A tale of 20 gamers, a galaxy asunder.

[Kizzdougs]

This thread is awesome! I would have loved to be involved but as it is I'm more than happy to follow the exceptional work everyone seems to be doing.

 

Keep it up guys. Its great to see such skill and enthusiasm!

[NightHunters]

Well now, seems that very sadly the Raven Gaurd are back on the market again..........

[Rune Priest Ridcully]

Rune Priest Ridcully Legio XVIII The Salamanders W.I.P Post II-Squad Tel'vrak

So after the hassle of uploading my pics (uploader was dodgy) here is the beginings of Tactical Squad Tel'vrak:
I need to add details and either use a wahs or army painter's dip. The reason the non shoulder trim is moslty left unpainted is because I am not sure how to paint it, either go for boltgun metla or the gold effect on the sargent, here he is: Not the best of poses I know, I'm going with veteran markings form the badab war books (probably should get one possibly for the salamander info :cuss ) Am quite happy with the gold, though it is a pain and a half to do ^_^ I'm thinking of doing a flame/fire mottif on his groin plate and am planning to attempt to free hand legion and squad markings. Not sure on what colour to do for the eyes or to signify 13th company, am thinking spyro purple left knee pad possibly? and for the eyes? for Squad number will be in the hollow tactical arrow, so not sure where to put company number/designation, possibly do in the legion/squad markings colour, but again not sure, for some reason I'm thinking purple :P
And Brother chaplain Kage, you do realize if you actually do a models that do justice to that picture you will probably have who knows after you trying to steal it :P SHall be nice to see how you do them.
That is a shame Talthus, hope everything sorts itself out okay.
Am really not sure if to do the golden non shoulder trim on everyone or reserve it just for veterans and do a dark metal on the rest.
For the bases I am thinking light blue gravel/crystal, wonder if those "grow your own crystals" packs would do it?
Jethro sighed as he put down the melta stylus, having finished his notes on the arguments put forward by all concerning Sireon. Even now, two two hundred and thirty two years after he had been chosen from the nobility of the Glamorgan highlands, he still found writing down on thin iron tablets relaxing, and aided him in shifting through his thoughts. As the son of a local lordling, he had been trained in both weapons and mental practices, taught the law of the Jade lords and wisdom of past generations so he may follow in his father footsteps like his brothers. It was time like these he was truly grateful of his upbringing.
Sireon had broken the Nikea Edicts. The punishment was death. Yet he had saved over three score of his battle brothers, without him Jethro knew he and his company would most likely have been destroyed. There was the fact that Sireon's flames had been super effective against the nightmarish monsters the traitors had summoned. The betrayal had been long growing, had Nikea been a result of preparations for this? Sireon had only thought to protect his brothers, yet if the law was not followed in this case, when should it be followed?. Sighing as he walked across his chamber, Jethro gazed at the large circular stain glass window set the remains of a stone wall. The simple beauty of the curved rectangular panels had moved him to save it from the ruins of a hall on Meurgo VII. He needed every marine he had, yet the law must be followed. Gazing at his sword Obsidian on the wall next to his attempt of a relief in Ashackian Marble of his old friend, S'nakel, who forged it, one thing was clear.
The law must be upheld, and all must answer for braking it.

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Looks like there's going to be a setback for my custodes. Half of my bits order got refunded just now because the place was mistakenly out of the bits.

[NightHunters]

Night Hunters Post 4 - Re-tasked WIP Alpha Legionnaires!!

Right, so I have now decided that these guys are going to be one of the Legions "Stealth" squads. so have reworked 3 of them so far, still undecided on the arms on the 4th so left him out of it.



Bit more research brought up another small error with the first Alpharius, apparently all Alpha's are shaven headed in order to better mimic their primarchs so had to take care of that.

and the other 2 just got lots of pouches and grenades. And will have some pretty cool bolters as well, just as soon as all the bits arrive, if they do.





Rune Priest Ridcully: Really nice brother, I would keep the gold for sarge and above mate, and flames to shins and shoulders only IMO but hell they are all yours so run with what looks good, :D

[Death Guard Trooper]

NightHunters

Very nice progress, I like the new direction you've gone with your first model.

I think you can get around the whole baldness deal. Interlegion I know they all wanted to look alike but out in ops subversing Raven Guard, Ultramarines, or whoever else, heck they probly had guys on the ground with my Death Guard. You can probly get away with some hair if you wanted. Just depends on how you like your boys to be. I think out of anyone you can probly justify about anything you wanted to do :)

[Angrypantz]

Lord Angrypants, Concept Post - Legio XVII Word Bearers

CONCEPT

The idea for my Heresy-era army is try and capture the force that is not heading to Calth (I know that I have used images of Kor Phaeron) and throwing off all pretences of being a loyalist legion. Having posted on A D B's wall on Facebook to get a better idea of the general appearance, I've sided with a mkIV themed army with repairs to the armour either being cannibalised mkII or mkIII or hybrid suits with the coming MkV armour. Very few, if any, of the models will have the mkVI armour. Having read First Heretic a lot (Word Bearers have been one of my favourite legions for a long time) I thought it would be interesting to mark out Chosen and Terminators with Black Helmets to indicate them as the elite of the legion.

My first five men will be mkIV unmodified with boltguns and a specialist weapon, probably meltagun.

Angrypants

[Hyaenidae]

NOOOOOO!!!! Grey armour, go with the grey armour!!! Why doesn't anyone paint the Word Bearers in their best scheme?!?

[Angrypantz]

Because it is a heresy-era thread and not a pre-heresy thread :P otherwise I would have done.

[Hyaenidae]

Pretty sure the Word Bearers, except the Gal Vorbak, were wearing the grey (plus additional decoration) while they were gunning down Loyalists on Istvaan.... ;) -_-

 

 

No offence, of course, man. Your army, your call. ^_^

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

NOOOOOO!!!! Grey armour, go with the grey armour!!! Why doesn't anyone paint the Word Bearers in their best scheme?!?

I would like to have seen that as well.

[subtlebrush]

Pretty sure the Word Bearers, except the Gal Vorbak, were wearing the grey (plus additional decoration) while they were gunning down Loyalists on Istvaan.... ^_^ -_-

 

You are definitely right but of course to each their own.

I know someone mentioned crossing some Legions with Emissaries and such so maybe I'll do up a squad in grey at some point.

[Death Guard Trooper]

NOOOOOO!!!! Grey armour, go with the grey armour!!! Why doesn't anyone paint the Word Bearers in their best scheme?!?

-_- maybe a little of both? Whatever makes you happy though i'd roll with that.

 

Regardless,

 

Death Guard Trooper, Post 2 - 2nd Squad Begins

 

I finished up first squad last night but I wasnt able to get any pics before I bailed to work this morning and im stuck here all night covering for a troop. I did however grab Squad Arkous armed with CC weapons to begin painting. Besides 1st squad and my jump infantry the rest will be in MK IV Armor i think. I just secured the rest of what I need to do 3 additional squads in it as well as a Garro if all goes well.

 

This should be the last of crap pics.

 

http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc381/Death_Guard_Trooper/Vets/IMG00307-20120703-19511.jpg

[Dark Apostle Thirst]

Nighthunters - You're doing Alpha Legion!? :(

 

Angrypants - I think Death Guard trooper is on to something here. Maybe have the Legion while it was in the process of changing it's colours? In which case, all of its leaders at the very least would be red, and probably most of the elites as well, but the basic line man and vehicles would still be grey. Everything else would be somewhere in between ^_^

 

Just a thought, seeing popular opinion and all that :lol:

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Since the bits order for my Custodes went pear shaped, I was looking around my spares and unbuilt sprues to see if any kind of inspiration struck me. Well, it did. The idea is using Kabalite Warriors as the basis for Custodes.

 

Wait! WAIT! Hear me out!

 

Something I noticed in the artwork is that the PA Custodes seem to be drawn with a less bulky physique in comparison to most Marine artwork:

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/hFudM.jpg

 

I know the shoulder pads are frellin huge, but that's pretty normal for power armor, but the rest of them looks more slender to me than marines. And comparing a Kabalite Warrior to a Marine, they are approximately the same height. The heads are almost identical size if the big earmuffs from the marine helmets are removed, so they line up there as well. Looking through my stuff, I came across the body of the pilot for a raider:

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/cmfAh.jpg

 

 

The conical helmet is similar and the armor on the legs and upper chest is similar to the illustrations. Next step in this theory is removing the evil spiky bits and lengthening the torso in Photoshop:

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/RlH4Z.jpg

 

After that, I drew in some stuff to approximate Custodes armor, as well as widening the chest:

 

http://i.imgur.com/kUuQ7.jpg

 

By the time I got to the robe/tabard thing and the cloak, I was getting sloppy, but I think it gets the idea across. And if not, here's one with a little color on it:

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/5qZbI.jpg

 

I would make some changes to the faces as well, but this is just a quick mock up. So, what do you think, brothers? Is it possible, or is it heresy?

 

 

-BCK

[Rune Priest Ridcully]

I second the idea of the word bearers being in the process of changing, as that would be interesting to see.

Night hunters, how did you do the resculpt of those hands? Your model has got me thinking of doing something similar with devestator sergeant Sumar if that would be okay, not sure what he will be equipped with, though his squad will have Plasma cannons, his fluff being as soon as experimental ones were sent to the legion he took it upon himself to master them, and he and has his squad have managed this. (every other heavy weapon slot in the army will be filled with multie meltas, and a plasma cannon seems the sought of thing that a salamander would love the challenge in maintaining and using.)

That has to be one of the most interesting ideas for suctodes I have seen, will be nice to see how it goes.

[the damned artificer]

Because it is a heresy-era thread and not a pre-heresy thread :P otherwise I would have done.

It was my understanding that it was up to each individual to decide where in the era from the great crusade and up to the final battle of the heresy we wanted to put our legion ;) Mine is set during the great crusade as that suits my modeling needs better :sweat: So I'd say go ahead and place them where ever you want mate ;) I personally am more fond of the ash grey scheme too and would love to see a WB army displayed in all its grey glory ;D

 

 

http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc381/Death_Guard_Trooper/Vets/IMG00307-20120703-19511.jpg

Initially I really didn't like the mkIV assault kit, but damn it has grown on me, they look great and very DG like :D

 

http://i.imgur.com/5qZbI.jpg

 

I think this is a very cool approach, I think it'll be interesting to see how they will look when you make an actual concept model :D

 

 

Now I think the sons of horus are in excellent hands considering it's sheep who's holding that mantle, but I just stumbled over this great thread over at warseer with an excellent SoH army in progress, give it a peak for inspiration everyone :D

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.p...8-Sons-of-Horus

[Kizzdougs]

I know the shoulder pads are frellin huge, but that's pretty normal for power armor, but the rest of them looks more slender to me than marines. And comparing a Kabalite Warrior to a Marine, they are approximately the same height. The heads are almost identical size if the big earmuffs from the marine helmets are removed, so they line up there as well. Looking through my stuff, I came across the body of the pilot for a raider:

 

I would definitely have a look at the High Elf Phoenix Guard kit when building you're Custodes. The cloaks, helmets and legs are perfect for the Custodes. The fact that they're elves naturally means they'll be roughly the same scale as the DE.

[sheep]

Wow, thanks for that link Arty, now I really have to lift my game! :cuss

[subtlebrush]

@Brother Chaplain Kage: I say go for it. I definitely think it could work.

 

@the damned artificer: Thanks for that link. Those Sons of Horus are ridiculously amazing!

 

@Rune Priest Ridcully: If you use an Army Painter dip make sure you add some highlights and clean up the edges before you dip them. Its a pain once you do.

[Chapter Master Ignis Domus]

Chapter Master Ignis Domus, Post 1, Legio XV, Thousand Sons - Concept Post

Greetings, my fine fellows! I've loved the Thousand Sons just as much as the Spce Wolves for years, so this is an excellent opportunity to do the Heresy army I've always wanted to do. For once, I'm going to completely ignore rules and such, and instead just build what I think feels right. Since my painting skills are less than wonderful, I intend to focus more on modelling and conversions, especially the psychic powers and all that.

Location/Theme:
Due not only to the fact that I wish to do a corresponding heresy Wolves army(Looking at you, hobbit :D), but also because it's sort of the biggest Heresy event for them, I'll be doing the Burning of Prospero. Because the flesh change has begun to reappear, I'll be able to do both mutated and normal Thousand Sons. I knew I would be able to use Spawn and Possessed somewhere...

Leader:

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/a/a3/Ahrimanpreheresy.jpg
Ahriman, Chief Librarian of the Thousand Sons and Master of the Corvidae

I was debating between Magnus and Ahriman, but in the end I decided that Ahriman would be the better choice, as he was more in command on the ground on Prospero for the majority of the battle. Also, I have a very good idea of what I want to do for his model, where with Magnus, it'd be pretty hard to represent him well.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_81JSMwsXZr4/TTBNGVitZVI/AAAAAAAAAB4/4X0Ymn_anjM/s640/a-thousand-sons-poster.jpg
A nice image of the Legion. Note in particular the pose on Ahriman, which is what I intend to do.

http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/83/c059b2ec888448de8eb8756227ebd755/l.jpg
A Thousand Sons Contemptor. After seeing this bit of art, I'm definitely sticking one in the army.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/7/75/UthizzarandCult.jpg
Athenaen Cult.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/8/89/Phosistkar.jpg
Raptora.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/c/c6/Pre_Heresy_Thousand_Sons_Marine.jpg
Pre-Heresy Color Scheme.


For the first section, I want to get in a good chunk of what I need, figure out what my rough plan is, and make a member of each cult, which conveniently makes five. These will all be normal, unmutated marines. I might do the flesh change next round.

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

@Chapter Master Ignis Domus - I would have done these guys if I had more money to spend for FW stuff. Can't wait to see what you do with them.

 

I think this is a very cool approach, I think it'll be interesting to see how they will look when you make an actual concept model :D

 

I never imagined I might be able to turn DE into Custodes, but I'll see what I can with a little chopping today, though there is some 4th holiday stuff going on.

 

I would definitely have a look at the High Elf Phoenix Guard kit when building you're Custodes. The cloaks, helmets and legs are perfect for the Custodes. The fact that they're elves naturally means they'll be roughly the same scale as the DE.

 

Oooh, those cloaks are awesome! Thanks for the tip, I just ordered some! The legs, while nice, aren't exactly what I was wanting for these guys and I would probably have to spend too much time and effort carving material away. The helmets I have seen used on Custodes before, but the big wings just look silly to me. The rest of the helmet shape is close, but I still like the White Lion helmets better for the project.

 

 

@Brother Chaplain Kage: I say go for it. I definitely think it could work.

 

I hope so. I think this one of the crazier conversions for me and I hope I can pull it off.

[the damned artificer]

Wow, thanks for that link Arty, now I really have to lift my game! ;)

No problem mate ;) Although I have no worries on your behalf ;)

 

@the damned artificer: Thanks for that link. Those Sons of Horus are ridiculously amazing!

 

 

Chapter Master Ignis Domus: That looks like a solid plan, and even though the crimson king will be missed I can easily settle for Ahriman, he is one of my favourite characters in the 30k/40k universe :)

 

 

 

@Chapter Master Ignis Domus - I would have done these guys if I had more money to spend for FW stuff. Can't wait to see what you do with them.

 

I think this is a very cool approach, I think it'll be interesting to see how they will look when you make an actual concept model :D

 

I never imagined I might be able to turn DE into Custodes, but I'll see what I can with a little chopping today, though there is some 4th holiday stuff going on.

 

I have seen them turned into sisters of silence, but never custodes, will be a cool alternative :P And if it fails there's many alternative ways to make them luckily ;)

[Rune Priest Ridcully]

I plan to have each model virtually complete before dipping them, will properly post them up on here before just so you guys can see if I miss anything before dipping it :blush:.

That does bring me to a point, does anyone have a good idea on how I can make each model unique? I don't want most of the models to look too cluttered though, and with the exception of characters the shoulder pads will be taken up by squad and legion markings, and on iron armour I don't think anywhere has the space for good markings apart from the chest really, which will have a weapon across it most times. Any ideas?

[NightHunters]

Night Hunters Post 5 - Re-finished WIP Alpha Legionnaires!!

DAT: I know brother, but a fleeting misguided moment on the dark side I assure you :blush:
BCC: I want to see that work buddy, really nice idea!
CMID: Looking forward to all of those brother, especially your take on the Aethenaen cult Termies and the Raptora!

Right reworked brother Alpharius finally has company, yay.



Almost done, just a bit of work on that shoulder guards, and of course still waiting on those damn pre heresy/heresy Bolters from our friends at forgeworld!

Great work all!