Novamarines

[Cvife]

And some "action" shots:





what do people think?

[Rupert]

Very nice army. The crusader looks like it still needs a bit more work on it though. I'm really considering adding the older styles of power armour to my want list now any way

[daggitkiller]

This my kind of army. Awesome!

[Cvife]

I've been a bit distracted over the past couple of days.

The reason?

Minotaurs!

Not the warhammer fantasy model, but the slightly controversial space marine chapter which happens to look really cool.

It all started when I got the second badab war book, personally I didn't find the new book quite as engaging as the first, but that's probably due to it's distinct lack of Novamarines. However, whenever I did take a look at it I kept looking back to the Minotaurs section and admired their paint scheme and background, a sign I think. So I decided to paint up a squad, I chose the second veteran squad which GW released alongside apocalypse a couple of years ago because I think their awesome models, so anyway, here's some photos:

The whole squad:


The sergeant, armed with a relic blade which I stole from an old emperor's champion:


A nice looking random power weapon guy:


And another guy made from one of the old veteran sergeant models:


They where really fun to paint, but I doubt I'll do a whole army (but I might use the scheme on an all sanguinary guard army at some point)

Anyway, I should probably get back to the Novamarines really, but not now...

[Firebird]

I really like your painting style...i just cant get over the pastel blue....omg...i just cant <gags> your minotaurs are bad ***, and your painting is great just the blue....

[Meph]

That's a very cool metalic scheme you have there. How did you achieve that colour?

[Cvife]

It's been a little bit of a while since I've posted, but that's what exams do to people.

I have been busy though, here's some shots of what I've been up to:

I've just about finished the tactical squad with the exception of some final details such as eyes and static grass on the base, but here's the photo:



And the most recently finished stuff:



I've finished the 'normal' dreadnought (just about):



And finally, just because I think I's needed at the moment, an army shot (not all of it, just the new good looking stuff):



I've got a pack of MK3 armor on order which I'm going to use for the extra 5 men in a devastator squad as well as the 2nd captain, I should have an update after the weekend.

Anyway, what are peoples thoughts?

[eldargal]

Well done on the quartering! A very lovely looking marine army.

[TheOutlaw]

nice way to spend uni funds! not a bad idea, i might have to blow some of this loan on 40k. i love seeing successor marine chapters! those minotaurs are the first i've seen close up since they changed the scheme. assuming those are the 'Minotaurs' im thinking about? if they were im slightly gutted they changed the yellow and red stripes. it was such a garish scheme, but at the same time excellent! love those FW deads btw

[Cvife]

Yay, time for new stuff!, well, sort of new stuff! well, re-paints...yay!

I have a game of spearhead tomorrow and i've decided that it would be quite fun to use the Outrider Spearhead, which consists of one vehicle of one type and two vehicles of another type which act like an escort to the main vehicle. So based on this idea I wanted to take a Land Raider Crusader full of terminators protected by a couple of land speeders.

But to do that I needed some Land Speeders, Enter crappy looking old white scars Land Speeders which have been sitting in storage and need re-painting!

So heres the result, please note that these took me about 2 hours and are a strictly gaming standard:



and with the land raider, I think it looks pretty cool!:





And as a final thing, heres a photo of a new captain I made, he has a Jump Pack so I can only assume he's the captain of the 8th:



What are peoples thoughts?