Shattered Legion of Istvaan III - In Defence of the Emperor

Good afternoon all,

Today I've got shots of my entire 2000 point shattered legion collected together! This marks my second fully complete army for 30k, the first being the Solar Auxilia. The Auxilia will be getting a photo shoot at some point in the near(ish) future as well. I'm well on my way to building Belisarius Cawl to represent Anacharis Scoria, so my mechanicum should soon be complete as well (though I do have a small purchase in mind for them). 

I built this force to represent the coalition of loyalist Emperor's Children, Sons of Horus and World Eaters in the aftermath of the virus bombing of Istvaan III. Whilst there were Deathguard on the planet as well, they were distinctly separated from the other three legions and so didn't warrant inclusion. 

Saul Tarvitz, as in the novel, is the overall leader and so he is my Warlord for the army. Garviel Loken has a command squad to represent the squad he dropped in with, as well as a Tarik Torgaddon model to fulfill the two of them marching off to meet Abaddon and Aximand in a show down. Rylanor the Unyielding fills the the final special character slot having taking Saul's place in the original landing force. Other than that, I stuck to no vehicles as by the end of their resistance they would have been perilously low on fuel etc so it didn't feel right.

I hope it gives off the fluffy feel that I intended it too :) by far Garviel Loken is my favourite model, but then I did devote a lot more time to him! I hope to enter him into some painting competitions over the coming year, I'm keen to get him into a Golden Demon competition and see if I can get him to the photo stage!!

Peace out,

Rob

Dreadtober! Well sort of...

Afternoon all,

So many of you will be aware of the Dreadtober Event that the esteemed Greggles ran last year and is being run by Joe B this year. I'm not actually partaking in the event proper, mostly because I had no plans to paint a dreadnought during October! However in my boredom last night I decided to pull the first part of my secret (and now not so secret) project off the to-do pile and crack on with it!

Sometimes during the hobby you have great big lulls in motivation and barely paint or build a thing for quite extended periods of time. My Death Company crippled me around November last year for a good solid month after trying to do too much to a deadline. 

Last night on the other hand I was a veritable wizard it felt like! And so in 3 hours of solid work whilst listening to deliverance lost (Heresy Audiobooks are brilliant for painting) I finished off Rylanor the Unyielding. 

His pose is inspired by a part of the Galaxy in Flames novel that covers the Istvann III massacre. It talks of Rylanor stood atop the Prefector Palace immune to the world eater virus due to his proof sealed contemptor class dreadnought armour. I have imagined him pointing his fist to the traitors as they land following the fire storm, promising them death and retribution.

A few shots I took whilst the arms were drying followed by the whole shebang:

Thoughts on a post card :)

Peace out,

Rob