Been out of
40k for a while, to the extent that I dumped most of my minis about a year ago (hence the regret). Getting back in, mostly inspired by the variety of units allowed by the allies rules combined with the otherwise dull as balls Inquisitor codex.
Actually excited to get back in and spend some time converting and painting.
Previous armies we're all created for specific
GTs here in Canada, and then sold because I was young and an idiot.
My first was the first iteration of these guys:
Children of the Light, a chapter that came to me while in a Wheel of Time induced coma. The colour scheme actually made it in to the
UK WD in the 90s when they ran a "design your own chapter" mail in contest. Highlights of this first army included tanks in a white/blue/brown scheme that bore no relation to anything else in the army and that I have never been able to explain. This was for my first
GT in Toronto.
The next
GT army was The Marines Equites, which were like the Marines Errant, but with more time wasted in Latin class.
This was still 3rd edtion and I remember having 50+ marines in my
GT list, a lot of fun but no punch in
cc.
Next was a Chaos army with two completely scratch sculpted defilers...which were a solid 2-3 times the size of the actual defiler and looked liked The Thing had tried to take over a sick Alien. No pictures of that survive unfortunately. That army was also a blast, lots of red and screaming faces freehand.
Then it was my secret shame, a mostly unpainted demon heavy chaos army.
My last
GT, which was by now one of the increasingly lame 'Conflicts', in Calgary saw a return to the Children of the Light with a revised chapter symbol and tanks that made sense.
The rest of my painting at the time (2000-2008) was commission work, which I did a very poor job of managing and is one of my biggest regrets in life so far. It also killed my interest in painting and modelling for over five years.
So now I'm back, starting with some Inquisitor warbands and planning to expand in to marines, imperial guard and at least one knight.
I have about a dozen henchman etc. in various stages of assembly. The henchman are in this vein:
The idea being that the Inquisitor is recruiting from a single tech-gang in a hive, both the active gang member and members that are currently serving in the Imperial Guard. Not very apparent from this picture but the gangers are inspired by the old tech-ganger Confrontation minis from the very early 90s.
My current thought on the marines is Sons of Medusa, mostly because this list from
j31c3n http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/567140.page looks fun as hell and green is fun and forgiving to paint. I'll be supplementing them with Marines Errant when I get bored and then looking at Lamenters when the
BA codex is updated. I'm planning for the regular marines to be lightly 'true-scaled' with thigh and waist spacers and then the characters to be more dramatically beefed up.
The guard are constantly evolving. Right now I've nailed down almost everything except the head and then I can start worrying about the colour scheme. I am currently looking for a sculptor for the heads as I'm not loving any of the 3rd party options right now.
I also plan to run Stormtroopers using Anvil Industries Grenadiers and the upcoming Militarium Tempustius Ina Teacupius codex supplement.
Oh, I also have a Dreamforge Leviathan Crusader in the post at the moment with the plan for it to be my first Knight.
So that's my rambling. I should also be adding terrain, infinity, and random fantasy stuff here.