Into the fires of battle

[Malus Trux]

So after seeing a number of superb Fireborn & reading the Tome of Fire anthology, I decided to paint up a small number of Salamanders again.

 

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This is my Apothecary character, Shen, for Deathwatch. He's modeled after an existing character from Forgeworld & even shares the same last name.

 

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I rolled well for strength but very high for toughness so I wanted this guy to have some heft to him.

 

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A better comparison shot to get some sense of scale to regular guys.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/trex238/Salamanders05.jpg

When I made this guy I didn't have any reference pics so I later found out that skull on the elbow guard is upside down.

 

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So I briefly considered this as the helmet for him, as in 40k this guy has artificer armor & if I make a Terminator unit, the sarge will have one.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/trex238/Salamanders04.jpg

In the end I decided against it as the gorget made it look awkward but I still ended up using that bit.

 

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Some paint so far. So this guy is named Shen & Forgeworld released a couple of Badab bonus characters, one of them a Salamanders Apothecary named Harath Shen. If my guy lives, he'll be given the first name Harath & I'll use the campaign as backstory. If he dies, then Harath will have a vendetta against whomever killed his kinsman.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/trex238/Salamanders07.jpg

A better shot of the axe. This guy had a hilarious first session in DW. He took a bunch of ork right arms & did some wacky things such as shooting off one & beating one ork to death with another. Then at the end of his run, he ran into an ork nob. He parried a sharpened lead pipe with one of the severed ork arms, proceeded to break the nob's right arm & finally beat the nob's skull in, all with the same limb as a club.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/trex238/Salamanders08.jpg

A ride for my soon to be made tac squad. I'm hoping the yellow will make a good base coat for the green.

[Rune Priest Ridcully]

Very, very nice... I admit I am going to feild an apothacary consol in my heresy salamanders, nice use of old grey knight bit as well.

[Malus Trux]

Thank you. Whenever I looked at Betrayal, the first combo I thought of was using the sarge in artificer with an apothecary giving them FNP to force the enemy to shoot the tac squad with lascannons or something to deny me a save. At that point though, I'll try look out sir's as well.

[Malus Trux]

Quick update: Shen is pretty close to completion. He needs to get his power axe with a field & a few highlights here & there.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/trex238/Salamanders10.jpg

The trim on his shoulder pad will be redone in green as I don't quite like it in gold, though that may be cause I didn't layer it enough. Also the chest was left bare as I want to add some design at some point in the future on it

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v120/trex238/Salamanders11.jpg

I'm pretty happy with the flames on his chapter badge. The one on his leg I'm still undecided on.