Movie Marine Rhino and Sergeant

[odinsgrandson]

I finished my Movie Marines project recently with the last two entries.

First off, I needed a rhino to finish off the lot of them. I converted this rhino quite some time ago, but I always had a sort of block when it came to painting it up. Eventually, I realized that it was the static boxiness of the rhino mini- no matter how much you convert and add, it is tough to make it dynamic.

In order to remedy this, I decided to add a base. This mini is mounted on an old CD-ROM that we never care to see again.

Second, I threw together the sergeant mini- in part because I've done lots of this kind of freehand on projects for commissions, but I haven't done it for myself very much. The lion banner was in part because I felt it would go well as a sort of personal heraldry icon on him.

I put the Rhino up on Cmon for [url=http://www.coolminiornot.com/295416]anyone who cares to vote.[/url]

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[Night Haunter]

Very impressive

[IronfrontAlex]

This looks AMAZING!

although... how sexy would it be to remove the Ultra Icons and just make it an astrial claws rhino?

[odinsgrandson]

This looks AMAZING!

although... how sexy would it be to remove the Ultra Icons and just make it an astrial claws rhino?

I'm not against that in principle but I think it would feel lonely next to the other Ultramarines in the squad/army (for movie marines, they're the same).

[Ordo Septenarius]

Any chance you could share your weathering "recipe" on the rhino?

[odinsgrandson]

Any chance you could share your weathering "recipe" on the rhino?

Well, I did a [URL="http://www.gardenninja.com/2010/04/14/battle-damage/"]write up on the battle damage[/URL] portion of it.

As for the actual mud, I watered down some brown paints and splattered them across the bottom of the vehicle by filling an old brush with paint and blowing at it. Also, I took some of the brown paint and watered it down into glaze consistency and just painted a layer of grime over the bottom of the vehicle.

The treads were never anything but brown. All I did there was paint it up using the browns that I used as splatter and on the base.

[Zarkin]

.... I bow down to your superior skills...

[roncarlin2002]

nice looking work!

[Neelam]

Colours go really nicely together

[Meowcenary]

Wow that rhino has been on campaign a little too long. =)

Extremely nice paint jobs on both, I like how the sgt looks dusty and worn but still ready to kick butt.