I started this army as a TOEG09 but life got in the way but I am now back and kicking paint all over the place (and with a new log in because i forgot the old ones details.) Over Xmas I started to playtest a 28mm scale game using epic minis and then I remembered how cool epic mini's are and though 'what am I doing why dont I just play Epic' and chucked the other game away and pulled out my minis and by new years I had my painting table all ready to go.
Oh and thats another thing, in this new place I actually have a decicated modelling room rather than having to pull out and pack them away like last time and it has really helped me keep some momentum (so far)
So its a Space Marine army and its Gold, all pretty easy really.
It started many years ago with a 40k army based on Dark Angels Deathwing that I played for a couple of years but it has been sold and moved on but I wanted to replicate the paint jobs.
Here is the 40k army
I choose (poorly) to do them with a snow base scheme to try and give a good contrast to the gold colour of the marines and because I decided to do a bit of a theme for each detachment the bases have been taking longer to do than the actual models themselves
Army Goals:
try and paint 3000points
do it on the cheap and use the old models I have wherever possible
In TOEG 09 I started with a dev squad taking up cover in a machinery area of a factory
I then painted a tac detachment in an open square with a statue and the rhino's on a roadway
and thats where I vanished, but now I am back i kicked off the painting with an Assault Squad backing up the devs in the courtyard of the factory
Then I got stuck thinking of a theme for the Terminator detachment and thought to myself 'every factory or warehouse area has a local take away store' and so the terminators are defending the pie shop from the possibility of a tyrannid invasion wanting some high quality meat
Then I grabbed some vehicles and painted up a whirlwind detachment that have taken up a firing position in a local park
Whats next?
I have a whole heap of titans but I have never really liked them (strangely enough) but many people swear by warhounds in their army so I decided to paint some. I will use the old ones i currently have, I have about 6 of them i think but I will start with 2 and see how I go from there.
So I assembled 2 of them and started wanting to paint them as they looked really cool with a heap of personality.
I began painting 1 to try and get a paint scheme going on, im not too happy with the red side unfortunately i am using old GW blood red and its so thin that even over foundation paints it comes out splotchy and uneven. I also started thinking about basing them and this is where it hits me....if I do them as snow then am i committing myself to doing all the rest of my titans and therefore all my other armies that will use them as snow armies??????
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Currently I am thinking that maybe i do these as snow for this army and paint the others differently for another army but that would mean that as a whole my titan legions will look disjoined......it sucks, snow sucks and it bit me on the bum.
Anyways this is what i have done
I also have started some speeders, I have 19 of them of the old E40k versions and I have converted 1 of the AC/HB ones by cutting off the AC and gluing missile pods on the side to make a typhoon. So I have 5 speeders currently on the paint table too and once they are done I will convert another typhoon and make another squad I reckon.
I have also purchased some AA turrets from exodus wars to see if I can combine them with rhino chassis to make hunters and I also purchased some shadow warriors to use as scouts because even though the marines ones look good they are just too big and look silly compared to standard marine height.
