Thousand Sons

[happyslugger]

Well I have managed to get a TSons Christmas box allocated for next week, so the journey begins on building the army. 

 

Just thought I'd pop in and say hello.

 

Initial plan is to get the Xmas box set, a patrol box, Ahriman, a MVB and another box of terminators (not all at once I add, cost of living and all that).

 

I don't really have any psychic heavy armies, so will be interesting to see how they play (I'm more of a collector and hobby guy than competitive player).  I wonder how they will stack up against my son's grey knights. 

Edited December 3, 2022 by happyslugger

[Naryn]

Welcome to Sortiarius, brother! Sounds like a reasonable plan for an army if you ask my. As for a matchup with the Grey Knights, in my opinion we can hold our own unless there are too many Dreadknights involved. Cabal points and a few of our strategems are wonderful at keeping our psychic phase consistent.

[happyslugger]

Thx @Naryn

 

The models look fun to paint also which helps.

 

I'll have to do a lot of reading and batrep watching to gain an understanding of how to play them.  

[happyslugger]

Well maybe fun was the wrong word...they are interesting to paint aren't they lol.

 

 

 

Anyway building up to a 500 point army at first then 750,1k and so on. 

 

 

 

I have gone for the gold base method for paining. 

 

 

 

Going to take a while me thinks

[Ahzek451]

It takes awhile but gold base is worth it in my journey. I find myself accidentally rubbing off paint pot retributer armor during the painting process if I use a different base color and paint the gold on later,

[happyslugger]

I think my issue is, I expect far too much of myself when it comes to painting.  I watch the pros on YouTube like Duncan and see their models.....then look at mine.....

 

I forget that's these people do this stuff for a living and are far more accomplished than I am.

 

Still annoys me though lol 

[happyslugger]

So I got my battle box and I'm looking at the 20 rubric marines that are included.

 

Is it worth building these say as 1 squad of bolter and SR.Canon and then the other flamers and SR.Canon?

 

General thoughts or recommendations?

[Ahzek451]

I would seriously consider magnets. I have magnetized all my rubrics so that the sorcerer can be armed with pistol or pistol flamer. And every rubric can have a bolter or flamer, and one can swap for the soulreaper. All options at anytime. I don't really feel like painting more rubrics than I need to, to be able to flip options. It's a good practice for future-proofing as editions and rules change. And options are always good. Even the icon is magnetized. 

But if you dont want to mess with magnets, make one flamer squad(or have one with a soulreaper) and one bolter squad with a soulreaper. 

[happyslugger]

Thanks @Ahzek451

 

I have done some models with magnets before and think the smallest were my dawn eagle jet bike arms (with the lances).  Not sure i could face magnetising each weapon if I am honest (fair play to you if you did).

 

I assume you placed a 1 mm x 1 mm  magnet in the wrist section connecting the guns to the arms?

 

 

[Ahzek451]

I tend to be super meticulous with the process and go a bit overboard. In general, the same arm position can be used for all the guns, if you don't mind tiny errors in gap and angle.
I magnetize the right arm at the wrist and magnetize the left arm at the shoulder, because I've noticed the left arm needs to be able to go up and down a little depending on the gun. It also helps with changing the guns out and painting. I don't recall the size, I'll have to look. It's been awhile. 

[happyslugger]

Well they are a tad awkward to put together and lots of mould lines.

 

Ive started with two five man squads with bolter and SRC. Leaves me 10 left and I can make those up as flamers and using the exalted sorcerer box, I will make up a champion for that squad 

[Xenith]

Welcome to the Silver Tower! You've had some great advice already - I'd also go with an even split of flamer models and bolter+SRC models. Flamers were great, and they received a point drop recently - they can also advance and fire, making them one of our faster damage dealing units. 

 

Good luck on the rubrics - they take a while but it's worth it. Mine are Silver Sons, so using a leadbelcher base then kantor blue to fill in the gaps. So much faster than painting trim afterwards. 

[happyslugger]

Been a while since I updated this thread but so far I've painted the 20 goats, 20 rubrics, 10 SOT, the three exalted sorcerers, the infernal master and my third party hellbrute. 

 

Next up will be the two maulerfiends and MVB.

 

Then Ahriman and the Goat dude on disk.

 

Then Magnus and the LOC.

 

Think I need one more box of rubrics and SOTs but they can wait as it's not much fun trying to paint them lol.

 

Need some Tzeentch troops also, so may grab a box of the horrors (blue and pink) once I've done big red and big bird before going back to the blue and gold.

 

 

[sitnam]

Would love to see your paint work! Did you go with the more traditional scheme or an offshoot?

 

The Mutalith and Lord of Change were fun to paint, hopefully you enjoy them. I haven't done Blue horrors, but Pink Horrors were also pretty fun. I find that contrast paints work very well for them

[happyslugger]

Went with a blue and gold theme, and I will get some pictures uploaded for you this week (I'm no pro).

 

I've had a hard time with the MVB and deciding on a scheme...so far I've just dry brushed a few colours but I'm not sure what / where to go with it.

 

 

[sitnam]

For the MVP I went with a scheme to match my Daemons: my Pink Horrors have Volupos Pink bodies with their extremities in Gryph charger grey, with magos purple blending the two together. Perhaps doing Pink Horrors first might give some inspiration, or maybe matching it to however you did your Tzaangors?

[happyslugger]

A WIP as still got some touching up to do.

 

[happyslugger]

Again some touching up (did 5 of these and the 10 Rubrics yesterday so still some work to do).

[happyslugger]

Not great as it's a camera phone picture but gives an idea 

[happyslugger]

My best model is probably this one

[Ulfast]

Wow, really well painted models. I think you are doing a great work.

[happyslugger]

21 minutes ago, Ulfast said:

Wow, really well painted models. I think you are doing a great work.

Thanks. They look okay, if you get real close you will see errors but that's okay. I don't have the time or skills to paint them much better if I'm honest. I try and touch up areas I make mistakes and need to do some gems and highlights on them. But I also get board quickly lol.

 

I can't paint faces (or haven't really tried) and white is an absolute pain. I only have brushes so no air brush stuff. 

 

 

[Xenith]

Great looking stuff! 

[happyslugger]

WIP.

 

The big magic ball on his back is corax white spray.  Liberal coating of tesseract Glow and will be touched up with baharoth blue to match the magic on the staffs, disks and things.  

 

I honestly couldnt think of much else, so dry brushed some purples, skaven blight and slaanesh grey for claws etc.

 

Tentacles will be purple / red and some blood for the blood god paint me thinks 

 

 

Edited March 27, 2023 by happyslugger

[sitnam]

2 hours ago, happyslugger said:

Thanks. They look okay, if you get real close you will see errors but that's okay. I don't have the time or skills to paint them much better if I'm honest. I try and touch up areas I make mistakes and need to do some gems and highlights on them. But I also get board quickly lol.

 

I can't paint faces (or haven't really tried) and white is an absolute pain. I only have brushes so no air brush stuff. 

 

 

I mean, unless your some pro you'll find mistakes scouring anyone's minis. I think yours look great!