This afternoon I finally had some freetime to myself so thought I'd have a go at speed building/painting a pre-heresy mini from scratch.
Not waiting for the GS to fully set I furiously set about bashing this guy out in three hours. He's not quite finished but thought I'd post some pictures of what in essence is a 3d sketch.
I decided that rather than go for my usual gothic or heightened marines for this guy I'd try something different for fun.
I used the terminator legs from the Dark Angels sprue for the legs and added some GS to shape the greaves.
I then got a big ol' blob of GS and shaped the torso. Whilst this was semi-drying I started on the arms. Using the terminator pads from the same sprue along with the terminator arms I extended the length of the pads and added a rim to make it look more like MkIV armour.
About an hour after I'd started the torso I added the cables whilst the arms dryed a bit. I then cut up the stormbolter and lengthen it using the stormbolter from the commander sprue.
I chopped up a chaos back pack and added this to the torso. Two hours after starting the construction I sprayed him black and began painting.
An hour later this is the result so far.

WIP Construction




WIP Painting Scale shot


Side shot of extended true scale bolter


It's not a master piece by any means, the GS work is extremely rough and so is the paint job so far, but he's proving to be a fun piece to work on.
It's my interpretation of how I personally see Space Marines.
I'll post the finished shots later and then it's back to work on the Night Lords.

Scale shot with Night Lords Captain

JESUS.

That is a hefty bolter and, although rough, very nice modelling! I envy your skills. Like seriously.. 2 hours after you started you were at WIP painting? :o

nice!

Peace

WOW

If i try sculpting somthning like that it might take 3-4 days before it looks anything like a mk4 chest, and even then it would probably resemble crap.<_<

Looks good though. :)

they are looking awesome dude! hope to see some more of these bad boys!!

mighty fine work there, mighty fine indeed.

that, is, MEAN :D

Thanks guys.

Update

I'm taking the weather beaten campaigning Astarte theme to the extreme here.
I manged to squeeze another hour in today on him.









Still got to do some more bits, going to have to tidy up the bolter for starters but he's gettting there.

nice man its real good.