Sapphire Saints

Today I went to get some Catachans for a trade, and I ended up picking up some Space Marine Veterans MkII! I opened the box, and found that I had a huge Ork arm in the box! And I thought "jackpot!". But while I was assembling, I noticed that I was missing a veteran! Noo!! So I'm going to call GW tomorrow.


Heres the "official" post for the Sapphire Saints.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away...

I started an army, called the Royal Redeemers. That practically died. So I'm reliving them, but in a different name, and with different fluff.

So this time, The Sapphire Saints will be part of the 5th founding of the Ultramarines.
They're mainly a codex chapter, who prefer ranged combat to close combat. They are extreme haters of Tau and Tyranids, and several of the Veterans have once been trained by Chaplain Cassius. The veteran brothers who wear power armor all have white helmets, but the Terminators do not. The Sapphire Saints have such a large count of Tactical Dreadnought Armor (20) because when they were formed, the Ultramarines still had a 'surplus' of Terminators.

The force I'm making..very slowly, is just going to be the 1st Company. I'm already 40 (including 6 Captains and heroes) strong! The Company will comprise more of Sternguard than anything else, to fit with the theme of ranged combat. To save money, and keep things varied, I'll use 15 of the veterans (Sternguard, MkI, and MkII) and then the rest will be converted Tactical Squads. I'm in need of a few names and a chapter symbol. I'll spend the next few nights working on that.

So far, the almost-completely painted list. 5 Terminators, 1 Chaplain in Terminator armor, and 1 Captain. I need to remove the yellow, since the fluff no longer covers that.


Unpainted wise, I have 10 Terminators, 5 Captains, 5 Sternguard, 4 (GW didn't put one in the box, so I need to call them) MkII vets, 5 Vanguard, 1 Tanky-Terminator, 1 scratch built Techmarine, 2 Librarians, and my true scale Chapter Master.


Horatio:Hey man! No problem, but I was thinking "hmm, wheres Horatio or Squirrel_Fish" =-D Gene Simmons! *sticks tong out*
I'm glad I have math right, though...I actually did spend quite a while thinking it out X-D
Heres Tanky-Terminator, he was actually done a while ago, I guess you hadn't shown up to my thread yet =-D




Cheers

Nuts!

So I redid the head on the Brood Lord again, this time, not so much chopping. I just altered the tong a bit. It needs a bit of Green Stuff work, and is kinda thick, but its not bad.

I left it in the Simple Green for too long, so it tarnished =-(

I finally had the urge to paint today. But I didn't want to paint Deathwing, so I figured I'd do some of the black-blue guys. (They're no longer Royal Redeemers, so I don't have an official name for them yet) So I didn't have anything to really work on! I didn't feel like doing the Sternguard. So I assembled the 5 AoBR Terminators I got in the mail while I was gone. I still wanted to paint. I decided that all the current-edition Terminators (besides the Golden Brownie marines) will be Black-blue, and the older editions will be Deathwing. I don't know why, but it works =-D So I went to spray them and several other things.

zing! 10 Terminators, 4 Chapter Masters, 1 Captain, 1 *scratch* Techmarine, and the Tanky the Terminator. I also have the 5 Vanguard to start at the same time, and to finish the Sternguard.
By the time the usual hour was up for the spray... I didn't feel like painting at all...so now I get to wait until I get that urge again before anything gets done! Who knows when that'll be!!!

Waste of Space

Okay, so I need this post because I need Horatios and Squirrel_Fish and anyone else who reads my blog 's ideas and opinions.

I finished Green Stuffing the Warriors' legs, but I don't think they're good enough to get another bunch of pictures. So now I need to know what the next 5 strong brood should be. They won't be flying, that'll be the 3 man, but I just can't put my finger on what it should be! Help?

I've decided to next start on my Broodlord while I wait. I wanted to have an Implant Attack put on its tong, like the Genestealer one, so I added some Green Stuff....fail. While searching for more Carnifex conversions with Google a few minutes ago, I found a cool conversion for a head that I will be using for it.

I had also started a Tyranid project a while ago, but I never took any Work in Progress pictures, so I couldn't share. The Laiuss Horror is about double the size of a Carnifex I believe. I had to widen the torso out quite a bit, and the last time I held it, it was about the size of a Dreadnought I'd have to say...and thats just the torso! I was back logging my pictures, and I found a couple that I had taken, pre-green stuff. Unfortunately, I only found 3 pictures from very early stages. =-(



I finished the torso and head on my own, but I rrrreeaaalllyyy didn't want to do the tail, so I sent it to Matt Bonder to have him finish that for me. Its been quite a while, and I'm almost certain its done now! I'm excited. This is what the Laiuss Horror is supposed to look like.

Brood 1 Done

iBack.

So I'm back a day early. When we got up to where we were hiking (Kings Canyon if you may know where that is (California)) and there was a huge fire 10 miles outside of the campsite where we were to be staying that night. So the adults talked with the Forest Rangers, and we ended up staying in a camp about 30 miles south. The next day, we contacted the Ranger Station, to find that the fire was only contained 20%, and that we wouldn't be able to hike yet...so the adults decided that we'd go somewhere else. So we packed our backpacks, and hiked some 30 mile lake loop. That was 5 days. Then we drove north to Yosemite, and hiked Half Dome, which was about 16 miles, so we almost made 50 on our trip, which isn't too bad.

I just finished the 5th of the brood. The brood leader.



He will be holding a head of a Catachan. =-D

Just the green stuffing left, and some Catachans.
And since I used the steroid arms, I had an extra arm for that other Nid! Huzzah!

Horatio: How big a brood? I figure. I have this 5 strong one, I can make another 5 strong, and a 3 strong that will be flying. And if I can sell them all, I should be able to make a pretty penny =-D

Last Civilization

I'm going hiking for 9 days, so...live long and prosper.

So this last one for the brood, I was stumped for SO long trying to figure out what to position him as... I finally had to just do something, because I'll be hiking for 9 days starting in 3 hours, so I needed to be able to finish the brood before I lost total train of thought.



And the brood together.



The next brood..I'm thinking...flying. The Chaos Demented (or something..I only have the bitz now) wings w/ backpack fit perfectly on a Warrior.


I only have 2 pairs, so I need to find possibly 2-3 more. Peace out. See ya'll in 9 days.

Its a Brood!

I finished another. I'm starting to get on a roll with these things...spend the day thinking of what the pose should be, then finish it in about an hour at the latest out in the day.

This one, his talons will be dug into the Catachan's shoulders when I base them. It'll look great I hope.

A Brood in the Making

I had another brain thing again. So I made another Warrior. I had to take Senior pictures today, pretty early (considering I went to bed at 4AM this morning). So then my mom and I went to get me a new watch, and then went to lunch...then I came home and crashed for a couple of hours.

I only managed to make one Nid....all day...Pretty slow. =-P Following the leaping theme, with scything talons and rending claws. Which..unfortunately means I still need to locate a talon for the first Nid...I think I want to make this brood be 5 strong, at least...which means I still need 3 more ideas X-D But its okay, because I just cut up one of the New On Sprue Warriors to make number two...so I have two extras =-D (I can't sell a brood of 2...)
Both Warriors are in need of Green Stuff for their leg joints.

The duo.


The new one.


I feel that the pose of this one feels like it would be for a Lictor...but I guess its still pretty cool =-D

The other one.


Squirrel_Fish: Fearless you say? I'll think about it. I might just remove it, since there hasn't been any conclusion yet.
Vanilla Rice is excellent. ;-D Go Asians!