Sunday, January 13, 2013

Back on Track

Been doing some more Ultramarines painting and assembly. Successfully resisted against the lure of Chaos...for now. I am sprucing up some old Terminators and just painted up an old Termi Sergeant.
For the armor, I gave him a basecoat of Regal Blue under a white undercoat. Then I layered on the model a mix of Regal Blue and Ultramarines Blue (70:30 ratio). Then I highlighted the edges of the armor with a mix of Ultramarines Blue and Regal Blue (30:70). Then lines of pure Ultramarines Blue at the edges. The final highlights were done using Ultramarines Blue and the new Ceramite White (40:60).
I painted him as closely as I could to the old paint Ultramarines scheme. Him being the sarge means he has the honor of taking one for his squad. Usually he does not survive the heroic act, hehe!
View of side of the terminator sarge. The crux terminatus was much obscured due to many layers of previous paintjobs. I had to highlight the details by re-drawing them with pain. Lol!
Back view of the tactical dreadnought armor. I must say the back sculpt of the mini has stood the test of time. Nothing much of its design has changed as compared to the newer termis.

WIP: "Thunderfire" Cannon
Well..not really. but its close! Here is the Hailstorm Cannon from Mantic Games Warpath that I will use as a 'counts as' Thunderfire Cannon. It made of good quality resin and the assembly was a dream. Assembled this in a bout 5 to 6 minutes. The parts just go together in slots.

Its also way easier on  my Treasury than the cost of the original model. I got 3 of these Hailstorm Cannons for under $60 SGD. I think the cost of the actual Thunderfire in SGD is about $110 to$120 maybe. But to be fair, the actual model does include a Techmarine mini.
Still very much WIP, its just undercoated black. I did some simple conversion and switched the front plating  to the rear. And added a searchlight on the top just for aesthetics.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Full re-charge in progress for me for the coming week ;)

10 comments:

  1. Hey I was also thinking of using the mantic "space dwarfs" cannon for the thunder fire cannon. Looks almost the same and cheaper.

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    1. Yo man, I can totally pass you another one I have. I got the 3 pack offer, and I'll probs only be using 2 max.

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  2. @crazyrat
    Hey are u starting a SM army? Which chapter? I'm curious :))

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  3. Actually I thought of it when Dan decimate my DE army using thunder fire cannon. He was using proxy.

    I already have BA & GK which are WIP for a few years... Thinking of completing my BT (1750) this year.

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  4. Yes, complete at least one army. Let it be your 2013 focus! Actually I would consider focusing on your Chaos since it has it's codex out.

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    1. I want to use drop pods hahaha... too bad the new chaos dex still dont allow drop pods unless I go the FW way.

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  5. @crazyrat
    I dun think BT can use thunderfire, but I guess no issues if you are basing them on Codex Spehs Mareenz :)
    But then again I've hears BT may be gettin' a new 'dex! That would be so cool!

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    1. I don't intend to use them haha. I was thinking of this mantic model when Dan was proxy his.

      Ya heard it was a WD codex.

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    2. You gave me an idea. I could use my pre-heresy WE marines with spezze mehreens codex! Can use all the goodies!

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  6. Cool! There are many fun units to field in Codex Spehs Mahreenz :) plus many of the HQ choices can be counts as for your own chapter as well.

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