Team Fisto - True Scale Heresy Imperial Fists with LEDs

[Thousand Eyes]

A very fun game! To jump in on Thousand Eyes' question, the Imperial Fists have a 100pt advantage in this game, which is balanced by the barricades (and board position) the Iron Warriors receive for free.

 

Thanks for the sniped answer ;)

[Augustus b'Raass]

Awesome report with two very appropriate forces. Perhaps it was fate that led Golg to whiff his attacks. ;)

[Slyen]

I'm curious on your process, how did you go about enlarging the features? The legs look like they are from the FW kit but what about the arms and torsos?

[Thousand Eyes]

I'm curious on your process, how did you go about enlarging the features? The legs look like they are from the FW kit but what about the arms and torsos?

 

Fisto has quite a good guide here: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/293146-team-fisto-imperial-fists-5th-company-through-the-ages/?p=3752462 

 

And Apologist has a blog with loads of tips: http://apologentsia.blogspot.com/ 

[Xenith]

Really nice work in here, a good read!

[Bob Hunk]

Two more suitable forces would be hard to find, bravo. Great to see the two of you go head to head. Were the points even there? It seemed like the fists had a more on the table.

 

Yes, as Apologist said, the Fists had 1000 points where as the Iron Warriors had 800. However the Iron Warriors start in the objective room, get a free set of barricades and their reinforcements can arrive much closer to the objective.

 

Awesome report with two very appropriate forces. Perhaps it was fate that led Golg to whiff his attacks.

 

Indeed!

 

I'm curious on your process, how did you go about enlarging the features? The legs look like they are from the FW kit but what about the arms and torsos?

 

Thanks to Thousand Eyes for already providing the link, but to reiterate there's a full part break-down of Team Fisto here. The arms are basically bulked-up plastic Terminator arms and the torsos are a custom sculpt over a plastic SM torso.

 

Really nice work in here, a good read!

 

Cheers.

 

Assault on the Iron Blood

 

As we still had a bit of time left on the Zone Mortalis board after fighting the Taking of the Contrador, Apologist and I decided to play a second game. We created a simple scenario to represent the Imperial Fist assault on the Iron Blood - Perturabo's flagship - at the end of the Battle of Phall. It was pretty straightforward; we both put all our painted models on the board and gave the Loyalists one simple goal...kill the Traitor Primarch or die in the attempt!

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto636_zpsvi6uacuq.jpg

 

Perturabo leads the defence of the Iron Blood.

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto637_zpspf8hlblb.jpg

 

An Imperial Fists Dreadnought squares up to it's Iron Warriors Leviathan counterpart.

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto638_zpsxngpjlbs.jpg

 

Perturabo strides forward to meet his would-be killers.

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto639_zps0e4aduoe.jpg

 

Eyes on target!

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto640_zpsc83ilqtp.jpg

 

The Contemptor-Cortus wounds the Iron Warriors Primarch, but is brutally demolished in retaliation.

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto641_zpsscbkvl62.jpg

 

Shield charge!

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto642_zpsri0hfqie.jpg

 

The Imperial Fist flanking force encounters resistance.

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto643_zpsmgvcrcyh.jpg

 

Perturabo is bloodied but definitely not bowed! He wipes-out the majority of the attacking force single-handedly.

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto644_zpsbbgfmruh.jpg

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto645_zps9kyh0lhd.jpg

 

The Leviathan Dreadnought mops-up the survivors.

 

Perturabo Survives!

 

As expected, killing a Primarch at close quarters is extremely tricky! I did manage to knock him down to half his starting wounds though, so at least he came away with bloody nose and I salvaged a shred of honour.

[Thousand Eyes]

Yeah no doubt he would be hard to kill in such quarters.

 

The stand out model is still your preator with twin axes. I think it is the most I have coveted a model someone else has done. So you have that dubious honour.

[Bob Hunk]

++ The Battle of Miticas ++

 

I had another fun Age of Darkness game against Apologist's Iron Warriors last night.

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto646_zpsjak4bqwq.jpg

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto647_zpszarkp9nf.jpg

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto648_zpsa54rzp85.jpg

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto649_zpsx9szfgkh.jpg

 

Full battle report on Apologist's blog here.

[Bob Hunk]

It's been quite a while since I updated this log as I've been away from the painting desk and chained to the writing desk instead (see link in signature ), but I'm still lurking around the forum.

 

In lieu of any significant Team Fisto progress, please enjoy this (very) WIP Praetor with Volkite Charger.

 

 

WIP Praetor with Volkite Charger

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto650_zpst5cyqfkq.jpg

 

 

Altogether now - CHOOM!

[Chaplain Raeven]

Nice! The Choom-club will go crazy when they see this 

[Jolemai]

Aye, this needs to be cross-posted over on the MDRC.

 

~CHOOOM

[Flintfish]

Great work on both the truescale conversions, LEDs and painting. I'm impressed

[Thousand Eyes]

Great to see another update from you. That is a fairly spectacular WIP and it shows how much scratch building goes into your models.

[Bob Hunk]

Nice! The Choom-club will go crazy when they see this 

 

Aye, this needs to be cross-posted over on the MDRC.

 

~CHOOOM

 

Thanks, yes I posted it to the MDRC thread as suggested. I'll post a pic of the finished model there too, when it's done. 

 

 

Great work on both the truescale conversions, LEDs and painting. I'm impressed

 

Cheers! 

 

Great to see another update from you. That is a fairly spectacular WIP and it shows how much scratch building goes into your models.

 

Thank you, yes indeed, that's why it takes me so long between updates!  Hopefully I'll have more to show next week!

[Canadian_F_H]

My take aways...

 

1: Paint OSL? Why bother when you can have REAL OSL!

 

2: true scale? It can actually look pretty good! I've avoided looking at it, because I'll never do it, I don't have enough hobby time as is, and many examples have been questionable, but your work is great.

 

2b: true scale next to normal scale on the table doesn't look as jarring as I expected, so thats a plus.

 

3: iron warriors in mk3? Yes I am making the right decision with burning of prospero... 3 copies. 30 mk3 black templars. 30 mk3 imperial fists, and 30 mk3 iron warriors... PS your friend's iron warriors are awesome. They alone have fully convinced me I'm making the right choice oice, thank you.

 

4: that a nice ZM board, and all those tables are nice!

 

5: purple pink is great for sci-fi weapon flash and coil glow!

[Bob Hunk]

Thank you, yes indeed, that's why it takes me so long between updates!  Hopefully I'll have more to show next week!

 

And by "next week" I clearly meant "next month". 

 

Imperial Fist Veteran with Heavy Bolter

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto651_zpsspcc2gaz.jpg

 

I've had this guy sat around unfinished on my painting desk for over a year, so I decided it was finally time to get him painted! He won't have a permanent place in the order of battle, he's just on stand-by for the occasions when I want to field my Tactical squad as a Veteran squad.

 

My take aways...

 

1: Paint OSL? Why bother when you can have REAL OSL!

 

Haha, thanks, although I sometimes think I should have just practised painting OSL as that would have been a heck of a lot easier.  

 

2: true scale? It can actually look pretty good! I've avoided looking at it, because I'll never do it, I don't have enough hobby time as is, and many examples have been questionable, but your work is great.

 

2b: true scale next to normal scale on the table doesn't look as jarring as I expected, so thats a plus.

 

Thank you very much, that's very kind.  Yes, it kind of depends on the pose and the style of both the true scale marine and the normal one. I've heard that the newer plastics, especially the new plastic MkIIIs are quite bulky and the least jarring in this respect, although I haven't made an in-the-flesh comparison myself.

 

3: iron warriors in mk3? Yes I am making the right decision with burning of prospero... 3 copies. 30 mk3 black templars. 30 mk3 imperial fists, and 30 mk3 iron warriors... PS your friend's iron warriors are awesome. They alone have fully convinced me I'm making the right choice oice, thank you.

 

I'm sure Apologist will be pleased to hear that! If you'd like to see more of them then his thread is here or his blog is here.

 

4: that a nice ZM board, and all those tables are nice!

 

I can't take any credit for those; the ZM table is the one at Warhammer World and I think all the rest that appear in this blog belong to Apologist. 

 

5: purple pink is great for sci-fi weapon flash and coil glow!

 

Thanks, yeah more plasma weapons on the way at some point. 

[Bob Hunk]

I'm slowly chipping away at my back-log, finishing painting already assembled models before building any more.  Here's another finished one!

 

Imperial Fist with Flamer

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto658_zpskqrq435z.jpg

 

http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Bob_Hunk/Miniatures%20-%20Imperial%20Fists/Fisto659_zpsdm1pjsmq.jpg

 

I've also been having fun posting painted models to my Instagram recently. People have been very kind with their feedback.

[Commissar Molotov]

Your stuff is as awesome as ever! Really cool flame effect! 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Most impressive.

[Bob Hunk]

The chipping away at the "been half-painted on my desk forever" backlog continues. Here's another finished model! 

 

 

Imperial Fist Breacher Sergeant with Plasma Pistol

 

http://i.imgur.com/4tFZjif.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/1MiWPrT.jpg

 

 

Your stuff is as awesome as ever! Really cool flame effect!

 

Most impressive.

 

Cheers chaps!  More to come soon-ish, I hope.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Love the plasma pistol. You exceed all my expectations on what can be achieved.

[Sister_Miriya]

I may have to end up stealing your plasma LED idea when I get around to doing my air Calvary scion detachment fotr my sisters of battle.

 

Great work and all your conversion work! I love the fact that you're doing true scale and LEDs all wrapped into one while painting a difficult color like yellow...

[Bob Hunk]

Love the plasma pistol. You exceed all my expectations on what can be achieved.

 

Thank you very much. 

 

I may have to end up stealing your plasma LED idea when I get around to doing my air Calvary scion detachment fotr my sisters of battle.

 

Great work and all your conversion work! I love the fact that you're doing true scale and LEDs all wrapped into one while painting a difficult color like yellow...

 

Thank you, yes please feel free to use the idea.  Always happy to offer tips if you run into any snags.

[Bob Hunk]

Pradesh Novum, The Petitioner’s District

 

The dust from the bombardment had given the sky a permanent red cast, even here in the old Himalisia. The hellish glow had choked the normal cloudless azure of the sky. But that was just another irrelevant detail for Letholdus to file away as his world was swallowed by the siege. It ground on and on, consuming all of his existence. The Traitors were being made to pay for every single step they took towards the walls of the Imperial Palace. They paid in blood, and in iron and in transhuman lives. But it appeared the Treacher Legions had more than enough coin enough to spend on their advance.

 

Letholdus was numb to it all. Numb to the insanely spiralling casualty figures. Numb to the weeks of only fitful half-sleep. Numb to the faces of friends and foe alike, faces that even now faded to grey in his mind’s eye and were swept away in the ash. It had all become a rhythm; a ticking metronome that measured their backwards steps across the Kathmandu plateau.

 

Tick-tick-tick. The thermal contraction of Mark VI power armour in the cold Tibetan nights. Tick-tick-tick. The chrono counting down to the next bombardment. Tick-tick-tick. A faulty actuator twitching in his powered gauntlet. Tick-tick-tick. The butcher’s tally steadily rising as their defensive perimeter tightened across the Petitioner’s District.

 

His Command Land Raider crushed a low wall to powder beneath its relentless tracks, and Letholdus steadied himself on the cupola. The cyclopean walls of the Inner Palace loomed on the horizon, a rockcrete smear in the haze, dwarfing the district they currently traveled through. As the Imperial Fists fell back and the walls became clearer, so too did their…their what? Defeat? No, never that. Their situation. Their limits, logistics and supply lines. That’s all he saw now, in crystal clarity. Letholdus watched the walls grind inexorably closer and listened to the tick-tick-tick of Land Raider’s systems beneath him.

 

The vox snapped. Letholdus touched his earpiece.

 

“Reinforcements, Praetor,” a voice crackled, the words of his vox operator distorted by magnetic backwash.

 

The information was unnecessary, he had already seen them. As the Imperial Fists consolidated further towards the Palace walls, a golden arrow flew out to meet them. Letholdus watched the baroque grav-carrier skim towards them, feeling the tick-tick-tick of muscle spasm around the edge of his bionic eye. In better times would he have considered their arrival an honour or an insult? It was neither now, he was simply numb.

 

Letholdus called a halt. They had reached their latest fall-back line. The Iron Warriors weren’t far behind. Ranging artillery was already stamping flat the slums to the east. Soon these streets would run red with genhanced blood. The Imperial Fists began to dig in. Tattered but proud banners were raised. Letholdus issued orders. The grav-carrier slowed, disembarked four gilded lions, and then sped away, back towards the Palace.

 

Tick-tick-tick. Four pairs of gold armoured boots rhythmically crunched through the dust and broken glass towards Letholdus.

 

“Praetor Letholdus,” said their leader, removing his helmet, “I am Shield-Captain Hyperion of the Legio Custodes.”

 

 

***

 

Letholdus, Imperial Fists Legion Praetor

 

http://i.imgur.com/dsFoGkv.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/m3SFhvN.jpg

 

Last week Team Fisto once again took to the scarred battlefields of Terra to oppose the machinations of the Officio Monstrosa, Apologist's Iron Warriors. A battle report is currently taking shape on Apologist's blog here, but in the meantime, here are some photo highlights from the battle.

 

http://i.imgur.com/1l5cywn.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/q4xLlhG.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/qGqJ9Uw.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/eCTm6F2.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/R3DI7IK.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/J4ReD9x.jpg

[Commissar Molotov]

Excellent stuff - your Custodians look incredibly intimidating with the green eyes.