hey guys jay here welcome eons of battle and i have a big box to unpack ah i'm
super excited about this what is in here what better be in here is about
two and a half pounds of old school space marines from the late 90s early 2000s
second edition ah i have this codex and it's gonna be all stuff from this this era of warhammer
so i've got my reference so i can figure out exactly what's in here
alrighty
it looks like a giant bag of drugs
all right ah awesome all right what do we got we got some of these they are they're they're these
are when space marines kind of solidified out of the rogue trader days uh they sold them basically
in two ways they sold really ugly plastic ones in fact these ones three-piece plastic space marines
but to add variety and interest you would also buy alongside them metal space marines these guys had
more interesting poses and they came with separate arms and shoulder pads and guns that mostly get
lost to time when you buy ebay lots like this but i have a fair amount of them and i may
i may turn to the dark arts and cast some of those arms and guns we'll see we'll see i've not decided
exactly what i want to do with this force yet but let's see oh this guy's got an arm and a backpack
this guy also has a backpack so oh three backpacks okay so i got three backpacks and like 25 marines
um devastator devastator devastator hopefully there's one more devastator okay so i've got a
full squad of devastators and one laz cannon the devastators i believe were sold with two last
cannons and two oh no a last cannon a storm a last cannon two storm bolters and one missile launcher
so i'm going to have to see if i can acquire those pieces separately but at
least i have the last cannon oh and another devastator do i have the devastator sergeant
i do this is the devastating sergeant he has a power fist which he would probably never ever
equip on a devastator sergeant because they're going to be hiding in the back
not getting a lot of use out of that power fist but it is cool that i have the correct model oh
and it's too bad because he actually has a really nice little like calculator tucked into his
waistband because he's part of the devastator and so he's probably calculating windage and elevation
and helping his units to achieve victory and when i have two i have two devastator sergeants rates
maybe one of them i can use as a squad sergeant um some of these are blood angels which is a little
bit of a bummer um although it looks like it would not be that hard to scrape away the blood angels
symbols so these are blood angels this is a blood angel this is a blood angel this is a blood angel
this is a blood angel a lot of these are blood
okay this is a blood angel and then i've got classic marine
classic marine a marine sergeant a blood angel a no another devastator and another bloody angel
so out of the classic out of the three classic marines
what am i looking at it looks like the ultramarine's tactical swad
yep that is in fact no it's not the sergeant what model is this he's got a grenade launch
he's got an underslung grenade launcher on his bolt gun huh i might actually have to do some
real research to figure out who this is but it does not look like the tactical marine sergeant
interesting these two guys are classy classy lassies unfortunately they're basically
in the exact same pose as the plastic ones they sell but i'll make do now since i'll be able to
pose the arms maybe i'll be able to figure out something interesting to do with them
and this is a marine wearing mark 5 armor which is heresy it's called the heresy pattern and
boy i wonder where this it's not the armor from the it's not the armor from the ages
box that they sold i don't know where this would have came from maybe this
would have been like one of those mail order models i don't think it would be
ah space marine variant armor variants yeah there he is space marine mark 5 heresy armor
interesting it looks like there is only one oh well this guy gives me all sorts of ideas
like i mean he's wearing the right armor for horus heresy maybe i make a horse heresy army
molding and casting this one guy over and over and over that actually could be really fun interesting
okay awesome so i have a mark v a mark v armor guy and this guy ah i'm really happy i've got this guy
is he in space marine the space marine box no he is not he looks like he is in one of
the space marine armor variants uh yes he is he's right there he is in mark 8 errant armor this was
the latest greatest space marine armor before the new mark 10 call pattern primaris tacticus armor
the mark viii aaron armor was the best of the best armor around used by the death watch and
sergeants in the space marine army and the only thing that makes him unique and special is he has
a tall collar that hides like half of his space rain helmet and oh he looks adorable
oh this guy is a great get that is awesome um i will have i will have a proper space marine
captain decked out in mark 8 errant armor ah that's awesome okay so what what is here what is
actually here 4 and 25 yeah i was right 25 space marines uh a smattering of devastators and mostly
normal lads most of them blood angels but i think almost all of these guys are perfectly salvageable
that i can turn them into normal not blight angels nothing against the blood angels but
i'm probably gonna paint them either as black templar or as something not the blood angels
or maybe i do make them blood angels would that be cool i i i have this idea in my head of
making a classic making a space marine armory exactly as if it's it's 1995. that's kind of what
i want to do is make a truly retro space marine army either do that or build a perfectly retro
space marine army but paint it as if i'm painting it today with oils and airbrushes and all sorts of
interesting things i don't know which one would be more interesting please let me know in the
comments below what would you guys rather see a perfect retro bright colors and goblin green base
retro army or a retro army painted in the modern styles to see just how good these old models can
look i don't know which one i'm leaning towards so i would love i would love some input on that
but damn some of these guys i'm gonna get to go give an acetone bath to after oh after
i perfectly salvaged these guys oh i thought i thought his shoulder was broken but it actually
the so the the the power plants have two balls in the backpack and one of the balls
somehow ripped off when this came off probably in shipping hilarious okay
you look so dumb i love it ah good old good old retro war hammer this is gonna be a very very fun
little project i'm gonna have to get more stuff this will probably do for the space marines but i
need a rhino i need a predator i should probably get um a couple of the old metal land speeders
is that all is that pretty much all they had back then yeah that's pretty much it oh and of course i
need a dreadnought i'll have to buy another metal dreadnought because of course i have one behind me
in old 90s dreadnoughts they are an unbelievable lump of lead but yeah okay this this is exciting
this is exciting devastators tactical marines some blood angels maybe i'll scrape them off maybe i
won't maybe i like the blood angels ah where am i gonna come up with all of these arms and backpacks
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let me know what i should do with these retro space marines and as always thanks for watching