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Gabus' Epic Armageddon Space Marines
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Author:  Gabus1 [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:38 am ]
Post subject:  Gabus' Epic Armageddon Space Marines

Good evening to the forum. There are some great armies up here, and although I can't match the awesomesauce of some of these armies, I thought I would share mine.

Some background. I am a longtime 40K and Fantasy player. I got sucked into Epic twice, and twice my gaming group bailed on it, and I was left holding the bag. Fast forward nearly 15 years, and Ogre, and Silentbob show up at my door with a box of spacemarines, and say "they are free, you are playing." And that, is how I got back into epic.

I give you what Ogre has dubbed, "The Sons of Sauron"

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Most of the army has been included on my other hobby blogs, hence the wierd groupings of some of the shots. After this was taken, I did a couple titans, characters for the bikes, and the dreads for the green tactical squad.

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The titan scheme is Legio Crucius (Warmongers) Which I chose simply because I wanted to paint black and white stripes. :)

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A little later, I added some Terminators, and Devastators to round out the army a bit. Don't ask why there are 4 missile launchers on the dev stands, thats how I got them, and didnt know any better till after they were painted!

Missing in the group shots are 2 units of landspeeders that I finished and was too lazy to break out the camera for. I will have to include them in the next update.

On the bench now is a Reaver titan, basecoated, I just need to figure out how I want to do the freehand on it.

Thanks for looking. Hopefully some updates coming soon.

Author:  Legion 4 [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:44 am ]
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Nice work !

Author:  Dwarf Supreme [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:46 am ]
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Nicely done.

Author:  lylekelm [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:32 am ]
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Great detail

Author:  Dobbsy [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:52 am ]
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I love a good yellow scheme! Only critique I have is the bases might need just a slight drybrush to define the grey a touch more.

Nice work!

Author:  Gabus1 [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 2:05 am ]
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Thanks everyone. And i absolutely agree I can do more with the basing. Thats simply one of the basing paints from gw, straight out of the pot. A highlight would bring up the contrast a bit.

Author:  primarch [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 2:16 am ]
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Hi!

It warms the heart to see all this old school goodness, so nicely painted too!

Primarch

Author:  Ogre44 [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 2:47 am ]
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Ahhh, my nemesis arrives!!!
As per standard disclaimer, the photos really don't do these justice, that tannish/yellowish color is incredible in person.
Good work Gabus.

Author:  silentbob27 [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 3:14 am ]
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Yup. They are purty in person. Haven't gotten to play gainst them yet though...

Author:  jimmyzimms [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 3:26 am ]
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Big ups on painting those Titans as Warmongers, the only proper Legion IMHO :D

Author:  admiral_tee [ Sun Jul 07, 2013 5:35 am ]
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Gabus1 wrote:
Thanks everyone. And i absolutely agree I can do more with the basing. Thats simply one of the basing paints from gw, straight out of the pot. A highlight would bring up the contrast a bit.



I like the crisp painting on the Termies and the Warhounds have come up real nice.

Regarding the basing paint - is that 'Astrogranite' or something?
I use it on my Red Corsairs (a few topics down in this forum) and thanks to Onyx, simply washing them in Nuln Oil (or black ink equivalent) really helps to bring depth.

Just try it on one base and I think you'll love it. Also, the darker base will help the yellow 'pop' even more.

Tee

Author:  Damonx [ Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:12 pm ]
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A nice clean paint job, I like the colouring of the tactical squads, easy to see on the battlefield.

Author:  Man of kent [ Mon Jul 08, 2013 7:14 pm ]
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Grand! I especially like the warhounds!

Author:  Gabus1 [ Tue Jul 09, 2013 1:35 am ]
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Thanks!

The color choice was exactly for unit identification. I guessed that it might be tricky to tell them apart on the table.

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