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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

photo 1

 
Inside close up

photo 2

 
Close up 2

photo 3

 
Front close up

photo 4

 
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.

photo 5

 
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)

photo 6

 

 

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 (??)

 

 

 

 

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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

New board update 1/4

 

Details

New board update 2/4

 

New board update 3/4

 
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.

New board update 4/4

 

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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.

 

Landspeeder Mounts

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