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Last weekend I finaly got around to try something new. After some research I came across a nice tutorial on masteroftheforge.com titled "How to make an actual scale Space Marine". And since I hade some plastic Terminators just laying around I thought "hey let's try this".
And here are some pics of my progress last sunday:
There are still some gaps that needs filling and I'm thinking about adding some more raised plasticard details. I'm also working on the backpack. And I'm following the tips from the tutorial so it's going to be a bit bigger than the original size. Amazeingly the standard sized Space Marine head works great with the added size of the mini.
Here we have a comparison shot with a standard sized marine and a standard sized guard.
The title of this post is a bit missleading - I do prefer the standard sized marine when it comes to gaming and armybuilding but the bigger, "true scale" sized marine works great when it comes to "one-offs" and dioramas. Now I just need to decide on which Chapter he's going to be a member of. And I'm really looking forward to paint this one.
Please check out www.masteroftheforge.com for the tutorial.
A bit of a petproject. It's still a painting in progress...
Recently I ran in to a streak of boredom. So one night I built these two Space marine Veterans and gave them a sort of "midnight ice-world" kind of look.
They are still in the painting process and far from finished.
The primary inspiration for these two are my ongoing building of my Raptors Chapter army and the fact that the Raptors use different camouflage-patterns for their armour depending on the enviroment they fight in. These two may possibly be joined by others in the future to make up a Hq squad or something.
I have started the work on my Raptors Chapter Space Marines. That also means that I've started my so called Raptors Chapter production blog, so I can document my work a little better.
The production blog can be found at http://raptorschapter.blogspot.com/ .
There will be no more doubt, officially anyway, about the Chapter of my upcomming Space Marines. They are going to be members of the Raptors Chapter. Outfitted for jungle (or maybe desert warfare), Armageddon- or Taros- veterans vould be cool. Anyway this build is going to be a good one! And it's a break away from my usual Chaos stuff. I also enlisted some help and all I need right now is some clear-paper to print my new Raptors-transfersheets! A detail that will save me a lot of time and angst during the comming week! If everything works out as planned I will have them "up, up and away!" at the end of next week!
Well, I'm starting to doubt my initial planning for the "Black Reach"-marines. Ever since I played the "old" PS2-game "Fire Warrior" I've had a minor crush on the Raptors Chapter. Maybe it's because I hated them so much when I played the game or just because I like their green armour so much. Initially I was thinking of going for the "Blood Angels"-chapter, because I already have a Tactical and a Scout Squad painted. But right now I can't shake the thought on painting some Raptors (not the Chaos ones!, this time).
On the other hand, painting some Raptors also means that I have to make my own transfer-sheets for the chaptersymbol. In other words, some photoshopping and some of that special paper should take care of that!
Last week I signed up for the "Black Reach"-box, but I was a bit reluctant and I wasn't really sure if I really wanted it or not. Well, after reading the latest issue of White Dwarf I have finaly decided that it is an excellent start on a new army. I already got two squads, a good start, on a "Blood Angels" army, a Scout Squad and a Tactical Squad. So the "Black Reach"-box will come in handy. And the comming of the Drop pods will, as I have stated earlier, be an excellent and effective addition. So the planning is for now: get the "Black Reach"-box on saturday and a lot of red paint.
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