Since my SM army was my first, I almost named this "Back to the Future", but there's way too many movie-themed thread titles out there
These guys have been sitting in cold storage for a while, mainly because I have the reverse-midas touch when it comes to playing space marines... they just don't handle my attrition style of play I guess. Yeah... it's the army's fault, certainly not the player's.

Anyhoo, I've gotten ahold of some new Blood Angels-related and other space marine stuff, so they're back on the front burner. Unfortunately, even the Lamenters' storage is a bit ghetto:




An army shot:




Highlights. Vinnie the vindicator, soon to be joined by vincent, vincenzo, and vince:




T-hawks:



Termies, scouts, and Devs:



Besides losing a crap-ton of games, old(er) hands might remember them exiting from early voting during epicomp a few years back so they may look familiar. A 40K kid at our LGS called them "Emo Marines" one time... I wanted to punch him in the junk for that.

More to come.

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Let us playtest like the Greeks of old... You know the ones I mean

Nice stuff, I love the lamenters fluff, looking forwards to more

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Oh wow, I didn't realize you had those painted up already. I can't wait to see the new additions

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Adeptus Monk-anicus
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That's just great, wonderful looking army, and love the vindi idea!

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Nicely done !!

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Legion 4 "Cry Havoc, and let slip the Dogs of War !" ... "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

Lookin great, I especially dig the termies.

Looks fantastic!

You should have punched him in the junk lol

Love the vindicator boy-band. Nice mellow yellow marine force.

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Nitpicks Knapsack (Scratchbuilding and 3D designing and printing and painting)

Some of those whirlwinds look converted.... Closeup please!

Those are hunters - whirlwinds with one rocket pod replaced by some BFG bits and some electronic-looking sites in the middle. I have one metal whirlwind that was too much of a pain to hack apart, so that's a double-barreled hunter...

I'll have some updates soon I think, and the hunters will get special attention.

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Let us playtest like the Greeks of old... You know the ones I mean

The biggest addition to my Lamenters' army: Lunch Boxes from the Monkeyforge. These things are great.







As you can see, I went a little overboard in purchasing. But hey, lots of moody, bloodthirsty superhumans need to get into combat fast:




As promised, closeups of the hunters (whirlwinds with one missile pod replaced by BFG bits, and one metal whirlwind):

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Let us playtest like the Greeks of old... You know the ones I mean

Really like all the little armour detals her CP, how do you do your check patterns? Or ar they transfers?

Do they suffer from the bad luck they're famous for?

Thanks, CS. The T-hawk, termies, and land raider check patterns are hand-painted, which is a not-so-fun process of trial and error. Usually I start with a layer of gray, then start with the black checks, then white. Then, touch up the black, add another layer of white, touch up black, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum infinito ad hoc proctor hoc I tried a paint pen for the T-hawks, but the finest point available ended up being too thick, not to mention having a gloss finish.

The Storm Ravens have decals from a 40K ork decal sheet.

On the army's luck. They have suffered in the past from poor dice rolling, but the general must take some blame as well; I took Dave's Subjugators one time and didn't have much success with them either. Hopefully after all this new work I can get them to give a good account of themselves.

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Let us playtest like the Greeks of old... You know the ones I mean

You've been busy. Those look great! They aren't sitting on the base, are they? They're pole-dancing, right?

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Adeptus Monk-anicus
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Like a lot of attention-starved ladies with daddy issues, they are pole dancing I drilled a hole right below the turret and they're sitting atop brass rod.

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Let us playtest like the Greeks of old... You know the ones I mean