Graves of Ullanor - a preheresy Luna wolves army plog

[Ceiling_matt]

Hello all who visit my thread, I've been lurking on the forums for quite a long time, getting inspired by the big guys on here to maybe throw together a WiP thread of my own. I haven't been into the heresy game for that long, only coming up to three years now, and after a little lot of back and forth with what legion I want to play - I started with Luna wolves, tried WE once, then AL before again coming back to SoH in their pre-heresy format. I've also cheated on marines with some mechanicum which I sold of, and halfway planned a 3k solar auxila force before settling back into the comfy seat of the legion list.

 

However the obvious problem was how to frame a pre-heresy army taking part in what is definitely a heresy game. So I sat down and thought of the outline for the fluff of my guys, I'll give you a dry outline but will expand and focus on the fluff around their eventual demise once I get to posting the individual members of the squads. I have around 2k painted up to a tabletop standard and I'm finishing up with custom transfers and starting to eventually weather stuff to - the photos are kind of a last memento before I ruin everything with weathering. (not that I'm good enough of a painter to actually have anything that could be ruined but I try my best and hopefully I'm slowly improving.)

 

So the outline of the fluff before I get to the picture of my horrible paint jobs is that my guys are part of the 81st expeditionary fleet, they're a mixed bunch of old terrans who were disappointed in Horus after fighting alongside the Emperor a whole lot in the early crusade / solar war - so expect a lot of raptor imperialis around.

 

They've also picked up some newbloods from around the galaxy, including good ol' cthonia, but because of their reluctance to accept their father, Horus sent all of them away, and they have mostly cruised around what would later become Segmentum Pacificus. So, for most of the marines barring the old terran guard they have never met Horus.

 

But they have fought on the sides of several of the other legions and met other primarchs (in particular the blood angels and iron warriors), thinking themselves (rightfully) scorned sons. because of this most of the force while initially well equipped with MKIV armors have found themselves having to kitbash together suits from whatever functions.

 

Relying on stockpiles of other patterns of armor to maintain as much MKIV hybrids as possible. the "battalion" (although such formations are considered unorthodox by SoH standards) would eventually met up with their genefather one last time - At Ullanor. This is where a majority of the marines would be annihilated, the survivors being merged into a company sized element to retain battle readiness, this company would eventually find itself rudely awoken to the heresy not at istvaan III, but at a later surprise attack by Loyalist Iron warriors out to prove their loyalty to Terra, Ironically seeing the destruction of a company of marines that would have (for the most part) stayed loyal to the emperor. But enough boring blathering about the background - I'm sure you guys would prefer it in the context of models, to set the bar high enough I'll start with my most recent (and thus prettiest imo) of the wolves, an apotechary!

 

Apotechary Aenas

Aenas was a son of a blacksmith from a world called Duratine which had submitted to unification without fighting, intimidated by the "Stone men" that fell from the sky clad in their furs and draped in the cold marble like armor. Aenas was part of the first and only muster on Duratine, netting the battalion 200 souls out of a whole planets population. During selection he was found adequate at any task set before him, mastering both the bolt and blade fast, yet never rising beyond the expected, if he is said to have one defining characteristic its his ability to stay calm under pressure - eventually he found his true calling as an apothecary, his steely nerves under fire ensuring that relatively few of those who fell into his care didn't live to see another day. One of the younger members of the apothecary he is semi permanently attached to the 3rd company, which in the 18th battalion is called "Tempest" - They are the boarding and drop assault vanguard of the 18th, consisting primarily of despoilers, breachers and terminators. He would eventually die at Ullanor, spared the horror of the heresy. A frequent tag along on any boarding party, where his calm nerves and strong friendship with breacher sergeant Faustus ensured that many ork kroozers fell onto the grounds of Ullanor. Both of them giving up their lives to take down the ork kroozer "Big Booma" - Saving the 18th's battle barge "Luna's Glow" from certain destruction.

Edited September 29, 2017 by Ceiling_matt

[Ceiling_matt]

so got this done last weekend, I managed to put on the legion decal for the apotechary; I've also put some stuff on order to start making my justaerins, going to be kitbashed from justaerin torsos, butcher legs and the khorne terminator heads. I also ordered Lugft Huron to use as a base to convert into my terminator preator. anyone have a handy guide to converting indominus terminators into catas?

 

I've also come to realize that my lighting is insufficient to get any kind of good pictures, so a lightbox and some sculpting / weathering brushes are on their way to! thanks ebay!

 

Edited October 3, 2017 by Ceiling_matt

[Ceiling_matt]

things haven't exactly been standing still here since then, I guess I've done a lot of different stuff since, but I have some stuff I guess worth showing of. first is the first few completed minis. (probably) a HQ dude who is a delegatus by the name of Drusus, and a calthtemptor who I reposed (and attempted to make a TL lascannon out of the multimelta, but that didn't go too well so right now he's a one armed bandit. Both of them are part of the old guard from terra and incorporate iconography from the unification war and the solar war.

 

There is also a justaerin squad in progress I'm relativity settled on the heads, except lugfts but I don't really have any fun heads to replace his with. (for those interested the heads are sevetars, the sergeants from the mor deythan kit and the phalanx warder kit and one of the WE terminator conversion kit heads.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lugft's topknot fell of courtesy of my cat...

I'm probably going to scrape of all the SoH eyes and try to find some LW icons somewhere. or just decal them up. here's to popgoesthemonkey doing his nightwolves in single stack shoulderpads eventually...