Achinadav's March of the Legions catchup

[Achinadav]

Hi folks

 

I loved the idea of the March of the Legions when I first came across it in a random Google search. For some reason it never occurred to me to join the forum and take part... Then the March got to the Iron Hands and the perfect reason/opportunity to finally buy that immortals body cropped up. After that late start I decided that I wanted to fill in the gaps in my legion roster. A hunt through my bits box, many eBay orders and months later and I've made some sort of progress.

 

Here's the first three completed marines, Iron Hand, Blood Angel and Vlka Fenryka:

They've all got some background from their MotL entry, which I'll add when I figure out how to cy a post.

 

Here's some with paint on, but not finished, Alpha Legion, Salamander (heavy flamer wonky because its balanced in place) and Night Lord (who I failed to paint in time due to going to sea for a month):

 

Undecorated but unpainted, Raven Guard and Thousand Sons:

 

(Partially) assembled, Word Bearer and Ultramarine:

 

And this collection of bits in zips lock bags will be joining the others, eventually. Except I've got an extra bag because I really want to convert a Knight Errant, and I think I'll probably add a Black Shield of some sort too.

 

Now, by rights, I should finish off those 3 pip marines. Except the White Scars month is probably going to start and I probably won't be able to resist putting my Imperial Fist together too, as I really want to try out the new GW yellow paints.

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Achinadav

[Achinadav]

Thanks for the likes chaps. Great to know people are interested.

 

Sunday night hobby time was spent on my White Scars master of signal ('scuse the big hand, his left arm and backpack aren't glued to help with painting):

 

Very slight conversion to arm him with a Martian death ray! Was in two minds, as I love the old pewter model that inspired him and the typing arm is actually pretty neat. Came down on the side of the volkite because, well, CHOOM! And it felt wrong that any consul should be armed with only a bolt pistol. No idea if its game legal (not that I've played since 2000). Looks like my Iron Warrior's breacher will have to wield something else now.

 

Thanks for looking, any and all comments welcome.

 

A

[Pearson73]

Looking good, nice choice of armament.

[Olis]

Very slight conversion to arm him with a Martian death ray! Was in two minds, as I love the old pewter model that inspired him and the typing arm is actually pretty neat. Came down on the side of the volkite because, well, CHOOM! And it felt wrong that any consul should be armed with only a bolt pistol. No idea if its game legal (not that I've played since 2000). Looks like my Iron Warrior's breacher will have to wield something else now.

 

Now you're speaking my sort of language, brother. The MDRC is pleased with the conversion, and yes, it's a valid unit entry. ^_^

[Achinadav]

Heh, neat, didn't occur to me to look in Betrayal before sticking it on. Its hard to tell, because his force naginata is in the way, but my Thousand Son has a serpenta in his left hand. Will put them both in the MDRC thread when they've had a lick of paint

[Olis]

New content is always welcome at the Club. :tu:

[Achinadav]

Monday evening hobby time has resulted in two more members of my March of the Legions. Should probably have spent it painting some of the ones that were already stuck together...Anywho, here's a seeker of the Emperor's Children:

He's made from a kakophoni body and I've used some gubbins I had in my bits box to add some sort of sensor to his right shoulder and a device for painting targets to his left forearm. Would have liked to squeeze a knife in there somewhere, but the ones that fitted were too small. He's not based because I'm trying to decide on whether I want him similarly based as my Raven Guard apothecary for the two sides of the RG assault on the Perfect Fortress. Regardless I like the idea that the kakophon implants represent him having undergone experimental surgery to add a kind of sonar capability to make him a more effective seeker.

 

And here's my some kind of Imperial Fist, maybe just a tac marine:

Really like the extra ammo from Anvil Industries. I got a sprue of extra gear from their Black Ops range ages ago. Should have used some on the EC above. I've been saving that bionic arm for just the right marine too. His armour is a real mish mash, with mks VI, VII and IV all in there somewhere. I figured that in the later stages of the Siege of Terra supplies, equipment and materiel would be running low on every side and you'd stop worrying about the visual aesthetics of having one mark of armour.

 

This backpack has been in my bits box for ages. It was stuck to the same torso its on now, but I pulled it off, then decided I wanted it back on there. I think at one point it was going on the EC. 

 

Thanks for looking, any and all comments more than welcome,

 

A

[Achinadav]

Decided I should cut and paste my original March of the Legions submissions here. More for the sake of posterity than anything else.

 

Not had any hobby time since the beginning of the week. I'm contemplating getting last years special Forgeworld minis off eBay, but they're pretty expensive. Thing is Narik Dreygur's body will be an easier/better fit for my half planned Knight Errant than the Ashen Circle body I picked up and I love Autilon Skorr's power axe, plus I think he'd make a good fit for a Black Shield, decisions, decisions.

 

Garr, I hate the autocorrect on my tablet, it mangles all the weeman names and jargon, i.e. Auction Dorr, Narik Dreyfus.

 

Seen here on the surface of the Red Planet just prior to the outbreak of the Heresy, Consul Delegatus Rathmor Cobb carries the Clockwork Hatchet and an energy weapon of unknown manufacture and provenance. Cobb frequently claimed that his unique power axe was crafted as a mark of favour by Ferris Manus. This claim seems likely to be false; Cobb was known for his vainglorious and arrogant manner, rather than his high-standing within the 10th.

 

Following the events of the Dropsite Massacre, Cobb blacked out his vexilla's clan symbol as a mark of grief and broke all ties with his Legion. For the rest of the heresy he led a hand-picked kill team in pursuit of the Emperor's Children and their Primarch. This team was last recorded making a reckless attempt to board the Phoenician's flagship as it entered the Terran system. This carefully laid, if reckless, ambush led to the death of the entire strikeforce. Cobb's remains were seen to decorate a legion banner of the 3rd during the siege of the Emperor's palace.

 

 

[Achinadav]

Here's my Blood Angel legion champion. It took four attempts to get the armour done, although I'm still unhappy with it. It kept coming out either too dark or too orange. I was trying out some new paints, ho hum. I'm afraid the pictures really show up how rough he is, but at least I can call him done. I am quite pleased with the right shoulder and my attempt at adding a power weapon effect to the sword shows up better on camera than in natural light. Hopefully practise will make perfect.

 

Brother Eliphas Rafael served as the champion of the 43rd chapter of the Blood Angels. A distinguished and skilled swordsman, he was honoured to wield the paragon blade known as the Angel's Tears. It was widely believed that he would soon join the Sanguinary Guard.

 

Prior to the outbreak of the Horus Heresy, Brother Rafael's 43rd chapter was deployed en masse to pacify the Damatieri system. Throughout this bloody compliance, he fought with distinction in the spear tip of nearly 200 orbital assaults.

 

Brother Eliphas Rafael died on Signus Prime, ripped asunder by the bloodthirster Ka'Bandha after giving in to the Black Rage in a single moment of weakness.

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[Achinadav]

Aaaaannd, here's my Vlka Fenryka. I was going to try for the rogue trader style of insignia, yellow with red outline, but it's ended up as plain yellow because my first attempt looked pretty awful. I ordered a bunch of paints from GW to make getting the right shade of blue-grey and it was super eqsy, especially when compared with the Blood Angel! I picked up some yellows and purples for my soon-to-be-painted IF and EC, really looking forward to doing them, and the plastic librarian (free shipping! Or how to make your customers justify a second mortgage to get plastic crack) because he's lovely and I had to have him...

 

Heinrich Halvdan, called Howl-at-the-moon, is seen here striding through the streets of Tizca during the Burning of Prospero. After making planetfall, Halvdan was embroiled in fierce fighting that saw him leading a bloody assault against elements of the Prosperine Spireguard. As one of the aesir of Tra, a rank akin to that of legion champion, he was responsible for hunting and slaying many of the Spireguard's officers and specialist ranks. This led to savage reprisal from the Thousand Sons and the elimination of Halvdan's forces. Halvdan was slain during the awakening of the Canis Vertex by Captain Khalophis of the Pyrae, rendered down to his constituent atoms by pure warpfire.

 

Note Halvdan's Cthonia pattern power axe. As part of an exchange between the two legions, Halvdan spent nearly a decade on secondment with the Luna Wolves. The power axe was a gift to Halvdan from the captains of Lupercal's Mournival celebrating his role in a successful speartip assault on the planet designated 63-11. It was upon his return to the Rout that Halvdan earnt his moniker of Howl-at-the-moon, the origin of which seems to be abstruse humour of the Adepts Astartes related to his time with Lupercal's legion.

 

Halvdan bears a small scroll case adorned with an oath of moment, presumably related to the Rout's assault on Prospero. Such cases were commonly carried by the Luna Wolves as a record of their deeds. The aesir appears to have adopted this custom during his time with the Wolves. His premature death upon Prospero prevents any record of what other customs he may have acquired during his secondment. This lack of detail acquires a darker resonance after the outbreak of the Hours Heresy.

 

[Achinadav]

​Been bloomin' ages since I managed to get some hobby time. Other stuff just kept cropping up, and then summer arrived...The heat has broken a bit now, so its more comfortable to sit and model. Today I stopped half-heartedly fiddling with bits and did this:

 

Decapitated Narik Dreygur in the interests of converting him to look in a different direction and not be an Iron Warrior anymore:

 

Carfefully, VERY carefully, trimmed away the rest of a devastator helmet as the first step to making a diagnostor helm: 

 

Spliced together a pretty big chain axe for not-Narik to wield:

 

Thanks for looking. Hmm, the knobbly bit on the top of the axe is slightly wonky.

[Achinadav]

Thank goodness for holidays! Finally managed to get some painting done. Here's my (almost) finished Salamander. He's missing some insignia, I'll have to dig around in the black hole that is my desk and hope to find a Sallie transfer.

 

As a young Terran recruit into the XVIIIth, Orchellian Tellanon proved mediocre in nearly every way. Resigned to a career as a forgettable astartes-of-the-line, Tellanon expected to die in one backwater conflict or another. In one of the many unrecorded skirmishes that made up the Compliances,of the Great Crusade, Tellanon fired his last mass reactive round and was forced to take up a flamer as a make-shift replacement. This was to prove a turning point for the young warrior as he discovered a talent for wielding flame weapons of all descriptions.

 

At some point prior to the Dropsite Massacre, Tellanon was promoted into his Chapter's veteran cadre as a heavy flamer specialist. Here he is seen proudly displaying the gilded badges of his veterancy. He served for in this capacity for at least 5 decades, although detailed records of his career were lost in a data stack failure during the Scouring.

 

Tellanon is assumed to have died on the black sands of Isstvan V. His Chapter and squad are recorded as having taken part and no further mention his made of them in the honour roll of the XVIIIth.