Space Marines

A meandering road towards NoVA – Part 1

All these other fools with there road to NoVA posts have inspired me to make one of my own. I don't actually know if I'm going to NoVA, but it's a good goal, and a good way to Just...

SRM’s Road to NOVA Part 1 – Plus Ultra

Hey all, it's me, Campbell McLaughlin of The 40k Badcast and also those extremely dumb Dawn of Awesome cartoons from like 10 years ago. This is gonna be my fourth NOVA Open, and hopefully not the second year running...

Coda’s 2019 and 2017 Chapter Challenge Astartes

Without further ado: "During M42, The Custiam Capitis or The Head Guard in low gothic, chapter operated not as a cohesive whole but rather small detachments of ten to twenty Astartes. These detachments were sent by Roboute Guilliman himself to...

20 Years Of Coda-ing – A Retro Combat Squad Story. Part 2 – Return Of The Bright Green Paint

Gday fellow web dwellers! With the squad assembled it's time for the dreaded 'painting' step. If you are stumbling onto this with no context you can catch up here: Part 0: Intro and dissection of how badly 10 year old me...

How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Bullet Pings

This step by step is for minor bullet pings on Armor. My base color is unbleached titanium, which looks like it falls somewhere between screaming skull and ushabti bone in GW paint. The brown is burnt umber, it looks...

20 Years Of Coda-ing – A Retro Combat Squad Story. Part 1 – Some Assembly Required

Gday fellow web dwellers! I've made some progress on the new-old squad! So now we know why I'm doing this and why the marines look like plasma overcharge survivors we can move onto cracking some 20 year old shrink wrap, busting open...

How to Paint Everything: Painting Damage – Frag Scarring

This is a short step by step for painting on an explosive blast mark. It's based on a mortar shell impact on concrete. It could also represent acid spit/splash corrosion with some green or yellow mottled into the scarring....

20 Years Of Coda-ing – A Retro Combat Squad Story. Part 0 – An Intro And Some Really Badly Painted Dudes

Sup my fellow nerds. November 2018 is my 20th year in this hobby, so in a fit of slightly tipsy nostigala I picked up this a few months ago.   Oh yeah it's the OG Space Marine Combat Squad in all it's...

Playing with the Big Boys – Primaris Kill Teams

I imagine I am not alone in liking the look of the Primaris models. These marines, far closer to true scale than previous iterations of marines, are larger, easier to paint, and hark back to the clean lines of...