WIP - Single Marine Montage

Here is the marine thats most finished so far. The rest of the squad is not far behind him, but I pushed on and did a bit more highlighting on this one by way of a test piece. I tried to gem the eyes but I don't think it has worked and I don't like the colour now I've seen it on the model. I shall black it out and start again, a midtone blue with a more diffuse lowlight I think. To finish it completely I think it needs eyes redoing, purity seal on leg painting and a red gem effect on the currently silver blob just above the trigger finger. Once I decide on unit markings and such I shall also paint the rims of the shoulder pads and add some sort of symbol to the pad itself. I also need to paint the name plate on the left pad and finish the base properly. 

New Photos Soon

Developments have been slow since last week. Life and visiting friends kept me away from the painting table all weekend, but I'm back at it now. The Marines should have progressed enough to be worth photographing again soon. It's a real effort to stick to my plan of balancing quality of painting with speed. I'm painting the two veteran sergents seperatly from their squadmates so I can lavish a bit more attention on them as they are nearly characters. Hopefully lessons learned on the Marines will mean that the 10-man scout squad will progress faster. I'm thinking that I might go back and do a bit more converting on the scouts before they go off for undercoating, I want to play up the idea of the chapters tribal influnces and the scouts seem like one of the best places to start. The scouts have only recently been recruited from whatever world the chapter takes its numbers from, so their feral nature will be more obvious in their appearance. I'm thinking buckskin trousers and combat moccasins with some evidence of tatoos or wapaint on areas of skin.

My magnets arrived in the post yesterday, so they will sit in my modelling box until I think of something to do with them. I might use some of the smallest ones to hold the side hatches of my devilfish closed, instead of the bluetack that is currently doing the job.

Guard Patrol Progress

I'm begining to collect bits for my planned Imperial Guard patrol. I found five of these Rough Riders on Ebay the other day which look like they are ripe for conversion. Seperate legs and torsos being their most sought after attribute, but the spru of guns looks like it will come in handy as well. I won the auction last night, so all being well they should arrive in the post in the next few days. As well as the Rough Riders I also found a quantity of rare earth magnets on Ebay. Don't know exactly what I'm going to do with them, but I'm sure they will come in handy for something involving swapable weapons and such.