My love affair with all things blue began one Christmas Day round my cousins house when I was given command of the blue squad in Space Crusade. I dont remember much of the game itself but I remember being hooked and hassling my dad for ages to buy me some. Being a bit of a gaming geek himself (albeit historical) my dad knew where these could be purchased and a trip to Another World in Leicester (before GW opened on the same street!) yielded up a box of the infamous RB01 beaky marines (£10 for 30-although I didnt seem to have enough bits to make 30?). I still have them somewhere but they were painted with Humbrol paints and well, I was 10, so you can guess how they look.
Fast forward to my time working for GW when there were countless opportunities to benefit from more free space marines than you can shake a stick at (thank you Stock Take Booty!) as well as a very generous staff discount meant I could get the metal shoulder pads for 1p each.
Fast forward again to 2013 when I finally get around to doing something with them again, mainly thanks to playing Space Marine on the xbox 360.
The ultimate aim is to paint up a full battle company plus lots of extras. Even if they don't make a particularly effective force, hopefully they will still be fun to try out.
Freshly painted assault squad - started these in 2006...
My Company Commander
An updated tactical squad. Painted these in 06 but have updated with a new base edge and some liberal application of nuln oil
Comments etc always appreciated. Plenty more to follow (if I dont get distracted, fickle soul that I am)
