Epic Proportions Seventh Unit Completed

Ultramarines 4th Company Support, 2nd Land Speeder Squadron,  "The Iron Fingertips"

One of my happiest achievements with these tiny speeders was the Roman numeral transfers from one to five to denote each speeder's place in the squadron.

Progress on the Epic Proportions project seems to have slowed down for all participants, and there are rumblings from Dr TV that he may restart/reboot the challenge.  However since I have a massive amount of Epic miniatures left to paint, I have been slowly churning out at least one unit a month as a breather in between other painting projects.  These Land Speeders were a ton of fun to paint and I found myself getting sucked into the tiny details on the models wanting to bring the most out of the classic characterful sculpts.  Plus they are my only Land Speeder squadron in two huge Epic Space Marine armies so I wanted to take my time to make sure I really liked the finished models.  Follow along after the jump to see them from all angles in their tiny resplendent glory ...

I know that standard SM Land Speeders do not have missile racks above the crew but I couldn't figure out what else those tubes on the back were so I painted them as tiny missiles.  It was my first time painting white as a Celestra Grey - Ulthuan Grey - White Scar progression and I really liked how it turned out.

Large Roman Numeral "II" transfers on the side to call out that they are the 2nd squadron, the "Iron Fingertips" nickname I added above was my own invention since the Ultramarines 4th Company is known as the "Iron Gauntlet".

The afterburners are visible as the 2nd squadron speeds off on their latest recon mission, Hail Ultramar!