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Hi all,
With the arrival of 2020 I have been revising my projects, both active and for the future.
I'm autistic and tend to get overloaded easily, at the same time I have a tendency to start projects that are much bigger than I can complete without crashing. So, for the new year I have put everything else On Hold, to start something new...well... return to a project idea I have tried, without success, a few times. Each time, I have struggled to nail down my idea before starting...but now I think I have it sussed. So, without further waffle I present the...
(https://i.imgur.com/NSZIqCA.jpg)
Inspired by Lindybeige's Platoons video* my plan is to create a primaris platoon...but...I am officially not placing any further pressure on myself.
This is likely to be a slow burn project with no goals and the freedom to pick other minis to paint up. Now, I do have one other project I will be working on alongside this** and to help prevent overload I plan to flit between them as my desire takes me.
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15gihWu1SM
**Age of Bronze - This project is bigger but much more of a personal project. It's a small skirmish game I'm creating set in early Bronze Age Britain. It's just for kicks really.
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A slight confession...I originally started this project a few weeks ago on Warseer but with all the problems over there I thought it'd be a good idea to move this plog to the LAF...on the plus side I have some progress pics of what I have done so far...
I already built this guy...
(https://i.imgur.com/riFFwwn.jpg)
He's now had a lick of paint...
(https://i.imgur.com/YqDoBOa.jpg)
...which I finished just a couple of days ago. Overall I'm pretty happy with how the colour scheme is working out; apologies for the overly bright pics. The armour is maybe a bit darker than I had originally intended but I like the gritty look. It didn't take long to build up the next mini of my first squad...
(https://i.imgur.com/3Jlx42C.jpg)
This fella needed a wee bit of subtle conversion work on the bolt rifle and the power fist. I will undercoat him tomorrow then I can crack out the brushes...
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Works well as a scheme :)
What size force are you going for?
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Nice work.
The Womble heads look good on them.
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Thanks guys. 8)
@Oshiro My rough aim for now is to build 2 units of 5 Intercessors, 1 unit of 5 Hellblasters, a Lieutenant and a Dread. I've a mind to add a Librarian and maybe a couple of transports too but for now I will focus on building a squad :D
@Ultravillan I've got a bag of 20 more of these primaris beakies...to my mind that is the most iconic element of a 40k marine.
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Big-size beakies! I am really struck by that. Feels more "right" than other Primaris builds.
Nice colours and ideas so far - I'll be following this thread.
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Thanks BP! I know what you mean, there is something so...right about a marine wearing a beaky helmet and I think GW did a good job of the new version. It was pricey to get so many but sadly FW aren't going to do any (I asked)...in fact they didn't seem to even know that there were any in the RG upgrade sprue.
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@Oshiro My rough aim for now is to build 2 units of 5 Intercessors, 1 unit of 5 Hellblasters, a Lieutenant and a Dread. I've a mind to add a Librarian and maybe a couple of transports too but for now I will focus on building a squad :D
No idea what the new terms are but it seems a perfectly achievable force :)
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Should be achievable...though at the speed I paint it'll still take me a while :D
Intercessors = bolter marines and a aux grenade launcher option
Hellblasters = 5 plasma gun marines
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I've finally finished this chap...
(https://i.imgur.com/HOZqOOq.jpg)
The only real difference for this fella is the red helmet stripe and the power fist; I'm pretty happy with the effect I used for the fingers of the fist, blending purple and blue washes. He seemed to take an age to finish painting as have been busy re-decorating our lounge but we are just about done now so hopefully the next trooper will be quicker.
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Really nice! Inspires me to get back to my Space Sharks :)
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Nice.
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Loving these!
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Nicely done.
8) 8)
Really nice! Inspires me to get back to my Space Sharks :)
Carcharadons!
I really need to start mine....
(Great minds again, though... ;) ).
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Thanks all! :D
Corrr my last pic is a bit blurry...will have to do better next time 8)
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The paint scheme and execution so far is excellent, and the use of womble helmets is beyond wonderful for me - this is exactly what I want to do but using Anvil Industry embiggened exo chaps.
Keep up the good work :) What's up with Warsser? I mean to visit them more often.
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Thanks Ragsta.
Yeah I dunno what's up with Warseer...they updated something and it went down again over Yule but it seems to be working now. Sadly it seems to be getting slower over there. I think they could do with streamlining the ton of sub forums they have.
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Just a small update today...
(https://i.imgur.com/9S19rj9.jpg)
...my third marine is built and ready for painting...well he will be after I undercoat him tomorrow.
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Over a month later and I finally finished this chap...
(https://i.imgur.com/VyphgLU.jpg)
And here is a (very) small group shot of what I've done so far...
(https://i.imgur.com/HiYPbvn.jpg)
...speedy as ever :D Hopefully I will start building a 4th member of the squad tonight...hopefully...
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I really like the colour scheme, the helmets are cool, and the eyes... Such intense stares!
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:D Thanks Bearwoodman. They don't really come alive until I've painted their eyes.
I am really digging the Primaris beakie helmets.
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The colour scheme works much better than I thought from the sketch on page#1. I really like that green. Very Rogue Trader. :)
As for Waseer - used to be my main forum for 15 years, but the two prolonged downtimes along with bloody Facebook being used as (less useful) stand-in for forums hurt the site a lot. I still really like the place even though user numbers seem to be low these days.
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Thanks Sigur. The green came out darker than I had expected and at first I wasn't too sure but it's definitely grown on me.
Yeah it is pretty slow over there these days, though I still like it. Agreed, FB is definitely not a good substitute; by necessity I have joined a couple of groups there and you tend to see the same questions come up every other week...a forum is much better. Warseer could do with a bit of pruning which should at least help navigating it.
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Next guy is built!
(https://i.imgur.com/iSnmSiV.jpg)
I decided to go with the reloading marine this time...I didn't really need to do much beyond scraping off the skull on the helm, though I did decide to carve out a slot in the bolter for the magazine. Hopefully I will start painting this fella tonight and once he's done I only have one more guy to go until the first squad is done. 8)
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Took me almost a month but finally finished painting this guy...
(https://i.imgur.com/8jWqzdV.jpg)
Now he's done I've realised he is making a meal of reloading his bolter...surely they'd have a button to press to expel the spent cartridge and slot a new one in with the left hand...this guy though likes to leisurely pass his bolter over to his left and then switch his magazine...odd sculpting choice now I've thought of it and a tad disappointing. Oh well. Hopefully this weekend I can start the last guy from this squad. I keep flitting between loving the squad so far and finding it a bit of a chore to finish 5 guys...doh...
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These guys are great, I love the beaky helmets and the colour scheme that really emphasises them. Nice mud effects on the boots too, they look like they've really seen some action!
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He's painted up lovely! Perhaps he's taking his sweet time reloading to torment the enemy's patience? ???
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I see what you mean - but lovely conversion/painting.
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Nice :-*
Maybe he’s left handed? Nowt wrong with that :)
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Thanks guys 8)
Still haven't managed to even start building my next marine. Oddly, the lock down has seen my socialising increase dramatically which is straining my autism at the moment and I'm struggling to focus. On the plus side the kids have gotten into HeroQuest and so we've played quite a few games over the weeks.
Home made Quests by a 6 year old and an 8 year old make me twitch :'( lol