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d Karma b: Haha! thanks mate! Wasn't expecting such a great response :huh: I am really pleased with him, my vanguard will have a similar look, but a little more streamlined I think. I'll be painting some more today, so won't have to wait long ;)

Here's the link mate. Zinge Industries

Olisredan: Cheers :P

Managed to get the vets finished this morning.

Finished Sarge

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Vet and Weapon Specialist, what weapon you say? Every weapon.

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Two normal vets

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The way I see it, with regards to the backpack ornamentation, it would be like before the battle each marine is entrusted with a relic of the chapter to carry to war, being all inspirational and scary to the enemy.

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Race and Crazy Eight: The link ws in the post but it was a little hidden, so here you go guys!

Zinge Industries

Perfect for sternguard, and the double drum works on storm bolters. The drums are brilliant.

So I finally got the Libby finished! Fairly pleased with it, few things that im not 100% happy with, but hey, that's life!

Front:

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Back:

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Tabletop size:

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Look forward to hearing what people think, any questions, or critique too

Thanks!

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Its awesome to see my parts on some minis! :wub:

 

you've got some great looking marines here and Im looking forward to seeing them painted!!

 

I also second how awesome the Zinge Ammo drums are, he send me a few to play around with and I was so impressed I commissioned him to make me some stuff!

 

Cheers,

 

Anvils Hammer

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It was awesome to use them mate, they are lovely!

 

Thanks, I'm probably going to start on them next, and you'll no doubt be having some more orders from me in future :wub:

 

Oooh you got some new stuff coming out? If it's anything I can work into my ultramarines look i'll be very interested haha

 

Thanks

 

Dan

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So impressed with the ammo drums, I ordered some. :P

 

Good painting skills with the libby (purity scrolls still need to be squiggled on) and that squad looks good - very uniform (it's the extra bits you've used). :tu:

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Olisredan: Thanks mate, yeah I'll do the squiggles when I've got some squads done to practice on, I want to try and emulate the looks of the old medieval books with the coloured letters and things wiht the book on his shoulder.

 

Zinge: Cheers!

 

haha, glad to hear it, that sounds like a terrible way to spend a weekend :P and I'll happily accept a nice low 10% advertising commission ;) haha i'm joking. Keep the lovely bits coming!

 

Thanks

 

Dan

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haha, the power of B&C indeed! Just glad I could help some people :rolleyes:

Been building like mad, so far got termies, sternguard, tac squad, scouts (with helmets) command squad, commander and terminator chaplain ready for priming, just got a rhino, an assault squad, a venerable dreadnought I picked up today, and my VV to build, doable tonight I think haha!

On that note, here's my first test model for my Vangaurd, hopefully I have captured a similar style to the Sternguard, well that's the plan.

Sanguinary guard were used, with anvil shoulderpads.

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What do you guys think?

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I think if you want him to look less Blood Angel-y, you'll need regular jump packs. I must point out, however, I don't like the Sanguinary Guard jump packs, so take that with a pinch of salt. :rolleyes:
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These are really nice Ultra's and i'm not usually a fan of the boys in blue, my only advice would be for the vet guys shoulder pads is maybe to put like a tiny strip of plasti-card and craft a sort of downward plate to cover up the gap....

 

Keep it up.

 

Forgefather

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Time for an update!

Today I decided to crack out the airbrush, and see if I could get everything blued up to save me going insane doing it all with a brush.

Priming time! With squads blu-taked to wooden disks priming took me about 5-10 mins for everything.

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And here we have the Sternguard wearing their new colours, It's quite hard to tell in the photos but there are 3 layers of sirbrushing going on, (they may possible be too subtle in real life too) base coat, then first and second highlights done in a Zenithal style, next job is to go in and shade with purple wash, to push the shadows deeper, then a few glazed highlights on the plates to make then look more like the libby, then some edge highlights. Should have photos up tonight, goign to be brave and try and tackle 30 marines all at once.

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I've ordered forgeworlds Ultramarines transfers and icon sets, which leads me to a problem i came across with the vets. With their new shoulderpads, I was thinking of having the 'U' on their knee pads? and possible on the sarge's cod-plate-thing.

Once again all comments/abuse welcome, can't wait to hear people thoughts.

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I think the knee-pads are the obvious choice, given the lack of pauldron-space you have. I don't see a problem using the knees. And yes, the cod piece. It does have a conveniently empty spot on it. :D

 

going to be brave and try and tackle 30 marines all at once

 

Thirty at once? Good luck with that. ;) (I can barely do three at once, let alone thirty.)

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going to be brave and try and tackle 30 marines all at once

 

Thirty at once? Good luck with that. :P (I can barely do three at once, let alone thirty.)

 

I'm lucky if I get one at once. I'm always like "I'll totally just do a table top quality on this. I don't care," but then I end up trying to turn every model in the squad into a Golden Daemon entry. :teehee:

 

The blue on your librarian has so much depth compared to the most recent marines. I hope that you are going to shade them down using glazing, then give them some fine edge highlighting. Also, there is a mold line on the beakie's helm.

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Olisredan: That's what I thought :P Also the plan went to hell, sternguards are now stripped, decided to cut my loses when they weren't working out and I'll re prime this week.

 

Alpha PTP: Haha that's me all over too! Yeah those guys were only base coat, also didn't help the colour came out much darker than my libbys base coat (could have something to do with using the wrong blue but shh) but, the terminator ive started has come out nicer, luckily the tac squad, scouts and termies came out lighter, so fingers crossed they are ok.

 

This will teach me to write down paint recipes!

 

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Your models look fantastic mate really love the blue as well as all the little extras that make your models stand out carnt wait to see more. Is it Colchester Essex you live as there's a gaming club in Chelmsford that's fairly busy if your interested in gaming.
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Thanks mate! Really glad people like it, I must admit before starting this topic I was a little nervous about posting stuff as I've been out of the hobby for around 6 odd years now. And yeah it is, ah ok yeah I've been looking for a club for when I've got everything done as no-one I know plays, is that the Chelmsford Bunker, I take it you go there yeah?

 

Dan

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Yes mate its mostly every Wednesday night but if you go on the bunker assault website and regester you can see exactly what dates its open mabe come down and have a chat everyone's friendly Im running a 40k campaign in January witch should be fun.
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Yes mate its mostly every Wednesday night but if you go on the bunker assault website and regester you can see exactly what dates its open mabe come down and have a chat everyone's friendly Im running a 40k campaign in January witch should be fun.
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