Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Deathwatch Marines: Specialists


Today we have two more Deathwatch characters. This time around is an Ultramarines Librarian and a Dark Angels Devastator marine. The latter is armed with an ambiguous "heavy weapon" and the former has a psychically enhanced force weapon (sword).


I used a Black Templars backpack for the librarian because it had a thick tome chained to it, I figured it fir his theme. The Dark Angel was a whole bunch of trimming and ad-hoc'ing with various bits and pieces. Hey, I used "ad hoc" as a verb!


I have no idea where I got the Ultramarine's bolter from, but I love it. It's got an extra large casing, and a scope with 'doohickey' wires. I used an Ultramarine decal on the librarian and an embossed icon for the Dark Angel. Funny thing though, the librarian was supposed to be a Blood Angle marine! Oh well...


Regular and Dark Angel-specific Deathwatch ceremonial pads


The librarian was killing me. I wanted to give him glowing eyes to represent "raw psyker power" and I wanted his honkin' big force sword to glow in a similar manner to match. I used a mix of wet-blending and dry-brushing on the sword and I'm fairly happy with how it turned out, it does look a bit better in person. The eyes, I dunno, I'm not happy with them but I kept redoing them so much I got kind of over it. Did I mention I did the wrong chapter?


Hmm, I am torn on this one. I went with a new style and I wanted to basically make him look un-40k, and un-space marine. I think I accomplished that, however now that he's "un" those things, I don't know if I like it or not. The player this figure is for isn't a tabletop gamer, nor is he all that knowledgeable in the 40k universe, so it doesn't matter, it's a "cool figure with a big gun" in the end.

7 comments:

  1. I think they look great. I am looking forward to some more Deathwatch Episodes on the Minions Podcast!

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  2. I like the glowing effect on the eyes, good job!

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  3. I agree I think you nailed the glowing eyes.

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  4. Thanks Andy and Tristan on the glowing eyes. They don't look bad, but you know how it is, you can only paint and re-paint so many times before you just say, "Eff it, it is what it is!"

    @Meatball: The episode is in the can, we just need to upload it. Sometime later this week?

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  5. I really like the generic big gun on the DA, for some reason I had been forgetting that my RPG minis don't have to be WYSIWYG. Him being 'un' doesn't seem to be a problem. He looks great.

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  6. Mik, that looks great. Of course, in 8-10 game sessions, that devastator is going to want to requisition some Terminator Armor. We can deal with that later....

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  7. @CFett: Now using LEGOs, your PC's in RPG games can *always* be WYSIWYG, but for something like this, yeah, no pressure.

    @T-Bone: We'll cross that bridge when we come to it!

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