Waaay back under Bush Sr., when I was in high school I got into 40k. It started when I got hooked on Space Hulk. I branched out from there and built a little space marine army. My painting method was simple - spray everything black, paint skulls on everything, add some bits of color, and brush bolt metal on the weapons. (okay, i put a LITTLE more work into than that, but I never really worked on improving my skills)
Eventually i lost interest and got rid of my army. I never lost complete interest in the 40k universe, I eventually got back in through the books. When Space Hulk V3 came out I dived back in, I bought 2 copies of SH-v3, but since I don't like Blood Angels, and thought the new terms where just too far beyond my skills as a painter, so I got rid of them on ebay and bought some generics. spent time hunting for bargins and buying cheap bits until I ended up with 65 terminators. YES - SIXTY-FIVE, 23 are black reach, (but none of the seargents because I thought the BR term sarg's where stupid, those little roman skirt thinkgs look dumb. IMHO) Then I bought a copy of Black Reach, a SM Battleforce, a SM Megaforce and bunch of other stuff and started to assemble my little army.
I decided not to use any existing chapter, but to base my army on the Imperiel fist with some modafications - yellow armor with white and red highlights.
The fluff - The Brootherhood are a second founding chapter based on the Imperial Fist geneseed.
After the Horus Heresy and its aftermath memebers of the Mechanicum approached Guiliman and asked that a chapter of space marines be assigned to help them seek out lost technology. Notall Mechanicum members where happy about the idea of sharing their knowledge with a chapter of SM who were loyal to there Primarch first. It was decided to found a new chapter direct from geneseed, rather than choose existing forces. The Mechanicum made carefull selection of youth from their own forgeworlds to gather the needed recruits and oversaw the creation of the new chapter with a carefull eye.
for more than a thousand years the Brotherhood waded through blood to help gather lost technology until a conflict arose between them and the Mechanicum. Many in the Mechanicum thought Space Marines where too human to ever be truly usefull and wanted the brotherhood converted into servitors - all limbs replaced with machine limbs, brains altered and so on. The Marines objected and left the service of the Mechanicum (and left various Mechanicum members dead on the way out.)
The Brotherhood Wears yellow armor in honor of Rogal Dorn, but uses white and red as hightlights. They are a non-codex chapter, althogh the codex is respected and studied, its no considered the last word on anything. The brotherhood devides into nine companies instead of 10 and each company maintains its own terminators and scouts. Once a scout has proven worthy of his armor he is taken into squad 10 or squad 9, his armor will not yet bear the aquilla - he must "earn the eagle" by an act of valour or by a long period of reliable service. Once the new space marine has earned the eagle he recives a new chestplate with the aquilla and is placed in one of the squads from 2 to 8, squad one is a veteran squad.
(this is not a tournament army, it is just a big pool of modesl from which I could draw smaller armies for games and have fun putting together and painting.)
My painting skills haven't improved from the spray-on-black days, but I am starting to practice, also i don't have a steady hand. But I promise to improve over time. so please go easy on me.
here is a link to my pictures
I wish my camera wasn't so good, it really shows how crappy my paint job is so far. The yellow I'm using needs at least another coat to look even, and lots of bits aren't painted yet. this is still very much a work in progress. I've got lots of command fugres and extra guys to paint, and haven't touched my scouts yet.
Eventually i lost interest and got rid of my army. I never lost complete interest in the 40k universe, I eventually got back in through the books. When Space Hulk V3 came out I dived back in, I bought 2 copies of SH-v3, but since I don't like Blood Angels, and thought the new terms where just too far beyond my skills as a painter, so I got rid of them on ebay and bought some generics. spent time hunting for bargins and buying cheap bits until I ended up with 65 terminators. YES - SIXTY-FIVE, 23 are black reach, (but none of the seargents because I thought the BR term sarg's where stupid, those little roman skirt thinkgs look dumb. IMHO) Then I bought a copy of Black Reach, a SM Battleforce, a SM Megaforce and bunch of other stuff and started to assemble my little army.
I decided not to use any existing chapter, but to base my army on the Imperiel fist with some modafications - yellow armor with white and red highlights.
The fluff - The Brootherhood are a second founding chapter based on the Imperial Fist geneseed.
After the Horus Heresy and its aftermath memebers of the Mechanicum approached Guiliman and asked that a chapter of space marines be assigned to help them seek out lost technology. Notall Mechanicum members where happy about the idea of sharing their knowledge with a chapter of SM who were loyal to there Primarch first. It was decided to found a new chapter direct from geneseed, rather than choose existing forces. The Mechanicum made carefull selection of youth from their own forgeworlds to gather the needed recruits and oversaw the creation of the new chapter with a carefull eye.
for more than a thousand years the Brotherhood waded through blood to help gather lost technology until a conflict arose between them and the Mechanicum. Many in the Mechanicum thought Space Marines where too human to ever be truly usefull and wanted the brotherhood converted into servitors - all limbs replaced with machine limbs, brains altered and so on. The Marines objected and left the service of the Mechanicum (and left various Mechanicum members dead on the way out.)
The Brotherhood Wears yellow armor in honor of Rogal Dorn, but uses white and red as hightlights. They are a non-codex chapter, althogh the codex is respected and studied, its no considered the last word on anything. The brotherhood devides into nine companies instead of 10 and each company maintains its own terminators and scouts. Once a scout has proven worthy of his armor he is taken into squad 10 or squad 9, his armor will not yet bear the aquilla - he must "earn the eagle" by an act of valour or by a long period of reliable service. Once the new space marine has earned the eagle he recives a new chestplate with the aquilla and is placed in one of the squads from 2 to 8, squad one is a veteran squad.
(this is not a tournament army, it is just a big pool of modesl from which I could draw smaller armies for games and have fun putting together and painting.)
My painting skills haven't improved from the spray-on-black days, but I am starting to practice, also i don't have a steady hand. But I promise to improve over time. so please go easy on me.
here is a link to my pictures
I wish my camera wasn't so good, it really shows how crappy my paint job is so far. The yellow I'm using needs at least another coat to look even, and lots of bits aren't painted yet. this is still very much a work in progress. I've got lots of command fugres and extra guys to paint, and haven't touched my scouts yet.
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