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Assault Squad Plaid! flying obsolete marines! with christmas marine! (!)

12 Sunday Jul 2020

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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christmas marines, Space Crusade, space marines, space wolves

The final thing I’ve finished recently is another squad of obsolete marines for the Steel Guard. Apparently Assault Squads are completely pointless in 8th edition because there are flying primaris marines who are much better. I expect the same to be the case in 9th, but if oldhammer is about anything its about playing for the love of the game and not picking your team based upon a complex series of equations most guaruanteed to deliver victory. I hope to play more games of 9th edition than I did of 8th (i.e. five or more games), but I reserve the right to throw an assault squad onto the table if I feel like it.

The highlight in this squad is that Ive slipped in a christmas marine, as I felt that his wobbly stance would work as a landing pose. You will probably agree that is doesn’t particularly, but that’s life. Sergeant Plaid is a Space Crusade sergeant whose fat power glove should have been painted as a foam fist really. Next time!

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

Sisters of Silence and Geigor Fellhand

21 Sunday May 2017

Posted by terryshithole in Burning Of Prospero

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30k, Burning Of Prospero, geigor fellhand, horus heresy, sisters of silence, space wolves

Working my way through the Burning of Prospero miniatures, amongst all the other things!  The Sisters were fun to paint, and in general satisfied my feminist inclinations.  That is: they’re dressed, and fairly realistic in proportion.  It’s nice to have some women in WH40K.  Now we need some female Imperial Guard, and a rebooted Sisters of Battle, perhaps some female Scitarii and Chaos Cultists, that sort of thing.  Miniatures that are just women, that woman-ness is not one of their personality traits, if that makes sense.  I think that the photos don’t look as good as the minis themselves.  My paintjob isn’t great, but they look pretty good on the shelves but not so great in the pics.

Geigor is the first Space Wolf I’ve painted since the early 90s.  I followed the Warhammer TV method for painting Space Wolves, which was very close to the method I use to paint my Steel Guard.  Whilst that made it easier, it wasn’t much of a leap in style or technique, and I think I would have liked a try at the baby-blue early 90s Space Wolves.  That’s one for another day!

Loads of things all at once.

15 Monday Dec 2014

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2nd Company, 2nd ed, cultists, devastators, Exo Armour, Orks, Painboy, Rogue Trader, Space Crusade, Space Hulk, space wolves, Squat, Steel Guard, Terminator, Werewolf, WH40K

It’s not that I haven’t been doing anything recently, it’s just that I haven’t been completing anything.  But over the weekend I said to myself that I need to do some basing and get the last month’s fabulous minis photographed.  As ever, my paintjob isn’t really the draw, but the wonderful variety of miniatures.

Dev squad with casualty

This is the X Squad of the 2nd Company.  I’ve used a miniatures from a lot of different periods – the Sgt is a Rogue Trader Marine, there’s some 2nd Ed Long Fangs, and lots of different plastic ones including a Dark Vengeance marine.  In the middle of this shot you can see one I’ve modelled as a casualty, knocked of his feet by a shot to the head.

Dev Squad

A group shot.  That RT sculpt really is very odd.  I count it as artificer armour. Does anyone know what the wrist-mounted weapon is?

Squat and Servitor

Here we have a couple of old favourites.  The Painboy I am using as a Servitor – hence the multi melta arm.  The model is possibly one of my favourite ever sculpts and I wanted to use it in my armies despite not collecting Orks.  Except now I’ve decided that I collect Orks too.   The lure of RT Orks became too much to bear!

I love the Exo Armour Squat too.  I haven’t yet found anywhere to shoehorn him into my collection.  I think I’ll make a Rogue Trader warband, or just use him as a chaos champion.  Either way it was a joy to paint.

MkII Term

A mark II terminator suit (with mark 3 arms).  I was intrigued to discover that this was sculpted before the space marine mk VII armour and so that this is the first appearance of this style of helmet.

Term Squad

The rest of the squad.  Note the two Space Hulk terminators hiding at the back here.  Surprisingly tricky to paint, they were.

Werewolf

This werewolf isn’t from Citadel, I don’t think.  I enjoyed painting it just the same.  It doesn’t look that good, more practise on fur needed i reckon.

Cultists

A close up of a Cultist Squad.  You may well recognise a few of these old miniatures.  The leader is a beastman but that photo didn’t come out too well.

Bikers

Some DV bikers.

Veteran

“Scenic base”

Veteran on Tau

No once cares about the Tau, do they?  But a converted 2nd Ed Sergeant might be a bit more interesting.  It looks better in the photo than it does in real life, unfortunately.  But it’s a start.

That’s all from me for now.  On my desk at the moment is a ruin, and another squad of cultists.  See you soon!

Steel Guard 3rd Company, I Squad: Squad Pusillus

08 Wednesday Oct 2014

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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3rd company, I Squad, Space Crusade, space marines, space wolves, Steel Guard, tactical squad, WH40K

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.

3rd Company, I Squad

3rd Company, I Squad

Sergeant Pusillus

Sergeant Pusillus

Squad Pusillus Special Weapon Marine

Squad Pusillus Special Weapon Marine

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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