Back to Rynns world with a vengeance!
"With greater power comes greater responsibilities...
We cannot sit in satisfaction of our petty victories any longer.
The liberation of our homeworld is but an empty gesture, the scouring of the greenskin hoards a pointless act, the very salvation of the Crimson Fist geneseed a hollow and meaningless deed, if we allow the same fate to come to others.
I had a vision that was victory on Rynnsworld. This is not it.
No brothers. not victory at all.
Not until we all stand together as sons of Dorn and say in one voice; we will not rest our laurels whilst others are beset alone in the darkness.
We will not suffer the alien to walk where he may choose, seeking worlds he may devour at will.
not while there is breath left in us.
For victory of arms alone is for naught if heresy is left unchecked.
To slay the alien is not enough. To hate and curse and purge entire worlds of their taint is not enough still.
No. Only when they have ALL been made to pay for the burning of Rynnsworld, when ALL answer for the lives of untold thousands of Imperial citizens taken in their heathen invasions.
Only when the very last bones of them have been crushed to dust beneath the soles of our iron heels, only when every trace of them is destroyed and their very existance is but a bitter, distant memory will victory truly be won.
I know it will not be an easy task, it is a task that may likely be the very end of us all.
A task we were all trained for. The task we were born for.
I will stand. I will fight. I will die in the name of the Emperor, before I allow a single greenskin the audacity to walk openly upon Imperial soil.
Should I be the only one then so be it.
But I know you each keenly feel the same as I brothers. For what son of Dorn could truly say he does not?
Guilliman has shown us the way! He has given us the tools we need to truly execute the Emperor's blessed vison!
I stand before you as proof!
Follow me into hell itself, cross the Rubicon Primaris, as I have, and join the ranks of our great Purge!
come brothers, we have xeno skulls to crush..."
Pedro Kantor, Capter Master of the Crimson fists addressing his charges upon his crossing of the rubicon primaris... Captain Alessio Cortez's own 'speach' after crossing the rubicon primaris was rather succinct in comparison and in truth a great deal less dramatic;
"somebody fetch me a bolter..."
So yeah, this is the final mini I shall be doing for the crimson fists and as such I figured I should go all-out!
clearly based on tor garradon and inspired by the big bugger in the middle of the rogue trader art (who it turns out IS kantor!) I wanted a big, bad and terrifying beakie to lead the charge.
As with cortez and the heavy bolter guy, I shaved and trimmed the knees and chest clean, then added piping detail to the chest.
This dipiction of dorns arrow (the storm bolter) is based off of the old
SM commander plastic stormbolter, allbeit with barrels from bolt-rifles, a magazine assembly from a chaos bolter and the targeter is lifted from a
gsc's heavy stubber. I simply couldn't be funted with ammo-feeds and it matters not
IMHO.
The helmet is from the darkangels ravenwing sprue but I greenstuffed a more prominent crest to better match the old artwork.
With the artwork in mind I knew I needed the appropriate left pauldron. this also came from the classic plastic commander set and was ideal to give the look I needed.
The plumbob thingy on the crotchplate simply had to go, I mean whats tor garridon doing with this anyway? wallpapering the bunkers? come on!
no a simple swap for a crux terminator (again from the commander sprue) and this helped with the whole backstory I'd created with Cortez going missing and Kantor carrying this in his honour and in hope of his return.
the backpack was a simple swap for a regular heavy intercessor one and does the job.
now, I'm traditionally a "NO CAPES!" kinda guy but this mini has one 'hard-sculpted' in and I had the idea that this has been fashioned from the remnants of the old banner from the dude in the boxart.
now, I will point out, that its not that I didn't want to add the severed ork head, its just, I
didn't want to....
look, its just silly looking! and as much as I wanted to replicate the feeling of the art my sillyness will only stretch so far...
LOL
however, to show the ork hatred and further suggest at the passage of time I added the ork skull underfoot (taken from an old metal vindicare assassin).
I feel it really makes the pose, he's not resting, no way it would take the weight or fury of those sexy cuban heels.
No, he's right in the middle of crushing that skull to splinters!
A few empty shells from anvil and jobs a good-'un...
Heres a
WIP that shows off the build/gs elements.
To sum up, this was a great project and a real nice nostalgia fest, making models that 8 year old me would have loved to see at the time.
one of the benefits of getting better at the hobby as you get older is that you can take these journeys and get some real catharsis out of it.
It's also taught me that I should not be so pedantic about primaris/regular marines/horus heresy. if its cool, build it and paint it.
does it spark joy? if the answer is no its time to move on...
A conclusion it seems that
GW has taken under its wing at present with the axing and re-releasing of marine kits of late...