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Saturnine Terminator command squad member, a model for the Games Workshop tabletop game Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. Converted.

Saturnine Terminator command squad member, a model for the Games Workshop tabletop game Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. Converted.

Saturnine Terminator command squad member, a model for the Games Workshop tabletop game Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. Converted.

My Siege-era Saturnine Command Squad are complete, since these photos I've neatened up the slight overspills of paint with some corrosion effect.

Nothing like a hairy model for grossness factor.

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3 converted mutated Saturnine Terminators

3 converted mutated Saturnine Terminators - rear view

My next upgrade for my Death Guard campaign army for the Outpost's ongoing Horus Heresy campaign. 3 Saturnine Terminators in various states of undress.

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A converted Space marine Vindicator

A converted Space marine Vindicator - other side

Some converted Space marines

Some converted Space marines

Big update on my campaign army, this is 20 Tactical marines, a Centurion and a Vindicator built and mostly painted. If you've ever wondered whether you can combine the mk3 Tactical and Death Guard kits the answer is yes, but buy your greenstuff in bulk

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A lot of Solar Auxilia vehicles for chorus Heresy

From a few weeks ago but my current progress is slow. I finally finished the ten Russes I bought at the start of the year so this is all my Auxilia vehicles

14 Russes
7 Auroxes
4 Carnodons
1 Dracosan
1 Shadowsword

I always figured they were supposed to be Martian heat rays like War of the Worlds. The deflagrate rule means the target is violently burning up

Thanks, it was a really fun kit to get into actually, there's a lot you can change about it with not a lot of effort.

A converted Saturnine Praetor - a model for Games Workshop's Horus Heresy game

A converted Saturnine Praetor - a model for Games Workshop's Horus Heresy game

A converted Saturnine Praetor - a model for Games Workshop's Horus Heresy game

I've started in on a new campaign army for Horus Heresy, this time I'm doing Siege-era Death Guard so here's my Saturnine Praetor all done

The best part of 7 months and an edition change later, but my outrageous ten-Russ backlog has been cleared. Just waiting on a Bad Squiddo restock for my tank commander then that's that

Agreed, I have no idea what's in this edition for established gamers. I get that the urge is to not give in to reflexive negativity but really why should players be happy that a company arbitrarily changed the game on them like this?

The lasrifle kit is legitimately baffling, the Veletaris kit's better if just because the joints are all chunkier. If you need Companions I used Necromunda parts but the gold standard is Krieg Veteran arm sets. Alternatively the Legion special weapons can be made to fit for rotor cannons etc.

Oh and it's a lot of posts but while I remember, do yourself a favour and unbox every lasrifle sprue you have and do all the arm pairs of a type at once so you only need to figure the fit out once, because they're absolutely bloody diabolical.

Also thir markings and colours were very open to change, the base colours are that standard grey but mine are a light sand and no one's yet complained. I also made up my own marking scheme to make telling tercios easier and no one's said a thing negative about it, not that I'd care if they did.

I posted on twitter too but the Solar Auxilia were like a quarter of the Imperial Army by the time of the Heresy, the idea they were in any way uniform is ludicrous, they were a template of how to form elite Imperial Army troops that was then tailored to local tastes and resources.

The War Bastards are a fun pack but humorously my first thought seeing it was 'hmm, could he be female?'

Stitches has a nice relaxed look that'll go well in a turret though, worst comes to worst I paint the pair up as a fun side project.

I don't suppose you have a restock schedule do you? I think I'm going to use Stitches, sawn off at the knees, as a tank commander to lead my Solar Auxilia army.

You've got some wonderful models and I hope more people learn about them.

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They're my favourite army and I've painted a lot of them. They're a commitment to build because you need a lot of models but they're very fun and rewarding to play. They also look great on the tabletop.

Fourteen Leman Russes

My Auxilia armoured cohort's core is finally built, 14 Russes will be joining the Carnodons and Auroxes to build out the full army.

A Veil-touched model by mini wargaming

A Veil-touched model by mini wargaming

I’ve had less time now that baby care is a part of my life so I decided to break into a stack of models I’ve had for ages. This is from Ravaged Star by MiniWarGaming and is waiting for a final enamel wash, it’s been nice putting paint to plastic again and it was a really fun model

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Some Battletech mechs for a Federated Commonwealth army

Slightly different project for me, I've started a pair of Alpha Strike armies so here is some WIPs from a Fedcom company in parade colours. To do now is get decals on, oil wash them and do a final varnish.

A converted Leman Russ command tank for Warhammer

Thanks to personal stresses this year's been a slow start but I finally got the first of my ten extra Leman Russes primed. This one is my converted command tank, less its dozer blade and a suitable commander for the turret. I'll probably grab something from Bad Squiddo for the commander.

Imperial Guard armoured company, I'm actually building a Solar Auxilia one at the moment so I'm living the dream.

Similarly, I've got that first Ravaged Star one. Kickstarters make it easy to buy a ton of models fast so 200+ dudes can be one purchase a year ago that just shows up one day and you're ambivalent about after the pledge closing to delivery delay let you cool off.

If it's incremental purchases then it's probably time to consider whether your hobby has become buying stuff and maybe cut down. if it's a single thing like a Kickstarter that didn't stick the landing then it's one of those things. I've got a ton of Ravaged Star sat around that I'm meh about.

This is technically not AdMech, it's for the Mechanicum in Horus Heresy and they have minimal crossover with the AdMech 40K range.

Further, in the Horus Heresy series Oll Persson lives on Calth specifically because it had been a frontier world that drew in colonists from the central Imperium so it makes complete sense every ethnicity would be represented; they moved to Ultramar then migrated internally over 10,000 years

Ultramar isn't even a planet with equatorial zones; Macragge is but Ultramar is a 500-ish planet interstellar sub-empire that the Ultramarines recruit from. Even if they just recruited from Macragge and that was 100% white for some reason of course people would move there from all over the empire

Like here's an example based on a project on my desk. I'm currently converting a Russ into a commander because the army I'm building needs one and just painting one gold is boring. You don't see them producing projects like that because they're largely not hobbyists, their real hobby is complaining.

One of my big takeaways has been that many aggrieved 'Warhammer fans' online don't actually seem to be all that into Warhammer. They hardly paint models, they don't play, they never seem to post actual hobby stuff themselves. If you asked me if they were really fans of Warhammer I'd probably say no.