Media thread - 31 January 2024, 20:16

A photo of five Assault Intercessor Space Marines. They're all wearing standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads, and they all look like they're mid-stride. They've got pistols and chainswords, and the one on the left has a grenade in her hand and looks like she's about to lob it. None of them have helmets and they've all got either mohawks or very short cropped hair and various cybernetic implants.

A photo of five regular Intercessor Space Marines wearing much the same armour as the Assault Intercessors. These ones are armed with very large two-handed bolt rifles, two are pointing the rifles and yelling like they're in the middle of laying down a hail of fire, the sergeant is holding hers upright just by the grip and is pointing with her other hand, the fourth is standing there like she's keeping watch, and the final one has a pair of grenades in one hand and looks like she's just about to throw them. They're also all bare-headed with cybernetic implants.

Yesssss, got my converted all-women Intercession squad assembled and undercoated! Extremely stoked at how well these have come out, in particular the one from each squad with the grenades since none of the sculpts actually have them holding grenades (one of the operatives for the Assault Intercessors is specifically a grenadier and I wanted to make it obvious which one that was, and if I don't take her I'd be taking the regular Intercessor with grenade as an added equipment). I even went to the level of detail of chopping off the grip from one of the spare holsters and fitting it properly onto the empty pistol holster that the grenade-lady from the Assault Intercessors has, since she's holding a grenade instead of a pistol. I also chopped off all the helmets and attached them to the belts of every single one of them, to show that they still HAVE their helmets, they're just too cool to wear them. 😛 I'm going to paint them in Blood Angels colours, mostly because the red and black scheme is quite striking and I've never painted Blood Angels before.

Posted on 31 January 2024, 20:16

A photo of two fully-painted Space Marine miniatures with bare heads standing next to each other. The left is holding her boltgun in front of like she's standing on guard, and the base is a sort of desert rocky-looking texture/colour. The one on the right is a much deeper richer red, far closer to the colour of blood, and she has a pistol held in one hand and is in the middle of throwing a grenade with the other. Her base looks like really thick mud and it's splattered half-way up to the knees so it looks like she's been really tromping around a battlefield.

Earlier this week I painted one of my converted Space Marines as a test to make sure the colour scheme worked, and man am I glad I did only one as test because I hate it. 😫 Despite deciding to paint them in Blood Angels colours and using the Contrast paint called "Blood Angels Red", there's FAR too much orange in that colour, I don't like how the backpack came out with it being black, and I don't like the base either (I DID do an absolutely bang-up job her face though, particularly the eye). I did a second one and finished it tonight (the one on the right) using my trusty old Flesh Tearers Red, painting the backpack the same colour, and using the muddy terrain texture, and it looks SO much better. Definitely going to use that for the rest of them.

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Posted on 10 February 2024, 21:51

A photo of Space Marines, three Assault Intercessors and three standard Intercessors. They're all wearing standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads, the Assault Intercessors all look like they're mid-stride and are wielding got pistols and chainswords, and one has a grenade in her hand and looks like she's about to lob it. The other three are holding big boltguns, two look like they're in the middle of firing and the third had hers held upright in one hand while she points commandingly with the other. None of them have helmets and they've all got either mohawks or very short cropped hair and various cybernetic implants.

Making slow but steady progress on my Intercession ladies. The bit that's REALLY going to slow me down is when I get to doing the edge highlighting on their armour. 😬

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Posted on 9 March 2024, 17:25

A photo of a group of six partially-painted Space Marines, three Assault Intercessors and three standard Intercessors. They're all wearing the standard massive Space Marine armour with big shoulder pads which has been painted in a deep rich red colour. All the guns are black and they have brown leather pouches strapped to their waists. The armour all has lighter red strokes along the edges of the plates, and the only completely unpainted bits are the heads.

THE EDGE HIGHLIGHTING IS DONE! ::collapses in a heap:: I didn't even do the "proper" pin-sharp do-it-with-the-edge-of-the-brush thing except for the very lightest highlights at the very end, on the tops of their kneepads and along the edges of the armour in front of their faces, but man that took a while. I only managed to do two each night because it was that tedious, no way in hell would I be doing an entire army like this. Very happy with the results, though looking at the photo it's not super-obvious with the lighting there, but trust me, it is in person. 😅

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Posted on 15 March 2024, 21:48

A photo of just one of the Assault Intercessors, she's in a very dynamic pose and is in the middle of running forwards while aiming a chunky bolt pistol in one hand and in her other is a chainsword like she's about to swing it at whoever it is she's aiming at once she gets there. Her armour is a deep rich red colour and all the edges of the armour plates have a lighter red highlight around them. Her skin is black and her hair looks like it's been done in cornrows.

My converted Intercession team is now completely done bar the basing and decals! 🎉 The magnifying headset and the absurdly fine brush I bought were definitely both excellent purchases, there's no way I'd have been able to get the eyes done this well otherwise. I included the second photo because I just CANNOT get the edge highlighting properly visible when they're sitting on the table like in the first photo.

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Posted on 21 March 2024, 22:19

And with that, the Intercession team is complete! So very happy with how these came out, but let me tell you, I am not doing this much edge highlighting ever again. 😂

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Posted on 28 March 2024, 21:22