1/6 scale Blood Angel Space Marines

[MrBackpack]

I meant to get this posted a couple of days ago for my birthday, but I never got around to taking pictures of the models that I am about to start in on.

The bits of armor are from 1-6th.co.uk and they were an early birthday/wedding gift to myself.

Overview of both sets of armor

I have one tactical marine and one chaplain in the works.

The "old head" is the chaplain and one of the "young heads" is for the line Astartes.

The Chaplain has more details on the pauldrons and elbows than the line Astartes.

hands

Feet

Bolter!

Powerfist!

Hands vs Powerfist!

Backpack!

skulls

I've been a Warhammer 40k fan for years, ever since I was introduced to it with, I think, the 3rd edition of the codex.

wish me luck!

 

[cosmic_x]

Re: 1/6 scale Blood Angle Space Marines

I have some of these parts too, we follow this, please post as many updates as possible

 

[MrBackpack]

Re: 1/6 scale Blood Angle Space Marines

This is my first major project like this and I'm really excited.

I've got most of my tools set up and ready to go, I just need to clean up the mold seams and flashing before I can prime and base coat; all of that before I can even thing about assembly too.

 

[Trigonous]

Re: 1/6 scale Blood Angle Space Marines

Subscribed! I've always thought larger versions of 40k models would kick ***, buy I've never seen one before. Looking forward to your progress!

 

[cosmic_x]

Re: 1/6 scale Blood Angle Space Marines

how are the castings? Mine are like crap

 

[MrBackpack]

Re: 1/6 scale Blood Angle Space Marines

how are the castings? Mine are like crap

Many of the parts need quite a bit of work: tons of flash or excess resin, on some parts you can see that the resin did not completely fill the mold (look at the top of the power fist in the picture), or other small things like that.

Yes it's annoying as hell, but I understand that he's not a mass producer of these things and I got what I wanted: a 12" Space Marine.

 

[prev]

Re: 1/6 scale Blood Angle Space Marines

Aw man!!!! I gotta get me some of that awesome ****!!!!!

Subscribed.

 

[MrBackpack]

Got a ton of the gaps and holes filled with 'green stuff' and started working on some of the larger details with milliput.

Sanding these things has been an adventure in and of itself. I hadn't noticed how much excess material there was on the armor.

 

[cosmic_x]

and I have to tell you, your castings look better than mine :/

 

[FoxhoundTCF]

Awesome project

 

[MrBackpack]

I don't suppose anyone would have any ideas for how I can hollow out the helmets so that I can fit the face-heads into the helmets, would they?

 

[metal wood]

way cool project. as far as clearing some room in the helmets you could do the ghetto crap i do, use a big drill to get the depth you want then smaller drills to open the hole then lastly files for the details. its dirty and about as accurate as an American election but it does get the job done