Well I've been back into WH40K for 3 months (after a 25 year break) and I've already dropped about £200 on miniatures, rules, paints and accessories

I now seem to have quite a backlog of built and primed miniatures that need painting:



Including a 500 point Ultramarines skirmish army:



And the Death Guard and Ultramarines units from First Strike:



Previously I didn't paint my miniatures but I'm up for the challenge this time around having done a painting session at the GW Manchester store and watched a lot of Warhammer TV tutorials. My plan is to paint the First Strike Death Guard units according to the painting guide in the box (i.e. no highlighting) to get my hand/eye in. After that I'm going to paint the Ultramarines, but this time do some dry brushing too.

I've already played through all the First Strike missions, and with everything primed I'm now in a position to start playing skirmish games, so painting is going to be a slow burner. I'll upload photos as I complete units (but as a newbie to painting expect tabletop standard rather than ‘Eavy Metal).

Good luck on your backlog! After you finish painting your current UM and Death Guard, are you planning to expand either faction?

Good question.

I don't anticipate buying any more Death Guard or Primaris Marines, they just happened to come with First Strike.

As for my Ultramarines skirmish army, I'll expand as long as I get to play regularly.

Brother Castor,

Good luck and make certain you show us your progress.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks.

I'm hoping to paint the Plague Marines this weekend...

Brother Castor, welcome to the 13th!


I've sent you a DM, gotta make a recommendation though brother if I may?

Your prized bolter marine would make a stellar lieutenant given the markings, add either 2 intercessors or 5 tactical marines and you'd have your first battalion!

as for the tactical marines you've built so far.... they're not ideal in terms of loadout, but far from difficult to optimise? hmu if you want some teeth adding to that list.... I can work on economy too if you've already invested heavily

GamerGuy

 GamerGuy wrote:
be sure to check out the blogs of Nevelon and LDP!!

I've seen LDP's work - something to aspire to!

 GamerGuy wrote:
Your prized bolter marine would make a stellar lieutenant given the markings, add either 2 intercessors or 5 tactical marines and you'd have your first battalion!

That's not a bad idea - I've been wondering how to paint Castor given that he's essentially the 11th member of the TAC squad. I've been toying with the idea of painting him as a veteran (white helmets look the best).

Subscribed! This is a solid start - there's something really satisfying about following a good basis from start through to the end. Eager to keep tabs, give encouragement and feedback where necessary. May the Ultramarines do you proud Brother Castor!

As I said, I'm starting simple - no highlighting, just following the First Strike painting guide before I move on to more complex techniques for my Ultramarines.

I'm fairly pleased with the result for a first attempt, although it's amazing how many mistakes you can spot when you take a photo! It did take 5 hours so I'm hoping I might get a bit quicker as I build up experience

Nice work man; how'd you get that basing effect? looks ace against the green of the armour!

Gotta say I agree on white helmets looking the best on Ultramarines, all my guys have them because of how striking the contrast is!

Will be keeping tabs on this; also consider the geedubs technical paints for exposed areas on death guard; they do a fast and easy "wet/sore" one that I've seen used a few times

GamerGuy

 GamerGuy wrote:
Nice work man; how'd you get that basing effect? looks ace against the green of the armour!

The base is Armageddon Dust. The armour is Death Guard Green shaded with Agrax Earthshade.

Nice start to a Ultramarine force there. (and some filthy heretics) What company are you building?

You get 3 of each primaris in the first strike box? That’s a bit rough as you need 5 men for a min squad, unless you want to deal with the understrength unit rules. I guess that’s GW’s plug to buy more guys to flesh out the unit.

As you get more painting practice your quality and speed should improve. Just keep at it. Sounds like you are on the right track.

Always good to see more Ultramarines about. We march for Macragge!

 Nevelon wrote:
Nice start to a Ultramarine force there. (and some filthy heretics) What company are you building?

Another good question. It's got to be the 2nd hasn't it?

 Nevelon wrote:
You get 3 of each primaris in the first strike box? That’s a bit rough as you need 5 men for a min squad, unless you want to deal with the understrength unit rules. I guess that’s GW’s plug to buy more guys to flesh out the unit.

True - although they're just going to be practice for my 'proper' marines

 Brother Castor wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Nice start to a Ultramarine force there. (and some filthy heretics) What company are you building?

Another good question. It's got to be the 2nd hasn't it?

I’ll guess that the painting guides are doing the yellow/gold of the 2nd. But if you want to branch out a little, you could go red, green, or black and still be fielding marines from one of the battle companies. More options open up if you want to include the reserve companies.

Question moved to the Painting and Modelling sub-forum:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/759109.page

I'm hoping to paint the Poxwalkers this weekend...

And that rabble concludes the heresy for this thread

I enjoyed painting the Plague Marines, but the Poxwalkers were a bit of a chore if I'm honest (fiddly and I'm really not interested in them as miniatures). Still, it's all good practice.

Next up, Primaris Intercessors and Reivers - I now paint for Macragge!

Nice looking batch of Ultras.

The one thing is that they seem very muted. Which is not a intrinsically bad thing, make them more realistic. But I’d worry that from an arm’s length table-top view, there isn’t going to be much to grab the eye. The white markings on the shoulder might help with that, but we don’t get a good view of them from the front. I might consider putting something on one/both knees to add a little detail to the front view.

I second what Neve's said. You might be surprised at what picking out their eye lenses will do to make the finish all the more uniform. I think it'll bring the level of everything together and pop alongside the well applied transfers and gold trimming!

Thanks for the advice - both good suggestions.

The Primaris Marines (both the Intercessors and the Reivers) are supplied with enough transfers for one knee each, but my TAC squad isn't. In fact the GW photos of the TAC squad don't show any knee transfers.

As for the eyes, I deliberately avoided going into that much detail. I guess I could use Mephiston Red and Agrax Earthshade but I'd probably need a new brush.

One simple thing to try for the eyes is the gemstone paints. I use those for all my lenses these days. For green I put a base down of an old metallic green, but silver would work, and then the soulstone paint. Fairly simple, fairly easy. Not like painting normal human eyes, which is irritating and hard.

I've just started dry brushing and shading the Reivers, so expect another update in a few days...

Same approach as before, although I mixed Bugman's Glow with some Corax White for the skin this time and did a second round of dry brushing on the masks after shading. I think the base spray of Macragge Blue didn't adhere properly on the leftmost marine, hence the mottled effect. Perhaps it was too humid or I held it too far away when I did that one? Whatever, I'm pretty happy with the results again and I'll use this approach on my skirmish army. Time to buy some more paint

Well I did say I was aiming for tabletop standard, so here's a photo of the fully painted First Strike miniatures on the tabletop!

Looking good! Purge those filthy heretics.

Nice solid work Brother Castor.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers guys

I'll be starting the Dreadnought this evening...

That's something to be proud of! You're making strides already Brother Castor.

Solid work on the dread!

Thanks

There's plenty that could be improved, and having painted a few miniatures now I think I have even more respect for the standard you guys achieve!

My plan is to paint the TAC squad next, before moving on to the final two characters...

Work's turning out to be busy this week so I haven't had much chance to paint. I did manage to dry brush and shade my TAC squad though, and also convert the sergeant to have a combi-melta

Seconding LDP, you're looking good already man!! Loving the paintjobs so far!

If you're not feeling r=transfers for the knee/s, maybe just colour white and add a squad marking to tie them together? real simple but adds another focal point for the front view? My ultras don't have a trim, but have white helmets and a black knee guard on the right if you're looking at them head on...

I also noticed you left the bolter casings silver? this is nice; although it's a good opportunity to add a spot colour such as black, dark brown or a muted sage green?

sweet jobs so far man, It's a pleasure observing your progress

Solid work on the dread - looks good

Thanks for all the encouraging comments everyone

 GamerGuy wrote:
If you're not feeling r=transfers for the knee/s, maybe just colour white and add a squad marking to tie them together? real simple but adds another focal point for the front view? My ultras don't have a trim, but have white helmets and a black knee guard on the right if you're looking at them head on...

I also noticed you left the bolter casings silver? this is nice; although it's a good opportunity to add a spot colour such as black, dark brown or a muted sage green?

All good suggestions, I just don't want to add too much detail beyond my current skill level. I guess I can always come back and do knee transfers and bolter casings later...

Fair enough!

and congrats on making the dakka homepage

 GamerGuy wrote:
congrats on making the dakka homepage

Cool - although I've just started embedding photos from Flickr (see my sig) instead of uploading them to the gallery so I don't think this blog qualifies any more...

Okay so after a short interlude to deal with a Tyranid infestation on my dining table I'm back painting the TAC squad this week

TAC squad sergeant in Mk8 armour with the Mk7 armoured heavy and special marines.

I'll be painting the remaining 7 bolter marines in 2 batches - Mk6 armour and Mk7 armour.

No progress in this last week due to other (!) hobbies taking precedence. I'm on holiday next week too so it's going to be a couple of weeks before the next update...

I'm back home and have just dry brushed and shaded the Terminator Captain. The family are away this week so I'm planning on 4 evenings painting

I've also ordered some heavy support for my next project after I'm done

Looking forward to some progress! Always satisfying to have some free evenings lined up. Heavy support sounds exciting too. I get such secondhand excitement when I hear that people are awaiting deliveries

Hobby time and new toys are always good to have!

 lipsdapips wrote:
Heavy support sounds exciting too. I get such secondhand excitement when I hear that people are awaiting deliveries

I shan't be opening it until I've finished painting the rest of the TAC squad and the Terminator Captain though...

Not even to show us what it is?

Subscribed!

Did First Strike come with any little scenario book? I played through the ones in the Age of Sigmar equivalent and it was actually fun. Since you got them painted up, why not find someone to play them with? And in-game play shots are a great way to show off miniatures as they look at table top distance for your thread.

Chamberlain wrote:Subscribed!

Did First Strike come with any little scenario book? I played through the ones in the Age of Sigmar equivalent and it was actually fun. Since you got them painted up, why not find someone to play them with? And in-game play shots are a great way to show off miniatures as they look at table top distance for your thread.

Yes First Strike comes with 4 missions. I've played through them twice with a mate to get back into the swing of things.

In-game (staged) shot on page 1 here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/758675.page#10055711

We've since played 2 full WH40K 500 point games - Ultramarines vs Tyranids.

lipsdapips wrote: Not even to show us what it is?

Helios pattern Whirlwind to take my 500 point skirmish army up to 600 points and kick some Tyranid butt

Tacticals are looking sharp. Is that the last of the squad?

Thanks

Yes that's the whole squad now.

I'm taking the day off tomorrow so I'm aiming to make some progress on the Terminator Captain and maybe build the Whirlwind too...

 Brother Castor wrote:
Thanks

Yes that's the whole squad now.

I'm taking the day off tomorrow so I'm aiming to make some progress on the Terminator Captain and maybe build the Whirlwind too...

Looking forward to seeing what you do with them. And if that’s the squad, it’s time for the group shot!

So now I'm all caught up :thumbsup

Brother Castor himself is remaining unpainted until he joins my army list (possibly as a Lieutenant).

I built the Whirlwind too - what a great build

I've posted on the Painting and Modelling sub-forum for some advice:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/762622.page

First layer of my Citadel Skirmish case now painted:

Captain turned out great.

Just a friendly reminder, you die when you finish your last unpainted mini. There is a reason us old grognards have large piles of shame; life insurance!

Thanks

Good job I bought the Whirlwind then!

Castor can be my life insurance policy once that's painted (unless I follow GamerGuy's suggestion of painting him as a Lieutenant)

The weather finally relented and I got the Whirlwind primed

Fantastic work thus far! You should be proud.

 Stormwall wrote:
Fantastic work thus far! You should be proud.

Thanks

Pleased to have had photos of my miniatures accepted into the GW Flickr Group pool!

https://www.flickr.com/groups/gamesworkshop/pool/brothercastor

I'm a bit surprised GW considered them worthy given the standard of the other painting on display but I'm not complaining

My plan for this week is to get the Whirlwind shaded and dry brushed. I'm not sure if I'll get time to do any more.

Tanks just take so long. Not really difficult, just so large and daunting. I always run out of stem halfway through the project and have to force myself to return to the bench to finish them off.

I'm actually quite looking forward to doing this at a slow pace.

Okay, so I found some time...

Indirect death via crayons. Nothing better.

Given the colour scheme I was already calling it the fried egg launcher but I can't unsee crayons now

 Brother Castor wrote:
Given the colour scheme I was already calling it the fried egg launcher but I can't unsee crayons now

The modern WW has nothing on the old classic one, which looks exactly like someone just lashed a bunch to the top of a rhino.



Whats next on the schedule?

 Nevelon wrote:
Whats next on the schedule?

Good question. I want to get a photo of my whole army together, and also get a few more games in.

After that I'm not sure

So here it is - 600 points of fully painted WYSIWYG skirmish army

Congratulations on hitting 600pts painted so quickly. The models looks really good together, very clean and consistent.

You get those people who complain about over reliance on drybrushing, but this just goes to show how wrong they are when it gets large groups of models on the table looking this nice.

What's the next step for the army?

 GMSchofield wrote:
Congratulations on hitting 600pts painted so quickly. The models looks really good together, very clean and consistent.

You get those people who complain about over reliance on drybrushing, but this just goes to show how wrong they are when it gets large groups of models on the table looking this nice.

Thanks - that was my aim and I'm happy I chose a technique that was fairly quick and gives good results for a novice like me. Even so, the skirmish army above plus the First Strike miniatures I painted before have taken me a total of about 50 hours to complete (5 hours per batch) over 3 months.

 GMSchofield wrote:
What's the next step for the army?

I want to get a few more games under my belt with this army first, but after that I think the target has to be 750 points. GamerGuy has already come up with an excellent suggestion on this thread:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/762789.page

Having said that, as a less competitive option I'm also quite tempted by a Terminator Librarian - I don't yet have a psyker and I really enjoyed painting my Terminator Captain...

 Brother Castor wrote:

I want to get a few more games under my belt with this army first, but after that I think the target has to be 750 points. GamerGuy has already come up with an excellent suggestion on this thread

That seems like an excellent suggestion. If you did go that way, I'd suggest using parts from either the Ultramarines upgrade sprue or Sternguard kit to model up the Lieutenant. Both have parts that would be good material to convert a lieutenant from a regular marine.

If you do end up with a Terminator Librarian instead, obviously you would need a squad of Terminators to go with them! No idea how good they are in the current edition, but your HQ choice will get lonely without other Terminators to pal around with!

It's tempting for 1000 points but I'm not sure how competitive it would be...

 Brother Castor wrote:
The weather finally relented and I got the Whirlwind primed

I hope I’m not the only one who finds it a bit ironic that you need good weather to work on a Whirlwind . Looking forward to seeing it painted up.

Theophony wrote:I hope I’m not the only one who finds it a bit ironic that you need good weather to work on a Whirlwind . Looking forward to seeing it painted up.

I'm guessing you stopped reading at page 2

Well it's been a while!

I'll be painting another 200 points-worth to take my army up to 800 points for pick-up games at my local gaming group's club night.

So my next challenge is a Landspeeder Typhoon. I'm not a fan of non-helmeted marines, so I used the spare gunner's helmet from my Whirlwind

I've also ordered a Space Marine Commander which is ready to pick up at my local GW. A bit of an expensive purchase (for a single miniature), but with that I'm going to build a Lieutenant with storm bolter and lightning claw to continue the WYSIWYG theme.

I’m not sure how well CA18 treated the speeder, but I think they got some point cuts. I was disappointed in mine’s performance in 8th, but a flew the heck out of a pair of TML/HB speeders in prior editions. Nice mix of mobility, range, and firepower. Effective enough to get the job done, but not so nasty as to bump themselves up the target priority list. I’ve got one sitting in my to-paint pile I really should get to one of these days.

The SM commander box is a nice one, but a bit dated. Tons of cool bits, but showing their age. I really wish they would re-cut the sprues, but it seems like mono-pose HQs is the way of the future.

Why a lightning claw for the Lt.? He already gets to re-roll wounds of one, so you are paying a premium for the ability to re-roll the other results. You might be better served with an axe, or other higher S weapon instead. With the axe, you pay less points, and wound MEQ on a 3+, re-rolling 1s, rather than wounding on a 4+ , re-rolling all. Or go big with a powerfist.

 Nevelon wrote:
Why a lightning claw for the Lt.?

Looks cool

 Brother Castor wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Why a lightning claw for the Lt.?

Looks cool

Fair enough.

I’ve modeled thing is the past I knew that were sub-par on the table, just for looks. Unless you are playing on the top tables and need to squeeze ever last ounce of power out of your list, there is plenty of room for including cool stuff in your army.

The gamer in me, rather than the hobbiest, like to ask why though. Just to make sure.

“Looks cool” is a totally legit reason to model something. Especially on something where it’s only a few points, and not useless, just a little sub-optimal.

Yeah it's just one character's close combat weapon. TBH my whole list is a bit sub-par, but having interesting models with interesting rules is a big part of why I'm in the hobby.

There's something really cool about having a Space Marine with a lightning claw and storm bolter. To me they seem like they ought to be terminator weapons.

I just finished priming the landspeeder and should be picking-up the commander on Tuesday...

 Brother Castor wrote:

 Nevelon wrote:
Why a lightning claw for the Lt.?

Looks cool

Primed and ready to paint:



As the Lieutenant's fully loaded with terminator weapons I gave him a pauldron with a crux too

Mate that tank looks amazing, and the whole group looks sweet all together. So exciting to have an army you can actually play games with - can't wait til I'm at that stage myself!

That’s either the “Onward to victory!” pose or he’s about to slap some heretic. Either works with the LC. I would assume that anyone at the rank of Lt. has achieved veteran status, and qualified to wear a crux terminus. Looks good on him.

Not to be that guy, but you missed a mold line on the strap of the SB.

 Nevelon wrote:
That’s either the “Onward to victory!” pose or he’s about to slap some heretic.

I was going more for "heretic slap"

Nice work. I like the helmet stripe. We don’t get enough of those these days.

The Landspeeder is shaded and drybrushed too now but I have another set of TAC marines on order, along with some additional parts from eBay. Before I finish painting the Landspeeder I need to convert two of my existing TAC marines and build another 5 in time for the first WH40K club night of 2019...

So the TAC marines are built and primed (have been for a while), and the conversions have been finished.

Also got the Landspeeder finished:

Nice work!

With the price drop, I really need to start flying mine again. Always been a big fan of the TML/HB speeder.

I'm finally painting my last 5 TAC marines, so by the weekend I should be back to 800 points WYSIWYG with everything painted

Upgrades to make 3 5-man TAC squads:



I'm now fully painted and WYSIWYG again

Played my first game tonight with a fully-painted army. Very satisfying

Sharp looking force there.

Thanks Nevalon.

Getting everything finished coincided with reaching 10k views on Flickr too which is cool.

Okay, so I've been busy playing games with my fully-painted army since my last update, but now it's time to build and paint something a bit different (and not blue).

It's a set of models that require base coating and shading during the build, so I'll probably do that then start playing with them before completing all the dry brushing and layers.

I picked up the last of the paints I needed today, but I have a busy weekend and week ahead so it'll likely be next weekend before I can make a start...

2 Warglaives base coated during assembly today - the Helverins will follow next weekend...

What a satisfying build! Great models too with 3 points of articulation on the thermal spear arm and 4 on the reaper chain cleaver arm.

Looking good Brother Castor.

The painted force looks great and yes, playing with painted armies always makes the game just that more enjoyable.

Cheers,

CB

I'll be posting a progress photo in the morning...

Progress - base coated and ready for battle:

Needs more Ultramarines

Nice looking group of robots.

These are going to be Renegade Knights too - daemon-possessed killing machines

 Brother Castor wrote:
These are going to be Renegade Knights too - daemon-possessed killing machines

<sigh>

I was afraid of that. Darn ruinous powers, corrupting the youth today with their fancy toys and death-bots.

Now where did I put my thunderhammer...

Don't worry, the boys from Ultramar are very much still in the game

Just be sure you add some more AV firepower to the loyalist side to make sure they can take down those bots if things get heated on the display shelf.

 Nevelon wrote:
Now where did I put my thunderhammer...

And that will almost certainly be what they'll face first - a Space Wolves force with wolf-mounted thunder hammers...

 Nevelon wrote:
Just be sure you add some more AV firepower to the loyalist side to make sure they can take down those bots if things get heated on the display shelf.

No display shelf - the Ultramarines live in a Citadel Skirmish Case and I haven't yet worked out a solution for the Armigers. My Renegade Knights aren't going to be converted, but I guess the cat will be out of the bag when the mark of Chaos goes on the warlord...

Some nice looking Ultras. It’s amazing what a bit of dry brushing can achieve, and it’s so easy to do (even if I still get it wrong from time to time!). The armigers have started off nicely, they’ll look even better once the wash and dry brush goes on! Keep up the good work!

I appreciate things have been a bit quiet of late - I've been focusing on gaming and storage. Having said that, there have been a couple of developments...

2 more Armigers in progress:



And look what else just arrived today (picked up for £50 on eBay!):

Stomp stomp stomp...

From a P&M point of view, I'm going to need to do some research on magnetising and painting before I start on the big guy. I'll be going for a Crusader loadout initially but don't want to limit myself to that.

My first attempt at an Armiger:



Only another 5 to go

It's been quite a while so I thought I'd post a quick update...

The 'War Dogs' are nearly finished. I've played 4 games with them and I just need to do the silver armour detail on 3 more, and bases on 5 more. Once that's done I'll post a photo of all 6 together.

Codex: Chaos Knights should have been delivered today but the Royal Mail had other ideas, so I guess that'll arrive on Monday now.

Who let the dogs out!

I'll start work on the Despoiler very soon - I've been looking forward to this...

So many little stompy dakka guys! Very cool. Nice crisp paintwork.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a colour scheme for my Despoiler? I could just replicate the scheme I used on my War Dog warlord with the yellow pauldron, but I'm starting to think something a bit different (but complementary) might be more interesting.

Just a quick update - I've started building the Despoiler. I'll post a WIP photo once it's built, but in the meantime, here's the loadout I'm building:

Avenger gatling cannon and heavy flamer
Thermal cannon
Heavy stubber
Ironstorm missile pod

I'm also going to be using the half-skull faceplate as I think it suits a Chaos Knight the best.

Sub-assemblies built and ready for priming:

 Brother Castor wrote:
Does anyone have any suggestions for a colour scheme for my Despoiler? I could just replicate the scheme I used on my War Dog warlord with the yellow pauldron, but I'm starting to think something a bit different (but complementary) might be more interesting.

A halved or even quartered pattern always looks great with contrasting colours...and the model is large enough to do that without it looking busy.

My two cents,

CB

What palette are you using overall for the army? Red/silver/yellow?

Halved/quartered schemes look very cool, and reinforce the knightly heraldry theme. I’d worry a little about looking too much like a Howling Griffon, but there is only so much heraldry you can do with those colors without that.

Another thing to do for centerpiece models is to invert the scheme. So if you normally do red with a splash of yellow, do him mostly in yellow with a splash of red.

Or add black/white areas so you don’t mess with your color scheme, but need him to stand out more by adjusting the contrast.

Well here it is primed:



Still a long way to go, but at least it can join the rest of my army on the tabletop now

The pauldron, shield and opposite knee will all be predominantly yellow. The skull side of the face plate will be white, with a black forehead on the other side.

I've not posted for a while - mainly because I've had other things on, including playing a lot of games.

Anyway, just to say that I made some more progress today - blocking in the yellow panels, as well as painting the sliver part of the carapace and the red gun shields.

Plenty more to go...

Finally finished the Despoiler:

Looking sharp!

That tilting shield needs something. Decal/transfer?

 Nevelon wrote:
Looking sharp!

That tilting shield needs something. Decal/transfer?

I think you're right. I might have to get a Chaos transfer sheet.

I picked up a Knight Desecrator and a Terminator Squad from Games Island to pass the time during lockdown. Significantly the Desecrator comes with a Chaos Knights transfer sheet with enough transfers to do the rest of my army too

Very nice looking. Especially the white helmets; a notoriously hard color to pull off.

The one thing that stands out is the two heavy weapons. I don’t think we’ve been allowed to field them that way since 4th? edition. Yup. Just checked the archives, the change to requiring a full 10 man squad for double heavies came in 5th. Now I know part of your theme for the Ultras is only using old school units, and they fit gloriously into that. But not in 8th. Just going to have to paint up 5 more guys and make 2 squads.

 Nevelon wrote:
Very nice looking. Especially the white helmets; a notoriously hard color to pull off.

The one thing that stands out is the two heavy weapons. I don’t think we’ve been allowed to field them that way since 4th? edition. Yup. Just checked the archives, the change to requiring a full 10 man squad for double heavies came in 5th. Now I know part of your theme for the Ultras is only using old school units, and they fit gloriously into that. But not in 8th. Just going to have to paint up 5 more guys and make 2 squads.

Thanks. The helmets were done with Ulthuan Grey, then recess shaded with Drakenhof Nightshade.

And well spotted on the loadout. Yes I know that. It'll be one or the other in-game. I just couldn't resist building both. Similarly, I'll be fielding them all with chainfists (except the sergeant), but GW only put two in the box In that regard this is my only non-WYSIWYG unit (across both my armies) which grates a bit, but hey, they look cool

So after a bit of re-photographing and a reorganisation of my Dakka and Flickr galleries, I've gone and broken all the image links in this blog

You can still see all of my miniatures in the link in my sig though, and there are separate albums for those that previously featured here:

Ultramanrines
Chaos Knights

Probably time to start a new P&M blog now though...