Just finished basing these monkeys!  I’m quite pleased with these.  Compared to my early work they’re Golden Demon standard, but compared to much of the Oldhammer community i’m still little better than a child 😀

 

I’ve finally settled on a Chapter Badge – nearly 100 marines into my chapter!  At first I used a sovietesque star, but freehand stars are surprisingly difficult, and I hate transfers.  My fingers are too fat to get transfers right, or maybe it’s a depth perception thing (I only have one working eye), but transfers weren’t for me.  Then I used the letters SG, in a kind of art-deco style.  That was easy to do, but it didn’t feel right.  Yesterday, however, inspiration struck.  I discovered astronomical notation.  Each planet, moon, dwarf planet etc etc in the solar system has a shorthand sigil.  For a comet, the sign is a circle in the lower left hand side, with three lines to indicate the comet tail.  Easy to draw, and appropriate for a fleet-based Space Marine chapter.  So comets it is.  The first 10 look ok!  I must have been a bit tipsy when I did the tactical squad arrows though, so those are going to get a touch-up before this squad are consigned to the stasis of the Finished Box.

Not a lot of oldhammer glory in this squad.  I’ve taken close-ups of the sergeant, an early-90s metal Space Wolf; and of the special weapon marine, a Space Crusade plastic with a flamer.