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Salamander's 3rd composite company, with custodes


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group shot

 

Many of you have probably seen some photos of parts of my Salamanders army posted various places but I haven't really talked about the background or had a large group of photos in the same thread.

 

My goal is to create a Salamander force just after Istvaan, a conglomerate of several units that took too many casualties to operate separately.  Because of the dire supply situation they are using whatever gear they can scrounge, so it is rare that a marine has a complete suit of a single mark of armour and there is a mishmash of bolters and other weapons.  And because of their lack of numbers you won't see any regular tactical squads.

 

Veteran Squad 1 with heavy bolters

veteran group shot

 

Veteran Squad 2 with melta guns

Vet squad 2 completed

 

Veteran Squad 3 with heavy flamers

squad 3 group shot

 

Breacher squad with grav guns

breacher squad completed

 

Contemptor with assault cannon and power fist

finished dread front

finished dread back

 

Land Raider

land raider Wip

 

Terminator HQ

praetor front

 

Artificer armour HQ

finished front

 

Artificer armour Chaplain

chaplain front

 

Apothecary

Mk3 apothecary front

 

Currently Awaiting paint

2 rhinos

5 terminators

5 firedrakes

2nd apothecary

 

To be built

5 pyroclasts

seekers

 

If anyone wants more photos of a specific model or unit just ask and I can provide them.

 

I appreciate any comments you have.

  • 2 weeks later...
  • 6 months later...

It would seem that I have been neglecting to update my log.

 

Much has been completed since I last updated.

 

A squad of Pyroclasts

 

pyroclasts

 
A squad of Firedrakes
 

firedrakes 1

firedrakes 2

firedrakes 3

 

A Praevan with his pets

 

Castellax finished

finished Castellax 1

finished Castellax 3

finished Castellax 2

 

Most recently I completed the seeker squad

 

seeker squad

seeker Sgt front

seeker Sgt back

seeker squad members 2

seeker squad members 1

 

I seem to currently lack photos of my regular terminator squad and my second apothecary.

 

I just acquired a burning of propero so my 30k backlog to build/paint looks something like:

 

Salamander Contemptor with dual Kheres  (unassembled)

 

Tartaros Terminator Squad with 4 volkite, plasma blaster and 2 chain fists (mostly built)

 

10 breachers (from BoP + FW boarding assault upgrade kits which are in the mail)

 

5 volkite support marines (BoP +bits, currently on sprue)

 

5 plasma support marines (BoP +bits, currently on sprue)

 

5 missile heavy marines (BoP +bits, currently on sprue)

 

Knight Errant Librarian (converted from Ahriman)

 

Sisters of Silence (waiting to see what 30k rules look like)

 

Custodes (3 man spear squad + banner + other to be built later)

 

This also leaves me with about 10 more marine bodies including 5 from BoP, plus the wolf character and the FW legion praetor pack, which I have a couple ideas for:

 

Option A   A 10 man Salamander tactical squad plus a few more HQ choices.

 

Option B  A loyalist Death Guard allied contingent with a tactical squad, an HQ and an apothecary

 

 

As always your comments and critiques are appreciated.

  • 2 weeks later...

So I have been working away at building my burning of prospero stuff.  Most of it is in pieces right now because I find it easier to paint models in pieces.  All the terminators, custodes and sgts are getting greenstuff cloaks of some kind.  I probably have about half the models from the box built at this point.  The 10 man breacher squad I have built will start getting paint tomorrow.

 

For now I leave you with a few shots of the breacher sgt, currently the arms and head are held in place with blue tack.

 

breacher squad 2 Sgt front

breacher squad 2 Sgt side

breacher squad 2 Sgt back

 

As always your comments are appreciated.

Good GS work. I would however make the cloaks a little more even instead of oval shaped.either starting it at the shoulders or triming it a bit on the sides.

Thanks, for the most part i didn't want the more square cloak look because the cloaks are made of some kind of reptile hide and it doesn't make sense to me that they would end up square.

Awesome work brother always good to see more drakes msn-wink.gif

Thanks.

Update: A bunch of stuff got primed tonight and is starting to get painted.

unpainted mass

A 10 man breacher squad is being worked on now, with the start of the terminator squad with volkite, a support squad with volkite and a custodes with a banner also getting primed.
  • 2 months later...

So it has been a while since I have posted anything.  Mostly because I haven't done much painting the last couple of months.

 

Most of the breacher squad is done, except for the sgt.

 

breacher squad 2

breacher squad 2 group 3

breacher squad 2 group 2

breacher squad 2 group 1

 

A primus medicae is in progress and the terminator volkite squad is all built primed and will be worked on next.

 

primus medicae front Wip

primus medicae back

 

L&T vow

  • 2 weeks later...

GASP! Fire Drakes without hammers? Blasphemy!

Looking good, though may embed larger images? It gets tedious clicking on them all msn-wink.gif

I am trying something different this time, hopefully it helps.

Great work, what green are you using?

Waagh flesh, drybrsh Loren Forest, drybrush Sybarite Green.

Primus Medicae is finished

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/Primus%20medicae%20complete%20front_zpsg398cm4j.jpg

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/Primus%20medicae%20complete%20back_zpslvgdhykb.jpg

  • 3 weeks later...

My tartaros Volkite squad is now done.  3 man custodes squad will be started soon.

 

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/volkite%20terminator%20squad_zpsqbegos0x.jpg

 

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/volkite%20terminator%20sgt_zpsjzldi4v9.jpg

 

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/volkite%20terminator%203_zpsich8onhk.jpg

 

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/plasma%20blaster%20teminator_zpsnlsvrbhf.jpg

 

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/volkite%20terminator%202_zpsuzijztj0.jpg

 

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/volkite%20terminator%201_zpsfxdtqbzt.jpg

The custodes test model is done, now to do the rest of the 3 man squad.

 

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/custodes%20test%20front_zpsemkaxrws.jpg

 

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/custodes%20test%20right_zps4ktmnb0j.jpg

 

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/custodes%20test%20back_zpsr3cgywkz.jpg

 

http://i1266.photobucket.com/albums/jj522/engineer1888/custodes%20test%20left_zps16qfjqg8.jpg

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