A Lesser Son of Greater Fathers: Dabbling in Epic

[Kizzdougs]

Love your work, bro! Looking forward to seeing the Knight develop :tu:

[Dantay VI]

Looking absolutely awesome.

 

Glad to see that I am not the only pebble collector ;)

[obsidian quacker]

I've been a follower of this plog for a while now but I thought I had to finally say something as I've got to say your depiction of ultramarines has really got me back into collecting them. The look of these 'grittier' ultramarines has really hit home with me (I'm afraid to say that I've kind of adopted the colour scheme for a successor chapter) and I look forward to updates from you.

[millest]

was wondering if there were any more "darkeR" ultras coming? im looking at a similar, if not more destroyer scheme, for a set of boarding marines. was hoping to see some "blacker" models.
that and i love the thread and i need more :D

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

XVI

 

Tempestatis

 

+Pankrator reports enemy armour inbound on left flank, infantry support in overwhelming numbers. They're falling back in good order to phase line Terminus.+

 

+So noted. All platforms, escalate graviton amps to maximum yield.+

 

+Tempestatis, Pankrator here. Currently displacing, you'll be cut off from infantry support for sixty seconds. Be advised enemy Spartan about to break through into the plaza to your north-east, suspect carrying full complement of hostiles. Crack it open and we'll take it from there.+

 

+Tempestatis acknowledges. All platforms, target plaza, north-east processional wall, full sustained salvo on my mark.+

 

+There it is! XII Legion Spartan! Open fire!+

 

+vox-distort, small arms fire? multiple explosions, unknown weapon type [addendum: multiple graviton pulses]+

 

+Pankrator, this is Tempestatis. The beast is down and its throat is bare. Go slit that bastard open from end to end.+

 

+Fine work, brothers. Our turn.+

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/IMAG1993_zpsxbruefru.jpg

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/IMAG1994_zpseqoo0rbg.jpg

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/IMAG1996_zpsss27jbvm.jpg

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/IMAG1999_zpsdukzi0q6.jpg

 

[addendum: honour markers? unknown purpose]

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/IMAG1997_zpsrm4epk3z.jpg

Edited December 3, 2016 by Brother-Captain Arkhan

[Marshal Rohr]

Absolutely brilliant (and economical) conversions brother! Very cool idea. 

[Soldier of Dorn]

Absolutely adorable. They're like little baby tanks!

 

>ahem<

 

Yeah, they're pretty sweet.

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Hahaha adorable is the last thing I expected. Cheers brother. ;)

 

Magnetised the Rapiers, planning on laser destroyer and MLRS (mortar proxy) variants:

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/15259417_10154531388080546_7098255881765102736_o_zpskab5mvyj.jpg

[SkimaskMohawk]

I'd suggest throwing them on bases, simply to make them closer in size to the actual models

[Dosjetka]

Aye, putting them on bases would look neat.

 

Terrific work, as per usual. The fact that you mentioned phase lines makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. ;)

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Cheers chaps. I thought Kataphron chassis' were about the same size as Rapiers? Is there that big a size difference? Biggest problem with putting them on bases is it limits where you can fit the unit. I'll consider it though :)

 

Some batreps incoming soon as I get time to sit down and write for a bit...

[sockwithaticket]

Nice, brother. They're a really cool way around having to go the FW route.

As I've got my Deathwatch Heavy Bolter Rapier next to me I took some rough measurements:

From track tip to rear foot plate edge is a little over 5 inches and width of the carriage is 3.8.

For what it's worth, yours look about right to me on the basis of how they look sizewise vs, a marine.

Like the markers, too. Simple, but effective.

Edited December 4, 2016 by sockwithaticket

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Nice, brother. They're a really cool way around having to go the FW route.

 

As I've got my Deathwatch Heavy Bolter Rapier next to me I took some rough measurements:

 

From track tip to rear foot plate edge is a little over 5 inches and width of the carriage is 3.8.

 

For what it's worth, yours look about right to me on the basis of how they look sizewise vs, a marine.

 

Like the markers, too. Simple, but effective.

 

Cheers for that mate! Cool of you to take the trouble to take the measurements - sure that wasn't a typo tho? Rapiers are really 5 inches long? :/

 

yeah, the counters were a shot in the dark, just something I threw together with no idea what they'd represent (spare bits in the box, sort of thing). At the minute I reckon they're going to be for enemy units 'marked' by Interlocking Tactics.

[SkimaskMohawk]

They're not.

 

2.5" long

~1.66" wide

1.5" high

[sockwithaticket]

 

Nice, brother. They're a really cool way around having to go the FW route.

 

As I've got my Deathwatch Heavy Bolter Rapier next to me I took some rough measurements:

 

From track tip to rear foot plate edge is a little over 5 inches and width of the carriage is 3.8.

 

For what it's worth, yours look about right to me on the basis of how they look sizewise vs, a marine.

 

Like the markers, too. Simple, but effective.

 

Cheers for that mate! Cool of you to take the trouble to take the measurements - sure that wasn't a typo tho? Rapiers are really 5 inches long? :/

 

yeah, the counters were a shot in the dark, just something I threw together with no idea what they'd represent (spare bits in the box, sort of thing). At the minute I reckon they're going to be for enemy units 'marked' by Interlocking Tactics.

 

  It would seem that I'e forgotten how to use a two sided ruler... consider my measurements in centimetres!

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

 

 

Nice, brother. They're a really cool way around having to go the FW route.

 

As I've got my Deathwatch Heavy Bolter Rapier next to me I took some rough measurements:

 

From track tip to rear foot plate edge is a little over 5 inches and width of the carriage is 3.8.

 

For what it's worth, yours look about right to me on the basis of how they look sizewise vs, a marine.

 

Like the markers, too. Simple, but effective.

 

Cheers for that mate! Cool of you to take the trouble to take the measurements - sure that wasn't a typo tho? Rapiers are really 5 inches long? :/

 

yeah, the counters were a shot in the dark, just something I threw together with no idea what they'd represent (spare bits in the box, sort of thing). At the minute I reckon they're going to be for enemy units 'marked' by Interlocking Tactics.

 

  It would seem that I'e forgotten how to use a two sided ruler... consider my measurements in centimetres!

 

 

Easy done mate. Cheers anyway :)

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

Some photos of a recent series of games under the 30k Heralds of Ruin rules...my first wargames for a while (I don't get in many games these days). Heralds of Ruin is a skirmish-level game intended to take the simplicity of GW's Killteam rules and add in the complexity and fun of rulesets like Necromund and the (now C&D'ed) third-party ruleset Killzone. It's effectively a halfway point. I wasn't totally au fait with the rules being used, but it was nice to get some skirmishes in with the Black One Hundred's advance guard, a patrol under the lead of Brother-Sergeant Ajax Nestor.

 

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The games themselves didn't go great - of 3 games, the Hundred's advance scout group took 1 of 3 wins, with a win in the middle in a 3-way bloodbath between renegade Mechanicum and (alleged) Blood Angels under what appeared to be conflicting orders. In these days of heresy and treachery, it's not always easy to tell who is on whose side.

 

The first game, set in a skirmish against Night Lords in the Reikshive system [local group's current campaign], was good fun but proved how tough bikes are in skirmish games - it didn't help that my opponent turned up with something like 50 points of models over the limit but I believe it was an honest mistake. We also played a scenario very much to his favour, with half my force starting in the board centre and the other half arriving (late) via reserve - but the game did allow for some good shots which is good.

 

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Night Lords outflanking...

 

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XIII Legionnaires about to be ambushed by VIII Legion outriders

 

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Ambush!

 

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Reserves led by Brother-Sergeant Nestor arrive - but too little, too late for the XIII Legion patrol.

 

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Nestor faces off against the VIII Legion's craven leader, and despite his opposing number's superior wargear manages to hold him off long enough for the rest of the patrol to withdraw. Although heavily wounded, Nestor manages to escape when the Night Lords peel off from the hunt to consolidate the ground taken from the Ultramarines.

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/IMAG1986_zpssm3rl2u2.jpg

 

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Game three, the final game. The Ultramarines, having crushed a Mechanicum force in an earlier engagement, seek to follow up their advantage by pursuing the Mechanicum forces deeper into the ruined city...

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/IMAG1984_zpsjfzqrcxd.jpg

 

However, the traitor Mechanicum arrive with overwhelming firepower.

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/IMAG1983_zpsphea75gt.jpg

 

In the ensuing engagement, the Ultramarines are forced to withdraw rapidly in the face of enemy firepower and an influx of Myrmidon units spearheading a Mechanicum counterattack. With several lives lost, Brother-Sergeant Nestor orders the retreat, holding the enemy with a chosen rearguard of warriors long enough for Apothecaries to recover the XIII wounded.

 

Despite the defeat suffered by the Black One Hundred, Nestor's deeds ensure that many of the warriors wounded in the engagements against the Night Lords and Mechanicum will live to fight again.

 

Recognising the sergeant's strategic acumen, Nestor is awarded veteran honours by Brother-Captain Augustus, and the surviving warriors of II Squad, Pankrator, are commended for their service in protracted engagements in the field. The Hundred's warship, Ardent Vigil, will return to the Reikshive system in good time to deliver the vengeance of the Thirteenth Legion in all its cold fury.

[Grim Dog Studios]

The rapiers are fantastic mate, and loved the kill team battle report. I really love the idea of Kill team and can't wait to try it out myself with my own Ultras.

[BrotherCaptainArkhan]

I'm coming down with Consulitis*, I swear...

 

 

*a well-known disease in which Horus Heresy hobbyists literally cannot stop building different Consul variants to save their own skin

 

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[Dosjetka]

Give me Consulitis over HBS* any day.

*Hobby Butterfly Syndrome

[Grim Dog Studios]

I'm coming down with Consulitis*, I swear...

 

 

*a well-known disease in which Horus Heresy hobbyists literally cannot stop building different Consul variants to save their own skin

 

 

http://i1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj598/Mjolnir771/15417796_10154562647780546_1188795287_o_zps59tg8ofe.jpg

 

Beautiful stuff mate, can't wait to see him painted!

[Soldier of Dorn]

Give me Consulitis over HBS* any day.

 

*Hobby Butterfly Syndrome

 

Don't forget about Unpainter's Disease* too. ;)

 

* Commonly associated with HBS, this is, in fact, a separate condition in which the sufferer perpetually lays off painting the thousands of models lying around in favor of continually purchasing and building more models, which in turn will go unpainted.

 

Brilliant work, Arkhan. Just... brilliant.

[Dagoth Ur]

In the immortal words of George Takei: Oh my!

[hushrong]

Love seeing the battle report!

 

The newest consul also looks SWEET!

[Frejdruk]

I recently picked up Betrayal at Calth, my first time buying from GW in a couple of years, to paint some Heresy-era dudes. This thread has helped me (after much trouble, haha) to decide to paint them up as Ultramarines.

 

Incredible stuff, looking forward to following your progress!