Necromunda Vandoth the Fallen

[Lord Marshal]

He's a big guy, for you.

 

 

Edited Monday at 01:57 PM by Lord Marshal

[StrangerOrders]

Is... is... that an insane survivalist renegade Blood Angel?

 

Also, wow, no disrespect to the artist but the actual model has so much more character and relevance to the fluff in the article, that feels kind of unusual.

Edited Monday at 02:09 PM by StrangerOrders

[Joe]

Yep, that's 100% a Space Marine.

 

• character is centuries old
• massively larger than humans
• clearly has the black carapace plugs
• has a taste for blood and hates Chaos
• obvious Blood Angels-coded name
• LITERAL BLOOD ANGELS ICON ON HIS COMBAT KNIFE

[Cyrox]

8 minutes ago, StrangerOrders said:

Is... is... that an insane survivalist renegade Blood Angel?

 

Also, wow, no disrespect to the artist but the actual model has so much more character and relevance to the fluff in the article, that feels kind of unusual.

 

Yeah seems so - the blood drop and Roman 9 on the scabbard would have to be deliberate, and that's not even mentioning the thirst for Blood and his bits of armour 

Edited Monday at 02:14 PM by Cyrox

[LSM]

Feels like the artist wanted to maintain a bit of subtle "he could be/maybe he's not".

 

The sculptor then leaned further into the "he is" while leaving a bit of room for "maybe not".

 

The painter then put 9th Legion markings on him.

[Robbienw]

Its the Blood Angel from the old Confrontation artwork.  Many years down the line, a bit more ragged.

[Rain]

Just a coincidence that the Blood Angels were the psychotic cannibal “Revenant Legion” before Sanguinius, and this guy has a IX marking and what looks like blood dripping from his mouth in the paint job.

Edited Monday at 02:41 PM by Rain

[Nephaston]

With a name like that he'd be liable to draw attention from another first founding chapter. Good thing Necromunda is Imperial Fist turf, otherwise it might get erased from the setting to hunt a guy that isn't even an actual Fallen.

[Deakz28]

46 minutes ago, Joe said:

Yep, that's 100% a Space Marine.

 

• character is centuries old
• massively larger than humans
• clearly has the black carapace plugs
• has a taste for blood and hates Chaos
• obvious Blood Angels-coded name
• LITERAL BLOOD ANGELS ICON ON HIS COMBAT KNIFE

Plus “ancient Bolter”

[Cleon]

I mean obviously he's from squad 9 of the Blood Drinkers 3rd company isn't it. Nothing to see here.

 

I mean it's probably a Blood Angel, but I have questions such as the very Mk 9 round bits on his knee. 

 

It'd be cooler for me if he was from one of the censured offshoot chapters, make the universe bigger by not rolling everything back to the main chapters.

Edited Monday at 03:01 PM by Cleon

[Norman Paperman]

Necromunda models are so good, holy crap

[m0nolith]

Been waiting for a model for this guy for years. Always liked the lore where the fact he’s a BA was alluded to. Now that lore is pretty well blatant, which I love!

 

In any case, we officially have playable Space Marines in Necro!

Edited Monday at 03:52 PM by m0nolith

[Casual Heresy]

Love the idea of a lost, blood mad Blood Angel running around the underhive, and the model looks pretty good.

 

As others have stated, his boltgun and the faded iconography look a bit more legion-y than chapter-y. The armour looks a bit like field-repaired Astartes plate, but it looks lighter and nothing like a MkX variant. Could this be the first hint a how Recon Marines could look like in a new kit?

[FoursCompany]

Came here for the discussion of him being a surviving Thunder Warrior…but I missed the IX markings on the knife. Disappointed…was hoping Necromunda would continue the parade of Imperial Weirdos with a possible Thunder Warrior who somehow survived for untold millennia. 

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

Something about the description reminds me of the winged blood angel from the pariah series.

 

A secret ‘underground’ blood angel living just beneath the noses of imperial citizens.

[Doghouse]

I really like this guy, I did something similar years ago with a Venator. I do like that the armour looks quite a bit like the Advanced Space Crusade scouts armour to a certain degree.

[grailkeeper]

>Called "The Fallen"

>acts the way some of the Fallen act in lore

>Johnson has returned.

> isn't one of the Fallen.

 

 

Mfw

 

[grailkeeper]

For what it's worth Necromunda was always an Imperial fist recruiting planet in the lore and I think they had a permanent embassy of some kind there. In the old old necromunda novels there was a chapter brought in by an inquisitor to deal with a mind control enemy. I don't remember their name but their symbols were all taken from playing cards.

[Blindhamster]

I really like this model, its interesting though, in that he's rather different from his art. The Art doesn't really look at all like a marine. The model looks like he couldn't be anything but...

 

As a massive blood angels fan, I'm sold.

 

Rule wise, im interested in that, he doesn't seem all that impressive for an ancient vampire, but Ive not played necromunda in years to really know one way or another. I do recall having a gang leader that was stronger and tougher after some advances back when I played long ago, and this chap wont advance right?

 

Also interested in relative size to other models!

[grailkeeper]

2 hours ago, Casual Heresy said:

 The armour looks a bit like field-repaired Astartes plate, but it looks lighter and nothing like a MkX variant. Could this be the first hint a how Recon Marines could look like in a new kit?

The kneed are thr most distinctive armour bitm they don't have the little "crest" of primaris knees, but they don't look like older armour marks either.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

3 hours ago, Cleon said:

I mean obviously he's from squad 9 of the Blood Drinkers 3rd company isn't it. Nothing to see here.

 

I mean it's probably a Blood Angel, but I have questions such as the very Mk 9 round bits on his knee. 

 

It'd be cooler for me if he was from one of the censured offshoot chapters, make the universe bigger by not rolling everything back to the main chapters.

No one it is saying it is THE blood angels that he comes from.

blood angels is most typically used in discussion as an umbrella term 

[Aramis K]

I thought it was Scout armour rather than full marine - it doesn't exactly match but the round knees, boots, and curved shoulder, chest piece without arms or backpack.

 

Regardless, really cool model and great character design.

[torcathmk2]

42 minutes ago, grailkeeper said:

For what it's worth Necromunda was always an Imperial fist recruiting planet in the lore and I think they had a permanent embassy of some kind there. In the old old necromunda novels there was a chapter brought in by an inquisitor to deal with a mind control enemy. I don't remember their name but their symbols were all taken from playing cards.

The 2023 rulebook has a visting delegation of Ultramarines purging Hive Acropolis of a Genestealer infestation, so it's not unusual for other chapters to appear on the planet

[Timberley]

It looks blooming gorgeous! As @StrangerOrders said - much better than the artwork!  Another SGS win in my book.

 

As to his background, I wonder if he was part of a squad of Blood Angels Scouts that was involved in repelling the Ork invasion of Necromunda (the war that led to the creation of The Skull) centuries ago and was separated from them either by circumstance or they got killed.  It'd explain why he's running around with Carapace Armour big enough to fit him and not power armour.  It'd also explain why he's got an old bolter (standard Godwyn looking at the picture) and survival kit.

[Alby the Slayer]

It will be cool to see a 360° of the model, I wonder if its power pack is hidden behind that classic sac or backpack and how is the model from behind.

 

Very very cool.