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[derLumpi]

Brothers, I call upon your collected wisdom!

 

I recently aquired a Caestus Assault Ram - one of my favorite Marine vehicles.

There is a lot of work to be done as there are a lot of parts that are bend.

 

Now I had my fair share of resin kits big and small and I know how to get parts back into shape but there are parts that I really have no clue how to do it. 

 

 

The problem that I have is that there is a big resin block behind that won't be easily bend back into shape.

 

 

How do I approach this? How do I get this big block back into shape? Any suggestions? 

[OttoVonAwesome]

2 minutes ago, derLumpi said:

Brothers, I call upon your collected wisdom!

 

I recently aquired a Caestus Assault Ram - one of my favorite Marine vehicles.

There is a lot of work to be done as there are a lot of parts that are bend.

 

Now I had my fair share of resin kits big and small and I know how to get parts back into shape but there are parts that I really have no clue how to do it. 

 

 

The problem that I have is that there is a big resin block behind that won't be easily bend back into shape.

 

 

How do I approach this? How do I get this big block back into shape? Any suggestions? 

Deadly hot boiling water bath. Worked for me.

[Loquille]

4th Legion Siege Breaker complete

 

 

[No Foes Remain]

Side-tracked myself from painting up my SoH by building a Mk2 and shoving a old style Mk2 head from Archie's Forge on him.

 

 

Must say that I prefer it and will be needing a fair few more....

[Cleon]

Oh, I like that head - I might need them to replace the pointy MKIIIs

[derLumpi]

22 hours ago, OttoVonAwesome said:

Deadly hot boiling water bath. Worked for me.

Yeah, that's what I already tried but it's really hard to get everything together. No two parts allign and fit at all. :-/

[No Foes Remain]

6 hours ago, Cleon said:

Oh, I like that head - I might need them to replace the pointy MKIIIs

Red Warden does the old Mk3s as well, which you can also get from Archie's Forge (though that all depends on your location), and they look a hell of a lot better on the new Mk3 than the new kit's helmet.

[sarabando]

On the subject.of assault rams my bud dropped this off over the weekend. :) 

[Hfran Morkai]

4 hours ago, sarabando said:

On the subject.of assault rams my bud dropped this off over the weekend. :) 

 

Nice!

 

Not got a copy of the book yet but seen the capacity of the ram is 16, do Terminators (barring Saturnine, which I imagine take up more space) still take up two slots?

 

Because I seem to remember the Ram going to 10 but no Misericord rule so I think we were stuck with 5 Terminators at one one point.

[derLumpi]

5 hours ago, sarabando said:

On the subject.of assault rams my bud dropped this off over the weekend. :) 

Man, I'm super jealous now! :-D

[Astartes Consul]

God, I hope they bring the Caestus back into production somehow. Such a unique Heresy vibe.

 

Now we have the Legacies, I'll be working on some Nemesis Destroyers in MKII armour this week I think. 

[sarabando]

5 hours ago, Hfran Morkai said:

 

Nice!

 

Not got a copy of the book yet but seen the capacity of the ram is 16, do Terminators (barring Saturnine, which I imagine take up more space) still take up two slots?

 

Because I seem to remember the Ram going to 10 but no Misericord rule so I think we were stuck with 5 Terminators at one one point.

16 capacity not other rules about it

[Mana]

More or less finished a recon squad. I'm still trying to understand the camera settings because the colors aren't quite right. The minis are of a darker blue than the one from the photo, is like the color balance is wrong, maybe the lightning from the room doesn't help. Anyway, I'm pretty satisfied with how they look. The painting scheme continues to be a wip, I'm slowly trying to refine the lightning on the armor. 

 

Since I'm using the new mk6, the poses aren't really meant for snipers, but it's good enough to me. The scopes were 3d printed, the silencers are 3mm rods of pine wood (had easy access to those), all of them have small black capes, but they can't be seen very well in the photo. The nostraman tarot cards I made from scratch. Next I'm gonna start painting a contemptor. In my queue I have a terror squad, a cata terminator squad and some night raptors, all of them will have flayed skin, skulls and tarot cards, I have been like practicing to get to do the full array of night lords "things".

 

Also i did the base for the armiger:

I paint so slow that I will get to paint more knights in 2030 haha (sad)

[SlickSamos]

Terminators are coming along nicely!  I need to get a few more bits so I'm pausing here and revisiting an other unit now all the rules are out!

 

 

[Brother Kraskor]

Been a busy few days of hobby for me - starting on Monday I've managed to crack ten Mk2 tacticals, four Saturnine terminators, a Leviathan, and my rendition of Eidolon in Saturnine armour. Just need to finish the Eidolon book now! It's been a really fascinating insight into the psychology of his character, but outside of that it's a bit too much bolter-porn heavy for me (though I guess that is the foundation of the setting...!).

 

[Astartes Consul]

This post is brought to you by the Umbra pattern bolter…

 

[Deus_Ex_Machina]

On 8/7/2025 at 5:55 AM, Mana said:

More or less finished a recon squad. I'm still trying to understand the camera settings because the colors aren't quite right. The minis are of a darker blue than the one from the photo, is like the color balance is wrong, maybe the lightning from the room doesn't help. Anyway, I'm pretty satisfied with how they look. The painting scheme continues to be a wip, I'm slowly trying to refine the lightning on the armor. 

 

Since I'm using the new mk6, the poses aren't really meant for snipers, but it's good enough to me. The scopes were 3d printed, the silencers are 3mm rods of pine wood (had easy access to those), all of them have small black capes, but they can't be seen very well in the photo. The nostraman tarot cards I made from scratch. Next I'm gonna start painting a contemptor. In my queue I have a terror squad, a cata terminator squad and some night raptors, all of them will have flayed skin, skulls and tarot cards, I have been like practicing to get to do the full array of night lords "things".

 

Also i did the base for the armiger:

I paint so slow that I will get to paint more knights in 2030 haha (sad)

Great eyes and lightning bolts on the Night Lords. How have you done the lightning bolts?

[sarabando]

in the last week i have printed 

Iron hands

1 vet squad 

1 vet breacher squad 

1 jump pack command squad 

1 tech marine

1 centurion 

1 rapier 

4 rapier crew

 

Emperors children

1 assault squad

1 centurion

started 2nd assault squad

 

Night lords

night haunter

 

World eaters

Librarian

 

 

ive gone through 2 bottles of resin and shortened my life by 20 years XD 

 

ive not painted any of it :D 

[Gorgoff]

1 hour ago, sarabando said:

in the last week i have printed 

Iron hands

1 vet squad 

1 vet breacher squad 

1 jump pack command squad 

1 tech marine

1 centurion 

1 rapier 

4 rapier crew

 

Emperors children

1 assault squad

1 centurion

started 2nd assault squad

 

Night lords

night haunter

 

World eaters

Librarian

 

 

ive gone through 2 bottles of resin and shortened my life by 20 years XD 

 

ive not painted any of it :D 

Hehe, the secret is to not drink the resin.

But great now you ahould all spray cost them. 

 

I've started to paint the next batch of tactical marines for my Death Guard.

 

Painting rims is tedious but makes such a big difference. 

[sarabando]

1 minute ago, Gorgoff said:

Hehe, the secret is to not drink the resin.

But great now you ahould all spray cost them. 

 

I've started to paint the next batch of tactical marines for my Death Guard.

 

Painting rims is tedious but makes such a big difference. 

you could leave the pads off and that could help batch painting speed up. 

[Doghouse]

3 hours ago, sarabando said:

in the last week i have printed 

Iron hands

1 vet squad 

1 vet breacher squad 

1 jump pack command squad 

1 tech marine

1 centurion 

1 rapier 

4 rapier crew

 

Emperors children

1 assault squad

1 centurion

started 2nd assault squad

 

Night lords

night haunter

 

World eaters

Librarian

 

 

ive gone through 2 bottles of resin and shortened my life by 20 years XD 

 

ive not painted any of it :D 

That's the thing about printing, I've got a company of mk ii, a company of mk iv and a company of mk iv I never touched. 

 

It's addictive once you get into it and the pile of shame grows to insane levels if left unchecked.

[Gorgoff]

4 hours ago, sarabando said:

you could leave the pads off and that could help batch painting speed up. 

That ship has long sailed. :D

But the shoulder green was the fastest step luckily. But those rims... that takes some time. 

[Cadmus Tyro]

Not quite sure I like the Saturnine vibe, so I decided to have a go at modifying it a little.

 

 

 In my head cannon, I’ve accepted that the marine wearing the armour is just a torso, so it’s a stage before a dreadnought! 

 

What do you reckon? Gotta love some volkite…..

 

Cadmus 
 

 

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[Agramar_The_Luna_Wolf]

40 minutes ago, Cadmus Tyro said:

Not quite sure I like the Saturnine vibe, so I decided to have a go at modifying it a little.

 

 

 In my head cannon, I’ve accepted that the marine wearing the armour is just a torso, so it’s a stage before a dreadnought! 

 

What do you reckon? Gotta love some volkite…..

 

Cadmus 
 

 

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I love this conversion. Much more than the original.