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Got the Predators finished.

Tomorrow I’ll get some if not all metallics down on the Laser Vindicator. Wednesday I’ve got the other Casual Wraith over to do more filming for our YouTube channel. So either just a wee bit more on the Vindicator, or I’ll get started assembling the assault marines.

 Snord wrote:
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.

I adore them and I've had these 3 push-fits on the pile of shame since 2008 and not done anything with them and they're obviously well on their way to being squatted in 40k while in HH they have the best rules they've ever had. After this I have at least another half dozen multi-part boxnauts of all variations to put in other legions and then I'll probably start printing them.

Haven't updated in a while but I've now got some more characters and some tanks:



Tanks still need their pintel options done and Curze isn't finished but quite chuffed with how they all look so far

Next up on the plate: Raptors and a Leviathan

 mrhappyface wrote:
Haven't updated in a while but I've now got some more characters and some tanks:

Tanks still need their pintel options done and Curze isn't finished but quite chuffed with how they all look so far

I like the Vindies. What pintle weapon will they have?

 Snord wrote:
I like the Vindies. What pintle weapon will they have?

Gonna magnetise/pin everything but I think they'll be running bare for the most part

Textured the bases, another round of PVA sealing tonight, undercoat next morning, start painting in the afternoon.

As it’s nearly Easter, here’s a wee treat of frankly dubious standing as an actual treat.

Behold. Everything I’ve painted this year, up to today. In a display cabinet. And plenty more to come.

They look excellent and definitely put me to shame as haven’t painted anything for the 1st for months.
Through have purchased a few kits

Actually not done anything for my small VI combat force either but got the excuse I did move house.

Planning on spending Good Friday on building and painting

Put together 35 Solar Auxilia legs today. After the first Line Command Squad and Rifle Section, I realized it's way more efficient and better for figuring out posing and the like to do legs->pouches->torsos+rifles->attach both together.

Also?

A little bit more work on a Marshal for the Solar Auxilia.

 Shark in Exile wrote:
They look excellent and definitely put me to shame as haven’t painted anything for the 1st for months.
Through have purchased a few kits

Actually not done anything for my small VI combat force either but got the excuse I did move house.

Planning on spending Good Friday on building and painting

All just super simple paint jobs, done neatly. I’ve never previously been much of a painter, yet doing a bit every day this year, and now look where I’m up to.

Should have all my Heresy stuff done by the end of April!

So turns out my new compressor has big issues overheating and I didn't get as much done as I wanted. But I do have a dozen dudes with a nice creamy zenithal.

More work on the Marshal.

I finally completed the Dark Angels infantry I've been working on for a while now.

 Kothra wrote:
I finally completed the Dark Angels infantry I've been working on for a while now.

These look rather nice, but the photos are a little unclear. I’d like to see better images.

I can never seem to get great pictures on my phone (and it's supposed to be a pretty decent one) but I'll see what I can do.

Take a sheet of paper and line your models up in front of it. That'll make a huge difference as many phone photos like to try to find something to focus on.

And yes, I'm aware of the hypocrisy considering my photos. But I'm doing WIP shots as I go. Final photos will be much nicer, I promise!

Yeah I have a cheapo lightbox so I pulled that out. Maybe I shouldn't be using auto mode on my camera though, since the white background ended up different in every picture.





I did put a satin varnish on everything, and while I generally like it I guess it doesn't look great directly under bright lights.

Also as a bonus here's a Contemptor I painted back in 2022. The assault squad and characters are pretty much the first things I've painted since around that time. I also finally finished a MkVI tactical squad that I for the most part painted shortly after the dreadnought.

i built my first plastic Malcador.

Great model... but peak GW cheapness with the secondary armament...
Also whoever designed that turret.... I know the Malcador turret is a thing that will be annoying as hell to translate into plastic. But there surely was a way to do so better.

Went to the FLGS to pick up my many preorders. We spent 20 minutes looking for everything in the back rooms and only after we were done gathering my 400€ pile did the cashier inform me the POS isn't working... so... yea.

Did they try kicking it?

On a Legions Imperialis tangent at the moment. But once that’s done and I’m back to 28mm?

Think I want to paint my Assault Squad. And the two characters. That’ll leave my display cabinet with only two shelves of Stuff not painted. Which is super cool.

Sadly hitting a wall trying to puzzle out lore and the like on the Solar Auxilia. Can't find a specific group that holds my attention like Cadians have for Guard.

Any tips? Loyalists, preferably not the Calth goobers.

I think that might be kinda the point of them?

As Mere Smelly Hoomans, fighting alongside the Legions of near-as-dammit Demi-Gods? The cohorts of the Solar Auxilia were, despite their indisputable prowess and bravery, pretty unsung?

 Kanluwen wrote:
Sadly hitting a wall trying to puzzle out lore and the like on the Solar Auxilia. Can't find a specific group that holds my attention like Cadians have for Guard.

Any tips? Loyalists, preferably not the Calth goobers.

Maybe try a more loose approach. I'm over doing detailed lore for my armies, I just do a vague elevator pitch of theme and tone. Try throwing together a few concepts you enjoy and don't worry about filling in the blanks?

My Militia concept might be, and I'm adlibbing here, an end of the world cult saw space marines fight, so they looted a military museum and joined in and the Death Guard took them in as useful idiots. Don't care exactly when or where in the galaxy any of this happened. Maybe it was a swamp world and they paint frogs on their flags. Done.

It's more that I just can't find enough information to be really led in for a specific bit.

That's because they firstly didn't exist prior to Book 4: Conquest and since then haven't got loads of background because they play third fiddle to the Legions and Mechanicum during the Heresy.
They don't have a "bit" because until HH2 they didn't have the Cohorts rules either. You played them as mass infantry and that was it.

The Solar Auxilia are essentially a regiment of the Imperial Army that grew far beyond its original scope because it proved to be an excellent fighting force to supplement the Legions and Mechanicum. They were good for hazardous environments which tended to crop up a lot and being baseline humans meant that recruitment was extremely simple.
If you want to do some proper Narrative work then Militia is your better choice.

 Gert wrote:
That's because they firstly didn't exist prior to Book 4: Conquest and since then haven't got loads of background because they play third fiddle to the Legions and Mechanicum during the Heresy.
They don't have a "bit" because until HH2 they didn't have the Cohorts rules either. You played them as mass infantry and that was it.

The Solar Auxilia are essentially a regiment of the Imperial Army that grew far beyond its original scope because it proved to be an excellent fighting force to supplement the Legions and Mechanicum. They were good for hazardous environments which tended to crop up a lot and being baseline humans meant that recruitment was extremely simple.
If you want to do some proper Narrative work then Militia is your better choice.

This.

Though there are legion hangers on that share heraldry.


Anyways, built my second Malcador.

Yeah, I was looking for info to avoid having to do narrative work.

I have a messenger bag full of notebooks that detail my Guard, Skitarii, Cities of Sigmar, and Lumineth armies. Dramatis personae, campaign honours, orders of battle, colour schemes, etc.

I didn't want to have to go down that route for Solar Auxilia.

There's the Agathon Cohorts you could look into.

They were well respected during the Crusade and led by Ireton MaSade only to be eclipsed by the rise of the Astartes.

He led a bloody coup on Agathon after its ruling nobility tried to declare for Horus and raised thousands of troops to fight in the Emperor's name.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Sadly hitting a wall trying to puzzle out lore and the like on the Solar Auxilia. Can't find a specific group that holds my attention like Cadians have for Guard.

Any tips? Loyalists, preferably not the Calth goobers.

How about them being the personal forces of a Rogue Trader?
Like some kind of boarding party/away team with the best gear available - kit them all with volkite weaponry as some sort of throwback to a more sophisticated time enabled by the personal wealth and connections established across the galaxy over more than a lifetime of trading and only trackable by the trader himself by examining the recipts.
The kind of trader that wants to do formal dress procedures and ceremonial paperwork.

 Gert wrote:
There's the Agathon Cohorts you could look into.

They were well respected during the Crusade and led by Ireton MaSade only to be eclipsed by the rise of the Astartes.

He led a bloody coup on Agathon after its ruling nobility tried to declare for Horus and raised thousands of troops to fight in the Emperor's name.

Lord Marshal's Own were the ones I have been, effectively, "building" my forces as. I'd hoped to find more info on them but man, it's difficult.