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

Shattered Legion - World Eaters Centurion - Complete

Happy Easter Sunday (or you know, just Sunday),

More gribbly gory goodness today with the World Eaters Centurion for my shattered legion. He actually has two alternate weapons of a thunder hammer and power axe, but I haven't blood splattered them yet, but I'll put up some pictures of them at a later date. This gives him some flexibility in terms of load out with the magnetised arms. He spent his first game mostly running away mind you....

Expect more shattered legion over the next couple of days as well :)

Peace out,

Rob

Bloody and Based - Finished World Eaters Jet Bikes

Good Evening all,

Just a quick post of my finished World Eaters Jet Bikes. Just blood splatter on the weapon side to reflect that the bikes would disproportionately be covered on that side.The bikes are magnetised to the plastic column for easy storage. 

In other news, I'll have my Tarik Torgaddon conversion up tomorrow :) and hopefully I'll have a lick of paint on Torgaddon and the rest of the Sons of Horus command squad!

I hope you've all had a good weekend and I'll see you all tomorrow :)

Peace out,

Rob

World Eater Jetbikes - Horus Heresy

How-diddly-do bloggerinos?

Work on the shattered legion continues at pace! These World Eaters are nearly complete, short of blood splatter and some work on an engine glow, maybe, not sure on that one. The bases are all ready, I just need to buy some clear stems to go on them for skimmery goodness! The sergeant has a power fist, for extra smash face happy times too. 

With these guys nearly done, I have the Sons of Horus plasma cannon squad to polish off and then I just have a 5 man Sons of Horus command squad to paint and yes, I'm sure many of you guessed it, the big survivable bastard that is Garviel Loken is coming. 

Loken won't be getting the rough paint job that everyone else is getting, he will probably be painted over a 2 day period as my only concern. He's never going to be Golden Demon standard, but I will be aiming for my best on him and taking an appropriate amount of time to do so. 

And with that, I will have 2500 points of Shattered Legion, though having gone through my list, I think I will probably drop and sell off the Emperor's Children Palatine blades. They just don't work all that thematically and including them AND getting to 2500 means a chunk of upgrades. So overall the force will work better at 2000 points and be more fun, fluffy and a tiny bit more competitive as well.

Though against any slightly powerful list these guys will get smoked. But I didn't build them for that! I was just really captivated by the Audiobook rendition of Istvann III and I had to build a force for it. 

Peace out,

Rob

World Eater Rampagers - Finished and Bloody

Good day to thee,

A little adjustment here and there and then just had to stick them on their bases and cover them in gore! I enjoy splattering blood over miniatures a bit much, but I'm only going crazy on the World Eaters given it is sort of their modus operandi! I'e got 3 World Eater jetbikes in the works and I'm reasonably happy with how the white, blue and brass have come out on these guys so I'm pretty set with the scheme.

I've also got a World Eaters Centurion to build up as well, so I'm thinking of how to have fun with that and make him very "hands on" so to speak!

So soon I should have a group shot on my table of the whole shattered legion force! I'll also be taking pictures of the full Solar Auxilia force and when I get Belisarius Cawl painted up as my Anacharis Scoria then I'll be taking pictures of them too. That'll be a total of 9,250 points of Horus Heresy goodness complete!

Hopefully you'll be looking forward to that!

Peace out,

Rob

Rampager Squad - WIP

Hey yo!

So some rough and ready painting last night! I'm keen to get my shattered legion force up and running at 2500 point so I can get some decent fluffy games in with it. I'm not going to be putting vast amounts of effort into painting the remaining models apart from a certain special someone..

But considering these were only built the other day and I got all this done in a few hours I'm pleased with how they've turned out thus far! They need basing to match the Emperor's Children and then blood spatter applying as well as eyes and such picking out. 

I also managed to build the three world eater jetbikes last night as well as finish building and undercoating 5 Sons of Horus heavy weapon marines. I only need to build a World Eaters Legion Champion and then my Sons of Horus HQ and command squad and then the army is built and just needs painting!

Peace out,

Rob