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Hello there !

So last november I started painting an Ultramarine army from the 111th Company.
All characters (independant characters and sergeants) have fruits name but in latin ! I don't know why honestly, it just sounded fun so I tried ^^

Here's a bit of lore :
"After the sacking of the 500 worlds, Guilliman swore revenge and created the 111th company to chase world eaters across the galaxy. Specialized in boarding and lightning assault, the 111th has developed equipment and tactics to annihilate the children of Angron with cold logic and great efficiency. They use a combination of shielded units such as assault terminators and breachers alongside fast moving troops and vehicles to strike the ennemy's weaknesses !
When Guilliman came back after 10 millenia of slumber, he realized that the 111th was still fighting but had suffered great losses. In order to continue the fight agaisnt the heretics, he gave them primaris reinforcement and the Chapter master even managed to pass the Rubicon !"

I keep buying stuff so I guess it will never end but I took the opportunity to paint firstborne marines to play Horus Heresy


Here are the first marines I painted for the army :

Chapter Master Ianatus Citrullum : Watermelon
Delegatus Vitis Vinifera : Grapes
Librarian Pyrus X Sinensis : Pear

Intercessor sergeant Fragaria Vesca : Strawberry

I'll share more of this army project within the next weeks

It is silly, but I love the latin fruit names. Also very impressed by the bases. How did you do that?

Thank you ! These are resin bases from Dark art miniatures, I just painted them in a beige tone to add contrast with the blue

Really nice job on those, everything looks really crisp. Great looking models.

Not sure what I was expecting opening this thread but I'm glad I did these are awesome! great job!!

Thanks guys !

That's some really nice painting and the names are the best. Every thing does sound more profound in latin (er... gothic?) after all.

Thank you !

Here's the next part with my Apothecary : the madman of the 111th Hedena Helix !

While Hedena Helix did not wear his helmet on the battlefield to be considered more "human" by the human soldiers accompanying the 111th, his area was bombarded with phospex by the iron warriors.

Hedena was the only survivor and his once confident and smiling face was burned to the point of being unrecognizable. He has since been half blind and wears a white mask not only to hide his shame but also because his face has become so deformed that he cannot wear a helmet without omnipresent pain.

Once open and social, he closed in on himself after the accident and began to develop a strange passion for frontal assaults engulfed in his terminator armor. Bloody hand-to-hand combat was a way for Hedena to forget his pain and expel his rage, yet he was beginning to become difficult to control... When the company chaplains realized this, they decided to talk to the praetor Malus Sierversii, who was known throughout the legion for his fierce and bloody assaults.

The latter decided to attach this weird apothecary to his squad. Surrounded by veterans and hereos with similar stories, Hedena Helix found his place among her brothers in arms. In the corridors of ships or in the middle of a burning desert, he did his best to support the squad, and when it came time for close combat, his screams of exaltation mixed with his nightmarish appearance made his ennemies paralyzed of fear.

They are few primaris in my army and most of these are just basic units, the rest is just firstborns but there's a certain charm to these old marines
I named this one like the common Ivy because the berries of this plant are poisonous and I thought it would be fun to have an apothecary with a poisonous fruit ^^

Progress of the week !

I wanted to showcase my painted stuff but since I progressed a lot on the firstborn I thought I would share my wip with y'all

I started the basecoat on 20 tactical, 10 veterans, one relic contemptor and a predator executioner ! I prefer the look of heresy era marines so I started a Horus heresy army with the same colour scheme as the 40k one. this way I can play in both games with my smurfs.

The two heroes are from the betrayal at calth boxset with a bit of kitbashing and conversions to make them look like templars ! they will be characters for my reclusiam

They look gorgeous, is the blue air brushed?

Thanks !
Yes I do all the blue with an airbrush and paint the rest with a normal brush