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Built a Deredeo and made my first LItbash!

I wasnt happy with the included seregeant models, since they have those weird HH helmet plumes, so weapon swapped a left arm from one of the sergeants and transplanted it onto an Apotechary body. Took a while, was fiddly AF, and in the end I messed up reattaching the arm a bit (looks anatomically wrong when looked from behind the model), but all things considering I did all right! I'm going to be doing more of this sort of bashing going forward..

I also realized one can build RT style Razorbacks and Whirlwinds by bashing together bits from a Predator, a Rhino and either Tarantula turret from the Astartes Support kit. I'm going to need more Rhinos, stat..




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Wrapping up for today. Got a Leviathan and a Rapier built, LItbashed the Levi to have two sets of siege drills, which is the build I'm going to use for the 28mil version. Such a build is illegal in LI, but what the heck.. wont be playing it for a long time hehehe!

I'm getting the Drop Pod box by early next week, starting with one Deathstorm and one regular, to mirror the ones I already have in 28mm. Until next time..

Built my first Drop Pod yesterday. The kit is pretty inpressive, I felt like a swss watchmaker putting it together. I did mess up again, one of the door pieces was accidentally clipped slightly from its corner, and I lost one of the deathstorm central column supports, it fell from my hobby table and was never seen again, despite almost an hour of intense searching.. Just means I have one less full deathstorm assemblies, so will need to make one of the pods permanently fixed into a transport model instead.

I hope some GW bitz sellers eventually start selling individual LI bitz as well, I have lost two important parts already, and not looking forward to having to buy an entire 40€ kit just because of one missing piece.. FFS

Other than that, I am really getting hooked on working in this new Epic scale.. I feel like building these kits is improving the tightness of my overall modelling skills. The absolutely micron scale operations you need to do with these in terms of cleaning and sanding neatness is both challenging and rewarding.



You dont actually need to glue down the drop pod completely in order to have a playable model. You can leave the pod in three distinct pieces, this allows you to swap the insides so you can get maximum flexibility from the kit. You might even be able to magnetize the transport harness/deathstorm launcher insides, there is room for one circular disc magnet in the inside of both central pieces, although to be honest, the fit is super snug, no magnets really needed. Here are the subassemblies:



Decided the best way to deal with the "turret" is just to use the deathstorm build turret for both varieties. You can always claim it has a storm bolter tucked inside it somehow :p

This kind of loosey-goosey drop pods might irritate some people, but I figured since the pods never move after entering the table, the fragile build should still be adequate.

I have been toying with the idea of Recreating Space Marine 1st edition & 1st edition Adeptus Titanicus with the modern models (including Codex Titanicus rules / units), and finally decided on the Traitor legion I'll be running with. I will make one side my IXth, of course, and the traitors shall be from the.. I want to say XIVth (Death Guard) legion?

Anyways, to start off small and un-ambitious, the plan is to make micro-HH2 armies from both first.. LI kits are actually genious for this sort of thing, the amount of models you get per kit is not very generous for LI, but quite generous for HH2, especially if you go halfies on the two sprues in each kit.. So anyway, that is happening before any LI-army as such..

On the 28mm front, I am waiting for the Command upgrade (that banner mainly), and next kits in the requisition queue are the new resin MKV & MKVI Apotecharies and the BA upgrade gubbins set. Those iconographied weapons will add some nice flair to things, I'm even contemplating on ditching my resin Captain sketch for a kitbashed version of Dominion Zephon, now that there are more decent looking two-handed weapons available..