I've picked the brush back up to hopefully finish my Space Hulk 2e minis once and for all.  I've had the set for almost 20 years; as they are just board-game pieces the impetus to paint them all was never there but I would really like to finish them all off.  I'm doing the colors in a sort of pseudo-Deathwing style.  I was able to track down some old old old decals on eBay (seller was local so I didn't even have to pay shipping and wait 5 days) so I sorta-kinda have the right livery on them.  Technically the 2e SH set was the Blood Angels, but w/e.

I'm painting these guys up...uh, it's hard to explain, but I'll try.  My wife started painting the squads for me when I got the set all those years ago but various distractions and so forth, they never got finished.  Her painting skills improved, but she never went back to those minis, and then she quit painting altogether after our daughter was born.  So what I'm doing is painting them in her early "style".  Ultimately they're still "just" board game pieces and so I'm not going to sweat trying to get them to Golden Demon quality.  The only nod to modernity is that I have mounted all of them on Secret Weapons Miniatures "Steel Invasion" bases: they're resin 25mm beveled edge bases that have that look like the overrun atmosphere processor from Aliens about them.  I thought it was apropos, so I bought enough to re-base the Terminators and Genestealers as well.

Interesting side-story: the back banner pole for one squad was broken and the pieces lost long ago, and that kind of irked me so I looked on eBay occasionally but could never find one until a few months back: someone was selling a whole, complete Terminator w/heavy flamer from the set with back-banner pole!  I snapped it up and swapped the pole over to the Captain, then filled in the attachment point on the purchased miniature, and voila.

That left me with a "spare" miniature (actually a 3rd; long ago I had purchased a couple of heavy weapons Terminators: a Cyclone Missile Launcher Terminator and an Assault Cannon Terminator with plans to create ad-hoc rules for them in the board-game), and I wondered what to do with him.  What I came up with was to buy some bits to convert him to an Apothecary and, like with the two heavy-weapon guys, come up with some rules for use in the board game.  

Without further ado, here's the first squad, completed:



Here's the second squad, underway (didn't realize my CC was lying on the table there!):



The soon-to-be Apothecary (I even have an Apothecary decal to put on his shoulder!).  His "bits" I'm waiting on are a chainfist and Stormbolter arm, which are being donated by one from a set of 3 metal Terminators of the same vintage as these; his Power fist and flamer will go to the donor, and I may either sell those or keep them on as reinforcements.  Oh and his searchlight, sensor and two "medkits" are actually 7th ed. bits but w/e:





Finally, a shot showing the Steel Invasion base, or rather, one of them (there are several different types of floor texture):

Next up are a whole Tau Fire Warrior cadre to finish, then back to the Empire for my wife's Sisters of Battle squad (it's really just for show, she doesn't play, but likes the SOBs ), then the Genestealers from the Space Hulk set...after that, I've got a Hammerhead, a Devilfish transport, three Crisis Suits (Broadside, XV-8 and Cdr. Farsight), three or four Stealth Suits, and finally an XV104 Riptide.  The vehicles and the Riptide will be a workout for my airbrush.

And after that...no more friggin' Warhammer 40k, EVER AGAIN.

Those look really good.  I always have hell with those whites.  If nothing else, looks like you got a good start for a Space Hulk squad!

Those are some older models, too.  Good to see some folks still use them.  I played with a guy not long ago who had one of the old chaos termies that was worn smooth and round on all the edges.

Quote from: Crüesader;944145Those look really good.  I always have hell with those whites.  If nothing else, looks like you got a good start for a Space Hulk squad!

Those are some older models, too.  Good to see some folks still use them.  I played with a guy not long ago who had one of the old chaos termies that was worn smooth and round on all the edges.

Thanks for the compliments!

Yeah; like I said we started painting these almost 20 years ago when wifey bought me Space Hulk 2nd edition; tbh that's all the "40k" I really play.  I will probably sell off the Tau force once I'm done painting it.  I bought them to use in SF RPGs but I find nowadays I really only care about fantasy when it comes to role-playing games.  If I did play 40k, I'd use the 2e rules and play with Beakie marines/Deathwing Terminators.  Although it's been expunged from GW 40k canon, the 1e/2e Deathwing fluff is probably some of the best they have ever, ever created.

The whites are actually not that hard; you just paint 'em up with any pure white (I use Reaper or Vallejo, never the GW crap), wash with Tanned Leather (same color as Tau Ochre), and detail up.

I am drooling over some actual Deathwing Terminators on ebay right now (from this same era), but they're NIB, sealed so the guy wants $80.  Too rich for my blood