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2017/12/13 23:45:48
Subject: The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
Hi Guys,
I have been working on my Sons of Horus army for some time now and figured i should start a P+M blog for it so i can show off my progress and get more ideas from the Community
So, a little bit of backround first - I made the army initially for 30k but i enjoy 8th ed so much that i havent actually used them in 30k since 8th started, so i do play them as CSM in the current iteration of 40k and i like to build everything to be able to be used in both systems one way or another.
And for those interested i have made some fluff around my leader and the general premise of the Company
Spoiler:
This is not by any means going to be written well but will rather be bullet points because i am terrible at writing
So it starts as the great crusade reaches Cthonia and Horus is promoted to command the XVI Legion.
My main character - Cleon Cynbel is recruited from the world of Cthonia andquickly rises to 'Full Astartes' status withing the 2nd Company, serving as a breacher marine and after a few years on the crusade gets promoted into the companies terminator squads after showing talent for close quarters combat.
- During the Ullanor Campaign he gets promoted to 1st Sgt of the 2nd Company serving under Tarik Torgaddon, and is one of the longest serving Astartes in the company.
- At the outset of the Horus Heresy he did not conform to his captains ideals and instead followed Horus into damnation.
- On Istvaan 3 he was by Abaddons side and led multiple failed attacks against the Precentors Palace.
- On Istvaan 5 he fought alongside Primarch Angron and the World Eaters legion, witnessing the Death of Ferrus Manus after becoming separated from the World Eaters. He commanded a hunting party in the aftermath of the massacre stopping many loyalist warbands trying to escape the planet. and upon the conclusion of the campaign and the death of his former Captain he took command of the 2nd Company.
- During the heresy he specialized in boarding actions against the loyalist spacecraft, and armored warfare on the ground.
- During the Siege of Terra he along with many other companies from the SoH Legion was held in reserve waiting for the opportunity for a spearhead blow once the palace was breacher, which never came, but instead ended up withdrawing with Abaddon into the Eye of Terra.
- Post heresy remained loyal to Abaddon although did not change the colours of the company to match the black legion as he still believes he is a Son of Horus. He spends as much time out of the warp as possible and see chaos as nothing but allies to be used to break the imperium, Cleon participated in all of Abaddons Black Crusades through the millenia. He fought during the fall of Cadia and now Harasses fleets along the Maelstroms Edge while following orders from Abaddon whenever he gets them.
I Hvae slightly more expanded fluff for most points but i just wanted to give a brief overview for anyone interested
Now back to the P+M side of this thread.
It all starts with The Warmaster Himself at the head of the force (because really, why not?) hes not quite finished yet, mainly because i keep finding more and more details
And next up for this post is Cleon Cynbel - For those of you who read the fluff you know who he is, but for all else he is the Overall Leader of the force (not including Horus Obv )
Anyway, thats all from me for now, more to come soon ! (including a full army pic )
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2017/12/14 00:57:38
Subject: Re:The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
Syro_ wrote: Looking cool. I'm looking forward to your next post. I think it was good thinking making your force compatible with wither 30k or 40k.
Cheers, its relatively difficult to match it up ruleswise like as to what gear characters can take etc, but sometimes you do need to go with the rule of cool
I'll try to have something up every couple of days if not sooner, i've got heaps done already but i want to pace it out over xmas so i dont need to get busy painting with everything else going on, but also be able to keep updating this thread
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2017/12/14 21:08:57
Subject: Re:The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
Finished Rapier Lasers, they used to be part of an Iron Hands 30k project that i scrapped a few years ago so the guns got re-purposed to the SoH
More to come soon !
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2017/12/16 08:04:28
Subject: Re:The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2017/12/16 18:20:41
Subject: The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
amazingturtles wrote: Nice! it's always neat to see so many painted marines together.
And i do like the story, nothing wrong with bullet points. That's how i outline my own stories
Cheers, Just wait for the next squad aswell
update for today is some cataphractii terminators
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2017/12/19 09:17:45
Subject: Re:The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
Update for today is a couple of characters who in my fluff are Cthonian Brothers.
Fist up is a Librarian who specializes in Finger guns
Second is the Champion Blademaster of the 2nd Company
More coming soon
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2017/12/19 17:02:38
Subject: The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
I'm working on a Sons of Horus army - but wanted to go with the black / red scheme
So a 1st Company force ? i am planning on getting some Justaeran and proper Reavers at some point myself
Boss Salvage wrote: Last two models are especially sweet - love the finger gun / mind bullet action on the Librarian
- Salvage
amazingturtles wrote: I am seconding the love on the finger gun guy. in my mind he's saying "Eyyyyy"
Yeah, i wanted to do a pose to make him unique seeing as he's my 'Chief Librarian' and in the first game i played with him he got a Chaos Boon and turned into a Daemon Prince He truly is blessed by the gods
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2017/12/20 13:57:24
Subject: The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
40kFSU wrote: These are some good looking Sons of Horus. You did a great job on the green.
Cheers, its an awkward mix of Dawnstone, Nurgling Green, Sotek Green and Castellan Green which i then drybrush Nurgling Green over and then drench the model in Nuln Oil, i really enjoy using the colours because im lazy and its a quick and easy scheme
Next on the block however is as follows the 2nd (yes 2nd) 20 man Tactical Squad which puts me at 40 bog standard bolter guys but what a sight they are
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2017/12/21 01:05:14
Subject: The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
TheEldanariPrince wrote: Very Nice. Congratulations on nailing a famously ambiguous colour scheme.
Cheers dude it took a while at the beginning of this year to find one that i liked the look of because it seems everyone has their own version and well, this is my version hahahah
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2017/12/21 09:21:43
Subject: Re:The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
Nice update for today - trying to get everything up before Xmas comes around
Got the next set of Cataphractiis and my Contemptor Dreadnought with magnetized arms
Cheers for all the comments guys
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2017/12/22 23:02:58
Subject: Re:The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
Quick last update before Xmas guys, the remainder of my HQs are ready to go
First of the 3 is the Moritat with 2 volkite Serpentas - Incredible model, absolutely loved assembling it
Secondly is the Chaplain
Aaaaaand thirdly my personal favourite is Cadeyrn the 2nd in command of the company and right hand to Cleon
Will post a full army pic after Xmas and then will be all my WIP models from there (am hoping i get some cash from xmas to get some tanks with )
Hope everyone has a good Christmas
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2017/12/26 20:32:34
Subject: Re:The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
Pic for after xmas, just have a current full army pic to show what it all looks like as of now
Will get some pic of the works in progress up soon
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2018/01/07 01:18:27
Subject: Re:The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
Syro_ wrote: Your songs of Horus are looking great! I also like how big your force is getting.
Theres plenty more coming ! over xmas i got Stormlord, Vindicator, 3 Predators and another Contemptor, will have progress pics up once they arrive
amazingturtles wrote: That's an impressive piece of work! Caderyn definitely stands out.
Yeah, im playing a narrative campaign starting in Feb and im almost hoping that something happens to Cleon so Cadeyrn can take over as the main leader, just cos the model is so much cooler
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels
2018/01/07 07:26:58
Subject: The Sons of Horus Muster - For the Warmaster! Lupercal! Lupercal!
Got a few more characters coming then will have some tanks
"Camouflage is the colour of fear... I have no need to hide from my foes... I have no fear of death.
My colours I wear openly, they proclaim louder than any words, "I am proud to live - I am proud to die!"
4000 Points of Farsight's Finest tau
8000 Points and counting Sons of Horus
2000 Points of Death Company Blood Angels