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[Lucio]

I've found the best way to avoid cookie cutter syndrome is to mix and match parts over multiple kits. For example, Mk IV Torso and helmet with Mk VII arms and legs. The fluff supports that the armour is interchangable, with older parts being passed down as treasured relics, not to mention for Chaos, well we're not supposed to be uniform anyway!

 

If you look closely at the Quintos Chosen for example, I've snuck in an old MkII piece for one of the Plasma gunners, to show up one who stole a treasured relic suit from an over confident Dark Angels sergeant

Edited December 1, 2014 by Lucio

[Daemon2027]

I think an aggressive legion like the World Eaters would be interchanging more then others, especially post Seige of Terra. There gear would take more damage, and would take more from the dead. I imagine they go through slaves artificers quite quickly.

[Flint13]

Not a bad start!

 

He's got a great, iconic pose and he'll look darn regal as soon as you smooth out his legs.

 

Can't go conquering legions with cottage cheese thighs :D

[Daemon2027]

Aye they are rough, but work progresses.just bulking out the chest at the moment. Looking at him I think in the future I should extend the lower leg instead of the upper leg. Would be easier to.

[Flint13]

Giant greaves would make the work a little easier, methinks.

 

Unless you want to go the more realistic route and give them FW Khârn telephone pole thighs. I'd be ok with that :D

[Daemon2027]

I did consider greaves but I am going to try and get smoother legs. Also the right leg needs a holstered bolt pistol. Re thinking the power fist though, looking to see what cool axes I have in my bits box.

[Daemon2027]

More work on the Optio of my first vet squad.

 

 

Looks really rough, but getting there.

[incinerator950]

His eyes should be more level with the guardsman, imo.

[Daemon2027]

You know I was looking at that. It's hard to get it right because the guardsmen is looking up.

[incinerator950]

Hmm, can you lower his head?

 

Maybe put cracks in his helmet?

[Daemon2027]

I can lower the Marines head, the Guardsmen head no so much. Tonight i was going to smooth off and neaten up the gs work, will play with the head.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Wow that looks awesome! IMO I think the eyes are perfect like this: to me it looks like even though he's holding the guardsman's head above his eye level, he's raised his own head so as to be 'looking down' at him. It's the ultimate gesture of disdain. Great pose man, superb work so far. Looking forward to the finished built! :tu:

[Relict]

The angle on the Legionary's neck is perfect - an arrogantly cocked head held high.

 

Perhaps lowering the Legionary's arm a tad bit instead? 

[Knight of the Raven]

Good model... poor guardsman though.

 

I dread to see how sisters would be treated if we had plastics, haha.

Edited December 4, 2014 by Knight of the Raven

[Dantay VI]

That World Eater is lovely... The chains are cool, I assume that is a link to their gladiatorial roots?

 

The pose is great, so full of presence and intimidation, almost Darth Vader-esque. The poor FW Elysian, about to have his head popped like a giant zit!!

[incinerator950]

Good model... poor guardsman though.

 

I dread to see how sisters would be treated if we had plastics, haha.

I'd have my Warlord dance with a SoB over the corpse of Guardsmen and Black Legionaires.

 

If only I could get a waltz pose... or actually dance.

[Flint13]

 

Good model... poor guardsman though. :P

I dread to see how sisters would be treated if we had plastics, haha.

I'd have my Warlord dance with a SoB over the corpse of Guardsmen and Black Legionaires.

If only I could get a waltz pose... or actually dance.

No worries. Apparently (and I just found this out myself) Mat Ward and his weird SoB snuff fluff are long gone.

[incinerator950]

But can they dance?

 

I will be resuming writeup and bitsmashing for the Wartorn right before or after Christmas. I have a character picture commission I'm ordering from an aquitance and I'm working with her to get the details before I work on the other half of the character.

 

Also because I need to order the Juggernaut, but after buying Gears 3, a new Borderlands hoodie, and the Alice: Madness Returns concept Art book, I'm waiting for a paycheck or two while my friend nags me to get Destiny on the 360.

Edited December 5, 2014 by incinerator950

[Allart01]

Some fluff for my 16th company

Forgive my bad english.

 

 

 

The primary hangar of the Merciless was a crowded place: dozens of techmarines checking and repairing the warmachines of the XIIth legion helped by ten times as many servitors; hundreds of human soldiers preparing for deployment... and a whole company of Adeptus Astartes, talking, hailing and taunting each other about the upcoming battle. Such was the temper of the World Eaters: not disciplined, cold soldiers, but warm hearted warriors ready to live and die with an axe in their hands and a curse on their lips. Their commander, Tiberius Thanatos, was the only one standing in silence, for he was not meant to fight that day. He was there to accept the oath of his commander-in-place, Irex Nornas, as the traditions of the Merciless dictated. He was there to look into the eyes of the warriors he was about to send on Istvaan III, where an unavoidable death sentence was waiting for them. Their fault... was to be too loyal to their Emperor, in such a measure that even their Primarch, their genetic father, would not have been listened had he told them to stand against Him. Thanatos had chosen them all, one by one. It had not been an easy thing to mark for death some of the warriors that fought beside him for many decades... yet, his loyalty to Angron came first, and it had to be done. “Captain” Irex called him, crushing his toughts with a powerful and prideful voice. He clearly felt honoured to be designed to command in his place. In normal circumstances, that would have marked him out as his successor, once he had eventually fallen on the battlefield. Tiberius felt almost sorry that such and inheritance would never come to pass. “Are you ready to accept my vow?” Irex asked again, impatient to receive his official consecration as First Centurion of the Merciless. “Yes, Irex. I am.” He answered, coldly. “Give me your sword.” The chosen astartes knelt before him and lent him his weapon, a master crafted powersword hailing back from the starting days of the Great Crusade. Tiberius handed the weapon's grip, taking it from his liutenant's hands and looking at him for a moment. The saddest thing of all was that Irex was really meant to be his heir, before Angron's coming back to his legion. Yet, Tiberius remembered a dialogue they had not long before, after the slaughter of Commander Ghreer and his officers cadre at the hands of the Primarch's himself, and after witnessing one of his raptuses of madness on board of the Conqueror.

“I already miss the days of the Warhounds.” Irex confessed him on that occasion. “Everything I wanted for all this years was to meet our father and hear the very same words that rang in the ears of the Salamanders, the Word Bears of the Ultramarines... I wanted to feel the very same pride they felt about their genesire. But even now that we found our Primarch, there is nothing but silence and madness for us... the Butcher's Nails, and death at his very hands. I... I wish we never found him.” Every single man in the Legion felt exactly the same, but that had nevertheless been a hard confession, and one a World Eater would give to none but his closest friend. Yet Tiberius, altough being his mentor, was not the right man to hear it. “Aye.” he answered, his voice as violent as his gaze. “I too witnessed the glorious days of the Warhounds. I lived them all, one by one. And not a single day has passed since then where I did not thank my Primarch for making me a World Eater”. The discussion died that way. He was grown in a barbaric tech tribe on Terra, and as the first born son of their chieftain he learned a great many things... but in the end, he respected strenght and strenght alone, and his Primarch was the Galaxy's finest in that.

Thanatos cut his left palm with the blade's edge, its power generator turned off. With his now bleeding hand, he caressed the Centurion's face. “Go and slaughter, son of the Merciless.” he said, giving Irexe's sword back to the Astartes as he rose back on his feet. “Let there be war.” Tiberius looked into his eyes as he said those words.  He was sick of all those lies... but this was all the truth he could give him in that last moment. Not the war Irex expected, nor the one he would've ever wanted coming to. But war there would be.  

Edited December 11, 2014 by Kharn the Bloody

[KrautScientist]

@ Khârn the Bloody: That was a pretty excellent read, mate! I think it was a very cool choice to focus on a part of the background that seems like a rather pivotal moment in the history of the legions, but which hasn't been addressed all that much: Witnessing how Thanatos sends off the man he originally saw as his successor off to die is a rather powerful scene, but you've described it with delicious subtlty -- great job!

 

I would only change one thing, though: It feels like the last sentence he says to Irex, "Let there be war!", actually isn't a lie but rather a strange instance of telling the truth, only without Irex really noticing it -- in a way, Thanatos is asking him to do his worst in the coming fight, one last time. What he's not saying is that it will be against the rest of the company/legion. So there is a delicious piece of irony nestled away somewhere in his words, sure, but it's not really a lie -- maybe it's the closest thing to the truth that he can actually bring himself to share with Irex at some point? Anyway, just a couple of thoughts.

 

Thanks for sharing! :)

[incinerator950]

Hey ktart is alive.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Wow KtB, that was an excellent, subtle piece of fluff. K-SCi's remark made it even deeper, as I realized Tiberius is both lying and speaking a terrible truth to Irex. *If* you were to change that sentence, make it something like "He would not speak anymore lies to him, even if the truth was more terrible." Regardless: please keep writing, brother.

[Forté]

Excessiveness is always nec...

 

:cussing forte.

You called? Must have been delayed by warp storms though ;)

[KrautScientist]

Hey ktart is alive.

 

Oh, I am fine, don't worry ;) I've made this, for instance:

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/11/30/667108-Betrayer%2C%20Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Kharn%2C%20Kharn%20The%20Betrayer.jpg

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/11/30/667113-Betrayer%2C%20Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Kharn%2C%20Kharn%20The%20Betrayer.jpg

 

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2014/11/30/667104-Betrayer%2C%20Chaos%2C%20Chaos%20Space%20Marines%2C%20Conversion%2C%20Kharn%2C%20Kharn%20The%20Betrayer.jpg

 

 

@ Khârn the Bloody: Maybe the last passage should look something like this:

 

"Thanatos cut his left palm with the blade's edge, its power generator turned off. With his now bleeding hand, he caressed the Centurion's face. “Go and slaughter, son of the Merciless.” he said, giving Irexe's sword back to the Astartes as he rose back on his feet. “Let there be war.” Tiberius looked into his eyes as he said those words. He was sick of lying to Irex, but this, at least, had been the truth."

[incinerator950]

 

Excessiveness is always nec...

 

:cussing forte.

You called? Must have been delayed by warp storms though ;)

Brilliant.

 

On the topic, I need to get moving on this Juggernaut order. Should I use a Fantasy one or what?