The Oppo: Bonehead's Lost, Damned and in all likelihood Disappointed

[Tallarn Commander]

Definitely snag the Salamander Scout.

 

I love my two Tallarn Scout Salamanders. They are fun to use. I always put 'em in reserve to take advantage of their Legends outflank rule.

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As you can see, I like to outflank Salamanders with sentinels for added firepower.

 

 

 

[Bonehead]

Nice painting on those salamanders, commander! Also, that's a lot of autocannons. Hard to dislike that many big guns on a flank.

I think you've got the names twisted, Doctor- the Mari are the regular traitor guard, the white ones are the Kur. 

The theme of the Yantar is light infantry- so only very light vehicles like the tauroses for them, Gnasher. It's a light tank, but the salamader is still an actual treads-and-all tank so it's off the cards.

I kind of like the salamander for the Mari armoured; a scout vehicle that's still a tank, to emphasise their general heavy feel.

Meanwhile, I think the good doctor has the same thought as me about the white traitor guard; they're assault troops, basically, nasty up close. The Mari are regular heavy infantry and armour, and the light infantry role is filled by the swarming cultists. I'm toying with the idea of making them mechanised, but I need a vehicle that's not a chimera for them. Not sure I like the taurox. Valkyries do fit the Star Wars storm troopers feel, but they seem a bit too good for traitor guard.

Edited March 7 by Bonehead

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Yep, I did get the names reversed - I think the salamander would be great for your actual Mari.

[Bonehead]

Missed out on an eBay lot of 6 more 2nd ed cultists this week- and they went for just £27. Simply forgot about them. Kicking myself.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Ouch!  Better luck next time, hopefully.

[Bonehead]

I got over it once I remembered I'm on holiday this week.

I set myself very modest goals for the day, and once I had them done I finally got round to building the last members of the 2nd platoon at last.

I've run out of empty cadian helmets, so I'm having to fall back on my regrettable plan b; drilling out helmets that come with heads in. This is, to put it mildly, a pain. If anyone happens to have any of the empty ones knocking around, do let me know. My gratitude will be sincere and immense.

Anyway, just got to do bases for the last three guys and then they're finally going to be ready for paint. So far the damn rough riders for the loyalists have eaten up three weeks' sparse painting time and none of them are near finished. Might need to have a break once I get the riders done.

Considering I managed to knock out about thirteen Mari guardsmen in two weeks last time I painted some, with a bit of luck we could have the entire platoon  done by mid-april.

No flash, but a rather distasteful yellow tint form the bulb:

Flash, washing out the detail a bit:

Pretty happy with this unit: the poses are very consistent and sit well together.

I was also able to bag another severn autoguns for the Mari lads- that's enough for an entire extra squad. I might end up with four platoons plus stormtroopers at this rate.

Oh, and I have a second vanquisher turret now that the eBay guy must have forgotten he had. Just need to rustle up an actual tank to go under it now...

[Bonehead]

Had a quiet period today so I got some more searchlight nonsense up and running:

This time I'm being at least moderately competent and getting the drilling and soldering sorted before I paint them or detail them up.

Still need to find a hull for the second vanquisher- and another one of those stubbers, come to think of it.

[Bonehead]

Alright, so the damn rough riders for the loyalists are taking so preposterously long that I got bored and put them aside for a bit.

Meanwhile, I've been thinking about the question of transport for the Mari Landsknechts. I want something suitably brutal looking, something as low-tech looking as the russes and malcador. The Taurox is too lightweight-looking, the chimera's not brutal looking enough and also looks a lot more modern than the russ to my eyes. The valkyrie's way out. I think the answer's been staring me in the face this whole time.

The Dracosian exists, right? It looks good next to the Malcador, and it's a great big brutal of a model. I mean, there's also the Crassus, if it comes to that, but while I think that's a dramatically better looking and cooler model in every way, it's also ruinously expensive and I'm saving Macharius chassis tanks for the RT guard army.

I think I might be getting a Dracosian, to be honest. Not for a while yet, but it just feels like the obvious choice now I'm thinking about it.

Meanwhile, I actually got some paint on some models for once. I'm going to put proof up, obviously, but they are at the worst looking stage right now. Still I've been here before, and every stage after this they just get better. I bet they won't take a month and a half and still not be finished like the rough riders, either...

Flash:

No flash:

Different angle:

Bosh. Should have the second platoon done by the end of the month, if not sooner.

Edited Thursday at 09:25 PM by Dr_Ruminahui
Removed swear dodges

[Tallarn Commander]

Yes, a Dracosian would definitely fit the armies' style.