25 years later, that same boy (but older, fatter and balder. A lot of all three to be fair) was idly looking through a box of old minis with his mate Mark after getting a good thrashing from Mark's Tau, and came across those very same minis from his yoof, and both he and Mark agreed that they were pretty cool. Then he remembered another of his friends, Rich, had told him that dettol removes paint from plastic minis without affecting the plastic. An idea was born.
These guys were coooool. Rocket launchers looked awesome back then, and the Marines were definitely harder. I know because quite a few of them wore their beaky helments at a jaunty angle on their belts, leaving their oculum-enhanced heads exposed to the elements. And they had knives. Proper combat knives with none of your new fangled chain blade gubbins. That said, they did have weird chain-bayonet thingies on their slightly anemic-by-today's-standards bolters. And their dreadnoughts were, well, a bit odd-looking. But still cool in a misty-eyed-I-remember-when-all-this-were-fields sort of way. What with all this Horus Heresy stuff being a la mode at the moment, I thought that it was time for a true retro-revival: I want to make my quarter century old Marine army useable again. Hoorah.
Here are two of The Bloodblades' (I was 15, don't judge me) finest, pre-dip:
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