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So I am thoroughly into the Alpha Legion now, having assembled all bar one Raptor (as I am waiting for it to arrive from eBay). But the list is done, the theme is hopefully pretty apparent and below is the list for the Alpha Legion of the XII Ambush Cell, Loyalists of the Twin Primarchs:

War Leader Omicron of the XII Ambush Cell - Chaos Lord with Power Axe, Combi-Melta
War Leader Upsilon of the XII Ambush Cell - Chaos Lord with Power Axe, Combi-Melta

The Enigma – Terminator Champion Brutus, 3 Chaos Terminators, 2 Combi-Melta, 2 Combi-Flamer, 2 Power Fists
Iota Stealth Squad - Chosen Champion Iota with Power Weapon, 9 Chosen, Power Weapon, 2 Plasma Guns
Epsilon Stealth Squad - Chosen Champion Epsilon with Power Weapon, 9 Chosen, Power Weapon, 2 Plasma Guns

Bait Squad Theta - Aspiring Champion Theta with Combi-Melta, 9 Chaos Marines, 2 with Meltaguns
Bait Squad Eta - Aspiring Champion Eta with Combi-Melta, 9 Chaos Marines, 2 with Meltaguns
The Hydra Cartel - Cultist Champion Rambour with Shotgun, 8 Cultists, 1 Cultist with Heavy Stubber
Charybdis Cell - Cultist Champion Antoine, 8 Cultists, 1 Cultist with Heavy Stubber
The Kraken Initiative - Cultist Champion Johann with Autogun, 8 Cultists with Autoguns, 1 Cultist with Heavy Stubber
Leviathan Syndicate - Cultist Champion Corbec with Autogun, 8 Cultists with Autoguns, 1 Cultist with Heavy Stubber

Pursuit Squad Pi - Aspiring Champion Harpos with Melta Bombs, 4 Raptors, Meltagun
Pursuit Squad Omega - Aspiring Champion Gargul with Melta Bombs, 4 Raptors, Meltagun

Anchor Squad Zeta - Aspiring Champion Pechium, 9 Havocs, 2 Missile Launchers, 2 Autocannons
Anchor Squad Phi - Aspiring Champion Prozuit, 9 Havocs, 2 Missile Launchers, 2 Autocannons

So I have gone with a list that has a mirror image, every unit has a duplicate to try and give the look and feel of a multi-headed attack. The exception is the Terminators (hence why they are "The Enigma") although within the 4 man squad they are a mirror image. I have also gone so far as to switch shoulder pads and the like around so that they appear as a mirror to their twin unit. I figure that the Havocs, Marines and Cutlists will attempt to camp out on objectives while the Chosen, Lords, Terminators and Raptors run around causing trouble whenever they can.

Still struggling to decide how to attempt to paint them. But now that assembly is out of the way I can sit down and try and couple of things out. Oh and a side note I ended up going with the super old 'batwing' Raptors which I think goes well with the less messed up chaos look of the newer sculpts. Plus I am using the Betrayal at Calth marines as my chosen so its a nice mix of old looking armour in the army.

I am using my many Necromunda models as my cultists, so just need to finish off a couple of them that have never been painted and rebase them and they will be finished. I have decided for this army to use the GW Sector Imperialis bases as I wanted to give them a try out.

Hopefully the next time I post will have some pretty pictures......

Nice project you have on the go. The Britonians are fantastic. I can't wait to see the Alpha Legion. I would do them MkIV personally. AL in mkIV look fantastic especially the headhunters.

Beautiful work!

Another great looking army, Archer. It's been really amazing watching you work your way through these. I have to say that 5 units seems a tiny army, but then arranged in a wedge like that, they look terrifying enough to smash anything that gets in their way... How many points do they come to?

Nice work on the Knights, they look really cool.

EDC

Thanks guys, I think the Brets are the best looking one from an individual model basis. Found myself actually needing to put a bit of effort into the individual Knights.

In Warhammer 8th edition they come to 2,000 points on the money with a few magic items thrown around. Have no idea how that would translate to AoS, KoW or 9th age though.




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Oh and with the Alpha Legion, although the Mk4 does look very cool this is a Chaos army and needed a few spikey bits. I did want it to sort of be a mish mash of different armour and gear so they look like they have been at the long war for a very long time. But I am using certain elements (like the same helmet across whole squads) to make them a little unified and professional. Not a random mob of lunatics.

Had a terrible month for hobby as I was smashed by a bad throat infection and then a week after that I got a bad dose of the flu effectively lost 3 weeks to ill health and took me a little while to get the motivation to paint back. But the good news is I have returned to form (although not too much painting).

So my results on the Alpha Legion are a little humble, although I have assembled and undercoated all of the models. Which it turns out is quite a few.....76 marines and 40 cultists. Quite a large marine army.

I took a little while to figure out how I wanted to do the Alpha Legions blue/green armour. But am pretty happy with what I have come up with. This poor terminator isn't in the army, he just donated his body to the pursuit of a colour scheme.



It's a little shinier than I want the finished product to be (not to mention a little rough as I was experimenting), but I am happy with it and feel it is repeatable across the army.

Next up is an objective marker I think fits the Alpha Legion quite well with their subversion tactics. The News Anchor......



As you can see I am using the GW Sector Imperialis bases for this army, means I have a little more painting to do, but they are not bad value and work pretty well. I have gone with lighter, but muted colours to better let the darker Legionnaires stand out more.

So instead of official cultist models I press ganged my Necromunda collection into service. I feel this fits the feel of the army better as the "cultists" employed by the Alpha Legion are often actually pretty good at what they do and the more unified look of the Necromunda gangs helps portray this. I hope.



I had already painted the Goliath gang members for a campaign that I played in last year. But I have now rebased them and cleaned them up a little. I had not done any of the hired guns though so they are completely new paint jobs. I imagine that the hired guns are the real human operatives of the Legion and have whipped the hive gangs into a frenzy before they will be extracted and sent to their next assignment by the Legion.



I have used both blue and red as spot colours on the Hired guns to help them fit into either gang as the main weapon colour of the Goliaths is red and the bodysuits of the Van Saars is blue. So if I use them in a campaign later they will have traces of their fleeting loyalties. And the blue will help them with identifying as Alpha Legion loyalists.



The Van Saars were painted eons ago and based really poorly. So it was good to tidy up the paint chips and get them onto better looking bases. I have far more of them than the Goliaths so needed less Hired guns to make up the numbers.



My opponents will have to ignore the wacky weapon loadouts of the gangs. Simply put the squads all have a Heavy Stubber (pretty easy to identify) and the ones brandishing mainly hand to hand weapons have exactly that and the other gangs have autoguns. Should be pretty easy. I hope.

So although I only needed to do a little repair work to the bulk of them I did paint 40 new bases and the 5 hired guns to finish off these squads so I feel like I did a pretty good job considering the month I had.



Next up will probably be a Chaos Space Marine squad to get the colour scheme just right. Hopefully they won't take too long. But Vulkan is getting most of my attention at the moment so maybe he will make a guest appearance first?

Thanks for reading.

Always love seeing Necromunda minis. That objective markers is pretty sweet too. Points for originality!

Hi all, have had a brief distraction from the Alpha Legion (although I got a good session in last night on them). So I present to you the latest in my Primarch series. Vulkan of the Salamanders.


The vibrant green of the armour I think works well with the gold work and helps the skull show up quite well.


I tried to keep the hammer fairly simple as I see it more as a tool than a weapon of war and the Salamaders strike me as more practical than say the Blood Angels. His pistol, like just about all the other Primarchs is well hidden by his cloak.


The cloak gave me a lot of trouble (or at least the outside I am super happy with the tones on the inside). But with a lot of advice I think I figured out a good end result for it. Was hard to have a green cloak and green armour without it all blending together too much.


I did debate about painting the flames (in particular the ones above his head) as real flames, but deciding I risked it looking too cartoony and not practical especially as there is no "source" for the flames to be coming from.


Something I haven't done before is give a sense of scale of the Primarchs (apart from the casualties on the bases). But here is Vulkan standing next to a Salamanders Captain. Massive difference.....


My favourite base to date (although the photo is a little more washed out than I had hoped). In particular I think I nailed the Death Guard colours. I had originally intended to only have Salamaders on the base, but decided I needed a contrast so one became a Death Guard.


Here is Vulkan on his display base. It all fits together really well in construction and they even have a little spot to install magnets in the design. Very clever.


I didn't have the render on the walls initially. So, so glad my wife said I needed to add something as otherwise it would have been too grey.


I like how the skull pops compared to the rest of the colours and provides a focus to the very top of the model.


I really do get the feeling he has barged his way through a wall. I really enjoyed this model,

So there we have my fifth Primarch. Now I need to get Angron on the move so I can ship the two of them to my brother for Christmas and then I have no idea which ones I will do next. Although I really liked the look of Leman Russ who has just been released. Of course I will also be back to regular programming and hopefully churning out some Alpha Legion very soon.

Thanks for reading.

Vulkan looks amazing Archer, I really like how you did the green on the armour and cloak and yeah your wife was right the colour on the walls really makes a difference.

Vulkan is amazing, as always mate. I really do think the basing makes it look like he's just burst through the wall, ready to kick some butt!

What about Kruze for the next primarch? He has a pretty amazing model and I'd love to see what you can do with a skin cloak.

Great work on Vulcan, I love the vibrancy of his armour and your choice of spot colours on the rest of the miniature. Excellent stuff. Had no idea of the size of them so thank you for the scale shot.

Thanks guys. Appreciate the feedback. Unfortunately Freytag it has to be Angron next as I have the model in hand (well at least in a box). Definitely keen to do Kurze as I want to try to get his blue armour quite different to Robute.

Making some good progress and hope to have two chaos marine squads finished very soon. Need to sort out some spot colours as they are looking pretty monotone at the moment.

Nice work on Vulcan (or should I say Alpharius?!)

EDC

Wow, the armor on Vulcan is fantastic. You really did justice to a gorgous model.

So its been a very productive month. Finished off Vulkan and have now finished both Chaos Space Marine squads. Pretty happy with how the proposed colour scheme has worked on them. Maybe would have liked them a little more blue, but it does mean they will be very distinct from Ultramarines and Night Lords when I get around to doing them, oh and Thousand Sons, so many blue armies.

So onto some happy snaps:


I think I have gone with a relatively traditional Alpha Legion colours of silver trim and black weapons. Both squads have two melta guns and the Aspiring Champion has a Combi-Melta. Its hard to pick out, but the Aspiring Champion is a Betrayal at Calth Marine with a chaos marine back pack. All of the Chosen will be BaC marines as they are the Veteran core of the army and it suits they wear old armour. Also makes them nice and distinct from the rest of the army and that not too Chaosy look as they may have been "undercover".....


This is my go at some scales on the shoulder pad, not quite getting it, but from table height they look pretty good.


Squad number two, you may notice the guy in the back with the radio back pack. I have one in every squad as I figure the Alpha Legion are all about communication and the like. Think it adds a little bit of interest as I have avoided the really chaosy helmets.


I did manage to score a heap of Forgeworld Alpha Legion shoulder pads. So I have divided them up among the squads.


If you look closely at the two squads you will notice the shoulder pads are on opposite shoulders to each other giving them a little nod to the mirror image of the army. I use the eight pointed chaos shoulder pad on every marine in the army and the opposite one is either a blank one with the scales painted on it or a forgeworld shoulder pad. I think it is a nice subtle way of differentiating the squads as well as reinforcing the theme of two armies in one.

I have also used the GW Sector Imperialis bases for this army (as you saw on the Cultists) they look a little better I think on the Marines as they are bigger and show more detail. But they are a really quick and easy way of basing an army for not too bad a price.

Next up I will be either doing the Havocs or the Raptors. Oh and finally getting around to assembling Angron.

Thanks for reading.

Nice work on the AL, especially the scales.

EDC

I agree. Well done on the scales mate. They look great.

Great work all round bud. Vulkan looks amazing, and the alphas look brilliant.

Great work repurposing the Necro gangers here, Archer. Vulkan looks really good, and damn! He is huge! The wall render adds a nice contrast to the model and really helps the green. The Alpha squads look very cool as well, and the scales have come up well. Looking forward to the next update!

Awesome looking work on Vulkan and the AL marines. I really like the (freehand?) scales on the shoulder pads, they look awesome. Keep up the good work!

Thanks all. Really appreciate the kind words. I have Angron in sub assemblies ready for undercoating (he is a lot smaller than Vulkan, probably more on par with Fulgrim in size and body shape, which kind of surprised me. All the photos make him look enormous). Kind of excited to get him done as while assembling him I got really interested in the model.

I also have the two Havoc squads based coated and ready for me to get stuck in. So hopefully by the end of the year I will have another twenty members of the Alpha Legion army done and Angron in time to ship with Vulkan to my brother for Christmas.

Wasn't Angron supposed to be the runt of the primarchs? I thought I remember reading that fluff somewhere...

I know his brothers referred to him as the undefeated or something. Not sure if it was because he was that good in combat or more as a jest. But he definitely looks like he may suffer from a serious case of small man syndrome.

Could the nickname 'the undefeated ' come from that he was never beaten in the gladiatorial arena? There's some interesting stuff in one of the World Eaters short stories about the chain of scars and his are all red to show he was never beaten.

EDC

Maybe, I am really short on World Eater knowledge. Which is a pity as I feel they have interesting potential as torture heroes that had little choice in their fate.

Hey all, does anyone know what is going on with the wargamerau.com website? I use it as a connection to local gamers and I seemed to be unable to get onto it. Not sure if it's me that is blocked or the website is experiencing issues.

I get a message that the account has been suspended. Might have forgotten to pay their host?

Yeah that seems to be the consensus of those I know who also use the site. Pity, I may have to finally get a facebook account to keep up to date with the gaming club I try (unsuccessfully) to game with.

I have been slowly working away this month with a lot of work getting in the way of valuable hobby time. But I have been making some progress although I have not been able to focus and have been getting little bits done across several things. But for now the focus is on the one, the only Angry Ron himself. Lord of the World Eaters Legion, Angron.

I was actually really excited about painting this guy, which unfortunately quickly dimmed as I got into the nitty gritty of him. I found he became very monotonous.


My photography is shocking or more to the point the light late at night. But I have tried to add some more colour and life to him apart from bronze and red.


I did stick with the stereotype of him crashing through his own troops in a desperate charge to the front lines.


I am very happy with the cloak. THe defining piece of the model that makes me like him a lot more than if he had a plain cloak like most of his brothers.


I decieded to add the white and blue of the Legion to his shoulder guard, kind of looks like a tilting plate. I thought it a good way of tying him to his Legion and adding subtle colour to an otherwise dull paint scheme.


They are very white, but contrast well against the metals of Angron. This was the first use of Blood for the Blood god and I really like the paint. Although I do not think it will be suitable for my idea of a blood splattered Wrold Eater Bezerker army........


More of the cloak. The best bit. Would hate to think what poor animal donated it to him.


Something I haven't done in the past and regret a little (since I have been doing them 2 at a time) is a comparison shot of two Primarchs. Vulkan is huge compared to Angron, really makes him appear tiny, even though marines appear tiny compared to angron.


They actually have a decent facing off pose compared to a lot of the sculpts.


He may be small, but I put my money on Angron any day of the week.

So there you have my current December progress. Pretty happy with him even though my interest began to run out. Now hopefully I can get the Bastion out of the way quickly (I consider it a piece of terrain only so am not lavishing attention on it and want it dirty to boot). Then maybe I can convince myself to focus back on the Alpha Legion as I have 20 Havocs looking accusingly at me for neglecting them after quickly getting them up to the silver trim stage.

Thanks for reading.