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Hey, peoples!

Thought I'd start a thread for my newest project!
This army is The Sons of Medusa whom I've really liked for a long time. This is somewhat of a milestone for me as I have never had a Loyalist marine army.

A bit of background (bear with me!):Way back in 2003 when I was working for GW my boss (Hey Jason!) at the time had a contest to see what would be the chapter for the store army. All the staff would paint up a marine and a competition with customer votes would determine the winner. I chose the Sons because I liked the vibrant scheme.

As it turned out I was ahead in the voting and my boss took me aside and said "So..yeah, you're totally winning the competition but there's no way in Hell I'm painting that much Scorpion Green." So the army ended up Crimson Fists (his chapter as well, lol).

Anyway, I have been totally inspired by Grey_Death's endlessly cool blog so when the time came for me to start a new project it had to be The Sons!

I plan on building the army around Pedro Kantor with lots of Sternguard with fire support. Having said that, here's my CA Pedro Kantor:



I just finished assembling the backpack/servo arm that will carry The Gorgon's Kiss (Dorn's Arrow) and will be working more on him tonight.

Next up will be a squad of Sternguard Vets. Hopefully I can figure out some heavy weapon conversions for them as well.

Liking the color

Aye I love the colour mate, Ill be keeping an eye on this thread.

Other than your cool avatar I'd like to see more. I've stalled myself in my p&m blog but the fact I have one means I think about it more than is healthy.

Also I enjoy looking at other peoples work and stealing their ideas.

PS. I hope your previous boss is now painting goblin fantasy battle regiments for a living...

I am becoming more aware of your work. You paint very nice stuff. I will look forward to following this thread.

so... my interest i nthis army kinda fell by the wayside...

Until a few weeks ago! There's a doubles tourney coming up (the 8th) and I have a buddy that plays Iron Hands. We talked about running a combined force of the Sons and their parent chapter. Since I'd been slowly accumulating models off ebay for this army I knew I needed some motivation to get them going. My motivation is almost always tournaments.

So...without further blather, here are my Sons so far!

My counts as Pedro Kantor who will lead the force:



Sternguard Sgt. (which will be the core of my force)



Sternguard





A group shot of the entire 1K. Sterns, Tacticals, TFC, Razorback, and a Speeder.



Thunderfire Cannon and Tech


So... I have one more day to get these guys al least playable. Hopefully based and finished...can I do it?

in the future I will expand this to more Tacs and more Sterns and 1-2 more TFCs. Probably two Contemptors and some Tartaros termies as well. I'm going for a Mk IV theme so those will fit nicely.

Ok it's late and I need sleep for a paint-a-thon tomorrow.

Motivate me, people, and tell me what you think!

The flesh is weak ole boy.

Carry on and we'll have victory tomorrow! Unrelenting, merciless, cold victory.

Is that a customized assault cannon on the razor back in the background? If so, it looks very interesting.

It's from BitsPudlo. So is the dozer blade.