Haha. I've started a project so incredibly sad, it's humorous. Okay, get this. My friend agrees to buy this guy's "1000 points" of space marines without seeing them first. When he picks them up and gives the seller $100, he finds the following pathetic models:
Some poorly painted terminators:
Okay... some even more poorly painted assault marines:
Some heavy weapons. My friend apparently tried to somehow remove the paint from the one with the heavy bolter, scratching up the model real bad...
Now we get into the good stuff, the tactical squad... I think... Here are the best models of that squad. One model here came with a flock 'bush' covering the entire lower half of his body:
Here we have a very interestingly posed marine holding a bolter in a very strange way and holding a power sword as if he's about to shank someone with it. Also, the shoulder pads?!?!:
This model had a power fist and a plasma pistol at one point but they fell off as soon as I touched it?
This model is dual wielding. Is that even possible?
"Yes!!!" ... He also had a power sword held in his power fist, but I removed that already:
I don't know where this marine's legs went:
And I already put these two models in some Simple Green, but one was holding a missile launcher in one hand and a knife in the other hand. The other model in there is randomly painted red with another pair of the incorrectly positioned shoulder pads...
And finally, an army shot! $100 worth (and supposedly 1000 points) of space marines:
Hoorah!
So it got to a point where my friend was sick of looking at these models and offered to simply give them to me. Well I felt bad for him, so I decided to give him $20 for the lot (which also includes 15 Eldar Guardians and 4 swooping hawks)... So now all of these fine models have made their way into my hands to try to fix them up! I have a lot of work ahead of me, don't I? First things first, I think I need to work on stripping and disassembling these models, procuring some bits (for example, legs) to use to fix them up, and getting a codex to figure out what, exactly, I have here...
Oh yeah. And I'm probably going to add my 10 marines from the Battle for Macragge set, which my friend borrowed. Unfortunately he cannot find two of said marines. *sigh*