Today I thought I’d show a Tactical Squad of my homebrew Space Marine chapter, Revelators.
The squad was a slow project, as it took roughly a year to get from start to finish. I started it right after the Cultists from last post (well, I did some color tests in-between, more on those later), finished the first five around May-June of 2018, and then finally the last five in September, just in time to take part for the first time in Azazel’s monthly hobby challenge.
I guess the biggest reason for not getting them done sooner was the chapter symbol, that I only decided on last spring (another reason was Shadespire..). I had settled on the name Revelators (color scheme was a modification of the Revilers chapters, name would be close too), and wanted the icon to be based on light, so I had ideas of flames, torches or sun/halo emblems. However, if I chose a custom design, I’d have to freehand it many, many times and I just wasn’t/am not ready for that. I found that the Heresy-era Thousand Sons emblem looked suitable and was cheaply available from eBay, so I went with those.
As I mentioned, I did some color tests before starting on the squad. One was an orange marine done just for fun, the other one a proto-Revelator. In the final design I changed the lenses from red to blue (thanks, orange marine!), and went with a different shade of gold. I ended up spray varnishing these models, like the Cultists, with the same results. Amusingly, the orange marine’s shoulder pauldrons and power pack exhausts look exactly like orange peel!
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As I’ve said elsewhere – these guys look amazing. Any plans to modify the proto-Revelator into a matching battle-brother, and perhaps the rest of his squad?
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Thanks again Az! No plans to modify him, he’ll be kept as a memento. I have a couple of the marines left, unpainted, from the BfM. I have been thinking about including them in my Revelators, mixed into multipart Tac Squads, but I would have to do some work to fix the shoulder pads which I’ve fudged up when cutting them from sprue.. The missile launcher guy should be okay though, just needing a 32mm base, but the regular backpack would stick out a bit. We’ll see 🙂
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Really love these guys- fantastic work. Are there any more on the horizon? 🙂
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Thanks dreadaxe! There certainly are, and hopefully at a quicker pace than one squad per year 😀 I’m currently working on a Devastator squad, which will hopefully be done this month. I’ve also painted a pair of sergeants, which you can see on p2 of my dakka thread or on Azazel’s December community round-up. I’ll be posting them over here as well, with some added words, but that won’t be for a while..
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Cool, I look forward to seeing those Devastators! Love the smooth look of the armour you’ve got there, and the joints are really articulately done, looks amazing 😀
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Considering it’s quite a simple scheme, the grey and yellow really does very good! I really like these!
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Thanks John! While it’s a simple scheme, it’s pretty time consuming to paint! But the result is worth it. At some point I think I need to experiment on how to speed up the process..
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Very cool. I’ve always liked the two tone heads.
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Thanks IRO! It’s the same for me, and with these models I thought I’d go for it as I don’t have to paint them fast. I’m glad though that I didn’t put any more yellow on the scheme, as it’s a bit of a bitch to paint. Half a helmet is quite enough! Look nice though when ready.
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Yellow is a tough one to paint. As a matter of fact I’ve been experimenting with getting a deeper yellow lately. I used Zandri Dust from GW as a base coat and found that works pretty well.
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I like my yellow nice and bright for these guys, but I’ll have to try ZD for some project!
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