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Captain Poythines and Tactical Squad Nawab, Steel Guard 6th Company

11 Monday Feb 2019

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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captain, citadel miniatures, space marines, space wolves, Steel Guard, tactical squad

Another Steel Guard squad, plus another Captain for the Command Team. I’ve painted one of the Space Wolf Captain minis before, for the Captain of the 3rd Company. That time I experimented with non-metallic metals, attempting a gold armoured marine. It wasn’t especially a success, though I might try again sometime now I’ve had a few more years practice. I’ve been trying to clear my leadpile recently, having moved countries to glorious Cymru and having therefore to have to confront the sheer piles of stuff I own. I’ve sold off all the mid-period miniatures, leaving only the cool old stuff and some of the brand spanking new sweet miniatures the GW workshops are cranking out these days. Thus this squad is all classic minis from the days of Rogue Trader and 2nd Edition, and I think it looks before it, don’t you?

  • Captain Poythines, in the gloaming
  • That lovely wolf-headed mini
  • Missile launcher and plasma gunners
  • Sgt. Nawab
  • Squad Nawab
  • Imperial Space Marine

Captain Occitan Rioghaine, Chief Victualler

14 Saturday Oct 2017

Posted by terryshithole in Dark Imperium, Finished Work, Space Marines, Uncategorized

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captain, primaris, space marines, Steel Guard, VII Company

I love that the title of the captain of the Seventh Company is Chief Victualler.  I wonder if he goes to the shops himself, or if he just writes the shopping list and sends some of his company to go?  Maybe they get tesco to deliver.  The Steel Guard are a fleet-based chapter with a Star Fortress and a number of Fortress Monastery-Garrisons so it might get a bit complex.  Perhaps he just writes the menus and hangs around the kitchen harassing the kitchen-workers like the manager at restaurant I worked for.  I’d hate to have to do the washing up after a big dinner for over a thousand hungry Space Marines.

So this chap is a Primaris Captain in gravis armour – which I think means that his armour makes him look pregnant!  I am glad that Games Workshop haven’t completely lost their playfulness.

 

Captain Rioghaine

The snow effect looks a lot better in the photo than it does in person.

Chief Victualler

I hate painting cloaks. Haven’t quite got the power sword effect right yet either.

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….

In the beginning

Captain Vosuqabad, 3rd Captain & Master Of The Arsenal

06 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by terryshithole in Uncategorized

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3rd company, 40k, captain, citadel miniatures, master of the arsenal, oldhammer, Rogue Trader, space marines, space wolves, Steel Guard, wd197, white dwarf

Just finished basing this guy.  Oldhammerers will recognise the model as a Space Wolves Captain from about 1990.  It’s a beautiful model, and one that I felt deserved a special paint job (by my wonky standards, obv).  So I decided that I’d use the non-metallic gold painting instructions by Neil Hodgson in White Dwarf 197.  Whilst I don’t think its turned out too badly at all, it’s not gold, is it?  Still, it’s a paint technique I’ve never tried before, the next one will be better.

WD197 has loads of painting techniques in it, and a Modelling Workshop article on making different types of hedges.  So at some point in the near future I’ll show pictures of three or four different types of home-made hedge.   If that doesn’t give you a warm glow of trepidation then you’re dead inside 😀

So anyway, without any further ado, may I present Captain Niqal Vosuqabad, the Steel Wolf!

The Steel Wolf

The Steel Wolf

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