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[hushrong]

I like the new guy but what is in his right hand?

[deathspectersgt7]

Shotgun.

[corvus.calvariam]

I've missed this thread, glad it's back. I'm gonna leave a pledge here in hopes that it gets my ass into gear again.

 

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff124/savassa_a/Mobile%20Uploads/20150922_192839.jpg

 

Four and a half terminators for the Exorcists! The guy without a base is gonna get an assault cannon, as soon as I get my hands on an old metal one from somewhere!

[BadSanta]

Wow! Great thread, guys! I myself collect the Tyrant's Legion army from IA9 and already have 1850 pts. I have plans for future additions to the army, mainly in form of Land Raider as Astral Claws Chapters Support, and for 1000 pts Astral Claws chapter ally. But I don't have time for them at all because of the Call of Chaos .

Here are my army models for your inspiration.

1) Lugft Huron:

http://cs624331.vk.me/v624331353/b8c/_CkZ4wCN5D0.jpg

2) Carnac Commodus:

http://cs613416.vk.me/v613416353/15115/8VWo1iI5zzc.jpg

3) Legion Centurion:

http://cs410125.vk.me/v410125353/7e07/MI9gbcAaqq4.jpg

4) Auxilia Command Squad with attached Chimera transport:

http://cs323622.vk.me/v323622353/6a76/RRxJLFaCjNQ.jpg

http://cs323622.vk.me/v323622353/6a7f/nOtqw1RmcbI.jpg

5) Legion Auxilia:

http://cs319929.vk.me/v319929353/583d/WdFNNIMdkIM.jpg

6) Space Marines Cohort #1 with attached Rhino transport:

http://cs405428.vk.me/v405428353/85a5/_uNpHepLJYo.jpg

http://cs405428.vk.me/v405428353/85ad/dGyw56aYn4c.jpg

http://cs323630.vk.me/v323630353/61c2/liiOrdxMS1A.jpg

http://cs323630.vk.me/v323630353/61dc/WGlNg8pyeGo.jpg

7) Space Marine Cohort #2 with attached Rhino transport:

http://cs322826.vk.me/v322826353/62dc/hL4FPmgXwz0.jpg

http://cs322826.vk.me/v322826353/62c3/CwoTtui1Tx0.jpg

8) SM Legion veteran for use as Sergeants in SM Cohorts (because power fists are useless in games):

http://cs624331.vk.me/v624331353/b71/zxkQq6aRIyE.jpg

9) SM Retaliator Squad and their Razorback:

http://cs410125.vk.me/v410125353/846a/HOSGdBY7E6Y.jpg

http://cs410125.vk.me/v410125353/8461/z203b-UjaPs.jpg

http://cs410125.vk.me/v410125353/86a0/tJtALjqYNmo.jpg

10) Auxilia Fire Support Cohort:

http://cs425018.vk.me/v425018353/592f/mQ1G7t3JoDc.jpg

11) Leman Russ Battle Tanks:

http://cs410125.vk.me/v410125353/843e/kt3CZmX59-k.jpg

http://cs410125.vk.me/v410125353/8447/YKHuFKCMEU8.jpg

http://cs410125.vk.me/v410125353/8450/teJ1moCov-g.jpg

http://cs410125.vk.me/v410125353/8459/xdwf6mC0TSc.jpg

http://cs624331.vk.me/v624331353/b83/ZA5NBx5xVeM.jpg

I also have:

-12 space marines with 4 missile lanuchers to expand SM Cohort#1 if needed;

- several additional SM Retaliators to field 10 man squad with Carnac Commodus (planned LR is for them);

- Legion Sentry Gun Battery with 3 Helios Missile Launchers and one Helios Command Platform.

And at the end here are army photo from our local 1500 pts tourney at May this year:

http://cs625319.vk.me/v625319353/44d17/doC-T9zoEK8.jpg

[Leviathus]

Wow BadSanta, your Claws look very good! Love the Tyrant's Legion tanks!! 

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Beautiful weathering on those vehicles, BadSanta!

[geektom]

Man, your weathering is excellent. Just great.

[hushrong]

Them claws!!!

 

And I have to echo compliments about the weathering too!

[BadSanta]

Wow BadSanta, your Claws look very good! Love the Tyrant's Legion tanks!!

Beautiful weathering on those vehicles, BadSanta!

Man, your weathering is excellent. Just great.

Them claws!!!

And I have to echo compliments about the weathering too!

Thank you, guys!

As to weathering I must say "Thank you very much" to the Forgeworld team and their Modelling Masterclass book vol. I.

[m0nolith]

My first two Minotaurs tac squads are progressing. Im spending an inordinate amount of time painting them, but im having fun doing it

Still have guns, bases and transfers and a few shoulderpads to do.

[AlphariusOmegon108]

My first two Minotaurs tac squads are progressing. Im spending an inordinate amount of time painting them, but im having fun doing it

Still have guns, bases and transfers and a few shoulderpads to do.

These are so pretty! How do you paint them if I may ask?

[m0nolith]

My first two Minotaurs tac squads are progressing. Im spending an inordinate amount of time painting them, but im having fun doing it

Still have guns, bases and transfers and a few shoulderpads to do.

These are so pretty! How do you paint them if I may ask?

Thanks :D

Its done in a few layers, first mixing hashut copper and warplock bronze as first layer, then over that the same mix but with more hashut. Repeat until the final layer is pure hashut copper. Its really a modification of Tartan's method (who has a very good tutorial on his webisite FYI).

I plan on doing another full tac squad after I finish these two. When I do I plan on making a separate post which will have a tutorial how to do it.

[Armond]

Those are beautiful! I cannot wait to get more bases to build more ground pounders!

[Dosjetka]

m0nolith: That's some excellent work you've done on those Minotaurs! If you could make a tutorial with how you paint the bronze, I'm sure at least a few of us would appreciate it :tu:

[Armond]

Just leaving this here, better pics later

 

[Armond]

Nothing new here?  C'mon Badab lovers!

 

Overall pic!

[Stoneheart]

Had a break from the hobby over the last few months to complete my MRes and search for work... Some awesome stuff on here. I've painted up half a tactical squad of Salamanders (some of them can be seen on my WIP thread) so I'll post them tonight. 

[Stoneheart]

Back with a fist-sized bolt-throwing bang. Brother Tor'el is 1st Tactical Squads ice-cold heavy weapons trooper. A devastating cranial injury suffered during the opening stages of the Badab War - requiring extensive augmetic surgery - has rendered Tor'el without any capacity for emotion. 

 

Brother Theon has over forty years of experience under his belt and is a superb marksman. As with many of his battle-brothers, the Badab War has been the first time he has fought against other Astartes. Theon takes no pleasure in ending the lives of the secessionists, and can be heard muttering Promethean litanies as he fires shot after well-placed shot into their ranks.

 

http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah272/salamander8681/tactical%20squad_zpsbkdjadwt.png

 

Unto the anvil, brothers. 

 

Stoneheart

[GrandMagnus]

"I have metal where I used to have my emotions, sonny", yeap, if that doesn't define an absolute badass I don't know what does.

They look awesome.

[Larkyn]

Now, I'm currently oathed to the Tale of 18 thread, but I've been absolutely dying to try my hand at a Badab War chapter...I've trawled through this thread...and gods is it inspirational. Might just get me on the Badab Train afterall...

[DietOfLiquor]

Wow! There's a ton of great work here! Took me awhile to stroll through it all. But I'll hop in! I've just narrowed down my Lamenters army list that I'll be working towards so this is what I'll pledge to start off!

 

-Chaplain 

-5 man death company squad

-5 man tac squad

-Razorback

-Sicaran Tank

 

And I've already started work and this is what I have so far!

 

Lamenters by Ismael DeLuna, on Flickr

[Armond]

Beautiful  Lamenters!  You do them great credit there!!!

 

My WIP of some more Executioners

 

Not quite done, but almost!

[Studio Silvernale]

I really want to finish my Executioners 5th Company but I don't have the spare money right now

[Armond]

Here and there, it will always be something to work on.  I totaled up the entirety of what I painted over the past 3 weeks, comes out to 1849.  That is without counting the Librarian and the Chaplain.  I am contemplating what is next.  But I think I have an idea of what.  3 more terminators to finish the squad, a drop pod converted for a dreadnought, A dual TL Autocannon wielding Dread...  I will make that decision by tomorrow though, not tonight.  I am worn out.

 

 

So in full on hindsight, I figure I need one Devastator Squad for sure, maybe another Tactical Squad with either another Drop Pod or perhaps a Rhino.  Also, build 4 more Recon Marines to fill the Scout role.  Ugh, oh and one more Ironclad, to max a team of them.

This is what my 1850 lost currently looks like, yay!!!  I never thought I would get there, but I now need to find an opponent who plays one of the Loyalist factions from the Badab War!!!

[Stoneheart]

"I have metal where I used to have my emotions, sonny", yeap, if that doesn't define an absolute badass I don't know what does.

They look awesome.

Thanks brother! You've actually inspired me to write a random bit of fluff about Tor'el and Theon (it's quiet at the call centre )

"May the Emperor forgive you." A second later the Mantis Warrior was down, the secessionist's neck all but destroyed by the mass-reactive shot. Only the vulcanised rubber seal that connected the fallen warrior's helm to the rest of his armour kept his head from being blown clean off. Brother Theon's HUD registered the target as destroyed and he replaced his bolt-guns empty magazine with practised efficiency. The other members of 1st Tactical were arrayed on either side of him, evenly spaced and maintaining a disciplined skirmish line as they advanced on the retreating Mantis Warriors. Merciless missile fire from supporting gunships forced the Salamander's opponents into an undisciplined retreat. Theon's suit of Mk7 power armour registered the heat and concussive blast from the impacts as the precision air-to-ground fire sent plumes of earth, ferrocrete and limbs hundreds of feet into the smoke-choked air.

The Mantis Warriors were formidable adversaries, but with their fleet routed and numbers on the Loyalist's side, they had next to no hope of victory. The thought did not thrill Theon. The engagement at Gangreatha II was the first time he had fired upon another Astartes, and over the course of the two-week long battle he had seven confirmed kills, and he found himself reliving each one in his few moments of respite from the fighting. His eidetic memory, supposed to be a boon in his role as a defender of the Imperium, was proving now a curse. Chaplain Kor'ath had prescribed daily prayers to Vulkan and the Emperor. The venerable priest of the Promethean Cult had not yet offered Theon bad advice, so the marine clung to the ancient litanies like a rock in a stormy sea.

"Contacts, sector 11," Brother Tor'el blurted, his voice distorted by the vocoder surgically grafted to his face. His heavy bolter thumped out fist-sized bolts towards an isolated knot of Mantis Warriors. Micro-explosions showered the secessionists in rubble and dust as they spread out in reaction. They were trapped in an abandoned set of breastworks, their brethren forced to leave them behind as the tide of Salamanders overwhelmed their crumbling defences. Miles in the distance, the fiery contrails of escaping Thunderhawks indicated imminent victory for the Loyalists.

"Caldera formation," Sergeant Ror'k ordered, and the left and right flanks of 1st Tactical increased their speed to create an encircling movement. The Mantis Warriors responded with desultory bursts of bolter fire. A few shots spanked from Brother Aeros' pauldrons but most of the shots went wide. Theon spotted a Devastator squad symbol amongst them - probably inexperienced troops, at least compared to the likes of 1st Tactical, but inexperienced Astartes were still formidable and they would be determined to not end their lives as space marines in such an ignominious manner. Brother Tor'el responded with a relentless stream of heavy bolter shots. A Mantis Warrior who had exposed his upper half to loose a volley of shots at the Salamanders was reduced to chunks of bloody gristle and ceramite as several of Tor'el's bolts found their mark.

"Contact eliminated." Tor'el droned. The surviving pair of Mantis Warriors retreated further into the defence system, but found their route cut off by 1st Tactical's slowly constricting noose. Brother Gideon's bio-marker flashed from green to amber as his right lower leg was severed by a concentrated burst of bolter rounds. He spat Nocturnean oaths at the secessionists and continued to fire, heedless of the blood jetting from his terrible wound.

"You will survive." Tor'el remarked in his now characteristic monotone as he advanced ponderously towards the rear of the bunker where the Mantis' (or was it Mantii? Theon wondered briefly) had retreated.

"I had been wondering." Gideon hissed through blood-rimmed teeth, his dry sense of humour never stayed even by injury.

As the Salamanders surrounded the bunker, Theon gritted his teeth and stowed his bolt-gun. In its place he drew his serrated combat blade and brass-chased bolt-pistol. Both were master-worked weapons he had crafted himself. Neither were made with the thought of ending fellow Astartes' lives. Chaos-aligned traitors perhaps, but not these. He wondered if he saw similar regret in the body language of his brethren. None such from their Sergeant.

"Cleanse and burn." Ror'k ordered dispassionately, cooking two frag grenades for a few seconds before tossing them through the bunkers fire-point. At the rear of the bunker, Brother Aeros lowered his drake-mawed flamer unit and depressed the firing stud. Roiling flames billowed into the structure, jetting through the forward fire-point like an infernal exhaust. The grenades detonated with a double-bang muffled by the roar of the flamer. The radiation from the fearsome weapon momentarily baffled 1st Tacticals HUDs, preventing life signs inside the bunker being analysed.

"Clear it." Theon obeyed his Sergeants clipped command and entered the bunker first, followed by Aeros and Tor'el. The flames clung to the walls like a hellish parasite, but Salamanders were renowned for their constitution even amongst the Adeptus Astartes and the marines passed through, paying them little heed. Theon had barely entered the main chamber when a blazing ceramite-armoured hand took hold of his throat. Before Theon could cry out a short, barbed blade flashed out and pierced his armour's neck seal. Blood flowed. Theon's bio marker flickered.

Brother Aeros was right behind Theon and with an almighty prang smashed the reinforced fuel cell of his flamer into the Mantis Warrior's helm, sending it flying through the bunker's fire point and revealing the terrible, pain-maddened visage of the secessionist. Stepping over Theon's choking form, Aeros barrelled forwards, his own combat blade reflecting the flames he had created as it pistoned in and out of the burning Mantis' softer abdominal armour.

Theon spat blood as he tried to stem the flow from his neck. His vision started to swim and fade as he began to slip out of consciousness. Tor'el lumbered over him, his one biological eye assessing his condition.

"May...may the Emperor forgive us..." Theon whispered. He could hear Tor'el's vocoder whirr in response as he let unconsciousness take him.

"You will -"