Red Marked Aeonid Thiel (1)

"Now we fight. For Primarch and Emperor. For the lost sons of Calth and for those yet to be born on Macragge. This is your hour brothers. Banish shame, banish doubt, banish anger. Show these traitors what it is to be an Ultramarine!"

The intrepid leader of the Red Marked, Thiel was instrumental not only in the cleansing of the 500 worlds but in the opening hours of the Battle of Calth and several engagements of the Underworld War. His tactical approach to warfare inspired his Primarch, Roboute Guilleman to rewrite the operational tenets of the legions into the chapters which would hold the Imperium together not only through the rest of the Horus Heresy but centuries after its conclusion.

This is the mini I really wanted to get right, and I'm glad I put the extra effort into making him. I based the minis design elements on the cover art for Censure and utilized alot an assortment of bits. I wanted Thiel to be striding forth with the sword "given" to him by his Primarch whilst still having the equipment expected of a sergeant of the XIII legion.