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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.

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!

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Sgt Aden

Converted Rogue Trader marine

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The Primaris thing…

10 Tuesday Oct 2017

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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40k, primaris, space marines, Steel Guard

One can’t help but notice that there have been some new Space Marines about.  I’ll come out and say that I think that the new stuff, miniatures and fluff are great.  Part of the allure of the WH40K universe is that it is stuck at a permanent 3 seconds to midnight, technologically and socially moribund,  hatefully fascistic in every way, whilst the sharks circle and none of them are any better.  But Guilliman is a goody, or at least not as much of a baddie as most of the Imperium, and the Primaris marines and all that lot are new technology, new discoveries, etc etc.  Guilliman can undo most of the bad stuff, except that he hasn’t got the time because the Eye Of Terror has turned into the Great Rift and he’s needed everywhere…  The balance is maintained!  Anyway, I bought the 40K box set, and started on the marines, as if I don’t have more minis that I can ever paint already.

I’m pleased with these.  I think I’m getting better as a painter, learning new techniques, my fine motor control is improving, and in general my marines are looking great.  Of course, I’ve already painted the entire 2nd Company, some of which are my earliest paintjobs for the Steel Guard and looking a bit crap… So I’m going to try and spread out the company colour trim, so that all the companies will contain a mix of squads over time, and no one company will be so much worse than all the others.  Except of course the 2nd Company, but maybe they can disappear into the Great Rift…

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the flying bases on these are a f**king nightmare. one of them is attached by green stuff, because neither glue nor pinning would do the job.

Space Hulk redux

09 Sunday Jul 2017

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Hulk, Space Marines

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40k, Space Hulk, space marines, Steel Guard, Terminator

I finally finished painting the Terminators from Space Hulk 3rd Edition.  They are beautiful miniatures, and I made the mistake of painting them in odds and sods as part of other Terminator squads or as individuals.  Mrs Plunger and I had a couple of games of Space Hulk the other week, so I thought it would be nice to finish them off and bring them all together as one.  The quality of paintjobs is variable, a couple of these are a bit shonky and a couple I’m very pleased with.  Better play some more Space Hulk now I guess.

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"shoot that way" "no, that way!"
“shoot that way” “no, that way!”
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The red chap was my first attempt at painting Blood Angels. It wasn't very successful, so I have rechristened him a Techmarine in Terminator armour.
The red chap was my first attempt at painting Blood Angels. It wasn’t very successful, so I have rechristened him a Techmarine in Terminator armour.
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Brother-Tech Dalešice Hazm – Steel Guard Techmarine

17 Monday Apr 2017

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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citadel miniatures, lead, oldhammer, space marines, Steel Guard, tech marine

Dalešice Hazm is a techmarine.  He carries a bolt pistol,   A quick and simple marine specialist for my Steel Guard legion.

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Squad Kuar: Space Marine biker squad

15 Wednesday Mar 2017

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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40k, space marine bikers, space marines, Steel Guard

Finished these a while back.  63 points of Space Marine bikers for my Steel Guard.  That’s it!

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Chapter serfs

22 Wednesday Feb 2017

Posted by terryshithole in Colony 87, Finished Work

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chapter serfs, lead, Steel Guard

Just a quick update.  I painted these two recently.  You’ll probably recognise them as from Jon Boyce’s Return To Colony 87 kickstarter.  Lovely miniatures which were fun to paint.  You might also note that there was a third mechanic miniature,  fine-looking fellow in a padded jumpsuit and mask.  This one disappeared during a deep clean of my flat!  I hope that he’ll show up again eventually.20170207_124527 20170207_124545

Orctober comes later every year. Also, an Apothecary.

24 Thursday Nov 2016

Posted by terryshithole in B & C challenges, Battlemasters, Finished Work, Oldhammer Challenges, Space Marines

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apothecary, Battle Masters, citadel miniatures, orc, space marines, Steel Guard

Two more finished jobs this week.  Firstly for Orctober, a base of Battle Masters Orcs.  Slowly but surely I’m getting on with Battle Masters.  There were over a hundred figures in this game, plus I’ve also got the two expansion boxsets as well.  It takes a while!  I’m trying to do these a bit quicker.  The minis aren’t good enough to justify the best paintjob I can do, but I still want them to look alright.  Hopefully I’ve achieved that.

The other challenge I’ve been doing recently for Bolter & Chainsword website’s Imperial Fists Expansion IV.  Knowing how busy I was I only vowed a single miniature, and only just scraped through.  I’m fairly pleased with this Apothecary though, I think I’ve done a good job here.

With only two days to finish my Oldhammer forum Chaos Villager it looks like I’ve been trying to do too much recently.  Should have started earlier!

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Rhino recovery time!

30 Tuesday Aug 2016

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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40k, oldhammer, rhino, Rogue Trader, space marines, Steel Guard, WH40K

Nothing for months and months and then I finish two things in quick succession!  I’m quite pleased with this Rhino, considering that it is built from spare parts.  The main chassis and both side constructs all came from different rhinos previously built and then wrecked by hobbyists of yore.  I think I’ve covered most of the imperfections pretty well!  The biggest issue I had, aside from getting the mix-n-match parts to fit together, was when I sprayed it grey.  I’d heard about what can happen if you spray in a damp environment, but hadn’t really taken it in.  I won’t be making that mistake again!

I’ve assigned this Rhino to the 3rd Company, where it will be a dedicated transport for an assault squad.

 

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Honour Guard squad

14 Saturday May 2016

Posted by terryshithole in Finished Work, Space Marines

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40k, citadel miniatures, Honour Guard, lead, oldhammer, Rogue Trader, space marines, Steel Guard, WH40K

Good afternoon everyone, here’s a second set of Space Marine Honour Guard to follow the one I did a few months ago.  It started as an excuse to renovate Honoured Brother Asmir, who I’ve posted before very early in this blog.  Asmir got himself broken, so he needed a repair job, which I used as an excuse to put him on a base and slightly improve the paintjob.  The other two are some of my favourite RT period Space Marines.  The chap with the bionic bits is a a fantastic model, I’m counting that odd sword as a relic blade!  The Ultramarines Captain is another great miniature, but it took so long to paint.

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