Space Marine Bikes Finished, Devastators WIP

I have an attack bike on the way, which will very nicely finish off the bike squad. They were sitting there for months as I don't really enjoy the process of painting bikes all that much, but I'm glad I got them finished! 

Here are two of the bikers closer up, just hanging out all casual.

And here's the squad sergeant and plasma gunner. They fight crime.

BEHOLD here's the second plasma cannon and las cannon devastators! I started out making one of each for the squad, but decided I'd follow the codex squads and focus these fellas with two of each for tank exploding goodness.

BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE. Terminators! They're (mostly) assembled and waiting to be next after the devastator squad gets finished.

Aaaaaaand here's how the army is looking now. Looks almost playable...

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Bike squad WIP!

Bikers! Long neglected! I'm painting them! 

That's, uh. That's about all I had to say really. I'll come up with something more interesting to talk about next time. 

Wooo, blogging again! 

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Commander repaint: Captain Sicarius

So I've been humming and harring over my commander character for a while, and finally decided to just turn him into Captain Sicarius, mainly because I felt he had way too much bling for some field commander lieutenant guy or whatever the hell he was.

Here's the before photo. I think he was painted close to two years ago now, so it's nice to see how much my painting has improved in that time. Frankly the highlights on him were a bit atrocious and the banner looked a bit ratty after a superglue incident. 

I checked out some images of the actual Captain Sicarius model and decided (after some photoshop tests) that I didn't want to give his new banner the same red/white border. I kept it simple in theme with the other army banners, combining three decal elements from my trusty Forgeworld decal collection and painted the border an umber colour, highlighted up to yellow along the top.

I also repainted his helmet crest to the red and white stripes, gave him a plasma pistol, completely repainted his armour highlights, made the cybernetic parts of his helmet look more cyberneticky and gave him the Ultramar symbol award thingee which I had spare from the Marneus Calgar resin set.

Pretty stoked with how he turned out, I reckon he looks sufficiently Sicarius-esque. It's nice to see how my painting has come in the last two years too.

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Ultramarines Devastator squad WIP

More Devastator progress! Whoo! Finished up the first heavy bolter and have almost finished the multi melta marine. 

You'll also see that I've added a campaign badge to their legs, which I've gone and done on the tactical and assault squads too on a whim. I feel like it helps tie everything together in a weird way, weird because they're all blue with ultramarine symbols. Who even knows.

Once again the awesome decals from Forgeworld and Armorcast really help make the models a bit more interesting. 

Have some pics! 

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Blast templates and blades

This week I decided to make a start on my squad of Devastators. I easily had enough spare space marine sprues to make all eight weapon options, plus of course the sergeant who'd been painted up a few months ago. 

Behold, WIP of some heavy weapon fellas! 

For the eagle chestpiece on this marine I tried a simpler method of just painting it brown, then painting most of each feather tip gold while leaving a small part of the inside. I then ran earthshade wash over the bits I hadn't painted gold. I think it looks really effective.

But wait, there's more! I also made a start on the Khador Manhunter, because why not. He's got his green vest on to fit in with the rest of the army. Digging how nice the black ink makes the fur trimming and fuzzy boots.

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