Storm falcons primaris marines

[Mortarion]

I don't paint much 40k models any more, and when I do they are usually xenos. But the primaris marines seemed quite fun to paint, so I got some of those and decided to paint them up in Storm Falcons colours. As some of you might remember, the Storm Falcons is a DIY chapter of mine which I started painting a little over 15 years ago but which I have not really painted much for in the past 10 years. But I thought it would be fun to revisit them with the primaris marines. The Storm falcons are loosly based on ancient Egypt, but more marines with inspiration from ancient Egypt, rather then ancient Egyptians in power armour. I posted my previous models here a few years ago, but all the pictures in that thread died in the Great Bucketfail of 2017.

 

Anyways, here are some Intercessors.

 

And some aggressors. 

 

I might paint some more in the future, but there will propably not be regular updates.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Well done. I like the bayonet on the Primaris Marine's bolt rifle.

[Captain Mike]

That's a great colour scheme. I like the very dark recesses compared to the blended, light armour.

[Lum]

I love the Aggressor Sergeant's chest eagle. Nice work!

[Bjorn Firewalker]

The model looks great! What's that thing on his base? An Ork Warboss' augmetic lower jaw, which this Primaris Marine tore off in brutal hand-to-hand combat?

Edited August 17, 2018 by Bjorn Firewalker

[Mortarion]

 

[iMAGE OF AGGRESSOR SERGEANT]

The model looks great! What's that thing on his base? An Ork Warboss' augmetic lower jaw, which this Primaris Marine tore off in brutal hand-to-hand combat?

 

 

Thank you. Yes, It's pretty much what you said. 

[General Strike]

These are gorgeous, the hieroglyphs are sick, and I like the colored winged scarabs in place of the aquila. That actually helps me with my work on chaos primaris, to replace the eagle or skull with a chaos symbol, in place of scraping the whole thing off and cleaning for hours.

[Race Bannon]

It's the hieroglyphs. Such amazing detail :Tu:

[Brother Lunkhead]

Great work there brother I especially like the Primaris Marine with the combat knife fitted onto his bolt rifle.... this configuration looks so much better on the Primaris bolt rifle than on the OG bolter. Thanks for sharing.

[Mortarion]

Some more models painted - 4 Hellblasters, just wating for the sergeant to complete the squad. (The marine without a helmet is not the sergeant, just a regular marine.)

 

 

Primaris Marines are actually quite fun to paint.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job on the Hellblasters.

[Mortarion]

Thank you.
 

 

I finished the sergeant as well.

 

And that means that I now have a playable squad.

[Mortarion]

Some more Intercessors, this time from the actual Intercessor box and not from the starter kit.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Well done.

[BrotherEndcat]

The colours are insane mate, there is an insane level of contrast which I'm sure looks amazing on the tabletop mate very well done indeed!

[jeremy1391]

Really cool looking Primaris!

[Mortarion]

A lieutenant done! I guess a power armoured one with jump pack would be better in game terms, but I wanted to build a primaris one.

 

I really tried to balance making him more elaborate than a segeant, but less so than a captain. 

Edited April 7, 2019 by Mortarion

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on the SGT, but why is he wearing a metal mask? To honor an Imperial Saint, i.e., he's wearing a death mask? To hide his disfigured face from view, the way the late Erasmus Tycho did? For some other reason?

[Mortarion]

Excellent work on the SGT, but why is he wearing a metal mask? To honor an Imperial Saint, i.e., he's wearing a death mask? To hide his disfigured face from view, the way the late Erasmus Tycho did? For some other reason?

 

Thank you. The Storm Falcons sometimes wear the death masks of the chapter's fallen heroes to battle, both to honour them and to gain their knowledge and skill in battle. For primaris marines, this has a deeper meaning, though. It symbolises both the trust that the chapter has placed in their new primaris brethren - that they are allowed to take part of the skills of the chapter's ancient heroes - and a mark of respect from the primaris marine - that they forsake their individual self to become an embodiment of the chapter's history on the battlefield.

[Dosjetka]

Solid work so far, Mortarion. It's great to see you posting here on the jolly old B&C again. :tu:

 

Are you still working on your Flesh Tearers?

[Mortarion]

Solid work so far, Mortarion. It's great to see you posting here on the jolly old B&C again.

 

Are you still working on your Flesh Tearers?

Thank you!

 

The Flesh tearers are on a bit of a pause right now but I will probably do some more stuff for them in the future. I have definately not abandoned them.

[War Angel]

You have a talent for these, keep them up.

[Dosjetka]

The Flesh tearers are on a bit of a pause right now but I will probably do some more stuff for them in the future. I have definately not abandoned them.

That's great to hear. Such a fantastic army deserves to still be worked on every so often, in my mind. :)

 

I think it would be good if you would take an army picture of your Flesh Tearers if/when you have the time to show people what we're on about. I don't think many remember how good they are!

[Mortarion]

 

The Flesh tearers are on a bit of a pause right now but I will probably do some more stuff for them in the future. I have definately not abandoned them.

That's great to hear. Such a fantastic army deserves to still be worked on every so often, in my mind.

 

I think it would be good if you would take an army picture of your Flesh Tearers if/when you have the time to show people what we're on about. I don't think many remember how good they are!

 

Thank you. I will see what I can do, but since my Flesh tearers are currently around 6500 points the individual models would look very small on an army picture... ;)

But I'll at least try to fix the old pictures when I have some time.

[Mortarion]

Some Eliminators done. Really cool models.

I painted the camo cloaks with the same idea as my Storm Falcons scouts (and my Flesh Tearers scouts), that the camo cloak adapts to the ground and changes texture. But on my previous cloaks I painted them in the process of changing. This time I wanted them to be almost completely adapted. And I think the effect looks quite cool.

 

And finally a quick size comparisson with a sniper scout. The Eliminators are huge.