Cadian kitbash

This is a project that has been on going for a couple months and at this rate will be ongoing for several more! When I brought the guard Armageddon box, it came with a squad one the new Cadians alongside the vehicles. Now I don't have need for Cadian, so I thought I would have some fun with them. After much thought and rooting through my bits box, I decided on an AdMech  vibe to the kit bashed, in a similar vein to the Miasman Redcowls, although with AdMech guns as well. 

As you can see, I have got some of them built and a number of them are prepared ready, but there are still a few that are needing bits to complete them. 

I have one plasma gunner built plus a number of riflemen, although I'm short on the rifles to finish all the models off. 

I have had to do some kit bashing to get some of the bodies to work, as they have been taken from a number of sources. 

Most of the bodies are from the Cadian squad box but some are from the Centaur passengers and some are from the Rogal Dorn tank crew. The Vox caster was from the Centaur, and is now sitting on a lascannon power cell, while sipping a cup of recaff. 

 Lastly we have the "Cadian" Castellan, who is going to be incharge of this lot. I don't quite know how I'm going to be running these guys yet. I would like to run them as AdMech proxies somehow, or maybe just keep them to when I run my knights with the guard, as a sort of guardian unit. At them moment however, they are more of a modelling fun project more than actual playing pieces!

Stripped models

Alongside building the Hypogryphs, I have also been stripping some eBay miniatures. Most of these were part of a lot of 22 assault marines and a Lieutenant, that I picked up, for far more than I should have, although they were still about half the price of new models. 

There were also a couple of other models in the bath, a biker, a chaos cultist, a couple of old skool marines and a scout. 

The assault marines were split in two two groups, 15 were mono-pose marines, which were either not glued or very poorly glued, as a number of bits fell off while cleaning them up. 

The other seven were MPP kit marines, who also had a zenithal primer job. 

The lieutenant had a blue primer applied, again he is a mono-pose model, from the 9th starter box I believe. 

The other models that were stripped were done for a number of different projects. The old skool marines were stripped for my eldest who wanted to paint them up,  retro style. The bike has been sitting in the stripper for a while, I have no idea exactly how long as I don't actually remember when I put it in, but it was most likely last year sometime! The scout was stripped to add to the existing scouts, even if they are no longer table legal. Lastly the chaos cultist is a possible conversion for a potential Cadian Recon Squad, but a) I'll wait and see if the squad makes the codex and b) I barely have time to build or paint the models I have, let alone make more!

Zenithal highlights on MPP marines. 

White marine

Black marine

 

Hypogryphs

There has been a short pause in posts up here, mostly due to the school summer holidays and our family trip south to see family and friends. However, there has a been a few bits of modeling going on, although mostly of this was at the beginning of the holiday. With the little one now toddling around, there has been less and less time to sit and build, paint or even blog. I'm hoping with the big kids being back at school and toddler groups being back on, I might get a bit of time to blog but I doubt I'll get much time to build and paint, as bedtimes are still challenging!

Anyway, her is the last unit from the Astra Militarium Armageddon box, the Hypogryphs. 

Both units were built pretty much as is out the box, and I really like them. They are very nice looking models with some very nice real world features. 

The rear stowage is the only part that differed from the instructions, with some of the pieces moved around and some bits from the bits box added. 

At the moment, all the options are there, as I haven't glued any in place. I hope that once they are primed, the weapons will hold enough not to need magnetising. 

Battle Cannon

Gatling cannon

Lascannon

Melta cannon

 I don't know how I will field these yet, but I'm leaning towards either battle cannon or Gatling cannons, running them as a pair. This gives them either some anti-marine or anti-infantry. The lascannon is a possible option for anti-vehicle, but I'm always weary of one shot BS4+ weapons. Hopefully I can get some paint on these sooner rather than later, as I'd like to take them to Northern Invasion this year. 

Centaur RSV

One of the last models that I have built is the new Centaur RSV, and I like it. I will definitely have to look at getting a second one at some point. 

There isn't really a lot to say about the build of this model, as it's build pretty much as instructed, the only difference being the addition of the side skirts on the tracks. These are supposed to be for the Commissar Graves version and are not on the standard version but they tie the model to the Rogal Dorn quite nicely. 

The only changes I made were to the passengers. In the box you get 4 guys to go in the box, but I have removed these to add to a kit bashed squad in making for the guard, more on them, as and when I finish!

Instead, I used two bodies from the Field Ordnance Guns, with bits from both kits for the rest. While it's not quite as intended, it still looks like there's two guardsmen hanging out waiting on the back. 

 Hopefully I'll be able to get the other guard infantry project finished sometime soon but it might be a while yet before I get a chance to sit down and finish them. It might also be a while before I get around to getting these primed up and painted! I also still have the Hypogryphs to build.