Revelators Devastator Squad

Finally! New finished models! Time for some more Space Marines from my home-brew chapter Revelators. A theme for Azazel‘s March hobby challenge was squads, and I decided that it was time to paint up my Devastators armed with heavy bolters.

These guys had been sitting in my project queue for more than a year. The basic models were built, but needed some accessories and basing. Additionally, the sarge’s arms were in a really weird pose, raised up and almost covering his face (what was I thinking..). I cut the arms off and repositioned them, and it made a huge difference! I really love the pose now!

Modelling-wise, my favorite thing about these marines are the accessories that I added. Up until now I’ve pretty much avoided adding anything but grenades and purity seals to the models, as the pouches and holsters rarely seemed to fit, and/or seemed way too large. The trick seems to be that you have to cut one of the pouches off (so that you get one large pouch or double small pouch), and then the bits fit pretty nicely.

Of course, as you’ve probably noticed if you’re familiar with SM kits, I’ve also changed the standard armor bits with this squad. I thought that the heavy mk3 armor would fit the Devastators well, but as I don’t really like the mk3 helmets or backpacks, I decided to go with mk7 bits for those. My “lore reasoning” being that the more modern equipment would provide better optics and more efficient power.

Not much to say about the painting, it was a bit of a slog, the gold shoulder pad trims especially took a little back-and-forth (Auric Armour Gold is terrible..). My Raphael brush that I had been using for general purpose painting lost its tip (or got so bad that I didn’t tolerate it anymore) while I was painting the lettering on the banner, so I pulled a fresh one for the face. Oh my word, I think I never had this good tip on the last brush! Well, I probably ruined it right the first time I used it.. But this was the first time I could paint the eyes without having to clean up the eyelids afterwards! Makes me kind of want to try and do eyes with dark outlines, like the big boys do! Just got to keep this one in good shape..

And to top the post off, I’ll get to mark another square in the bingo card! These were proper neglegted models.