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How much free time do you have? Of your answer was: "All of it," might I suggest stealing the style of the Salamanders before they became the boring green Marines. Here's a tank done up in the classic style:

Camo is used by chapters. Howling Griffons use a Black Night World camo on occasions. Raptors use camo alot. So your chapter can make use of camo.

1, draws upon interesting lore, so I guess this a good place for create your own house 2, heresy 3, interesting, and could play into using imperial agents too 4, heresy 5, also interesting, so could par well with collecting adeptus mechanicus 6, further heresy

Personally, I vote for either 2 or 6. 2- Interesting idea, with plenty of ways to incorporate unique kitbashes using AoS Nighthaunt models to show spirits of dead enemies and allies. Probably a fairly easy way to paint up a large amount of units once you get going, as most of the Knights will stay with the same scheme and you can batch-paint. 6- Very classic knightly choice, works well as a Freeblade Company. Lots of options for a colorful set of Knights with everything pretty much decided for you based on the Authurian legend colors. It really comes down to variety versus originality for me. I lean towards the weird and unique, so I like the ghostly "Knight House of the Damned" theme.

At 1K you got some decent AT with the Ballistus and landspeeder. Also with how Oath of Moment works that +1 to wound will make even the basic intercessor do decent against armour. Especially if you focus fire. Personally I'd make the two 5 man intercessors one 10 man, but that is me. Rest seems fine.

I've always enjoyed the brutality of the old mkIII helms,

Consistency is a thing I like in your projects. And little setting you build is one of examples.

Not a lot of Info on Red Hunters besides a few things, they serve all Ordos of the Inquisition, the worship the Emperor as god, they are the ones that followed the Penitent Marines post Badab War, often form Bodyguards for inquisitor's, and of Course they Wear the Inquisition Sigil on their Chapter icon. I like the Narrative but the Chapters outside of the Crimson Fists and Black Templars are are all right. So I had to get rid of the Armageddon on my banner. My group has a long going story of battle so we tie our battles together in one Sub Sector to make one long story, Horus Heresy to modern 40k, including Necromunda Gangs fighting in the Hives of one of the planets. This way my Red Hunters will have my newer Ordo Malleus Inquisition team led by Inquisitor Thrace along with 2 armigers. My Grey Knights will get my custom throw back Ordo- Malleus Inquisitor-Lord "Ares", who was Thrace's Mentor, are handling the Chaos / Daemon Threats.

Plan is black (Army Painter Matt black) undercoat, white zenithal (Army Painter Matt White) and then base color of Encarmine Red Mid tone of Pure Red and highlight of Archangel red via the Army Painter Warpaints Air Colour Triad.

I have a lot of anxiety when it comes to color schemes... (That's why I never finished my Space Marines) I'm thinking of spraying them Retributor Armour and then... I don't know. I am leaning towards purple... maybe give them a very roman custodes look. Any suggestions?

Looking forward to seeing more. Have a lot of SM minis so am considering doing different armies as well.

Very nice highlights, and blended effects. You really nailed the NMM.

May be it's only me, though your fancy cursive is cool and all but hard to read(( Good luck with your games

Thanks for the advice. This is helping me narrow this list down to something managable... because I need to start on this before I get distracted... again. Hmmm... with those transfers from White Dwarf I could do Dawn of War Knights...

I am in the same boat with wanting to do my 2 Armigers in House of Steel (no official Scheme) or as Free blades attached to the Inquisition. The Legio kits are amazing but $50 shipping hurts. Taro Modelmaker has some parts and are in the UK. I like the Shore Patrol idea but feel the Knights of the Grail is my 2nd favorite and the Revenants are my 1st.

As a fun of African corps of booth side I vote for house Jerboa! It's could be easy to paint, and pretty fresh for knights. But this makes me create own chaos knights warband lead by Erwin The chaos Fox...

I did have a look at it a while ago but it hadn’t been updated to 11th, so I'll go check it out thanks for the tip

Great work on the Redemptor, It's come out really well.

Those Ikarus upgrade kits look amazing, I’m not overly fond of the newer primaris vehicles but they certainly improve them, I wonder how much shipping to the UK is.

Very nice, @Rowland! Can’t wait to see the next bunch

Felt the same way on my Howling Griffons.

Thanks, first time doing a quarter scheme. Was easier than I thought once I figured out the center point.

Very nice. The Novamarines look great.

I like the berry colour of the wax, looks very natural.

I would go for the purple or green on the purity seal wax - I settled on yellow for my red/green marines. It became the spot colour to match the eye lenses and stand out against the main colours.

Great work!

Very nice! The stripes are freehand right? They look good.

Launcher looks good. Maybe some weathering powder later to simulate smoke/ Missile exhaust residue.

The "narrative" of the Armageddon box is what is stopping me from embarking on the Marine half. Do I add them to my homebrew chapter and squeeze them into the Armageddon lore? Or pick from one of the many Chapters that are listed as being involved. Just. Can't. Make up my mind. I don't know much (anything) about the Red Hunters but imagine them fighting alongside your Inquisition forces? If so, I like the narrative thread running across your armies.

My local GW store was following the view of 'use the pints values of the old CPs' and use missions without central objectives. Best of luck as you move into 11th!

Looking good!

Nice!

Looking forward to seeing them painted!

Thanks. That was the look i wanted. The idea is it's a very long serving Fellblade and it's been around since the reconquest of Terra. I've the eagles head and lightning bolt honor to it along with some devotional text. Photos will be arriving soon.

Very nice! Great progress, puts mine to shame.

Looking forward to seeing some paint on it :)

Looking good so far.

Looks amazing, great work.

Great job on the heat effects!

Reading the info about Norris Staedtler it almost feels like this maybe the right model for him. Horus Hersey Legion Praetor with Axe

Looks great, I like the multilayered blues you have going. I can imagine a brood like this consuming ocean worlds aplenty.

Thanks, I got destroyed in both games The font changes to cursive on mobile but is not on computer. Thanks for the info!

I can’t quite make out your last sentence…but the airsoft bbs were to be Tyranid eggs. I can’t be bothered doing all the gluing anymore, plus it doesn’t make sense on bases if they fight Orks. They now add a bit of weight to my “handle” jars.

Nice work so far. Can't wait to see more bugs.

People often put camo patterns on the Phobos 'stealth' cloaks. There are old examples of Marines in camo schemes, most were attributed.to particular campaigns. One of my favourites is this one but I like your idea of dazzle camo on an Impulse.

I'm sure the Raptors use camo if needed. And Phobos units, like Gw's own paint job for the librarian in Phobos armor use camo. It's not like they don't like a camo, it's more like they don't needed it most of the time. Why bother with camo if it's drop assault. Disruptive patterns in your colours should be pretty good.

Thanks, I have tried several washes (mostly army painter dark and strong) but have been using oil washes since the Grimdark experiment. I don’t like too heavy a wash, although I went very light on those assault intercessors. I’m currently doing some heavy intercessors, we’ll see how they come out.)

Awesome work on those guys. It's amazing how one little color or idea can spark an entire army. I like the color scheme, I can honestly say they don't remind me of anyone else's army, which is great as people will remember your army versus the one if the 173,000 Ultramarines armies in the world today. (In the future, try using a wash like nuln oil to fill in the crevices between the armour plates. It makes the models look cool... said the guy with grey plastic custodes)

Cant wait to see you paint up the Tortuga miniature, I've always fancied picking up some of there kits partially the badab war kits but never pulled the trigger.... yet

Really appreciate these reports and they are encouraging me to get involved.