Magnets, Greenstuff and Plasticard + WIP Army shots [Marines]

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Magnets, Greenstuff and Plasticard + WIP Army shots [Marines]

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So some of you know I ordered some hobby supplies yesterday. Well they just came in the mail! I ordered 200x 3mm dia by 1.5mm deep magnets, 30x 2mm dia by 1.5 mm deep magnets, a mixed pack of GaleForce Nine plasticard (9 sheets) and a large tube of greenstuff seeing as I had run out of all of these supplies. This will allow me to finish up my Speeders/Dreads with plasticard as well as perhaps make some Venom conversions and start making more chapter symbols with the mass of greenstuff. Joy. Magnets will be for throwing at passerbys... Anyway, kudos to TheCombatCompany for their fast delivery and check out all the stuff...

Also, sorry I've only really been posting e-mails of late. Catching up (15 left) from the backlog of stuff and prepping some Armies in 5th articles for Eldar & DE. Will try and start those soon as well as finish off the Tau codex review! AbusePuppy, GWvsJohn and myself will also be writing a collaborative effort in relation to the DE codex review but this probably won't be until late November as we work out schedules, etc.

Anyway, I've been working on assembling some of my Marines of late and have 10 Marines + 2 dreads on the table atm which I'm painting but I thought I'd show you some WIP progess shots of the army. Nothing too shiny yet but you can see one of the LasPlas conversions and the hulls of my vehicles lol.

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black_rose_00 29p · 756 weeks ago

I made half my lascannon/twin plasmagun razorbacks with the razorback turrets I had and did the other half with the kit from the bastions for the twin-linked autocannons. They are all magnetized so I can swap weapons at will and it also gave me twin-autocannons to make riflemen dreads.

The turrets are a little bit higher then the normal razorback turret but they look pretty sweat.

I made the twinlinked plasma guns out of plasma pistols that I glued to a bit of sprue frame and then covered up with rhino tracks I had left, they look pretty good.

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Eltnot 45p · 756 weeks ago

Nice tidy conversion of the las/plas razorback.

"Magnets for throwing at passers by..."
Now I have truly found a use for all of the rare earth magnets that I have that are too small to use in modelling!

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@KatieDrake · 756 weeks ago

You have magnets too *small* to use for modeling? The ones I have are too large...

Looking good so far Kirbs. Especially liking the PLasmaback conversion and the Chapter symbols on the Marines. What's the name of your Chapter anyway (this is the first of your marine army articles I've read)?

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Eltnot 45p · 756 weeks ago

Yeah, I was given them by a friend. They're less than a millimetre in diameter and so are too small to actually hold anything on unless I use heaps of them, and at that point they're too fiddly and I'd just use a large magnet.

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Comrade · 756 weeks ago

Bear Claws, obviously.

Double plug for the guys at Combat Company. Saved my kitbashing bacon a few times now.

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Kirby 118p · 756 weeks ago

Ice Claws of course...

Will have to use plasticard for the rest of the conversions as that was using some of the parts from the RBack kit (of which I only had one). So shall see what the next one turns out like.

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Kirby 118p · 756 weeks ago

How else do you find out who has metal plates or pins in their bodies!?

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Eltnot 45p · 756 weeks ago

By being a ninja and hanging around airport metal detectors?

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Kirby 118p · 756 weeks ago

Doing that in America would get you shot lol. Throwing magnets isn't sus at all...

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@KatieDrake · 756 weeks ago

CHAT BAWKS!

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Vinsanity · 756 weeks ago

Woot go that las/plas turret. Where are my magnets and plasticard? :( :(

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Kirby 118p · 755 weeks ago

You didn't ask for any and since you've bailed on me last minute twice now (again), I didn't call you :P.

Game next Monday still? Looks like my research grant will be Wed-Fri.

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Derek · 756 weeks ago

Where did you get the idea for that plasmasback? I Like!

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Kirby 118p · 755 weeks ago

My brain...

I'll take closer pics on the weekend if I can but again, only one will look that good :( . The rest I'll be scratch building essentially.

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youitis 33p · 756 weeks ago

I still don't get the color scheme, I mean where is all the pink?

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artemi7 78p · 755 weeks ago

I rather like the powder blue look, though I agree. I was expecting bubblegum pink! At least on the guns, or something...

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Kirby 118p · 755 weeks ago

Someone always has to complain :p .

The secondary color is magenta...isn't that enough? I'll probably do my High Elves' primary color as pink though their secondary will be white which annoys me (I hate painting white).