So it Begins, or continues...

Right, better late than never.

So I am the elusive 3^rd member of this blog you may  have been hearing about from my bro’s, you may call me Vangar, not my real name, rather my username, but I like it, you may also call me your liege lord, because that is what I am now. Deal with it. You wish-Daniel

Anyway I'm sure you’re all dying to know where I've been all this time. Well I haven’t been sitting idly these past few months. While I haven’t made time to buy and build things, due to university essays and Christmas and whatnot, I've been planning and pondering. Perhaps another reason I haven’t posted is because, unlike my fellows, my style of building and painting doesn't accommodate WIP’s, allow me to explain.

The method

While my bro’s have already thrown up a load of picture of model parts, built and sprayed (but unpainted) units, to be sprayed and painted as a whole model or unit, I don’t do that. I paint my models while still on the sprue, normally I put bodies, heads and legs together, but that doesn’t work for this project. As such, my models come out completely finished. Now there are pros and cons to this method, the con is that it takes a very long time to churn out an army, because I have a to do it a few models at a time, however, the pro, which I consider to be worth the time taken, is that the army is completely finished by the end of construction. I will never have the issue my colleagues do, which is that they end up with an entire army to paint; I’m not sure poor Daniel has ever wholly finished an army as a result, not that he seems to mind (except when I bitch about it to him of course >:3). The tragedy is that even though I will not have a working army for months after my bro’s, by the time I do, my nice shiny army has only bare resin and mat black armies to face. Such is the way of things.

The story so far

So the reason I post now is that I’m finally making some headway in the legion, as it stands at the moment, I have 5 marines done, I know, impressive right. When I first started collecting the parts for the project I tried to do a counter to follow my progress, like the mark system the ultramarines use in know no fear. Unfortunately it became hard to track the hours when it moved into weeks and months, so I gave up, but this is what I managed to keep track of:

[Mark-00.00] (12:00pm 28.11.2012)- first forge world thousand sons order purchased

 [Mark-34.51]- Bases ordered from secret weapon miniatures

[Mark-37.03]- Parts for Phosis T’kar are purchased on eBay (body, legs, head & weapons), and other parts are negotiated through owned bits (hand) and future kits (bolter, arms & backpack)

[Mark-84.57]- parts for helmet crests bought of bits and kits

[Mark-316.14]- paints, sprays and test models purchased from games workshop

[Mark-794.46]- rearranges and de-flashes infantry components by body type

[Mark-816.12]- begins attaching crests to heads

Man, several hundred thousand space marines managed to destroy each other in only 24 hours, and here I am, now in the thousands, with little to show for it. Moving on though, it should be apparent (and if it isn’t, it should be made clear now) that I am the blogs dedicated artist, and I’ve produced both banners for the site so far, and will probably doing bits of art or doodles here and there where appropriate. But this is also important for my legion building. You see, I didn’t want my army to end up like Paul's, being... well, alpha legion-like, in that all his marines look identical (shut up Paul, you know it’s true). No, I wanted every marine to look slightly different and unique, but you can’t just go building and expect this to just happen, I needed a plan, a roster, thus it was I spent a day and a half making this:

Pretty good right? Every marine i have so far planned to the last detail (ok, almost), I will add and update this roster as time goes by, and every time I update, however yonder that is, I will indicate my progress through said roster. I will also likely refine the method and build a roster for the Night Lords, I’d do the same for the salamanders, but I feel like all I’d have to do is make a single mark II marine with a phobos bolter and paste it 60 times, seems rather dull.

Lastly I may as well leave you with some indication of what the army will actually look like, so I took this picture of the first regal marine of the legion, you should be able to tell who he is on the roster.

That’s all for now my loyal subjects, Magnus be with you.