r/Raptors40k

Revered Brother Ulysses, entombed in a Brutalis chassis Dreadnought. Once a brilliant tactician and one of the best melee duelists and breachers the Raptors had. After silencing one too many bloodthirsty commissars and inquisitors, he was forced to take up the status of Black Shield in the deathwatch. What was just a regular suicide mission to establish an uplink in the midst of a Chaos invasion he successfully fought and secured the station only to realize he signed his own doom, artillery came crashing down all around. He called in a bombardment that’d wipe the enemies and him along with it unknowingly. Miraculously and unfortunately he survived, the Inquisition saw fit to scramble his already broken and battered mind, fracturing his psyche and stuffing him into a machine that’d make sure he stayed that way. Given back to his chapter as ‘insurance’ he now fulfills that roll of a master line breaker though, now brutal and unrelenting fury rather than his cold calculated past self. A ghost in the shell that his captain, once former pupil of Ulysses, is forced to witness with every deployment.

Phew. This guy was BRUTAL to work on (pun intended) from the build to the painting and detail work, it took longer than I thought but I couldn’t be happier with the results. The Brutalis is arguably the least raptory dreadnought and that’s why I think it makes the best one. What better to work with a bunch of fast stealthy units than a giant agro farming behemoth who crunches and melts anything he touches. I’d love to hear thoughts if you have em! On his lore or painting!

TLDR: Showing off and looking to sell.

Evening all!!! I put a post up the other day about how I took ages to finish these guys up and then hated the play on the tabletop.

Following on from that post here’s the full army! 😁
Though they don’t play the way I like I am very happy with the over all outcome and they did win best painted At the final 10th tournament at Nailhammer!

I am looking to sell the army at this point so if anyone if interested please drop me a message or I am just gonna chuck em up on Vinted and see what I get 😁👍🏻

(Big sorry to mods if this is considered not cool!)

Owls (1,980 Points)

Space Marines
Raven Guard
Vanguard Spearhead (2 Detachment Points)
Force Dispositions: Reconnaissance
Strike Force (2,000 Points)

ATTACHED UNITS

Attached unit 1

Kayvaan Shrike (100 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Blackout
• 1x The Raven’s Talons

Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs (85 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard ()
• 1x Assault Intercessor Sergeant with Jump Pack
◦ 1x Plasma pistol
◦ 1x Power fist
• 4x Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs
◦ 4x Astartes chainsword
◦ 3x Heavy bolt pistol
◦ 1x Plasma pistol

Attached unit 2

Librarian in Phobos Armour (90 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Bolt pistol
• 1x Force weapon
• 1x Smite
• Enhancements: Execute and Redeploy

Eliminator Squad (75 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard ()
• 1x Eliminator Sergeant
◦ 1x Bolt pistol
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Las fusil
• 2x Eliminator
◦ 2x Bolt pistol
◦ 2x Close combat weapon
◦ 2x Las fusil

Attached unit 3

Captain in Phobos Armour (100 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Bolt Pistol
• 1x Combat knife
• 1x Instigator bolt carbine
• Enhancements: Shadow War Veteran

Lieutenant in Phobos Armour (45 Points)
• Attached as: Support (Character)
• 1x Bolt Pistol
• 1x Master-crafted bolt carbine
• 1x Paired combat blades

Incursor Squad (85 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard ()
• 1x Incursor Sergeant
◦ 1x Bolt pistol
◦ 1x Occulus bolt carbine
◦ 1x Paired combat blades
• 4x Incursor
◦ 4x Bolt pistol
◦ 1x Haywire Mine
◦ 4x Occulus bolt carbine
◦ 4x Paired combat blades

CHARACTERS

Aethon Shaan (100 Points)
• Warlord
• 1x Claws of Severax
• 1x Heavy bolt pistol

OTHER DATASHEETS

Desolation Squad (180 Points)
• 1x Desolation Sergeant
◦ 1x Bolt pistol
◦ 1x Castellan launcher
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Vengor launcher
• 4x Desolation Marine
◦ 4x Bolt pistol
◦ 4x Castellan launcher
◦ 4x Close combat weapon
◦ 4x Superkrak rocket launcher

Eliminator Squad (75 Points)
• 1x Eliminator Sergeant
◦ 1x Bolt pistol
◦ 1x Close combat weapon
◦ 1x Instigator bolt carbine
• 2x Eliminator
◦ 2x Bolt pistol
◦ 2x Bolt sniper rifle
◦ 2x Close combat weapon

Firestrike Servo-turrets (75 Points)
• 1x Close combat weapon
• 1x Twin Firestrike las-talon

Firestrike Servo-turrets (75 Points)
• 1x Close combat weapon
• 1x Twin Firestrike las-talon

Gladiator Lancer (160 Points)
• 1x Armoured hull
• 1x Lancer laser destroyer
• 2x Storm bolter

Hammerfall Bunker (175 Points)
• 1x Hammerfall heavy flamer array
• 1x Hammerfall missile launcher

Incursor Squad (85 Points)
• 1x Incursor Sergeant
◦ 1x Bolt pistol
◦ 1x Occulus bolt carbine
◦ 1x Paired combat blades
• 4x Incursor
◦ 4x Bolt pistol
◦ 1x Haywire Mine
◦ 4x Occulus bolt carbine
◦ 4x Paired combat blades

Invictor Tactical Warsuit (125 Points)
• 1x Fragstorm grenade launcher
• 1x Heavy bolter
• 1x Incendium cannon
• 1x Invictor fist
• 1x Twin ironhail heavy stubber

Invictor Tactical Warsuit (125 Points)
• 1x Fragstorm grenade launcher
• 1x Heavy bolter
• 1x Incendium cannon
• 1x Invictor fist
• 1x Twin ironhail heavy stubber

Outrider Squad (70 Points)
• 1x Outrider Sergeant
◦ 1x Astartes chainsword
◦ 1x Heavy bolt pistol
◦ 1x Twin bolt rifle
• 2x Outrider
◦ 2x Astartes chainsword
◦ 2x Heavy bolt pistol
◦ 2x Twin bolt rifle

Stormhawk Interceptor (155 Points)
• 1x Armoured hull
• 1x Las-talon
• 1x Skyhammer missile launcher
• 1x Twin assault cannon

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Painted up Aethon Shaan and finished some basing on my jump pack intercessor squad this weekend.

Shrike is up next.

Painted two infernus marines to see if I can get the raptors formula down. I’m thinking about painting a whole raptors army and there are my test models. I like both of them but I’m afraid the darker one is more dark angels than raptors.

Wanted to go for the CoD Ghost mask but not happy with it any recommendations?

The cast with sprue goo test turned out pretty well. Anything that doesn't pass muster can just go back in the Tamiya bottle.

I thought this would be a quick project but it took far longer than expected.

As stated in the title, working on my raptors space marine army and this is my first guy, woild appreciate recommendations on how to make him fit the chapter a bit more Edit: talking about paint not mini itself

Been really excited to paint Raptors for a while so gave it a bash on one of my Kill Teams. Currently working on Armageddon Space Marines with the same scheme, really excited for a full army.

This is a huge task that I’m tackling bit by bit but my sponge chipping recipe worked out great. Still gotta do the back and the arms and a ton of detail work but it’s already looking great. I’ve got tons of lore cooked up for this behemoth already and can’t wait to share the final product.

Title. I've painted them the wrong green and put the sigil on the wrong shoulder pad this whole time and now I feel like I wasted my time. 🫠

How many decals is too many?

What do you guys think? Back to painting in light of the new edition