Defenders of Macragge - Macragge PDF attached to 2nd Company

[StraightSilver]

Hiya,

I already have a plog for my Ultramarines 2nd Company on here but haven't up until now been able to include the Macragge PDF elements on these boards so will now be combining everything into here.

This is a project that started a while ago but as I am an incredibly slow painter and also suffer from Hobby ADD it will probably be a while before it gets finished.

Hopefully starting up a plog on here will motivate me to get some painting done though.

Anyway as I say some of these pics are old, and people may have seen them elsewhere but i just wanted to consolidate everything into this one plog.

Macragge PDF HQ work in Progress

This is my Macragge PDF HQ led by Hector Sicarius, a descendent of Cato Sicarius. He is missing his shotgun in a few of these pics as it kept falling off during painting....

Hector Sicarius:

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Officer of the Fleet:

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Standard Bearer (which so far hasn't made into the squad):

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Chaplain: Due to the unique nature of Ultramar Macragge PDF forces do not field Priests or Commissars as they do not venerate the Emperor as a God and feel they are disciplined enough to not need Commissars. However both of these roles are performed by Chaplains who perform a similar role as those found in the Astartes.

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Veteran with melta:

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Squad so far:

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Chimera Transport - Guilliman Pattern:

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Ultramarines HQ work in Progress

This is currently my Ultramarine HW but he will eventually be replaced with cato Sicarius.

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Macragge PDF Troops work in progress

Infantry Platoon:
 

 

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Command Chimera - Guilliman Pattern:

 

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Chimera Trasport - Guilliman Pattern - Squad 450:

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Chimera Transport - Guilliman Pattern - Squad 190:

 

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Macragge PDF Recon Scouts (counts as Penal Legionnaires)

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Ultramarines 2nd Company Troops

Tactical Squads:

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Rhino Transport:

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Scouts:

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Well that's HQ and Troops!! :)

Sorry for the massive pic dump, I do have lots more to show but will add more later.

Cheers for looking, comments and criticisms always much appreciated. :)

 

 

 

 

 

[havlar]

They look really awesome.

Liking the tactical squads and Chimeras most.

[MagicMan]

Awesome Ultramarines + friends, there's been quite a few of us around lately! I think i've seen these guys on Dakka?

[StraightSilver]

Cheers Guys, I must admit I am very happy with the Tactical Squads especially in game and there will eventually be 6 of them, am about half way through. Yes it will be an entire company, I must be mad.

And MagicMan yes these guys are up on Dakka, Warseer etc.

I only realised recently that we can now post non Astartes on the boards which is why I hadn't put them up here. :)

[deathspectersgt7]

Very cool Ultras&friends .and you are not mad in my professional opinion .

[retrovertigo]

Such a good looking army, I'd love to see this lot on the tabletop!

[Torvak Kyre]

OMG. I actually LOVE them!

[Mithrilforge]

Very well done,

An outstanding looking force,i can see a lot of hard work put into these guys and it's paid off big time.

i actually had an Ultra PDF army idea in mind years ago...but now with the Allies rule it certainly works out perfectly...

the only gripe i have(if you could even call it that) is the recon scouts unit should be a little more cammo'd perhaps

 

cheers Mithril

[AGPO]

Top notch work there. I love the way you've got such a strong theme running through both forces.

[Kierdale]

Great work and beautiful painting.

I particularly the like chaplain's weapon, and the idea of PDF scouts counting as Penal Legion. Wonderful!

[d503]

They are beautiful... But so clean! It's like they actually clean their tanks with toothbrushes and Cilit Bang.

[WarriorFish]

Really good models and some great couts as, I bet they'll be the focus of attention on the table :D

[Chaeron]

Inventive-  and well exectued - absolutely love how crisp they all look. Must be immensely cohesive!

[Dorns Templar]

Very nice looking Ultramarines. I like the clean painting style, very crisp.

[StraightSilver]

Hey everybody, well it’s been a while…..

I have to admit I have been neglecting my hobby for a very long time. Life in general got in the way, plus a house move which has pretty much disrupted everything!

In the last month or so however I have picked up the brushes again but after over a year (maybe even 2?) I have struggled a bit to get back on form.

This has partly because I am still getting used to using Vallejo Game Colour. That might sound strange but I have used Citadel paints for over 20 years and hate change.

I have had to start using Vallejo as I am still working on 2 armies that have the same colour scheme and there is no longer a paint in the new Citadel Range that matches their old Ultramarines Blue, but the Vallejo equivalent matches perfectly.

So here is my first mini of 2014, still WIP but almost finished.

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I have an absolute ton of marines lying around and needed to upgrade my Tactical Squads so this was a practice piece. If I’m really honest I’m not 100% happy with it but it has taught me a lot.

VGC needs a lot more thinning than Citadel paint, and if you get the mix wrong it’s too fluid for edge highlighting. After using Citadel for so long I found it instinctive to know exactly how much to thin my paints and now I am learning all over again…

The colour is a perfect match but the highlights are pretty sloppy, again this may be the new paint or maybe because I am very out of practice. I must admit my new painting area isn’t ideal in the new house either as the light is pretty poor, but the new house has 3 cats so I am limited as to where I can paint…

I also painted up a couple of heavy weapons marines and these seem to have come out better, think I am getting the hang of it now, but obviously they will get arms and weapons added at some point….  

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I have had to replace a lot of paints, and this has meant trying out new flesh recipes which again has been a learning experience. Once again this is due to GW replacing their paint range and if I’m honest I do not like the new paints, although again that might be because I haven’t used them enough yet.

So far I have struggled to find a flesh recipe I am happy with and I think this is because I have been using a black undercoat.

It’s difficult to tell from the awful photos (really need to get a new camera and sort out my set up) but I haven’t been getting results like I used to using the new paints. The face on the sergeant is quite sloppy, and this is because he has had way too many layers put on.

So I have gone right back to basics and started doing something I haven’t done for a long time, which is use a white undercoat. This has meant painting the heads separately but it has been soooo much easier and I don’t know why I didn’t do it like this sooner…

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So these two are no way near finished. These have had a white undercoat, a very thinned coat of Cadian Flesh Tone, an Ogryn Flesh Wash (very diluted), followed by a layer of Dwarf Flesh.

They both should really just need a couple more highlights and be done.

The thing is to get to this stage before would have taken ages, a lot of paint and obscured a lot of detail.

These have taken no more than a couple of hours and I can still see all the detail so I am very happy with them (they look better IRL, the photos really are bad..).

I am also finding the new marine plastics have some great bare heads and I have a lot to practice on.

I have also been adding a bit of air support to the army.

This is a Storm Talon I am working on. Still very WIP but tbh not much more to do on it. Need to do some final edge highlighting and a bit of weathering but it’ll do for table top for the time being.

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This was actually a really fun model to build and paint. It looks ridiculous in terms of design but was really easy to assemble and paint and it’s kind of growing on me…

And then a much nicer model but still early days yet. A Vulture for the PDF. Love this model, this one is actually one I have had sitting in a box in my “magic cupboard” for a looong time so is the all resin one. It was a right bugger to put together and needed a lot of work but is a lovely kit so am excited about getting this finished.

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And finally some models I posted a long time ago, my Psyker Battle Squad, again still very WIP but you can see the conversions better now they have a bit of paint on some of them.

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I didn’t want to use the metal / finecast GW ones simply because there are so few poses so build these and am pretty happy with them so far. These are the plastic tank sprue torsos on max Mini great coat legs which I think works nicely.

I am now not sure about the Grey Knight staffs, they are too big but it’s hard to say for definite as they are held on with blu tak for the photos, and they were a bugger to get hold of so reckon they’ll stay.

Anyway, thanks for looking, hopefully I will have more finished stuff to show next time, and will have better photos. And hopefully I will post more regularly too.

[GrandMagnus]

Beautiful models brother. 

[StraightSilver]

Cheers Anaziel, both armies are so close to being finished so I just need to pull my finger out and get them done. :)

I have a tournament in April so hopefully that will be motivation enough to get at least one of them done.

Would help if I had played more games of 6th Edition though, bit rusty.... :)

[deathspectersgt7]

Some very nice Ultras.

[Xwingt65]

Love that.

 

I makes my hobby mojo itch to do a Tyrants Legion.

 

Cadians and marines make a nice match on the tabletop.

[Veteran Sergeant]

Great looking as usual. I love the Psyker battle squad. Very professional looking. Maybe except for crazy bearded guy. Needs to po-lice that moostache.

Love that.

 

I makes my hobby mojo itch to do a Tyrants Legion.

 

Cadians and marines make a nice match on the tabletop.

Wouldn't it be more effective (and fluffy) just to ally Marines to a Guard army (or vice versa depending what you want to have more of)?

[zxyogi]

Cracking stuff!

Love your work!!

Your PDF is summat I have considered doing for my Marines, Troops that look after the ammo and stuff.

Once again CRACKING work!!

[Kierdale]

Very good to see you back.

Excellent skin tones on those marine heads, and I really like your PBS.

Great work!

Oh, and I can't wait to see that Vulture finished. TL Punishers?

[Mike Mee]

Hello, congrats on getting back into the hobby! I hated the Citidel when the changed to the new colours but I got used them(and subbing some game & models colour helped)

 

You have some really nice models, very clean, crisp and well defined. Never though of basing an Imperial guard scheme off a Space Marine chapter, it's an ace idea though. Keep up the good painting, looking foward to more :-)

[Monstra Sumus]

Swells stuff here, keep it up. 

[StraightSilver]

Cheers guys, I feel like I am getting back in the swing of things, managed to get a bit of painting done over the weekend but unfortunately will need to wait until tonight to put pics up as I forgot the lead for the camera, doh! :)

I did get very distracted though and spent most of the weekend painting up the new plastic SM Librarian which is a lovely figure to paint so should have some WIP pics to show.

And yes Kierdale, the Vulture will definitely be TL Punisher cannons, because, well, why wouldn't you... ? :)