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Further work on my lerna. Nuln oil for metal, eyes and black needs some drybrushing.

Praetor and lerna


More Lerna


aaaaaaaannnnnnnndddd i am

Johann.

Lots more beautiful Alphas

Gorgeous !

Syro_ wrote:Lots more beautiful Alphas

Many thanks.

KernelTerror wrote:Gorgeous !

Thank you. I certainly did increase my skills over the duration of this blog. Anyways. Basically finished Lerna and praetors.





Some more detail and basing needs to be done, also the marine at his feet will get painted by my normal opponent.




Praetor



And my pride, my lerna. Also mostly finished.

Some more detail work but overall i am quite happy.

Alpharius is looking really good.

 ShadowsAndDust wrote:
Alpharius is looking really good.

Many thanks. Still working in on him, meanwhile:

Very dramatic paint jobs and colors.
I really like your freehand images.

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
Very dramatic paint jobs and colors.
I really like your freehand images.

Many thanks.

I now finished my pile of shame... gotta wait 10 days until i can proceed with hobbying since then my supply of SA will show up.

Anyways finished:

Are people interested in a full army pic?

Not Online!!! wrote:
Are people interested in a full army pic?

The short answer is yes. The long answer is also yes.

Not Online!!! wrote:
Are people interested in a full army pic?

Yeeeees

Nice looking alphas.

Always 'yes' to an army shot.

Yes to an army shot.

The freehand is excellent!

ShadowsAndDust wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
Are people interested in a full army pic?

The short answer is yes. The long answer is also yes.

KernelTerror wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
Are people interested in a full army pic?

Yeeeees

JamesY wrote:Nice looking alphas.

Always 'yes' to an army shot.

Meer_Cat wrote:Yes to an army shot.

The freehand is excellent!

Many thanks. I guess, here's the full army!








Fast assault: Seekers and jetbikes.

Jetbikes are fully magnetised, meaning i can switch as i please.

Heavy infantry support:

Rotor and Calviers. Nothing special, just like the look of volkite.

The actual Heavy support:


preds got a magnetised turret. Also they are probably still my best scaling work next to the jetbike.

The Elites

Veterans 30 pieces, with banestrikes and 2 x 2 melta in multi melta rhinos and 1 x 2 plasma guns.

Also behind the veterans are 30 tacs 2 x with rhino and bayonett once with nothing beyond a power sword.


My lone contemptor. He does look a bit sad. Probably need another one or 2.

And the actual meat of the army.


4 proteus and a spartan filled with terminators.
10 lerna
4 command squad cataphractii with a primus cataphracti centurion protecting my new cataphractii terminator.
10 Tartarus built in a way that i can field 2 identical equipped squads for when i want to switch contents around
and a norma squad of cataphractii terminators.

i like cataphractii sue me.

Really looking impressive!

So many land raiders ! That is a glorious sight, congrats !

They look fantastic all together, always good to see love for the Alpha Legion. Great job!

Llamahead wrote:Really looking impressive!

KernelTerror wrote:So many land raiders ! That is a glorious sight, congrats !

muette wrote:They look fantastic all together, always good to see love for the Alpha Legion. Great job!

Many thanks.

Anyway, a bit of a review of the solar auxilia.



The good. The models are amazing. They look great.

The bad, yeah.


what gw doesn't tell you is that the sepearate for some reason shoulder armor has to slot in into a very small notch that is created oout of the two piece chest. For reference:

The main body without the chestplate, yea the small bit that is indentented above the arm space. yeah in there you have to fit the shoulder pad.

Also the body is slightly poseable BUUUT, there's cableing kinda forcing you to fix the torso on the legs.


Basically, be carefull with applying the glue, be aware of torso having an actual correct position on the leg bits.
And work on the shoulderpads when you are awake and have good lighting.

Also really fragile guns, NVM the bayonetts. Basically Amazing models amazing content per sprue, but considering that there are quite the ammount of pitfalls like the shoulderpads, like the 3 point fixed guns on the sprue. AND you will see that there is severe plastic shortage because the arms are not fully flat but rather hollow, which leads to the inclination of requiring more glue which then inevitably will drip into the notch which then will make it annoying to see which in turn feths with the shooulderpad.. Yeah... Also considering it's one of the few decent options for the Solar aux armies to be fielded AND is required... and is worth 5.5 pts... you do the maths. Oh and ignore the buildplan for the pouches on the back...fix the torso first then add the pouches.,

Behold 1/3 rd of a troopslot or 115 pts.



Only 2 more 20 man blocks to go and their transports.

This is Toni.
Toni is a Leman Russ with a malcador complex..

Anyway the single entry carrying the Solar Auxilia.
Beautiful kit, goes together well enough.

Those men you can't turn by money or the promise of power, those are the most difficult. They are men of principle. And that is the angle you will play to make them do your wishes. Turn the principle into a tool. And watch as the principle will get washed away, perverted, turned on it's head.






Two more to go.

Also there was a sign. I once again cut myself during construction of the dracosan. Khorne it is.

I cut myself and these solar are now khornate.
Also i fixed bajonets.

more.

Nice looking force!

Gotta tell ya: lookin' at 'em from above, the tanks remind me of the profile for the M88 armored vehicle recovery vehicle- you throw boom on the back of one of 'em and you can swap power plants under field conditions!

These transports look so nice !

Meer_Cat wrote:Nice looking force!

Gotta tell ya: lookin' at 'em from above, the tanks remind me of the profile for the M88 armored vehicle recovery vehicle- you throw boom on the back of one of 'em and you can swap power plants under field conditions!

KernelTerror wrote:These transports look so nice !

Many thanks.

Now for something diffrent the Malcador.

For one, it's a plastic malcador that makes it imo an autobuy for all those that like imperial tank design regardless of 40 or 30k. Also it's my favourite tank overall, even before the proteus from a looks standpoint. (hence why i own a resin malcador that cost me literally my 3 plastic malcadors in Money.)



HOWEVER: 3 of the same side guns? NOPE you get 2 and ONLY two. So if you want like me 3 autocannons? Better keep the bits from the lemans around. An absolute dick move imo on GW's part.
Then there's the turret...




I get that it is difficult to translate the glorious Resin malcador turret into plastic... But this... This is nutjobery.

Your Alpha Legion are a sight to behold! Fantastic work not online, your best looking army yet i think! Solar auxilia are coming along at your usual pace too!

Not Online!!!,

Sorry, been a way a bit.

Every time I see you paint another army, your painting is improving. That last army is definitely above just table top level now.

Cheers,

CB