Grey knights

 A small update on the not so grey Grey Knights. As you can see they are more of a Brown Knights, with their bronze colour scheme. This is only the base colour for the unit, they will get all the details blocked in at some point, in the dim and distant future. 

I do have a squad of normal Grey Knights, painted as you would expect, but these are going to be joining the Imperial Allies and only the Allies, as I have no intention to start a Grey Knights army at all. If I could have taken the other unit instead, I would have, but alas it's terminators only, so here we are, with bronze "Grey" Knights!

As you would imagine there are all the options here, with the apothecary (left), gunner with Psilencer, and the bullet catcher - because he doesn't have anything special on him (right). 

Next up are the Standard and the boss man, the Justicar. Each of the models are armed with a different weapon, not that it makes any difference these days, but I like the look of all the different weapons. The standard bearer is the only one without a combat weapon in had, but that's fine, I still have the halberd, sword, hammer and warding staff. I think maybe a should have armed the standard bearer with one of the falchions but I liked the pointing finger to much. 

If your wondering why I've painted them bronze, well here the reason, my wannabe Inquisitor Coteaz. I built and painted this a while a go, and I gave him a bronze scheme and I want to replicate this on the terminators as well, to form the unit in to a coherent force, separate from the armies they will be joining. 

These guys, while not cheap, currently just over 300 points for this group, will be used to drop in to the back field of the enemy, probably alongside a big blob of Scions, to generally be a pain and cause problems. They should be pretty hard to remove, even if they won't cause masses of damage while they are there. 

I am looking forward to getting these guys on the tabletop and giving them a run, I hope that they will work as well as I hope they will! I plan on running them at this year's Northern Invasion in November, so I need to get painting, because aty current painting rate, it will be a challenge to get even one finished!

Rogal dorn

 It's been a while since the Rogal Dorn tank was released and for a long time I wasn't bothered about getting one. However, with the 10th edition codex release and the new Rogal Dorn Tank commander, my option changed. To me, it seemed silly to have aLeman Russ commander ordering Dorns around. However, having the bigger Dorn ordering around the smaller Russ's makes far more sense, so I finally have my Dorn commander. 

There are two main things to note on this Dorn, the first being the magnets visible on the turret above. Not only is the main gun magnetised but also the hull gun. I didn't bother with the sponsors as they hold themselves in quite well. The main gun was quite easy to magnetise, the hull gun was another story. It wasn't so much the hull mount but the guns, as the magnet needs to be dropped down inside the hole on the back of the guns, and for the demolisher cannon this proved troublesome, as I managed to get the magnet round the wrong was on three separate attempts! The second thing to note is the head lights, instead of the stibbers or melta guns. 

This lead to the creation of a turret mounted stubber, placed at the rear, where the standing gunner would have been. With the cupola mounted stubber, that gives the three stubbers normally found on the Dorns. 

This stubber was kitbashed from a storm bolters, probably from a space marine vehicle, bits of a storm bolters from the Munitorum containers, namely the stand part, and the stubber barrels from the Dorn kit. This was then magnetised to enable me to pop it in and out of the turret. 

I actually really like this model and I still don't understand the whole issue (pun intended!) I don't see why people were so bothered. My Admech tank doesn't have a bottom and that's not a problem, I don't see it and I don't see the bottom of this either. If anything, it means I can store all the bits for the tank inside it when I pack it away, so that's a bonus as far as I'm concerned. 

The only negative thing I have to say about this tank, is that I might have to glue to main gun attachment in place, as currently it is to loose and just says pointing down when you fit the guns. No one likes droopy gums on tanks, it just looks silly. I have no idea what weapon options are best, but I do like the big gun, just looks like a proper tank. 

Skitarii reinforcements

Next on the build list were some skitarii reinforcements , mostly in the shape of rangers but with a couple of marshals thrown in as well. These have been a long time coming, and now means I can actually field two legal squads of Vanguards. This therefore means I can field the Questor Forgepact with a full compliment of Skitarii. The issue is still that I'm quite a few points short, but that can be filled with Imperial Agents. 

Anyway the actual models are pretty much as standard, including six standard Skitarii with Radium carbines. 

There are also two models with Arc Rifles, to compliment the two existing Plasma Caliver's already in the squads.  

Lastly we have the two new marshalls, one of which will be painted up as a Ranger and one a Vanguard, to joint the current Vanguard Marshall. 

 

As with the other Marshall, the pistols have been modified to make the standard pistols a little more fancy looking. 

Additionally, one of them has had his Alpha combat weapon modified to a control staff. 

It shows how long it's been since I even looked at the AdMech rules that I didn't realise that the different pistols and combat weapons that the all the same, gone are the days of radium pistols or arc pistols, there all just Mechanicum pistols now, same with the combat weapons. Anyway, the kitbashed Marshall weapons just add some extra character to the models, like they have been tinkering and upgrading themselves as they have fought across the years. 

Armageddon!!!

So it was a early start this morning, my boy woke me up early so we could head to town and pick up this;

We're going to be splitting the box, with him taking the Oro half and myself the marines, with the rest being shared between us.  

 As for when I get to build all this, well that's another question, given I still have two Hippogryph's to build and a whole load of models to paint! My boy on the other hand, well by the time this post goes live, I think he'll be well on the way to building his half, with a large chunk already built!