Wormwoods' Blood Angel Successor Project - The Sin Eaters

[Wormwoods]

1 hour ago, Xenith said:

That cloak is amazing, really blanchitsu-like! Lovely army coming together nice, though you're fighting a lot of nids. Any good upgrade rolls to note?

Thanks! Well, I roll for upgrades about as well as I do for everything else on the tabletop, but I have managed to get a few upgrades on my Chaplains. One has an extra attack, the Terminator Chaplain has the extra Feel No Pain. Is it helping? Not particularly, but it's fine. 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Agreed, the cape looks great with the checkerboard hem

 

Sounds like you're having a good time with these games, even if they're not always going your way  

[Wormwoods]

ANCIENT BRENNUS - SIN EATERS 3rd COMPANY

3rd Company Ancient Brennus, bearing the Company Relic: The Sanguis Aquilae.

 

An honour earned in the earliest days of the Chapter, the original source of the Sanguis Aquilae has been lost even to the long memories of the Sin Eaters. What is known, however, is that it was some display of valour and dedication by the 3rd Company that led to the granting of the boon, an artifact forged on Terra itself during the Great Crusade. The icon itself contains a small, but powerful fiend generator, rendering it nearly impervious to harm, though without extending this protective shield to the Immortal that carries it into battle. Many times has the icon fallen with its holder, only to be taken up again, and held high. 

 

Immortal Brennus was chosen to hold the Sanguis Aquilae due to his inclusion within the 3rd Company during his first life.

 

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I am CRAWLING my way through this Command Squad. Two models down, three to go! The ancient took me longer than most, and I'm still cross about the cloak. I wasn't able to get the damn thing together the way I wanted in the assemblies stage, and I had to fix it after painting with some rapidly re-painted greenstuff. Cloaks! They look great! Terrible to actually assemble!

 

I'll be working my way through the remaining members of the Command Squad, then working to hit that final 2,000 points I need for the end of the Crusade. Probably another 5-man jump squad, and... Something else! We'll see!

[YannTheMad]

OOOh I love that one!

The model composition/color scheme is really inspired and striking on your ancient.

Tbh, I don't usually like capes, but it looks really good.

The staining look really good too.

[Firedrake Cordova]

They came out great - I really like the gold on the standard, and how the paper scrolls came out  

Edited April 28 by Firedrake Cordova

[Pearson73]

Wow! That Ancient is briliant! I love the choice of helmet, something just right about the faceless/featureless warrior, bearing the relics of the chapter.

[Torbenos]

I will echo that others have said in that the Ancient looks great. The cloaks really give something to your scheme, adding in an extra bit of accent colour. The gold is also striking. Hope we'll see another battle report soon too!

[Wormwoods]

IMMORTAL GALAN - SIN EATERS 3rd COMPANY

Immortal Galan, of the Bolt, attached to the 3rd Company and armed with a Custom Heavy Bolter.

 

The captain of each Sin Eaters Company is joined by a small, personally-chosen warriors from the 1st Company to serve as bodyguards and personal retinue. These warriors, chosen from a single unit (Immortals of the Blade, the Plate, or the Bolt) or a mix from several provide veteran support to the battleline company alongside the Captain, though this is not the most vital role they play. Immortals are strange beings, unique even among the most long-lived of transhuman clades within the Imperium due to the nature of their longevity. Such beings have... Difficulties socialising with, or even truly understand their still mortal brothers. While rarely admitted, one reason for an Immortal granted command of a battleline Company to bring fellow Immortals with him is for simple companionship, to have peers he can relate to. 

 

Some of the finest equipment produced by the Chapter Armory is deployed within the bodyguard units of Company Captains.

 

Both the heavy bolter and power armour brought to battle by the Immortal Galan, shown above, are of the highest quality produced within the Chapter, or by their allies within the Mechanicus. Individually machined and adjusted for the needs of the wielder, they are as much marks of office as weapons of war. Galan is shown here wearing a suit of up-armoured Tacticus plate, with elements of Gravis plate (such as the reinforced and up-powered joints in the legs) supporting additional armoured panels along the side expected to face the foe. A similar upgrade has been applied to the heavy bolter, alongside reworked internals and high-powered ammunition loads. 

 

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Not gonna lie, I love this sculpt. It's why I didn't really mess with it at all. the mixed plate and fashionable asymmetry really works for me, and I continue to really like the bare heads they've been doing lately. 

 

We're rapidly approaching the end of this unit, which has been a bit of a bottleneck for my painting. It's a box with 5 character models, basically, which is always going to take longer than doing 5 regular infantry, but it still feels like I've been slacking. Ah well. Home stretch, and I'm doing the last two at once, so should be done over the weekend! 

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Really nicely done!

 

The only nit-pick I can think of is that the bolts in the magazine don't really stand out from the magazine itself, colour-wise.

[Wormwoods]

38 minutes ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Really nicely done!

 

The only nit-pick I can think of is that the bolts in the magazine don't really stand out from the magazine itself, colour-wise.

Not wrong. Always a bit tricky with paired metallics, the wash tends to make them fade into each other. I'm going to do a cleanup on the checkmarks, will probably touch up the bolts, too.

[Firedrake Cordova]

I was wondering whether a glaze of something "brassish" over the top might help - something like Aggaros Dunes?

[Terminatorinhell]

I always love seeing updates in this thread. 

[Wormwoods]

COMPANY COMMAND - SIN EATERS 3rd COMPANY

3rd Company Command, the personal guard & retinue of Captain Cominius.

 

Immortal Vance, of the bolt.

 

Immortal Jernau, of the Blade.

 

Together, Captain Cominius and his retinue contain well over 1,000 years of battlefield experience, and many dozens of deaths and rebirths.

 

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Well, wasn't that a bit of a death-march? I had fun with all of these models, and am quite happy with the final result - my continued inability to take a decent photograph aside - but for a multitude of reasons these 5 lads took far, far too long to finish. Between assembly issues with the ancient to me forgetting to prime the backpacks, heads, and shoulders before-hand, as I like to do, I spent far longer than needed on these, mostly because the whole process left me feeling a bit worn down. 

 

Also, is it me or does the Company Champion seem kinda short for a Primaris model? What is it about the bladeguard-likes that seems so squat? Must be the spread-legged pose. 

 

Speeding up the end of the Sin Eaters crusade (Don't worry, it's not the end of them, just the end of them being my primary Crusade army for a while) should have lit a fire under my arse, but it kind of did the opposite. Oh well. They're done now, and I have some 150 points worth of Sin Eaters left to paint to hit my 2,000 minimum for the end of the Crusade. After that, I can focus in on my T'au again, which will be a welcome change of pace. 

 

Stay tuned to read about this squad getting killed by three lictors at once, a rupture cannon, or 500 points worth of gaunts, respectively. 

[Firedrake Cordova]

They look great, all together.  I'd never noticed it with the Company Champion, but now you mention it, they do look a little smaller, and it's not something that's obvious on the product page on GW's site. 

 

1 hour ago, Wormwoods said:

Stay tuned to read about this squad getting killed by three lictors at once, a rupture cannon, or 500 points worth of gaunts, respectively. 

Sadly, this is always they way.  At least they're not getting clobbered by a mob of grots!  

Edited 7 hours ago by Firedrake Cordova