Welcome back to the Obsidian Tower. Last time I alluded to the acquisition of an ULTRA-sonic cleaner. Well, today we're taking a look at what I've been doing with it.
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| Kill me brother! |
So I had some crusty old space marines in my collection that were looking very rough. I didn't really like looking at them and I decided something needed to change. I knew I wanted to re-paint them but painting them blue again just didn't seem like the right move.
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| Powerful stuff... |
Since I had just completed my collection of 5th edition codexes, I wanted to try and paint up a chapter that could plausibly be played as more than just "codex marines". I've always liked the Blood Angels but I didn't want to do another headline chapter. No, this time I wanted to try something else. A different flavor of "blood" marines.
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| Here they come! |
As much as I like that the flesh tearers also weren't too fond of Primaris at first, I decided they were a little bit too morally ambiguous. Then I remembered, I already painted a blood raven for fun, and I love Dawn of War.
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| Had to upgrade to the 'new' base size |
Now that I knew what chapter I wanted to paint, I grabbed my crusty old Ultramarines and gave them an Ultra-cleaning in the Ultrasonic scrubber.
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| We're charging into the Ultrasonic cleaner! |
These guys were rough. Their arms were mismatched and they still had two layers of paint from the failed simple green soak six years ago. This time, they were gonna get... super clean.
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| Obligatory Hobby Station Pic |
The super clean sonic bath did the trick and these guys were as close to new as they could possibly get. I took my time trying out some different basing styles before I decided on what I wanted to go with. I liked the look the corkboard gave my chaos marines and I wanted to bring that over to the loyalists.
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| AAAAGGGHHHHHH!!!!! |
This sergeant was a special paint job because he reminded me of the meme of that guy screaming in the dawn of war 1 intro.
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| Freehand Detail |
Had to flex the freehand on this guy. He's the squad leader after all...
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| Blood Raven Tactical Squad |
And here is the final result. Ten tactical marines painted up like Blood Ravens. This force isn't as big as the Ultramarine force. When it is completed it will be composed of:
- Captain ✓
- Chaplain
- Librarian
- Terminator Captain
- Terminator Chaplain ✓
- Terminator Librarian
- 5 man Terminator Squad ✓
- Dreadnought
- 2x 10 man Tactical Squad ✓
- 5 man Scout Squad ✓
- Scout Speeder ✓
- 10 man Devastator Squad ✓
So as you can see it still has a ways to go. The Terminator squad and chaplain are almost done but you will have to wait till next time to see them. Anyway, thanks for reading! Hope to have more to show soon.
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| Buttermilk Bob embraces Nurgle |
