In Between Paint Jobs

I'm in a lull between paint challenges and have dedicated this time to getting the next group of figures ready. I am considering dropping the challenge being exclusively for my Ultramarines because I am insanely ahead of the challenge and it is starting to hold me back.

To wit:

Here are two tactical squads (troops) and their rhino transports (one squad coutns as next month's challenge).







Next up is April's challenge, elites. I took some classic (as in the first ever and actually made out of lead) terminators, did some serious filing down on the shoulder pads and used some from Scibor. I really like how they turned out; it really bridges the gap between "modern" terminators and classic terminators and they resemble chaos terminators which also bridge the two:



Lastly, also drawing from Scibor and an old (also lead thank the Emperor) Marnieus Calgar and I now have a Robute Guilliman (ahem, counts as Marnie):

Heresy Era Scouts

These guys started out as the plastic scouts from the Advanced Space Crusade boxed set. You all know them as the squat looking scouts with mohawks. Don't laugh too hard, they were once da bomb back in the day. I cut off their legs then added green stuff to make them longer. Suddenly they didn't look quite so dorky:


And the final product: