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Just cracked open my first Solar Auxilia box for the Heresy and built the Lord-Marshal!

 Kanluwen wrote:
Just cracked open my first Solar Auxilia box for the Heresy and built the Lord-Marshal!

That's exactly what i did when my box turned up yesterday!
Plastic solar aux. what a time to be alive.

Auxilia High Fives!

And here's what I'm calling a finished day on:

A Marshal, Line Command Section, and a sweet as heck ambushing Sentinel.

I have serious FOMO about all of you building your SA. But I’m going to try and limit my SA acquisitions to a couple of Malcadors and maybe a box of infantry. I simply can’t add any more to my pile of unpainted HH stuff.

 Snord wrote:
I have serious FOMO about all of you building your SA. But I’m going to try and limit my SA acquisitions to a couple of Malcadors and maybe a box of infantry. I simply can’t add any more to my pile of unpainted HH stuff.

You can live vicariously through mine, if you want.

The Sentinels are what drew me in. I'm a sucker for bipedal combat vehicles. Planning on getting enough of the Hermes to have a Flying V to accompany each of my Aethons.

Random question. But does anyone have a lead on stl files for Deimos Predator turrets, compatible with the plastic weapons?

Yeah i've seen at least 1 on Cults3d. Don't remember if it was free or paid, but it shouldn't be too hard to find.

Hmm.

Anyways, pay day tomorrow so time to plan purchases.

I definitely want a second box of MkVI Assault Marines. Not only do I think 2 are going to cut it on the field, but having built my Jetbikes I now have some Volkite Serpentas on hand. Not a massive increase in firepower in the grand scheme of things. But four of them might just be enough to start whittling down hordier enemies before it’s Good Kicking O’Clock.

And I think maybe another brace of Contemptors. I don’t have any dedicated HTH ones, and I can fit two in to round off my Fury of the Ancients options.

Also and not related to this game? Fourth and for now final box of LI Astartes Infantry, as I can make use of pretty much the entire contents.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Random question. But does anyone have a lead on stl files for Deimos Predator turrets, compatible with the plastic weapons?

You want to find a man called Bum Fluff

A spotty little Herbert proudly stroking a frankly laughable moustache?

My second box arrived today! Started getting tucked into the infantry. Yegads, there's a lot of mismatched arm pairings in the instructions.

Ordered the MkVI Assault Marines, and a fourth box of infantry for LI.

Baby malcador.

The single entry to uphold Solar Auxilia in the field.

Solar Aux battle group arrived but I also got my MkV marines and Tau Tetras at the same time, and I still haven't put the finishing touches on my MkIV Assault Squad.

Parted out my first batch of models to prime early next week for Death Guard. A Librarian, 10 Tacticals, 5 Recon and 3 Boxnauts (because I think they'll be quick to paint for a lot of points and give me a morale boost)

1/3rd done. Don't know what to do with the sentinels.

Metallics done. Tidy up and washes next. Then the red.

Might do the other two hulls in metallics first though.

Doing a test bronze for the Agathonian Cohort.




What I have built so far.

What do you think about the sentinel?
Easy to out together or just a pain?

Both?

You can build it "as is", matching the instructions for the legs. Or you can slice off the locking pins and go crazy. The top mounted weapons are nicely pressure fitted so don't need to glue or magnetzie, the rocket pods can be magnetized or left pressure fitted. I like the HK missiles so just stuck them in, glue and all.

The one suggestion I'll make is that as you go to build the legs, make sure you take it slow. You can build the upper leg & knee first then you can build the shin & foot in one go. On my second one, I built the upper leg & knee first and then dry-fitted the shin and feet to get the pose you see on the Sentinel nearest. Used a 20mm square base as the "rubble" it's perched upon.

On the regular infantry sprue at the bottom of the top half there is one shoulder piece labeled 40, I think it is mislabeled but that isn't the issue.

This one shoulder piece is slightly rotated compared to the rest (it's not symmetrical), and I don't see any reference to it in the instructions. The instructions only call out parts 6 and 7. Just trying to figure out where it goes.

Weird issues like this aside, I'm quite impressed with the kit. The mold lines are mostly well hidden and the ones that aren't are extremely minor.

Not Online!!! wrote:
1/3rd done. Don't know what to do with the sentinels.

Send them to me!

The gun barrels on the SA troops look exceptionally fragile. That kind of thing bothers me, as they would be a nightmare to repair.


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 Kanluwen wrote:

What I have built so far.

Looks cool - especially the pair of Sentinels. A pity the Militia can’t use them.

 Snord wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:
1/3rd done. Don't know what to do with the sentinels.

Send them to me!

The gun barrels on the SA troops look exceptionally fragile. That kind of thing bothers me, as they would be a nightmare to repair.

what are you offering me for the lot of em?

Also the guns are surprisingly sturdy.... its the bajonetts that will make you suffer.

Also made a cohort flag bearer.

Not Online!!! wrote:

what are you offering me for the lot of em?

How many do you have?

I have pre-ordered a couple of Malcadors for my Militia. I wish I could find a use for a Dracosan.

 Snord wrote:

Not Online!!! wrote:

what are you offering me for the lot of em?

How many do you have?

I have pre-ordered a couple of Malcadors for my Militia. I wish I could find a use for a Dracosan.

3. Not entirely sure if i build them or sell / trade them out to for a decent price or go the 18" armorbane variant.

Dracosans are not entirely bad if you just stick to the gravis lascannon and slap an Stubber on top and use them as mobile walls with lascannons, which is something that SA lacks (lascannons) But generally the fact that it is cheaper to field 2 x 10 rifle sections in auroxes with Stubbers and HK missiles despite you not beeing able to take advantage of the group discount of the rifle section members does paint a telling picture.
(assuming barebones dracosan and 20 man rifle section with a vox we are talking about 175 + 115. If you go instead of 2 x rifle sections with vox for 130 pts (65 for a squad) and go luxury armed aurox with searchlight, stubber and HK for 55 pts you get away with 60 pts less or iow a whole other rifle section, if you skip HK's and stubbers you get a 3rd squad with aurox.)

Personally, if the Dracosan with the demolisher were 175 it would be allright and even a great transport at 125 with a gravis lascannon for a 20 man block. (or if there'd be a version that would get the assault vehicle trait for Axe veletarii).
As it stands tho Aurox all the way.

One Dracosan is probably okay as a distraction carnifex, everyone fears two things:
Big models
Transports

So you know they will shoot Dracosan first, every time.

I'll probably kitbash my other one into an Ash Wastes crawler.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
One Dracosan is probably okay as a distraction carnifex, everyone fears two things:
Big models
Transports

So you know they will shoot Dracosan first, every time.

I'll probably kitbash my other one into an Ash Wastes crawler.

I don't know anyone that takes the malcador chassis without everything that makes the malcador deadly serious.
And i also don't know anyone that fears the contents that could be realistically in a dracosan either.

A malcador with vanquisher cannon and Autocannons, that is a distraction carnifex.
A dracosan is a mobile piece of terrain and nothing more i reckon i will have to force enemies to shoot mine by hiding aurox filled with veletarii leman russes behind them. Otoh it's a solid AV 13 wall.

In the final stages of airbrush prep and thankfully I remembered to add the chimney extensions I wanted on the push-fit AOBR boxnauts.



Printed elements need a round of sanding and then we're done.

'How many rockets?"

Lord_blackfang:"yes"

Anyways building solar aux infantry, and giving them pointy bits.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
In the final stages of airbrush prep and thankfully I remembered to add the chimney extensions I wanted on the push-fit AOBR boxnauts.

Maybe you’ve explained it already, but why Castra-Ferrum Dreads instead of Contemptors? Is it specifically for the multiple missile launchers, or for the aesthetics?

It seems strange that iconic models like these have been consigned to the nether world of ‘legacy’ units in HH.