Legio Cybernetica Imperial Knight - TO WAR!

Hey all,

Not 100% finished, but it is really minor things like weathering the barrel of the cannon and adding binaric script to the chest scroll that need doing on this chap. No name yet, still working on appropriate background fluff for my entire Legio Cybernetica as well as the Knight.

I'm really happy with how the yellow has turned out on the large curved areas, I think it has a nice variety of tones to give it believable depth and age. Apologies for the slightly dark photos though, I couldn't fit the knight in my light box so I had to improvise!

I'm not all that when it comes to conversion work, so I know there are bits where I should probably have filled it in, but I'm going for a - straight off the shop floor and not quite finished look... *cough* ;) let me know what you think!

Peace out,

Rob

An Evenings Work - Imperial Knight Progress

S'up peoples,

So yesterday I (hopefully!) piqued your interest on my Imperial Knight work. This is one of those projects that spent a long time half built in a box waiting for my enthusiasm for it to return, and it has returned with vengeance! Not necessarily because I'm excited to paint it per se, but more that I'm excited to nearly get the Mechanicum finished and off my damn to-do list!

Anyways, here is how I left you yesterday...

And here is where we found ourselves at close of day last night!

Well I had intended to stop at this point... But I then got a small second wind and applied warplock bronze to all of the plate trimming bar the pauldrons for the shoulders. So I have a little more of that to do then all of the metal apart from the main body needs a nuln oil wash. The skulls and scroll work will get washes as well and then highlighting can begin with aplomb! The yellow and black also need some various amounts of line highlighting doing as well.

The shield will receive a substantial amount of weathering as well, mainly to hide the poor conversion work!

The only bits still to be prepared are all the railings for the top of the chassis, but they will be done last as finishing touches so that they don't get in the way of the highlighting stage. Plus the base needs to be built...

It is getting there anyway!

Peace out,

Rob





Oh and the rivets...

Building Site - Imperial Knight and others....

Hey all,

Now that the Night Lords have vacated my premises (didn't give so much as a by your leave) I now have time and space to crack on with my Heresy armies primarily. I am very keen to finish off the armies that I have mostly complete, which constitutes the Mechanicum and my Shattered Legion. 

I DO however also have a desire to make some headway on my (nearly) entirely third party parts Imperial Militia force as well... So here are a few pictures of some building and painting headway I made last night. I am hoping that the Imperial Knight will be finished this week and then I can start on my counts as Anacharis Scoria using the Belisarius Cawl model!

And the first nudge at my Imperial Militia...

Peace out,

Rob

GORE! Completed Arlatax Battle Automata

Hey gang,

So after some fun with a brush and blowing my lungs out, I present to you the finished, infamous, and decidedly blood splattered Arlatax! I should be playing this chap for the first time on Friday so I'm looking forward to seeing how he does :)

Peace out,

Rob

Return of the Cybernetica - Converted Arlatax Battle Automata WIP

Hey all,

After a fair stint of not doing any mechanicum, I've been pootling along with one of my final models to complete for this army, a converted Arlatax from a Domitar chassis. This guy is mostly complete right now. I need to paint the blue power effect on his trailing wires and arm gun, but then he is going to get a matt varnish (something I am always terrified of doing) and then splattered liberally with several shades of blood. 

Oh yes.

The Arlatax is notoriously a malevolent cybernetic construct and as I will be running it alone with the Paragon of Metal upgrade, it felt appropriate to have look like some crazed machine that has gone on a slaughterfest. Rules wise it will have IWND, Rampage and Rage! So with its jump pack mobility and move through cover, hopefully it will either get into combat and mulch things or act as an excellent distraction that draws fire.

Peace out,

Rob

Legio Cybernetica - 3000 point army list

Good afternoon true heretics!

Today I'm just going to run through my projected army list for my Legio Cybernetica when I get them fully built and painted. I currently have two Domitars and two Krios Venators on the painting slab, undercoated in black and just awaiting their white before I start layering seraphim sepia on them for the yellow.

I have also spent a good while the last two days covering myself in super glue as I convert a much more Dark Mechanicum style (because I get away with more mistakes that way!) Vorax as I don't like the bug heads on the official models and don't want to pay forge world prices for one just to cut it apart! Additionally I also have an Arlatax Automata to convert out of my remaining Domitar models.

Anyway the list:

HQ

Anacharis Scoria - I have so little reason to not include this guy. The Legio Cybernetica only have a few special characters and this guy is so ridiculously cool and lethal that I just have to have him. This is him at full cost with his Xanathite Abeyant. He will accompany the Domitar unit as a beefy aggressive unit.

Magos Prime - A tricked out second HQ to ensure a large controller cortex coverage. Cortica Primus for cybertheurgy on whole squads of automata, Macrotek Techno Arcana for a re-roll on resoting wounds to the Thanatars that he will accompany. Abeyant, Machinator array and cyber familiar for added durability. Also has an Augury scanner to give interceptor to the unit if any deep striking units appear.

Elite

2 x Domitar Battle Automata - A unit of two tricked out with frag grenades and flakk missiles. Essentially designed to accompany Ancharis Scoria into combat and kill everything! Doubles with a tiny bit of anti-air but only because I had the spare points!

Troops

2 x Castellax Battle Automata - enhanced targeting array with bolters on each arm, Aggressive unit with good Dakka and AP3, run them at marines!

2 x Castellax Battle Automata - enhanced targeting array with flamers on each arm and Darkfire Weapons. Designed to sit back and use their range to pop light tanks and knock models off 2+ save units. The flamers should give them some additional defence against charging units that make it to the backfield.

3 x Thallax - standard unit with Ferrox upgrade. This means both their shooting and close combat attacks are rending so they can challenge most things with luck! Mobile and can claim objectives, so harass and stay safe as much as possible. Also have melta bombs so can threaten pretty much anything really.

3 x Thallax - As above

3 x Thallax - As above

Fast Attack

1 x Homonculex - This is an Arlatax bought at regular cost that comes with Paragon of metal for free. It represents Ancharis' test bed for experimental modification. Comes with an arc scourge for additional attacks. Super aggressive and expendable as long as it takes out a big chunk of points with it.

Heavy Support

1 x Krios Venator - Anarbic claw and smoke launchers on this beast for a bit more cover save and an I10 attack when assaulted! I've not reviewed this guy yet so watch out for that one, but it comes with a Ordnance 4, S9, AP2 weapon so its beefy!

1 x Krios Venator - Anarbic claw and smoke launchers again for the same job.

2 x Thanatar Class Siege Automata - Enhanced targeting array on these guys, The Magos Prime can repair them on a 3+ with his machinator array and either give BOTH of them a wound back with his cortica primus or they can BOTH fire 2 large blast, S8, AP2 barrage shots in a turn. Sweet.

Overview

This list is designed to make the most of the Legio Cybernetica reputation and rules for battle automata. All these Automata have +1 initiative and also the cortex controller range is extended to 24". This is important in relation to Anacharis Scoria and his warlord trait. So if you aren't massively up on him then check out the review tab to read on my main page :). 

There is a mixture of ranged and close combat units in there with the Heavy support section sending down a minimum of 8 x S9 AP2 ordnance shots AND 2 x Large blast S8 AP2 templates down. Additionally the Darkfire Cannon Castellax will add 4 S7 AP2 shots to this mix.

Whilst the Domitar and Homonculex along with Anacharis will provide a supreme amount of kick in the teeth. They can really do a number on some super hot units, the main problem is footslogging, though with move through cover this becomes a bit easier to stick to cover for the most part and Anacharis should be able to keep any wounded Domitar in the fight.

The three thallax units and the Mauler Bolt Pattern Castellax are mid range units used carefully to secure or deny objectives. but they have considerable assets to aid in both ranged and close combat engagements. 

I have hopes of acquiring an Atrapos Knight before the year is out and that will either put me up to 3500 points or I will form an alternative list with the Atrapos as the big old hammer!

Thought welcome if polite as always :)

Peace out,

Rob

Legio Cybernetica Based - Preliminary Photos before gluing!

Hey Gang,

Today I've got photos of my Painted Legio Cybernetica models posed on their painted bases before I make and rash moves of gluing them in place. I wanted to make the bases very dark and creepily industrial to contrast with the bright yellow power loader scheme of the models themselves. I will admit to not being good with bases compared to many other people. So feedback on the look of these guys as a horde would be very much appreciated! Apologies for the flash also, daylight has not been kind today and I didn't fancy moving these guys into the light box after I'd balanced them all unglued!

Any comments or critiques would be welcome. Though due to the tournament coming up a week tomorrow any major changes that you lovely people think are needed will have to wait. But I will only stick them on with one foot and weak glue in that case... So still good to know!!

Peace out,

Rob

Legio Cybernetica Cohort - Thallax Update

Hello there,

So I finally got some of my hobby stuff unpacked and got back to work on my Mechanicum. I've got a week on Saturday to have them all done. The field is a confirmed 60 strong and the painting is always top class, so my main aim with these guys is just to get into the judges picks, which then go forward to participant voting, I would be very pleased with that level of recognition. 

The main not coming back from my last update was a light blue OSL instead of something darker or plainer on the Thallax lightening guns. I was umming and ahhing to begin with on the blue and you fine people helped assure me it was a good choice. I also decided to add some OSL to the jet pack to give the colours a bit more life. I've decided  not to add Hazard stripes to these guys and save that for Battle Automata. 

Anyway, here's my Thallax done for the tournament except bases. I still want to weather them more though like the Castellax also:

Squad 1:

Squad 2:

Squad 3:

Tomorrow I am hoping to get the final Castellax completed, the priming of my Two Thanatars complete and also get the mesh down on all the Thallax bases. I'm going to need to put some fair time into these guys over the next 12 days to have them ready!

Thoughts?


Peace out,

Rob