Lamentorium's 35k Project Log

[Lamentorium]

Hello all. For those who don't know what 35k is (most likely everyone), I started a fan project earlier this year to explore the events of the Nova Terra Interregnum. Originally I wanted to play games in the Age of Apostasy (so I would paint my sisters), but I decided to do the Nova Terra Interregnum first as it sets up those events (meaning I will paint everything but my sisters).

 

The Nova Terra Interregnum happened during M35 and Age of Apostasy M36 (or the years following 35,000). During the Nova Terra Interregnum, the Imperium is split in two as the Segmentum Pacificus effectively secedes from the Imperium. Not long after, the Mechanicus undergoes a schism around the prophesies of the Forge World of Moirae, and then later there are a series of uprisings surrounding the management of the Ministorum (Alexian Uprisings). It is a chaotic century for the Imperium which climaxes in the Cataclysm of Souls, in which the Ministorum tries to organise the Imperium into a theocracy, there is a large civil war, and then afterwards things draw to a close. That's all canon and we defer to the canon (even when it is contradictory), but are effectively filling in the gaps and fleshing it out.

 

The project has quite a lot to it. I'm quite strict on many things such as not using copyrighted materials, sharing copyrighted materials (i.e. Games Workshop books), or using others' work without credit. That's required me to learn how to use Procreate and make a lot of my own art. We now have a bit of a community on Discord and r/35k on Reddit where others are contributing to this all, which brings me much joy.

 

Current Project: The Void Watchers.

 

I have planned a campaign to run November-December 2025 for anyone to take part in set on the planet of Meigor VI, which you can read here. You don't need to use our modified 5th edition ruleset. I want people to play what they enjoy. Part of this has been organising my first event in Dundee on December 13th-14th. To take part, I've had to paint an army and that is the Void Watchers.

 

The Void Watchers are an example of one of the Chapters I put in essentially to kill off in the setting. A handful survive in the Deathwatch, as I had a lot of requests on Reddit of people enjoying the scheme. An Iron Hands successor, their chapter symbol includes the Eye of Moirae - showing their allegiance to Nova Terra stemming from their support for the Moirae Heresies.

 

I don't have a lot left to paint; a scout squad, a devastator squad, a techmarine, an apothecary, and a chaplain. I'll show what I have painted already:

 

This is my latest completion: The tranports. I of course notice bits I missed now I have taken pictures.

 

One of the two Marine squads I painted

The command squad. The banner went much better than I thought it would.

The dreadnought. 

Edited 5 hours ago by Lamentorium

[phandaal]

These are very cool! No surprise people like the color scheme. Very well done on the clean split between each side.

 

Edit - checked out that Reddit page as well. Neat to see all the other pictures and color schemes there. Those Terminators are great as well!

Edited 4 hours ago by phandaal

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I can definitely see why people would want to try and continue the use of that colour scheme, it's really nice! (I'm a sucker for teal/black!). I'm definitely going to have a read through the campaign setting book later too

[MoriyaSchism]

That banner is beautiful. I really like your project idea. It's always great to see people explore the past of the setting and I love anything related to the Moirae Schism or some of the less focused on Imperial civil wars.

[Firedrake Cordova]

I like the colour scheme - you don't often see teal  (my favourite set of dice is Chessex Translucent Teal, so I'm obviously biased )

Edited 3 hours ago by Firedrake Cordova

[W.A.Rorie]

Awesome job. Nice color options and love that a banner

[SvenIronhand]

3 hours ago, Lamentorium said:

I have planned a campaign to run November-December 2025 for anyone to take part in set on the planet of Meigor VI, which you can read here. You don't need to use our modified 5th edition ruleset. I want people to play what they enjoy. Part of this has been organising my first event in Dundee on December 13th-14th. To take part, I've had to paint an army and that is the Void Watchers.

 

Is there a place where I can download the campaign book?

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8 minutes ago, SvenIronhand said:

Is there a place where I can download the campaign book?

Go to the link in the post to get to the file. In the top bar you will see a little icon that looks like headphones. Next to that are three dots (...). click those and there's a Download option.

I have no idea why Adobe make things so complicated at times!