Ultramarines Armies on Parade board

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This seemed like a good idea at the time, weeks ago before I got swamped. With the deadline for my LGS looming I gotta get ahead on this.

 

I am not too too worried, this is just the largest painting project I've attempted,  the detail isn't insane and I am only really aiming for a few compliments from my local scene so I think it's manageable (hopefully).

 

The concept is a long shattered shrine being used as a last line of defence/staging aread. Lots of debris and bits of ruins with a force surging out of it.

 

Units represented:

 

- 2 vindicators (might swap for predators, but I like the image of two dug in demolisher cannons)

- 1 venerable dread

- 2 tactical squads

- 1 assault squad w/chaplin

- Calgar + honour guard

- scout squad/telion

- storm talon

- landspeeders x 2

 

Might add:

- terminators

- another tactical squad

- parked rhino/razorback in rear

 

Sample setup

 

Inside close up

 

Close up 2

 

Front close up

 

I am going to have the landspeeders crusing over this piece of terrain, I already have them magnetized to their small flying stands, just a matter of figuring out how I want to raise them off of here. If anyone has any suggestions I am all ears.

 

Sanded and rubbled it down last night around all the major terrain bits also glued in all the debris once it was dried and brushed off (not pictured)

 

 

To-do list:

- sandbags for scout setup (have some scale cloth ones, might not waste them and GS a bunch)

- "glass" panes in select areas of shrine windows (seemingly a no-brainer with clamshell packaging plastic, but might led to a stress fit)

- landspeeder attachment (??)

 

 

 

 

[deathspectersgt7]

Looks good so far.Good job.

[Scarsminimadness]

Looking really nice.
I'll be watching this! :)
 

[roooooot]

Thanks!

 

I got some basecoating done, I'll post some updates after the weekend when there's a little more detail other than brown and black.

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A week and a day left, here's some progress. I got the parts I was most concerned about done now and I am super stoked on the results. I've never attempted something on this scale. Aquila lander, buildings and battlefield accesories are up next

 

Fullish view

 

Details

 

 

As a nod to my new Death Korps army I've decided to paint the lander in the same scheme. Here's a combo of all the paint schemes.

 

[Kierdale]

How about drybrushing the grass black near the craters/edges? So it looks like it's been blasted, rather than natural borders.

 

Other than that, impressive work so far.

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How about drybrushing the grass black near the craters/edges? So it looks like it's been blasted, rather than natural borders.

 

Other than that, impressive work so far.

 

Thanks! That's a good idea actually, I had a bunch of the citadel burnt grass I'll sprinkle all around it.

 

In the meantime here's a quick update, the right side building is more or less done, but the part I am most proud of are the Landspeeder mounts.

 

 

I had pre-magnetized them to their bases and found some extra stems in my bits and viola.

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I won a gold medal!

 

Here's the final pics from the in-store competition yesterday.

 

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/277487-ultramarines-armies-on-parade-board/

[Montuhotep]

Congratulations!