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Some further work on the blimp; the balloon is done but still needs weapon systems added to it and the docking system between balloon and weapon bay needs work.



Also started a new force of Leman Russ tanks currently consisting of a standard pattern Russ, an Annihilator, Eradicator and a Punisher. They'll have Skitarii crew and the Valhallan regimental tactics to represent the advanced repair and targeting systems the Taghmata has added to their vehicles.

Excellent ! Keep it up !

This is the start of my Skitarii tank company, using the Valhallan rules. Unusually they're also blooded; twice victorious in battle. Once was against Space Wolves and the other against Orks; the Wolves killed one but the Orks were shredded by them. I rolled a LOT better against the Orks.

Early work, they'll be painted up to the Taghmata colours soon enough

Pretty busy with work but here's this morning's progress; the starboard bow tank of the ordinatus

I'm sure I've named the Ordinatus before, but can't find where. It's the Iraeus Omnissiah; quasi-Latin for wrath of/ wrathful Omnissiah. Cut up a sector imperialis tile for the base



And finished the four baneblades and decking to fit. Need to paint it all up, screw the tanks to the base and then glue the decking down and build the superstructure. Here's a top-down; it doesn't look much but that base is 50cm x 40cm

Impressive, these top shots give an idea of the tremendous scale of that beast...

Thanks KernelTerror. It's a big un. The cannon is longer than the base and wide enough that it only just squeezes between the two reactors at the rear. I have some Electropriests on order to man control panels and screens, and a Magos-Dominus will be at the bow behind the big frontal screen. Thinking of flanking him with power armoured bodyguards.



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And assembled; mostly.



Words cannot express how happy I am to have it at this stage! Also that's an Allarus Custodian chilling up front, for scale

Loving this wee beauty,,,,,

Thanks Alaricuk!
I just finished assembling the helmsman for Iraeus Omnissiah; he's a high level magos but not super high. The staff in his left hand will have the celestial wizard staff piece added to it as a techno-orrery.

Nothing too exciting, just the finished base. The washes are currently drying and after that I'll glue and screw the Ordinatus to it. I'd normally drybrush/ highlight if this was a battle board, but since most of it will be under Iraeus Omnissiah I'll wait until it's all assembled and then only brush and highlight the parts you'll see

Working on crewing the Ordinatus. The Magos at the front comes from a world where robot road trains are a common thing, and he is in charge of controlling the power of the four track units to ensure efficient operation of the Ordinatus. Each of the forward track units contains a small number of Skitarii crew who man the point defence weapons; the defence of the vehicle being far too important to entrust to servitors. The majority of the track units are filled with generators to power the massive tank, the reactors at the rear being the only visible ones. The controls for the reactors are routed through to monitors on the top deck, monitored by a cadre of dedicated tech-adepts.



These adepts are low ranking, hence their lack of cybernetic alterations, but they know the generators inside out and their electoos allow them to make wireless adjustments in extremis. The vehicle's many reactors could be controlled by a single such adept, but for efficiency and safety a team of four is usually utilised. They are aided in this by servitors and simple machines such as the CAT unit.

Model-wise, Electro-priests with Skitarii hooded heads and backpacks. My latest batch of skitarii will be made into titan guard so the bitz are spare. I'll be making a similar crew for the blimp when I complete that.

It's almost there! I need to finish the crew and add the C.A.T unit from Space Hulk to it, but it's stuck together and it's stuck down!

This is insane ! The vehicle itsself could be a terrain for inq28 !

Hey KernelTerror! I played a game of sabotage with my brother a while back on the Ordinatus. 3 Chaos marines and an equal value of Skitarii. It's a little cramped past 4 models, but it's doable. Not so much now the gun's glued on but still possible

This thing is just stone-cold awesome. Even better with crew.

Will you have them removable/based so you can run it as a Necromunda/Kill Team board?

Hey Ynneadwraith! I'm keeping it as just a model, not as a board.

A while ago I mentioned I'd planned to do counts-as battle servitors with Ogre Kingdoms models. Then came the really nice revamped Ogryns in plastic, so I bought some. I'd planned to do them up as Kataphron Destroyers with the cannons replacing their arms, but looking at a fully armoured Bullgryn that plate seems a bit too heavy for a 4+. I'm going to sort through my Ork stuff to add some hydraulic claws to the kit, and turn the grenade launcher into an arc rifle or something, add some armour to the legs and some shoulders from the Cataphractii Terminator kit to give them a crazy bulky side and tie them to the rounded shoulderpads of the Thallax I bought the other week. Pic for pics sake



I think I'll get some more and do a squad of Kataphron Destroyers with just the unarmoured torsos.
And on that note, goodnight all!

Loyalist Hvergelmir looks good, that Cryx model was a solid base to pick.

Thanks ph34r I'm glad you like him. I'm pretty happy with how he turned out

Bought this from a swap page a while back; planned to use it as a 'drop pod' for my Skitarii-marines



Just stuck it to the base, need to add some Mechanicum sigils from the Knight kits, and some weapons. Probably paint the Taghmata cog-and-sword on the door

Working on a knight magaera

The local GW is running a gang war campaign of sorts based on the Rogue Trader lore of Logan's World. The challenge is to build a gang and a vehicle. I decided to do a damaged/ desperate group of Adeptus Mechanicus followers stranded there after a cataclysm. This is their Rhino, which will be either a Rhino-Primaris or Damocles Rhino to accompany the marine section of the Taghmata after the campaign is done





Also, made some progress on the Magaera.

Wow, very promising vehicle, and cool campaign concept too !

Thanks KernelTerror! The campaign should be a blast. I'm working on finding all the spare mech pieces I have left over from building other kits, then bashing them together with a couple of crypt ghouls and an Empire flagellant as a tech adept. Probably a guard squad or something similar.

Not sure how I have only just found this blog. You have a real flair for combining bits creatively. I also love the blue faceplates from the first page.

Thanks Fifty! That's high priase Welcome to the madhouse of the Taghmata! I still haven't finished that squad of battle robots from the first page, but hope to have them done by February

Slowly working on the Taghmata while I'm home from work for a bit. Finally worked out what to do with the old metal Khador warjack I had, another Lazarus bot for the crew

Some further work on the Lazarus robot, built a base and made him stick to it! Easier said than done when only the right ankle supports everything. Added arms and such, but need to find a Mk III marine heavy bolter and a Sicarian chordclaw to finish this model off







Also did a bit of work on Magos Etrigan, added some Ogryn bits to make him seem more Imperial. Trying to make greenstuff armour for his legs

Back to some conversion work; bought a Skorpius to run my Skitarii around in and had the missile front left over so added it to a second hand land raider I picked up to make a counts-as Land Raider Helios.

This is great any idea where the drill originates originally?

Hey Aestas!

Near as I can find it's an old Armorcast model. Loong out of production unfortunately.

Ramshackle Games do a boring machine that I'll be using going forward

https://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/index.php?id_product=211&id_product_attribute=0&rewrite=plant-blank&controller=product