And Suddenly! An update appeared out of nowhere!
So boy do i have quite the haul...
Aside from the usual "getting like 4 million marines and stuff re based and prepared for the paint" montage I've got going behind the scenes, My dark mechanicus is making great leaps and i have so many wonderful conversions to show! Oh and a "Western Front" themed gameboard underway, yay!
Gather round ye' fellow children of the dark gods and gaze upon the newest additions to the ranks of the 10th Grand Company!
So i may have spent a bit of money over the past few weeks... There is also meant to be a skaven warlord and imperial sector box there too but they kinda decided to disappear into the bloody aether instead of join the photo. The little bags have chaos marine backpacks inside them, because it wouldnt be an order from Games Workshop if i didnt buy like 20 of the damn things each time.
Oh and a corpse cart too, for my death guard pet project I've got going on the side.
Woo, more freakin re based marines. Still got loads more to take pictures of.. i'll try to do a big marine themed update soon as an excuse to get them all done.
Now onto those more recent darkmech conversions..
So we have some kataphron destroyers, because i've always LOVED THESE MODELS SO MUCH..Ahem, and they are currently sporting the wrack heads/masks for a more barbaric/ Iron Warrior/ Chaos-y type of feel, originally i was going to use chaos warrior helmets but they didnt really satisfy me..
They also have ork pauldrons to represent armour plates hastily constructed by their cultist/marine comrades, between fights in an attempt to reinforce their protection as quick as possible.
As well as the fact that i'm taking that whole western front type theme and turning up by 40,000 notches (get it?) which is why they also have mud based on them as well as little bits of stowage i intend to add as well, making them double as pack mules in a way.
I'm still undecided on whether to give them Plasma Calivers or Heavy Grav cannons though.
Anyways, got some Sicarian Ruststalkers too!
And the Princeps..
Like the kataphrons, these guys have been converted using the gladiatorial style masks, as well as the spine mutations from the Wrack Kit.
This idea mostly spurred not only from the fact that they now look like hideously deformed monsters but also from a little bit of background fluff too. I recall reading somewhere that Skitarii/ Ruststalker backpacks house all kinds of equipment and life support measures on them.
I looked at the wracks and saw a similar thing going, with all the stimulant injectors, IV bags and stuff and all the wiring, and i was like "Hey! That would look great to not only represent horrific experimentation upon my subjects but also their life support systems"
That and i want my dark mechanicus to look not only horrific but also keep some of the badass traits of the loyalist admech, asi do really really...REAAAALLY love the models in all fairness.
Which is where the princeps comes in, I've used the dataspike to represent some kind of angry tail of poking death and also given him a literal scissorhand, also from the wrack kit. I now can't decide on giving him a transonic razor in his right arm like with his comrades, or some other kind of gruesome device to butcher the opponents of the 10th Grand Company with.
And lastly, I've also started working on a gameboard about half an hour ago.
As I've said a few times throughout the thread and you may have noticed yourself (possibly due to luggage carrying dreadnoughts, german style cultists, duckboard reinforced rhinos and loads of muddy style bases) that i'm going for a very heavy western front theme, as i feel it fits snugly into the aesthetic of the Iron Warriors.
The gameboard is essentially a huge frickin piece of wood with sand and rocks PVA glued to it..and it'll be painted dark brown. Big whoop.
The plan is to have some tracks dug into the mud from all the vehicles passing through, with some craters and stuff and loads of uneven terrain. Mostly because it's basically just a bombed out wasteland and i still need room for all the terrain i have to put on the board too!
Regardless, i'm really really pleased with the results, I only stopped to take pictures because im out of PVA glue, and running out of sand VERY fast. But don't worry i promise it'll be cool when it's done!
Next update will be that fabled army shot, because i wanna show this army in it's full size. Heck, sometimes i forget i even have certain models sometimes, also gotta do that army shot for JeffyP!
And I'll also deploy a glorious wall of fluffy text explaining the motives of the 10th Grand Company, their origins and their organisation/recruiting methods, to set the scene
EDIT: Yeah i know, i gotta work on that camera flash. It's bugging me too, but it's bed time right now so i wasn't gonna fuss too much
