Imperial Fists Miscellanea - 2012/08/25: Primarch Dorn, page 9

[Argonor]

A techie with a tool for once 

[Pil]

Awesome! Though I believe techmarines back in the day wore chapter colours rather than red (still though, that is one fine paintjob ).

[Westfalia Chris]

Awesome! Though I believe techmarines back in the day wore chapter colours rather than red (still though, that is one fine paintjob ).

It might be! I never could find a definitive answer to that - the only actual reference I have is WD139, in which Tim Prow painted one for the then Studio Blood Angel Army. This one being red of chapter colour did NOT help.

On the other hand, Medics were already white and Chaplains black, so I would not be surprised to see Techmarines in red as well. I do consider, however, repainting the backpack to yellow to add some more colour and tie him in closer to the rest of the Marines. I had considered to paint the lower leg armour complete yellow, but that didnīt work with the checkerboard (right leg) and industrial stripes (left leg), and it didnīt look neither Imperial-Fist-ey nor Techmarin-ey.

[Commander Vyper]

I must get that figure!  It's a very dynamic and well-sculpted pose:D

I think it's a conversion of a Hasslefree with a clix-head

Ah yes, it looks very Hasslefree-ish, but the helmet threw me 

Should be an easy conversion, though.

Right:

Kat body (head removed)
Sculpted biker helmet. (Heroclix!!! what an insult! ).
basque resculpted into biker jacket with racing patches added
hair sculpted
sadie's left arm x2 one rotated, drilled and pinned, re sculpted shoulder to match.
katana blade made and pinned.

Yeah easy!   

[Argonor]

Awesome! Though I believe techmarines back in the day wore chapter colours rather than red (still though, that is one fine paintjob ).

As I'm already in Haderslev (going to Billund to fly to London later in the day) I cannot pull out my copy of Rogue Trader to confirm this, but I THINK I remember them wearing chapter colours with a red shouldpad showing the Adeptus Mechanicus badge....

[Westfalia Chris]

As I'm already in Haderslev (going to Billund to fly to London later in the day) I cannot pull out my copy of Rogue Trader to confirm this, but I THINK I remember them wearing chapter colours with a red shouldpad showing the Adeptus Mechanicus badge....

Great... this one doesnīt even have shoulder pads! 

Have a good trip, though!

[Pil]

I believe the symbol was a hand/claw, which is also what the techs have as shoulderpad (you can see it on Chris' mini as well, all the techmarine models have those), the other side has a lot of technical looking bits. Of course the red armour was introduced at some point, so the red shoulder pads sound plausible

[Commander Vyper]

I believe the symbol was a hand/claw, which is also what the techs have as shoulderpad (you can see it on Chris' mini as well, all the techmarine models have those), the other side has a lot of technical looking bits. Of course the red armour was introduced at some point, so the red shoulder pads sound plausible

It was only a yellow hand or claw shaped shoulder pad with the industrial black and yellow cheveron pattern. I have the first Space Marine paintset and painting guide. tech hand was as well as being painted on the shoulder pad but also on the front of the MKVI armour's beakie helmet (over the eyes).

Red was a very late addition to the colour scheme. Same for medics who depending on chapter had arms or sections of armour white/red.

I think I've got it scanned, if so I'll post it up later

The Commander

[majorsmith]

nice marines! the color scheme is remenisant of the lamenters chapter of marines

[Braxandur]

When I'm home I'll check my "space marine painting guide". Mind you, not one of the new ones, bu the one that came with the space marine paint set in the RT days.

Still looks nice though!

[Pil]

It was only a yellow hand or claw shaped shoulder pad with the industrial black and yellow cheveron pattern. I have the first Space Marine paintset and painting guide. tech hand was as well as being painted on the shoulder pad but also on the front of the MKVI armour's beakie helmet (over the eyes).

Red was a very late addition to the colour scheme. Same for medics who depending on chapter had arms or sections of armour white/red.

I think I've got it scanned, if so I'll post it up later

The Commander

That'd be great! I haven't seen it yet and since I haven't got any techs painted it would be cool to see it before I do

[Braxandur]

It was only a yellow hand or claw shaped shoulder pad with the industrial black and yellow cheveron pattern. I have the first Space Marine paintset and painting guide. tech hand was as well as being painted on the shoulder pad but also on the front of the MKVI armour's beakie helmet (over the eyes).

Red was a very late addition to the colour scheme. Same for medics who depending on chapter had arms or sections of armour white/red.

I think I've got it scanned, if so I'll post it up later

I should learn to read messages a bit better

[Westfalia Chris]

So it has been two and a half years since I last did some stuff for the Space Marines, and to be honest, I thought I had gotten that bug out of my system.

But I am weak, weak, I say (cue copious amounts of mock sympathetic comments and well-deserved mockery). Out of a whim, I bought one of the "Horus Heresy" Novels. Big mistake. While not grand literature by any standard, it was quite an entertaining read, and I had this idea of painting some more Space Marines (and actually get the army playable in a non-tournament environment).

Unfortunately, I couldn't quite get myself to paint the figures I bought from fellow LAFer Eastern Barbarian a couple of months ago - as much as I love Rogue Trader stuff, this time, I wanted to go with the times a bit and "downgrade" the current kits to match with "earlier" (fluff-wise) armour designs.

So I bought a tactical squad, a venerable Dreadnought, a heavy weapons squad and dug out some terminators I originally wanted to convert into Imperial Rottweilers for ABC warriors (for which I then used 50p-a-figure Viridian Assault Marines, go figure). Combine this with some Forgeworld resin weaponry (shameful, shameful extravagance!) and chrome steel balls from Hasslefree, and I got this bunch.













I'll add some pics of the Devastators once I finish them. More pics and some work-in-progress shots showing the conversions can be found here.

[Commander Vyper]

Must resist must resist, (have about 3KG of heresy era parts and pieces for a 30k dark angel and Death Guard force) forgeworld RT weapons are nice but bloody expensive.

[Westfalia Chris]

Must resist must resist, (have about 3KG of heresy era parts and pieces for a 30k dark angel and Death Guard force) forgeworld RT weapons are nice but bloody expensive.

Honestly, I think that the weapon sets are by far the best value for money. The Space Marines, IMHO, are very expensive, whereas for the bolters and heavy weapons you're looking at about a pound per figure extra, which is still quite a whopper, but still acceptable.

That said, they are very nicely done, the special weapons being particularly good-looking IMHO, and I've come to the stage where I am willing to pay for saving me quite some conversion work.

Still, for the Marines, I opted for the plastic versions and added the rivet heads by hand. The only thing I regret is buying cheap plastic pearls for use on the back packs, as the superglue doesn't seem to bond them properly - I should have shelled out for the chrome steel balls in that size, too.