file ones.

 

For a name, id prolly think Ash Angels or Volcanis Legion, cuz the main color grey with Red/blue helmets kinda remind me of diff types of fire and volcanos, both accompanied with ash.

[S. Bloodhowl]

These guys are beauties! I know everyone is saying stone or iron guys but I'm kinda getting a ghosty vibe off them, maybe the Void Spectres or something (although I have a nagging feeling that that is already a chapter :sweat: )

[Durtymk2]

Well I had some real life issues pop up and put me on hold for a while but that is all out of the way now and I can return to getting this army put together. I have gotten a couple things done, not a lot but more will follow soon. Oh ya, the thunder hammers were in a clearance bin at my local store, I bought them and basically only used the heads of them and everything else was out of spare bits. And as you can see I am still using the phone for a camera, the phone somehow makes the models look way more sloppy than they are.

 

The Ironclad

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The HQ so far.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l92/McPwn4g3/40k/4.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l92/McPwn4g3/40k/6.jpg

 

And here is a drop pod in its early stages that I am toying with building for my dreads (going to drop pod 2 dreads) with the Ironclad for size reference.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l92/McPwn4g3/40k/7.jpg

[Chapter Master Ignis Domus]

You can probably guess what I am about to say and what Shinzaren will come along and say in a bit, but for the record, I vote Purifiers.

 

Now that the official business is out of the way, I'm thinking something like the Spectral Knights. And Void Spectres are already a chapter, yes.

[Durtymk2]

Oh ya I forgot this guy. I got the AoBR set but since I already have a captain I decided to try and convert the one in the set to a Vulkan. I really don't like the current Vulkan model so I made a more generic looking version.

 

Vulkan Hestan

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