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Hi guys,
So today, something special: my first traitor Emperor's Children unit. I tried something different, as I wanted to picture them in a more chaosy, corrupted way and not disciplined anymore. It's difficult to show on a model while still making it look beautiful so I opted for a "psychedelic", motley, paint scheme.
Here are my first two test models for my kakophoni squad:



The bases are based on my interpretation of Istvaan, and they contrast well with the purple of the marines.
Overall, I'm okay with them but the zenithal priming that I tried for the first time isn't really showing i believe... I made a second drubrush with a lighter pink on the parts facing the sun (helmet, above the backpack, ...) to help strengthen it a little bit but I don't know.
Hope you enjoy them !

Hi guys,
Here is the first squad done !

Have a nice weekend !

Nice

Great squad of noisy boys, appreciate the high contrast white blasters and the weirdly colored bits sneaking into the armor scheme.

Thanks !
It's not exactly what I had in mind, but with the squad done, I can say that I'm happy with the results. I can't wait to finish the next 5 guys with some chaos bits to give them a definitive late Heresy vibe, but I'm happy I tried something different

Hi guys,
Here are my first two converted Kakophoni marines. I hope you enjoy them too !

Nice! I love how you’re slowly corrupting the Legion now you’ve finished your main force. Will there be some pink armoured children in the future? The black sections on the cacophony marines are a cool addition

Hi guys,
I've eventually finished the whole squad. I can say that I had fun painting them, it was a real change. They have grown in me, definitely !
I've kept on adding Chaos' parts, I hope it's not too much !
So here they are :




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 gobert wrote:
Nice! I love how you’re slowly corrupting the Legion now you’ve finished your main force. Will there be some pink armoured children in the future? The black sections on the cacophony marines are a cool addition

Thank you very much for your support !
Well, right now I don't plan on expanding them as a full army, I considered it but I don't have enough time and space. If I were to collect another army, it would be Mechanicum or White Scars, I think.
Whoever, I still have a few named characters to paint
But in the original heraldry, like my first EC and not the corrupted ones

Fair enough, corrupted cacophonii marines makes total sense. I look forward to seeing more names characters in the OG scheme

Hi guys,
After a lot of work, many hours of painting, I can eventually present you captain Lucius, the faultless blade !
As one of my favorites characters of the Heresy and the first named character of the army, I really tried to step up. I used Brush and Boltgun tutorial for crimson cloaks (I really like it and I'll definitely use this way of painting cloaks again), GW tuto for white cloaks (I don't think I managed to make it justice even if it is pretty basic) and I tried Duncan Rhodes crystalline blades for the Blade of Later. It was my first time trying such a blade and the shape of the sword didn't help, but overall I'm happy with it. You can notice that I painted the lenses green : I believe they the red lenses aren't showing enough on the purple armor, and it looks better this way. I'm not willing to paint all the lenses of the army, let's just say they Lucius is showing some character here haha
And in addition, my two dreadnoughts have name plates (from versatil terrain) now.
So, here they are, c&c are welcome :

Lovely work on Lucius, the blade looks good and the cloak is fantastic! The texturing is a good way of highlighting and I find much more fun than just layering. Cool name plates too

 gobert wrote:
Lovely work on Lucius, the blade looks good and the cloak is fantastic! The texturing is a good way of highlighting and I find much more fun than just layering. Cool name plates too

Thank you !
Yeah I'm super proud of the cloak, and it's not even difficult to paint. I found that most of time, breaking paint schemes into smaller parts and taking time is the correct way to get good paint jobs, everything is achievable if you take your time and think how to get there step by step.
Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to paint the head this week, and definitely not Saul Tarvitz. The good news is I received my last models for the army (10 sunkillers, 5 phoenix terminators and... Fulgrim Himself) ! The last months of the year are going to be productive

Hi guys,
So today I finally painted Lucius' face. I've had difficulties despite following the wonderful GW's tuto, it was very delicate and I have barely any experience in painting faces. I must they that I am disappointed, yes, but I can't do any better for the time being. I'll paint Sault Tarvitz very soon so I'll have another go at faces, but right now here is Lucius with his face !
C & C are welcome !

I too struggle with faces, but I think he looks pretty good! In any case with a helmet as fancy as his, who’d take it off! . Good luck with Tarvitz and the other minis too

Hi guys and happy new year ! Wishing you in a lot of plastic crack and that your pile of shame diminishes quite a bite !
For my first miniature of the year, I present to you Captain Saul Tarvitz of the 10th company !
I tried a NMM blade for the first time, using the Warhammer TV tuto, but I didn't manage exactly what I wanted. I also used the Warhammer TV tuto for the face, as I did with Lucius, and I believe it's quite a success, this time ! And the cape was painted the same as Lucius, too. But this time I decided to paint it white, in order to show the purity of mind and soul of Tarvitz, by contrast with the passionate red of Lucius. I haven't received his nameplate yet, unfortunately (I need to order it and the one for Fulgrim next month). His head is magnetized.
Here he is :



From brothers, to enemies :



C&C are welcome !

Looking great mate. The dreadnoughts are really intimidating with the dark/white/gold scheme.

Love the effect you're getting on the cloaks too - very painterly!

Nice army coming together - thanks for sharing!

Tarvitz is an awesome mini! Love the eagles on him, the good youve chosen works well on them. The textured cloaks are great too

Hi guys,
Today we have my first Sunkiller. The whole unit is to be painted this month. I choose not too add too much gold etc to let him fit with the rest of the army, but I noticed that many people paint them with golden weaponry and it does look good. I'll paint the next one like that too see and we'll compare them.



C&C welcome !

You could try just the central barrel on Lascannon as gold? Nothing says, deadly like fancy Ghooo-hold! lol

Hi guys,
So, I've just finished the sergeant Sunkiller and I painted his lascannon gold, as we previously discussed. I like it but I think I'll keep it just for the sergeant, making him stand out. The plumet on his helmet is to arrive in a week or two, but otherwise he is finished. I hope you like it !
Which lascannon do you enjoy the most, the golden or black one ?

I envy your skills!

This is one impressive EC marine.

Not Online!!! wrote:
I envy your skills!

This is one impressive EC marine.

Thank you !
I see so many flaws, so many parts that I painted too quickly, but overall they look good enough for the game or for being shown, indeed !
I am really trying to improve with the characters and I learnt a lot with this army throughout the years...

Great work on the Sunkillers!

Hi guys,
So today I played my first two games of the "new" edition. I'm quite happy with how the list works, as intended. All the armies were painted and beautifully at that ! My opponent were nice people. Very enjoyable.Here is what I brought to this two 2,000 points event :



My first game was against a Raven Guard army. Only scoring units in the opponent's deployment zone were scoring points. Interesting game with both armies being quite quick and needing to get to the opposing side of the table.
My opponent deployed only 2 units on the board and put everything else in reserve, which put some pressure on my as I could either spread to advance or try to castle up to avoid the deep strikes.
I ended up losing, mainly because I charged a 1 PV leviathan with my terminators and they all failed their save, but it's like that some times. It was interesting to face the Raven Guard, he played the Decapitation Strike RoW and he was a very nice person.
MVP was either the javelin that shot down a hovering stormeagle or the terminators that counter charged an assault squad (using the EC's special reaction) while being charged at the same time by another and winning this fight, quite easily. If only they managed a single invu save or two against the leviathan...
My opponent MVP was his veteran squad with his praetor, which costed him an enormous amount of points but did great, even if they only killed tacticals (but killed them all !).

His list was :
1 (telepathy) librarian with a recon squad
1 praetor with a 9 men veteran squad (in a stormeagle)
3 assault squads
1 leviathan




The second game was against a weird Imperial Fist army using the Iron Brethren RoW.
It was something like :
2 tactical squads, bare or almost
10 men heavy bolter squad with a castellan
2 techmarines
1 Thanatar
9 thallax in a single unit
2 units of castellax
1 unit of 3 tarantulas

There were 5 objectives on the board so he had to move and couldn't just castle up.
His tarantula intercepted my bikes and killed them on turn 2 and made one of my tactical flee on Turn 1 (fortunately not outside the board, thanks to the vexila) so it wasn't really a great start but it could totally have been good if he didn't mixed his rules :
He was hitting me in assaults on 3+ because his guys had WS4 (like in shooting) and I noticed that too late but after loosing 2 challenges against techmarines, it appeared that he thought they had a 4++ invu... It costed me a praetor, nothing less haha
Well, next time I'll know my rules and my opponent's one !
Other than that, one of my tactical managed to destroyed the 9 men thallax unit after being charged by it and winning the fight by 1 points
He shouldn't have assaulted them, even diminished !
I didn't even shoot the Thanatar. I managed to kill all the castellax in assault, thanks to the deep striking Terminators and the assault squad (manly thanks to the champion haha)
His Thanatar was definitely his MVP, moving from his edge to mine virtually unopposed and killing a javelin, a tactical squad and my support tactical squad, at least.



So what's the lesson in there ?
Vexila are mandatory
Stop spreading my units too much, they need to support each other !
My terminator command squad isn't that expensive after all and quite efficient, even including the price of the warmonger (he did great both games !) but less resilient than I thought.
The champion in the assault squad is a really strong combo, no need to put him in a better squad
The Maru Skara + the deep striking unit isn't too much
I don't know for the bayonets, I almost forgot them so couldn't notice if they were good or not, but I did win some important fights by a single point, so even if they are marginally good, it can still be enough to be worth it. I need more data !
Maybe putting a thunder hammer or something on the biker sergeant, there were no vehicles during those games and they lacked power against infantry, even by charging them. Could have won me a fight !

Looks like a fun set of games with some beautifully painted armies!

Hi guys,
Let me introduce you to the first half of my Sunkiller squad ! The five first are done, they are now a playable unit. The rest of the squad won't be long before showing up too.
I hope you like them !


It appears that I forgot to glue the power cables going from the weapons to the powerpacks on the back of the marines : rest assured it is going to be fixed when you see the full squad together !

Nice looking squad godardc!

 gobert wrote:
Nice looking squad godardc!

Thank you ! They should get their first games at the end of the month of June, as there is going to be a big Horus Heresy event in Paris that I'm going to attend. Big games incoming (3,000pts, a first for me !) which means I'm in need of some AT firepower. They are just the right unit for that ! I'm advancing quite well on the last models, so the whole 10-man unit is going to be done before the end of the week and you will get to see the full painted unit

Hi guys,
Chose promise, chose dûe, here is the completed squad of Sunkillers. At long last ! I don't have my lightbox with me so there are only group photos, but still.
C&C are always welcome !
I'm quite happy with them, and happy that they are done haha
I took the opportunity of the many days off of the month of May to finish them ASAP, I'm glad I could progress on the army. Next is going to be the last unit : the phoenix terminator squad, and after them there are only going to be a couple of characters. Everything has to be painted before June, 22th, so I can't lose any time.

That’s a lot of Las action!