Atia's Thread (Legions Imperialis SoH / Fulgrim Transfigured pg 106)

[Arkangilos]

Ooo those look great!

[Atia]

Kratos Heavy Assault Tank

Sons of Horus Legion, Amytastarak Support Reserve Formation, Vth squadron

 

 

The Kratos Heavy Assault Tank is based on an ancient Terran pattern fielded during the Unification of Old Earth, redesigned after the Emperor signed the Treaty of Mars with the Tech-Priests of the ancient Martian Mechanicum to serve as the spearhead of the Great Crusade. It was intended to be a line-breaker and foe hammer extraordinaire. This grinding main battle tank is all but impervious to enemy fire, and its steady, inexorable advance provided an indomitable core to any assault by the Legiones Astartes, enforced by a barrage of overwhelming firepower.

 

 

The Kratos originally served as a dedicated infantry support tank and the powerful shells of its heavy cannon could quickly open a path through massed enemies for any Astartes or mortal support infantry that followed in its wake. However, the Kratos was determined to be obsolete in the final years of the Great Crusade and was later retired from active service when the Legiones Astartes began to favour faster, more multi-purpose armoured vehicles such as the ubiquitous Predator tank, a fate similiar to that of the mighty Stormbirds or the dreaded Lucifer Pattern Dreadnoughts. 

 

That said, the demand of the Horus Heresy would see vehicles formerly utilised in reserve formations used again for frontline services, while new numbers of Kratos Heavy Assault Tanks would be produced by both sites in a fight of astartesean warfare.

 

 

 

 

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Sons of Horus Legion Icon (Primal Armorial)

 

 

 

 

Edited January 26, 2024 by Atia

[Firedrake Cordova]

Nice work

 

I can imagine those tiny transfers weren't fun to apply!

[Atia]

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Sons of Horus Demi Company with Legio Mortis Titanicus Support

 

 

 

 

 

Note: Predator Annihilator Heavy Support Squadron

 

Note: House Devine Baronial Court

 

 

 

Note: Mars-pattern Thunderhawk Gunship

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

They look great

[Atia]

27 minutes ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

They look great

 

Thank ya! I'm actually done with the first wave for my Sons of Horus, so next I'll work a bit more on my Legio Mortis and Traitor Knights, 'till I get my hands on some support boxes and Spartans!

[ZeroWolf]

Impressive force already  I think seeing the force laid out like that really sells one of the things I like about the epic system: massive armies. You did a great job here!

[GhostMalone]

Imagine disappearing for years to just come back and see you still killing it holy hell 10/10 thread

[Atia]

Thanks Guys!

 

So ..... some late christmas gift did arrive today to my surprise.

 

 

Stay tuned haha.

[ZeroWolf]

28 minutes ago, Atia said:

Thanks Guys!

 

So ..... some late christmas gift did arrive today to my surprise.

 

 

Stay tuned haha.

Oh that's going to be one hell of a project! Good luck!

[Atia]

23 hours ago, ZeroWolf said:

Oh that's going to be one hell of a project! Good luck!

 

Thanks haha! Guess that's what you get by saying the new Emperor's Children look good haha.

 

The parts are great from the first look over it, first they will get a nice soak.

 

 

 

 

So, I'm currently still working on some Necromunda stuff (more about that later ...), and I defo want to use the new Chaos EC range as base for Siege of Terra Era EC that can double up as both HH and 40k army. Also have some more Black Legion models to do aswell. Hobby Butterfly syndrome kicks in haha.

 

 

Edited January 21 by Atia

[Xenith]

Welcome back! Keen to see your take on ol' Grimmy. 

[Atia]

On 1/21/2025 at 4:03 PM, Xenith said:

Welcome back! Keen to see your take on ol' Grimmy. 

 

Thank ya! Started to build the snake boy. In generell I prefer the FW look over the upcoming plastic one, the only thing I was a little bit dissapointed were the weapon options compared to the 40k version. But than, I guess it makes sense that early post ascension he would use the more daemonic weapons first instead of Firebrand.

 

 

Also, I'm a bit unsure how I want his wings to be - what do you guys think? Light like FW does them, or dark like on the new 40k version?

 

 

 

Tbh, I'm currently leaning more into the darker wings to better frame him, but I'm unsure if they would be too similiar to the purple armour than? That said, I'm currently leaning towards metallic purple for his armour anyways (similiar to my Devine Knights), which should make it different enough?

 

Basically a scheme similiar to the new artwork which combines both the Heresy armour with the darker wings:

 

[Grotsmasha]

Personally I prefer the darker wings

[Firedrake Cordova]

The lighter wings create a large area of bright colour - although it acts as a "V"-shaped leading line drawing your attention to the head eventually, your attention is initially drawn to the much larger bright expanse of the wings (humans being drawn to the light points in things). I vote darker  

[ZeroWolf]

I also vote darker, it would help fill what looks to be a void above him. As long as they contrast the rest though, I think you'll be fine 

[Teetengee]

Could you lighter on the expanses and darker on the bones? Perhaps darker on the back and lighter on the front?

[Dr_Ruminahui]

My concern with darker wings, with them being so large that might make them the focal point of the model or draw attention away from his snakeness himself.  That said, good use of lightness on his snakeyness could serve to focus attention back.

 

Maybe the safest way would be to leave the wings seperated (probably a good idea anyway) and then paint them after you've done the rest of the model in whatever manner makes the overall model the most appealing.

[Atia]

Heya everyone - and thanks for the brainstorming! Will go with darker wings, but first I have to figure out the purple. Tried Eidolon Purple but that didn't feel right (far too pink), so I'm back to the drawing board. 

 

I really really wanted to go the metallic purple route, but now I'm thinking matt may be easier after all haha.

 

In generell, that's the tone I'm going for:

 

 

 

[Grotsmasha]

Are you using an airbrush? If so, 60/30/10 Contrasts Luxion Purple/Shyish Purple/Contrast Medium over metallics should get you really close.

[01RTB01]

On 2/1/2025 at 3:30 AM, Grotsmasha said:

Are you using an airbrush? If so, 60/30/10 Contrasts Luxion Purple/Shyish Purple/Contrast Medium over metallics should get you really close.

Is this something you've tried and perchance have pics of please?

[Grotsmasha]

On 2/1/2025 at 8:30 PM, Grotsmasha said:

Are you using an airbrush? If so, 60/30/10 Contrasts Luxion Purple/Shyish Purple/Contrast Medium over metallics should get you really clo

On 2/1/2025 at 8:30 PM, Grotsmasha said:
Are you using an airbrush? If so, 60/30/10 Contrasts Luxion Purple/Shyish Purple/Contrast Medium over metallics should get you really close.

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5 hours ago, 01RTB01 said:

Is this something you've tried and perchance have pics of please?

 

Actually, I just remembered Two Thin Coats Wave 3 just released Emperor's Purple, it's a metallic purple, specifically for the Emperor's Children, this is 2x coats over Mechanicus Standard Grey Spray,

 

 

[Atia]

On 2/1/2025 at 11:30 AM, Grotsmasha said:

Are you using an airbrush? If so, 60/30/10 Contrasts Luxion Purple/Shyish Purple/Contrast Medium over metallics should get you really close.

 

Heya! Tried a few purples and currently I'm quite happy with Luxion Purple buuuut ...

 

4 hours ago, Grotsmasha said:

 

 

Actually, I just remembered Two Thin Coats Wave 3 just released Emperor's Purple, it's a metallic purple, specifically for the Emperor's Children, this is 2x coats over Mechanicus Standard Grey Spray,

 

 

 

This also looks interesting, how airbrush friendly are Duncan's paints?

[Grotsmasha]

30 minutes ago, Atia said:

This also looks interesting, how airbrush friendly are Duncan's paints?

 

They're comparable to GW's paints

[Atia]

2 hours ago, Grotsmasha said:

 

They're comparable to GW's paints

Okay, so I ordered one bottle to try it out - any idea how to get highlites with these though, since they are no clear paints? My plan was to do some zenithal metal under the clear coats initially to get some easy shading haha.