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Squad Aden, Space Marine Assault Squad

11 Wednesday Oct 2017

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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4th Company, assault squad, lead, oldhammer, Rogue Trader, RTB01, space marines, Steel Guard

Another quick update, from big marines to littler marines.  The old RTB01s look piddly next to many of the new miniatures.  I have to say that while I am not wedded to any particular scale I think that some of the modern miniatures are too big.  I am not so much thinking of the warmachines, the super heavies and all that, but instead of the AoS giant figures, Nagash, for example, or the Verminlords.   Too much going on, too big compared to the other models… and that’s quite apart from the price.  Magnus and Mortarian are lovely miniatures, but £80+ is too much for me.  Of course, the quality of workmanship is completely different, there’s no denying that.  The RTB01s were the best they could do at the time and are really quite rubbish compared to the modern stuff but they were my childhood rubbish and that’s that!

This squad is a mixed batch of Oldhammer marines; you can tell these were hand sculpted, but that just makes them better!

Squad Aden

Sgt Aden

Converted Rogue Trader marine

Fourth Company, 2nd Squad

Rogue Trader marineTwo RTB01 marinesRTB01 assault marines

Terminator Assault Squad Rakosi

26 Sunday Oct 2014

Posted by terryshithole in Uncategorized

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1st Company, assault squad, conversions, Dark Vengeance, Steel Guard, Terminator, WH40K

Been a quiet couple of weeks on the posting front.  It’s not that I’ve not been doing anything, it’s just that I haven’t gotten anything finished, so nothing to show off really.  But I’ve just finished basing this Terminator Assault Squad for my Steel Guard Space Marine army.  I’ve used a variety of models, an old lead Grey Knight body for Segeant Rakosi (though I’ve used modern plastic arms so that I can give him a thunder hammer and storm shield), an old lead lightning claws termie, a couple of plastic terminators from mid-late period wh40k, and finally a Dark Vengeance termie that I have given a truly huge thunder hammer for uber-smiting.  I’m generally quite pleased with these.  I’ve tried a few new-to-me techniques here and whilst none of the actually worked, i can see better how to do it next time.  Here’s Squad Rakosi in all their (slightly shabby) glory!

Brother Tucker

Brother Tucker

Squad Rakosi

Captain Rakosi

Captain Rakosi

Out Of The Pit

08 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by terryshithole in Out Of The Pit

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40k, assault squad, captain, citadel miniatures, death company, oldhammer, Rogue Trader, RTB01, Space Crusade, space marines, Steel Guard, WH40K, WIP

Having finished painting a load of stuff yesterday (pics to follow), I’ve reached into The Pit (aka The Big Box Of Models)  to see what happens next.  An overpainted Ork Freeboota Kaptain?  Into the dettol with you!  A plastic marine with a sword?  Good for me!  This means that the next painting job will be a Space Marine Assault Squad.  I root through the box until I’ve got ten marines that have assault weapons or no weapons at all.  Below is a picture of all ten in their beginning states.  A couple will immediately join the Ork in the dettol though!

As you can tell, I buy my miniatures from ebay!  I love poking through a box of old miniatures, seeing what gems are there or looking at other people’s wild conversions.  Because I want a whole chapter of Space Marines one day there’s not really any other way of doing it.

In this batch there are 6 modern plastic multipart marines, 1 RTB01 marine, a metal death company marine, a Space Crusade captain (with a home-made paper cloak that i think i will keep), and an RT Dark Angels Marine Captain.  You’ll next see these guys when I’m done painting them!

I like the mix and match nature of having different eras of marine in the same squad.  I like the idea that sporadic rearming, damage to armour, deaths and promotions etc mean that squad armouring is in regular flux and therefore it is the squad markings and paintjobs that indicate a squad, not the armour mark or styles.  Also, because the Steel Guard don’t have a homeworld and recruit as they go, there will be marines from dozens of different cultures within them, hence a variety of styles of personalisation.  Let’s hope they’re not too individualistic though, I can’t imagine the Inquisition would have anything good to say about that….

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