Sgt Telion

This is one Fletcher has wanted for a while.  Sgt Telion to go with his scouts.  Figure came together pretty well.  At least a little better than this photo shows.  Nice mini though.  Easy to paint if you don't glue the gun on, and plenty of character.

Sternguard WIP 2

Yeah OK, probably should have shown more stages of the work.  These were my standard work flow and I'm happy with them now they are done.  The conversions (all have at least a mild conversion) were the most fun part.  After that they were primed gray, then flat coated Mordian Blue, white and black.  The blue was then layered with ultramarine blue, and I started adding the details.  Mithril silver drybrush on weapons, still my favorite way, and picking out all the other bits like the seals, skulls and such.  Once detail was complete they all got a Payne's Gray wash, and then a deneb stone drybrush (I like my armor dirty looking).

All that is missing is some grass tufts on the base, and chapter markings.  Good enough for now though.

Sternguard WIP

Haven't done any work in progress stuff so I thought I'd start one.  I picked up a space marine combat squad for dirt cheap on ebay (less than half the GW price).  The ultramarine army I've been building and painting for Fletch has 2 sternguard squads, but both are 5 man.  I'd like them to be 10-man squads.  Plus, I really like the model making.  Anyway, this combat squad, plus a few bits were going to become 5 bolter armed sternguard.  I really don't like the standard GW pose for SM, so one thing I was going to be working on was avoiding that.
 

So here they are assembled.  First from the left I cut the wrists and shoulders to allow me to bring the gun up into a more aimed pose.  The gun I modded to become a combi-flamer with a box magazine.  Second guy has the normal GW pose, but again the gun was modded to be a combi-flamer with a box magazine.  Middle guy has a firing pose, gun is modded to be a combi-plasma with a belt magazine.  Looks really cool, I'll do that again.  The last two I cut up some other marine arms to avoid the across the chest pose.  First has grenades in his other hand, second has a bolt gun and bolt pistol.  I'm really happy with how these came out.  They are now all gray primered.  I'll get another few shots as they go through the painting process.

The whole lot

Here's a quick shot of Fletcher's whole army.  A little over 3000 points, but not all of those are playable (for instance 5 HQ units).  We have a land raider crusader, two razorbacks, 2 dreadnoughts, a terminator squad, a scout squad, 2 sternguard squads, an assault squad, a vanguard squad, a devastator squad, and 4 10-man tactical squads.  Oh yeah, and the 5 HQ units, Captain, Captain in terminator armor, Librarian in terminator armor, Chaplain and Master of the Forge.

Another batch complete

Just finished (well mostly) another batch of 35 ultramarine's for one of my kids.  This now means that for a while at least all his stuff is painted.  I said mostly, they need a little touch up here and there as well as chapter and squad markings.  95% done though.  Below we have an assault squad, devastator squad, Captain in terminator armor, Chaplain, and tactical squads 3 and 4.  The last shot is of one of the flamer marines.  Just as an example of the great character that GW often put into their minis.

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