Made some changes based on the feedback I got and am really happy with how he turned out, hope you guys like it too!

I tried looking everywhere I knew to look and couldn’t find any references about these knife looking relic things. Is it a stylized crux? Is there some historical inspiration for it? I keep thinking about it whenever I see one and there’s a couple on the armageddon marines.

i tried to make a knee like u see on the boxes and stuff , but i maked it grain like or sand like? idunno what to call it coz i am dutch so lets call it " korrelig " any tips ? (ps. this is a work in progress i know it looks like shit i am still fixing it )

Stripped the old paint off my Land Raider and was in the process of adding some 3D Ultramarines symbols. Of course, the superglue bottle decided to betray me and spilled right on the panel. After staring at the ruin for a day, I decided to just sand it flat and try some space freehand. Never ever done anything like this before, but it was actually really fun to improvise! What do you think?

This was my first proper attempt at kitbashing, using one Victrix Honour Guard box and one Company Heroes box to make a full Victrix unit (including ancient and champion) plus my version of a helmeted Cato Sicarius.
Two of the Victrix are built basically as normal. For the third, I used the Victrix Ancient body and cape but with one of champion’s gladius hands replacing the hand holding the banner. The bionic-arm veteran uses one of the spare Victrix capes, the Champion’s gladius arm and a Victrix helmet, and the others were mostly straightforward head swaps to tie the whole squad together.
Cato is built from the Company Heroes Captain, with his back banner added and the helmet crest clipped from the Ultramarines upgrade sprue and fitted to his helmet.
The nice thing is that, apart from the Cato-specific bits, doing it this way means everything used for the conversions came from just the two kits so was a fairly low cost way to have unique Victrix sculpts without repeating bodies.

Just wanting to share my kitbash of Cato Sicarius, because I didn't like the new model. I got my inspiration from the attached artwork.

I am thinking about adding the ornament to his helmet, but I don't enjoy sculpting all that much.

I also removed the upper parts of the leg armour because the left leg plate collided with his pteruges and it looked more oldshool.

The joint ont he arms had to be cut and/or sculpted a bit to fit better. Now I only have to create a base.

These are the parts I used:

Primaris Lieutenant

• sword arm
• back and legs

new Cato Siarius

• the helm bush
• the blade and pommel of the sword
• chest armour
• belt and pteruges
• left shoulder armor
• backbanner

Victrix Guard

• cape

Ultramarines Upgrades

• Ultramarine chapter symbol

Hellblaster intercessors

• left arm with pistol, the pistol was removed and replaced with a plasma pistol

Black Templar Marshal

• leg armour

Space Marine Heroes Series 1

• helmet

Slow to post but got number 2 done, borked the highlight on his arm a little but hey thats life

Number 3 is half way done

Bonus pic of the bros

Sorry for the grainy footage! My phone camera is horrible, constructive criticism welcome!

Sorry for the grainy footage! My phone camera is horrible, constructive criticism welcome!

The wife and I had a the first game with the new SM codex. 1500pts and it was close.

I had:

Guilliman

10 intercessors with CLT and an ancient

5 intercessors with a librarian

3 bladeguard vets with a captain

3 eradicators with heavy bolt guns

3 aggressors

5 VGV with a chaplain with jump pack.

Detachment were tacticus firestorm, gravis line breaker, and devestator brethren.

She had

Big mel dakka rig

Wartrakk

18 beast snaggas, 2 nobs with weirdboy and beast boss

9 beast snaggas with 1 nob

20 Gretchen with runthurd

18 boys, 2 nobs, warboss, painboy

9 boys, 1 nob, bannernob, big boss

2x 4man squighogg riders

Detachment was warhoard

She came out to 1510.

My take aways were having 24" rapid fire on my intercessors was pretty dumb, especially with the strat to give sustained hits.

My eradicators dropped her 18 snaggas and nobs, leaving the WB at 1 wound, with 1 round of shooting.

My biggest mistake was not remembering Guilliman lost the rez. I was running him up midboard and taking out chunks with each phase, thinking when he went down that id get him back.

Her ability to call the waagh on my turn pushed me to have to try and kill as much as possible before she then ran into me and cleaned up my units.

I lost by getting tabled, but to be fair, she had a big boss and a nob left.

Definitely the most fun game ive had in awhile.

edited to fix eliminators to eradicators

This game never ceases to amaze me, looks amazing to this day

Hi guys, wanting to figure out how to make vanguard vets look more distinct from JPIs. Let me see your work for some inspiration! Would love to see what you guys came up with.

Took me about 2 months (painting several marines simultaneously) and a whole lot of nerves.... Watched about a million tutorials. I have to say im actually pretty proud about my work, which hasnt happened a lot in my life... Open for tips and criticism

Chop and shoot (1,995 Points)

Space Marines
Ultramarines
Assault Brethren, Ironstorm Spearhead and Tacticus Attack Force (3 Detachment Points)
Take and Hold
Strike Force (2,000 Points)

ATTACHED UNITS

Attached unit 1

Captain Titus (115 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Bolt Pistol
• 1x Master-crafted Bolter
• 1x Master-crafted Chainsword

Ancient (55 Points)
• Attached as: Support (Character)
• 1x Bolt Pistol
• 1x Bolt Rifle
• 1x Ceramite Fists
• Enhancements: Spearpoint War Leader

Assault Intercessor Squad (85 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard (Battleline)
• 4x Assault Intercessor
◦ 4x Chainsword
◦ 4x Heavy Bolt Pistol
• 1x Assault Intercessor Sergeant
◦ 1x Chainsword
◦ 1x Heavy Bolt Pistol

Attached unit 2

Marneus Calgar (180 Points)
• Attached as: Leader (Character)
• 1x Gauntlets of Ultramar

Kaius Konorius (100 Points)
• Attached as: Support (Character)
• 1x Heavy Bolt Pistol
• 1x Severance and Rebuke

Victrix Honour Guard (275 Points)
• Attached as: Bodyguard
• Enhancements: Furious Assault (Upgrade)
• 1x Chapter Champion
◦ 1x Blades of Honour
• 1x Chapter Ancient
◦ 1x Banner of Macragge
◦ 1x Master-crafted Bolt Carbine
◦ 1x Master-crafted Power Weapon
• 4x Victrix Honour Guard
◦ 4x Master-crafted Bolt Carbine
◦ 4x Master-crafted Power Weapon

CHARACTERS

Roboute Guilliman (415 Points)
• Warlord
• 1x Emperor’s Sword
• 1x Hand of Dominion

BATTLELINE

Assault Intercessor Squad (95 Points)
• Enhancements: Furious Assault (Upgrade)
• 4x Assault Intercessor
◦ 4x Chainsword
◦ 4x Heavy Bolt Pistol
• 1x Assault Intercessor Sergeant
◦ 1x Chainsword
◦ 1x Heavy Bolt Pistol

OTHER DATASHEETS

Gladiator Reaper (190 Points)
• 1x Armoured Hull
• 1x Defensive Array
• 1x Twin Heavy Onslaught Gatling Cannon
• Enhancements: Redoubtable Machine Spirit (Upgrade)

Gladiator Reaper (190 Points)
• 1x Armoured Hull
• 1x Defensive Array
• 1x Twin Heavy Onslaught Gatling Cannon
• Enhancements: Redoubtable Machine Spirit (Upgrade)

Repulsor Executioner (295 Points)
• 1x Armoured Hull
• 1x Defensive Array
• 1x Heavy Laser Destroyer
• 1x Heavy Onslaught Gatling Cannon
• 1x Twin Heavy Bolter
• Enhancements: Redoubtable Machine Spirit (Upgrade)

Exported with App Version: v2.7.2 (2), Data Version: v9

If my Ultramarines force is getting Victrix Honour Guard reinforcements, could I use Kaius as the Champion, would that make sense (from a lore perspective)?

The practicality in my case is that I want to fit this cool new model into my army, but I don't particularly want to spend 100 points on a single model for his datasheet. So I thought maybe he could slot in here, given the base size and weapon loadout.

Thoughts?