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Space Crusader

Space Crusader

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Hi All,

I don't really have a lot to show you but I hate being that guy that posts but never shares his own work - so here's where I am.

I've been pulling a few things out of my shoebox of mainly monopose plastic 40K 2nd/3rd edition mini's. I've assembled some Scouts, assembled up some old metal bodies I had (modern-ish arms though I'm afraid as I couldn't find any old ones), and glued some sand to the bases ready for some primer.

I think I pained that blue on in about 2020... I also chopped a few of the Scouts arms around to break up the uniformity. These will be for my little force of 90's style Ultramarines.

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No idea what Chapter I'll paint these.

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I also found a bag containing this old plastic Dreadnought so I thought I might assemble it. and get it painted.

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And whilst I was digging around I also found these - I've no idea where they came from and when I started painting them, but it'd be nice to do something that's not a plastic space marine.

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So there you go - nothing very interesting I'm afraid but at least it'll give me some painting practice whilst I pick a few more interesting Fantasy models, as that's what I'd rather be painting at the moment. Hopefully I'm at the start of a Journey.

Oh and this is my workspace if anyone's interested.

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Cheers!
 
Looks good! I'm having to use newer arms on older metal Space Marines, too. The metal is a lot easier to acquire than good quality plastic arm sprues.

I like the Chieftain! I have a TAKOM Chieftain MK.5, I haven't started it yet.
 
Knight Girl said:
Looks good! I'm having to use newer arms on older metal Space Marines, too. The metal is a lot easier to acquire than good quality plastic arm sprues.

I like the Chieftain! I have a TAKOM Chieftain MK.5, I haven't started it yet.
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Thanks! I found that - you either can't find the arm/weapon sprues, or they want £50 for them! But they don't look too bad.

Thanks! It's the old Tamiya kit. It's been on the bench for over a year but I'm slowly plodding on with it, The Takom kit is supposed to be very nice.
 
You stuck in a time warp @ManicMan, are you secretly a member of the Legion of the Damned?

Nice start to your mini projects @Space Crusader! Converting those scouts is a must and nicely done, fun as they are stood next to each other they are goofily posed.

I have used some arms off plastic HH Mk.6 kits for my metal Mk.7 marines, they fit perfectly together and look really good IMO. You can find the thread here.
 
The Robin Hood and Friar Tuck are both from Footsore Miniatures. I have some of their figures in my collection, they're lovely and mix in well with most Citadel sculpts.

I really rather like the Advanced Space Crusade miniatures, yes the Scouts are a bit old hat by modern standards but I loved the design, the actual game was brilliant and very immersive and I'd love to have a crack at them using my modern paints and techniques.
 
willlucv said:
Advanced Space Crusade miniatures, yes the Scouts are a bit old hat by modern standards
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explain? the main problem with the ASC scouts was the new idea for scouts that they brought. That scouts weren't, like alot of older armies, highly trained veterans whom have to sneak into enemy lands and bases to scout out the lay out and return with the information as accurate as possible for the army to be able to work out a good plan of attack based on that evidence, without the enemy knowing they have been scouted, but were a bunch of young disposable hot-heads who are just cannon fodder which are used to sort out anyone who has real skill (by surviving) and thus upgrade to assault troops.

What have they changed scouts into now?
 
It does seem the flow went: scouts=special forces so we should name a (colonial) youth movement after them to seem cool. Scouts=juveniles being trained to be soldiers so that's what we'll call trainee Space Marines.
 
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