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Tutorial: Painting Ultramarines the Stahly Way

How to paint Ultramarines Tutorial Hey there! People often ask me in the comments how I painted my Ultramarines army. But until now I never got around doing a proper painting tutorial. Look no further! In this post I share with you all the paints…

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Ultramarines Terminator Seargent WIP

Remember the CC Terminator Squad I painted for my Ultramarines some time ago? Well, they were missing their Seargent because back then I couldn’t get the tabbard bit in time. I don’t like leaving squads unfinished, so as my Stormvermins are finished now, I took…

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Thunderhawk: We need guns… lots of guns. Part 1.

There are lots of parts for the Heavy Bolters as you can see above, read on to see the wing bolters come together. After I’d cut off all the excess and and cleaned up the parts, I realised the parts didn’t fit (no change there…

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Thunderhawk: Front wings and aerilons

Having added the the rear tail fin in the last blog entry, I continued down the aerilon route and added the front wings, their aerilons and the main wing aerilons. First things first, a nice cup of tea in my favourite mug! Secondly the clean…

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Thunderhawk: Tail fin

Well today’s entry is all about the rear stabilising tail fin and ailerons. I’ve cleaned the pieces up as shown in the pic above. In these pictures you can see a groove in the engine, it’s important this is facing upwards otherwise the tail fin…

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Thunderhawk: Landing Gear Part 2

Brother Sergeant Chronus is mightily impressed with the landing gear. Can you believe that with all the straightening, filing, sanding of all the parts, the actual landing gear needed no work! It was a perfect level fit. Close up shot of the front and rear…

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Thunderhawk: Landing gear part 1

With all the smaller parts now washed, I could start making up some of the smaller assemblies such as the landing gear. As you can see in the first pic there are quite a few parts (none of which are labelled or numbered by the…

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