=] Call to Arms 2025 - HERESY STRONGHOLD [=

[Dwango]

Lucius is picked. 

 

 

[Mandragola]

Group shot of my completed vow, which looks a bit odd but there you go. 
 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

I'm setting a deadline of the end of the day Friday for extra pictures, as I intend to put together the candidates for voting next weekend.  So, in order to give your models the best chance in the voting, please post the best picture you can of your favorite model (if you haven't already - if you have, thank you) by the end of the week.  Note, if you don't provide new pictures, you are still in the running - I'll just be making my decisions based on the photos already posted, but that may prevent me from selecting models/units whose pictures doesn't focus on that particular model or unit.

Edited September 22 by Dr_Ruminahui

[richmarine]

I couldn’t choose. So I let the wife pick. Though I really like green mohawk guy. 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

7 hours ago, richmarine said:

I couldn’t choose. So I let the wife pick. Though I really like green mohawk guy. 

 

Not surprised - pretty much everything you did (and you painted a lot) is fantastic.  So, not a bad choice among them, though I was leaning towards the Iron Father myself - I love what I can see of his face, though your photo doesn't show that particularly well.

[richmarine]

He’s hard to photograph. So much detail.

Edited September 30 by Firedrake Cordova
Fixed formatting

[Lautrec the Embraced]

Impressive works throughout the forums, very inspiring. 

 

The favourite unit of mine this year is definitely the 10-man Terminator squad so I'm posting some more pics of them:

 

quite pleased with their looks, all that hassle with filling off aquilas and cruxes was worth it. If i had to pick favourite models here it'd be the claw men (though a close second is the chainaxe or hammer bearer - I'm not proficient in freehanding bat wings but his shield looks better than I expected)

Edited September 26 by Lautrec the Embraced

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thank you to everyone who provided me with additional photos - they were all much appreciated.

 

I have now set up polls with all my semi-finalistis in the Admin/Mods subforum for them to vote on to determine the top 3 to run off for Stronghold Artificer.  That process should be done next weekend, at which point I will put up polls in the WIP subforum for general membership voting.   I will obviously post links here when that happens.

 

Good luck to the many talented artists whose models are in the running.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

VOTING FOR STRONGHOLD ARTIFICER IS NOW LIVE!

 

Please go to the follow links to choose your favourite entry for each of the Strongholds:

 

ASTARTES / IMPERIUM / CHAOS / XENOS / HERESY

 

Voting closes on October 15, 2025 at midnight Pacific Coast time.  Happy voting!

 

I have unpinned the Stronghold threads now that voting has commenced to avoid clogging up the WIP forum pinned topics.

 

Edited October 6 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Voting for Stronghold Artificer is now complete - congratulations @richmarine for your wonderfully done Salamanders assault squad!  Voting was incredibly tight, edging out @Lautrec the Embraced's equally fantastic NightLords Terminators by one vote - a finish that is, ironically, highly appropriate for how the horus heresy ended.  Thank you to everyone for participating, and all the wonderful entries - though those were the top 2 finishers, there were many others that were equally deserving.

 

You can see the final results of each of the Stronghold votes here:  Astartes / Imperium / Chaos / Xenos / Heresy

 

The final rounds of voting are now underway - please go to these links to choose your favourite entries for:

 

Master Artificer

 

Master of the Forge

 

Voting closes on October 23 at midnight, Pacific Coast time, after which the final results of Call to Arms will be announced.

Edited 8 hours ago by Dr_Ruminahui