Blog ChapterAquila92's Grav-Russ Executioner and other Projects

Got around to priming more models for painting.

Spoiler: Tempestus Squad

Gotta have fun with model positioning.

Still keeping with the high tech theme, kept up in part by an interest in fielding a Kasrkin-like force since 3rd Edition, all of my "normal" infantry for my army are tempestus scions. Not one in favour of the baroque "platemail" look of the default plastic kit's carapace armour, I opted to kitbash Cadian torsos, Tempestus arms, weapons and backpacks, and third party legs and heads from Anvil Industry (specifically, Unity Council Marine heads and Armoured Legs).



This will also be my standard loadout for the squad: 2 plasma guns, 1 meltagun, 1 hotshot volleygun, 1 voxcaster, and a Sergeant wielding a plasma pistol and power sword. As befits the mechanized nature of my army, they'll eventually have a Taurox Prime to ride in.

Spoiler: Venator Light Maniple

Whilst I anxiously wait for the release of the Titandeath expansion to Adeptus Titanicus, along with several armament options to become available, I figured I'd at least start painting the models I currently have.



Granted, Legio Xestobiax, the legio I'm painting these as being part of, considers the smaller Warhound-Class titans to be a waste of resources, and instead prefers the larger Reaver- and Warlord-Class titans. Between maintaining a handful of Warhounds and being a small legio in general (50-100 titans at most) however, I'd be willing to argue that these are among the legio's only Warhounds.

 

Performing a few cross-posts from another thread:

 

One reaver built, one more to go. My first melee/close range reaver, this one will be painted up as Legio Xestobiax' Septum Caelestis Ues.

 

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Nice!

Also loving the shiny new avatar

 

Thanks!

 

So here's what I have so far of a Taurus Venator I've been converting from an Achilles Ridgerunner.



I still have some plasticard work to do on the model before I'm finished building it, along with properly assembling the twin lascannon.

 

Back to my Salamanders army, I took to building a land raider proteus with a hull-mounted twin-linked lascannon. For 30k, this will be the transport of choice for my 10-man seeker squad.



As seen in the photo, the track pieces fit poorly as is from the kit, so at some point I will be doing some plasticard work to make a filler track segment. As for the hull-mounted lascannons, they're from a spare predator turret option I had lying around (this particular kit comes with heavy bolters only).

 

Progress on the Fellglaive for my Salamanders army!

So far, I've got most of the hull built, and with none of the track issues I had with the Land Raider Proteus.

 

Hull built, primed, and pre-shaded. Same with the turret. All that's left to build are the quad lascannon side sponsons.

 

Crunch time on the Salamanders army. As I still needed a standard-bearer in my Horus Heresy army, I decided to build one using parts from the Space Marine Command Squad, some left-over bits from when I was building Bray'arth Ashmantle, and a couple of upgrade sprues from Forge World.

 

Finally, the last bit of airbrushing!



I'm feeling pretty confident in my "colour wheel" strategy to make up for a lack of Waywatcher Green in my local area, instead using a 3:4 ratio of Guilliman Blue to Lamenters Yellow.

 

My Salamanders infantry for Horus Heresy, barring my chaplains, are now officially "tabletop-ready".




Tactical Squads


From left to right: Flamer squad, Seeker Squad, Veteran Squad

I even had a blast so far painting up the Bray'arth Ashmantle torso I'm using for a mortis dreadnought.

 

As an experiment in using the new contrast paints as a candy coat, I finally got started with painting more of my Adeptus Titanicus models in Xestobiax' colours.

I used Apothecary White and Shyish Purple for this one. I still have to touch up the trim.

 

As some of you are aware, I've recently taken to collecting Skaven as my Chaos army of choice, with an emphasis on it being themed around Eshin and Skryre. To date, that collection includes the following units that are built for the most part:

• 1 Verminlord Deceiver
  
• 1 Grey Seer
• 2 Clawlords
• 2 Deathmasters
• 1 Arch-Warlock
• 1 Warlock-Bombardier
• Spiteclaw's Swarm
• 120 Clanrats with rusty spears
  
• 20 Stormvermin
• 3 Warplock Jezzails
• 6 Stormfiends
• 3 Gnawholes
• Warp Lightning Vortex
• Bell of Doom
• Vermintide

Outside of my Imperial Guard collection, this is by far the one army I own in which I have done kitbash conversions for. With that said, unlike the Guard, the kitbashing was the result of me not liking the sculpts in the available miniature line for some of the units I want to field. A prime example of this are my warplock jezzails, as shown over on the other thread, having been made using stormvermin and skitarii ranger parts and then given ghillie suits made out of cheesecloth soaked in a PVA/water mix.

Barring future resculpts of night and gutter runners, I'm also more than likely to be doing similar conversions for those, provided that I find enough skavenslave sling upgrade packs for the former and something else suitable for the latter. Apart from that, I'm tempted to go with 3rd party models of Skryre Acolytes that look suitably Eshin-themed, seeing as I'm not willing to pay over $100 for a 60pt unit of 5 pewter figurines.

Playing with the Eshin theme further, I've more or less decided that the clan my collection is part of, while nominally associated with Eshin, acquired some technical expertise from a Skryre clan via hostile takeover, and have since grown fond of using infernal war machines to cause as much mayhem as possible in one place to more easily distract their opponents away from sneakier elements elsewhere.

As such, I'll most likely end up having to build at least one DOOMWHEEL for a distraction carnifex or two.

 

@Lord Agragax of Lunaxoatl figured you might be interested in what I've worked on so far for WHAB:

 

Looks like the next three months will have me restricted hobby-wise to list-building, courtesy of the Royal Canadian Navy. In any case, it gives me a lot of time to plan out some army compositions I want to try building up to at some point when I get back home.

First on the list is a planned Night Lords collection which, like my Salamanders, will be as cross-compatibile as possible between Horus Heresy and 40k. Unlike my Salamanders, it's a jump pack army.