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Nicely done! I have an idea for a freeblade banner that I don’t know if people will like but I’m going to do it anyway.

Had a quick skirmish against the brother today and was good fun. My 3 Questoris and 2 Ceratus against his Acastus and 4 rocketpod Questoris.

Lost a Cerastus and two Questoris against the onslaught of his Acastus and escorting rocket pod Questoris, but the remaining Lancer Scion closed the gap and slew the Acastus, shaking his remaining Knights.

Its nice to win for a change!

I am working on my legion. I don't have a name for them yet. but I am working on it. the titans name will be either dauntless or courageous.

More mechs

The Legio stalks!

Nice work Ashlevier.

I bought a second ruleset today, just to get hold of the dice, assets and terminals! Its a decent price and the duplicate rulebook will always be handy!

I count this as hobby progress XD

Two rule sets makes a lot of sense.

SamusDrake wrote:
Two rule sets makes a lot of sense.

I find the original dice so much easier to read than the loyalist/traitor specific dice, and the terminals is always needed!
Having two packs of objective and stratagem cards is nice too, even though there are far more stratagems stowed away in the supplements. I hope they release all of them as cards eventually.

Weirdly enough though, one of the stratagem cards in the separate ruleset box has a "mission objective" backside printed on it...Pretty much making it useless if you care about keeping your stratagems secret.

I am working on my paint scheme for the Scottish warlord. I based some spare parts with army painter crystal blue. Then one part with contrast talassar blue the other with drakenhof night shade. The darker one is the contrast paint

I think I prefer the Drakenhof version. For big plates at this scale I prefer the cleaner look.

 Flinty wrote:
I think I prefer the Drakenhof version. For big plates at this scale I prefer the cleaner look.

Agree, from that picture definitely the drakenhof one!

Working on my knights

I am enjoying painting these little guys a bit to much lol

on the warlords legs how much of a pose can I make with out the armor plates binding or getting in the way. I don't want to glue the legs in play and find the parts wont fit.

ashlevrier wrote:
on the warlords legs how much of a pose can I make with out the armor plates binding or getting in the way. I don't want to glue the legs in play and find the parts wont fit.

Not much.
I was too generous with a few of my titans, forcing me to cut bits of the armor plating to be able to fit them when the time came. Not that it bothers me much, with the model painted and finished its hardly noticable unless you look for it
Still not a fun surprise.

ashlevrier wrote:
on the warlords legs how much of a pose can I make with out the armor plates binding or getting in the way. I don't want to glue the legs in play and find the parts wont fit.

The Warlord is almost ridiculously poseable but if you’re going for something extreme, you can assemble the legs so that they hinge at the knee and use poster tack to dry-fit the armour and just test your pose out.

 Mr_Rose wrote:

ashlevrier wrote:
on the warlords legs how much of a pose can I make with out the armor plates binding or getting in the way. I don't want to glue the legs in play and find the parts wont fit.

The Warlord is almost ridiculously poseable but if you’re going for something extreme, you can assemble the legs so that they hinge at the knee and use poster tack to dry-fit the armour and just test your pose out.

Are we asembling the same kind of Warlords?

My next project is something I've wanted to do for a while.

This is my interpretation of the automata armies that defended the eldar empire for however many million years. Before the fall, they had extremely powerful robots that kept the eldar completely indolent - no hint or threat of war, despite there being orks and DAoT humans around, as well as the necrons and who knows what else.

Ergo, their robots must have been some pretty powerful devices.

This is the 'Hands of isha', the World Shaper. Each is the control node for vast armies of lesser robots. These huge robots are built around a central warp core, providing virtually limitless energy to their wraithbone structures, capable of growing and releasing endless waves of robots while continually healing themselves. Their limbs reshape into what ever weapon is required, and the swarms of robots form living shields against enemy attack.

If one arrives on a planet, it begins the process of reshaping it into a maiden world. Swarms of wraithbone parasites, robots and automata spew from its body, covering the planet and breaking everything down to its constituent components.

When the fall happened, most of the active world shapers were destroyed in the psychic wave that followed. Some however survived, the spirit engrams that controlled them driven mad by the destruction. during the horus heresy, the great crusade encountered only a handful of these mad gods, but each one was capable of holding an entire expeditionary fleet at bay for months, due to the pure warp energy that powered it.

It took the combined might of several legios to kill them, always at great cost as their warp powered weaponry made a mockery of void shields and adamantium alike.

They were eventually brought down by protracted warefare that attacked at the psychic imperative of the world shaper, undoing the work it was born to do. through the combined effects of their shattered spirit engrams, deliberate environmental destruction and the ever decreasing stability of the warp, the world shapers were killed by an insanity so profound it left craters miles wide.


Basically, this is the damaged, derranged form of one of the eldar's most potent artefacts from the height of their civilisation, when they could steal stars and reshape the galaxy. For scale, it's larger than an Imperator and almost impossible to physically kill. You have to attack its mind and drive it mad, by destroying terrain (killing trees is a big no no) and undoing its work.

This is my work in progress based on some virtual kit bashing. Its insanity has corrupted its form, creating irregular branching growths and a daemonic visage of rage. I've still got to add some details to the body, lots of tendrils pulsing through the body. I'll put some portals on the side of the shins and the chest, where land and air based robot forms exit once grown.

I'll have a swarming mass of tiny robots on the ground, maybe with some wraithguard esque precursors dotted throughout. And i want to do a cool large swarm shield - a big curing mass of wraithbone parasites forming a shield against an incoming attack.

Painted up a second reaver, "Cyntar Volta" ,as I can't convince myself to actually start working on the knights.

One NIB unopened Grand Master edition ready for opening and assembling.

Would add a pic but no idea how to. Sure you know what it looks like.

First Legio will be good old Mortis.

So I’m FINALLY posting some pics of my Audax Warhounds. The paint scheme is loosely based on Mr. Poom’s classic 28mm Syrgalah model.

You may notice that they’re a little plain right now, and that’s intentional. I’m trying to leave some areas for the transfers that will come. I’ll also add other enhancements at that time.

That's a beautiful force, gorgon. Nice and muted colours work with the rubble bases, though some cracks in the road where titans tread might add to the feel of weight they have?

Ye olde Rhino!

Nice to see the Embers having a stroll, Gorgon.

Great piece of painting! The pack is ready to hunt

Thanks for all the kind words!

@SherryPie: I'll take a look at that, thanks. Like I said, I'm going to be revisiting these puppies anyway...at this time they're best described as 'done for now'.

@Samus: Yeah, I had to get my favorite nutjobs represented on some bases somewhere.

My table and terrain are also coming along. I have more stuff on the way. I've been getting (what I think are) good results using plasticard to 'stretch' the civitas tiles.

Very nice terrain, especially the park and research center!

If only I had time to carry on with my terrain, dreams of garden domes and cliffside forts try to take over valuable work space in the brains...

I need a favour from my fellow Princeps, I bought a couple of Warhounds second-hand for better than half price but the weapons are fixed, whereas my others are magnetised. I've tried to remove the arms intact so I can magnetise it but haven't had any success (one was already damaged in transit).

Does anyone have some Warhound arms they'd be willing to trade or sell? Sounds a bit unlikely as they're an essential part of the kit but if anyone's used an alternative setup or used a Warhound for basing there may be some spare, or if anyone has a link to an eBay auction with them or SHP file that would be appreciated.

 Valkyrie wrote:
I need a favour from my fellow Princeps, I bought a couple of Warhounds second-hand for better than half price but the weapons are fixed, whereas my others are magnetised. I've tried to remove the arms intact so I can magnetise it but haven't had any success (one was already damaged in transit).

Does anyone have some Warhound arms they'd be willing to trade or sell? Sounds a bit unlikely as they're an essential part of the kit but if anyone's used an alternative setup or used a Warhound for basing there may be some spare, or if anyone has a link to an eBay auction with them or SHP file that would be appreciated.

If I were you I would have a look at Thingiverse, there are quite a few weapons and complete models floating out there. Best of luck.

Finally completed my basic Maniple, for Legio Suturvora. Now just waiting for the rules and transfers to finish them off. Also have to base and finish 6 knights.

I'm also working on a Legio Crucius to be the Loyalist force, so that I can host games with my group. So far only the Warlord finished.

Wow, looking good! You definitely put some work in since the last time I saw these.

We should have our Legio rules soon...