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I wouldn't mention the robes, and I wouldn't lie. There aren't many companies who make robed legs, so depending on the persons interest in the hobby, they will most likely know nothing about 3rd party companies, or they will know enough to recognize something like that. The person looking might not care enough to ask, but if you throw up a blatant lie without being challenged in the first place, s/he might call your bs and just shut you down on the spot.

damnthevalley wrote:I wouldn't mention the robes, and I wouldn't lie. There aren't many companies who make robed legs, so depending on the persons interest in the hobby, they will most likely know nothing about 3rd party companies, or they will know enough to recognize something like that. The person looking might not care enough to ask, but if you throw up a blatant lie without being challenged in the first place, s/he might call your bs and just shut you down on the spot.

I agree

plus in many GW events i attend, the model only has to be 50% GW to be deemed "legal"

I love the fact that tournaments take such a crazy stance on the composition of the plastic models that people have to approach it like a gay military member in the "Don't ask - Don't Tell" days.

Just make sure you're 100% comfortable with the possibility of being DQ'd, and at least take solace in the fact that your models look completely badass.

Well the pads are obviously 3rd party bits due to them all being identical ( love them btw, Chapterhouse right?). I would probably run it past the guys who decide this stuff, that way you can be sure they will allow it. The legs could very well be a work of GS do you are safe in that area.

Well, I disagree that the legs could be GS'd. There are only 5 different sculpts on those, so if you run a Draigo list, it will be noticable on a half way close look. And some of the poses with the legs even stand out to the point to where you remember them. I have about 30 Termies with those legs, and it's fairly easy to pick that up when you have 10+ near each other. I think your best bet is still to just ask, don't throw everything on the table with what is and isn't GW product, but don't lie at all either.

Curse you, you make me want to continue my own Pre-heresy Thousand sons project!

Awesome work!

TO ARMS!
The interceptors are pretty much complete except for the sergeant who has Dark Angel robed legs so is taking longer to finish. I left the one who was dramatically posed out of the picture because he just doesn’t look right.



Also someone asked how one of the terminators looked next to the interceptors, so here’s a picture. I think they go well together...



THE FINAL DEADLINE!
This project has taken longer than expected I originally planned for a tournament in January then one in February, this time I’m aiming for my club’s annual tournament on the 24th of March. Even though I’m busy moving house I only have ‘Little Magnus’ and a 2nd dreadnought to go so my chances are high I will make this deadline. I plan to finish off the terminator robes during a week away to see my family that way I only need to take small selection of paints with me to complete them.

"Soon we shall reveal ourselves to the space wolves, at last we will have revenge!"

Everything's looking stunning, mate! Hope you can finish up by the deadline.

LITTLE MAGNUS
When doing a pre-heresy army trying to represent the Primarch is a hopeless task as there is nothing in the rules that can do them justice. Magnus The Red is the same and perhaps even more given that he took down two xenos titans by himself in the novel.

So after finding the ideal model on Scibor Minaitures I decided to convert a ‘Little Magnus’ based off ‘Little Horus Aximand’ in Horus Rising who is one of the Luna Wolves captains who’s splitting image of the Primarch earned him the nickname ‘little Horus’ which he was often called by. This way I feel I can get away with fielding a Magnus look a like in my army.



I added the chest plate horns and replaced the damaged small shields that went over the arms with eagle wings from an imperial Aquila symbol, the arms look horrible underneath so really needed something to cover them up. I also asked a friend to increase the hairline with greenstuff. Normally I would have tired it myself but with a £16 minature I thought it best to have a expert do it rather than risk ruining the model. I'm sure a little help won't hurt and besides I'll likely be replacing him with a Ahriman conversion later as a Librarian has a lot more use in an advancing gunline of terminators than a grand master, that and unlike 'little magnus' I can use him in a GW store.

Anyway he'll be the last model I'll paint as I can play a few smaller games after I complete the 2nd dreadnoughts and finish the terminators I'll paint him up in time for him to lead the army on the 24th.

That sword/halberd is incredibly badass.

Y'know, what, the whole model is incredibly badass. Great choice of model, and I'm sure your paint will do it justice.

wow he looks perfect, and nice idea for the Little Magnus!

I love that model...Very Nice!

MORE BIG GUNS
I’ve completed my 2nd dreadnought however I had originally planned to have him going up the ruined base but the legs just won’t go together after I glued them so I rotated the base instead. Like the first one the weapons are exchangeable so when the model is glued together I can rotate the left weapon to be facing upwards a bit more.


I had planned only to have 2 Venerable Dreads but I’ve decided to downgrade them to basic ones and invest in a 3rd, so after their first tournament I’ll be building a 3rd dread with a close combat arm and multi melta.

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!
With 25 days to go the pressure is on to meet the deadline, sadly I’ll be moving house this week so I won’t have a much time to work on the army! However I have the following week off work so I’ll spend a lot of time during then to get the dreadnought and terminators finished, then a week to paint up little Magnus hopefully leaving me 1 week to spare.

Anyway let me know what you think to the pose?

THE LEGIO CYBERNETICA PREPARES FOR WAR!
Given how much my recent flat move and new HD TV has depleted my finances it’s unlikely I will be investing in a 3rd £45 Contemptor Dreadnought. Instead I will be ordering the multi-melta and fist weapon for my first dread and building two Legio Cybernetica robots to represent my rifle dreads.

As mentioned before I will be using the old space crusade dreadnoughts as they are how I pictured the robots mentioned in the Thousand Sons novel, but armed with autocannons much like this conversion I found earlier in the week created by Minus



I'm currently experimenting with my own twin Autocannon weapon design and will be using the feet from a killa kan as the original feet are attached to the base and are impossible to remove (well) so it can be placed on a resin base.

However there are two questions I’d like feedback on please…

1. The robots in the book are described as blue and gold should I paint the blue metallic in remembrance to my old robot army, or given how it's hard to add depth to most metallics should I use basic paints and paint them a dark blue so I can use the blending technique on the flat services?

2. Should I keep those legs or replace them with armoured sentinel legs so I don’t have two robots in the exact same pose?

As always I'm grateful for any feedback you can provide.

i say, paint int basic blues, and use sentinal legs

Wow, how did I miss this thread before? Absolutely beautiful collection of models, I don't know where to start really!

I can't imagine them not being allowed to be used in the tournament. A friend of mine used loads of non-GW bits for a pre-heresy army, and his stuff even got put on display in Warhammer World

THE LAST STRETCH!
8 days to go before the Thousand sons’ first tournament, which I’m determined to meet as this project has taken far longer than I would had expected as I started this project round this time last year after I finished reading a thousand sons in Febuary!
As such I missed my first deadline which was back in January then another tournament in February. However sadly because I’ve just moved house I’m running a bit behind so this next week will see a lot of time spent painting the final models.

However the 2nd dreadnought and strike squad sergeant have been completed and the last three terminators have been assembled and I’ve starting painting them. But I’ve still got ‘Mini Magnus’ to complete and the remaining 14 terminator robes which I will be painting while I visit my family for the next 4 days since I only really need the two purple paints and the wash to complete them.

I will try and free up the time to upload pictures of them but it’s likely I’ll be too busy as I will be using all my free time to complete the army in time for the tournament.



SUPPORT PROSPERO?
I’d be grateful for any help regarding these two subjects guys…
First does anyone have any Autocannons from the imperial guard sentinel kit I could buy for my upcoming 6th Fellowship Cataphract robots as I need another set of 4?
& Secondly can anyone post some links to a selection of magical symbols that I can paint on the trim of the robes like the first one? (not too complex)



Now, back to painting!!!!

Good to see you posting again! Best of luck with the move and getting the painting done in time! I'm looking forward to seeing all your boys completed, especially the Contemptornought.

Oh, as for runes and stuff - try a google image search for magic rune fonts or something similar. I've found looking for fonts tends to give you entire sets of matching symbols. Here's some I found in a coupla minutes - dunno if they're exactly what you're after, but hey, might give you some ideas at least.

THE THOUSAND SONS UNLEASHED!
Well my army took to the field in a small local tournament today and I walked away with 2 victories and 2 enemy forces wiped out but lost in the 3rd round against a horde of fast moving, AP packing Dark Eldar. Overall a fantastic day given it was my first 3 games with the army, which looks fantastic when all together.

The terminators still require a few finishing touches such as battle damage and their belts’ pouches, grenades and scripture as I needed the time to complete ‘Mini Magnus’ for today.
I’ll start photographing the completed units tomorrow and the terminator squads later in the week when they are finished.

It’s nice to finally see a year’s work on the board at last!

I believe I have a set of four Sentinel Autocannons, but I'm in the US. If no-one else steps up, PM me!

Grats on the wins! Looking forward to seeing your whole army together!

Glad to hear about the wins! Can't wait to see this army all finished

The symbols Skits posted look super cool I would certainly use something like them if I were you.

DREADNOUGHT TAG TEAM!
The 2nd dreadnought is completed, nothing much to say about it apart from posing was a pain due to the base’s angle.



The plan was to downgrade the dreads to basic and get a 3rd but I certainly can’t afford to part with £45 for another Contemptor so I’ll be arming the first dread with a close combat weapon and multi-metla and fielding 2 Legio Cybernetica robots for the rifle dreads instead. Course this guy will still be busted out now and then for some tag teaming.



THE LAST INTERCEPTOR
I also completed the last interceptor using the only decent robe I produced in my long crusade to master painting white, thou I might give it another try with the new GW paints for my upcoming commander model. A mace like hammer seems too brutish for a thousand son to wield so I decided to place it on a staff and make him appear like a techmarine instead.



FOOL’S GOLD!
I spent the last 3 days before the tournament painting up little or ‘Mini Magnus’ as he is now called and I was unsure about the model afterwards as something felt off about the model.



I discussed it at the tournament with a few players and 1 hit the nail on the head; the gold! In small amounts it looks good but for due to the 2 washes and dry brushing required to pick out the details it looks very bland, which is bad given he the HQ in an army of colourful and well painted models. Also Magnus does have red skin he has tanned bronze like skin and getting that the right tone was a nightmare as was the hair.

Overall I’ll feel the model’s a bit of a let down so I’ll be replacing him soon with a Thousand sons captain similar in appearance to pre-heresy Ahriman from the art books to use as my grand master or Librarian, Mini Magnus will then be stored and brought out when I want to field Draigo and a paladin wing.

Now to add the last touches on the terminators! At least now I can take it easy.

I quite like your Mini-Mangus, although I think he's a little tame-looking. I think he needs to look a bit more wild and beast-like...
http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/3842/180520072027350001wf4.jpg I like this image quite a lot, although I suppose he isn't really meant to be Mangus.

That Mini-Magnus is beautiful, although I like the shot from the back better than the front...you're right, a bit too much gold. Perhaps a darker color on some of the flat plates on his armor would bring out the gold, maybe a dark reddish-bronze color. Dunno, but it still looks amazing either way.

TERMINATOR ASSAULT; FIRST WAVE!
Here they are at long last, my scarab occult terminators. I started work on them in September last year with each pair taking several evenings to paint, sadly they didn’t really go anywhere for a while as the robes weren’t completed till this month after I had given up on trying to paint white before the final details such as the grenades, pouches and scripture were added!

I had planned to give them all symbols on the trim of the robes like the one of the left but dirt covered most of it up so it seemed a waste of time, instead I painted the symbols that ‘Skits’ provided on the each of the cloths attached to the belt of each warrior.



I’ll upload the 2nd squad at a later date when I get a better quality photo of them and the 3rd when the 'wolves' are added, I’ll also be uploading more detailed pictures of certain squad members so feel free to suggest a model you’d like a better look at?

Also they looked fantastic when they charged a group of black templar marines, this picture should give you a small hint why.

Hahaha man, gotta feel sorry for that poor li'l templar dude.

And like I said on deviantArt, glad those symbols came in handy! Yaayyyy I'm useful! Man, your terminators make me feel so inadequate about mine, heh. Ah well, something to aspire to!

Mini-Magnus looks awesome but I think what feels off to you is a lack of red. The 1k sons preheresy were a very red army and our other models portray this perfectly. While Magnus should stick out, and the gold is doing this really well, he still needs to feel like part of the army. Pick out some details using your red and I think you'll feel a lot better about it.

little magnus looks great, but what you might think as off, which i think is a bit odd, is that i think his skin color is a bit too orangy red for my taste, only because it looks strange next to his red hair, and the rest of your models skin color is different