Last weekend I went to the Route 66 GT Kill Team tournament in Sepulpa OK, and ahead of that tournament I decided to challenge myself to go from sprue to painted on the 4 additional marines I needed to round out my team. 

Angels of Death is the new marine Kill-Team for the new KT24 edition, which combines Strike force Justinian and Intercession squad from KT21. In order to round out my list I needed to add a grenadier, a grenade launcher gunner, an omni-sergeant (intercessor and assault flavors), and an additional assault marine. After digging around in the bitz box (and sacrificing one previously completed model for the grenade launcher) I had 4 pretty good looking bodies! 

Chain sabers, helmets and decorations all came out of the White Scars primaris upgrade blister, grenade arm is from the Raven Guard upgrade blister. The power sword and hawk are both part of the Kor'sarro Khan mini (the body of which made up my captain, officially using all parts of the Kahn for this team. 

I absolutely love the "movement" of the assault marines, the grenadier in particular is probably my favorite model, looking like a coiled spring ready to explode in motion. 

I detailed my paint scheme in the previous post so I wont go back into it here, but painting them came together pretty quickly

I'd mostly finished painting them by around Wednesday, and started in on the bases. I still had plenty of stones saved from the last time I worked on these models so I dug around for a few good fits, and then proceeded to try and revitalize dry terrain paste to re-create the desert ground. 

Unlike the model paint scheme, I kept next to no notes on the colors I used on the bases, so I had to tinker around until I found colors that pretty closely (though not exactly) matched my previous models. Despite being a bit frustrated by the experience I'll learn nothing from it because I didn't write this one down either. Apparently I'd much rather work harder than smarter. 

All said and done though they fit pretty seamlessly into the display board, and I would wager 9/10 people can't spot the difference without really studying them. All said and done I finished with these models by Thursday, 3 days ahead of my need-by date. 

I love these models and really enjoyed taking a break from my terrain projects to knock them out, the grenadier is one of my new favorite models I've ever made. The event itself was also a blast, met and played against a bunch of great people, managing to take home both first place and best painted!