Just another expensive habit...

[Sonneilon]

I promised a few people that I would show off some of my Warhammer40k sets but I was just too lazy to pick up the camera and take the sets off my shelf. Now, you guys know the place I work has these really cool cases for models, figures, or whatever.

This was my 1st one attempt. 2 Terminators painted in a new color scheme. My original army was red/gold. This round, I thought I'd have fun doing some Chaos-looking colors. These two are walking thru a jungle, looking for the survivors from a past mission. They do find the remains of one of the UltraMarines on the ground.
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I think this was my 2nd set. I paint the back of the plastic to provide a background. These were my 2nd set of metal Space Marines I bought. I had them painted for some time, just didn't know what to do with them. Another jungle scene which are easier to build than urban sets, as you'll see below.
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This set was based loosely on a professional set I saw. I took the old stairs from a dio, added a wall for the backdrop and fought materials trying to make a door. It's not just a regular build. You have to measure it so it meets the stairs. I love the debris of Tyranids on the ground, as if it were a last stand. The original set I saw had the Emperor putting a bad guy down.
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Just an attack. I bought a set of Space Marines and a set of GeneStealers for these shots. Fairly inexpensive in the scheme of things. Note the background is supposed to look like... Well... It's just gray. Like a destroyed city but I don't have painting skills so I just hoped that it would all blend together like a city. lol
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The idea behind this set was that the Space Marines was in the fuel tank of a spaceship. Or something close to that. I took a piece of cardstock, raised it slightly to resemeble a walkway and the green thingys on the wall are supposed to look like energy cells or y'know... Like walking around the engine room of the Enterprise D. Or E. YOu can barely see it, but the ground is green. Supposed to resemble plasma energy or something of the sort. Much like the walkway in the water tank on the Battlestar Galactica. (the one where Boomer blows a hole in the tank and the BSG loses a ton of water into space.)
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[Captain Max]

Nice work G!

I'm into 40K as well.....currently working on Black Templar Space Marines and Cadien Shock Trooper IG's..including two resin super-heavies! ( Baneblade and Stormblade ).

Also,I have an Imperial Navy Valkyrie,and a Marauder Bomber! :D


Cheers!

-Dave

[Mecha-Viper]

I love 40k i'm just not good at the whole glue and painting thing, though i do have plans to snag a Tau or IG army

[Stormer]

I'm getting tempted to get out all my Space Marines, Tyranids, Genestealers (from back in the days of Hybrids and Patriarchs...), Imperial Agents (Inquisitor, Assassins, Adeptus Arbites...) and Eldar that are collecting dust in various places around my room, actually finish painting some of them, and take some pics...

[Sonneilon]

I got Kody started with Space Marines. I'm doing a... uh... I think it's MidNite Blue and Bronze palette. I don't have a name for them, but the idea is that they are the precursors to the THousand Sons. Maybe they are Blue and Gold and when they go CHaos, the head bad dude changes their colors to bronze.

For me, I'm doing a whole different army. It's not far along and I'm way behind on painting. Tau. Doing a Scorpion Green army. I have 1 squad of warriors painted up and half a squad of Kroot. I have another squad of warriors just sitting and gathering dust.

[gung ho]

i've turned my self pretty much against warhammer and D&D cuz my cousins husband liked them and he was nothing but an @$$hole, not that you are sonneilon but i'm just saying, there really expensive and take up alot of GI Joe room :p

[Captain Max]

I like the idea for your Chapter,G!

My Cadians are going to be the Cadian Lightning Regiment,a mixed unit of Infantry,Armored Fists,and Tanks.They will be painted in Kommando Khaki uniforms with Tamiya OD for helmets,Armor,and Vehicles.

I'm going for a World War II 'dogface' vibe,and their Colonel is named Max! :D

-Dave

[Stormer]

My chapter was a made-up one called Deathbringers -- all-black with minimal red details (like eyes) and some silver highlights. I should have a whole history written out somewhere from back when I was more keyed in to the story of the Imperium. Basically they started when the Emperor was searching the galaxy for the missing original Primarchs and he made a new one to help. Artificially accelerated to adulthood and pressed into action before his bio-engineering was complete, he was bonded with his life-sustaining armour giving him a skeletal appearance. He was relentless in his quest to find what had been lost and came to be known simply as Death because he'd cut down anyone or anything impeding his mission.

His chapter, the Deathbringers, were formed as he went on his quest to recover the Primarchs -- a quest which grew to encompass attempts to recover lost knowledge or artifacts from the Dark Age of Technology (or whatever it was called) and they don't actually fall under the Adeptus Astartes; the Deathbringers grew parallel to the other Space Marines but with a slightly different structure to reflect their different focus. As well as Marines, the Deathbringers count Imperial Guard and Agent forces among their number, plus have a unique allegiance with the Eldar of the Ashkente Craftworld -- I basically made it so that any factions that could be allied with each other (at least under the army list rules of the time) would be "allies" as far as the technical specifics of my army lists and points allocations would go, but on the actual game battlefield they were one, unified force.

I miss playing 40K... When my friends and I spread out around the country to go to different colleges, we didn't meet new people to keep our involvement in the hobby going and we just stopped playing games amongst ourselves as our lives went in different ways. :(

[Sonneilon]

Cool story for them. I wish I had more in mind, like, who'll become Abaddon and stuff. I like the colors used for them, I can imagine a very light red wash on the black!