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Hey-hey

This is the first time I've properly posted pictures of an army for Warhammer 40,000. There's always been the odd model or two (some of you may have seen some of my models on the Conclave), but I finally thought I should see what everyone thinks of my army.

I've always liked the Red Scorpions - not so much their colouscheme, but their background. They remind me slightly of the pre-heresy Death Guard, only without the obvious fall into corruption.

Hopefully I will be running a 40K campaign in my local GW based in the Antioch sector. However, I decided I needed a new army other than my rarely used Blood Ravens. So, I bought some Red Scorpions off of my friend (who changes armies as much as he does his pants) and set to work, and this is what I did:

Tactical Squad Doran, 3rd Squad, 2nd Company under Captain Aximius

And a line-up of Doran's combat squad


WIP: Tactical Squad Turk, 4th Squad, 2nd Company under Captain Aximius

And a slightly darker line-up


All of these pictures were taken at about 8pm, so there was buggerall in natural lighting, so quality may be low (but in focus, and that's a good thing )

The squads were named after the 2 young doctors from Scrubbs, Chris Turk and John "JD" Dorian after a friend of mine pointed out that two powerfist-totting Apothecaries reminded him of the high-fiving duo.

This model was origionally going to become Supreme Commander Carab Culln, however I intend to build a new model that is more suiting the role of chapter master. Now, he is Commander Zhyr, captain of the VI Company whilst operating in Antioch.
Commander Aleu Zhyr, Captain of the 6th Company

And with flash:


Culln was a competition entry into my GW's "Convert a Chapter Master" contest run over Christmas break (if I remember correctly). Basically he is based on Doghouse's Gothic-pattern marines with a few Red Scorpion components.
The entire idea behind the army is to have a no-nonsense, practical but individual army. There's no banners, no cloaks or any jazz like that. Each Astartes' armour is personalised in some way, be it scriptures, placement of squad numbering and company logos (similar to the Dark Angels in design, but they stll go by the Codex). Each marine has his own variation of the Tactical Markings, some like the Dark Angels, some are just outlines, others are normal or just in a different place than the rest!

Hopefully, the Red Scorpions will end up as a unified army made up of several individuals.


C&C would be nice.

~ Aximand

Looking good mate, good colour scheme, all works nicely.

Keep it up , hope to seee more !

All the best
Wolf

Excellent paint work Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the kind words, guys

Nice models. I really like the marine with the red boltgun, the black/yellow shoulder pad reminds me of old RT marines. Its a cool look, much more striking than the standard tactical squad markings.

Keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to seeing more.

I really like the scheme of the Scorpions and I think youve done it justice so far.

Thanks alot guys!

I'm looking forwards to getting these bad-boys up to 1500pts but I'm currently working on a guard army for the same summer campaign, and they seem to have taken precedence for being not only quicker to paint, but also cheaper and more of them to do.