Hi everybody,
it has been quite a while since I posted something on Dakka, but currently I am bit in a Horus Heresy fever so I thought I would share what I am currently working on.
I have started to build up a
World Eaters legion about a year ago and have about 1800-2000 points already built. Most of my vehicles are either scratchbuilt or use old Rogue trader era plastic kits.
Currently the Legion encompasses:
- 2x Praetors, 1 of those in Cataphractii armour, the other with Jumppack
- 3x Command Squad Marine with Jumppacks & Volkite Chargers
- ~30x Tactical Marines
- 6x Support Marines with Flamers
- 6x Heavy Weapon Marines with Missile Launchers
- 2x Rapiers
- 1x Contemptor Dreadnought, scratchbuilt
- 1x Mk1 Predator tank
- 1x Deimos pattern Predator Tank, scratchbuilt
- 1x Mk1 Land raider tank
- 1x Spartan heavy tank, scratchbuilt
- 1x Storm Eagle gunship, scratchbuilt
Armor pattern wise I have decided to use the original Rogue trader Marines Mk6 in combination with recent Mk6 plastic legs.
I know that a few people might say World Eaters don´t usually have Mk6 armor however I am drawing my inspiration for this army from the old artworks for the 6mm EPIC series from games of the 90s like SPACE MARINES and ADEPTUS TITANICUS, were the only featured armor in artwork was the MK6 for any legion. With that in mind and some of the old fluff from
WD that Horus overran the Mars facilities I still find it justifiable that the Traitors legions grabbed what they could and re-equiped themselves with the latest armor prior to assaulting Terra.
Also when you think about it the World Eaters could have gathered MK6 already from fallen Raven guard on Istvaan, since they already looted Terminator armors for their Red butchers units there.
Today I am showing you stuff that I just finished in the last days: a scratchbuilt Spartan tank and a scratchbuilt Deimos Pattern Predator tank.
The Spartan:
The Spartan heavy tank is based on the standard
GW Land Raider kit with many, many changes: visible tank tracks are now running all around the tank resp. over the roof similar to the older style Proteus Land Raiders from Forgeworld. The entire roof section was changed with a new hatch and now includes a new re-designed, movable Heavy Bolter emplacement.
The front assault ramp of the original Land Raider was removed and a new extended front section was built from plastic card and bits to symbolize the extra troop carrying capacity of the Spartan. The original twin Lascannon sponsons per side were upgraded to now host four Lascannons each and are still fully movable! The movable Heavy flamer on the roof can be exchanged for a Havoc Launcher or a solid round armor plate if no roof weapons are needed. In the last days I finished filling and sanding the gaps, added tons of rivets and made some minor modifications here and there. As of now if weather permits it will be primed as soon as possible.
The Spartan has already seen a lot of action in several games and the combination of its high armor value, two quad Lascannons and the Machine spirit capability is really devastating against enemy tanks and walkers.
The Deimos Pattern Predator
In Horus Heresy this tank has access to a number of unique and exotic weapon options, which makes it a very interesting choice gamewise. Three options are particularly interesting: the Executioner Plasma Cannon, the Magna-Melta Cannon and the heavy Conversion beamer.
Since I had a suitable Plasma Cannon lying around for years from a non-
GW kit, I decided to scratchbuilt the turret and make the weapon modular. The turret was made from half of a plastic styrene ball that was cut to the appropriate shape. The rear part of the turret was modelled with Milliput and the turret mount is a 6cm Warmachine/Hordes base. I made some changes to the front of the Rhino with old Rhino parts added plus new old style hatches and many rivets.
The turret is fully movable and can be entirely removed, which gives me the option to add different turrets e.g. Scorpius Whirlwind is one idea I have at the moment or just add the Rhino doors and use it as normal Rhino transport. Regarding the weaponry I have already started on a Magna-Melta Cannon, however I am not entirely happy yet with the muzzles, so some work is needed.
Some more pics can be found on my blog as usual, hope you like what I showed you so far. More updates of
WIP to follow soon e.g. a plastic Angron...yep plastic!
Cheers
invivos
Also this old backpack is alot bigger than the normal Space Marine backpacks which I think is fitting for a being of this size. The next addition was Angron´s Plasma pistol, Spite Furnace, which is a converted and lengthened Berserker plasma pistol. The final addition were some skulls to make him look more feral but also serves as reminder of his lost gladiator comrades.
