6mm Chaos Space Marines - Sin Eaters Chapter (picture heavy)

[cheetor]

Other than casting my own metal Prince August LotR stuff, GW 6mm stuff was my first "proper" miniature gaming experience way back in the 80s.  As such I have always had a soft spot for 6mm sci-fi.

The Sin Eaters chapter below is based on a WH40K Chaos Marine force that I painted ~2000 that I replicated in 6mm in 2003 or so.  I took some adequate photos last year and (inspired by the Warmaster /HotT stuff HERE) I thought that I would share some of my tiny GW guys too

Being a GW Chaos force they are often going to look a little cartoony in comparison with more "serious" sci-fi.  I also found that translating the colours used in 28mm to 6mm meant that the 6mm guys looked even more Saturday morning cartoon type bad guys than the original 28mm did. 

Rather than fight it, I decided to roll with it, giving the figures oversized icons (the green inverted Shamrock looking thing is a 40k Chaos device) on various parts of the vehicles and larger troopers and the like.  At 6mm there isnt much point in being too subtle I reckon.

Finally, the force is a Nurgle themed one.  For those who dont know Nurgle stuff is associated with decay.  As a result there are lots of rather theatrical bits and pieces of battle damage, gooey run-off etc throughout the army.

As always, comments and criticisms welcome



Sin Eater Command Squad & Rhino APC plus Terminator Chaplain. Behind the Chaplain is an objective marker.



Sin Eater Tactical marines in MK7 "Aquila" armour



Sin Eater Tactical marines in MK6 "Corvus" armour



Sin Eater Rhino transport pool



Sin Eater Devastator marines in MK6 "Corvus" armour



Sin Eater Razorback transport pool



Sin Eater Vindicator siege tanks



Sin Eater Whirlind artillery support vehicles



Sin Eater Whirlind artillery support vehicles



Sin Eater Hunter anti-aircraft support vehicles



Sin Eater marines in tactical dreadnought "Terminator" armour



Sin Eater Land Raider battle tanks



Sin Eater Land Raider battle tanks



Sin Eater space marine Dreadnoughts



Sin Eater space marine Bike unit



Sin Eaters space marine Land Speeders  (pretty rubbish figures but budgetary constraints force me to use them)



Sin Eaters space marine Land Speeders


The Imperial Navy/Titan elements below were intended to be an approximate inversion of the existing scheme.  It worked out OK but not as obvious as I would have liked: they were a rush job towards the end of the project. At that stage I just wanted to get them finished before I ran out of enthiusiasm and moved on to the next thing.


Lightning fighters



Thunderbolt Fighters



Marauder Bombers



Marauder Bombers



Traitor Warlord Titan



Warlord rear view


Finally, for comparative purposes here is a pretty crappy, kinda blue-ish picture of a pair of the 28mm Sin Eaters.

[JollyBob]

Oh, and indeed, yes. 

[dijit]

Oh Epic! They always remind me of when I first started wargaming and the pages of WD were full of pictures of Epic. Great paint jobs as usual Cheetor.

[Super_Gibbon]

Wow, great job!

[Mr. Burning]

Great stuff!

I still have a soft spot for GW's old style dreadnoughts .

[keeper]

Brilliant work.  Thanks for sharing, cheetor!

[Doomsdave]

Awesome work.  I am resisiting an urge to do 6mm sci-fi.

[keeper]

Don't resist Doomsdave   Give in to the urge - you know you want to 

[rob_the_robgoblin]

BRILLIANT!

I have a huge soft spot for Epic, I have a massive squat army and a fairly large Ork army. Plus a whole mess of other bits and bobs, mostly marines from the three sets of Space Marine I have!!! 

Never painted many though, far too much on my plate as it is! 

[fourcolorfigs]

Sweet work! You're masterful with that scheme in both scales!

[Commander Vyper]

Very nice nurgleyness.

Reminds me of all my Adeptus Titanicus/space marine & Epic tucked away. Must have a look for that again at some stage.

The Commander

[cheetor]

Oh, and indeed, yes. 

Verily

Oh Epic! They always remind me of when I first started wargaming and the pages of WD were full of pictures of Epic. Great paint jobs as usual Cheetor.

Epic is a a big love of mine, even though I never play it in any form any more.  It is an awesome scale to game at though.  In the context of the WH40K background, love it or hate it, annihilating entire companies of space marines with your giant mecha really is what its all about as far as I am concerned

I still have a soft spot for GW's old style dreadnoughts .

They were the very first GW figures that I ever either saw or owned (as that amounted to the same thing due to where I lived).  Again, regardless of how I might feel about more modern iterations of SM Dreads, sentimentality will always slightly favour those guys chez cheetor.

So I bought them in 1989 and painted them in 2003.  At that rate I can show you guys how I painted the figures that I bought today in 2024...

Thanks for the kind words everyone!  Epic must still have its closet fans lurking out there

I will see if I can get around to photographing some of my other Epic stuff over the next few months.

[abhorsen950]

Very very nice ive always enjoyed epic models and these are really quite fantastic.

[Commander Vyper]

They were the very first GW figures that I ever either saw or owned (as that amounted to the same thing due to where I lived).  Again, regardless of how I might feel about more modern iterations of SM Dreads, sentimentality will always slightly favour those guys chez cheetor.

Epic dreads your first GW figures owned?  Good god man you're making me feel old! 

[Mikey]

Gorgeous job on all of it ! How much time did a vehicle take? (I can't imagine highlighting an epic model.. )