Astartes without purity seals? No way!

As final touches for my project I decided to approach hand-made purity seals. Personally I don’t like that seal and parchment from original riffle, it looks like scaled-up mini figure, absolutely not detailed and not realistic at all.First I recreated “seals” as copy of original one – mine was created from GreenStuff, then painted Citadel…

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Shield, details and weathering

My take of shoulder shield design finalized as some kind of campaign specific. It is hand painted with Citadel/Vallejo Game acrylics with some decals added from GreenStuffWorld set – I really like how it ended up – then some more weathering and its done.Additional decals and weathering was applied on a figure, looks wear and…

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A project within the project

Ultramarine sword getting proper shape, following my drawing, I started to recreate a sword from plain pla plates. In meantime, SpaceMarine was a bit weathered and flat black was applied on armor joints and future gold trims. I’m always putting black base before gold application – its just looks better that way 🙂 Additional sword…

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Imperialis

AK Xtreme metal gold/bronze/and steel metallic paints were used to paint Imperialis and shoulder icons.I was a hell of masking – but effect is just worth it! AX Xtreme Metal – easy to use – great effects! Best metallics imho.

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Boy in blue…

I applied Vallejo Chipping medium and started to paint blue shades from Vallejo Mecha range. I was not so happy with chipping effects – it was way to heavy I expected and planned… Anyhow – I was planning to pain this marine as really beaten up veteran – so maybe this chipping will work fine.…

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Iron Halo? Why not!

I was still missing something for my Ultra Veteran, maybe Iron Halo? Affirmative! Did quick paper drawing to get right proportions, then 1,5mm pla-plates were used. For spikes, I took plastic rod from sprues and fixed it to electric hobby drill (Parkside brand from Lidl – love it!), then sanding blocks did the job well!…

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Ultramarine shoulder pads

Space Marines iconic shoulder armor needed some more details and relief iconography. There are a lot of custom 3D printed upgrades for MCFarlane primaris figures – none was fitting my vision and plan… decided to go and build some from pla-plates and pla profiles – thank you GreenStuffWorld 🙂 I started with plain Ultramarines Icon,…

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