Captain Invictus

Thankfully, after practically pulling an all-nighter on Friday night filled with much swearing and cursing, I finished him in time!.

I give you the late First Captain Heracles Maximus Saul Invictus, Regent of Ultramar and Hero of the Battle of Macragge.







Sadly, he didn't even place but hey, it was worth a shot, and I'm happy with him regardless.

Captain Invictus WIP VI

The nights are drawing in now and it's taking a lot longer than expected to get the basecoat done. Hopefully, everything else will take a lot less time (fingers crossed). Only three more days to go! I really hope I get this done in time!

Captain Invictus WIP V

Today was a frustrating day!
I spent most of last night filing down a screw (see if you can spot it in the pictures) and I assembled it all this morning. I had one last thing to do which was to attach the guitar strings to the plasma blaster and body. Hours later and the guitar strings are ruined and the back banner and hydrogen canister's come off! Another few hours and it's finally finished much later than I'd've liked. I'd been hoping to get him undercoated and basecoated by this evening but it's getting dark now and I find it difficult to paint without natural light.

He's outside now with the black undercoat drying so I'm going to have to wait till tomorrow to start painting. It's going to be a hectic week! Apologies for the unedited pictures; I'm in a bit of a hurry.

Captain Invictus WIP IV

The plasma blaster (probably the most unique feature of Invictus) is finally finished. Added a bayonet taken from a Dark Eldar helmet and a winged skull from the Forge World Ultramarines brass etch. The body and shoulders are filed down too.







Also, took a picture of the flamer from Squad Epsilon just to prove I'm not twiddling my thumbs when it comes to them.

Captain Invictus Progress

No pictures today but I've filed down some of the sloppy greenstuff work on the powerfist and redone the plasticard and scope on the plasma blaster to make it neater. Also, I've started to file down the Imperial Fists insignia on the right knee and the chestplate.

I'm away for 2 weeks but I'll probably take Invictus with me and try to get some more stuff done. I'm hoping to have him assembled by the time I get back so I can stick on the brass etch (which I'm still waiting for), do the base and paint it all. It's gonna be a bit hectic towards the end by the looks of things!

Captain Invictus WIP III

One of the trickiest parts of the project, I took the removed the fingers from the terminator power fist and replaced them with the fingers from the pointing power armour power fist. The putty work looks a lot better in real life, I assure you!

Captain Invictus WIP II

Done a bit more work on him. Mostly filing off mold lines but I've focused mainly on the right arm; cutting the stormbolter off of the terminator arm and creating the plasma blaster.

Captain Invictus WIP I

All the parts ready to be prepped and assembled:

Invictus Concept

Here's a concept sketch I knocked together so I have a rough outline of what I'll be doing once I've got all the pieces in front of me. I'm collecting the Captain Lysander model from my local GW tomorrow so after that all I'll need is the Forge World brass etch.

Games Day

Right, I haven't died and I am still painting Ultramarines. There are currently three Ultramarines of Squad Epsilon in various stages of completion sitting on my desk, but that's not why I'm posting.

I bought my Games Day 2008 ticket today and am starting to gather the necessary pieces for a planned entry in to the Godlen Demon Youngbloods, since it's the last year I'll be eligible. The plan is to create the legendary Captain Invictus from a Captain Lysander model, some plastic terminator arms, some plasma guns, guitar string, UM brass etch, resin shoulder pads and a shizzle load of dead nids. I'll keep you posted.

Disaster!

I'm really quite bad at this whole blogging business aren't I? It's been over a month and I haven't posted any updates. The bolter marine I mentioned in the previous post has been finished for quite a while and I'm about halfway/two thirds of the way through the flamer marine. However, my trusty fine detail brush is a little too fine for my liking (i.e. it's only got one bristle left), so flamer will have to wait before I can proceed with any fiddly details. As well as that, my files have been sucked into the warp so I can't properly begin work on a new marine. It seems the Ruinous Powers have cursed my endeavours! I'll remain strong though and I've started work on one of the more craptastically posed marines of Squad Epsilon so I don't really mind if he's covered in mould lines.

Salute 2008

I got up at half 5 yesterday morning after putting up with my friend's heavy breathing for a whole night after he slept over and we got on a train to Paddington at seven. After the joy that is London public transport we got to ExCeL 25 minutes late at 10:25, thus rendering our Q-Buster tickets totally useless! =P

I bought plenty of stuff including plenty of Forge World goodness like the new Death Guard conversion kits and the Great Unclean One (Heresy, I know!). However, I didn't totally sell my soul to the dark gods since I bought the Red Scorpions Terminator Commander, Culln which I'm planning on converting into an Ultramarine. I was going to buy more stuff for my UM; more specifically the Mark IV dreadnought and some UM brass etch and icons. However, I couldn't really afford to so that stuff will have to be bought later. Maybe at Games Day?

It was a great day altogether and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Anyway, the flamer marine has been put to one side for a while since it was irritating me. I prefer to paint space marines with one arm off so that I can get to the whole chestplate and arms. Sadly, I assembled Epsilon a long time ago meaning that there are not only loads of mould lines but the arms are all attached and with a lot of superglue too. That means the flamer's arms are there to stay which got on my nerves after a while. Because of that, I'm painting another bolter marine and he's currently done to a high gaming standard but there's still a while to go before he's done. Onwards!

Squad Epsilon II

Edited the pictures of the other two marines that I've painted. I'm much happier with some of the highlights on the armour on these two than I am with Brother Genesis' though the face grills are a little messy on these. Anyway, they're still awaiting squad markings and the chapter badge but I'll probably do that in bulk when the whole squad is finished. Fun, fun! ¬_¬

The photos are even worse this time around but they're still okay.

Front

Right

Left

Back

Pad Detail


I'm currently working on the flamer wielding marine so I should have that up in a week or so with a bit of luck.

Squad Epsilon I - Brother Genesis

The first marine to be fully painted up and ready to hunt down the xenos scum in the name of the Emperor. I picked a suitably nondescript tactical marine to paint first so that if I wasn't happy with the scheme or messed up; he wouldn't stand out too much in-amongst the other Ultramarines. Luckily, all went according to plan and I was very happy with the result. Truth be told, although he's the first Ultramarine to be fully painted and I took the pictures today, I actually finished him last year in October sometime. Since then, I've painted errr... two others.

Don't judge me.






Apologies for the poor picture quality. The pictures were taken in my back garden due to lack of a proper photography set-up. Once I'm moved into my new bedroom, I should be able to sort out an area in which I can take better photos.

First Entry!

Basically, I've made this blog as an added incentive to paint up more figures than I am at the moment. I'll mainly post pictures of my Ultramarines 3rd Company army but there'll be other things posted if I think they are related in some way.
Right then, back to painting. *whipcrack*

-Jon