u/ElectricalWarning89

The freehands are mostly here for show, since I am going to keep working on him, but I needed him paintedup so here he is.

I made him with the devastator kit mostly + a few space wolf bits.

I finally finished them up, I tried out the contrast paint on them and worked with browns.

I learned that I do not like contrasts, but they work really well for plasma glow etc. When applied over white and also that I need new brown paints since my dark brown has insane coverage no matter how I mix it and the light brown has a lot of white pigment.

Overall, the painting was time consuming and a bit painfull but that might be because I moved and dont have my painting setup in here yet.

I made a custom, emperors spears themed kill team and just finished painting a test model and incidentaly, the first member!

I still need a name for him and the team, for now I gave the latter a working name of "kill team Gae Bolg" - a spear forged out of sea monster's bones.

I really enjoyed painting that one, although I had to redo the armor and the runes on the right shoulder. I also tried freehanding the trodent on the left one, but I'll spare you the pain of seeing it lol.

REDDEN THE EARTH!

Please let me know how good the paintjob is

A 3 man unit of eliminators made mostly out of the devastator marines I had in my army.

They use lascannons instead of the las fusils and I made their capes using miliput.

They turned out very nice overall I think.

Around 2 months ago, I figured out, why hobbying marines did not stick for me - the uniformity of it all is boring. I realised that, after I found a broken lot of second hand grey knights, immediatly I got ideas that I am working on untill this day.

The first project I did was the librarian, it was quite easy, but I got hooked at once, then there was the venerable dread - not my best work, but it helped me figure out a lot of stuff I like and what I dont. Its also the model I made the most mistakes on.

Then there was time for my first big project, the ancient in terminator armor, I reposed him fully and worked from ground up to change him from a Paladin, into what he is now.

The most recent model I repainted, is the castaferrum without a base. You can probably tell, but I fianlly cracked how I like to paint my armor, the blue on him is the best I ever got.

I still have many models to go through, combined I have around 3700 points of models, 3000 of which are firstborn, currently I am working on an eradocator team conversion, a 10 man squad of sternguard vets and a 10 man unit of assault terminators.

So, it has come to this.

After my latest (very lucky) purchase, I crossed 2k points in my army as a whole. However, I fear, that the units I can field are rather.....limited in how versitile they are.

Here is the list

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+ FACTION KEYWORD: Imperium - Adeptus Astartes - Ultramarines

+ DETACHMENT: Gladius Task Force (Combat Doctrines)

+ TOTAL ARMY POINTS: 2725pts

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+ WARLORD: Char1: Captain Titus

+ ENHANCEMENT:

+ NUMBER OF UNITS: 21

+ SECONDARY: - Bring It Down: (3x2) - Assassination: 6 Characters

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Char2: 1x Ancient in Terminator Armor (75 pts): Storm bolter, Thunder Hammer

Char3: 1x Captain (80 pts): Bolt pistol, Master-crafted bolter, Close combat weapon

Char4: 1x Captain in Terminator Armour (95 pts): Storm bolter, Relic Weapon

Char1: 1x Captain Titus (90 pts): Warlord, Bolt pistol, Master-crafted Bolter, Master-crafted Chainsword

Char5: 1x Librarian (65 pts): Bolt pistol, Force weapon, Smite

Char6: 1x Lieutenant (55 pts): Power fist, Bolt pistol, Master-crafted bolter

10x Tactical Squad (140 pts)

• 9x Tactical Marine

7 with Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

1 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Lascannon

1 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Grav-gun

• 1x Tactical Marine Sergeant: Close combat weapon, Grav-pistol, Combi-weapon

10x Tactical Squad (140 pts)

• 9x Tactical Marine: 9 with Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

• 1x Tactical Marine Sergeant: Close combat weapon, Bolt pistol, Boltgun

10x Tactical Squad (140 pts)

• 9x Tactical Marine: 9 with Bolt pistol, Boltgun, Close combat weapon

• 1x Tactical Marine Sergeant: Close combat weapon, Bolt pistol, Boltgun

5x Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs (90 pts)

• 1x Assault Intercessor Sergeant with Jump Pack: Heavy Bolt Pistol, Astartes Chainsword

• 4x Assault Intercessors with Jump Pack: 4 with Astartes Chainsword, Heavy Bolt Pistol

1x Ballistus Dreadnought (150 pts): Armoured Feet, Ballistus Lascannon, Ballistus Missile Launcher, Twin Storm Bolter

5x Devastator Squad (120 pts)

• 1x Devastator Sergeant: Close combat weapon, Bolt pistol, Boltgun

• 4x Devastator Marine: 4 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Grav-cannon

1x Dreadnought (135 pts): Dreadnought Combat Weapon, Heavy Flamer, Multi-melta

1x Dreadnought (135 pts): Close combat weapon, Missile Launcher, Assault Cannon

3x Eliminator Squad (85 pts)

• 2x Eliminator: 2 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Bolt Sniper Rifle

• 1x Eliminator Sergeant: Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Bolt Sniper Rifle

3x Eradicator Squad (90 pts)

• 2x Eradicator: 2 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Melta rifle

• 1x Eradicator Sergeant: Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Melta rifle

10x Infernus Squad (180 pts)

• 9x Infernus Marines: 9 with Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Pyreblaster

• 1x Infernus Sergeant: Bolt pistol, Close combat weapon, Pyreblaster

3x Outrider Squad (80 pts)

• 2x Outrider: 2 with Astartes Chainsword, Heavy Bolt Pistol, Twin bolt rifle

• 1x Outrider Sergeant: Astartes Chainsword, Heavy Bolt Pistol, Twin bolt rifle

5x Sternguard Veteran Squad (100 pts)

• 1x Sternguard Veteran Sergeant: Close combat weapon, Sternguard Bolt Pistol, Astartes Chainsword, Sternguard Bolt Rifle

• 4x Sternguard Veteran: 4 with Close combat weapon, Sternguard Bolt Pistol, Sternguard Bolt Rifle

10x Terminator Squad (340 pts)

• 9x Terminator

1 with Power fist, Assault Cannon

1 with Power fist, Cyclone missile launcher, Storm bolter

7 with Power fist, Storm bolter

• 1x Terminator Sergeant: Storm bolter, Power weapon

10x Terminator Squad (340 pts)

• 1x Terminator Sergeant: Storm bolter, Power fist

• 9x Terminator: 9 with Power fist, Storm bolter

Please brothers, advise me on what means of fullfilling the emperors will should I get to make the primarch proud.

Get ultramarined B)

In all seriousness, i bought this broken lot that came with free dust and cobwebs, and turned them into a librarian, a dreadnaught and an ancient in terminator armor.

Just wanted to say that the sculpts were a joy to work with, despite their age and it definietly made me think about starting a grey knights force.

Hope you can forgive me :)

P.S. I'm currently eyeing a baby carrier model to add to my collection as a display piece.

This is a part of a project I took up, I'm converting a broken and uncomplete grey knights force into custom units for my marines.

For now, I:

fixed up a dreadnaught, letting him finally stand on his own two, oversized feet.

Converted a spare marine into a librarian

Upsized, reposed and customised a grey knight paladin into a very dripped out ancient.

There is plenty more to do still, but I need validation and happy chemicals, so I'm still posting it.