Righto, hi!

I've been umming and ahhing over a marine for years, mates with a few of the local UKCM and been promising i'd get it done forever, but cash has always been an issue - always put the money into other costumes or one of the 200 other geeky things i do, or frivolous stuff like food and rent.

However a mate of mine is ditching his now third-hand kit for a spectacularly low price, spat armour, BDU pants and sleeveless top, a metal chef helmet kit, and a handful of pouches and such, for £200.

Can't turn that down, so finally stepping up to it. Lots of work to fix it all up nice, probably need a couple parts replaced, but i've got time.

I've been grabbing the occasional part for years so i've ended up with a handful of decent stuff, got an ammo bag somewhere, a few accessory parts, and a snow wolf pulsie i picked up when they were cheap! plus a noble magwell holder for it.

Figured now's the time to dig stuff out and get started on it all, while i wait on armour getting delivered.

Popped my pulsie out and very timidly tore it apart, and got started on a few little mods and improvements.









Nothing special, just a handful of the regular mods i've seen folks do.

Added a trigger to the launcher, sanding and polishing the weird coating on the breech to get that nice and shiny, filling in the spas cage holes that shouldn't be there, darkening the ammo counter and such.

Gutted the magazine, would like to add rounds but no luck finding something convincingly sci-fi yet, no rush though. Got some Grenades on the way from Chef to swap out the shotgun shell too.

Passing on a few mods like rounding off the rear as i like moving parts, and leaving some other stuff i like aesthetically.


All the usual stuff everyone's seen but hopefully it'll get a bit more interesting when i get round to painting and get some armour in

Gonna be pretty in no time. Great work.

More progress!



Filled in the vent holes with a pair of old games workshop mini bases sanded and filed down, convenient size.




Filled and smoothed the rear vents, like this mod a lot, more accurate and a lot less busy-looking.



Starting painting now! Won't be able to completely reassemble until i get chef's grenades through, but gonna get things started.

Looks great man!

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More progress! Good day for it, the day moon shines and paint is drying quick so i got everything sprayed up.



Never been a huge fan of brown bess, so going with an OD. Nice brownish tone though so it's a halfway point, very happy with it.

Started weathering, scraping stuff up and such, minor paint apps, just have to give it all a dirt wash now!



Don't think i can fully reassemble it until i get my nades through, but it's shaping up.

Nice for it to finally look like a pulse rifle after 2 years...

What color did you use for the od green? I want to search for it on ebay!!

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It's a can of Krylon Camouflage Ultra-Flat Fusion in Olive (Blimey, that's a hell of a name.)

Really nice stuff Mostly airsoft shops get it in over here, easiest place to find it cheap.

"It's a Bingo " - found exatly one "Krylon Camouflage Ultra-Flat Fusion in Olive" spray in Ebay Germany - haha! 3..2..1..mine!

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Google for "Aervoe Olive Drab" - this is also an amzing od green brown bess mix !
http://i.imgur.com/Pw89iav.jpg

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That's very nice aye!

Dirt wash and some detail painting finished.



Pretty much done on the PR paintjob now, just attempting a convincing wood paintjob on the grip, then it's all done and nearly ready for reassembly! Really happy with how it's coming out

Wood grain? Makes me think of the USCM Tech Manual!

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Yep, pilfering it from there! Really liked the look, and it's another texture/colour which is always good - as long as i can get it to look right

Righto, progress!

I know i'm spamming a bit now, but trying to keep an actual WIP for once as i always forget!

Adding a cutout of welding visor to the ammo counter to darken it up and make it less "pink".






Plus, painted up the grip - first time i've ever painted "wood" but i think it's reasonably convincing. Really happy with it.






Nearly there now Just waiting on grenades and i can finish popping the bugger back together!

DAMN - the olive color you used is mind blowing good - did you weather it to make it more brownish??

BTW: I would also paint the metal plates on the sides of the snow wolf - i mean the "TD201203-0163" metal plate - if you use a sand paper you can delete the serial numbers and the "made in china" label

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Yep - the dirt wash i do is generally a mix of black and brown + matte varnish and water, painted on then rubbed off a couple of times, so it's definitely a shade or two browner than when i started

Personal preference, i quite like the plates being different tones - Little more detail. Mine didn't come with a 'made in china' stamp, just the serial number, so no problem

Edit - Got some post through! A handful of grenades from Chef and a couple really cool old alien minis.

Went nuts painting the grenades up (Wasn't a fan of how they were turning out from just polishing up the cold-cast.) and got one together for the pulse rifle, working on the others now.

Some time with a screwdriver, a hammer to bash the git back together and a little bit of swearing, and it's done!











Sorted! Pretty happy with how it's all turned out. Nice to finally have the bugger done after 3 years sat in a cupboard.

Great project. Thanks for sharing.
Amazing improvment!

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The woodgrain handle looks amazing, and your brown wash weathering is seriously making me consider doing the same!
Could you list the brands of paint and varnish you used?

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Cheers very much! I've done some really minor refinements, did a better job filling in the spas cage holes and fixed where i overdid a bit of the silver scratching e.t.c. but i'm really happy with it.

I can give you a rundown of how i did both - I mostly use acrylic paints, and when i do it's 90% citadel or tamiya as that's what i have lying around.

The woodgrain handle was, a good sand with low-grit paper, then a thick layer of Citadel Rhinox Hide (Basically trying to get the brushstrokes to look like woodgrain.), then a heavy drybrush with citadel Gorthor Brown to pick up the fake woodgrain.

Washed it with black (Citadel nuln oil, but that's literally just watered down black paint.), then washed it twice with watered down sepia/brown paint.

Sprayed it with gloss varnish, i think 2-3 times? to give it a good top layer, then hit it with some satin to dull it down a bit.

Honestly i was totally winging it, never done it before, but it turned out reasonably good


My dirt wash is a little more awkward, i use pigment powders for my washes - so once they dry they've got a really dusty, dirty look instead of looking like paint.

Mixed humbrol dark earth and humbrol black weathering powders with a bit of matte medium and some water (the matte medium tbh is unnecessary) 'til it's basically the consistency of thin paint, coat every part in it bit by bit then rub it off with a cloth before it can dry, let some stay in the crevices.

Reaaaaally light coat of varnish over that if you need one at all, 'cos it'll screw up the dusty look.

Hope that's any help at all! I don't really work in measurements so much as "Eh, that looks right."

Did up the other grenades - repainted a couple caps and added the striping, wanted a few variants together, plus did a Baton round out of the plastic shotgun shell i ripped out of the snow wolf.



Really want to get some more grenades in, do some more variants with different tip shapes e.t.c, probably get some 3d-printed soon.

Also, i know these are hella weathered considering they're supposed to be fairly fresh ammo! But i'm going with rule of cool here, my kit's going to be very beat up all round so i'm not a fan of how bright, shiny aluminium metal would look alongside that. Rather go with something duller and worn.

Sounds like the start of a great backstory to me! Stationed on a remote outpost under harsh weather conditions... armed to the teeth in case trouble shows up...

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I approve of that! Gonna need some kind of justification for being a dirty boy i guess!


Righto, dug out one of those things i've had saved in the cupboard for when i eventually got around to doing the marine.



What's this!





Promotional watch from when Prometheus came out! Got hold of a dozen or so of these at the time, kept one for me... because it's a weyland corp watch. The only identifiers for it being a promo item are a prometheus logo on the back and across one side of the strap - a little acetone, problem solved!

But it's mine, so it needs to be a bit beat up, so....



Nice little touch, i figured - vintage watch instead of a seiko.

Damn, yeah! Today I used "Krylon Camouflage Ultra-Flat Fusion in Olive" and all I can say is, that this is an AMAZING COLOR - thx for sharing this info with me!!!!!!!

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Love the watch, that's a cool idea, done well.

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Righto, got my gear through.

Third-hand armour in very beat up condition, BDU's, a pile of extra parts including chef pouches and sling, plus a full steel helmet kit i don't need (Would prefer plastic) so will put a few bits and bobs up for sale soon!

Loads ( i mean, LOADS.) of work to do on it, fitting things properly as most of it's a little too big, replacing a few parts that are just too smashed up or small with Chef's parts, adding details and obviously painting it all, but for Reaaal cheap i'm super happy.

I'm happy to put the effort in and replace bits gradually to make it nice, in the long run it'll make the whole project very reasonable pricewise, which is always nice

Not got much time to work right now, plus need to get some replacement parts in (better detail/size Chestplate from chef and a replacement right epaulette as that's broken all over and really rough.) but i'll start piecing things together gradually.