Tundaran Knights-73 big update, tree demon, things!

[Argent aquila]

DO IT!!!!

 

That would be hilarious to see! Have on running around with a cape on fire, and one using a fire extinguisher on one of his brothers (If you can do that, and it wouldn't mess up the dark vibe your models have.;) )

I bet I have the plastic stock parts to make a fire extinguisher...... I think there wouldn't be too much of a departure from the doom and gloom I've spun them in, if not, he'll be a special one off honorable mention, just for you sanguinata! ;)

 

 

 

I should have a small update with models comin sometime today, keep your eyes peeled. A WIP of the chaplain, without any of the smoke effects me thinks. More to come! :D

 

 

EDIT:: wool hoo! 4pages!::

[Praefectus Invictus]

DO IT!!!!

That would be hilarious to see! Have on running around with a cape on fire, and one using a fire extinguisher on one of his brothers (If you can do that, and it wouldn't mess up the dark vibe your models have. )

I bet I have the plastic stock parts to make a fire extinguisher...... I think there wouldn't be too much of a departure from the doom and gloom I've spun them in, if not, he'll be a special one off honorable mention, just for you sanguinata!

I should have a small update with models comin sometime today, keep your eyes peeled. A WIP of the chaplain, without any of the smoke effects me thinks. More to come!

EDIT:: wool hoo! 4pages!::

I would be honoured.

Back to the serious stuff. Looking forward to your WIP. Keep up the good work.

[Argent aquila]

well, here ya go everyone!

the Chaplain so far.

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with the bent rod mount:

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the as of yet unnamed squad sergeant as a pile of parts:

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and the reason why i haven't got anything based yet, the high for the day was lower than what it even said, never broke 25 degrees Fahrenheit.

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further ideas are more than welcome!

[Praefectus Invictus]

I'd like to see your take on terminators, that would look really cool if you did them up like the other marines in your army.

[Argent aquila]

I'd like to see your take on terminators, that would look really cool if you did them up like the other marines in your army.

well, first, i'd need to get some termies in the first place.

i wasn't planning on having them in the force, but i'm sure i can make room for a squad somewhere, maybe as an unforseen group of survivors or what-not... that'd make for some cool back-story!

(i do have the space hulk terminators lying around, but i'd planned for them to be knights of blood or some other BA successor one off squads, plus, they're COVERED in BA details, which doesn't help those of us in the kitbashing department. )

You see, that idea actually hits on a number of.....erhm, personal debates (?) on what to get next, because as much as I love putting out rank and file (no sarcasm, i really do ) ForgeWorld models have been stuck to my computer screen for far too long... i've been debating over 3 categories to put my limited funds into, (4 counting regular GW models) FW rank and file marines (specifically MKIV and V infantry, with various additions like boarding shields and different bolter types) heavy infantry such as terminators (they're QUITE expensive for a decent number, garnering their own slot) and dreadnoughts/vehicles, which i could drop hundred into because i love nearly all of them, no matter what. (minus Deimos pattern, i just cannot like them, too round.)

Not to mention the characters and special infantry. The ones i'm looking at in particular being the apothecary set and the legion praetors.

so, i have about 250 USD, and will probably need to pay shipping across the ole' pond we call the Atlantic Ocean, and too many choices for FW alone to contemplate

On the flip side entirely, i could bite into local GW models like no tomorrow for kitbashing parts and actual marines, a good number of the fantasy range would make great combat familiars!

WOW, that's a lot of rant.....

on another note, the chaplain seems to be at a standstill for the night, need to figure out how i'm going to approach the smoke, and then get onto building the squad he's going to be leading. The sergeant also needs a name... will get some more work on 'em tomorrow, as i've been attempting to concentrate on my analysis work for President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address for AP English III, which is quite.....

eh........

well......

boring.

[Praefectus Invictus]

DO you like the contemptor dreadnought? Because I think you could make a pretty neat conversion from the night lords one into a mechanical monster for your marines. That would look terrifying !

[Argent aquila]

DO you like the contemptor dreadnought? Because I think you could make a pretty neat conversion from the night lords one into a mechanical monster for your marines. That would look terrifying !

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that's the lad i made for my other WIP chapter the Scythes (of) Draconia. (oddly enough, I still don't have his other arm yet...)

There will always be a special place in my shriveled little black heart for ANY type of dreadnought. period.

i do very much like the night lords contemptor..... i have this idea for a dreadnought with a pseudo jump pack and these crazy whirling shuriken blades attached to the arms in pairs, much like the this:

http://aap.blackaris2001.org/PredatorPropReplica/PredatorPropShurikenLifeSize2.jpg

but fit and proper for a -huge dreadnought.

EDIT:: i just thought of also kitbashing the fantasy Morghast Archai into the dreadnought as far as details and armor plates go, which would be BADASS::

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Morghast-Archai

[Praefectus Invictus]

DO you like the contemptor dreadnought? Because I think you could make a pretty neat conversion from the night lords one into a mechanical monster for your marines. That would look terrifying !

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that's the lad i made for my other WIP chapter the Scythes (of) Draconia. (oddly enough, I still don't have his other arm yet...)

There will always be a special place in my shriveled little black heart for ANY type of dreadnought. period.

i do very much like the night lords contemptor..... i have this idea for a dreadnought with a pseudo jump pack and these crazy whirling shuriken blades attached to the arms in pairs, much like the this:

http://aap.blackaris2001.org/PredatorPropReplica/PredatorPropShurikenLifeSize2.jpg

but fit and proper for a -huge dreadnought.

EDIT:: i just thought of also kitbashing the fantasy Morghast Archai into the dreadnought as far as details and armor plates go, which would be BADASS::

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Morghast-Archai

I'll take that as a yes . I agree, the archai would look BADASS...

[Argent aquila]

I'll take that as a yes . I agree, the archai would look BADASS...

Definite yes, my friend! I've gotta try and draw out this contemptor idea, because it's wedged into my head and doesn't wanna get out until it has some paper to do so on.

Prepare for a wall of text, sorry.

Well, all of the little discussions over the past couple of days led me to thinking long and hard about what i'm going to go for next purchasing wise, and i've got a problem.... well, 4, to be exact.

i have roughly 250 bucks cash at the moment, my savings for the past 3 and a half years, and it's burning a hole in my metaphorical wallet, so i've been contemplating what to get, which will probably come around late February, early March, as that's my birthday time-zone. ( fingers crossed for cash..... or anything, really.)

Anyway, those 4 problems look a little like this:

1- LOTD list: (to be converted into tacticals and the chaplain into a sergeant.)

Damned legionnaires 1

Damned legionnaires 2

Damned legionnaire with heavy flamer

Chaplain with power fist and crozius

Fantasy black knights (familiars for the squad)

Queek head taker (the sergeants' own familiar)

140 USD

(yay, cheapest option! Will give me a full leaded squad, and once completed, with flamers out the wazoo!)

2- dreadnoughts

Night lords contemptor dreadnought chassis

2 claw close combat weapons

Heavy bolter arm

Autocannon arm (probably to be put onto that other contemptor)

Morghast Archai

164.86 USD

(honestly the most tempting of the bunch because of the wrist mounted shuriken blades conversion idea indomitably stuck in my head and the Archai bits on a contemptor sounding really cool. )

3- terminators

Terminator weapons set

Tartaros special weapon set

Tartaros power fist set

Tartaros terminator bodies

Legion praetors

164.84 USD

(originally didn't plan on having terminators, but i re-discovered and then fell in love with Tartaros armor, probably because they look sorta like mini contemptors.... )

4-FW infantry list

Apothecary set

MKIV power weapon set

MKIII assault squad

MKV assault squad

Umbra ferrox bolters

182.99 USD

(gotta thicken the ranks somehow, and what better way than with heresy and iron armor? Plus, assault marines are cool, i wanna work around with mid jump styles, with fire trails coming out the end of the Jump pack and all that.)

I imagine i'd find a way to get all four eventually. That is, depending on what i do after highschool and whether or not i can get a job sometime soon to pay for my plastic and resin addiction.... but my concern now is basically, which one first?!

Guess the real question is, whaddya wanna see next? flame throwing crazy marines? An angry, giant Shuriken toting Contemptor? A bunch of heavily armored teleporting badasses? Or 10 high flying hard hitters? Opinions needed!

(PS: didn't get time to do models i have yet, sorry for a bunch of walls of text and less interesting stuff lately, homework and procrastinating make for quite the toxic combo... )

Have a good one guys and gals!

[Praefectus Invictus]

I think the contemptor is the way to go, but that's because I'm biased . I just love contemptors even though I don't own any (yet). Plus I would like to see a Badass combat killy murderous contemptor.

Which ever you choose, keep churning out some models.

[Argent aquila]

I think the contemptor is the way to go, but that's because I'm biased . I just love contemptors even though I don't own any (yet). Plus I would like to see a Badass combat killy murderous contemptor.

Which ever you choose, keep churning out some models.

definitely worth getting your hands on at least 1 (or 2......or 3....)

SIR YES SIR!!!

But, i'm gonna start by doing the exact opposite with this update, as it's purely hypotheticals and idea hurling right now....

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My pretty rough drawing of a VERY ambitious Dreadnought, ideas are always a helpful start.

Some designers notes on the planned build: (or whatever .... The links are to the picture in question in the note, the reason being links to save some space. )

- the wings are entirely for decoration, and serve no purpose other than to look cool.

- the thrusters on the back where the power plant used to be are sort of like a jump pack, but propelling the dreadnought more horizontally than vertically (think like nitrous on a car, but in short bursts)

- shoulder pad details are a poorly recreated form from the Morghast Archai, i hope to use some of the armor plating and skulls in various places.

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/gallery/image/144244-image1/

- the contemptor skull was inspired by a mountain lions', and unless anybody knows how to get one for cheap anywhere, it'll be an interesting sculpt job....

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/gallery/image/144248-image4/

- i do hope to figure out how to mount a pair of (heavy?) flamers onto the chest, most likely going to carve out chunks of the resin in order to create space for them to fit better... i hope to cross a design with these 2 or similar if i can

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- the right arm, lower design is most likely the final pick between it and the one above it, a large 4 bladed star mounted above the claws on a holster type device, with the capability of detaching and being swung via a large link chain

- I'm not entirely happy with the left arm design (or the upper, right arm design either), and will probably change it into something else..... may-haps a converted gun of some sort? i'm thinking mega flamer or quad bolters or something... ideas welcome here too.

i do hope that the Archai wings are large enough... because the next step up is probably going to be this....

http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Vampire-Lord-on-Zombie-Dragon

and i definitely don't have the money for that on top of everything else. (if anybody has some measurements of Archai wings, that'd be awesome to let if you could let me know!)

I really don't quite fathom what i've gotten myself into here..... do I?

Well, that's everything. Hope to get that project started around mid march or april, as my timing for orders never seems to be quite right... Thanks for looking!

(PS: actual model updates are coming [hopefully] the weekend. Aslo, i was cleaning up my room and finally got my humble collection of posters hung up above my bed: [/url]">http://http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/gallery/image/144253-image7/'>

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[Argent aquila]

Aaalll righty then, got myself a single marine finished, dunno who he's gonna be yet, but based on the number of aquilas he's got on him (4 i believe) i'd certainly say he's of the over zealous chaplains' flock.

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i do love the pose i gave him, simply because i can see him bisecting some poor bastard from lower hip to shoulder with that de-chaosified power sword.

in other news, well, erhm..... ya that's actually about it really. I would like to take advantage of the FW free shipping offer whilst i still can (as of right now, 14 days left y'all! )

Let's see, i'm in need of some more primer, and also need to wash the lot of models i've been doing lately.

Some space hulk terminators in the paint-scheme of (probably) the knights of blood (unless i make a 3rd chapter up for kicks) are on sticks and ready to go, along with their unsavory xenos compatriots.

and i'm also making much more headway on my non GW model, which is the main reason i've so little to show for this 3 day weekend i get. (thus far)

comments critique, ideas, whatever, are all welcome, especially on that contemptor design, i'm still debating on that with myself.

anyway, i'll update again whenever i find the time, got lots to do, have a good one!

[deathspectersgt7]

Like the pose.

[Kriegsmacht]

I like your rough draft of the Dreadnaught. Hope to see it full realized.

[Praefectus Invictus]

I see that marine as a company champion, someone who still believes in the "light of the emperor". Maybe a failed chaplain?

[00branchow]

What have you got yourself into indeed? This project used to look so simple and planned out, now it's turned into a monster of fabulous ideas and models that need stories. I'm alright with the walls of text. It looks like brainstorming to me, which needs to be done sometimes. Anyways, on to helping with the brainstorming. I second Sanguinata's Chaplain idea. Take it and run. Sorry I'm lackluster for ideas, but that's what I've got.

Break a leg

Branchow

[Argent aquila]

Like the pose.

Thank ya! it was thrown together in a quick bout, which i have to say is how i get most of mt progress done nowadays...

I like your rough draft of the Dreadnaught. Hope to see it full realized.

I PROMISE IT WILL!!!! (just possibly not anytime reasonably soon .... because school)

I see that marine as a company champion, someone who still believes in the "light of the emperor". Maybe a failed chaplain?

hmmm.... failed chaplain, i like it! you're just full of ideas ain'tchya? (gotta love Texas drawl in text format)

What have you got yourself into indeed? This project used to look so simple and planned out, now it's turned into a monster of fabulous ideas and models that need stories. I'm alright with the walls of text. It looks like brainstorming to me, which needs to be done sometimes. Anyways, on to helping with the brainstorming. I second Sanguinata's Chaplain idea. Take it and run. Sorry I'm lackluster for ideas, but that's what I've got.

Break a leg

Branchow

it WAS planned out, but Christmas kinda gave me a turbo boost on the model side, sooo that threw everything out of whack, and now.... well, it's a mess. a good mess though...... hopefully?

anyway, i'll force myself to get writing done whenever i get around to painting the knights up, and maybe i'll actually space the posts out so that i have more consistency? i dunno.

ha, thanks for the reassurance about lots of text, i kinda tend to drone on and on and on and on about things when they really interest me, which ain't often, so it's kinda unusual and i feel like i say too much.

Building up on other ideas is perfectly fine buddy! I'll do what i can with 'em, problem is i'm running out of skully bitz and such, and need to convince my dad to actually let me go spend my own money. ('cuz i still can't drive, myself )

ya, no actual update.... sowwy

[Praefectus Invictus]

I try . It's fun to inspire others when I don't have the funds/skills/time to make my own. Hope to see some updates soon!

[Argent aquila]

I try . It's fun to inspire others when I don't have the funds/skills/time to make my own. Hope to see some updates soon!

Well, i dug through my model room to find stuff that could count as an update, here it is:

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sorry that it's sideways, clicked the finish upload too soon

was that enough content to please? even though it ain't exactly what you guys probably wanted?

oh, well too bad, it's the best i got. Later y'all!

[Praefectus Invictus]

Thats quite neat. Like the rotor guns. 

 

Also what chapter are your space hulk termies gonna be? 

[Argent aquila]

Thats quite neat. Like the rotor guns.

Also what chapter are your space hulk termies gonna be?

thank ya.

i've been debating between 2 real choices, actually....

(I'd always wanted to do a lamenters force, but there is no way on Terra that i could do a good enough yellow or checkered patterns as well as others. not even close )

the first was blood drinkers, which were halved red and black, seemed easy enough....

but the second choice, is to take one of the named but un-detailed chapters and give them my interpretation of a color scheme. Because, let's face it, ALL OF THE BLOOD ANGELS SUCCESSORS (minus fore mentioned Lamenters and possibly some others) ARE EITHER RED OR RED AND BLACK. at least, canon ones.

(correct me when i'm wrong please)

so, i was kinda hoping to experiment on achieving a smooth opalescent/silvery white, some of the names i was tossing around were either the blood legion, or coin the name angels eradicant, or go completely off the deep end and not name their original chapter, and simply call them the Anxo Cego (ank-so say-go, which means the blind angels in Galican. Galic names would only be fitting as well, and to try some free hand on any flat areas would be cool, i have new brushes with quite fine tips. )

i'm going to put the pics i used for reference in a spoiler, because i don't want anyone cruising through the thread without reading it to think that they were actually my work or anything.

the white chaosy version (from what my dad said when i asked him, it was a kind of silvery white... not sure if it is though....)

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some nice white, what i was interested in was the sergeant's greaves and the patterned helmets of all things.

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to contrast, the xenos filth are going to be test subjects for my airbrushing, as i'm determined to get that set up soon... they'll look like this:

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which i hope is a little unique, i want to have soft transitions from the black0gray carapace and claws to the lighter skin tones, i'm thinking orange for the eyes for some reason.... and maybe red or bright, virulent green?

EDIT:: also, for the backstory, i'm thinking they were piratical in nature, scavenging what little they could as a single squad, and got absorbed into the ranks as a sort of honor squad amongst the knights..... their a grudge happy bunch that got nommed by the tyranids Lamenters style but never recovered,and are dying off as single small groups as pirates and guns for hire among the imperium and beyond.

this squad just happens to cross paths with the recently convened tundaran knights, and they forge a brotherhood as a whole, and now we have a bunch of white terminators in a black (green ) and bone army of crazies.

[Argent aquila]

evenin' y'all!

been a long and almost overbearingly gregarious 6 days, but i actually have something interesting to show for once (maybe?) YAY!!!

My little side project in the Space Hulk Terminators has officially kicked off, they will be my filler until i can sort out some things on the knights (including getting them painted, attempting to finalize a color scheme, and getting more models to work on )

got some WIP shots of the firs guy, he's not exactly finished, and i have some open topics/issues that some help with would be really helpful.

so, without further adieu, the test mini, albeit a slight bit deader than the rest of the lot:

primed white:

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chair painted, i went for a jade,blue-green for the eagle:

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in order to keep the model from darkening way too much, i mixed the Vallejo light gray was with dead white, followed by the light gray wash itself:

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the result, pretty good IMO:

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and lastly for tonight, some detail colors and a wash or two:

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some of my thoughts and questions:

-what sort of color should i do as a secondary, if at all? (greaves, helmet, fist, etc.) i was thinking a metallic black would be cool, but then i'd be delving into star phantoms territory, and if possible I'd like to abstain from using red, to make the point that these Blood Angels are disassociated with their progenitor entirely.

-should i continue to use yellow as the gem color? colors like moot green or sybarite green may work better...

- i was thinking about trying to freehand Celtic runes on the open areas, would that be too word bearer-y/space wolfish?

here are some examples:

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https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f7/17/26/f71726b485803a89f035deacbc729817.jpg

https://symbols101.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/elderfutharkrunes2.png

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2010/335/e/3/tattoo___runes_ii_by_bhanesidhe-d33zes1.jpg

http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/mediawiki-public/images/1/16/Runes-With-Names.png

still left to do before he's done:

-white final layers and highlights

-finish cloth-metals-chains-gems-gold-and silver

-secondary colors

so, what do you guys think? thanks for looking!

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[Argent aquila]

I'm just gonna let this one explain itself before ranting.

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C.A.T. unit status update -001502451-

+objective+_____ -Located-

+Designation+

-_High CHaplain Amar Colerico__

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+Status+

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-_deceased__

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-_transferring coordinates for extraction, delta/six-10/sigma-prime

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Confirmed+

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"Brothers, the time has come for us to avenge our fallen. We shall see our forbears souls to the gates of Ceo with our ancestors. Casen Indomus move to Sigma X40, Casen Vangara, with me. Let us show these filth the repercussions of their murder..."

-Epistolary Escurra Kaido, after transmission from C.A.T. unit aboard Space Hulk- godless son.

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okay, so rant time!

pretty happy with how he turned out overall, not too bad.....

my white still needs a lot of work, but that's the best white i've ever done (ie. my 3rd attempt) so i won't complain too much.

In order to maintain my sanity and reduce the amount of white necessary, i'm thinking that the chaplain here wears inverted colors of the chapter, so the main color for the primary detachment should be brown, with white helmet, shoulder and knee pad, and maybe a greave or two.... opinions?

also happy with my highlight work, tried a more perspective approach instead of the usual edge highlight everything in sight method... although i could be more precise...

I feel like he needs more weathering, but i'm kinda afraid to go overboard if i do, and ruin the paint job...

those pics came out really nice for once, i like how there wasn't so much light bleaching...

the gold was kind of a letdown for me, at least on the chalices (cleverly placed so that they are a bit hard to see ) may be because of the awkward sculpt for them, or the way i painted them, oh well.

next up will be a line terminator, with whichever color scheme i finalize, (ironically enough, finalized faster than my knights have been )

C&C most welcome, have a good one!

Oh, and a little parting joke, my views on the Horus Heresy summed up in a GIF.

http://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/firefly-serenity-dinosaur-fight-2.gif?w=650

[Argent aquila]

Hello everyone, got a small update for Saturday, and some more ranting about my ideas, because i do that so well.

WIP shots of the Librarian and the first line terminator, as of yet, both are unnamed and require at a minimum another 4-5 hours of work to be board prepped, but i thought i'd post 'em to get some input and to talk rant some more.

base coats (bar the skin on the librarian) with washes of nuln oil and agrax earthshade on the respective portions, next will be the gray on the helmet.

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So, about my ideas, i was thinking of shifting these guys from being a different chapter, and maybe instead having their color scheme be the basis for the rest of the Knights? As y'all may or may not know, i kind of struggle with color choices, mostly because i can hardly tell if they work together unless i have somebody else there with me, as a matter of fact, the corpse in a chair revered chaplain seems to be a light blue instead of white.... as pointed out by both of my parents and my brother.

So anyway, this would mean some dramatic changes to the aesthetics of the existing Kostin and his pair of raptor compatriots, unless i can cop up an excuse for them being more black than anything else, which shouldn't be too, too impossible, perhaps those dedicating themselves as assault units would go through a ceremony and change their colors to the black and bone? Leaving the traditional colors for the rest of the chapter?

Maybe that'd just busy up the painting schemes of the chapter, and cause some lack of coherency with the army as a whole...... OH here's another thought! How about the ones marked for severe madness and psychopathic tendencies wear the black, sorta like a shifted version of Death Company marines that was spread out over the entire army? That would mean i could include the already painted trio, and bring in the SH terminators into the army without breaking apart and fracturing the coherency of the army too much.

of course, i'm going to need to worm this idea into the background of the force if i go along with it, but who cares!?! i think that'd work out, what do y'all think?

thanks for lookin'! More to come, eventually.

[AndrewChristlieb]

Your napping chappy (sorry, can't help but think he's asleep) definitely looks a bit dreamy in the skyblue with wisping clouds. ;) The white parts on your termy look great though, no blue at all that I can see. The witch is coming along nicely also.

 

I like the idea of a dedicated unit for your black and bone guys over just having random guys in units being a different color because they're crazy. Hum... Those guys could be veterans too, a lot of chapter's vets have a different scheme from the main army.