Sons of Wrath - Lieutenant on Wings of Fire!

Hello Darkness my old friend,

To break up the advance of the Ravenwing, I thought I would jump back to my Primaris marines, the Sons of Wrath. This chap has been painted for a bit, though it was an overnight job to get ready for a battle report with Winters, so once he was done and played with I mostly just needed a nap!

I'm quite pleased with how he turned out, conversion and paint job. I used the Sanguinary guard wings as I had them spare and I just really like how they look, same goes for the odd jump pack exhaust contraption at the back. Lets not look too closely at logic and how it might work eh?

Just 3 models left to paint up to tabletop standard before I can field a full 2000 points of Primaris marines. I still have several bases to finish off, as you can see from above, but once that detail is polished I just need to go back and add battle damage as well as squad, rank and role signifiers to all the miniatures. Which will wait till I have got through some more Deathguard as well as some of my other more esoteric projects that have lain untouched for some time!

Peace out,

Rob

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

Garviel Loken Complete

Hey all,

Started Loken at 11am and finished by 4.30pm. I am damn hungry! Time for a cigarette and a lie down :) Hope you think he looks as good as I do!

Peace out,

Rob

PS - I f***ing hate painting faces

Sons of Horus - Tarik Torgaddon - Complete

Hey everyone,

I hope you are all having a very happy Easter if you celebrate it :) if not, I hope you are having a very good weekend! I've taken the time off work to get my shattered legion finished, and over this weekend I expect I will have all of it done aside from Garviel Loken. I've got all next week off work, so on Thursday and Friday I will be dedicating work exclusively to getting that bugger finished!

Today though, enjoy some pictures of Torgaddon. I say complete, but his cloak doesn't show up well in the photos. The highlights are much softer in real life, but I will probably go back and blend them, well, at all! So expect him to pop back up at some point, or at least you'll get some snaps during the army shot :)

I hate painting faces, so I am relatively happy with how he turned out in that regard, though buckets of room for improvement!

Peace out,

Rob

Sons of Horus - Tarik Torgaddon Conversion

Hello again today,

For my shattered legion force, I will have Garviel Loken fulfilling my HQ slot for the Sons of Horus. However, as I wanted this to be a very fluffy force, I decided to give Loken a command Squad so that I could use that opportunity to convert up a Tarik Torgaddon model that looks suitably impressive.

I think that for both the Sons of Horus and the World Eaters, I might expand my small sections into 1000 point armies or maybe 1500, so that I can field them in small scale games or Zone Mortalis games (See previous post today!). In these games I would probably field Tarik as a centurion to give him the appropriate buffs and statline. But here he is just a command squad member. 

I had a little trouble deciding on his loadout, with a variety of weapons mentioned in multiple sources, some said that he occasionally favoured a long hafted axe, so I thought that would look coolest!

Not the greatest conversion, but I think he'll do :)

Peace out,

Rob

Sons of Horus Heavy Weapons Team - WIP

Hey y'all!

Been working on my shattered legion again today, should have the entire 2500 points complete by mid-April I expect, which should give me some time to give over attention to my Imperial Militia force! These guys aren't complete but also aren't far off it. I've got a command squad of Sons of Horus Legionaries to build and paint as well that will get more attention than these guys, plus the big dude himself (you know who I mean...) that will get an entire weekend dedicated to him methinks!

On top of this I also have 3 world eater jetbikes that are on my desk currently to paint and that will be the whole army done then! Oh scratch that, I have to build a World Eater Centurion as well so I can take the Sons, Emps Children and World Eaters in one force!

I'm in a bit of a rush today, hence the lower quality pictures, but once they are totally complete you'll get some better ones I promise :)

Peace out,

Rob