Years ago on the GW website when the 4th edition Space Marine Codex was released, GW put up some awesome marine sketches. Mark Gibbons, now with Blizzard Entertainment, was doing concept art for GW at the time, and contributed some great variety to the ever growing Space Marine ideas vault. One that captured my attention was a heavily armored heavy weapon totting Marine. This conversion is one of my attempts at playing around with a few different ideas.
I expect this marine to withstand a fearsome barrage of weaponry and still maintain a high fire output due to the additional protection of the shield and armor plating.
This marine has personalized his equipment with a lone bleeding heart on his knee guard and the artificiers have placed a zorathrax hair crest on his helmet.
Maybe I'll get around to painting more of the Lamenters one day. But before then, I'll be working on my Blood Angels
This one's just for you, Gospog. I only have a single unit of Lamenter Marines in my Badab Crusade Army but they stand out above all others. Yellow just draws the eye from across the room. What I really like about my Crusade army is that I can paint all kinds of different units and colors so I have lots of variety to choose from.
This is my banner for my Badab Crusade Army carried by a Mantis Warrior Space Marine. Its big, its cool, and contains a bunch of interesting iconography. See if you can figure any of it out. The pole is made out of a long tube of brass, topped by an Aquila. The banner is flanked by litanies of purity, honor, achievements, and crimes of the Badab traitors.
Shown above is a side view of the Mantis Warrior. I used Dark Eldar jaggedy bits behind the forearms to carry the Mantis claw arm theme from the dreadnought onto the rest of my Mantis Warriors. I'm pleased with the result.
Behold, this is my Mantis Warrior Dreadnought Brother Fornaxa for my Badab Crusade Army. The Power Claw was made out of thick plasticard and was cut and scraped to get the look of a Praying Mantis claw. I've always envisioned in my mind that this dreadnought silently moving through the forest killing enemies at will. The claw is really huge but that makes is even more scary!
My Badab Crusade army is made up of all the loyalist chapters that participated in the Badab War and that didn't flee to the Maelstrom with Huron Blackheart. Each member of the Crusade carries at black shoulder pad on the right with my robed Crusader device and their Chapter iconography on the left shoulder.
Intrepid readers will know that I made this army about 5 years ago and many of the forthcoming units were shown in a great series of White Dwarf Battle Reports against John Shaffer and his Huron Blackheart crew. This model was never photographed or published so I'm sharing him now.
