jimbothemagnificent Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Being a Scot, and having too much free time, I've started on a new chapter. The basic idea is a force that uses the space wolves codex but has it's own (scottish) background and heraldry. I have one squad finished, lightly converted, and I've made a start on another squad of termies, they are all robed and heavily converted AoBR models. I saw another scottish chapter about a year ago on a forum, but I can't remember where. Has anyone got/seen an army similar to this? I could use some inspiration. Any ideas and input is welcome! Oh, and just so you know, I've discovered that painting tartan on such a small scale is every bit as hard as you think. Yeesh, what have I got myself into... [edit] photos added. None of these are finished yet. Hence the blutack. Note the hip flask, 4+ invunerable sv? http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/P2150081.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/P2150077.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/P2150074.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/P2150093.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/22122011310.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellios Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Being a Scot, and having too much free time, I've started on a new chapter. The basic idea is a force that uses the space wolves codex but has it's own (scottish) background and heraldry. I have one squad finished, lightly converted, and I've made a start on another squad of termies, they are all robed and heavily converted AoBR models. I'll post some photos when I get home tomorrow. I saw another scottish chapter about a year ago on a forum, but I can't remember where. Has anyone got/seen an army similar to this? I could use some inspiration. Any ideas and input is welcome! Oh, and just so you know, I've discovered that painting tartan on such a small scale is every bit as hard as you think. Yeesh, what have I got myself into... They don't happen to have a blood feud with a certain monocle wearing, tea drinking and crumpet eating chapter do they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbothemagnificent Posted December 21, 2011 Author Share Posted December 21, 2011 Hah, no. Not a blood fued. We see the crumpet eaters as embarrasing cousins. Every family has them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyDel Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 The scottish space i've seen in the past we known as the ravenborne. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/240539.page http://darkfuturegaming.blogspot.com/2011/...-ravenborn.html His models are great, he used the space wolf codex as well. the only thing i didnt really like was his paint scheme, but he did an amazing job. good luck with yours, cant wait to see the first models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgnostosTheos Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 Hey, nice idea. I've found another SM army with scottish/celtic background. Sons Of Wallace Space Marines Unfortunately most pics in other threads are down, thats the only link I have found, which is still up. Greets, AT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NemFX Posted December 21, 2011 Share Posted December 21, 2011 i think your meaning the Sons of Dagda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennisBall Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Are you painting the armour, giving them kilts or giving them rolled up blankets/plaids? No offence meant if you've done it but the tartan loincloths on the dreads that the others have used look like tea towels or tartan napkins. One thing I thought of when the Blood Angels Death Company set came out was that all those bits which had the red cross on them could easily be painted to show the St Andrew's cross. As the OP asked for suggestions, hard because we haven't seen the clan, but anyway... The Space Wolves use different symbols to represent their companies, you could use the old plant badges of the clans to do the same or something similar. 1st company might have a thistle, second might have a claymore, third the Loch Ness Monster or whatever. Perhaps your apothecaries might have vials on them that look suspiciously like whisky bottles, you get the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbothemagnificent Posted December 22, 2011 Author Share Posted December 22, 2011 It's good to see that I'm not the only one trying this. Thanks for the inspiration guys! Tennisball, love your ideas, Whisky toting apothacaries will definately be include. I haven't yet figured out how to post pics in a thread, so I put all the pics in my gallery. The quality seems to have been ruined when I uploaded them, is that normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legionus_Iolair Posted December 22, 2011 Share Posted December 22, 2011 Evening There were loads of threads about Jockanese marines a while ago. Here's my thread from 2008 ~ http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...2&hl=iolair Before you ask, nothing has changed in the status. They're now back in the shed and no closer to being completed :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhKillerRabbit Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Always good to see Scot Marines, being scottish myself. Also, that Ravenborn army is all sorts of awesome, not just because of the painting or the modeling work, but because I happen to be Scottish and named Raven too. What are the odds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbothemagnificent Posted February 16, 2012 Author Share Posted February 16, 2012 Some more pics. I have 3 tactical squads, 2 scout squads, an assault squad, 2 termie squads, a veterans squad, a chaplain, a commander, a rhino, and a whirlwind all under construction. Nothing is finished yet. So bear with me, it's taking a while. http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/P2150081.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/P2150082.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/P2150083.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/P2150085.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/P2150079.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/P2150080.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/22122011323.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbothemagnificent Posted August 12, 2012 Author Share Posted August 12, 2012 The next squad is very nearly ready for paint, just need to glue on the shoulder armour, and the termies are finally painted! http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/120820121388.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/120820121390.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/120820121417.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/100820121378.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/100820121372-1.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/100820121380.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/100820121377.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biohazard Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 Nice idea, there was the Sons of Dagda chapter running a similar theme. If you build some scouts you should look at a way to incorporate a Skean Dhu into their boots. :) Keep up the work good mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NemFX Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 these are a slice of home for me. (the scouts should have big wooly sweaters) maybe in the fluff they could have fought against their homeworlds equivalent of the loch ness monster? "Though the fighting was hard, and though they did snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, of the battle there were few images. Though the reports all described the creature with detail, actual picts of the aquatic monster were grainy and underexposed, leaving many to question if it existed at all.." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nighthaunter666 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Hah, no. Not a blood fued. We see the crumpet eaters as embarrasing cousins. Every family has them. You sir, have earned the ire of my DIY chapter, the Iron Crumpets! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbothemagnificent Posted August 14, 2012 Author Share Posted August 14, 2012 Cheers guys, love your ideas. I've been thinking about skean dhus, i'll try and make up a mould soon. Big wooly sweaters would be excellent, my scouts are a bit generic right now, I wonder if I could sculpt Arran sweater patterns small enough. It's either that or burberry caps and troosers tucked into fitbaw socks... I'd like to make Nessie a squad insignia, maybe a simplified arches and head, or go nuts and see if I can make a chinese dragon stylee Nessie. 'And yay though the beast was wroth; writhing and biting with teeth of silver, the few prevailed. With shifting shapes and blurred movements the sea deamon sought tovex the warriors, but to no avail, as the mighty band stood firm, unphased by the monster's fantastical illusions. The captain took to the fore, and with a ferocious cry of "wha's like us? Damn few, and thier aw deid!", strode forwards and gubbed it o'er the heid wi his chib'. @Nighthaunter lol! Oooh, I'm shaking in my little green space booties! What you gonna do? Build a wall to keep the savages out and not accept our Paper money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyderPirate Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 I'm loving this. Just too much awesome. Spot on choice with the SW, they've got the right heads for the look. The heads from chaos marauder horsemen would be good, too. The termies are so coool, so much detail - thistles on one shoulder and a St. Andrew's Crux. Really cool Go Abedeen! I'm loving this. Just too much awesome. Spot on choice with the SW, they've got the right heads for the look. The heads from chaos marauder horsemen would be good, too. The termies are so coool, so much detail - thistles on one shoulder and a St. Andrew's Crux. Really cool Go Abedeen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biohazard Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Great idea with the Burberry, you need to give them some bottles of Buckfast to use as hand grenades. :) Love the quote about the paper money getting gubbed ower the heid. :P Heres to us, wha's like us? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbothemagnificent Posted August 14, 2012 Author Share Posted August 14, 2012 @ CyderPirate I thought the same, I'm sorely tempted to decapitate my marauders! @Biohazard I'm planning a 'f*ckbast' squad. As soon as I read the Blood Claws characteristics and rules, I knew what had to be done. Pure. Dead. Magic. Ken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biohazard Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Thats pure magic but. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekim_Trub Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Loving this Project, its awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montuhotep Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Come on, there ought to be at least one piper amongst this lot! :eek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbothemagnificent Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 Ooft, modeling a piper is a big ask! Maybe, but probably not as a game piece, he can stand on the next table and pipe the fallen to the Emperor's side. Thanks for the support brothers! If you want to see how I'm doing the modeling in detail, have a look at the tutorial I'm writing: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...howtopic=258828 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nighthaunter666 Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 @Nighthaunter lol! Oooh, I'm shaking in my little green space booties! What you gonna do? Build a wall to keep the savages out and not accept our Paper money? If I wasn't busy drinking tea and eating crumpets there'd be trouble! Trouble I tell you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbothemagnificent Posted August 17, 2012 Author Share Posted August 17, 2012 Some more armour detailing progress; http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/170820121477.jpg http://i1078.photobucket.com/albums/w496/jimbothemagnificent/The%20Damn%20Few/170820121474.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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