The Fallen (wip Fallen Angels army)

[PirateRobotNinjaofDeath]

So this army has been my project over the last two years. Embarrassing I know, but between school and work finishing this army has fallen somewhat to the wayside.

 

On the bright side, with school nearly finished I will finally be able to put in the time and finish these guys off. So without further ado, here's what I've got going on so far.

 

Interrogator Chaplain Mordecai

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http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/PB232934.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/PB232935.jpg

Mordecai is the one and only fully finished model in the army. Not so sure about the basing scheme, I think it may be a little bland. The dead Dark Angel on his base didn't turn out too well in the pictures, but he looks pretty cool in person. Unfortunately Mordecai rarely gets used anymore, as I've switched over to using the new C:SM and don't have room for a termi-armoured chaplain anymore. He will get some use in my planned deathwing army though

 

Company Champion

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/PB232936.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/PB232937.jpg

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http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/PB232940.jpg

This is another model I'm super proud of that rarely gets use. He pioneered the red as the secondary colour though. The red now symbolizes their comrades who fell during the rending of Caliban, and those who have died at the hands of their persecutors since. VERITAS IMMORTALIS! THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL!

 

Flamethrower

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http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/PB232945.jpg

Now a heavy flamer for my sternguard vets (for the time being)

 

Plasma Gunner

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[PirateRobotNinjaofDeath]

Father Hizra'il

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Originally intended as a Chapter Master, Hizra'il has become a librarian instead. I'm not sure whether he's going to keep his combi-melta or get a bolt pistol instead and pass the melta on to somebody else. I tried a different style for the power/force weapon that I think worked out better than on the company champion. What do you guys think?

 

Sternguard vets

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/PB232963.jpg

3 combimeltas that go in my sternguard vets. May soon be joined by a few combi-flamers.

 

Tactical Marines

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These are my completed templates for rank and file marines.

 

Plasma gunner #2

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After seeing someone do one of these on the forums I decided I had to make one for myself

 

Vet Sergeant

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This guy leads my sternguard vets. His shoulderpads are made from modified black templars shoulder pads, and he's decked out with (perhaps a bit too many) bits from the DA sprue.

[PirateRobotNinjaofDeath]

last pic of sternguard sergeant

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/PB232971.jpg

 

My Assault on Blackreach dreadnought. I really like how the base turned out. The chains on the right of the banner stuck out a bit too far though, and I've done some modifications to them since taking this pic

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Some closeups of the base

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Dread number two.

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He's a little boring though, so I'm considering adding some trophy spikes along the top. Below are some of the heads I have available, which are bits from the armies of the guys I usually play against in my gaming group

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An experimental "counts as drop pod" portal that my army was going to use. I figured that my marines are remnants of the caliban loyalists who resisted the Lion, and were saved from the perils of the warp by the shields of the outbuilding they were holed up in during the fighting. Thus the focus on librarians, who keep the warp powers at bay from within their makeshift fortress, and tear open portals to the real world to launch attacks. Unfortunately, the portals are too small and have been decided to confer too much of an advantage (?) to me by fitting into ruins and such when they scatter. Means I'll have to scrap all this work and spend two hundred bucks on drop pods for my entire army though...lol ugh :lol:

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/PB232995.jpg

 

more pictures to come, including my converted blackreach captain / sergeant, and some other work in progress marines

[equilibrium]

you'v got some Really Nice Models There

 

=]

Nice work

 

Equ

[BrotherAtrox]

Absolutely beautiful.

[Shortsonfire79]

A bajillion GREAT pictures! and ONLY one comment?

 

Heretic... Fallen Dark Angels....and one on the base of your only painted model...FHSDPIFUH

 

Amazing stuff Heretic. =-D I love it. Since the fallen DA guy didn't come out well in the pic, do you think you could supply a good one?

[docbp87]

Moar Robes!

 

 

But seriously, this is a great looking start for a potentially VERY cool army.

[PirateRobotNinjaofDeath]

A bajillion GREAT pictures! and ONLY one comment?

 

Heretic... Fallen Dark Angels....and one on the base of your only painted model...FHSDPIFUH

 

Amazing stuff Heretic. =-D I love it. Since the fallen DA guy didn't come out well in the pic, do you think you could supply a good one?

Thanks for the compliments :lol:

 

And since you asked so nicely, I took some close ups of the DA on the base. I'm borrowing my gfs camera, since mine is f'ed, and it's not really the best on the closeups, but they look alright

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm104/life-is-trippy/chaplain/PB232996-1.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm104/life-is-trippy/chaplain/PB233000-1.jpg

Also added an extra one of the chaplain with a flash that shows off his creepy eyes :unsure:

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm104/life-is-trippy/chaplain/DSC02871.jpg

 

 

 

Moar Robes!

 

 

But seriously, this is a great looking start for a potentially VERY cool army.

 

Moar robes you say?

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/Veterans/DSC02902.jpg

[BrotherAtrox]

How do you achieve such small detail? Mirco-pens?

[Captain Mick]

Really great painted models you can be really proud of it indeed. Cant wait to see everything finished :lol:.

[PirateRobotNinjaofDeath]

How do you achieve such small detail? Mirco-pens?

 

patience lol

 

seriously though, i use a citadel fine detail brush that i constantly sharpen. learn to like the taste of paint :)

 

 

On a side note, I spent the night agonizing over what to do with my drop pods.

 

Here's the dilemma. The Fallen have been stuck in the warp for 10,000 years...so any armoury they might have had from Caliban would be vastly depleted, if they had it at all. This leaves me with two options to work the vehicles etc into fluff.

 

For both options, the fallen angels were defending a besieged outbuilding of the Rock during the last moments of the battle. Fighting tooth and nail against their former comrades, the distant din of orbital bombardment crescendoed into a deafening roar as the very earth beneath them began to rend apart. It was then that Luther struck the final, mortal blow against the Heretic, and the very fabric of time and space tore apart. Those outside the impregnable shields of the Rock were lost to the warp, while those inside were battered by the implosion of their homeworld but were otherwise unharmed.

Unlike the Rock, the outbuilding where many of the last beleaguered defenders were holed up was sucked entirely into the warp. Where before they had fought the followers of the Lion, now they defended their fortress from the twisted entities of the warp, a battle they would have surely lost had it not been for the heroic efforts of their librarians.

 

For thousands of years these men battled against the incursions of daemons and malign spirits that occasionally breached the boundaries of their sanctuaries, and hardening their resolve...and their hatred for the followers of the Lion.

 

This is where the two paths diverge. The first option has the fortress finally exiting the warp...and right into the middle of an Imperial Cruiser! Upon emerging they found that the vessel had belonged to some lost chapter of the Astartes, whose mummified bodies lay scattered throughout the ship amongst those of the crew. Only the servitors seemed to have escaped whatever nefarious ill befell of the men on this vessel, eerily stepping around the bodies of their former masters as they carried out their tasks. From this vessel, they who now call themselves the Fallen have set out on their unswerving crusade of vengeance against their comrades that betrayed them, and the Emperor that abandoned them.

 

Option two leaves the fortress within the warp. Be it through desperation or the strange twisting nature of the warp itself, many of the defenders developed latent psychic abilities that aided them in their fight against the constant daemonic incursions. Their powers each grew, until finally the inner circle (made up of the strongest and wisest amongst their numbers) were able to call upon their peers to perform a ritual that tore open a portal to the real world. With this new ability, the Fallen have been able to resupply, expanding their fortress and butressing the defences against the warp. Using their psychic power to guide their fortress through the warp, the Fallen have begun to execute their campaign of vengeance against the heretics who cast them out and destroyed their homeworld.

 

 

TL;DR option 1: exit warp into a ship that they commandeer

option 2: remain in the warp and tear openings in the fabric of reality that they raid out through

 

 

now option 1 seems easiest. It allows things like orbital bombardments, drop pods, and is just all around easier to manage

 

However easier isn't cooler. Despite the inevitable fluff-canon discrepancies ("<whine> the warp doesn't work that way!") I think option two holds countless more fluff opportunities. I truly love my drop pod theme, but feel that all the fancy equipment doesn't really suit the "Pariah" theme of my army. Thus portals would be a super cool stand-in for drop pods fluff-wise, and would allow some awesome modelling opportunities.

 

How I'm thinking it will work is this. The commander will always be a psyker, be it a true librarian or a fudge (ie librarian with a storm shield, termie armour, and a template psychic power who "counts as" Vulkan Hes'tan). He opens portals that will be assaulted through by first dreadnoughts, then he and his men, while reserves wait on the other side, and assault themselves through whichever portal is near the heaviest fighting. The portals are represented by drop pods, and the reinforcements arrive by deepstriking onto locator beacons. The librarian can also step back into the warp with he and his unit, and re-emerge through a different portal (Gate of Infinity again homing in on locator beacons).

 

I'm probably going to have my termies count as grey knights, partially for the cool factor and partially to their being veterans of millenia fighting daemons. GK terminators can arrive via deepstrike, as can power-armoured GK using teleport attack (or whatever), and can all represent shock troops. My only problem with them is that they're expensive, and I'm not sure how they'll perform yet.

 

Tasks:

1) decide on option 1 or 2...leaning heavily to 2

2) figure out how to model these "portals," so that my gaming group no longer bitches about "what it would be like if these were real drop pods"

3) figure out how to model "counts as" nemesis force weapons that can double for regular deathwing weapons (ie lightning claws) when i use the army as deathwing (and soon to be double wing)

4) paint the rest of my army!

 

 

Needing help on 1-3, as well as any critiques on the scheme, details, or background story. I'm also willing to post more before pics, or explain any of the techniques i used if anybody wants...not that they're particularily involved or anything.

[Prometheum5]

Awesome work... the little details really make this stand out as a fluffy and well-modeled army.

 

As for sharpening fine brushes, I've found you can lick your finger a bit and sharpen the brush from there, rather than sticking the brush IN your mouth :)

[Dyp100]

I really think your a great painter, this models are awesome, and a good Fallen force to use.

[Snozz]

Portals. Model them to the same size as drop pods. I think that it would look good as a giant ball of energy, but floating. So for this you could model the ball and mount it either on a thin black pole or a flying pole. This would allow you to adjust the ball to the right height (That of a drop pod). Make sure you use the right base size aswell, so the base is the same size as that of a drop pod. That way no one can really say they're not accurate. The other things you need to think about are the storm bolter that it comes with, and how does the enemy destroy them. You could say that the portals are unstable and that they collpase when hit by a sufficent force. To be honest if someone is saying you can't play with them then they aren't being very sporting. :P

 

Oh oh oh oh idea! Buy a regular drop pod and replace the portal on the table with the drop pod temperarily when it is required for LOS purposes. That way you only need to buy 1 drop pod. And you can model the portals to any size and such.

 

EDIT: Added a word. ;) Also, btw, forgot to say I love your attention to detail, your force is great :).

 

Also, not sure about the force weapons idea, but could you model lightning claws holding the force weapons? Then you could say one is for decoration :D. Or you could use magnetised arms. But what I think would be good is, one arm lightning claw holding force spear type thingy, one arm lightning claw with wrist mounted storm bolter. Then you could choose the set of weapons you want. :)

 

Also, go for option 2. :)

 

There, solutions for all 3 of your problems. :)

[PirateRobotNinjaofDeath]

Portals. Model them to the same size as drop pods. I think that it would look good as a giant ball of energy, but floating. So for this you could model the ball and mount it either on a thin black pole or a flying pole. This would allow you to adjust the ball to the right height (That of a drop pod). Make sure you use the right base size aswell, so the base is the same size as that of a drop pod. That way no one can really say they're not accurate. The other things you need to think about are the storm bolter that it comes with, and how does the enemy destroy them. You could say that the portals are unstable and that they collpase when hit by a sufficent force. To be honest if someone is saying you can't play with them then they aren't being very sporting. :P

 

Oh oh oh oh idea! Buy a regular drop pod and replace the portal on the table with the drop pod temperarily when it is required for LOS purposes. That way you only need to buy 1 drop pod. And you can model the portals to any size and such.

 

EDIT: Added a word. :devil: Also, btw, forgot to say I love your attention to detail, your force is great :cuss.

 

Also, not sure about the force weapons idea, but could you model lightning claws holding the force weapons? Then you could say one is for decoration :mellow:. Or you could use magnetised arms. But what I think would be good is, one arm lightning claw holding force spear type thingy, one arm lightning claw with wrist mounted storm bolter. Then you could choose the set of weapons you want. :cuss

 

Also, go for option 2. :P

 

There, solutions for all 3 of your problems. :)

 

Having the DP for LOS debates is a great idea, that way I won't have to rely on crude measurements when building them either.

 

For the storm bolters / deathwind launchers, I'm thinking it will represent fire from marines posted on the other side of the gateway to defend the Fallen's fortress from attackers while the portals are opened, and to cover marines retreating back through to safety. The distortionary nature of the warp explain why only a trickle of firepower slips out (a single launcher or stormbolter), and why 50% of the shots pass into the warp while the other half pass right through the portal to hit troops on the other side (4+ cover saves granted to shooting through the pod).

Saying the portals collapse works too, though it could also be that weapons fired through the portal wound, kill, or otherwise distract the psyker on the inside from holding the portal open, causing it to collapse (vehicle explodes!) or become too unstable for troops to pass through (vehicle destroyed).

 

As for the termies...I probably will just magnetize the arms or something. I may just convert them all two-handed halberds/axes/swords or whatever and for the purposes of deathwing say they count as thunder hammers or lightning claws. I'm really just looking for an excuse to convert the <DELETED BY THE INQUISITION> out of my boring black reach terminators. It may be kinda fun to just say that the stormbolter shots represent minor psychic attacks, and convert a few with outstretched hands and some psychic-lightning-kinda-action going on. That way I can convert all of my terminators up, and then fudge out which ones have TLCs, TH/SS, or PF/SB. I'm thinking this is going to be a busy holiday season for me :angry:

[PirateRobotNinjaofDeath]

Sculped "army of two" style head that I copied off a buddy of mine's IG veterans. It's going to be severed and mounted in a spike/base somewhere within the army. He's super proud of the job he did on them, so i thought it would be kind of funny to put a replica on a model as a trophy <evil grin>

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/The%20Fallen%20II/PB232982.jpg

 

Black reach squad sergeant. His head has been drilled out and replaced with a helmet (i HATE barehead marines). His chainsword army has been scrapped in favour of another bolter arm. I'm up to my neck in special weapons models, but running low on bolter marines :devil:. This is what happens when you get overzealous modelling guys in cool poses.

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Some pictures of the custom base I sculpted for my commander. I was a huge fan of the brickwork i did on the dreads base, so I was doing something similar for that. I also thought the standard pose was too static, so i decided to dynamicize it up a bit and have him stepping up onto a crumbling wall

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/The%20Fallen%20II/PB232985.jpg

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And the commander himself. The GS crest came out pretty well, and overall i'm proud of the result. I successfully personalized what I originally thought would be an unpersonalizable model. It's a shame the bolter is so boring though, I would have preferred a combi-bolter in the very least.

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/The%20Fallen%20II/PB232987.jpg

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http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/The%20Fallen%20II/PB232990.jpg

 

Some pictures of him on his base. He's going to have to be pinned, and I haven't put any sand on there yet, but he looks pretty badass if you ask me :)

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/The%20Fallen%20II/PB232991.jpg

http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h133/lifeistrippy/the%20Fallen%20WIP/The%20Fallen%20II/PB232992.jpg

[Shortsonfire79]

Looks REally good! Impressive ta boot. I wouldn't say bad ass...maybe..BAMF =-D

[PirateRobotNinjaofDeath]

Looks REally good! Impressive ta boot. I wouldn't say bad ass...maybe..BAMF =-D

 

Ha ha thanks :P